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Top Ten Fantasy Novels That Have Gay People In Them
11:27am PDT
There are basically several ways authors can address gayness in fantasy novels. They are as follows:
1. No one is gay, ever.
2. Someone goes through a classic coming out story arc. In the case of fantasy novels, probably they get magic powers in there somewhere. Glitter and fairies, etc.
3. Someone says, "So I like this lady now." All her friends shrug, and then maybe yell at her for making out with her girlfriend during the zombie apocalypse.
Guess which one happens most frequently.
The following is a list of fantasy novels* that fall somewhere between tangentially gay and really, really gay. They all fall under "read this immediately."
Santa Olivia, by Jacqueline Carey
Carey is also the author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, which is definitely not YA, and which is extraordinarily well-written epic fantasy that takes place in an alternate Europe. While the main character's love interest for most of the series (so far) is a dude, her antagonist / lover / the person who is actually equal to her is a woman. Oh yes: this book also has female characters as both pro- and antagonist. How do you feel about that, Bechdel test.
Ash and Huntress, by Malinda Lo
I've written about Malinda Lo before and guess what, she's still awesome. Here's why: gay retellings of classic fairy tales that incorporate non-exoticized Asian cultural elements. For instance, here's what Ash is about:
"In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.
The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love—and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love."
China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh
In the world of China Mountain Zhang, the United States has had a communist revolution following an economic crisis and China rules the world. You could describe it as being on the "scifi" end of "scifi/fantasy." It also won the Lambda, the Hugo, the Tiptree, and the Locus awards, and was nominated for several other things that it probably should have won as well. Goodreads says:
"We enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF."
Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
This book is a planet of all women and they are somehow able to reproduce without men (sort of in the vein of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland but without the random essentialization of gender traits and pre-first wave feminism utopian setting). Also, it's really good, and it won a Lambda Award. From Amazon:
"In Ammonite, the 1994 James Tiptree Jr. Award winner, the attempts to colonize the planet Jeep have uncovered a selective virus that kills all men and all but a few women. The remaining women undergo changes that enable them to communicate with one another and the planet itself, and give to birth to healthy, genetically diverse children. Marguerite Angelica Taishan is an anthropologist who realizes this phenomena and makes the decision to give herself up to the planet to uncover its mysteries."
The Will of the Empress, by Tamora Pierce
Most of Tamora Pierce's books are gender-bending rather than gay, and Pierce has basically created a sub-genre of girls dressing up as boys to join the military and/or go on adventures and/or generally kick ass (see also: Eon, by Alison Goodman; Graceling, by Kristin Cashore; Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett, which parodies books like Eon and Graceling; the Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld, etc). But there is a gay character in The Will of the Empress, and it's absolutely not a big deal. She just ends up with this woman, and all of her friends are like, "why didn't you tell us you liked girls," and she's all, "I didn't really know," and then they say "ok," and that's that. In other words: this is the future of gay in YA, the rest of the world just needs to catch up.
Dead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison
Harrison's series, of which Dead Witch Walking is the first book, is just generally fantastic. And the main character's roommate is a lady vampire who's in love with her (the vampire, like all the best not Twilight-y vampires, is bisexual). From Amazon:
"Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland's best runner … and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death … not to mention her own roommate."
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, by Emma Donoghue
This book is a collection of classic fairy tales, retold with a queer or feminist (or both) perspective. Cinderella, with lesbians! Donkeyskin, with feminism! Beauty and the Beast, with lesbians! (Actually, Beauty and the Beast with lesbians is my absolute favourite). You really need to read this.
A Companion to Wolves, by Elizabeth Bear
This book does really interesting things with gender and masculinity of a gay-dude kind. It is also one of the books on this list that is definitively not YA, for those of you keeping track at home. From Publisher's Weekly:
"The inhabitants of a cold and perilous world grounded in Norse/Germanic mythology depend upon the brutally violent wolfcarls, men who bond telepathically with huge fighting trellwolves, to protect them from monstrous trolls and wyverns from further north. When the northern threat suddenly intensifies, Isolfr, a young wolfcarl, and his wolf-sister, Viradechtis, a Queen wolf destined to rule her own pack, are thrust into key roles in their civilization's desperate fight to survive. The meticulously crafted setting and powerful, often moving rendition of characters and relationships — human and nonhuman alike — result in a brutal and beautiful novel about the meaning of honor. Never blushing as they consider the ultimate sociological, sexual and moral underpinnings of a what-if often treated as coy wish-fulfillment fantasy, the authors have boldly created a fascinating world that begs further exploration."
The Last Herald-Mage Series, by Mercedes Lackey
There's an old series called Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey (her books in general are pretty gay-friendly, and there's a gay lady couple in one of her other early series, set in the same world. Those books are Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall, but those characters are in supporting roles) that has a gay male main character. He's a great character and all three books deal with his horrible relationship with his father, as his father had suspected he was gay, hidden its very existence from him, and then disowned him (meanwhile, he's one of the most powerful mages EVER and works for the king/government). From Amazon:
"Vanyel's disdain for swordsmanship earns him an unexpected exile — at the High Court of Valdemar under the guardianship of his stern and implacable Aunt Savil, one of the legendary Herald-Mages. A young man's painful discovery of his own immense talents and his true nature form the core of this richly detailed fantasy, the first in a new series set in the same world as "The Heroes of Valdemar." Lackey's talent for characterization lends depth to this coming-of-age adventure that will appeal to most fantasy readers."
Anything Ever by Tanya Huff (and specifically the Keeper series)
Tanya Huff is a gay Canadian author and I could love her just for that. But that would be a waste, because there are so many other reasons to love her! For instance: lots and lots of kick-ass ladies. Yes, Tanya Huff is a tiny bit fluffy, but she's really delightful. The first two books of the series focus on Claire, but in Long, Hot Summoning (Seriously! That's the title!) the focus shifts to her younger and more powerful gay sister, Diana. From Amazon.com:
"Being one of the Earth's protectors is never easy, but when Claire the Keeper and Austin the cat find themselves in charge of the Elysian Fields Guesthouse Bed and Breakfast, all Hell breaks loose in the form of a gateway residing in the basement."
*This was originally going to be a list of gay YA fantasy novels, but guess what, there aren't that many of them.
**Extra special thanks to Jenna for book recommendations.
***Did I miss<|fim_middle|> enjoyed Sherwood Smith's other books as well, but I don't recall any of them including prominent gay characters.
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Great list! Very glad to see Ash by Malinda Lo on there; it's a beautifully written book.
I've got two recommendations (they aren't fantasy novels but they are both brilliant and life-changing): Carol by Patricia Highsmith, and More Than This by Patrick Ness.
Patrick Ness's book is very sic-fi with a gay protagonist. It's a very confusing (in a good way), thoughtful, mind-boggling book that will have you either crying or screaming about how amazing it is!
It's a very hard book to describe because it is so many things! It would appeal to anyone who has ever wondered if there's more to life.
Patricia Highsmith's novel is beautiful and, like all of her novels, a thriller.
Thankfully, Carol is less of a phycological crime than her others. Carol is a page-turner about two women in the 1950s who develop a surprising (due to the vaguely homophobic time period), relationship. Complications change their relationship for an almost heart-shattering ending that only is revealed on the very last page. The novel is very unpredictable, quite like Highsmith was herself. However, when it was first written, it was one of the first (perhaps the first), lesbian novel to end happily.
How about the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling? I love them, read them several times, the characters are endearing and there are several story archs going through the seven books. She also wrote another series in the same world about a girl who was raised as a boy, and kinda deals with transgender-like issues. Also really good.
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GREAT list of a gazillion of fantasy YA novels. may i suggest "hex hall", i picked it up yesterday and read it within a day!
YES!!! This is the book list I've been waiting for! To amazon.com young squire!
Also, "Protector of the Small" by Tamora Pierce was the SHIT. Bomb diggity. Read that shit A MILLION times. Sexy woman, strong arms, kicking ass and chit chatin' with the birdies, yes please!
Of course, we don't have a bookstore around here any more and my library has none of these except Will of the Empress, and that only because it's a later book in a popular long-running series. Understaffed and underfunded library in a conservative part of the county–we get screwed a lot in this department.
KEL!!!! She is the best, I don't care if everyone else loves Alanna and Daine, she gets her shit done with hard work and determination and occasionally punching people. She is awesome.
iawtc. Kel is by far my favourite Tortall heroine although I love the Circle books and the Protector quartet about equally. She's so so so great.
Kel is the shit. I love that series and I keep trying to get my gf to read it. I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVEN'T READ THAT TAMORA PIERCE BOOK. I love Tamora Pierce. On my b-day list now.
Grace_B
It's circle of magic, with Briar, Daja, Triss and Sandry. It's not set in Tortall. I like Circle of Magic well enough but I think Tortall is a better universe overall.
Becca, Kel and Ali are my FAVOURITES.
Also, Pierces new series has lesbians and a transgender character and there's another person who's kinda mentioned cause Becca had a thing for him and he turned out to be gay and she's like "meh, whatever". And I think Kara is bisexual?
I have been really shitty and stopped reading after Kel's arc ended. I bought the first Becca book but never read it >.< Clearly this is something I need to work on
kristopolis
I thought I was the only person in the world who loves Kel more than Alanna or Daine. Kel doesn't have any powers, she just gets want she needs done through PUSH-UPS. keladry definitely got me through middle-school.
She definitely got me through middle school too :D I always thought she was better because she didn't have magic or some super powerful destiny to fall back on. She was just a normal person who got shit done through perseverance, yo.
Thank you so very much! You also name some of my favorites, Carey's, Lo's, and Bear/Monette's. I also recommend Ellen Kushner's the fall of kings, POINT OF HOPES and THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD!
You're welcome!!!
(I feel like I need to say something else but everything I can think of is far too squee-y.)
I forgot to say AMMONITE is also one of my favorites. How many SF novels, besides having a gay hero (a rare thing in the 90s, when it was published), has the science depend on recycling of sewage. Absolutely fascinating and worth every award it got!
I think you could be thinking of Nicola Griffith's subsequent novel Slow River? Both are worth recommending, certainly :D
(also: love your books, etc. :3 )
Oops. Right. SLOW RIVER! ::BLUSH::
I bought Malinda Lo's Huntress but I haven't started yet. It will now be moved to the top of the pile of books that I have to read
Oooooh I want lesbian fairy tales right now please.
And Will of the Empress was totally helpful to me as a 14-year-old struggling to come to terms with myself…I mean I reread that book several times just for the gay parts, without admitting to myself that's what I was doing.
I'm so honored!
And we don't always know why we're reading stuff–we just know we have to. What's important is that it's there to be read, which is why I woke up and began to work more with LGBT characters. Luckily, other writers aren't as slow to learn as I was. ;-)
^radiogirl, I reread that scene in The Will of the Empress SO MANY TIMES. I thought the reason I was so fascinated was just that I didn't know gay people in real life….>.<
Then later when I started to sort of figure out what was going on, it helped that I could tell myself things like, "WELL TAMORA PIERCE SAYS IT'S OKAY." So thank you <3
also, Alanna was my first crush.
Random Reader
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction. The Poison Eaters and Other Stories. Tithe. Valiant. Ironside. Indigo Springs. Blood and Iron. Waking the Moon.
So. Many. Other. Things. To. Read. How was So Fey? It has been on my list for ages but I have yet to find a copy in real life.
YEP pretty much exactly the same thing happened here.
im mostly excited because:
1. im 21 but i love teen novels so much, i admit it
2. you mentioned charlotte perkins gilman. i love her. i also love you.
3. YAY READING.
Whoops! That's Elizabeth Bear's "Blood and Iron," by the way.
Will of the Empress! Ammonite! Ash!
I was going to comment and complain if you were missing any of them, but you weren't. So yay! I love when AS reads my mind.
Roses and Thorns should be on there as well. Gossamer Axe. Godmother Night.
Sooo, there's this other book called Wolfcry written by that chick Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. It's part of a series, but the rest of that series isn't gay. But it's still a good series.
Mercedes Lackey OMG!
I read all of the Heralds of Valdemar books in college and I still own them (these are books that I've taken with me through move after move and across the country because they hold a special place in my heart). I just re-read the Last Herald Mage trilogy last month. I love the way she uses homosexuality in her books…there are characters in her books that just happen to be gay without them having to be some token gay stereotype (zomg just like real life?). I totally love that she did this back in the late 80's before there were gay people on mainstream TV/etc. Love is love and that's how she writes it.
So glad you included this on the list!
Jjay
Also, Mercedes Lackey wrote songs to accompany her books, so if you like Celtic/Folk/generally bardic music then go check them out:
Is to a song about Vanyel, but there's a whole host of others, with lots of different singers singing about different aspects of her world
Oh yes…at the peak of my Mercedes Lackey phase (before youtube) I somehow managed to find some of these on the internet!
I am such a sucker for YA fiction
Ash and Huntress are fantastic novels.
Also Amazon's 1-Click for Kindle books is dangerous, I can spend so much money before even realizing.
I couldn't agree more. I once spent an entire (small) paycheck for books on Amazon. I felt smarter after reading all those books but damn was I broke.
Also I love love love when AS writes about books. I'm always looking for recommendations for books. Keep 'em coming!
I CAN'T EVER YELL AT ANY TOP TEN LIST ON THIS SITE EVER AGAIN BECAUSE YOU INCLUDED CHINA MOUNTAIN ZHANG
I.E. YOU/THIS LIST ARE FLAWLESS. Good job. I have nothing to add. (Except there are totally lesbians in Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment!) (And also everyone should read Mission Child also by Maureen McHugh although it's more genderqueer than gay.) (Oh, OK, and Fledgling by Octavia Butler which is more … very … um, I don't know. But it's good.)
Thank you for reccing Santa Olivia! I read the first three Kushiel books at then ran out of energy for billion-word mediaeval BDSM epics but I might just run out and pick that up.
I have to grin crazily every time someone mentions Pratchett novels; Monstrous Regiment was a particularly fine one as well. Kudos! :D
Just like Jess
Billion-word medieval BDSM epics???? What the fuck have I been doing with my life???
TO AMAZON!!!!
I could not put the Kushiel series down. COULD NOT. I'm not sure there is anything better than an epic medieval fantasy novel combined with lots of kink.
Did anyone ever read the Nightrunner series? They were, like. . .not actually that good, looking at them, and the queer sex always seemed kind of out of place, but I tore the fuck through them when I was fourteen.
Gossamer Axe by Gail Baudino
The Fifth Milenium Series by Shirley Meier & S.M. Sterling especially: Saber & Shadow and The Cage.
Of course actual lesbian small press fiction: Katherine Forrest – Daughters of a Coral Dawn, LL Raand – Midnight Hunt & Blood Hunt, Merry Shannon – Sword of the Guardian. And don't even get me started on lesbian pirates!!!
KISSING THE WITCH IS SO GOOD YOU GUYS.
love this list and will definitely be checking out Ammonite. thanks carolyn!
I have $15 in gift cards left at the local bookstore. It is ON!
Most of these seem to be shit.
Where's all the quality lit featuring convincing portrayals of dykes?
Thank you for your constructive criticism
leafdarking
I dunno, you seem like a literary critic anon, why don't you recommend some?
Will of the Empress rekindled my faith in Tamora Pierce. I read her a lot as a teenager, but it always bugged me that in the Tortall books, characters would stand up for queer rights, but no the only characters who were ever stated to be queer were very minor (I think only one character is ever explicitly stated to be gay- a throwaway line about an already dead man's life. Everyone else got the Dumbledore treatment). I annoyed me to have straight people discussing gay rights when there were no visible gay people in the story. So Will of the Empress kind of brought me back into the fold.
A Companion to Wolves is pretty bad. I will give a book a lot of credit for having openly gay characters and questioning gender roles, but it was just really meh. It kind of reads like fanfiction. I'd replace it with The Steel Remains. Again, not the BEST fantasy novel ever, but pretty good.
AUTOSTRADDLE. I literally stood in my library last week looking at the fantasy section thinking "I wish I knew which of these had gay ladies in them so I could be all over that shit". AND HERE YOU ARE. How can this be.
Ah, good old Tamora Pierce. I remember a lot of things in Will of the Empress disappointing me, but the way she handled that character's coming out made me so happy. I read all of my Tamora Pierce books until they literally fell apart.
My 2 cents, for the young and old adult alike:
Jacqueline Carey has several awesomely sex-positive books (Kushiel's Legacy and Naamah's Legacy) set in a world where bisexuality is celebrated and seen as the norm. All but 3 books are about female leads. There's tons of little historical fiction nuggets for history buffs, excellent character development, and tons of hot, kinky sex. Definitely one of my favorite series at the moment.
Geoff Ryman and Gwyneth Jones have both written numerous queer, female leads and have a knack for punchy, engrossing short fiction. Ryman tends to get a bit too esoteric and postmodern in long form, but if you're not thrown off by high science fiction, The Child Garden is an awesome book.
Along with Ammonite, Nicola Griffith does a paints an gripping portrait of near-future London with tons of science-y goodness and mystery elements in Slow River.
Okay, yes, very coming-out-y, but way back ten years ago there was a series by Lynn Flewelling about two gay men that was really well written – Stalking Darkness/Luck In the Shadows.
She then followed it up with a complicated semi-trans-issue book kicking off with The Bone Doll's Twin. Well worth the read. It may not be YA, but I totally read it while still at an age ending in -teen.
I didn't initially read "The Bone Doll's Twin" as about trans issues, but looking back on it, only my conservative education could have blinded me to it. Flewelling places a lot of emphasis on the main character having always been female (even if kept unnaturally male due to magic). In addition, it's a land which can only be ruled by a woman (although otherwise patriarchal), and they seem to have a very Spartan attitude to gay men.
May I also say that Tamora Pierce rules? I loved the gay romance in "The Will of the Empress" long before I realised my own tendencies towards lady-loving.
S. R.
Well, looks like it's time to update my reading list!
Aww, Vanyel! I'd read and re-read and re-read that series even before I knew I was anything other than straight.
Me too! I think I've reread them at least once a year since I was 10 years old. Took me until I was 19 or so to figure out that my deep identification with Van had more than Mercedes Lackey's excellent writing for a basis!
I'll put in Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy (and the prequel and sequels for that matter). Female main character who's straight, but secondary male character who has a very interesting coming out story, with a lot of emphasis on the effects of a severely homophobic society.
evierose
Yes, definitely the Black Magician Trilogy!
But, I have a question: what happened to Dannyl and Tayend?
I never read the prequel or sequels because I heard they broke up and it pretty much tore my heart out so I thought I wouldn't read the other books in the series. But now I'm suffering serious Canavan withdrawal symptoms… does Dannyl date ANYONE? And is Tayend happy?
Anything by Jane Fletcher. Her Celaeno series is fantastic reading.
Oh, and there's a couple/three great books by a Canadian author, Jes Battis (starting with Night Child) with very much queer characters, set in Vancouver. CSI for the psychic/otherworldly set.
After this list was posted this afternoon, I bought Santa Olivia, and I am now finished with it a few hours later. I literally couldn't put it down, even while I was cooking dinner. What a great book! I'm excited to see a sequel featuring the same characters is coming out in November.
I am completely delighted by your comment / the fact you read it / liked it. I also can't wait for November.
Santa Olivia really rocks…it's got a queer Latina protagonist who boxes, how rare/awesome is that for sci-fi/fantasy?
Also I think Monstrous Regiment is possibly Terry Pratchett's best book, and he's quite prolific so that's saying a lot.
I liked Nicola Griffith's other books better than Ammonite, to be honest; Slow River felt more realistically gritty, and her main character Aud in Stay and The Blue Place is a cool, complex, badass heroine.
Love Tamora Pierce–yes her stuff is gender bending, which is great in its own right, but her queer character, which was an extremely pleasant surprise (third book with this char. in it, but first mention of liking girls), is refreshing and nothing less than expected with such an ally like Tamora Pierce. Check out the rest of her stuff–she and her partner Tim Liebe work on a graphic novel together, and her fantasy novels will always be my favorites. She has inspired me since 6th grade, and I can't say enough good things about her and her work.
Speaking of TP, I love your avatar. :D
WORD!!!
I'm generally not a big fantasy fan, but I loved Graceling by Kristin Cashore so much. I'll definitely have to check some of these out.
I have to read Ash for my YA Lit class. :)
Oh c'mon – no Pointsman? The Pointsman books (Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams) by Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett have a gay protagonist and a bi protagonist, and a bunch of queer secondary characters, and the fictional world has civil unions. The protagonists are men, BUT.
I LOVE the Pointsman books. I don't care if it is guys (witness my love of Kushner/Sherman.) It broke my heart when Barnett died.
Read Jacqueline Carey's books (Kushiel's legacy) when I was 15 years old. They kinda opened my horizons at the time (also they introduced me to fantasy) :) Anyway thanks thanks thanks for this. I love fantasy, and I love queer stories, so this is an awesome list!
Yay! new books to get.
Also I suggest the site goodreads.com to everyone. I've had an account for a few months, but just started really using it and love it.
I'm sorry but Malinda Lo's Ash is one of the shittiest books I've read so far. I'm almost half way through with it and I just can't take any more long drawn out descriptions of leaves and trees and forests and walks in the woods. Does it get any better, because it moves so fucking slowly. I know I'm supposed to support lesbian authors who ease lesbian things into YA/general fiction but goddamn, I hope the other books on your list are better reads.
I wasn't super impressed with Ash, either, but Huntress is much, much better! I would just skip right to that one, honestly.
I'm surprised you don't like it!
I found it amazing when I read it
This list was great. When I was just starting my teens I read Huff's Sing the Four Quarters and was struck both by it's feisty bi leading lady and how wonderfully NBD sexuality was in the world she inhabited. If you haven't yet, you should pick it up
tangentsferret
Wow, how incredibly depressing to see the Vanyel books called "old". I suppose I am decrepit, then. On to my indubitably ancient recommendations, then. _Gossamer Axe_ by Gael Baudino. It has a near-immortal lesbian human protagonist, and a battle against an ancient Fae bard that is won by old-school heavy metal. Also, how could anybody pass up lines like "But I *am* gay, Boo-Boo. It's for to save my lover that I need your help." And always, always, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Renunciate books. I dunno, I have a hard time giving YA books, mostly because I'm a lifelong bibliomaniac and my early reading was not chaperoned, so my ideas of "YA" turn out to be a bit.. off. I read _Dune_ in 3rd grade and _Interview with a Vampire_ not too much later. (shrug)
Jay Demetrick
I'm another vote for "Gossamer Axe" by Gael Baudino. Love that book. Surprised that no one has mentioned:
Tanya Huff's urban horror/fantasy/occult investigation "Blood" series and it's sequel the "Smoke" trilogy. There's a bisexual vampire who gets a gay boyfriend in the Blood series and the gay boyfriend is the star of the "Smoke" trilogy. Also her stand-alone novel "The Fire's Stone" has gay male main characters.
Ellen Kushner's trilogy "Swordspoint", "The Privilege of the Sword", "The Fall of Kings" has gay male leads set in a fantasy Renaissance style period.
Robin Hobb's "The Rain Wilds Chronicles" has a gay character who starts out very flawed but redeem himself. Her other trilogies set on the same world have an androgynous character who is in love with a man and disguises himself as a woman in one of the trilogies.
Fionna Patton's 4 "Branion" novels all have gay male characters as well as her "Warriors of Estavia" trilogy.
Dianne Duane's fantasy "The Tale of Five" trilogy have bisexual characters who all marry each other. Looks like they're out of print but available as eBooks.
Elisabeth A. Lynne's fantasy trilogy and sci-fi novels all have gay and lesbian characters as leads. Her work is mostly out of print these days but well worth hunting through used bookstores to locate.
Laurie J. Marks' "Elemental Logic Saga" has lesbian characters but is sadly out of print as well.
Nancy Springer's "Metal Angel" is about a guardian angel who becomes a gay male rock star. I think it might be out of print these days too.
Water Logic is now available in paperback and ebook at Small Beer Press.
LindaW
I've read and liked several of these (Carey and Pierce are two of my favorite authors) and have added several others to the my list to get and read.
It's a tad on the "fluff" side, but if you haven't read Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series (begins with Soulless) you really ought to. Steampunkish, comedy of manners, romance set in an alternate Victorian England where Vampires (politics) and Werewolves (armies) keep the British Empire going. Very funny and well written. Several central gay and lesbian characters, though the main romance is not.
Oh, and how could I have forgotten Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson books? (Mooncalled first book in series). Ok, I know, why — the gay characters are somewhat tangential. Still, you've got a gay werewolf who's number three in the pack and the main character's best popcorn and bad movies night friend, and an all around decent guy.
I'm surprised Sarah Monette's Melusine cycle isn't on this list.
It's hard for me to tell if I am more excited about all the YA SF with queer ladies or the fact that Tamora freaking Peirce commented on Autostraddle. Both raised my heartrate, I can assure you.
I'm saddened, but not one bit surprised that only books written by female authors made this list…of course, that's probably because no one can name a really smashing fantasy novel by a male author with any kind of main gay characters (unless it's a straight-man-fantasy depiction of lesbian lovers).
I'm working on changing that…but gee, for someone reason, no one will publish me unless I make my protagonist straight and cisgendered…hm. Curious.
"of course, that's probably because no one can name a really smashing fantasy novel by a male author with any kind of main gay characters (unless it's a straight-man-fantasy depiction of lesbian lovers)."
He does fall a little into the latter category and I'm not WILD about his work, but the Island in the Sea of Time series by S M Stirling (aka the Nantucket books) qualifies (one of the protagonists is a lesbian who marries a very nice girl. And they don't die, it's actually pretty amazing from that standpoint.) They're technically science fiction but IMO are way less sciency than, say, China Mountain Zhang, which is actually 100% science fiction.
I'm sure there must be men who have written about men out there but I can't come up with any, although I haven't read any Samuel Delany and some of his work must qualify (SF again though).
SM Stirling's books confound me. I am very easily entertained by the pleasant minutia of sustaining an existence off the grid (see also: 'My Side of the Mountain') but on the other hand his politics and his view of the world really irritate me. I think he has an inflated opinion of how awesome a world without tech would be–remember the diabetic couple who just peacefully died and let everyone have their stuff? notice how we never see anyone whose quality of life was significantly improved by technology ever again?–and his colonialism-would-be-so-much-fun attitude gets past being in-character for a book and goes into being too gross to ignore ('Conquistador', ew.)
S.M. Stirling
>I think he has an inflated opinion of how awesome a world without tech would be–remember the diabetic couple who just peacefully died
— I'm diabetic myself, and in that situation, would simply die. That's what happens without the meds if you're severely diabetic; you go into a coma (messy details) and then die. Believe me, I know.
>and let everyone have their stuff?
— If they're dying, should they burn it or something? That seems rather selfish.
>notice how we never see anyone whose quality of life was significantly improved by technology ever again?
— in that setting, all the people who need higher technology to live are just dead, and therefore off the stage.
(Disaster stories are generally about survivors; dead is boring as a p.o.v, for the most part.)
Everyone else kvetches occasionally about how hard everything is and about things they miss (no deep-dish pizza… no more tampax…) but get on with their lives as best they can.
>and his colonialism-would-be-so-much-fun attitude
— fun for some people, perhaps; the ones on the other end of the stick aren't so enthusiastic, IIRC.
Keyboardcouch
Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains has already been mentioned.
Then there's Hal Duncan's epic time/reality bending Book of All Hours series which has two gay protagonists and in some ways centres around their love story.
I haven't read it (though I enjoy his mystery books), but Josh Lanyon's Strange Fortune would qualify.
SF-wise There's also New Model Army by Adam Roberts, which is this utterly brilliant exploration of the internet's facilitation of direct democracy through the idea of crowd sourcing a non-hierarchical mercenary army. It's somewhat cheering to see a straight male writer use a gay narrator.
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Try Samuel R. Delany. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (the first SF novel with with a gay protagonist) is brilliant, beautifully written thought provoking and really gets at the vastness of space.
Hero by Perry Moore is funny and exciting YA about a gay superhero. Also he has an interesting, complicated relationship with his father.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is totally fantasy (magic portrait!) and totally gay (Basil/Dorian/Henry love triangle!)
Gay dudes do write gay sff. Just not as many.
Thank you for this amazing list. I haven't read any of them- yet!
Lisa Spangenberg
I do want to call attention to Ellen Kushner's The Fall of Kings, Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword.
Elizabeth Lynn's Tornor books, especially The Northern Girl.
Samuel Delany's epic Return to Nevèrÿon series.
Elizabeth Bear's Carnival, The Promeathean books (Blood & Iron, Whiskey & Water, Ink & Steel, and Hell and Earth). Bear is a mistress of genderfuck, perhaps a by product of being "raised by wild lesbians). Bear is a majorly fabulous writer and can tell a story.
I think her sequel to A Companion to Wolves, A Reckoning of Men is out now; both were written with Sarah Monette, whose fantasy trilogy Mélusine, The Virtu and The Mirador has a gay male protagonist.
Laura Mixon's brilliant lesbian SF Glasshouses; really super book, hard sf with a dyke heroine. Also Burning the Ice.
Tanya Huff also wrote a quartet of high fantasy books (Sing the Four Quarters, Fifth Quarter, No Quarter, and The Quartered Sea) in an incredibly queer world where basically everyone is bisexual. Except for the lesbians, who are lesbians.
Also, has anyone mentioned that her wife, Fiona Patton, also writes gay fantasy? Because she does! \o/
See my list just up a few posts from here.
I would not recommend Kim Harrison's Hollow series. The main character Rachel and the bi Vamp Ivy do NOT hook up at all. Rachel only has relationships with men, and it's sad seeing Ivy being insanely devoted her without anything coming from it. Actually, I blame the author whose main fanbase is homophobic. Anyways do not read if you want to have your heart break over and over gain for Ivy.
Gosh! Santa Olivia is awesome… just what I needed right now – kinda a mix of Billy Elliot, Jane Eyre and The golden compass (so far at least) – LOVE IT!
Tee452
When Women were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson.
You can read the first book in the trilogy here:
http://www.shieldmaidenpress.com/
The other two are available on Amazon.
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This list is amazing, especially for including China Mountain Zhang, one of the best SFF books, like ever.
One series that everyone reading this post/these comments NEED to check out is the Elemental Logic series by Laurie Marks (http://lauriejmarks.com/books/elemental-logic-series.html). These are seriously the best, and queerest, fantasy novels I have ever read, plus their politics are lefty and the characterization and worldbuilding are both fabulous. The series follows a bunch of characters, most of whom are gay or queer (the world seems to flip that 90/10 split the other way), focusing on a two ladies in love, Zanja and Karis. Both of them are deeply flawed badasses and have one of the most tender and believable relationships I've read in genre.
The first two books came out from Tor, and I believe are out of print (libraries are your friend!). Small Beer Press (Kelly Link's press) will be bringing them back into print, I think, and have published the third book in the series, Air Logic. It's criminal these aren't as well known as they should be. Check them out.
Also, a good place to look for gender-bending and often queer SFF is to check out the list of works that have won the James Tiptree Jr. award (http://tiptree.org/), which is awarded to the work that best "explores or expands" ideas of gender. And if you want a book about a science fiction writer who was also pretty queer, check out Tiptree's biography, called James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon. Got a lot of great writeups in mainstream and genre press when it came it, and it's fantastic.
PHEW. Feelings, I have them.
I first realized I was gay when I read "The Last Herald-Mage" series at age twelve. Just re-read it this summer, a decade later, and it holds up pretty damn well–Lackey doesn't shy away from the gay (Vanyel has sexy, sexy lovahs; there's a nice arc across the three books as his fam comes to grips with him being a homo), but nor does she make it the central element of Vanyel's character, and she also has lovely strong lady characters around every corner. Also, all the gays in her books are really good-looking, just like in RL! So glad you're recommending this series, it's certainly worth a read (and one of the best series set in the Velgarth universe).
"Will of the Empress" was nice, but I was always a little disappointed that Sandry wasn't the gay one, I think I had a teeny crush on her once upon a time.
Also…"Ash" was kind of boring. Maybe "Huntress" is better?
I first read "The Last Herald-Mage" when I was 10 or 11, I think. It took me until I was 19 to figure out WHY I identified so much with Vanyel, but those books were SOO important to my sense of what it meant to be queer. Yay for early positive image of teh gayz! I'm still super attached to those books; I brought them and the first Harry Potter with me to Paris for my junior year abroad & have been using them for comfort reading. :)
Also, "Huntress" is approximately 20 million times better than "Ash." Much better plot movement, character development, everything. I'm glad I read it first, otherwise I don't think I would have gotten to it!
candise
I thought Huntress was better than Ash.
Another suggestion: The Princess Series by Jim C. Hines. A kickass re-imagining of Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (who is a lez), who are kind of like a medieval Charlie's Angels.
With respect to Huntress versus Ash, I agree very much.
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Last Herald Mage ftw. I cannot tell you how important that series was to queer 11 year old me. I find parts of it glaringly emotionally immature now, but the overall story is great. (I rediscovered all the music based on it the other day, too. That was a trip.)
i just got an email saying that the book [kissing the witch] i put on hold at the library is in. i can't even wait!
Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner features a bisexual main character. Swordspoint also by her features two males as the main couple. The Fall of Kings, same author, centers around a gay couple.
Great list, and great follow up comments to add to it!
I too like the Laurie Marks Elemental series…got me through a rough patch last year, that is for sure!
A long time ago, when I was young(er)–which means that many of you were wee babes– I read a not so great book about a woman River Pirate, and I have NO frakking idea what it was called. I remember that as a mass market paperback it was huge…and even though it wasn't all that great, I have wanted to read it again. Any thoughts chicas?
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>Elizabeth Lynn's Tornor books, especially The Northern Girl.
— THE NORTHERN GIRL has some awesome writing in it. The first chapter is a tour-de-force; it's -hard- to make someone going to the market and buying a fish interesting, but Lynn manages it.
Guys, guys, guys. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing (trilogy)–really really good young adult fantasy! And I won't reveal who the lesbian character is because it's a spoiler but her story is amazing and basically her incredible bad-assery and sexiness was part of what made me realize I'm bisexual when I read these in middle school. Because I talked about my "girl crush" on her so much that I realized, hmm maybe this is just a plain old full-blown "crush." Seriously, go read them! :)
MestizaMetaphor
Kushiel's Dart! You did list Jacqueline Carey (because she's fantastic) but K.D. is just phenomenal. It's not one character, it's basically all of them. The book is super sex-positive. No one even has to say it, homosexual and bisexual flings happen constantly in the book and no one bats an eye!
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OKAY if any of you have not read Sherwood Smith's "Inda" series YOU NEED TO RIGHT NOW. She portrays basically the full spectrum of sexualities in the 4 books in the series with refreshing honesty and oh god I'm getting worked up just thinking about it. She goes through the point of view of a young boy realizing he's gay and eventually accepting that part of him, she has an older gay couple that are completely committed to each other and have one of the strongest relationships in the series, and she even has a character who uses sex as a way to show his friends how much he loves them even if he doesn't 'love' them and, seriously, how often do you get a well-written character like that? Sex is dealt with so well in this series and is shown to mean something different to each character, just as it does in real life to each person. I love this series so much, but I've only come across a few people on the internet who have read it, and I know no one in real life who has even heard of it apart from my friends hearing my constant praise for it all the time.
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There's nothing better than the joy and excitement you feel leaving the salon with freshly colored tresses, knowing the hours (and dollars) you spent in the process were all worth it. But not every color appointment has a happy ending. Sometimes, as your hair's being dried, you catch a glimpse of your new color in the mirror, and (gasp!) what you feel is the opposite of joy. Then the panic sets in—you've got a good 15 to 20 minutes until the blow-dryer stops, and you'll forced to speak. You know your colorist will be expecting gratitude and enthusiasm, but you hate what you're looking at. What do you do? Celebrity colorist Rita Hazan has the answer.
Keep reading for the best course of action when your dye job turns out all wrong!
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"However, if it's your first time with someone and you really don't like how it turned out, I would suggest doing some research and finding a new person," Hazan says. When you go elsewhere, be prepared to pay. A new stylist will treat the appointment as a new color, not a color correction. If it's a complete redo, Hazan says it'll be worth it to get your fixed properly. "Or, if you want to switch stylists at the same salon, that's fine too—it's your hair and your money," she says. "You should | 233 |
Learn the scale patterns used to play melodies, riffs, and solos on guitar. These patterns include pentatonic and major scale patterns. I cover these patterns and their usage at length in my Fretboard Theory video instruction available on this website. You can view free samples of this instruction by signing up for my emails.
Build your arsenal of lead guitar licks and phrases by learning songs. I reference good songs to learn throughout my instructional courses. Many of these examples I teach for free on my YouTube channel. Specifically, see the pentatonic and major scale playlists. Tabs for these song lessons can be found by following the links in the video descriptions. Other tabs are found on my free guitar tab page.
After learning several riffs and solos, learn how to rework their licks and phrases over other music as I demonstrate in the video below. You can follow<|fim_middle|> you very kindly posted to me recently. THANK YOU! Keep up the good work.
I am at the "I'm sick of scales stage", but not linking it all together.
Hopefully with your guide I can move on.
Thanks, Peter. I'm glad the instruction is working for you. Let me know if you need any help.
Great video Lots of good information. | my examples by playing along with these free guitar backing tracks.
In addition to my Fretboard Theory courses teaching you how to play the pentatonic and major scale patterns in which popular riffs and solos are based, you also learn about using arpeggio patterns, modes, harmonic minor scale patterns, and chord tone soloing (a technique in which you target chord tones in your lead lines in order to give your solos more direction and connect them more closely to the music). Fretboard Theory also gets into all the details of building chords, playing chord progressions, and understanding how popular songs are composed. If you would like well-rounded instruction on music that focuses specifically on the guitar fretboard and familiar guitar songs, then Fretboard Theory can teach you how to think and play like a pro easier and faster than you thought possible. To learn more, join the email list by filling in any form on this website or visit the store page.
That should do it. Take your time. It's a slow, gradual process.
What amps/effects are you using in the Cocaine solo demo video?
Are you using an emulator/playing into a computer?
I was going direct into a mixing board using a Line 6 Pod Pro. I believe the patch I used was just overdrive, delay and reverb.
I am interested in coming up with some tunes in the e minor pentatonic scale. What chords can I play with this scale? Any popular songs that combine this scale with chords as an illustration?
E minor pentatonic can be played over anything that revolves around an E minor chord. Song examples would include "Horse with No Name" by America, "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath and "Running Down a Dream" by Tom Petty. It can also be played over blues based songs that revolve around E major or E7. Examples would be "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix and "Back in Black" by AC/DC.
To learn more about using the pentatonic scale and what goes together with an E minor chord, sign up for a free preview of my guitar theory book and DVD.
Is the 33% off summer offer still good? Also, you mention the major and minor pentatonic scales as being by far the most important scales. i have been getting more and more into the Allman Bros, especially the songs written by Dickie Betts.
I have read alot about them being highly influenced by the mixolydian scale. Will I find alot of benefit in your course that will apply to their style also. My main interests are Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Molly Hatchet, Triumph and Allmans.
Hi Desi, are this Video in better (HD) Quality availlable? ore where to buy too learn this nice colle Riffs.
A real eye opener for me. I fought the idea of just learning other people's licks and songs i thought i could just wing it.
This might be your first posting in 2018 but anyway although I have only reached chapter 3 ( volume 1) of your excellent Fretboard Theory books I am finding your tutorials very inspirational, in particular your recent "How to Guitar Solo" video that | 668 |
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The concept of this extraordinary gadget is to allow its owner to make best selfies ever. First of all, you brush your hair with it, tidy yourself up using it as a mirror and then snap the perfect selfie by choosing the angle and light to suit you most. Also, the case is pretty big. On the one hand, it is not comfortable to carry in a pocket, but if you are used to keeping it in a purse, it will spare you the effort of searching for your smartphone among other little things. Besides, the brush's bristles are soft which makes de-tangling your hair easy and relaxing. Also, the case has a slot for headphones so as to allow its owners to listen to their favourite piece of music or talk to a friend on the phone while taking selfies and brushing your hair.
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The storage market saw more consolidation with Emulex acquiring enterprise storage systems component maker<|fim_middle|>09," said Paul Folino, chairman and CEO of Emulex. | Sierra Logic for US$180million and digital tape manufacturer Tandberg Data buying data storage firm Exabyte for US$28million.
Exabyte will be breathing a sigh of relief. In June the US firm, which manufactures tape drives and tape libraries, put itself up for sale following the resignation of its CEO and founder Juan Rodriquez.
Exabyte has been plagued with financial problems for some time — posting financial losses six years running — and saw total revenue for its 2006 first fiscal quarter drop US$3million to US$21.6million compared to the same period last year.
The vendor's stock market value has plummeted in the last two years from a high of US$15 a share in 2004 to below US0.15 following the June announcement.
"The complimentary strengths of the two companies in the various geographic markets around the world will result in a truly global competitor in the storage industry," stated Tom Ward, CEO of Exabyte.
"In addition, the combined product portfolios of the two companies will provide our customers with the full range of state-of-the-art, cost effective products and technologies to meet their needs," Ward added.
Exabyte said it intends to liquidate and dissolve immediately after the closing of the transaction. It is not expected that there will be any assets available for distribution to holders of the firm's stock.
Buying Exabyte will give Norway-based Tandberg a good foothold in the US market and has been seen as a good move by industry analysts.
Emulex's move to buy US firm Sierra Logic has also been viewed favourably by the industry. The deal will expand Emulex's position in the market for embedded multi-protocol storage products and builds on its previous acquisition of embedded switch supplier Vixel.
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This beautiful 18-acre park has had two lives; first<|fim_middle|>000. | dedicated in 1859 as Sidney Park, named in honor of Algernon Sidney Johnson, a Columbia City Councilman, the park experienced an illustrious but short tenure.
The park fell into disrepair after the Civil War and served as a site for commercial ventures until the late 1900's. In 1990, the park was reopened and has become a beautiful diamond in the downtown area, offering a green oasis in contrast to the glass, asphalt and concrete in the urban environment. It serves as the site for such events as Kids Day, The Summer Concert Series, plus many more activities. In 1992, the park was renamed Finlay Park, in honor of Kirkman Finlay, Mayor of Columbia who had a vision to reenergize the area known as the Vista, between Main Street and the river, and recreate the beautiful site known as Sidney Park.
The park is situated between the streets of Assembly, Taylor, Gadsden and Laurel and remains one of the treasures of Columbia . It is across the street from the Governor's Mansion and has one of the most photographed views of downtown.
A bronze statue of Columbia's late mayor, Kirkman Finlay, sitting on a bench. Created by Maria Kirby-Smith, the piece was unveiled in April 2 | 266 |
MCSD chooses to send SPLOST tax to voters
By WTVM Web Team
Published: Jan. 21, 2015 at 1:31 AM EST|Updated: Jan. 21, 2015 at 4:30 AM EST
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - The Muscogee County School Board passed the SPLOST referendum at Tuesday night's meeting, and now voters will decide if they want the reinstate the sales tax.
The Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, also known as SPLOST, would add one percent to your purchases in Muscogee County. The tax is expected to generate more than $190 million over five years for school improvement projects.
The board approved the referendum Tuesday night, but not without a fight.
Those opposed to passage of the SPLOST referendum urged board members to vote against it, saying school officials need to be more accountable about how monies in the past have been spent. Board newcomer John Thomas was<|fim_middle|> referendum, sending the decision now to Muscogee County voters. Superintendent David Lewis says the decision is a victory for Muscogee County children.
"I'm excited about the outcome of the vote moving forward with SPLOST," Lewis said. "I'm excited about the potential it has for our students, our teachers, and our district moving forward."
The previous SPLOST expired at the end of 2014.
Among the projects slated for renewed SPLOST funding would be a new Spencer High School and improved programming for children with autism.
Voters will decide the issue in a referendum vote on March 17. | among those calling for a top to bottom audit of school district funding before sending the issue to voters.
"There are efficiencies in the budget and to ask the public to raise taxes and commit more money to SPLOST without first asking the district to show some accountability financially is wrong and that's why I'm, opposed," Thomas said.
But the overwhelming majority of those in attendance were there to support SPLOST, like Lisa Jenkins who said money from the tax will help among other things children with autism.
"Every item on the SPLOST has a child with a need and they are waiting on that need to get met," Jenkins said. "I personally am supporting the SPLOST for autism which is number two on the list where we will gain more 24 classrooms and office space and training rooms."
Fellow board newcomer Kia Chambers spoke out in favor of the SPLOST, saying it's something the board needs to do for future generations.
"When we're talking about an audit, we are talking about how we spent in the past," Chambers said. "When we are talking about the SPLOST, we are talking about the possibility of what we can give to kids living in the future."
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Hull actor 'can't wait' to put on special The Hypocrite show in memory of beloved director
Stars including Caroline Quentin and Mark Addy are returning to honour Paul Frankish's memory
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Hull actor Martin Barass (Image: SWNS)
A Hull born actor has spoken of his excitement ahead of the reading of the play in memory of Hull-born musical director Paul Frankish.
Martin Barass, from east Hull, stars as the the Lord Mayor of Hull in The Hypocrite, a farce about the English Civil war, which returns to Hull Truck Theatre this weekend.
The theatre performance is comprised of some of British television's best-loved stars including Mr Barass and Mark Addy, of Game of Thrones and The Full Monty fame, and Caroline Quentin.
The cast will return on Sunday, June 23, along with writer Richard Bean and director Phillip Breen, to commemorate Mr Frankish, who worked as rehearsal musical director on The Hypocrite but sadly passed away earlier this year.
'The Hypocrite' was played to packed houses at Hull Truck Theatre in February and March, 2017. (Image: Pete Le May)
Mr Frankish was a talented musician, conductor, composer and teacher, whose West End credits include Wicked, but who also worked with organisations, artists and young people across the region, including Hull Truck Theatre, She Productions, Northern Academy of Performing Arts and Hull Philharmonic Orchestra.
"Paul was such a great guy and I was so shocked to hear that he passed away - he lit up my day the last time that I saw him in York where I live," said actor Mr Barass.
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"I thought that he was the kind of man that would live forever, and he really was at no age.
"I hope along with the cast to do him justice in the reading of The Hypocrite with my script in hand, and it will be great for us all to be reunited, and who knows, the production might well be put on again.
The Hypocrite at Hull Truck
"It's based on a true story and really is a fantastic piece of theatre".
Mr Barass is looking forward to returning to his roots and putting on his strongest Hull accent in the play.
"I absolutely love and adore Hull and I always find an excuse to come back, and watch all the KR matches," he said.
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"I love the people in Hull, its access to the coast, the river and the bridge, but most of all the people.
"They are so honest, friendly and in the greatest way, humble - the people have a real sense of pride as to where they come from, and of course we also have the fishing heritage.
"The Hull accent is also fantastic for comedy - there's a great twang and broad sweeping vowels - I can't wait to put on my strongest Hull accent".
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The Hypocrite was originally produced by Hull Truck Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and played to sell out audiences in both Hull and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Tickets cost £17.50 which can be bought from Hull Truck by calling 01482 323638 or visiting the website and all proceeds from the reading will go to support the family of Mr Frankish.
Humber Bridge Soapbox Derby 2019 to attract big crowds<|fim_middle|>allai comes to Hull's East ParkThe troupe is promising five days of amazing thrills with aerialists, acrobats, jugglers, magicians, cowgirls and more
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Things to do in HullFirst look as amazing Circus Sallai comes to Hull's East Park with acrobats, jugglers and cowgirlsCircus Sallai is set to bring a fantastic spectacle to Hull's East Park
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The final long run session was blessed with good weather, yet providing the challenge of the heat to test the Kookaburras going for optimal race paces. Decked in their 'finisher' tops signifying their successful completion of the training program, the Kookaburras gathered for group photos with the waves and coconut trees providing a nice backdrop. All looked fresh from the past 2 weeks of tapering, and this morning, were<|fim_middle|> with the record group of Team Singapore participants.
Run Kookaburra, Run Kookaburra, Gold Your Race Will Be! | asked to go for slightly more aggressive 'sustainable' paces to push the envelope for good timings at Gold Coast Airport Marathon GCAM next weekend.
Other than a nearby run event at The Playground, the ECP was clear as we headed towards NSRCC in our respective groups of 2:00h, 2:30h, 3:45h, 4:00h, 4:15h, 4:30h, 5:00h, 5:30h in optimal race paces. Along the way, body-sensing of the overall physical and mental condition took centre stage. Minor tweaks and adjustments were made with the trainers and pacers to better the form and condition for race day.
The second half of the run tested the Kookaburra's mental strength in the heat, something which they might encounter after 25km in GCAM, albeit in cooler climate and more windy conditions. At the end of 14km (HM) and 18km (FM), the Kookaburras looked strong and able to sustain the aggressive targets set this morning, and they looked good to GO FOR GOLD.
We will like to congratulate all Kookaburra participants for going through the 12-week journey with Team FatBird in training for GCAM, and wishes them best success and an enjoyable time down under together | 291 |
Country trio Gloriana spent three years making its new album "Three," which was finally released June 2.
Home<|fim_middle|> part of the nightclub's summer concert series Tuesday, Aug. 4. Tickets are $25.
The trio had a hit with "(Kissed You) Good Night" on their 2012 album "A Thousand Miles Left Behind." Gloriana's Mike Gossin, who also plays guitar, said "Three" shows Gloriana's growth in the years since.
"We still stay true to the Gloriana sound and harmonies that we started back in 2009," Mike Gossin said. "But this one definitely start to finish, is driving in your car or summer festival feel-good, up-tempo songs."
The Gossins are brothers; they were born and raised in Utica, New York. They moved to North Carolina together to attend college, and eventually moved to Tennessee. They are joined in Gloriana by lead vocalist Rachel Reinert, who they discovered via her MySpace page. Gloriana was originally a quartet featuring mandolin player and vocalist Cheyenne Kimball.
Gloriana has racked up several music industry honors. The group took the American Music Awards' Breakthrough Artist of the Year category in 2009; the following year, it was named the Academy of Country Music's Top New Vocal Group. In 2012, the band performed "(Kissed You) Good Night" on an episode on the television show "The Bachelorette."
GLORIANA IN CONCERT
When: 10 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4
Where: Seacrets, 117 49th St., Ocean City
Web: www.seacrets.com | to the group's new song "Trouble," guitarist Tom Gossin said the album was "a snapshot of everything we've been thinking, feeling and living through on the road for the past three years."
"It's really special to us," he said. "It's really the stories of what's been going on with Gloriana. And we're really excited for our fans out there to kind of glimpse into our world."
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Waynesboro teen named Cadet of the Month at Fishburne Military School
Published Wednesday, Dec. 2, <|fim_middle|>1, noted, "Cadet Wood has demonstrated an outstanding work ethic and commitment to the Corps. He represents the best of Fishburne and serves as a positive example for his peers. Congratulations to Mr. Wood for a job well done." | 2015, 3:11 pm
Fishburne Military School announced today that Cadet Stacy Wood from Waynesboro was named Fishburne Military School's Cadet of the Month for November 2015. Wood is an eighth-grader and the son of Mr. Jim Wood.
Cadet of the Month is selected by a board of Cadet Officers and approved by the Offices of the Commandant, JRTOC, Headmaster and Superintendent of the school. A Cadet of the Month is selected based upon his academic, military and community achievements throughout the previous month.
Cadets earning this award enjoy extra privileges, including a 3-day Weekend Pass, one Special Dinner, ten Commandant Merits, and the right to wear the Cadet of Month shoulder-cord.
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I am having an informal and simple holiday party Saturday morning. I've invited the ladies from my new church over to my house so we can get in the festive holiday spirit — and we are doing it on a budget! I asked each of them to bring a 4 x 5 card with their favorite holiday recipe or tradition written on it. Then I'll photocopy and share them the following week. I'm serving a simple homemade apple cake, coffee & cider.
The idea behind having everyone bring their favorite recipes and traditions is to get us excited about the holidays ahead and to give us a way to get to know each other better as we share. I am really looking forward to it!
Holidays can be expensive so it is fun to find ways we can gather friends together without spending a small fortune. Living a beautiful life doesn't mean we need to host or attend extravagant parties!
Are you planning any fun holiday parties this year? Let's share simple ideas in the comments! What are some fun holiday party themes or ideas you've seen?
I was drooling over this Sun Valley home inspired by a barn (these images featured on House Beautiful). Then when I saw this mudroom, I was in love. I so enjoy finding houses that are unique and reflect a family's personality and life. I adore the light coming in the french doors, the chalkboard, the canoe hanging from the ceiling… love love love.
Love all the patterned blankets on the built in shelves! These provide a decorative statement that is PRACTICAL too. I love a house that is decorated with every day things that are also beautiful. You really don't need to fuss around much with accessories if you have lovely colors, shapes and patterns of real life things. You know that is my kind of decorating…I love it.
This room has a fun mix of fabrics and patterns. A polka dot ottoman? Love. Pops of red? So fun. Four blue and white club chairs? Swoon. A throw over each chair? COZY! I think I need a polka dot ottoman. Stat.
I can never resist wood walls! This house is full of them so of course I would love it. These board and batten walls are a beautiful backdrop to<|fim_middle|> winter or summer house girl (or guy)? Or are you like me, you'd like a home that can embrace all the seasons?
For more images of this lovely home, check out House Beautiful, enjoy! | the fun bedding and striped carpet.
This house really gets me in the mood for a winter getaway. It is cozy but still light, bright and happy! The perfect mix! I've always thought of myself as a "winter house" girl because I am so into being cozy. It is fun to see a house that has a coziness to it without being dark or dreary. A few quick changes to the accessories would take this home easily in to spring and summer. Yep, love a house that can embrace every season.
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How Michelle MacLaren Brought 'The Deuce' to Life
Featuring 1970s porn palaces and two James Francos, the new HBO series—created by David Simon and George Pelecanos<|fim_middle|> action and sex scenes, there's a story within that scene. There's an emotion, a tone, and a story you want to tell."
It should be mentioned at least once that MacLaren is a woman in a line of work where women remain notoriously underrepresented. She is understandably impatient with the idea that her gender might affect her creative choices: "I see myself as a director, not a female director. I think we all bring our own sensibilities to anything that we make. … [Another] female director could interpret this [material] differently." It's still noteworthy that women had a significant say in how The Deuce took shape, especially given the show's focus on women, their bodies, and how those bodies are commodified. Between MacLaren's two episodes and midseason installments from Uta Briesewitz and Roxann Dawson, fully half of The Deuce's first season was directed by women, and according to Simon and Pelecanos, the majority of production department heads were also female.
