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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 118
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 118
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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3 000 pupils drop out of school as hunger bites
Gary Hlatshwayo, Radio VOP
View this article on the Radio VOP website
Almost 3 000 pupils in primary and secondary schools in Matabeleland South province have dropped out of school this year mainly due to hunger as starvation in the drought prone region reaches alarming levels.
Ironically, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) provincial depot in Gwanda is virtually empty with no maize deliveries amid revelations that Zambia which has been providing the staple food to Zimbabwe on debt is now demanding cash payment up front.
Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development deputy minister responsible for cropping Davis Marapira on Monday lamented the hunger situation in the province.
“One of the reasons we are here is because we heard that school pupils are abandoning school due to hunger and the solution lies in revitalising irrigated schemes,” said Marapira during a tour of Chelesa Irrigation Scheme in Guyu, south of Gwanda town.
Once Africa’s breadbasket, Zimbabwe has turned into a basket case importing maize for the sustenance of its populace.
Marapira conceded the country has turned into "beggars".
The irrigation scheme is experiencing water supply problems due to intermittent power cuts and is not helping much in alleviating the hunger situation.
School children in most rural areas walk long distances to and from school and statistics from the ministry of education indicate that Gwanda district has the highest school dropouts with a total of 1 130 school children having abandoned learning since the beginning of this year.
Matobo and Beitbridge have recorded 703 and 639 school drop outs respectively and government has been urged to introduce supplementary feeding schemes in schools to alleviate starvation among school children.
Umzingwane has had just over 400 dropouts with the least affected being Mangwe district with over 60 pupils having dropped out of school.
“Although some of the pupils have dropped out of school due to economic hardships and pregnancy most of them have been affected by hunger and can no longer cope with having to walk long distances on empty stomachs” said an official with the ministry of education who spoke on condition of anonymity as the official is not allowed to entertain media enquiries.
In the past years some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) provided food supplements to children in schools but have since stopped doing so due to political interference as they are often accused of meddling in the country’s political affairs.
Recently, the Minister of State responsible for provincial affairs in Matabeleland South province, Abedinico Ncube, warned NGOs he accused of being fond of interfering in the country’s political affairs that they risked being chucked out of the country.
Visit the Radio VOP fact sheet
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
(Redirected from SOHR)
For further details and discussion, see the talk page. (To see what is hot, see recent changes)
October 2013:
Top: English Facebook page for SOHR.
Bottom: English website syriahr.org.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) is an outlet run by Ossama Suleiman (pseudonym Rami Abdulrahman) and his secretary out of Coventry, UK. They do, however, receive constant informational updates from a variety of activists in Syria, from rebel fighters to people willing to report the crimes of rebels. The SOHR displays the overall bias referring to the Syrian government as a "regime," giving credibility to reports that murky crimes were the work of the regime, instead of unclear, and only calling out rebels when the evidence of wrongdoing is bleedin' obvious. But they do it then, and sometimes quite well. They are (as of 2013) by far the most widely-cited opposition activist group, and are frequently cited and often criticized here as well.
The unusual level of relative balance they get from their variety of sources finds visual expression in the unusual mixing of iconography, using anti-government French colonial colors in some places (like their main website syriahr.org and Arabic Facebook page) while maintaining the national colors elsewhere (like on the Youtube channel and English Facebook page - see inset).
3 Syrian Network for Human Rights
Official Website (Arabic - English)
Facebook page (English, more regular updates)
The Syrian Observatory: The Inside Story, Asa Winstanley, Al Akhbar, January 26, 2012
The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking?, Charlie Skelton, The Guardian Comment is free, July 12, 2012
A Very Busy Man Behind the Syrian Civil War’s Casualty Count, Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, April 9, 2013
Who is behind Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? RT finds Western media's key source on Syria
Как агент британских спецслужб сочинял басни «о российских преступлениях в Сирии», — расследование «Русской Весны» (ФОТО, ВИДЕО), translation: "How an agent of British special services fabricated stories about Russian crimes in Syria" - an investigation by "Russian Spring" (PHOTOS, VIDEO), Jan 12, 2016. Briefly, the article alleges lack of objectivity, bias, unknown/unreliable/possibly fake sources. Unreliable or falsified information produced as a result is later used by mainstream sources as facts. Acknowledged financial backing by the 'EU and one European country' is described as corroborating evidence. Recent article by BBC alleging that 60 people were killed in Russian airstrikes near the city of Maaret En Nuuman in the western Idlib province is used as an illustration of the 'method'.
On Sources And Information - The Syrian Observatory - Moon of Alabama, May 25, 2018
Syrian Network for Human Rights
Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western media’s go-to monitor - Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone , June 14, 2019
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Protecting Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive
A Guest Blog By Ann Harrison
Benetech Communications Director
Since 2003, Benetech's Martus information management software has helped human rights activists create encrypted databases and back up their data remotely to their choice of publicly available servers. Martus has been used in fifteen countries to secure sensitive information and protect witnesses.
Last month, I had a chance to visit the largest Martus project which is unfolding inside a mammoth warehouse in Guatemala City. Discovered last summer, the warehouse contains approximately 80 million records from the archive of the Guatemalan National Police. These papers, books, photos and floppy disks contain critical information about police procedures during Guatemala's 30-year internal armed conflict that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives. This data is now under the protection of the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales, who is researching human rights violations that occurred during those 30 years.
When the National Police were disbanded after the country's 1996 Peace Accords, police officials denied that any records existed. Guatemalan government investigators eventually found stacks of documents soaked by rainwater from broken windows, inside a decaying building overrun by rats, bats and cockroaches. Portions of the archive were still used by the police. During my first visit to the archive eight months ago, Dr. Patrick Ball, director of Benetech's Human Rights Program, developed a plan to collect a scientific random sample of the jumbled documents and secure them with Martus for later analysis and public access. Working together with the Guatemalan Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman and several Guatemalan NGOs, the largest human right archive project in history was launched.
When I visited the archive again last month, I walked into an efficient and orderly data gathering operation equipped with copiers, cameras and flatbed digital scanners. Escorted by assistant project director Alberto Fuentes and IT manager Jorge Villagran, I toured immaculate storerooms of crated and shelved documents. Workers in lab coats and dust masks sat at long tables meticulously cleaning fragile papers some of which date back to 1889. Technicians in adjacent computer rooms have entered data from these documents into more than 10,000 encrypted Martus bulletins backed up to secure servers outside the country. According to Fuentes, three million documents and 2,000 books have already been examined and approximately 400,000 pages have been scanned.
The archive workers are racing against time. In March the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman is up for reelection. The project must take full advantage of the current Ombudsman's unconditional support while he is in charge. In a country that has a long tradition of impunity and denial of justice, prominent figures may feel affected by the archive investigations. The destruction of the archive by those who would rather not see its secrets come to light is always possible.
Villagran notes that he expects to find financing to expand the 141-person archive staff from one to two eight-hour shifts. He points out that many archive workers originally came from civil society groups. During my visit to Guatemala, I spoke with a woman named Juanita who supports the archive project. In 1971, when Juanita was three years old, two plainclothes men burst through the door of her house in the Guatemalan state of Retalhuleu and took away her father who was a schoolteacher. Juanita's family never found out what happened to him. Like so many others, he simply vanished. "It is a hard thing to think about," said Juanita. "It took place years ago, but it still hurts."
Juanita says she hopes that the archive might contain clues about her father's disappearance. But searching for the historical truth still carries risk for those involved. Juanita chose not to give us her real name because she believes that it might put her in danger.
The Guatemalan National Police archive project is expected to take years to complete, but members of the international community have stepped in to provide assistance. Switzerland has donated more $2 million to clean the archive and support the staff. If you can help donate to Martus development or the archive project, please get in touch with us. Protecting sensitive historical data - and those who provide it - is an essential step in pursuing social justice in Guatemala and around the world.
"For the family of the person who is lost, it is very important that his relatives know something," explained Juanita. "Personally, it would be extremely joyful if there is some finding about my father. It is a little too late for the people who have relatives missing, but it is a little bit of justice."
Ann Harrison's journey to Guatemala was financed by Transparency International, an anti-corruption organization that held their annual conference in Guatemala City and invited Benetech to present a Martus demo there.
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Tag: Den Theatre
Posted on September 22, 2014 December 26, 2016
“All Our Tragic” envisions epic theatre for the 21st century
If epic theatre was a format successful in the twenty-first century, what would it look like? This is the problem Hypocrites founder and director Sean Graney took as his challenge while on fellowship with Harvard University last year. An effective director deeply invested in the political affordances of adaptation as a compositional mode, All Our Tragic is Graney’s most ambitious project to date. Running from August 2nd until October 5th at the Den Theatre in Chicago, the production runs 12 hours long, nine of which spent in actual performance. Epic on the page is an intensely formal genre; the play retains this characteristic to shape the attenuated narrative arc of such a duration. The sequential deaths of the Seven Sisters structure the pace of the eight acts, each no more than eighty minutes in length and divided by fifteen minute, half hour, and full hour intermissions. These dramatic cycles roughly echo the festival format of ancient Greece for which theses plays were originally written. Here, rather than in competition, the plays are knit together in a four part structure of major themes: Physic, Poetics, Politics, and Patriotism. In terms of this attention to construction All Our Tragic‘s true achievement is its formal ability to pace you evenly through the experience in which I was certainly never left feeling bored.
Herakles (Walter Briggs) gives the Seven Sisters umbrellas to battle their cannabilistic, cycloptic, would-be husbands.
The “epic” quality of this theatrical experience was primarily contained to the duration and the text’s organization, but not necessarily in the material scale of the production and the number of actors. Graney’s mark is in the production’s bricolage strategy, smartly cobbling together immediately available pop culture references (the ice-bucket challenge was mocked a time or two) and Greek tragedy formulas to craft something altogether new, something altogether pleasurable in the knowing references as much as in the surprising variations. It is that successful cultivation of the “piquancy of surprise” Linda Hutcheon identifies in A Theory of Adaptation (Routledge, 2012) as at the affective center of adaptation as both a process and a product. But this doesn’t capture the camp and black comedy at the tonal center. Perhaps the play gets closer to capturing the mix of ridiculous and sublime indicative of the Hypocrites house style; the production is more of a chimera as Dejanira (Tien Doman) defines it: part chipmunk, part meerkat, part llama.
While the camp was compelling, for me it was the relationships between characters and their increased complexity that the epic format allowed that caught my attention. No one actor played fewer than three characters, many managing four or five parts with barely a line flubbed. With so much doubling, you could see the effect of character “ghosting” (a la Marvin Carlson) working within a single play rather than across several. Christine Stulik—who commands an excellent sense of comedic timing—as Phedre opens the play as a mother destroyed by incest with her half-bull son to protect the innocent maidens of Greece. She ends the play as Kassandra, carrying a child of rape whose revelation is her own undoing. Walter Briggs opens the play as Herakles, an unsuccessful hero with a heart of gold. He ends it as Agamemnon, ultimately the victor of the war on Troy but murderer of his own daughter—a crime Herakles, too, is guilty of. The challenge to the actor lay in being able to allow the audience to identify these micro-themes but also see each incarnation as distinct, coming up with different answers to similar problems.
Is it the real Helen (Emily Casey) or the disguised witch pretender-Helen whose beauty sunk a thousand ships in the Trojan War?
The “ghosting” created by this excess of doubling also worked to tug on heart strings when activated between actors. For example, Philoktetes (Danny Goodman) is best friend to Herakles (Walter Briggs) and survives several generations of the play that others do not. After Herakles’ death he goes to serve Agamemnon, also played by Briggs but consistently at odds with Philoktetes, moving from the position of friend to foe. Their friction helps to underscore the separate but related tragic flaws in Agamemnon and Herakles. Ryan Bourque crafts a sympathetic Theseus who transforms from sidekick of Jason, to a successful classical hero in his own right who unwittingly causes the death of his love, to a successful leader of the Democratic State of Athens. We experience his entire life arc by the mid-point of the play. Bourque returns to the stage as a tea-obsessed and rather hapless Menelaus, also the cause of a disappeared wife. But where Menelaus leans heavily on a fantasy of happy reunion with Helen, Theseus had been made a realist by his loss of a wife. The transition is marked movingly when it is reported to Agamemnon and Menelaus at the start of their campaign for Troy by Philoctetes that Theseus has died, falling off a cliff while wrestling with Jason.
These ghosting effects, giving the audience opportunities to bring there knowledge of a previous character played by a particular actor to the new role, work to underscore the plays interest in cycles of war and violence as inevitable byproducts of civilization. Each generation posits different answers to patterns that seem to repeat; as one critic identifies those major themes: “Insecurity is ubiquitous. Love struggles. Peace is elusive.” Thus, in its serious second half the play slowly builds an interrogation of the politics of citizenry. Where do we fit in the long narrative of civilization’s evolution? Is one generation really more “progressed” that the previous, or are we still coming up with wrong answers to all the basic questions? Such a proposition would ache after several hours, basking in its own impotency, but for the camp of the presentational style.
Kassandra (Christine Stulik) meets the death she foresaw in the knitting needles.
Of the cast Lindsey Gavel, Erin Barlow, and Ezekiel Sulkes do much of the work of creating tonal discontinuity, turing All Our Tragic into a tragicomedy of which Plautus may have approved. Singing sheep and a Scottish bat-lady Greek-killer are but a few of the more absurdist elements that made me and my companion wish we had been more drunk by the final act (not that we hadn’t tried, making regular stops at the in-house bar for mimosas, wine, and Irish coffees). All told, however, the play did make me think of Plautus and his rationale for why we need tragicomedy: “I don’t think it would be appropriate to make [a play] consistently a comedy, when there are kings and gods in it. What do you think? Since a slave also has a part in the play, I’ll make it a tragicomedy.” Tragicomedy is about bringing the everyman into the arc of epic love and loss, precisely because those emotions are in fact part of the everyday—and in that, I would think All Our Tragic a success.
CITATION: All Our Tragic. Adapted and directed by Sean Graney. The Den Theatre, Chicago. 13 September 2014. Performance.
Check out Chris Jones’ video review of All Our Tragic for CBS’s “On The Town” program.
Check out the following interview with director Sean Graney and cast members:
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Tag: Haley McKinnon
Love is a Football Field: Pacific University’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
A mask tells us more than a face.
¶ There is something completely delicious about Pacific University’s production of Much Ado About Nothing up, this weekend only, at the Tom Miles Theatre in Forest Grove, Oregon. No doubt it helps that some of my students are in the show, and that I have been a long-time fan of director Austin Tichenor’s The Reduced Shakespeare Company. But I suspect it is more than that. The conceit, setting William Shakespeare’s play at a 1950s homecoming dance after a major football victory, is one of those rare examples of “Shakespeare made fit”—where the thematic cornerstones of the play square neatly with the cultural concerns of a new place and time.
