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A salute to the veterans in stripes
by Ben Austro - November 11, 2022 November 11, 2022 0
We recognize with profound respect all those who have served our country on this day, and we salute the veterans on the NFL officiating staff. http://gty.im/1190306201 LJ59 Rusty Baynes, U.S. Marine Corps, 1988-94 http://gty.im/1228501615 LJ44 SSgt. Frank LeBlanc, Texas Army National Guard, 1983-2004 http://gty.im/1183900979 FJ109 Dyrol Prioleau, U.S. Air Force, 1982-2005 http://gty.im/1182936234 FJ31 Tech Sgt. Mearl Robinson, U.S.
Side judge Lo van Pham is the NFL's first Asian-American official
by Cameron Filipe - September 9, 2022 September 9, 2022 0
Embed from Getty Images Lo van Pham, the side judge on referee Clete Blakeman's crew, is not only starting his first season as an NFL official in 2022, but is also making history as the first Asian-American game official in the league's long history -- a history which has seen over
Jeff Bergman becomes the 8th official in the '30 Club' as he enters his final season
by Cameron Filipe - August 30, 2022 August 30, 2022 0
Line judge Jeff Bergman officiated the 2022 edition of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, as a crew consisting of the longest tenured official at each position suited up for what is likely the first time in league history. By doing so, Bergman began his 30th NFL season, an
Remembering Tommy Bell on his 100th birthday
by Mark Schultz - July 2, 2022 July 18, 2022 0
Embed from Getty Images We pause today to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of NFL referee Tommy Bell. He was born July 2, 1922, and died February 20, 1986, after a long illness. Bell worked in the NFL in 1961 and retired after the 1976 AFC Championship Game. In an
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Happy birthday, Jim Daopoulos
by Ben Austro - June 19, 2022 June 20, 2022 0
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Happy birthday, Bob McElwee
by Mark Schultz - August 20, 2020 January 18, 2022 0
https://gty.im/714140 Congratulations to Bob McElwee on his 85th birthday today! McElwee was a NFL line judge and referee from the 1976-2002 seasons. McElwee wore number 95 for most of his career. He was a line judge from 1976-79 learning under referees Jim Tunney and Ben Dreith. The NFL expanded crews in
Tagged Bob McElwee Super Bowl XXII Super Bowl XXVIII Super Bowl XXXIV | official and league officiating supervisor Jim Daopolous, who just turned 75 years old. Daopolous entered the NFL in 1989 as a field judge (at that time, the deep wing position was named back judge), and in his first game he immediately caught the eye of the
Throwback Thursday: 1985 feature on Dick Jorgensen crew
by Mark Schultz - February 18, 2021 February 18, 2021 1
Back in the day, it was quite rare for network television to do a feature story on the NFL officials. In 1985, The NFL Today did a feature on referee Dick Jorgensen and his crew. Jorgensen's crew in 1985 was umpire Neil Gereb, head linesman Ron Phares, line judge Dick McKenzie (father
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Sarah Thomas is set to make history again. But did the league rush to get to the milestone?
by Mark Schultz and Ben Austro - February 4, 2021 January 26, 2022 4
Sarah Thomas has blazed a trail in 25 football seasons. She started calling football in her native Mississippi in 1996. This Sunday, she officiates the biggest game of the year, Super Bowl LV. When Thomas, 47, was in high school, she didn't play football, but she was a star athlete. She
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Kipling Law Group is located in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, where high tech meets history, fine restaurants coexist with funky old taverns, and there are (or at least there seem to be) more coffee shops per capita than any other neighborhood in Seattle—which is saying a lot. Locally known as the Center of the Universe, Fremont is a great place to live and<|fim_middle|>-Ween, and Oktoberfest attract tens of thousands of visitors. The Burke-Gilman Trail is popular with runners, cyclists and walkers, and the Ship Canal delights kayakers and rowers.
We are especially lucky to be within walking distance of dozens of excellent restaurants, caf�s, wine bars and pubs. Please stop by to visit. We would be happy to show you our favorite places. | work. Adobe Systems, Inc., Paul Allen's Institute for Brain Science, Google, and Tableau are here, but small businesses thrive, too.
Fremont is also home to many popular Seattle landmarks, galleries and festivals. Tourists and locals alike visit the Fremont Troll under the Aurora Bridge and enjoy the changing decorations on the beloved sculpture, Waiting for the Interurban. The annual Solstice Parade, Troll-O | 84 |
Main Title National Informal Educators Conference on Global Change /
Carter, Lynne M.
Publisher [Nebraska ETV?],
Subjects Global environmental change--Congresses. ; Global warming--Congresses. ; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric--Congresses. ; Ozone layer depletion--Congresses.
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Collation 1 videocassette (82 min., 31 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Global Programs, and the Sea Grant College Program.
Presents discussions from a three-day teleconference aimed at educators, during which various aspects of global change were discussed; also discussed were the advances the scientific community is making in understanding its impact on the environment. Global change overview / Robert W. Corell (6 min., 10 sec.) -- Natural variability / Barrien Moore III (16 min., 27 sec.) -- Greenhouse effect / Richard H. Gam<|fim_middle|> sec.). | mon (11 min., 7 sec.) -- Ozone depletion / Richard H. Gammon (10 min., 34 sec.) -- Ecosystem response / Lisa J. Graumlich (11 min., 02 sec.) -- Population/resource consumption / Dennis L. Meadows (16 min., 11 sec.) -- Policy relevant research / Eileen L. Shea (6 min., 39 | 87 |
Try your hand at writing poems and/or stories in the company of like-minded people. This relaxed and supportive group will help you to find your voice as a writer and to develop your own unique style.
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Prepare a short piece of writing and perform it as part of Headingley Literature Festival.
Recognise the features of children's stories for different age groups and write a story aimed at a specific age bracket/reading level.
Extend and develop your feedback/appreciation skills.
Write stories and poems starting with a varied range of prompts.
Learners are encouraged to read their homework out in class (not compulsory). If a copy of this work is supplied to the tutor some brief feedback notes will be returned.
Please bring a pen and paper. Laptops and tablets can also be used.
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DevOps: It's all about the culture
In an environment where the development teams get along with the operations teams, organizations are finding it easier to deliver software faster, with better quality. What's their secret? DevOps.
"With DevOps, you get agility, you get speed, you have the ability to deploy applications very quickly, which means that you can release new features and new applications, and bring them to market very quickly to give you a competitive advantage," said Aruna Ravichandran, vice president of product and solutions marketing, APM and DevOps at CA Technologies.
Businesses are no longer alone in the world in selling a specific set of software, and there is a lot of competition out there trying to be the first to market. DevOps is an emerging methodology organizations are adopting to stay in the race, according to Andreas Grabner, technology strategist at Dynatrace.
"Smaller companies that have the agile culture ingrained…are much more flexible in getting new cool features out to the end consumer a lot faster, and that is a threat to larger organizations because they eventually lose business to smaller startups," he said. "If you do DevOps right, larger organizations can catch up to the competition that might be a lot faster than you, delivering the<|fim_middle|>. With LeanKit, teams can map their processes on virtual whiteboards to gain a complete and transparent look into statuses, issues and updates. The highly visual nature of LeanKit helps maximize effectiveness and keeps extended teams on the same page.
New Relic: New Relic is a software analytics company that makes sense of billions of data points of millions of applications in real time. Its comprehensive SaaS-based solution provides one powerful interface for Web and native mobile applications, and it consolidates the performance-monitoring data for any chosen technology in your environment. It offers code-level visibility for applications in production that cross six languages (Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, PHP and Node.js), and more 60 frameworks are supported.
Puppet Labs: Puppet Enterprise is IT automation software that gives the power to easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage infrastructure, on-premises or in the cloud. It automates tasks at all stages of the IT infrastructure life cycle, including discovery, provisioning, OS and app configuration management, orchestration, and reporting. It includes event inspection, supported modules, role-based access control, certification management, and cloud provisioning.
Serena Software: Serena Deployment Automation bridges the DevOps gap by simplifying and automating deployments and supporting Continuous Delivery. With Deployment Automation, teams can deliver efficient, reliable and high-quality software faster while reducing cycle times and providing feedback. Features include the ability to manage test and production environments, deployment pipeline automation, tool-chain integration, inventory tracking, the ability to create and visualize end-to-end deployment process, and a reliable and repeatable process.
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Tackling today's software supply chain issues with DevOps-centric security
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Atlassian to 'Unleash' Agile, DevOps best practices at new event
JetBrains announces public preview for cloud-based Qodana offering | features that are demanded by the end users."
But while the promised benefits of DevOps are alluring, there is a caveat: There is not a clear-cut definition of what DevOps is or how an organization can implement it successfully. Any organization looking to transition to DevOps should be aware that it has a long road ahead. But it can be worth the bumps and bruises in the end, according to Julian Fish, director of products at Serena Software.
"DevOps can be very, very difficult for people who have an unstructured mindset of how they are going to use it to try to change the business for the better," he said. "But for an organization who thinks it through and understands what DevOps can provide, then there is certainly a lot of value to be had from both the term DevOps and the implementation of processes, practices and producers that support DevOps."
Breaking down the silos
Unlike other methodologies that are adopted to help speed up the software development life cycle, such as agile and Continuous Delivery, DevOps is a cultural change. And one of the most important changes that has to be made in DevOps can also be the most challenging because you are melding teams that traditionally haven't gotten along in the past, according to Sacha Labourey, CEO and founder of CloudBees.
"The goal in their DNA is very different," he said. "A developer is here to bring change. They want to implement the new frameworks that just got released, and essentially by forcing this change they are also bringing in risks because those aren't necessarily the most mature pieces of technologies. An IT guy's job is really to make sure the house never goes down. They don't want to be woken up at 2 a.m. because something went wrong."
In order for these teams to work well together, they can't be on opposite sides of the fence, according to CA's Ravichandran.
"I would say one of the most fundamental things of DevOps is to have common goals," she said.
The classic wall between developers and operations is that developers want to build code and deliver new features quickly, while operations are not worried about features; they are worried about how resilient they can be, according to Ravichandran. The No. 1 goal both teams need to strive for in a DevOps role has to come from the top, and it has to be hitting shipping deadlines.
"To be able to survive in the market, you want to have a competitive edge," she said. "The common goal should be both of them need to be [focused] on time to market to bring that app because it gives you a competitive edge and impacts your top and bottom line."
But providing a set of common goals to teams isn't enough to get them to work together. Often people are resistant to change, and organizations need to be prepared for that, according to Dynatrace's Grabner.
"Change is never easy, and if people used to work in an organization for years or maybe even decades and they now need to change, that might be an issue on the personal side for them," he said.
The way organizations can overcome this is simply by finding out what works in their organization by having open discussions and picking tools and strategies that work for everyone, according to Yegor Yarko, technical product analyst for TeamCity at JetBrains.
"People often don't want to alter their practices, and they like to stick with what they are used to," he said. "That's why our IT department asks teams directly which tools they prefer to use, and they satisfy those teams' requests. It's crucial for a company to have a culture which is open to dialogue and sharing expertise when we are striving towards DevOps."
You don't want to force people to change if they are unwilling, according to CloudBees' Labourey. Organizations should start out by transitioning some teams that are willing to change.
"Find teams that are open to change and a relatively easy project," he said. "Show the added value with simplicity and with positivity. From there, you can start extrapolating. If you try to go and solve all your problems at once, then you are likely going to fail."
Once teams can see that they are doing something that has an impact on the business, people may be more prepared to change. But they have to understand why they are changing and what the benefits are, according to Serena's Fish.
"Education is one of the first pillars," he said. "It isn't about culture change of jobs; it is about culture change of thinking. It is not the case of someone who was in operations [not being] required anymore. It is more about cross-skilling that person in operations to understanding the app, the database, the server and infrastructure that everything is sitting on, and vice versa," he said.
Changing the culture of an organization and of the development life cycle can feel like too much of a burden. But Grabner said that the benefits are worth the headache.
"If you bring them all in the same team from the beginning, they can avoid a lot of problems right from the start," he said. "Or you can have the right conversations right from the start instead of waiting until development develops something, and then it gets thrown over the wall and then hell breaks loose."
In the end, organizations should have one cross-functional team working toward the same goal. The operations team will have to learn more about the development process, while developers will have to learn to be more familiar with the operations process. But this change is mutually beneficial to the team and the entire organization, according to JetBrains' Yarko.
"DevOps relieves the developers from routine tasks and takes the burden of due [dates], painless and fast product delivery," he said. "The best of the teams are open to get the best from the two worlds: sharing their expertise and learning from the new practices."
Prerequisites of DevOps
Before an organization even ventures out on the long, bumpy road toward DevOps, it has to ask itself what DevOps means to it. There is still a lot of confusion in the industry on what DevOps actually is, according to Serena's Fish.
In order for organizations to successfully transition their teams to this new way of working, they need to understand why they are doing it in the first place. It isn't going to work if they just jump on the bandwagon, according to Mark Levy, product marketing manager at Serena Software.
"You need to understand what is the primary goal of the business and ensure those goals are measureable and support the business," he said.
Being able to understand what you are working toward will help organizations understand if they are on the path of success or failure, Levy continued.
In addition, business goals are really what will drive DevOps adoption, because in the end the business is all about IT, according to CloudBees' Labourey, "We need to stop thinking about IT as some kind of remote team within the organization responsible for implementing whatever the business desires."
"What we are seeing today is that IT is business, business is IT. A lot of the innovation and differentiation that exists within products today comes from software, which comes from IT."
Lastly, before moving toward DevOps, organizations need to grasp the notion that it is going to take time. Even if the IT department is on board and wants to make the move, it isn't going to happen in a snap, nor should it happen all at once, according to Labourey.
"It is really something that needs to happen through small proof-of-concept initially because every company is going to be different," he said. "You have to build your own practice, your own religion, and that is going to take time."
Proven practices for a DevOps implementation
Keeping it simple: Don't try to transform the entire organization, according to Serena's Levy. Instead, start with a pilot program. "If the DevOps principles are not natural to your team—such as creating a culture, automating and measuring all things—then you need a place to practice," he said. "Pilot programs allow you to start small and it is less expensive, but it represents real work."
According to CA's Ravichandran, organizations have actually built "centers of excellence" to foster one common business imperative, and to use that to fine-tune how they are going to make this culture transformation at a larger level in the company.
Understanding that failure is a part of the process: Organizations should not go into DevOps thinking that they will see results right away, because that is not going to happen, according to CloudBees' Labourey. "You don't need to build a castle to define whether an idea is a good one or a bad one," he said. "You are going to do maybe daily, weekly reviews to see how things are going and whether things need to be adapted."
Getting management on board: "You need to get management as well to make sure that the tools you need are going to be available, that the training you need is going to be available," Labourey said. "It is going to be a pretty drastic change for many teams in the way they do things, so you can't expect just to snap and see things happen. It has to be a top-down initiative to improve the flow within IT."
Getting help from the outside: Having someone from the outside looking in can help stop an organization from making a mistake, or it can bring in a different perspective that an organization might have missed. "Have change agents that can make sure you are not going to fall back into the good ol' ways of doing things, but you are pushing change," Labourey said.
Remembering that there is not one DevOps tool: "Everyone can claim a point of view and say [theirs] is a DevOps tool, but it is probably only solving one particular pain point and problem for customers," said Ravichandran. "So when choosing a tool, look at what the tool solves and if it can work in your current ecosystem."
It is important that tools interoperate with third-party and open-source tools because customers aren't going to buy all their DevOps tools from one vendor, she continued.
Labeling tools as "DevOps tools" is a big problem in the industry that buyers should be aware of, according to Dynatrace's Grabner.
"I want to point fingers at our own industry," he said. "As much as I love that we have something like DevOps as a term, I think it has been misused…because people think just by adding DevOps on every single blog post or paper, it makes them look credible.
"I think DevOps is great, but the initial idea had nothing to do with tooling. DevOps was really the culture change about automating the process of software engineering and also sharing results."
Planning ahead: "Have a good plan and procedure for the case when things go wrong, implement good error recovery and reporting, regularly check the scenarios in near-live circumstances," suggested JetBrains' Yarko.
Ravichandran added that teams should always make sure they have a previous version they can roll back to in case there is an outage or a complication.
Communicating: "Communication has to be simple and streamlined. No administrative or bureaucratic barriers," said Yarko. "Less long meetings, more openness to asking questions and solving problems on the spot. We believe that solving problems quickly and early is key to making the transition smoother."
Not replacing your teams: According to Serena's Fish, some organizations go down the route of hiring an entire DevOps team, intending to have it replace existing teams. But all that does is create another silo within the organization. "It is an interesting approach, but unfortunately it just leads to the same levels of heartache that organizations have been trying to move away from—the whole notion of isolation and silos that we want to break down," he said. "So certainly don't put a team in place to purely perform DevOps. It just creates another silo."
Not being afraid of the term "DevOps": According to Serena's Levy, people were afraid that agile was going to ruin the entire software engineering industry, but it didn't. So they shouldn't be afraid that DevOps is going to be the same thing. It is all about creating cross-functional teams and delivering better software; DevOps is just a term, he explained.
"DevOps in some ways is not a totally new way of thinking; it just uses a lot of stuff that has been around in other industries," he said. "If you get heartburn with 'DevOps,' then don't use the word. Call it anything you like. The point is being able to remove the constraint of IT out so the businesses can move as fast as possible."
Automating as much as possible: Automate everything that can be automated, because anything you can't automate is manual, and manual means it is going to take a longer time, according to Dynatrace's Grabner.
"Manual means that it is also prone to error because if somebody needs to perform something manually, humans make mistakes," he said. "Also, if the person who is performing the manual tasks is sick and somebody else needs to do it, then that person isn't going to have the same experience and make mistakes. Therefore, tools need to have a very big focus on automation."
What does DevOps mean for your company
DevOps can be confusing for companies because there is still no set definition on what the methodology actually means. SD Times caught up with some experts to describe what DevOps means to their company and how they try to explain it to customers.
CA's Ravichandran: Our definition of DevOps is being able to enable customers by providing a tool set that helps them automate the entire software delivery life cycle while enabling customers to have a continuous feedback mechanism, which goes bi-directionally between the Dev and the Ops side. If you think about DevOps, people have multiple different definitions, and DevOps in my mind is more of a phenomenon; it is more of a culture transformation, which includes people, processes and technology.
CloudBees' Labourey: Everyone is going to tell you it is hard to define, it is not a specific or solid. It is almost more of a philosophy then a set of tools. Tools are important, but really DevOps is going to be anything that helps accelerate the delivery flow from development to testing, staging and production. Anything that can help make that happen is going to be covered by DevOps, and obviously it is going to have some very specific aspects to it in terms of tooling, in terms of methodologies, in terms of collaboration among teams of different DNA, and all of that is covered under the DevOps umbrella.
Dynatrace's Grabner: For me, DevOps is actually a way to scale what works well as a small shop in a big enterprise. When I always do in my presentations around DevOps, I have one slide where it says DevOps is basically what we used to do when we were a small startup and we were all developers, testers and operations in a single person. That is kind of how I see DevOps: being able to scale what works well in a small organization to a large enterprise, to a bigger engineering team to multiple engineering teams, to teams that work across the continent, to teams that work across the globe.
The right message is that DevOps is necessary, but DevOps includes a lot of things, and the major things are culture change, being able to automate everything, being able to measure the quality and the progress of your software delivery, being able to share data, and then you have tools that support that.
JetBrains Yarko: We define DevOps as a collaboration between software development and IT operations with a purpose of improving and streamlining the development in our organization by introducing a concept of fearless deployment. This leads to faster deployments, which are ensured by a close-to-zero risk to break things in production because every new deployment can be run in preview mode to ensure the app is running well.
Such collaboration depends largely on open communication and fast problem-solving culture in the company.
Serena Software's Levy: The way we look at it is it's a movement. It is not a product. It is not a technology. It encompasses a lot of things. It is about breaking the silos down, ensuring that you sort of have this horizontal team whose mission is to support the business, to drive business value, but by taking the constraint of IT out of the business. I think that is the key. That is at a high level.
Now, how you go about doing it, there are a number of different things that you need to do, starting with the process and understanding your current system and your current process and leveraging lean techniques to remove waste, get a repeatable, reliable process, automate and more, along the same lines of the principles of Continuous Delivery.
A guide to DevOps offerings
Atlassian: Bamboo offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of Continuous Delivery, tying automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow. It gives developers, testers, build engineers and systems administrators a common space to work and share information while keeping sensitive operations like production deploys locked down. Bamboo puts branches under test automatically (as well as merges), and deploys them according to your team's processes. It also boasts the best JIRA and Stash integration.
CA Technologies: CA Service Virtualization is a solution to help address DevOps challenges. It helps eliminate constraints by modeling and simulating the behavior and performance characteristics of dependent systems and services. Organizations can move development and test tasks earlier in the life cycle; reduce time-to-market; lower infrastructure costs; and improve overall application quality. Customers have experienced as much as a 25% to 50% reduction in cycle times, as well as reduced lab infrastructure within three months of adoption.
Chef: Chef Enterprise delivers a shared repository of code for automating applications and resources. The solution provides a way for development and operations teams to collaborate and move at the speed of the market. It includes role-based access control, centralized reporting, activity monitoring, an enhanced management console, and multi-tenancy.
CloudBees: CloudBees provides Continuous Delivery solutions powered by Jenkins that allow DevOps teams to manage and control software delivery processes. Along with commercial support for Jenkins, CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise provides a suite of enterprise-level plug-ins that address more-complex requirements found in enterprise environments. With CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, teams are able to deliver software faster while reducing risk. CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center provides centralized management of Jenkins instances throughout the enterprise. It provides the ability to share Jenkins resources between teams and view real-time analytics. DEV@cloud is a cloud service solution that offers the benefits of cloud computing while leveraging the power of Jenkins.
Dynatrace: Dynatrace offers a number of products to help DevOps teams build apps faster with more reliability through collaboration. Dynatrace Application Monitoring detects problems in production, traces transactions, pinpoints end-user issues, provides code-level visibility, eliminates false alarms, and is designed for Continuous Delivery processes. Dynatrace User Experience Management provides crash reports and performance and usage analytics in order for teams to gain insights to help reduce software errors and enhance performance.
Electric Cloud: Electric Cloud is a leader in enterprise Continuous Delivery and DevOps automation, helping organizations deliver better software faster by automating and accelerating build, test and deployment processes at scale. Industry leaders like Qualcomm, SpaceX, Cisco, GE, Gap and E-Trade use Electric Cloud's solutions to boost software productivity. The ElectricFlow DevOps Automation Platform provides end-to-end control and visibility across shared resources and tool chains, allowing teams to release software faster and more predictably.
IBM: Bluemix runs on the SoftLayer infrastructure, and it combines the strength of IBM's middleware software with other open services and tools from IBM partners and its developer ecosystem to offer DevOps in the cloud: an open, agile development model, scalable from one-person startups to large enterprises. The growing catalog includes more than 100 development tools in categories such as Big Data, Watson analytics, social, mobile, security, and the Internet of Things, and for industries ranging from mobile commerce, academia, advertising, and emerging spaces such as wearables.
JetBrains: TeamCity is a Continuous Integration/build solution designed to help teams perform, save time, and integrate and deploy continuously. It features a number of tools for Continuous Integration, configuration, build history, code quality tracking, VCS interoperability, extensibility and customization, system maintenance, and user management. In addition, TeamCity integrates with all major version-control systems, issue trackers, IDEs, development frameworks, and cloud services
LeanKit: LeanKit provides a shared tool that's designed to allow development and operations to work collaboratively on a shared process | 4,274 |
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The Apostle Paul once said, "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer." (Romans 12:12) A pretty good motto for the Church on a Hill this summer.
Joyfully received Cris Dempsey into active membership by way of reaffirmation of faith and transfer of her letter from Hempfield Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania.
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Elder Art Forehand reported that directional outdoor signs for the church are ready to be installed.
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Approved three days of Continuing Education Leave for the Pastor, August 22-24, so that he may attend the Fellowship of Presbyterians Regional Conference in Atlanta.
Wednesday Nights – Over the summer, we will NOT have a regular Wednesday program. The Fellowship Supper, Bible Study, etc., will start back up in the fall.
July Communion – Due to Pastor Dan's trip to the PCUSA General Assembly, Communion for July will be held on July 8 instead of July 1.
On Sunday, June 24, at Noon, we will have a Farewell Reception for Jim Crawford. Jim is preparing to leave us and relocate to Texas. Please join us following the Worship Service for cake and refreshments.
The Presbyterian Women just wrapped up a wonderful Bible Study series on "Being the Beatitudes." We'll take a break for the summer and then start back up with a new study in the fall. All women are welcome to attend! Keep an eye on the church calendar for more information.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our recent special offerings. Because of your generous donations, our church was able to contribute $220 to the Healthy Women/Healthy Families Project and $510 to the PW Birthday Offering. Thank you again!
The 2012 AL/MS Women's Conference is just around the corner! This year's event will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, from June 22 to 22. The theme of the conference is, "Dispatches to God's Household: The General Epistles." If you are interested in attending, please contact one of the PW Officers or the church office for a registration form and more information.
Speaking of officers, the following ladies have been elected for the next year. Thank you to all of them for agreeing to serve!
The deadline for submissions for the August 2012 church newsletter is Tuesday, July 17. Items can be emailed to greenhillpc@gmail.com, or dropped off in the church office. Many thanks to all of our contributors.
A big thank you goes out to Jim McDonough and his business partner John Cappadoro for the amazing job they did cleaning the church carpets last month. We wish them all the best in their new Carpet Cleaning and Lawn Service business. www.veteranscarpetandlawn.com.
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The palace was built in 1694 by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing as a residence for his son Prince Yin Zhen. When this one succeeded to the throne in 1723 the new emperor moved to the Forbidden City, took the name of Yong Zheng and renamed his old residence the Palace of Harmony. He also replaced the green ceramic tiles with yellow, the imperial color. In 1744, his successor, Emperor Qianlong converted the palace into the lamasery and offered it to the Tibetan monks. In 1949 the Lama Temple was declared a national monument because of its historical significance.
The temple survived the Cultural Revolution. In 1979, major restoration work was undertaken and monks from Inner Mongolia were invited to reside there. Monks examines the Tibetan and secret liturgies of the Gelukpa order. The literal translation of Gelupkpa is paragon of virtue, name of the reformed order of the largest Lamaist school in Tibet and Mongolia. It was founded in the fourteenth century by Tsongkhapa, a monk who intended to restore the ascetic ethics advocated by the historical Buddha. The ceremony cap of Gelukpa dignitaries earned the nickname Yellow Hat in the West. It was at this school belong the great Rinpoche like the Dalai Lama.
Visit the Lama Temple
The Lama Temple is composed of a crescendo of buildings that are accessed by a series of porticos.
The first door is the Gate of Harmony (Yonghemen) Ming style with beautiful yellow and green glazed tiles.
The path then leads to two pavilions longevity encrusted with Buddhist symbol of long life : at the left Pavilion Drum and at the right the Bell Pavilion. It then comes to a room that is dedicated to Maitreya, the Buddha of the future gilded wood, which welcomes worshipers to the temple entrance. According to Buddhism, the world is divided into four worlds protected by four guards. Here, four guards in polychrome terracotta crush the devils under their feet and protects Maitreya. Behind it is a statue in sandalwood Weituo, one of the guardians of Buddhism.
We leave behind Weituo and find ourselves in a courtyard in the center with a pavilion erected by Qianlong in 1792 and telling in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan the history of the lamasery. The incense burner in front of the stele dated 1748. On each side of the court we find rooms devoted to the study of Buddhist philosophy, medicine, esotericism and mathematics.
Next we come then to the Hall of Harmony (Yonghedian). It houses three bronze Buddha which are the past, present and future's Buddha. The bases are shaped like lotus symbol of purity, the lotus petals are covered with tiny beads of wax which prevents mud from sticking to, so even if the lotus grows in a very dirty water, the flower remains clean . The Buddha in the middle is surrounded by two disciples. In front is settled before a incense burner, candelabra, vases of flowers and cloisonné enamel. On each side, nine arhats (= one who has attained the highest degree of wisdom) symbolize the Buddha and provide military protection. This room also contains drums, prayer wheels and beautiful tanka (stereotypical representation of Buddha).
Then we go out and we enter a courtyard with a four-faced Buddha gilt bronze from Thailand.
We then enter the Hall of Eternal Blessing which was once the bedroom of the Prince Yong Zhen. This room now houses three Buddhas of Longevity in the center, Medicine to the left and Lion's Roar (to scare the evil spirits) to the right. There are also two female Buddhas. The left is made of 6,000 pieces of silk sewn together.
We cross again a yard and we get to the Hall of the Wheel of the Law (Falun Dian). This is the most spectacular of the monastery hall. It was built in 1694 and dedicated to Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Reformed doctrine of the Yellow Hat (Gelukpa). This is where religious services held daily. In the center of the room stands a huge statue of Tsongkhapa. The statue was cast in 1924. On the side walls of the temple, many scenes from his life are represented. In front of the statue are arranged the seats of monks. Behind the wall, 500 arhats represent the disciples who have put in writing the sutras uttered by Shakyamuni.
We cross the last yard the Lama Temple and we arrive at the pavilion of the Ten Thousand Joys (Wanfu ge) built in 1750. This room is also called the Tower of the Great Buddha. It has a huge statue of Maitreya, 26 m high. It is carved from a single block of white sandalwood! It is a gift of the seventh Dalai Lama to the Emperor Qiaonlong.
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WINDSOR, Ont. - The Windsor Lancers opened the post season at home against the Waterloo Warriors Wednesday night, and came away with a 101-89 win at the St. Denis Centre.
The Blue and Gold had earned the three seed in the OUA and were looking not only to advance but defend home court. After a tight start the Lancers asserted themselves and began amassing a significant lead. Despite a late effort from the Warriors, the Lancers won 101-89, moving on to the Wilson Cup quarter finals on Saturday.
Marcus Jones had an amazing night for the Blue & Gold putting<|fim_middle|> could separate early as the first quarter concluded with the Lancers leading by just three.
The second quarter fared better for the Blue & Gold as they began to claim a growing lead towards the end of the half. Led by the guard tandem of Jones and Rocca who had 15 and 10 respectively, the Lancers went into the half with a 48-37 lead.
In the third quarter the Lancers continued their hot performance as they continued to build their lead as the quarter progressed. Windsor outscored the Warriors 30-18 as their offense continued to fire on all cylinders after a hot 48 per cent shooting mark in the first half.
Trailing by 20 late in the game, the Warriors fought back to make the game a little closer but their efforts would fall short. Windsor advanced on the back of a very good offensive outing, 101-89. | up a game high 33 points on 11-for-13 shooting. Fifth year senior Mike Rocca had another great night for the Lancers with 20 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists, while Luke Allin hit 17 points and Damian Persaud 14 points.
Nedim Hodzic was Waterloo's high scorer with 26 points and an amazing 18 rebounds. Justin Hardy also had a double-double for the Warriors with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The Warriors heavily out-rebounded the Lancers 47-27, but committed 14 turnovers to Windsor's four.
The Lancers and Warriors offense came out of the gate fairly strong, as both teams were finding a rhythm on their respective offenses. Neither team | 165 |
NEW VIDEO: CHELSEA WILLIAMS' COVER OF "BILLIONAIRE"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Chelsea Williams
Late last year, the new Shine 2012 Chevrolet Cruze commercial began airing featuring Third Street Promenade street performer Chelsea Williams singing the Travie McCoy/Bruno Mars hit song "Billionaire." This week, Chelsea releases this video with a full version of the song. Here she is performing on Third Street. And below is her commercial for Chevy.
"Billionaire" by Chelsea Williams
MOONPOOLS AND CATERPILLARS REUNITE AFTER 14 YEARS - REUNION SHOW IS ON!!!
Saturday, January 28, 2012 Moonpools and Caterpillars
Moonpools & Caterpillars are Kimi, Tim, Gugut and Jay Jay.
"Los Angeles...it's gonna happen" was the cryptic message posted on the Moonpools and Caterpillars official Facebook page on Jan. 28th. Which means that after 14 years, the Los Angeles band will reunite to play once again. OH YEEE-AAAH. Now, all we need to hear are dates and venues which they'll hopefully announce soon and I'll be first in line to grab some. Stay tuned for more details.
It began back in August of 2010, with rumors of a reunion show which was fueled by Moonpools and Caterpillars' own Facebook page revealing full-band practice sessions and the teasing a possible show at the intimate Hotel Cafe. And with that news, fans were foaming at the mouth for a chance to see Moonpools and Caterpillars one last time. Let's hope, at least for me who has never seen this band live, that this happens.
Comprised of Kimi Ward Encarnacion, Jay Jay Encarnacion, Gugut Salgado and Tim de Pala, Moonpools and Caterpillars' rise to fame was accidental. It's said that during one of their shows, an A&R representative from a record label went to<|fim_middle|> know if 'tour' is the right word here. So far Summer Camp have announced three cities on this trip across the pond. Hopefully, more will follow. But most importantly, they're playing the Echo on Feb. 13th! And it's FREEEEEEEE. Woo-hoo. Four dates and three cities in February with stops in New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles. Summer Camp recently released their album Welcome to Condale here in the States in November. You can purchase the album right HERE. The video for the song "Better off Without You" was their first single off that album.
2/6 - Mercury Lounge (NY)
2/7 - Glasslands Gallery (NY)
2/9 - U Street Music Hall (Washington DC)
2/13 - The Echo (LA)
"Better Off Without You" by Summer Camp
NEW ALBUM NEWS: TONIGHT ALIVE
Thursday, January 05, 2012 Tonight Alive
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There must be something in the water over in Australia that's breeding a new crop of up-and-coming bands. The past couple years alone, I've listened and come to like certain bands only to find out later that they come from down under. Temper Trap, Kimbra, Guineafowl, MonaAnnLisa Wilde. And now comes another band from Australia - Tonight Alive, a made for Warped Tour type of band. Sort of in the same category as Hey Monday, Paramore and We Are The In Crowd, Tonight Alive has all the right tools to find success in the States. They just wrapped their US Tour as part of The Fearless Friends Tour and now they're releasing their new album next month. Read their official bio below:
Introducing Tonight Alive: Australia's hottest new export, power pop-punk quintet Tonight Alive, are gearing up to rock the US with their new album What Are You So Scared Of?, due out Valentine's Day (Feb 14) on Fearless Records. Lead by Jenna McDougall, their 19 year old ingénue-with-attitude, Tonight Alive has exploded onto the pop-punk scene with their ebullient, fist-pumping anthemery, arena-sized hooks and high-voltage live performances. Already a name in their native Australia, Tonight Alive turns their attention to the US as one of the year's most anticipated new bands. Tonight Alive will tour the US with Go Radio March-May and will return for additional touring June-August. Don't miss the scene's next breakout band!