Taken as a whole, The Deuce represents a seamless fusion. Simon's pointed shabbiness remains the law of the land: Cigarette smoke clouds nearly every frame, and the color palette has a blanched pallor. Meanwhile, the camera's vivacity captures the rich texture of the street: the crush of bodies in Port Authority while two pimps talk Vietnam, an archetypically Simonian exchange; the way shop talk between prostitutes instantly transitions to calculated flirtation with would-be clients. The Deuce is new territory for everyone involved, MacLaren included. "It's always wonderful and challenging when you get to try something new," she says in summation. "But you always bring things that you've learned from other shows. There's certain shots I would do on Breaking Bad that I would never do on Game of Thrones or Walking Dead or The Deuce, and there are certain shots on some of those shows I would never do on Breaking Bad. It's really all about, 'How do you best use the camera to tell the story, and what is pertinent to this particular story?'"
Disclosure: HBO is an initial investor in The Ringer.
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View all stories in TV | —is fall's most ambitious drama. Luckily, one of TV's most experienced directors agreed to take it on.
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As soon as she read the script for The Deuce, Michelle MacLaren had a vision. "I said to David and George"—that would be David Simon, of The Wire, and George Pelecanos, the celebrated crime novelist—"I know the last shot that I'd like to do," she tells me. With a loaded premise, A-list talent, and an encyclopedia's worth of period detail, The Deuce would be an imposing project for any director. MacLaren, unsurprisingly, did not flinch.
The Deuce, which debuted August 25 on HBO Go and will premiere officially this Sunday, was an extraordinary undertaking. The nimble and self-assured series takes place in one of the most heavily mythologized settings in all of pop culture: 1970s New York City, and specifically, 1970s Times Square. (The show takes its name from a slang term for the porn theater district that once lined 42nd Street.) It's also a story about the 1970s sex industry: following the evolution of prostitution and the birth of large-scale porn production in a medium—on a specific network, even—that's been criticized for its gratuitous and sometimes violent sexual content. Unlike other Golden Age auteurs such as Vince Gilligan and Matthew Weiner, Simon has never stepped behind the camera—which put a great deal of pressure on the collaborator he and cocreator Pelecanos chose to help realize their meticulous vision for the series.
MacLaren directed her first hour of television—The X-Files' "John Doe," a standard monster-of-the-week episode written by future collaborator Vince Gilligan—in 2002. Since then, she has built up what is arguably the single most decorated directorial CV of this current television epoch, ranging from Law and Order: SVU to The Walking Dead to a recent installment of Modern Family. Her breakthrough came with a Season 2 episode of Breaking Bad—Gilligan's first series after The X-Files. MacLaren went on to direct 11 episodes over the course of the series, including Season 4 standout "Salud," in which Giancarlo Esposito's chillingly placid Gus Fring dispenses with his enemies via mass poisoning. MacLaren was credited as a producer for the last three seasons and received two individual Emmy nominations for her work on the show (the first for Season 3's "One Minute," and a second for Season 5's "Gliding Over All.")
From there, MacLaren did stints on The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Breaking spinoff Better Call Saul, The Leftovers, and Westworld. Like most expensive cable shows with abbreviated seasons, these series share a reputation for compelling visual storytelling, with action that's not just "covered," as perfunctory, hyperspeed production is known in the parlance of network television, but intentionally staged. Beyond that, MacLaren's series tend to be genre—specifically, the kind of masculine-skewing drama (crime, zombie, Western) that calls for kinetic action and tense standoffs. Those set pieces have in turn become part of MacLaren's reputation. Her first episode of Thrones, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair," sent Gwendolyn Christie's Brienne of Tarth into a fighting pit with a starving CGI predator; "Cairo," the eighth episode of The Leftovers' divisive first season, saw Ann Dowd's cult leader slice her own throat. "I do a lot of testosterone-driven stuff," MacLaren freely admits. "That's very much my sensibility."
Unlike other Peak TV–era directors who either transitioned from film (Cary Fukunaga, Mimi Leder, Lodge Kerrigan, and Karyn Kusama, to name a few) or immediately graduated to features (Reed Morano, Alan Taylor, and Lucia Aniello, among others), MacLaren's entire directorial career to date has taken place within the context of episodic television. Her experience as an action director made her a logical choice to direct Wonder Woman, to which she was briefly attached in 2015; she departed thanks to oft-cited "creative differences" that both sides have since declined to elaborate on (including in our conversation). According to Variety, MacLaren wanted "an epic origin tale" where studio Warner Bros. wanted something more "character-driven." Whatever the explanation, separating from a superhero film over disagreements with the studio puts MacLaren in the fine company of Edgar Wright, Ava DuVernay, and most recently, Rick Famuyiwa. "I will never leave television," she vows, even as she acknowledges she's open to doing features—or more VR, which she experimented with for Westworld—further down the line.
MacLaren signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO just as the network was scoping out potential collaborators for the nascent Simon project. "They said that it was a pilot with George Pelecanos, David Simon, and James Franco, and I said, 'Absolutely, I'd love to read it.'" Once she did, MacLaren put together a full visual presentation, conferred with Simon and Pelecanos, and began the hard work of fleshing that vision out into a densely populated, rigorously thought-out, eight-hour season of TV. The result is the strongest new drama of the fall, a multifaceted ensemble piece of HBO's Golden Age old school with a welcome injection of diversity, flash, and, perhaps most surprisingly, palpable joy. On paper, The Deuce may be ambitious in the extreme; in the moment, however, it's an exceptionally well-executed hang that just happens to explore the most American kind of capitalism: the one that operates just outside the law.
Though they're rightly venerated for empathetic character work and nuanced understanding of seemingly monolithic institutions, David Simon shows are not exactly known for their visual panache. The unflashy realism that unites The Corner, The Wire, and Treme is an extension of the journalist turned TV writer's fundamental theme: methodical deglamorization of American cities and institutions. It is an effective dramatic approach, but not one that lends itself to individual episodes or the directors who command them. Simon's first collaboration with a single auteur—2015's Show Me a Hero, which was directed entirely by Paul Haggis—signaled that Simon's vision could exist side by side with an assertive director; the show is memorable for striking sequences like the one where Oscar Isaac's Mayor Nick Wasicsko is assaulted in his car by a mob of angry constituents. But the signature look of a Simon series—unvarnished, unflashy, adamantly unsexy—remains. On its face, the aesthetic (or resistance thereof) is a curious match with a story about prostitutes, pimps, and the beginnings of large-scale porn production.
Yet MacLaren argues that unflinching pragmatism is hardly mutually exclusive with thoughtful, interesting visuals. "It was important to me that we don't ever shoot [sex work] in a way that isn't real, or how it would actually look. If you put a camera on two people having sex, it's not necessarily going to look beautiful and romantic," she says, laughing. But there's inherent value in being candid about the act. "Sometimes there's a beauty in the ugliness of the truth. To me, when you are authentic and real to what something looks like, it brings a different kind of beauty in the honesty of it."
"I do a lot of testosterone-driven stuff. That's very much my sensibility."
—Michelle MacLaren
MacLaren, Simon, and Pelecanos agreed that The Deuce's first priority had to be avoiding the clichés and pitfalls that come with making a show about sex work. "It was extremely important to me that it is grounded and real and that it's not gratuitous or exploitative or titillating in any way," she says. "George said to me, 'Michelle, we don't want the 2016 version of this; we want the 1971 version of this.'" MacLaren focused on finding the essence of the era. "This was a time in New York City where there was kind of a free-for-all. There was a lot of opportunity and not a lot of thinking about moral consequences. It felt to me that, on the surface, it was a very exciting time. But when you get behind closed doors, then you see the harsh reality of some of these choices." In an interview with Uproxx's Alan Sepinwall, Simon laid out the show's goals: "There was a lot of arguing and discussion and intellectual rigor that really went into, first of all, why are we doing the show and what do we hope to say? Second of all, what is the imagery that is addressing that, what is prurient, what is puritanical? We needed to land it in such a way that we weren't measuring it by pornographic metrics. That was the most important job."
But an aesthetic can't be built on a checklist of negatives to avoid. For more affirmative inspiration, MacLaren turned to a formidable roster of touchstones for The Deuce: "Taxi Driver, Panic in Needle Park, French Connection, Saturday Night Fever, Shaft, Mean Streets," she rattles off—and that's just the films. MacLaren also collected books and photography collections that could provide reference points for hair, wardrobe, and rigorously recreated street landscapes. "There was a garbage strike in New York—it was long before Bloomberg, obviously—and there weren't trees and the city was pretty dirty, especially this area," MacLaren marvels. "You had this interesting combination of people dressed up going to the theater walking by the prostitutes standing on the street corner."
The production team, headed by designer Beth Mickle, staged the show's version of midtown at Amsterdam Avenue and 164th Street in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. Even the advertisements are authentic: "Every poster, everything in every window, is either from 1971 or recreated accurately from 1971." With the exception of a single hotel room recreated on a soundstage, the entirety of the pilot was shot on location across New York City, with a two-block stretch of shops at the Washington Heights home base standing in for four major locations: 42nd, Seventh and Eighth Avenues, and Times Square itself. "We would redress certain parts of [the set] for when it played different streets," MacLaren explains. "We had to reroute traffic, depending on which street we were shooting it as."
To recreate the famous porn theater marquees, computer-generated imagery was added in post-production, making for several spectacular wide shots as the camera pans back and reveals the full scope of the Deuce in all its vibrancy. MacLaren credits cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino, and the light boxes he built in lieu of real theater marquees, for the effect: "On one marquee, you had all the little light bulbs and everything. [But] we couldn't afford to build marquees; also, we couldn't afford the time to put them on and off when we changed to other streets, and the buildings couldn't take the weight of them. So in all those wide shots, the interactive light on the actors is from the light boxes and the CG marquees."
The Deuce is MacLaren's first nonaction project in some time, though it turns out many of the skills overlap. "It was very interesting and exciting for me to do something about a subject matter I've never done before," she says, while also making the case
that Albuquerque meth wars and epic fantasy aren't as far off as they seem from the more grounded, less operatically violent—though still violent—world of New York's bygone underground. "Funny enough, people ask me, How do you approach a sex scene? How do you approach an action scene? Actually, my approaches to them are not that different. When you're doing action and sex scenes, there's a story within that scene. There's an emotion, a tone, and a story you want to tell. You have to break down your shot and how you're gonna shoot that and the action and feel you want to promote in both those kinds of scenes. I know it sounds odd, but to me, there's very much a similarity to the approach."
Beyond participating in the misogyny it's attempting to highlight, there's another extreme The Deuce neatly avoids. Clear-eyed as it can be, The Deuce is never a cavalcade of misery or a history lesson that forgets to be entertainment. The Deuce, surprisingly, is fun—at times, it has the feeling of an especially lewd workplace comedy, albeit one that never loses sight of what could happen when the casual banter curdles into something less amicable.
"George said to me, 'Michelle, we don't want the 2016 version of this; we want the 1971 version of this.'"
—MacLaren on George Pelecanos
Much of The Deuce's tone is determined by the writers' room, but carried out in technical decisions about how the camera moves and what that movement implies. MacLaren repeatedly returns to the dichotomy between public and private lives, with "exciting surface" and "harsh reality" as recurring and opposite themes. "When you're in the diner, or when you're on the street, I wanted the camera to be moving and to have that fluidity to show the connection between the pimps and the cops and the prostitutes, that everybody is interwoven," she explains. "Then when you get behind closed doors, [the camera]'s very static."
In the pilot, the camera functions as a baton to be passed among major characters as they are introduced. In the blink of an eye, the show pivots from image-conscious pimp C.C. (Gary Carr) to world-weary streetwalker Darlene (Dominique Fishback), or from a ne'er-do-well pawning off gambling debts on his more upstanding twin brother (both played by James Franco) to an outer-borough single mother (Maggie Gyllenhaal) doing tricks to support her young son. MacLaren's direction emphasizes another of Simon's favorite recurring themes: the inescapable overlap of institutions. "I loved the characters and the complexity and the layered corruption between the pimps and the prostitutes and the police and the mobsters," MacLaren says of what initially drew her to the series. "It was so intricately woven" on the page, a quality she aimed to build on in the final product. The Deuce's complementary building blocks are different from The Wire's, but together, they achieve a similar sprawl, weaving together the men and women who sell sex, the cops who police them, the bartenders who offer everyone a space to drink off a night's hard work side by side, and the mobsters who'll soon finance a more legitimate kind of commodified intercourse in the form of pornography.
Behind those mythical closed doors, the direction takes on an almost stale, deliberately airless quality. When Gyllenhaal's Candy—née Eileen—gets home to her nice but unpretentious apartment, the camera stays put as she takes off her wig and unsentimentally counts out a night's earnings, exhausted. There's nothing fun or buoyant about the aforementioned final shot, where Franco's Vinnie (the industrious bartender to his identical twin's degenerate gambler) walks in on C.C. abusing a prostitute and declines to intervene, instead retreating to his hotel room. "I always say that great writing inspires us visually, and this is beautiful writing. I read that last scene and really wanted it to be a gut punch," MacLaren says.
The same approach applied to the act of prostitution itself. "There was definitely a conscious choice that, when it was transactional sex, it was shot one way; if two people are making the decision to have sex because they love each other or care for each other or whatever, it's shot in a different way," MacLaren says. She points to a scene in the pilot where Darlene negotiates the aftermath of an encounter with a man who initially seems to be an assailant, but turns out to be a regular client with unorthodox taste. "After they've had sex, she's sitting there; her jaw is hurting, her wrist is hurting, he gives her an extra 20 bucks." Their conversation is matter-of-fact—boring, almost. MacLaren makes sure we see the businesslike cleanup that follows the heat of the moment.
Most television directors, even on visually arresting shows, are essentially hands for hire—except, crucially, for the pilot director, who establishes the baseline feel of the show for successors to operate within. In recent years, it's come into vogue for high-profile feature directors—David Fincher for House of Cards, Martin Scorsese for Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl, The Deuce's most immediate predecessor—to lend their talents for a single episode before departing to focus on their own projects. MacLaren, however, is credited as a producer and directed the season finale as well as the pilot. She takes a TV veteran's steady hand to the intimidating task of building a new and enormously difficult series from the ground up.
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Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh | Book Review
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For readers of literary fiction, no introduction is needed to works of Amitav Ghosh. He is an acclaimed author of many popular works, has won many accolades including the Padma Shri, Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi Awards. He has given us many thought-provoking books, "Gun Island" being the latest, published in 2019.
Book Title : Gun Island
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (10 September 2019)
# of Pages : 226 (Hardcover)
# of Chapters : 22
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With its central threads of climate change and human migration around the world, this contemporary work was on our list of books to read for a while. And on behalf of Team Thinkerviews, here are my thoughts on the same.
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Being the gateway to the fictional world, a book cover plays a very important role in influencing book purchase and/or reading decisions.
Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh | Book Cover
As the book explores the story of the legend of a goddess of serpents and a "gun island", the cover page definitely has to show some of the elements of the same. You see a serpent covering the entire page. And Being a legendary goddess you can see various flowers at the curves of the same.
The cover page remains faithful to the story and is moderately attractive. According to me it will influence the viewer/reader positively to go for the book.
We meet Dinanath Dutta – Deen – a New York based dealer who works with rare books. Like many others, he spends his winters in Kolkata to avoid the severe cold of North America. A chance encounter with a relative leads to him visiting a shrine dedicated to Manasa Devi in Sundarban, but not before we learn about the legend of this goddess of serpents and a "Banduki Sadagar". The legend tells the story of a Gun Merchant as he went around the world trying to escape the wrath of Manasa Devi, but finding that her creatures found him no matter where he went in the world.
Deen meets Piya and then Tipu and Rafi on his trip to the Sunderban, where Tipu is bitten by a cobra and almost dies. Although Deen leaves for America once Tipu recovers, he can't shake off this experience. Call it a chance, or the universe moving in mysterious ways, but Deen finds that this visit slowly takes over his life, casting new light on lot of his experiences past and present.
He attends a lecture given by his old friend Cinta who is an expert in Venetian history, learning that the symbols on Manasa Devi's shrine includes one representing Venice. Venice – Bandiq – was the Gun Island, and so the rest of the legend must also be rooted in real places.
While Deen visits Venice looking for the "Banduki Sadagar", he runs into none other than Rafi and the whole migrant community of Bangladeshis that call Venice their home. We learn the<|fim_middle|> you look there is evidence of enchantment of decay, of a kind of beauty that can only be revealed by long, slow fading.
The characters in this book are very real, vulnerable, each looking for something elusive and unattainable, and paying for their mistakes. Although geographically separated, they all have a connection to each other that keeps propelling them all to the place of conflict. It is a matter of accepting that forces bigger than themselves might be driving their journeys and come to terms with the strange happenings around them. Through their denial, the author also highlights how we are all in denial about big and important issues that affect the world. While we may show moral support for movements for conservations of forests and natural reservoirs, are concerned about climate change and rapid industrialisation of the world, we are not able to force any big changes that will stop such events in near future.
The book showcase in many ways how the human progress is rapidly destroying the environment and its impacts on the animals. As their environment changes faster than they can cope with, these creatures are either dying or migrating to places where they have not been seen before:
There they are, perfectly adapted to their environment, perfectly at home in it – and then things began to change, so all those years of learning become useless, the places you know best can't sustain you any more and you've got to find new hunting grounds.
But this is also true for humans. The world we grow up in, where our parents could pass their knowledge of how to live our lives, also no longer exists. The knowledge and experiences of one generation are considered 'out of date' and redundant by the new generation, partly because the world has changed significantly:
We're in a new world now. No one knows where they belong any more, neither humans nor animals.
Our ancestors had to depend on the soil, the weather, animals, neighbours, family and so on, none of which would yield what they needed just for the asking. Everything they depended on for their livelihood could fight back. Merely to survive, they needed to assert their presence. Today, we live in a world of impersonal systems; we don't have to impose our presence on a cash machine or our will on the cellphones in order to make them work. In our circumstances, no one needs to assert their presence in order to get by from day to day. And since it is not needed, the sense of presence slowly fades, or is lost or forgotten – it's easier to let the systems take over.
The access to modern technology, especially the smartphones, is a recurring character in this book. From how the natives of rural Bengal see the world through it to how these are the vital links in human migration networks, the smartphones and the information they push into our lives not only make our daily lives easy, they also make it undesirable. All the glossy products, faraway lifestyles, advertisements focusing on modern gadgets are showcasing the devices that are unattainable and unaffordable in the rural countryside. The future life of green earth, blue sky and country living are replaced by pictures of bustling metropolis and pulsating, exciting lifestyle for young people.
While everyone around us tells us to persue our dreams no matter what, we are forgetting that sometimes chasing a dream can destroy your life. Humans have a right to fantasy and we do dream of big things in life, but not all big things are essentially good for either your well-being or lead to wellness of people around you. While the fictional adventures may inspire you to widen your horizon and explore unknown places, they can also give you expectations that can be fulfilled only in fiction:
In old days, when books were hard to come by, Reading was a way of escaping the narrowland of the world I live in. But was it possible that my world had seemed narrow precisely because I was a voracious reader? After all, how can reality match the world that exist only in books? Books had created dreams and desires that were unsettling and the instruments of my uprooting.
And if mere words could have this effect, what of the pictures and videos that scroll continuously past our eyes on laptops and cellphones? If a picture is worth thousand words, what is the power of billions of images that now permeate every corner of the globe? What is the potency of the dreams and desires they generate, of the restlessness they breed?
Amitav Ghosh has written about the climate change before. And while the whole world was talking extensively about climate change only a few months ago, we are still not seeing the hard decisions being taken by governments. Essentially, no one wants to give up a comfortable, consumption-oriented lifestyle in support of a sustainable future easily. The author has said before that the future generations will question our inaction on this matter and he does make that point again here:
Everybody knows what must be done if the world is to continue to be a liveable place, if our homes are not to be invaded by the sea, or creatures fleeing their natural habitats. We know…and yet we are so powerless. We go about our daily business through habit, as though we were in the grip of forces that have overwhelmed our will; we see shocking and monstrous things happening all around us and we avert our eyes; we surrender ourselves willingly to whatever it is that has us in its power.
And although they may have moved off the centre stage of news, but the refugee situation around the world is not any better. Countless people are leaving their homes in search of a life and arriving to distant shores – legally or illegally. There are still countries who do not accept the refugees and ask them to go back. You may feel differently about human migration, but whether it was under colonial rulers or the "reverse-colonisation" of today, this is a big factor in keeping the economies going. But the humanitarian crisis around refugees is also raising the moral questions to the rest of the world:
If a fleet of civilian vessels shows up to support the refugees, maybe it'll speak to the world's conscience. Across the planet, everyone's eyes are on the Bleu Boat now: it has become a symbol of everything that's going wrong with the world – inequality, climate change, capitalism, corruption, the arms trade, the oil industry. Maybe now, while there is still time to make changes, people will wake up and see what's going on.
A thought-provoking book that reminds us:
"The limits of human reason and ability become apparent not in the long, slow duration of everyday time, but in the swift and terrible onslaught of fleeting instants of catastrophe."
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But is life really as great as they imagined, once they reach their destination, where they will be treated as outsiders and end up doing work that no one else wants to do? With the strong feelings directed against refugees arriving in Europe, what will be the fate of those on the Blue Boat?
Although I picked up this book with no context about the name or the legend associated with it, I found it an easy and enjoyable read. With the legend explored in pieces through different characters, it is almost like puzzle solving – sort of Da Vinci Code at times.
As you start, you might think of the Legend of Manasa Devi as just a story, but as the author develops the legend through multiple characters, each telling a little part of it. From the shrine in Sundarban where the legend is preserved only through telling from one generation to other, to the local entertainment forms telling the story of Mansa Devi to the historical and geographical connections made by characters as they almost re-enact the legend in the modern world, the story will keep you interested. With the elements of the legend overlapping with the real-life, we see that the legend is the symbolic saga that is going to bind all these threads in the end. Manasa Devi has a similar manifestation in African as well as European cultures, whether it is Minoan Goddess of Snakes or the Dark Madonna that blesses Venetians with Health. Manasa Devi is the conduit between the nature and humans.
The book starts with the familiar backdrop of Kolkata playing host to visiting NRIs, but then takes us on a journey to the Sunderban, USA and eventually Venice.
That there is a strange kinship between Venice and Varanasi has often been noted. Both cities are like portals in time; they seem to draw you into lost ways of life. And in both cities, as nowhere else in the world, you become aware of mortality. Everywhere | 450 |
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Self-categorization theory for beginners
Anti-immigration rhetoric, racism, and xenophobia have been increasingly widespread around the world over the last decade. People compartmentalize one another based on identity markers, such as gender or color. On the other hand, researchers have shown that people did not even need to be racist or xenophobic for racist and xenophobic outcomes to emerge in society (Axelrod, 1997; Salzarulo, 2006). What is more, history has shown us that education is not a cure for racism and xenophobia. As Milgram's experiment revealed, people tend to obey authority and while following orders of a superior they might act against their own better judgment (Milgram, 1974). People's reluctance to confront those who abuse power explains how the Holocaust was organized and carried out as ordinary German citizens obeying authority followed orders that they did not approve of (Billikopf Encina, 2014). How can we make sense of such phenomena as social scientists? Understanding how polarization happens and how it results in racial, religious, ethnic, and gender-based discrimination in society is fundamental to prevent and cope with identity-based acts of violence. In this essay, I will summarize a very complicated social psychology theory, self-categorization theory (SCT).
Self-categorization theory (SCT) assumes that identities are defined in society through interactions within and among groups. Identities prescribe how individuals should feel and behave. Individuals possess multiple identities, which get activated in different contexts. Identity activation is an interactive process. People place themselves and others into some social categories based on some underlying attributes that are salient. These attributes operate as a checklist; that is, individuals need not feature all at once. Rather, people perceive themselves to be similar to a class of attributes — which constitute in-group — in comparison to another class of attributes — featured by an out-group.
The gist of the SCT is to suggest that in-group and out-group are both defined as a result of self-categorization. Self-categorization is an interactive process whereby people compare intra-group differences to differences from other groups. This comparison has two steps: First, individuals<|fim_middle|>1997). The Dissemination of Culture A Model with Local Convergence and Global Polarization. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 41(2), 203–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002797041002001
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Revathi Nair | reduce others to a stereotype — a checklist of salient attributes. Second, they establish a checklist of salient attributes defining their in-group, which is called prototype. In other words, prototype refers to a set of attributes that in-group members exclusively feature and which differentiates them from out-groups. During this comparison of in-group to out-group, individuals underscore within-group similarities and exaggerate their differences from other groups.
As a result of the self-categorization process, individuals began to perceive themselves as a group member rather than an individual with distinct attributes. This process called de-personalization has two mechanisms: Perceived fit or the meta-contrast principle refers to the degree to which the perceived in-group differences are less than the perceived differences between the in-group and out-groups. In other words, meta-contrast suggests that intra-group differences are weighed against inter-group differences. Normative fit represents the extent to which similarities and differences between group members overlap with the meaning of group membership (Lange, Kruglanski, & Higgins, 2012).
Comparison of in-group to out-group need not be confined to one dimension. Crossed categorizationrefers to comparisons done with respect to more than one dimensions. For example, people can compare themselves to others with respect to gender and with respect to race without having to choose between the two. Crossed categorization refers to comparisons, where both dimensions are simultaneously used, e.g., Black women, white men. Crossed categorization reduces inter-group conflict. In that, crossing one categorization with another produces four groups: an in-group on both dimensions, a double out-group; and two crossed conditions (in-group-out-group and out- group-in-group) (Hewstone, Islam, & Judd, 1993).
Crossed categorization has been studied in three different ways. In the additive model, each activated category has a positive or negative influence. This model adds them all up and finds that some crossed category can be neutral, positively perceived, or negatively perceived (Echabe & Guede, 2006; Singh, Yeoh, Lim, & Lim, 1997). The hierarchical model suggests that of the crossed categories, some are more important than others. For example, in a context where both class and ethnicity are activated, one of them, say, class might be more impactful than the other. Finally, in the interactive model, the activated categories interact with one another without adding up or being hierarchical. Their interactions generate new categories, such as rich & black, where neither class or race predominates the other. Importantly, the novel categories that emerge also trigger the rise of new biases.
Axelrod, R. ( | 555 |
I just took a look at the two websites promoting the competing sides of this whole TV Tax issue. One is run by the broadcasters, the other by the signal carriers.
I think the most interesting thing to note is that the carrier site is allowing open debate with public commentary on their site. You can go there, log in, and post your views. I don't know how heavily moderated it is, but browsing through the comments I am seeing opposing views posted so it appears to be at least somewhat open.
The broadcasters site has no such thing. It has a listing of comments picked out to support their agenda and no way to post opposing views or pose questions to be debated.
One thing I didn't know previously is that it is apparently the law that carriers carry local signals on their systems. If they have to pay for them in the future, I sure hope they also get the option of carrying only the ones they choose to.
The cable and satellite TV providers have been running a PR campaign for a while now to garner opposition to the new bill that would require them to charge a monthly fee to be paid to local broadcasters for carrying their content.
It all makes perfect sense, and people are right to oppose the bill. Right now, they're carrying signals on their services that are free over the air as a convenience to their customers.
The broadcasters want to be paid for this, which up until now they haven't been.
Basically, they want to be paid for something they are already providing for free over the air, and you'd think that the increased audience that the cable and satellite providers are giving them would be payment enough. I suppose you can make an argument either way, but the fact is that for all these years this has been standard practice and to suddenly hit us up with a fee for it would basically amount to robbery.
Now the reason for this post is that I've just seen the rebuttle ad by the broadcasters, trying to curry favour for the bill. They made me laugh.
The format is essentially the same. They're "interviewing" some people on the street to make it look like it's only common sense that we should all start paying $10 a month into their coffers. They make note that the providers are paying huge amounts of money to US broadcasters to carry their channels, and implies that it's a travesty that they're not paying the same to our poor, abused, local broadcasters.
The problem here is that if I unplug my cable and use a set of bunny ears on my TV, I won't have access to any of those channels that the cable companies are paying to carry. By doing so, they're providing me with a service that I otherwise wouldn't have.
This isn't the case with the local broadcasters. If I switch to the antenna, I can get those for free, and probably with a better signal (uncompressed) than I'm getting over the cable. The whole business model for local broadcasting has to do with people watching them. If nobody watches, they don't make money, so having providers carry their signals is a benefit.
Now, if they think people will pay for their content, why aren't they selling their service to providers in the US, or in markets across Canada where they're not broadcasting? Will nobody pay them for it? They should ask themselves why!
I can only hope that if this stupid bill gets passed, the cable companies will start carrying all the local broadcasters as a specialty package that I can opt out of if I want. I'm sure that will impress their advertisers to know that they've thrown out a huge portion of their audience.
Sure, I'll still be able to pick them up over the antenna... but let's be honest. For the most part, I probably just won't bother.
While he made a great last stand, I guess it just wasn't to be for Kyle Busch this year, as he just barely missed the Chase by a handful of points. After their recent feud though, I'll bet Brian Vickers is tickled pink that he got to be the one to edge Kyle out!
So now that the race for the chase is over, the Chase is on! Of the 12 drivers, there's 3 that I would love to see win the championship, and I'm not even sure I care too much which one of them it is. That gives me 25% of the field to root for, so odds are pretty good I'm going to enjoy this.
My favourites are Tony Stewart, Mark Martin, and Jimmie Johnson, each for different reasons. Tony because I think he's awesome, and winning the championship in his first year of team ownership would just be a phenomenal accomplishment. Mark because the guy has certainly paid his dues, deserves to be a champion,<|fim_middle|> the city, and there didn't appear to be any way for him to screw it up. And now he has.
Good for you, David Miller. It would have been a shame if your time as mayor couldn't be defined as a complete calamity. Why mess that up with something successful near the end of your term?
There's still a slim chance that enough city councellors may have enough sense to turn down this agreement, but that generally isn't the sort of thing that happens around here. The mayor will get his way, the city will lose, and life will go on.
Too bad. This one seemed like a no-brainer. Of course, it would take a no-brainer mayor to miss that. | and probably doesn't have much time left to accomplish it. He's certainly proven that he's still the cream of the crop and winning the title would certainly be the feel-good story of the year. Finally Jimmie... because when are we ever going to get another opportunity to have someone win 4 championships in a row? This is only the second time anyone has ever won 3 in a row, so it may well be now or never and I'd love to see Jimmie pull it off. He and Chad are clearly one of the best combos ever in the sport, so it would be nice to see them do something nobody has ever done.
Now.. on a completely unrelated note... I've been doing a fair bit of biking lately and yesterday I learned something. A 710 mL bottle of Gatorade lasts about 50km. Yesterday I rode over 62. Ouch.
How Could Miller Screw This Up??
Our wonderful mayor of Toronto, David Miller, had a slam dunk with the strike of locals 79 and 416. The entire populace seemed to be behind him in eliminating ridiculously generous benefits that nobody should be entitled to and taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for.
The city has been faring quite well with people managing their own garbage and everyone doing their parts to make do and leave the workers on strike until they gave in and accepted what were clearly reasonable offers by the city.
Even the strikers I've spoken with wanted to accept the deals being offered and get back to work. While anyone would like to be over-compensated for their work as much as possible, it seemed that only the union leaders felt that it was worth striking over and somehow deserved.
With all that in mind, you'd have expected the city to hold fast on their offers or perhaps even begin to reduce them over time. All indications were that if it came to a vote by the union members, they would overwhelmingly support it and all would be well.
And then the Mayor rolled over and gave in, for reasons I don't suppose we'll ever really know.
Regular readers here already know that Miller hasn't done anything good for the residents of Toronto and has only hurt and cost us more and more as each month goes by. This seemed like his shining opportunity to show some backbone and do something good for | 471 |
How Does a Case Come to the Office of Administrative Hearings?
Generally speaking, a case comes to the Office of Administrative Hearings following the conclusion of an investigation by an administrative agency where a written investigative finding (usually called a "determination" or "redetermination") has been made and one of the parties disagrees with the finding. Before an agency can impose any type of finding against a party, that party has a right to have a hearing where evidence is presented and the opportunity for cross-examination of witnesses is allowed. This right to have a hearing regarding the evidence and to engage in cross examination is sometimes called a "<|fim_middle|> taken bears the burden of proof. In a Wage and Hour case, this means that the person claiming to be owed wages (also known as the claimant) will have to prove that he was not paid what he was owed under his wage agreement with the employer. This must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence, that is, by sufficient evidence to show that is more probable than not that the claimant was not paid wages that he is owed.
A decision explains what the hearing officer has found to be the facts in your case, the law that applies to your case and who has won the case. The decision will also contain important information about a party's rights to appeal the decision. The decision of the hearing officer will be a final agency decision. It is important to read the decision carefully once you receive it and to also pay close attention to and comply with the information regarding appeal rights should you chose to appeal the decision.
If you do not agree with the hearing officer's decision, you will have the right to appeal that decision to the Montana District Court. The decision will contain explicit instructions (usually called a "Notice") that will tell you where to file an appeal, how to file an appeal, and the deadline by which the appeal must be filed. It is very important that you read and follow these instructions carefully. If you fail to file your appeal in the manner stated in the instructions or if you fail to file your appeal on or before the deadline stated in the instructions, you may lose your right to appeal the decision.
The Office of Administrative Hearings endeavors to ensure the accessibility of its hearings to all persons with disabilities. Should you or anyone you call as a witness need an accommodation, contact the Office of Administrative Hearings at (406) 444-4662 as soon as you learn of the need for the accommodation.It is important to contact the Office of Administrative Hearings right away to request an accommodation as a failure to do so may result in a delay in the hearing in order to ensure that the accommodation need is met. | due process" hearing.
When deciding what testimonial evidence to present at hearing, choose witnesses who have firsthand information: a person who directly saw or heard the event to which they are testifying. Someone who testifies about what someone else said, saw, or heard is giving hearsay testimony. Hearsay testimony may not be admissible at hearing. Even if it is admitted, it may not carry as much weight as evidence coming through a person who has first-hand knowledge. A witness with firsthand information is generally considered more reliable than one who presents only hearsay evidence since a witness with firsthand information can be cross-examined.
Which party to a Wage and Hour case bears the burden of proof?
As a general rule, the party requesting that an action be | 153 |
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–is an open and inclusive place where all people are accepted and shown unconditional love.
–has diverse and rich programs which provide educational stimulation for people of all ages and connect people with each other and God.
–is a place of hospitality, inclusion and acceptance where people from diverse backgrounds, life styles, races and classes are welcomed and respected; where there is a sensitivity to the needs of all; and where all can experience a sense of belonging.
–has exciting, diverse and spirit filled worship involving the time and talents of all.
–is involved in social outreach activities putting love into action.
–is a community of effective stewards, giving back to God to make things happen and to fulfill God's mission in this place.
–is a community on a journey with God, a community of faith on a journey of spiritual openness and growth.
We welcome you to become a part of the Simpson United Methodist | 189 |
I built a set of Overnight Sensations using the PE flat pack. They turned out well enough that I'd like to build a subwoofer box. I have some unique space constraints for where my box will sit, so I'd like to try building the box myself. To get good results I think I'll need a table saw.
I checked out an oldie but goodie Crafstman on Craigslist that seemed okay, but not very precise. The fence seemed finicky to set and the bevel was also a bit wonky. In this case, I don't think my skills are sharp enough that I can work around a tool's inaccuracies. That said, I'm one to usually buy something that's very good and used instead of mediocre and new. Any suggestions on what features to look for when buying a table saw used for building speaker cabinets? How much should I expect to pay for a good saw? I'm already budgeting around $50 for a new blade (suggestions?) regardless of what I buy, but I'm not sure what other features I should be looking for. I know the sky is the limit, but realistically I can't see myself paying top dollar for a tool. I'm thinking $400 including a good blade might get me something good?
Dewalt with stand, get 10-20%off coupon on ebay cheap for lowes Home Depot, buy and never look back.
I'll second that. I have this one: http://www.dewalt.com/products/power...g-system/dw745 It's about $300, and the fence works well, much better than my previous saw. It won't work with a dado blade, if that's an issue.
I bought an old Trademaster with a 10" blade and 18A motor, with a stand and wheels it was $200 from the local classifieds, but the fence had a broken bushing and would move sideways everytime you locked it in place. I upgraded with a 40" Accusquare rip fence which was well worth the expense. Once you have that sucker aligned it is accurate and does not wiggle one bit when locked. I later bought the router table attachment as well, but I haven't used it yet.
The table and new fence was about a $500 expense total. I don't think I could get somerthing comparable new for less than $900.
This may be the year!
Won't I want a saw that will rip at least as wide as I plan to use for my cabinets? The largest dimension of my proposed subwoofer box is 22 inches.
I got a (very) old 36" bed Rockwell model 10 belt drive saw that had an aftermarket aircraft-wire aligning fence on it, from Craigslist. Guy even delivered it, all for $200, but I suspect this was just a very lucky deal. Took a little searching to get a safety shield for the blade and replace a knob, but an amazing saw. Don't underestimate the value of enough bed size if you're making speaker cabinets, and make sure whatever you get has a decent fence. If you don't have room for (or can't find) a large-bed saw, you might want to consider getting a track-saw instead, a lot of people seem to be using those when needing to cut large panels.
I like my Bosch -09 table saw for my small shop. I've got a bunch of Ridgid tools but getting the warranty activated seems like a scam. I've not been disappointed with any of the Dewalt tools I've bought.
Skilsaw (owned by Bosch) is a very solid saw. Masterforce (Menards, looks built by Hitachi) is also excellent. Both have very good dust collection, can accept a dado stack, and are relatively lightweight.
The skilsaw has the deepest cut capacity. Can rip a 4x4 in a single pass. Rip fence is solid and straight. Gobs of power.
The Masterforce uses a rack n pinion fence with a huge 24" left, 35" right rip capacity. It will accept a dado stack as well. It also has a run off extension.
Both can be found for around $350.
I will be picking up the Masterforce in the next week or so.
A true table saw, as opposed to the portable contractor saws some<|fim_middle|> Saws like Delta and Jet will likely have many more available accessories and add ons than others.
I have not bought any used saws; I've read advice to watch the bearings and run out when buying used. And the fence can't be emphasized enough.
There are places that sell factory refurbished tools, but they aren't necessarily any cheaper.
If you have the space, and can deal with a non portable saw, a Powermatic, General, Yates, Unisaw etc. style enclosed cast iron belt drive saw with at least two HP is the final solution. I have the General that I bought when I was 23 years old, and 43 years later its still good as new. The table saw is the heart of any woodshop unless you're turning candlesticks and a good one is a constant delight. They all need to be trued up and if you want a one shot fence, many aftermarkets are available. Outfeed tables, sleds, many jigs and fixtures that allow the table saw to perform the work of many tools. Lifetime tool.
I would say check out the Kreg Rip Cut jig if all you are going to use it for is building boxes. I get better cuts with this and it's quicker with very little setup. I use a sacrificial 2 x 4 frame that I set on sawhorses then place a sheet of plywood on that. I don't have to try and handle ripping a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood by myself that way, especially when you want something like 6" strips. You could buy a nice circular saw and new blade for much cheaper then use your remaining budget for other tools.
FYI, I have a Bosch table saw as well with many good blades and sleds but won't use it much for boxes. However, if the cabinet is small enough I will use my Bosch sliding miter saw (GCM12SD) that can crosscut up to 14". This thing is great, but isn't cheap.
I have this exact saw --- LOVE IT! It is a little time consuming to get the rails and fence dialed in square, but once you do, it hasn't moved in 3 years and a move across the US. recommend it, if you have the room. It will do dadoes, but the dust extraction isn't perfect, but I just leave the vaccum hooked up and runnng, while I use the air compressor to blow the trapped dust down into the vacuum.
Depends on your needs, your budget, the space you're willing to commit to a tool like this and how much you think you'll use it in the near future. Cabinet saws(like a Unisaw) are the best, next in line are contractor saws and then the portables(like the DeWalt). Contractor saws can be found used for cheaper than a new portable saw, will typically have larger beds(better) and cast iron(again, better). They can also often be found with upgraded fences and extra accessories. There's pros and cons to all of these styles with the contractor's saw being in the middle as far as size, weight, accuracy, cut capacity, cost... If your shop serves double duty as a garage like most people, a mobile base can be made or bought pretty cheap to wheel it out of the way when not being used.
As an example, Delta Unisaws, used, typically start at about $500 and go up to $2-3k. Delta contractor's saws can sometimes be found as low as $100, and maybe go up to $500 if they've been decked out with accessories like a better fence, router extension, out feed table, mobile base... Portable saws are in the $3-600 range new, cheaper used. Cabinet and contractor saws also are easier to modify and upgrade, while portable saws are usually not.
I'll always advise to buy more saw than what you think you need right now. Once you get a couple of smaller projects under your belt, you'll want tondo bigger stuff and need a bigger, better saw. | have mentioned, will likely have a much better fence. Or, can be modified with a superior after-market fence. For accuracy, the fence is really critical. I would look for a cast iron top and a really good fence. | 46 |
A mother who lost her twins in the Shropshire baby deaths scandal is encouraging people to visit a memorial garden.
The White Garden opened at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital last year to remember the children who died prematurely at the Shropshire and Telford Health Trust (SaTH).
It was inspired by Kelly Jones who endured a double tragedy when her twin girls Ella and Lola died in 2014.
She wants more people to visit the garden and paint a pebble in memory of a loved one.
"I put so much hard work into the garden for all the babies that died and it breaks my heart that lots of people don't even know about it," she said.
"It's not just for people who lost a baby. It's for everyone who goes to the hospital that needs somewhere peaceful and tranquil to reflect."
The White Garden features white roses and primroses, white metal butterflies that were created and donated by the British Ironwork Centre in Oswestry, a rose arch, seating and a pergola as the<|fim_middle|> it will remain in the garden.
Kelly said the aim is to get enough pebbles painted to fill the border which runs around the garden. | centrepiece of the garden.
"It's beautiful and I just want people to use it," Kelly added.
"The memory of all the babies will always be kept alive while people are visiting the garden. When I go there I sit and can picture all of the babies playing.
"If anyone is a patient at the hospital or is just visiting, I hope they will take a moment to go to the White Garden."
People visiting the garden can also pick up a pebble and paint it with something that makes them happy or in memory of a loved one, and | 111 |
Le puntate della miniserie televisiva The Pacific sono andate in onda sul canale statunitense HBO dal 14 marzo al 16 maggio 2010. In Italia la miniserie è stata trasmessa in prima visione da Sky Cinema 1 dal 9 maggio al 6 giugno 2010, venendo poi trasmessa in chiaro dal 4 gennaio al 2 febbraio 2012 da Rete 4.
Guadalcanal/Leckie
Titolo originale: Part One
Diretta da: Tim Van Patten
Scritta da: Bruce C. McKenna
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Dicembre 1941 - settembre 1942. All'indomani dell'attacco giapponese a Pearl Harbor, Robert Leckie annuncia alla sua vicina di casa Vera Keller che si è arruolato nei Marines degli Stati Uniti e impulsivamente le suggerisce che potrebbe scriverle mentre sarà oltremare. Il sergente John Basilone e i suoi commilitoni JP Morgan e Manny Rodriguez ascoltano il loro comandante, il tenente colonnello Chesty Puller, mentre spiega che verranno inviati nel teatro delle operazioni del Pacifico, dove saranno chiamati a lottare per "minuscole macchie di tappeto erboso di cui non si è mai sentito parlare". Nel frattempo l'adolescente dell'Alabama Eugene Sledge è distrutto quando il dottor Sledge, suo padre e medico, gli conferma che ha ancora un soffio al cuore e che ciò gli impedirà di arruolarsi nei Marines come il suo migliore amico Sid Phillips. Alcuni mesi più tardi Phillips è assegnato alla stessa compagnia di Leckie. Insieme ai loro compagni Runner, Chuckler, Hoosier e Gibson partecipano allo sbarco su di un'isola lontana chiamata Guadalcanal.
Il 7 agosto 1942, dopo uno sbarco senza resistenza, gli uomini penetrano nella giungla e si sentono storditi e adirati quando si imbattono nei corpi mutilati di altri marines. Più tardi Leckie e i suoi uomini osservano dalla cima di una collina un altro reggimento mentre prende possesso del campo di aviazione, obiettivo dell'invasione e conosciuto come "Henderson Field". La marina americano-australiana subisce però una grave sconfitta al largo dell'isola di Savo e si ritira verso il mare aperto, lasciando Leckie e gli altri a difendere l'aeroporto, isolati e quasi senza rifornimenti. Il 21 agosto i marines respingono un furioso attacco notturno giapponese, ma è solo l'inizio, e appare chiaro il tributo emotivo e psicologico pagato dagli uomini dopo la loro prima esperienza di combattimento. Al termine della lotta, conosciuta come battaglia del Tenaru, la carneficina che ricopre la spiaggia costringe Leckie a riflettere sulla natura stessa della guerra. Egli inizia a scrivere la prima delle molte lettere che spedirà a Vera. Dopo un mese di crescenti privazioni a Guadalcanal, Leckie e i suoi uomini vengono affiancati dal 7º Reggimento Marines di Chesty Puller, nel quale si trova John Basilone.
Basilone
Titolo originale: Part Two
Diretta da: David Nutter
Scritta da: Bruce C. McKenna
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Ottobre - dicembre 1942. Basilone, Morgan, Rodriguez e i loro uomini continuano a pattugliare le giungle di Guadalcanal, ingaggiando mortali combattimenti con il nemico. Per tutto il tempo Basilone dimostra di possedere una carismatica leadership, che lo rende caro ai suoi uomini. L'arrivo di un reggimento dell'esercito dà a Leckie, Basilone e ai loro compagni l'opportunità insperata di rubacchiare qualche provvista. Poco dopo<|fim_middle|>'isola di Nuova Britannia.
Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika
Titolo originale: Part Four
Diretta da: Graham Yost
Scritta da: Robert Schenkkan & Graham Yost
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Dicembre 1943 - giugno 1944. Robert Leckie, assegnato nel reparto spionaggio del battaglione come ricognitore, sbarca a Capo Gloucester, in Nuova Britannia. Quando i giapponesi sembrano aver abbandonato l'isola, il reparto è comunque costretto a resistere ai pesanti diluvi tropicali che portano all'estremo le condizioni fisiche e mentali degli uomini. Nel 1944 Leckie, tornato a far parte della Compagnia How del 1º Marines, sbarca sull'isola di Pavuvu. Malato di enuresi notturna a causa dello stress da combattimento, viene mandato in un ospedale psichiatrico per riprendersi sia fisicamente che psicologicamente. Contemporaneamente Sledge viene arruolato nei Marines e viene addestrato al combattimento a Camp Elliott.
Peleliu Landing
Titolo originale: Part Five
Diretta da: Carl Franklin
Scritta da: Laurence Andries & Bruce C. McKenna
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Giugno - settembre 1944. Tornato negli Stati Uniti, John Basilone si gode la fama raggiunta. Eugene Sledge, assegnato alla Compagnia King della 5ª Divisione dei Marines, sbarca sulle isole Russell, dove si ricongiunge con l'amico d'infanzia Sidney Phillips. Un apparentemente rimesso Leckie torna insieme ai suoi vecchi commilitoni. Mentre Sid viene rimandato a casa, Sledge fa la conoscenza di Leckie, informandolo che il 6 giugno le truppe americane sono sbarcate anche in Europa. Il 15 settembre 1944 i marines approdano sull'isola di Peleliu e, durante lo sbarco, devono fronteggiare la strenua difesa giapponese. Hoosier viene ferito gravemente, mentre Leckie mostra nuovamente segni di sfinimento.
Peleliu Airfield
Titolo originale: Part Six
Diretta da: Tony To
Scritta da: Bruce C. McKenna, Laurence Andries & Robert Schenkkan
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Settembre 1944. A Mobile, in Alabama, Sid Phillips fa visita alla famiglia Sledge, portando notizie del figlio Eugene. Nel frattempo, sull'isola di Peleliu, i marines combattono aspramente sfiniti dalla sete, dalla mancanza di rifornimenti e dalla strenua resistenza posta dai giapponesi. La conquista di un campo di aviazione, per Sledge, Leckie e i loro commilitoni, si rivelerà ardua e sanguinosa, sotto il tiro diretto di granate da mortaio e mitragliatrici. Sledge conquista la fiducia di Snafu, portandolo in salvo quando quest'ultimo rimane accidentalmente indietro. Leckie invece, nel tentativo di contattare un infermiere per curare Bud "Runner" Conley e di trovare una radio per mettersi in contatto con la base, viene ferito dallo scoppio di un proiettile di mortaio e per essere curato viene trasportato su una nave ospedale, dove incontra Conley, ricoverato a sua volta per una grave ferita a un braccio.
Peleliu Hills
Titolo originale: Part Seven
Diretta da: Tim Van Patten
Scritta da: Bruce C. McKenna
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Ottobre 1944. Sledge è sempre più provato dai combattimenti, sia fisicamente che psicologicamente. A Pelielu i marines, mentre conquistano le fortificazioni nemiche della Collina 140 e di Bloody Nose Ridge, subiscono pesantissime perdite, tra cui quelle del tenente Edward "Hillbilly" Jones e del capitano Andrew Haldane, quest'ultimo colpito da un cecchino nipponico. Con un terzo della divisione ferito, morto o disperso, i marines vengono rimpiazzati dall'esercito tre giorni dopo e trasportati a Pavuvu per riposarsi e riorganizzarsi.
Iwo Jima
Titolo originale: Part Eight
Diretta da: David Nutter & Jeremy Podeswa
Scritta da: Robert Schenkkan & Michelle Ashford
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Novembre 1944 - febbraio 1945. L'isola di Pelielu è stata conquistata dagli americani, con non poche perdite. John Basilone, stanco di stare dietro una scrivania, si fa assegnare a Camp Pendleton, in California, come addestratore di reclute nella nuova 5ª Divisione dei Marines. Qui incontra la cuoca e sergente Lena Mae Riggi e se ne innamora. Dopo una iniziale ostilità da parte della ragazza, i due si sposano pochi mesi prima che lui parta per Iwo Jima. Proprio durante lo sbarco, avvenuto il 19 febbraio del 1945 (D-Day), John viene però ucciso dal fuoco di una mitragliatrice giapponese.
Okinawa
Titolo originale: Part Nine
Diretta da: Tim Van Patten
Scritta da: Bruce C. McKenna
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Aprile - agosto 1945. La 1ª Divisione, sempre più vicina a sconfiggere il nemico, è sbarcata ad Okinawa il 1º aprile 1945. La pioggia e il caldo si dimostrano ancora una volta grandi nemici e le condizioni fisiche dei marines riflettono il loro stato mentale, oramai dilaniato: lo stress è costante, non arrivano risultati concreti e si continua a combattere contro un nemico che non vuole arrendersi. Sledge, ormai provato dalla guerra, si dimostra più cinico che mai e non prova alcuna compassione per i giapponesi. Per la prima volta durante la guerra i marines hanno a che fare con la presenza di civili giapponesi, ai quali si cerca di offrire un passaggio sicuro attraverso il fronte di combattimento e verso le linee statunitensi. Il fine è quello di portarli verso luoghi più sicuri nella parte settentrionale dell'isola, ma ciò non sempre avviene, con risvolti tragici per i civili. Ai primi di agosto voci di una potente bomba caduta sul Giappone si diffondono tra gli uomini.
Home
Titolo originale: Part Ten
Diretta da: Jeremy Podeswa
Scritta da: Bruce C. McKenna & Robert Schenkkan
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Immediato dopoguerra. Sledge e Leckie ritornano a casa dopo l'armistizio giapponese. La guerra è finita e gli uomini si chiedono che cosa il futuro può tenere in serbo per loro. Robert Leckie torna a casa dalla sua famiglia e riottiene il suo vecchio lavoro: il suo scopo principale è di intraprendere una relazione con Vera, la sua compagna di lettere (che, in realtà, non spedì mai, poiché convinto che non sarebbe ritornato a casa vivo) che vive dall'altra parte della strada. Eugene Sledge torna a casa circa sei mesi dopo il giorno della resa del Giappone ed è accolto dal suo vecchio amico, Sid Phillips, in procinto di sposarsi. Eugene ha però seri problemi a reintegrarsi nella vita civile e non comprende perché alcuni uomini come lui sono sopravvissuti senza alcun danno fisico, quando tanti altri sono morti. Lena, la vedova di Basilone, fa visita ai genitori del suo defunto marito per portare loro la Medaglia d'Onore del Congresso di John.
Pacific, The | vi è un grande bombardamento navale giapponese e la 1ª Divisione dei Marines subisce pesanti perdite. Il colonnello Puller mette in guardia i suoi uomini sul fatto che i giapponesi stanno organizzando un'offensiva notturna per riconquistare il campo di aviazione e il 7º Reggimento Marines sarà probabilmente proprio sul loro cammino.
Migliaia di giapponesi tentano infatti di sfondare la linea americana, ma il loro sforzo non riesce. Basilone manifesta un coraggio straordinario durante la battaglia, rischiando la vita per rifornire di munizioni i suoi commilitoni mitraglieri e fermando il nemico quasi da solo, malgrado le gravi ustioni riportate durante lo spostamento della sua mitragliatrice Browning M1917 rovente. Con l'alba la carneficina viene rivelata, ma la vittoria conquistata a caro prezzo ha per Basilone un costo doloroso quando scopre il cadavere di Rodriguez. Il colonnello Puller annuncia a Basilone che lo raccomanderà per una medaglia per il suo coraggio.
Nel frattempo, in Alabama, Sledge entusiasticamente ottiene dal padre il permesso di arruolarsi nei Marines. Suo padre, che si occupava dei soldati feriti durante la prima guerra mondiale, se ne duole, perché sa quello che il figlio sta per subire. Quando i marines, alla vigilia di Natale, vengono finalmente evacuati da Guadalcanal, Leckie e i suoi commilitoni rimangono frastornati nello scoprire che l'intero paese ha seguito la loro campagna su quell'isola remota e che loro sono diventati eroi.
Melbourne
Titolo originale: Part Three
Diretta da: Jeremy Podeswa
Scritta da: George Pelecanos & Michelle Ashford
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Gennaio - dicembre 1943. Inviati a Melbourne, in Australia, per un periodo di riposo, i marines vengono accolti come eroi. Durante la permanenza in terra australiana bevono molto, provocano numerose risse con i giovani locali e seducono le ragazze del posto, ma risulta comunque difficile per loro scacciare il pensiero della morte incombente e tutti gli orrori vissuti al fronte. Intanto Basilone riceve dal presidente Franklin Roosevelt la Medaglia d'Onore e viene rimpatriato per vendere i cosiddetti "buoni di guerra". Contemporaneamente Leckie si innamora di Stella, una ragazza australiana di origini greche, che lo invita a vivere a casa dei suoi genitori. Il giovane viene però presto rimandato a combattere, sull | 664 |
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Alexis Lafreniere, who popped out of a pingpong-ball machine into the Rangers' lives, is the shiniest new toy to hit these parts in, oh, I don't know … forever?
