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Companies have been using events to foster two-way relationships with their customers for decades. Today, most brands recognize that event marketing is still an integral part of their integrated marketing mix.
The concept of events has not changed. Thanks to digital, the delivery is different. As event marketers, we know that while we have transformed into a digital society there still is no better way to build upon a digital relationship than with a face-to-face interaction.
We know better than anybody that no two events are the same. Whether it's a trade show, a training, a race or a launch, countless hours of work and planning go into organizing a successful event. Anyone who's ever been involved in organizing one understands just how many hundreds of moving parts there are such as sourcing the right venue, finding the right speakers, bringing in a targeted audience and attracting key sponsors. Each event will have its own goals and objectives and must be planned in accordance to meet its key performance indicators (KPIs).
As a branding studio, we know brand building is about creating meaningful relationships between you and your customer. It doesn't happen after a one-time meeting and it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time to turn those meetings into a series of ongoing mutually beneficial connections. Because of that, our work doesn't stop once the event is over. That's when we start to work on building momentum off the event itself, to create a series of digital interactions with your attendees. When that happens, you have built a true ongoing relationship.
We work with companies, both large<|fim_middle|> the momentum created to fuel future successes. We do this by advancing the relationships we created with the face-to-face experience by implementing an ongoing digital program to develop that relationship into brand love. And that my friend is what event marketing is all about. | and small, to create memorable events that build emotional connections between brands and their audiences. As customer-centric marketers, we use consumer data to make decisions and develop unique experiences that produce measurable results.
As traditional and digital advertising channels become more congested, many brands are focusing their marketing efforts on building experiences. A well-planned experience has the potential to generate new leads, increase sales, build brand advocacy and can make customers feel more valued.
TMD combines insights from sales metrics, social media chatter, industry market knowledge and consumer behavior to uncover the roadmap that will help create a successful (financial or with awareness) experience. Once the event has passed, we then build on | 133 |
Despite missing key players, Akademik Plovdiv put up a fight and was close to beating Beroe. The team eventually lost but the head coach Yordan Yankov was happy<|fim_middle|> effort by the players and I think we are headed in the right direction."
Roberts Freimanis did well for the visitors finishing with 16 points and 9 rebounds. Here is what he had to say:
"It was very tough game for us as we had a short rotation. We are missing a lot of guys but we started good and in the second half we lost our momentum. I guess we started to play a little bit slow and lost our rhythm. In the meantime they found theirs and eventually we lost." | after the game. Here is what he said:
"I would like to congratulate my team and the players with whom we were on the court. We were up for 32-33 minutes, we gave it all and I think we performed at a high level. At the end the fatigue came to us and the roster we have at the moment doesn't allow to keep that pace which we tried to have in the first 30 minutes.
Nevertheless I'm very happy with the game, with the | 101 |
THE NVL CROWNS ITS WINNERS AT THE 2014 BEST OF THE NVL LAS VEGAS
By Albert HannemannNovember 3, 2013Event Headlines
The National Volleyball league visited Las Vegas, Nevada for the $50,000 Best of the NVL Championships hosted both at Sunset Park and at the lavish venue of the Tropicana Hotel Beach Club. The event was the 2nd annual Best of the NVL played in Las Vegas and the tournament was played in a round robin format. The crown on the Women's side went to the talented Karolina Sowala. She and selected partner Michelle Moriarity-Lonergran and took down opponents Erin Gray and Amanda Dowdy in a heated 3 set battle 21-18, 18-21, 16-14. The men's crown was taken down by Piotr "Jump-Bump Set" Marciniak who defeated the team of 2012 Olympian Josh Binstock and Travis Schoonover 21-17, 21-15 with his selected partner, Sam Schachter.
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THE NVL PARTNERS WITH JUNIOR VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION | the format." Said NVL CEO Albert Hannemann, "Everyone's super passionate, every point counts, they don't wanna go home early so we had a lot of fantastic volleyball played over the course of the tournament."
"It is a great place to celebrate another great year for the NVL ," stated CEO Albert Hannemann,."We are so thankful for the overwhelming support from the players, fans, and sponsors and can't wait for another great season in 2014.
The NVL hosted tournaments in Dallas, TX, Mason, OH and Hermosa Beach all of which were used to give players points and seeding into this final Best of the NVL Las Vegas event. The NVL has some exciting things planned for 2014, including the emergence of its new 8 court beach volleyball facility at Club Med in Port St. Lucie, Florida , and the NVL Junior Series along with several new pro tour events.