WANDA JACKSON AND BEST COAST @ CLUB NOKIA
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 Best Coast
Best Coast at Club Nokia
all photos by Bored4Muisc
It was such a wonderful experience to spend my last day of 2011 with Wanda Jackson and Best Coast at Club Nokia. It was a night of giving thanks to our blessings of the past year and to say 'hello' to the year ahead. And this night summed it up perfectly. We all need to give a big thanks to Mrs. Jackson and, of course, Best Coast probably wouldn't be here if it had not been for Mrs. Jackson blazing the trail. And I invited someone who loves music and who supports independant bands as much as I do - Bored4Music who took some great pics and wrote a nice write-up of the night. Read below and check out more pics of Wanda Jackson and Best Coast including a new song "In Your Sleep" right HERE.
Bored4Music excerpt:
We have followed Best Coast (Bobb & Bethany) since our inception back in 2010. Love their sound, it reminds me of Jenny Lewis / Rilo Kiley .
My Friends had the opportunity to experience Beth and Bobb a few months ago when they visited San Fran. Remember, she had high praise afterwards. Not only that, this would be Picksysticks' fourth trip to see them. Is he a stalker? Maybe, but after experiencing Best Coast live...understand why they love and happy they were the cherry on top of 2011.
We had front row seats, right behind the press pit. So, the pictures couldn't have come out better. Behind us, the whole club was nearly sold out. Many of the fans that came for Best Coast left before Wanda Jackson rang in the new year. Not surprising though. Since I first heard of them, Best Coast have become quite big in the indie rock blogosphere.
After researching (Wanda Jackson), had one of those "Holy Fucking Shit" moments. No wonder why she was headlining Club Nokia, new year's eve. You can thank Jack White for dragging this legend out of the chest. She has had recent appearance on Divas Live and current member of the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame.
(read the rest of the review at Bored4Music.com)
"The End" by Best Coast
Best Coast just announced they'll be headlining The Smell this Saturday as part of The Smell's 14th Anniversary Celebration weekend. Go to thesmell.org for more details and lineup. Tiks are only $10. Also, album news: Best Coast, in a recent interview, revealed their follow-up to their debut album Crazy For You is expected this summer and front-woman Bethany Cosentino is promising a more 'mature' album saying the lyrics will focus on how her life has changed since the band became successful. Happy New Year everyone. Here's to 2012.
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TIC TIC BOOM JUST WANTS TO BE IN THE 'FRIEND' ZONE
Sunday, January 01, 2012 Tic Tic Boom
Tic Tic Boom performs at The Viper Room.
What a great first day of 2012! To celebrate, here's Tic Tic Boom's newest video. It's for "Just Friends" off their latest EP Reasons & Rhymes. Currently, they're working on their new EP with plans to tour and with help from YOU, the fans, you can make 2012 an awesome year. Tic Tic Boom are offering some cool exclusives at pledgemusic.com which includes a private house concert, dinner with the band, signed CDs, posters and even the oppurtunity to download their new EP early. Click HERE to pledge.
Anyways, check out the new video for "Just Friends" below and for good measure, an oldie but one of my favs "All That Matters" which is off their 2008 EP How to Defuse a Bomb.
"Just Friends" by Tic Tic Boom
"All That Matters" by Tic Tic Boom
Tic Tic Boom @ The Viper Room
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Moonpools and Caterpillars last show at The Whisky A Go Go
Through the years, Moonpools and Caterpillars have grown a cult-like following by word of mouth, friends making copies for friends, listening to their songs on long car rides and singing along to their universal lyrics of life, proving that their albums hasn't aged through the years and their songs could easily play on radio today. Today, years later, I still listen to these albums and with the help of the internet, fans –new and old – can rediscover this band that continues to entertain. For me, this was basically the start of Picksysticks and my love for women-fronted bands began.
Check out their appearance on Disney's "Wish Upon a Star" which happens to be Katherine Heigl's very first movie.
Moonpools and Caterpillars performing "Hear" in the 1996 Disney movie "Wish Upon a Star."
IT'S THE WEEKEND: PARTY TO YOUNG LONDON
Friday, January 27, 2012 Young London
Young London are Sara Graziani and Matt Rhoades
Wow. This electro-pop duo is hyping me up for the weekend. Comprised of Boston duo Sara Graziani and Matt Rhoades, Young London just released their dance-inducing, explosive self-titled debut album on January 10th. Hit songs up the wah-hoo, they wowed with hits like "Celebrity" and "New Reputation" at SXSW and their video for "Let Me Go" have amassed nearly 100,000 views since it was released four months ago. Their debut album is available in stores and on iTunes right HERE.
"Let Me Go" by Young London
The Dø Covers Janelle Monaé's "Tightrope"
Thursday, January 26, 2012 The Dø
Olivia Merilahti of The Dø performs at The Bootleg Theater in 2010.
The UK's The Gaurdian just premiered a new song from French outfit The Dø. Actually, it's not a new song but a new cover of Janelle Monae's "Tightrope."
The Gaurdian excerpt:
Artists often cover songs either as a way of adding a layer of "authenticity" (see Travis's acoustic take on Britney's Baby One More Time, or as part of a TV talent show and they have no choice. On both occasions a good cover – to quote Simon Cowell – involves "making the song your own" and while that's always nice when it happens (Johnny Cash's reworking of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt is taken as the definitive version now), it's also fun just to hear someone giving a song a go for the hell of it. That's where French/Finnish duo the Dø's take on Janelle Monaé's Tightrope – premiered here – comes into its own. (read the rest of the review at The Gaurdian)
The Dø @ The Bootleg Theater
CASSADEE POPE LAUNCHES FIRST EVER SOLO TOUR
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Cassadee Pope, Hey Monday
Cassadee Pope begins her acoustic tour this Friday.
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Check out our pics and review of Cassadee's show at the Key Club right HERE.
Hey Monday lead singer Cassadee Pope has been performing in front of audiences since she was 13 years old. So when Hey Monday surprised their fans when they announced the band would be taking a 'hiatus' it came as n o surprise to learn that the now 22-year-old Pope turned to what she's known most of her life - the stage.
Earlier this month, with Pope's announcement that she would be embarking on her first ever solo tour, there was a collective sigh of relief from millions of fans upon hearing the news that Hey Monday had not broken up but were merely taking a 'hiatus.' It took lead singer Cassadee Pope to clear up the confusion when she released a statement:
"I wanted to let you all know that Hey Monday is not "broken up." We are, however, taking a break and pursuing things on our own...I hope you all understand that this does not mean we'll never release new music or tour ever again...Me and the guys are still friends and always will be, and this was a decision we all agreed was for the best."
So, while fans won't be hearing any new Hey Monday songs anytime soon, the better news is that Pope has been writing new original songs and plans to showcase them on an 18-city acoustic tour across the United States. In fact, one of her new songs called "Lunatic" posted on YouTube has already received over 16,000 hits since she posted it January 10th and reveals a more mature songwriting direction from Pope but still manages to deliver it over pop melodies that Hey Monday fans come to expect. But unlike Hey Monday's power-pop sound, Pope hopes to carve out her own musical identity. "I want the lyrics to be more edgy and darker than anything on the radio. Just doing what I love, the real instruments and guitars but with a real pop twist to it," says Pope.
But don't fret HM fans. Pope also revealed that her set list will include some Hey Monday songs as well as 10-11 original songs she's been working on as well as a possible cover or two. "It's going to be a really fun time, like a 'Storytellers' kind of thing," she says.
Pope first came into public view when she formed Hey Monday in 2008. Their power-pop sound caught the attention of Pete Wetz and they soon were signed to his label and Columbia Records. Since then, the band has toured non-stop sharing the stage with the likes of Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is and All Time Low.
Cassadee Pope embarks on her first ever solo tour.
Now, as Hey Monday takes a break, Pope is heading out solo by playing 18 cities in one month beginning this Friday at Anaheim's Chain Reaction and ending 28 days later in her home state of Florida. Supporting her will be Stephen Jerzak, Justin Young and Darling Parade. If you can't make the Anaheim show this Friday, Cassadee performs at The Key Club on the famed Sunset Strip next Tuesday (1/31). Click HERE for dates and ticket info.
CASSADEE POPE SHOWS
1/27 - Anaheim @ Chain Reaction
1/28 - San Diego @ Soma Sidestage
1/29 - Scottsdale @ Martini Ranch
1/31 - West Hollywood @ Key Club
2/1 - Camarillo @ Rock City
2/2 - Bakersfield @ Jerry's Pizza & Pub
2/11- Chicago @ Beat Kitchen
2/12 - Pittsburgh @ The Altar Bar
2/14 - Philadelphia @ First Unitarian Church
2/15 - Boston @ Brighton Music Hall
2/16 - Teaneck @ Mexicali Live
2/17 - New York @ Highline Ballroom
2/18 - Whitehall @ Planet TrogEnt. Complex
2/19- Baltimore @ Baltimore Soundstage
2/21- Greensboro, N.C. @ Greene Street
2/22- Atlanta @ The Masquerade
2/23 - Gainesville, Fla. @ Double Down Live
2/24 - Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Culture Room
1/25/93 - BELLY'S STAR RELEASED 19 YEARS AGO TODAY
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Kay Hanley, Palmdale, Tanya Donelly
Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo) and Tanya Donelly (Belly).
photo via Kay Hanley twitter
Awwww. Check this out. My two favorite singers together. Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo and Tanya Donelly of Belly taken recently by Kay in Boston where the two performed together during a benefit for Foundation to be Named Later on January 14th. Maybe the two will form a band together. I can dream can't I? Who could ever forget Kay serenading Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in "10 Things I Hate About You." One of the best films ever. I miss the 90's and looking at this pic, 90's alternative never looked so beautiful.
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"Feed the Tree" by Belly of 1993's Star
And 19 years ago today, Belly released the dream-pop-alternative album Star which spawned hits "Feed The Tree," "Gepetto," and "Slow Dog." Formed in Boston in 1991 by front woman Tanya Donelly, the album reached certified gold and Belly was nominated for two Grammy Awards. They disbanded in 1996 and Donelly went on to record one of my favorite albums - yet under appreciated Lovesongs for Underdogs in 1997. Today? Donelly still immerses herself in music. Last year, she released the fragile and soft, country-esque album Whiskey Tango Ghosts. And last month, she took part in Under The Covers: Please Please Please tribute to The Smiths, singing an acoustic version of "Shoplifters of the World." You can get that album now at American Laundromat. And it's available on iTunes.
What's Kay up to these days? She currently resides in L.A. and fronts the her new band Palmdale, releasing two EPs last year called Get Wasted and How To Be Mean which you can purchase at iTunes right HERE! Below is Palmdale's single "Happiness Has a Half-Life" and for good ol' times sake, "Here and Now" from Kay's Letters To Cleo days.
"Happiness Has a Half-Life" by Palmdale from the Get Wasted EP.
"Here and Now" by Letters to Cleo
Kim DiVine Has A "Perfect Kind of Love"
Sunday, January 22, 2012 Kim DiVine
Kim DiVine has that voice that you've heard of before but never actually knew who's voice it belonged to. Her angelic voice has helped her compile an impressive resume that includes her songs being featured in films, television and commercials and singing in some of the country's biggest venues including Madison Square Garden and Staples Center.
This is her official video for her song "Perfect Kind of Love." It's off her EP Five which she just released this weekend. And if you still don't know where you've heard her voice before here's a hint: She's the voice of Jello-O. You've probably heard her singing the jingle in the Jello-O commercials. Yep, that's her.
"Perfect Kind of Love" by Kim DiVine
ALABAMA SHAKES Sells Out Troubadour
Friday, January 20, 2012 Alabama Shakes
Alabama Shake's debut album Boys & Girls won't be released until April but they still managed to sell-out more than half of their dates on their tour - including one here at The Troubadour on Jan. 25th. And after watching this video, you'll understand why.
"You Ain't Alone" by Alabama Shakes
NEW VIDEO: AMY MAY IS 'REAL'
Friday, January 20, 2012 Amy May
Amy May performs at Santa Monica's Apple Store on 3rd St.
If you're a regular reader of this site, then you're well aware of my love for Amy May. A regular busker on Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade, Ms. May just released an official video for one of my favorite songs "Real." And last night her song was featured on CW's "One Tree Hill." How cool is that. Chalk up another success story from 3rd Street Promenade. "Real" was also featured on Delta Airlines' Hello Music in-flight entertainment recently and with a couple independently released albums under her belt, Amy has hopes her new music will reach the mainstream by launching a campaign to raise funds to record her new album through Indie Gogo. You can help her out right HERE. You can watch her next when she plays the Macha Theater in Hollywood on Jan. 25th. It'll be nice to see her perform on an actual stage instead of the on the streets. Should be fun!
"Real" official video by Amy May.
DEAD SARA Announced As Featured Band on Warped Tour
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Dead Sara
Los Angeles rockers, Dead Sara has just been confirmed as one of the featured artists to performs at this year's Vans Warped Tour. With this, Dead Sara is ready to explode onto the music scene. In what has to be one of the longest debut album release teases in history, Dead Sara reminds us why good things come to those who wait. A planned release last August was pushed back to October and then finally this May through Fontana/Universal by way of their own record label Pocket Kid Records. Warped Tour, now in it's 18th year launches June 16th in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"Weatherman" by Dead Sara
Dead Sara @ The Troubadour
FREE SONG: "I Want You" from Candy Hearts
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Candy Hearts
After receiving rave reviews for their second full-length album Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy which was released last September, New York bubblegum-punk rockers Candy Hearts are now currently working on a new EP. Known for the bouncy melodies delivered over punk-pop arrangements, Candy Hearts are currently working on their new EP and are offering a brand-new acoustic demo song titled "I Want You" free through their Bandcamp page. A full band version of the song will appear on their upcoming EP later this year. And while they're doing that, Candy Hearts just announced that they're heading out on tour with Man Overboard in what's being billed by Alternative Press as one of the top tours to attend this winter. Click HERE for tour dates and info.
Anyways, below is one of my favorite songs off of Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy. It's called "Tongue Tied." Enjoy!
Tongue Tied by candyhearts
MY MORNING CUP OF COFFEE SONG: "Honeypie" by Peachy Keene
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Peachy Keene
I came across this single "Honeypie" from Silverlake's own Peachy Keene and immediately fell in love. Made up of Danielle Clement, Christine Clement, Glenn Chu, Kim Ward and Kelsey Johnston, Peachy Keene lavishes in dreamy pop melodies over playful synths in a way that makes them sound refreshing and new. Their other songs, off their EP When We Collide, which was released last year, have hints of vintage-romantic and folky-pop sound. They play The Commonwealth in Fullerton on January 22nd and then The Silverlake Lounge on Jan. 24th. Can't wait!!
02 Honeypie by peachykeenemusic
NEW VIDEO AND TOUR NEWS: ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR
Sunday, January 15, 2012 Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Asteroids Galaxy Tour performs at The Echoplex during Culture Collide.
Probably my first exposure to The Asteroids Galaxy Tour came from their catchy song "The Golden Age" which is featured on Heineken's spectacular TV ad. This Denmark-based band, fronted by porcelain, psychedelic, pop-princess Mette Lindberg, shines with their horn section and with their rich and cascading party arrangements.
"Golden Age" by Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Now, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are set to start their U.S. tour to support their latest record. Here's the newest video from The Asteroids Galaxy Tour called "Heart Attack." It's the first single off their upcoming album Out of Frequency which drops on January 31st. That's the same day they launch their U.S. tour in New York City. They play the Echoplex here in Los Angeles on Valentines Day. You can pre-order their album right HERE.
"Heart Attack" by Asteroids Galaxy Tour.
Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Culture Collide: Day 1
Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Culture Collide: Day 3 & 4
JOY FORMIDABLE ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR - PLAYS THE MUSIC BOX
Friday, January 13, 2012 Joy Formidable
Joy Formidable performs at The El Rey last year.
photo by picksysticks.
Joy Formidable has just announced they'll be heading out on a new U.S. tour beginning this March. They're currently in Portland, Maine recording their follow-up to the smash debut album The Big Roar. Joining them on this tour will be A Place to Bury Strangers and Exit Music. Already pre-sale tickets are sold out for certain cities so get them quick! Click HERE for ticket info.
3/12 - San Francisco @ Independent
3/14 - Los Angeles @ Henry Fonda Theatre (The Music Box)
3/17 - Denver @ Bluebird Theatre
3/19 - Minneapolis @ Fine Line Music Cafe
3/20 - Madison @ Majestic Theatre
3/22 -Bloomington @ The Bluebird
3/23 - Cincinnati @ 20th Century Theatre
3/24 -Atlanta @ Masquerade
3/25 - Asheville @ Orange Peel 1
3/26 - Washington @ 9:30 Club
3/28 - New York @ Terminal 5
3/29 - Philadelphia @ Union Transfer
3/30 - Boston @ Paradise Rock Club
3/31 - Montreal @ SAT
4/2 - Toronto @ Lee's Place
DEAD SARA & LAST IN CLASS @ THE TROUBADOUR
Thursday, January 12, 2012 Dead Sara, Last In Class, Little Hurricane
Dead Sara performs at a sold out Troubadour.
Tuesday at The Troubadour was the place to be if you love music. Put on by people who LOOOOOOOVE music. Not only was it a great night, it featured performances by local ar tists brought together by Danny Masterson's Bronson Island and 98.7. Masterson, a big supporter of local artists also spun hypnotic beats and mashups under his moniker DJ Mom Jeans. On the bill this night was The Feaver, Last In Class, Little Hurricane and Dead Sara.
Like lead singer Emily Armstrong pacing on stage waiting to explode into full on fury-mode, Dead Sara is ready to explode onto the music scene. In what has to be one of the longest debut album release teases in history, Dead Sara reminds us why good things come to those who wait. A planned release last August was pushed back to October and then finally this May through Fontana/Universal by way of their own record label Pocket Kid Records. I've been wa iting for their album to come out when I first heard their song "We Are What You Say" about two years ago. Unfortunately, they haven't been playing that song live (at least the three times I've seen them live) but that's just one great song out of a shit-load of songs in their arsenal to love.
Pure rock and roll, Dead Sara oozes it from their pores in sweat and tears. As anticipation grew in this sold-out Troubadour crowd, Emily Armstrong started off with the slow-burning rock ballad "Sorry For It All" showcasing her powerful vocals, reaching deep into the depths of her soul. Soon afterwards, Dead Sara gave the fans what they paid to see -fierce and blistering guitars let loose over rock-anthem-like choruses in "Lemon Scent," "Test My Patience" and "Face to Face." And when Dead Sara launched into their soon-to-be mega hit "Weatherman" you almost forgot you were watching a rock show in the 450 capacity Troubadour and not in a venue like Staples Center that holds thousands. Dead Sara next plays at The Slidebar in Fullerton on Jan. 20th and then The Bootleg Theater in L.A. on Feb. 2nd. Get tiks while they last.
Last In Class performs at The Troubadour
Earlier in the night was Last In Class, fronted by Emily Wilder and Jessica Gelt, former members of Wet & Reckless. And rounding out the group are Charlie Wadhams and Chris Watson. Only been a band for about 3 months, the foursome celebrated their coming out party by playing a residency at Casey's Irish Pub downtown last November and then a few dates at The Satellite. Last In Class spice their Nancy Sinatra meets punk sound with memorable guitar hooks and catchy melodies. Add some pop and fast powered throbbing beats and I promise you that you'll find it hard not to keep from dancing. Barely an online presence, the only way to hear them is to see them live! I love this band and can't to see them again.
Celeste 'CC' Spina and Anthony 'Tone' Catalano of Little Hurricane
The night closed out with San Diego darlings Little Hurricane consisting of Anthony 'Tone' Catalano and Celeste 'CC' Spina. The two-person band with a big sound ala White Stripes but with a more bluesy-rock flavor took home the Best New Artist Award at last year's San Diego Music Awards. Their sound? Think of Tone as the scorching hot sun and CC is the rattlesnake gliding across the dried up desert floor. I missed them at last year's Culture Collide at The Echo due to time changes in set times. Bummer. But so excited I finally got to see them. Last month, they released their debut album called Homewrecker and Little Hurricane just scored four dates at this years SXSW Music Festival in March so this may be the year I finally decide to go.
DJ Mom Jeans spins to a sold out Troubadour.
Catch UH HUH HER tonight on Jimmy Kimmel
Monday, January 09, 2012 Uh Huh Her
UH HUH HER will perform this coming Monday night, January 9, on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," marking the electro-pop group's first-ever national late-night TV performance. Tune in on Monday at 12:05 am ET/CT/PT to watch UH HUH HER--LEISHA HAILEY (keyboards, bass) and CAMILA GREY (keyboards, guitar)--perform the electrifying new single "Marstorm" from their sophomore release NOCTURNES (Plaid). The show will also be available for viewing online the following day at: http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live.
UPDATE: Here's the full performance below. They sing "Marstorm" off their new album Nocturnes.
And check out their video below for "Another Casem " also off their newest album Nocturnes which is out now!!
"Another Case" by Uh Huh Her
Uh Huh Her @ The House of Blues
SUMMER CAMP ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR: FREE ECHO SHOW
Friday, January 06, 2012 Summer Camp
Summer Camp is Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley
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Roger Deakins' Oscar-winning Cinematography of "Blade Runner 2049"
March 5, 2018 neilosemanatmos, cinematography, colour, directing, oscars, review, silhouette, smoke
After fourteen nominations, celebrated cinematographer Roger Deakins, CBE, BSC, ASC finally won an Oscar<|fim_middle|> "Denis and I wanted to do as much as possible in-camera," Deakins told Variety, "and we insisted when we had the actors, at least, all the foreground and mid-ground would be in-camera." Giant LED screens were used to get authentic interactive lighting from the advertising holograms on the city streets.
One way in which the lighting of the two Blade Runner movies is undeniably similar is the use of moving light sources to suggest an exciting world continuing off camera. (The infamous lens flares of J.J. Abrahms' Star Trek served the same purpose, illustrating Blade Runner's powerful influence on the science fiction genre.) But whereas, in the original film, the roving searchlights pierce the locations sporadically and intrusively, the dynamic lights of Blade Runner 2049 continually remodel the actors' faces. One moment a character is in mysterious backlight, the next in sinister side-light, and the next in revealing front-light – inviting the audience to reassess who these characters are at every turn.
This obfuscation and transience of identity and motivation permeates the whole film, and is its core visual theme. The 1982 Blade Runner was a deliberate melding of sci-fi and film noir, but to me the sequel does not feel like noir at all. Here there is little hard illumination, no binary division of light and dark. Instead there is insidious soft light, caressing the edge of a face here, throwing a silhouette there, painting everyone on a continuous (and continuously shifting) spectrum between reality and artificiality.
Blade Runner 2049 is a much deeper and more subtle film than its predecessor, and Deakins' cinematography beautifully reflects this.
A Cinematograper Prepares
January 3, 2018 neilosemanart department, cinematography, directing, lighting, natural light, plan, preproduction, production design, scheduling, testing
One of the things which I believe separates a good director of photography from a bad one is preparation. On a big production you may have weeks of paid, full-time prep, but on a micro-budget movie you may be lucky to have a single meeting before the shoot. In the latter case you'll have to use your initiative, put in the time for free, and use Skype a lot, but either way the quality of the prep can make or break the production.
Here are ten things a DP should do to set themselves up for success before the camera rolls. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, rather it's a run-down of the things which I have found to bear most fruit later on in the production.
1. Get inside the director's head.
Some directors will come to you with a beautiful set of storyboards, concept art and reference images, but many won't. Many will simply have an idea in their head of how they want it to look, and it's your job to find out what that vision is. Often this will happen before full-time prep begins. It will consist of watching movies together, pouring over books of photos, sharing Pinterest boards or Dropboxes full of images, all the while discussing what they do and don't like. The aim is to get such a clear idea of their vision that when you set up a shot you'll deliver the mood they're looking for first time.
2. Work with the art department.
Chatting over a set model helps identify potential lighting or lensing problems before construction begins.
The next person to get in sync with is the production designer. This is an incredibly important and symbiotic relationship; you have the power to completely destroy each others' work, or to make each other look like geniuses! Two things you should talk about early on with the designer are the colour palette of the film (and any palettes specific to certain locations, plot threads or characters) and the aspect ratio: does the shape of the sets being designed fit the shape of the frame you're planning to compose? Next you'll want to discuss each set and the position of windows and practicals within it, to ensure that you'll be able to get the lighting angles you need. For their part, the designer will want to quiz you on where the key camera positions will be, and the rough lens lengths you'll be using, so they know where to put in the most detail and the important bits of dressing.
3. Get to know the needs of the other H.o.D.s.
Although the production designer is the most important head of department for a DP to work with, they are by no means the only one. The visual effects supervisor is increasingly a key collaborator; you should discuss the look you're going for and how that will integrate with the VFX, and whether plates need to be shot at a higher resolution, in RAW, or any other technical requirements. You should familiarise yourself with the costume designs and discuss how those will integrate with the overall look. Similarly the make-up department will want to talk about about lens filtration, coloured lighting and anything else that may affect how their work looks. The line producer is a crucial person to get on the good side of. Sooner or later you'll have to ask them for something expensive and unexpected, and they're much more likely to say yes if you have tried to help them earlier on, by reducing your equipment list for example, or by hiring local camera assistants to save on accommodation costs.
Read my article on collaborating with other departments for more on this topic.
4. Check sun paths at locations.
When you start to scout the locations, you'll want to pay careful attention to the direction of the sun. Which windows will it come through as it moves around over the course of the day? Are those trees or buildings likely to shadow that park bench where the characters will be sitting? With a bit of experience – and a compass, if it's cloudy – you can estimate this, or use apps like Sun Tracker and Helios which are designed for exactly this purpose. For interiors, windows that never get direct sunlight are most convenient, allowing you to light them artificially, and thus constantly, without having to flag the real sun. For exteriors, shooting into the sun is generally most desirable, for the beauty of the backlight and the softness of the reflected fill. Of course, there will always be compromises with the other demands of the production.
See my article on sun paths for more on this.
5. Develop the shot list with the director.
Each director has a different process, but often they will draft a shot list on their own before passing it to you for feedback. There are many things for a DP to consider when going through this list. Do the shots reflect the style and visual grammar you both discussed earlier? (If not, has the director had a change of heart, or have they simply forgotten? Directors have a lot to think about!) Do the shots provide enough coverage for the editor? Are there too many shots to realistically accomplish on schedule? (Very often there are!) What grip equipment will the camera movements require? Are any special lenses or filters required, e.g. a macro lens for an extreme close-up of an eye?
6. Shoot tests.
Testing is a crucial part of the prep for both technical and creative reasons. Usually you will want to test a few different cameras and lens sets, to see which best serve the story. For example, a period film lit with a lot of genuine candlelight may work best on a sensitive camera like the Panasonic Varicam combined with soft fall-off lenses like Cooke S4s, while a sci-fi thriller might be suited to a Red or Alexa and a set of anamorphics for those classic flares. Until you've tested them and compared the images side by side though, you can't be sure, and neither can the director and producers. Often costume and make-up tests will be requested, which may be combined with the camera tests to see how the different sensors render them, or maybe done separately once the camera kit is locked down. These tests are also a great opportunity for the DP to demonstrate for the director the type of lighting you plan to use to, and to make sure you really are on the same page. Ideally a DIT (digital imaging technician) will be available to grade the test footage, developing LUTs (look-up tables) if required, and providing proof of concept for the finished look of the movie.
Check out my tests of Alexa ISO settings, spherical lenses and anamorphic lenses.
7. Discuss the schedule.
Once the 1st AD has drafted the shooting schedule, they will show it to the DP for feedback. When determining how much can be done in a day, the 1st AD is thinking of the script page count, and they may not have seen a shot list at this point. Along with the director, the DP must bring any concerns they have about the schedule to the 1st AD in prep, or forever hold your peace! Is there enough time to get those tricky camera moves you've planned? Has the re-light time for the reverse been factored in? Have things been arranged in a logical order for lighting, or will things have to be torn down and put back up again later? Does the schedule permit things to be shot at the best time of day for light? Are the night scenes actually scheduled at night or will the windows have to be blacked out? Are there critical close-ups towards the end of the schedule, when the cast will be tired and no longer look their best?
For more detail on this, check out my article about things to look for in a schedule.
8. Get to know the faces of your cast.
Legendary DP John Alton, ASC tests lighting angles with Joan Bennett
However good-looking the talent may be, they will always look better under certain types of lighting than others. Often you will figure out what suits each actor after a week or so of shooting, but ideally you want to find out before principal photography begins. You can do this during testing, if the cast are available and you have enough time – trying out different key angles, fill levels, backlight and lenses to see what works best for their individual faces. Apart from anything else, this is a great way to establish trust with the cast right from the start, assuring them that they are in safe hands. If testing isn't possible, watch some of their previous work, looking carefully at how they have been photographed.
9. Mark up your script.
There's no point in having lots of great ideas in preproduction if you forget them when you're on set. Everyone has a different system, but you may wish to mark up your script and/or shot list. This could include using coloured highlighters to differentiate day and night scenes at a glance, underlining any references to mood or camera angles in the stage directions, or indicating beats in the development of the story or characters which need to be reflected in how things are lit or shot.
10. Plan your lighting.
Everyone likes to get rolling as soon as possible after call time, and a big factor in achieving this is how quickly you can light. Ideally you will have planned the broad strokes of the lighting in preproduction, and communicated that plan to the gaffer. Budget permitting, the lighting crew can even pre-rig the set so that only tweaking is required when the whole unit arrives. In this case you'll need to have been very clear and specific about what you want set up and where, drawing diagrams or approving those which the gaffer has drawn up. Often you'll need to know the rough blocking of the scene before you can plan the lighting, so you should make sure the director indicates their intentions for this during scouts.
Every film is different, but follow the steps above and you'll be well on your way to an efficient and productive shoot in 2018. Happy new year!
How to do Scenes on a Moving Train
August 24, 2017 neilosemancamera rigs, cinematography, directing, LED, lighting, poor man's process, VFX, video
Behind the scenes of "Last Passenger"
The publicity machine is ramping up for Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express remake, and it's got me thinking about the challenges of a script set largely on a moving train. There are a number of ways of realising such scenes, and today I'm going to look at five movies that demonstrate different techniques. All of these methods are equally applicable to scenes in cars or any other moving vehicle.
1. For Real: "The Darjeeling limited"
Wes Anderson's 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited sees three brothers embarking on a spiritual railway journey across India. Many of the usual Anderson tropes are present and correct – linear tracking shots, comical headgear, Jason Schwartzman – but surprisingly the moving train wasn't done with some kind of cutesy stop-motion. Production designer Mark Friedberg explains:
The big creative decision Wes made was that we were going to shoot this movie on a moving train. And all that does is complicate life. It makes it more expensive, it makes the logistics impossible. It made it incredibly difficult to figure out how many crew, what crew, what gear… but what it did do is it made it real.
Kenneth Branagh has stated that at least some of Murder on the Orient Express was shot on a real moving train too:
They painstakingly built a fully functioning period authentic locomotive and carriages from the Orient Express during the golden, glamorous age of travel. It was a train that moved… All of our actors were passengers on the train down the leafy lanes of Surrey, pretending to be the former Yugoslavia.
2. Poor Man's Process: "The Double"
Director Richard Ayoade
Although best known as The IT Crowd's Moss and the new host of the Crystal Maze, Richard Ayoade is also an accomplished director. His last feature was a darkly beautiful adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic identity-crisis novella The Double.
Unlike the other movies on this list, The Double only has short sequences on a train, and that's a key point. So named because it's a cheap alternative to rear projection (a.k.a. process photography), Poor Man's Process is a big cheat. In order to hide the lack of motion, you keep the view outside your vehicle's windows blank and featureless – typically a night sky, but a black subway tunnel or a grey daytime sky can also work. Then you create the illusion of motion with dynamic lighting, a shaky camera, and grips rocking the carriage on its suspension. Used judiciously, this technique can be very convincing, but you would never get away with it for a whole movie.
Poor Man's works particularly well in The Double, the black void outside the subway car playing into the oppressive and nightmarish tone of the whole film. In an interview with Pushing Pixels, production designer David Crank explains how the subway carriage set was built out of an old bus. He goes on to describe how the appearance of movement was created:
We put the forks of a forklift under the front of the bus, and shook it… For the effect of moving lights outside the train, it was a combination of some spinning lights on stands, as well as lights on small rolling platforms which tracked back and forth down the outside of the bus.
Part 2 of the Darjeeling Limited featurette above reveals that Poor Man's Process was also used occasionally on that film, when the train was stuck in a siding due to heavy rail traffic. I used Poor Man's myself for night-time train sequences in two no-budget features that I made in the early noughties – see the BTS clip below – and I've also written a couple of blog posts in the past about my use of the same technique on a promotional video and in a fantasy web series.
3. Green screen: "Source Code"
Duncan "Zowie Bowie" Jones followed up his low-budget masterpiece Moon with Hollywood sci-fi thriller Source Code, a sort of mash-up of Quantum Leap and Groundhog Day with a chilling twist. It takes place predominantly on a Chicago-bound commuter train, in reality a set surrounded by green screen. In the featurette above, Jones mentions that shooting on a real moving train was considered, but ultimately rejected in favour of the flexibility of working on stage:
Because we revisit an event multiple times, it was absolutely integral to making it work, and for the audience not to get bored, that we were able to vary the visuals. And in order to do that we had to be able to build platforms outside of the train and be able to really vary the camera angles.
In the DVD commentary, Jones also notes that the background plates were shot in post from a real train "loaded up with cameras".
Director Duncan Jones on the set of "Source Code"
Cinematographer Don Burgess, ASC discusses lighting the fake train in a Panavision article:
It's difficult to make it feel like natural light is coming in and still get the sense of movement on a train… We worked with computer programs where we actually move the light itself, and brighten and dim the lights so it feels as if you are travelling… The lights are never 100% constant.
When I shot The Little Mermaid last year we did some train material against green screen. To make the lighting dynamic, the grips built "branch-a-loris" rigs: windmills of tree branches which they would spin in front of the lamps to create passing shadows.
4. Rear projection: "Last Passenger"
Perhaps the most low-budget film on this list, Last Passenger is a 2013 independent thriller set aboard a runaway train. Director Omid Nooshin and DP Angus Hudson wanted a vintage look, choosing Cooke Xtal anamorphic lenses and a visual effects technique that had long since fallen out of favour: rear projection.