So while Monday marked merely the first day of training camp in an accelerated run-up to the season that opens a week from Thursday, when the 19-year-old took the ice officially for the first time as a Blueshirt, it also represented the dawn of an era.
It is no longer about The Letter. That is old news. It is about Igor Shesterkin, Kaapo Kakko and Adam Fox among a bushel filled with prospects who have preceded Lafreniere to Broadway and will follow him to the Great White Way. It is about Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider, the soul of the club.
But let's not kid ourselves. It is Lafreniere who has brought his star with him from Quebec and is next in line to inherit the spot on the marquee reserved for so long for Henrik Lundqvist. It is No. 13 with a ceiling higher than those in all the magnificent prewar buildings in Manhattan who sends pulses racing on and off Broadway even before he has suited up at the Garden.
Not that Lafreniere will ever admit to that. No Reggie, Reggie, Reggie lobbying here for a eponymously named candy bar. It will be left to others to sing the praises of the young man, who, following Monday's first day of training camp, said, "I just want to improve myself every day and get better as a hockey player. I don't have any expectations."
There is no need to heap too much on Lafreniere. It is not as if he is Manny Malhotra joining a group bereft of young talent. It is not as if the Rangers need a flag-bearer. He is starting on the third line with potential stud Filip Chytil in the middle and unknown quantity Julien Gauthier on the right.
He has been slotted there initially perhaps partially to minimize pressure, perhaps partially to maximize matchup opportunities, perhaps partially because this short camp lends itself to stability and continuity with the top six. Likely, a combination of all of the above. Keep this in mind: Derek Jeter batted eighth or ninth in 84 of his first 108 games of his 1996 rookie season.
But Lafreniere, if not via words but rather via deeds, is expected to demand more. More ice time. More responsibility. And when he earns it, when he is awarded it by David Quinn, he will be ready for his moment.
"He's an awesome, awesome guy; I mean, an awesome kid," said Kreider, who had trained and skated with Lafreniere for the past couple of months. "You forget how young he is because he carries himself with such maturity.
"I've played with him a bunch and the skill is very, very evident. He's got the [p<|fim_middle|> No. 20. "Guys try to bump him, he tries to spin off and get to that ice. So he's hypercompetitive, he wants to win and you can tell he loves playing the game. He's got a serious passion for the game and enthusiasm, really good energy and just wants to succeed and win."
Monday's scrimmage was essentially a dip-your-toes-in-the-water exercise. Things picked up a bit during the second half. Lafreniere and his line created as many and as few memorable moments as the rest of the squad. To put this in context: it was Day 1.
"There was a little bit of nerves playing with these guys but I think I'll get used to it and then I'll get used to the pace," Lafreniere said. "I'll get better as the camp goes and I'll try to improve myself and my game."
Jack Hughes, not nearly as physically mature as Lafreniere, had a devil of time last year after going to New Jersey as the No. 1-overall pick. Kakko for the most part was a stranger in a strange land after coming out as No. 2 overall. This is not one-size-fits-all.
"There's no blueprint to coach each player, whether it's a rookie or a 30-year-old veteran," Quinn said. "Every player is different and you've got to have a feeling of what motivates him and what doesn't.
"It's our job as a coaching staff to figure out a way to coach Lafreniere to the best of our abilities and to allow him to be the best player he can possibly be."
The journey from Saint-Eustache to Manhattan is underway. First stop on the express: Greenburgh. Destination: Penn Station. Monday was All Aboard.
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Who is Dustin Poirier's wife Jolie, how many children does UFC 257 star have and what's his MMA record? – The Sun | uck] on a string, sees the ice incredibly well, [his] head's up. The one thing that really struck me from the last few weeks is that he's not an immature kid. He carries himself with that level of maturity, but he's a lot thicker than the normal 18- or 19-year-old kid.
"He's very strong on his skates, and he competes. He's a dog on the puck," said | 93 |
The School Weekly- 27th February 2017
Mera Bali
Chandra Mahal or Chandra Niwas is the most commanding building in the City Palace complex, on its west end. It is a seven-storeyed building and each floor has<|fim_middle|>th February 2017 | been given a specific name such as the Sukh-Niwas, Ranga-Mandir, Pitam-Niwas, Chabi-Niwas, Shri-Niwas and Mukut-Mandir or Mukut Mahal. It contains many unique paintings, mirror work on walls and floral decorations. At present, most of this palace is the residence of the descendants of the former rulers of Jaipur. Only the ground floor is allowed for visitors where a museum is located that displays carpets, manuscripts and other items that belonged to the royal family. There is beautiful roof from peacock gate at the entry to the Mahal. It has screened balconies and a pavilion at the where a panoramic view of the city can been seen. It is set amidst well laid out gardens and a decorative lake in the foreground.
"Sukh Nivas" or the "Hall of Rest" - Sukh Niwas is painted in Wedgewood blue fully decorated with white lining. Sukh Niwas has the drawing and dining room of the Maharaja which is fully ornamented with mughal miniatures, silver and glass dining tables. Chandra Mahal 3rd floor is called "Rang Mandir". In this there are small and large mirrors in wall, pillars and ceilings. "Shobha Nivas" – It is on the 4th floor of the Chandra Mahal. It is also known as "Hall of Beauty". The walls of the Shobha Nivas are fully decorated with mirror walls with blue tiles ornamented.
Yogendra Singh Ranawat finished his XII Commerce in 2013. Then he finished his BCom. from JG College of Commerce, Ahmedabad. He was good in Sports especially Cricket and Football. He participated in both Inter School and Inter House Tournaments. He played at State Level too. He was the Head Boy at The Fabindia School in 2012. He was a good athlete too. Nowadays he is studying in Thani Mewad RO, Jaipur. He is the Youth Leader of Bhartiya Janta Party. (Batch 2012-13).
Monday 20th February: Staff had a meeting with the Principal where they discussed about the format of papers for Final Examination and to prepare question papers for the exams by the given date. Deep condolence from staff to Mr. Surendra Singh on the demise of his father and Rakesh Kumar on the demise of his uncle. May their soul rest in peace!
(ED: Editor, RRE: Rajeshwari Rathore)
ED: When did you join the school?
RRE: I joined the school on 3rd July 2005.
ED: Who was the Principal at that time?
RRE: The Principal at that time was Jayant Biswas.
ED: What kind of environment was there in the school at that time
RRE: The environment at that time was very good and kind.
ED: What is behavior of the staff towards you?
RRE: The behavior of the staff at that time towards me was very nice. Every teacher helped me in every problem. When I need them they are always there to help me they give me solutions and suggestions for the problem that I have.
ED: What development have you seen now?
RRE: When I started teaching in school it was not much developed, nowadays I see the development of technology in school and the school is also developing day by day
ED: What changes would you like to see in your students?
RRE: I want to see changes in my students that they must respect elders and small children. I want them to speak fluent English and help others to speak English.
ED: Are the students who have left the school still in contact with you?
RRE: Yes, some students are still in contact with me like Sejal Ojha and Darshna Soni.
ED: What message would you like to give the students?
RRE: The message that I would like to give the students that they should respect elders and small children and I want them to pay attention in their studies.
Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of god Shiva. There is a Shivaratri in every luni-solar month of the Hindu calendar, on the month's 13th night/14th day, but once a year in late winter (February/March, or Phalguna) and before the arrival of spring, marks Maha Shivaratri which means "the Great Night of Shiva". It is a major festival in Hinduism, but one that is solemn and marks a remembrance of "overcoming darkness and ignorance" in life and the world. It is observed by remembering Shiva and chanting prayers, fasting, doing Yoga, and meditating on ethics and virtues such as self-restraint, honesty, no injury to others, forgiveness, and the discovery of Shiva. The ardent devotees keep awake all night. Others visit one of the Shiva temples or go on pilgrimage to Jyotirlingams. This is an ancient Hindu festival whose origin date is unknown.
Maha Shivaratri is an annual festival dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, and is particularly important in the Shaivism tradition of Hinduism. Unlike most Hindu festivals which are celebrated during the day, the Maha Shivaratri is celebrated at night. Furthermore, unlike most Hindu festivals which include expression of cultural revelry, the Maha Shivaratri is a solemn event notable for its introspective focus, fasting, meditation on Shiva, self study, social harmony and an all night vigil at Shiva temples.
The significance of dance tradition to this festival has historical roots. The Maha Shivaratri has served as a historic confluence of artists for annual dance festivals at major Hindu temples such as at Konark, Khajuraho, Pattadakal, Modhera and Chidambaram. This event is called Natyanjali, literally "worship through dance", at the Chidambaram temple which is famous for its sculpture depicting all dance mudras in the ancient Hindu text of performance arts called Natya Shastra. Similarly, at Khajuraho Shiva temples, a major fair and dance festival on Maha Shivaratri, involving Shaiva pilgrims camped over miles around the temple complex, -Anumesh Rao/ VIII/ GH
Saturday, 25th February: Amrit Choudhary/ XI and Jay Rawal/XI were selected as Student This Week for their performance at Khitij, Gudgoan which they had participated in last week. They secured First Position out of thirteen schools that had participated there.
Students of the School Orchestra have learnt to play musical instruments and are conducting a Musical Assembly on their own without the help of their Music Teacher.
Monday 20th February: Special Assembly was organized for Computer Week. Mr. Usman Gani started the week by speaking on the 'Importance of Computers in daily life
Day1 Monday 20th February
Kreena Rao/VIII/DH: Spoke about Importance of Computers
Krisha Dave/VIII/GH: Spoke about Generations of Computers
Diksha Choudhary/VIII/GH: Spoke about (IT) Information Technology
Day2 Tuesday 21st February
Devika Choudhary/IX/TH: Spoke about ERP Software Fedena
Rakesh Suthar/IX/TH: Spoke about Social Media.
Day 3 Wednesday 22nd February
Vinod Choudhary/VIII/GH: Spoke about History of Computer
Devika Choudhary/IX/TH: Spoke about Email
Krisha Dave/VIII/GH: Spoke about Twitter
Manjeet Mansion/VIII/DH: Spoke about William Henry Gates II
Khushal Singh Rajpurohit/VIII/DH: Spoke about Charles Babbage KH FRS
Uma Choudhary/VIII/TH: Spoke about advantages and disadvantages of Internet.
Day 4 Thursday 23rd February
Khushal Singh Rajpurohit/VIII/DH: Spoke about Steve Jobes.
Krisha Dave/VIII/GH: Spoke about Online Banking.
Diksha Choudhary/VIII/GH: Spoke about Online Shopping.
Day 5 Saturday 25th February
Devika Choudhary/ IX/TH: Quizzed the Assembly
Khushal Singh Rajpurohit: Quizzed the Assembly.
Practical work based on the above topics was carried out in their respective classes of Computers.
Tuesday 21st February: Mrs. Rajeshwari Rathore gave an Assembly talk on the occasion of 'International Mother Language Day.' She told the children why this day was celebrated and its importance. She also told about their mother tongue.
Saturday, 25th February: Mr. Byju Joseph/HOD Sc, gave an Assembly Talk on the discovery of new seven Earth like exoplanets by NASA. He explained that exoplanets are the planets which are outside of the solar system. These 7 planets are revolving around the star called TRAPPIST-1. Out of these seven planets, in three planets life may be possible but we can't go there because it is 40 light years away from the earth. NASA have identified 1,284 new exoplanets. There are totally 3,449 exoplanets in the Universe.
The School Weekly - 20th February 2017
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Before Motorsports In Action was an official company, its owner Eric Kerub and Michel Labrosse met almost 30 years ago which would end up being the catalyst that started this all. After small standard modifications to Eric's car at the time – a Diamond Black 1991 BMW 318is, including a chip, exhaust, intake, etc. it was time to take on the coveted<|fim_middle|> designed and fabricated, a drive shaft cut & balanced, parts in the engine bay relocated (or simply entirely removed!) among several other actions to plan and execute on what we gathered had not been done before. Today, it's common place to see engine swaps and sometimes as far as total power train swaps, but in 1994 there was very little of this going on, and without the internet, there was basically no reference on potentially other peoples work throughout the world.
Several years later, Eric and Michel would reconnect to form a race/restoration/prep/custom build shop that is now known as Motorsports In Action.
The most recent custom build coming out of MIA is a 1988 BMW M3 "modernized for the road and track" including a new power train coming in the form of an M5 V8 engine, racing bits such as a full JRZ suspension (adjustable for street driving and track use) along with a fully caged interior mostly hidden by its Alcantera suede interior and custom orange stitching! To fully comply with today's goodies and convenience factors that most drivers can't do without, the car has been fitted with a top end Pioneer Navigation and Bluetooth system, rear cameras, USB charging ports (in lieu of the ashtray), a blistering new sound system and modernized halogen lights as the cherry on top.
If you have an idea in mind, no matter how wild and insane, please know that we specialize in the wild and insane department so reach out to us, lay out your vision, and we'll get it built! | (and unaffordable) E30 BMW M3! No amount of "tinkering" on the 134hp 16 valve introductory 3 series was going to reach the performance heights of the legend in the making. Michel therefore had to think out of the box which lead to the concept, design and eventual build of what was known once finished as THE 335is.
This beast which took about 5 months to plan and build had an engine from a BMW 735i, the transmission of a 535i and the differential from an M3. Custom motor mounts had to be | 130 |
Here you will find<|fim_middle|> it is worth encouraging him to keep hydrated if he ever needs it. He may be showing signs of dehydration if he is down the cooler end of the enclosure and has his mouth open. Bearded dragons open their mouth to regulate their temperature and you can encourage him to drink by putting droplets of water on the tip of his nose.
Setting up your vivarium before your bearded dragon arrives is very important as you must get things just right to ensure that your bearded dragon moving in as easy and stress-free for them as possible.
Bearded dragons need both UVA and UVB light.
A UVB light source must be provided for your bearded dragon as without this, they cannot produce vitamin D3. This vitamin is needed to process calcium which in turn helps make their bones stronger and prevents them from getting ailments such as metabolic bone disease.
In the wild a bearded dragon would get vast amounts of UVB light, and will therefore produce plenty of vitamin D3; because of this, you will need to install a 10% or 12% UVB light tube that ideally will cover most of the vivarium as bearded dragons need from 10 to 12 hours of UVB light per day. You don't want your bearded dragon basking or cooling down without UVB light.
For more information on this please refer to the vivarium set up section as there are different sizes and ratings of UVB florescent tubing. There is also information on all in one UVA/UVB heat bulbs (which I do not recommend for several reasons – see later comments).
Heating must be provided using a basking bulb which outputs strong UVA rays, producing the heat bearded dragons need in order to digest their food. There are several different types of bulbs that can provide this heat, although one which produces bright white light tends to make your bearded dragon want to bask in this area, as by instinct, bright light means sun and heat.
As bearded dragons need heat to digest their food, it is important that your vivarium is maintained at the correct temperatures. If the temperatures are too low, your dragon will not be able to digest its food properly allowing it to rot in its stomach; if they are too high, it won't be able to cool down and will overheat, also adversely affecting its health.
For more information regarding heating your vivarium, setting up the heat gradient and the different products you can buy, visit the vivarium heating set up section.
Bearded dragons generally like being handled and this is why they are the most popular reptile kept in the UK. Even when they are young, they enjoy being handled, although as with any pet, you need to earn their trust and ensure they feel comfortable with you handling them!
There are many different methods of handling your dragon and it is more easy to get them used to being handled when they are young and lighter to hold. However, if you buy or re-home an older bearded dragon, you must use the same technique, and persist in continuing to handle them without them feeling threatened. Try to avoid grabbing your bearded dragon around their back and always make sure you support them well by trying to scoop them up.
Information: Bearded dragons need to feel completely supported – if you choose to slide a hand beneath their front, you must also support their back legs and tail as otherwise, they will not enjoy being held!
Always know where your nearest reptile vet is located as if your bearded dragon becomes unwell, its health can deteriorate very quickly.
If your bearded dragon is not eating normally it may be worth taking a poo sample to the vets to get checked for the presence of parasites or any other abnormality. Also, make sure you check your temperatures are correct. | everything you need to know about caring for your bearded dragon, from setting up your vivarium to feeding and handling your dragon. Click on the content links below to get to your desired information.
Bearded dragons are omnivores and consistently eat two types of food – insects and vegetables. When feeding your dragon, you must bear in mind that they also require a varied diet, so it is not recommended that you offer them the same vegetables or salad all of the time – a variety will give them all the different nutrients that they need to stay healthy and thrive.
Bearded dragons can eat a variety of different insects and live food, such as crickets, locusts (hoppers), wax worms (these are like sweets for your dragon – they taste good but are not so nutritious), and meal worms (again, not very nutritious so avoid providing these daily).
Important tip! Whatever insect you choose to feed your dragon must be no larger than the space between his eyes as if it is, this has been known to cause issues with their food digestion and could lead to impaction or paralysis of the back legs.
Important tip! When feeding live food to your dragon, remember to dust the food with calci-powder!
Crickets are the most popular choice of food for bearded dragons because you get a lot of crickets, (30 in each box), in comparison to another insects like locusts (10 in a box).
Otherwise known as juveniles, their feeding can be very expensive as they need to consistently be given live food two or three times a day. At each feed, allow them to eat as much as they can manage within 5 to 10 minutes. If they look satisfied and cannot manage the rest of the live food, remove these from the enclosure.
When your dragon is older and has put on some weight you can move onto feeding them live food once per day.
As your bearded dragon grows older you will find they generally eat less live food. You should be feeding your dragon gut loaded live insects twice per week, again as much as they want to eat in 5 to 10 minutes.
In this section I have detailed the types of live food you may choose to feed your bearded dragon(s). Each cost different prices, some are more easy to keep than others. I personally chose locusts - although more expensive, they are easy to feed and readily avaliable in many sizes at your local pet store.
Feeding crickets in your enclosure may be problematic, particularly with juveniles, as they can quickly escape and hide from sight under a rock or behind some decorations. If insects are left in the enclosure overnight, they will soon get hungry and nibble on the soft parts of your bearded dragon during the night, which can upset it. If there are some escapees in the enclosure that you cannot catch, you should leave some food in the bowl overnight to tempt them away from your dragon, or simply squash and remove them.
You may find it easier to feed juveniles outside their enclosure in a large bowl. When you introduce your dragon to the bowl they will then be able to hunt in a much smaller area, allowing them to get all the live food they want from the feed. If you don't want to feed live food outside of the enclosure, you can always bag up the crickets and put them in the fridge for 5 minutes which slows them right down, If your juvenile is still struggling, you can pull the legs of the insects to ensure they don't run away before your dragon is properly fed!
If you don't want to feed live food outside of the enclosure, you can always bag up the crickets and put them in the fridge for 5 minutes which slows them right down, If your juvenile is still struggling, you can pull the legs of the insects to ensure they don't run away before your dragon is properly fed!
As mentioned above, you don't get so many hoppers in a box, although I found it much easier to feed my dragon with these, and escapees tend to be much easier to catch. They tend to walk about a little and then freeze when they see your dragon to prevent being eaten... This is not much use with a hungry dragon who is launching himself around the enclosure for live food; when the dragon gets too close, the hoppers bounce away, only to be chased and eaten!
I have no experience yet with roaches, although I have read these are great as a staple diet for bearded dragons and are really easy to keep. As soon as I mentioned this to my partner, she refused to let me buy a starter colony!
Although they are cheap and easy to keep, I have heard that they are noisy and can also smell; it would certainly save you a lot of money breeding these to feed your dragon(s) though.
GUTLOADING: To ensure you are caring properly for your bearded dragon, you should 'gutload' all your live food. This is where you feed the insects the same vegetables/salad as you feed your bearded dragon, thus allowing your dragon to gain these nutrients from the live food as well as from the vegetables.
Remember: Remove all live food from the enclosure when not feeding, especially during the evening and overnight to prevent an unhappy beardy that has been nibbled!
Remember: Do not feed your bearded dragon live food that is larger than the space between their eyes as you may end up killing it. It's not worth the risk!
Beaded dragons of any age should be offered vegetables and salad daily. There are a variety of vegetables you can offer your bearded dragon, and some that are best avoided.
You should try and vary the vegetables and salad you give your bearded dragon, preparing a mix of three vegetables per day is hard work, although you can do it in one go at the start of the week - keep these in your fridge all finely chopped, and sprinkle water on them every so often so they stay fresh.
Try and vary the vegetables and salad you feed your bearded dragon; although preparing a mix of three vegetables per day is hard work, you can do it in one go at the start of the week, then keep these in your fridge all finely chopped, sprinkling water on them every so often to keep them fresh.
A continuous supply of water is essential for your bearded dragon. Make sure it is in a small, shallow dish and keep it fresh. You will rarely, if ever, see your bearded dragon drink from it but | 1,327 |
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While PEX has made great strides in tubing materials there are some downsides. In particular, PEX piping has greater potential for bacterial growth than copper and PEX is sensitive to Ultra Violet rays. This means PEX should not be exposed to the sunlight for prolonged periods of time which can be sometime a problem in Riverside California. Additionally, PEX doesn't have the long, proven, track record of copper piping. Also, as with any new technology, PEX installation runs the risk of encountering currently unknown, long-term, problems in the future.
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Wake Forest's Clawson, Pitt's Pickett earn ACC top honors
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) The Atlantic Coast Conference has named Wake Forest's Dave Clawson as its coach of the year and Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett as its player of the year.
The league released its individual awards this week. Pickett was also named offensive player of the year, while the list includes Florida State defensive end Jermaine Johnson II<|fim_middle|>uzzi, whose 17th-ranked Panthers face Clawson's 18th-ranked Demon Deacons in Saturday's ACC championship game, was second with 10 votes.
Clawson is the ninth Wake Forest coach to win the honor and first since Jim Grobe in 2006, the last year the Demon Deacons won an ACC title.
Pickett claimed 52 of 64 votes for player of the year, easily outdistancing Virginia quarterback Brennan Armstrong (five) and Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman (three).
Pickett is the second Pittsburgh player to win those two awards, following running back James Conner in 2014.
The Associated Press will release its all-ACC honors Monday. | as defensive player of the year, Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke as rookie of the year and offensive rookie of the year, and Clemson safety Andrew Mukuba as defensive rookie of the year.
Clawson received 49 of 64 votes from a 50-member panel of media members and league head coaches. Pittsburgh's Pat Nard | 70 |
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Read more about the assembly. | Asia Assembly was held in Sri Lanka on October 5-6, 2018. Over 150 delegates and leaders from all over Asia, representing different cultures, ethnic groups, religions and nationalities, gathered under one roof to celebrate their diversity and their common commitment to peace. The theme of this gathering was "United in Peace: Transcending Boundaries." Assemblies such as this one are great opportunities for URI member groups (Cooperation Circles) to network, learn from each other, and benefit from training on various topics.
The assembly was an important moment in the lives of many participants. "In Pakistan, I am working with Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus, but in Sri Lanka, for the first time I met with Buddhist people. For me, it was a very blessed moment," said Asher Nazir, Executive Secretary of URI Pakistan and Coordinator of COPE Pakistan Cooperation Circle.
"When the people of India said, 'We love you Pakistan,' and the Pakistani people said, 'We love you, India,' that was the real beauty of the assembly," said representatives from | 225 |
Start 'Em, Sit 'Em, Week 11: Woods You Rather?
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Allen Robinson stats and fantasy value from past seasons for Standard and PPR formats. Tm %=Team Percentage (i.e., % of team rushes). STD PTS calculated as: Rush or Receiving Yards (1 pt per 10 yds), Run or Rec TD(6), Fumbles Lost (-2). 1/2 PPR adds 0.5 points per reception. PPR adds 1 point per reception. | for all players + a lineup optimizer!
Allen Robinson of the Chicago Bears is ranked #6 for STD and #6 for PPR in our 2018 rest of season WR rankings.
The bye week for Allen Robinson and the Chicago Bears in 2018 is Week 5.
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We respond to images every day: an Instagram shot of a stunning sunrise, or the pictures friends text us from a vacation spent hiking in Ireland. But not everyone understands the tremendous power images wield in the business world. Just as any business cares about how its website is written or its ad copy composed, it should also treat images with the same attention and respect. Mary Meeker's widely read 2019 Internet Trends report underlines that truth.
Images<|fim_middle|>Eager to learn more about how your business can work with Instagram—and influencers? Contact us. | are on the Rise
Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report is an annual thought bomb with considerable influence. According to Meeker, consumer usage of digital continues to increase overall:
With that uptick, there's been a climb in image creation. Images hold a lot of power. People respond to them: not only the pictures they take, but other people's, too. And as image sharing becomes more popular, perhaps it's no coincidence that Instagram use is soaring:
As Meeker points out, Twitter content with images gets more tweet impressions:
And artificial intelligence tools are making images more sophisticated, in the process rendering them more powerful as communication instruments:
What Does The Rise of Visual Storytelling Mean for You?
Her findings are a reminder that businesses need to treat images as critical assets in both paid and organic content. What should your response be? Here are some tips:
Capitalize on tools that make your digital advertising stand out, such as Google Shoppable Ads. As we noted in this post, select retailers are experimenting with a format that allows them to highlight multiple products for sale within a sponsored ad appearing in Google Images results.
Make Instagram part of your game plan. Instagram is trending, becoming increasingly popular for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business brands, as advertisers become aware of—and ever-more curious about—the opportunities the platform affords. We've written about some of those opportunities, including Instagram's Branded Content Ads, which makes it possible for businesses to use Ads Manager to promote branded content as an ad in their Instagram feeds.
Use strong images in your organic content. In a recent post, Andy Crestodina of Orbit Media discusses how images can improve your search rankings. As he points out, "Now we know that visuals are an SEO's (search engine optimization's) best friend." Perhaps that's because visuals, like well-crafted text, can speak volumes with a minimum of fuss. "Just as you wouldn't miss the chance to turn a paragraph of items into a bullet list, never miss the chance to use a visual to explain a concept," Crestodina says.
We agree. And one area where you can make the most of strong images is your Google My Business (GMB) page. That's because a company's GMB page, as noted in moz.com, is the single most important way for a business to be found through local searches.
Images hold power. Want to learn more about how to capitalize on that power? Contact us.
Instagram understands the appeal—and power—of influencers, and is releasing a new feature, Branded Content Ads, that helps businesses capitalize on that appeal. As Instagram announced in a blog post, Branded Content Ads makes it possible for businesses to use Ads Manager to promote branded content as an ad in their Instagram feeds. Furthermore, businesses can use targeting tools to specify demographics and measure the results: who's responding, and how many people read the post. Branded Content Ads is a win-win for both advertisers and influencers, especially micro-influencers.
A Win-Win
By tapping into the authenticity of influencer content, and the buzz that content can create, businesses stand to create more awareness for their brand or product. This new tool is especially suited to companies who already know how to work with micro-influencers, such as Swedish watch-maker Daniel Wellington, which already has a strong micro-influencer outreach and does little traditional advertising at all. In a recent micro-influencer campaign, the company thought outside the box and reached beyond lifestyle and fashion Instagrammers to partner with pet lovers. The result? An account that focused—successfully—on the Internet community's love for cute animals. Pet owners shared images of themselves and their favorite animal friend, with a Daniel Wellington watch always prominently featured somewhere in the mix. Branded Content Ads will provide a company like Daniel Wellington one more tool to work with by allowing the company to take an influencer's organic post (with the permission of the influencer) and share that post as branded content on the Daniel Wellington Instagram account. Branded Content Ads will also make such a campaign easier to manage and track.
Of course, influencers also benefit from the larger audience that can result from business/influencer collaboration. And because the new Instagram feature allows businesses to target a specific audience and use performance measurement tools to track response, influencers might not only grow but even make some discoveries about their personal brand in the process. This is especially relevant to micro-influencers looking to expand their reach. Consider someone like Christian Caro, a top micro-influencer whose roughly 6,000 followers track his exuberant photos of life in So-Cal.
If he wanted to grow his audience beyond his current Instagram followers, he could capitalize on this new feature and partner with a brand dedicated to topics such as lifestyle, food, or fashion, which overlap with his photography. By contrast, a mega influencer such as Kim Kardashian West, who has 141 million followers, may not benefit as much from this program because she's clearly doing just fine building an audience on her own.
Instagram has laid out specific instructions to help businesses and influencers work together and maintain transparency. Steps include:
Businesses must grant permission for the influencer to tag their business in the influencer's branded content post.
As noted, businesses must secure permission from the influencer to promote the post as an ad.
Once an ad is created, it is reviewed and approved by Facebook, after which it will appear in the Instagram feeds of the designated audience. Note that businesses won't be able to manage or delete likes and comments that appear on a promoted branded content post.
Once an ad is live, businesses will have access to standard ad reporting metrics.
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Trump jabs Macron as he arrives in France for Armistice visit
November 9, 2018 / 9:11 PM / CBS/AP
President Trump wasted no time taking a jab at his French counterpart Friday as he arrived in Paris for events marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. Tweeting as he landed, Mr. Trump said President Emmanuel Macron had made an "insulting" proposal to build up Europe's military to counter the U.S., China and Russia.
President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018
It was a clear sign that the "America first" president was ready to chart his own course yet again as world leaders gathered to remember the coalition that brought an end to the first global war. Mr. Trump's visit comes on the heels of midterm elections in which Americans delivered a split referendum on his presidency, keeping the Senate in his party's control but ceding the House to opposition Democrats.
He planned to meet with Macron on Saturday for talks on topics expected to include European security, Syria and Iran. As he arrived, Mr. Trump tweeted that Macron "has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!"
Mr. Trump's brief visit to Europe comes amid uncertainty about the U.S. relationship with the continent. Mr. Trump has railed against trade deals with the European Union and has criticized some EU nations, including France, for not spending enough to defense to sustain NATO, the decades-old Western alliance formed as a bulwark to Moscow's aggression.
At a NATO meeting in July, Mr. Trump similarly railed against the European leaders as he was meeting them, tweeting "What good is NATO if Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars for gas and energy?" The president's tweet about Germany came after he had what he described as a "great meeting" with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr. Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said Friday in Paris that the U.S. was concerned about stability in Europe and that Mr. Trump was not shirking from global engagement. "I think the enduring lesson (of World War I) for the United States is that when you become a global power ... you have global interests to protect," Bolton said. "Great world leaders," he said, are "driven by national interests."
For Sunday's armistice anniversary, Mr. Trump was to join world leaders at a ceremony in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe.
"It should be a very beautiful period of time, the 100th anniversary of the ending of World<|fim_middle|> antithesis of President Trump's public messaging," said Heather Conley, director of the Europe program at Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The president and first lady Melania Trump were expected to visit several memorial sites in France that are dedicated to American service members. Not on Mr. Trump's schedule, despite earlier discussions about the possibility, was an extended meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I don't know that we're seeing each other in Paris, but we may," Trump said. "There may be a lunch for the leaders."
The White House and the Kremlin had previously considered a formal meeting in Paris. That now seems more likely for later this month, when they attend the Group of 20 summit of international leaders in Argentina.
Mr. Trump and Putin have met previously on the sidelines of two summits and had their own bilateral meeting in July in Helsinki. At that meeting, Mr. Trump would not say whether he believed Putin or U.S. intelligence agencies about their conclusions about Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential election.
First published on November 9, 2018 / 9:11 PM | War I. We have many countries — the leadership from many countries will be there, especially since they heard the United States will be there. And we look forward to that," Mr. Trump told reporters Friday before leaving the White House. "I've seen what they have planned, and I think it's going to be something very, very special."
Mr. Trump originally wanted to celebrate Veterans Day on Sunday with a grand military parade in Washington, as he was inspired by the tanks and flyovers he saw during France's Bastille Day celebration when he visited Paris in July of last year. Mr. Trump ordered the Pentagon to come up with plans for his own version, but they were eventually scrapped over concerns about costs and the damage tanks weighing many tons would do to the streets in Washington.
Mr. Trump and Macron's early relationship was marked by kisses, frequent meetings and marathon power handshakes. Early on, Macron tried to position himself as a sort of "Trump whisperer" and Mr. Trump returned the favor, hosting Macron at the first and only state dinner of his presidency. But the relationship-building failed to persuade Mr. Trump to remain in the global climate change or Iran deals and did nothing to protect France from U.S. tariffs.
The dividends of Macron's cultivation of Mr. Trump are "modest at best," said Stewart M. Patrick, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
At the same time, Macron has increasingly been positioning himself as a bulwark against the rising tide of Trump-style populism across Europe, speaking out loudly against the dangers of nationalism and isolationist retreat.
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This Sydney icon was originally constructed as the stables for Government House by renowned colonial architect Sir Francis Greenway and conceived as a picturesque element within an extensive landscape setting.
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Landscape Contractors Association of NSW 2002 – Best Institutional Landscape
UNESCO Asia Pacific 2002 – Heritage Conservation Merit Award
Planning Institute of Australia 2000 – Merit Award for Urban Design Excellence
Royal Australian Institute of Architects 2002 – Conservation Award Architecture
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The result was described by then NSW Government Architect Chris Johnson as creating "a seamless connection with the Royal Botanic Gardens … a statement that the future is in fact about integrating the built and natural systems". This connection has significantly restored the intended relationship between the Greenway stables and the Government House gardens.
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Delta Trianguli (δ Tri,<|fim_middle|> Delta Trianguli B, não é muito bem conhecido pois a proximidade com a outra estrela dificulta observações, com estimativas da classe espectral variando entre G9V e K4V. As duas estrelas orbitam o centro de massa com uma separação de menos de um UA, estimada em 0,106 UA. O período orbital é de 10,02 dias e a excentricidade orbital é de apenas 0,020. A órbita é inclinada em cerca de 167° em relação a linha de visão da Terra.
Em 2008 uma pesquisa para achar um terceiro componente usando óptica adaptativa com o Very Large Telescope não foi bem sucedida. Observações do sistema em infravermelho a 70 μm mostraram nenhuma emissão em excesso, o que poderia indicar a presença de um disco de detritos.
Ver também
Lista de estrelas da constelação de Triangulum
Constelação de Triangulum
Binárias espectroscópicas
Estrelas de classe G da sequência principal
Estrelas de classe K da sequência principal | δ Trianguli) é uma estrela binária espectroscópica a aproximadamente 25 anos-luz da Terra na constelação de Triangulum. Tem uma magnitude aparente de 4,87, sendo a quarta estrela mais brilhante da constelação, e forma uma estrela tripla óptica (coincidência na linha de visão) com Gamma Trianguli e 7 Trianguli.
Delta Trianguli A é parecida com o Sol e tem um tipo espectral de G0V, o que indica que é uma anã amarela da sequência principal. O espectro da estrela menor, | 150 |
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Rates of depression, psychological distress, and suicidal thoughts and actions among U.S. residents have increased over the past decade, particularly among teens and young adults, according to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
For the study, researchers analyzed mental health data from CDC and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The data, which spanned from 2005<|fim_middle|> researchers said social media and a lack of sleep might be driving increases in poor mental health.
Twenge said, "I didn't come to that conclusion immediately or lightly. I came to that conclusion because nothing else fits." She continued, "In some ways it was a process of elimination. If you consider what affected 12- to 25-years-olds most in 2017 versus 2008, one of the biggest differences is the shift in how young people spend their leisure time. … They spend less time sleeping, less time with friends face-to-face, and more time with digital media."
However, Ramin Mojtabai, a Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist, said the role social media has played on mental health is "speculative." He said, "We don't have an experimental study in which we have a group of young people exposed and another group that are not exposed to social media, or that removed their digital devices from their hands and measured whether they were less depressed." But Mojtabai acknowledged it is "plausible" for social media to have had an effect.
Robert Crosnoe, chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Texas at Austin and president of the Society for Adolescence, separately added, "There really aren't data that show a strong connection between these two things. I think this increase in mental health issues is real and is something we need to be concerned about, but until we know exactly what's causing it, I don't think it's so easy for us to put the blame on any one thing."
Further, Crosnoe said, "There is this narrative out there of teenagers going off the cliff, [but] by most indicators, they seem to be doing pretty well, relative to what was going on 20 years ago," when teens engaged in risky behaviors at higher rates. He said, "The majority of adolescents are doing great in terms of mental health. … I'm not willing to say that we have a widespread problem on our hands when it's only 13% of the population" (Bahrampour, Washington Post, 3/14; Neighmond, "Shots," NPR, 3/14; Healy, Los Angeles Times, 3/14).
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The researchers found rates of depression, psychological distress, and suicidal thoughts and actions remained mostly stable among older adults from 2005 to 2017, but increased significantly among adolescents and younger adults.
52%, rising from 8.7% in 2005 to 13.2% in 2017, among U.S. adolescents ages 12 to 17.
According to the researchers, girls more commonly experienced symptoms of major depression than boys. The researchers found that, in 2017, one out of every five adolescent girls had experienced symptoms of major depression over the past year.
The researchers also found the number of individuals ages 18 to 25 who reported serious psychological distress, which includes feeling nervous and hopeless, increased by 71%, rising from 7.7% in 2008 to 13.1% in 2017.
According to researchers, deaths from suicide among adults ages 18 to 19 increased by 56% between 2008 and 2017, and the rate of suicidal thoughts among such individuals increased by up to 68%. Meanwhile, the researchers found suicide attempts increased by 87% among adults ages 20 to 21 and by 108% among adults ages 22 to 23.
Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the report's lead author, said, "This is a large change in a short period of time—an unusually large change in a short period of time."
The researchers said younger adults and adolescents might have disproportionately higher rates of depression, psychological distress, and suicidal thoughts and actions because "cultural trends in the last 10 years may have had a larger effect on mood disorders and suicide-related outcomes among younger [individuals] compared to older [individuals]." In particular, the | 443 |
Every company has its strengths and areas for improvement; and it is HC professionals' detailed analysis and skills on which the goals to be pursued and the actions to be taken in HCM depend, so as to maximize the business benefits from it. A focus on advantages as well as a good knowledge and clear vision of how to tackle problem areas are fundamental to gaining a competitive advantage.
Texts in brackets such as 'not shown on chart' or 'data about other HC indicators required' are an example that<|fim_middle|> steadily on the rise (not shown on chart). The decrease in revenues results in decrease in expenses, but with personnel costs and headcount remaining stable, a steadily growing HC ROI is observed.
Obviously, Bolyarka's managers are quite good in making the best possible use of their workforce's capacity, thus showing the most stable uptrend in profit and HC ROI. It should be noted that of all four companies, Bolyarka has the lowest average remuneration costs per employee. In my view, this is the result of the status quo on the regional labor market and the workforce structure. I will certainly continue to keep track of the company's development.
"Remuneration Management" is my first book which is a practical guide for remuneration management in organizations.
The book is a contemporary interpretation of trends in remuneration theories viewed through the lens of 15 years' experience in the area of human resources.
The book covers the main elements of remuneration, their nature, manner and method of formation, business processes that could be supported, and different approaches and technique.
I would like to turn with gratitude to academic authors writing in the field of remuneration, and to assure that this text is not intended to usurp the authorship of their scientific work; it is just evidence of the usage of their theories in practice.
I would like to thank to Petya and Lori my lovely family, my friends and especially to Tanya Boyadjieva, for their support and patience, and to the publisher Ciela.
Presentation of the book "Remuneration Management", March 1, 2012, a book store Helicon Vitosha Sofia.
I expect you on 1 March 2012 at 18.30 at the bookstore Helicon Vitosha Sofia.
Tanya Boyadjieva certified human resources management consultant, author of the preface of the book.
Welcome to my space for sharing experiences, comments and ideas on the management of human resources. | in most cases when data are analyzed we need additional metrics like total profit, profit per employee, comparisons with companies from similar industries operating abroad, personnel costs breakdown by department or activity, sales force efficiency, level of employee engagement, etc.
The indicators I have discussed are in one way or another related to remuneration management which certainly adds to the subject of my book, but one should be aware that there are also very good metrics measuring the various activities which fall under Human Capital management: recruitment efficiency, training efficiency, absenteeism, internal communication levels, personnel costs to revenue ratio, average values per employee for the following indicators: profit, revenue, remuneration, fixed to variable pay ratio, fluctuation of manpower and fluctuation costs, talent retention, level of internal promotions, engagement, payslip costs, etc.
Let us not forget that such indicators should be used at the macroeconomic level. Claims are often heard that labor productivity in Bulgaria is much lower than that in developed economies, but no procedures are ever proposed to calculate this productivity, nor do we know anything about the specific steps taken to improve it.
When I was writing my book Remuneration Management, I decided not to complicate the matter too much, in the hope that whenever I had the opportunity in the future I could come back and develop further the part on the indicators (metrics) of success. Obviously, here I will attempt to merely lift the curtain, moreover I have to admit that I myself am still in the process of studying and improving my understanding of the subject, and the more I explore HC metrics, the more the scope broadens and my questions become more profound.
Businesses pursue financial goals which get monitored by investors or the leaders of the companies themselves whenever decisions are taken for investment or change of business goals. HC investments (staff costs) appear as only a several numbers in a company's financial statement, but the productivity resulting from them and how they can affect the return on investment are all questions whose answers may actually improve the company's financial performance.
True, we don't yet have the standardized metrics needed to measure how far HR management has achieved a certain level of success. It is also true that the accurate interpretation of data requires the use of at least several indicators, which, however, should not prevent us from seeking and applying the best practices available. The financial downturn has lead to a minor increase, and often even to decline in revenue and profit, which makes analysts in developed economies opt for cost optimization instead. In Bulgaria, the term 'cost optimization' is used to conceal actions taken to actually cut costs. A material of the Human Capital Management Institute quotes an article by Tom Davenport (Davenport, Harris & Shapiro, 2010) published in Harvard Business Review, where the authors believe that leading companies such as Starbucks, Limited Brands, Best Buy and others are well aware of the profits which may result from improved employee engagement or talent retention.
The final formula according to which the impact of human capital's productivity is calculated looks logical, although somewhat complicated for the Bulgarian situation.
I do not intend, though, to present here the ideas behind a Human Capital Financial Statement, which anyone interested can see discussed in detail at http://www.hcminst.com/.
Let me just add that throughout my career as a consultant I have often observed my clients' growing interest when, in the course of a presentation, we come to the topic of Return on Investment in Human Capital. This interest is usually triggered by the discussion of both company data over a certain period, most often several years, and comparisons between the company in question and rivals from Bulgaria and abroad.
In other words, the use of HR management (HRM) performance indicators in developed economies has come to be seen as a key tool in trend analysis and forecasting, providing information needed in strategic decision making and process optimization. HRM experts use the results from the analysis to take action aimed at improving effectiveness, HC return on investment, talent loss risk avoidance, and optimization of the processes used in HC management.
It is hardly a secret that HCM performance indicators are not particularly popular in Bulgaria, the main reasons, in my opinion, being the following: the difficulty in selecting indicators, the laborious process of data collection and analysis, the challenging task of finding rival data for comparison, and in many cases the fact that HC managers simply dislike numbers. To prove that all of the above (except for the last one) are not so hard to deal with, I decided to use an HC ROI indicator for four companies based on publicly available information mostly taken from their annual financial statements. (By way of digression, let me recommend here a web based provider of "hard-to-get information on more than 80 emerging markets " – ISI Emerging Markets).
Human Capital Return on Investment – HC ROI.
HC ROI is an indicator in which a single figure combines the company's financial performance (profit and loss) with the amount of personnel costs (investment).
It reveals how revenues, cost control and the efficiency of HCM policies affect each other.
I have come across several HC ROI formulae where higher values stand for higher return, i.e. the company has gained more than the investment it has made in remuneration and social security contributions.
Using the example of Deloitte Bulgaria, I left the companies' financial revenues and expenditures out, based on the assumption that HC have no direct impact on these.
The result shows the profit before tax gained by the company per 1 BGN invested in remuneration.
Personnel costs include all costs paid by the employer as cash or in-kind income: salaries, bonuses, overtime, rewards, benefits, social security contributions.
In the four publications below I will present annual data used to calculate HC ROI for the four companies in question for the period 2007/2011.
Chart one shows the information about Kamenitza. The analysis is available here.
Next comes the Zagorka chart.
To this, we add the Carlsberg Bulgaria chart.
And finally, the Bolyarka VT chart.
As a follow-up on the article on Human Capital Return on Investment, below I have presented the Kamenitza chart.
The revenue chart (in green) reveals year-to-year variations, reaching a peak in 2011, with an overall upward trend. Total expenditures without remuneration costs (in blue) tend to follow the trend at a relatively stable pace except in 2007, when the company generated substantial income through sale of fixed assets. This means that Kamenitza's managers are following a cost control policy with expenses tied to revenues. If we now look at remuneration costs (in purple), we can see two sharp increases in 2008 and 2009. The 2008 increase is combined with a substantial growth in headcount (the numbers in the blue cells). The 2009 increase is no good news as it doesn't lead to any increase in revenue. The average remuneration costs per employee (not shown on chart) have been growing at a regular pace from BGN 1 301 for 2007 to BGN 2 026 for 2011.
Based on numbers alone, and without any knowledge of the company's employee incentive systems, one can assume that in the period 2009-2011 the company has been encouraging higher performance among its employees, leading to an increase in revenue. With respect to HC ROI (the orange curve), following the rule that any number greater than one is an achievement and given the HC ROI uptrend, one may conclude that the company is doing fine, but whether this is indeed the case will depend on the management's opinion and on results from comparisons with rivals.
As part of the article on Human Capital Return on Investment here we continue the analysis of the Bulgarian brewing industry with information about Zagorka.
The data show much higher operating income (in green) with fluctuations and an overall downtrend. Despite this, however, even the lowest income level in 2011 is above Kamenitza's performance. The trend is obviously one of falling income, which, together with the overall decline in the consumption of beer in Bulgaria indicates a somewhat alarming trend for the company. The positive impression comes from the wide margin between income and expenses (in blue and purple, respectively), which enables the company to retain stable profits throughout the period (not shown on chart). This, together with the lack of abrupt changes in remuneration costs (in purple) and a relatively stable headcount (the numbers in the blue cells) results in a remarkable HC ROI. It would be interesting to compare this information with industry data for companies operating on markets other than Bulgaria. Should such data be available, it would be advisable to calculate the average revenues generated by the sales force to see their efficiency and set guidelines for changes in the organization of operations and focus on the building of new sales skills. These findings can be further elaborated through comparison with rival data.
And one more thing as a proof that indicators are not necessarily unequivocal and most often when data is analyzed several different metrics need to be combined with a good knowledge of changes in the respective business: HC ROI for 2011 is at its lowest rate for the period, while the average salary (about BGN 2 300, not shown on chart) is at its highest. I assume there are two reasons for this: firstly, a gradual shrinking of workforce throughout the year, and secondly, a decline in the number of lower paid employees which, together with the decrease in revenue, results in a lower HC ROI. Or could this be an example where job cuts do not necessarily translate into cost optimization?
The HC ROI analysis of the key players in Bulgaria's brewing industry continues with information about Carlsberg Bulgaria. This chart is part of the article on Human Capital Return on Investment.
The first thing that strikes on the chart is the steady downtrend in revenues after 2008. This rather unflattering picture is further worsened by a steady decline in profits (not shown on chart), with the exception of 2010 when an increase in the margin between revenues and expenses results in an increase in HC ROI to 1.87, this being the highest level for the entire period. Remuneration costs keep going up slowly, even where headcount and revenues go down. Unfortunately, there is no indication whether remunerations are tied to the company's revenues and profits.
HC ROI fluctuates alarmingly, hitting the bottom in 2011. The chart reveals that at the end of 2011, Carlsberg's managers were faced with the challenge of taking serious decisions aimed at boosting revenues, cost optimization and HC optimization. I very much hope that the analysis has been helpful in identifying the measures which the company has to take to improve workforce efficiency and use the full potential of its employees to boost performance. Whether this has actually been the case, remains to be seen after the publication of the 2012 results.
Something is definitely true in this company's logo: A jewel in the crown.
Bolyarka has the lowest sales revenues from all four companies discussed here. Remarkably, however, despite the drop, Bolyarka has its profit | 2,317 |
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Although not showing too much solid action in this quick cut gameplay trailer, it does show the beauty of F1 2020. It is certain to be a good looking game, that is for sure!
F1 2020 will be released on July 10th 2020, and will be available on PS4, Xbox One, PC and Stadia for the first time.
READ MORE – Everything you need to know about the upcoming F1 2020 game! |
F1 2020 Reveals First Official Gameplay Trailer
Codemasters have finally released their first official F1 2020 gameplay trailer, and it shows a selection of new features.
We have already seen some gameplay in the form of two hot laps. We first saw gameplay of Max Verstappen driving around the new Zandvoort circuit, which you can watch here. We then saw Carlos Sainz taking his McLaren for a spin around Spain showing the revised track layout. Watch that video here.
This F1 2020 trailer gives us a quick glimpse of other features that will be in this year's game. It shows us the new car liveries properly for the first time, including the stunning AlphaTauri livery. It also shows the new Renault chassis, which is very reminiscent of last year's Mercedes!
Watch the F1 2020 trailer below
There is also a large emphasis on the drivers in this years F1 game. The trailer almost replicates the official Formula 1 race intro. It shows each driver up close, combined with quick snippets of footage of racing. This does highlight the insane amount of detail that has gone in to each driver model, as each driver looks stunning recreated.
For the first time in a long time, we also see new celebrations when drivers get out of their car after a hard win. There are also glimpses of new podium celebrations, although Codemasters decided to show Daniel Ricciardo on the top spot of the podium. We're not quite sure how realistic that is, but we wont hold it against Codies for wishing Daniel good luck!!
The trailer then goes on to include a glimpse of Formula 2, as we are expecting to be able to race a full season of Formula 2 in career mode this year. We're hoping we can start our career in Formula 2, before progressing in to Formula 1 in F1 202 | 399 |
Home Uncategorized Cabbagetown Market and Grill
Cabbagetown Market and Grill
Cabbagetown's neighborly market goes gourmet
Christiane Lauterbach
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Don't Miss List: Our top 5 event picks for November | Cabbagetown cotton mill and its workers. The only one of those stores still operating is the colorful Cabbagetown Market and Grill. Leon Little, son of founder James Little, sold it in 2006 to Lisa Hanson, a native of Canada who grew up in the south of France and spent most of her adult life in Manhattan, working for various museums. Her unorthodox personality and eclectic interests (she publishes a newspaper about craft beer in the Southeast and recently "curated" Southern pickles for Slow Food USA in San Francisco) shape a business that remains crucial to the neighborhood.
Closing for several months in the aftermath of a severe flood last fall gave Hanson the opportunity to explore new directions for the market. The infrastructure has been brought up to date, though the original shelves and a slamming screen door remain wonderfully intact. Hanson carries a variety of intriguing pantry items, including fresh noodles and Japanese candy. She sells local honey, grits, jams, and jellies. Raw milk from Carlton Farms cohabits in the coolers with a full line of Sparkman's dairy products, obscure Southern cheeses, eggs from Evie's Country Gardens, Mexican Cokes, and a small selection of seasonal fruits and vegetables.
The grill is busier than ever. Depending on your standards, you can get the "Littles' burger"—griddled diner-style with onions on a soft, toasted bun—or select a White Oak Pastures grass-fed patty on a brioche bun with homemade pimento cheese. Likewise, your hot dog can be grass-fed (from Wienerz in Marietta) or not (from Patak in Austell). Sandwiches (banh mi, Cuban, muffuletta) and generous bowls of noodles for brunch on Sunday are a boon to neighbors colonizing the grill's three big tables.
A beer and wine license is in her future, and she wants to start holding monthly dinners, including an evening of the Alsatian preparation of sauerkraut and sausages called choucroute—"because we are, after all, in Cabbagetown," Hanson jokes. She also plans to run a bed-and-breakfast next door. Features on the Food Network and HGTV have brought curious shoppers, but Hanson's bread and butter are her regulars. "I know which kids are allowed pop and candy and how much," she says, "and I bring leftovers to housebound old-timers." 198 Carroll Street, 404-524-4539, cabbagetownmarket.com
Photograph by Jamey Guy
Lisa Hanson
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A basic understanding of how toilets work can help diagnose a number of plumbing issues. Have you ever really thought about how your toilet works and what all of its parts are actually for? Unless you've had to repair one yourself, it probably hasn't crossed your mind to learn the inner workings of your toilet. This guide will help you understand toilet plumbing.
The way a toilet works is fairly self-explanatory as long as you understand what the different parts are and what they do. This can be beneficial to you if you ever have a problem with your toilet leaking, running, or flushing improperly. If you understand what's going on in there, it might be easier to understand what's causing any issues you might run into.
The anatomy of a toilet is fairly simple. Knowing how it works may be able to help you diagnose a number of problems you could be having with your toilet.
The base of the toilet is attached to the floor with a flange. A wax ring is inserted between the flange and the fixture to create a seal. The toilet is bolted to the flange with closet bolts.
If your<|fim_middle|>.
Closet bolts: long, brass screws that connect the flange to the base of the toilet.
Trip lever: a metal bar connected to your flush handle that is lifted and pulls up the tank ball when you flush.
Flapper: a flat stop at the end of the chain that lifts when the handle is pushed down. This keeps water from constantly flowing into your toilet bowl.
Fill valve: water flows into the tank from the supply line through the fill valve. As the water in the tank rises, afloat on the fill valve rises with it. When it gets to the top of the fill valve, the toilet stops filling. | toilet is rocking, it could need new bolts or a new flange. If it's leaking at the base, that could mean you need a new wax ring.
From the tank, there is a thin pipe (the supply line) connecting your toilet to a water source. At the wall, there is a shut-off valve that will shut off water to the toilet.
If your toilet keeps running and you can't figure out why you might need a plumber. It's probably a good idea to turn the water off at the shut-off valve so you don't end up with an outrageous water bill. It may keep running for a short time until the water drains from the supply line.
Inside the tank, it gets a little more complicated. All of the mechanisms that help your toilet flush is located here.
When you flush the handle, it pulls the trip lever or chain up. At the end of the chain is the flapper, so when you flush, the flapper is lifted. The force of the water pulls the water and waste you're flushing through the trap and into your sewer.
If the handle doesn't do anything when you push it down, something may have come disconnected or broken in the tank.
Flange: a rim used for attaching one object to another.