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The Starvation of Reminiscence is an autobiography written in 1982 in regards to the Training of Richard Rodriguez, who immigrated to the United States along with his family when he was very younger. There is no such thing as a set year for beginning English language instruction, although most bilingual faculties exterior of Aotearoa/New Zealand begin in Years 4 or 5. Some Māori-medium programmes start English at this degree for one to two hours a week, others depart it to 12 months 7 and 8. National Language Profile of the Mexican Origin Population in the United States." In Mexican in Comparative Perspective, edited by W. Connor<|fim_middle|>, a two-hour journey every means, and paid his means by school by working as a cashier at a Kohl's division retailer. It is a strict customary compared to most foreign language applications, however many studies have shown that immersion college students did not lose any native degree skill in L1 but quite gained academic (Bostwick, 2001) and cognitive benefits from effective bilingual education schemes.
Bilingual schooling (a means) may also help us take advantage of this asset by promoting bilingualism (a objective) each for English audio system and for students who come from non-English backgrounds. They found that scores on standardized math and reading tests for native English audio system had been considerably higher at schools with the bilingual teaching programs. | . In accordance with the Lau Treatments, bilingual training should be carried out in all college districts with at the very least 20 ELLs who represented the same language.
Copy of NYS initial/Provisional/Skilled or Permanent Certification as a classroom teacher (early childhood, childhood, or adolescence) or proof of matriculation in a teacher education program (early childhood, childhood, adolescence) at Fordham College. Kroll and Bialystok warning to not get too far in front of the analysis by making assumptions about the benefits of bilingualism.
The high school's Transitional Bilingual Program offers students with instruction in their native language to be able to ensure students don't fall behind in content material areas whereas studying English. Once we give a toddler a very good training in the kid's first language, we give the child background information, which makes instruction within the nationwide language extra comprehensible, resulting in more fast acquisition of the nationwide language. I notice the bilingual schooling lecturers is perhaps out of a job, but we have to do what is greatest for the children, and English fluency at a young age is the answer.
Throughout his undergraduate schooling, Vazquez lived at dwelling and commuted through bike or bus to California State College Northridge 4 days every week | 261 |
1MORE was founded on the vision that exceptional music reproduction should be as ubiquitous as music itself - available to everyone, everywhere.
As music production and audio engineering become ever more<|fim_middle|> headphones category.
1MORE is a globally distributed brand, with offline channels in 25 provinces, more than 40 Hi-Fi audio reps, 3 Apple authorized chain store systems, and more than 3,000 brick and mortar stores.
Our channels reach 26 countries and regions, including USA, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Australia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and Vietnam. | technology-enabled and intricately detailed, so must audio reproduction. We at 1MORE are committed to delivering a balanced and unfettered listening experience. We engineer every product for a spacious and enriching output, across every kind of music. Just as the artist intended it.
1MORE headphones continue to raise the game, consistently breaking new ground – from innovative design and construction methods, to a meticulous attention to detail towards ergonomic comfort and durability. We hold several design and technology patents, and remain firmly on our quest to make exceptional audio even better and more accessible to everyone.
THX certification is a globally recognised assurance of uncompromising quality, consistency and performance - a rigorous and stringent evaluation of the fidelity of consumer electronics.
1MORE's Triple and Quad Driver headphones are today the only THX certified headphones in the world, raising the bar for both quality and value in the | 174 |
ECOTECH continues to work with industry and government authorities to help lead the way in air quality monitoring and environmental solutions in India.
ECOTE<|fim_middle|> added. | CH, global leaders in air quality monitoring, is proud to participate at Continuous Emission Monitoring (CEM) India 2017 (26th-28th September) and showcase its Dilution Extractive Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) alongside its Indian exclusive CEMS distribution partner, Analyser Instrument Co Pvt Ltd. (AIC). ECOTECH CEMS offers the latest technology coupled with ECOTECH's 40 years of experience in the field.
The CEM India 2017 conference and exhibition in New Delhi is the flagship emissions monitoring event in India, offering delegates in-depth information on Indian pollution regulation and policy, monitoring guide lines, calibration and quality control.
ECOTECH CEMS utilises extractive dilution probe technology, ensuring consistent reliability, repeatability and precise measurement. This method is widely used for continuous emissions monitoring of SO2 and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), CO, H2S and NH3. It can also be combined with a zirconium oxide sensor for the continuous measurement of O2.