Vice Principle Dogberry (Mari Cobb) sets her troupe of teachers (from left: Brennan Staffieri, Alexis Zmuda, Jojo Miller) to guard the halls during the school dance.
¶ For example, the high school setting neatly contains the activity and provides a justification for our equivalent of a masque. The camaraderie shared by Don Pedro (Trevor Harter), Claudio (Matt Gauss), and Benedict (Josh Hauser) is made overt by their team mentality. The dance also gives occasion for the song, “Sign No More,” which is transformed here into a student band’s rock tune led by Pedro—smacking of something between Jack Black and John Belushi. With the rest of the cast dancing and ringing the band, the essential sense of community—that these relationships go way back—is made clear. My favorite twist was re-conceiving Constable Dogberry as a Vice Principle (Mari Cobb); it is the best correlation I can think of to link the policing mechanism necessary to discover the culprits but also maintain the absurdity of a disciplinarian without actual power. The gender-flip, to have the part played by a woman as a woman, makes the line “as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina” have actual meaning rather a confusion we ignore. Likewise, as Seacoal, Alexis Zmuda kills with comedic timing: set at a typewriter VP Dogberry asks that she write the confession. Zmuda takes her time plodding in each letter. When the statements get longer, her desperation increases and humor ensues.
Donna John (Jenna Cady) gives Conrade (Siddharth Raj) the what-for.
¶ There were other rich re-gendering of characters, the most productive of which was having Donna John (Jenna Cady) and Borachia (Haley McKinnon) played by and as women. For the former, Cady was costumed in a punk-goth black skirt trimmed with leather, tights, and crunchy Doc Martin’s. The tension between Donna John and Don Pedro as siblings is not an issue of bastardy, as in the source script, but here is one of gendered imbalance. Presumably, Donna John is in the same place as Hero: bored by waiting for a husband to whom to transfer her inheritance. It’s a version of Don John whose motives I can piece together and with whom I can sympathize. Likewise, Borachia complicates the perceived infidelity of hero. Her relationship with Margaret is pursued openly at the dance, with disapproving looks from other characters. She maintains female gender pronouns, but her tailored jacket, cap, and leather pant makes it easy to imagine that it is a man in the silhouette she makes with Margaret to trick Claudio. In a compelling reversal from the original script, it is not Margaret in one of Hero’s dresses that tricks the men, but rather Borachia in man’s attire.
Dean Leonata (Paige Kester), Claudio (Matt Gauss), and Don Pedro (Trevor Harter) plant the see of love in Benedict’s (Josh Hauser) ear.
¶ The production is full of such moments: small changes both informed by the spirit of Shakespeare’s text but find new ways to make that spirit clear to its 2017 playgoers. One of the big challenges in the play, for me, is what to do with Hero so easily taking Claudio back after his violence and slander. Wittington, as Hero, makes a smart choice to grab Claudio by the face and exert a little threat of her own, carving out a moment of agency otherwise not made available by the text. Another crucial moment (producing the greatest amount of laughter) was the approach to the famous Arbour Scene, wherein Benedict overhears his fellow footballers discuss Beatrice’s ostensible love for him. Rather than a garden, he is shoved and slammed over and over again into lockers. Once the crew leaves, a far door opens to reveal a battered Benedict—but it is unclear whether he has been struck dumb by love or lockers.
Beatrice (Elise Dixon) and Benedict (Josh Hauser) reveal more than they might want despite being masked.
¶ Ultimately, all these smart evolutions and ensemble efforts are for nought if your Bea and Ben aren’t ready to duke it out in this battle of the sexes. Tall and expressive, both Elise Dixon and Josh Hauser tower over the rest of the cast, buoyed by the speed of their wit and compelling execution of their stichomythia. Hauser, with his extensive choral background, played with dynamics and elocution throughout, but especially in his soliloquies. It is a tough balance to speak directly to your watchers while conveying the sense that you are actively working through a problem. Soliloquies are about interiority, after all: there is no one onstage but you, talking to yourself. Dixon found that sweet spot between sardonic and shrill, cultivating a Beatrice with whom we sympathize and yet always invite to the party—never alienated by her rapier wit. In a world where we grapple with “resting Bitch face,” cat calling, and “binders full of women,” watching this Beatrice negotiate male expectations while refusing to be inauthentic to herself can only and always be a breath of fresh air.
Pacific University‘s production of Much Ado About Nothing plays in the Tom Miles Theatre on the Forest Grove campus 16 – 19 March 2017.
Admission is $8 general; $5 students, faculty, staff, alumni; and are available at the door or online here.
Director Austin Tichernor captures an #OscarSelfie with cast and crew of “Much Ado About Nothing.”
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Das CLIC
Akademische Direktion
Fellows & Partner
Masterarbeiten & Promotion
Executive Briefings
Prof. Anne Sigismund Huff, PhD
Anne Huff is Permanent Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the TUM Business School in Munich, Germany and an academic director of CLIC, the Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation at HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management. She was Founding Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) at London Business School, and had prior appointments at the Universities of Colorado, Illinois, and UCLA. She earned a BA from Barnard College (philosophy), as well as an MA (sociology) and PhD (management) from Northwestern University.Her research interests focus on open innovation and strategic change. In addition to journal articles on these and related topics, recent books include Mapping Strategic Knowledge (edited, with Mark Jenkins, Sage 2002), When Firms Change Direction. Oxford University Press, 2000 (with James O. Huff), and the co-authored textbook Strategic Management (Wiley 2009). She is also interested in scholarly research and publication as reflected in the books Designing Research for Publication (2009) and Writing for Scholarly Publication (1998), both published by Sage. Anne serves on the boards of several professional organizations and journals. In 1998-99 she was President of the Academy of Management, an association of management researchers with over 18,000 members worldwide; she held associated leadership positions from 1995 to 2001. In August 2003 she received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of that association. In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from Jönköping University in Sweden.
Prof. Anne Sigismund Huff
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Catholic funeral mass songs
What songs are played at Catholic funerals?
SUGGESTED HYMNS FOR CATHOLIC FUNERALS How Great Thou Art. Christ be beside me. Make me a Channel of your Peace. Abide with me. Morning has broken. Amazing Grace. Holy God we praise thy name. ll sing a hymn to Mary.
What is the most played song at a funeral?
Here are some of the most popular funeral songs: My Way – Frank Sinatra. Angels – Robbie Williams. The Best – Tina Turner. Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Eric Idle (Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’) Time to Say Goodbye – Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.
What are the most popular funeral hymns?
Here are seven of the most popular hymns for funerals: Jerusalem . And did those feet in ancient time . The Lord’s My Shepherd ( Psalm 23 ) The Lord’s my Shepherd , I’ll not want; Abide With Me . Abide with me ; fast falls the eventide; Amazing Grace . Amazing grace ! How Great Thou Art . The Old Rugged Cross . Lord of All Hopefulness .
What do you call a Catholic funeral mass?
Catholic funeral Mass (also called the Requiem Mass ) The casket or urn is often sprinkled with holy water when carried into the church, and symbols of the Christian faith such as an open Bible or crucifix may be placed on the casket.
Can you have a Catholic funeral mass if you are cremated?
The most common elements of a Roman Catholic funeral are: A vigil service with either the body or cremated remains present. A funeral Mass or service with either the body or cremated remains present. If the body is not present, the service is referred to as a Memorial Mass .
You might be interested: What Makes Us Catholic?
Are songs of praise Catholic?
“Not in a million years. There are lots of other multi-faith shows on the BBC, but Songs of Praise is a Christian music show. Though if you come to it as not a Christian, you’ll also get something out of it.”
What is considered the saddest song ever?
1. Eric Clapton – ‘Tears in Heaven’
What songs will make you cry?
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A traditional Christian hymn popular across denominations. It is often sung at military services, sporting events and state funerals .
What is the most beautiful hymn?
Piano ABIDE WITH ME. ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING. AMAZING GRACE. AT THE CROSS. BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC. BE THOU MY VISION . CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY. GOD OF GRACE AND GOD OF GLORY.
What is a good song for someone who passed away?
1. “Tears In Heaven” by Eric Clapton. A reminder that it’s okay to cry and grieve the loss of a loved one .
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The Committal After the funeral Mass , mourners accompany the coffin to the graveside. At the cemetery, the priest recites special prayers. The rite ends with the mourners reciting the Lord’s Prayer and a blessing by the priest. If the body is to be cremated, the short committal service is often done in the chapel.
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Palestinian Sunbird Production Award Competition 2019
Palestine Cinema Days Festival announces the call to participate in the Palestinian Sunbird Production Award competition at the 6th edition of the Festival (October 02-09, 2019).
An independent jury will announce the winner of the Palestinian Sunbird Production Award during the Palestine Cinema Days Closing Ceremony on October 09, 2019.
The Palestinian Sunbird Production Award winner will receive a grant of ten thousand U.S. dollars "10,000$” for production, camera and sound equipment available at Filmlab: Palestine, and the film will be picked up for distribution by MAD Solutions.
To be eligible, projects must comply with the following regulations:
The project must be either at the pre-production or production stage at the time of the festival (October 2019)
The project may not exceed a maximum length of 20 minutes
Accepted are Fiction or animation short film projects.
Treatment, detailed synopsis & financing plan must be Provided in English only.
Connection to Palestine must be visible, where the director/producer must be from Palestine, film set in Palestine and a clear thematic reference to Palestine
The winner of the Sunbird Production Award must agree that the Palestinian premiere of the finalized film will be at Palestine Cinema Days if the final film was approved and selected by the Jury of the festival.
The winner of the Sunbird Production Award must agree to put Filmlab: Palestine’s logo on the beginning of the film and the Credits at the end of the film.
If the application is submitted by the producer, make sure to provide samples of the director’s previous works if any.
Applications lacking in supporting material will not be considered for evaluation nor will the applicant be contacted to send the missing material.
Applicants need to submit a script and a treatment of the submitted project.
If you are applying with a project that is partly or fully animated, the submission of a mood board is mandatory.
Supporting files/samples for the submitted project and previous works smaller than 2 MB can be uploaded directly to the application.
Supporting files/samples for the submitted project and previous works exceeding 2 MB should be included as links to files on sharing websites (such as Dropbox, Vimeo, YouTube…).
Evaluation and Selection Process
Following the submission deadline, PCD will conduct an administrative check to ensure that applications are complete and adhere to the guidelines. Only applications that pass the administrative check will be processed. The applications will be sent to the independent jurors’ committee which will assess the applications and choose the project to be granted.
The winner of the Palestinian Sunbird Production Award will be announced during the Palestine Cinema Days Closing Ceremony on October 09, 2019, and then will be published on PCD and Filmlab: Palestine websites and Facebook pages.
Grant Contract
As soon as the winner is announced, Filmlab: Palestine will send a contract to be signed by the winner. The contract will include start and end dates, grant amount, budget breakdown, financial requirements, payment schedule, general provisions, implementation and amendments, required reports and project results.
Payment Conditions & Schedule
The winner will receive 50% of the grant amount as the first payment. When 80% of the first payment has been spent AND the shooting has started, the grantee must submit an interim narrative and financial report to Filmlab: Palestine. Once the report is approved, the grantee will receive the remaining 50% of the grant total amount will be transferred and with the submission of the final deliverables and reports, the grant will be closed.
Submission deadline: September 01, 2019, Apply Now.
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Kizimen
KVERT Releases
Kizimen Volcano. Bibliography
Records: 93
Girina O.A., Gordeev E.I., Melnikov D.V., Manevich A.G., Nuzhdaev A.A., Romanova I.M. The 25 Anniversary Kamchatkan Volcanic Eruption Response Team // 10th Biennual workshop on Japan-Kamchatka-Alaska subduction processes (JKASP-2018). Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, August 20-26. // 10th Biennual workshop on Japan-Kamchatka-Alaska subduction processes (JKASP-2018). Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: IVS FEB RAS. 2018. P. 80-82.
http://repo.kscnet.ru/3335/1/GirinaOA_2_4-22.pdf
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/conferences/jkasp2018/pdf/GirinaOA_2_4-22.pdf
Girina O.A., Loupian E.A., Ozerov A.Yu., Melnikov D.V., Manevich A.G., Petrova E.G. The Activity of Kamchatka Volcanoes and theirs Danger to Human Society (oral report) // JpGU - AGU Joint Meeting 2021: Virtual. 30 May - 06 July, 2021, Japan, Tokyo. 2021. № C001019.
There are 30 active volcanoes in the Kamchatka, and several of them are continuously active. In the XX-XXI centuries 17 volcanoes of Kamchatka erupted. During this time, 183 volcanic eruptions occurred, including three catastrophic eruptions (Ksudach, 1907; Bezymianny, 1956; Sheveluch, 1964). Strong explosive eruptions of volcanoes were the most dangerous for human society because they produce in a few hours or days to the atmosphere till 2-3 cubic kilometers of volcanic products. Ash plumes and the clouds, depending on the power of the eruptions, the strength and wind speed, to traveled thousands of kilometers from the volcanoes for several days. Any territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula has repeatedly been exposed to ash falls, the thickness of ash in settlements was from less than 1 mm to 4-5 cm. Strong explosive eruptions of volcanoes Sheveluch, Klyuchevskoy, Bezymianny, Kizimen, Karymsky, Zhupanovsky, Avachinsky, Kambalny were the most dangerous for air travel not only over Kamchatka, but also hundreds of kilometers away from the peninsula.
The strong explosive and effusive eruptions of Sheveluch, Klyuchevskoy, Bezymianny, Kizimen and the other were often accompanied by the formation of hot mud flows (lahars), which sometimes disrupted transport communications (roads, bridges) of nearby settlements.
Scientists of KVERT monitor Kamchatkan volcanoes since 1993. Thanks to satellite monitoring of volcanoes carried out by KVERT, several explosive eruptions were predicted in the XXI century, and early warnings were made to the population about possible ashfalls in settlements and about hazard to aviation.
Girina O.A., Loupian E.A., Sorokin A.A., Romanova I.M., Melnikov D.V., Manevich A.G., Nuzhdaev A.A., Bartalev S.A., Kashnitskii A.V., Uvarov I.A., Korolev S.P., Malkovsky S.I., Kramareva L.S. Information Technologies for the Analyzing of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands Volcanoes Activity in 2019-2020 // Short Paper Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Information Technologies and High-Performance Computing (ITHPC 2021), Khabarovsk, Russia, September 14-16, 2021. Khabarovsk: CEUR-WS.org. 2021. Vol. 2930. P. 112-118.