Wax ring: literally a ring of wax that sits between the flange and the base of the toilet | 277 |
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For a public works crew working on a congested city block, locating an existing utility is only half the battle. Locators can provide a precise target, but owners and engineering specifications will often demand visual inspection to help verify these findings. Methods such as potholing then come into play, but that still leaves the issue of dealing with the residual material after it's removed.
More and more, municipalities are turning to vacuum excavators to clean and remove debris created from boring projects and locating utilities. However, with the diversity in size and capability of vacuum excavators, municipalities need to know how to right-size a vacuum excavator and follow best practices to increase productivity.
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Vacuum excavating is growing in popularity not only out of necessity, but also viability. The ability to quickly and effectively remove dirt and debris from an urban area has enhanced the demand and role of vacuum excavators. Before setting out into the streets, however, a municipality should compare the selection, safety and maintenance of each excavator to achieve the best possible results.
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This article originally appeared in the May 2015 issue of Municipal Sewer & Water. For more information, please visit www.mswmag.com. | attachments can expand their applications. Different size-reduction tools allow cleaning of smaller water valve boxes and catch basins. A valve exerciser attachment, which mounts to the vacuum trailer, can save crews countless hours of exercising valves from one stationary location, eliminating the old-fashioned hand cranking method.
In today's vacuum excavator market, there are two predominant methods. Hydroexcavation uses water to excavate the hole and is particularly useful in fragmented soils or heavy clay conditions. It is very useful in congested or urban areas, as it limits the amount of particulate material in the air.
Even with the numerous proven benefits of hydroexcavation, many municipalities are trending toward using air for excavation. Air excavation is typically more successful in sandy, dry or granular soils.
One of the advantages of air excavation is being able to put the soil back in the hole. If you are using air, you don't get the soil wet and you can put the dry material back in and don't have to haul material in and out.
Determining the correct size of a vacuum excavator is just as important as the excavation method. Trailer mounted vacuum excavator selection can often be predicated on tank and blower capacity, which frequently determines hose size and overall machine productivity. Most vacuum excavators tend to feature tanks between 500 and 800 gallons; however, municipalities engaged in sewer cleaning will use truck rigs up to a 2,200-gallon capacity. For municipalities that typically work on smaller projects, smaller excavators are available with only 100- to 250-gallon capacities.
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Most manufacturers will set the water pumps on hydroexcavators below 3,000 psi, with 2,200 to 2,800 being the most popular range. Many of these machines have pumps capable of achieving pressures up to 4,000 psi, but it is this high pressure that can lead to issues if the operator is not careful.
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Through proper maintenance and training, the potential for damage is alleviated. The aforementioned rotary nozzle is an important piece to this puzzle; being prepared and precise are also equally important when completing an excavation project.
With the weight, air pressure and suction factors that come with vacuum excavator units, being aware of the safety guidelines is critical for worker safety, as well as the protection of equipment and road surfaces.
Safety training should begin with a focus on the suction and off-loading capabilities of vacuum excavators. Hoses have positive connections for both off-loading and suction, and operators need to ensure that hoses are secured properly before performing any task.
There is a proper way to off-load a vac unit. First, if you're using a trailer-mounted unit, always make sure to keep it attached to the tow vehicle. Next, open the gate valve on the bottom of the rear tank door and bleed all of the fluids out of the unit so you reduce the tank load and weight of the tank. Finally, open the rear door and elevate the tank to dump the spoils. Some vac units come with an in-tank washout system to assist in removing spoils, while others may include a liner to assist in releasing spoils.
Many of today's vacuum units have the ability to put a small amount of pressure inside the vacuum tank to help off-load the fluids without ever having to open the rear door. In these situations, a strong banded coupler is needed to help create a positive connection to the hose. Substitutions like duct tape are never recommended in place of a quality, approved coupler.
Pressure can also help push rocks and other obstructions from the hose, but a good positive hose connection and integrity throughout the hose length is critical for this. If you're using any kind of segmented hose, a | 837 |
Beck Settles Lawsuits Before New Album Release
Legal action clears way for singer/songwriter's sixth studio effort, Midnite Vultures.
Gil Kaufman 10/05/1999
With just a month to go before his sixth studio album is due in stores, Beck has settled a pair of lawsuits against his labels that could have jeopardized the recording's release.
"We signed it yesterday, everything was resolved, and all the lawsuits were dismissed," Jill Berliner, Beck's lawyer, said. The 29-year-old Los Angeles singer/songwriter signed a four-album deal with Geffen Records that begins with the release of his funk-influenced album Midnite Vultures (Nov. 16). Berliner declined to comment on the monetary terms of the deal.
In late April, Geffen and Bong Load Records sued Beck for breach of contract — the<|fim_middle|> songs for Midnite Vultures, an 11-track album of electro funk, soul and R&B crooning. For the most part, the LP abandons Beck's folkier side and concentrates on songs that recall the music of Prince, such as the falsetto-funk ballad "Debra." | result, Berliner said at the time, of failed contract renegotiations with Geffen. Those talks have been stalled for a year, partly because of the merger between Geffen's parent company, Universal Music Group, and PolyGram, she added.
Beck countersued both labels May 10, claiming copyright infringement over his 1998 album Mutations. Berliner said at the time that Beck had yet to be paid for that album.
Mutations originally was slated for release on Bong Load, but the album — which featured the single "Tropicalia" (RealAudio excerpt) — eventually was released on Geffen.
Beck previously was signed to indie label Bong Load — the label that released his breakthrough 1994 hit "Loser" (RealAudio excerpt). But under the new agreement he will be signed to Geffen, Berliner said.
Bong Load will continue to release the vinyl versions of Beck's albums, including Midnite Vultures, which features the single "Sexxlaws" (RealAudio excerpt). A spokesperson for Bong Load could not be reached for comment at press time. Geffen Records spokesperson Dennis Dennehy said the company does not comment on contractual matters.
Beck (born Beck Hansen) recorded more than 20 | 263 |
The impact of Metro on Reston is hard to miss. Anyone who's tried to cross the Dulles Toll Road at rush hour can attest to the changes we've gone through over the past 5 years. In addition to the impact on traffic and travel, Metro has also had an impact on neighborhoods.
Over the next several weeks I<|fim_middle|>0 for a smaller (1875 sq. ft.) property that needed a good bit infrastructure work like windows, roof, HVAC, etc., etc., to a high of $735,000 for a larger 300 sq. ft. plus a finished basement property that was in tip-top, move-in ready condition. This has always been a neighborhood that sells well—days on market last year averaged just 14 days, which is about 1/3 of what the overall Reston market averaged.
These homes, which are already really, really desirable have gotten a HUGE location upgrade. Every single one of them is less than one mile to the new Metro stop—ALL of them are a 20 minute or less walk from front door to the station—many of them are fewer than 10 minutes from door to station. It was a really good neighborhood before—being walkable to the Metro bumps this neighborhood up to super desirable. | 'm going to write about neighborhoods that fall within a 1-mile radius of the three Reston/Herndon Metro stops. This week we're looking at Polo Fields.
Home prices over the past year have ranged from a low $508,00 | 52 |
Bloudan (în ) este un sat sirian situat la 51 de kilometri nord-vest de Damasc, în Guvernoratul Rif Dimashq; are o altitudine de aproximativ 1500 de metri. La recensământul din 2004 executat de Biroul Central de Statistică avea o populație de 3.101 de locuitori. Majoritatea locuitorilor sunt creștinii ortodocși greci și o minoritate semnificativă sunt musulmani sunniți și protestanți.
Bloudan este situat pe vârful unui deal care are vedere la câmpia Al-Zabadani și este înconjurat de pădurile montane. Temperatura sa moderată și umiditatea scăzută în timpul verii atrage mulți vizitatori din Damasc și din întreaga Sirie; ca destinație turistică majoră, este vizitată de mii de oameni în fiecare an, în principal arabi din Liban și statele arabe din Golful Persic. În timpul iernii, Bloudan este de obicei înzăpezit și atrage mulți schiori. Bloudan are multe restaurante și hoteluri, dintre care cel mai faimos este Marele Hotel Bloudan care a găzduit prima Conferință Bloudan pan-arabă pentru a discuta despre Problema palestiniană în 1937. Bloudan este, de asemenea, renumit pentru numeroasele sale parcuri și izvoare, cum ar fi Izvoarele Abuzad, Qas'a și Hazir.
Clima
Bloudan are un tip de climă mediteraneană relativ vară-rece [Csb], cu o medie medie<|fim_middle|>0 mm. Fiind cu aproximativ 1000 de metri mai sus decât centrul orașului Damasc, înseamnă că Bloudan și alte așezări din vecinătatea sa sunt căutate de cei care doresc să scape de climatul arid și cald al capitalei. Verile din Bloudan sunt lungi, uscate și răcoroase, în timp ce sezonul de iarnă este de trei luni, cu ploi abundente și zăpadă.
Etimologie
Numele actual, Bloudan, este derivat din numele aramaic Bil-dan, care înseamnă locul zeului Bil sau Baal. Bloudan este, de asemenea, numit pământul migdalelor, deoarece pădurile sale sunt dominate de migdali.
Istoric
Bloudan este un sat foarte vechi a cărui istorie se întoarce în epoca romană, după cum reiese din picturile și sculpturile găsite în sudul Bloudanului. Rămășițe ale unei vechi mănăstiri greacă ortodoxe și biserica Sf. Gheorghe se găsesc, de asemenea, în munții din estul Bloudanului. Valea Sf. Ilie istorică este o parte veche a satului, cu clădiri vechi de sute de ani.
În 1858, populația a fost remarcată ca fiind ortodoxă greacă, protestantă și musulmană.
Bloudanul modern, construit din beton armat, a înlocuit în mare parte satul ortodox grec construit în secolele al XVIII-lea și al XIX-lea și continuă să crească și astăzi.
Referințe
Bibliografie
Legături externe
Information, Tururi siriene. Accesat la 1 decembrie 2006.
بلودان, Atlasul Siriei. Accesat la 1 decembrie 2006.
Localități din districtul Al-Zabadani
Comunități creștine ortodoxe din Siria
Domenii de schi și stațiuni din Siria | a anului mai mică de 11 grade Celsius și precipitații anuale abundente (atât sub formă de zăpadă, cât și sub formă de ploaie) în medie de 69 | 52 |
Q: fabric.js how to add rectangle adjacent to rotated rectangle I am working to put rectangles representing solar panels on roof top of a given house. User can rotate a rectangle to align it with roof. Code is working fine until an adjacent rectangle is added without rotating the selected panel. However, I am facing problem in correctly calculating the position of a new rectangles adjacent to the rotated rectangle. Here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Panel Positioner</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/1.4.0/fabric.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var solar_panel = {"width": 57, "height": 94}; // Default pixles on 5M zoom
var offset = 58;
var rads = 0;
var position = {};
var id = 1;
$('#add-panel').click(function() {
addPanel();
});
function addPanel() {
if (id === 1) {
canvas = new fabric.Canvas('c1');
canvas.on("after:render", function() {
canvas.calcOffset();
});
canvas.on('object:moving', function(e) {
var activeObject = e.target;
position.x = activeObject.get('left');
position.y = activeObject.get('top');
});
canvas.on('object:rotating', function(e) {
var activeObject = e.target;
var angle = activeObject.get('<|fim_middle|> x,y position for new adjacent object. Just re-calculate the radians (which is already being implemented in "object:rotating" block). So the code should look like:
if(rotated == false) {
markerPt2.x += offset * Math.cos(-rads);
markerPt2.y -= offset * Math.sin(-rads);
} else {
rotated = false;
}
*Additionally another fact that has been annoying for me was when an object is rendered or moved in Fabric.js, its x,y position is top-left corner of surrounding rectangle, but as an object is rotated, Fabric.js returns the center point of object as its x,y position. So in this case when the object was rotated, the Fabric.js translated point jumped to center point of rectangle. So when implementing "object:rotating" only lastly recorded (before rotation) x,y should be used.
| angle');
rads = (activeObject.get('angle') * Math.PI / 180.0);
});
}
var markerPt2 = position;
markerPt2.x += offset * Math.cos(-rads);
markerPt2.y -= offset * Math.sin(-rads);
rect = new fabric.Rect({
id: id,
left: markerPt2.x,
top: markerPt2.y,
fill: 'grey',
width: solar_panel.width,
height: solar_panel.height,
borderColor: 'black',
stroke: '#000',
lockScalingX: true,
lockScalingY: true,
hasRotatingPoint: true,
});
rect.set('angle', rads * 180.0 / Math.PI);
id++;
canvas.add(rect);
canvas.renderAll();
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="c1" width="800" height="600" style="z-index:1000; border: 2px solid black;" ></canvas>
<input type="button" id="add-panel" name="add-panel" value="Add Panel" />
</body>
</html>
A: OK, after a bit of work around I found out what as wrong with my own script.
There are two important things involved:
*
*When an object is rotated, only the radians change (NOT the x,y position). So, after rotating an object, we only have to calculate its radians to find out where the next adjacent object will be laid out. So, in my code what I am doing wrong is that after either object movement or rotation, I am re-calculating the new object's x,y coordinates. So, what needs to be done is a boolean flag that will decided whether the object was rotated. If yes, then do not re-calculate the | 406 |
When driving back from Indiana Beach, Nicole and I found ourselves increasingly lost at first, resulting in the trip taking an extra half hour to get home. This was a problem, as I start going comatose behind the wheel once it gets later than 1:00 in the morning. What saved us from a horrible tree maiming demise with much crashing and banging and exploding in a fireball (wooooosh) was that the song "Life During Wartime" came on the radio. I'd heard of the Talking Heads song before, and vaguely knew it was a classic, but it was one of those songs I'd never managed to hear.
Since Saturday night/Sunday morning, the song has now been in my head almost continually. I'm having to constantly drown it out in my head by blasting other random music (currently on Love's Forever Changes, hippy weirdness is a nice counter to hipster weirdness). I'm still glad for it though, because I not only know the song now, I've also witnessed the video above. It's from Stop Making Sense, the famous concert movie. It illustrates why David Byrne will live forever, while all that has come after him will wither and perish.
Rock stars of many stripes seem to think living unhealthily is a necessary part of the role. Hard rockers and metal artists drink like alcoholic sturgeons and abuse themselves. Emo and indie rockers hide from the sun, mope,<|fim_middle|> while singing, and doesn't drop a beat. This manages to be simultaneously awe inspiring, unsettling, and humorous. Other rock stars destroy themselves at various rates, but Byrne jogs around the stage in complete health. It's why the Talking Heads remain relevant and still have an impact, while lots of scary punks and metalheads have faded away or look ridiculous. David Byrne is a normal looking, healthy, intelligent person that sings like he's just reached the cracking point, and dance like it too. Shocking only works until the audience builds immunity, but legitimate crazy never ceases to amaze. | and generally read a lot. Everyone else and the above take copious amounts of drugs and other illicit substances. On top of that, shock rockers do horrible things to their body just to get a reaction and some publicity.
Byrne exercises, aerobically, on stage | 55 |
Mon, 15/08/11
Paul Mattick archive in Englisch in the Marxist's Internet Archives
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/index.htm
Tue, 26/01/16
Anton Pannekoek: a brief biography
The vision of a social production and distribution determined by the producers themselves has its origins in council communism and the ideas of its main proponent, Anton Pannekoek.
Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was<|fim_middle|> their work, the very content of work will have to alter. | almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its trans formation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. read more »
J.J. Lebel
A Paul Mattick Interview
"The difference between councils and trade unions is that, while the latter lose their functions in a decaying capitalism, the former become a prefiguration of the organisation of socialist society."
Question : What relevance does Pannekoek's book have in Europe today ? Do you think that the analytic memory and theory of the past experience of council communism, as Pannekoek expresses them, can be "heard" and understood by workers here today ?
Answer : A book, such as Pannekoek's, is not in need of immediate relevance. It concerns itself with a historical period; with past occurrences as well as possible future experiences, in which the phenomenon of workers' councils appearing and disappearing points to a trend of development in workers' class struggle and its changing objectives. read more »
Self-managed socialism: possible, urgent, necessary
Henrique T. Novaes
Brazilian teacher Henrique T. Novaes looks at advantages and limitations of the Latin American practice of workers trying to overcome capitalist work relations through the control of their workplaces.
Workers Control: The Czechoslovak Experience
Robert Vitak
Socialism and the transformation of work
Workers' management is not just a new administrative technique: it means that for the mass of people, new relations will have to develop with | 351 |
One of Marvel's major offerings for nearly a decade now has been Hawkeye. Through various permutations, it has remained one of Marvel's strongest offerings even past the seminal Fraction/Aja/Wu run. That Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero's run came to an end was saddening, but not too bad in comparison with its predecessors. However, as it turns out not all good things have to come to an end as the story for both Hawkeyes continues with West Coast Avengers, and while it shares very little with its predecessors beyond a name and a Hawkeye and that is by no means a bad thing. As opposed to simply being another Avengers team, it acts as a sort of counterweight to the more glossy and action-heavy main Avengers book with a decidedly more diverse cast to boot. While Marvel has of late been investing in more familiar leads, this book is a mix of old, diverse, and new characters which helps lend it a very distinct sensibility in the parade of Marvel's Fresh Start books.
With any Kelly Thompson book you're likely to encounter an edge and a self-aware sensibility of just what kind of book it is. West Coast Avengers is no different in that regard and the reality TV premise of the book could<|fim_middle|> entire arc, or just have everyone simply beat each other up. While half the cast are already known quantities in their character dynamics, Quentin Quire and Gwenpool help to infuse the book with a wild card dynamic that keeps things interesting, after all superhero book's engines stem from conflict whether that be character or of the action-y kind. In this regard, Kelly Thompson's writing absolutely succeeds in keeping things exciting.
Comic books however, couldn't exist without the artists, and the team for West Coast Avengers is as dynamic as they come. Stefano Caselli's bounced around through a few Marvel books lately, but his style here takes the cake and is a bit scratchier in the vein of his work on Secret Warriors rather than his current work of late. It helps to sell a somewhat more grungy version of Venice than the one we saw in Hawkeye Investigations. It also helps to present a really mean land shark. Triona Farrell's colors also look sublime combined with Caselli's colors. Coloring enhances at its best and Farrell's colors do just that from the more vibrant purples on Hawkeye's costume and Kid Omega's hair, to the bright sunsets contrasting against the characters. It is quite simply a beautiful book to look at. If you're looking for a more insular book than Avengers, one that's going to walk you outside the characters you're familiar with, than West Coast Avengers is definitely one worth getting in at the start of. | seem like the outer edge of how absurd you can take a superhero book. However, it works as a very quick and introspective way of introducing the entire team in a way that doesn't require you to wait the | 43 |
Cher UK tour: Cher adds second London show due to demand
Tijen Butler December 11, 2018
Cher album Dancing Queen
Due to phenomenal demand, Cher has added a second London show to her UK tour.
The gay icon will be touring the UK for the first time in over a decade. 2019 will finally be the year you get to see her perform live, and we have all the info you need to book your tickets.
Cher has just confirmed her UK tour next year—they will be her first live dates in over 14 years. The star will perform tracks from her recent ABBA covers album, Dancing Queen, which she released following her appearance in the hit musical Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
The superstar will join us in the UK during October 2019 as part of her Here We Go Again World Tour.
Cher UK Tour Dates: Here We Go Again
The O2, London:<|fim_middle|> her highest-selling debut to date in the US, as well as her best performance internationally for a decade.
Cher said she had always been a fan of ABBA, and was inspired by work on the Mamma Mia! sequel.
She explained: "It's not what you think of when you think ABBA, 'cause I did it in a different way.
"I've always liked ABBA and saw the original Mamma Mia! musical on Broadway three times.
There's also been recent suggestion she may be working on a follow-up album.
What has Cher said about the UK tour?
Cher, the Oscar, Emmy and GRAMMY award-winning superstar, will perform an array of songs from her Dancing Queen album—Cher's tribute to ABBA.
"It's really my second home."
Cher said: "I'm very excited to bring this show to the UK. It was the first country to embrace Sonny & Cher, and its where we created and had our first success with 'Believe'. It's really my second home." | 20 October 2019 AND 21 October 2019
Arena, Manchester: 24 October 2019
Arena Birmingham, Birmingham: 26 October 2019
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow: 28 October 2019
First Direct Arena, Leeds: 30 October 2019
You will be able to buy your tickets to Cher's Here We Go Again Tour from Friday 14 December at 10am.
You may purchase your spot watching the legend live from various platforms including Ticketmaster, AXS, Alttickets and Gigantic.
Dancing Queen Album
Dancing Queen is Cher's first full album since 2013's Closer to the Truth.
Dancing Queen songs include:
"Chiquitita"
The feel-good album got to number three on the Billboard 200, making it | 192 |
Дахабие — разновидность плоскодонных полуторамачтовых парусно-гребных судов, использовавшихся для вояжей по реке Нил в 1<|fim_middle|> суда
Техника Египта | 820—1920 годах зажиточными европейцами. Как правило, всплеск их интереса к Египту, как к колыбели человеческой цивилизации, был вызван неудачной кампанией Наполеона в Африке.
Конструкция
Конструкция дахабие совмещает в себе элементы традиционного египетского судостроения с влиянием европейской инженерной мысли. Полная длина судна достигала 15 метров, ширина была около 3,5 метров. В кормовой части располагалась просторная надстройка с каютами на 8 — 10 человек. Над открытыми частями верхней палубы и над надстройкой размещался лёгкий тент, создающий тень в светлое время суток и позволяющий прогуливаться по палубе. Плоское днище позволяло легко преодолевать речные отмели. Дизайн обводов корпуса был явно построен на основе европейских идей.
Вверх по течению Нила такие суда обычно поднимались под парусами используя постоянно дующие с севера на юг ветра. Парусное вооружение в виде большого латинского паруса размещалось на главной мачте-однодеревке, которая была сдвинута к носу. На меньшей кормовой мачте поднимался треугольный гафельный парус, который обеспечивал повышение маневренности.
Примечания
Литература
Дахабие в энциклопедии Британника
Типы парусно-гребных судов
Речные суда
Грузовые суда
Плоскодонные | 460 |
I was showing my house to some visitors from LA last week, and Brooke noticed the jams and preserves lined up at the top of my pantry. "Do you know someone who makes those for you?" she asked.
"I did that," I said.
It got me thinking about skills that used to be considered perfectly ordinary: making jam, running up a skirt on a sewing machine, growing some of your own food, fixing a broken appliance.
Making jam is actually really easy, and it's one of those things that once you've done it a couple of times, becomes almost second nature. You can buy one of these canning kits at most hardware stores, although since I already had a big stockpot, I just bought an accessories kit (for the funnel and the big tongs to pull full jars from the hot water).Then you just need some jars, or if you've done this before, all you need are new lids.
And fruit. I have more fruit than I know what to do with — there's the grove of pie cherry trees in the empty lot down the block from me, and in my backyard I've got 2 plum trees, 4 apple trees and although they're not producing much yet, a patch of raspberry bushes. I've also been known to buy fruit sometimes — a couple of summers ago I bought a flat of beautiful raspberries from a kid who'd driven them up from Utah on a truck. Or last summer I made chutney from some gorgeous peaches that Maryanne brought me up from her sister's place in Colorado. It all depends. What's nice is knowing that if there's a plethora of beautiful fruit, I can put it up for those long stretches of the year when the only fruit available has come a long way in a plane or on a truck.
As for the nitty-gritty, there's no magic to it. You need to be careful to sterilize everything, and to watch out for chipped rims on the jars, but as my mother used to say, "If you can read, you can cook." For most of my preserving, I rely on the "Preserves, Pickles, Relishes and Canned Fruits and Vegetables" chapter of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. There's a great section of general info like" "The basic proportions for jam are 3/4 cup sugar for each cup of prepared fruit." That's the kind of "recipe" I love — a general guideline that you can use with lots of different variations. Last summer I put up cherry jam, plum jam, spicy plum barbecue sauce, and I took a stab at a jalapeno-mint apple jelly (which didn't jell, and that tasted weirdly muddy. I threw it out.) This year I decided that rather than put up jam, which I don't really eat, I'd do<|fim_middle|>ints of the spiced ones, and six jars of plain cherries in simple syrup. I figure that should be plenty for a winter of desserts and sauces for game, with some left over for Christmas baskets.
One of my big goals when I moved up here was to learn to be more self-sufficient and there's something enormously satisfying about growing and putting up your own food. You know exactly what happened to that food at every step of the process, and you wind up with a pretty row of jars along the top shelf of your pantry. | cherries in syrup. I found this terrific recipe for Spiced Cherries and Cherry Syrup online. I did eight p | 25 |
In Soul Calls Seven the devotee ardently calls to the Cosmic Mother for help in perceiving Her Divine Nearness. Hearing the plaintiff cry of Her child, the Mother responds with assuring messages of Her constant presence and all-embracing love.
Touched by the Mother's grace, the devotee-child has an expanded awareness of the spiritual journey. Feeling the undying love and perfection of Divine Mother's care, the devotee realizes that Oneness is very near and that all is securely and divinely orchestrated.
<|fim_middle|> Presence that will surmount any remaining shadows of Maya ignorance. Om, Jai Ma!
Soul Calls Seven – Om Jai Ma will be released online in a few days. Click here for Full Free Listening and purchase of Downloads or Hard Copy Album.
Click here to enjoy the rest of the Soul Calls website where all albums may be heard in full and much more! | In greatest obeisance and sweet surrender the devotee affirms the sure victory of Divine Mother in filling the devotee's heart with a loving awareness of Her | 32 |
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Hillcrest softball coaches change during COVID-19, program building to be competitive
Aug 03, 2020 11:08AM ● By Julie Slama
Hillcrest High senior softball players only got to play a couple games this season before the cancellation of spring sports in response to COVID-19 pandemic. (Ashley Anjewierden/Hillcrest High softball)
By Julie Slama | [email protected]
It wasn't the way Hillcrest High's Scott Carrell expected his last coaching softball season to go—shortened after three games.
"I was ready for a break, but didn't expect it to be this quick," he said, after the Utah High School Activities Association cut the spring sports season short and terminated the rest of the season, because of social distancing and health guidelines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "We had the most athletically talented team and could have competed for the region title."
Carrell has built the softball team from 10 girls trying out his first two years to an average of 50.
Although Carrell is stepping down and his five-year assistant, Ashley Anjewierden, will take the helm, he isn't leaving Hillcrest. Carrell will continue as co-athletic director with Sally Williams, and teach in the career and technical education department. However, by not coaching, he will be more available to watch his Riverton High freshman daughter play as well.
"I'll miss the relationships we built with the girls and their families. We become united and into a family ourselves, so it feels as if I have 26 to 28 daughters," he said.
In fact, even though the team's season ended during the soft closure of schools, Hillcrest softball coaches still held a virtual banquet to send on their six seniors as well as announce Carrell's retirement and the hiring of Anjewierden as head coach.
Along with Anjewierden, Carrell said he expects great things next spring from some of his returning players: pitcher and junior Maddie Sluga and pitcher and right fielder, senior Aspen Small.
"They're student-<|fim_middle|> at Hillcrest; we're a family and we're wanting to work to get better."
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Anjewierden said she expects to have a "full roster with a decent senior class" next year as well as some promising freshmen.
"We had many younger players this year, some with a lack of experience, so I'm hoping to focus on developing player skills and get them mentally focused," she said. "So much of this game is mental."
Anjewierden said she has an advantage into stepping into the head coach role since she has learned from the past seasons and has a perspective of where the team needs to go.
"Our girls are resilient, so it's a matter of physical fitness and understanding the game and gaining that mental part. We've built this program so our returning upper-class players understand the skill base. Some of them started having never even seen a softball in their lives, but now they can hit a line drive. Right now, we're wanting the girls to get into condition—drilling, fielding and taking care of their bodies," she said.
She also wants to breakdown skills and go over footwork in the offseason.
Many of the softball players are multiseason athletes so Anjewierden said eating healthy and being in condition are priorities for all their sports.
"When it's another sport, for many of them that's basketball, then that sport is their priority during that season," she said, understanding that as she lettered four seasons in softball and basketball and two in volleyball at Jordan High before graduating in 2012.
However, every season is homework season.
"Just like in years past, we'll spend Wednesday mornings before school having study time, seeking teachers and catching up if they've fallen behind on game days. We want them to work together on and off the field, but as student-athletes, they're students first," Anjewierden said.
They also may help in their community performing service projects.
"It's all part of community. The community raises you up, it brings the culture of success around you, so it's good for us to build up the community, and it makes us a better team," she said.
Anjewierden also hopes to hold more middle school clinics to introduce the sport to those student-athletes and to build more interest in the sport. She already introduces softball in classes she teaches at Mt. Jordan Middle School, where she is a physical education and health teacher.
"I'm really excited about our program and our players. We're looking forward to playing a full season next spring," Anjewierden said. "I've had five years as an assistant to help me grow into the coach I am and want to be. We have something special | 551 |
Fibromyalgia and qigong
November 13, 2018 by Alda Leave a comment
Written by Karen Yeandle – Qigong Instructor and Fibromyalgia sufferer
Fibromyalgia is a condition that involves widespread pain in soft, connective tissue eg. muscles, tendons, ligaments and particularly shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles. Other symptoms include sleep deprivation due to pressure being applied to joints when laying<|fim_middle|> Association as an instructor myself.
Recent controlled trials (Jana Sawynok & Mary E Lynch 2017) also demonstrated noteworthy effects of Qigong on FM where when practiced 30-45 minutes per day over 6-8 weeks, benefits included reduced pain; improved sleep, physical and cognitive function, memory and mood state. FM continues to be the subject of research but to date it appears the greatest success in combating the debilitating symptoms of FM is the regular practice of the wonderful health preserving benefits of Qigong!!
About the Author: Karen started Qigong 2 years ago as she with struggling with an ever-deteriorating medical condition that had been diagnosed some 10+ years previously and it had been suggested by a friend of a friend that she try the benefits of Health Qigong. With regular practice the improvement in her overall health was so significant that she decided to study further and, having been a tutor and instructed classes of an altogether different nature in her former career, she went on to qualify with the British Health Qigong Association (BHQA) in May 2018 as a Qigong Instructor herself. Karen now teaches 3 Qigong classes at Cockwood, Dawlish and Exminster, Devon.
Categories: Health & Wellbeing, Health Benefits | Permalink. | down-reduced sleep depletes brain serotonin which increases pain and a vicious circle ensues. Depleted serotonin also causes impaired memory and, for some, depression. Many sufferers report bladder weakness, IBS, unstable core temperature, jumpy legs, numbness and tingling. There are even anecdotal reports of a connection between fibromyalgia and keratoconus of the eyes.
The exact cause of FM is unknown but certain factors predispose it's onset i.e. a combination of one or more of the following:- trauma, serious accidents/infections, psychological stress e.g. death of a loved one. It also has a genetic potential. This combination of environmental and inherited factors effects the central nervous system.
There is no diagnostic test so symptoms are looked at as a whole with a certain number being registered and other factors ruled out. Currently in the UK 2-8% of the population are affected with women affected roughly twice more than men.
Standard treatment is with opiates e.g. amitriptyline and antidepressants which also work on reducing nerve pain, along with advice to "get more sleep" (far easier said than done!) "diet change and increased exercise".
I was 'diagnosed' with FM c12 years ago having seen numerous GPs and specialists over 2-3 years until one consultant put the pieces together. Like most sufferers, I was prescribed the full range, all of which left me feeling foggy and unable to fully function. I felt I had no option than to stop taking them. Although acupuncture reduced pain and inflammation, increased exercise resulted in tendonitis of both Achilles' tendons plus golfers and tennis elbow. My sleep deteriorated as pain woke me to turn every 8-10 minutes; my IBS worsened; bladder control was impaired; I could no longer kneel or squat; I could only shower, because I had no strength in my arms or legs to bath; I couldn't clench my fist's; get up or down from the floor or sprint in an emergency. Although I was fortunate not to suffer depression, I struggled to resign myself to the fact that my life was significantly limited and deteriorating.
A friend suggested Qigong for its health benefits and after extensive research I found an excellent teacher in Alda at HOM in Dawlish and started in November 2016. Qigong which includes stretching, lengthening and strengthening muscles, tendons and ligaments (amongst other physical and mental health exercises) very soon resulted in improved sleep and significantly reduced pain. Such were the notable benefits I started practicing most days and can now bend, stretch, close my hands, stand on one leg, squat and balance. Qigong has been 'life improving' and such is my belief it's exceptional benefits, I further studied and qualified with the British Health Qigong | 582 |
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A week ago, Joe Biden came to Atlanta, where I live, for a drive-in rally. Among the several hundred attendees was a Black man named Ed—a retired salesman who, like most of the Biden supporters at the event, was wearing a mask. "I'm here because my father was in World War II, and it's reported that this President said that those that served in the military were 'losers' and 'suckers,' " Ed told me. "That hit me hard." Ed was wearing camo pants and desert boots and a large blue placard that read "VOTE DEMOCRATIC." "He's a racist," he said, referring to Trump. "I have no respect for him."
I met Ed near a separate crowd at the Biden rally: Trump supporters, many of whom arrived early to tout their support for the President, chanting "Four more years!" and shouting questions about a laptop belonging to Joe Biden's son Hunter. One young man was in costume as a shirtless Hunter Biden, a look derived from a photo reportedly found on the computer in question. This group, maybe a hundred strong, was predominantly white. Initially, a street effectively divided the Trump and Biden supporters, but Ed crossed it, walking toward the Trump camp, and I followed him.
Ed raised his hands in victory as he strode among his political opponents. He let out a joyous yawp. "Let's go!" he shouted. A chant of "Four more years!" grew louder. Ed raised his voice through his mask: "He's racist as hell!" He was undaunted by the hostility this triggered; if anything, he might have been enjoying it. A middle-aged white man in Trump duds and a mask stood watching, and, after a few minutes, approached me. He seemed to think that Ed and I were in cahoots. "You think you're cool, with your stupid fucking friend?" he said.
I had an audio recorder with me, which I held near the man as I asked him for his name, explaining that I was a reporter. He told me that it was Steve Allen. I asked him what the problem was. Partly, he said, it was Ed. And me. "You guys, like, fucking pushing shit, but then, when it comes down to it . . . right? You want to antagonize, but you're a fucking little faggot."
I've reported from Trump rallies before; Allen's rhetoric, though reprehensible, was not especially surprising. I reminded him that I was a reporter and that what he said might be published. I added that I was standing in a public place and again asked what his problem was. "You," he said. "You're a fucking little wise-ass." I asked if I could take a picture of him, and he gave me the bird as I snapped it. Then, leaning quite close, he said, "I'll punch your fucking face." Meanwhile, an older man near us had begun shouting at Ed, "Black Lives MAGA." "You're damn right we do," Ed replied. "B.L.M. is a Communist organization," another white man, in sunglasses with a Confederate emblem, said. Allen continued standing close to me, muttering about ways he could hurt me. It can be hard to differentiate bluster from real threats, particularly when the possible blusterer is behind a mask, but he seemed capable of making good on his promises.
Then a woman approached, and I recognized her. I had spoken to her a week before, while reporting a story about the state of the races in Georgia. Her name is Debbie Dooley, and she's a local Tea Party activist. I first talked with Dooley a few years ago, at the suggestion of a friend of my mother's, a lobbyist who works on environmental issues—Dooley, an advocate for solar power, had become an unlikely ally.
I gave her a side hug and motioned toward Allen, addressing him by name and describing a bit of what he'd been saying. She looked shocked, and confused. So did Allen. "That's my boyfriend, Jason," Dooley said. "Jason," she said, turning to the man. "Did you really say that to Charles?" She proceeded to scold him a bit, telling him to be nice to me.
I went elsewhere, but Jason found me a little later. "My mask was irritating my beard," he said, by way of explanation. "And I'm really sweating in this flannel shirt." I reminded him what he'd called me. "Did I say that?" he said, laughing. "I don't think I said that. Why would I say that?" He went on, "I don't really like all this politics stuff. It just makes people crazy." He'd only come because of Dooley, he said. He was once "a cage fighter," he added, but he wouldn't have hit me. I told him I appreciated that, and said I hoped it applied to other people, too.
Dooley spotted me as I headed to my car, and walked up to me. "I can't wait until this election is over," she said. I saw a truck pause in the road, and several Trump supporters climbed out; one of them stumbled and fell on his way to the curb, and a few folks on the Biden side of the street laughed. Biden started speaking shortly afterward. Most of it was hard to make | 1,143 |
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Hikers enjoy great views of the Potomac River along the Billy Goat Trail in C&O Canal National Historical Park. Photo by Daniel Schreiber
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Since the area's earliest days, residents have escaped the city's swampy summer heat by heading for the hills. These days, you don't have to go far to make your own getaway. Some excellent day hikes are just a stone's throw from downtown Bethesda. Those seeking more of a departure have myriad options, too, with Shenandoah National Park and Monongahela National Forest both within driving distance for day hikes or quick weekend trips.
Rock Creek Park: Those looking for an escape into the natural world can find it in their backyards—sometimes literally—with the 2,000-acre Rock Creek Park, which abuts many neighborhoods in Silver Spring and Chevy Chase. Pick up the Western Ridge Trail on Beach Drive, near the Washington, D.C., line, and follow the green-blazed, four-plus-mile trail through the heart of the park. Side trails lead to the park's Nature Center and Planetarium, at 5200 Glover Road NW, or the Smithsonian National Zoo at 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW, both in the District. Or stick to the path as it wends through thickly forested woods and you'll forget you're in the city at all. (www.nps.gov/rocr)
Billy Goat Trail, Section A: There are three sections of the Billy Goat Trail in C&O Canal National Historical Park in Potomac. Section A, running from Great Falls toward Old Angler's Inn, is the most popular—and most rigorous. Roughly four miles round-trip, this hike takes two to three hours and provides stunning views of Great Falls and the Potomac River below. The trail, which follows an old riverbed, begins near the Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center, and continues straight along the Potomac River for roughly two miles of varied terrain, from dirt trails through thick forests to rock scrambles. Save time by taking the towpath back to the parking lot, or savor the views again by retracing your steps. (www.nps.gov/choh/index.htm)
Sugarloaf Mountain: This 1,282-foot mountain in Dickerson—just a 45-minute drive from Bethesda—is the highest spot in Montgomery County, and arguably has some of the best hiking. We like the three-hour, seven-mile loop from the West View parking lot to the summit. Follow the blue trail through a thick forest of oak, tulip poplar and eastern hemlock trees. Continue along the quarter-mile red trail to the summit. The last push is steep, but worth it for the quartzite cliffs and bird's-eye views of Montgomery County and beyond. With 15 miles of trails within the recreation area, visitors have plenty of well-marked options to shorten the route. Stop for a wine tasting at Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard on Comus Road, near the entrance to the recreation area, before heading home. (www.sugarloafmd.com)
Old Rag Mountain: The 8.8-mile Old Rag loop near Sperryville, Va., is as much a warm-weather D.C. tradition as the National Cherry Blossom Festival. But be forewarned: On sunny summer days, the route to the 3,291-foot mountain gets as crowded as the Beltway during rush hour, so start the hour-and-45-minute drive from Bethesda early. The hike starts in the lower Old Rag parking lot. From there, walk half a mile uphill along State Road 600, then follow the blue-blazed Ridge Trail through several switchbacks to the first of many viewpoints at the two-mile mark. The fun begins less than a mile later, when you scramble over a series of rock formations for the last mile of the trail. This includes shimmying through a narrow crevice in a large rock formation and walking through a small cave. Continue to follow the blue blazes to the summit for 360-degree views of Shenandoah National Park, then follow the blue-blazed trail and map directions to get back down. With steep, unstable pathways and inevitable stops for photo opportunities, it's wise to set aside an entire day for the hike. Families with young kids may want to view the National Park Service video detailing the dangers associated with the hike before planning a trip. (www.nps.gov/shen)
Whiteoak Canyon: Looking for something less strenuous than Old Rag? Try the three-hour, 4.6-mile out-and-back Whiteoak Canyon hike, also in Shenandoah National Park. Highlights include some of the park's highest waterfalls and multiple swimming holes. Start at the Whiteoak Parking Area along Skyline Drive and follow the Whiteoak Canyon Falls Trail downhill. The trail will eventually parallel Whiteoak Run, a babbling stream you'll follow until you reach Upper Whiteoak Falls. Stop to admire the 86-foot cascade, the highest of the Whiteoak falls, and cool down in one of the swimming holes below it before heading back. Intrepid hikers may want to continue on to the lower falls, adding 2.7 miles round-trip to their journey. You'll be hiking uphill on the way back, though, so conserve your energy. As with Old Rag, arrive early to avoid congestion. (www.nps.gov/shen)
Monongahela National Forest: Those looking to escape summer crowds might want to drive a couple extra hours beyond Shenandoah National Park to Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The roughly seven-mile, three- to four-hour Cowpasture Trail loop offers something for history-seekers and would-be botanists alike. From the Cranberry Mountain Nature Center, walk northeast on Route 980 until it meets up with crumbling blacktop, the site of the old Mill Point Federal Prison Camp, a 1930s work camp with no bars, fences or barricades. (The remote location was thought to be enough to prevent escapes.) Follow the Cowpasture Trail as it leads into the woods and eventually meets up with the boardwalk through the Cranberry Glades, a series of five peat bogs created during the last glacial period. The area's acidic soil supports plant life more commonly found in Canada than in the Mid-Atlantic region, including cranberry vines and carnivorous plants. After following the boardwalk around, meet up with Route 980 again and retrace your steps back to the nature center. It'll take you four hours to drive back to Bethesda, or reserve a spot to pitch a tent | 1,456 |
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Members live with crew supervisors and sponsors from our partner agencies for the duration of the season, making this an excellent opportunity to learn directly from experienced trail workers, supervisors, and cooks, and build a strong professional network within the National Park Service, US Forest Service, and California State Parks. BCTP is very highly regarded in the trail world, and the majority of our members have gone on to work for other conservation organizations for one or more seasons.
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Thanks so much for this post. I am a direct descendant of John Hewson Atwood; my 'line' comes through Henry who came to Plymouth in the middle 1600's. Henry married Abigail Jenney and was Commissioner of Highways in Plymouth for many years. | September 22, 2012 by jayhack2012
There were two men by the name "John Atwood" at Plymouth Colony, from the same Atwood Family. The Assistant Governor had no children, and the other did. Here is the wiki for the Assistant Governor:
John Atwood (1576–1644) was an Assistant Governor of the Plymouth Colony, in the future U.S. state of Massachusetts, in 1638.
Atwood's parents were Nicholas Wood (abt. 1539-1586), of Sanderstead Court in the English county of Surrey (now Greater London), and Olive Harman (1548–1603), daughter of the wealthy London merchant, James Harman (abt. 1527-1581). He had nine brothers, two sisters, and one half brother (from his mother's marriage to John Buck in 1592).
His baptism record in Saint Martin in the Fields Church in London is dated 20 Sep 1576 and identifies him as "John Woode." His baptism is also recorded in Sanderstead parish church under the Latin form "Johannes". Despite being baptized as John Woode, he apparently went by the name Atwood, for this is the name he uses in his will prepared in 1643 and is also the name that Governor William Bradford uses when referring to him in his book Of Plymouth Plantation. To add confusion to the family names, John had a younger brother who was also named John ("Johanem" was his younger brother's baptism name); this younger brother, John Wood (1582–1644), was a leather seller in London who emigrated to America in 1635.
Atwood is mentioned in a legal proceeding in England in which his half brother, Oliffe (Oliver) Buck, claimed that both John and Harman Atwood (one of John's brothers) attempted to defraud him. Oliffe maintained that John owed him money, but that the two brothers conspired to hide John's assets so they could not be collected. The case also mentions that "John Attwood, became decayed in estate, was sued and cast into prison." Harman Atwood claimed he was innocent and that others had attempted to defraud Oliffe.
He married Anne Lee, but they did not have any children; Ann died in Plymouth in about 1654. While he appears to have been a merchant in England before coming to Plymouth, Atwood's reasons for emigrating have never been explained. He was in America at least by 1637, and possibly as early as 1635.
Atwood apparently had contact with colonists in Plymouth before he left England, because in 1633 Walter Harris signed a contract with him in London to become an indentured servant. In the contract Walter was expected to go from England to the Plymouth Colony, and then work for a colonist named John Doane. John Doane became an Assistant Governor in Plymouth in 1633. Thomas Roberts is mentioned as being a servant to John Atwood in 1637 as are John Long and Richard Clark on 24 Oct 1638.
It appears that Atwood was in Plymouth at least by 1637 as there is a reference to him in Davis' Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth:
"As nearly as can be ascertained, the remainder of the land fronting on the north side of North Street, below the westerly boundary of the garden lot east of the Winslow house, was occupied by Thomas Prence as a place of residence while he was Governor of the colony, for the first time in 1634, and sold by him in 1637 to John Atwood. After the death of Mr. Atwood, which occurred in 1644, his widow, Ann Atwood, sold it in 1649 to Benjamin Vermayes." (Benjamin Vermayes was the husband of Mercy Bradford, Governor Bradford's daughter.)
John Atwood became an Assistant Governor in Plymouth in 1638. This position to which he was elected by other colonists who had taken the Oath of a Freeman indicates that he was viewed as a person of stature within the colony.
Atwood became a mediator in the ongoing dispute between Governor Bradford and his Plymouth Colony partners with the London owners of the Plymouth Company (the Plymouth Adventurers) over the amount owed to each party as a result of trade goods (mainly beaver pelts and other furs) that had been shipped to London. In his history Bradford states:
"Mr. Shereley being weary of this controversie, and desirous of an end, (as well as them selves) write to Mr. John Atwode and Mr. William Collier, two of the inhabitants of this place, and of his speatiall acquaintance, and desired them to be a means to bring this business to an end, by advising and counselling the partners here…"
James Sherley was the Treasurer of the Plymouth Adventurers in London. This was a consortium of investors who financed the Plymouth Colony. The colonists had been shipping goods and products back to London to repay their loans, but the Plymouth Colony partners in America felt that they had not been getting adequate accounting for the sale of their goods in England; in short, they felt they were being cheated by their London partners. After "diverse days" spent on this matter, John Atwood was finally able to get the partners in London and Plymouth to agree to a compromise. It took two years, however, before the situation was finally resolved in 1642.
Atwood did not live long in his new home in Plymouth, for he died less than ten years after coming to America. It is not known precisely when he died—it was sometime between the date of his will, 20 Oct 1643, and the date that his will was probated on 5 June 1644. E. F. Atwood provides a transcript of his will in Ye Atte Wode Annals, "and his wife Ann is named his sole executrix to whom I will and bequeath all the rest of my estate." His will was witnessed by William Bradford and Robert Hicks. His wife, Ann (Lee) died in 1654.
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Shark Navigator Deluxe Review - Am I Psyche?
The shark navigator deluxe is larger than the original Navigator. This enables it to clean large areas without regularly emptying the bin. It is also a perfect vacuum cleaner for pet hair. It has a pet hair tool brush that picks up pet hair on the floors and the sofas. Therefore, let us have a close look at what the shark navigator deluxe.
It has a power cord of approximately 25 feet long but with no cord rewind.
-secondary filter situated in front of the motor.
HEPA post motor can also be cleaned but not regularly. However, the primary and secondary filters need regular cleaning to maintain its performance.
The shark vacuums deluxe is a perfect match for pet hair. It has powerful<|fim_middle|> between the two, it is inevitable to say that the rotator has the upper hand than the shark navigators.
• It has special pet hair brush that cleans pet hair off stairs and upholstery.
• It has a 25-foot power cord.
• It has a very extended warranty.
• Most of them have no storage attachments.
If you own an average home, this upright vacuum is a perfect choice. Its large dirt cup makes it possible to clean many rooms without necessarily emptying it. Most pet owners love this vacuum cleaner because it picks up very well from the carpet and hard surfaces because of its pet hair power tool.
It is hard to use stairs because it is not that light in weight. You can opt for a lift away model though it is expensive. If you don't mind the absence of the swivel feature and its bulkiness, then this vacuum cleaner can correctly clean your upholstery and your carpet. Therefore, I guarantee this vacuum cleaner is the best that you can buy for your home. It is cheaper and widely available in the market. | suction and a motorized brush which ensures there is no strand of carpet air left on your floor.
Most customers have positively reacted to its cleaning performance. Its strong suction ensures all dirt is lifted from the carpet. You can adjust the suction power depending on how you want your carpet to be cleaned.
The shark navigator deluxe has no swivel feature unlike some the other series. However, despite the lack of this feature, its cleaning performance cannot be dismissed.
It has a five –year warranty.
The shark navigator deluxe is easy to set up. It is not the lightest neither is it the heaviest among the other models. It has a longer cord of 25 ft which is longer than those for the other models. The walls, ceilings and all the other areas that were out of reach can now be cleaned. It has rubber wheels which allow it to maneuver when cleaning without leaving spots on the floor.
Once you are done with the cleaning, the bin can be emptied by pressing a button which a door at the bottom of the unit. The shark Navigator deluxe is much better than other vacuum cleaners concerning cleaning performance.
Technology advancement in the world of vacuum cleaners has led the introduction of most products in the market. The navigator and the rotator are considered one of the very best among the consumers. Therefore, making a comparison among them provides which one to consider depending on the user needs and specifications.
This feature comes with a little more important because most people don't enjoy carrying it around especially during cleaning. The Navigator and the rotator weigh the same weight hence bearing it has been made easy with lift –away pod.
Each vacuum cleaner has a long cord which allows cleaning of large spaces especially areas which are unreachable. This will enable you not to bend down frequently. Therefore, you don't need to plug or unplug the unit often.
The navigator's body is light hence less wear and tear. It also has a larger dustbin thus ease during emptying. The rotator has the upper hand compared to the navigator because of its headlights. This makes it easier to vacuum dark corners of your house.
The Rotator and the navigator have crevice tools. Both models have good quality dusting brooms. The navigator has a pet power brush and a head that can be used in cleaning hard surfaces. However, the rotator has the upper hand in this category because of many accessories. Besides, a straight suction nozzle,multi-angle dusting brush, and a canister caddy. This makes most of the customers to opt for rotators.
Both the rotator and the navigator works well on all types of hard surfaces and carpets. However, the rotator has improved suction when it comes to cleaning complex surfaces. It also cleans a larger surface area. The rotator has an enhanced cleaning than the navigator.
The prices vary between the newer and older models. the shark rotator lifts away. NV752 has a seven-year warranty, and you can buy it at approximately $ 250.The shark navigator deluxe has a five-year warranty, and its market price is approximately $180.
Well, which one is better between the shark navigator deluxe and the rotator. Both the vacuum cleaners are constructed and designed with craftsmanship and expertise of high quality. However, after making a comparison | 661 |
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Q: Remove image dynamically using jquery<|fim_middle|> "http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2012/06/tumblr-lq96pfhnuq1qlc8fao1-400.gif");
setTimeout(function() {
$('#animate').attr('src',"");
$('#animate').hide(); // not necessary in chrome
}, 2400);
| I know using jquery, If I wanna load image runtime on click event, this syntax is used,
$("#open_door").attr("src", "../assets/door_open.gif");
but If I wanna remove the same image runtime on another button's click event, then?? I want the syntax for the same
A: If you can't remove the image from the dom, hide it:
$("#open_door").css("display","none");
A: You could simply change the visibility css property of the elemenet to hidden. This will allow it to keep its position in the page layout, but not be seen.
$('#open_door').css('visibility', 'hidden');
A: You could do:
$("#open_door").attr("src", ""); // Set the src to "" (nothing)
Or:
$("#open_door").remove(); // remove #open_door from the DOM.
Found this somewhere else on SO, regarding your comment on your question:
$("#myimg").removeAttr("src").attr("src", "");
Or as a last resort you could upload a completely white image to your server, and display that instead:
$("#open_door").attr("src", "path/to/white/image.jpg");
A: I had a similar problem with Safari.
It wouldn't let me set the attribute to a blank value. I wanted a button to trigger a short, gif animation to be played ONCE ... in this case, Spock giving Kirk a good SMACK!!
Here's the animation:
http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2012/06/tumblr-lq96pfhnuq1qlc8fao1-400.gif
My solution is a bit cumbersome for my taste, but I used the .hide() method. You just have to .show() the div again at an earlier time if you want the animation to display again. Here you go:
$('#smackKirk').on('click', function(){
$('#animate').show(); // not necessary in chrome
$('#animate').attr("src", | 420 |
I will be holding an introductory Sorcery class in the amphitheater on the evening of the 12th, at the 10th Late Bell.
This class is aimed primarily at those who have an interest in Sorcery and who are not yet Bound. Those who are Bound may attend and participate if they so wish.
The next class will be held at the same location, once more at the 10th late bell next Moon's day, the 19th.
As before, this class is for all those with an interest in joining the Sorcery Program, but Bound Sorcerers are welcome to attend and participate.
If there are any for whom the current date and time do not serve, please contact me directly with your current wakings bells. On week days, I cannot accommodate anything before the 9th late bell, but I have<|fim_middle|> at 10 late bells, in the usual place. | more flexibility on Saturn's day and Sun's day.
A reminder that this is tonight.
This is taking place tonight once more, in the same place and at the same time.
Please note, the class is postponed tonight. It will instead take place tomorrow, the 27th of the 2nd moon, at the 10th late bell in the usual place.
This is happening tonight | 81 |
Clouds are fascinating fluid mechanical phenomena, encompassing length- and time-scales spanning several<|fim_middle|> clouds.
Mammatus (Latin: mammary clouds) are blob-like clouds that are sometimes found hanging from cumulonimbus anvils. Their origins and dynamics are not fully understood. We propose a minimal model for these mysterious clouds, showing how their formation depends on the number and size of the water droplets they contain. | orders of magnitude. I will talk about ongoing work on two kinds of clouds, each more interesting than the other!
Cumulus (Latin: heap-like) clouds are tall, tower-like clouds, and are significant in the transport of energy and water vapour in the atmosphere. Their evolution is fluid-dynamical in nature, since it is governed by the rate at which the turbulent flow that makes up the cloud entrains ambient air. Entrainment is an incompletely understood phenomenon even in canonical shear flows. The study of entrainment is significantly more complicated in the transient multi-phase flows that are cumulus | 121 |
On a warm, sunny June morning, Bob and I set off to explore Forks of the Credit Provincial Park near Caledon, Ontario. We had never visited that park before, but it seemed a likely destination for us given the bird sightings reported there over the previous few days. We were excited to see what species we might discover. As we followed the movements of an Eastern Towhee, lo and behold, we caught sight of another bird in the same tree: a Black-billed Cuckoo.