The extractive dilution system can be configured as a mobile or fixed installation. ECOTECH combines the dilution extractive technology with its proven range of Serinus® ambient gas analysers for accurate, real-time monitoring. Due to the high sensitivity of Serinus® analysers, measurements are more accurate as water vapour and gases cannot condense and impact on representative sample extraction.
ECOTECH's CEMS is approved for use by multiple environmental authorities worldwide and provides real-time data to demonstrate compliance with standards set by emission regulators and pollution control authorities.
All analysers in the system are connected digitally to a data acquisition system, enabling remote communications and operation of the system. The software seamlessly integrates with the CEMS to manage data collection, perform correction calculations, calibrate analysers and generate reports.
ECOTECH has been working with AIC for more than a decade in India. In partnership, they have been responsible for supplying CEMS integrated by AIC to a number of major organisations, in particular in the petrochemical industry. Examples include the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), India's largest commercial enterprise and operators of 50% of India's refineries; Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL); and multinational, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
According to Sanjeev K. Gupta, Director of AIC, the company was initially attracted to ECOTECH due to its expertise in the field and high quality of gas analysers."The feedback we have had over the years from our customers has been extremely positive, especially in terms of ease of operation and accuracy. ECOTECH gas analyser based CEMS provide long term solutions for Indian industries, backed up by exceptional sales and service support," commented Mr Gupta.
"This, coupled with ECOTECH's innovations in gas analysers over the past ten years, has led to the overall success of ECOTECH AIC CEMS in India and the longevity of our business relationship," he added.
Each ECOTECH CEMS is custom designed and purpose-built to suit the individual needs of our customers and their specific applications. ECOTECH invests heavily in research and development and manufactures the majority of the components and analysers that make up the CEMS. This allows ECOTECH to offer an unparalleled level of product knowledge, backed up with ongoing on-the-ground support and maintenance for the Indian market.
"We're looking forward to joining our Indian colleagues and being part of CEM India 2017," said ECOTECH International Business Development Manager for India and the Middle East, Manoj Kumar. "At ECOTECH, we are committed to utilising the latest technology to enhance our monitoring products and provide the best systems on the market. We welcome the opportunity to discuss ways to further improve how air quality is monitored in India," he | 792 |
Four Comp Lit graduate students from the University of Michigan have been selected by the Institute for World Literature to participate in the 2012 summer program at Bilgi University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Last year, two Comp Lit graduate students from the University of Michigan participated in the inaugural meeting of the Institute for World Literature. Mei-Chen Pan and Corine Tachtiris traveled to Beijing, China to attend a month of seminars and lectures at Peking University during July 2011. They reported that the Summer Institute for World Literature was an excellent opportunity to meet with established and emerging scholars from different universities, and learn more about new approaches to research and pedagogy in the study of World Literatures.
This year, four Comp Lit graduate students from the University of Michigan have been selected by the Institute for World Literature to participate in the 2012 summer program at Bilgi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Congratulations to Basak Candar, Chris Meade, Michael Pifer, and Ramon Stern!
The Department of Comparative Literature was awarded a Rackham Grant for Global Engagement in Doctor<|fim_middle|> the Institute for World Literature. | al Education to support participation of our graduate students in | 10 |
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Hockey Hall of Famer-turned-OC-restaurateur Teemu Selanne has unveiled a second dining concept. The venue, named<|fim_middle|> SOCIAL Huntington Beach, 21214 Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach, CA 92648, 714-374-7715. | The Penalty Box, is in the shipping container food hall SteelCraft Garden Grove. The restaurant offers a substantially more casual eating experience than his upscale Laguna Beach spot, Selanne Steak Tavern. The menu features burgers, hot dogs, shakes and more. The Penalty Box, SteelCraft Garden Grove, 12900 Euclid St., Garden Grove, CA 92840, 714-462-6353.
Strut BAR & CLUB has brought a new nightlife destination to Costa Mesa. The venue sets out to help "fill the void of queer spaces in Orange County" while also offering an inclusive environment for people of all walks of life. The bar area serves food and cocktails daily from 3 p.m. Accessed through a separate entrance, the club opens on Fridays and Saturdays and features a line-up of DJs and themed nights. Strut BAR & CLUB, 719 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627, no phone.