The work is devoted to the activity analysis of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands volcanoes in 2019-2020.The activity of the volcanoes was estimated based on the processing of data from daily satellite monitoring carried out using the information system “Remote monitoring of Kamchatkan and the Kuriles volcanoes activity (VolSatView)”. The activity of the Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands volcanoes considered based on the analysis of their thermal anomalies. Analysis of the characteristics of thermal anomalies over volcanoes was carried out in KVERT IS. Analysis of the temperature of thermal anomalies of volcanoes in the Kuril - Kamchatka region in 2019-2020 shows a significantly higher activity of the Kamchatka volcanoes in comparison with the Kuril volcanoes.
http://repo.kscnet.ru/4120/1/paper14.pdf
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2930/paper14.pdf
Girina O.A., Manevich A.G., Melnikov D.V., Ushakov S.V., Nuzhdaev A.A., Konovalova O.A., Demyanchuk Yu.V. KVERT Project: Danger for Aviation during Eruptions of Kamchatkan Volcanoes in 2009-2010 // Abstracts. International Workshop “JKASP-7”. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. August 25-30. 2011. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: IVS FED RAS. 2011. P. 29-30.
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/slsecret/jkasp_2011/abstr/abs7.pdf
Girina O.A., Manevich A.G., Nuzhdaev A.A., Konovalova O.A., Ushakov S.V., Melnikov D.V. Monitoring of 2010-2011 Kizimen Volcano Eruption and Prediction of Danger for Aviation // EGU General Assembly. April 3-8. Vienna, 2011. Abstract. EGU2011-5432. 2011. Vol. 13.
http://repo.kscnet.ru/1450/1/EGU2011-5432.pdf
Girina O.A., Manevich A.G., Ushakov S.V., Nuzhdaev A.A., Melnikov D.V., Konovalova O.A., Demyanchuk Yu.V. Explosive Eruptions of Kamchatkan Volcanoes in 2010 // Abstract. EGU General Assembly. April 3-8. Vienna. 2011. EGU2011-2342 (XY 513). 2011. Vol. 13.
Global Volcanism Program. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.11.0 (08 Jun 2022). 2013. doi: 10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013.
The Volcanoes of the World database is a catalog of Holocene and Pleistocene volcanoes, and eruptions from the past 12,000 years.
https://volcano.si.edu/
Gusev A.A., Ponomareva V.V., Braitseva O.A., Melekestsev I.V., Sulerzhitsky L.D. Great explosive eruptions on Kamchatka during the last 10,000 years: Self-similar irregularity of the output of volcanic products // Journal of Geophysical Research. 2003. Vol. 108. № B2. doi:10.1029/2001JB000312.
Temporal irregularity of the output of volcanic material is studied for the sequence of large (V ≥ 0.5 km3, N = 29) explosive eruptions on Kamchatka during the last 10,000 years. Informally, volcanic productivity looks episodic, and dates of eruptions cluster. To investigate the probable self-similar clustering behavior of eruption times, we determine correlation dimension Dc. For intervals between events 800 and 10,000 years, Dc ≈ 1 (no self-similar clustering). However, for shorter delays, Dc = 0.71, and the significance level for the hypothesis Dc < 1 is 2.5%. For the temporal structure of the output of volcanic products (i.e., for the sequence of variable-weight points), a self-similar “episodic” behavior holds over the entire range of delays 100–10,000 years, with Dc = 0.67 (Dc < 1 at 3.4% significance). This behavior is produced partly by the mentioned common clustering of event dates, and partly by another specific property of the event sequence, that we call “order clustering”. This kind of clustering is a property of a time-ordered list of eruptions, and is manifested as the tendency of the largest eruptions (as opposed to smaller ones) to be close neighbors in this list. Another statistical technique, of “rescaled range” (R/S), confirms these results. Similar but weaker-expressed behavior was also found for two other data sets: historical Kamchatka eruptions and acid layers in Greenland ice column. The episodic multiscaled mode of the output of volcanic material may be a characteristic property of a sequence of eruptions in an island arc, with important consequences for climate forcing by volcanic aerosol, and volcanic hazard.
http://repo.kscnet.ru/997/1/gusevetal2003vul[1].pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001JB000312
Ji Lingyun, Lu Zhong, Dzurisin Daniel, Senyukov Sergey Pre-eruption deformation caused by dike intrusion beneath Kizimen volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, observed by InSAR // Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 2013. Vol. 256. P. 87 - 95. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2013.02.011.
Abstract Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) images reveal a pre-eruption deformation signal at Kizimen volcano, Kamchatka, Russia, where an ongoing eruption began in mid-November, 2010. The previous eruption of this basaltic andesite-to-dacite stratovolcano occurred in 1927–1928. InSAR images from both ascending and descending orbital passes of Envisat and ALOS PALSAR satellites show as much as 6 cm of line-of-sight shortening from September 2008 to September 2010 in a broad area centered at Kizimen. About 20 cm of opening of a nearly vertical dike provides an adequate fit to the surface deformation pattern. The model dike is approximately 14 km long, 10 km high, centered 13 km beneath Kizimen, and strikes NE–SW. Time-series analysis of multi-temporal interferograms indicates that (1) intrusion started sometime between late 2008 and July 2009, (2) continued at a nearly constant rate, and (3) resulted in a volume expansion of 3.2 × 107 m3 by September 2010, i.e., about two months before the onset of the 2010 eruption. Earthquakes located above the tip of the dike accompanied the intrusion. Eventually, magma pressure in the dike exceeded the confining strength of the host rock, triggering the 2010 eruption. Our results provide insight into the intrusion process that preceded an explosive eruption at a Pacific Rim stratovolcano following nearly a century of quiescence, and therefore have implications for monitoring and hazards assessment at similar volcanoes elsewhere.
Kirianov V.Yu., Egorova I.A., Litasova S.N. Volcanic ash on Bering Island (Commander Islands) and Kamchatkan Holocene Eruptions // Volcanology and Seismology. 1990. Vol. 8. № 6. P. 850-868.
http://repo.kscnet.ru/4257/1/Kirianov_Egorova-1990.pdf
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Leye-Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark Museum (Leye Subarea)
introduction to leye tiankeng geological museum
leye tiankeng geological museum is the epitome of prehistoric geological evolution and development, and it is a platform to exhibit and publish the information of the geopark to the public. the museum covers a total area of 5,518 square meters, with three layers. there are six functional areas in the main building: service area, exhibition area, rest area, souvenirs exhibition area, multi-functional reporting hall, office area. the interior exhibition covers the area with 3,500 square meters.
the museum relies on the unique karst landscapes like carbonate tiankeng group, cave chambers, fengcongs and depressions, subterranean rivers, bio-diversity ecosystem and historical culture and some other science knowledge to set up nine exhibition halls. “walking into leye”(lobby), “the earth veil”(no.1 hall), “the life music”(no.2 hall), “the land& resources in leye” (no.3 hall), “geoheritages”(no.4 hall), “the country of tiankengs in the world” (no.5 hall), “leye’s ecology”
(no.6 hall), “brilliant historical culture”(no.7 hall), “science popularization interaction & practice” (no.8 hall).
the museum takes the geoscience as the main body, the science popularization exhibition as the mainline to highlight the features of the geopark; it also create a modern and comfortable environment to show the geopark; it emphasizes on offering service to the public and meet the knowledge needs of the professionals; it takes mainly use of the graphic panels and specimens & fossils, and combines with modern high-tech ways such as audio and photoelectric, electronic sand table, multimedia, bionic, virtual reality, two-dimensional code and so on; the content closes to the public, professional knowledge, interaction& touching to satisfy the needs and requires of the modern. meanwhile, it gives the visitors the strong visual impact to make them impressed deeply, then the visitors could learn something by visiting and enjoy themselves by learning. the museum is a natural science museum which integrates the science popularization, scientific research, sightseeing, leisure and entertainment into one.
after finishing the museum, it would be a main sightseeing site in the geopark, and an important window to understand the southern karst for visitors. besides that, it would be a symbol of leye-fengshan unesco global geopark, a beautiful card for the world to know leye.
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Whetstone Mountains Monograph, LE with Full Slice
Slide for Front and Back Cover
Limited Edition of 11, Signed with Full Slice
Lt. Ed.
SOLD OUT — On a first come, first serve basis, you can reserve a copy of the Whetstone Mountains Monograph, signed and numbered by Jack Schrader, that includes matching numbered full slice specimen in Foam box with a matching certificate of authenticity.
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The Whetstone Mountains Meteorite is perhaps the most comprehensively documented field hunt and mapping project of a meteorite strewn field in American history. The material gathered from this fall is one of the most closely held American witnessed falls, with very little of the recovered material available to collectors and institutions.
In an effort to satisfy more of the high demand for Whetstone Mountains specimens, a small number of limited edition copies signed by Schrader were made available with specimens from the 62.3-gram crusted fragment from the main mass, recovery #6 – the smallest significant fragment from the main mass (the larger pieces will remain intact).
This set of 11 limited second edition monographs, signed and numbered by Jack Schrader, was created to commemorate the 11 years since the recovery of the first stone in 2009. It includes one of 11 full slice (FS) specimens with a certificate of authenticity card. The numbering system for each specimen corresponds to the signature and number on the cover of each of the signed monographs.
Dave Gheesling lives in the metropolitan Atlanta area, with his better half, Kasia, and their three children – Madeline, Natalia and Marcus. And his relationship with Schrader has grown far beyond “a valued friend” since the first edition was published; Schrader is one of his favorite people on the planet.
The author has spent a total of seven days in the Whetstone Mountains strewn field, as of January 2020. In addition to the seventh and eighth recoveries he witnessed on July 8, 2009, as referenced in the original Author’s Note, the writer was present for the 20th, 21st, 22nd (a personal find) and 26th (the most recent find) recoveries from the strewn field.
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A Sunday Tragedy: Bryant Strickland Shot Dead at Cartersville
By S. Lincecum 02 September
Memorialized on the same stone as yesterday's subjects of Bryant, Claudia, and Marion Strickland, is Bryant E. Strickland, Jr. Born 12 March 1858, young Bryant's life met a tragic and untimely end 18 July 1886, as recorded in The Weekly Consitution (Atlanta, Georgia):
Tuesday, July 20, 1886 edition -
A SUNDAY TRAGEDY
BRYANT STRICKLAND SHOT DEAD AT CARTERSVILLE
Assistant Town Marshall William Puckett His Slayer -- Strickland Threatens and Shoots, and Puckett Defends Himself
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., July 18 -- This morning at 10 o'clock, while attempting to shoot William Puckett, Bryant Strickland was himself shot and almost instantly killed.
Strickland was a young man about thirty years old. He formerly lived at Rome, where, about four years ago, he struck Major Sam Morgan, a prominent cotton merchant, on the head with a piece of scantling, causing him to become insane. Subsequently, Strickland spent most of his time here with his father and brothers. He was unmarried...
[The details of the incident take up at least two columns in the newspaper. Liquor, threats, and the resisting of arrest are major components.]
...Strickland's remains will be taken to Lawrenceville to morrow, for interment.
When the Grave was Reached, One of the Largest Crowds had Gathered to Witness the Closing Ceremonies
The following week, the "sensation" was still high. Again, from The Weekly Constitution:
FOR KILLING STRICKLAND
Sunday's Sensation Still the Topic in Cartersville.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., July 22 -- The excitement over the killing of Bryant Strickland still runs high. It is said that every one connected with the killing will be vigorously prosecuted. The defense is preparing to make a stubborn fight...
[Meanwhile, back at Lawrenceville] The remains of Bryant Strickland, who was killed at Cartersville last Sunday, were interred in the cemetery at this place. All the family of the deceased were present, together with Rev. Hines Strickland, of Tennessee, and Rev. Mr. Dodge. The procession started from Mr. Tom Jacobs' at 10 o'clock, and when the grave was reached one of the largest crowds had gathered to witness the closing ceremonies ever seen there. It was due to the extensive friendly relationship of the parents of the deceased, who for a long time lived at this place, and to the acquaintances of the deceased who knew him as a brave, noble, generous hearted soul. He had his faults, but his virtues were many of the highest type. He was loved here as a boy in his boyhood days, and his untimely death has provoked hundreds of the kindest expressions for his early unfortunate ending, and the sympathy for his parents is deep, sincere and universal.
Though the prosecution seemed dogged, due to the prominence of the family as a whole (in my opinion), another newspaper, -- The Macon Telegraph (Georgia) -- tells us Puckett was acquitted of any crime a few months later.
Crime and Criminals Strickland
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The Great Saturday Morning Experience
Remembering when Saturday mornings were the best!
Show Spotlight: Jeannie
This week we’ll take a look at another show about a genie. This one may be be more remembered than Shazzan, but apparently not more fondly. It seems that this show got a lot of terrible reviews, not that critics’ reviews were all that important for Saturday morning shows as they rarely got second seasons anyway. Personally I can’t say that I remember it too well beyond the main characters. I do know that most people probably remember Babu and his catch phrase though even that gets debated. I don’t believe it was ever put out on DVD and it didn’t seem to get rerun as much as its contemporaries so maybe there was something to all the bad reviews after all.
What was this show all about anyway? Well, it seems that Screen Gems, which made the prime time hit I Dream of Jeannie, teamed up with Hanna-Barbera to do a cartoon version. Some have called this a spin-off but I don’t see how that applies as this was just a complete alteration of the parent show for a younger audience. Making cartoon versions for kids of prime time series was a long lasting trend as we’ll see in future blogs. In this version we get a high school student who finds Jeannie’s bottle while surfing. This is explained in the opening credits. Instead of Barbara Eden, we get a younger Jeannie who crushes on her teen age master. As a bonus, we get an apprentice genie named Babu being trained by Jeannie who is clearly the focus of the comedy. Of course we have other parallels like a best friend to the master, and a girl to make Jeannie jealous. There is also a rich guy who is there to put a monkey wrench in the works.
Julie McWhirter/Joe Besser/Mark Hamill/Bob Hastings
The series had a typical 16 episode run and was aired on CBS from September 8 to December 22, 1973. The show was produced by Iwao Takamoto, the former Disney employee who designed many characters for Hanna-Barbera, most notably the characters from Scooby-Doo Where Are You?. Julie McWhirter starred as the title character, basically mimicking Barbara Eden’s Jeannie. Mark Hamill in his first ever (though fortunately not his last) voice over role, played Corey Anders who found the genie bottle while surfing. Mark was around 20 when he got this part and wasn’t too far removed from being an actual teenager. Joe Besser performed Babu, the inept genie apprentice. Joe was doing pretty much his own voice which many will remember from his time with the Three Stooges. Veteran actor Bob Hastings, who had many voice over roles was Henry Glopp, Corey’s best friend. Bob and Mark would of course go on to work with each other again many years later on Batman the Animated Series as Commissioner Gordon, and the Joker, respectively.
The show works pretty much the way you’d expect with Corey and Henry living typical teenage lives, going to high school, surfing, riding motorcycles, getting part-time jobs, etc. Jeannie of course struggles trying to cope with the modern world while finding lots of reasons to get jealous of other girls who get Corey’s attention. Babu tends to constantly mess things up by butting in or having issues with his magic not working. The guys also have lots of trouble trying to keep the identities of their genie friends a secret, especially from S. Melvin Farthinggale who is both a rich snob and a snoop.