Before the advent of optical – and later digital – compositing, rear projection was commonly used to provide moving backgrounds for scenes in vehicles. The principle is simple: the pre-recorded backgrounds are projected onto a screen like this…
Rear projection in use on "River of no Return" (1954)
Hudson goes into further detail on the technique as used for the Last Passenger:
To capture [the backgrounds] within our limited means, we ended up shooting from a real train using six Canon 5D cameras, rigged in such a way that we got forward, sideways and rear-facing views out of the train at the same time. We captured a huge amount of footage, hours and hours of footage. That allowed us to essentially have 270 degrees of travelling shots, all of which were interlinked.
Because rear projection is an in-camera technique, Nooshin and Hudson were able to have dirt and water droplets on the windows without worrying about creating a compositing nightmare in postproduction. Hudson also notes that the cast loved being able to see the backgrounds and react to them in real time.
5. L.E.D. Panels: "Train to Busan"
Enabling the actors to see the background plates was also a concern for Yeon Sang-ho, director of the hit Korean zombie movie Train to Busan. He felt that green screen would make it "difficult to portray the reality", so he turned to the latest technology: LED screens. This must have made life easier not just for the cast, but for the cinematographer as well.
You see, when you travel by train in the daytime, most of the light inside the carriage comes from outside. Some of it is toplight from the big, flat sky, and some of it is hard light from the sun – both of these can be faked, as we've seen – but a lot of the light is reflected, bouncing off trees, houses, fields and all the other things that are zipping by. This is very difficult to simulate with traditional means, but with big, bright LED screens you get this interactive lighting for free. Because of this, and the lack of postproduction work required, this technique is becoming very popular for car and train scenes throughout the film and TV industry.
This brings us back to Murder on the Orient Express, for which 2,000 LED screens were reportedly employed. In a Digital Spy article, Branagh notes that this simulated motion had an unintended side effect:
It was curious that on the first day we used our gimballed train sets and our LED screens with footage that we'd gone to great trouble to shoot for the various environments – the lowlands and then the Alps, etc… people really did feel quite sick.
I'll leave you with one final point of interest: some of the above films designed custom camera tracks into their train carriage sets. On Last Passenger, for example, the camera hung from a dolly which straddled the overhead luggage racks, while The Darjeeling Limited had an I-beam track designed into the centre of the ceiling. Non-train movies like Speed have used the same technique to capture dolly shots in the confines of a moving vehicle.
"Last Passenger"s luggage rack dolly
8 Ways "Barry Lyndon" Emulates Paintings
June 30, 2017 August 17, 2017 neilosemanAngenieux, aspect ratio, camera movement, camera moves, camera operating, cinematography, composition, contrast, Cooke, directing, framing, lighting, period, Zeiss, zoom
Stanley Kubrick's 1975 period epic Barry Lyndon, although indifferently received upon its original release, is considered a masterpiece by many today. This is largely due to its painterly photography with strong, precisely composed frames that leave the viewer feeling more like they've wandered through an art gallery than watched a movie. Today I'm going to look at eight methods that Kubrick and his team used to create this feel. It's an excellent example of how a director with a strong vision can use the many aspects of filmmaking to realise that vision.
1. Storytelling
The American Cinematographer article on Barry Lyndon notes that "Kubrick has taken a basically talky novel and magically transformed it into an intensely visual film." You have only to look at a series of frame-grabs from the movie to see just how much of the story is contained in the images. Just like a painter, Kubrick reveals a wealth of narrative within a single frame. The shot above, for example, while recalling the landscapes of artists like Constable in its background and composition, also clearly tells the story of a courtship threatened by a third party with violent designs.
Kubrick was keen for Lyndon to feature the type of rich fabrics which are often seen in 18th century art. He referred costume designer Milena Canonero to various painters of the period. "Stanley wanted beautiful materials," she recalls in the documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, "because as he quite rightly said, that's why in those paintings they gave that wonderful light."
3. Aspect ratio
There was much confusion and controversy surrounding Kubrick's intended ratio for Lyndon. The negative was apparently hard-masked to 1.6:1, with the result that VHS and DVDs used this ratio, while the images were vertically cropped to 1.78:1 for the later Blu-ray release. However, the discovery in 2011 of a letter from Kubrick to cinema projectionists finally proved that 1.66:1 was the ratio he wanted audiences to see the film in.
1.66:1 was a standard ratio in parts of Europe, but unusual in the UK and USA. It's not far off the golden ratio (1.6180:1) – a mathematically significant ratio which some artists believe to be aesthetically pleasing. There is evidence that Kubrick was not a fan of wide aspect ratios in general, perhaps because of his background as a photographer, but it can be no coincidence that Lyndon distances itself from the cinematic ratios of 1.85 and 2.39, and instead takes a shape closer to that of a typical painting.
(Most of the images in this post come from Evan Richards' Cinematographers Index, and he in turn grabbed them from the 1.78:1 Blu-ray. The image above is in 1.66:1 but shows the 1.78:1 crop-lines.)
4. Composition
"The actual compositions of our setups were very authentic to the drawings of the period," says DP John Alcott, BSC in his interview with American Cinematographer. Perhaps the film's most obvious compositional nod to classical art is the large amount of headroom seen in the wide shots. As this article by Art Adams explains, the concept of placing the subject's head at the top of the frame is fairly new in the history of image creation. Plenty of traditional art includes lots of headroom, and Lyndon does the same.
5. Camera movement
There is little camera movement in Barry Lyndon, but there are 36 zoom shots. Unlike a physical dolly move, in which the parallax effect causes different planes of the image to shrink or enlarge at differing rates, a zoom merely magnifies or reduces the whole image as a single element. This of course only serves to enhance the impression of a two-dimensional piece of art. In fact, the zooms resemble nothing so much as the rostrum camera moves a documentary filmmaker might make across a painting – what today we'd call a Ken Burns effect.
It's interesting to note that, although Barry Lyndon is famous for its fast lenses – the f/0.7 Zeiss Planar primes – the movie also used a very slow lens, a custom-built T9 24-480mm zoom. From various accounts, other zooms used seem to include a Cooke T3.1 20-100mm and possibly a 25-250mm of some description. Of course, none of the zoom lenses were anywhere near fast enough for the candlelit scenes, so in those instances the filmmakers were forced to use a Planar and pull back physically on a dolly.
"In preparation for Barry Lyndon we studied the lighting effects achieved in the paintings of the Dutch masters," Alcott says. "In most instances we were trying to create the feeling of natural light within the houses, mostly stately homes, that we used as shooting locations." The DP closely observed how natural light would come in through the windows and emulate that using diffused mini-brutes outside. This made it possible to shoot long days during the British winter when natural light was in short supply. Last week I covered in detail the technical innovations which allowed Alcott and Kubrick to shoot night scenes with just genuine candlelight, as 18th century painters would have seen and depicted them.
Film stock in the seventies was quite contrasty, so Alcott employed a few methods to adjust his images to a tonal range more in keeping with 18th century paintings. He used a Tiffen No. 3 Low Contrast Filter at all times, with an additional brown net for the wedding scene "where I wanted to control the highlights on the faces a bit more," he explains. He also used graduated ND filters (as in the above frame) both outdoors and indoors, if one side of the room was too bright. Most interestingly, he even went so far as to cover white fireplaces and doorways with fine black nets – not on the lens but on the objects themselves.
8. Blocking
The blocking in Barry Lyndon is often static. While this is certainly a creative decision by Kubrick, again recalling painted canvases and their frozen figures, it was also technically necessary in the candlelit scenes. Whenever the f/0.7 lenses were in use, the cast were apparently instructed to move as little as possible, to prevent them going out of focus. As one YouTube commenter points out, the stillness imposed by these lenses mirrors the stillness required of a painter's model.
Kate Madison Interview
February 25, 2016 March 27, 2017 neilosemancrewing, crowd funding, directing, distribution, interview, producing, production design, web series
Kate demonstrates the action. Photo: Laura Radford
In the autumn of 2014 I served as director of photography on Ren: The Girl with the Mark, an incredibly ambitious short-form fantasy series, and have since been assisting with postproduction in various ways. Now that season one of the show is complete and ready to show to the public at last, I took the opportunity to sit down with director Kate Madison and ask her about some of the unique aspects of the show's production…
Kate, many people will know you as the director, producer, co-writer, actor and general driving force behind Born of Hope, a Lord of the Rings fan film with over 35 million YouTube views. Did that film's success open any doors for you, and what was the journey from there that led you to want to make a web series?
Born of Hope potentially opened doors even if they weren't visible doors, in the sense that although it didn't result in Hollywood coming calling, it created a a bit of a buzz and it became known in the industry. Myself and Christopher Dane [the lead actor] did start work on a fantasy feature film script called The Last Beacon and spent time trying to pursue that avenue. That then led into another feature film idea, so we were looking down the route of a feature film rather than anything else, and spent what felt like a number of years just not going anywhere.
I started thinking, what can we actually do when we don't know investors or people with money. We concluded that with the internet – there's an audience there, our audience is there. The crowdfunding thing which worked for Born of Hope is online, so we need to go back to that.
Many people will ask, "Why fantasy when there are so many cheaper and easier genres?" How do you respond to that?
For me, film and TV is about escapism, so I enjoy action-adventures and comedies and historical stuff – things that are not Eastenders. Fantasy is a huge genre. To me it's a way to have the freedom to do whatever you want. I can take things I like – historical things, costumes, set design – and the joy of fantasy over period is, you can go, "I'm going to use this Viking purse with this medieval-looking helmet!" I like the freedom of fantasy. You can still have a character-driven, interesting story, set in somewhere fantastical, or even just a forest. There's no dragons or creatures in Ren – so far – but the options are there, that's the joy of it.
Having a laugh on set with Nick Cornwall (Dagron). Photo: Laura Radford
There was an enormous amount of goodwill and legions of volunteers who helped with Born of Hope. How important were those people, and finding others like them, when it came to making Ren?
Hugely important! Born of Hope could not have been made without a ton of volunteers, having no budget at all. With Ren, because we were in a similar position – which was a shame really, after all that time we still hadn't got a big enough budget – we again had to rely on volunteers to make it possible!
There was an incredible sense of community, of shared ownership and very high morale throughout the production of Ren. Was it important to you to foster those things?
It's incredibly important to keep morale high. I think it's slightly easier when people are volunteering because they're there because they want to be there and not just for the pay cheque. I was very keen to let everyone have fun on the project and also to have fun myself, because these projects are incredibly hard. So if the work was all done for the day, OK, I'm allowed to switch off now and grab a Nerf gun! People were staying there [at the studio], so they wanted to have a good time in the evening.
If we work a little later because there's a break in the middle where we're having a laugh, that means you can go later because everyone's chilled rather than slogging away and not feeling like they're enjoying themselves.
When people are volunteering, it feels like [the project] is everybody's, and it is. People would come in and help and maybe end up designing a dress. The joy of filmmaking for me is the collaborative nature of it. There's always someone behind you with an idea. You don't feel like you're ever on your own completely. If you're at a loss, then someone else – whether it's the DoP or the runner – [can suggest things].
A panoramic view of Ren's village set. Photo: Michael Hudson
Very few micro-budget productions have their own studio, but Ren took over a disused factory for several months. How did that come about, and what were the benefits of it?
The benefits were through the roof, I'd say! We wonder if the project would have happened without it.
As we were going through budgets and scouting locations, we realised how difficult it was going to be [to shoot on location] – the logistics of making the village look like the village in the script and what if it rained for that week [the location was booked for]? It was just terrifying.
We started to think, is there another option here? It was just luck that Michelle [Golder, co-producer], on a dog walk, got talking to someone who knew someone. He mentioned this place in Caxton which was really big but we wouldn't be in anyone's way and we could just take it over. We were going to get a really good deal because it was sitting empty. It was twice as much for six months in Caxton in comparison with six days on location. And we would have the freedom to build whatever we wanted! There was all this interior space we could build in but also have costume rooms and production offices.
I've always loved the idea of having a place to work where everyone can come together. It's fantastic nowadays that you can communicate with people all over the world, but you can't beat a face-to-face conversation with someone and being able to look at the same picture and point at it and talk about it. It meant we were able to achieve a lot more in scope but also in quality.
Kate contemplates one of the interior sets. Photo: Ashram Maharaj
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the production was creating a medieval village from scratch. Building the set, sourcing enough extras and costuming everybody were three massive challenges. How did you tackle those?
I live in Cloud Cuckoo land sometimes I guess! The set build, I thought, "It's fine, we can do this, we can build this circular wall essentially with a few alleyways going off it and fill it with some market stalls." Chris was in charge of building the set, and did an amazing job with a bunch of volunteers that came back over and over again. Although we bought a bunch of materials we made use of an amazing site called Set Exchange which is a sort of Freecycle for sets and we found a bunch of flats on there – that helped a lot.
Populating the village was always going to be challenging. Suzanne [Emerson] who also played the role of Ida got heavily involved in helping to find extras. She's involved in a lot of the amateur dramatics in Cambridge. It was probably horrible [for Suzanne and Michelle] but an amazing miracle for us that we'd finish shooting one day and go, "You know we're actually going to shoot that tomorrow and we need some people," and then the next morning you'd turn up and people would show up to do it. We had varying numbers, but there was never a day when no-one showed up.
Supporting artists line up for a costume inspection in the car park of the Caxton studio. Photo: Michael Hudson
As for dressing them – we grabbed all of the Born of Hope costumes, Miriam [Spring Davies, costume designer] had a bunch of stock stuff as well. We ended up buying a bunch of things from New Zealand, from a costume house called Shed 11 that did Legend of the Seeker. The Kah'Nath armour came from Norton Armouries; John Peck – who had been involved with Born of Hope supplying stuff for orcs – I called on his good will again.
It was lovely to make the hero costumes from scratch. Miriam and I would go through the costume designs and then we went and looked at material. Chris and I randomly on a holiday to Denmark found some material we really liked for Karn's tunic. Ren's dress – I bought that material ages ago and it had been sitting around. Miriam and I took a trip to the re-enactors' market as well. And we went to Lyon's Leathers, spent what felt like a whole day wandering his amazing storeroom and picking out stuff for different characters, for Hunter's waistcoat and Ren's overdress, and we got the belts made there.
Discussing shots with me on set. Photo: Michael Hudson
I've heard you say more than once, "If it's not right, it's not worth doing." How important is quality to you, and how do you balance that with the budgetary and scheduling pressures of such a huge project?
I'm not very good at compromising. If we're going to spend months and months working on something that none of us are going to be happy with or proud of then it's a waste of time and we might as well stop now. I think it's probably that I'd like to be off in New Zealand making Legend of the Seeker, so I treat it as if I'm doing that I suppose, and I try not to let the budget or circumstances stop us from doing that.
I knew that most of the things are achievable. You know, to put together a costume that's weathered well and looks really interesting is not hard to do, it just takes more time to do than buying it off the shelf and sticking it on, but the quality difference is so extreme. People will be much happier with you in the end if you've worked them hard for an amazing outcome than if you've worked them hard and it looks rubbish.
Sophie Skelton as the eponymous Ren. Photo: Alex Beckett
Most filmmakers are making stand-alone shorts or features, though the medium of web series is growing. Do you think it's the way forward? Do you think there can be a sustainable career in it?
Ren is going to be an interesting experiment – can people watch something that, if we stuck [all the 10-minute episodes] together would be a pilot for TV – will they watch that on the web in the same way they would watch a TV thing or will they get bored and go and watch cats?
It is a new field. Although web series have been going on a long time, it's still growing, there's no funding in the UK, there's no obvious way of having revenue from it, because the online platforms like YouTube, the advertising revenue is absolutely minimal as a percentage of views, and there's only so many t-shirts you can sell. We struggled to raise money for the first season and we only raised enough to barely scrape our way through while putting in our own money.
Unless it does amazingly and maybe garners the interest of a big brand or sponsorship, if we're having to crowdfund every time and we can't crowdfund the huge figures that we'd need to make this, then it might not be the way forward for Ren and we might need to figure out a different thing… [unless] we get picked up by a bigger corporation like Amazon or Netflix.
We'll see how this first season goes. We'd love it to become sustainable and a show that we can keep putting out and people can enjoy, but this is the experiment for that I suppose.
You can watch Ren: The Girl with the Mark for free, Tuesdays at 8pm GMT from March 1st, at rentheseries.com or on the Mythica Entertainment channel on YouTube.
Stop/Eject with Filmmakers Commentary
January 21, 2016 August 2, 2016 neilosemancinematography, directing, producing, production design, video
My award-winning short fantasy-drama Stop/Eject is just coming to the end of its festival run, and soon I'll be publishing a breakdown of that run, how much it cost and how many festivals it got into. But in the meantime, here's the director and producer's commentary which Sophie Black and I recorded at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
If you haven't seen the film, you can watch it without commentary below.
Next week I'll be posting the cast commentary with Georgina Sherrington, Oliver Park and Therese Collins.
5 Things Directors Should Know About Cinematography
November 6, 2015 March 27, 2017 neilosemancinematography, directing, lighting, production design
Any director worth their salt will be skilled in telling a story with the camera. But, quite understandably, they're not familiar with the key concepts of cinematography – particularly the lighting side of cinematography – which a DP employs every day to create images that have impact, mood and production value. For the most part, directors don't need to know these things – after all, that's what the DP's there for – but understanding a few of the basic concepts can help set up your film for visual excellence before the DP even gets involved.
1. We don't light from the front.
It is logical to assume that light coming from behind the camera will give the best illumination to a scene. And on a purely cold, scientific level, it's true. But on an aesthetic level, it couldn't be more wrong. Quite apart from the practical issues of boom shadows and actors squinting in the sun, frontlight gives a flat, depthless image similar to a photo taken with flash.
Lighting from behind. Gotta love it.
Similarly, anyone who has taken photos with a camera in automatic mode will have been told – or quickly learnt – that shooting towards the sun, or when indoors, towards a window, is a bad idea, resulting in silhouettes and/or blown-out skies. So directors are often surprised when towards the sun (or a window) is EXACTLY the direction I want to shoot in, because it supplies beautiful backlight and allows me to fill in the shadow side – the side towards camera – as I see fit. No, it's not going to be a silhouette (unless that's what we're going for) because I have a lamps and I have manual control of my iris.
2. Dark scenes do not require a camera with good low light sensitivity.
It depends what you mean by dark. A scene that is dark as a creative decision won't actually be dark in reality because it will still be lit, perhaps highly lit, to create a moody, contrasty look. Therefore the camera's sensitivity is not much of an issue.
A scene that is dark because you don't have the budget to light it properly – yes, that's going to need a sensitive camera if you're going to see anything but noise.
3. You can't fix everything in the grade.
It is truly amazing what can be done with today's colour correction software, but there are two things it can't do: it can't save an image that was seriously underlit or underexposed, and it can't change the angle or quality of light. Colour and intensity, yes. Angle and quality (soft/hard), no. And since these are the main things a DP determines, grading can never replace a good cinematographer. If it doesn't look good on the monitor on the day, it will probably never look good.
4. We can't light without seeing the blocking.
I can't count the number of times I've turned up on set and asked to see the blocking, and been told no because the actors actors are in make-up, "but they're going to stand kind of here." In most circumstances, the first scene of the day should be blocked BEFORE the actors go to make-up. That way the DP can be lighting while the cast is getting made up, which is much more time efficient. Otherwise the DP tinkers about trying to light the space and looking at their watch, then when the talent comes out everyone is kept waiting while the DP changes all the lighting. Because inevitably the actors will want to do something different than what the director had in mind, or the director forgot to mention that one of the actors has to be seen coming through the door at the start, etc, etc. Blocking can also throw up problems with the scene which can be solved by various other departments while make-up is going on.
Great costume – check. Great location – check. (Photo from The First Musketeer by Jessica Ozlo)
5. A good camera and a good DP are not substitutes for good design.
Light and lensing can only do so much. If what's put in front of the camera doesn't look good to start with, there's very little I can do about it. Get an art director. Please, please, please, get an art director. They will do much more for the look of your film than I can. I don't care if it's a futuristic sci-fi movie or a gritty drama shot in a student flat, you need an experienced person with an artistic eye adding character to the sets and locations, developing a palette and composing everything beautifully for the camera.
Classic Single Developing Shot in Back to the Future: Part II
October 21, 2015 March 27, 2017 neilosemanblocking, camera, camera movement, cinematography, directing
"What the hell's going on, Doc? Where are we? When are we?"
"We're descending towards Hill Valley, California, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015."
"2015? You mean we're in the future?"
Yep, we're all in the future now.
The Back to the Future trilogy are the films that made me want to be a filmmaker, and 30 years has not dulled their appeal one bit. In a moment I'll give a single example of the brilliance with which Robert Zemeckis directed the trilogy, but first a reminder…
If you're in the Cambridge area, you can see Back to the Future along with my short film Stop/Eject at the Arts Picturehouse next Monday, Oct 26th, 9pm. You need to book in advance here.
If you can't make it, I'm pleased to announce that Stop/Eject will be released free on YouTube on November 1st.
Anyway, back to Back to the Future. Robert Zemeckis is a major proponent of the Single Developing Shot – master shots that use blocking and camera movement to form multiple framings within a single take. Halfway through BTTF: Part II comes a brilliant example of this technique. Doc has found Marty at his father's graveside, the pair having returned from 2015 to a nightmarish alternate 1985. In an exposition-heavy scene, Doc explains how history has been altered and what they must do to put it right.
It could have been very dull if covered from a lot of separate angles (and not acted by geniuses). Instead Zemeckis combines many of the necessary angles into a single fluid take, cutting only when absolutely necessary to inserts, reverses and a wide. Here are the main framings the shot moves through.
It starts on a CU of the newspaper…
…then pulls out to a 2-shot…
…which becomes a deep 2 as Doc walks away…
…before pushing in to Doc at the blackboard…
…and panning with him to the DeLorean…
…then pulls back out to include Marty again…
…rests briefly on another 2-shot…
…then becomes a deep 2 once more as Doc moves away…
…then a flat 2 again…
…then a deep 2 again…
…then pushes in to a tighter 2 as Marty realises it's all his fault…
…then it becomes an over-the-shoulder as Marty turns to Doc at the DeLorean…
…then a 50/50 as they face each other…
…then it tracks back to the blackboard…
…and tracks in further to emphasise the reveal of the second newspaper…
…then dollies back with Marty as he takes it into the foreground…
…then dollies into a tight 2 to end. I wonder how many takes they did of this, and how many different takes are used in the edit. Just after the reveal of the second paper there's a cut to Einstein the dog, and when we come back to the developing shot the framing is slightly different, suggesting the dog shot is there to allow a splicing of takes more than anything else. All the other cuts in the scene are strongly motivated though, and seem to be there for narrative reasons rather than take-hopping.
Given the shortness of the lens – not more than a 35mm, I reckon – it's likely that Michael J. Fox had to deliberately move out of the camera's way at certain points, and the table seen in the opening frame may have been slid out by grips early on in the take to facilitate camera movement. I'd love to see some behind-the-scenes footage from this day on set, but none seems to exist.
So there you have it, one small example of the inventiveness which makes these films so enduring. Now stop reading this and get back to your trilogy marathon!
Directing Amelia's Letter
September 23, 2015 August 2, 2016 neilosemandirecting
Georgia Winters as Amelia. Photo: Colin Smith
Amelia's Letter premiered last week at the Cincinnati Film Festival. It's the first official selection in what we hope will be a long festival run for this moving little ghost story written by Steve Deery and produced by Sophia Ramcharan. Here's the synopsis:
Amelia receives a letter from her publisher. Over one hundred years later its legacy still haunts writers who visit her Lodge. Gordon discovers the letter and thinks there is a story to be told. It would be better for him if he didn't try and tell it.
I want to say a bit about my directing process on the film, but beware – this post contains spoilers!
In a preproduction blog entry I talked about writing backstories for the characters, and touched on the films I'd been watching as research. Today I'll pick up where I left off and carry on through to production.
The backstories, by the way, were really useful to me throughout the process. They provided a filter through which I could view the script, focusing in on what the characters wanted and where they were coming from. And they made it easy to answer many of the questions the actors had about their characters.
The gatehouse of Newstead Abbey, the film's location. Photo: Colin Smith
I decided early on to give the film overtones of gothic horror. This can be seen most clearly in the location and costume design. I watched several horror films, gothic and otherwise, as well as ghost stories, during preproduction. The Awakening (2011, dir. Nick Murphy) and The Woman in Black (2012, dir. James Watkins) proved to me the importance of building a strong emotional spine before bringing in the scares, and the latter film along with The Innocents (1961, dir. Jack Clayton) showed how effective a slow, subtle reveal of a ghost in a corner of the frame can be.
However, as the shoot got closer, I realised I had been too fixated on the genre, and had neglected the very emotional spine I'd admired in the above films. At its core, Amelia's Letter is about a woman committing suicide. I therefore set out to watch some films that dealt with this topic. First up was Seven Pounds (2008, dir. Gabriele Muccino) – for a Hollywood film starring Will Smith, it's quite dark and thought-provoking – followed by Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006, dir. Goran Dukic) – an inventive and darkly humourous American indie set in a suicides' afterlife which is just like the real world, only everything's a bit more rubbish – and finally Veronika Decides to Die (2009, dir. Emily Young) – in which Sarah Michelle Gellar gives a surprisingly good portrayal of a failed suicide learning to love life again.
I can't point to any specific tips I gleaned from those films, but they certainly made me think more about the issue. Indeed, during Veronika Decides to Die, I had a breakthrough regarding Amelia. I recalled a Richard Herring podcast I'd listened to in which Stephen Fry, Herring's interviewee, had talked very openly about his bipolar disorder and a recent suicide attempt he had made. I realised that Amelia should be bipolar. Sufferers are often highly creative people, like Amelia, and sadly have a much higher rate of suicide. Actress Georgia Winters embraced the idea, and although it's not at all explicit from watching the film that Amelia is bipolar, the highs and lows she goes through while reading the letter are a result of this behind-the-scenes decision.
Tina Harris as Barbara. Photo: Colin Smith
Another thing that was a big influence on my interpretation of the script was a tome which a relative bought me one Christmas during my early teens. The Giant Book of Mysteries (edited by Colin, Rowan and Damon Wilson) features a memorable chapter in which several ghost-hunters theorise that spooks are actually something akin to tape recordings. When a tragic event happens, the theory goes, the emotions of the people involved – emitted as electromagnetic waves from the brain – can be "recorded" by the electrical field of any water nearby, in the same way that sounds can be recorded on the iron oxide of a cassette tape.
I seized this idea as a way of explaining, to the actors if not to the audience, how the supernatural events in Amelia's Letter function. Once the various authors in the film glimpse Amelia's ghost and are drawn out of the cottage, it would have been easy to say that these authors are in a trance, but this seemed too easy. Instead I decided that the emotions which Amelia felt when she jumped into the lake were recorded by the water and radiate out from it. The closer they get to the lake, the more their own emotions are taken over by hers until eventually they're feeling exactly what she did, with the inevitable consequence that they kill themselves too.
Carrying this theory throughout the film, it meant that the glimpses which the authors see of Amelia from the cottage window are simply "recordings" of moments in her life – perhaps a surge of creativity, or depression. By coincidence, the art department had painted fake mould into the corners of the study, which tied in beautifully with the water recording theory and helped explain the supernatural events that occur at the cottage.
Frank Simms as Gordon, by the lake with Amelia. Photo: Colin Smith
Although much of the above will not be directly apparent to the viewer, I hope that it gave extra depth and veracity to the performances and so makes the film more effective overall.
Amelia's Letter is a Stella Vision production in association with Pondweed Productions. Find out more at facebook.com/ameliasletter
Why Make Films?
July 5, 2015 August 2, 2016 neilosemancrewing, directing, industry
Shooting Mini-DV in 2003
When I went freelance at the end of the last century, it felt like anything was possible. If you had the talent, you could go out there and make a great short that could win awards at festivals and get you a good agent, or you could go out and make a feature which made the industry sit up and take notice and hire you on a fully-budgeted production. Call me old and cynical, but that now feels like a ridiculous pipe-dream.
15 years ago, the Mini-DV revolution was just kicking off. Since then we've had the DSLR revolution, not to mention the collapse of expensive celluloid as the only accepted acquisition and distribution format for "proper" movies. The technology has removed every barrier to entry, and now the world is swamped with filmmakers.
This is great, but it has had two highly destructive side effects.
Firstly, as a filmmaker, it's virtually impossible to stand out any more amongst the thousands of micro-budget movies that get made every year, short-form and long. Would I get coverage in The Guardian today for making a fantasy feature on £20,000? I think not.
Shooting on a DSLR in 2013
And although there is now a huge number of film festivals around the world, there are so many people entering them, that the odds of getting in are tiny, and the odds of winning awards even smaller. So once you've made a film, what do you do with it? Putting it online is the only option left. Except there are so many films, and other forms of video content, on the internet that you have to be incredibly lucky to get any reasonable number of people to watch yours.
Secondly, as jobbing crew, though there are plenty of productions to work on, most of them are unpaid. Because there's no more money to go around than there was 15 years ago – it's just more thinly spread. When I started out, unpaid work was something you did for a couple of years until you could get enough paid work to live on. Now it's entirely possible to do unpaid gigs for decades without it ever leading to enough paid work to quit your day job.
In a nutshell, the industry has become a farce.
Which brings me back to my question, "Why make films?"
The only answer left, and perhaps the only one that ever truly mattered, is, "Because I love it."
Do not become a filmmaker because you think you can break into Hollywood. Don't do it because you want to get rich. Don't expect to see your work on cinema release, to win Oscars, or to work with the stars. Don't even expect to reach wide audiences or make a good living.
Just do it because it's the only thing you want to do with your life, and be happy with that. I know I am. | last night, for his work on Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049. Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi noir is not a perfect film; its measured, thoughtful pace is not to everyone's taste, and it has serious issues with women – all of the female characters being highly sexualised, callously slaughtered, or both – but the Best Cinematography Oscar was undoubtedly well deserved. Let's take a look at the photographic style Deakins employed, and how it plays into the movie's themes.
Blade Runner 2049 returns to the dystopian metropolis of Ridley Scott's classic three decades later, introducing us to Ryan Gosling's K. Like Harrison Ford's Deckard before him, K is a titular Blade Runner, tasked with locating and "retiring" rogue replicants – artificial, bio-engineered people. He soon makes a discovery which could have huge implications both for himself and the already-strained relationship between humans and replicants. In his quest to uncover the truth, K must track down Deckard for some answers.
Villeneuve's film meditates on deep questions of identity, creating a world in which you can never be sure who is or isn't real – or even what truly constitutes being "real". Deakins reinforces this existential uncertainty by reducing characters and locations to mere forms. Many scenes are shrouded in smog, mist, rain or snow, rendering humans and replicants alike as silhouettes.
K spends his first major scene seated in front of a window, the side-light bouncing off a nearby cabinet the only illumination on his face. Deakins' greatest strength is his ability to adapt to whatever style each film requires, but if he has a recognisable signature it's this courage to rely on a single source and let the rest of the frame go black.
Whereas Scott and his DP Jordan Cronenweth portrayed LA mainly at night, ablaze with pinpoints of light, Villeneuve and Deakins introduce it in daylight, but a daylight so dim and smog-ridden that it reveals even less than those night scenes from 1982.
All this is not to say that the film is frustratingly dark, or that audiences will struggle to make out what is going on. Shooting crisply on Arri Alexas with Arri/Zeiss Master Primes, Deakins is a master of ensuring that you see what you need to see.
A number of the film's sequences are colour-coded, delineating them as separate worlds. The city is mainly fluorescent blues and greens, visually reinforcing the sickly state of society, with the police department – an attempt at justice in an insane world – a neutral white.
The Brutalist headquarters of Jared Leto's blind entrepreneur Wallace are rendered in gold, as though the corporation attempted a friendly yellow but was corrupted by greed. These scenes also employ rippling reflections from pools of water. Whereas the watery light in the Tyrell HQ of Scott's Blade Runner was a random last-minute idea by the director, concerned that his scene lacked enough interest and production value, here the light is clearly motivated by architectural water features. Yet it is used symbolically too, and very effectively so, as it underscores one of Blade Runner 2049's most powerful scenes. At a point in the story where more than one character is calling their memories into question, the ripples playing across the walls are as intangible and illusory as those recollections. "I know what's real," Deckard asserts to Wallace, but both the photography and Ford's performance bely his words.
The most striking use of colour is the sequence in which K first tracks Deckard down, hiding out in a Las Vegas that's been abandoned since the detonation of a dirty bomb. Inspired by photos of the Australian dust storm of 2009, Deakins bathed this lengthy sequence in soft, orangey-red – almost Martian – light. This permeating warmth, contrasting with the cold artificial light of LA, underlines the personal nature of K's journey and the theme of birth which is threaded throughout the film.
Deakins has stated in interviews that he made no attempt to emulate Cronenweth's style of lighting, but nonetheless this sequel feels well-matched to the original in many respects. This has a lot to do with the traditional camerawork, with most scenes covered in beautifully composed static shots, and movement accomplished where necessary with track and dolly.
The visual effects, which bagged the film's second Oscar, also drew on techniques of the past; the above featurette shows a Canon 1DC tracking through a miniature landscape at 2:29. | 969 |
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The Lower School library, with a collection of 9,500 print volumes and access to nine databases, is a warm and inviting space that provides materials ranging from board books for the youngest students, engaging picture books and readers for early elementary students, and dynamic fiction and non-fiction materials for older elementary students. Library instruction supports the Lower School curriculum and introduces students to research using both print and electronic resources.
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Battle of the Books is huge at Highland School! Learn more about the competitive reading program for Lower and Middle School students.
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"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library." ALBERT EINSTEIN
Highland School benefits from a library in each division - the William H. Hazel Library in the Upper School, the Loeb Library in Middle School and the Lower School Library. These libraries are welcoming spaces that invite students, from our youngest Pre-Kindergarten students to our graduating Seniors, to engage intellectually in the classroom, the community, and globally, while helping them develop their own independent reading lives.
At Highland School, our libraries serve three primary functions:
1. Research and information literacy
A primary goal of Highland's library program is that our graduates are ready to navigate the world of college research. To that end, the library program teaches information literacy from the earliest grades. Information literacy encompasses learning how to locate information, discern it's worth for the task at hand, use the information ethically and synthesize the information found to create new thinking. This process is applied to all resources whether print, electronic, book, web page or database.
2. Encourage a love of reading
Becoming a strong, independent reader is a major building block of intellectual growth. No other activity correlates more directly to imaginative thinking and academic achievement. Habitual readers who enjoy fiction and nonfiction experience a broader base of knowledge, deeper empathy, and have a more engaged view of the world. The process of becoming a reader requires access to books that instill interest, time to read, and social interaction around books.