Forks of the Credit Provincial Park, as we soon saw, features myriad trails through a variety of beautiful landscapes, and the best thing of all is that the park is set aside for the sole purposes of hiking and walking, or cross-country skiing and snowshoeing during the winter months.
The day Bob and I visited the park, numerous walkers and birdwatchers could be spotted along the trails, but the expansiveness of the area meant that we were by ourselves most of the time.
As we walked along the Trans Canada Trail, a beautiful vista revealed itself through a gap in the trees. Kettle Lake, a remnant from the last ice age, sits prettily tucked at the base of a circle of gently sloping hills. That topography is referred to as kettle and kame, with a kame hill being an irregular shaped hill that resulted from glacial deposits as a glacier retreated, and a kettle lake being carved by the same glacier.
All along the trail, a rich variety of trees and shrubs titillated our senses, and yet again, an unexpected break in the foliage had us viewing a gorgeous scene of historic ruins on an opposing grassy knoll. The history wrapped up in that crumbling edifice left us eager to explore the site later in the day. For the time being, our planned route would take us elsewhere.
It was along a section of the Bruce Trail, where it connects to the Meadow Trail, that Bob and<|fim_middle|> we tread softly along the path.
Only sometimes, do they engage in nest predation. Many times they will build their own nest in low shrubs or on the ground. | I came across this very large bird secretively perched near the top of a tree. The first thing we noted was the bird's snowy white breast.
From our position below the tree, we primarily had a view of the cuckoo's underparts, so the pattern on the underside of the tail was noted, as well as the white tips of the tail feathers. Together with the red eye ring, visible in the first photograph, I believe this cuckoo is an adult since young cuckoos do not show a red eye ring.
As the breeze jostled the leaves, the cuckoo literally was bounced about by the bobbing branch upon which it sat. That is when we had a clear view of the cuckoo's extremely long tail and pointed wings. This was a bird that we had never seen before, but I recognized it as a cuckoo because of the down-turned bill.
Bob's video shows the cuckoo hanging on tightly as the tree sways in the breeze.
Cuckoos are notorious for sitting still at length, waiting for prey, and then will hop or run to get at it. They typically eat caterpillars, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids. One interesting fact is that the spines of spiny caterpillars often get stuck in the lining of the cuckoo's stomach, so periodically the lining of the stomach is shed to get rid of the problem.
Black-billed Cuckoos are alternately referred to as "Rain Crows" because they are known for calling more frequently when rain is imminent. It is a wonder that the cuckoo didn't exercise its song the day we saw it because thereafter, we had days of rain.
At that point on the trail, Bob and I were pleasantly surrounded by a deciduous forest and appreciative of the shade as the day turned out to be very hot. Lush, new spring growth fluttered in the breeze, and warm scents nudged from the damp grasses by a passing puff of wind filled our senses with thoughts of a mid-summer's day.
Considering that Black-billed Cuckoos are rather secretive, more often heard than seen, Bob and I were extremely lucky to have the opportunity to photograph and film this slender bird with the warm-brown plumage. If not for the Eastern Towhee landing on a lower branch of the tree, the cuckoo would have remained undetected by us, lurking within the cover of leaves as | 500 |
2 Chainz merges music and sports with 'Amazon Music Live'
The rapper brings hip-hop and more to Thursday nights
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2 Chainz hosts the Amazon Music Live concert series Nov. 17 in Los Angeles. Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Amazon Music
By Sheila Matthews @toldbySHE
Since its inception, hip-hop has gone hand in hand with sports. From Run D.M.C.'s embrace of sneaker culture and athletes such as Shaquille O'Neal dropping platinum rap<|fim_middle|> lawyer or whatever," the rapper, born Tauheed Epps, said.
"When the teacher asked me what I wanted to do, I would say basketball player because I didn't really know how to articulate [what I wanted] at that time: hustling," 2 Chainz continued. "I wanna do everything that I need to do to survive."
Sheila Matthews is a digital producer at Andscape and a proud HBCU graduate. She believes that "Return of the Mack" should have won a Grammy and her Twitter mentions are open for any debates.
This Story Tagged: Music Hip-Hop Rap 2 Chainz Amazon Music Live | albums to artists such as Snoop Dogg, Drake, and Big Sean partnering with teams, athletes and rappers have not only rooted for one another but they've also collaborated as well. A new mashup comes courtesy of Amazon Music Live, a weekly concert series hosted by Grammy Award-winning rapper 2 Chainz.
Given the synergy between sports and music, 2 Chainz said, the show, which streams on Prime Video immediately after Thursday Night Football, gives fans of both pastimes what they want.
"The emergence of Amazon and NFL working together is that we are fusing together sports and music fans," 2 Chainz said. "A lot of the times, those lines can be blurred because we enjoy each other's space. But for those that are just solely sports or solely music, this gives the viewer a chance to be a part of both worlds."
So far, 2 Chainz has welcomed hip-hop artists such as Lil Baby, Lil Wayne, and A$AP Rocky, country artist Kane Brown, and Brazilian pop star Anitta to the stage. Although he's enjoyed watching everyone do their thing, 2 Chainz was especially impressed by Megan Thee Stallion.
"Megan blew me away, to be honest," 2 Chainz said, noting that female rappers are expected to bring more to the table than their male counterparts. "The choreography, the dancing in high heels — I'm in the business, and I'm recognizing this skill set. So I think it'll do wonders for people who are just on the outside looking in."
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For 2 Chainz, the weekly performances aren't the only exciting part of his show. He also appreciates the ability for artists to showcase what goes into creating career longevity.
"It's such an eye-opener for people to see that artists aren't just on social media showing jewelry and showing cars," he said. "They actually have a lot of motion going on, they have a lot of strategic things going on."
When it comes to 2 Chainz, he's mastered the art of pivoting. "Whatever you're doing right now may not be here forever. So it's cool for any person that has a vision to try to maybe try to pivot and learn new things."
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Aside from selling more than 8.7 million albums and amassing more than 11.5 billion streams over the course of his career, he's merged his love for sports and music to create an entrepreneurial empire. As a former college basketball player for Alabama State University, 2 Chainz's basketball dreams panned out differently than expected.
"I am a part of the owner [of the NBA G League's College Park Skyhawks] team. Just being a part of something like that is full circle for me because I was one of those kids that never said I wanted to be a doctor, | 603 |
Geneva, 28 May – Cabestan, the prestigious creator of exclusive Swiss timepieces, announces a partnership with Ferrari to jointly design and produce a limited edition luxury timepiece to celebrate the Prancing Horse's Formula 1 racing history.
The Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan is deeply inspired by Ferrari race car technology and design. The result is a watch like no other seen before: 8 cubic centimetres of pure mechanical perfection and exacting design.
Jean-François Ruchonnet, with 25 years of experience in creating exceptional timepieces, passionate about high performance cars and races, created this watch to embody the passion, the innovation, the ultimate technology, the style and attention to details of Ferrari.
Starting with the revolutionary motor he developed to power the Cabestan Winch Tourbillon Vertical, Ruchonnet created a high performance timepiece with an elegantly sleek and racy design coupled with the high tech materials found in Ferrari's Formula 1 race cars. To reach deep into Ferrari's DNA, Jean-François Ruchonnet teamed up with the Ferrari design team in Maranello, led by Design Director Flavio Manzoni. The two worked together to identify elements in Ferrari's Formula 1 race cars that would become the basic design components of the new Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan. Every part had to serve a specific purpose. Every material was chosen to enhance<|fim_middle|> large wheel inspired to the F1 world. The rotary drums, made of lightweight aluminium, are engraved with numbers that are the same as those on the instrument panels that provide real time data to Ferrari's Formula 1 drivers. In the centre, a block of carbon composite material created by Ferrari for use in high-performance car parts where a high tensile strength, low weight ratio is required. Finally, the leather strap, recalls the Daytona leather seats of Ferrari's range.
The result, the Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan, is an exceptional timepiece, embodying the Scudiera Ferrari's DNA. Ferrari is synonymous with excellence and innovation, and constantly strives for perfection also in the selection of its partners: Cabestan shares with Ferrari the same passion, excitement and performance. For Ferrari and Cabestan this is the beginning of a long term collaboration.
The Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan will be available to Ferrari clients by invitation only, at an undisclosed price. | performance.
The case of the Scuderia Ferrari One by Cabestan embodies speed, power and aerodynamic perfection, and is made of a titanium alloy created for components of Ferrari Formula 1 cars. The single crystal, surpassing the edges of the case, enhances the distinctive visual lineage that is unmistakably Ferrari. On the sides, a special magnesium alloy was used to create likenesses of a race car's wheels and the lug nuts that are emblematic of pit stop tire changes during Grand Prix races.
The nucleus of the motor, engineered by renowned master watchmaker Eric Coudray, is its vertical tourbillon, an exceptional technology designed to compensate for variations in the amplitude of the balance due the effects of the Earth's gravity. To take the precision of this timepiece to a higher plane, the energy delivered to the movement is transmitted by a miniature chain and fusée that perfectly compensates the torque curve of the mainspring, using a 6-speed automatic transmission to deliver a constant force to the tourbillon. The result is a mechanical watch engine that is amazingly accurate: ± 1 second per day.
By design, the revolutionary vertical gear-train of the motor is perfectly visible under the crystal, showcasing the | 247 |
The future of travel writing in the post-pandemic world
2020 has forced writers to experiment with new storytelling formats, focusing on staycations, sustainable tourism and diversity. Some of these changes are here to stay
With governments imposing lockdowns, planes grounded, and travel corridors continuously opening and closing like a revolving door, this year the travel writing industry has been paralysed by the pandemic.
Despite this, many writers have found innovative ways of continuing their work.
"Dream now, go later"
From reflective pieces on past trips to features on destinations that we can look forward to visiting after the pandemic, the world of travel writing has come up with new ways to tell stories.
Some travel writers experimented with more news-oriented articles that examined the impact of the pandemic on various areas of tourism. Or they have taken to interviewing travel industry experts and celebrities for more human-focused stories.
No need to cross borders
Just like we have all recreated our office routines on Zoom, travel writers had to quickly learn reporting on faraway destinations without leaving their homes.
Simon Parker, a travel writer, broadcaster and columnist with bylines in The Daily Telegraph and BBC World Service, cycled the length of Britain and documented his journey after all his international trips have been cancelled.
"There are still ways of writing about travel without having to cross lots of borders," he says, adding that the pandemic has really encouraged a "national travel boom and it's the same all over the world".
It has meant that many travel writers are focusing more on UK staycations, rather than marvelling on the sunshine of distant islands. Features on tourist hotspots, such as the Lake District or the Cotswolds, are particularly sought after.
Sustainability and diversity
Will this new way of working have a lasting impact in the post-pandemic era or will we see a shift back to business as usual?
Once we are able to travel again, on-destination pieces will no doubt return. Tavel sections will be once again filled with features on international travel and we may see fewer human interest or news stories. But some of the positive changes are here to stay.
"I am hoping that the pandemic will encourage tourists as well as journalists or vloggers to travel in a more sustainable way both socially and environmentally," says Alex Outhwaite, a travel TV presenter on travelxptv.
Lottie Gross, a travel writer for publications<|fim_middle|> writing too."
By: Alisa Anwar, first published on https://www.journalism.co.uk/ December 18, 2020 | such as The Telegraph, The Times and the US-based Tripsavvy, is also optimistic about the future.
"I think on the other side of this pandemic lies a travel media that will be better than before, with more considered and diverse coverage."
She added that travel writers may have a new audience to address.
"After a year of being unable to see friends and relatives, we might see an uplift in group travel or multigenerational holidays."
The rise of remote working or "digital nomadism" for travel writers means that "there will be opportunities for journalists to explore that in their | 119 |
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HIRTLE – Ronald W., 58, of Liverpool, Queens County, passed away peacefully in Queens General Hospital, Liverpool on Saturday, June 26th, 2010.
Born in Mill Village, Queens County, he was a son of the late Raymond and Lenora (Brockhouse) Hirtle.
Ronald was a night watchman for STENPRO and for Mersey Seafoods for many years. He enjoyed music and playing the guitar but was most passionate about his family.
He is survived by his wife Charlene (Schrader); daughter Tanya (Craig) Dalby of Brooklyn, Sons Wayne of Liverpool and Darren (Elizabeth) of Halifax. His brother Palmer of ON.
Please accept my sincere condolences on the loss of your loved one.
So sorry to hear of Ron's passing. He was a great guy and will be remembered fondly. Take strength in your family and our thoughts are with you.
My deepest sympathies to the entire Hirtle family.
I worked with Ron at Stenpro and was very sad to hear of his passing. Ron always had a funny story or joke to share, along with many great book recommendations. He was a wonderful person; so sorry for your loss.
charlene,so sorry for your loss.ronnie was a great guy.
I am so sorry and saddened to hear about Ronnie.Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
So sorry to hear of Ron's passing. We are keeping you in thought and prayer. It is precious memories that will help you through these difficult times.
So very sorry to hear of Ronnie's passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family….
Charlene, so very sorry to hear of Ron's passing. He was a great guy and a true gentleman. All your good memories and the love of your family will help you to get through this very sad time. You are in our thoughts today.
Sorry to hear of Ron's passing.He was a nice guy and we have many fond memories of high school days and bands.
and prayers are with you at this difficult time.
Sorry to hear of Ron's passing. We had some good times in our school years and always enjoyed having Ron around. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Family during these difficult times.
Charlene and family….so sorry to hear of Ron's passing. May you find peace and comfort in the family and friends who surround you during this difficult time. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
May you find courage to face tomorrow in the love that surrounds you today.
are with you all at this difficult time .
So sorry to hear about Ron's passing. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Cherish all the great memories.
Charlene and family, We were very sorry to hear about Ron. Ron was one of the first people that I met when I moved to Liverpool. Our thoughts and our prayers are with you and your family.
Sadened to hear the loss of a wonderful man. May you rest in peace !
So sorry to hear about Ron's passing away. We both worked at Stenpro and it was always a pleasure to stop and have a talk with Ron at the gatehouse or when he made his rounds at the office. My deepest sympathies to your family.
I am so very sorry to hear about Ron .My deepest condolences to you and Tanya.
Tanya My heart goes out to you and your family;.
Tanya, I am so sorry to hear of your loss. Please know that Jeff and I are thinking of you and Craig at this time.
charlene and family . sorry to hear of your loss . ron was a wonderful guy . he will be greatly missed by all especially his family which he spoke of highly . sincere sympathy . brenda and jim .
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all-at this very sad and difficult time..God Bless..!!
I am so sorry to hear about Ronnie.I worked with him for many a years at Stenpro and Mersey seafoods.My thoughts and prayers go out to all of you at this sad time.
We were so shocked to hear of Ron's passing.
So many fond memories from way back when he was in the Band with Gordie . It was always lovely to run into Ron over the years .
Keep strong at this very hard time .
Ron was a good man and friend.
His memory will live on .
We are sorry to hear about your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and family at this time of sorrow.
Thinking of you during this difficult time.. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Our sincere condolences to you and your family on the loss of your loved one. He was a nice man who always had a smile whenever you saw him. God be with you at this time.
We were so sorry to hear of your dad's passing. I know there are not many words that can take away the tremendous loss that you feel but the love and support of family and friends will help you through the difficult days ahead. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
OUR THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ON THE PASSING OF RON.
We were so shocked and saddened when we heard about Ron. He was truly a wonderful man, so kindhearted and a great Dad to his children.I am sure his greatest love was you Charlene, always remember that and hold on to all the memories.We thought the world of Ronnie and have great memories of him playing and singing ,he was one of the best. If there is anything we can do for you just let us know, we would be happy to help in any way. We will be in touch, our thoughts are with you and the family.
So sorry to hear of Ronnie's passing, our thoughts & prayers go out to you & your family. If you ever need anything, we are only a street away, don't hesitate to call us. I'm always here for you anytime you need me. Take care.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time of sorrow.
Sorry to hear about Ron's passing .I worked with him for 7 years at STENPRO.He was agreat guy to be around.R.I.P Ron mty thoguths and prayers are with your<|fim_middle|> and Elizabeth our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time I hope you can take comfort from the love and support of family and friends.
So sorry to hear of Ronnie's passing, I will always remember the laughs and Port Dances when he used to play, and all the good times. Just remember You are always with him no matter what.
Charlene & family..So sorry for your loss. I always enjoyed our conversations back in the Stenpro days. Ron was a great personality. My prayers are with you.
so sorry to hear of your loss Ron was a lovely, friendly, and sweet man.
Charlene,Tan,Wayne,Darren & family,I was so sorry to hear about Ron's passing.He was a great man and a great friend.He will surely be missed.My thoughts and prayers are with you and if there is anything that I can do,please don't hesitate to call.
Charlene,Ronnie and Families,i was so sorry to hear of Ronnie's passing,as was a shock,but i knew i hadnt seen him in for his coffee at Tim's lately.I hate to hear of anyone with CA.I know it is hard,but as the days pass you will learn to live with it,but never forget.I know it is hard,but time heals all hurts.It seems as if sometimes life is not fair,but still,we have to take with is given to us.May God Bless you and families in this time of sorrow.
So Sorry to hear about Ron. He was a very good person. I remember him in the band and how we used to go and watch the guys practice. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family in this difficult time.
We are sorry for the loss of Ron. George & Ron hung around together when they went to High School. We both worked with Ron at Stenpro. He was a gentleman and always ready for a good laugh.
Charlene and family,my deepest sympathy goes out to you at this time of sorrow.Ron was a wonderful man,friend,and father in-law.I will deeply miss him and always cheerish knowing him.If there is anything thing that I can do for you guys ,please just give me a call.
Dear Charlene ,we were shocked to hear of Ron's passing. our prayers are with you and your family always. God bless you and yours. Linda Schrader Backman and Joey and Family. Love you.
Although I haven't seen Ron in a few years… my thoughts go back to him when I knew him during the band years….. he was a good, honorable man.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
seems like just the other day that we smiled and spoke at the post office. i didn't realise that ron was ill, he never said a word.
ronnie was such a part of the early years. a musician and all round nice guy. he was quiet, with a quick laugh and a kind heart… i'm really sorry to hear this news and wish you strength, charlene. | family at this difficult time.
Charlene and family: So sorry to hear of your loss. So many great memories from school days and happy times. Please take comfort in your love and memories of Ron and may you find peace in these things. Just know people are praying for you at this time.
Charlene & family..So sorry for your loss. We go back many years with Ronnie…dances ,parties & always so much fun.He was one of our favourite guitar players , especially when he played in the various bands…He always had a kind word & a joke to tell. You all will be in our prayers & thoughts…God Bless !!
Our thoughs and prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time. Although we never had the pleasure of meeting Ron, he sounds like a wonderful man who will be missed alot.
If there is anything you need, please don't hesitate to ask.
sorry to hear about the passing of Ron,very nce man and heard him play his guitar any of times. our hearts are with you and your family ,GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
I would like to express my sincere condolences to your family. Our family's close relationship with Ronnie and his guitar in the "band years" of the 60's brings back many fond memories of youthful dreams and exuberance. May you wrap yourselves in your good memories of Ron and find comfort and peace in knowing he is with many friends in their memories.
Charlene and family, I am so sorry to about Ron's passing. I worked at stenpro with Ron, who could be so funny at times then when he was serious it was hard to tell. I use to listen to him and Doug Cross practising playing. They were all great together and people will miss their music and that friendship they all shared during their years of playing music. The ache will only last a short time and over time it will be replaced with all the fond memories and the little things Ron said or did. God Bless.
My thoughts are with you at this time. Sorry to hear about Ron's passing.
Sorry to hear about your loss. Our hearts go out to you. Thinking of you lots in this hard time.
Dear charlene and family so sorry to hear about the loss of your loved one my thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Charlene and family, Sorry to hear of Ron;s passing. You are in our thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.Take care and remember the good times. All the best, Donna and David.
Sorry to hear of Ronnie's passing and you are in our thoughts.
I am so sorry to hear That Ronnie has passed away , My heart goes out to you. If there is anything I can do for anyone, Please call.
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Louis C.K. and Steve Buscemi in 'Horace and Pete'
Plus three other juicy tidbits revealed by the comedian during an interview on Marc Maron's 'WTF' podcast.
Louis C.K.'s promotional tour continued with a stop in Marc Maron's garage, where the two comics recorded the 700th edition of Maron's WTF podcast.
In the 90-minute-plus interview, C.K. revealed both the run-up to and the details of the casting and creative process on his self-financed Horace and Pete web series. Among them: the A-list actors initially approached for key roles on the dark comedy, including Joe Pesci and Jack Nicholson.
Here are five highlights from the conversation:
Lorne Michaels gave C.K. advice — but he didn't take it
C.K. was adamant that he didn't want the pressure or obligation for Horace and Pete to have to be funny, much less print money. "I knew what I wanted it to feel like, and I knew the idea of something that looks like a sitcom, the way a sitcom feels theatrical, but with no laugh track," he told Maron early in the interview. When he told Lorne Michaels about the idea, the Saturday Night Live creator urged him to reassess his plan. "He begged me to get financing from somebody," notes C.K., in Michaels' voice. "And he said, 'No one's going to congratulate you for paying for it. No one.' And I was like, 'I don't want to have to talk anybody into the shit I'm doing.' "
Steve Buscemi signed onto Horace and Pete first
The Boardwalk Empire star had called C.K. to be part of one of his charity events, and before hanging up asked C.K.<|fim_middle|> at how much I had really promised it." Bummed as he was, Landgraf turned around and renewed C.K's overall deal (with a nice pay bump) to make other TV shows for the cadre of FX networks, including Zach Galifianakis' Baskets and his Louie co-star Pamela Adlon's forthcoming comedy Better Things.
Maya Anderman | how he was doing. "We had never really chatted," said C.K., "and I'm like, 'Oh I'm alright, how are you doing?' 'Ah, Boardwalk Empire's over, just sitting around.' " After they hung up, he called Buscemi back right away and asked if he was interested in being on a TV show with him. Buscemi's response: "Maybe." They met up in New York City the following day, where C.K. pitched the still evolving series idea to Buscemi. He signed on, on the spot, to play C.K.'s brother, Pete.
Joe Pesci, Jack Nicholson and Christopher Walken were all approached for the part of Uncle Pete
For the part of Uncle Pete, C.K. initially approached Joe Pesci. He went to Pesci's home, and though he ultimately passed on the part, Pesci helped him write and form the character. He then asked Jack Nicholson (via Michaels), who turned it down. "My phone rings," recalls C.K. "Jack comes on and he says, 'I just wanted you to know the writing is terrific, but I'm not gonna do it.... You know what I did today? I went out to the tree in my yard and I sat under it and I read a book. And when I was done, I went back inside.' " Finally, he took it to Christopher Walken, who liked the script but thought it was too easy for a guy like him to play that part. "He said, 'Tell Louis why don't you get someone who you would never expect to do this, ' " C.K. said. It was ICM Partners' Toni Howard, who is both Walken and Edie Falco's agent, who convinced Louis to talk to (and later hire) Alan Alda.
Edie Falco has a magazine interview to thank for her Horace and Pete role
C.K. was reading an interview with Falco pegged to the end of Nurse Jackie when an alarm bell sounded: "She says in the interview, 'I love episodic television. I don't like movies, I like TV....' They ask her, 'Would you ever be in a comedy?' and she said, 'No. Because comedies don't run deep enough,' " he says. "And I looked at her face in the magazine and I said you're going to be in my show — I said it out loud, like a psycho." He then wrote her character into the show, Horace's sister Sylvia, whom she would play later. "I went to the Emmys in September, and Edie Falco was sitting there with a seat open next to her. So I just went and sat down next to Edie, and I said, 'Hey, I'm writing a TV show. It's with me and Steve Buscemi, and I want you to be in it.' And she said 'Sure!' " She gave him her P.O. box, and he sent her the scripts. Two days later, he received a text: "Hi, this is Edie. I'm in."
C.K. was supposed to do seven seasons of Louie
C.K. broke the news to FX Networks CEO John Landgraf in late May 2015 that he was done with Louie — at least for now. "I just told him that I didn't know if I would ever make another one -- I might, but I needed it to be okay if I never do," C.K. said. He discussed how it was a difficult conversation to have as he had "kind of" promised Landgraf that he was going to complete at least seven seasons. Then he added, "And I'm only saying 'kind of' because I'm ashamed | 784 |
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The day was observed to commemorate the passage of Lahore Resolution on this day in 1940, under which the Muslims of the sub-continent set the agenda of a separate homeland for themselves.
Meanwhile, the spectacular and colorful Pakistan Day parade was held at Parade Avenue in Islamabad with three wings of the armed forces displaying their professionalism and military prowess.
The ceremony commenced with the recitation of Holy Quran. After the national anthem was played, President Dr Arif Alvi observed the parade from a jeep.
A formation of Pakistan Air Force jets presented a fly-past as a salute to the president.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mehmood Hayat, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Naval Chief Admiral Zafar Mehmood Abbasi were present at the ceremony.
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Collectors and artists recently trooped into the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos, in their numbers to celebrate an array of modern African art works in the solo exhibition themed: 'Raw Intuition'.
The works, which were a collection of sculptures and paintings, stood<|fim_middle|>, we cannot talk about how we feel about this country. It is the same problem we face as children that is carried on into adulthood. One is confronted with series of questions and one does not have an answer to them," he said.
Putting it succinctly, the curator of the exhibition, Ms. Ngozi Okwedi, said that the work encourages exploration beyond surface appearances and the discovery of latent human potentials, which has hitherto been buried in the mind.
The lazy dog series on the other hand is an allegorical rendition of everyday life of people. Using dogs to represent humans, Nzekwe tells the story of human being as they move through various stages of their lives.
Speaking with THISDAY about life as an artiste, Nzekwe said: "Art is a lifestyle. As an artiste, you've got limitations and I really don't look at that. I just play. Everything around me, nature has provided for me."
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© Copyright 2016 THISDAY NEWSPAPERS LTD. | in their magnificence round the room. The sculptures were hung on three sides of the wall – the paintings on two sides while others were sat on stools and shelves respectively.
The artist behind the works, Philips Nzekwe, who was tutored under the renowned contemporary artist, Mr. Bruce Onobrakpeya, told THISDAY at the event that the works were his own way of expressing himself and telling his narrative of the human story.
Through a fascinating and painstaking rendition of everyday items, Raw Intuition displayed two art series – 'Curious Minds' and 'Lazy Dogs' respectively.
According to Nzekwe, the 'Curious Mind' series is an attempt at drawing the attention of the public to the needs and potentials of the child as he brings to the fore the ideals of self-expression which he believes is crucial for life in the 21st century.
"Curious Minds looks at the needs of the child which goes beyond mere facial expression because a child may not be happy but puts up the face that he is okay and things are well.
"A lot of things go on in the mind. In our society for example, one cannot express himself. As adults | 239 |
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"People used to be afraid of languages. What we find is that the more the young people know about their heritage culture, the more they know their heritage language, the more they are open to other cultures and other languages. The stronger they are in their heritage language, the stronger they are in English. So in Australia, when the Ukrainian crisis started, the Russian schools are supporting the Ukrainian schools. The kids have this, as Gisi said, this global understanding that comes from strength in the national, but also their heritage language and culture. That's what our collaboration can offer." Ken Cruickshank, Australia
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I hope you have enjoyed and profited from this month's series of four podcasts focused on heritage languages, including role in society, education, future potential for individuals and groups, and advocacy for this powerful gift in and to our societies.
In this, Podcast 4, a group of panelists from four countries in addition to the United States describe their work, challenges, and successes with heritage language speakers and community-based schools in their country and ways that we can collaborate so that these speakers, their communities, and the organizations that support them become stronger and more vibrant.
One collaboration that you will learn about is the creation of a set of International Guidelines for Professional Practices in Community-Based Heritage Language Schools.
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Founder and CEO / Freestyle Languages
Yes, @NorahLulicJones definitely has the talent of "bringing out" the best in others or allowing them to showcase themselves in the best light! Thank you for directing the spotlight on others who have great stories and talents to share with others.
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Spanish Teacher / Washington County Schools (VA)
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Co-director / American Councils for International Education (ACE) Research Center
Norah knows how to LISTEN - she really "hears" the message - and the interview is richer because of it. New questions come from the hearing.
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Ohio Foreign Language Assciation
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Hi, I'm Norah Jones. Welcome to It's About Language. So what is language all about? Well, it's about learning and sharing. Opening doors and education, work and life. Language is about creating communities and creating boundaries. It's all about the mystery of what makes us human. So our conversations will explore that mystery and the impact of what makes us human. It's about language in life. It's about language at work. It's about language for fun. Welcome to the podcast. When people speak a heritage language they are by definition taking a stand in the middle of a language group that's not originally theirs. This happens all over the world. In this fourth podcast, we're going to take a look at the international setting of heritage languages, the international pressures on and promises of heritage languages. And how international cooperation helps to bring about a possibility for growing the kind of advocacy for an equitable multilingual society all over the world to open doorway for heritage speakers, which has been the point of this four week series of podcasts.
Today's guests are Gisi Cannizzaro, who's managing director of the Heritage Language Education Network in the Netherlands. Antonella Cortese, who's president of the International and Heritage Languages Association and director of the Italian Language School in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Ken Cruickshank, who's program director at the Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education at the University of Sydney in Australia. And Renata Emilsson Peskova, board treasurer of Modurmal, the Association on Bilingualism at the University of Iceland. My panel co-moderator continues to be my friend and colleague Joy Peyton, senior fellow at the Center for Applied Linguistics and in coalition leadership for the Coalition of Community-Based Language Schools. Enjoy the podcast. Welcome to each of you. What a pleasure to have you here. It's a great pleasure to have you here today. Joy, please tell us again, why is it, tell the listeners, why is it that we are doing this international collaboration week?
Joy Peyton:
Yeah, well, I mentioned in the first podcast in the first week, how community based schools often work in isolation and we in the coalition that you just mentioned are seeking to connect them across, connect these schools working often in isolation, across languages and across the country. But for quite a few years, we and the coalition have focused on US schools. In fact, the coalition is a US based organization and we have worked in isolation from other countries. Then a couple of years ago, we connected with Trudie Aberdeen with the International & Heritage Languages Association, IHLA in Canada, and that connection has opened a whole new world to us. And so this is how we are now working with Antonella, who you just mentioned, who works with IHLA in Canada, with Renata in Iceland, Ken in Australia and Gisi in the Netherlands.
And we together, this group, have started participating in and speaking at each other's conferences and engaging in collaborative projects, which you'll hear about during this podcast. We in the United States are learning so much from these dynamic, energetic, creative colleagues. We're learning about their recognition of the existence and value of heritage languages in their countries. The creation and running of heritage language schools, the values that they hold and the standards that they follow, and the funding that some of them have for this work. It's a real privilege to be together here today and we're all going to learn a lot from each other. And what I started thinking about this morning is that there are leaders of heritage language schools in many other countries that we can connect and collaborate with. And I think that maybe this conversation will open new doors to those connections and collaborations. So thank you Norah for bringing us together today.
It's a great, great pleasure. And indeed, I'm looking forward to opening many doorways of collaboration. One of the things that I'd like to make sure that my listeners do is go to my website, fluency.consulting and check out not only the specific podcast information, but especially the biographies of our dear guests today. They will have provided a plethora of resources and links, which can open doors for you as listeners too. And one of the resources that I'd like to draw your attention to over and over again, and I'll be using it as a basis in this podcast today, is the guidelines that were published in November 2021, the International Guidelines for Professional Practices in Community-Based Heritage Language Schools.
There's a tremendous amount of good information there, not only for those that are in community-based heritage language schools, but those who are interested in this topic and in finding out how the power of such schools and such community based organizations can change their lives too. So thank you everyone for dealing with that. So here, one reason why, one thing I'm going to start out with right away is a question to whoever would like to answer first to start. We're going to start with why, we're going to start with why, why collaboration when it comes to heritage language schools around the world?
Renata Emilsson Peskova:
Well, I can go first. Iceland is a little country. We have 300,000 people living here and we do have 100 languages spoken by immigrant communities. But our organization is not very large, Modurmal, and we've been organizing a conference for years and the audience was very small and there was a lot of effort going into organizing that conference, annual conference. And so at some point I just said, I'm not going to organize a conference by myself for nine people again. And we reached out and that was the time when COVID came basically and the online communication started to be easy and normalized. So we moved online and we started collaborating with Mother Tongues in Ireland who organized the conference. And after that, the next year we started the FOHLC Europe, Forum of Heritage Language Coalitions in Europe. And now we have partners in five countries and we are collaborating on the next conference. And Gisi is of course, one of the key people in that collaboration.
Gisi Cannizzaro:
I think of all of the organizations that are represented here that HLE Network, our organization here in the Netherlands is the youngest. So the reason why we reached out to all of the different people here at one point over the last few years was just for advice and inspiration. Because we had a lot of ideas about which activities and which projects we could still, but we wanted to know which ones would have the most impact for the heritage language programs in our region. And I spoke with, I think every organization here, yes, Canada, US, Iceland, and Australia.
And I put those conversations on the web so that other people who didn't have the chance to speak with joy could benefit from the conversation I had with her. I think the heritage language programs here in the Netherlands may not have extra time to be looking for workshops or conferences run by other organizations that might be of interest to them. So HLE Network takes the time to research what all of the other organizations are doing that might be of interest to our programs regionally. So I've learned a lot from each and every person here. And I just want to say thank you again, because I think we've been successful so far in part due to all of the great conversations I've had with all of you.
Ken Cruickshank:
We know that most of the world's population is bilingual and heritage language schools exist in practically every country around the world, but in each of our countries, we are marginal. Most people don't know we exist. So for me through this collaboration, it gives us that strength and knowledge, and advice, and help. For example, our Czech schools, our Chinese schools, our Greek schools have made contacts now with the schools in Canada, in the US, and it really supports them. In each of our countries, the schools often operate by themselves and don't even have the time to collaborate with others. So this collaboration is really key because we are a major sector in languages education. And this collaboration and support is vital for us to get stronger.
Antonella Cortese:
The International and Heritage Languages Association, in spite of its name, it is a provincial organization. And so within Canada, within the Charter of Rights, everyone has the right to maintain their heritage language and culture. However, on a national level, and this is why we were so fortunate to connect with Joy and the coalition, is that on a national level there is no true national governing body that does what the coalition does in the United States with the 50 states. So we work on a provincial level within the province of Alberta doing what the coalition does on a national level. And so it's been really wonderful to connect with Renata and Gisi, and Ken, and Joy from the start, because that first conference that we attended in Washington DC was interesting, because as we spoke, we were speaking to each other from different ends of the telescope, I want to say.
So we were from the start of the telescope looking out and they were from the other end of the telescope looking in. Because they're the larger organization trying to understand, well, how is it that you're a smaller regional organization and yet do what you do? And we were thinking, well, you're a larger national organization, how did you do what you do? And so it's been really educational, as Gisi mentioned, to connect with everybody, because everybody has a different vantage point from which they started and why. And for us, we've been in existence for, it'll be 45 years next year. So this organization started 45 years ago with six people from six different heritage language organizations that wanted to make sure that their children could speak to their parents in their heritage language. So it's come a long way and we're really proud, but we're also really proud at the opportunity to have been able to expand our network with all these other knowledgeable and incredibly valuable people to heritage languages.
Antonella, I love the image that you have of the two ends of the telescope and of taking a look at the differentiations between and coming from the different unique experiences and unique histories. So what is it that the five of you and those who have been connected with the various activities and publications, even that you've done, have found is in common? How did you pull that together? What does it consist of? Give us some images that our listeners can understand of what you discovered together.
That's a great question Norah. A really great question. And we talked about that for how long, when we were doing the standards? We talked about that for over a year. What do we have? And I just, I know Renata wants to talk, but I just wanted to say that when we're talking about why, why do we get together? You can see how this collaboration expands our minds so much. Every time I talk to you all, I learn about place, where do we focus? What schools are involved? What languages are here? It's just so expanding. So anyway, I'll let Renata answer your question Norah.
I just wanted to start from the bottom kind of. As Ken said, the heritage language schools are all over the world. They're not mapped. They're maybe not described in any systematic way. I know that you are doing a great job in the US and also in Australia having this great overview of the heritage language schools but globally we don't know how many there are. But because the globalization is increasing and people are traveling and immigrating refugees in all kinds of reasons for settling in different countries and now everybody has the need for the heritage, well, I mean, for the mother tongue, for the language that they bring with them and teach it to the children. And for that reason, parents come together and establish little schools, that's how it starts. It could be a little playgroup, it could be just a platform to communicate and exchange, but gradually it happens because often these immigrants are ambitious.
Sometimes and often actually they're really educated as well and they come to the new country and they have ambition. And this is also a platform just to start working professionally for the benefit of their children. So it kind of rolls, the snowball grows and these schools they are established easily because they're not a part of the system. They start because they have the need to start. But also, I have to add that they also disappear quickly, some of them, so it's a very fragile business if you start a heritage language school. But what our coalitions are actually doing is to strengthen and to support these little groups and big groups so that they, we do the extra work that they don't have the time for, maybe energy. We help them with professional development and we help them with finding information, et cetera. Yeah. But I know that everybody has a lot to say about this. Thank you for listening for so long.
Thank you Renata. Giving that background too and what the organization does to that sense of almost tenuousness, great need, great desire, great emotion, but also some fragility and how to support, that was very clearly said. Thank you very much. Who else? Yes, indeed.
Yeah. About the guidelines, what did we find that was common across the different countries? I think the guidelines, the product itself was the answer to that question, because we combed through a lot of guidelines that were available in Australia, in England. We drew from many different documents from different countries and we put together something that was simple, not too long, something straightforward, so that we could try to make some kind of international standard that was not based on local law in Australia. But something that no matter where in the world you are, you can maybe put on your website, okay, our heritage language program aims to follow these guidelines and these core principles. So that you can maybe across the world start to have some kind of standardization or acknowledgement that we're all doing the same thing, regardless of where we are. Because some of the local documents can be quite long and very context specific, but Renata came with the idea and we all ran with it.
And I have to say the meetings, the monthly meetings, where we met with each other, you would think monthly on a Sunday night, you might roll your eyes and say, do I have to speak with these people again? But I always attended with great enthusiasm, left the meetings feeling really positive about the work we were doing, because we're all the same work. At this level when you speak with Joy or Renata, you don't have to convince them that what you're doing is important. But in our daily work, we are often speaking with people from the local community who don't already automatically agree that the work to support heritage language programs is important.
So you're kind of constantly explaining yourself or trying to convince people, but to be in a space where you can just all have that starting point that you agree that this is important, that was comfortable and fun. Yeah, thank you again for you guys' time, because that was really an enjoyable experience. And we have this really nice product to show the world, and I hope it's useful. And that we can reassess in some time and see how people have been using it, because I'm curious about the feedback. We have a form on Joy's website for people who used the document that they can share their experience and feedback with us.
I'd like to pick up what Renata said about the smaller schools. The large schools like the Chinese and others have good capacity, but for many smaller schools, they come and go. I was working with the Cook Island Maori school, it worked for 15 years and stopped. And then no one in the community, the young kids had no access. By working together, I think we can start providing better support with what we know now for the schools that are fragile. These languages are important, often with languages like Thai, Tong, and Samoan, where does anyone go to study them? The community language schools are the only place. And so I think by working together, we can support all of our schools better.
Even though I wasn't personally a part of it, having been a part of it on the periphery, the one thing that was really energizing and encouraging to know when working with everyone is that everyone finally got to see each other and say, okay, we're not going to reinvent the wheel because each individual that participated brought their information. And from what I'm understanding, based on the standards that I read, everyone was able to contribute. And I think because it was a document that was, as Gisi was mentioning, written together, it belongs to everyone. So it's not just one, it might be featured on one site, but it has everybody's signature and it has every country's signature from which it came based on their experiences, which is invaluable. And I think that also gives credence to this notion that we're not all operating in a vacuum.
So that's the first thing. And I'm really proud for that. And I'm sorry I wasn't a part of it personally. However, by extension with our colleague Trudie, we were always a part of it. So I hope you know that. And then to what Ken was just saying about the small schools. At least in our experience with the small schools, what we try to do, and this is what we've experienced recently with COVID, is some of our schools have stopped operating and some of them have stopped functioning. And what we've been doing is we have been making sure that we keep in touch with them. Even if it's one person, even if it's the one person who was the director of the school or the principal of the school and keeping them engaged within IHLA. Because just because you don't have a school does not mean that promoting and nurturing, and sustaining heritage language in our community isn't important.
So whether you're one or whether you're 100, whether you've only been operating and you tried to start for six months, or you've been, as one of our Polish schools has been operating for 68 years, every little bit counts. So thank you Ken for saying that, because this is something that every principal's meeting, when we send out our invitation for all our principals to come, the first thing they say is, "Well, but our school isn't working anymore. Can I still attend?" And of course you can because your insights are valuable. And if there's something that we can do to help, that conversation takes place and we mobilize, we mobilize and we help.
And in fact, two today's emails, I have two schools that are looking for space and they've stopped working because the school districts are no longer renting to Saturday schools because of COVID. And so we're working with them to find them space with other schools or within our office space. And again, if they don't attend the meetings, then we can't help. So we make them attend the meetings, we fish them back out and get them, as Gisi said, energized and motivated to keep fighting the good fight because their families are depending on it actually. So thank you for mentioning that Ken.
That passion Antonella and everyone, I would like have to tap on for just a second. Because you understand that part of me is extraordinarily envious and sad because my own background is the daughter of a Croatian refugee immigrant. But at that particular stage of life, which was World War II and directly afterwards, I even asked, he said at that point, and we all know that this is in quotes, it wasn't in to be ethnic. But what I would've given, as I spoke to my husband today about the conversation that we were about to have, to have had a Croatian heritage language school to go to on Saturdays, it would have been transformational for me. Thank you so much for listening to this podcast today. Please join me in sharing with those in education, business, and organizational leadership, the opportunities that come from knowing and celebrating human language. I invite you to become a sponsor of this podcast. Please see my website, fluency.consulting for more information, and to connect up with me about sponsorship.
So I'm bringing some emotional content into this because I'd like to turn to making sure that the listeners know that there are four main areas within the international guidelines that you published. And so folks I would like to turn your attention to this. There are four areas, at least four major areas in your guidelines, the core values, organization, the educational programs and the community outreach. And I considering that as core values as the why you are doing this anyway. And I'd like to address that first and heads up that I'm going to be looking, especially for the community outreach part as an impact, but let's turn for just a moment to those core values.
And I was struck by not only the core values, but I'm not going to enumerate them. You can, if you desire and as part of your conversation, but the vision statement, which included the following, heritage languages are a way of nurturing diversity, mutual respect, and inclusion. So I would love for each of you to take a look at however you would like to address for our listeners, the core values of why heritage language schools are developed, for one or for 100, as you've said. And why you have chosen carefully as language people do the nurturing of diversity, mutual respect and inclusion.
Well, it takes a bit of thinking to answer this complicated question. Thank you for it. But I can maybe start with where we started, Modurmal, 21 years ago. Firstly, it was the parents who wanted of course, to provide the heritage language and communicate with their children and children being able to communicate with grandparents. But when I came in maybe 10 years ago, the discussion was very much about the right, the human right, the linguistic right to speak the language and the fight for recognition. Like we are out there, we are doing semi-professional or professional work, we want the system to see us. We want the schools to see us. We want to promote these linguistic rights of the children to their mother tongues, which are in the chart on the rights of the child, which is a part of the legal system here in Iceland and many countries of the world.
So we are basing this human rights argument on that. But the conversation is shifting on, it's not where we are fighting for rights, this right perspective. I think as the world develops and the diversity increases, and even this super diversity, the term, maybe somebody knows, the look into the future is any competence in language is valuable for whatever reason. So distinguishing languages between mother tongue heritage language, second language, foreign language, I think that is not in anymore. Like you said, it wasn't in to be ethnic after the second World War. It's not in maybe to talk about some baggage of the past and it's more looking for the future and competence, and how to be able to be plurilingual, all of us are plurilingual in a way. So I think there is a shift and there is a development in how this, well, fight or conversation went on throughout the time.
I agree, Renata. I think there's been a shift. It's not perfect. Still, if you are bilingual people often look at you and think that you've got only half a brain. But if I can tell the story of one of my colleagues, she's Russian background. When she started school, she went home the first day and said, "Mom, at school, they don't speak Russian. I'm not going to speak Russian anymore." And she lost her language like so many. Now she's attending the community language school with her daughter learning Russian from the babushka, singing songs. Something like 30% of our schools now have classes for adults who lost their language, who didn't have that chance. It's so important for people to keep it. It's more acceptable now. And I think it's wonderful to see the second, third, fourth generation Australian kids learning their heritage language.
My understanding is always shifting and changing based on all of the new information I get. This week what I think is that you have like a, I guess, a continuum of how much does a particular country value multilingualism, multiculturalism or on the other end, how monolingual is it and what phase is it in maybe shifting from a monolingual mindset to a multilingual mindset? My understanding from Trudie at IHLA, Antonella, was that Canada had kind of reformation and that's why you all were able to get some funding at some point in the past was because the government decided, okay, Canada's going to embrace its multilingualism. Sweden had also some kind of reform. And what I see in the Netherlands where I try to, I ask myself, where are we in the Netherlands on this continuum? And I see change happening.
Lots of groups are doing workshops with the mainstream Dutch school teachers to explain to them not to be afraid of the multilingual children in the classroom, to tap into it as a resource. For instance, we get a lot of newsletters from an organization that is promoting internationalization. Internationalization, it's very, it's a hot topic for the primary schools here in the Netherlands for the children to become global citizens or to have exchanges with other countries. And I think, well, yeah, you can send a Dutch child abroad, but they're sitting next to a Turkish kid and a Polish kid in their own class. So there is a shift here that there are organizations trying to put it into, to build it into the teacher training. Because right now it's like post, you've already become a teacher and then you can have these workshops after you've already had your training. But they're trying to put it into the regular training.
How do we cherish and nurture, and use the multilingualism that's in the class? So that's one side of the coin. What Heritage Language Education Network is trying to do in the Netherlands is also put the spotlight on the lessons that take place outside of the school. Because Dutch teachers and their attitudes, and not discouraging, to not discourage a child from speaking Russian with their friend at the school, that's important of course. But we're trying also to make sure that the people who are doing the hard work of running these supplementary schools outside of school time also get some kind of recognition and support, that we see now the Dutch mainstream teachers getting.
Because at the end of the day, the Dutch mainstream teachers are not going to be able to teach a child how to read and write in Russian. You're going to have to have somebody from the language community doing that. And we want to remind people of that, that the heritage language programs are providing a service to the community and filling a gap in the children's education that the Dutch education system is not equipped and you can't even expect it to be equipped to fill that gap. So that's my view.
Gisi, as you were speaking, I was thinking a lot about teacher education, because that is something that even here in Canada, I will speak specifically to Alberta though and Edmonton, is … So I'm originally from the United States. I grew up in a bilingual home. However, my bilingualism was our small town dialect and then English. And the rule was, don't teach her Italian because she won't learn how to read. So I was educated in Italy first and then I went to the states and then they said, don't do that. But because my parents had the education they did, they couldn't learn English fast enough to teach me so we did dialect. That being said, teacher education still, I feel to this day and I've been a teacher a long time, having been<|fim_middle|> our programs. Thank you.
Thank you. And there indeed I'm going to say, but the impact, the community outreach, that's one of your four aspects that you worked on that wonderful guideline document and the impact of the schools. I'd love to, for you, again, to provide a vision about what uniquely your collaboration, your insights, your experiences, this sharing that you've done, what are some of the unique messages that you're bringing to the world? Because the volatility of our times right now in Europe and well, and beyond, speak to the need of people to understand what plurilingualism means, what understanding of cultures mean and what kind of role your schools play. What's the impact for communities? What role are you playing to make this world understand where indeed inclusion, mutual respect and diversity can be a part of their daily lives?
People used to be afraid of languages. What we find is that the more the young people know about their heritage culture, the more they know their heritage language, the more they are open to other cultures and other languages. The stronger they are in their heritage language, the stronger they are in English. So in Australia, when the Ukrainian crisis started, the Russian schools are supporting the Ukrainian schools. The kids have this, as Gisi said, this global understanding that comes from strength in the national, but also their heritage language and culture. That's what our collaboration can offer.
Ken, I'm actually going to do something that I don't normally do. Can you repeat what you said to make sure that all of the listeners heard what you just said about what's happening in Australia, based on this experience of Russia and Ukraine right now.
The Russian schools have come out in support of the Ukrainians. They work with them. They support them because they see this as something that is not them. It's not them. It's the, what happens is you get the understanding between the different schools they work together.
Thank you. Thank you for doing that. It's brought tears to my eyes, frankly, but I wanted to make sure that our listeners heard that clearly. Renata, you had, you were interested in saying something.
Thank you. I wanted to actually pick on where Ken ended. We have a Ukrainian group and Russian group and they collaborate. And we have as Modurmal expressed our support for the Ukrainian group and the Russian group took part in this. And I think we have this safe space, or as Terry Lamb calls it, spaces of hope. These are spaces where we feel at home. So our groups, we have common goals, common values, we support each other and we express that. But I also wanted to say that our collaborations, they connect us and they connect us both within the countries where we operate and across the countries within the languages that we teach. But also the coalitions, as we are represented here, we connect. So we have this wonderful network and so we represent languages.
And it's really important that we exist because we are the voice and often the face of the multilingualism in our countries. In our context, we are having a discussion and have had a discussion about the sustainable development goals, for example. And I feel that Modurmal is kind of a green association, that we have the language and we collaborate. And we should also kind of aim at saving the planet and peace on the planet, that we have all these safe spaces that give us the possibility to develop communication skills and competencies. And these are the skills for the future, people need to be able to communicate, collaborate, make the connections. And so I really think this is a little idealistic maybe, but I really think we're preparing people to take part in this complex future challenge or challenges that are waiting.
We've really, our organization has learned a lot from speaking with all of the other organizations, the like-minded organizations in other countries, trying to bring the heritage language programs together. And what we've learned is that there is always, there is really always going to be work that needs to be done no matter how progressive a country is. So when I first met Ken and heard everything that was going on in Australia, super impressed, Sydney, New South Wales is doing fantastic, Victoria. But when you dig deeper and you have conversations with people, you see that, okay, certain territories are very advanced and progressive, but not all of Australia. Some territories are less progressive and open-minded in embracing multilingualism than others. Even in the case where in some countries, in the canton of Zurich, for instance, where the students are able to get a grade on their primary school leaving certificate based on how they performed in the supplemental class outside of school time. Even there, you listen to the people who run the teacher training, and you're very impressed.
That's why you wanted to speak with the people. But when you really dig deeper, you see, wow, there's still the same challenges there. Logistically speaking, you have a language community who happens to be in a certain place outside of the home country. All of the stars have to be aligned for you to have a qualified teacher, a mobilized language community, enough resources. In the case of Zurich, for instance, they have them up with their own funds to pay the teachers. So when you really look closely, even in the best of circumstances, you need people motivating each other, giving each other the information they need to start the legal entities they need in order to qualify for the subsidies when they're even available. So it's not discouraging to me. It just, it makes me think that this work, it makes sense that we have started the organization HLE Network and that there's really a lot of work to be done, and there will always be a lot of work to be done.
I wanted to go back to the community that is coming together, also here in Edmonton and in Calgary, where we have larger Ukrainian and Russian population with heritage languages. So we have a doctor who is Ukrainian of background here, who has a connection in Ukraine. And with the Ukrainian Federation, they started a drive to collect necessary materials and items. And what's happened is through IHLA we sent out a call. And so straight away our Russian school actually contacted us and said, "Can you let us know the information so then we can go and help?" And it's actually quite emotional, because I did stop by there and I saw one of the school leaders there just right in there. And if you met her, she's very graceful and very dignified. So to have seen her working side by side with other people doing this drive and helping put things in, it made me think that the work that we do, as you were saying Gisi, it's hard.
There are pockets that don't appreciate it necessarily, or don't understand it. But when I saw that scene, I thought, "Yes, this is why we do what we do." And here in Edmonton, anyway, our Russian school is worried. The parents are worried about bringing their children to school, even though it operates out of a church in Calgary, there was vandalism at one of the Russian churches. So they're worried and the Ukrainian leaders of the Ukrainian schools have been encouraging to them and saying, don't worry everything's going to be okay. We know that you support us. We support you. We know that this is not about us per se, but about other powers that we have no control over.
So in terms of heritage language communities, I think all of our communities do a lot to help galvanize the hope that through the work that we're all doing that we're going to make it through this. And as I was hearing Gisi say that we have all these issues to confront. Tutto il mondo è un paese, I don't know if your husband knows that phrase, all the world is a town. So wherever we are, we all have those same challenges and we're all lucky to have each other so then we can talk through them and hopefully connect with other countries and other organizations to help them talk through them as well to make our way.
All the world is a town. Really the time to say that the podcast has come to its pinnacle is right there in that beautiful statement. And each one of you today have provided a very clear picture about why it is that diversity is not division. Why heritage is additive and brings joy and in very, very challenging times actually creates the breakthrough for us all to be able to work together. I have always provide an end to the podcast in which I ask each guest to provide a short statement. It's a statement that you don't want this podcast to go out to my listeners around the world without hearing. One last insight, a repetition of a key point that you want to make sure they hear again. One last exhortation. What is it that you want to be sure that you say before this podcast ends today?
I just, going back to the guidelines, this one statement, I want to read this statement that we made about our vision. And that is, our vision is for community based heritage language schools across the globe to be united through common professional practices that lead to successful and respected educational programs. We hope that our collaboration will send a message to the global community that these schools provide a crucial service to plurilingual children, families, language communities, and societies, as a whole. And I think that's so important that we're united in that message, in part, because of what Antonella was just describing. So sometimes in the education community, there's this thing like, oh yeah, those guys. Oh, those guys. Yeah, they're helping each other, I can see that. But those schools are not very good, I'll tell you that. They are not good schools. The teachers aren't certified, the teachers aren't trained. And we are making a statement that these are high quality schools that bring huge value to schools and to the community.
The take home message. The work that we do bringing together heritage language programs is important. That's what we discussed today. But at the end of the day, the real work is done by the heritage language programs themselves. They are providing a service to the community. They are filling a gap in the children's education. If the communities, local or worldwide, if communities worldwide recognize this, then the heritage language programs can be a lot more successful. I think that the key message is recognition.
All languages are valuable as all people are valuable. Because the language's a part of our identity of who we are so if we do not respect and recognize the language, it's like not respecting and recognizing the person. And plurilingualism or multilingualism is a natural state for human mind. It's normal that we are plurilingual. So it's a positive thing and it is an educational value. It's a goal for everybody to be plurilingual in the world that we are facing.