Costa Mesa's SOCIAL opened its second Orange County location in Huntington Beach. Overseeing both kitchens is corporate executive chef Jeffrey Boullt. The new restaurant features a contemporary chef-driven menu and craft cocktails, plus a raw bar and dishes prepared with the site's wood-fire grill. | 265 |
Exhibitors & stallholders at Llandovery Sheep Festival are required to read the following regulations before making their entries. Exhibitors & Organisers, –For the purpose of this document 'Exhibitors' shall be understood to refer toanyone with a trade stand, exhibition, demonstration, workshop or display at Llandovery Sheep Festival; 'Organisers' shall be understood to refer to Llandovery Sheep Festival CIC.
2. Closing Date for Entries to Llandovery Sheep Festival – 31st March 2019.
3. Application for space. All applications must be made on the appropriate online booking<|fim_middle|> with the current IEE Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings. Failure to comply with these regulations may lead to the disconnection of the supply until the installation complies.
In permitting the connection of consumers wiring to its distribution system theSociety does not accept responsibility for the Exhibitor's installation, in anyrespect.
Exhibitors are warned of the danger from high and low voltage systems in the Showground.
b) The Generator must be turned off between 6.00pm and 8.00am.
22. Fire Precautions: Any exhibitor bringing tentage must ensure that said tentage has been treated with a suitable fire repellent.
24. Petrol, Spirits, and Flammable Liquids: Petrol, Spirits and Flammable Liquids are not permitted inside any tent or structure. The organisers also reserve the right to exclude any petrol or spirit it may deem unsafe, although this in no way relieves the Exhibitor from responsibility in the event of accident or fire.
25. Accidents. The Organisers will not be responsible for any accidents, fatal or otherwise, that may arise from an Exhibitor reserving a trade stand or exhibition area at the event. It is a condition of entry that each Exhibitor shall hold the Organisers blameless and indemnify it against any legal proceedings arising from such accident. This rule will also apply to any contractor or sub-contractor employed on the Showground.
26. Livestock: If you intend showing livestock on your stand, please indicate on the application form, and details will be sent to you as to appropriate requirements. Please make sure that you bring equipment to clear the stand of animal waste / bedding at the end of the show.
to do this. All bedding etc must be taken home. A tarpaulin or thick plastic sheet placed on the floor of the pen and pulled up at the sides keeps the bedding contained and urine from contaminating other stands, and also makes clearing this at the end of the show much easier as we are unable to take animal waste in the skips at the show.
27. DOGS: Exhibitors are not encouraged to bring dogs to the Festival If, however, this is essential, DOGS MUST BE KEPT ON SHORT LEADS AT ALL TIMES and the owners must be in possession of cleaning equipment necessary to clean up in the event of dog fouling.
28. Photographers. It shall be a condition of entry to the Sheep Festival that no person shall apply for trade as a snapshot photographer or solicit trade with visitors to the Sheep Festival in any other capacity deemed by the Organisers to be annoyance. Anyone who infringes this regulation may be expelled from the Festival without recompense. Video recorders used with the view to the sale of videotapes will NOT be allowed.
Photographs of traders' stands may be taken by the media and byphotographers booked by the organisers. Acceptance of the Llandovery Sheep Festival Terms and Conditions means that these photos may be used, without charge, for press / promotions relating to Llandovery Sheep Festival or by Llandovery Sheep Festival / the organisers in promotional materials / reports etc without being attributed to the stand holder.
29. Traders not booked. Traders who have not booked and paid for a site and who arrive at the Showground will on no account be allowed to set up and trade. Any person found to be contravening this regulation will be evicted from the Festival.
Special attention is directed to the safety requirements outlined in the regulations governing the allocation of space for machinery and other stands. The ruling of the stewards and Organisers on the safety of any exhibit or part of an exhibit shall be immediate and final; but consent to the working of an exhibit shall not relieve any Exhibitor of liability as laid down in the regulations. The Organisers hold the Exhibitors wholly responsible for the observance of statutory regulations governing the safety of machinery exhibited by them. Machines and appliances are accepted for the adjudication on the understanding that they comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the regulations that come under it.
Any substances that may be hazardous to health should be notified to the Organisers and may be prohibited or subject to further specific regulations.