At Highland, all three of our libraries develop their collections with these precepts in mind, providing books that interest and expose our students to a diverse reading experience. Author visits, author studies, book talks, Battle of the Books teams, book fairs, and reading lists all contribute to developing habitual and happy readers.
3. Easy access to a range of resources
Library materials, both in print and online, are chosen to support Highland's classroom curriculum as well as meet the learning needs of each student. Our three libraries have a collection of over 20,000 volumes of books, accompanied by electronic databases, eBooks, and audiobooks, as well as CDs and DVDs. Additionally, Highland's libraries sponsor two book fairs each year and book fair proceeds fund author and illustrator visits and other special programming.
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Renovated in 2014, The William A. Hazel Family Library in the Upper School houses nearly 9,000 titles, 24 serials, and 15 subscription databases. The Hazel Family Library provides students and faculty a place to meet and study in groups or individually, computer access, and is equipped with a SmartBoard for instruction and meeting use.
The Hazel Family Library is a popular location for students during study halls and breaks. Students have the opportunity to support the library by serving as Library Assistants and aiding the librarian with shelving, processing books, and circulation.
The Loeb Library in the Johnson Academic Media Center
A multi-functional hub for Middle School
The Loeb Library in the Johnson Academic Media Center in the Middle School is a hub for a wide variety of classes – library as well as other subject areas. Club activities, special assemblies, programs, and faculty, staff, and student meetings also use the space regularly.
The Library and adjoining Media Room are equipped with a multi-user collaborative SmartBoard, iPad and computer carts that are available to ensure our students have a | 828 |
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After a while, survival is just another habit.
I haven't been keeping this blog up for a while, at least for the purpose I originally created it.
I have a rainbow of reasons why: not wanting to bore my few<|fim_middle|> madness. I ran out of mental room for the apocalypse so I had to put the last bits aside.
Mr Orlov is a hybrid: born and early raised in Russia, he moved to the U.S. at age twelve. Now he is a writer and lecturer specializing in such happy topics as Peak Oil and the collapse of societies. Serious collapse, as in Post-Soviet the-world-we-knew-is-gone-OMG! collapse.
I am one of the very few people who several years ago unequivocally predicted the demise of the United States as a global superpower. | readers with constant whines about my annoyingly dramatic health, a deep dislike of hypochondria, wanting to forget everything about the last seven years on the good days, struggling to stay intact during the bad ones with no energy left over to do anything except to fight and try to figure out what the latest complication meant.
One week and I mark my biological birthday. One month and it will be seven years since the transplant. "It is amazing – way beyond amazing – that you have survived so long!" A dear friend said to me this morning. She is a highly trained and regarded nurse; she knows of what she speaks. I know she didn't mean the statement to be as bald as it sounded, but there it is: truth, unvarnished.
About a year ago I started a post about the shock of surviving six years. "I don't know how to write about this," I whined then proceeded to list the complications and conditions and disasters and few triumphs since I first lamented the knife. I hated the whine so I abandoned it.
For the last year, certainly since the beginning of 2013, the problems of these seven extra years of life have started to rear up, first one after the other, now cascading, and are threatening to sideline me from the game of life, perhaps pull me from the game for good. I face this challenge weaker and wearier, and struggling to shore up my will for what is likely to be my penultimate fight for life. At least I hope it will be the second to last; we'll see.
So I will be writing here more regularly, posting next the distressing list of things I am coping with now, and talking about the last-gasp treatments that are on their way. If you don't hear from me for a bit, send a note to remind me of this promise.
I've heard this comment from friends and family and even strangers for five years now and it always makes me uncomfortable. Something's off with it; somehow the sentiment just doesn't ring true.
Thanks to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain – I'm carrying out my vow to re-read this magnificent and complicated book – I'm learning why the remark causes such unease. I think I understand how the words do not say what they are meant to say.
There has got to be a maximum number of diseases and disasters, conditions and catastrophes that one human body can handle before it just gives up and dives for the worms.
Surely two life-killing viruses, cancer, a liver transplant and all their attending "issues" is enough for one existence. You think?
This past month I've entered the brave new world of autoimmune disease. A couple of choices present themselves: one is called dermatomyositis, which is tthe operative definition at the moment, and it is NOT your friend. If you must read up, here's a link, but don't go there if you're the least bit susceptible to internet-based too-much-medical-info-itis. My other option is graft versus host disease – GVHD in the jargon. This happens when a bit of the donor's immune system gets into the recipient's during transplant, and apparently requires (in non-marrow transplants, anyway) the recipient to have a weak immune system. Congrats, me! I win again!
Three years and counting… count.
Today I sat in the courtyard by the Nurses' building at UCSF talking to someone whose partner lay in a room above us on Nine Long, the liver transplant floor of Moffitt Hospital, waiting, suffering, hoping for a new liver that might save his life. The man I was talking to was distraught, grasping at hope as loved ones and caregivers do coping with such suffering. I offered what I could, listening and answering his questions.
As I answered questions about my experiences I realized it wasn't approximately three years ago when I learned about the cancer in my liver and my own quest for a transplant began: it was exactly three years. To the day.
After we parted I walked to my car, secreted in a relatively unrestricted area near Golden Gate Park about 10 minutes away. I kept walking, right into the park and all the way to the AIDS Memorial Grove. I wasn't planning to go there. The grove is a quiet area in a small glen filled with beautiful plants. It has been there long enough that the young redwoods can now be called trees.
I took some pictures – my own solace and serenity these days – then returned to my car and came home.
Three years count so much more than numbers on a financial spreadsheet.
Yesterday I listened to three-fourths of a lecture by Dmitry Orlov titled Social Collapse Best Practices. Three-fourths? Well, as fans of Russia's great writers know, nobody does gloom like the Russians. Consider Dostoyevsky. Or Solzhenitsyn, who makes Dostoyevsky read like Steve Martin. Orlov channels that famous Russian gloom into our new century and aims it square at the heart of our current socioeconomic | 1,039 |
Illian is een natie aan de Zee der Stormen in de fictieve wereld van de veertiendelige serie Het Rad des Tijds geschreven door Robert Jordan.
Illian wordt in het zuiden begrensd door de Zee der Stormen, in het westen door de natie Altara, in het noorden door de natie Andor en in het oosten door de natie Tyr. De hoofdstad van het land<|fim_middle|>ijds | is de gelijknamige stad Illian. Rond het Tammuzplein in het hart van de hoofdstad Illian liggen het paleis van de Koning, de Grote Zaal van de Raad van Negen en het gebouw van de Vergadering.
Illian is de aartsvijand van Tyr, en de twee naties kunnen absoluut niet met elkaar overweg, wat goed te merken in het vierde deel van het Rad des Tijds, De Komst van de Schaduw, waarin de Herrezen Draak Rhand Altor proclameert dat de legers van Tyr op mars gingen. Meteen riepen alle hoogheren: "Illian zal vallen" terwijl de mars naar het verder noordelijke Cairhien ging.
De banier van Illian toont negen gouden bijen op een veld van sinopel.
In de boekenserie wordt Illain in het geheim geregeerd door de Verzaker Sammael. Deze wordt echter door Rhand Altor verslagen in de vervloekte stad Shadar Logoth. Illian kroont Rhand daarna tot koning, en vannuit Illian leidt Rhand de strijd tegen de Seanchanen.
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Natural cave matured cheese for 11+ months. Rubbed with olive oil. Extraordinary long flavour notes, sweet, aromatic lacking acidity.
Whole wheel Average weight 2.7kg
Half wheel Average weight 1.35kg
Mahon Curado Cave Matured, is made from unpasteurized milk, the form is made by bagging the curd in a cotton cloth called "fogasser" and suspending it by its four ends. Then it is placed on a table and next procedure is to eliminate the whey and to give cohesion to the mass by manual pressure, tying it with a cord called "lligam". Then, the piece is placed in a press and when removed, a drawing called "mamaella" is embossed on the top part of the piece. This originates from the folds of the cloth and bundle.The piece is then placed in brine and subsequently transfered to airing rooms where it is aired and where the superficial flora development begins. Thereafter it can be transfered to the maturation cellar. Geoclimatic factors: soil characteristics, temperature, humidity, light, etc, together with the human element, the production process and traditional maturing practices, condition in a determinating way the final characteristics, the aroma and taste of Mahón-Menorca cheese.
Control Board<|fim_middle|> determined by a series of procedures that have been handed down from father to son and the correct application of these procedures define and are the source of authentic Mahón-Menorca cheese. Recently, some advisable modifications have been incorporated as a result of technological advances. The maturing process of Mahón-Menorca cheese is carried out in the maturing cellars, where the cheese is subjected to the traditional rind treatment, consisting of a series of turning the forms over and spreading oil and/or pepper over the forms.
Cheese - Mahon Semicurado 3 months | has a Protected Designation of Origin and is made exclusively on the island of Menorca in Spain , according to tradition and rules contained in the regulations of the DOP. A product with "Denominación d'Origen Protegida" D.O.P. wich stands for Protected Guarantee of Origin and Quality, is a product intimately tied to the geographical area in which it is produced. In 1985 it was awarded, definitively, the appellation Mahon cheese and then in the year 1998 , the word was added to the Covered Menorca cheese, which was renamed Mahon-Menorca. Cheese is and has been a flagship product of Menorca. It is made on the island with cow milk curd at low temperature, is salted and cured by immersion according to the custom of the island. Its development responds to ancestral traditions, one of the pillars on which rests a part of history and culinary tradition of livestock and Menorca.
The history of cheese-making on the island goes back a very long time, including prehistory, according to archeological finds of ceramic tools used for its production and dating back to 3,000 B.C. There exists documentation written in the 5th century A.D. that refers to cheese consumption on the Island. There also exist Arabic documents dating back to the year 1,000 that praise the excellence of Menorcan cheese.
The "formatjat" or production process of Mahón-Menorca cheese has remained unchanged for a very long time in all the Menorcan "llocs" (farm-houses) where very old practices have been followed. Overall it is | 338 |
Q: Pandas - Reading Large CSV directly from URL I'm new to python/data science in general, trying to understand why the below isn't working:
import pandas as pd
url = 'https://<|fim_middle|>,000 rows?
df = pd.read_csv(url, nrows=5000)
A: This works for me
with contextlib.closing(urllib.request.urlopen(url=url)) as rd:
for df in pd.read_csv(rd, chunksize=5, index_col=0):
print(df)
while just
pd.read_csv(url, chunksize=5, index_col=0)
crashes with MemoryError.
A: Just get the 5000 rows in the command line with
wget -q -O - https://s3.amazonaws.com/nyc-tlc/trip+data/fhv_tripdata_2017-06.csv | head -n 5000 > tmp.csv
and then proceed with tmp.csv
| s3.amazonaws.com/nyc-tlc/trip+data/fhv_tripdata_2017-06.csv'
trip_df = []
for chunk in pd.read_csv(url, chunksize=1000, nrows=10000):
trip_df.append(chunk)
trip_df = pd.concat(trip_df, axis='rows')
It's returning a MemoryError, but I was under the impression that loading the file in chunks was a workaround for that. I'd prefer not to save the csv to my hard drive, plus I'm not entirely sure if that would help.
My computer's pretty limited, only 4GB of RAM (2.9 usable). I imagine that's a factor here, but if importing the whole file isn't an option, how would I just get part of it, say 5,000 rows?
A: Try this:
reader = pd.read_csv(url, chunksize=1000, nrows=10000)
df = pd.concat([x for x in reader], ignore_index=True)
how would I just get part of it, say 5 | 232 |
"Buran (spacecraft)" redirects here. For other uses, see Buran (spacecraft) (disambiguation).
Space Shuttle Buran (OK-1K1) was the first space shuttle run by Soviet Union. It flew one unmanned flight before being retired and was destroyed in a hangar collapse in 2002.
The Buran was created in 1984. The first flight was a uncrewed orbital flight on November 15, 1988. There was also a plan for second flight of Buran. However, it never took place due to dissolution of Soviet Union. On May 12, 2002, the hangar where was stored the shuttle, was collapsed due to poor maintenance. The collapse not only killed the eight workers, it completely destroyed the shuttle<|fim_middle|> page was last changed on 12 February 2019, at 12:28. | and the rocket.
The Buran was made up of 3 parts. These were the orbiter, the core tank and liquid rocket boosters.
The orbiter was shaped like a large airplane with wings and a tail. This would allow the shuttle to fly and land on a runway. Unlike NASA's Space Shuttle, the Buran had 4 jet engines. Many spacecraft which came before the Buran, like the Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz used parachutes when landing, and landed on the land.
The shuttle would launch out of Earth's gravity and into space by 4 RD-120 rocket engines on the back of the core tank along with help from 4 RD-170 rocket engines attached on the back of the 4 liquid rocket boosters.
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Q: Where should I add that tag? While reading the source of a known popular blog, I found some tags in the head, and I added them to my blog after correcting info in them, So, the description and keywords in that are between and should be here or with the codes beneath or the ones beneath should get up, Here is the code --> Hosted on Pastebin
A: I'm afraid some of your question seems lost in translation to me; however, it seems that you want to know where (in the flow<|fim_middle|> a direct child of the head tag.
Meta tags are used by many automatic indexers to provide more relevant search results by a search engine; however, most major search engines now rely sparingly on meta tag data because they can often be a source of spam.
The pastebin contains unique b tags, which appear to be some sort of pre-processing I am unfamiliar with.
| of a typical HTML document) a meta tag should go.
The answer: meta tags belong anywhere in the head section of the document; that is, between <head> and </head>. They usually go near the top (after the title tag and before CSS information), although that is not a requirement. They should be | 64 |
JBA India Crop Model highlights El Nino correlations
India Crop Model Highlights
El Nino correlations with yield losses
Iain Willis
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Recently we released a JBA India Crop Model which has been in development since 2017. This probabilistic model makes use of innovative techniques to produce 10,000 years of stochastic yields for all major Indian Crops. The model's output can be used by re/insurers to help with pricing and to understand their exposure within the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), also known as the Indian Prime Minister's Crop Insurance Scheme. The model supports a scheme aimed at increasing the financial security of Indian farmers.
As part of the development of this model, we undertook research into climate conditions impacting the growth of Indian crops, the findings of which could help improve future forecasting efforts for the Indian crop market. A key difference in this unique research is that historic ENSO phases were compared to 'simulated' yields, rather than de-trended empirical data.
The model highlighted that low historic crop yields of Groundnut (aka Peanut) and Soybean are significantly correlated with years in which ENSO is in a positive phase; a key factor in these low yields appears to be the effect of El Nino on the summer monsoon and rainfed crops.
While connections between historic crop yield data and El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are nothing new, what makes the findings particularly interesting is the simulated nature of the yields.
All of the yields being analysed were entirely simulated through the use of a Physical Crop Model – a process of essentially recreating past yield estimates through modelling a crop's daily growth based on today's farming practice and reanalysis weather data (something we published an article about in June's Asia Insurance Review). This is particularly interesting for those invested in this market because it hints at a potential predictive ability in Physical Crop Models to forecast future yields based on the ENSO climate signal.
The research focused on analysing correlations between the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies of the ENSO phases, using a 3-month average of the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) 3.4 between 1950-2013. This is the temperature anomaly of an area in the central pacific as shown below (Figure 1: Region 3.4 ONI 3.4 region, ENSO).
Indian crops are primarily grown in the Kharif (summer) season, where they are sown in March/April and then harvested in the Autumn, so their success is heavily linked to the monsoon rains during June, July and August.
For this reason, the methodology focused on comparing the JJA (June-July-August) ONI anomalies to the simulated yields. As you can see below, for the years in which El Nino is active, yield averages for Soybean for the 63-year period of comparison (1950-2013) are lower by 14% on average across all the modelled Indian districts. A similar pattern was noted for Groundnut. It's also worth noting that in some districts, the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) model (which was<|fim_middle|>, and sometimes even cataclysmic failure of, the summer monsoon. For predominantly rainfed crops and those particularly reliant on heavy rainfall such as Soybean and Groundnut, the reduction can have major consequences.
For more information on our new India Crop Model, get in touch or read our India Crop Model Executive Briefing.
Iizumi, T., Luo, J. J., Challinor, A. J., Sakurai, G., Yokozawa, M., Sakuma, H., ... & Yamagata, T. (2014). Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops. Nature communications, 5, 3712.
Krishna Kumar, K., Rupa Kumar, K., Ashrit, R. G., Deshpande, N. R., & Hansen, J. W. (2004). Climate impacts on Indian agriculture. International Journal of climatology, 24(11), 1375-1393.
Selvaraju, R. (2003). Impact of El Niño–southern oscillation on Indian foodgrain production. International Journal of Climatology, 23(2), 187-206. | used to simulate agricultural crop growth) estimated drops of up to 28% during El Nino years.
Figure 2: District Yields in ENSO years (El Nino Years are always below average)
While it can often be difficult to validate comparisons made on simulated data (rather than empirical data), these findings are supported by similar studies into global changes of food production and ENSO.
Research on the Indian Kharif (summer) crops has shown that the production of staple crops (e.g. Rice, Wheat and Peanut) are adversely affected during warm phases of ENSO in India (Selvaraju 2002, Kumar et al 2004). Moreover, more recent studies have highlighted the specific link between ENSO warm phases and reductions of Soybean and Peanut (Iizumi et al 2014) –the same crops noted as having the strongest correlations in this research.
The latter research highlighted how the El Nino phases in India can directly relate to a reduced | 208 |
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Can sports change the world for good?
Kristin Marguerite Doidge July 9, 2019
Advocates believe there's a powerful link between sport, service and spirituality.
"Sport has the power to change the world," the legendary South African activist Nelson Mandela once said. "It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand."
Indeed, The Salvation Army believes so strongly in the power of sport, fitness and play as a uniting force, that it has a dedicated sports ministry desk at its International Headquarters in London, from which hundreds of programs and initiatives are coordinated globally each year.
"As a movement, we have raised the profile of sport as an arena for mission," said Major Keith Pike, International Youth Secretary. "By empowering many Salvationists as they connect their passion for Jesus with their love of sport, we can provide opportunities of ministry, open new doors and develop new relationships."
Among those important relationships are community partnerships and support from donors and volunteers who likewise understand that The Salvation Army can offer the broadest reach and ability to make an<|fim_middle|> by Riddle in 2016 and he became more plugged in to other parts of ministry as well, including volunteering as a bell-ringer at Christmas time.
"We instantly started bonding and became friends," Thor said. "He was a source of support while I went through my trials of assimilation, immigration and divorce. When my family in Iceland failed, he was there to pick me up."
He said at a particularly low point, Riddle even took him in when he was without shelter.
"Finding the church through Eric's Salvation Sports has allowed me to walk the route to develop a direct and personal relationship with Jesus and through him, God," Thor added. "I simply owe him my salvation and the assurance that I'm a servant for a greater purpose."
It is that assurance that keeps Pike and sports ministry leaders around the world committed to bringing sports to communities, building new connections and relationships in the process.
"As people are seeking to serve the need in their communities, in many cases, sport can help address 'the need', whether it be fatherlessness, broken homes, lack of leaders, boredom or community dislocation," he said. "People all over the world are committed to making disciples who can pass on their faith actively and genuinely, and through sport and play there's huge potential. Five billion people love it, play it and watch it. We just need to know how best to share the vision."
That vision is perhaps summed up best by Mandela himself: "Sport can create hope where once there was only despair."
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Visit westernusa.salvationarmy.org to find The Salvation Army nearest you and consider volunteering to coach soccer, flag football, basketball or another sport.
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Learn more about The Salvation Army's network of Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers.
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Never beyond grace | impact—particularly with youth in some of the most vulnerable and underserved areas around the world.
The Salvation Army Bellwood Boys and Girls Club is an example of how effective those partnerships can be in putting that promise to work. It's one of the local clubs that participates in a co-ed flag football league for six- to 14-year-olds on the Westside of Atlanta, one of the city's most impoverished communities.
The Westside league has grown from 40 kids and four teams to more than 450 kids and 55 teams this past year. Many of the participants might not otherwise have the opportunity to play organized sports, and this league gives them the chance to do that at no cost to their families. The uniforms, cleats and flags are provided. Last summer, a new turf football field was installed at the Bellwood Club, made possible by a $250,000 grant courtesy of the NFL Foundation, Atlanta Falcons and The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
But sometimes community partnerships come from what might seem like unlikely sources, such as local police departments, just as play can be made possible in unexpected places—with enough imagination.
"One particular corps that champions and has embraced sports for the local community is Manchester Central Corps," Pike said. "Just under 18 months ago, the corps partnered with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), a Manchester housing association called S4B, which provides workers, and Manchester Young Community Champions, which provides a Youth Support Worker, to create a youth club for the children of the local community."
He said there are more than 90 children who participate, ages 8 to 14. About 30 to 40 attend each week, choosing to ditch the digital and get into the great outdoors.
That's a big deal, because more than a third of teens in England are considered "extreme internet users"—engaging online more than six hours a day—according to the Educational Policy Institute think tank. By way of comparison, more than nine-in-10 U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 say they have access to a smartphone or use social media, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, prompting 65 percent of American parents to worry their kids are spending too much time online.
The Manchester youth club, now known as the Lighthouse Club thanks to a rename by the children who attend, is free of charge and takes place every Monday after school.
"The Lighthouse Club aims to get children into sport, but isn't exclusively sport," said Captain Kay Blues, Corps Officer at Manchester Central Corps in the U.K. "There's an 80:20 split with other activities, including arts and crafts. We have carried out activities like litter picking and planting bulbs—anything that can teach life skills and give the children something else to talk about other than TV and video games."
Blues said the emphasis is on getting the kids outside, active and moving, and to have regular, positive interactions with police officers who attend and participate. Similar programs have cropped up in the U.S., such as a youth basketball program in Durham, North Carolina, which aims to help kids see officers as mentors rather than figures to fear.
The new venture in Manchester has proven to be a success for the corps as well, with many of the children now attending the weekly scout group, families making use of the foodbank, and parents setting up their own group while their children participate in the Lighthouse Club activities.
'It's not just for kids.'
Back here in the United States, Salvation Army Western Territory Healthy Army Director Kara Cline is hopeful that the ministry will only continue to grow thanks to the Healthy Army and Kids Fit Go initiatives available for families and kids, respectively.
"People often think of the Kroc Centers as the focus of our sports and fitness ministry," she said. "But it's just one of the places we do it. It can really be done anywhere."
The network of Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers, started by Joan Kroc in San Diego, California, with a $1.5 billion donation to The Salvation Army, can now be paired with the Kids Fit Go guidebook, which was recently updated and is made available to all Salvation Army locations. Cline said the guidebook has a new mental health component to help provide skills training for resilience in addition to other pillars that focus on nutrition and healthy fitness habits.
"The goal is to help provide the tools the kids will need to handle stress and anxiety," she said.
Of course, it's not just kids who can benefit.
"Whether you are a child, a teenager, an older person, an athlete, a coach, a parent, an official or a professional athlete, you all have a part to play in making disciples for Christ in sport and play," Pike added.
Eric Riddle, a lifelong athlete, took that notion to heart when he developed the Salvation Sports League in Southern California.
It was fall 2013 when Riddle experienced what he calls a "divine intervention" that led him to a chance meeting with Major Darren Norton, the former corps officer at The Salvation Army Pasadena Tabernacle Corps in Pasadena, California, and who now serves in San Francisco.
What started as a one-day-per-week indoor futsal league with five teams has grown to 40 teams with more than 250 people from Pasadena and the surrounding areas participating five days a week.
The best part? Players of all ages can sign up for 10-week sessions at a time. Games last for 40-minutes each and are played at The Salvation Army facilities in Pasadena and Glendale.
A lifetime commitment to sport and fitness is something Riddle is most passionate about sharing.
"I started soccer when I was five years old," he said. "The joy that it's given me eventually turned into running my own soccer (futsal) league for adults and youth on both sides. Teaching kids the game that I love and grew up with is so special. You get a great workout and also that community is there as well."
It's not an overstatement to say the community created by Riddle's weekly games was life-changing for Robert Thor. Originally from Iceland, Thor was encouraged to start playing futsal with the league | 1,286 |
*This article originally appeared in St. Joseph's Children's Hospital's magazine, Starting Out Healthy.
Fathers play a different role than mothers, but it's just as important.
The bond between mother and child is one of the most important connections humans can make.<|fim_middle|> father's presence — or absence — in his children's lives can have lifelong effects. Fortunately, today's culture encourages men to go beyond traditional roles and become involved, caring supporters of their children.
Fathers help their children develop intellectually and socially through physical play. Mothers are more likely to talk and teach.
Children whose fathers take part in their lives are more likely to have higher college entrance exam scores, greater educational success and better economic status.
Teens who feel close to their fathers — even if the fathers don't live with them — are far less likely to smoke.
Having a father who exercises is the single biggest factor in whether or not teens are physically active, according to another study.
A healthy, involved father can help ease the impact on children if their mother suffers from depression or other mental health issues, research shows.
Model healthy habits. Exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet and don't smoke. Actively encourage children to follow a healthy lifestyle. Play physical games with them, offer healthy foods, and limit TV and video-game time.
Support children's schooling. Know who your children's teachers are and attend parent-teacher conferences. Volunteer for school activities. Talk with your children about what's going on at school.
Be a positive parent. Establish clear limits so that children know your expectations. Encourage children to share their feelings, and listen attentively. Help them set achievable goals, and celebrate their accomplishments.
Have fun. Play games, go places, read together, tell jokes and share plenty of affection. | But the bond between father and child is just as vital.
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Konstantin Grcic's Vitra Allstar chair furnishes Dezeen's east London office
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A single loop simultaneously performs the function of the arm and backrest on Konstantin Grcic's Allstar chair for Vitra, which features in the Dezeen offices in Hoxton.
The Allstar chair, which was chosen by architect Pernilla Ohrstedt for Dezeen's new canalside office in east London, was designed to be used both in the home and the workplace.
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"The chair was designed to provide office workers with a relaxed home feel and sense of familiarity," said Vitra. "Allstar is emblematic and appealing as it seems this chair has always existed, which inspires a feeling of trust and security allowing today's fast-paced office to slow down."
In the Dezeen office, the all-black Allstar chairs sit around square black tables custom-designed by Ohrstedt.
The tables' metal legs are offset from the edge to shift each person's workspace off-centre, allowing views across the office and space to move around the back of chairs.
Ohrstedt was also behind Vitra's presentation at this year's Orgatec trade fair, which took over an entire hall with products by 12 brands and small tech startups.
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Home is a sacred place. How might you bless yours?
There's no place like home. It's vital to our sense of security and self-understanding.
Alice Camille
There's<|fim_middle|>. What features of a home need consecrating, and how might you bless yours? The main doorway deserves a blessing, considering all the comings and goings it keeps vigil over. Windows reveal the world outside, yet at the same time they limit our perspective. Bless them for their reminder of the seen and unseen. The rooms we use to seek our rest, the kitchen from which meals emerge, the home office or study corner where we labor: What might we say to acknowledge these holy sites? Perhaps each family member might present an object that has meaning for them for special blessing. And don't forget to bless the table where we gather together for food and sharing, nourishing body and soul.
This article also appears in the January 2022 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 87, No. 1, pages 47-49). Click here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Did Jesus have brothers and sisters? | no place like home, Dorothy repeats like a mantra. She clicks the heels of her magic shoes until she opens her eyes to find herself in the land of her dreams once more. Who knew it would turn out to be Kansas? Dorothy's wild adolescent heart had sent her roving through new worlds and on astonishing adventures. She'd met a gracious spirit, a talking tree, a bogus wizard, and a deadly foe. She even made three unforgettable friends. But in the end Dorothy discovers that home is where her heart most longs to be. Familiar faces are the ones she'd been seeking all along.
Home has this kind of magnetic authority over us. While some of us are glad to travel far and wide, homecoming is always welcome: back to our own beds, clean clothes, and established routines. We return to the place where our net of relationships will catch us. We come home to where our possessions are, those knickknacks and keepsakes that remind us what life has been about so far. When we come home, in a way, we return to ourselves.
Because home is so vital to our sense of security and self-understanding, the church recommends a ritual of home blessing every year on the feast of Epiphany. In the little town where I grew up, our pastor would come to each parishioner's house and mark in chalk the front door lintel with the date of the new year, connected with and encased by crosses. Gradually the markings would wear away, but in the meantime we were reminded that all our comings and goings were blessed. Something was expected of us when we exited into the world beyond that door. And something else was expected when we resumed our lives together under that roof.
Home is a sacred place, not just a space to store our stuff. Home reveals something about us. It doesn't matter whether we're homeowners, apartment dwellers, or RV park denizens. Carl Jung viewed the living space as a model of the mind. Is yours organized or cluttered, spare or burdened, clean or carelessly kept? Does the space you inhabit function, or is it a mess of abandoned tasks and lost items?
What we keep around us are containers of meaning, according to Edwin Heathcote, an architectural commentator who has made a livelihood decoding the messages inherent in our environments. It's not just the diaries, photographs, and bookshelves that record our journeys. Everything in our personal space announces where we've been and what we've deemed worth preserving.
The home is a vessel of our history. In the writings of Cicero, it even functions as a "memory palace" that can serve as an infinite mental storage unit. The bond between our home and our brain is so acute that we can memorize huge amounts of data by mentally storing it in different rooms of an interior so-called memory palace modeled on actual rooms we've inhabited. Science documents that the reason we so frequently forget what we were looking for when we pass from room to room in our homes is the very act of passing through a doorway. Each threshold literally moves us into a different mental space—and alas, whatever drove us there falls away until we (sometimes literally) retrace our steps and remember what we came for.
Where we live and who we become are intimately connected. Consider the violence it does to the elderly when they're removed from their homes and possessions and placed in some anonymous new space. The three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time are combined in a unique way in the rooms that encompass us. That's not something that easily transplants. While I've moved many times to different parts of the country, I have rituals of return that I practice in each new space that becomes home for me. For example, when I was young and my belongings were few, I would unpack them all at once and put them in as near a proximation to the old positions as possible. I wouldn't go to bed the first night until all my old pictures were nailed to the new walls.
What features of a home need consecrating, and how might you bless yours?
That's no longer possible, since I can no longer fit everything I own into three suitcases and the back of a car. But I still recreate spaces that worked well in the past to encourage finding necessary items expediently. Jung is onto something when he calls the house an externalization of the self. It explains why some of us spend our lives seeking the dream house and why successful horror movies capitalize on the haunted house. It's why some swear by feng shui, designing a building or organizing a room to create the most beneficial flow of energy and traffic. We want our spaces to succeed in their purpose because we want our time in these places to be peaceful, productive, and safe.
The ancients were convinced that evil spirits were always attempting to infiltrate their homes. This way of thinking is reflected in the parable Jesus tells about a man with a demon in his house, which leaves only to return with seven more: the last condition being worse than the first. To avoid this fate, homes were designed with doorways facing the rising sun. This encouraged the first rays of light to banish creatures of darkness. Raised doorsills were invented as a means to trip up demons. Even today, the threshold of our homes remains a place of encounter and decision. Do we open the door to that unknown fellow with the clipboard or not? Are we home to the neighbor who promises to stay for a minute and is still talking our ear off an hour later? If you watch vampire movies, you probably know the undead can't enter the dwelling of the living unless invited in. But once in, they can't be shut out no matter what. The threshold is still a place for us to choose cautiously, whether it's Aunt Mildred or someone you used to date on the other side of the peephole.
Rituals of entry remain with us too. The doorbell rings and so begins a series of greetings or refusals, handshakes or hugs. We enter a church and dip our fingers into the holy water font for a blessing. From the watchtower, the sentinel asks, "Who goes there?" and you better have an acceptable answer or your life is at stake. Threshold denotes territory, and territory defines belonging. Our country is currently reexamining the way our national boundaries function. Do we need to lower our threshold of entry or raise it?
This brings us back to the significance of home and the rituals we need to bless and sustain it | 1,333 |
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Armenia National Football Team & Most Exciting Armenia Football Games
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Armenia national football team represents the Republic of Armenia in UEFA confederation. It's controlled by Football Federation of Armenia. Here, find some information on its members and the most exciting Armenia football games ever!
The story of Armenia soccer team started in 1973, when Armenia was a member of Soviet Union. But don't make a snap assumption!
That's not the date the Armenian national football team was established, as you may think!
This was when the Armenian team "Ararat" won the final match and became the champion of USSR!
So, if you are a football fan, find out more about the most memorable Armenia football games of Armenia national football team and discover the names of football players of Armenian descent in famous FCs worldwide! Maybe they are your favorites!
Armenia Soccer Team: The Squad (As of 2016)
Armenia Soccer Team Member #1: Marcos Pizzelli
<|fim_middle|> "negative" record in team history. So, the team had nothing else to do, but show a spectacular game and win.
Armenia-El Salvador
This was just the beginning! Another friendly was at their nose. The opponent was El Salvador. At that time Armenian national football team was the 110th in FIFA ranking. Thus, El Salvador was the 97th. Armenians defeated the opponents by a score of 4:0.
Armenia-Montenegro
Armenia came from behind to beat Montenegro in the framework of the fourth round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers. The Armenia national football team beat Montenegro with the score 3-2 in the match, which took place in Yerevan's Republican Stadium.
The score was opened by midfielder of Macedonian Vardar, Damir Kojašević, in the 36th minute. In the 38th minute, the guests scored the second goal.
At the outset of the second half, Alashkert midfielder Artak Grigoryan reduced the difference in score. After the goal, the Armenian squad defended quite skillfully and counter-attacked effectively.
Artur Sarkisov, who came off the bench, added sharpness to the attack. In the 74th minute, Varazdat Aroyan leveled the score-line after a corner kick (2-2). During the stoppage time, Gevorg Kazaryan scored the last goal and the Armenian national football team won the game.
Several days later The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) issued its new World Ranking. So, imagine the excitement of national squad when learning about the place they occupy within the ranking!
Accordingly, the Armenia national football team have "climbed" 38 spots and are now ranked 87th in the new FIFA standings. This is actually a record-breaking high for the team and an incentive to strive for better results!
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September 14, 2016 Armenia Football / Soccer Introduction with some Teams of Armenia Armenia football is one of the most popular sports in the country. Many Armenian soccer teams and footballers have achieved great success throughout the world. Armenians take part in all […] Posted in Armenian | Marcos Pizzelli is a Brazilian born Armenian football player who is midfielder in Emirati FC Al-Fujairah and the Armenian national football team. Within the national team he netted 9 goals. By the way, he speaks perfect Armenian!
Armenia Soccer Team Member #2: Yura Movsisyan
Though Yura Movsisyan is no longer in Armenian National team, but until March 2016 was one of the best players, who merits respect for his contribution to Armenia national team's reputation.