I was thinking of an activity that we did with Renata when she did her PD session with us about plurilingualism, and it's about which language is in our body. What part of our body incorporates our language. And for me, and all of us at IHLA, our heritage languages and cultures, they help ground us. And they help us realize who we are at our core on good days and on bad days. With that, we carry them with us everywhere, whether we realize it or not. And that we need to remember that no matter where we go, they follow us and we need to carry them with pride.
Because as humans on this planet, where we go, we leave a trace of who we are, wherever we go. And that's what we try to teach our students here at the Comitato Promotore della Lingua Italiana. Whether they speak a little bit of Italian or a lot of Italian, whether they come because their grandparents know that they love hearing them speak, we help them realize that no matter what, who they are at their core will always shine. And that's something that they have to show the world with pride and with joy every day.
It's hard to add to that. But I was thinking what Joy was saying that heritage language schools have been running for 300 more years in the states, 170 years in Australia, and yet they're seen as marginal, as sort of not proper schools. But in actual fact, heritage language schools are where everything is at. The students there, they're bilingual, they're plurilingual, they're in touch with what's happening overseas. They've got strong senses of their heritage identity, their national identity. They're the ones, the schools are where everything is happening. They are a really important complimentary sector of education, and they really need to be supported because of this. The heritage language schools form and start communities. They provide such service to communities that in some ways, monolingual administrators are not aware of this. They're not marginal, they're central.
The essential nature of heritage language and heritage language community-based schools. My dear friends, it's been a great pleasure to welcome you today to talk to the world about these important educational places and especially their service to the individuals in the communities and the world. Thank you so much for your service. Thank you so much for everything and that you've done to create these possibilities, for the touching stories, for the exhortations, and especially for the hard work you're doing. Greetings to all of your teams. And as you connect across the globe with other heritage schools and heritage school leaders, please give them the greetings of those of us that appreciate everything that they're doing to create human bonds that are stronger than events and look to the future.
Appreciate every one of you. Thanks again, for listening to this podcast. Take a look at your community please. Take a look at your work, your business, your educational institution, your organization. In what ways does language have a positive and important impact on your life? Join me, take a look at my website, fluency.consulting for opportunities, for sponsorship, and for working together to demonstrate the importance of heritage languages and all languages in the lives of individuals and communities. I look forward to welcoming you to the next podcast.
Introducing Neila Baumiliene (Episode 61) | in the US and now in Canada, and in Alberta, is that I think within our teacher education programming, we have a lot of teacher ed training in ESL.
How do we help our students learn English as a second language and respect their heritage language, respect it? However, to Gisi's point, when we're in that classroom and we hear them using their language to try to get through a problem, suddenly our barriers go up because we don't know what they're saying. And we feel like we're at fault because we don't understand what they're saying to get to the English. And so within teacher training, I think that's the piece that's missing that heritage language schools can help with, is to sensitize our teachers to not worry. If they're using their heritage language, have faith that they're using it to get to solving that problem. Here, our teacher ed programs do not have a course in how to do that.
As a teacher in an English language speaking school that will be working with a kid that's from Poland or a kid that's from Turkey. More than likely now our students are from Afghanistan, from Syria, from North Africa. So a lot of the traditional countries from which our students used to come from back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, those students are coming with English. Our newer population is not coming with English. So I appreciate what you're saying Gisi. And I feel like our heritage language organizations can help our English speaking colleagues who are not in heritage languages get there, to at least be comfortable with it. So thank you.
Yeah. So many thoughts just listening to you. So I jotted down a few points. I wanted to say that what is kind of appearing in research and hopefully teacher education are these plurilingual approaches in educating children. That you're not separating the languages, but they have linguistic repertoire, and they're developing all of those languages. And that even if the teacher doesn't speak all those 13 languages that are represented in the classroom, you can still have techniques and methods to support plurilingualism. I wanted to say that I know, I'm aware of a new platform in Ireland where Mother Tongues collaborating with second language teachers and they're having a constructive dialogue conversation about how to support multilingualism in the classroom. So that's a fantastic model for anybody in the world. And I wanted also to bring in the Nordic language policy from 2006, because I think, and similarly also the Council of Europe policy on languages in Europe, that as an inhabitant in a country, in a Nordic country or European country, you have the right to develop your mother tongue or indigenous language.
You need to learn the language of the society. Well, in the Nordic context, you're expected also to learn one Nordic language, because we are neighbors and we have this collaboration here. And fourthly, you are supposed to learn a global language. So plurilingualism in reality is the goal both in the Nordic countries and in the Council of Europe. And mother tongues or indigenous languages are the right that's recognized in these policies, but then also that you need to learn the language of the society and a Nordic country and one of the global languages so that you can be a global citizen.
And I really think that the idea of plurilingualism, and I'm not going to go into the explanations what's multilingualism and what's plurilingualism, but thinking about individuals as naturally plurilingual, everybody, it's natural for a human brain to have more languages. So the idea that this is the educational goal and mother tongues, heritage languages, they are the right that the individual has. And the policy at least says that these children should be able to learn these languages as well as other languages.
I was always wondering why it's easier for mainstream schools to embrace multiculturalism than it is for them to embrace plurilingualism. And I think the main reason is that the teaching profession is still largely monolingual. We know that the diversity of the student population in most countries is double the diversity of the teacher population. And so for me, one thing that we can work together on is having pathways for heritage language teachers to get accreditation as mainstream teachers. So many of them, we found that something like 60 to 80% have overseas qualifications and they start doing volunteer teaching in the heritage language schools, really is a steppingstone, but often it's blocked for them. So if we can work out how to get these teachers accredited to teach in mainstream schools, then I think we will have a truly plurilingual school system.
Ken, I appreciate you so much you saying that because one of the experiences that was just happening in the United States right now, for example, is meetings discussing the vast gap of world language education folks. And the idea of making it possible for folks various languages to be able to achieve teacher certification to get started would help to ease those things that is a crisis here while accomplishing that excellent, excellent goal that you have just illustrated there. Thank you very much for it. And Gisi, you used the word fear when you were speaking.
And I do think that it's interesting to watch what, perhaps in your illustration about the student working in Turkish to try to get that answer, that the teacher is concerned that they're missing something. The administrators are concerned that something is out of control and maybe community members are concerned that their communities are losing, quote unquote, losing their identity rather than gaining additional identities. That's a very big question, but fear, I think is something that we need to address at least a little bit. Do you feel that I have asked you a question? Sure. Joy.
Oh, yeah. Thanks for bringing that up because that's what I was thinking of when I was thinking about our values in our guidelines document, the value of inclusion. And sometimes in the United States anyway, we say this is a multilingual society, but that's us saying that, there's a group of people saying that. There are other people who are saying, no, we're English. And to feel, sometimes an individual does not feel included. I'm not part of this. I don't know what these guys are doing. I don't know and I don't speak right. And I don't feel included, but Neila who works with the Lithuanian schools, she had written us this very touching email today about how Lithuanian students are feeling very fearful and confused. And their school is so important to them because they go there and they feel included. Like, oh yes, I do have a community.
There is a community here for me. And then one other value, which is citizenship, global citizenship. And Gisi was talk about, I love that term Gisi you used, internationalization. But I'll just give one example of students who come to this country and don't feel that way at first. And these are French speaking students from Africa and Haiti, West Africa and Haiti, and they speak the language of the country and they also speak French. And they come to New York city, and guess who learns French, students at the Alliance Francaise, expensive private school. Those are the French speakers. But the kids who come here from those other countries don't even consider themselves to be French speakers. So French schools were founded to say, yes, you are. And guess what, you're a good global citizen. You're global, you're not just a visitor here. You're just not an immigrant here. You're a global citizen. So those are just two of the values that I think are so important and alive in | 1,576 |
Rain, snow headed to Inland Empire Sunday to…
Rain, snow headed to Inland Empire Sunday to give way to warm Thanksgiving
By Richard Brooks | rbrooks@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
November 19, 2016 at 3:39 a.m.
Forecasters are calling for as much as a quarter-inch of rain Sunday in most Inland areas, and this time it's not a drill, they say. Snow is even expected to dust the mountains.
"Breezy westerly winds in the mountains and deserts, low-elevation rain showers and high-elevation snow showers late Sunday through Monday," the National Weather Service predicted in its written analysis Friday. "Fair and warmer weather will follow Tuesday in to the Thanksgiving holiday."
The storm's rainfall totals should look something like this:
• Deserts: A trace to 0.1 inch
• Valleys: 0.2 to 0.4 inch
• Mountains: 0.3 to 0.4 inch
As for snow, as much as 2 inches could fall at the mountain resort levels of 6,500 to 7,500 feet. The highest peaks may see 2 to 4 inches.
Forecasters say there's a 70 percent chance that rain will materialize, but it shouldn't be enough to cause trouble.
The forecast calls for relatively light rain accumulations in the valleys, ranging from 0.26 in Big Bear to 0.33 in Ontario and 0.18 in the San Bernardino and Redlands areas.
If so, the rain won't dent the drought. But forecasters say it should dampen the fire danger.
Here's a look at the day-to-day forecast:
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Mostly sunny in the morning, becoming partly cloudy. Highs 71 to 76. Lows 46 to 53.
Partly cloudy. Highs 73 to 78. Lows 44 to 52.
Richard Brooks | Reporter
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5 Tips to Turn Your Online Leads Into Sales
Truth be told, online leads does not immediately convert to sales. It takes time, effort and patience for leads to materialize and turn into actual deals. Sellers often get hundreds of queries online but only one or two leads will prosper. In reality, agents and sellers also invest in potential clients by giving them attention, nurturing their relationship and developing trust. Nowadays, clients are looking for someone who will go the extra mile in understanding their needs and providing them with options that meet their expectations.
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Prepare to Scream at MORG Lite: Beware the 13th
Get your spook on in your best costume and let the music haunt your ears with the UP Musicians' Organization as we present MOrg Lite: Beware the 13th.
Join us for a scary good night of music and booze on November 10 at The Minokaua, Malate as we celebrate 13 years of frighteningly amazing tunes. The deal gets even more chilling as each ticket gives you a chance to win freebies and raffle prizes.
There's no running from it; prepare to scream at MOrg Lite: Beware the 13th!
This event is sponsored by Mister Donut, Flying Trapeze Philippines, Trampoline Park Philippines
Official Media Partners: ASTIG.PH, Bandwagon Philippines, Luna Production, Maroon FM, Support Your Local Indie Scene, Wazzup Pilipinas, Yabang Pinoy
Official Radio Partner: Monster RX93.1
In Cooperation With: Ateneo Lingua Ars Cultura, Shoot UPM, UP Manila Belle
MOrg Lite: Beware the 13th
The Minokaua, Malate
Doors open at 7 pm
Pre-selling price: 200php
Door price: 250php
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PHLPost Launches Lake Stamps to Celebrate 251st Postal Anniversary
The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) commemorated the 251st Anniversary of the Philippine Postal Service with the launching of the 2018 National Stamp Collecting Month (NSCM) Stamps exhibit entitled "Re-Collection" featuring rare pieces of stamp by known collectors in the country.
Former Secretary and Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Tesoro Go, Postmaster General Joel Otarra and Chairman of the Board Norman Fulgencio formally opened the exhibit to celebrate Philippine Philately (Stamp Collecting) in the country.
The Philippine Lakes Stamp was also launched during the event.
FUNtastic Philippines, a group of amateur and professional photographers provided the Philippine Lake photos of the following: Lake Danum (Photographer - Ramirez Duque) located in Sitio Patay; Lake Balinsasayao (Photographer – Premier Elipe) located within the Balinsasayao Twin Lakes; Mt. Pinatubo Crater Lake (Photograher – Mark Albert Angelo Cruz) found near the boundaries of Pampanga and Tarlac Provinces; Gabawan Lake (Photographer – Christan Pago) located in Albay, Southeast of Manila; Lake Apo (Photographer – Premier Elipe) located in the city of Valencia in Bukidnon province; and Lake Sebu (Photographer – Len Jingco) found in Alah Valley Region, South Cotabato.
Meanwhile, the souvenir sheet will feature Kabalin-an Lake (Photographer – Simeon Recio) located in Sibulan, Negros Oriental and Lake Leonard (Photographer – Kent Ramirez Duque) located in Maco, Compostela Valley.
This year, PHLPost aims to create, maintain, and increase postal awareness that would instigate Filipinos in all ages to venture into the hobby of stamp collecting and letter writing.
PHLPost chose to launch the Philippine lakes as their design in its 2018 NSCM to proudly promote our country's beautiful tourist spots. Graphic Artist Vic Serevo designed the Lake Stamps.
Starting today, stamps, souvenir sheets and official first day cover will be available at the Philatelic Counter in Manila and all post offices in the country.
PHLPost will also host other activities such as Cagayan De Oro Stamp Exhibit and Internal Philately Training (Nov. 13-14); PHLately Bridging Generations Forum (Nov. 17); and Museum Groundbreaking, MOA Signing, and Stamp Bazaar (Nov.23) to celebrate the 2018 NSCM.
In Real Life Philippine Tour: WEU Events Brings Tonight Belongs To You
There are many times when reality is more fascinating than fiction. This is probably why reality TV shows became so popular that the same theme is applied for talent searches.
In Real Life also known as IRL, is a boy band who won the American summer reality music competition Boy Band, which premiered June 22, 2017, on ABC. The band is composed of the final five vocalists from the show namely, Brady Tutton, Chance Perez, Drew Ramos, Sergio Calderon, and Michael Conor.
The band debuted their first single, "Eyes Closed" on the show's finale. It went on to debut at the top of the iTunes charts, and reached #3 on Spotify's Global Viral Chart. "Eyes Closed" was performed for the first time on the finale of Boy Band after they were voted together by America, a first in US television history.
In Real Life is a a pop boy band that experiments with other sounds such as pop-rap, dance-pop, teen pop and Latin pop. They cite One Direction as their main influence and are compared to them for both starting off on reality television. The BackStreet Boys, Boyz II Men, Jackson 5, Charlie Puth, Bruno Mars, Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Sam Smith, Jay-Z, and Eminem have influenced individual members of the group.
This November, the band will capture the heart of every Pinoy with their music such as "Tonight Belongs to You," with 5.4 million views on Youtube in just 3 months and Tattoo with 2.3 million views as of the moment.
They will be touring around the metro this November, for their first international tour to Manila dubbed as Tonight Belongs To You Tour Philippines! They are scheduled to do a series shows starting from November 3 thru November 12, 2018.
Also, you may tune in to @m1mentertainment and 105.9 Like FM to hear their new songs.
Catch them live at the following SM flagship malls :
November 6 - SM Mall of Asia
November 7 - SM Seaside Cebu
November 9 - SM Fairview
November 10 - SM North Edsa – Annex
November 11 - SM Las Piñas and SM Megamall Fashion Hall
TBTY Tour Philippines is brought to you by WEU Event Management Services.
Follow In Real Life social media pages for updates and more info about the band:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/irlmanila/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/InRealLife
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiX45c7hT9HBwnP7jEUK_tA
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/inreallife/
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In Real Life Philippine Tour: WEU Events Brings To... | online leads, your goal should always be to respond within five minutes. Prospective clients normally contact multiple agents at the same time and the first one to respond gets an edge over the others. A study done by MIT's Dr. James Oldroyd for UK-based lead tracking software company showed that the odds of contacting a lead if he is called within five minutes are 100 times higher compared to another contacted in 30 minutes. It doesn't even have to be an answer right away. You just have to respond in some way and acknowledge that you've received their query and get back to them at the soonest possible time.
2. Be a resource person. Oftentimes, people reaching out to agents online are those with minimal experience in real estate. They have no connections with agents and are basically starting from scratch. They go online to research, talk to as many agents as possible and compare multiple offers. What will set you apart is when you offer valuable insights and expert advice that they couldn't find anywhere else. Prospective clients will appreciate inputs like, "this property developer has been in the real estate business for X years now and I can say that they deliver quality work based on the properties I've seen" or "This condominium developer has lower association fees compared to X developer with the same amenities."
3. Make sure to follow-up with your online leads. Follow-ups are as important as responding immediately to leads. Prospective clients want to deal with agents who show concern and interest to them. It's important to make your presence felt by being there every step of the way. Build trust by responding to their questions immediately. You have to be persistent and ask questions that matter to clients—what are their preferred areas? Do they have children? What kind of amenities are they looking for? What are the establishments that should be within close proximity to their property? These types of questions show that you want to help them find a home and you're not just after the sales.
4. Avoid hard-selling. Persistence doesn't mean you become overbearing that potential clients treat you as a nuisance. For newbie agents, it's easy to fall into the trap of hard-selling especially when you're excited to close your first deal. In sales, it's important to practice self-restraint and allow clients to have a little breathing room. Follow-ups are okay but if you call five times a day, chances are you'll have to deal with a pissed client. Also, avoid putting pressure on clients with lines like, "There are only two units left in that condominium so you have to put a reservation now" or "Two other clients are also looking at that property and they may put an offer ahead of you so act fast."
5. Take advantage of Lamudi's Lead Management Tool. In today's rapid technological advancement, it's important to have tools that will help to achieve your desired results from online leads. Lamudi's Lead Management Tool is designed to help property sellers manage their listings, follow up leads and generate new business efficiently. Its user-friendly dashboard and integrations allow sellers to track their leads and optimize their sales pipeline. Some of its features include Lead Tagging which allows sellers to view prospective buyers who visited their listings and expressed interest, Messaging which connects the seller and buyer via chat, SMS and calls, and Lead Profiling which keeps details specific to each lead such as preferred location, budget range and property size.
Smart Teams Up with Starmobile to Encourage TNT Subscribers to Upgrade to LTE
New LTE smartphones for the price of a feature phone
PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications (Smart) is partnering with Starmobile to offer affordable LTE smartphones for TNT subscribers and first-time mobile data users.
Under this partnership, Smart and Starmobile are presenting the PLAY Click LTE bundle for TNT subscribers at a very affordable price to encourage more users to upgrade to LTE.
Present at the signing ceremonies were PLDT-Smart Head of Consumer Business for Customer Development Alex O. Caeg, PLDT-Smart FVP and Consumer Marketing Head Andrew L. Santos, Smart Vice President for Prepaid Marketing Carlo Endaya, Starmobile President Ulyssis Lao, Starmobile Chief Operating Officer Michael Chen and Starmobile Sales and Marketing Head Ardie Balderrama.
"True to TNT's promise of affordable fun, together with Starmobile, we want to bring one of the most affordable LTE smartphones to the market so that every Filipino will have the chance to have data access and experience a digital life with LTE," Santos said.
"We're offering one of the most affordable LTE handsets in the market right now, which could encourage feature phone users to upgrade to LTE-ready handsets without breaking the bank. By doing this, we can let everyone enjoy the fastest LTE network from Smart and TNT," said Chen.
Starmobile's PLAY Click LTE will be available for P2,988, discounted from its original price of P3,490 while supplies last. This LTE smartphone is powered by Android™ 8.1 Oreo™ Go Edition, which gives new and existing TNT subscribers an easy, affordable and fun experience when they stream videos, play mobile games or browse the internet.
The PLAY Click LTE smartphone automatically comes with a free TNT SIM with 15 days of free access to Facebook, Instagram, Clash of Clans or Wattpad (up to 200MB per day). Mobile users would just need to text UROWN to 4545 using the TNT SIM included in the bundle to access the freebies.
This affordable device also provides free internet access through the pre-installed freenet app. The LTE-ready smartphone is also ready to do next-generation calling technologies like Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice Over WiFi (VoWiFi).
Level Up To LTE
Smart is accelerating its LTE migration campaign as the number of LTE-ready phones in the Smart network has risen by 75% in the first half of 2018.
We continue to aggressively do our LTE rollout so we will provide high-speed mobile intertnet to over 90% of the country's municipalities by the end of this year. Moreover, both Ookla® and OpenSignal, which are independent third-party research firms, have recognized Smart LTE as the fastest mobile data network in the country today," added Santos.
Smart, TNT and Sun subscribers who are still using non-LTE SIMs can enjoy the benefits of the better network by getting an LTE Upgrade SIM at Smart Stores, Sun Shops, and sari-sari stores across the Philippines. They can check if their SIMs are LTE-ready by texting SIMCHECK to 5832 for free. They can also check if their location is LTE ready by visitingwww.smart.com.ph/LTE.
"To fully experience Smart and TNT LTE, customers must have an LTE SIM, be in a place with LTE coverage, and an LTE-capable device like the Starmobile PLAY Click LTE smartphone. Our subscribers can now avail of this affordable device at Starmobile stores, kiosks and authorized distributors nationwide," Santos said.
Cover Photo: Left to Right: Carlo Endaya (Smart Vice President for Prepaid Marketing), Andrew L. Santos (PLDT-Smart FVP and Consumer Marketing Head), Alex O. Caeg (PLDT-Smart Head of Consumer Business for Customer Development), Ulyssis Lao (Starmobile President), Michael Chen (Starmobile COO) and Ardie Balderrama (Starmobile Sales and Marketing Head)
MediXserve Builds Unified Medical Records System via Blockchain
MediXserve, a healthtech startup, is rolling out a unified blockchain-based electronic medical record (EMR) system to make patients' medical histories trackable "from womb to tomb."
The system, which MediXserve said is a first for the Philippines, will be a centralized database of medical records accessible — upon the patient's approval — to anyone and anywhere.
"The technology will allow you to access all your medical records from all the doctors that you've been to, to all the hospitals you were confined since the day you were born," Jorge C. Azurin, founder and CEO of MediXserve said.
"Now, people will say technology is already available. Actually, hindi (no)… it's really difficult because you have one hospital using a different system, another hospital using a different system, so the inter-operability is difficult, so blockchain fixes it," Mr. Azurin explained.
The Philippine-based health care services company has acquired several existing businesses with existing revenues and branded products, namely ShineOS+, Medixhome Care, Lifedata Systems Inc., and MyCareBuddy. Combined sales of these products has reached $5 million,
MediXserve said. The price of its software ranges from just $50,000 to $1.1 million.
"We take patient medical history and we provide permanent, trackable, streamlined framework for the storage of that data. We provide it in a centralized manner, so it becomes more cost effective because…it becomes a paperless transaction. On the network, it becomes faster and more efficient as well as accurate in aid of decision support and diagnostic," said Oliver V. Chato, MediXserve head for Blockchain Applications and System Integration.
The company said an offline version will be provided for areas where internet connection is limited. Users will input the data even with no internet connection, save it in a flash drive and upload it later when there is a connection.
Mr. Azurin said the data in the platform will be secure since blockchain is "unhackable," with any attempt to change data in the system likely to be detected and rejected immediately as they are stored in chronologically — and linearly-connected blocks.
The company mainly targets developing countries, with health care expenditures in these economies seen to rise to $4 trillion by 2020. In the Philippines, health spending is seen growing to P1.2 trillion by 2022.
"Ang target market namin (Our target market) is the Philippines and selected countries like Nigeria, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Egypt, even Europe… We already have team members operating there. It is a Philippine company that's going for global operations," Mr. Azurin said.
He said the company is raising up to $20 million from foreign investors to boost its operations.
"Most of the investors are in Southeast Asia, a lot are based in Singapore mostly in the health and blockchain industry."
3 Tips to Enjoy Dessert without Feeling Guilty
We understand how hard it is to resist temptation, especially now that the holiday season is fast approaching and you need to save room for the extra calories you'll be consuming during the festivities. But what if there was a lighter version of our favorite cold treat.
At Red Mango, they serve all-natural frozen yogurt – the perfect treat that's delightful and good for you. They combine their refreshingly tangy frozen yogurt with fresh and delectable toppings that can easily satisfy you and your sweet cravings. With no preservatives, artificial flavors or coloring, this go-to yogurt place in Eastwood is aimed towards the more health-conscious customers.
Here are tips on how you can still enjoy dessert and not feel guilty about it afterward:
The serving sizes at Red Mango come in 4 different sizes – Small, Medium, Large, and Family. But if you really want to stick to your goal, get the smaller size to keep your portions within the healthy range. Unless you'll be sharing an order, it's best you stick to the minimum.
One of the best thing about Red Mango is that you get to customize your order. Opt for more nutritious toppings like their fresh fruits to add extra sweetness without the extra guilt.
You might think you could get away with the fudge brownies or chocolate chips because you're eating yogurt anyway. Keep in mind that every additional topping counts. If you must have it, though, limit yourself to just one.
Red Mango also serves other treats such as Froyo Parfaits, Froyo Sundaes, Fruit Bowl, Sandwiches, and Waffles. Refreshments available include Fruit Smoothies, Sparkling Juice, Coffee and Tea. Visit them at 4/F Eastwood Mall, Libis, Quezon City.
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Benilde Films Compete at 6th Salamindanaw Asian Film Fest
Two award-winning capstone projects from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts will vie in the Philippine shorts competition of the sixth Salamindanaw Asian Film Festival from November 12 to 16 in General Santos City, South Cotabato.
Christian Rae Villanueva's "Ang Mga Turo ng Gabi" (The Lessons of the Night) and Belle Kay Loyola's "Dalit" (Poison) will compete with 17 other Filipino short films selected from close to 500 entries. Both filmmakers graduated from the Benilde film program last year.
"Ang Mga Turo ng Gabi" tells the story of a teacher with postpartum depression (Sheenly Vee Gener) who convinces a delinquent student (Dylan Ray Talon) to retrieve her baby. It recently got the Silver Award in the Viddsee Juree Philippines 2018 short film competition and competed at the 8th Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan. It has also been officially selected to the 29th Istanbul International Short Film Festival to be held in Turkey from December 14 to 21.
In addition, Talon won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film at the fifth Urduja Film Festival and Best Performance at Pelikultura: The CALABARZON Film Festival, where it also bagged Best Editing. It was part of the official selection of the Diwa Filipino Film Showcase of Seattle and Cinema One Originals 2018.
On the other hand, "Dalit" is about a man (John Arceo) who has special healing abilities and how this power affects his personal life. It brought home Best Film, Best Director, Best Production Design, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor from the Sine Negrense: Negros Island Film Festival open category last year. It recently won Best Production Design and Best Cinematography at the sixth Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition in Compostela Valley.
The other finalists are "Huli" by Coco Oei, "Whereabouts" by Kyle Francisco, "Kwentong Labi" by Joey Singh, "Sa Among Agwat" (In Between Spaces) by Don Senoc, "Mark & Lenny" by Gio Potes, "Old Thoughts in Tattered Paper" by Mina Cruz, "Nangungupahan" (Who Rents There Now?) by Glenn Barit, "Ang Lalaking May Regla sa Gitna ng Dagat" by James Fajardo, "Breakdown" by Neil Gabriel Nanta, "Flower Codec Lotus" by Gio Lingao, "Katong Gabii" (That Night) by Jeremy Luke Bolatag, "Kinalimutan Natin ang mga Bata" by Gilb Baldoza, "Next" by Noah del Rosario, "Palabas" (A Country in Moving Pictures) by Arjanmar Rebeta, "Pulangui" by Bagane Fiola, "Sa Gabing Tanging Liwanag ay Paniniwala" (Belief as the Light in Darkness) by Francis Guillermo and "Tembong" by Shai Advincula.
Meanwhile, Hiyas Bagabaldo's "Carving Thy Faith" will compete in the Asian competition of Salamindanaw along with 14 other short film finalists from Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Anchored on its mission to be a mirror ("salamin") of peace ("salam"), the film festival serves as an important platform of emergent talents in Southeast Asian cinema. Recognized as the first and only international film festival in Mindanao, it aims to raise awareness and promote international cinema with emphasis on strengthening the cultural ties between Mindanao and its Southeast Asian neighbors, support the nascent film movement in the host city and its nearby regions, and engage the public in both popular and critical discourse on art and cinema and their transformative power to shape ideas about society.
BDO Wins The Mortgage Product of the Year at The Asian Banker Philippines Country Awards 2018
BDO Unibank Inc. bagged this year's Mortgage Product of the Year Award at The Asian Banker Philippines Country Awards 2018.
The country's largest bank was able to keep its 30% share of the outstanding loans in the market through its strong branch network, The Asian Banker said. BDO, to date, has more than 1,000 branches nationwide, the widest in the country
In handing the award, The Asian Banker said it was through the bank's extensive network that its consumer loans business was able to take advantage of opportunities in high-growth areas, particularly in the provinces. The bank's provincial lending increased by 28% year-on-year, driven mainly by home loans.
Meanwhile, The Asian Banker also noted BDO's strategic partnerships with top developers in the country, which it said contributed to the growth of the bank's home mortgage loans and overall consumer loans.
"The bank's mortgage book grew by 16% during the first half of the year. This was also due to its synergies with the parent corporation, SM Group, for example, home mortgage financing for SM property projects. It was also due to strategic partnerships with top developers such as Century Properties Group," The Asian Banker said in an earlier press statement.
"Leveraging on its superior position in the market, BDO is able to offer competitive interest rates and promotions on a wide range of home loan options, with a five day processing period, allowing the bank to increase its mortgage loans. The bank was able to do so while maintaining a stable level of non-performing loans over the last five years, that was significantly lower than the system non-performing loans (NPL) of 2.8," The Asian Banker added.
Prior to winning this year's Mortgage Product of the Year, the bank also won last year's Mortgage Business of the Year.
Photo Caption: (From left to right) Mr. Foo Boon Ping, Managing Editor of TAB; Ms. Grace G. Lastimosa, FVP and unit head of BDO Consumer Loans Group's Secured/Business Development/Home Loans Business – Branch Channel; Ms. Angelita Manulat, SVP and head of BDO Home Loans Business; Ms. Prima R. Madrelejos, VP and unit head of Secured/Business Development/Home Loans Business – CTS Financing; Mr. David Gyori; International Resource Director of TAB; and Mr. Richard Hartung, International Resource Director of TAB.
Philippine Association of Food Technologists, Inc - Beta Chapter 42nd Food Science and Technology Week
The Philippine Association of Food Technologists Incorporated - Beta Chapter (PAFT-Beta), a duly recognized academic organization in the University of the Philippines Los Baños, will be holding the 42nd Food Science and Technology Week with the theme "WINNING SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION".
PAFT-Beta is the only organization for BS Food Technology students in UPLB. For the past 42 years, PAFT Beta has been in the forefront of emphasizing the significance of food science and technology in the region.
One of the objectives of our organization is to emphasize the significance of food science and technology not only to our fellow college students and food technologists but also to individuals of our society. For this purpose, we hold activities like symposiums, food demonstration, quiz contests, exhibits, etc.
42ND Food Science & Technology Week
"WINNING SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD CHALLENGES AND INNOVATION"
Inaugural Ceremonies | 1F Student Union Building Lobby | 8AM – 11AM
LIFT - Learning Innovations in Food Technology Food Demonstration | CEAT Lecture Hall, UPLB | 1PM – 5PM
PAFTiestahan - Open Tambayan | CA Admin Building | 6:00PM
FTST - Food Trip, Sound Trip | IWEP Lecture Hall, UPLB | 7PM – 10PM
DrIFT - Driving Ingenuity through Food Technology Symposium | Drilon Hall, SEARCA, UPLB | 1PM – 5PM
FREE ADMISSION for the inaugural ceremony, all food demonstrations and symposium (first-come, first-served basis)
FTF – Food Trade Fair | SU Amphitheater, UPLB | 8AM – 5PM
PAFTiestahan 2018
Open Tambayan
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Take a journey with me. Back in time, to when autotune was something unheard of; to when popular music was wrought by big bands and bigger voices; to when the cool chicks wore kitten heels and sprayed hair and the mad men wore suits and fedoras. Everyone drank martinis (shaken, not stirred<|fim_middle|> sharing. | ) and gimlets (vodka, please).
Back before there was Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr or Amy Winehouse; back to when there was the Chairman of the Board. Old Blue Eyes himself.
This holiday season, there is a new release featuring the best music of Sinatra from both Capitol and Reprise Records. Sinatra: Best of the Best features 23 songs that span Sinatra's career chronologically from I've Got the World On a String to New York, New York for under $10.
The Deluxe double CD version also includes a 19-track rare live performance featuring Sinatra in concert in Seattle in 1957 and an expanded booklet all housed in a lift-top box for under $20.
This music remains popular for a reason, and you'll find fans of all ages when start discussing Frank Sinatra. His voice and songs, with the lush arrangements have stood the test of time. His style has influenced many modern musicians (including the 3 mentioned at the top of this post), and his impact endures long after his passing.
Find your copy at Amazon or iTunes. Find more about Frank Sinatra at the official web page.
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Local Drags - Shit's Lookin' Up!
During his interview for this blog, Geoff Palmer mentioned this promising band featuring Lanny who was a member of the New Wave / Pop Punk sensations Starter Jackets. Their debut full length, "Shit's Lookin' Up", is now released on the dutch label STARDUMB RECORDS.
If you're into big guitars and hooky melodies you are going to feast your ears to these 10 power poppin' punk rock tunes that benefit from the expert production work of Luke McNeill of The Copyrights. Get it without any delay!
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about LOCAL DRAGS to introduce yourselves? How long are you together as a band? Who is playing what instrument in the band nowadays? What can you tell about your musical background?
- I started the band with Matt sailor while living in St. Louis, Missouri in 2014-2015, I can't remember. I moved back home to Springfield, Illinois a couple years ago and Matt moved to Colorado. He still played drums on the record, but the live lineup is my pals Carter Bibb on bass and Fred Malcom on drums, both of whom play with me in our other band starter jackets.
2) About the newly released full length record "Shit's Lookin' Up!", what can you tell about the recording process? Was this a "live" in the studio recording or a track by track recording with lots of overdubs?
- Track by Track because it was only two of us. Not too many overdubs though, wanted to keep it a minimal sound. Recorded it at Luke McNeill's studio in his basement in between Gin and Sodas and petting his cat.
3) Do you use the nowadays recording technology or do you guys only work with analog machines in analog studios?
- I played into Luke's computer and then he made me sound good somehow.
4) To what kind of music did you listen to as teenagers? What were your favorite bands as a teenager? Name 3 bands that you consider still have an influence on your own work today?
-I got into punk and pop punk as an early teen through Tony Hawk Pro Skater on the Nintendo 64 and the SLC Punk movie soundtrack! I don't know if they still consciously influence my songs now, but my favorites then were Lawrence Arms and Jimmy Eat World.
5) What is your favorite topic/topic that comes easily when you write a new song?
-being a big loser fuck up
6) If I were to describe LOCAL DRAGS a "power pop band with a lot of power and a little bit of pop", would you agree with this description? Would you be proud of it or do you consider there is way more than that?
- any description is fine with me. Someone will always be there to tell you you don't sound like what you say to sound like anyway.
7) Do you have a new video on youtube featuring a track from the LP??
-yes! Matt has made a number of fun videos for us.
8) What can concert goers expect at a LOCAL DRAGS gig? Are you playing any famous cover
songs during the concert?
-me having trouble with my one effects pedal. I try to play as much Tom Petty as possible.
9) Are there any bands in the USA today you consider yourself close to musically speaking?
-I don't get out much.
10) What are the plans for the rest of <|fim_middle|> recording technology or do you guys only work with analog machines in analog studios?
We did a blend of both. It makes the process go faster. Which is helpful when you have to cut corners on a budget. I think we recorded and mixed the entire album in 6 days. My vocals and double tracks were mostly first take so they aren't perfect but I pulled it off. This album sounds more legit 70's Glam than when we spent an entire month and 5 times the money!
I write the lyrics and the vocal melodies to the songs with basic chord structure on a guitar. The rest of the band writes things like guitar solos and contributes a lot to the composition and finished project that I could never do on my own as a musician.
I keep it campy, fun, quirky and positive. People like Mike Chapman and Marc Bolan are my main lyrical and songwriting influences. But I like to think I have my own original twist on it. I'm also singing about modern day themes at times so it's not completely retro throwback. But as 70's Glam as I can possibly take it!
6) Hammered Satin are described as a "glam" band. Do you agree with this label? Are you proud of it or do you consider there is way more than that?
I'm proud of the Glam label. 70's glam is considered proto punk and influenced the entire punk movement. It was born out of the mod psych thing of the late 60's. Glam also has a 50's R'N'R throwback sound at times. Bands like Roxy Music also inspired new wave groups like Duran Duran etc. New Wave then sparked the indie rock movement. In my opinion 70's Glam (NOT 80's) is the best overall genre if I had to choose. If people want to try and turn the word Glam into an insult then they usually are simply not well educated on the history of music. Another big misconception is when people think of the 80's hair bands when they think of the word Glam. It's two very different things. I like bands from all eras of music but Junkshop Glam or 70's glam is my favorite.
We filmed a new video for the song 'Planet Boogie' off the new album a few months ago but it's not finished being edited still. It'll be out soon! Hopefully!
8) What can concert goers expect at a Hammered Satin gig? Are you playing any famous cover songs during the concert?
Hammered Satin rarely does covers. We once did some Bowie songs just after he passed for a tribute gig. We believe in our original songs enough not to rely on covers. If we did do a cover it would be something Junkshop like Pantherman or Bonnie St. Claire etc.
Not exactly. There's a few bands that sort of sound like it but they certainly don't look the part and they may not even consider themselves "glam" anyway. As far as I know.
10) What are the plans for the rest of 2019 as far as Hammered Satin is concerned?
Right now we have some gigs in California. Tonight at Monty Bar in LA is our 'Velvet Vortex' Record Release Party at our monthly Junkshop Glam DJ night called Velvet Tinmine.
June 28th we play the Casbah in San Diego. July 5th we play the Burger Boogaloo pre party in Oakland and Eli's Mile High Club. And July 18th at the Whiskey A Go Go with an original 70's Glam band from LA called the Hollywood Stars. After that we might go back into the studio and record again. We were planning on touring Europe but it fell through. We'll get back over there sooner or later!
You can order the 'Velvet Vortex' album on vinyl at dead-beat-records.com
Thanks for the interview Eric!! All the best :) - Noah
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Geoff Palmer - Pulling Out All The Stops
Hailing from Rochester, New Hampshire, Geoffrey Palmer is one of the nicest persons around in the music business and is best known (so far, wait until his solo career goes sky high ha ha ha) as a founding member, songwriter and guitar player for The Connection and before that, for The Guts.
I had personally the pleasure to meet him on various occasions as he toured Europe. First, as guitar player for the KURT BAKER BAND and a few years later with The Connection.
So when I heard that Rum Bar Records and Stardumb Records were releasing his brilliant solo debut full length record, there was no way yours truly could miss the opportunity to talk with him again and to feature him on this blog. Here it goes:
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about you and your musical background to introduce yourself?
Hello, my name is Geoff an I'm an addict….. An addict of Rock' N' Roll!!! I've been playing this music game for quite some years. A few acts at least in the underground world you might know are The Connection, The Guts, New Trocaderos, Kurt Baker Band, The Queers and, The Nobodys.
2) About the newly released full-length solo record "Pulling Out All The Stops," what can you tell about the recording process? Can you also explain the title? What are you referring to?
It started as a fun project and, it ended up that way too! I did a session tracking four songs with my buddy Adam Cargin. I was pumped with how it came out. It felt good dusting off the old "punk" chops from back in my youth. I then set up a second, third, and fourth session. Each time at a different studio with different musician friends from over the years. We would learn a few songs and record them. It was a total blast, and I'm super happy with how it came out. The name "Pulling out all the stops" came from Stefan Tijs of Stardumb Records.
3) Do you use the nowadays digital recording technology, or do you only work with analog machines in analog studios?
Both digital and analog. I love recording to tape, but fewer studios offer that today, and it is a higher price point. Whenever possible I like to get at least the drums, bass and guitars to tape.
4) Leaving the covers on the side, were your own songs composed for the specific purpose of this record or are that songs you have composed over the years and deemed not fit to make it to a The Connection record?
It started with "This One's Gonna Be Hot." I wrote that and knew it wasn't really a Connection song. That was the catalyst for this whole thing. I always have some songs kicking around, I love writing. I would say 80% was written for this album. A few ideas are older songs I had little demos of that might have been on the table for The Connection.
Ummmm... I think it's all over the place. It could start with a funny line, something I saw in a movie or a situation I was in. I try not to be pigeonholed into a subject matter.
Yes, a few actually but I would not call them a "video" in the sense of a big production. I filmed myself on my iPhone and edited together some stuff. It's merely another way to share the songs for marketing. It is not some art piece that tells a story. Don't expect November Rain, haha! For the track "Giving In," I stole an idea from The Replacements Bastards of Young. Keep it simple!
7) Are you gonna put a band together and perform this solo album on the road? Are you gonna play any famous cover songs live?
Yes, I do plan on doing some live shows. Still trying to figure out who is available to be in the "band." I will have news about that later down the road. As far as "famous" cover songs… We won't be doing any Beatles but probably a song by The Vapids or Gino and The Goons. They are pretty famous in my book!
That is hard to answer. There are quite a few impressive records that have already come out in 2019. I listen to all kinds of music from top 40 hits to very small independent bands on basement record labels. For the genre I think my record fits in (punk, pop-punk, power pop) I would say the standouts so far this year are The Suck, Local Drags, Steve Adamyk band, Brad Marino, The Gold, and Big Eyes to name a few.
9) Does your solo album and also the solo album of Brad mean that the Connection is on a indefinite hiatus?
Not really. The Connection will do something again sooner than later, probably. Brad and I have been talking about it. Both of us like to keep busy musically, love writing, recording, and always have songs kicking around. When the Connection does something, it is planned out. We set time aside and make the Connection. There is plenty of time outside of the Connection for either of us to work on other musical ventures.
Outside of the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Ramones, and Tom Petty (If you don't like those bands, why are you playing RnR?). I would say Green Day (and anything Billie Joe does on the side), The Dwarves and The Lemonheads.
11) What are the plans for 2019 as far as your solo career is concerned?
I don't have any real plans. I will probably do some shows and work on another LP and/or EP. This "solo" thing didn't start with a road map. It was a fun project to keep myself busy. I'm still having a great time, and I've been pleasantly surprised by the reaction. Like with most things I'll do it until it isn't fun anymore. Rock N Roll is supposed to be a happy feeling, a party and I like fun!
12) Do you remember that last year you had promised me a "Wish You Success" CD but never actually sent it? :-)))
Now that you mention it, yes I do, and I'm sorry about that. Looks like I need to make good on my word. I will get that CD in the mail along with my solo album!
Thank you for the questions!! It is super cool you reached out to me. One of my favorite things about music is the friends I have made over the years. You are one of those people!!
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Kurt Baker is probably the hardest working man in rock'n'roll these days. It's hard to count the various bands / projects he is involved in. But when the man is involved in a band not only do you know that the songs will be great but you also know that the group will kick some major ass.
With The Gold -featuring Kurt Baker (guitar, vocals) and Marky Las Vegas (bass, vocals) -founders of the group-, Oky Von Stoky (drums) and Mark O'Flaherty (guitar)- homage is paid in full to The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, The Rolling Stones or The Stooges.
The Gold's debut full length, produced by Mike Mariconda (Remember The Raunch Hands anyone?) , has been released very recently on Penniman/Mean disposition records. Get it! You won't regret it.
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about THE GOLD to introduce yourselves? How long are you together as a band? Who is playing what instrument in the band nowadays?
Hey everybody, we are the GOLD from Madrid. We formed back in 2016, but back then we were called Kurt & Marky. That didn't last very long, because that name kinda makes us sound more like Sesame Street characters, and since we kinda are already like that, we decided we needed a better name. So we chose the Gold. Everybody wants a Gold record! So now, with our new record in your collection.. you can have one! Ya, so Marky sings, plays bass sometimes. Kurt plays bass, sings sometimes and even plays guitar. Mark O'Flaherty plays lead guitar. He's from Canada. Oky Von Stoky plays the drums and keeps us from going WAY too CRAZY!
2) About the newly released self titled full length record, what can you tell about the recording process? Was this a "live" in the studio recording or a track by track recording with lots of overdubs?
We recorded this album with a great producer named Mike Mariconda. He wanted to get us sounding nice and dirty. He turned up the amps really loud and we had a lot of feedback. We also had a lot of beer, whiskey and other substances abundant for inspiration. So most of the tracks were all recorded live.. all of us in the same room. Some of the tracks were even done in 1 or 2 takes! Sometimes you play a track 10 times and realize that even though a couple of guys fucked up on the first take, all in all, it's the best one.. and who cares if there are a few fuck ups. Those are beautiful little blemishes that make a real rock n roll record!
At some point when it comes to working with analog tape and analog studios, it's almost foolish because it cost so much money and budgets are tight with rock n roll bands and independent labels. We'd love to record to analog tape and have it be 100% analog but that just ain't in the budget baby. Sorry to say. We recorded this album in less than 4 days.. that's all we could get in the studio, but we made it work thanks to digital technology.. and that's even with a couple of one takes! Most of this is in part to the great production work of Mike Mariconda. He understood what we were going for sound wise... we had a real intention on making the record have that NYC vibe.. The Devil Dogs, Dictators, Heartbreakers and Dolls. Hell, even the Stooges... and that was all right up Mike's alley, so digital or analog.. fuck it, he's gonna make it work.
Marky and Kurt started the project by writing tunes and collaborating together. So the majority of the new record consists of compositions that were co-written by them. They were living really close to each other in a neighborhood in the center of Madrid, so they would often get together and have a bunch of beers, maybe some cake.. a cup of tea even. And then they'd work out some songs! Marky is a storyteller, with a lot of experience on the street.. he's seen it all. Fast women, dangerous criminals, all kinda stuff up in the north of Spain. His experiences were the main inspiration to many of the tunes on this new album. Kurt worked more on the musical part, writing the melodies and the harmonies to accompany Marky's words. Thinking to the next album, we're working on making more songs together as a group in a collaborative effort. We all have a lot of fun working with each other, so why the hell not!
Usually, our song topics include girls, beers, parties, drugs, nightmares, sailors, cowboys, prostitutes, living on the streets, going to the rodeo, telephone sex, Canada, bowling, La Ermita del Santo, down at Los Caracoles, cheap beer, more girls, bad relationships, gentrification, life on the road, life in the shit, touring, trouble, crimes and ghosts.
6) When I listen to THE GOLD I hear a more muscular and sped up version of The Flamin' Groovies circa the Teenage Head period. Would you agree with this ? Are you proud of it or do you consider there is way more than that?
We actually cover Teenage Head by the Groovies live. We love that song, but we wouldn't really consider them as a major influence to our sound. For us it's more like we mentioned before. Groups like The Heartbreakers, Iggy and the Stooges, Nervous Eaters, Lou Reed, New York Dolls... things like that.
We do! It's for the song "Blue Monday" and you can watch it on YouTube! Filmed at the legendary La Via Lactea in Malasaña and directed by 5 time nominated Goya Awards director Tito Ramirez!
8) What can concert goers expect at a THE GOLD gig? Are you playing any famous cover songs during the gig?
We do a few covers here and there. Lately, we've been playing "Tropically Hot" by the Berlin Brats, "Bang Bang Bullet" by Streak and "Savage" by Fun Things. We also sometimes bust out "Teenage Head" by the Groovies, "Planet Fever" by the Nervous Eaters, and "Spooky" by the Classic IV.
9) Are there any bands in Spain today you consider yourself close to, musically speaking?
We are close to a lot of bands in Spain. Many great musicians.. all special in their own way. But musically speaking? No! We are the only band that is making kick ass rock n roll in Spain and we don't give a fuck if anybody thinks otherwise!
10) What are the plans for the rest of 2019 as far as THE GOLD is concerned?
We're gonna be rockin' all over Spain until the year is finished promoting this new album.. then it's time to make a new one. Maybe we can play in other parts of Europe, we love finding out about the new hip places to play and the tasty wine to drink. Each town and corner has a new surprise, so we wanna check those surprises out! Hopefully, we can clear up our criminal records (just petty theft mostly) before 2020 comes around. We will let you know!
Well, it's just that sometimes you've got to understand the things that you can't understand. Thank you! Goodbye!
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-Playing Fest in Gainesville Florida and putting out a 7 inch!
11) Anything you wanna add?
-Wash your hands every time you use the rest room. Thank you!
Shit's Lookin' Up! by Local Drags
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SURF ME UP SCOTTY - "Pop-Cultural Studies in "A" minor"
"Pop-Cultural Studies in "A" minor", the posthumous full length by SURF ME UP SCOTTY, was certainly one of the best surprises as far as instrumental records are concerned.
This highlight in the 20 something years of the band's career is featuring some brilliant renditions of "Squad car", Journey to the stars" or "Taboo Tu" to name a few.
Do yourself a favor: track it down and purchase a copy. You get all the useful information at the end of the interview that was conducted with founding members of SURF ME UP SCOTTY drummer DAN and guitar player PATRICK. Here we go.
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about SURF ME UP SCOTTY to introduce yourselves? Can you tell us the full story of the band? Who was playing what instrument in the band over the years?
Dan : Well, our band which was active from 1996 until 2017, consisted of a core of 3 members – Patrick (guitar), Patrizia (bass) and me, that's Dan (drums). Raised on anything that was more rock-ish in the 80's – from metal to punkrock – we found a common ground in the surf-instrumentals that some of the Californian skatepunk-bands like Agent Orange and JFA included on their records. The idea of a project revolving around surf-instros came after a rehearsal (around '95) with the punk-band we had at the time, when one of the members firmly rejected that sound after Patrick started playing "Mr Moto". It was too clean, too "mainstream", too … whatever.
Somehow, realizing that there's such a thing like "bad taste" for a punk made it even MORE appealing to us! (that's what made me also turn onto easy listening, exotica, crooner stuff, swing, etc – that and the incredible songwriting in those styles). So we started rehearsing in 1996 and did some shows after a few months, even though our skills weren't exactly what you'd expect from a surfband (switching from bass to drums, I had to start from scratch!). Then again, we mostly played in front of punkrock crowds in the beginning and cranked up the speed, so few people cared. Neither did we, at least not in the beginning. Over the years, we noticed, obviously, that there's more to surf music than 3 chords played over a reverb unit, so I think it's safe to say we improved on our skills in both playing and songwriting. And in picking coversongs.
Besides the band's core, we had a bunch of musicians either on organ/keyboard or on rhythm guitar, most of which left after a while. We started to doubt if our body hygiene was responsible in some way, but they assured us – it wasn't. Even though 2 band-members emigrated to remote places such as Estonia or Florida. Here's the list : Alexej (keyboard 1996-1998), Muck (keys 1998-1999), Katia (keys, 1999-2003), Polka Claus (keys 2003-2008), Nicolas (guitar, 2008-2014), Eric (guitars, 2014-2016). And we had Mendaly, the Luxembourgian scream-queen ("De Zombie-Film") on theremine and she also did a kinky sideshow for a while in the late-2000s.
As for our discography : we did a split 7" with a local noise rock band, Gauged, back in 1997 (our first output), a demo CD-R called "Music to get wiped out by" in 1999, a first full-length-CD in 2003/2004 ("Surf now, Apocalypse later") and it took us, ehm, what?, another 14 years to put out "Pop-cultural studies in 'A' minor". Plus a bunch of compilation tracks.
2) About the posthumous full length record "Pop-Cultural Studies in "A" minor", what can you tell about the recording process? Was this a "live" in the studio recording or a track by track recording with lots of overdubs?
Dan : Recording track by track, with quite some overdubs on some songs. We decided to exploit all the technical possibilities that were available, for instance on songs like "Como quien pierde una estrella", which is a cover of a 90's latin-pop classic – a song we'd never played live. It would've been a pain in the ass to bring all the folks together that played on that track for a single rehearsal, let alone a liveshow! But then again, that's one extreme example – all the other songs had a spot in our live set lists for quite a while, and we added some percussions or guitars on those. I think the "honesty" of a live-recording is one thing, but it shouldn't turn into a dogma. We knew we could add some extra spice to the songs by doing some overdubs, and the result was more important to us than a musical ethos. What's "real" anyway? Didn't Plato already question our perception of what's "real"? ;o)
Patrick: Also, considering the band's impending break up, time was a factor here. First you are confronted with a choice: make the recordings as "live" as possible, and, in doing so, sacrifice some of the possible grandeur of the compositions, or go with the flow instead, record with the available personnel (the extreme example here is our cover of "Besame mucho", which at the time saw ME lay down all the tracks on a Bass VI and some latin percussion, all alone…with Dan coming in the next week to record a track of Bongo rythms on top of that – done! Just the two of us…), to "Coyote" or "Como quién pierde una Estrella", which featured all of us (three different guitar tracks) plus violin, trumpet, latin percussion and samples…almost a surf ORCHESTRA!. The second point to consider was that of a point of view…was it really important to catch a band "live", which, by that time was a patchwork at best, or rather focus on the SONGS to produce the best possible way for them to sound so they could shine on in posterity? We opted for the second! ;-)
3) Did you prefer to use the nowadays digital recording technology or did you guys only work with analog machines in analog studios?
Dan : Analog over digital anytime. Except for bands who don't rehearse enough to get it all done live in an analog studio – like Surf me up, Scotty!
Patrick: Living in Luxembourg, one does simply not have a lot of analog studios to choose from. So we opted to work again with our long time friend and studio engineer André Thiltges of "Emerald/Orange Box Studios", which were rebaptised into "Spacestation64 Studios" for the occasion. It's in a town close to all of us, so we could drive there on the weekends and/or after work to continue working on our recordings whenever some of us had the time. He also has a lot of vintage amps, effects and microphones, so the "digital" recordings were done with a richly analog and vintage equipment. I exclusively played a 1962 brown-face FENDER showman amp with a reverb tank hooked up, to give it the surfiest sound I could muster. Some bass tracks and reverb splashes were recorde through an all-tube SUPRA combo amp and we used an original BINSON ECHOREC, the works!
4) Was there a main composer in the band or was everybody involved in one way or another? Or alternatively did you only play covers and no original tunes?
Dan : About half of the songs are originals, which come from either one of the 3 guitarists involved in the making of the record – if there's such a thing as a main composer, it's Patrick in our case. Two songs were written each by one of both rhythm guitarists, "Lightning Bolt" (Eric) and "Coyote" (Nico) ."La Curandera" was the last song to be arranged and recorded by the band. The groundwork was laid by Eric, a Chorus/break added by Patrick and Patrizia and me laid down the rhythm section. As for the covers, some were picked by me (Taboo Tu, Space Fly, Journey to the stars) or by Patrick (who, in a flash of maestric genius, re-arranged stuff like "Como quien pierde una estrella" and "Besame mucho").
5) Are all the tunes actually in "A" minor?