Even though the show wasn’t well received, Hanna-Barbera did use the characters beyond the show. The whole Jeannie gang appeared on The New Scooby-Doo movies which teamed up the characters from Scooby-Doo with both cartoon and real-life (though animated) celebrities. Later Babu made it on to the Scooby Doobies team for Scooby’s All-Star Laff-a-Lympics which was kind of a mash up of Wacky Races and Battle of the Network Stars.
It seems the most interesting thing about the show was Babu, and since he appeared on more than one show it makes sense he’s the most remembered. What was his catch phrase though? Going over it again and again it certainly sounds like he was saying Yabble Dabble, but some think it was Yapple Dapple. Some people even remember it as razzle dazzle. Either way, that along with using Jeannie’s pony tail as her magic wand seem to be the only things worth remembering about this otherwise forgettable Saturday morning show.
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Hall Of Fame…Coaches?
As the Hall of Fame induction looms, something I heard on a Cardinals’ broadcast the other day inspired me to hit the books. The gist of the discussion, which was dead serious and included not even a hint that the view might be a little skewed by some homerism, was that while there weren’t any coaches in Cooperstown, and there was no mechanism for electing any, obviously Dave Duncan would be elected, and just as soon as possible.
This is not to dismiss the idea. Far from it. I’ve always thought coaches were under-appreciated, and the first bit of research (and vanity publishing) I ever did was when I realized there were plenty of records of players and managers and umpires, but as of 1973, there wasn’t even a list of coaches anywhere. I spent a week in the Hall of Fame library that summer jotting down, by hand, all the data I could find.
I’m a “coaches guy.”
I’m just not sure Dave Duncan is the first choice to go to Cooperstown, even among just the pitching coaches, even if a side exhibit were to open honoring just them (and maybe scouts as well – that’s far more overdue). The problem, obviously, is evaluation. What constitutes a great coach? Number of .300 hitters coached? 20-game winners coached? Is it more esoteric? Does Duncan get a plaque because he managed to keep Todd Wellemeyer in the majors, and turned around Dave Stewart and Dennis Eckersley? Should he be elected solely because Kent Bottenfield, winner of 46 career major league games, went 18-7 under Duncan’s tutelage in 1999?
The bigger issue, of course, is how much is the tutelage, and how much is the talent? These aren’t exactly hunks of clay out there, being shaped by a sculptor. If coaches ever do go to the Hall of Fame, certainly SABR-metrics will probably be able to prove a coach’s impact on a staff, or a batting order, but subjectivity will be a huge factor. And what of the proverbial “bold print” data that form the shorthand of research into a player’s success relative to his peers?
This, finally, gets me to my scratch-the-surface research. Which men have coached the most Cy Young Winners? Which have coached the most World Series Champions? There are a few surprises, and though the leaders in the latter category do tend to become weighted in favor of the Yankee dynasties, there is some insight to be had.
First, the Series winners. There are a few caveats. The “coach” is largely unheard of in baseball until the early years of the 20th Century. Managers inevitably ran the team from the third base coach’s box (Gene Mauch did this well into the ’60s in Philadelphia, and Tommy Lasorda tried it as a slump-buster in the ’90s), and a pitcher or non-starting player would coach from first. Gradually the New York teams began to experiment with somebody to help the manager out – 19th Century stars Duke Farrell with the Yankees and Arlie Latham with the Giants in 1909. The Yanks clearly weren’t sold on the idea. Farrell did not coach in 1910, but came back in 1911. They then eliminated the position entirely until 1914.
The “pitching coach” was even later to evolve. Wikipedia erroneously lists Wilbert Robinson as John McGraw’s pitching coach from 1903 through 1913 and credits him with all manner of successes. In point of fact, contemporary records show Robinson managing in the minors in 1903 and 1904, playing in Baltimore as late as 1908, and running the family saloon there. He clearly helped McGraw instruct pitchers in spring training, but did not join the Giants full time as a coach until 1911.
It seems that the first World Series winning team with a coach dedicated to supervising and instructing pitchers was McGraw’s 1921 Giants, with the immortal Christy Mathewson doing the honors. But even then Matty’s health was failing and just how much time he really did the job is speculation at best. Nick Altrock might have been the nominal pitching coach of Washington’s only World Champions in 1924, but he was better known for comic antics in the coach’s box. The first true pitching coach on a World Series winner might in fact be ex-catcher Cy Perkins with the 1932 Yankees. It was still a novelty; the 1933 World Champion Giants had no pitching coach, nor did the 1945 Tigers.
In any event, the leaders by World Series wins are as follows:
7 – John Schulte, Yankees, 1936-1947
7 – Jim Turner, Yankees, 1949-1958
5 – Mel Stottlemyre, Mets, Yankees, 1986-2000
4 – Mike Gonzalez, Cardinals, 1934-1946
3 – Johnny Sain, Yankees, Tigers, 1961-1968
3 – Joe Becker, Dodgers, 1955-1963
The others with as many as two? Duncan (1989 A’s, 2006, Cards), Galen Cisco (1992-93 Jays), Ron Perranoski (1981, 1988 Dodgers), Larry Shepard (1975-76 Reds), Wes Stock (1973-74 A’s), Dick Such (1987, 1991 Twins).
Two notes on the above. You may or may not want to give Stottlemyre the 5th Series. He had to leave the team to undergo intensive treatment for multiple myeloma in September, 2000, and the pitching coach duties were assumed by Billy Connors. And whereas Turner was the embodiment of the modern pitching coach, Schulte, as late as the 1947 World Series program, is described more informally as “the man who readies the pitchers.”
The Cy Young Winning coaches are a little more diverse. The usefulness of the data also suffers from the fact there were no awards before 1956, and only one for both leagues until 1967. Nevertheless they provide some insight:
6 – Leo Mazzone: Glavine ’91 ’98, Maddux ’93 ’94 ’95, Smoltz ’96
4 – George Bamberger: Cuellar ’69, Palmer ’73 ’75 ’76
4 – Dave Duncan: Hoyt ’83, Welch ’90, Eckersley ’92, Carpenter ’05
3 – Joe Becker: Newcombe ’56, Drysdale ’62, Koufax ’63
3 – Bill Fischer: Clemens ’86 ’87 ’91
3 – Ray Miller: Flanagan ’79, Stone ’80, Drabek ’90
3 – Claude Osteen: Carlton ’82, Denny ’83, Bedrosian ’87
3 – Johnny Sain: Ford ’61, McLain ’68 ’69
3 – Rube Walker: Seaver ’69 ’73 ’75
The others with two apiece: Rick Anderson (Santana ’04 ’06), Mark Connor (Johnson ’99 ’00), Billy Connors (Sutcliffe ’84, Maddux ’92), Roger Craig (Jones ’76, Hernandez ’84), Bobby Cuellar (Johnson ’95, Martinez ’97), Art Fowler (Lyle ’77, Guidry ’78), Marv Grissom (Chance ’64, J. Perry ’70), Cal McLish (Fingers ’81, Vuckovich ’82), Billy Muffett (Gibson ’68 ’70), Lefty Phillips (Koufax ’65 ’66), Mel Queen (Clemens ’97 ’98), Dave Righetti (Lincecum ’08 ’09), Ray Rippelmeyer (Carlton ’72 ’77), Mel Stottlemyre (Gooden ’85, Clemens ’01), Carl Willis (Sabathia ’07 Lee ’08).
There’s one scorer’s judgement required here. In both 1977 and 1978 Art Fowler gets partial credit. The first year saw Sparky Lyle’s Cy Young season, as well as what might have been the first full-time Bullpen Pitching Coach, in the Yanks’ Cloyd Boyer. In ’78 Fowler exited at mid-year along with manager Billy Martin, and Clyde King coached Ron Guidry the rest of the way.
Obviously the two lists barely coincide. Schulte’s career was over before there were Cy’s, and though he coached in the majors all but two years from 1949 through 1973, Jim Turner coached only one winner (Bob Turley in 1958). The men who fared the best on both lists seem to be Joe Becker and Johnny Sain. Consider Becker for a second. How does the team that hires you as pitching coach in 1955, the Dodgers, proceed to win three World’s Championships and three Cy Youngs through 1963 – and then when you come up empty in 1964, they
fire you? Becker went to St. Louis in 1965 and the Cubs in ’67 and did pretty well with Bob Gibson and Fergie Jenkins in those places, but evidently not well enough.
Lastly two intriguing facts which figuratively fell off the book shelf while the research unfolded. Two Cy Young winners have gone on to be pitching coaches for Cy Young winners, and if that’s not a good new trivia question, I don’t know what is. The answers are Warren Spahn (1957 winner; coach for Gaylord Perry in 1972), and Bob Welch (1990 winner, coach for Randy Johnson in 2001).
That fact in turn led to this one, which suggests Hall of Fame berths for pitching coaches may not be that great an idea. Johnson won four of his six Cy Youngs with the same team, yet with three different pitching coaches in three consecutive years: Mark Connor in 2000, Welch in ’01, and Chuck Kniffin in ’02
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George Steinbrenner, 1930-2010
I mean this with no disrespect and with no touch of humor: Only George Steinbrenner could pass away on the morning of – and thus overshadow – baseball’s All-Star Game.
To my knowledge, and I had known him since I was fourteen, and interviewed him as long ago as 1980, he only did one thing in his entire, extraordinary life that was below the radar. His commitment to charity was personal and private and the likelihood is that even at this hour we only know its barest outline. This was the kind of man who would read of a high school somewhere in this country without enough books and within the week they’d somehow have them, and usually anonymously.
For all his flaws, I think the basic dichotomy of his life was between the Steinbrenner who screamed at you for not getting the job done even if there were 143 extenuating circumstances, and the Steinbrenner who screamed at you for not getting the job done and then made the realization himself that there were 143 extenuating circumstances and tried to resolve all of them for you.
These elements would clash in his most famous baseball relationships: with Billy Martin, with Reggie Jackson, with the media, with the Yankees as an entity. The endless firings and rehirings of the tragic, self-destructive Martin were ultimately about Steinbrenner’s belief he could somehow redeem the man. Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden were attractive to him as free agents because if they paid off he could thumb his nose at the Mets, but the second and third chances he gave them both were because he came to feel fatherly about them.
I’m skipping much of his influence on the game here. You know it already: when he bought the New York franchise it was so moribund that, as Bill Madden recently revealed in his superb biography of Steinbrenner, part of the purchase deal was that the purchase price be artificially inflated to make it look as if CBS wasn’t selling at a loss. 38 years later the franchise is worth more than a billion dollars. Steinbrenner’s spending on free agents started that ball rolling – in retrospect they were conservative, logical, savvy steps. He changed the sport, and while we can wax nostalgic for what it was in 1971, the fact is that attendance and the interest in the game have grown astronomically for the very reasons he was hated by some: he raised salaries, raised ticket prices, raised television fees – and raised baseball.
Perhaps alone among reporters, I never had cross words with him. I was still startled to find out that after the 1992 baseball expansion draft, he wrote a gushing fan letter to our bosses at ESPN about our coverage of the event. In 2000 the two people who rushed to contact me about my mother after she was hit by a Chuck Knoblauch throw, were Joe Torre and Steinbrenner. In 2003, I was standing in the back of a news conference for Jeff Weaver on the day of his arrival in New York when I felt a tap on my shoulder and a whisper in his ear. “Keith, how’s he doing?” It was Steinbrenner. Incredibly, nobody noticed he was there. My favorite moment with George was also the saddest. By happenstance I was in the press box on the day in 2005 when President Clinton came to the Stadium to accept a check from Steinbrenner for the money the Yankees raised (there’s the charitable instinct again) for tsunami relief. The two of them sent Yankees’ president Randy Levine out to get me, and I was startled to spend two innings with them, saying almost nothing as George rolled out every single encounter we had had over the years (“I’ve known this young man since he was – how old were you? Thirteen? Fourteen? And he did the funniest piece on me firing managers for The Times and he was there when I broke down when we won at Shea five years ago, and this young man’s mother was the one – How is your mother?”).
He knew all of it as if it had been his job to know all of it. But the sadness came in the quick realization that the recollection was punctuated by him addressing me as “this young man” (I was 46), because you could see him reach for my name, and not be able to find it. Whatever deterioration of his faculties had begun a few years earlier was beginning to take its toll in a heartbreaking, inconsistent, up-and-down, struggle to the end. And the end came this morning, with a legacy mixed between the best and worst of man’s instinct, but consistent always in its quality of being larger-than-life.