He was one of the most prolific strikers in the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, who scored 4 goals and assisted in 5 others. Nowadays, he plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.
Armenia Soccer Team Member #3: Artur Sarkisov
Arthur Sarkisov is an Armenian football player. He currently plays as a forward for FC Moldova Saransk and the Armenian national football team. His first goal for the national squad he had in his third game with Slovakia on 6th of September. By the way Armenia won away with a crushing 4-0 victory.
For the 2010 Russian Second Division season, Sarkisov was named the best forward of the West zone and became the division leading scorer, scoring 21 goals.
Armenia Soccer Team Member #4: Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Henrikh Mkhitaryan is the capitan of the Armenian national football team. He is one of the top players and scored 19 goals in 61 international matches since his debut in January 2007, including first hat-trick.
Mkhitaryan has been chosen Armenian Footballer of the Year five times In 2012, Mkhitaryan was named in UEFA's Top 100 players by UEFA European Football Yearbook 2012–13.
Now Heno (as Armenian fans call him) is Red! He is a member of England's Manchester United and made his debut in a 2-0 victory against Wigan Athletic.
Armenia National Football Team: Memorable Matches
The Armenian national football team has established relations with FIFA since establishment. Beginning from May 2012, Armenia switched to all-red home uniform and all-white away kit produced by Adidas. The new age of the history of Armenian football started in 1992, when Armenian national football team played its first Armenia football games against Moldova.
The meeting ended in goalless draw. However, through 24 years there were moments when fans of national team witnessed breathtaking, one of the best Armenia football games!
Armenia-Slovakia
In 2010, Armenian national football team beat Slovakia with 3-1 score in Yerevan. However, the Slovakians would never predict another defeat a year later by such a dramatic outcome. The outcome was Yura Movsisyan, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Gevorg Ghazaryan and Arthur Sarkisov, scoring to send Armenian side in sight of a top-two finish in a supremely competitive section.
The match took place in Zilina, Slovakia. In the first half Slovakia shaded the action, when the captain of the team Marek Hamšík was denied three times by Roman Berezovsky. Armenia had mastered little in response before half-time, but turned up the heat ominously after the interval.
However, Movsisyan's angled effort opened the scoring on 57 minutes. Filip Hološko almost struck back on the break, before Mkhitaryan's shot from 18 meters just silenced the home supporters once more 20 minutes after the main time.
With the hosts pushing on, Mkhitaryan broke, laying on a third goal for Ghazaryan, and while Slovakia battled on gamely, peppering Berezovsky's goal with shots, Sarkisov scored Armenia's fourth goal into an empty net in added time. Score was 4:0 in favor of Armenia. In other words, Slovakia was laid waste to by sparkly Armenian national football team at home!
Armenia-Guatemala
One of the most memorable Armenia football games won by national squad took place in Los Angeles, USA on May 28 in 2016. It was a friendly game against Guatemala.
Usually there is nothing special to say about friendlies, but the Armenian national football team recorded the victory with the largest score in the history of the national football. The Armenian team beat the opponents by a score of 7:1.
This was a real achievement, because until this game, however, Armenia had not won in fourteen consecutive matches and set somehow a | 971 |
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Last weekend, local and national acts tore it up at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest.
As usual, this year's Fest features a huge range of music, from the melancholy guitar of Bon Iver to the West African rhythms of Seguenon Kone and L'Ivoire Spectacle. Festivalgo<|fim_middle|>Sip Your Way Through The Bloody Mary Festival!
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Kicking off seven days of music on Friday were local acts Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet, singer Sasha Masakowski, and many more, with the reincarnated Beach Boys bringing good vibrations to end the night on the Acura Stage.
Under Saturday's blazing sun, brass bands, jazz combos and local rock acts lit up the Fest from 11:15 till after dark. High-energy performances by Khris Royal & Dark Matter, the Storyville Stompers, the Soul Rebels, and Cee Lo Green paved a dancing path to the day's ending acts, while the enigmatic Feist entranced evening crowds at the Gentilly stage. Across the racetrack, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers broke some hearts and thrilled fans of all ages.
You'd think things might relax a bit on Sunday, but enthusiastic ticketholders crammed in by the tens of thousands to see Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band close out the weekend. Earlier in the day, the fest's 12 stages featured Iron & Wine and local favorites Dr. John, Trombone Shorty and Pete Fountain, as well as Cowboy Mouth and other homegrown acts. Though Springsteen's show was well-attended, some listeners left to see snappy, spirited Janelle Monae, to hear legendary crooner Al Green, or both.
The second weekend of Jazz Fest's 43rd year promises more magnificent music--we're looking forward to the Stooges Brass Band, Florence + the Machine, Galactic, Theresa Andersson, the Eagles, and so many more!
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The New York State Fair New York State Fair is over and we successfully delivered 30 calves in the 12 days of the State Fair. (Actually only 29, as one was born the afternoon before the Fair opened during the ribbon cutting ceremony – but that's Mother Nature.) The Dairy Cattle Birthing Center<|fim_middle|> next year! | , organized and hosted by the New York Animal Agriculture Coalition (NYAAC), in cooperation with Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine was a true labor of love for not only this organization but the nearly hundreds of volunteers that gave their time and talents to make this first-time exhibit a resounding success.
Yes – we calved 30 cows over the course of twelve days of the State Fair – all with no major issues. The information and graphics created added tremendous curb-appeal and fodder for conversation. But the interest and conversations that took place with consumers on all topics related to dairy farming stole the show.
Fairgoers came in droves to not only see a calf be born, but to sit (sometimes for hours) and hear farmer, veterinarian, student and industry volunteers talk about our dairy farms. We estimate roughly 60,000 people came through the Dairy Cow Birthing Center, spending at a minimum of 20-30 minutes there.
The exhibit's theme was "There's no udder place for the answer. Ask a farmer." And boy did they! Fairgoers asked hundreds of questions, including why we dock tails, why we separate the calf from the cow, why farms are so big these days, among other legitimate topics. Those issues were all personally addressed, and in every instance, resulted in a better understanding of modern dairy farms and the practices and procedures we follow.
As a result of everyone's time, resources, expertise and passion, we as New York's dairy industry, were successful in communicating with consumers that dairy farmers today are good family-oriented people who care for their animals, their land and their local communities, as well as the product we produce.
If you visited the exhibit or volunteered at the Dairy Cow Birthing Center – Thank you! We certainly couldn't have accomplished any of this without your support. We hope to see you again at the State Fair | 386 |
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Rules of Play (Updated 9/26/17)
All games will be played under National High School Federation rules except for the following:
Rosters:
All teams are required to carry with them at all times a copy of their official roster, a copy of each player's birth certificates and a copy of their insurance. At their first game they<|fim_middle|> result in both teams having to forfeit their games at the tournament director's discretion.
The Tournament director has the final say on all rules and rules can be changed up and until the start of the first game played.
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Created By Domain Dzine | are to show the insurance certificate to the umpire. In the event of a player's age challenge each team must show the player's birth certificate or valid State-issued ID with birth information. If player is found to be to ineligible the player will be removed from tournament, the head coach will be ejected from the remainder of the tournament. There will be NO FORFEITS because of an ineligible player. A sub may replace the ineligible player if one is available, otherwise an automatic out will take place in the same manner as an injured player.
A player may appear on ONLY one roster at a time. Any player found to be participating with more than one team shall result in the second team's disqualification, and suspension of the player for the remainder of the tournament.
Lineups:
All teams have the option of the following lineups:
Teams may bat 9 batters
Teams may bat 10 batters. An (EH) may be used in the batting lineup. If you start with an (EH) you must finish with an (EH), or take an out at that at-bat.\
Teams may bat entire roster. In this case if a player is unable to bat for any reason an out is declared for that player each time he is unable to take his turn at bat.
For 9u and 10u only, when batting their entire lineup, if a player is unable to bat at any time solely due to on field injury, then no out will be call but the player is no longer eligible to play in the rest of game offensively or defensively.
Each team must announce their options when exchanging line ups with other team at pregame conference with umpires.
Reentry Rule:
Teams may substitute for defensive positions (except pitcher) as many times as they wish, as long as the batting order remains the same. A player does not have to play the field in order to bat. Conversely, a player does not have to bat to play the field. Once a player has been placed in a slot of the batting order, the player may only bat in that slot.
Time Limit:
9U-12U games will be 6 innings and no new inning will start after 1 hour and 50 minutes.
13U-14U games will be 7 innings and no new inning will start after 2 hour.
A new inning begins when the last out of the previous inning is made. The tournament directors have right to put in drop dead times if games begin to run behind on any day.
Games call before a full inning is complete because of weather, darkness, or other pertinent matters will revert back to the previous inning for the score. If the game has not reached official game status by reverting back to the previous inning, the coaches will mark their books and the game will be considered a complete game. A game is considered to have reached official status at the completion of 4 innings (3 ½ if home team is leading). Games ending in ties due to darkness, time or weather after 4 innings will remain as ties.
No time limits for championship games only, but mercy rules still apply.
Home/Visitor:
Home team will be determined by coin flip in all pool round/robin play games. Higher seed will have choice for all games on Sunday.
Intentional delays:
The umpire and tournament directors reserve the right to eject any player, coach or fan for intentionally delaying a game. A forfeit may be enforced at the tournament director's discretion.
Protest:
No protest!! Judgment calls are final. A coach may politely ask the umpire who made the call to clarify a rules interpretation. The umpires on the field will make a final decision on the field.
Tiebreak rules will apply to determine all seeding after round robin play.
Tiebreak rules will apply for division winners, wild card winners and seeding for playoffs.
Tiebreakers are as followed in this order:
Win Loss Record
Head to Head record (if only 2 teams are tied)
Least amount of total runs allowed
Lowest single game runs allowed
2nd lowest single game runs allowed
Coin flip
Scorebooks:
The home team will be the official scorebook. The visiting team is encouraged to maintain a book also.
Mercy Rule:
9U-12U 15 runs after 3 inning (2 ½ if home team is ahead). 10 runs after 4 innings (3 ½ if home team is ahead).
13U – 14U 15 runs after 4 inning (3 ½ if home team is ahead). 10 runs after 5 innings (4 ½ if home team is ahead).
Once a pitcher is removed from the mound they may not return to pitch in the same game.
Each team is allowed 1 balk warning per game for 11U through 12U.
No Balk warnings for 13U through 14U
One pitch constitutes a full inning pitched for all pitchers.
Coaches should use sound judgment in determining who is allowed to pitch each game.
Bats:
There are no weight or size restrictions for 9U through 13U.
14 & under ONLY Bats must conform to BBCOR standards set forth in the 2012 NFHS Rule Book.
No artificial or intentional means shall be used to control the temperature of the bat. Heating bats is strictly prohibited. If a coach, parent or player is found to have altered the temperature of a bat the HEAD coach will be immediately ejected for the remainder of the tournament. The bat will be removed for the rest of the tournament. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Courtesy Runners:
A courtesy runner for the pitcher and catcher is allowed at any time. The runner must be a player not in the game or was last out. The same courtesy runner cannot run for the pitcher and catcher in the same inning.
Ejections:
Coaches and fans ejected from a game must exit the park immediately and not return for the rest of that game plus their next scheduled game. Players may stay with their respective teams but may not participate in rest of that game plus the next scheduled game provided they display a sportsmanlike manner for the duration of the game.
Dugouts:
Teams that are hosting game sites for the tournament have first priority when choosing their dugouts for all games in the tournament at their host site. Dugouts are on a first come first serve bases for Friday and Saturday after that. If an agreement cannot be made then teams should flip a coin to determine who has first choice. On Sunday the higher seed shall pick their dugout unless the other team is hosting a game site at their home field. Exception: A team that played previous game shall have the right to stay in dugout regardless of seeding or hosting home game sites for tournament.
Pregame Infield:
There will be absolutely NO infield warm-ups before any scheduled game. Please allow the field crews to work on the fields between games if they choose to.
Start of game:
All teams are expected to be at fields ready to play ½ hour prior to game time. Please be prepared to start games early if field, umpires and teams are ready to play. Teams must have 9 players to start game NO exceptions. Teams may finish with 8 players (out taken for vacant spot in lineup).
Reporting scores: Winning coach must text Game# and score to 410-449-0336 immediately at the completion of the game. Failure to follow these procedures could | 1,535 |
Allies in Community
Abdullah Oduro
In a world full of good, bad and ugly, how does one focus on the good and keep the other two at bay? For local religious leader and volunteer, Abdullah Oduro, the answer was revealed through a devotion to God.
Born in Arlington to Ghanaian immigrants and raised in Houston, Oduro was in his early 20s studying surgical technology at community college when he found himself questioning the true purpose of life. He turned to some of his friends, as well as his mother, an Evangelical minister, for guidance. Eventually, he found his calling by embracing Islam.
"It increased my consciousness and my self-awareness," he said. "It was really more about the devotion to God and how that is actualized in our lives."
Soon after, Oduro was given the opportunity to take the Hajj, or the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which was<|fim_middle|>, where he met his wife.
Four children, a journey back across the ocean, and a stint teaching at the Arabic Institute in Dallas later, Oduro is now the Imam for the Islamic Center of Coppell and a three-year resident. Unsurprisingly, his spiritual journey and leadership has coincided with serving others from feeding the homeless to mentoring teens at the Center. He's also helping others navigate the good, the bad, and the ugly of life through KnewU, a non-profit he started in 2010 for new converts who have also found solace in Islam like he did years ago.
However, a primary goal in Oduro's life of serving God and others is to build bridges in the community. Being of a faith that is often misunderstood can present many social and familial challenges, he said, but a focus on interfaith activities and participation in the City of Coppell's Allies in Community program has helped him make positive progress.
The Allies in Community initiative brings people from all backgrounds and cultures together to build relationships, foster a sense of belonging and inclusiveness, and promote civic engagement through hands-on workshops. The activities of the first cohort, which was made up of volunteers and city employees, wrapped up in May with plans to assemble and launch a new cohort this fall.
"It's been a very positive experience," Oduro said. "It was nice to see the people of Coppell be open and involved in the community. There wasn't any, dare I say, bigoted apprehension. Everyone came there because they want to learn about each other."
Workshops included sharing meals of different cultural backgrounds, asking members of the community to mark their birthplace on a world map at the City's Kaleidoscope festival, and taking another Ally to a place they've never been to learn something new. Oduro described the program as a way to meet your neighbors, but magnified, on purpose, and one that goes beyond the small talk to show that despite differences, we all want a strong, engaged community.
"It is a catalyst," he said. "I anticipate that it will resonate with the Coppell community, but that it will also spread to other communities."
Do you want to be an Ally? Check out coppelltx.gov/allies for the latest information.
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If someone came to visit you today and asked what the purpose of your life really is, how would you answer it? Would you point to something such as your work and answer the question in light of that? Would you start to list someone, or a group of someone's in an effort to answer the question? Do you have an answer to the question? Having an answer is critical for anyone who hopes to live a full and successful life; one that makes an impact.
When you read about the topic of purpose there is no shortage of advice and multi-step programs on how to discover it. In fact, when you google finding purpose, there are more than 890 MILLION results! The topic is a relevant one because it has such impact on how we live our lives. 1Patrick Hill, an assistance professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University in St. Louis said that, "purposeful individuals tend to be less reactive to stressors and more engaged, generally, in their daily lives, which can promote cognitive and physical health." Purposeful people keep their minds and their bodies engaged which has been directly linked to living longer.
How each of us answers the question of purpose is more critical than ever because we live in a fast-paced, demanding world that is more than happy to define purpose for you. We are bombarded with images and messages that encourage us to define purpose by our achievements, or the achievements of those around us. Advertisements, magazine articles, and social media often<|fim_middle|>, so you may just have the time!!
1 The Washington Post, September 24, 2017, Want to Stay Strong as You Age article. | highlight the best-of-the-best of life and then challenge each of us to go for it; dedicate your life to the pursuit of happiness. One of the challenges with that line of thinking is that life does not always feel happy and the achievement of things rarely satisfies our inherent desire for more. A defined purpose helps to clear out the noise and allows you to focus on what really matters – to you. Ultimately, purpose will provide a crystal-clear view of how YOU define success.
So, what's your purpose? When you look at the collection of activities on your calendar, the ways in which you spend your money, and who you spend the majority of your time with, what does it say about your purpose? Are you busy doing a lot of things, but not sure if they are really adding up to something? If so, then take time to consider your purpose. Decide to put in the work of thinking about it, writing it down, refining it a bit, and finally boldly sharing it with those closest to you. It's hard work, but don't forget, living with purpose will help you live longer | 223 |
The 8 Best Options Trading Platforms of 2020
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Options trading is a somewhat high-risk area of the investment world where you can pay for the option to buy or sell a specific security at a set price on a future date. Based on fluctuations in market prices for those securities, the value of options rises and falls until their maturity date.
If you want to trade options, you'll need an account with a brokerage that supports options. Each platform is unique and has its own pros and cons, so it is best to understand what you want in an options account and platform before you get started. Follow along to learn more about the best options trading platforms and which may be best suited for your options trading needs.
Best Overall: TD Ameritrade
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TD Ameritrade takes the top spot in this ranking thanks to a combination of reasonable pricing, excellent beginner resources, and a top-of-the-line trading platform that works well for experts and professional traders. No matter where you are in your options trading journey, TD Ameritrade has something for everyone.
Trades at TD Ameritrade cost $6.95 per trade plus $0.75 cents per contract. There<|fim_middle|> the market. Before making their final recommendations, they considered 14 different platforms overall and read over 65 user reviews (both positive and negative). All of this research adds up to recommendations you can trust.
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The 8 Best Roth IRAs of 2020 | is no account minimum. The site offers a current promotion where you get 60 days of commission-free equity, ETF, and options trades with a deposit of $3,000 or more. You get additional bonuses with larger opening deposits.
Beginners have a wide range of resources that are great for options and other investing and trading strategies. For expert traders, the Think or Swim platform gives you Wall Street quality at a Main Street price.
Best for No Commission: Robinhood
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You can't get cheaper than free. While some professional traders are not happy with how trades are handled and processed at Robinhood, it is an excellent platform for beginners to get started with less risk. With no trading fee, you can buy and sell options without risking anything more than your initial investment.
Robinhood is a web-first platform and it doesn't offer much when it comes to education and research tools. But if you read a book on options and want to try your hand as a hobbyist, Robinhood can certainly handle your needs.
Robinhood also offers commission-free stock trades, ETFs, a limited number of cryptocurrencies, and a limited number of ADRs (American Depository Receipts — a type of stock listing in the US for a foreign company). Because it is mobile first, it offers great real-time notifications for investments and trades on the platform.
Best for Experts: TradeStation
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TradeStation started as a software company for traders, and even though it has grown over time, it has held true to its initial trading principles. If you want professional data and high-speed trade execution on an expert-level platform, TradeStation is a great choice.
TradeStation charges $5 per trade plus $0.50 cents per contract. However, it also offers unbundled and per-contract pricing. Professional and high-volume traders may do better with the flat rate cost of $1 per contract instead of the base + per contract fee most brokerages charge.
While it doesn't offer as much for beginner traders and new traders, you could host a family office or business portfolio on TradeStation with no problems. In fact, its tools are so good it sells many of them for a fee to professional investors with accounts at other brokers. With an active account at TradeStation, you get those tools for free. Just beware the minimum $2,000 balance or five trades per year to avoid a $95 annual account fee.
Best for New Traders: Charles Schwab
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Charles Schwab delivers an all around great experience with excellent customer service. Once you open a new account, trades are $.95 each plus $0.65 cents per contract. First-time clients get 500 commission-free trades for two years when you deposit $100,000 or more in a new account.
Schwab offers above-average research and education offerings. It also gives you a very good platform for trading on desktop, web, and mobile. Even outside of options, it is one of the best overall brokerages for a wide range of investing and trading needs.
With the large library of educational and research content, you can enter the high-speed options trading world with your eyes wide open to the risks and opportunities. That said, the competitive costs and quality trading platforms make it a worthy consideration for even the most experienced traders. Accounts require a $1,000 minimum to access options trading.
Best for Low Costs and No Minimums: Ally Invest
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Ally Invest is another low-cost brokerage best known for its cousin Ally Bank. Like the bank, Ally Invest offers an easy-to-understand and low-fee brokerage lineup. Trades are $4.95 each plus $0.65 cents per contract. There is no account minimum. With a current promotion, you can get up to $3,500 bonus cash depending on the size of your deposit.
You can start with a low investment to learn more about Ally without worrying about big minimum balances or fees. But even some more experienced traders will be happy with the low costs and a wide range of services geared toward option traders.
Highlights include a powerful trading platform and valuable charts, data, and analytics to help you build your options trading strategy. In the world of discount brokerages, you can't always take the value of a broker from its trading fees. At Ally, that's certainly the case.
Best Per-Trade Fees: Interactive Brokers
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If you are an active trader who prefers making frequent, small trades, Interactive Brokers may be the best fit. There is no pre-trade fee and options commissions are $0.70 cents per contract. High volume traders can qualify for lower pricing down to $0.15 cents per contract with 100,000+ contracts per month. This brokerage also offers pricing that is attractive to active stock and ETF traders. Different pricing applies to non-US options.
This brokerage is not good for passive investors with few trades per year or a large balance. The account requires a hefty $100,000 minimum balance or $10 in commissions per month to avoid an activity fee. The activity fee is the difference between your trading commissions and $10 per month to total a $10 minimum monthly charge. The account charges a higher $20 minimum if you don't keep at least $2,000 in equities in the account.
If you do have the appetite for at least $10 in trades per month and/or can satisfy that $100,000 minimum, Interactive Brokers has excellent trading platforms. These tools include a natural language bot that will place orders based on your instructions and a professional-grade desktop platform.
Best Tiered Pricing: Lightspeed
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Lightspeed is a brokerage with a focus on active and experienced traders. Lightspeed charges $0 per trade and $0.60 cents per contract with a $1 minimum per trade. Tiered pricing starts at 500+ contracts per month. Depending on your volume, discounted rates range from $0.20 cents at 100,000+ contracts per month to $0.50 cents at 500 to 2,000 contracts per month.
Lightspeed offers professional-grade trading platforms. The options platform is known as Livevol X and offers integrated order execution, analysis, customized layouts, historical data analytics, and other useful features. Like competing platforms, you can manage most common account needs right in the desktop, web, or mobile-based platform.
This brokerage is not as beginner friendly as others on our list, so you should look elsewhere if you are brand-new to options trading. But if you are experienced and want expert tools, you can find everything to whet your appetite at Lightspeed. With low pricing for high-volume options traders, you might find it the right home for your options brokerage needs.
Best for Growing Your Skills: ETrade
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ETrade is the oldest online brokerage, and it has a long history of supporting both beginner and expert-level traders. Through its dedicated OptionsHouse platform, you can find a wide range of data and research tools. Those include tools to build advanced options chains and trading ladders.
While it is a discount brokerage, commissions are not the lowest on the list. Trades cost $6.95 plus $0.75 cents per contract. However, some discounts apply for high volume traders. Equity and index options drop to $4.95 per trade and $0.50 cents per contract with 30 or more trades per quarter.
With a new account that brings in a balance of $10,000 or more, you'll get up to $600 in free trades and 60 days of commission-free trades. That's a pretty good deal to get you started. With ETrade and others, always consider how trade fees cut into your profits over time.
Our writers spent 6 hours researching the most popular options trading platforms on | 1,659 |
Carrier Makes its Debut on Carbon Clean200 List
Carrier is pleased to announce its debut on the annual "Clean200" list compiled by the Corporate Knights and As You Sow, recognizing Carrier's important work leading the way to a sustainable clean-energy future. Carrier prides itself on putting sustainability at the heart of our products, services, business models and investments.
This year's Clean<|fim_middle|> August 15, 2016, by Corporate Knights and As You Sow. The current list has been updated with data through January 31, 2022.
Corporate Awards and Recognition Corporate Responsibility | 200 companies rose to the top of a pool of 8,480 global firms that earn more than $1 billion a year, based on rigorous assessment of the amount of revenue each company earns from products and services aligned with the Corporate Knights Clean Economy Taxonomy – while also ensuring high ethical business standards company-wide.
"We are committed to making the world safer and more sustainable for generations to come, and it is rewarding to see Carrier recognized for these efforts," said Jennifer Anderson, Chief Sustainability Officer, Carrier. "To be among the top 50 of the Clean200 signals strong progress against our ambitious 2030 ESG goals, including helping to reduce our customers' carbon footprints by more than one gigaton and achieving carbon neutrality in our own operations by 2030."
The Clean200 are the largest 200 public companies ranked by green energy revenues. The ranking was first calculated on July 1, 2016, and publicly released on | 205 |
La dritsita és un mineral de la classe dels halurs que pertany al supergrup de la hidrotalcita. Rep el nom en honor del cristal·lògraf i mineralogista rus Victor Anatol`evich Drits (Виктор Анатольевич Дриц) (nascut el 1932) de l'Institut Geològic de l'Acadèmia de Ciències de Rússia, a Moscou (Rússia).
Característiques
La dritsita és un clorur de fórmula qu<|fim_middle|>emplar que va servir per a determinar l'espècie, el que es coneix com a material tipus, es troba conservat a les col·leccions del Museu Mineralògic Fersmann, de l'Acadèmia de Ciències de Rússia, a Moscou (Rússia), amb el número de registre: 5380/1.
Formació i jaciments
Va ser descoberta a l'àrea de Romanovskiy, al dipòsit de potassi de Verkhnekamskoe, a la localitat de Solikamsk (Territori de Perm, Rússia), on es troba en forma de cristalls hexagonals lamel·lars o tabulars de fins a 0,25 mm de diàmetre. Es tracta de l'únic indret a tot el planeta on ha estat descrita aquesta espècie mineral.
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Minerals descoberts al Territori de Perm | ímica Li₂Al₄(OH)₁₂Cl₂·3H₂O. Va ser aprovada com a espècie vàlida per l'Associació Mineralògica Internacional l'any 2019. Cristal·litza en el sistema hexagonal. La seva duresa a l'escala de Mohs és 2.
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So what do I mean by 'creating opportunity for growth'?
• Turn off autopilot and make learning, refining and changing, a priority.
• Learn to forgive (your<|fim_middle|> gifts and talents to the world.
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• Accept that life is going to ebb and flow with greatness and difficulty. And that the 'ebb' (the tough parts) can have a greater impact on our growth than the flow.
• Practice courage and bravery, even when it feels uncomfortable, by taking what feels like a risk.
• Acknowledge and accept your strengths, uniqueness and weakness.
• Live your life authentically as your unique self, in order to share your voice, | 100 |
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Professor Novoselov collaborates with artist to create an art video highlighting graphene's unique qualities
The Manchester-based Nobel laureate Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov has taken part in creating a video animation art project shedding light on graphene's unique qualities and potential. Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov worked with artist Mary Griffiths to create Prospect Planes – a video artwork resulting from months of scientific and artistic research and experimentation using graphene.
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Nobel laureate receives £4 million grant for 2D materials research | be unveiled as part of The Hexagon Experiment series of events at the Great Exhibition of the North 2018, Newcastle, on August 17. The six-part Hexagon Experiment series was inspired by the the Friday evening sessions that led to the isolation of graphene at The University of Manchester by Novoselov and Sir Andre Geim.
Providing a fascinating insight into scientific research into graphene, Prospect Planes began with a graphite drawing by Griffiths, symbolizing the chemical element carbon:
• This was replicated in graphene by Sir Kostya Novoselov, creating a microscopic 2D graphene version of Griffiths' drawing just one atom thick and invisible to the naked eye.
• Griffiths and Novoselov used Raman spectroscopy to record a molecular fingerprint of the graphene image, using that fingerprint to map a digital visual representation of graphene's unique qualities.
• Prominent features within the topographic digital image produced using Raman spectroscopy were mapped by Griffiths to create an animated image which shifts between two and three dimensions, helping to raise awareness of the qualities which make graphene a transformational material.
Griffiths, who is also senior curator at The Whitworth art gallery, The University of Manchester, previously worked alongside Novoselov to produce other artworks relating to the graphene story. She said: "Having previously worked alongside Kostya on other projects, I was aware of his passion for art. This has been a tremendously exciting and rewarding project, which will help people to better understand the unique qualities of graphene, while bringing Manchester's passion for collaboration and creativity across the arts, industry and science to life".
"In many ways, the story of the scientific research which led to the creation of Prospect Planes is as exciting as the artwork itself. By taking my pencil drawing and patterning it in 2D with a single layer of graphene atoms, then creating an animated digital work of art from the graphene data, we hope to provoke further conversations about the nature of the first 2D material and the potential benefits and purposes of graphene."
Sir Kostya Novoselov said: "In this particular collaboration with Mary, we merged two existing concepts to develop a new platform, which can result in multiple art projects. I really hope that we will continue working together to develop this platform even further."
The Hexagon Experiment series of events will be taking place just a few months before the official launch of the £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, part of a major investment in 2D materials infrastructure across Manchester, cementing its reputation as Graphene City.
Prospect Planes was commissioned by Brighter Sound. The Hexagon Experiment is part of Both Sides Now – a three-year initiative to support, inspire and showcase women in music across the North of England, supported through Arts Council England's Ambition for Excellence fund.
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Soul Asylum & the Honeydogs @ OLL Blast! Mound, Minnesota 5.2.09
<|fim_middle|> Adam Levy who charmed the (presumably conservative) audience with a few deliberate "support your troops" cheers:
Levy: (after informing us that his once-teenage son had intended to enlist) "By the way, my son never went to Iraq. He discovered mushrooms instead."
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
I think you know you've "made it," or in Soul Asylum's case, "made it, lost it, and re-made it," when you have a man whose sole responsibility is to hand you your guitar (or in Soul Asylum's case, physically position the guitar in your arms). Dave Pirner has (re)made it. Another testament to your lasting fame is the number of women available to carry your child (at least one; she knocked me in the head while frantically waving her arms in what I determined to be code for "please infiltrate me with your love tool"). Dave Pirner still has it. Regardless of the holy location, Soul Asylum rocked the Devil's music in a hard way, pulling out all the stops; never have I seen middle-aged men attempt—and almost succeed at—sweaty, dated stage acrobatics like Pirner's hip gyrations (still sexy) and Dan Murphy's awkward guitar slide. At one point I turned to my friend and said "I feel as though I'm having a childhood experience that I never actually had" (this was likely during "Misery"). And yes, I know what you're wondering: they still play "Runaway Train." In fact, despite years of heavy substance intake, Pirner's voice sounded pretty good. He looked pretty good too; moving about in a youthful manner, as I mentioned earlier, as well as telling some jokes, smiling, acting gracious and friendly…it seems that the bratty rock star grew up.
The band played a full set plus encore, where Kraig Johnson, formerly of the Jayhawks, joined in for a few crowd-pleasing covers ("My Generation," "Should I Stay or Should I Go"). Johnson made a hasty exit after some trashy bitch threw a plastic beer cup at him (don't worry, Tommy Stinson was ready with a hug**) and the show concluded with Pirner inviting his roadies onstage to play a few notes and later to pack up the instruments.
I have no idea if Soul Asylum are touring. Their website hasn't been updated since 2008, but feel free to dream. The Honeydogs are a bit more prolific, with local shows later this summer (go HERE or HERE for more information).
UPDATE: Soul Asylum has a handful of upcoming shows, as per their Myspace.
* Dave Pirner had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in "Reality Bites"
** Stinson (The Replacements) joins the band on bass and Michael Bland (Prince) replaces former drummer Karl Mueller, who passed away in 2005.
05/04/2009 20:52:02 ♥ lara ( ♥ soulasylum.com ♥ myspace.com/soulasylumofficial
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Minnesota (05/02/09) ♥ photo by Kate
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Soul Asylum - Misery
Remember when rock bands had long hair and wore flannel for comfort, not irony, and remember when they'd stumble around doing crazy things like PLAYING GUITARS WITH BEER BOTTLES and SPRINTING FROM ONE END OF THE STAGE TO THE OTHER? Fuck the 80s revival, the 90s was obviously a superior decade. Allow me to list the evidence: fashion-stagnant icons ("grunge"), Winona Ryder's snatch (been there, done that), glorified nasal tones, and, most importantly, a general dismissal of happiness in favor of talking about doing important things while doing nothing (see "Reality Bites" for reference).
On Saturday, Our Lady of the Lake Church hosted The Greatest Band Ever…to Come out of Minnesota between the Years of 1992 and 1995. That's right, mofos, I'm talking about Soul Asylum. This band not only fulfills every 90s era requisite, as listed above*, but as a bonus singer Dave Pirner still appears to be living in the 90s, as confirmed by his torn jeans and Aquaman t-shirt. It was—and I'm being completely sincere—an amazing night.
The Honeydogs at OLL Blast!, Mound, Minnesota (05/02/09) ♥ photo by Kate
The show opened with another local favorite, the Honeydogs, who brought horns for the occasion. Like many bands of a certain age and ilk, the Honeydogs are best heard live. As a studio group, their music is straightforward mature rock with an unusual lyrical edge over similar acts (early song themes include race relations and cultural alienation). Fussy twenty-somethings may not appreciate the band's tame anthemic style or the crowd draw of mostly L.L Bean-clad professionals, to which I say "fair enough, but how many mid-90s bands can lure hundreds of fans to Mound, Minnesota (population 9,435, birthplace of Kevin Sorbo) and pull off a slim jean designed for men half their ages?" (The answer is: at least two.) I should also mention that the quote of the night goes to | 560 |
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Jazzrausch Bigband
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Format: Vinyl (also available as CD )
Cat No.: ACTLP 9923-1
German Release: 26/03/2021
"Jazzrausch Bigband is making jazz sexy again" (Bayerischer Rundfunk). And Downbeat has singled out not just the band's "high-voltage performances" and "party atmosphere", but also the amount of experimentation going on. With their dazzling confidence, genuine authenticity and communicative panache, the members of Jazzrausch Bigband have created a musical world which is as close to jazz and its origins as it is to the electronic music of the future.
Featuring Nesrine, Jelena Kuljić, Viktoria Tolstoy, Nils Landgren, Wolfgang Haffner, David Helbock, Kalle Kalima und Jakob Manz.
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"Jazzrausch Bigband is making jazz sexy again" (Bayerischer Rundfunk). Downbeat has singled out not just the band's "high-voltage performances" and "party atmosphere", but also the amount of experimentation going on. The ensemble's ingenious mix of techno and big band jazz has proved to be just as accessible to people listening to the band from the comfort of their seats in a concert hall as it has to those sweating it out on the dance floor. Since 2015 Jazzrausch Bigband has been in residence at Harry Klein in Munich, a club renowned for its house and techno acts as well as for its stunning live visuals; this cooperation between a techno club and a big band is truly unique in the world. From its base at the club, the pioneering ensemble has defined a completely new genre, "techno jazz". The band's music is getting noticed on the other...