Dan : You tell me… ;o)
Patrick: Most of them are, I guess…some may also be in "E minor" for that matter. That fact was of little consequence to the choice of the title. Most of all we liked the word play in the meaning of the title for the album. "Studies" can refer to courses taken in an academic environment as well as to a set form of written musical pieces. We wanted to take the listener by the hand and bring them on a tour of our favorite pop-culture items, in music, literature, as well as in a cinematic sense, as well as to provide them with the most finely crafted surf music we were ever able to perform, kind of a swan song, if you will.
6) To what kind of music did you listen to as teenagers? What were your favorite bands as a teenager? Name 3 bands that you consider still have a influence on your own work today.
Dan : it's tough to pick only 3. As a teenager : Suicidal Tendencies, The Cult, Metallica.
3 musicians / bands that influence me nowadays, somehow (even though I'm not active anymore) : Ennio Morricone, Arthur Lee & Love, Brian Wilson / Beach Boys.
But it wasn't only the music known as "surf-music" that inspired me, but also the whole lifestyle revolving around it : I started surfing in 1993, around the same time I got my first Ventures record. For a while, the myth of the 60's California beach-lifestyle and the subculture (boards, mags, movies) was something that also inspired me to play in a surfband. For the record : surfing in Blankenberge on a sunny afternoon in the summer of '98 and hitting a show featuring the Revelaires and the Fifty Foot Combo at the Botanique in Brussels afterwards was about as close as I could get to the Californian lifestyle, without even leaving the continent. Who needs Malibu and the Rendez-vous Ballroom then??
Patrick: For me, growing up, it would have been Gary Glitter(all things glam, really! Suzy Quattro, The Sweet, T-Rex, early Bowie, some Slade, etc), Alice Cooper, and, more relevant to the surf music I played: the Shadows and the Sputniks, some Ennio Morricone of which my elder brothers listened to a lot. Megadeth and Slayer were very prominent for me, then all the punk and hardcore legends…for surf music, I would always come to certain reference points: Dick Dale, Man…or Astroman? And I must admit the VICE BARONS were/are among my favorite surf bands of all time. I could not get enough of your albums, listened to them all day long in the middle of the 90's. "Friends in low places" was a go-to album if that surfing mood hit me. So you might understand that I am quite excited by the news of new material being put together by you guys!
7) Do you have a video on youtube featuring a track from the LP?
Dan: Yes, we have : you can find an "appetizer" which features excerpts of 2 songs (only covers, though). Check my youtube channel (keeperofthelostpipe), I have a Surf me up, Scotty! playlist on there that has some live stuff and 2 unreleased recordings ("Surfing on the moon" and "Storm surf").
8) What could concert goers expect at a gig of SURF ME UP SCOTTY, way back in the day?
Dan : Flashy outfits, B-movie trailers played on TVs, wrong notes, chaos. Oh, and a bee-mask.
Patrick: Yeah, on our better and bigger gigs we would have B-Movie interludes: Dan transforming into a Bee-Man Monster, chopping someone's (fake) hand off…artificial blood spewing all over the place to the irritating sounds of a theremin playing an eerie sci-fi type background music, flashing lights. Later on we would have themed shows, we would all dress up as cops or do a classic Zombie show in full make-up and theatrical blood all over. We also had a Surf Nazi phase where we would shock people with anachronistic visuals and contrasting messages. A voluptuous, sexy girl (our friend and co-conspirator Mendaly who also laid down some theremin tracks for the album) would dance and improvise, interact with the audience or just plainly worship the band while playing, being scantily clad and luxuriously shaped. Visuals of all kind would be a fixed part of our performances, be it a surf or zombie or Mexican wrestling film on old TV sets playing, projections of slide shows, pictures and films, you name it.
9) Were there any bands you considered yourself close to musically speaking?
D : If you mean bands that inspired us, I'd say Agent Orange and Man or Astroman when we started out. The original 60's bands, obviously. Those records are still spinning on my turntable on a regular basis. Also bands that took more care of their songwriting and arrangements - 2 bands come to mind : The Bambi Molesters and, uhm, yes, The Vice Barons.
10) What happened to the other people in the band? Are they still active musically nowadays?
Dan : Patrizia now lives in Florida and she did a band with her husband for a while, Giorgio 'The Dove' Valentino – check them out on youtube. Dark-crooner stuff. Nico lives the life he's always dreamed of – as a lumberjack somewhere up the Baltic sea. Still playing his OG 60's Fender Jag, but not a band in the making, as far as I know.
Patrick: Well, yes I have been and still am active in loads of bands and projects, chief among them would be TOXKÄPP! , my Two-tone ska band (which also evolved out of the super-group Dan mentioned earlier. SMUS and Toxkäpp would be sister-bands in that regard. I also play (along with Eric, of course!) in the live set of ROME, a dark folk band , which evolved out of our Oi-punk band THE SKINFLICKS and which is touring around the globe constantly.
11) Anything you would like to add?
Dan : It's quite weird to think back of all the stuff we did – and it's a bit sad to see most of it is gone. Not speaking only of the band, but also of the lack of interest in surf music nowadays, if compared to the situation in the 90's, when the Pulp-Fiction hype brought in a lot of people (maybe for the wrong reasons, agreed). At least we got to know cool bands and people from Belgium… and other parts of the world. But yeah, maybe it's time to move on.
Patrick: yeah, I know we were all bitten by the surf bug, and even if this incarnation cannot function any more because of restraints that time and space chained us to, I am fairly sure that we will return in some form or another, maybe under a new name, who knows? But I myself miss playing surf music a lot…it still means a lot to me and we will do something along those lines sooner or later, come the right time! Thanks for the support and the interview, keep up the good work!
Dan: And then there's the obvious beg : BUY OUR RECORD! Since it's the band's final output, we really wanted to have it on vinyl and went the whole hog : vinyl + CD in a gatefold cover. So it's pretty clear we'll never see our money again, but what the heck. It's a present to ourselves for our 20th band-birthday, so it was worth it. If someone else along the way happens to dig it, it makes me a happier person. If someone wants to buy a copy, just get in touch via our facebook-page (/surfmeupscotty) or send me an email : sonicdan@gmx.net. It's 15€ plus shipping (but I'll throw in half of the shipping costs).
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Heavy Feather - Débris & Rubble released on Sign Records
A couple of months ago the swedish label The Sign Records released "Débris and Rubble", the debut full length album of HEAVY FEATHER. On this record, the band has perfectly recreated the end of the sixties / early seventies bluesy sound inspired by Cream or Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac but with a twist of their own.
What sets HEAVY FEATHER apart from the rest is not only the riffing science of guitar player Matte Gustavsson or the soulful vocal performance of Lisa Lystam but also their excellent songwriting that puts them immediately in the league of bands that will matter in the next coming years.
So it was time for your truly to have a conversation with guitar player Matte Gustavsson. Here is what he had to say:
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about Heavy Feather to introduce yourselves? How long are you guys together as a band? Who is playing what instrument?
Heavy Feather is a rock band from Stockholm, Sweden with classic jam band influences. It's the 60's styles with bands like Cream, Mountain and Free. High volume and improvisations parts like that, busy drum and basses. But always a little bit of blues. Me (Guitar), Lisa (vocals and harmonica) and Morgan (Bass) did talk a long time creating a real rock band like the super groups in the 60's. We love to play that kind of bluesy rock…. But we needed a drummer and then Ola Joined the band after jammin' together. The band was created, it was in early 2017 and is featuring Matte Gustavsson - guitar; Lisa Lystam - vocals, harmonica; Morgan Korsmoe - bass and Ola Göransson - drums
2) About the newly released full length record "Débris and Rubble", what can you tell about the recording process? Was this a "live" in the studio recording or a track by track recording with lots of overdubs?
We had an idea that we wanted this album to sound like we do in the reality. So we decided to play everything live, also the vocals. And we did. Of course the backing vocals and some small stuff are played afterwards but in general it's totally a live recording in 3 days. And I think you can hear it, the live feelin'. I'm very satisfied with the results.
3) Do you use the nowadays digital recording technology or do you guys only work with analog machines in analog studios?
It's actually not an analog recording but we worked like it would be. I think analog recording is more about the psychology than the gear. You only have your 2 or three takes and if you think like that in a digital recording you can have a great and organic sound too. But I love to record totally analog too so maybe the next record…
4) Is there a main composer in the band or is everybody involved in one way or another?
We all are very involved in the writing process but Lisa is writing all of the lyrics and I made most of the riffs and parts but I'd say everyone is composing.
Lisa writes about our lives and relations/relationships and stuff like that. I like that. I'm bit tired of this Satanic thing and all the stuff about beer and bad hangovers…
6) Heavy Feather is sometimes described as a "Classic rock" band. Do you agree with this? Are you proud of it or do you consider there is way more than that?
Of course I agree that Heavy Feather is Classic Rock. But for me Classic Rock is the 60's style as I described it in an previous questions. Not the cliché of rock if you know what I mean.
7) Do you have a new video on youtube featuring a track from the new LP??
We have our first single "Where Did We Go" as a Official video and then a couple of official live video recordings but I we will do a new one this summer.
8) What can concert goers expect at a Heavy Feather gig? Are you playing any famous cover songs?
On this first tour we of course play the songs from the album and some covers. Not the most famous one, more our personal favorite songs. Some people know it but not everyone.
9) Are there any bands in Sweden today you consider yourself close to, musically speaking?
Of course there is a lot of bands in Sweden that play old school rock but not exactly this type. We have much more blues influences then everyone else. Many 70's retro rock bands today are coming from the metal and hard rock scene. We are the opposite and we have played mostly blues, just like the bands back then. I think you can hear it.
10) To what kind of music did you listen to as teenagers? What were your favorite bands as a teenager? Name 3 bands that you consider still have an influence on your own work today.
For me personally it's Kiss and Cream and that is still a big influence on me. The whole British Blues boom from the 60's with Fleetwood Mac etc.. We have our common favorites but we listen to a lot different kind of styles too.
11) What are the plans for 2019 as far as Heavy Feather is concerned?
In September we're going on a German Tour for two weeks and in the end of this year we will record our second album.
German Tour dates for September:
05.09.2019 - DE Duisburg, Steinbruch
06.09.2019 - DE Münster, Rare Guitar
07.09.2019 - DE Wredenhagen, Café Scheune
08.09.2019 - DE Norderstedt, Music Star
10.09.2019 - DE Nürnberg, Z Bau
11.09.2019 - DE Bielefeld, Potemkin
12.09.2019 - DE Berlin, Zukunft Garage
13.09.2019 - DE Jena, Kulturbahnhof
14.09.2019 - DE Frankfurt/M., Burg Herzberg Festival Party @ Das Bett
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Débris & Rubble by Heavy Feather
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Pezband - Cover to Cover Remix
If one had ever asked yours truly which PEZBAND was his favorite record, it would never had come to mind to answer "Cover to Cover". Well, even the band itself was not happy with that record.
But now one should seriously reconsider before answering that question because this remixed version make "cover to cover" one hell of a record with a bright and powerful sound just the way it was always meant to be.
So it's time to shine the light again on one of the best american power pop bands ever. One that never was afraid to put some serious power in his pop!
Time to talk to singer and guitar player Mimi Betinis.
First I will say a big warm hello to fans who are new to listening to the group and to the release of Cover To Cover. We are from Oak Park, IL. I sincerely hope you enjoy our sound.
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about PEZBAND to introduce yourselves? How long are you together as a band? Who is playing what instrument in the band nowadays?
In the spring of 1977, our 1st LP was released on Passport/ABC Dunhill records. We were the 1st American rock group to hold the Power Pop label which came out of the Passport promotional department and we were featured on NBC's Today Show with Jane Pauly as "the latest sound, powerpop". We also played the ABC/Dunhill record convention that spring and were voted most promising act of 1977. Exciting stuff for us back then. We had been together as a rock group for about 5 years before we signed with Passport Records. Nowadays- Mike and I play and record. Mike plays with different groups. Mick plays drums with different groups and Tommy plays acoustic guitar at home.
2) About the recently reissued full length record "Cover to cover", do you remember the recording process? Was this a "live" in the studio recording or a track by track recording with lots of overdubs? The album is now completely restored and remixed by producer John Pavletic. Did he work with the original multi-tracks recorded in 1979?
Many of the basic tracks on Cover To Cover were recorded on a remote 8-track tape machine. We rented a small house and did a great deal of pre production and recording. The recording studio which was called Tanglewood was in the process of being built so we were there only on a part-time basis. Once the studio was completed we recorded full tracks and many overdubs there. John Pavletic worked with us at both facilities. The 24 track masters were mixed at Tanglewood with John in 1979. I had the 24 track original recordings digitized and took them to John's home Pro Tools studio in March of 2018. He worked on the tracks for about 9 months.
3) If Pezband were to record a new album would you consider using the nowadays digital recording technology or do you guys only work with analog machines in analog studios?
We have done a few recordings in the past few years. The process was rhythm tracks live to tape, then tape transferred to digital Pro Tools system. All of the overdubbing was done on Pro Tools.
All of us write the material but I would say that I have done the most writing, co-writing and singing.
A song topic arrives from many influences such as current events, girlfriends, ex-girlfriends, situations, books and of course love. Many of the songs I have written were based on my personal life.
6) To what kind of music did you listen to as teenagers? What were your favorite bands as a teenager? Name 3 bands that you consider still have an influence on your own work today.
The groups we listened to as teenagers were The Beatles, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Who, Argent, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, Badfinger, ELO, and countless others. The 3 artists that influence my work today would be Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, and Wes Montgomery.
7) Do you have a video on youtube featuring a track from the LP??
Yes, check out the Stella Blue video.
8) What can concert goers expect at a PEZBAND gig? Are you playing any famous cover songs during the gig?
I really can't answer this question because we are not playing at this point.
9) Are there any bands in the USA today you consider yourself close to?
I think a fair comparison would have to be set to the 1970s and the band that was our competition was Cheap Trick. They opened many a show for us back then. At some point we opened shows for them as well.
10) What are the plans for the rest of 2019 as far as PEZBAND is concerned?
The plan for the rest of 2019 regarding Pezband is to continue the Cover To Cover promotion campaign. The media promotion is handled via Marty Scott and JEM records. I do most of the radio interviews and rely on our webmaster/artist Randy Nargi for all the special internet video and production. There might be a Best Of Pezband released this year.
On behalf of the group, I would like to thank all our fans around the world for their support and interest in our music. Music is powerful and I am thankful to be a part of it.
Go to Pezband's Official page. http://pezbandofficial.com/
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Hammered Satin - "Velvet Vortex"
"Velvet Vortex" is the sophomore full length by the Los Angeles based Hammered Satin. The album is released on Dead Beat Records and is a huge improvement compared to their first album, Glamorama.
Gone are the hard rock influences. The addition in the band of Elizabeth Boyd who took over on guitar and Victor Penalosa on drums had a very positive influence on the new sound of the band that is now embracing a more Junkshop Glam and Bubblegum direction.
This new album is a real rock'n'roll masterpiece displaying one catchy tune after another and it'll keep you humming the songs for hours and hours.
It was time for yours truly to have a very enlightening conversation with lead vocalist -and also record collector- Noah Wallace.
1) For the viewers of this blog who would not know you, What would you tell about Hammered Satin to introduce yourselves? How long are you together as a band? Who is playing what instrument in the band nowadays?
Hammered Satin started in Los Angeles California in late 2010 with Dan Sandvick on Bass and Conor Berhle on guitar. Our first album "Glamorama" was released in 2013. We had more of a 70's hard rock fused with glam sound with our original lead guitarist Conor on the first album. I started to push the band in a more Junkshop Glam and Bubblegum direction like my first two bands, Teachers Pet and S'cool Girls, when Hammered Satin started doing a few 7" 45 singles after Glamorama.
You see, I'm a record collector and I've been collecting what is now known as "Junkshop Glam" or
"Proto Punk". I have amassed a few thousand 45's of 70's Glam and late 60's Bubblegum and have been collecting since the 1990's when it was simply known as "Glitter Rock" or "70's Glam". Mostly European bands.
Anyways, Teachers Pet started in the late 90's and covered groups like Milk N Cookies, Hello, Kenny, the Boys (UK) and Stanley Frank. Then in the 2000's S'cool Girls covered Iron Virgin, Angel (UK glam original one), Hello etc. There is even a version of Angels "Little Boy Blue", which was written by Andy Scott and Mick Tucker of the Sweet, on the S'cool Girls EP.
Anyways, long story short, Conor left the band and moved back to Baltimore after being in the band for 8 or so years. My girlfriend, Elizabeth Boyd, took over on guitar. About a year ago Victor Penalosa who is also in the Zeros and formerly played in the Flamin' Groovies, took over on drums. Now the only two original members are Dan Sandvick and I. Don Bolles of the Germs, Celebrity Skin and Ariel Pink etc has been singing backup vocals for us at live gigs and sings backups on a few tracks on the 'Velvet Vortex' album.
2) About the newly released full length record "Velvet Vortex", what can you tell about the recording process? Was this a "live" in the studio recording or a track by track recording with lots of overdubs?
Yeah, the bass and drums were live with scratch tracks of rhythm guitar and vocals. We recorded that to analog tape. We added overdubs of other instruments and vocals after we got the foundation tracks. Dan also played Moog Synth on a few tracks. Beth did some slide guitar overdubs tuned to the Glitter Band tuning with a fuzz pedal. I asked John Rossall of the Glitter Band, he's on Facebook, how to get the tuning and he told me! There's footstomps and handclaps and vibraslaps and tambourine. Jonny Bell the engineer played a Farfisa organ on a few tracks to get an authentic Bubblegum sound.
The big difference this time was working with an Engineer who actually listened to me and did research on YouTube of Junkshop Glam singles. He not only knew how to get all the right drum and guitar tones, he actually had a lot of vintage recording gear.
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A Word in your Ear, Minister...
By Julian Petley
Julian Petley on David Puttnam's The Undeclared War
In an open letter to Chris Smith, Minister of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Julian Petley takes on David Puttnam's account of Hollywood's celluloid saturation of the world.
Dear Chris,
It's common knowledge that you and your thankfully-renamed Department have been talking to David Puttnam recently, but I wonder if you've managed yet to find the time to read the new books that he's written with Neil Watson: The Undeclared War: the Struggle for Control of the World's Film Industry. In many ways, I do hope so. But there again....
Puttnam can be excellent on why cinema matters so much. As he puts it: 'a hundred years after its invention cinema has established itself as one of the most powerful and effective means of communication that we have, not just to entertain ourselves, but to express ourselves. The appeal of the movies is universal. Its stars provide a mirror in which we can see a heightened reflection of our own lives and dreams. Its stories can open a window through which we can see and understand the lives of others. Cinema has become part of our sense of identity, as individuals and as nations. And, located as it is at the heart of a rapidly expanding range of moving-image media, it has now acquired an economic importance which we cannot afford to ignore'. And again: 'some try to persuade us that film and television are a business just like any other. They are not. Films and television shape attitudes, create conventions of style and behaviour, reinforce or undermine the wider values of society. At a time when the most highly developed nations (which, incidentally, also have the most highly developed and pervasive media industries) are, almost without exception, going through a crisis of social disintegration, it is inconceivable that we should pretend that film and television do not have a major impact on our lives. Creative artists, and those who work with them, have a heavy moral responsibility to challenge, inspire, question and affirm, as well as to entertain. Movies are more than fun, and more than big business. They are power'. And that's why, presumably, movies are thought of as important enough to be included within the remit of your Department.
Puttnam is also excellent on documenting the sheer extent to which American films and television programmes now dominate world markets. I don't want to blind you with figures, but did you know that entertainment is now America's second largest export after aircraft manufacturing? That 40% of revenues of the American film and television industries are now earned overseas, with more than half of that total coming from Europe? That in 1994 the net receipts of studio films from overseas theatres exceeded for the first time the amount earned from cinemas in the States, with countries such as Germany, Japan, France and the UK generating the largest proportion? That in most European countries American movies account for at least 80% of the box office take, and in some countries (including the UK), well over 90%? And that, in return, foreign-language European films account for a minuscule 0.5% of the American box office, since Hollywood prefers to remake European hits rather than import them.
The Undeclared War's sections detailing the close, mutually supportive ties between Hollywood and the American government are also well worth reading, partly because they demonstrate how hypocritical are American complaints about support by European governments for their countries' film industries, and partly because they will prepare you for the intense bombardment of flak you'll receive from the highest (and I mean highest) level in the States if your government should ever dare even to dream of interfering with the 'free' (albeit largely one-way) flow of films between the States and the UK. Apparently the MPAA's formidable Jack Valenti could put the wind up even the Iron Lady herself, so I don't give much for nice Mr Tony Blair's chances here. Anyway, in 1926 the government established a Motion Picture Division within the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce whose function was 'to serve the industry in every legitimate way in maintaining and developing the exhibition of American motion pictures in foreign markets'. After WWII the Americans enthusiastically demolished the German film industry, then the strongest in Europe; the overt motivation was the destruction of Goebbels' propaganda machine, but only the terminally naive would not see this also as the wiping-out of a formidable rival. In 1946 the Americans signed the Blum-Byrnes Agreement with the French, by which the French war debt was written off and they were granted $650m in aid - in return, valuable trade concessions were extracted by the Americans, including the abolition of import quotas on American films. At the end of the war a Department of State memo informed Hollywood that: 'in the post-war period, the Department desires to co-operate fully in the protection of American motion pictures abroad. It expects in return that the industry will co-operate wholeheartedly with the government to ensuring that the pictures distributed abroad will reflect credit on the good name and reputation of this country and its institutions'. And, sure enough, in 1948 the Truman administration created the Informational Media Guaranty Program under which the government paid dollars for soft foreign currencies earned by American media firms, providing that the material presented a favourable picture of American life. In 1971, after fierce lobbying by the film industry, the Internal Revenue Service was persuaded to allow investment in films and television programmes to qualify for tax credits, providing production took place in the States. And finally, of course, the CIA was caught spying on French officials during the recent GATT negotiations in an attempt to undermine the French refusal to include the film and television industries in GATT's radical 'free trade' remit. So don't say you haven't been warned.
But, you're probably asking by now, what does Puttnam want me to do about this situation? Give up in the face of what might appear to be insuperable odds? Simply admit that the Americans know better than anyone else how to make and market movies and that Britain, along with the rest of Europe, is beat? No, according to Puttnam 'it's an option we should not even consider'. So, should we take unilateral action or decide that this is a battle which we absolutely cannot fight on our own and thus forge closer links with our EU partners? It's in trying to answer this fundamental question that The Undeclared War's real problems begin to show through.
Most unfortunately, Puttnam's view of contemporary efforts to protect Europe's film industries and to create a common European film policy is fatally infected by a bad dose of that all-too-common English complaint – Francophobia. In particular he seems to be quite obsessed with what he perceives to be the negative legacy of the 'auteur' theory. This, according to Puttnam, is the source of Europe's inability to compete effectively with Hollywood. Huh? OK, let me try, as fairly as I can, to explicate what I must confess to finding a particularly bizarre view.
When Alexandre Astruc wrote his famous essay on the 'caméra-stylo' in 1948, he took, in Puttnam's view, 'the nineteenth century romantic idea that art should be considered as the expression of individual personality and applied it to film-making. In doing so, he gave new impetus to the traditional French conception of cinema as, first and foremost, a form of cultural expression, rather than an industry dependent like any other on the right blend of capital and labour. From this perspective the producer, the cast, the writer, the composer, the crew – all were little more than tools to be manipulated by the director, the means by which he transferred his vision to celluloid'. When the 'auteur' theory was taken up in the early 1950s by the magazine Cahiers du cinéma, in spite of its enthusiasm for hitherto neglected American directors it became tainted by 'the kind of contempt that the French intelligentsia had harboured towards Hollywood and all things American since the 1930s'. Thus American directors were celebrated only for the extent to which they rose above 'the deadening and impersonal studio system' and managed to 'turn dross into gold'. And so, according to Puttnam, 'the sterile opposition between art and commerce had reasserted itself once more'.
Worse was to come, however. The French 'auteuristes' like Godard and Truffaut were soon to become 'auteurs' themselves, and their pernicious influence began to spread outside France to other European countries. Subsidies were increasingly directed towards 'films d'auteur' or simply towards 'auteurs' themselves, but in any case towards films which may have been of cultural value but stood little chance of commercial success. Worse still, success at the box office came to be seen almost as a mark of dishonour by the 'auteurs' and the critics who supported them. European movies became increasingly self-absorbed, insular and elitist, whilst audiences deserted them in droves for Jaws, Star Wars and the like. According to Puttnam: 'traditions of radical film-making had always functioned alongside the mainstream commercial cinema in Europe, but for much of the 1970s and '80s those traditions were debased to the extent that they seemed to function simply as an excuse for failure. Indeed, by demonizing the mainstream industry as part of a global capitalist conspiracy, and by dismissing reluctant audiences as victims of "false consciousness", some European film-makers managed to contort themselves into a position from which any commercial failure seemed a badge of artistic success, and any form of commercial success somehow carried the stigma of artistic betrayal'. The absolute insistence on the primacy of the 'auteur's' vision as the measure of a film's worth became the unquestioned orthodoxy throughout most of Europe and 'the power and privilege of the "auteur" was also inscribed within legal and institutional framework governing film production'. With the aid of subsidy systems it was thus relatively easy for critically-favoured 'auteurs' to fund their films whether or not there was a significant audience for them. Puttnam bitterly concludes that a theory which was based on a 'quintessentially romantic conception of the beleaguered artist' and which was 'designed in part to salvage the neglected reputations of certain Hollywood directors' ended up as a 'political ideology which played a key role in shaping both the aesthetics and the economics of European film-making for twenty-five years or more. In doing so, it seems as if it has condemned much of Europe's cinema to a cultural ghetto from which it may never have the will to escape'.
This is all so wrong-headed and thoroughly misleading that it's hard to know where to begin putting the record straight. However, if Britain is to begin to play a more constructive role in pan-European attempts to withstand and counter the ever-increasing hegemony of Hollywood it's extremely important that you and your Department realise that this line of analysis is hopelessly flawed and thus provides no sensible basis for future film policy.
First of all, Puttnam utterly fails to understand the deeply contradictory and ambiguous attitude of many French intellectuals to American culture. Consequently he completely misreads what was in effect Cahiers' distinctly love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The magazine by no means championed only those directors who fought against the Hollywood system (what about its adulation of Hawks and Ford for example?), nor did it regard only directors as 'auteurs' - witness the profiles of producers, writers and so on. It's certainly true that many of the writers on Cahiers were critical of Hollywood as an industry – but, there again, it would be difficult to read The Undeclared War, either, as an unalloyed panegyric<|fim_middle|>, other forms of state intervention and a conception of cinema that embraces culture as well as commerce, France has a film industry and we have what Ian Christie has called a 'precarious network of boutique producers' and 'more a carefully contrived illusion than a serious industry'. It is also far easier to see French films (by no means all subsidy fodder playing to empty houses, either) in French cinemas than it is to see English films in English cinemas - indeed it's probably easier to see English films in French cinemas than in English ones! Whilst other European governments have supported the MEDIA programmes (imperfect though they may be), British politicians and civil servants have simply sniped and griped from the sidelines, finally distinguishing themselves on the European front by wrenching Britain out of EURIMAGES. No wonder our EU partners frequently wonder, in movie matters as in others, if we'd be happier as the 51st state of the Union and if they'd be better off without us, an impression that won't be dispelled by Puttnam's repeated insistence that 'in film-making, as in so much else, the British had felt far closer to the Americans than to their European neighbours'. I do hope Labour doesn't feel this way - and your Department in particular!
As the above implies, Puttnam's analysis of the consequences for British cinema of Hollywood's domination of its own market is actually based on an extremely narrow and partial view of what actually constitutes British cinema. Thus, according to Puttnam, 'the renewal of British film-making in the mid-1970s and early '80s' was largely 'instigated by a group of people who had started their careers in the advertising industry. As well as myself, this group included Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne and Ridley Scott'. Oh really? The British movies of the last twenty or so years which are mentioned in the book are: That'll Be the Day, Stardust (both rather unwisely compared with American Graffiti!), Midnight Express, Raise the Titanic, Chariots of Fire, Ghandi, Room With a View, Local Hero, The Killing Fields, The Mission, Absolute Beginners, Revolution, Scandal, The Crying Game and Orlando. The last three are clearly the odd films out, and they're mentioned briefly in the book only as examples of work financed by British Screen. There's no acknowledgement of the crucial role of Channel 4, neither Film on Four, Film Four International nor the feature films produced by the independent workshops which the channel played a crucial role in funding. Similarly there's nothing on the BFI Production Board, the Regional Arts Association or the Arts Council. Nor is there any mention of, for example, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears, Derek Jarman, Don Boyd or Sally Hibbin. One could go on (and on!), but the obvious point here is that this is a very particular view of the industry from a very specific position within it. I do hope that you are fully aware that the industry as a whole is a far more diverse and rich mix than the narrow picture of it presented here, and that many in it would disagree wildly with Puttnam's decription of it, his prescriptions for its future and his negative views on subsidies, European or home grown.
These criticisms and caveats notwithstanding, Puttnam has some extremely useful things to say about distribution and, to a lesser extent, exhibition. As he repeatedly, and rightly, points out, Hollywood's success is not built simply on producing popular films but is 'dependent on a complex and long-established system in which consistent profits were generated by control of distribution and cinemas. The Americans saw their industry as a totality, in which the glamorous business of production was crucially underpinned by ownership of other aspects of the marketing chain'. Leading on from this he rightly criticises European film industries for not paying anything like enough attention to the distribution and marketing of the movies which they manage to produce. As he puts it, the film industry in Europe has 'remained hopelessly fragmented, an industry in which there was little consistent connection between the production and distribution of films. As a result, the production sector remained severely under-capitalized. At the same time the obsession with making films, rather than marketing and distributing them, meant that there was, if anything, an oversupply of production. Four hundred films a year were being made in Europe, with many of them never finding an audience. Where films did receive adequate distribution, it was largely carried out on a national basis, since there were almost no companies in Europe - other than the American studios - capable of distributing films in a cost-effective manner to cinemas in more than one country. Only around one in five European films was ever seen at the cinema outside the country in which it was made, and even then it was difficult to find an audience'. Quite right, and as true of Britain as other European countries. But then Puttnam spoils his argument by positing a foolish (if, by now, not wholly unexpected) explanation for this sorry state of affairs: 'incredibly, in many European countries, the attitude still exists that a good film shouldn't really have to be marketed at all, that the public will somehow instinctively find and appreciate artistic quality without the assistance of a vulgar marketing campaign'. The real truth of the matter, however, is that many distributors or European films simply cannot afford proper marketing campaigns - indeed many cannot even run to an adequate number of prints! Furthermore, the stranglehold exerted by the Americans on distribution and exhibition in many European countries, and most certainly Britain, means that European films often find it extraordinarily difficult to get shown, as they wait for months while Hollywood saturation bombs the exhibitors with hundreds of prints of the latest blockbuster, or screens in largely empty cinemas are clogged up by the American dross which exhibitors are forced to take if they want that blockbuster. The whole situation is so fundamentally skewed in Hollywood's favour that only various forms of state or EU aid to the distribution and exhibition sectors can even begin to redress the balance slightly in favour of European movies - and this is something to which the MEDIA programmes have indeed turned their attentions. Equally important, in this respect, is last year's Middleton Report which suggests the creation in Britain of a US-style film studio which would retain distribution rights in the films which it produced, a suggestion which deserves your Department's full support.
On the exhibition front, Puttnam is quite rightly critical of Rank and ABC, with their appalling record of cinema closures and jerry-built multi-screen conversions. No wonder cinema admissions dropped faster in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s than in most other European countries, thereby precipitating even more closures. It is because this duopoly managed to make cinema-going such an unpleasant experience that Puttnam welcomes the rise of the multiplexes and the return of the audience in their wake. But what he entirely fails to grasp is that the multiplexes have done absolutely nothing to secure wider exhibition for British or other European movies. Thanks to American dominance of the distribution and exhibition sectors all that the multiplexes do is to deliver more Hollywood movies to more people. Again, there is a desperate need for some form of state intervention to 'mend' the market here, so that it can cater not only for those who don't want to see Hollywood movies at all but also, equally importantly for those Hollywood fans who, just sometimes, also want to see something else.
In short, The Undeclared War is stimulating, informative and infuriating in equal measures. If one's reaction is so mixed and ambivalent that's because the book itself is so shot through with unresolved contradictions. On the one hand Puttnam lays out with chilling clarity and abundant detail the ways in which Hollywood has come to its position of world dominance - on the other hand he seems to have little sympathy with the ways in which Britain and other European countries have tried to counter and offset that dominance. Quite rightly, he has no truck with what he calls the Thatcher government's 'ideological obsessions' and 'simplistic free market dogmas' as manifested by its film policy (or rather, complete lack of it), but he is no supporter of subsidy or other forms of state aid to the film industry. He believes passionately in cinema as a cultural asset, but then argues that the British film industry is uncompetitive because 'it has been unable to deliver the right kind of product in sufficient volume, and on a consistent basis'. However, everything in his book leads to the conclusion that 'the right kind of product' is Hollywood movies, because Hollywood is so successful at making and marketing the kind of movies people have come to want to see, and does its best to eliminate all forms of foreign competition. Indeed, he even goes so far as to suggest (unwisely in my view) that 'Hollywood movies increasingly appear to represent a truly universal experience'. Puttnam is clearly against the two most obvious options which suggest themselves at this point - giving up altogether, or merely copying Hollywood - but his preferred option of ensuring that European films are distributed and marketed more effectively simply ignores the fact of American dominance of the European distribution and exhibition sectors. This is a structural problem, and consequently needs a systemic solution.
However, Puttnam's insistence on the crucial importance of marketing to Hollywood's success does lead towards a possible avenue which he leaves unexplored, and it's this. Whilst sensibly having no truck with ideas about American movies' worldwide success being down to 'false consciousness' on the part of audiences or 'brainwashing' by Hollywood, Puttnam is at great pains to point out the truly vast amount of effort - artistic, economic, political, ideological - which goes into creating, sustaining and fulfilling audience tastes, fashions and needs. In other words, people don't just 'naturally' go in huge numbers to Hollywood movies - they go because they're ubiquitously there, because they've learned to enjoy them, and because in all sorts of ways they're encouraged and tempted to do so. In other words, over a long period of time audiences have been carefully created. And this, admittedly on a much smaller, more modest scale, is what is going to have to happen in Europe if our national film industries are to stand any chance of survival. In other words, it has to be made not only possible but desirable to see European films. The former certainly means using subsidy (public and private) to create and protect production, distribution and exhibition spaces sheltered from Hollywood's overweening market presence, whilst the latter (even more difficult) means encouraging a cultural and critical climate which is supportive of European cinema. Hardly surprisingly this already exists in France, where it's still relatively easy to see European films, but is sadly lacking in England, where critics are almost entirely under the hegemony of Hollywood and therefore (yes, therefore) it's almost impossible to see European movies (including British ones) outside the big metropolitan areas. Creating and fostering this climate is a cultural task, and needs the support of schools, universities, colleges, the BFI, the Arts Council, critics, magazines like Vertigo and, of course, the Department of Media, Culture and Sport. We have to understand that British cinema, and every other European cinema, is so much more than the production sector, more even than the distribution and exhibition sectors, and involves everybody who is concerned in whatever fashion, including of course the audience, with the existence and survival of that cinema. The French have shown that it is possible, in spite of everything, to maintain a national cinema, and the British, as Puttnam himself points out, have exhibited a remarkable determination to maintain, with the full support of the audience (if not the previous government), a strong, indigenous television industry. Surely, acting with our European partners, we can find it in us to do the same not only for our own film industry but for other European film industries too?
As a first step, why don't you organise a conference to discuss the myriad issues raised by The Undeclared War and invite to attend a genuinely diverse mix of people involved in the British cinema in its broadest sense. If not, would you like to support such a conference if Vertigo organised it? And, finally, do please remember that the British film industry possesses an independent sector, on whose films Britain's current international reputation as a producer of fine films largely rests.
Yours sincerely, Julian Petley
Julian Petley teaches at Brunel University
Vertigo Volume 1 | Issue 7 | Autumn 1997 | to unfettered American capitalism! Certainly the combination of auteurism and various European subsidy systems has given rise to films of minority appeal, but it has also produced numerous classics of world cinema which not only act as considerable cultural ambassadors for the countries which produced them (something which has undoubtedly beneficial economic consequences for those countries, incidentally) but which also have helped to revitalise cinema as a whole. This, of course, includes Hollywood and, as Puttnam himself admits, the generation of De Palma, Scorsese, Schrader, Coppola et al have been unstinting in their praise of the European 'auteurs' who so clearly influenced them. And Hollywood itself was not exactly slow to adopt 'auteurism' and adapt it to its own needs. Meanwhile the fashion for 'auteurism' in Europe ceased to be an animating force long ago!
One also has to ask what, particularly in the light of Puttnam's earlier remarks about the cultural and social importance of cinema, is so wrong with using subsidies to produce films with minority appeal? Are minority tastes to be entirely ignored simply because the market deems it uneconomic to cater for them? Furthermore, given the situation of American dominance of European distribution and exhibition, which he so chillingly documents here, many European movies are almost inevitably doomed by structural factors to a life of limited visibility on the margins, however good those films may be. Of course subsidies produce duds on occasion, but so does Hollywood too, where losses from the many commercial failures at home can be mopped up by overseas sales (dumping) and by the vast profits from the few successful blockbusters. And so, most certainly, does largely subsidy-free Britain where, as Puttnam admits, 'the "auteur" tradition never exercised the same kind of influence' as elsewhere in Europe.
Puttnam's anti-European strictures would be rather more convincing and palatable if Britain had succeeded where our continental neighbours have allegedly failed. The incontrovertible fact is, however, that thanks to subsidy | 418 |
Matematik (fra oldgræsk μάθημα; máthēma: 'viden, læring, studie') er et vidensområde, der omfatter emner som tal (aritmetik og talteori), formler og relaterede strukturer (algebra), former og rummene, hvori de er indesluttet (geometri), og mængder og deres ændringer (kalkulus og analyse). De fleste matematiske aktiviteter involverer brugen af ren fornuft til at opdage eller bevise egenskaberne ved abstrakte objekter, som består af enten abstraktioner fra naturen eller – i moderne matematik – enheder, der er fastsat med bestemte egenskaber, kaldet aksiomer. Et matematisk bevis består af en række anvendelser af nogle deduktive regler på allerede kendte resultater, herunder tidligere beviste teoremer, aksiomer og (i tilfælde af abstraktion fra naturen) nogle grundlæggende egenskaber, som betragtes som sande udgangspunkter for teorien i betragtning.
Matematik bruges i videnskaben til modelopsætning af fænomener, som så tillader forudsigelser at blive lavet ud fra eksperimentelle love. Den matematiske sandheds uafhængighed af enhver eksperimentering indebærer, at nøjagtigheden af sådanne forudsigelser kun afhænger af modellens tilstrækkelighed. Upræcise forudsigelser, snarere end at være forårsaget af forkert matematik, indebærer behovet for at ændre den anvendte matematiske model. For eksempel kunne Merkurs perihelion-præcession først forklares efter fremkomsten af Einsteins generelle relativitetsteori, som erstattede Newtons tyngdelov som en bedre matematisk model.
Matematik er essentielt inden for videnskab, iværksætteri, lægemidler, finans, datalogi og samfundsvidenskab. Nogle områder af matematik, såsom statistik og spilteori, er udviklet i tæt korrelation med deres anvendelser og er ofte grupperet under anvendt matematik. Andre matematikområder udvikles uafhængigt af enhver applikation (og kaldes derfor ren matematik), men praktiske applikationer opdages ofte senere. Et passende eksempel er problemet med heltalsfaktorisering, som går tilbage til Euklid, men som ikke havde nogen praktisk anvendelse før den blev brugt i RSA-kryptosystemet (til computernetværkssikkerhed).
Historisk dukkede konceptet om et bevis og dets tilhørende matematiske stringens først op i græsk matematik, især i Euklids Elementerne. Siden begyndelsen var matematik i det væsentlige opdelt i geometri og aritmetik (manipulation af naturlige tal og brøker), indtil det 16. og 17. århundrede, hvor algebra og infinitesimalkalkulus blev introduceret som nye områder af emnet. Siden da har samspillet mellem matematiske innovationer og videnskabelige opdagelser ført til en hurtig stigning i udviklingen af matematik. I slutningen af det 19. århundrede førte matematikkens grundlæggende krise til systematiseringen af den aksiomatiske metode. Dette gav anledning til en dramatisk stigning i antallet af matematikområder og deres anvendelsesområder. Et eksempel på dette er Matematikfagsklassifikationen, som oplister mere end 60 matematikområder på første niveau.
Definition
Matematikken er en deduktiv og abstrakt videnskab, som bygger på logiske metoder. I den moderne definition er det undersøgelsen af aksiomatisk definerede abstrakte strukturer ved brug af logik, læren om sandt og falsk, som er det fælles udgangspunkt. De specifikke strukturer, der undersøges, har ofte deres udgangspunkt i naturvidenskaben, oftest i fysikken. Men i modsætning til naturvidenskaben beskriver matematikken en uvirkelig ideel verden, hvor for eksempel rette eller parallelle linjer findes modsat den virkelige verden. Matematikere definerer og undersøger også strukturer udelukkende af hensyn til matematikkens udvikling af egne regler, for eksempel fordi de finder ud af, at en struktur giver en samlende generalisering, eller at der findes et værktøj, der kan hjælpe i flere forskellige grene af matematikken.
Der findes dog ikke nogen alment accepteret definition på, hvad matematik er. Aristoteles definerede faget som "videnskaben om størrelser", og denne definition var fremherskende frem til 1700-tallet. Men da den matematiske forskning i løbet af 1800-tallet i stigende grad blev præget af logisk strenghed og desuden begyndte at opdyrke nye felter som gruppeteori og projektiv geometri, som ikke primært handler om målelige størrelser, begyndte der blandt matematikere og filosoffer at dukke en række nye definitioner op. I dag arbejder man inden for matematisk filosofi med tre overordnede måder at definere faget på, nemlig en logicistisk, som anser matematik for at høre under logikken, en intuitionistisk, som lægger vægt på de tankerækker og tankebaner, som matematikere følger i deres arbejde med at opnå ny indsigt, samt en formalistisk, hvor det væsentlige er hvordan man håndterer matematiske symboler efter visse grundantagelser. Man er dog langtfra enige om, hvilken af disse overordnede måder giver den bedste forståelse af matematikkens natur.
Ganske mange matematikere er ligeglade med, hvordan matematik skal defineres, eller mener at det er umuligt at gøre. Der er heller ikke enighed om, hvorvidt matematik er videnskab eller kunst. Nogle bruger den simple definition, at "matematik er det som matematikere laver".
Historie
Historisk set er matematikken opstået ud fra behovet for at lave beregninger i handel, for at opmåle land og for at forudsige astronomiske begivenheder. Disse tre behov kan groft relateres til en bred underopdeling af matematikken i studiet af algebra, rum og infinitesimalregning.
En vigtig del af grundlaget for den matematiske videnskab blev lagt i antikkens Grækenland, hvor især Euklids lærebog Elementerne fra omkring år 300 f.Kr. skulle vise sig at få kolossal betydning for matematikundervisningen helt frem til engang i 1900-tallet. Bogen er en samling af grundlæggende definitioner, samt udledninger af matematiske objekter og begreber baseret på disse definitioner, udledninger baseret udelukkende på logisk-deduktiv bevisførelse. Herved sikres, at hvis udgangspunktet for en udledning er sand, så bliver resultatet det også. Matematik kom herved til at fremstå som en videnskab som fremlagde absolutte sandheder.
I antikkens Grækenland anså man matematikken for at omhandle og beskrive virkeligheden, og denne forestilling holdt sig til langt op i 1800-tallet. Men nye matematiske opdagelser, bl.a. Cantors arbejde inden for mængdelære med uendelige mængder og Gauss' erkendelse af, at Euklids bevis for det såkaldte parallelpostulat var problematisk, førte til nye måder at anskue matematikken på. Cantors arbejde med uendelige mængder viste sig at medføre en logisk modstrid, som gjorde det nødvendigt at omdefinere aksiom-begrebet, så det fra at udtrykke en absolut sandhed om virkeligheden i stedet blot skulle være fri for modsigelser og ikke længere nødvendigvis beskrive virkeligheden. Gauss' arbejde med geometri førte til udvikling af den ikke-euklidiske geometri, hvor man fx godt kan have flere parallelle linjer gående gennem samme punkt og hvor vinkelsummen i en trekant ikke altid er 180 grader, geometriske egenskaber som senere viste sig anvendelige i Einsteins relativitetsteori.
Udspring, anvendelighed og skønhed
Matematik er i tidens løb udsprunget af en række forskellige praktiske problemer, såsom handel, landmåling, arkitektur og astronomi. I dag kan alle videnskaber fremvise problemstillinger, som kan løses ved hjælp af matematik, og den matematiske videnskab skaber også selv løbende nye sådanne problemstillinger. Det var f.eks. ved at kombinere fysisk forståelse med matematisk logik at fysikeren Richard Feynman indførte brugen af kurveintegraler inden for kvantemekanik. Strengteorien, som forsøger at give en samlet beskrivelse af universets opbygning vha de fire fundamentale naturkræfter, er på lignende vis en stadig inspirationskilde til ny matematisk indsigt.
Noget matematik har kun relevans inden for de områder, hvor den er udviklet, og her kan den bruges til at opnå større indsigt. Men ofte har matematisk indsigt udviklet inden for ét område vist sig anvendelig inden for andre områder. Man skelner her ofte mellem ren matematik og anvendt matematik, men erkendelser inden for den rene matematik viser sig ofte senere at kunne anvendes i praksis, som fx talteori inden for kryptografi.
Den kendsgerning at selv den 'reneste' matematik ofte har praktiske anvendelsesmuligheder har Eugene Wigner kaldt "matematikkens urimelige effektivitet". Som på andre områder har den megen ny videnskabelige indsigt den senere tid ført til en specialisering, så at matematik i dag kan opdeles i flere hundrede underdiscipliner. Inspireret af områder uden for matematikken har mange discipliner inden for anvendt matematik udviklet sig til selvstændige discipliner, såsom sandsynlighedsregning, statistik, operationsanalyse og datalogi.
For mange matematisk interesserede er der et aspekt af skønhed knyttet til matematik, og man beskriver faget med udtryk som elegance, æstetik og indre skønhed, foruden enkelhed og almengyldighed. Man finder skønhed i et enkelt og elegant bevis, som fx Euklis bevis for, at der er uendelig mange primtal, eller en snild metode til at øge hastigheden af udregninger, som fx Fast Fourier Transform. Matematikeren G. H. Hardy har udtrykt, at dette aspekt af skønhed i sig selv er nok til at retfærdiggøre studiet af ren matematik, en skønhed der bl.a. kan beskrives med ord som betydning, uforudsethed, uundgåelighed og økonomi.
Matematisk forskning søger ofte at afdække afgørende træk ved et matematisk objekt. Det videnskabelige trofæ man stræber efter er at kunne formulere en sætning, der karakteriserer objektet ud fra disse træk. Eksempler på særligt kortfattede og åbenbarende matematiske bevisførelser er samlet i bogen Proofs from THE BOOK.
Den popularitet, som underholdningsmatematik nyder, er et tegn på, at mange ynder at sysle for sjov med matematiske opgaver. Omvendt støder filosoffer stadig på problemer inden for matematikkens filosofi, fx vedrørende det matematiske bevis' væsen.
Notation, sprog og strenghed
Mange af de symboler og tegn, som bruges i matematisk notation, blev først taget i brug i løbet af 1500-tallet, fx lighedstegnet og større end- og mindre end-tegnene. Tidligere var matematisk tænkning blevet skrevet ud i tekst, hvilket faktisk begrænsede mulighederne for nye videnskabelige landvindinger. Det var Euler, som indførte megen af den moderne matematiske notation, en notation som letter den matematiske forståelse for den professionelle. Derimod afskrækkes begyndere inden for faget ofte af notationen, fordi matematisk argumentation både er mere abstrakt og mere kryptisk end sædvanlig sprogbrug, hvor det er nemmere at forstå sammenhængen mellem et ord (fx ko) og den fysiske genstand (her et pattedyr af drøvtyggerfamilien), ordet refererer til. I modsætning hertil er matematiske symboler og begreber abstrakte, uden sidestykker i den fysiske verden, og desuden ofte med udvidede betydninger, hvor et enkelt symbol kan repræsentere flere forskellige handlinger eller begreber.
Også når man ser bort fra notationen med symboler og tegn kan matematikeres sprog være svært at forstå for begyndere. Almindelige ord som eller og kun har en mere præcis betydning end i dagligsprog, mens andre ord som åben, legeme og gruppe refererer til bestemte matematiske forestillinger, som ikke har med ordenes sædvanlige betydning at gøre. Matematikere bruger også fremmedord som homomorfi og integrabel, som ikke giver mening uden for matematikken. Grunden til, matematikere bruger en særlig notation og et særligt sprog er ønsket om at kunne udtrykke sig med større præcision end hvad dagligsprog tillader. Man taler om matematisk strenghed.
Matematisk bevisførelse er dybest set et spørgsmål om logisk strenghed. Bevisførelsen resulterer i sætninger, som er udledt fra aksiomer ved hjælp af systematisk logik. Herved undgår man falske sætninger udledt ud fra fejlslutninger, som der har været mange eksempler på, se tekstboks. Graden af nødvendig strenghed har vekslet gennem matematikkens historie: de gamle grækere forlangte detaljeret bevisførelse, men på Isaac Newtons tid var man begyndt at tage lidt lettere på tingene. Dette medførte efterhånden visse uhensigtsmæssigheder, så at man i 1800-tallet igen vendte sig mod detaljeret logisk analyse og formel bevisførelse. I dag diskuterer matematikere, hvorvidt og hvordan man kan bruge computere til at udlede sætninger: da omfattende og indviklede beregninger er svære at efterprøve, kan beviset for sådanne sætninger være fejlbehæftet, hvis computerens software er fejlbehæftet. Der er dog udviklet hjælpeprogrammer (eng: proof assistants), som kan foretage en fuldstændig gennemgang og afprøvning af alle trinene i lange, indviklede beviser, som fx Feit-Thomsons sætning, hvis bevis på tryk fylder mere end 1.000 sider.
Matematiske discipliner
I dag er matematik baseret på logik og bevisførelse. Historisk set er matematikken opstået ud fra behovet for at lave beregninger i handel, for at opmåle landområder og jordlodder og for at forudsige astronomiske begivenheder. Disse tre behov kan groft relateres til en bred underopdeling af matematikken i studiet af hhv tal, rum og infinitesimalregning, også kaldet algebra, geometri og analyse.
Logik og mængdelære
Hvor matematikeres arbejde oprindeligt udelukkende bestod i beregninger, opstod efterhånden et behov for at få formaliseret de regler, man regnede efter. Dette var baggrunden for udviklingen af matematisk logik, hvor filosofiens logiske tænkning<|fim_middle|> er deres selv-similaritet, det at deres former hele tiden gentages i mindre og mindre skala. Dette fænomen ses også mange steder i naturen, fx i floders erosionsmønstre eller et lyns bane gennem luften, foruden i udformningen af mange planter, fx bregneblade og blomkålens frugt. Mandelbrot stillede allerede i 1960-erne i en artikel spørgsmålet: Hvor lang er Storbritanniens kystlinje? Svaret afhænger selvfølgelig af, hvilket landkort man bruger til at måle kystlinjen ud fra, sådan at jo mere detaljeret kortet er, jo længere bliver kystlinjen, på samme måde som omkredsen af Kochs snefnug øges for hver ny iteration.
Analyse og infinitesimalregning
I begyndelsen af 1700-tallet påstod astronomen Edmund Halley, på baggrund dels af den komet han selv så i 1682, dels af historiske optegnelser af kometpassager i 1531 og 1607, at der i alle tilfælde var tale om den samme komet, at den havde en omløbstid omkring solen på 76 år, og at den derfor ville vise sig igen i 1758. Dette fik andre astronomer til at lave deres egne beregninger på, hvornår kometen ville vise sig, og et af problemerne var her at beregne placeringen af et himmellegeme som bevæger sig i en elliptisk bane og derfor aldrig bevæger sig med konstant hastighed, men enten hvert øjeblik øger sin hastighed, på vej ind mod solen, eller hvert øjeblik taber i hastighed, på vej væk fra solen, se figur. Det skulle vise sig, at sådanne matematiske problemer med størrelser, som hele tiden ændrer sig, kunne løses, hvis man inddelte planetens bane i små intervaller, og lod størrelsen af intervallerne gå mod 0, såkaldte infinitesimaler. Så i infinitesimalregning regner man i princippet med uendeligt små størrelser - og dette har vist sig at have praktisk anvendelse inden for en lang række fagområder, ikke kun fysik og astronomi, men fx også økonomi.
Funktionsanalyse
Ved problemer som det ovennævnte er det nødvendigt at kende sammenhørende værdier for et (himmel-)legemes position eller hastighed til bestemte tidspunkter. Det var bl.a. med dette formål, man indførte begrebet matematisk funktion. Her knyttes to talmængder, definitionsmængden og værdimængden, sammen ved hjælp af en regneforskrift, som fører fra et element i definitionsmængden til et element i værdimængden; sagt med andre ord er definitionsmængden input og værdimængden output for regneforskriften. Man afbilder ofte funktionen som en graf, se figur.
Analyse af funktioner er en vigtig disciplin, som også indgår i gymnasieelevers matematikundervisning. Man vil typisk analysere en funktion ved at kigge på dens graf, og undersøge
hvad der er definitionsmængde og værdimængde for funktionen,
hvor funktionen skærer koordinatsystemets akser,
i hvilke intervaller funktionen er monoton, dvs. voksende eller aftagende, og om der er ekstremumspunkter (maksimale eller minimale værdier),
om funktionen nærmer sig asymptotisk til akser eller linjer,
om funktionen er symmetrisk, enten omkring en linje eller et punkt.
Blandt de simpleste funktioner er lineære funktioner af typen
som fx kan bruges til at beskrive dagligdags situationer som hvor meget man gennem en bestemt periode skal betale i husleje eller p-afgift, idet så er tiden, er beløb pr måned eller minut, og et evt depositium eller startgebyr. Lineære funktioner bruges ofte til at beskrive en sammenhæng mellem to variable, fx ud fra daglige målinger af udendørs temperatur og forbrug af fjernvarme eller ispinde.