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2010 Forecasts: AL West
We’ll wrap this up tomorrow night with some thoughts on individual players and awards, but let’s do the last of the six divisional previews first.
seem to you as if Brandon Wood has been on the verge of breaking in to the LOS
ANGELES line-up since Mark Langston was the Angels’ pitching ace? Whether it’s
been four years or forty, this is the first time the team is actually relying
on Wood, and the
pressure is probably a lot more intense than generally understood. If Wood does not produce
a power-filled season, or doesn’t hold on to the job, the Angels will have to
revert to the Chone Figgins-driven line-up, only without Chone Figgins. It’ll
be tough enough adjusting to Erick Aybar at the top of the line-up, without the
Halos also failing to add the last layer of punch they missed so dearly in the ALCS
last year. The emergence of Kendry Morales and the resuscitation of Howie
Kendrick gave life to the club last year, but face it, four key positions are
beginning to creak a little bit with age, including the now three ex-Yanks in
the line-up. Torii Hunter should be terrified at Mike Scioscia’s insistence that
he may occasionally use Hideki Matsui in left. If placed between Matsui and the
periodically mystified Bobby Abreu in right, MLB might consider letting Hunter
ride a Razor. Pitching is deep but once you get past Jered Weaver, not very
intimidating, and Joel Pineiro might have been the off-season’s most overrated
signing (Fernando Rodney might have been the second, but with or without him,
the bullpen is the team’s top asset).
looks like an all-or-nothing proposition. Anderson, Braden, and Cahill might
emerge as world-beaters. Sheets and Duchscherer could make remarkable
comebacks. Bailey could expand on a ROTY season. Or literally any one of the
six could lose his job by June 1. The ailments of Joey Devine and Michael
Wuertz thin out an already thin pen, and the line-up, while energetic and
dynamic, does have to play 81 games on the road against teams that actually hit
those things where, you know, the ball goes past those walls behind the gents
standing on the far lawn – what are those called again? Honestly, if your
line-up looks like it could be beaten up, man for man, by that of the Royals,
you could be in for a long summer, even if every one of the pitchers come
through.
strategic building in SEATTLE over the last two years – Figgins, Wilson,
Gutierrez, Lee, even Byrnes and Snell and League (to say nothing of Wakamatsu)
added to the Ichiro/Felix base, it would seem it would be almost impossible for
the Mariners not to be favored. But as I have suggested before, Jack Zduriencik
managed to make the one move that could undo all the good ones. Ask the 2004-05
Dodgers, who thought he was the guy who could take them over the hump. Ask the
2006 A’s, who thought he was the missing piece (and surrendered Andre Ethier to
get him). Ask the 2007 Padres, who brought him in for the stretch run (and
infamously coughed up the division to the Rockies). Ask the 2008 Rangers, who
signed him, only to start shopping him at mid-season. Ask the 2009 Cubs, who
gave him $30 million for three years and sent him home before the first year
ended because nobody could abide his presence any more. Ask the fans he’s
confronted, the reporters he’s confronted, the play-by-play man he ran up
several flights of stairs in hopes of knocking silly. It’s not as if Milton Bradley
has had a few problems. This is six clubs in six seasons and the longest he
lasted with any of them was until June 29th of the second year. I
don’t know what it will be, I don’t know when it will be, but Bradley will do
something to cost the Mariners the division. And if this somehow does not come
to pass, he will have earned an apology from me – but probably will not have
asked for it, because he would have already experienced an epiphany in which
his consistently uncontrollable behavior would have appeared as unacceptable to
him as it has to everybody else, and he would have apologized to the Cubs. And the Rangers. And
the Padres. And the A’s. And the Dodgers (and just for good measure, Cliff Lee
is not only hurt – he has the most nagging and unpredictable of injuries for a
baseball player, ‘something in the abdomen.’)
line-up in TEXAS frightens me. I know Josh Hamilton is not going to hit 57
homers. I understand Vlad Guerrero has aged. I’m sure Chris Davis could repeat
the first half of 2009. I noticed Ian Kinsler’s on the DL. Without them this
is still the most potent batting order in the division. So the Rangers’ questions are, as
ever, on the mound. But in addition to reclaiming Darren Oliver and bringing
back Colby Lewis from banishment, Texas has one other answer to those
questions: Neftali Feliz. It is impossible to watch him pitch and not see
either a super closer, or a 250-strikeout starter. Either one of them will do
the Rangers fine upon his maturation; for now, a dominating 8th-inning
presence will probably win them the division. And it will be fascinating to
watch any player struggles completely overshadowed by the good or bad conduct
of a manager – not to make a comparison that would be slanderous to the
good-hearted Ron Washington, but we haven’t seen that since Billy Martin died,
and it occasionally helps a team get on with its business while the skipper
takes the heat.
DIVISION FORECAST:
As suggested, I like Texas. Oakland’s pitching could jell to challenge them;
Milton Bradley could go AWOL on May 1 and save Seattle’s season; Brandon Wood
could be everything the Angels ever wanted from him. But I don’t think any of
those things are going to happen. Rangers by a five or six game margin, with
the others following in a jumble I can’t quite yet discern.
FORECAST: I think Tampa ends up with the best record, Texas the worst, and the
Rays will handle the Rangers easily. The Wild Card will go to Boston, most
likely, and they should probably dispatch Detroit, setting up a re-run of 2008,
including the TB victory. This time I like the Rays to win the Series, five
years after other owners seriously murmured about moving them or contracting
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No Replay, No Problem – And The Vet Vote
Two things to consider about the General Managers’ decision not to make a decision on expanding videotape replay: A) whatever it is, baseball has almost always done it, and B) once it’s been done, baseball has almost always done more of it, later.
This is just a brief list of the things the game’s protectors and magnates have guaranteed would never, ever, happen to the great traditions and sanctity of our private world:
1. Overhand pitching
2. Integration
3. Videotape replay
4. Night games
5. Batting helmets
6. A players’ union
7. The American League
8. The banning of the spitball
9. Farming out players to the minors
10. Universal radio broadcasts. Well, okay, radio, but no television. All right, television, but never cable.
Video replay did not celebrate its first anniversary late this season; it celebrated its tenth. In October 13, 1998, third base ump John Shulock threatened to eject me and my six-inch NBC monitor from the reporter’s well next to the visitors’ dugout at Yankee Stadium for Game Six of the ALCS, because he thought some of the Indians players might have been able to see a replay of a call Ted Hendry didn’t do a very good job on at second. Seven months later, on May 31, 1999, the venerable ump Frank Pulli decided he couldn’t decide whether Cliff Floyd’s blast in Florida was a home run or not. So he went over to a tv cameraman and asked if they’d show him some replays. Pulli decided that per the grounds rules, Floyd’s blast had been incorrectly called a homer and was in fact a double, and he so ruled. The National League got mad at him.
Replay was fully and suddenly introduced in 2008 – by this year it played a vital role in the regular season and the World Series. Now the GM’s have demurred. Within eighteen months there will be a video replay rulebook issued to every ump and manager and included in every media guide. You watch.
FOR YOUR HALL OF FAME CONSIDERATION:
Everybody except me seems to have a vote in one of the 87 committees that may elect some managers, umpires, and executives, to Cooperstown next month. I’m in favor of putting in all deserving candidates and I really don’t care if we put it to voice vote at Dodger Stadium one night, just so long as we honor the deserving.
So here is a yes/no on each of the candidates, without getting into the woods of who’s doing the voting or how:
Manager – Charlie Grimm: No. Longevity, not results.
Manager – Whitey Herzog: Yes.
Manager – Davey Johnson: No, but close.
Manager – Tom Kelly: Yes. Rebuilt that franchise.
Manager – Billy Martin: a controversial Yes. There’s an amazing stat on him: he only had nine full seasons of managing. Eight of those nine teams finished first or second.
Manager – Gene Mauch: I’m sorry, no. Presided over two of the worst collapses in history.
Manager – Danny Murtaugh: You know what? Yes. Two World’s Championships, and in his last stint (1970-75) he won the second of them, and a division in four of the other five years.
Manager – Steve O’Neill: No. See Grimm.
Umpire – Doug Harvey: Yes.
Umpire – Hank O’Day: No. There are about a dozen deserving umps. Not him. Whoever you think was right in the Merkle game, his ruling was wrong. It was either a New York win or a forfeit, not a tie.
Executive – Gene Autry: No. Bringing the A.L. to Southern California would’ve been done 20 years before he did it, had it not been for Pearl Harbor.
Executive – Sam Breadon: Yes. Saved the Cardinals from bankruptcy or moving in the ’20s, built a dynasty with Branch Rickey.
Executive – John Fetzer: No.
Executive – Bob Howsam: No. The Frank Robinson trade gets you into Cooperstown?
Executive – Ewing Kauffman: No. An elegant, dedicated man.
Executive – John McHale: No.
Executive – Marvin Miller: Yes. For good or for ill, his impact for changing the game was comparable to Babe Ruth.
Executive – Jacob Ruppert: Yes. The Yankees were a joke before him.
Executive – Bill White: Yes. Could qualify in this role, or as a player, or as an announcer. Get him in there!
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Win, Or Lose Job
So the scenario has almost completely played out: Joe Girardi’s misuse of his bullpen, and the forces of nature, have combined to push Game Six of the ALCS to Sunday. It is a game that likely will determine whether or not Girardi is still Yankee manager on the 15th of next June.
If the Yankees beat the Angels Sunday Night their intended World Series rotation will be unchanged and they will still be able to throw lefthanded starters against the Phillies at least four times and probably five. Two posts back you’ll see the key southpaw splits for Phils’ lefthanded and switch bats, but the money line remains Ryan Howard’s nightmarish production at home against lefties: one homer, eight RBI, a .178 batting average, a .290 slugging percentage (numbers that suggest they’d be better off starting Eric Bruntlett at first base in those match-ups. Or Miguel Cairo. Or Chris Wheeler).
But if the Yankees lose the Sunday Night game, Girardi is facing a choice of three unpleasant futures:
a) The Angels win Game Seven. It is hard to believe that Girardi, with a year left to go on his contract, would not be the scapegoat for the Yankees’ collapse. It might be one of those old-fashioned quick firings, too, especially if George Steinbrenner is even tangentially involved in the decision, especially with Don Mattingly ‘in play’ as at last a nominal candidate for the Indians’ managerial job.
b) The Yankees win Game Seven. But with the rotation plans scuttled by the extended ALCS and the weather, they have no choice but to open the World Series behind A.J. Burnett on Wednesday and Chad Gaudin on Thursday. CC Sabathia might yet shine on three days’ rest, but he’s not going on two. The Yanks would no longer be favorites, for at least the first two games, and perhaps for the Series. Whereas they still get the opportunity to fire Sabathia and then Andy Pettitte in Philadelphia in Games Three and Four next weekend, to use them both twice in the Series, he’d have to use them both on short rest, and there would be absolutely no way to use Sabathia three times. In short, the extension of the ALCS to a seventh game would move the Yankees from the chance to pitch them each twice in the first five games, to the prospect of having pitched them each only once in a Series that could conceivably be lost in five games.
Presumably that would cost Girardi his job, too – only about a week later.
c) The Yankees beat the Angels and despite the astrayness of the best laid plans, also beat the Phillies. Yet in the back of the minds of everybody who counts at Yankee Stadium is this unspoken doubt that they can be confident that Girardi – entering the last year of his deal and doubtless pushing for an extension – knows how to manage a bullpen. Even Defending World Champion Yankees can change managers (ask Billy Martin and Bob Lemon) when things start slowly or unhappily the next season.
And yet all of those unhappy events are nearly obscured, if not totally forgotten, if they still put away the Angels in Game Six. Remarkable on how the game turns on such seemingly small things.
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ISSA Returns With New Album Lights Of Japan
Out January 20th; New Title Track Single, Video Out Now
Norwegian melodic rock queen ISSA is back with her seventh studio album, Lights Of Japan on January 20, 2023. A new single and video for the title track is out today. Watch the video on KNAC.COM HERE.
ISSA has also released a second single today, "Chains". Listen BELOW
Pre-order/save Lights Of Japan HERE: https://orcd.co/issalights
A ‘rebirth’ of sorts, fans can expect to hear a revitalized and inspired artist who is evolving her sound, while also staying true to her roots. That being said, sonically, this latest album from ISSA lands somewhere between her revered debut album Signs of Angels and 2018's well received Run With The Pack, which makes Lights Of Japan one of the talented singer's absolute best albums thus far.
As fans have come to expect with this absolutely fabulous vocalist, Lights Of Japan is a truly gorgeous slab of melodic rock majesty. Huge vocals? Check. Soaring, beautiful melodies? Check. Hooks galore? Check.
For Lights Of Japan, ISSA worked with producer Michele Guaitoli, who has produced albums by VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, KALIDIA, SHEWOLF, and many more, and is also the vocalist for VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, TEMPERANCE, and ERA. Guaitoli also played guitars and bass on the album as well as contributing to the songwriting on two tracks. For the bulk of the album's songwriting, ISSA's husband James Martin and his brother Tom, both former members of UK melodic rockers VEGA, contributed their immense talents.
ISSA’s musical growth over the years has been tremendous to hear and watch and fans will reap the rewards with Lights Of Japan, another gem in her crown.
Lights Of Japan Tracklisting:
"Live Again"
"Lights Of Japan"
"Seize The Day"
"Stop The Rain"
"Moon Of Love"
"Chains"
"Fight To Survive"
"It's Over"
"I Give You My Heart"
"Shadow To The Light"
"I'll Be Waiting"
Issa Oversveen - Vocals
Michele Guaitoli - Guitars, Bass
Marco Pastorino - Rhythm guitar
James Martin - Keyboards
Marco Andreetto - Drums
Giovanni Barbetta - Saxophone on "Moon Of Love"
Guitar solos for m"Live Again", "Lights Of Japan", "Fight To Survive", "It’s Over", "Seize The Day" by Robby Luckets
Guitar solos for "Stop The Rain", "Chains", "Shadow To The Light", "I’ll Be Waiting" by Michele Guaitoli
Guitar solo for "I’ll Give You My Heart" by John Mitchell
Executive Producer/A&R: Serafino Perugino
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Determine-affiliated SPAC plans to merge with mortgage financial institution
Michael December 10, 2022
A blank check company affiliated with fintech Figure Technologies has signed a non-binding letter of intent to merge with a warehouse lender and bank holding company, aiming to bring its blockchain technology to the acquired financial institution.
The deal would combine Figure Acquisition Corp 1, founded by the management team of Figure Technologies, with an undisclosed, $3 billion- to $5-billion-asset holding company that provides home loans across the country. The special purpose acquisition company would take the bank public and allow it to leverage Figure’s technology, potentially introducing a system of originating loans as fully digital assets that can be traded in real-time as digital tokens.
“We believe the proposed transaction provides a unique value creation opportunity by combining the bank’s sound balance sheet, nationwide footprint and seasoned management team with our team’s deep understanding of, and experience with, the application of technology to regulated financial services businesses as well as the necessary capital to grow and execute against our shared vision of the future of banking,” said Michael Cagney, chairman of the SPAC and CEO of Figure Technologies, in a prepared statement.
Michael Cagney, pictured here in 2016, co-founded SoFi, Figure Technologies, Provenance Blockchain and now also leads Figure-affiliated SPAC.
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The deal is still subject to the completion of due diligence and negotiation of a definitive agreement, and the SPAC has also asked for stockholder approval of a six-month extension to complete its initial business combination, which would push the deadline to Aug. 23. It raised $287 million with its launch and has been searching since early 2021 for a financial institution to take public.
Meanwhile Figure Technologies, founded in 2018 by Cagney, has been seeking a national bank charter. Figure Technologies originally applied with the OCC in 2020 for a specialized bank charter that didn’t require deposit insurance, but amended its application to include deposit insurance after a lawsuit from state regulators delayed the process. In June, Figure Technologies terminated its previously-announced merger agreement with non-bank mortgage lender Homebridge Financial.
Figure Technologies offers mortgage refinancing, home equity lines of credit and an equity management platform that allows private companies to raise, manage, and trade equity using Provenance Blockchain, an open-source digital ledger also developed by Cagney in 2020, for loan origination, servicing, financing and private fund services. The fintech has recently partnered with investment firm titans Apollo Global Management and Hamilton Lane to launch new funds using Provenance, which has supported more than $12 billion in transactions, according to Figure.
Figure also developed Digital Asset Registration Technologies, a blockchain-based lien and eNote registry that allows lenders to originate and trade loans as digital tokens on Provenance. Cagney said the SPAC deal could allow the bank to use DART for its warehouse business.
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Analysis: Mali hotel siege was horrifically predictable
By Andrew Lebovich
For anyone who has followed news of Mali or traveled there in recent years, Friday’s attack that killed more than 19 people at the Radisson Blu hotel is unsurprising, but no less tragic or horrific for its apparent predictability.