Jelena Kuljić, Nesrine, Viktoria Tolstoy, Wolfgang Haffner, David Helbock's Random/Control, Kalle Kalima, Nils Landgren & Jakob Manz
directed and produced by Roman Sladek
Executive Producer: Siggi Loch
Recorded by Josy Friebel at Harry Klein, Munich in July, August, and September 2020
Mixed by Roman Sladek & Umberto Echo
Mastered by Klaus Scheuermann
Lacquer Disc Cutting by Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios Berlin
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2 AI 101 ( Leonhard Kuhn) 03:25
3 Make Craft Perform ( Leonhard Kuhn) 02:58
4 Green Sun ( Theresa Zaremba) 05:50
5 Der Literat ( Leonhard Kuhn) 06:01
6 Hurricane Ride ( Andreas Unterreiner / Antonia Dering) 04:49
7 What It Is ( Leonhard Kuhn) 04:40
8 Decadence ( Andreas Unterreiner / Antonia Dering) 04:43
9 Shuffling Steps ( Leonhard Kuhn) 04:15
10 Green Sun Return ( Theresa Zaremba) 04:11
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Pots can be covert instruments for carrying messages. Objects that over time, through intimate actions with the human body, slowly reveal surprises and meanings that are contained within. They are a subtle way of<|fim_middle|> creating a conceptual fence that allows me to move in a certain restricted area. I am not viewing restriction or limitations as something pejorative, but as a way to allow myself to move and make decisions. | communicating that need not be obviously aggressive or confrontational in order to have presence and importance. Patience, curiosity, and a willingness to play are all required to reveal the surprises that pots for use can contain. Pottery runs parallel with life but never can equal it. It can contain sustenance, hold, provide, and offer it, but cannot breathe in the same way. Pots for use are dependant on imbedded memories, as well as the substances they hold or present in order to gain importance.
The familiarity of pottery is a very useful tool when I engineer my work. Everyone knows and uses dishes on a daily basis. They are comfortable and readily accepted into the home for an intimate touch, which is consequently often overlooked or dismissed as a result of this familiarity. It is an acquired atrophy of the senses. When does a motion of the hand become like breathing? I question how much of the familiar pottery vocabulary needs to remain in order to maintain these types of relationships.
I am interested in making objects that require subtle, playful interactions. Consider the tiny multi-part flower vases. The water- to – flower ratio of these containers is restricted, resulting in an object that demands daily attention and touch in order for the flowers to survive. These vases are contraptions that evoke the function of toys, with multiple parts making subtle noise; preordered puzzles. I see them as objects that need attention and care from an outside force. They are not part of a still life in the background or something completely stagnant. They ask to be considered and noticed; in fact they depend on it. The interactive object works hand- in- hand with life, becoming a quiet machine that initiates movement invented by the maker, and required of the user.
The intensity of engineering a pot for specific use is an interesting challenge. The field of operation in specific pottery is drastically narrower than that of generalized pottery. A certain amount of compression exists in this smaller window of working. I look to find breath within a tight, enclosed space. Measurement, calculation, calibration, and proportion all need to be accounted for; as well as the consideration of form, color, and all the characteristics of the substance for which the pot is being engineered. I feel much more comfortable working within this restricted, self-imposed enclosure. A reduced window of operation allows a smaller set of working rules. If the problem set before me was "make a bowl," my mind feels overwhelmed and stunted. The possibilities are infinite. What kind of bowl, what shape, what size, what weight, color, patterning; it would go on and on. Assigning what will go in the bowl is like | 538 |
A fine quality English steel firegrate in the Adam style. The tapering cylindrical legs surmounted by engraved panel and elegant<|fim_middle|> shelf.
An 18th century French Louis XV limestone fireplace. The unusually shaped frieze carved with foliage and scrolls to centre and elegant panels to ends, the stop-fluted jambs surmounted by shaped panels. Shaped, moulded shelf.
A very fine quality period Regency Statuary marble fireplace. The jambs with columns with stiff acanthus leaves to base surmounted by tapering flutes and matching acanthus to top. The frieze with classical Anthemion motif, scrollwork and paterae throughout. The shelf with sausage-and-pea moulding and acanthus leaf moulding. English, circa 1810.
A heavily carved English timber fireplace. The jambs with inlaid panel of carved fruit and flowers surmounted by carved brackets with cartouche, flower and scrolls. The frieze with basket of flowers to centre flanked by scrolled leaf work. The shelf with egg and tongue moulding with acanthus leaves. English, 19th century.
A large pair of brass firedogs. The bases of four clawed feet, the uprights with swags of fruit and stiff acanthus leaf detailing, surmounted by flamed finial tops. English, circa 1900.
A quality copy of an 18th century Irish brass register grate. The frame with fine quality engraving throughout, the fretwork delicately pierced with urns and foliage. Brass finials and corner paterae, steel front bars. N.B. May be subject to an extended lead time, please enquire for more information.
A quality George III style steel register grate. The frame with finely engraved scrolled leaf and rosette detailing. The centre panel with engraved swags and scrollwork with cut patera to centre. The pierced running fret with beaded moulding. Steel front bars and oval pateras to front panels with urn finials above. A fine quality copy of a period original. Please note this fireplace is designed to fit inside a 40 x 40 fireplace. However it can be adapted to fit into larger openings. N.B. May be subject to an extended lead time, please enquire for more information.
A 19th century Gothic revival firebasket. The cast iron panelled legs with shaped feet below and tapering finial above. The front bars with decorative fret below and fleur-de-lys finial above. Decorative cast iron backplate behind.
A mid 19th century bronze casting of classical boy and girl. The girl holding a sheaf of wheat, the base decorated with foliage. Titled "Deux Enfants" and signed on base by the artist August Moreau, a famous 19th century Parisian sculptor.
A pair of polished brass firedogs. The shaped shafts surmounted by cast tops and gadrooned finials. The scrolled feet in polished wrought iron. 19th century. | gadrooned finials. The bowl shaped burning area flanked by oval adornments with engraved cascading ribbons above and engraved fret with beading below. Late 18th or early 19th century.
A large polished wrought iron Arts and Crafts firegrate. The flat front with rounded burning area behind, and scrolled feet below. Suitable for a large burning area – would accept large logs. English, early 20th century.
A pair of polished steel firedogs. The scrolled feet surmounted by straight shaft and flat finial to top. English, 19th century.
An exceptionally carved late Regency Statuary marble fireplace. The arched frieze with carved cartouche to centre flanked by scrolled foliage and particularly beautiful carved leafwork The jambs with carved, tapering columns with cascading foliage. The shelf with breakfronted bed moulding. A fine and rare piece, with beautiful quality Statuary marble. English, circa 1830.
A well proportioned English Georgian fireplace. The fluted frieze with centre block of reclining Venus and winged Cupid, the side blockings with Cupid playing musical instrument. The jambs with curved fluted pilasters. Moulded shelf. The ingrounds inlaid with a yellow/green marble (possibly Breche Benou). Late 18th or early 19th century.
A good quality 19th century French Louis XV Carrara fireplace. The panelled frieze with heavily carved leafwork and foliage throughout. The scrolled jambs with shell, delicately carved flowers and stiff acanthus leaf below. Shaped | 341 |
Sports Car Digest· June 10, 2009
Russo and Steele announced the consignment of Greenwood Corvette, chassis 002, for their 9th annual Sports & Muscle at the Marriott, to be held August 13th-15th at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Monterey.
The Greenwood Corvette, chassis no.002, was developed by Corvette specialist John Greenwood to battle the best from Europe and beyond. With its cross-ram, Kinsler fuel injected all-aluminum 700hp big blocks, the Greenwood Corvette was tough to beat on the faster race tracks.
In 1974 the Greenwood Corvette was first seen in competition at the IMSA Road Atlanta, where it was aptly named, "Batmobile." Driven by John Greenwood and Mike Brockman, it qualified second and led in the opening laps before leaving after 17 laps. It saw success later in the season, with Milt Minter winning at Talladega and John Greenwood lapping the entire field at the Daytona series finale, averaging a very strong 115.659mph in the process.
In 1975 Greenwood's Corvette finished 4th in the first IMSA round in Road Atlanta, then later defended the title at the Daytona Finale race, setting another record at 116.775mph for the 65 laps.
C.J. Baker spoke about John Greenwood and his Corvette in Hot Rod magazine, saying, "Of course it's true that John is on a first-name basis with many of the engineers at Chevrolet Division and that he has spent well over $125,000 developing his car, but still all of that is<|fim_middle|> esses onto the long straight was unbelievable. It sounded stronger than the prototypes running at the same time. It's good to see this car(and John's work)get the respect that their history requires.
Montague says:
"You can't beat cubic inches." | virtually insignificant when compared to the factory effort and expenditure the foreign companies have invested in their super-lightweight racers. And yet, when the checkered flag falls, there's John Greenwood in the 2,800lb Corvette streaking across the finish line ahead of the 2,000lb wondercars from across the pond."
For more information, visit www.russoandsteele.com.
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I saw John Greenwood run this car at Watkins Glen at the 6hr. The pictures don't come close to showing the sheer audacity that this car expressed. To hear it blasting up the | 170 |
Home Reading Radicalization
When Does Terrorism Work?
Diego Muro (Ed.). Routledge, 2019, 179 pages.
in Reading Radicalization
Manuel R. Torres-Soriano
The title of this book sets out one of the fundamental questions in Terrorism Studies. As with other key issues in the social sciences, there are several possible answers—sometimes contradictory—and each of them is full of nuances. Diego Muro, professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, has published an excellent academic work that attempts to shed some light on a complex debate that has profound consequences in the prevention and fight against terrorist violence.
The book details the different theoretical perspectives on the effectiveness of terrorism, which can be grouped schematically into two large groups: Those who think that terrorism works, and those who do not.
Those who argue that terrorism works<|fim_middle|> questions can be solved with simple and categorical statements, and throughout its pages the reader will be able to assess the various different ideas prevailing about one of the key issues of our time.
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The Black Banners Declassified: How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 | point to the mere persistence of terrorism over time as being in itself the definitive proof that it is a useful strategy. No actor would continue to resort to a methodology destined to fail, so the argument goes. Indeed, datasets on terrorist activity across the world indicate that the use of terrorism to further a political cause has increased in the last fifty years.
By contrast, the second group—which tends to rely on empirical studies—argues that if we pay attention to how many of these groups have achieved their ultimate goals, we will find that only a small percentage of all terrorist groups that have existed throughout history can be considered successful. Therefore, although terrorism can occasionally achieve tactical successes, it is an option that is mostly associated with political failure. Large-scale insurgency and even non-violent civil resistance are held to have a greater success rate than terrorism by such scholars.
One of the most fascinating aspects of this debate is that the forceful ideas behind both positions can be equally convincing, which is a reminder of the importance of details. In this book we find a solid policy of decisively defining the concepts we use to interpret reality. For example, our conclusions about the usefulness of terrorism can radically change, depending on how we define terms such as "effectiveness" and "success".
Political violence is both messy and multifaceted and it is not always possible to code the reality in black-and-white terms. Our results can also be altered according to how we define the objectives that different terrorist groups seek to achieve. It is not enough just to differentiate between tactical and strategic objectives, but other categories that give meaning to the behaviour of these individuals are essential: goals of the individual vs. those of the organisation, the leader vs. rank-and-file, etc.
This edited volume evaluates the pros and cons of choosing terrorist violence to gain policy concessions from both a theoretical perspective and a case study approach. With this objective in mind, this book has brought together an outstanding group of researchers who address some of the main theoretical aspects of this debate, as well as relevant case studies: Algeria, France, El Salvador, Spain, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Western Sahara.
The book culminates with a valuable chapter of conclusions that synthesises the main ideas of the work. Overall, the book suggests that the partial solution to this debate lies in the perspective of the terrorist. The practitioners of violence believe that the benefits outweigh the costs and estimate this tactic to be superior to the other available alternatives. This subjective perspective helps us to understand why terrorism is so attractive to actors interested in popularizing a grievance, communicating with relevant audiences, and provoking a counterreaction from their opponents that furthers their narratives, which is how terrorism can be used as an instrument to help organisations survive.
The intention of this work is to make a relevant contribution to a theoretical debate that is far from being closed. One of its most valuable contributions is to concisely point to the obstacles that have prevented agreement. According to Professor Muro: "The lack of agreement is partly due to a series of obstacles of a methodological nature: 1) the definition of terrorism 2) the measurement of effectiveness; and 3) the representativeness of the samples used".
This book rightly reminds us that the majority of terrorism studies suffer from some sort of selection bias.
One example of selection bias is studies using terrorist groups about which there is abundant empirical evidence—notably the Irish Republican Army (IRA), ETA (the Basque separatists), Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State (ISIS)—and thus these groups are over-represented in the academic literature. This risks exaggerating their relevance and extrapolating to generalizations from the results of a few familiar cases that have hardly any similarities to other groups under consideration.
Ethnocentrism is another selection bias issue that profoundly affects research on terrorist violence. Beyond cultural biases, scholars tend to pay more attention to cases close to home due to language issues and ease of access to data. This problem affects even the most quantitative research, which is usually based on databases that tend to over-represent incidents in advanced democracies and underreport attacks in other parts of the planet because they mostly rely on reported incidents by the Western media. This problem is reinforced by the incentives for academic research. Academics generally focus on active terrorist groups, and have paid much less attention to those that are disbanded or otherwise inactive, possibly as a way of demonstrating the policy relevance of their work.
Although the book does not deal monographically with jihadist terrorism, it is clear that its conclusions help us to reflect on how this threat is being analysed. The lack of concreteness about key concepts has led to the coexistence of totally contrasting views about whether groups such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda are succeeding. Ethnocentrism has meant that the criterion we use to measure the strength and danger of these organisations is the number and magnitude of the attacks taking place in the West, which misreads what these organizations are actually trying to do and neglects most of the areas where they actually operate.
Our way of understanding the discourse and priorities of these organizations has been further distorted by idiomatic factors. The most obvious example is the over-attention received by Dabiq/Rumiyah, ISIS's English-language magazine. While this propaganda publication has been dissected from every possible angle in dozens of academic articles, the same cannot be said of the group's Arabic output, which is not only the bulk of the communicative activity of this organisation but also the most important source for interpreting this actor.
In short, When Does Terrorism Work? is not only a valuable contribution to academic literature. It is to be recommended to any interested reader. The book does not pretend that complex | 1,147 |
REST DAY, except for<|fim_middle|> get a chance. | walking to Starbucks from church (and back). It was pretty funny when a bunch of the young adults went in there and completely took over a full quarter of the place. Good times :). But the Starbucks barista was real happy to see that our group is growing… since he sees the young adult group there all the time.
Also, there was a post-retreat counselor-and-volunteer-appreciation dinner at Contra Costa United Methodist Church. We had Korean BBQ!
OMG. I had so much pork and bibim naengmyun, it was awesome! I ate about two plates of what is shown above.
There was also a lot of dessert-eating and fruit consumption. These people just GET ME.
That's Michael, me and Juni. If you look closely, you can see why people would think we're all siblings. I kind of miss retreat :P, but at the same time, it's great to have come out as changed peoples and to go make a difference in our campuses or workplaces!
One of the challenging messages from retreat was shown through a super cute video <—click here. It's like less than two minutes long.
I hope your week is full of many blessings!
I'll try to update you with the yummy meals, any gym sessions, and pool hangouts if I | 266 |
What is a Best Practice Network?
What is the GBPN's legal<|fim_middle|> also contain the CO2related emissions from a growth of 1.11 Gt to a growth of 0.44 Gt.
What is the GHG Mitigation Potential of the Buildings in the USA?
More than 1.2 Gt CO2 by 2030 & around 1.8 Gt CO2 by 2050 can be saved compared to today's carbon emissions.
What is the GHG Mitigation Potential of the Buildings in the EU?
Among all regions, the EU is the one that can achieve the greatest reduction in thermal energy use (65%) and CO2 emissions (66%) by 2050 compared to 2005 levels despite an increase in floor area (by 27%), population and economic activity. Just under 1 Gt CO2 by 2030 and more than 1.3 Gt CO2 by 2050 can be saved compared to today's carbon emissions. | status?
The GBPN is a non-for-profit organisation registered as an "association" under French law, advancing knowledge and expertise on building energy efficiency and performance.
The GBPN was established by the ClimateWorks Foundation in 2011.
The GBPN is the ClimateWorks' Best Practice Network for the building sector.
What are the GBPN Regional Hubs? What is their role?
The GBPN Regional Hubs, either housed at an existing organisation or operating as an independent institution, officially represent the GBPN Network in their region.
There are currently four regions in which hubs are active: the United States, Europe, China, and India.
Our Regional Hubs and Partners provide the most up-to-date knowledge and data on building energy policies to decision-makers and other key stakeholders within their region, while documenting best practices, lessons learned and monitoring progress with the Global Centre. Coordinated by the Global Centre, we develop strategically aligned work programs designed to ensure the building sector has the intelligence required to play its significant role in tackling climate change.
Ambition in terms of achieving the GHG abatement potential of the building sector in its core regions (cf. Our Vision).
Independence: the GBPN is a neutral and politically independent organisation conducting cross-cutting analysis for various building sector decision-makers. Its independence facilitates unbiased interactions with its stakeholders and builds its credibility as a source for objective and rigorous research (cf. What we do).
Collaboration: the GBPN and its Regional Hubs are mutually dependent on each other for the success of their policies. Collaboration is the key to decision-making.
Learning: the GBPN is a learning network which evaluates its successes and failures by using various indicators such as GHG intensity and emission reductions (cf. Our Network).
Leadership: the GBPN is a collaboration between the world's leading building energy policy-related organisations and experts, which strives to be a leader in terms of reducing GHG emissions in the building sector (cf. What we do).
Culture/local context: although climate change is a global issue, the GBPN believes that the solutions for reducing building energy use are fundamentally local. Therefore, its work must be relevant and tailored to the cultures and contexts where it occurs (cf. What we do).
Creativity: the GBPN's scope of work is as much creative and imaginative as it is methodical and analytical.
Wellbeing: the GBPN strives for contributing to the planet's economic and social wellbeing by engaging the building sector to apply its Deep Path (cf. Our Vision).
What Policies are most cost-efficient and effective in reducing CO2 emissions related to building energy use? What is the 'Deep Path' Strategy?
Increased rate of deep renovation of existing buildings.
Compliance with mandatory performance requirements.
The Global program will conduct cross-cutting research on status and state of the art in each of these themes and share best-practices between the regions. We will amplify the impact of the research program beyond our focus regions by facilitating knowledge exchange and leveraging impact and spill over by partnering with multi-lateral and other key global initiatives.
What is the GHG Mitigation Potential of Buildings Globally?
At Least 2.1Gt CO2 by 2030 & 3.2Gt CO2 by 2050 from reducing energy demand for providing thermal comfort in buildings.
What is the GHG Mitigation Potential of the Buildings in China?
Without carrying out specific energy efficiency measures, China will face a growth of almost 160% in buildings' energy use by 2050. If current policy trends are followed up to 2050, the projected growth of CO2 emissions in China will increase to 1.6 Gt however, if a "deep" scenario is implemented this can be reduced by half to 0.84 Gt by 2050. This means that despite the expected growth seen by the Chinese building sector, implementing the Deep Path strategy would enable its buildings' energy demand and associated GHG emissions, to be maintained almost at today's levels.
What is the GHG Mitigation Potential of the Buildings in India?
If today's policy trends are followed, India's building thermal energy demand will grow by almost 700% by 2050 compared to 2005 levels and the associated CO2 emissions are likely to increase tenfold (1.1 Gt). It is therefore critical to implement the "Deep Path" strategy. Even with the very ambitious "deep" strategy, India's building thermal energy use is expected to grow by 130% by 2050. The "deep" scenario would | 944 |
Luton Table Tennis Club Makes History as Club Founder Elroy Edwards is Entering Five Teams in Local League
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By Usman Mohammed | Club News / No Comments
Luton Table Tennis Club (LTTC) has marked an unprecedented step in the history of Luton & District Table Tennis League as they are set to enter a grand total of five teams in the upcoming 2017/2018 season. Further still, the club will inject new life into the local league by entering the talented youths of Luton, with the intention of providing a platform to cultivate their talents for the future.
From humble beginnings, LTTC began as a one man initiative under the leadership of Elroy 'Fox' Edwards in February 2016, who intended the club to be one of the beacons of table tennis training providers in Luton and the surrounding counties. However, the growing player base in the club insisted on representing LTTC in the local league, leading to the dawn of the five LTTC teams.
"My intention was to create a premier club which provides a platform for table tennis training to all members of the local community, irrespective of age, gender or otherwise," stated Elroy Edwards. "Now that the club has really taken off, it is time to focus on developing the youths of the club, with the ambition of cultivating our very own Junior and Senior British League teams".
If you require further information, please contact Elroy Edwards on mobile: 0796027 | 280 |
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A: Assume the continuity of the map $(t,x)\mapsto T_t(x)$. Since $V_2$ is an open set of $\mathbb{R}^d$, then $T^{-1}(V_2)$ is an open set of $I\times \mathbb{R}^d$ ($I=[0,\tau)$), which contains $\{0\}\times V_2$ since $T_0(x)=x$ for all $x\in V_2$. From now on, choose an arbitrary $y\in V_2$.
Since the set $I\times\mathbb{R}^d$ is endowed with the product topology, there are open sets $J\subset I$ and $V_1\in\mathbb{R}^d$ such that $0\in J,y\in V_1$ and $J\times V_1\subset T^{-1}(V_2)$. You can restrict $J$ to an interval of the form $[0,\delta)$, thus getting the $\delta$ and $V_1$ you were looking for.
| open set $V_1⊆U$ with $T_t(V_1)⊆V_2$ for $t$ sufficiently small? Let $d\in\mathbb N$, $U\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ be open, $\tau>0$, $T_t$ be a $C^1$-diffeomorphism from $U$ onto $U$ for $t\in[0,\tau)$ with $T_0=\operatorname{id}_U$.
Let $V_2\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ be open with $V_2\subseteq U$. Can we show that there is an open $V_1\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ and a $\delta>0$ with $$T_t(V_1)\subseteq V_2\;\;\;\text{for all }t\in[0,\delta)?\tag1$$
We clearly need to assume some kind of regularity (continuity) of $$[0,\tau)\times U\ni(t,x)\mapsto T_t(x)\tag2.$$ Under a suitable assumption, the claim should hold | 238 |
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Mr Bogoevski, originally from Australia, has been based in AllianceBernstein's London office since 2004, overseeing institutional client relations and marketing investment management services in the UK and Ireland.
Chief executive of AllianceBernstein Australia Jen Driscoll is 'delighted' Mr Bogoevski is returning to the Australian team.
"He brings great depth of experience and a successful track record at AllianceBernstein and elsewhere," she said.
Having worked in the UK and Europe, Mr Bogoevski looks forward to bringing back insights gleaned from the northern hemisphere.
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Narrator: As the youth sport landscape has grown significantly over the past decades, so have the conflicts that our youngest athletes face, both on and off the field of play.
Travis Tygart, CEO, United States Anti-Doping Agency: We're so focused on just being the winner at a young age, that it's literally driving kids out of sport.
Narrator: And what once provided joy and growth, has been overtaken by unrelenting pressure and overly high stakes, all at the costs of children's physical and emotional wellbeing.
Roberta Kraus, President, Center for Sport Psychology: The downside is they're already into depression, into anxiety, low self-esteem.
John Kessel, International Volleyball Federation Level IV/Course Instructor: We've lost that ability and that chance to just randomly play in sport.
Narrator: At TrueSport, we are changing the culture of youth sport.
Rick Swan, Colorado College, Volleyball Head Coach and Director of Camps & Clinics: Kids need that opportunity to learn about how to be good teammates, eat properly, build leadership skills, and the TrueSport program just helps them learn about so many different things. It encompasses the whole realm of being an athlete and playing sports.
Narrator: TrueSport teaches coaches, parents, and athletes how to return to a positive youth sport experience by focusing on character building, sportsmanship, and clean and healthy performance.
Trevor Tierney, President and co-founder of LXTX Lacrosse, Three-Time Major League Lacrosse All-Star: If coaches and parents support that middle ground where competition is a great learning tool, but it's not the end all, be all, then there's kind of that sweet spot there where the kids can really thrive.
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Goal-Setting Lesson Video Transcript
Hi. I'm Trevon, Trey, Jennifer. Team USA wheelchair basketball player, paralympian, and true sport athlete. Today, I want to talk to you about goal setting. And there are three things that I would like you to know. First, successful athletes set goals and a planned roadmap. Second, goals should be written down, assessed over time, and changed if necessary. And third, goals need to be challenging in order to be worthwhile. As a freshmen at Edinboro University, I was a part of a team that made the national championship game. And at that time I recognized I was the low man on the totem pole, but I felt in my heart that I knew my dreams were so much bigger than winning a national title. I wanted to make Team USA. I knew what achieving my lofty goal was not going to be easy and that I would need to work hard every day.
So, as a reminder, I created a pyramid of goals that I kept right above my bed. This pyramid reminded me of the accomplishments that I was working towards and visually represented my need to create a solid foundation underneath me before reaching the top. In the bottom roll of my pyramid of goals I listed goals such as obtaining my bachelor's degree, becoming a scholar athlete award recipient, and becoming an All-American. The middle row listed winning a national title and playing for a professional team. And at the top row, the most challenging of them all, I listed becoming a gold medalist for Team USA.
By understanding that there are smaller stepping stones to achieving my ultimate goal of being on Team USA, I was able to stay motivated and to stay focused on completing the smaller stepping stones fully before moving onto the next one. Now I'll be the first to admit that not every goal that I listed on my pyramid was accomplished, but seeing my goals every day when I went to bed, I was able to push through the days that I felt like doing nothing in hopes of achieving the bigger picture. Remember, create a clear goal roadmap, assess your goals often, and continue to challenge yourself. I hope that you never stopped dreaming big or reaching for the stars. And I look forward to seeing where your roadmap takes you.
Body Image Lesson Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Kara Winger, Olympic javelin thrower, and true sport athlete. Today I want to talk to you about body image and I have three things I'd like you to know. First, healthy thoughts often lead to healthier bodies. Second, there are varying body types and no one's body is exactly like another. And third, true beauty goes deeper than the skin. As a multi-time Olympian, I've experienced a lot of variation and progression in my training. My coaches and I adapt to my training frequently, all with the goal of supporting my long-term success and health in the sport of javelin. I'm talking to you about body image today because sometimes even with the best of intentions and a common goal in mind, the changes you make to your training habits can prove to be detrimental if made for the wrong reasons. In the lead up to the 2012 Olympic trials, I was told in order to improve my performance on the field, I should try to become a leaner, skinnier version of myself.
So I changed my diet. I went along with what I was being told to do, even though I'd had great success at a slightly heavier weight and higher body fat percentage, and became much leaner than ever before. It seemed like a successful change at first, but I didn't have nearly the results I'd had before. And I believe becoming leaner than my body naturally wanted to be was what caused my ACL to tear. In the end, it cost me heavily going into the 2012 London games. The takeaway for me, and hopefully for you, is that it's important to know what works for you and your body and to not compare yourself to others. You should do your research and experiment with your diet to find what makes you feel the best, rather than focusing on what you look like. Today, if I feel like having a chocolate chip cookie, I have one, just not every day.
I've learned what a properly balanced meal for my body looks like and I recognize food as the fuel that keeps me throwing. I hydrate and allow myself time to recover. And I listen to and communicate with my body so that I can be the best version of myself. In the end, you are in control of how you see, treat, and respond to your body. We only get one and it's amazing to discover how many things our bodies can do. Be a true sport athlete. Love who you are in this moment and get excited for all the places your body will take you.
A Good Sport Lesson Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Izy Isaksen, Team USA, Modern Pentathlon, Olympian, US Army Sergeant, and True Sport Ambassador. Today, I want to talk to you about being a good sport. There are three things I'd like you to know. First, real winners act the same toward their opponent, whether they win or lose. Second, follow the rules and be a gracious winner and respectful loser. And third, sportsmanship reveals your true character.
I started competing in Modern Pentathlon eight years after my older sister and three-time Olympian, Margaux Isaksen, began competing. I soon realized that people often compared the two of us. I would overhear spectators and teammates asking, "Who's the better athlete," and "Who's going to beat the other." Instead of letting outside pressures create a negative experience for us, I chose to practice winning and losing with grace and respect. I know that it would have been easy to let our hyper competitive mindset affect our relationship, but instead we decided to support and cheer for each other, regardless of our own performance. My experience of competing against and being compared to my older sister, taught me to focus on how to perform at my best, rather than putting wasted energy into wishing for others to fail.
I believe that sportsmanship reveals true character. So, no matter what situation I encounter during competition, I know it's important to always treat people with respect and be a good sport. Remember, be a fierce competitor, find grace in all your victories and losses. And I hope to see you out there.
What Kind of Coach Do You Want to Be? Video Transcript
Edwin Moses: You're a coach. Maybe what you want is very simple, for everyone to just run in the right direction, score for their own team, to try and try again and again. Maybe you want your athletes to become all stars. You want them to earn trophies, medals, win titles. You want them to reach the highest height their sport allows. And wanting all of that, of course, that's good. But as every great coach discovers, developing a great athlete means nurturing, nurturing the even greater person within. Truth is, you have even more influence than you know.
You have the ability to affect even deeper change, to take what's in your hands and do something even more extraordinary. You can be both the coach who provides the skills needed to win the game and the coach who helps them learn and succeed beyond the sport, to become all stars wherever they land in the future, and to enjoy their lives more now, because the confidence and courage they find working with you will stay with them when they need it the most. There are games to be won, lives to change. Coaches have the power to do both.
I'm Edwin Moses, and the lessons I've learned through sport have challenged me, guided me, and shaped my life forever. What kind of coach do you want to be?
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At first glance, dietary supplements look the same. They seem safe and healthy, but just because the label says a product is a dietary supplement, that doesn't mean it's safe. Unfortunately, you can't tell whether a product is safe or not just by looking at the label. Most vitamins, minerals, fish oil, and other supplements containing nutrients are probably just fine, but supplements are not evaluated or approved by FDA before they are sold. Although it is rare for vitamins or minerals to be contaminated with drugs, there has been at least one case of a vitamin containing an anabolic steroid.
At the other extreme are products that contain drugs, stimulants, anabolic steroids, or other hormones. Even though these are not technically dietary supplements, many of them are labeled as supplements. For example, body-building products sometimes contain anabolic steroids or Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators, known as SARMs, or other hormones. Some pre-workout or energy products contain illegal stimulants like DMAA, ephedra, or other amphetamine-like stimulants. Weight loss products might contain prescription drugs like sibutramine, or hormones, like human chorionic gonadotropin, also known as hCG. All natural or herbal sexual enhancement products might contain hormones or Viagra-like drugs. Products like these can harm your health and career, but they're for sale online, in some nutrition stores, and they're labeled as dietary supplements.
When you pick up a supplement, especially one that promises performance enhancement, you don't know if it belongs in the "Mostly O.K." pile or in the "Dangerous" pile. After all, two products might look the same, but one might contain just amino acids and other legitimate ingredients, while the other also contains anabolic steroids. Because of this, FDA has issued a warning about certain categories of supplements: body building products, weight loss products, and sexual enhancement products. Be extremely careful when considering a supplement in one of these categories. We strongly recommend that you avoid products in these categories.
Even when FDA tests supplements and finds dangerous ingredients, companies sometimes refuse to recall them. Sometimes, they simply repackage their product and continue selling it under a new name. Just because a product is on a store shelf doesn't mean it is safe. You need to do your research and be an informed consumer. The dietary supplement industry is enormous. Supplements that appear to be safe | 2,491 |
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How to Reduce Suckers in Plum Trees
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Plum trees (Prunus sp.) are great starter trees for the novice gardener. They're compact, adapted to a wide range of growing conditions and need little maintenance other than regular pruning and thinning. Plum trees are usually vigorous growers with a wide, laterally spreading root system that grows close to ground level, often producing numerous basal shoots or suckers within three feet of the trunk on all sides. In addition to marring the visual harmony of a well-maintained plum tree, root suckers divert moisture and nutrients away from the main stem and thereby reducing overall yield, fruit quality and foliage production. Removing the suckers by hand as soon as possible is ideal, but well-established growths often require more drastic measures.
Scrape the soil from the base of the sucker where it attaches to the root with a garden trowel.
Grasp the sucker as close as possible to where it emerges from the root. If the sucker is very dense and tough, grip it tightly with a pair of combination pliers.
Tear the sucker from the root by hand or with the pliers. Tearing the sucker, as opposed to cutting it, removes most of the dormant basal buds that prompt regrowth.
Dig around the root the sucker is growing from using a small garden spade. Remove enough soil to expose about 6 inches above from where the sucker emerges to the end of the root leading away from the tree.
Undercut the root with the spade by about 2 inches. The goal is to expose as much of the root as possible so you can isolate the sucker without cutting close to the trunk.
Sever the root no more than 1 inch above the sucker, using a root saw if the root exceeds 3/4-inch in diameter. If the root is less than 3/4-inch in diameter, use lopping shears to sever it.
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4 How to Remove a Tree Root With a Come-Along Tool | the diluted glyphosate in a spray bottle. Drape a piece of plastic sheeting or garbage bag over the portion of root still attached to the tree.
Spray the root sucker and exposed root until covered. Even though the portion of root attached to the tree is covered with plastic, don't allow any glyphosate to come in contact with it.
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Only use chemical methods of removal if dealing with one or two suckers. Removing too much of the plum tree's root system causes irreparable damage and risks transferring the chemical to surrounding plant life.
Always follow label instructions when using an herbicide containing glyphosate as concentrations may vary among manufacturer.
Treat the severed portion of root containing the sucker with glyphosate a second time if it rains within | 179 |
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Do you know where your fish comes from?
By Michael Bauer on January 19, 2010 at 6:05 AM
Chef Chris Ball serves sustainable seafood at Yankee Pier in Larkspur
Last week, Fish2Fork launched an online seafood guide that rates restaurants on their impact on marine life. It's a great effort, but a modest beginning. On the initial site, editor Charles Clover, who also wrote "The End of the Line" documentary and book, rates 50 restaurants in 14 states. Diners are encouraged to log on and give their opinions.
In the Bay Area, for example, the most conscientious restaurants are Yankee Pier, with various locations in the Bay Area, and Oliveto in Oakland; both were awarded 3.5 blue fish out of five. Others earning the Blue Fish rating are Tataki Sushi with three; Farallon with 2.5; Fish & Farm with 1; and French Laundry with 1/2. The worst offender of those surveyed was Aqua, which got 5 red fish.