Blandt de meget anvendte funktioner er polynomierne, som generelt kan skrives
hvor er konstanter, og osv er heltal, mens er den variable. Nøjes man med de to sidste led i ovenstående, fås en lineær funktion, som altså kan betragtes som et såkaldt førstegradspolynomium. Tager man de tre sidste led, fås et andengradspolynomium.
Differentialregning
Vil man fortsætte med at analysere en funktion, kan man undersøge grafens hældning i et bestemt punkt , dvs hældningen af en tangent, som rører grafen, se figur. Denne hældning angiver, hvorledes funktionen ændrer sig omkring punktet, og den kan beskrives med dette udtryk, hvor det græske bogstav bruges til at angive en (lille) ændring i funktionsværdien (y-værdien), , når man på x-aksen går det lille skridt fra til ():
Denne brøk kaldes for differenskvotienten for omkring . Hvis funktionen , og dermed også dens graf, er sammenhængende og ikke knækker i , vil differenskvotienten have en grænseværdi, når går mod , kaldet differentialkvotienten for i :
Når en sådan grænseværdi findes, siger man at funktionen er differentiabel i , og funktionen kaldes den afledede funktion til . Størrelsen er et i princippet uendeligt lille tal, en såkaldt infinitesimal. Et problem ved differentialregning er netop, at nævneren i differenskvotienten går mod 0, når man skal udregne grænseværdien, og man kan jo ikke dividere med 0. For mange funktioners vedkommende er det dog muligt at omskrive differenskvotienten, så leddet forsvinder fra nævneren, fx for funktionen :
Når går mod , går differenskvotienten for således mod .
Eksempler på hyppigt brugte afledede funktioner er:
Man kan anvende de algebraiske regnearter på funktioner på samme måde som på tal, og differentialkvotienterne kan udregnes efter følgende regler:
(konstant gange funktion)
(sum af to funktioner)
(forskel mellem to funktioner)
(produkt af to funktioner)
(kvotient mellem to funktioner)
(sammensat funktion - kædereglen)
Regning med differentialkvotienter finder udstrakt anvendelse inden for fysik, men bruges også inden for mange andre praktiske områder, fx optimering i forbindelse med arealudnyttelse eller materialeforbrug, eller inden for økonomi og psykologi.
Integralregning
En meget anvendt type funktionsanalyse er at bestemme arealet under funktionens graf. I den højre figur under afsnit Funktionsanalyse herover, med en bils hastighed som funktion af tiden, vil arealet S svare til den tilbagelagte vejstrækning i tidsrummet a til b. Kurven kunne også repræsentere forbrug af fx vand, el eller varme pr tidsenhed, og arealet S ville så svare til det samlede forbrug i tidsrummet a til b.
På figuren herover er en sådan funktions areal under grafen tilnærmet med søjler med ens bredde , dels med funktionsværdier over grafen, som lagt sammen giver en såkaldt oversum , dels med funktionsværdier under grafen, som tilsvarende sammenlagt giver en såkaldt undersum . I animationen gøres søjlerne efterhånden smallere og mere talrige, og man kan vise, at hvis funktionens graf er sammenhængende, eller kontinuert, i intervallet fra a til b, så vil oversummer og undersummer efterhånden mødes i en grænseværdi kaldet integralet af funktionen over intervallet fra a til b:
Hvor summationstegnet symboliserer en sum af et endeligt antal elementer, symboliserer integraltegnet (også kaldet et langt s) således en sum af uendeligt mange elementer. Funktioner med denne egenskab kaldes integrable funktioner, og når man på denne måde integrerer en funktion , vil man ofte kunne gøre det vha en såkaldt stamfunktion , idet integralet så er lig stamfunktionens tilvækt på intervallet a til b (se figur):
Integrable funktioner hænger nøje sammen med differentiable funktioner, idet det at integrere en funktion er det modsatte af at differentiere den, hvilket er udtrykt i infinitesimalregningens hovedsætning. Når man differentierer en funktion , fås differentialkvotienten , og når man integrerer denne funktion , fås igen stamfunktionen . Ligesom i differentialregning gælder i integralregning visse regneregler for stamfunktioner:
Integralerne i de tre linjer herover indeholder ikke grænser, fx a og b, og er såkaldt ubestemte integraler, i modsætning til integralerne i de to foregående linjer, som indeholder grænser og derfor er såkaldt bestemte integraler. Bestemte integraler er altså tal, nemlig arealer under funktionskurver, fx i et interval fra a til b, mens ubestemte integraler blot er regneforskrifter – som så kan bruges til udregning af sådanne arealer.
Mens det i differentialregning altid er muligt at opskrive et funktionsudtryk for en funktions diffentialkvotient, gælder dette i integralregning kun for visse funktioner, omend mange. Skal man integrere et produkt af to funktioner, kan det gøres således:
Og kædereglen for differentiation af sammensatte funktioner kan også bruges, hvis man skal finde frem til en stamfunktion, ved substitution:
Eksempler på hyppigt brugte stamfunktioner er:
Generelt gælder for brøker med en funktion i nævneren og dens afledede i tælleren:
Differentialligninger
Mange praktiske situationer kan beskrives kvantitativt vha en funktion og dens afledede funktion. Fx vil en kande med varm te jo efterhånden stå og blive afkølet. Fra fysikkens varmelære vides, at afkølingens hastighed har at gøre med forskellen på teens temperatur og den omgivende lufts temperatur. Dette kan skrives
hvor er teens temperatur som funktion af tiden , er teens afkølingshastighed, fx målt i grader pr minut, er lufttemperaturen og en proportionalitetskonstant, som bl.a. afhænger af luftens, tepottens og teens varmeledningsevne og varmefylde. I ligningen indgår altså både funktionen og dens afledede , og en sådan ligning kaldes en differentialligning.
En hyppigt forekommende type af differentialligning er
som for fx kan beskrive, hvordan størrelsen af en kapital indsat til bestemt rente vokser med tiden. Er , kan ligningen fx beskrive henfald af stråling fra et radioaktivt materiale. Man kan vise, at løsninger til ligningen er funktioner af typen
hvor er en konstant og er eksponentialfunktionen.
Skal man beskrive væksten af en population, af fx mennesker eller dyr, vil populationen jo vokse med en hastighed, der har at gøre med populationens størrelse, fx
som giver eksponentiel vækst. Dette kan fint beskrive radioaktivt henfald, hvor antal radioaktive partikler går mod 0, eller forrentning af en kapital, hvor kapitalens størrelse med tiden går mod uendelig. Men i mange situationer vil der være grænser for væksten, fx som følge af, der kun er så og så meget plads eller mad til rådighed. Her må tallet i udtrykket ovenfor aftage, efterhånden som populationen vokser, fx lineært som , hvor har at gøre med vækstraten og (for maksimum) står for den øvre grænse for væksten. Differentialligningen kan så i stedet skrives
og man kan vise, at denne ligning har løsningen
Denne ikke-eksponentielle form for vækst kaldes logistisk vækst.
I differentialligninger af typen
kan det svare sig at omskrive vha den symbolske brøk for differentialkvotient
Selvom udtrykket t.v. for lighedstegnet ikke er nogen egentlig brøk, har det vist sig, man godt kan regne med den som sådan, og omskrive ovenstående til
Denne metode kaldes separation af de variable.
Computernes indflydelse
For at tydeliggøre og undersøge matematikkens fundament udviklede man områderne mængdeteori, matematisk logik og modelteori.
Da computere i sin tid blev opfundet, blev flere omkringliggende problemer tacklet af matematikere, og det ledte til områderne beregnelighed og informationsteori. Mange af disse spørgsmål er nu undersøgt under teoretisk datalogi.
Foruden ved numerisk analyse har computere også hjulpet til ved emner som kaosteori, som handler om at mange dynamiske systemer i naturen adlyder love, der gør, at deres adfærd bliver uforudsigelig i praksis, selvom det er deterministisk i teorien.
Kaosteori er tæt forbundet med fraktal geometri.
Se også
Nedenstående gruppering af emner repræsenterer én måde at organisere matematikkens grene på.
Tal
Tal – Naturlige tal – Heltal – Rationale tal – Reelle tal – Komplekse tal – Legemer – Kvaternioner – Oktonioner – Sedenioner – Hyperreelle tal – Surreelle tal – Ordinaltal – Kardinaltal – Heltalsfølge – Matematiske konstanter – Talnavne – Uendelig
Struktur
Algebraisk geometri – Matematisk analyse – Lineær algebra – Universel algebra
Diskret matematik
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Kombinatorik – Mængdeteori – Sandsynlighedsregning – Statistik – Beregnelighed – Diskret matematik – Kryptologi – Grafteori – Spilteori
Anvendt matematik
Mekanik – Numerisk analyse – Optimering – Sandsynlighed – Statistik
Diverse
Matematisk sætning
Andengradsligning
Tredjegradsligning
Matematiker
Matematisk skønhed
Matematikkens historie
Matematisk notation
Königsbergs syv broer
Litteratur
Udenlandsk
Davis, Philip J.; Hersh, Reuben: The Mathematical Experience. Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass., 1980. En skånsom introduktion til matematikkens verden.
Rusin, Dave: The Mathematical Atlas, http://www.math-atlas.org. En tur gennem de forskellige grene i moderne matematik.
Weisstein, Eric: World of Mathematics, http://www.mathworld.com. En online encyklopædi om matematik.
Planet Math, http://planetmath.org. En online encyklopædi om matematik under konstruktion. Bruger GNU Free Documentation License, så det tillader importering til Wikipedia. Bruger TeX markup.
Mathematical Society of Japan: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, 2nd ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993. Definitioner, teoremer og referencer.
Michiel Hazewinkel (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000. En oversat og udvidet version af den sovjetiske matematik encyklopædi, i ti (store) bøger, det mest komplette og autoritative værk der er tilgængeligt. Også som paperback og på CD-ROM.
Gullberg, Jan: Mathematics—From the Birth of Numbers. W.W. Norton, 1996. Et encyklopædisk overblik over matematikken i et nutidigt og simpelt sprog
Dansk
Torben Braüner: Logikkens Muligheder og Grænser. Aktuel Naturvidenskab, 6, 2006.
Lærebøger
Formelsamlinger
Noter
Referencer
Eksterne henvisninger
Opgaver
Aritmetik og købmandsregning på FVU
Ordbøger
The Definitive Glossary of Higher Mathematical Jargon
Generel
Wolfram: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
Citater om matematik
Mathematische Kleinigkeiten (forældet side?)
The Prime Pages
MathPuzzle.com
Historie
Egyptian Mathematics
Noter til: Whitehead og Russell (1910-12): Principia Mathematica
Jørgen Ebert (1995): Komplekse tal - en historisk og aksiomatisk introduktion. Forlaget Minor
Videregående uddannelser i Danmark
Akademiske discipliner
Folkeskolefag
Gymnasiefag
Formelle videnskaber | anvendes inden for matematiske discipliner. Ud fra nogle få grundlæggende logiske sandheder, kaldet aksiomer, søger man vha logisk argumentation at nå frem til nye sandheder af mere indviklet natur om specifikke matematiske problemstillinger. Omkring år 1900 søgte David Hilbert at formalisere matematikken ved at opstille al matematik i et system af aksiomer, som bl.a. skulle afhjælpe nogle logiske problemer i Euklids geometri, men senere viste Kurt Gödel i sin ufuldstændighedssætning, at dette ikke lader sig gøre. De første årtier af 1900-tallet blev præget af en krise inden for matematikken, hvor man (forgæves, skulle det vise sig) søgte at afdække et sådant fuldstændigt forklarende system, i stil med Hilberts.
I mængdelæren beskæftiger man sig med samlinger af objekter. Dette felt blev især udviklet af Georg Cantor i slutningen af 1800-tallet, bl.a. som et forsøg på at opnå en bedre forståelse af uendelighedsbegrebet. Mængdelæren er blevet en vigtig matematisk disciplin, som mange i dag opfatter som et helt afgørende redskab inden for praktisk talt alle områder af matematik.
Kombinatorik
I mange situationer står man over for at skulle udvælge elementer fra en mængde efter visse kriterier, og man kan nu spørge, hvor mange valgmuligheder der er i hver af sådanne situationer. Hvis elementerne skal vælges i en bestemt rækkefølge, som fx de optrædende ved en bestemt festivalkoncert eller farverne i et flags (vandrette eller lodrette) striber, kalder man valgmulighederne for permutationer, og her gælder alment, at hvis man skal udvælge q elementer fra en mængde på n elementer, kan dette gøres på
forskellige måder, hvor størrelsen (læses "n fakultét") er lig produktet af alle tallene fra n til 1:
I andre situationer udvælger man elementer fra en mængde i tilfældig rækkefølge, fx når man fra et almindeligt spil kort deler 13 kort ud til hver af 4 spillere. En sådan hånd af 13 kort kaldes en kombination, og her gælder alment, at hvis man skal udvælge q elementer fra en mængde på n elementer, kan dette gøres på
forskellige måder. I tilfældet med kortspillet er der tale om
eller godt 635 mia forskellige kombinationer.
Sandsynlighedsregning
I hverdagen stilles man ofte over for at skulle vurdere, hvor sandsynligt det er at noget bestemt vil indtræffe. Ved mange af sådanne hændelser er det svært eller umuligt at udtale sig præcist om sandsynligheder, fx udfaldet af en fodboldkamp eller et straffespark, mens det i andre situationer godt kan lade sig gøre. Dette gælder fx udfaldet af spil med en terning. De 6 mulige udfald af et terningkast udgør tilsammen udfaldsrummet U for eksperimentet 'at kaste en terning',
Sandsynlighederne for hvert udfald beskrives af en tilknyttet funktion, kaldet en stokastisk variabel ('stokastisk' hentyder til, at udfaldet af eksperimentet er tilfældigt og altså ikke kan forudsiges). Spiller man med en terning, så er sandsynligheden p for at slå 1 eller 2 eller 3 eller 4 eller 5 eller 6 øjne i hvert tilfælde 1/6, svarende til, at der er tale om et symmetrisk sandsynlighedsfelt. Det gælder her, som for ethvert udfaldsrum, at summen af sandsynlighederne for de forskellige udfald er lig med 1:
Hvis man spiller med to terninger, fås et udfaldsrum med elementer, idet hver terning kan falde på 6 forskellige måder. Normalt vil man ikke i et terningespil, som fx matador eller meyer, skelne mellem udfald med samme øjensum, som fx {1,2} og {2,1}, eller {1,3}, {2,2} og {3,1}, men blot registrere, at summen af øjnene er 3, hhv. 4. Udfaldsrummet for spil med to terninger kan derfor opdeles i 11 delmængder, kaldet hændelser, se figur.
Det simpleste eksperiment inden for sandsynlighedsregning er kast med en mønt, som har to mulige udfald, plat eller krone, og i tilfælde af en symmetrisk mønt hver med sandsynligheden s=½. Hvis man udfører et eksperiment med at kaste en mønt 5 gange, får man således et udfaldsrum med forskellige udfald. Disse fordeler sig på hændelserne '5 krone', '4 krone', '3 krone' osv, og sandsynlighederne for disse hændelser kan beskrives vha binomialfordelingen
hvor q er antal krone, n er antal kast, mens s er sandsynligheden for krone i et kast.
Aritmetik og talteori
Mennesker og samfund har fra de tidligste tider haft brug for at kunne håndtere tal. Først indførtes de naturlige tal 1, 2, 3, 4 osv. Senere blev tallet 0 indført, og negative tal, foruden rationale tal som 1/2 og -2/3, samt de reelle tal som fx og pi, og senest de komplekse tal, som udvider talbegrebet fra at omfatte punkter langs en en-dimensionel tallinje til at omfatte punkter i en to-dimensionel plan. Med alle disse grupper af tal kan man lave beregninger ved hjælp af de fire regningsarter addition, subtraktion, multiplikation og division (også kaldet hhv at lægge sammen, trække fra, gange og dividere). Ud over regningsarterne kan man foretage procentregning, uddragning af rødder og potensopløftning.
Ved beregninger er det især divisionsoperationen, der kan være tidkrævende, og matematikere begyndte tidligt at undersøge mængden af divisorer for heltal, altså hvilke heltal der går op i andre heltal. Dette førte til studiet af primtal (heltal uden divisorer), som er en klassisk disciplin inden for talteori, men fx også studiet af fuldkomne tal (heltal, hvor summen af divisorerne er lig tallet, se figur).
De gamle ægyptere havde udviklet et system til brøkregning baseret på stambrøker (brøker med tælleren 1), og multiplikationer blev udført efter et system af fordoblinger og additioner ved hjælp af tabeller af formen 2/n; man brugte fx brøken 256/81 som tilnærmelse til pi.
De gamle grækere opdagede, at ikke kan skrives som en brøk, at det altså ikke er et rationalt tal, men et irrationalt, og deres opdagelse af, der findes irrationale tal menes på den tid at have afskedkommet en forskningsmæssig krise inden for matematik.
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Algebra
Algebra er en vigtig matematisk disciplin, som mange skoleelever i en eller anden form stifter bekendskab med, i Danmark typisk i løbet af gymnasiet, i USA i high school. Undervisningen i algebra bygger videre på elevernes kendskab til aritmetik, men hvor aritmetik drejer sig om at behandle bestemte tal, arbejder man i algebra med tal med ukendt, konstant eller skiftende størrelse. Ved hjælp af disse algebraiske størrelser, samt en særlig algebraisk notation og de aritmetiske regneregler, er det muligt at beskrive forholdet mellem forskellige talstørrelser på formel og præcis måde, og dermed angive almene løsninger for en lang række beregningsopgaver. Inden for såvel naturvidenskab i almindelighed som matematik i særdeleshed findes der mange kvantitative sammenhænge, såsom andengradsligningen (se figur), som er beskrevet ved hjælp af algebraiske ligninger. Undersøgelsen af metoder til at løse ligninger fører til studiet af abstrakt algebra. Det for fysikerne vigtige begreb vektorer, der er generaliseret til vektorrummet og studeret i lineær algebra, tilhører de to grene algebra og rum.
Elementær algebra
Inden for algebra anvendes en særlig notation og sprogbrug til behandling og udregning af talstørrelser, se figuren med udtrykket . Udtrykket er opbygget af tre led, som hver er adskilt af operatorerne + eller –, og hvert led består af et antal faktorer, som kan være enten koefficienter, variable eller eksponenter. Faktorerne skal ganges med hinanden, men gangetegnene udelades normalt og er underforståede, når der ikke er mellemrum mellem faktorerne. Med leddet menes underforstået , mens der med menes . En koefficient er en konstant (her kendt) talværdi, som skal ganges med den eller de variable, som har ukendte talværdier, og som eventuelt skal opløftes til den (her kendte) potens, som eksponenten angiver.
I analogi med almindeligt sprog kan faktorer, led og udtryk opfattes som hhv bogstaver, ord og sætninger, og videre kan i logisk forstand et led opfattes som en genstand eller et begreb, mens et udtryk kan opfattes som en sandhed eller påstand. I algebra bruges bogstaver til alle slags faktorer. De første bogstaver i alfabetet (fx , og ) bruges typisk til koefficienter eller konstanter, mens dem sidst i alfabetet (fx , og ) bruges til variable, ofte skrevet i kursiv.
Beregning fungerer inden for algebra på samme måde som inden for aritmetik, dvs addition, subtraktion, multiplikation, division og potensopløftning.
Led med variable med højest potens skrives til venstre, fx til venstre for . Koefficienter lig med 1 udelades normalt (fx skrives som ), ligesom eksponenter lig med 1 (fx skrives som ). Er eksponenten nul, er resultatet altid 1 (fx er altid lig med 1), dog undtaget , som ikke giver mening.
Elementær algebra er en udbygning af aritmetik, som kan håndtere beregninger af mere overordnet karakter, idet bestemte tal erstattes med mere generelle bogstaver, jf disse eksempler med variable:
Variable kan symbolisere tal med ukendt værdi. Hvis fx temperaturen D en dag er 10 grader højere end temperaturen F den foregående dag, kan sammenhængen mellem temperaturerne beskrives som .
Variable gør det muligt at beskrive et problem generelt, uden at angive størrelsen af de tal som indgår. Man kan fx angive 5 minutter som sekunder. Et mere generelt algebraisk udtryk for antallet af sekunder er , hvor m er antal minutter.
Variable gør det muligt at beskrive matematiske sammenhænge mellem størrelser som varierer. Fx er sammenhængen mellem en cirkels omkreds c og diameter d givet ved udtrykket .
Variable kan bruges til at beskrive matematiske egenskaber. Fx er det en grundlæggende egenskab ved addition, at den er kommutativ, således at addendernes orden er ligegyldig, hvilket vha algebra kan skrives .
Komplekse tal
I 1500-tallet forsøgte italienske matematikere at finde rødder til tredje- og fjerdegradsligninger og stødte på det problem, at løsningerne i visse tilfælde indebar kvadratrødder af negative tal, hvilket er meningsløst.Man søgte bl.a. efter en metode til at finde rødder i tredjegradsligninger af formen
En sådan blev fundet, af både Scipione del Ferro omkring 1515, Niccolò Tartaglia i 1539 og af Gerolamo Cardano i 1545:
Så længe udtrykket er positivt, er der ikke problemer, men er det negativt, kan man ikke tage kvadratroden af det. Italieneren Rafael Bombelli fik dog den mærkelige ide at regne videre, selv når udtrykket under kvadratroden var negativt. Han kiggede på ligningen
som vha Cardanos formel kunne omskrives til
Bombelli fandt nu en sammenhæng mellem udtrykkene og , idet
,
samt tilsvarende
og kunne nu indsætte i udtrykket ovenfor
,
som er løsning til ligningen. Så på trods af, udregningerne indeholder meningsløse kvadratrødder af negative tal, kommer der et brugbart resultat ud af dem. Dette førte til, man indførte en såkaldt imaginær enhed
og ved hjælp af den en helt ny slags tal, de komplekse tal , der skrives på formen
Den franske filosof René Descartes tog afstand fra kvadratrødder af negative tal og indførte betegnelsen "imaginær" for dem i afhandlingen La Géométrie fra 1637. Det er dog hans betegnelse "imaginær" der i dag ligger til grund for valget af bogstav til tallet i.
Hvor de reelle tal , og deres delmængder, de naturlige tal , de hele tal og de rationale tal alle kan opfattes som punkter på en tallinje, skal de komplekse tal opfattes som punkter i en todimensionel talplan, se figur. Med komplekse tal kan man udføre samme slags operationer som med reelle tal, dvs med de fire regningsarter. Addition af komplekse tal svarer fx til parallelforskydning i planet, mens multiplikation svarer til en drejning efterfulgt af en strækning omkring nulpunktet. I modsætning til polynomier af reelle tal, som ikke nødvendigvis har rødder, har komplekse polynomier altid rødder, og således har et n-te gradspolynomium altid n rødder.
Det komplekse talbegreb blev i midten af 1800-tallet af den irske matematiker W.R. Hamilton udviklet til kvaternion-begrebet, hvor et tal kan opfattes som et punkt i et fire-dimensionelt rum:
hvor og er reelle tal, mens og er kvaternion-enheder, se tabel.
Vektorer
Det er ofte hensigtsmæssigt at kunne regne med størrelser, som både angiver en størrelse og en retning, fx når meteorologer laver kort over vindforhold eller når en flyveleder skal holde styr på flyene omkring en lufthavn. Hertil anvender man vektorer, som gerne afbildes som pile, med en retning og længde. I matematisk notation bruges enten en pil over bogstavet eller fed skrift:
Regning med vektorer bruges mange steder inden for især fysik og grafik, og vektorbegrebet blev udviklet i første halvdel af 1800-tallet, i et samarbejde mellem matematikere og fysikere.
Man kan regne med vektorer på nogenlunde samme måde som med tal, idet man kan lægge vektorer sammen, trække dem fra hinanden og gange dem med hinanden. Addition af to vektorer kan udføres geometrisk ved at tegne vektorerne op, så de ligger i forlængelse af hinanden, og summen bliver så den vektor, som er defineret af det tilsvarende parallelogram, se figur. Ganges en vektor a med et tal (også kaldet en skalar) k, fås en vektor ka, som er parallel med a, har længden k|a| og hvis retning i forhold til a er bestemt af, om k er positiv eller negativ. Skal man trække en vektor b fra en vektor a, begynder man med at gange b med -1, og så lægge de to vektorer sammen: a - b = a + (-b)
Ofte vil man afbilde vektorer i et koordinatsystem, og nu kan vektorberegninger udføres med koordinater, enten vist som en søjle (kolonne):
eller en række af vektorkoordinater:
eller .
Tredimensionelle vektorer repræsenteres på lignende vis:
Man kan også arbejde med vektorer i højere dimensioner, her en almen repræsentation af n-dimensionel vektor:
Abstrakt algebra
Som det er fremgået, er talbegrebet flere gange gennem matematikkens historie blevet udvidet: først brugte man kun hele tal, dernæst udvidede man med brøker til rationale tal, dernæst med irrationale tal til reelle tal, dernæst med kvadratrødder af negative tal til komplekse tal. Siden er også de firedimensionelle kvaternioner kommet til, for ikke at nævne de ottedimensionelle oktonioner. Det har faktisk vist sig principielt umuligt at konstruere et talbegreb som er tilpas omfattende til at beskrive alle tænkelige matematisk problemstillinger, og det er i det lys, den abstrakte algebra har udviklet sig.
I abstrakt algebra beskæftiger man sig overordnet med mængder og regneregler (kompositioner), fx en binær operation •, der ud fra to elementer m og n fra en given mængde konstruerer et nyt element m • n, som gerne må tilhøre samme mængde, men ikke nødvendigvis gør det. En sådan operation vil være underlagt regler analoge til dem, som gælder for sædvanlig addition eller multiplikation, mens naturen af det der kommer ud af operationen ikke nødvendigvis er kendt, især hvis de to elementer m og n ikke er af enkel natur.
Hvis man spiller matador med to terninger, står på plads k og fx slår m og n øjne, kan man enten først flytte m pladser og dernæst n pladser, eller omvendt, eller man kan flytte alle øjnene på en gang, igen på to måder, så der i alt er fire måder at nå sin nye plads på. Hvis man med betegner den operation at flytte sin bil et antal pladser, bliver den nye plads nemlig enten
eller , dvs den associative lov er opfyldt, eller
eller , dvs den kommutative lov er opfyldt.
Algebra kan ofte knyttes til geometri, og undertiden også til fysiske objekter fra den virkelige verden. Fra geometrien kendes de fem regulære polyedre: tetraeder, hexaeder, oktaeder, dodekaeder og ikosaeder. Inden for krystallografi kan disse polyedre vha forskellige symmetrier underopdeles i 219 krystallografiske grupper, hvilket er et antal man også er nået frem til inden for abstrakt algebra. Dette er bemærkelsesværdigt i lyset af, at algebra ikke på nogen måde forholder sig til eller lader sig begrænse af den fysiske virkelighed. Lignende eksempler kan findes i kemi, atomfysik og kvantemekanik.
I abstrakt algebra arbejder man med overordnede strukturer, for eksempel:
en gruppe er en mængde med én tilknyttet binær operation, fx , mængden af hele tal og operationen addition, se tekstbox,
en ring er en mængde med to tilknyttede binære operationer, fx , mængden af rationale tal og operationerne multiplikation og addition,
et legeme er en mængde, hvorpå alle fire regnearter kan udføres.
De rationale tal, de reelle tal og de komplekse tal er alle eksempler på legemer.
Geometri
Sammen med aritmetik er geometri en af matematikkens ældste discipliner. Geometri betyder landmåling, og netop nøjagtig landmåling var af stor vigtighed i de tidlige agerbrugsbaserede flodkulturer i Egypten og Mesopotamien: "Hvordan opdeler man en mark i lige store stykker? Hvordan prissætter man et stykke jord ud fra dets areal? Hvilken af disse to grunde ligger nærmest floden? Hvordan skal den kommende kanal planlægges, så den bliver så kort som muligt?" I geometri undersøger man plane eller rumlige figurer mht størrelser, form, afstand og indbyrdes placering.
Studiet af rummet starter med studiet af geometri, først den euklidiske geometri og trigonometri i det sædvanlige tredimensionale rum, men senere også generaliseret til ikke-euklidisk geometri som spiller en central rolle i den generelle relativitetsteori. De moderne områder differentialgeometri og algebraisk geometri generaliserer geometri i forskellige retninger: differentialgeometri fremhæver begreberne koordinatsystemer, glathed og retning, mens geometriske objekter i algebraisk geometri beskrives som løsninger til et sæt af ligninger. Gruppeteori undersøger på en abstrakt måde begrebet symmetri og giver en sammenhæng mellem studiet af rum og struktur. Topologi giver en sammenhæng mellem studiet af rum og studiet af ændring ved at fokusere på begrebet kontinuitet.
Syntetisk og analytisk geometri
Det var i oldtidens Grækenland, geometrien blev udviklet til perfektion, som beskrevet i Euklids Elementer fra omkring 300 f.Kr. Helt frem til et stykke op i 1800-tallet var geometri stadig euklidisk og beskæftigede sig med punkter, linjer, cirkler, planer, afstande, vinkler, flader og kurver som grundlæggende begreber. Den græske matematiker Theaitetos studerede regulære polyedre, dvs. rumlige legemer sammensat af regulære og kongruente polygoner, og han opdagede, at der kun findes fem regulære polyedre, de såkaldte platoniske legemer. Platon har lagt navn til legemerne, fordi han senere postulerede, de fire af legemerne symboliserede de fire elementer, man dengang mente alt stof var sammensat af.
Hvor algebra og geometri i lange perioder af matematikkens historie ikke havde særligt meget med hinanden at gøre, sker der i løbet af 1600-tallet noget afgørende. Franskmanden Descartes udgav i 1637 en lærebog i geometri, hvor han indførte koordinatsystemet og definerede planen med en x-akse henad og en y-akse opad. Hvor geometri tidligere udelukkende blev udført vha passer og lineal og i overensstemmelse med de euklidiske aksiomer, såkaldt klassisk eller syntetisk geometri, kunne de to områder nu knyttes tæt sammen, idet geometriske figurer kunne beskrives vha. algebraiske ligninger og kartesiske koordinater, de sidste opkaldt efter Descartes, se figur, og denne nye geometri kaldes analytisk geometri.
Både geometrisk og algebraisk set er det nemt at gå fra at betragte et todimensionelt til et tredimensionelt koordinatsystem, svarende til man går fra at betragte plane til at betragte rumlige figurer. Geometrisk set er det derimod ikke nær så ligetil at gå videre, og betragte firedimensionelle legemer, mens dette uden videre lader sig gøre inden for algebra. Denne mulighed blev benyttet i Einsteins relativitetsteori, hvor den fjerde dimension er tiden.
Ikke-euklidisk geometri
Euklids geometri var baseret på et antal selvindlysende sandheder, eller aksiomer, som fx at "et linjestykke kan konstrueres ved at forbinde to vilkårlige punkter", eller "et linjestykke kan forlænges i det uendelige til begge sider". Men et af Euklids aksiomer voldte gennem lang tid matematikerne problemer, nemlig det såkaldte parallelpostulat: "Igennem et givet punkt kan man tegne én og kun én linje, som er parallel med et givet linjestykke." Dette postulat var ikke så selvindlysende som Euklids øvrige aksiomer, og mange forsøgte at opstille et bevis for postulatet, først arabiske matematikere i 11. århundrede og senere europæiske matematikere gennem middelalderen og renæssancen. Først omkring 1815 påviste Gauss og Schweikart, uafhængigt af hinanden, at Euklids aksiom simpelthen ikke var korrekt, og fremlagde grundlaget for det, som Gauss kaldte ikke-euklidisk geometri.
Denne nye geometri kunne deles i to, nemlig elliptisk geometri, hvor man undersøger figurer på en kugleflade, og hvor vinkelsummen i en trekant viser sig at være større end 180 grader, dels hyperbolsk geometri, hvor man undersøger figurer på konkave flader, fx en sadel, og hvor vinkelsummen i en trekant viser sig at være mindre end 180 grader.
Fraktaler
I begyndelsen af 1900-tallet opdagede man overraskende egenskaber ved simple geometriske figurer, hvis disse figurer blev ændret vha gentagne iterationer. Dette gælder fx Kochs snefnug, hvor hver af siderne i en ligesidet trekant i hver iteration dele i tre, hvor så det midterste stykke fjernes og erstattes af en ny mindre ligesidet trekant, se figur. Det viser sig, at i takt med man laver flere og flere iterationer går den fremkomne figurs areal mod 8/5 af den oprindelige trekants areal, mens omkredsen går mod uendelig. Her har man altså at gøre med en figur med endeligt areal, men uendelig stor omkreds.
Den franske matematiker Gaston Julia studerede i 1920-erne iterationer af komplekse andengradspolynomier af typen
og opdagede, at størrelsen af c er afgørende for, om de fremkomne talrækker
går mod uendelige eller endelige værdier. Efter ham er Juliamængden opkaldt, som er grænsen mellem talrækker der ved iteration går mod uendelig (divergerer) og talrækker der ikke går mod uendelig (konvergerer),
se eksempel i figur. Julia og hans samtidige kollega P. Fatou var hæmmet af, det store regnearbejde ved disse studier skulle udføres i hånden, så da Benoit Mandelbrot 60 år senere genopdagede Fatous og Julias arbejde, i forbindelse med analyse af kaotisk støj inden for telekommunikation, kunne han bruge computerkraft til at videreføre deres tanker, med det som Mandelbrot nu kaldte fraktaler. Mandelbrotmængden er en afbildning i den komplekse talplan af de værdier af c, opdelt i komponenterne
som adskiller konvergerende fra divergerende værdier. Mandelbrot benyttede i sine afbildninger oprindeligt kun farverne sort (for konvergerende c-værdier) og hvid (for divergerende c-værdier), men i 1980-erne fandt amerikaneren J.H. Hubbard på at farvelægge Mandelbrots hvide punkter efter, hvor mange iterationer der skulle til før talrækken divergerede, hvilket har afstedkommet de ofte meget smukke afbildninger af fraktaler.
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Just about a ten-minute drive from the Vision Trust house is the most make-shift community I've ever seen. The area is called Herrera and it was created by people who just started building dwellings anywhere they could find the space to do it. Our driver maneuvered up and down some alleys before arriving at our destination for the day: A school and a rooftop church in a multi-story, rustic building.
Through the iron-gated door of the building, we followed our ears up several flights of stairs to the amplified sounds of music. Upon reaching the top floor a lead female singer, her five back-up singers, a drummer and a few other musicians were in full praise mode. It wasn't long before many of us were brushing the tears away. In this place with so little, the joy in the room was embracing. Doris, the lead singer, was also the translator for the pastor's sermon. She spoke in such clear, expressive English that we were convinced she was a professional entertainer. But when we spoke with her after the service she insisted that she had been nervous translating and that she only sings in church.
From the time Doris first started singing to when she finished translating the pastor's sermon, it must have been 90 minutes and 85% humidity. She never sat down and never seemed to break a sweat. THAT'S amazing grace!
After hugging everyone in the congregation at the end of the service, we spent some time hearing from the pastor, who spoke perfect English, about how he established this church. Some of the kids wanted to know if they'd be able to get on facebook on the new computers we were bringing them and they were eager for us to take their pictures. Then we posed for our own group photo.
After the service we were taken on a Sunday stroll through the maze of Herrera. We were lead by the youth pastor from the church who stopped and shook hands with residents along the way. This 45-minute walk was one of the most startling and humbling experiences I've had so far on this trip. The homes, for the most part, are cubes–one stacked on top of the other. The streets are more like passageways and the life inside and out is a mixture of the full spectrum of the human condition.
We walked across one freshly paved street and were told it was a project that Canada had taken on where they built a road through the town and covered up a portion of the polluted ditch. Smiling faces greeted us on every alley, pathway and street with "Hola" and "Buenos Dias" while we tried to keep a watch for motor scooters zipping by.
Most of the dwellings were tiny and plain but there were a few that stood out with gardens in front or elegant satin pillows and elaborately decorated artificial Christmas trees in the living room that we could see through the open doorways. Businesses have popped up along the streets of Herrera –not that they have to apply for a permit to do so, we were told.
Our main job in Herrera was to set up the laptop computers that we had brought here from the States. The Herrera school had been operating without internet access and using severely outdated systems. We were able to take down the old computer towers, hook up the wireless router, set up the 30 laptops to Spanish, and attach the keyboards, mouses and monitors all in just a little over an hour.
Our reward for a job well done was to head over to the baseball stadium in Santo Domingo for a night game where the two most competitive teams in the Dominican Republic were playing each other. Winter is baseball season in the Dominican and the Tigres del Licey, from Santo Domingo and the Águilas Cibaeñas from the "other" capital, Santiago, have a rivalry that could be compared to that of the Dodgers and Giants. Adding to the attraction of going to the game was the fact that former, Dodger and Dominican countryman, Manny Ramirez, was playing for the Águilas. The fans were into it and we joined them shouting "Mann-y! Mann-y!" Especially when Manny hit a homer that scored two more runs.
Jay and I both brought a little bit of Nick with us to the game,–Jay in his NDHS cap and I was wearing my NDHS T-shirt. He's with us everywhere we go and in everything we do…and especially at a baseball game.
The clouds that had been gathering when the game first started decided to let loose in the bottom of the 5th inning. We had perfect seats for the rain under the overhang so we stayed relatively dry while the teams tried to finish the inning but it started coming down so hard the game had to stop and the field had to be covered.
We had a great time experiencing baseball in the country that loves it as much as the U.S. We ate delicious ballpark empeñadas, cheered with the fans and got soaked by the warm rain as we hurried back to our car. Surprisingly, there were no other fans leaving the park. Everyone else was hanging out by the food stands on the lower level, having a great time and waiting for the game to start up again.
I don't know if that game ever did resume. It's been raining steadily all night with distant thunder in the background. When we all got back to the house we reviewed the activities and emotions of the day and we all agreed, that even in the challenges and when situations we encountered seemed far from what we | 1,123 |
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Stress and a woman's heart
Stress caused by work can have serious effects on your heart health.
Heart disease in women is still underdiagnosed.
Providence cardiologist Gerrie Gardner, D.O., talks about why women need to take their cardiac health seriously, including following their doctor's recommendations about standard screenings and tests like EKGs.
This article features Gerrie Gardner, DO, a Cardiologist at Providence Medical Group.
Dara Parker knew her job was getting to her. But she didn't foresee the real impact it was having on her health.
"I worked in the claims department for an insurance company," the 49-year-old Mill Creek resident says. "I ended up handling a lot of death claims and working a lot of hours. I tend to be an emotional person – it affected me. I remember sitting at my desk, my heart racing, feeling this huge anxiety."
It got to be too much. Dara quit her job, with no new job lined up. "I don't walk away from anything," Dara says. "I felt like a failure when I quit."
But leaving may have been a lifesaving decision. The stress from that job was likely a major contributor to a serious heart problem Dara didn't even know she had.
Stress that kills
Stress cardiomyopathy is<|fim_middle|> caregivers at Providence.
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Winter is the most common time of year for heart attacks. Learn why – and what you can do to protect your h... | a condition in which intense emotional or physical stress can cause severe heart muscle weakness (cardiomyopathy). This can occur after an emotional stressor such as grief, fear, extreme anger, or – as in Dara's case – ongoing, intense stress from work.
After Dara left her job, she mentioned to her doctor at a routine appointment that she'd never had an EKG. "I thought maybe I should get one – just as a baseline. My doctor agreed, so we did it."
The results brought a shock. Dara had a "left bundle branch block," a pattern that results when normal activity in the heart's electrical pathways is interrupted. It typically occurs in patients with underlying heart disease. Dara's Providence primary care provider sent her to see Dr. Gerrie Gardner right away.
Gerrie Gardner, D.O., is a board-certified cardiologist at Providence Medical Group and an advocate for women's heart health.
"So many studies show us that heart disease in women remains underdiagnosed and undertreated," Dr. Gardner says. "Women's heart symptoms are just different from men's. The symptoms can seem very innocent, so women don't take them seriously or act
quickly enough."
This was true for Dara. She had heart disease, but not one of the classic symptoms.
Dara asked Dr. Gardner to give it to her straight. "As it turned out, I had Stage 2 congestive heart failure," Dara says. "It looked like I was going to need to have a defibrillator implanted. I was completely stunned. I'm not even 50."
They discussed all the different treatment options. "Dr. Gardner made me an active part in the decision process. I wanted to first try medication and lifestyle changes, and she supported that."
Dara wanted to make every attempt to avoid the defibrillator, so she tolerated unpleasant side effects from her medication. She started exercising and gave up wine, which she enjoys. And each time she went in to see Dr. Gardner, the
echocardiogram showed improvement.
Eventually, her persistence and dedication paid off. Today Dara's heart function is almost normal. The defibrillator wasn't needed. She has a new job that she loves, less stress and more happiness.
"Why did I ask for that first EKG? Was it divine intervention?" Dara wonders. "All I know is, if I hadn't asked for that test, and my doctor hadn't stopped and listened to me, I don't know where I'd be today."
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<|fim_middle|> say they still use it
Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells
Single-celled organisms called Stentor can feed more efficiently by pairing up, illustrating a possible stage in the evolution of complex life forms | Language lessons: You are what you speak
Life 26 May 2010
By Christine Kenneally
Following inbuilt rules
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LANGUAGES are wonderfully idiosyncratic. English puts its subject before its verb. Finnish has lots of cases. Mandarin is highly tonal.
Yet despite these differences, one of the most influential ideas in the study of language is that of universal grammar. Put forward by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s, it is widely interpreted as meaning that all languages are basically the same and that the human brain is born language-ready, with an in-built program that is able to decipher the common rules underpinning any mother tongue. For five decades this idea has dominated work in linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. To understand language, it implied, you must sweep aside the dazzling diversity of languages and find the common human core.
But what if the very diversity of languages is the key to understanding human communication? This is the idea being put forward by linguists Nicholas Evans of the Australian National University in Canberra and Stephen Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
They believe that languages do not share a common set of rules. Instead, they say, their sheer variety is a defining feature of human communication – something not seen in other animals. And that's not all. Language diversity is the "crucial fact for understanding the place of language in human cognition", Levinson and Evans argue.
In recent years, much has been made of the idea that humans possess a "language instinct": infants easily learn to speak because all languages follow a set of rules built into their brains. While there is no doubt that human …
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Franchise Analysis
Is Greg Schiano really changing the culture with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
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TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 27: Coach Greg Schiano of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers speaks to the media at an introduction press conference at the team training facility January 27, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
The past few days, Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans have been given hope. The previous regime has effectively been painted as undisciplined, out of control, lacking in accountability. Greg Schiano brings with him a new approach: he demands hustle, he's disciplined, he's detail-oriented, and he knows how to get his players to buy into his 'Buccaneer Way'. If reports are to believed, everything around One Buc Place is different.
But is that really the case, or is this just another case of new-coach-honeymoon? Let's take a look at some quotes:
No, really. There would be a new way of doing literally everything right from the beginning, including stretching.
It was clear to the media who were able to watch the first 30 minutes of Tuesday's first day of mini-camp that new head coach Greg Schiano is running a much tighter ship than the previous regime.
"He is definitely re-establishing order," McCoy said. "You can kind of tell we lost a little discipline and order around here
I could continue on for a while digging up<|fim_middle|> fans should maybe pump the brakes a little | quotes like that - almost every outlet has a few of them. But is that so different from Raheem's regime, really? Let's take a look at some quotes from August 2009 when Raheem Morris led his first training camp. This idea comes courtesy of mr. Steve White.
This is the grueling, physical, full-throttle tone that Raheem Morris has ushered in as the next step after the new coach and new GM, Mark Dominik, got the ball rolling in the offseason with a youth movement.
Make no mistake. Even though Morris was on the Bucs' staff for seven years, now that he's in charge it's not the same old routine. Predecessor Jon Gruden, who also preferred seasoned veterans over youth, ran a laid-back camp.
"It's a mentality shift," cornerback Ronde Barber says. "It's a subtle shift. Pads on the first day wasn't something that any of us couldn't handle, but it's definitely a mental adjustment."
Bucs coach Raheem Morris stopped practice in the final five minutes Sunday because he was upset by the lack of tempo by the offensive line.
And so what you have seen in Week 1 of the Raheem Regime is perhaps the most brutal training camp Tampa Bay has endured since the days of Ray Perkins.
It began with a conditioning test on the day the players showed up. This is the kind of thing coaches often threaten but rarely enforce. Not Raheem. He made the players run three 300-yarders, three 150-yarders and three 60-yarders, and he took note of the ones who didn't finish quickly enough. The next day, when he did not like the tempo of practice, he ordered live drills.
It's easy to forget all of those quotes, and the hype coming with a new coach is usually pretty bad. This doesn't mean that Greg Schiano isn't changing a few things, that he isn't a disciplinarian, that he doesn't run a tight ship. All of that certainly appears to be true. But this minicamp is not the real test of his regime. Offseason hype means nothing. It's not until the team hits the field in September that we get to see whether Schiano's "new approach" really is paying off. All I'm saying: enjoy the hype, but don't get caught up in it.
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Kelly Family - Kraków
15. 2. 2020 od 20:00
O2 Arena Prague
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Celebrate 25.years since the release of OVER THE HUMP with The Kely Family!
Celebrate 25 years since the release of OVER THE HUMP with The Kelly Family!
The legendary band The Kelly Family has reunited to perform live. The family and their fans will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album Over The Hump. Scheduling a tour that brings them to Prague on February 15, 2020.
The album Over The Hump was a breakthrough in The Kelly Family's career. Since its release, members of The Kelly Family have become international stars and made millions of fans all around the world. It is no wonder that they want to celebrate this milestone of 25 years since the release of such a major album with their fans at a total of 41 concerts in big European arenas.
"We are very pleased that The Kelly Family have chosen our agency again for cooperation and we believe that neither us nor the Czech fans will disappoint them. We will welcome them into a beautiful atmosphere in a fully sold-out O2 Arena just like last year. And as their Prague concert will be the day after St. Valentine's day this will be the best gift for all of their enthusiastic fans," says Květa Havelková, representative of the organizing agency JVS Group.
<|fim_middle|> Nanana, I Can't Help Myself, The Wolf, Baby Smile and many more will not be forgotten.
Tickets for The Kelly Family concert, which will take place on February 15, 2020 in Prague's O2 arena, are available at Ticketportal.
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AGREE More informations | The first part of the concert will be the entire album Over The Hump.
"It is strange that apart from the big well-known hits like "Once in a while" or "Santa Maria", this album also contains songs we've never played at big concerts" says The Kelly Family members.
In the second half of the concert, the fans can expect a selection of all the biggest hits that The Kelly Family has performed in their 40 years of existence. Songs like An Angel, | 97 |
The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), the leading bone health organization in the U.S., was named an Official Charity Partner of the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon. The race will take place on Sunday, November 4, 2018. For its inaugural team, NOF has secured five women over the age of 40 to join its Be Bone Strong team, highlighting the importance of bone health in active aging.
More than two million broken bones are caused by osteoporosis in the United States each year. Studies show that half of all women over the age of 50 (and a quarter of men) will break a bone due to osteoporosis in their lifetime. NOF hopes the high-level exposure provided by the TCS New York City Marathon will raise awareness about how vital bone health is to a healthy, active lifestyle as you age.
Christina Cuevas Albert, 51, lives in Washington State and is excited to tackle her first marathon. A busy wife and mother, Christina has run many half marathons and views being part of the Be Bone Strong team as an opportunity to support an important cause while running in one of the biggest races in the world. Running alongside her friend and neighbor Marci (see below) makes it even more special!
Gina Cefalu, 50, will be traveling the farthest to be part of the Be Bone Strong team. A realtor from California, Gina decided to make participation on the Be Bone Strong team her 50th birthday celebration. Gina's grandmother suffered from osteoporosis and she is aware that hereditary is a major risk factor for the disease. Gina intends to embrace getting older by staying fit and Bone Strong!
Audrey Matteson, 58, is a retired pharmacist living in New Hampshire. As a healthcare professional, Audrey is aware of the devastating impact osteoporotic fractures can have on one's life. She also has low bone mass, which puts her at higher risk for developing osteoporosis and fracturing. Audrey is happy to be part of the Be Bone Strong team, running her first marathon, and highlighting the importance of maintaining strong bones as we age.
Marci Spence Peterson, 44, intends to check an item off her "bucket list" when she crosses the finish line in New York. A physical therapist from Washington State, Marci leapt at the chance to join her friend and neighbor, Christina, as part of the Be Bone Strong inaugural team. Marci wants to be an example for her children of healthy, active aging and raise awareness about osteoporosis and building and maintaining strong bones at every age.
Gail Woodham, 65, has been a runner her whole life, but didn't begin long distance running until she was 52. She is now an expert marathoner having completed seven full marathons and 9 half marathons to date! She's experienced the thrill of crossing the finish line in New York four times already and can't wait to do it again in November. Gail knows that many women her age are not aware of the importance of getting a bone density test and need to make bone health a priority to stay independent and active. She's happy to be an example of what positive aging looks like and encouraging others to do the same.
In addition to the amazing women listed<|fim_middle|> she hopes to inspire other women to do the same.
If you have a guaranteed entry to the 2018 TCS NYC Marathon and would like to contribute to NOF's fundraising efforts, we would be honored to have you! Please visit our CrowdRise page to support our current team members or to join our team – https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/national-osteoporosis-foundation-nyc-2018.
More than 350 official charity partners will be part of the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon, providing thousands the opportunity to run in the world's most popular marathon. For more information on the official charity partner program, please visit: https://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/plan-your-race/run-for-charity. | above, NOF has grown its team by two more! Chris Marhula and Janice Small secured their own entry into the TCS New York City Marathon and have joined the Be Bone Strong team to support NOF's mission.
Chris Marhula, 62, lives in New York, NY, and is thrilled to be running her first marathon in her hometown alongside her friends and Be Bone Strong teammates, Christine and Gina (noted above). Chris knows that osteoporosis is not only a women's disease, as her dad was diagnosed with it. She is running the marathon in honor of her parents and to inspire others to be bone strong. Chris, an administrator for a renowned lab at a biomedical research institution, is setting an example for others by scheduling her first bone density test to get a baseline reading on her own bone health!
Janice Small, 61, is a medical technologist living in Connecticut. Upon crossing the finish line in November, she will complete her 21st marathon overall and her third marathon in New York! Janice is interested in raising awareness about osteoporosis because she has been diagnosed with low bone mass after having her thyroid removed. Janice began running in 2009 to be active and healthy and | 256 |
I was resting on the couch yesterday while Kamel was making dinner. I had hit a wall earlier in the day after cleaning the apartment, doing laundry, and running errands. Pow pow pow productivity! When Kamel came out to check on me.
I turned to look at him, waiting for the joke.
Kamel: … so that I could make tons of pancakes.
I thought for a second. Girdle. Girdle. Like, so he could eat more? And still keep his girlish figure? Why does the girdle have to be big? Maybe he is talking about a man-sized girdle? Like man-spanks? Where did he get the term girdle?
Then I had a light bulb moment, all while Kamel is looking at me expectantly for a response.
Me: You mean griddle? A flat service you cook things on?
Kamel: Yeah, what did I say?
Me: Girdle. Like<|fim_middle|> this on the Internet Lauren, totally made my morning!
This is hilarious!!! I love it 🙂 I wish that girdles meant we actually eat MORE griddle pancakes. That would sell better than spanks. It would sell like hotcakes. OH I COULD GO ON.
HAHAHAHA this made my morning. i needed this. | the control top underpants my grandmothers used to wear.
Kamel: Don't put this on the internet, Lauren.
Thank you for putting this on the internet, Lauren.
Hahahaha! Thanks for putting | 44 |
I have just switched to the Sony WX-1000XM3 wireless band style noise cancelling headphones. They are amazingly good – and meet all my current requirements.
I was very happy with my Bose QC30 collar style headphones and my Samsung Level U Pro which were similar but less rugged and slightly better sound quality. Collar headphones can be worn<|fim_middle|> ears warm in winter when walking and the battery life is easily 24hrs.
Use as a handsfree device for phone: Excellent. Integration with Google Assistant: Good. "Cup hand" gesture control – slightly unreliable….
Reasons to change? Hard to think of a reason – but if the NC could be even better, if they were waterproof or if they could wirelessly charge … that might be nice! | almost all the time, and noise cancel while sleeping on your side, but the noise cancelling in an office or noisy street or even on the plane was not quite ideal. In addition they both use micro-USB which is away from my ideal of moving to USB-C for everything.
However, a pop-up Sony shop at Haneda (Tokyo) airport gave me a demo – and I was blown away by the improved sound quality, excellent noise cancellation and then the realization that they had USB-C charging.
Having used them now for more than two months – and about 4 long trips including a LHR-SIN-SYD-AKL run – I really love them. Enough to sacrifice the extra space they take in my bag (if not on my head!). They also keep my | 157 |
Choreography by: Jerome Robbins
Music by: Leonard Bernstein
Evoking the Great White Way, Fancy Free is the precursor to Broadway's On the Town, presenting three sailors and their escapades on shore leave in Manhattan.
In <|fim_middle|>980, New York State Theater
John Kriza, Harold Lang, Jerome Robbins, Muriel Bentley, Janet Reed, Shirley Eckl
NYC Ballet Original Cast
Peter Martins, Bart Cook, Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Delia Peters, Stephanie Saland, Florence Fitzgerald
Kermit Love
Ronald Bates | 1944, Jerome Robbins — then a young dancer with Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre)— choreographed his first ballet, a collaboration with up-and-coming composer Leonard Bernstein. The two wanted to bring a modern American sensibility to ballet, and they hit on the perfect concept: sailors on shore leave in New York City, a common sight in those days. The premiere performance of Fancy Free has become legendary, with two dozen curtain calls for the stunned cast, composer, and choreographer, and raves from the bowled-over critics. Fancy Free was the inspiration for a full-length musical, On the Town, that was also a great success, and Robbins and Bernstein went on to collaborate on another Broadway classic, West Side Story. Of course, each man had many subsequent successes; Bernstein became the music director of the New York Philharmonic and a prolific composer and conductor, and Robbins was the creative force behind many enduring Broadway hits, as well as the choreographer of some of New York City Ballet's core works. But it was Fancy Free that put Robbins on the map as someone who had a clear eye for creating compelling movement, a deft hand at telling a story, and a creative vision that was unique in the world of theater.
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Fancy Free (1944)
April 18, 1944, by Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre), Metropolitan Opera House, New York
NYC Ballet Premiere
January 31, 1 | 315 |
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