Since France’s military intervention in January 2013 to halt the southward movement of a coalition of armed groups who controlled much of the country’s north, the security situation has remained precarious. And in some ways, it has gotten even worse.
The morning attack reportedly began after a small group of armed men hijacked a diplomatic car in the country’s capital, Bamako, using the vehicle’s protected status to bypass hotel security before shooting several guards, storming inside, and taking hostages.
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A statement posted on Twitter claimed the attack on behalf of Al-Mourabitoun, an armed group led by veteran rebel commander Moktar Belmoktar, with cooperation from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) Saharan Emirate under the command of Yahya Abou el Hammam.
Al Jazeera Arabic and the Mauritanian Newspaper Al Akhbar also reportedly received communiqués confirming the statement.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves le Drian told French television that Belmoktar, who was the target of a US air strike in the Libyan town of Ajdabiyah in June, “is likely behind this attack although we are not certain of it”.
If the claim of responsibility proves true, it would not be the first attack from Belmoktar’s group in Bamako. In March, Al-Mourabitoun claimed responsibility for an attack that killed five people at the popular La Terrace bar and restaurant in the capital’s Hippodrome neighbourhood. The group also said it was behind shots fired at a United Nations vehicle and compound.
This year alone, Mali’s violence has killed at least 342 people – including UN peacekeepers, foreign personnel and contractors, as in the attack this summer on the Byblos Hotel in the central city of Sevare.
Civilians have also fallen victim to inter-communal fighting and improvised explosive devices. Some were also targeted by AQIM, the largely Tuareg group Ansar Al-Din, and the newer Front pour la Libération du Masina (FLM) for allegedly collaborating with Malian and French security forces.
While the rebel environment in Mali appears fragmented, the separation and scattering of fighters after the French intervention has also helped these movements remain active. Moreover, this is part of a larger pattern of dealing with conflict by separating into smaller groups built in part around ethnic, social and linguistic ties.
For instance, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) split from AQIM in 2011 – in part over frustration among Saharan and Sahelian fighters with Algerian dominance within AQIM; yet this did not stop these groups from collaborating in the occupation of Mali in 2012.
Similarly, longstanding radical and political actor Iyad Ag Ghali’s Ansar Al-Din, created in 2011, connected Tuareg fighters from AQIM with newer recruits from Tuareg and other groups, especially in the area around the northern city of Kidal.
And FLM leader Amadou Kouffa was initially part of the rebel push south in 2013, before splitting off and reportedly recruiting largely among his ethnic Peulh community, staging attacks in central and southern Mali and harkening back to the 19th-century Masina state established by the reformist Muslim leader Shekou Amadou.
As AQIM, Ansar Al-Din and Belmoktar’s fighters scattered after the French intervention, other rebels relocated or simply returned home to bide their time. But the fighting never stopped, and in the past year in particular these groups have returned to the fore and expanded their combat operations across Mali, even as French forces fanned out across the Sahel as part of Operation Barkhane, designed to combat armed groups across the region.
Rebels target UN and other convoys almost daily with improvised explosive devices, while AQIM fighters killed six UN peacekeepers in a complex attack near Timbuktu in June. Other attacks in the region of Mopti, as well as near the borders with Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, have been attributed to the FLM or groups associated with Ansar Al-Din.
Like water thrown onto an oil fire, the flames have simply spread elsewhere, instead of being extinguished.
Although Friday’s attack follows closely on the heels of last week’s gun and bomb assaults that killed at least 129 people in the streets of Paris, it is more likely the carnage at the Radisson Blu was tied to local factors.
The hotel, always popular with diplomats and other foreign personnel, was preparing for the sixth meeting of the Coordinating Committee (Comité de Suivi) of the Algiers Accords, signed in June between rebel groups and the Malian government.
The attack also takes place soon after a series of local truces around the town of Anéfis brought a halt – for the moment – the inter-communal conflict between different Tuareg and Arab armed groups that had raged since the signing of the Algiers Accords.
The assault also came just days after Ansar Al-Din leader Ag Ghali released an audio tape railing against the accords, praising the attacks in central and southern Mali, and threatening France.
We will know more in the days to come about why and how this attack took place. But no matter what the cause, it appears dishearteningly likely that insecurity and violence will continue to spread in Mali for the foreseeable future.
Andrew Lebovich is a Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations and a PhD student in African History at Columbia University.
Source:: Al Jazeera
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Spotlight, Spotlight, & Excerpt: The Stars Within + Giveaway
The Stars Within
by Lena Alison Knight
Series: The Gift of the Stars #1
Genre: Space Opera/Military Sci-Fi
Intended Age Group: Adult
Publisher: Self Published
Content/Trigger Warnings:
Shown on page:
Frequent, non-graphic violence
Corporate imperialism
War w/ civilian casualties
Alluded to:
For Kerelle Evandra, her psionic powers have always meant three things: mandatory service to a multigalactic corporation, a luxurious lifestyle as a prized asset, and an electronic collar that will kill her if she steps out of line. As a powerful telekinetic, she’s spent the last ten years of her life in the corporate military, fighting anyone and anywhere the company demands. While she might resent her gilded cage – and obedience to her corporate masters’ cold directives – everyone knows that escape is impossible. And defiance risks not just her own life, but also the life of the person closest to her: Galhen Ambrel, her lover and fellow bound psionic.
But when Galhen’s service contract is suddenly sold to a distant oligarch, Kerelle learns that obedience was not the guarantee of safety she once thought – and that escape may not be as inconceivable as she was taught to believe. When a mission brings her into contact with an unexpected ally, she must decide how far she can go, and how much she’s willing to risk for freedom.
Solving Problems with Explosions • The Power of Friendship (and Guns) • Love in the Time of Corporate Dystopia
Even from the air, Kalnis was a teeming, derelict mess. Here and there were the shells of grand buildings, indicating that perhaps things had once been better – or at least that someone with investment money had believed they might get better. Judging by the age and condition of those buildings now, any such hopes had long since fled. They dropped down over a sea of rickety walls and broken windows to touch ground at a drab concrete field surrounded by razor wire.
They were met at the landing pad by a shifty man in a worn port authority uniform. Sandrel paid him the requested docking fee, then reached into his jacket to count out another two hundred credits. The port worker pocketed it with a nod and moved on.
Sandrel caught Kerelle’s questioning glance as he returned to the ship.
“First amount is the docking fee we pay to land here. The second one is the ‘security fee,’ which is a nice way of saying the bribe that makes sure the ship is still here when we get back.” He explained this nonchalantly without having to be asked; Kerelle’s performance with the ship’s guns had apparently elevated her in Sandrel’s opinion.
Sandrel turned to regard Kerelle and Nalea both. “Doc, are you sure you want to stay with the ship?”
The scientist gave a small nod. She’d been quiet since they got their first good look at Kalnis, and her second thoughts about the entire venture were written plainly across her face.
“All right then,” he said. “Keep everything locked up, stay out of sight and don’t answer the door. We paid our bribe to keep the ship from being stolen, but it never hurts to be extra careful, especially here. We’ll be back as soon as we have the parts we need.” Nalea only nodded again and drew back further into the ship. Kerelle felt a twist of worry at leaving her, but locked inside the ship was probably far safer than roaming the streets.
Up close, Kalnis was even worse off than it looked in the air. Garbage carpeted the claustrophobic streets, with scattered piles of pungent refuse that spoke to a lack of accessible sanitation. The uneven sidewalks were hemmed in by crumbling concrete block towers, many with plywood shanties built around them like vines beginning to choke a tree – though she hadn’t seen a tree since they broke atmosphere. Most people they passed hurried about their business, carefully not looking at anyone. Those that didn’t were the clusters of rough-looking individuals who leaned against walls here and there, watching the passerby like sharks sizing up a school of fish.
Sandrel walked with brisk purpose and no sign of fear, and Kerelle followed suit. All the same, she brushed those they passed with telepathic encouragement that there was nothing about her and Sandrel worth noticing. As the smuggler had said, it never hurt to be extra careful.
True to his word, Sandrel knew where they were going, and he led them unerringly to a battered storefront in a small cluster of merchants that passed for a shopping center. With reinforced bars over their windows and heavy chains to secure their doors, it seemed more to Kerelle that the shops were huddled for mutual defense.
She waited quietly to the side while Sandrel negotiated for what they needed. She could be of no help fixing the ship, but she didn’t intend to stand idly by. Kerelle kept her senses open for anyone in their vicinity who might be trouble. She’d done a good job on the way in though, or else Sandrel had, because she sensed no one who had taken note of them. So far so good.
Sandrel briskly shook hands with the proprietor and credits changed hands, and soon they were back in those filthy streets with several small boxes stowed in his pack. Kerelle marveled that their survival could be contained in such little things, but it was probably for the best they didn’t have to visibly carry them.
She kept up her mental shield of anonymity as they made their way back to the dock, and to her relief they passed back into the bleak little shipyard without incident. Now all they had to do was install the parts and leave this wretched world behind them. There was just one problem.
The ship was gone.
Author Interview:
1. Tell us a little about how this story first came to be.
So there were a lot of things that came together in this story, but the initial spark was work. More specifically, it was a culture of work where your entire identity is centered on your job, with this almost religious devotion. The PsiCorp sort of grew out of that, and my feelings around it.
Which feels odd to say now, because the story actually got away from the PsiCorp fairly quickly – once I sat down to write it, Kerelle escaping that situation was more interesting than living through it. But in a way the PsiCorp concept is what started the whole thing.
2. What, if anything, did you learn when writing the book?
I learned I’m a plantser! I have to meticulously plan my books, or else I can’t make any progress at all. If I just sit down and write and try to figure it out as I go, I’ll hit a wall where it’s not clear where to go next, and for me it’s very hard to get over that wall if I’m knee-deep in writing the actual draft. By outlining the whole story before I start, I always know where I’m going (and so we’ll actually get there!).
While working on this series, though, I discovered that I still have some pantser moments. I would hit a point in my outline that didn’t quite feel right on the actual page, or I would have a sudden burst of inspiration for another scene that wasn’t in the outline but would be a great fit for this part of the story. At first I tried to just stick with what I had planned, but I learned that sometimes giving into the pantser impulses could improve the overall flow of the story. Some of my favorite scenes in the series weren’t in the outline.
3. What surprised you the most in writing it?
I was surprised how much the characters took on their own voices and personalities as I went along. There were times when I would reach something I’d put in the outline and realize “no, she would never say that, actually” and have to rethink the scene. I had the broad strokes of them from the outline, but I got to really know them so much better when I was writing the actual draft.
4. If it’s not a spoiler, what does the title mean?
It’s a bit oblique, but the first book is called The Stars Within because so much of the central conflict is internal. We follow Kerelle through a number of external conflicts, of course, there’s a lot of action in this book. But the really important one is in her head, reconciling what she was raised to believe with a reality that doesn’t match up, and struggling with what she might be able to do about it.
The Stars Within is also the book where Kerelle is most withdrawn from the world around her, which contributed to the name as well. Found family is an important theme in the later books, but for most of The Stars Within she’s on her own.
5. Were any of the characters inspired by real people? If so, do they know?
Not exactly. I actually like to say that all of the characters are me – not literally, of course, but I can recognize certain aspects of myself that went into them.
6. Do you consider the book to have a lesson or moral?
I wouldn’t say it has a moral, per se. I would say more that it has ideas, particularly around corporate power in society. Kerelle and her friends live in a world where these mega-corps have accumulated enough political and social power that in some places they’re indistinguishable from the government.
When we meet Kerelle, actually, it’s in the midst of SysTech acting like an imperial power, even though they’re a private business entity. The book opens there partially to give the reader a fast and unambiguous introduction to how SysTech operates – including both why Kerelle might want out, and why she has zero doubt they’d make good on their threats to kill her if she tried. But starting on Elekar is also meant to pose one of the big questions that our protagonists need to grapple with throughout the series. How do you rein in a private entity, when society lets them get away with this?
7. What is your favorite part of the book?
I’m going to cheat a bit here. I think of the book as having two phases – a phase when Kerelle believes the PsiCorp is inevitable, and a phase when she doesn’t. I have a favorite for each.
In the first phase, my favorite part is when Galhen first joins her on Elekar. We learn a lot about both of them, and they have some fairly serious discussions, but we also get to see them relax and banter and support each other through some very difficult situations. I feel like in SFF we have a lot of stories about people forming relationships (which I like also, don’t get me wrong!), but we don’t have many stories about people who are in relationships. That’s something I’d like to see more of, because life doesn’t end once you get together, you know? So in some ways, this was me writing the story I wanted to read.
In the second phase I’m going to be a bit more vague, since this is well into spoiler territory. My favorite part here is the moment of truth for Kerelle’s ambitions of leaving the PsiCorp, and its immediate aftermath. It was quite fun to write, and also gives Kerelle the first nudge towards some important realizations about herself.
8. Which character was most challenging to create? Why?
Kerelle’s friend Mila, actually. She’s not even in the book that much, but she plays an important role both in helping Kerelle’s path move forward and in representing a more typical PsiCorp experience. By the time we meet Kerelle, she’s shaken off some of her childhood indoctrination; Mila has not. In her, we see how PsiCorp are supposed to act – and often do.
At the same time, though, I didn’t want her to be this one-note caricature. Yes, Mila reflects the values of her upbringing, but she really does care about Kerelle’s well-being. She genuinely tries to help Kerelle recover from loss, the only way she knows how. And I didn’t want it to feel like the story was criticizing her for the fact that the only way she was ever taught to provide emotional support is by taking someone shopping.
Most of the other characters actually developed pretty naturally – I had a good sense for who they were and their role in the story, and their voices were relatively clear from the beginning. Mila took me a couple of tries before she felt “right.”
9. What are your immediate future plans?
I’m working on a science fantasy project that’s been a lot of fun so far, that I’m hoping to be able to share more about soon. I’ve also got a longer-term series project going that’s more on the epic side, and I’ve been trying my hand more at short fiction.
Lena Alison Knight grew up reading space opera and high fantasy, and started writing her own as soon as she could hold a crayon steady. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area, and when not writing she can be found taking brisk walks, haunting local coffee shops, or sprawled on the couch playing video games. Find her online at lenaalisonknight.com.