There are several issues with the ratings however, because you never know exactly what the difference is between the various fish ratings, and the survey is often taken from questionnaires filled out by the restaurants or from the restaurants' own websites.
Another weakness is that the list is incomplete. For example, One Market and the Moss Room are two restaurants that subscribe to the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program, and use sustainable fish.
It's<|fim_middle|> I've always wondered where all the fish is coming from at these restaurants that pop up in just about every neighborhood.
He also points out that 80 percent of the world's fish stocks are overfished and that such species as bluefin tun and beluga sturgeon are listed as critically endangered.
This is simply one more very important step in helping us to become better informed diners and to know where our food comes from. I still think the best is the Monterey program.
What all these websites do is to make us aware so that we can ask the restaurants what they're serving, show we care,and initiate change on a grassroots level. | obviously a work in progress, and Clover makes some good points when he notes how bad many sushi restaurants rate; | 22 |
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Posted by Matt Bell on 5th December 2018
The Canary Islands boast a thriving classic car scene, as well as a large and active all-marques club on the isle of Gran Canaria – as Paul Guinness was recently reminded.
I was rummaging through a desk drawer the other day and came across a grille badge for the Club de Automoviles Antiguos de Las Palmas (CAALP), the largest classic car club on the island of Gran Canaria. I was delighted to have found it, having had it presented to me more than a decade ago when I paid a visit to the club's headquarters in Las Palmas. And now that I have a Spanish classic in my garage (the SEAT Fura that I bought this year), the badge might finally get fitted to a car in 2019.
It reminded me, however, just what an impressive set-up this particular club has. Despite a membership of only about 400 at the time of my visit, the CAALP boasts its very own showroom, garage and clubhouse in Las Torres – complete with bar, café, committee room, various meeting rooms and a very comprehensive library.
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Manuel was justifiably proud of the club and its members, as well as the amazing variety of machinery in the showroom. When I visited, fans of British metal were in for a treat, with a Sunbeam Alpine, various Minis, a Land Rover fire engine, a Morris Minor, classic Bentleys and Rolls-Royces and even an Austin FX4 taxi all happily co-habiting. Classics from mainland Europe included an early Citroen Deux Chevaux and Traction Avant, a VW Beetle and a good assortment of Mercedes-Benz models. There was even an impressive array of pre-war cars, some of which had been in Gran Canaria from new, while others had been imported more recently.
Around a hundred classic cars and motorbikes on permanent display, ranging in age from 1904 through to the 'Seventies, made a fascinating sight. But what struck me most was the sheer scale of the showroom for what was a relatively small organisation when judged by UK club standards. So how could it afford to run such large premises?
The way it works is that you pay more to join the CAALP than you would most clubs in the UK. At the time of my visit, membership worked out at just over a tenner a month, but is sure to have increased in the decade since then. What you got for that, however, was far more than a membership card and an occasional newsletter. In fact, you got a whole new extension to your social life.
In the bar area during my visit, CAALP members dropped by on their way back from work for a drink and a chat. The atmosphere was relaxed, the folk were friendly and the whole experience was a pleasure. The bar was open most nights of the week and had its own barman to keep everyone well fed and watered. Now that's doing things in style!
Looking around the club's premises was fascinating. Two entire walls were given over to framed photographs of members' vehicles, with British-built models proving particularly popular. In among the images of Minis and MGBs, I spotted Austin A35s, Ford Anglias, various Rootes saloons and a handful of Triumphs, all proudly bearing their 'GC' registration numbers. Everywhere I looked, I could see classic car books and magazines from around the world, with the CAALP boasting an impressive archive and library that members are free to browse or to use for research. The whole building was superbly presented, with facilities second to none for a club of this size.
So would such an idea work in Britain? Probably not. When you think what any UK-based regional club would have to pay to buy or lease a garage, showroom, café and meeting room (not to mention what would then need to be paid in business rates and other bills each year), the sums simply wouldn't stack up. No club with 400 members in the UK could afford to do anything on such a scale without charging a serious amount of money for membership; and then very few people would consider joining. But in the Canary Islands, where the cost of operating such facilities is lower, it's a concept that works brilliantly – and one that I still recall with pleasure ten years after my visit.
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Christmas is the season for giving, and we all know what that means: shopping. We've rounded up some of the best holiday markets and boutiques available this holiday season! All your favorite local shops will be in one place, making your shopping easy this Christmas season. Make sure to check them all out - new vendors will be popping up at each location!
Beehive Bazaar has a little something for everyone! Come check out the jewelry, treats, art, clothing, and more they have available. With everything being handmade or vintage, you'll be sure to find that perfect gift you've been looking for!
Find them at the Bright Building near downtown Provo!
Wanting more information on their vendors? Be sure to check out their website here, and their Facebook event here for the latest info!
The Spanish Fork Christmas Craft Show has become a holiday tradition for many families in Utah County! Come visit to see a variety of products for all ages, for everyone to enjoy. Toys, woodwork, baked goods, and more will be for sale this year. Don't forget! Kneaders will<|fim_middle|>mallows, and homemade hot chocolate. Any other ideas? What sounds best to you?
Come join the city of Provo in their fourth-annual Christmas Market! As the sun goes down and the Christmas lights go up, there will be activities galore! Have dinner at one of the local food trucks, or check out the crafts available for sale. Want a little bit of time to shop for your kids and significant other? Send them to visit Santa Claus as your continue your search for presents!
This market will be on Center Street in Provo!
Looking to see who'll be present? Check it out here!
Nature's Couture has some of the most amazing handmade jewelry you can find! Because their pop-ups are few and far between, you'll want to be sure to check this event out! Looking for a gift for someone who's not into jewelry? No problem. Their soaps and body care are products make a great gift for anyone!
For more event information, go to the event page. For a look at her products, check out her store!
Running out of time to find your Christmas presents? No problem. Traverse Mountain has got you in mind! Their Christmas Market is at the end of the holiday season, making them your perfect last-minute spot. With tons of vendors, your selection will be easy.
Located at the Traverse Mountain Outlets!
For more information, visit their page here!
Know of a great holiday market we didn't list? Let us know in the comments & we'll check it out! Happy Holidays, and enjoy your shopping! | be visiting the Christmas Gift & Craft Show.
The craft show is located at the Spanish Fork Fairground's indoor tennis courts.
For details and times visit their website here, and their Facebook page here.
After shopping at the Christmas Gift & Craft Show, make sure to swing by another great shop! RoseBud Boutiques will be hosting their 9th annual Holiday Boutique on Main! Great vendors, fun door prizes, and delicious goodies will be throughout the venue for all to enjoy.
Find the Holiday Boutique on Main Street in Spanish Fork!
Santa will be making a special appearance between 12-2! Make sure to stop on by to get your picture taken with the big guy.
Find out more on their event page!
Less than 1 month till the Provo Holiday Market! Come shop your favorite local brands including @thread_wallets !
Come see the awesome local brands that will be at this year's Holiday Season Market! With tons of great deals, you'll be wanting to buy things even for yourself. This event is sure to to be a hit! Featured brands include Arvo, Shop Stevie, Moonwater Co., ZUZU, and more!
Find this fun market at the Startup Building in Provo!
Salem's Pond Town Christmas is a local favorite. To add to the excitement, they've opened a Pond Town Christmas Boutique! Crafts, music, and treats will be available to keep the family entertained. Local vendors will be available to talk with as you explore all their amazing creations. If you love Pond Town Christmas, you'll love this Boutique!
Find out more here and here!
The Legacy Village of Provo will be hosting another fabulous gift show this year! Make sure to check out all the fun crafts, clothes, art, and more! Open for just the morning, it's the perfect place to make a quick stop with the little ones.
Visit this fun gift show at the Legacy Village of Provo!
Wanting to know more about the vendors and location? Be sure to check out their event page here!
We will be at the Provo Christmas market when they turn on their Christmas lights on Saturday December 2nd! What kind of treats would you like to see? I've been thinking about making gingerbread cupcakes, York peppermint cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, rocky road fudge, gingerbread men, cheesecake brownies, homemade marsh | 480 |
St Pete Beach is one of the hottest spots to fish in Southwest Florida and even in Tampa Bay. The fishing here can take you Gulf side along the beach itself, sight fishing the massive grass flats, or even in the backcountry among its spoil islands and mangrove systems. This area is also considered one of the best snook fishing locations around. Snook take residence among the mangroves and spoil islands, but these are fed by the expansive grass flats – which<|fim_middle|> home to "The Big Three". Aside from this, depending on the time of year, anglers can also expect shots at cobia, spanish mackerel, grouper, snapper, pompano, and so on – the list is truly endless.
Perhaps overseer of "The Big Three" is Tarpon. During Tarpon season St. Pete Beach becomes the epicenter of fishing for the Silver King. You will find even Tampa area fishing guides concentrate in St. Pete Beach specifically for tarpon season. So no matter your style – sight fishing the flats, working the back country, battling the mighty megalops, or just a day on the water with the family and kids – St. Pete Beach is where you want to fish! | brings healthy prey into the snook nearly all year. In this, snook are here in numbers and usually looking for a bite to eat!
Southern Outdoor Sportsmen offers guided trips daily into this area with some of the best guides in the state. So whether looking to sight fish the flats, hit the mangrove systems, or even trek the spoil islands – we have you covered! This is a trip and an area you simply do not want to pass up.
Southern Sportsmen Outdoors offers competitive pricing for our St. Pete Beach fishing charter offerings. See current rates (including info for half, 3/4, and full day trips) and details (what to bring, what to expect, etc) at the link below.
Tarpon fishing in St. Pete Beach is a nearly year round opportunity. However, during the massive yearly Tarpon migration, St. Pete Beach is the place where you want to be. Hands down the best area, even when compared to Tampa Bay.
St. Pete Beach is truly a Gulf fed estuary system with nearly every inshore feature the state has to offer. In this diversity also comes a diverse number of species. Anglers fishing here can not only expect epic snook fishing, but the seatrout over the grass beds, and the redfish running around through all of it – make St. Pete Beach | 273 |
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GamesDeal has a special area on their front page that is dedicated to "Hot Deals." These deals may last only a few hours or a few days. The deals are often on some of the most popular games that are available today, not just older games. The pricing on these games are deeply discounted, but you have to act fast. Each game has a ticker at the top showing how long is left on the deal.
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New York has Katz's and a hundred other delis, San Francisco has Miller's. The front of this deli serves take outs and orders of sliced meat.
One noticeable thing about this corned beef sandwich are the slices are thinner than what you will find in New York. Actually I kinda prefer it this way. This sandwich keeps it simple with solid flavored corned beef between two slices of white bread. Normally I find that corned beef is too salty, but Miller's does it just right. Another yum for the potato salad and the housemade pickle.
Sweet potato fries are one of those menu items I order everywhere I see it. This is the first time I've had the large cut sweet potato fries. I'm not a fan. The large size throws off the crispiness to potato ratio.
San Francisco is seriously lacking in good BBQ. Even Oakland has better BBQ options. Roadside BBQ may not be the greatest BBQ, but its passable if you're in the area.
Chicago celebrity chef Rick Bayless decided to grace his presence for us on the west coast with Frontera Grill. Two reasons I hesitated on trying this food spot: its mall food and prior to this opening, Rick Bayless has said that he is reluctant to open any restaurants outside the Chicago area because he wouldn't be able to control the quality.
A grilled flatbread with layers of black beans, chipotle sauce, greens, Cotija cheese, Chichuachua cheese, chicken chorizo sausage, and roasted poblano peppers. This dish reminds me of a fancy Taco Bell tostada. Pretty bland.
Chipotle-rubbed steak, Chihuahua cheese, cilantro chimichurri, poblano rajas, black beans, and avocado on grilled bread. Using the word steak on the menu item instead of carne asada should have signaled warning signs to me. The sandwich was bland considering all the tasty ingrediants that were listed on the menu.
Frontera Fresco is probably better than the average mall food, but considering all the hype around Mexican food master Rick Bayless, this place severely disappoints. Nopalito is better. Check out my review of Nopalito- HERE.
Sometimes the fun part of a food cart is accidentally stumbling upon one. I've always wanted to try the creme brulee cart, but fate had never brought us together until now.
These dainty desserts come in multiple flavors from chocolate to honey lavendar. Flamed upon order they are large enough to share. The vanilla bean was flecked with brown spots like a proper vanilla bean item should be. The custard is creamy and smooth with a crisp caramel shell.
I'll venture anywhere to hunt down good food. This is an example. Not exactly in the best area (6th Street), but only 20 steps from Market St so I'd say still relatively safe. Also, it's right next door to famed chef Julia Child's loved Tu Lan. Taco's sandwiches is owed by a guy named Taco who sells sandwiches and no, he doesn't sell tacos.
Cajun dusted filet of fish, chopped lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and chipotle aioli served with tartar sauce on the side. This sandwich is delicious. The fish is fried perfectly - no greasy aftertaste here.
The pulled pork adbo consists of "slowly braised" marinated pork shoulder, homemade coleslaw and grilled onions topped with chipotle aioli. In a city of Korean tacos, and sushi burritos, of course there has to be a Filipino sandwich. The meat is moist and tender giving it a contrast to the crispy, crunchy slaw. I wish he sold the coleslaw separately. It's hard for me to find a good coleslaw that I like this. This one is perfect -slightly sweet, crunchy, and not swimming in mayo.
Taco offers a combo with lumpia with each sandwich for a little extra, but I opted to order a side of 5 pieces. Another perfectly fried item.
Fries came out hot and crispy.
I don't think I've liked sandwiches this<|fim_middle|> Overall its a decent spot that isn't too expensive.
I was only in Lisbon for less than 2 days, but eating these custard tarts were on my to do list while I was there. If you opt to stay in the Barrio/Chiado district, like I did, you will have to take a train to the Belem district to snack on these. You can either walk into the cafe and eat in or take them to go. I chose to take a box of 6 and eat them outside (at the tables in the Starbucks next door). The custard tarts were warm and soft with a crispy crust. Similar in taste to a Chinese custard tart with a different tart shell. Chinese tarts have a flakey pastry crust - this one had a crisp flakey crust. These tarts are bagged up with packets of cinnamon and sugar to be sprinkled on before you bite into them. Absolutely delicious and addicting. The size is reasonably guilt free so you could eat a couple in one sitting.
Verdict: Definitely as good as they say. Stop by when you are in Lisbon. | much since Ike's. The portions are large enough to share and the prices are cheap. Unfortunately, Taco's sandwiches last day is Friday (9/30) due to lease issues. Hopefully he'll be back soon so I can try the other sandwiches.
Random facts: Last day of business until futher notice is this week!
Bakesale Betty used to be this very small bakery in Oakland that sold pastries, pies, etc. Then years ago, they decided to sell a fried chicken sandwich. It became this huge must eat thing in the east bay. Almost cult status since it was only offered a certain day of the week. Fast forward to current day and this sandwich is now a regular item with an assembly line process. Order is fast and efficent since majority of people in this huge line are here for the sandwich. So don't fret about the length of the line when you walk by, you won't wait that long.
Iron boards are set up to use as tables along this block and you can see them filled with people eating this sandwich.
The infamous fried chicken sandwich with jalapeno slaw. A negative to this quick production line sandwich is the room temperature, even sometimes cold, breaded chicken. The best thing about this sandwich is the jalapeno slaw. The crispy and crunchy texture gives this dry chicken sandwich an upside. Don't worry even though this slaw is speckled with jalapeno slices, its not spicy at all. Next time I think I'll just get the strawberry shortcake and pass on the sandwich.
The predecessor of Curry Up Now located in the sleepy downtown of Mill Valley.
A must order whenever ordering Indian food on a nice day. The coolness of the lassi always compliments the spiciness of Indian food.
I ordered the pumpkin burrito having heard that it was the most popular item here. The burrito is wrapped in either a thicker tortilla or a really thin naan - I can't figure it out. Probably one of the worst wrapped burritos I've seen in my life (pet peeve of mine). You can see even in the picture it can barely stand on its on and the filling is oozing out. This burrito feature irked me while I was eating it since I had to constantly keep eating the part that was falling out to keep everything from spilling out. The pumpkin provides a sweeter taste than what Im normally used to. Not very spicy either. Definite downer here.
Decided on another burrito in hopes that at least there would be a 50% win here. I also thought that the lamb would give the burrito more substance so it wouldn't be as mushy. No such luck. Same gripes as with the pumpkin burrito - a little bland, mushy, and hard to eat. This burrito was probably a tiny bit better than the pumpkin burrito, but absolutely not worth driving across the bridge for.
The ordering process can be a little confusing if you're a first timer here. Ordering and paying are in one line then as your items are called you pick up at the appropriate sections. If you don't get it, don't worry, the workers behind the counter will direct you and help you get what you ordered.
This bhel puri is made of puffed rice, tamarind sauce, and sev (fried snack shaped like thin noodles made from besan flour). It is important to eat this dish as soon as you get it because the puffed rice will soon get soggy.
Samosas are deep fried curried potato stuffed pastry. This one is served with chole (chickpeas). One of my regular items. Samosas are Chaat 101.
Bhatura chole is present at almost every table here. Bhatura -Indian puffy deep fried dough. Careful when pulling this apart. The hot air steams out when you rip it - only newbies burn themselves eating it. Served with chole (spicy chickpeas). Perfect amount of spiciness.
Chaat is up there with my favorite things to eat. Vik's is a great place to go with friends and order multiple dishes. The high turnover of this place ensures that you get things hot and fresh which is vital for chaat.
Even the packaging is cute!
These flavor filled fishes are made to order. Traditionally taiyakis are stuffed with azuki (red bean), but Sweet Breams offers vanilla, chocolate, and nutella. Check their website for the flavor of the week. They do offer occasional savory flavors such as Chicken & Waffles and Jalapeno Popper. The adorable and playful approach to this Japanese sweet snack is both delicious and fun to eat.
Its been hot in the city these past couple nights to the point where its been unbearable to sleep at night. The best remedy - ice cream. Bi-Rite Creamery opens late so I can always pop over for a quick treat. I've always wanted to try the Sam's Sundae, but I'm too attached to my Salted Caramel ice cream. A unique take on a traditional ice cream sundae, Sam's Sundae ( I think it was named after the worker who invented it) has a drizzle olive oil on top of their house made chocolate ice cream. If you look closer at the picture you can see little sprinkles of maldon sea salt. Weird? Maybe. Delicious? Yes. Bi-Rite has the reputation of having velvety and creamy ice cream - the chocolate flavor is no exception. The syrupy olive oil enhances the richness of the chocolate. Each sea salt flecked bite makes your taste buds confused then thirst for more.
I saw this in the Franfurt airport in Germany. Jack and coke already prepackage in a nice convenient can. Genius! Why don't we have this in the States?
One of my favorite restaurants in northern California. Unfortunately, this meal was probably the most disappointing of all my visits. The BBQ ribs was a dry rub with a sweet taste, not really my preference. Also the ribs were a little dry. The side of rice was probably the highlight of the meal.
I'm constantly on the search for an izakaya similar to what I've experienced and tasted in Japan. This one does have many authentic items, but the skewers don't come out hot enough. Also the chicken is a little dry. | 1,307 |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (FOX 5 NY) - Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is voluntarily recalling three cauliflower products because of the risk of E. coli O157:H7 contamination: Cauliflower Rice, Veggie Cauliflower Rice Blend, and Stir-Fry Mix with Cauliflower.
These products were<|fim_middle|> healthy gut.
But certain strains, such as O157:H7, produce toxins that cause illnesses. Symptoms may include stomach cramps, diarrhea (sometimes bloody), vomiting, and fever, according to the CDC. Most people get better in a week or less, but some people can experience life-threatening conditions such as hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. | sold at close to a hundred Wegmans locations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts between Dec. 7 and Dec. 18, 2018.
If you bought any of these cauliflower products from Wegmans in this time frame, you should return them to the service desk for a full refund, the company said. If you have any questions, you can call Wegmans toll free at 855-934-3663.
E. coli bacteria are found in nature, such as in the environment, in food, and in the intestines of people and animals. Most E. coli strains are harmless and indeed part of a | 143 |
How have special costs been awarded in civil actions where the purpose of the civil action was to silence public opposition?
The following excerpt is from Scory v. Krannitz, 2011 BCSC 1344 (CanLII):
Fraser v. Saanich is an example of a lawsuit where special costs were awarded to the defendants because the purpose of the civil<|fim_middle|> be awarded in a fast track action? (British Columbia, Canada)
In what circumstances will a judge award a special costs award for an unsuccessful claim? (British Columbia, Canada)
In a personal injury action, has the court ever awarded special costs for non-disclosure of documents? (British Columbia, Canada)
Can a party be awarded special costs of an application to strike an action as an abuse of court process? (British Columbia, Canada)
In what circumstances can a party be awarded special costs in a personal injury action? (British Columbia, Canada) | action was to stop public opposition to the plaintiff's rezoning application. Singh J. concluded that the plaintiff's action was devoid of merit and disclosed no cause of action. The claim essentially characterized lawful public involvement in government decision-making as unlawful. The statement of claim also made bare assertions of misconduct without any facts to support these allegations. The impact of the lawsuit was to silence public opposition to the plaintiff's application. In awarding special costs, Singh J. says at para. 52: What the plaintiffs expect to receive they should clearly also expect to deliver. I find, therefore, finally, that this action not only contains an unreasonable claim, is meritless and devoid of any factual foundation, but also has been used as an attempt to stifle the democratic activities of the defendants, the neighbourhood residents. I find the plaintiff's conduct reprehensible and deserving of censure by an award of special costs.
The circumstances of the case at hand are very similar to the facts in Fraser v. Saanich. The claimant sued the respondents for wildly inflated damages that had no basis in fact and alleged serious acts of misconduct which reflected poorly on their character and reputation in the community. None of these serious allegations were supported by evidence. The allegations were merely bare assertions of misconduct. The lawsuit was filed coincident with the respondents' public criticism of the claimant's landfill proposal to the Township of Langley and essentially characterized this lawful public participation in government decision-making as unlawful. Moreover, as in the case of Fraser v. Saanich, the respondents advised the claimant early on in the proceedings that they would be seeking an order for special costs due to the frivolous nature of the lawsuit. Offers to settle were also served early on in the proceedings.
Can a public statute, empowering public actors to accomplish public goals, alone give rise to a private duty between those public actors and a particular member of the public? (British Columbia, Canada)
In what circumstances will a court award special costs for an individual who has been found to have an improper motive in an action? (British Columbia, Canada)
What is the standard for awarding special costs in a personal injury action? (British Columbia, Canada)
Is a municipality immune from an award of public interest litigation special costs? (British Columbia, Canada)
What is the test for an award of special costs in a personal injury action? (British Columbia, Canada)
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Glassware is one of my favorite home decor items because it is functional and so easily customized! I'm Anna from Practical and Pretty and I am so excited to be part of the contributing team here at Over the Big Moon. I love creating DIYs that are beautiful and don't look homemade, but most importantly are practical! Every kitchen needs a monogrammed wine glass! This may just become your favorite thing in your kitchen.
I'm not much of a wine drinker (in fact I don't drink at all), but I believe every home needs a set of beautiful wine glasses for special occasions (or dipping your cookies in milk. It is the best way to eat milk and cookies!) You can buy plain wine glasses from a local thrift store or they go on clearance all the time at Homegoods! That's where I got mine.
I saw a monogrammed wine glass at an expensive home decor store and thought I would try to recreate the high end look using my plain glasses. These were super quick, really simple, and have a big impact.
I picked a very thin font because that was the style I saw that I was trying to recreate! I created the file in Cricut design space for you here or you can easily recreate it by making 2" letters of your choice.
<|fim_middle|> cut out each letter so you can more easily apply each letter.
I used a scraper to make sure each piece was correctly placed before pulling off the transfer tape. This was especially important because the letters were so thin.
If you liked this tutorial you may also like these custom DIY tumblers with glass paint, this kitchen canister that I updated with gold foiled tape or these fridge magnets perfect for any mom! | Next, you will cut out the letters on gold foil then and weed them using a picker.
Then apply a small piece of transfer tape and | 28 |
Tix are<|fim_middle|> forward to getting back on stage and doing what we love. Join us. We'll see you there. | $10 at the door.
Bada Brew is located at 802-804 Theodore St in Crest Hill, Illinois 60403. Hang out and have some fun with us.
Click here for the official Facebook event for updates, more details, and to let us know if you're coming!
FITF are taking the act to central IL with our homies in Skinwalker. This is going to be a hell of night of hard rock / metal. We're going to party hard at The Right Stop and you should too! It's in your life contract!
This is a great pairing. Follow this link to listen to Skinwalker and you'll see what we're talking about!
Here's a link to the Facebook Event. Let us know you're coming!
One of our favorite joints. Join us as we headline the night with some great local bands. Show starts at 8:30 pm and we'll be closing things out at 10:45 pm! Click here for show information!
More info and event stuff to come!
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Thank you for reading my blog and I look forward to meeting you. | their wallets are! Being smoke free can -without a doubt- improve your life in so many positive ways, including healthier heart and lungs, better skin and hair, stronger and healthier teeth and increased energy levels. There are so many reasons to stop smoking and so many reasons to continue to be a non-smoker forever. It may just be that you need a bit of a push to get on the right track, and I can provide you with the tools you need to be successful in getting on that track. Or perhaps you have given up and started again, in which case my Stop Smoking session can act as a "refresher" to rebalance yourself and once again become a non-smoker.
All I ask is that you have the desire to be a non-smoker and the desire to be successful after you leave the session. We will work together for between one and a half and two hours, after which you | 184 |
Code.org and the<|fim_middle|> there is once again a huge wall around programming and there has to be someone around to help lift kids over the wall and show them how to get their feet wet. But there aren't that many somebodies, so most kids will never get a chance. It's a shame.
It has been suggested the Zuck and Gates are only doing this because they don't like the fact that programmers are paid more than blue collar workers. They seek to create a glut of competent programmers in order to drive wages down. Apparently the American government has not been increasing the H1B allotment fast enough to pacify their thirst for skilled work at cutthroat wages.
This is fantastic! Everyone should have a basic idea of code and its concepts, if not the specifics.
Even artists? How about McEmployees?
At it's heart, coding is just a way to logically construct a solution to a problem in simple steps. This is a skill useful to anyone. | White House push for broad understanding of computer science.
Code.org's Hour of Code initiative, which kicks off this week, has received endorsements from no less than President Obama, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft. Hour of Code seeks to motivate students at 33,000 schools to give programming a try by using tutorials on the site or by attending sessions at locations like Apple or Microsoft retail stores.
Hour of Code is part of Computer Science Education Week (CSEW), which started in 2009 and begins this Monday. The hour of coding isn't meant to be at any particular time; it's simply a block of time for encouraging children to engage with programming at some point during the week.
The new nonprofit Code.org took up the cause of CSEW this year, getting the cooperation of corporate partners including Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Disney, which will all promote Hour of Code on their home pages, per AllThingsD. Code.org claims that five million students have committed to participate globally, and it provides a guide for teachers to lead an hour of coding in their classrooms.
To celebrate the week, Apple is hosting a free workshop at its retail stores December 11, and Microsoft's retail stores will hold similar workshops throughout the week.
It was so easy to start programming in the 1980s. Every home computer had basic built in and it was easy to draw simple shapes on the screen. Kids did it all the time even though their parents were clueless.
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NASA to Study Ryugu Asteroid Sample Collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 in New Astromaterials Research Lab
TOPICS:AsteroidAstrobiologyHayabusa2 MissionJAXAJohnson Space CenterNASAPopular
By Charlie Plain, NASA's Johnson Space Center December 8, 2020
View of asteroid Ryugu from Hayabusa 2. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo & collaborators
Just weeks after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a successful touch-and-go grab of samples from asteroid Bennu, researchers at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston are looking forward to receiving a sample from asteroid Ryugu via the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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Email address is optional. If provided, your email will not be published or shared. | abusa2 delivered a sample of material from asteroid Ryugu to Earth. Thanks to an agreement between JAXA and NASA, NASA will receive a portion of the Hayabusa2 sample, in exchange for a percentage of the Bennu regolith when it is delivered back to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in 2023.
Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, a scientist and collection curator with NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES), will oversee the care and safe handling of the U.S. portion of the Hayabusa2 sample. She and her colleagues will go to work inside a brand new lab in Houston built specifically for characterizing, documenting, storing and preparing samples for study by ARES and other researchers.
The Hayabusa2 sample will become the seventh curated extraterrestrial collection humans have curated from beyond our planet, and serve as precursor for the important curation work that lies ahead in the new ARES lab when the Bennu samples arrive.
New labs are currently being constructed at Johnson Space Center to curate and study the samples returned from Ryugu and NASA's Osiris-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. Credit: RS&H
"When I was in college in Japan in the 1990s, my college adviser told me about how the only samples we had were from the Apollo missions, plus meteorites that landed on Earth or cosmic dust found floating in the stratosphere," said Nakamura-Messenger. "Now, I'm going to be one of the first people to touch this new astromaterial. It's a great honor to see the sample before virtually anyone else can."
Joining Nakamura-Messenger in the work are fellow ARES researchers Christopher Snead, Ann Nguyen and Mike Zolensky.
"It's exciting that this will be the first asteroid sample of its kind in-house," said Snead. "To get ready, we're finishing a new lab, as well as installing and configuring special equipment in order to work with samples that we expect will be made up of small particles and very, very tricky to handle."
Bringing Ryugu Home
The Hayabusa2 mission launched in December 2014 on a six-year voyage to study the asteroid Ryugu and collect samples to bring back to Earth for analysis.
The mission is similar in nature to NASA's OSIRIS-REx flight to asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx successfully collected a large sample from Bennu in November and will return it in 2023. Both missions aim to explore what are known as carbonaceous asteroids, which are thought to be the rocky building blocks of the early solar system and could hold the keys to understanding how it formed and life later emerged.
NASA and JAXA forged an agreement to share samples from each mission in order to give scientists everywhere as much material as possible to closely study and compare. The plan also means the OSIRIS-REx mission team will certainly benefit from any early discoveries or lessons learned from the Hayabusa2 mission.
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at the asteroid in June 2018. There, the spacecraft deployed rovers and landers onto Ryugu's surface, and collected a sample from near the surface of the asteroid.
Almost two years later, Hayabusa2 is bringing the asteroid sample to Earth. On December 6, the spacecraft will swung by Earth to drop a landing capsule containing the asteroid sample. The capsule made a fiery entry through our planet's atmosphere and parachute to a soft landing inside the Woomera Range Complex in the South Australian outback. A JAXA recovery team retrieved the capsule, then took it to a nearby portable lab to inspect and secure it for travel back to Japan. In Japan, the researchers will perform an initial study of the sample and prepare a portion of it to allocate to its science team and to NASA.
Nakamura-Messenger and Snead will personally travel to Japan in December 2021 to bring the NASA sample back to Johnson.
New Labs for Little Work
In Houston, the two scientists and their team will go to work inside the new lab. They hope the sample from JAXA will yield big discoveries despite its likely small size: probably just 10 milligrams of asteroid material. In contrast, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected at least two ounces (60 grams) of the Bennu asteroid's surface material.
Hayabusa2 researchers expect to see a mix of organic and water-bearing compounds and minerals that will give them a lot to investigate and understand. Snead is leading the effort to work with the individual bits of the sample, many of which will be microscopic and many times smaller than a human hair.
"Right now, we're experimenting with how to work with small particles and mineral grains using bulky gloves reaching into sealed metal and glass boxes," says Snead. "The boxes are filled with nitrogen to keep the samples from reacting with water and air, but that also means it's very dry and static electricity becomes an issue."
Snead's other important preparation work includes developing a joystick-operated device that uses miniature mechanical tools to pick up and work with the tiny asteroid particles.
Sharing with Others
In analyzing, describing and cataloging the sample, the ARES team will be one of the first teams to study of material from Ryugu. But their work also will enable other qualified scientists to conduct their own research.
ARES scientists and researchers from around the world will make requests to perform their own studies of the Ryugu sample for decades to come. When they do, Nakamura-Messenger and Snead will work with the researchers to expertly select, prepare and deliver portions of the sample for their studies. Once the scientists are finished with the material, they'll return it to Johnson, where ARES staff will maintain detailed records of where it went and what analyses were conducted with it before passing the material on again to more researchers.
For Nakamura-Messenger, Snead and scientists around the world, the wait to study a sample of Ryugu firsthand is almost over. Soon, they'll have the opportunity to personally study its structure and chemistry in ways once impossible. Let the discoveries begin!
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Here are links to the lab and a general lesson plan. This lesson is designed for middle grades, but could be used as early as 5th grade or into H.S.
Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate the ability to build a siege weapon. Students will gather data using their catapult. Students will make a claim, use evidence, and reason with that evidence. Students will analyze Newton's Laws and describe how a catapult can relate to each law.
Warm Up: Discuss Newton's three laws of motion.
Class Activity: Watch the youtube video on how to build a popsicle stick catapult (without stopping the video).
Hand out all materials and allow students to build their own catapult using either the video again or using the images in the instructable below.
Allow students to test their catapults with either marbles or mini marshmallows.
Closure: How does the catapult relate to Newton's three laws of motion?
Mod 1: Some students decide to tape an extra craft stick to the back "A" frame (horizontally) to influence the stopping point of the throwing arm for a higher trajectory.
Mod 2: Some students decide to tape two extra craft sticks to the back "A" frame (vertically) on either side of the throwing arm to prevent it from wiggling to the left or right.
My students take one class period to test their catapults in a catapult tournament. We push the lab tables together (end to end) to make a series of long tables. We set up three cups at the end of the table filled with sand. Students work in pairs to either hit the cups (one point) or sink the marble into the cups (3 points). First to 10 wins, but they have to win by 2. The team who shoots second at the start of the game gets the last shot.
Winners play winners, losers play losers.
After students have a chance to test their catapults, identify problems, and make adjustments they get to form their claim. Claim: To launch a catapult 300 cm, students must be aware of ___________________ and __________________.
They are allowed to fill in the variables (including distance, but that's the length of our lab tables pushed together).
the distance the throwing arm gets pulled back in cm.
Evidence: Students then design an experiment to test their claim. They collect data and create a data table.
I teach 7th-grade science. During our physics unit, I have students build craft stick catapults to help demonstrate Newton's Laws of Motion. They also use their catapults to create a claim, develop an experiment to test their claim, and use evidence from the experiment in their reasoning. For more information about the catapult lab, you can skip to the last step. If you're no longer a student, don't let that stop you!
If you like this Instructable, please consider voting in the Tape Contest. Thanks! Now let's get building!