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"The Aviator" starring: Academy Award Winner Cate Blanchett
In this somber biopic of the life of Katharine Hepburn, Cate Blanchett's thrilling performance throws the viewer back in time to the early 20th century. Despite the lackluster performance of the supporting cast, I believe Blanchett's Oscar level acting abilities are the shining light of this little known gem. Trailer:
"Catch Me If You Can" starring: Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks
After his Best Actor winning performance in Forrest Gump, Hanks chose to steer his career towards less "larger than life" characters. In this often overlooked film, Hanks plays Carl Hanratty, a hotshot law enforcement agent struggling to catch his man. Like the character, Hanks was the sole "hotshot" of this film, being the only noteworthy performer, but don't let that keep you from checking out this great film. Trailer:
"The Departed" starring: Academy Award Winner Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson stars as Frank Costello, an eccentric, yet loveable mob boss navigating the choppy seas of honor and deceit in this oft forgotten 2006 film. Nicholson's portrayal of the affable king pin admittedly carries the film, which is otherwise populated by nobodies. Trailer:
"J. Edgar" starring: Academy Award Winner Judi Dench
Here, Judi Dench stars as a mother struggling to come to terms with her cross dressing son. A quick IMDB search can turn up more on the supporting cast, but needless to day, her award winning acting chops truly turned this otherwise fleeting cinematic footnote into a memorable journey. Trailer:
"Gangs of New York" starring: Academy Award Winner Daniel Day-Lewis
Day-Lewis' acting abilities need no introduction, and in this quaint 2002 period piece, his rightfully lauded performing abilities once again make for an incredibly immersive jaunt through 19th century New York. Be sure not to miss Academy Award Nominee John C. Reilly in a supporting role! Trailer:
"Inception" starring: Academy Award Winner Michael Caine
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BerMEWdez728 Monday 11, April 2016 03:41 AM
@Tony Bermudez: #SpiritedAway was worthy of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It's the ONLY anime film to win one.
MeLlamanHydro Thursday 14, April 2016 08:00 PM
@arianaescobar and the academy award for best animated feature goes to... Wrapped Up!!!
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Patricia Vucich
patriciavucich@outlook.com
PATRICIA VUCICH, Associate Broker
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Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Michigan State University
A native of rural and small town Michigan, I grew up among a family of women who sold clothing by the armful, fruits and vegetables by the ton, awnings and shades by the truckload, and paint and wallpaper by the household. As a youngster my grandmother posted me at her farmhouse road stand to collect dimes and quarters from Sunday’s produce shoppers.
Later I was graduated cum laude from Michigan State University and earned the Lantern Night Award for outstanding service to school and community. An internship brought me to the District of Columbia where I studied housing and other issues at The Urban Institute, a public policy think tank. Several years later the private sector beckoned with real estate sales, beginning in a small office on Washington’s Capitol Hill.
I am now a member of the largest real estate company in the world, RE/MAX (www.remax.com), whose revolutionary business model was specifically designed for high-producing, full-time agents. I affiliate with RE/MAX Excellence Realty (www.remaxexcellencerealty.com), a locally owned franchise with offices in Maryland serving all facets of residential real estate.
Spare time activities include catch-and-release fishing, road trips and gardening. I’ve served as Co-Chair of Takoma Park’s annual House and Garden Tour; became Chief Judge for Montgomery County’s Board of Elections; report conditions and usage on a portion of the C & O Canal for its Association, and have contributed countless hours to community volunteer work. Home, with three found cats, is a split-level in “Beautiful Hillandale,” a quiet Silver Spring, Maryland neighborhood.
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Maine State Route 197
<< Maine State Route 196S All Points in Maine Maine State Route 198 >>
Termini and Mileage (2006)
Main alignment: Int of 9X, 197X, Sabattus to Int of GARDINER RD, ST RTE 127, Dresden
Main alignment: 20.52 miles (total over all segments)
Notes and History
ME 197 as originally signed in 1925 ran between Richmond at NEI 20 (now US 201) and Dresden, terminating at local road. By 1929 this had been extended west to ME 126 near Sabattus (now ME 9/ME 126) along ME 126's old routing, and in 1931 it crossed the Kennebec on a new toll bridge crossing to intersect with ME 127 at Dresden Mills. This routing persisted through the Maine Great Renumbering and remained essentially unchanged except for realignment of the route in 1955 on the approach to Richmond, shortening its length by approximately two miles. The original routing appears to have been obliterated since; the bridge north at Ring Hill has never been part of the routing despite its proximity.
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Exilis Ultra Skin Tightening
Dr. Lupton was featured in the Aesthetic Guide, for his knowledge and optimal results achieved with the Exilis Ultra skin tightening treatment.
Below is the link to the article along with the benefits of Exilis Ultra.
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The Amazing ‘Second Skin’
The idea sounds like a fantasy: an invisible film that can be painted on your skin and give it the elasticity of youth. Bags under the eyes vanish in seconds. Wrinkles disappear!
And undereye bags are just the start. You can soak the film with sunscreen and protect yourself without worrying about sweat or water washing it away, researchers said. They expect it can be used to treat eczema, psoriasis and other skin conditions by covering dry itchy patches with a film that moistens and soothes.
Scientists at Harvard and M.I.T. have discovered that it is not fantasy at all. The researchers said a “second skin” composed of commonly used chemicals deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration can accomplish that — and in small studies, so far no one has reported irritation or allergic reactions.
Those studies included tests on people with undereye bags and those with dry skin on their legs. In one study, participants put second skin on their forearms to see how quickly the skin returned to normal after it was pinched in a suction cup — a test of elasticity. In another study, people were randomly assigned to use second skin or a placebo under their eyes. Trained observers graded the subjects on the appearance of the undereye skin. The product’s durability was tested in volunteers who wore it while running in heat and working up a sweat, while swimming, and while going out in a rainstorm.
We are eager to see what comes of this.
We are now offering KYBELLA! The double chin eliminator!!
We are excited to finally offer a treatment that can get rid of stubborn fat, in the most stubborn area!
The FDA approved a new drug that promises to get rid of double chins without surgery.
The magic drug is called Kybella, and it is an injectable substance that dissolves fat under the chin.
Kybella is a version of deoxycholic acid, “a naturally occurring molecule in the body that aids in the breakdown of dietary fat,” according to its manufacturer, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals.
“It disrupts the fat cells” and “When it disappears, it disappears permanently.” Dr. Derek Jones, presented Kybella to the FDA
He also said that the drug destroys the fat cell’s membrane, causing it to burst. What remains of the fat cell is absorbed back into the body “via normal metabolic pathways”
What’s recovery like?
It takes two to three days to heal, no bandages are required.
Who isn’t a good candidate for it?
People with a lot of excess skin under their chin and neck aren’t good candidates for this treatment.
Are there side effects?
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We are happy to schedule a free consultation and go over, in detail the results you can expect from Kybella!
Thanks to a steady diet of lasers, lights, and needles, middle-aged celebs look younger than ever.
In the last decade, the “enhancement” game has changed. A 40-something might not be going under the knife for a major overhaul, but chances are she is doling out for frequent minor tune-ups, which can be even more effective at stopping the clock. So when a star like Jennifer Lopez took to Twitter last year to denounce claims that she’s “had plastic surgery of any kind,” she might well have been telling the truth. The fact is, with the nonsurgical treatments available now, she hasn’t had to.
Among the more effective treatments available is Botox, which is best to start injecting before deep wrinkles occur. We recommend treating lightly, so you retain expressions but don’t have lines at rest.
Injectables are still the dermatologic indulgence that everyone likes to deny. Over-filled lips, a puffed-out “monkey mouth,” and inflated cheekbones are so stigmatized that we only see them on Bravo. But the truth is that A-listers are still filling up, and doing so frequently. It’s just harder to discern because fillers can be administered in microdroplets with a tiny needle, resulting in a more natural look. Perhaps that’s why they’re being used to restore volume in areas that were rarely considered before, like around the temples and hands.
Some of the most dramatic advancements in skincare, however, have been in the realm of tightening and firming. Ultrasound treatments (like Ultherapy), are making it possible to restore texture and tone quickly with minimal recovery time.
And of course skin resurfacing lasers, like the Pixel are always a favorite because of the overall benefits to the skin including reducing fine lines, improving brown spots and an overall brightening of your skin.
Regrow and Thicken Hair Without Surgery
PRP on Good Morning America
A new hair-loss treatment is giving hope to millions of people with thinning hair.
The treatment, called Platelet Rich Plasma therapy — or PRP — could help regrow and thicken hair without surgery, drugs or expensive treatments, experts say.
PRP relies on the patient’s own platelets. The patient’s blood is drawn and placed in a machine, where the plasma is separated from the blood and injected directly into that patient’s scalp.
The platelets contain growth factors that stimulate the regrowth and thickening of hair follicles.
The research is preliminary, but it’s promising, experts say.
“This is the best kept secret in the world,” Dr. Jeffrey Rapaport, a New Jersey dermatologist, told ABC News.
Tanisha Jimenez has used PRP and she says it has worked for her.
Jimenez said that years of pulling her hair back caused her to lose some around her face. Just weeks after her first treatment, her hair started to regrow, she said.
“It’s amazing,” she said.
Rapaport noted, though, that this isn’t considered a cure for baldness.
“It’s a treatment … What we’re doing is increasing the diameter of the size of the hair follicle,” he said. “And we’re keeping the hairs that would stop growing in the growing phase.”
The best candidate for PRP is someone who has recently started losing hair. It won’t work for those who are completely bald, and it won’t regrow all the lost hair, he said.
It is recommended to have one treatment per month for the first four months and then two maintenance treatments per year.
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The Plot to Save Socrates
Sierra Waters: Book 1
Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson's astonishing science fiction novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics, is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max.
The trail leads her to time machines in gentlemen's clubs in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from the future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades to William Henry Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Hypatia and Socrates himself appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.
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Coach Regragui says whole of Africa behind Morocco at World Cup
SuchTV | Dec 09, 2022
The North Africans will take on Portugal at Al Thumama Stadium as the first Arab nation to reach the last eight after beating Spain on penalties in the last 16.
A World Cup semi-final against either England or France is up for grabs, alongside a place in the history books.
Cameroon in 1990, Senegal’s 2002 side and the 2010 Ghana team all fell at the quarter-final stage.
“We have nothing to lose. The challenge is to do as well as we did in the previous games,” Regragui said on the eve of the match against Portugal.
“We want to show that Africa deserves to be here, Morocco deserves to be here.
“We have a whole people behind us, a continent behind us and the Arab world behind us. That’s a lot of energy behind us. We’re going to try and do everything we can.
“We can do it, we can make history again. It (the support) can push us, help us actually to play with this pressure, not to make any mistakes.”
Morocco have the best defensive record in the tournament, having conceded only one goal in their four matches.
But Regragui warned: “We can’t rest on our laurels. We haven’t got carried away, we’ve just surprised a few people and a few algorithms who expected Belgium or Spain to be in the quarter-finals.”
Ronaldo factorCristiano Ronaldo was a surprise omission from Portugal’s starting XI for their match against Switzerland in the last 16, with his replacement, Goncalo Ramos, scoring a hat-trick in a 6-1 win.
But Regragui would prefer to see the Portuguese teamsheet without the name of international men’s football’s greatest goalscorer.
“They’re going to be fresh,” he said. “I don’t know if Ronaldo’s going to play, but I hope he doesn’t. I know he’s one of the best players in history so I don’t want him to play.”
Morocco’s success in Qatar has sparked celebrations back home, but also in several European countries where the Moroccan diaspora live.
Fourteen of Regragui’s 26-man squad were born outside the African country.
“People are identifying with us and we’ve managed to unite Moroccans behind this football team,” he said. “I think that’s worth more than anything, it’s worth more than money, it’s worth more than titles.
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“Lots of injuries, people sick. We’ve played lots of games without people 100 per cent,” said Regragui.
“I’m proud of that because nobody has seen Morocco at 100pc power. Aguerd is waiting tomorrow to see if he can play or not. “
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Jaeger-LeCoultre practices the Art of Precision with the new Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillion Westminster Perpétuel (SIHH2019)
Jaeger-LeCoultre, Watch Reviews
The Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel is the latest generation of multi-axis tourbillon to emerge from Jaeger-LeCoultre, following the 2004 Master Gyrotourbillon 1, the 2008 Reverso Gyrotourbillon 2, the 2013 Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon 3 Jubilee and the 2016 Reverso Tribute Gyrotourbillon.
Precision tourbillons are a noted speciality of Jaeger-LeCoultre, as proven by the 2009 Concours International de Chronométrie timing competition, in which the top two prizes were awarded to Jaeger-LeCoultre. The strength in creating high-precision tourbillons goes hand-in-hand with the mastery required to engineer the visually spectacular Gyrotourbillon watches. Even with the considerable energy demands of the large multi-axis tourbillon, chronometric performance must not be affected. Reconciling the needs of the Gyrotourbillon with impeccable chronometric requirements is a balancing feat that can only be accomplished with the experience and skill of a 186-year-old watchmaking manufacture.
Further advancing the art of multi-axis tourbillons, the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel features a tourbillon that is significantly smaller than those in the preceding Gyrotourbillon timepieces. As a rule, reducing the size of a mechanism also reduces its error tolerance, which is why successful miniaturisation efforts are so highly valued and complex. In creating a smaller tourbillon, Jaeger-LeCoultre has created a truly wearable Gyrotourbillon, bringing high complication out of the watch safe and onto the wrist for everyday enjoyment.
The Westminster chime is familiar to everyone as the famous melody of the Big Ben clock at the Palace of Westminster in London. Its four-phrase melody is composed of four notes played in different sequences and different quantities at each quarter of the hour. The Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel uses four sets of gongs and hammers to create the Westminster chime to indicate the quarters when the minute repeater is activated, incorporating a complex mechanism that places it at the most prestigious tier of chiming watches.
The most beautiful chime can be marred by interruptions and gaps of silence between the strikes. In order to create a chime of unmatched euphony, the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel has a silence-reduction function built into its chiming mechanism. This ensures that even when the full set of Westminster quarters is not struck, there is no time delay corresponding to the missing quarters before the minutes are struck. In every instance of the chime when the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel is activated, the hour strikes, quarter strikes and minute strikes are seamlessly joined.
Precision lies at the heart of the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel, with a one-minute constant-force mechanism that provides a consistent level of power for the energy-hungry tourbillon without affecting its chronometric ability. The constant-force mechanism consists of a spring, known classically as a remontoir d’égalité, that is periodically re-armed by the mainspring and acts as a secondary power source to protect the regulating organ of the movement.
In the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel, the constant-force mechanism has an additional advantage. It regulates the motion of the minute wheel, creating a jumping minutes hand that offers greater precision in time display. More significantly, the mechanism that controls the minute strike also follows this one-minute jumping system, which completely eliminates the chiming error that can occur when the repeater is activated between minutes, when the chime played and the time shown can be one minute apart.
Besides the multi-axis tourbillon, which highlights the cinematic virtuosity of fine watchmaking at Jaeger-LeCoultre, and the minute repeater, which showcases in-house mastery of the most sophisticated complications, the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel also features the one horological function with the greatest everyday relevance and pragmatic value — the perpetual calendar. As the name suggests, the perpetual calendar is designed to work in perpetuity. It automatically displays the correct date without the need for manual adjustment between months of different lengths. It even takes into account the extra day at the end of February during leap years. The most common configuration of the perpetual calendar mechanism can only be adjusted in one direction, but the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel emphasises the experience and convenience of the user, and its date can be adjusted forwards or backwards without harming the movement. The pointer-style date indication further reinforces the precision aspect of the timepiece, as it jumps over the tourbillon aperture in order to provide the best possible view of the visually stunning rotating escapement.
The Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel is the result of 186 years of fine watchmaking expertise and a spirit of innovation that continues to this day. Reflecting the blend of patrimony and modernity is the design of the watch, which emphasises the round profile of the Master Grande Tradition case. A retractable minute repeater pusher, first seen in the Master Ultra Thin Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon, preserves the smooth lines of the case. Hand guillochage, fine hammering (martelage) and grand feu enamel are part of the canon of fine watchmaking finish and have been practiced at Jaeger-LeCoultre throughout its history — most outstandingly in the dazzling Hybris Artistica collection. In the Master Grande Tradition Gyrotourbillon Westminster Perpétuel, however, these finishes are expressed in a subtle and contemporary way, culminating in the openworked dial — produced either in a striking deep-blue grand feu enamel or in a more classic silver-grained version — showcasing the mesmerising multi-axis tourbillon. These age-old techniques are skilfully practised by master artisans from the in-house Metiers Rares atelier of Jaeger-LeCoultre, where haut-de-gamme traditional finish is also applied to the movement by hand.
The specifications:
Thickness: 14.08 mm
Calibre: 184 – Manual
Case: White gold
Functions: Hour/Minute, Jumping Date, Two-way perpetual calendar (Day/Date/Month/Year), Gyrotourbillon, Minute repeater with Westminster chime
Power reserve: 52 h
Dial: Blue guilloché enamel or Silver grained
Case Back: Open
Limitation: 18 pieces
Reference: Q52534E1, Q5253420
Ulysse Nardin – Classico Manara (SIHH 2019)
Vacheron Constantin – Traditionnelle Twin Beat Perpetual Calendar, A Breakthrough in Function and Innovation
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Archive for July 31st, 2008
1963: 21 Iraqi Communists
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On this date in 1963, Iraq’s infant Ba’ath government executed at least 21 soldiers — all Shi’a — who had participated in a Communist coup attempt on July 3.
The Ba’ath were newly in the saddle after overthrowing Qasim earlier that year, and would be ousted again a few months hence before their definitive seizure of power several years later.
For the moment, they were a fledgling government trying to tilt away from the Soviet bloc and towards the west while navigating a minefield of domestic politics. If the coup really occurred as described, it was the fruit of an Iraqi Communist Party with daggers drawn for the regime after the Ba’athists had massacred their membership with CIA help in the course of offing Qasim. (The name is also transliterated Qassim or Kassem.) If it was bogus, it was probably an official cover story to keep massacring Shi’a Communists.
The affair, in either guise, amounted to a minor hazard in the jagged path of the Ba’ath — but of course, we come by that judgment with benefit of hindsight. Far more interesting to follow, courtesy of this site‘s library of historic cables, the perceived unfolding of the situation through the anxious American diplomatic pouch:
1909: Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, anti-constitutionalist martyr - 2020
1849: Maximilian Dortu, republican martyr - 2019
1940: Udham Singh, Jallianwala Bagh massacre avenger - 2018
1934: Otto Planetta and Franz Holzweber, for the Juliputsch - 2017
1767: Obadiah Greenage, colonial gangster - 2016
1701: Esther Rodgers, repentant - 2015
1868: Stefan Karadzha, Bulgarian national hero - 2014
1812: Hölzerlips, Blood Court prey - 2013
1722: Cartouche's brother, hanged by the armpits - 2012
1602: Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron - 2011
1903: Hilario Hidalgo and Francisco Renteria - 2010
1959: Cho Pong-am, Presidential runner-up - 2009
1478: Pazzi Conspiracy attempted … and suppressed
1948: Amir Sjarifuddin
1919: Felipe Angeles
1803: Edward Marcus Despard, a patriot without a nation
1980: Thirteen deposed Americo-Liberian officials
1937: Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other Soviet commanders purged
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Iraq,Known But To God,Mass Executions,Power,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Shot,Soldiers,Treason
Tags: 1963, baath, cold war, communism, coup d'etat, diplomacy, iraqi communist party, july 3, july 31, shi'a
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Holoshop: Drawing and Perceiving in Depth Forum
Image: Paula Dawson using Holoshop haptic interface to generate content for digital holographic prints.
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Holoshop combines innovative technologies and processes for creating real-time 3D digital content for holograms and other 3D display systems, with virtual tools enabling the direct hand-drawing of subjects, mark by mark. The Holoshop project creates the foundations for a new method of 3D content creation that factors the key perceptual differences between the level and type of detail required of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional media into a process of 3D line drawing construction. Using a haptic (tactile) interface, Holoshop software registers the users’ gestures as a digital 3D scene. This software enables three-dimensional templates made in other softwares to be imported and used as guides for drawing. It also enables aesthetic choices such as colour and line, and can be modified to track gestural inputs such as speed.
Forum Description:
In this forum, chaired by ISEA2013 Keynote Professor Brian Rogers, investigators and researchers of the Holoshop project will discuss the development and perceptual effects of Holoshop. Detailing the development of the project across varied platforms, the speakers will compare the unique perceptual effects created by Holoshop software across holographic, three-dimensional, stereoscopic and virtual mediums.
Forum Presenter/s:
Keynote speaker and chair: Brian Rogers
Speakers: Paula Dawson, Joanna Szymanska, Fay Hudson, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, John Stavrakakis, Masa Takatsuka, Philip Lange, Karen Kriss
Presenter Biographies:
Professor Brian Rogers teaches in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on 3D perception. In his research he has shown that motion parallax can be as effective as binocular disparities as a source of 3D information, and recently he has been studying how the many different sources of 3D information interact and combine to create the perception of 3D structure and layout. Within Holoshop, he advises on the effectiveness of research progress across a range of 3D platforms’ display systems – stereo, structure-from-motion, CGH and holo-video – assessing their advantages and disadvantages. He is also involved in the design of data collection and collation from visitor participation with the Holoshop: Drawing and Perceiving in Depthexhibition and workshops for ISEA2013.
Associate Professor Paula Dawson teaches at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She has pioneered large volume optical hologram recording and the investigation of spatial and temporal effects of pictorial agents in optical, digital and computer generated hologram imagery. Paula leads the project, ensuring that the group’s activities are wholly integrated, designing the virtual drawing tools, and undertaking experiments in drawing sequences through the practical use of the Holoshop software and the haptic interface, the Phantom. Paula creates the scene files and supervises their testing across computer generated hologram (CGH), digital hologram, holo-video, stereo and related 3D display systems.
Associate Professor Masa Takatsuka teaches at VisLAB, School of IT, University of Sydney. He has pioneered the development of neural networks for encoding individual characteristics of objects, including free-form surfaces, which are particularly relevant to this project. He has also developed a texture-based 3D shape encoding technique that utilises the geometric shading technology available in recent Graphical Processing Units, and oversees the design and development of computational algorithms and software design which enable Holoshop haptic interface to be used for virtual drawing purposes.
Professor Hiroshi Yoshikawa teaches at Nihon University, Japan. He is an expert in high-speed calculation on computer-generated holograms. With pixel number exceeding 100 billion for a 150 mm x 150 mm hologram, his skills in fast calculation are crucial to the generation of such huge holograms for the Holoshop project. He also adapts the mathematical generation of the holographic fringe pattern of virtual drawings to match the parameters for electrobeam lithography at the Australian National Fabrication Facility, University of New South Wales.
Dr Joanna Szymanska is a highly skilled nano-fabrication engineer at the Australian National Fabrication Facility, UNSW. She has developed a process of creating computer generated holograms (CGH) using electron beam lithography, and has successfully written several CGHs. One of them, 3 x 3mm in size, will be shown in the Holoshop: Drawing and Perceiving in Depth exhibition for ISEA2013.
Dr John Stavrakakis is a specialist in 3D computer graphics and networking at VisLAB School of IT, University of Sydney, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sydney. John has broad technical skills used in projects that pursue the educational, research and industrial application of technologies. He is currently developing the Holoshop software supporting the use of haptic devices and visual feedback.
Phillip Lange, Visual Effects Compositor is a Visual Effects Compositor based in Sydney with over a decade of experience working on feature films and television projects. He has worked both locally and internationally and most recently on Great Gatsby, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, and Happy Feet 2.
Karen Kriss, Lecturer College of Fine Arts, UNSW teaches at the College of Fine Arts,UNSW and has as worked as a Visual Effects producer and Animator on feature films and short animation productions in Sydney, Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles including award winning films Happy Feet and Lust Caution. She is undertaking research with a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Karen Kriss teaches at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and has as worked as a Visual Effects producer and Animator on feature films and short animation productions in Sydney, Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles, including award winning films Happy Feet and Lust Caution. She is currently undertaking research for a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Tags: 3d brian rogers forum haptic hologram holoshop Paula Dawson stereoscopic virtual
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By James Southall Sunday March 29, 2020
Composed by James Horner
Varèse Sarabande / 45m
It’s that age-old tale, told once again – a young boy is separated from his tribe when his half-human, half-dolphin mother is murdered by people trying to exploit the forest, and when he goes to the city years later he recognises a local politician as the killer. Enough already, Hollywood – give us something original.
James Horner loved scoring the natural world and so one would have expected him to be inspired by the dazzling visuals of this 1986 film, perhaps using it as a dry-run for The Spitfire Grill and The New World and those wonderful nature-inspired scores he did so outstandingly well later in his career. It’s not really that at all, though – instead being one of his few mostly-synth scores.
Now, I think Horner fared a little better with such scores than most of the other great orchestral film composers who sometimes went the all-synth route in the 1980s – in particular, he seemed to be in tune with a sort of new age feeling to get some interesting colours out of his synths – but it would be a brave man who suggested a score like Where the River Runs Black truly stands up when placed alongside the more conventional music he was writing at the time, and through his career.
There are some acoustic sounds here – a few pipes and winds – and these have an earthy, very evocative feel suggesting the rainforest. The titular opening cue has little phrases for pan pipes upon a throbbing synth bass effect which is quite captivating in its way; later the mesmerisingly hypnotic “The Orphanage” adds a guitar and synth choir to this mixture and is easily the pick of the tracks. The end title piece offers a nice summary of that side of the score.
Elsewhere there is a sort of “fantasy for Casio digital watch” feel at times, including in the dancelike “Underwater Ballet” and “The Dolphins”. Those pieces are the score at its lightest; but there is darkness too, not surprisingly given the film’s subject matter, and I find that element far from engaging.
The score was actually released twice by Varèse Sarabande, with identical contents, once at the time of the film (in an album which went quickly out of print and would go on to demand absurd prices once Horner achieved great fame) and then years later in the CD Club. It’s intriguing enough in its way (strangely relaxing, like a more ethereal version of the later Vibes) but you’d have to be a real devotee to listen to it more than very occasionally.
Rating: **
Tags: James Horner, Varese Sarabande, Where the River Runs Black soundtrack review
ghostof82 (Reply) on Monday 30 March, 2020 at 16:02
Have to confess, I quite like it and return to it quite often. It certainly has a freshness (likely from the orchestration, being sop electronic) compared to so much of his stuff.
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The Perfect Manager
Publicada el 9 de febrero de 2022 por www_luciavidal_e
In the case of Avram, every team would like his luck when it comes to getting favourable draws in cup competitions as in this season Chelsea has been drawn against Hull City, QPR, Wigan Athletic in the Coca Cola cup; Huddersfield and Barnsley in the FA Cup and Olympiakos as well as Fenerbahce in the champions league.
In the semi finals Chelsea come up against Liverpool for the 3rd time but this is the 1st time that Chelsea would play the 2nd leg at home. When they were handed a tough looking group in the champions league, Jose Mourinho was the manager but by the time Avram took over Valencia had started to implode making the group easier than it 1st appeared.
In the case of Rafa Benitez, all teams would like to have his luck in the champions league as Liverpool seem to have a knack of meeting teams when they are not in good form as Inter Milan and Arsenal would attest.
It is very probable that if Liverpool had met Inter Milan when they still had their full quota of defenders and were playing with confidence that Liverpool would not have gone through, the same can be said for Arsenal.
Also we all know about the red cards and penalty decisions that went their way this season. Last season they met Barcelona at the right time as well with Samuel Etoo and Lionel Messi struggling with injuries.
In the case of Claudio Ranieri, the so called big teams would like to have him as manager whenever they come across another big team as he has had the fortune of meeting Inter Milan when they had problems, Roma when they were preparing for important champions league games and just last weekend AC Milan.
When Juventus met Milan on Saturday, Milan were without key defenders Kaka Kaladze and Alessandro Nesta due to suspension; Massimo Oddo and Marko Jankulowski due to injuries and then striker Pato also due to injury.
They had to make do with Daniele Bonera, Mario Simic and Giuseppe Favalli in defence with only Pippo Inzaghi and Alberto Gilardino as viable options upfront.
Juventus have played all the big guns and remained unbeaten in all of them and though Ranieri would say that it was his tactical approach that was so vital and that would not be inaccurate but he did have a huge slice of luck with the timings of the meetings.
It just goes to show that luck plays a huge part in the success of managers but it also shows that you need some tactical acumen as while the others have made full benefit of their luck, poor old Avram Grant seems to be wasting his but the season is not yet over.
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Argentina: ID Logistics adds 5 Iveco CNG trucks after successful trial
After trialing and verifying the qualities of an IVECO Stralis Hi-Road CNG truck, ID Logistics decided to acquire five vehicles powered by this alternative fuel. Under a test drive program, the Argentina carrier made a closed route with a 15.5m-long semi-trailer loaded with 30 pallets, with a load weight of between 18,000 and 20,000 kg. ID Logistics traveled a total of 700 kilometers and carried out logistics transports of 22 kilometers between its base and the Unilever logistics center in Fátima, province of Buenos Aires.
“The use of natural gas trucks is new for us and we are working on the renewal of the fleet looking for a differential in terms of the total operating cost and the reduction in the carbon footprint. Considering that the best option in the market is IVECO, we carried out a test and then we made the decision to buy the five trucks. We are very happy and with great expectations,” said Diego Bottaro, Director of Transportation ID Logistics.
Martin del Negro, Contract Manager of the company, also commented: “ID Logistics is an international logistics company that has sustainability as one of its fundamental pillars. For this reason, these new CNG trucks were chosen, placing an added value to the work for the clients.”
The Stralis Hi-Road CNG trucks that IVECO delivered to the company are part of the “Natural Power” portfolio and have a 440S33T 4×2 tractor configuration. They are powered by Cursor 8 engines from FPT Industrial with 330 HP and 1,300 Nm of torque powered by natural gas, with a capacity of up to 720 liters.
Source: IVECO Argentina
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