1. Start with about 24"-30" of duct tape.
2. Rip the tape into about twenty, 1.5" strips.
3. Create an equilateral triangle. Make sure the craft stick closest to you is on top of the others. The corner of the triangle facing away from you should have the edges of the craft sticks touching.
4. Add duct tape to each corner to hold the shape. Double the duct tape to double the strength.
*The bottom stick is on top because when you pull back on the throwing arm (after the build is complete), there will be more tension on those two corners (compared to the rest of the joints).
1. Lay two craft sticks on top of the equilateral triangle from the first step. Make sure the ends of the sticks closest to you are nestled into the groove (created when we laid the craft stick on top of the other two in our first step).
2. Lay duct tape over the craft sticks at each corner to keep them in place.
3. Lift the "A" and wrap the tape around the three corners. The "A" will naturally stay up after the tape is wrapped.
When taping the front post, you will notice the top of the "A" can be taped in a variety of positions. Depending on the angle of the front post will influence the angle in which the throwing arm stops, therefore impacting the release point of your projectile. A more vertical front post will result in a lower trajectory. If the top of the front post is taped to the top of the "A" (creating a pyramid shape), the catapult will have a higher trajectory. I tend to tape my catapult somewhere in the middle.
Take your two remaining craft sticks and duct tape them together as shown. The length of the throwing arm is another variable in the distance, accuracy, and angle of your projectile trajectory.
Tape the end of the throwing arm where the base meets the front post. The throwing arm should have the ability to move freely up and down, without falling off. I'm sure there is more than one way to affix the throwing arm, but my picture (and the video) is worth 1000 words.
Make sure to add an extra layer of tape around the front post, around the throwing arm, and around the base to<|fim_middle|> a counter weight at the base of the beam....but basically, so has this stick model. It is NOT a catapult, which is worked with a stretchy band from a Y shaped static hand held frame.
This is not a catapult - it is a trebuchet...! | keep the throwing arm secure.
1. Create a square on an index card. I usually make it about 6 lines high.
2. Cut out your square and imagine where your projectile will need to fit (we launch marbles).
3. I like to draw out the shape of a tic-tac-toe grid with the center square just the right size for my projectile. Make sure the bottom of your basket will fit the projectile snugly. Too much space and the projectile can roll around and won't be as accurate too little space and the projectile won't fit. It's okay to go back and make a new basket if the original isn't working as you planned.
4. Fold on the dotted lines.
5. Cut to the crease on the solid lines.
6. Fold up the sides and tape into place.
7. Tape the basket to your throwing arm leaving a small amount of the craft stick at the top (to pull back on).
8. Place a rubber band (or two, or three) so that it stretches behind the throwing arm and over the front of the front post.
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No one told me how bad I would feel about going back to work.
Of all the things mothers are told about going back to work, no one seems to warn you about sitting in your car desperately trying to salvage your mascara job and feeling like not just a terrible person, but a horrible mother too. Other days you'll get a snide comment from an acquaintance about "someone else raising your baby" or how they "could never be away from my child all day." It emotionally guts you a bit, especially in those first few months of being back at work.
But believe it or not, Working-Mom Guilt isn't a life sentence. You can rise above it and even feel proud. It's important because if you wallow in the guilt, you'll down in it. And when I say I get it, believe me, I get it. Not only did I go back from mat leave early but I also had a long commute and often worked late. But it's been three years now and while I can still remember those early days like they were yesterday, I've also learned when you let go of the guilt, every facet of your life improves both inside and outside the home.
Everyone has a reason why they work. Sometimes it's as practical and straightforward as your family can't eat or have a roof over their heads without your income. It can also be because you have dreams and goals. Maybe you love what you do or you just can't be home with the kids all day long. Maybe it's a bit of everything. No one reason is better or worse than another. The important thing is to write down and know YOUR why. It's not for rattling off to nosey people who ask; it's for when Working-Mom Guilt pops up and says "Good Morning!" you can remember, there's a reason and a purpose. And when you have a purpose, it's a lot easier to be positive. Guilt doesn't stand a chance against positivity.
One of the biggest reasons working moms feel guilty is because we try to do it all. It could be the movies or social media, but we hold ourselves to an unrealistic standard. We feel like we have too many balls in the air by trying to be a star employee and a perfect mom. We want to prove we can still excel at our job while spending enough quality time at home with our kids. It's not sustainable and it breaks people quickly. Don't expect you'll be able to do as much at home as you did before you had kids. It's impossible. If you're feeling like you can't keep up, cut that to-do list down. And then down again. Do what you can and remember the laundry can wait. If you keep trying to get too much done every day, you're going to constantly feel like you're failing.
#3: Write down the best bits.
When you're feeling down about spending the day away from your child, remember the things you get to enjoy at work. After all, there are some serious perks. You get to pee alone! You can enjoy hot coffee again! You get to have conversations with adults! There are new work clothes, being called by your first name, going out for lunches, creating things for yourself that you're proud of, learning a new skill, and more. If you take the time to think about the good things and write them down, you'll see there are a lot of positives to having those working hours to yourself.
Social media isn't real. When you're looking at a Perfect Mom's profile, you are usually only seeing their best side and happiest moments. You're not seeing the tantrums, the frustrations, the moment they lost their temper and the dark times. If someone on your social media gives you a major case of the guilts, then hide that person's posts for a while or simply unfollow them. You can also try swapping those unrealistic accounts for women in your industry who are also mothers and inspire you. Create a social media environment for yourself that helps you feel empowered and uplifted.
We are greatly impacted by whom we spend with. If you don't have a friend who is also a mother and works outside the | 871 |
The City of Lenoir will be making some renovations to the T.H. Broyhill Walking Park this year thanks to a generous donation from the Broyhill Family Foundation.
The Broyhill Family Foundation donated $100,000 to replace the wood on the observation deck on the north end of the park and to convert the park restrooms into three, single-unit restrooms, similar to the units at J.E. Broyhill Park. Known as the Walking Park to locals, T.H. Broyhill Walking Park is located at 945 Lakewood Cir SW, Lenoir, NC 28645. The park covers 20 acres and features a paved walking loop, a pond, a nature sanctuary, and botanical gardens. Paul Broyhill built the park and it was completed in 1992.
The Walking Park is located in an old rock quarry. During the 1930's the Civilian Conservation Corps garnered stone from the quarry, which left a small lake. The Corps used some of the stone to build two sets of stairs on the property. After World War II, Tom Broyhill, co-founder of Broyhill Industries, donated the land to the City for a municipal swimming pool. The lake was still on the property, and the pool was located in the grassy area just north of the current park restrooms. After the City opened the Lenoir Aquatic and Fitness Center, the City closed the old pool.
Mayor Joe Gibbons and Parks and Recreation Director Kenny Story remember fishing in the lake and swimming in the old city pool when they were younger.
"We use to go over there and swim all the time," Story said. "I was in junior high school. The pool house was about where the restrooms are now. The driveway went to the right and around to the pool house. That was where we went into the pool."
Mayor Gibbons said he has fond memories of the lake and pool.
"I remember fishing in the old lake before the park was built.<|fim_middle|> flowers, evergreens, and seasonal shrubs, he enhanced the natural beauty of the rock formations [in the quarry]."
The Broyhills built the park and the City and the Broyhill Family Foundation have partnered to maintain the park. Mr. Paul Broyhill named the park "T.H. Broyhill Walking Park" after his uncle, Tom Broyhill. The Broyhill Family Foundation provides funds for upkeep and repairs including mulch and plants. The City provides the staff who manage the gardens and the property.
"To me, it's one of the best parks in the State of North Carolina," Story said. "It's beautiful. It's unique. People love it and use it every day."
Story said out of towners call all the time asking for directions to the park. High schoolers have taken thousands and thousands of prom pictures in front of the trees and flowers at the park. Some people even have their wedding ceremonies in the park (standing only, no chairs or food allowed).
Triplett-Brady said the park will always be a priority for the Broyhill Family Foundation.
"We here at the foundation will always have a heart for the park that has been dear to Mr. Broyhill," Triplett-Brady said. "I love seeing the park overflow with girls in beautiful dresses, guys in tuxedos, and parents snapping pictures during prom time."
Mayor Gibbons said the park has been a great asset for the City, and he appreciates the partnership with the Broyhill Family Foundation to maintain and renovate the park.
"The Broyhill Walking Park is a beautiful place and a gem in the City of Lenoir," Mayor Gibbons said. "Local residents love to walk there, and people come from all over to visit and enjoy the gardens. I want to thank the Broyhill Family Foundation for this generous donation as well as for their donations throughout the years to the park."
The restrooms at the south end of the park will be renovated into three, separate single-stall units.
Parks and Recreation Department staff will replace all the flooring on the observation deck.
People use the Walking Park every day.
The section of the park is off the main loop on the east side of the park.
The dedication plaque for the park is located just north of the gardens.
The granite rock faces surround the gardens at the park.
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Sheila Triplett-Brady, Executive Director of the Broyhill Family Foundation, said that Paul Broyhill came up with the idea for the gardens after visiting the Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island in Canada. The Butchart Gardens were built in an old limestone quarry on the island.
"With the help of furniture designer Bill Early and landscape architect Harry Yates, Paul fashioned an oriental-themed park that people from all over could enjoy," Triplett-Brady said. "Incorporating lighting, waterfalls, | 143 |
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Multiple attribute decision making approach to petroleum pipeline route selection
Prasanta K. Dey, Stephen O. Ogunlana, Mario T. Tabucanon, Soumitra S. Gupta
Petroleum pipelines are the nervous system of the oil industry, as this transports crude oil from sources to refineries and petroleum products from refineries to demand points. Therefore, the efficient operation of these pipelines determines the effectiveness of the entire business. Pipeline route selection plays a major role when designing an effective pipeline system, as the health of the pipeline depends on its terrain. The present practice of route selection for petroleum pipelines is governed by factors such as the shortest distance, constructability, minimal effects on the environment, and approachability. Although this reduces capital expenditure, it often proves to be uneconomical when life cycle costing is considered. This study presents a route selection model<|fim_middle|>.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2001.001608
10.1504/IJSTM.2001.001608
http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=1608 | with the application of an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multiple attribute decision making technique. AHP considers all the above factors along with the operability and maintainability factors interactively. This system has been demonstrated here through a case study of pipeline route selection, from an Indian perspective. A cost-benefit comparison of the shortest route (conventionally selected) and optimal route establishes the effectiveness of the model.
International Journal of Services Technology and Management
https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2001.001608
Petroleum pipelines
Analytic hierarchy process
Multiple attribute decision making
decision support system
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Mobile phone services are now universally diffused, creating the possibility of perpetual contact, regardless of time and location. Many think the impossibility of being 'out of touch' leads to increased time pressure. In addition to claims that the mobile phone has led to harried leisure, others have argued that perpetual contact extends work into the home<|fim_middle|> explored using survey data employing some novel methodologies — combining a questionnaire with logs of phone traffic recovered from respondents' handsets and a purpose-designed time-diary of technology use. Overall, results show that mobile phone use is not associated with more harried leisure. Fears of work intruding into home life appear to be exaggerated. However, there is some evidence that frequent use of mobiles during working hours is associated with work intensification, at least among men. | or intensifies work in other ways. In this article, these issues are | 15 |
YMCA Lakeside's State-of-the-art Stoller Campus Now Open!
by Michael Harrison | Aug 21, 2019 | events, General, housing, Jobs, lakeside, Physical Activity, Supported Housing, young people | 0 comments
A new £6.8m state-of-the-art school and youth centre at YMCA Lakeside in Cumbria has opened its doors to the public, following a seven-year redevelopment project.
The Stoller Campus at YMCA Lakeside, Newby Bridge, was officially opened yesterday by key benefactor Sir Norman Stoller CBE KStj DL.
The ceremony was also attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria, Mrs Clare Hensman, funders, contractors and supporters who have all helped to make the impressive project a reality.
YMCA Lakeside is one of the largest and most established outdoor education centres in the United Kingdom.
Situated on the banks of Lake Windermere, the Centre boasts 1.5 miles of the iconic South Lakes waterfront and extensive woodland.
Offering over 50 outdoor water and land-based activities, YMCA Lakeside has been seeking to change young lives by delivering transformative instructor-led experiences.
Since opening its doors over 60 years ago, the centre has welcomed over one million young people. The new facility aims to grow the amount and quality of accommodation to ensure a more stimulating and inspiring place for young people to learn.
The eco-friendly building incorporates hi-tech entrances, sophisticated security access, en-suite dormitory rooms, and drying rooms for boots and outdoor gear. Architecturally, the building is designed to 'disappear' into the landscape, minimising the visual impact on Lake Windermere.
John Cronin, CEO of YMCA Fylde Coast, said: "The launch ceremony is a pivotal moment in time for YMCA Lakeside. The Stoller Campus will enable us to continue offering lifechanging experiences for future generations. We<|fim_middle|> of investment.
In 2010 Lakeside was acquired by YMCA Fylde Coast who began an ambitious fundraising and redevelopment project, to create world-class accommodation for schools and youth groups. | 're looking forward to welcoming our next million young people."
Lancashire-based architecture, town planning and building surveying practice, Cassidy + Ashton, acted as the lead consultant, overseeing the final design and building phase. Working with quantity surveyors Thornber & Walker, services consultants Beech Jackson Partnership, structuring and civil consultant Curtins Consulting Ltd and construction company Conlon, the team successfully delivered the project.
Alistair Baines, chairman of Cassidy + Ashton, commented:
"We were delighted to be involved in this very exciting project at the heart of the iconic World Heritage Site.
"We fully appreciate the importance of this facility to the YMCA going forward and are proud to be involved in helping to deliver a significant development of the Lakeside centre that will undoubtedly provide long term, sustainable facilities for the Trust."
YMCA Lakeside provides those who are less fortunate to experience the transformative impact on mind, body and spirit derived from spending time in the great outdoors. However, the high-volume operation had suffered from years of infrastructure decline and a lack | 208 |
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3 Meteor Showers Will Converge This Weekend, Creating a Firework Display of Shooting Stars
The Delta Aquarids will reach their peak this weekend and intersect with two other meteor showers—the famous Perseids and the alpha Capricornids. You'll be able to spot all three celestial events during the<|fim_middle|> celestial firework display. The Capricornids will radiate from the constellation of Capricorn and will come from the southern sky as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. | rest of July and throughout August.
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Look into the night sky this weekend and see something truly incredible—three converging meteor showers. The combining force of the Delta Aquarids, Perseids, and the alpha Capricornids will create a firework display of shooting stars that will peak on the evening of Saturday, July 30, and last through the early hours of Sunday.
Delta Aquarids will be the dominant shower in the sky this weekend. The show is slated to reach its peak on July 29 with the highest stars occurring around 2 a.m, EarthSky.org reports. At its height, about 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour are expected to occur, and the waxing crescent moon will keep the sky dimly lit, meaning the stars will be easier to see. But if you don't catch the shower in the next few days, you haven't missed it entirely—the celestial event will continue until late August.
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The famous Perseid meteor shower will fly at the same time as the Delta Aquarids, reaching its peak night on August 12 and 13. The Perseids typically put on the best show for those stargazing on the Northern Hemisphere, but this year its height coincides with a full moon, meaning that the shooting stars will be difficult to spot. Instead, it's recommended to view them in convergence with the Delta Aquarids peak this weekend.
Identifying the difference between the two showers depends on where you're watching from. If. you're in the Northern Hemisphere and watching around midnight or later, you'll see the Perseids coming from the Northeast or North. The Delta Aquarids can be spotted coming from the South, EarthSky.org reports.
Additionally, the alpha Capricornids shower will reach its peak this weekend on July 30 continuing into July 31. It's a minor shower, so you don't see more than a few shooting stars per hour, Forbes reports, but it will still add its flares to this weekend's | 504 |
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There are so many reasons why Barberton's township tour is a 'must-see' attraction along the Genesis Route, yet Simon's Water Wise house on its own makes the trip worthwhile.
2. Please note: Costs vary on the numbers and tours can take up to a week to organise, so please book in advance. | Simon's house is not situated in one of the trendy districts of Cape Town, or an artistic hangout like Kaapsehoop. Simon's house is smack bang in the middle of Barberton's Township, a place renowned for its sense of community but not so much for its art.
Simon himself had no formal artistic training. He simply had a passion to create something beautiful from items others no longer wanted, and that is the true magic of his house. Way before 'Green Homes' were all the fashion and recycling was en vogue, Simon was collecting bits a pieces from here and there to make his dream home a reality.
A building labourer by profession, Simon collected most of his raw materials from the historical buildings in Barberton he helped to renovate. These he would load on to his bicycle to transport home, where he would refashion them into something exquisite. Whether that was the more avant garde aspects of his house like the outdoor pray room, breeze block aviary, stone and succulent obelisk, or the more functional everyday items like his chairs and tables. Absolutely everything, inside and out, is bespoke, recycled and completely unique.
For me however, the thing that really stood out was the roof. Built on multiple levels, in a higgledy piggledy fashion, with what appears to be chimney stacks sticking out here and there. Simon has fixed guttering and pipe work to every part in order to funnel and collect rain water through a series of channels. In a country where water is becoming an ever more scarce resource and restrictions on watering gardens are put in place most summers. Simon's Water Wise house is not simply | 337 |
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Judging by the number of empty glasses it had been a good afternoon.
It was a quiet start, though, to the gluten-free beer tasting for the FFFAwards 2013. A group of assorted beer lovers making polite conversation in a room in North London, some clearly anxious about the category they had come to judge. You didn't need to be a detective to tell there had been some late night Wiki research on gluten-free beer the evening before.
A nice spacious table. Clipboards, bottles of water. Plenty of space to rest your elbows and put down your glass. Two hours later: one hundred and fourteen numbered glasses competing for space with tasting notes, water, dry crackers, cups of tea - trays of samples still arriving, one after another, until all 14 gluten-free beers were sniffed, swirled, tasted, swallowed.
New products on the market and developments in brewing and testing mean that this year there is more beer than ever which has been declared gluten-free. So much so, that in the FFFAwards the category has been split into two – beer which is naturally gluten-free, ie not brewed from barley – and that which is made from barley but still tests gluten-free.
The tasters kicked off with the first group. There was a bit of a tense start but it didn't take long for palates to adjust to new flavours and expressions of relief to briefly flash across a few faces.
Two new gluten-free British beers entered the arena this year, both from long-established and award-winning breweries, plus a range of new beers from the stable of one of Britain's oldest gluten-free beer companies, not to mention the new and innovative products from Europe.
All these battled it out on the table with favourites from previous years. It was a tough competition.
Studious concentration eventually mellowed to discussion. It was all very affable. There<|fim_middle|> varied as any a group of beer drinkers would have wished.
The tasting ran from the lightest, most refreshing lager to a delicious, richly-flavoured bitter; 14 beers with an ABV from….well, the lowest is a secret at the moment, to a very respectable 6.5%.
And the winners? Well, you'll have to wait until April for those, but rest assured that whatever your preference, the gluten-free beer in this year's FFFAwards will not disappoint. And that, believe me, is something to celebrate.
Our tasters thought so too. By now the very best of friends, and forced out into the cold North London air by the need for more beer, they were last seen heading in the direction of the nearest pub.
The winner of the FFFAwards beer category will be announced on 16 April 2013 at the annual FreeFrom Food Awards invitation-only presentation party in central London.
And this was before they had started tasting! | were no heated arguments or red faces in the beer tasting. I'm not saying this usually happens but sometimes people display their passion in unexpected ways. I think the judges were too relieved to argue. Relieved that the beer they'd been forced to taste was not only drinkable, but delicious, and the range as | 63 |
This article was published on January 7, 2013
IAC acquires 14-year old online tutoring company Tutor.com in undisclosed deal
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IAC today announced that it has acquired online tutoring firm Tutor.com, which boasts a network of over 2,500 screened tutors who can<|fim_middle|> benefited from its personalized learning programs.
Said programs are offered by direct consumer subscription and through partnerships with public and academic libraries, school districts, the U.S. military, and colleges.
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IAC did not disclose how much it paid for the New York company, which was founded by CEO George Cigale in 1998, but said it was a 'small' deal with a 'compelling valuation' for Tutor.com.
Either way, Cigale will stay on as CEO and continue to run the business from Tutor.com's offices in NYC.
According to an NYT source, IAC coughed up just under $40 million for the company.
Greg Blatt, CEO of IAC, says the Internet media holding acquired Tutor.com after they did most of the legwork to get an online tutoring business off the ground:
"Tutor.com has done the hard part, having built over many years an incredible nationwide network of high quality tutors ready to help students improve their learning. We think it's ripe for us to accelerate usage by bringing to bear our consumer Internet expertise in areas like product, marketing and distribution.
It's not often we find a company with such untapped potential that our particular skill set can help unlock, in an area that truly helps people improve their lives, all at a compelling valuation. Although it's small, we're excited about the acquisition."
Historically focused on core K-12 subjects, Tutor.com has more recently expanded into AP courses, test prep, college-level curriculum, and real-time writing help. The company claims 'millions of students' have | 295 |
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4/6/13: Cara's spooky birthday party at Monster Mini Golf. It was a girls-only party with friends from school. Here are the kids making their own T-shirts to wear on the course.
Cara got to make a gooey green handprint which will be posted on the wall to commemorate the event.
About to blow out the candles!
All the kids got scary vampire teeth, which they insisted on wearing for most of the rest of the party.
It's sort of like they're all wearing mouthguards to play golf.
Hard to see but Cara is dressed<|fim_middle|> | up in a crazy costume as part of the birthday festivities.
Her cool shirt, which got signed by everybody at the party.
4/7/13, the small-scale family party with just grandparents and Aunt Claire. Here's Cara in an old birthday crown, wearing her new Monster Mini Golf shirt.
Lighting eight candles! Owen is distracted by the flame.
Owen already watching a replay of the party while Mommy cuts his cupcake. | 90 |
Walmart counts down the days until the holidays, with new sales items every day.
As soon as stores get Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales under their belt, they immediately switch to holiday sales. So, we're already in the middle of Amazon's 12 Days of Deals, Best Buy's 20 Days of Doorbusters and Walmart's 20 Days of Deals, just to name a few.
So, what's good? I am here to tell you. No, literally, I'm here every day until December 25th, to keep you informed about these and other sales, highlighting those who really value your time.
Do you need toys for your children? Or a surveillance camera for the home? Amazon's Saturday theme is baby, pets and camera. Technically, this means a 25 percent sale for the Wyze Cam surveillance camera, which is $ 19.54 instead of $ 26, and a variety of discounts on the Polaroid instant print cameras. Amazon also offers a third-generation Echo Dot for $ 29.99, compared to the regular retail price of $ 49.99. This is very close to Amazon's Black Friday pricing.
If you've missed the Black Friday price of $ 250, This is a solid consolation prize.
The second generation echo speaker from 2017 is a solid value, and if you add two to your cart, save an additional $ 20.
This saves a lot of money for a robot to clean your house.
The Blink indoor home security camera packages are discounted and range from a single-camera system for $ 67 (up to $ 99) US $) up to the three-camera system for $ 154 from $ 230.
Best Buy offers a discount on the Xbox One S with an additional controller and a few laptop offers.
Best Buy offers an Xbox One S package with<|fim_middle|> get a media tray.
Walmart has many options today, from 19 pocket knives to 190 family tents. But the technical deal of the day revives an old favorite.
This is one of the cheapest laptops available today, including a 15.6-inch screen, Intel Core i3- 8130U Dual Core processor, 4GB of RAM and 1TB hard drive. It's a simple notebook, but it should be familiar with the basics if you just want to surf the net and watch Netflix on a screen that's bigger than most tablets, but smaller than your TV.
CNET's Cheapskate searches the Internet for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and more. Note that CNET may receive some of the revenue from the sale of the products featured on this page. Questions about the Cheapskate Blog? Answers can be found on our FAQ page . For more great purchases, visit the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter ! | an additional controller for a total of $ 110 on the total cost. The Xbox One S, which includes the Fortnite Battle Royale game, costs $ 250 ($ 50 savings). If you add an additional controller (usually $ 60) to your shopping cart, the accessories will be free.
Also available is the Platinum version of the new Surface Pro tablet with genuine laptop replacement specifications (Core i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD). And yes, it contains a keyboard.
If you want more storage space and a black keyboard case, you have even more savings.
This Lenovo laptop has high-quality features, including a 13.9-inch 4K screen, a 512- GB solid state drive and 16GB of memory and an Intel Core i7 processor.
Best Buy offers this VR-enabled gaming laptop for $ 1,050, a $ 150 discount over the normal price. It includes an Intel Core i7 processor, 16GB of memory, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, and a 128GB SSD with a 1TB hard drive.
This tablet is not fully discounted. But filling a 128 GB memory card with videos, photos, and music is a great way to | 275 |
Berkery Noyes Releases First Half 2010 Software Industry Merger & Acquisition Trends – Going Mobile - Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC.
New York – NEW YORK — Berkery Noyes, a leading middle market investment bank, has released its 2010 Half Year Software M&A Trends Report. This report analyzes<|fim_middle|> attract end users with innovation.
The proliferation of smartphones, and in particular those with application oriented operating systems, have helped to drive mobile application software to rise 79% from the past half year, from 31 to 59. This is a sharp rise as opposed to the modest growth of 27% from 1st half of 2009 to the 2nd half and of 24% from 2nd half 2008 to 1st half 2009.
Of the top ten deals, four companies being acquired have been in business since 1995. The sale of Cybersource Corporation, Sybase Inc., Palm Inc., and the exit of Verisign, Inc. from its main authentication business, marks the consolidation of once-prominent software industry brands.
Online Transactions within the Software Industry increased, rising to 43% of the total software market in 1st Half 2010. The rise was driven mostly by the strength of Cloud Computing, SaaS, Mobile, and Internet Enabling Applications.
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Brooklyn Roots is the story of Estelle Bre<|fim_middle|>ines now takes time to write, having produced several books, chapters and an ongoing column published since 1994. Brooklyn Roots is the first book she has written about herself and her family. | ines' experience growing up in Borough Park, but it will resonate with anyone who grew up there, or for that matter, in any other urban, ethnic neighborhood. She paints word pictures that take you back in time, evoking the scenes, scents and sensibilities of the old neighborhood.
Once stirred, those memories rolled out in bursts, demanding recording. A description of the neighborhood of her youth emerged: her father's pharmacy, shops along the avenue, and the house with its magnificent purple irises peeking above a stone wall as tall as a four year old. A small garment is remembered in detail: a doll s dress made from an old pillowcase, using a needle encrusted by baked on grease from the stuffed chicken necks her grandmother prepared; this the woman who braided the author's hair so tightly as surrogate parent while her parents worked to provide for them all in an era emerging from the Great Depression. There was the school she attended when the war began, and the celebrations at its end, and the places she and her friends explored as they grew. Her recollections of the neighborhood's artifacts appear as she envisions pickles and egg creams. Each shop along the 13th Avenue of her memory is sustained in its original character, even the corsetiere and milliner of the past, stuck there in time.
Raised as an only child, Brooklyn had a strong influence on the author's life. She was a child between eras, growing up before women were viewed for their full potential, in a family who imbued her with a respect for education and a sense of independence she drew upon to strengthen her love for an expanding family: her husband of 54 years, three children, and nine grandchildren. Her career as an occupational therapist, businesswoman and educator drew from these influences. Living on a farm in western NJ, Dr. Bre | 379 |
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Tristan Harris 31st Jul, 2018
A CHARITY prize draw is being held by Bromsgrove's Artryfacts to celebrate the firm's 25th birthday.
The family-owned business is run by brother and sister Gavin and Sarah Dutton who have already secured a number of prizes for the draw which will be held on December 1.
Among them are a £500 Argos voucher, a Porsche experience for two at Silverstone, a luxury Christmas hamper and many more.
The company is hoping to raise £1,000 for the charity and tickets, which cost £1, are available from Foto Factory, Hoiti Toyti, Instruments For You and George Davis Hairdressing.
Gavin said: "We're excited to be raising money for Primrose Hospice, and would like to thank all the local businesses who so generously donated prizes for the draw.
"It's a privilege to be associated with such a worthwhile cause, as they provide such an invaluable service to the local community."
Primrose fund-raiser added the charity was delighted to have the support of such a well-established Bromsgrove business and was looking forward to working with the firm in the future.
"Without the support and generosity of local businesses such as Artyfacts, we would not be able to continue our essential work."
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«Omar Akram» - biography, albums, songs, video clips
Omar Akram
instrumental new age ambient relaxing piano world flamenco chillout
1 Whispers In The Moonlight 04:32
2 Last Dance 04:58
3 Passage Of The Heart 06:49
4 A Vision of You 04:29
Omar Akram encourages listeners to come with him on an exotic Secret Journey, an appropriate title for his new Real Music album since he grew up traveling around the world as the son of a United Nations diplomat living in such diverse locales as France, Cuba, Afghanistan and the Czech Republic. On Omar's third contemporary instrumental CD, strong melodies are presented within tapestry-like arrangements carefully interweaving his acoustic grand piano with acoustic guitar, violin, duduk, flute and ethnic percussion performed by a group of world-class musicians.
"I look around me and see people who are bored, restless, stagnant," explains Akram, "and I know they often take 'secret journeys' in their mind as they daydream about other places they could be. The lucky ones get to take an actual trip where they escape from the pressures of their lives. They see new places and have uncommon experiences. I like to think the music on my album can serve as the soundtrack for their journey, whether it is a mental or a physical trip. Everyone needs to get away sometime."
In addition to the title track, "Secret Journey," all of the tunes were inspired by what might be seen or felt on a special trip. Some of the compositions capture the heritage of Omar's Afghani ancestors ("Caravan," "Nomadic Rhapsody," "Gypsy Spirit"). On such a journey you might see a distant lake-like "Mirage," a "Shimmering Star" in the night's blue-black heavens, or a rare but beautiful "Desert Flower." Omar says "Seven Secrets" was influenced by the ancient architectural "Seven Wonders of the World" like the Great Pyramids, but also references all the lost knowledge of past generations. "I want the music to sound multi-cultural," explains Akram, "but not be tied to any particular country."
Often the best trips include romance which is reflected on the new recording with "Run Away With Me," "Passage of the Heart" ("Love can be quite a journey in itself," says Omar) and "Whispers in the Moonlight" ("It can be shared intimacies between lovers or the sound of wind-shifting sand in the desert at night"). The album closes with the gentle piano-violin duet "Angel of Hope" because "in today's world with all the war, famine, pollution and loneliness, everyone needs hope for a better future."
On his first two albums, he was simply known as Omar, but now he performs under his full name. Meanwhile, his music continues to change and develop. His first album was Opal Fire on Real Music, which went Top 15 on Billboard magazine's national New Age sales chart, and featured Akram's piano backed by additional keyboards played by Omar and David Dial. On his second CD, Free as a Bird, Omar again composed all the music, but this time produced half the album and utilized top keyboardist Gregg Karukas to produce the other half. Omar also expanded his sound by bringing in guest musicians including saxophonist Eric Marienthal (The Rippingtons). The recording was ranked the #2 contemporary instrumental album of the year by the prestigious Wind & Wire publication. Now on Secret Journey, Akram and Karukas are working together even closer by co-writing the music which features rich textures and a variety of world-music elements including Latin<|fim_middle|> album. Details coming out soon! | and Mideast. Omar continues to compose memorable melodies, and has developed a close-knit interplay with the other musicians.
Each of Akram's collaborators brings a wealth of talent and impressive credentials to the project. Gregg Karukas has a strong smooth jazz background having played with or produced such chart-toppers as The Rippingtons, Peter White, Boney James, Richard Elliot and Dave Koz. Ramon Stagnaro returns on guitar and his credits include Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Kenny G, Andrea Bocelli, Luis Miguel and Alejandro Sanz. Pedro Eustache – once again on flute, duduk and Persian ney – has performed with Yanni, Paul McCartney, James Newton Howard and Andrae Crouch. Violinist Charlie Bisharat is known for playing with Kitaro, John Tesh, Tracy Chapman, Neil Diamond and Stone Temple Pilots. Percussionist Ron Wagner spent nine years with Ottmar Liebert, but also has performed with Stephane Grappelli, Peter Cetera, Richard Searles and Peppino D'Agostino. Also on Secret Journey is special guest acoustic guitarist Ardeshir Farah (on four tunes), best-known for being part of the popular duo Strunz & Farah, but who also has played with Al Stewart, L. Subramaniam and Cyrus Chestnut.
Omar Akram has been influenced by many cultures because he grew up as a world-traveler. He was born in New York City while his father was representing Afghanistan at the United Nations. "I was always fascinated by musical instruments as a child, so when I was six, I began taking piano lessons from a member of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, who was one of the top music teachers in the Czech Republic." While growing up, Omar went to many symphonies and ballets. His early influences were classical — first Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but soon the "Russian School" of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Shastakovich. When Omar was 14 and in Cuba, he got to chat with Fidel Castro at a diplomatic reception. Omar's curiosity for Cuban culture led him to local clubs where he talked the musicians into letting him sit in and play Cuban music with them which is when he developed a love for Latin rhythms and Latin-styled acoustic guitar sounds.
Omar returned to the United States and was introduced to the international electronic music of Jean Michel Jarre (France), Kitaro (Japan) and Vangelis (Greece) "which got me into synthesizers and electronic music. That shifted everything and I knew I wanted to try that type of music so I started composing." A few years later Akram heard piano soloists such as George Winston and David Lanz which brought him back to the piano. But Omar has far-ranging musical tastes and during those formative years he also listened to Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Prince. Omar moved to Los Angeles in 1993 and began performing anywhere he could (whether it was solo piano gigs or in bars with Top 40 cover bands). He continued to travel, not only throughout the United States, but regularly to England and France too.
Akram kept composing original music, but a turning point came when he met Dr. E. Mike Vasilomanolakis, who became his executive producer and encouraged him to begin recording. This material led to Omar's signing with Real Music. In addition to his studio recordings, Akram also performs concerts. At the International Book Expo in Chicago, esteemed authors Deepak Chopra and Carolyn Myss saw Omar perform and became fans of his music. For the next two years, Myss had Omar return to Chicago every month to perform at her seminars in front of audiences of 500-to-700.
"In a world where communication and understanding between cultures is sometimes difficult, I hope my music can serve as a form of international language that crosses any cultural barriers. Having lived and traveled in many countries, I have come to realize that we need to embrace aspects of each culture that make them unique and special. What some people see as problematical differences, I see as our planet's entire cultural heritage. With my music, I try to celebrate some of the sounds and feelings I have encountered worldwide. I would like to invite music lovers from all cultures to join me in traveling on this "Secret Journey."
November 2011 Update: Omar is in the studio with producer Gregg Karukas working on his fourth | 941 |
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