Plant, machinery, steam or pressure vessels, lifting appliances etc must only be operated by competent personnel and after ensuring adequate precautions are taken to protect the operator and bystanders. Guards must be fitted; mobile machinery fenced off; static exhibits properly erected, propped and stacked; hydraulic systems locked off or otherwise made safe.
All temporary structures, information boards, fences, flagpoles etc are to be safe for their intended purpose and comply with relevant codes of practice.
The Organisers will not be responsible in any way for any article, plant, machinery or object of any kind exhibited on the Showground. The Exhibitor shall assume full responsibility therefore including liability for all claims arising out of the exhibition, handling or housing of such exhibits and the conduct of the stand generally. The Exhibitor shall indemnify the Organisers against all claims, damages or expenses whatsoever in any way arising out of the presence of the Exhibitor or his exhibits at the Festival. Acceptance of the foregoing provisions shall be a condition of entry.
There will be limited security overnight on the Saturday, to protect the organisers property This is not an acceptance of responsibility for any exhibitors equipment stock or other possessions.
33. Insurance: Exhibitors are advised to take out insurance not only as regards their own property but also against third party claims – e.g.: public liability insurance. Copies of current certificates must be sent to the office before the show, without sight of these exhibitors will not be allowed to set up.
34. Disclaimer of Liability: The Organisers will not be responsible for the death, injury, disease or loss caused to any Exhibitor or to his or her servant or agent, or to any animal, insect or thing of whatever nature, exhibited by the said Exhibitor, regardless of the cause of death, injury, disease or loss arising.
The Exhibitor of any animal, insect or thing of any nature whatever will indemnify the Organisers for any damage, loss, injury or disease occasioned by the said Exhibitor, his servant or agent, or by the said animal, insect, or thing, however such damage, loss, injury or disease shall be caused.
BY ORDER of LLANDOVERY SHEEP FESTIVAL, the ORGANISERS. | form and paid for online.
The Organisers reserve the right to refuse any entry whatsoever, whether received prior to the closing date for entries or not, and also reserve the right to cancel any entry which may have been accepted, without any reason being given.
4. Description of Exhibits for the programme or website.
6. Withdrawal or Cancellation of Space Reserved. Where an exhibitor withdraws from the event or cancels a space reserved, for any reason, all fees paid shall be forfeited and the Organisers reserve the right to re-let such space.
7. Allocation of Space. The allocation of sites and positioning of trade stand space will be entirely at the discretion of the Organisers, although everyendeavour will be made to meet the Exhibitors' needs. If an Exhibitor does ordoes not wish to be placed alongside another particular Exhibitor this must be noted in writing at the time of applying. Similarly Exhibitors should notify the Organisers if they wish to share a space with another trader / organisation and should receive permission in writing / email in order to do so.
8. Sub-Letting. No Exhibitor shall sub-let any portion of space allotted to her/him or move to any other site other than that allocated to her/him.
9. Exhibits MUST be confined to the space allocated and paid for, the use of the aisles or any space outside of the actual stand space is strictly forbidden.
10. Times of Opening. All trade stands must be open and staffed throughout the time the event is open to the public (10am – 5.00pm on Saturday 10am –4.30pm on Sunday).
11. Stand Preparation, Admission, Delivery and Removal of Exhibits.
Exhibitors are requested to set up their stands by no later than 9.45am on Saturday 21st September 2019.
Exhibitors with any large machinery / livestock should talk through access needs with the Organisers when making the application.
Goods and packages cannot be received by the Organisers and should not be sent unless there is a representative on the stand to receive them.
No part of any stand may be closed / dismantled until 4.30pm on Sunday 22nd September 2019.
Vehicles for the removal of stands will not be allowed access until 4.45pm on Sunday 22nd September – or even later if the circumstances require.
12. Setting up Stand and Restocking during Festival Period.
Vehicles can gain access to the showground for the purpose of stand setup / restocking. Setup will take place from 7.00am -9.45 am on Saturday 22ndSeptember and from 7.00am – 9.45am on Saturday and Sunday. Restocking can take place between 5.15pm – 7.00pm on Saturday.
13. Placing of Exhibits. Exhibitors are required not to place exhibits, boards or placards of any description beyond the limits of the space allotted to them or in such a way that they obscure either the event signs or an adjacent stand. Any flagpoles must be cleared in writing by the event organisers. Any articles placed in contravention of this rule will be removed.
14. Advertising banners. Advertising banners within the space booked and paid for by the Exhibitor are permitted but are strictly prohibited elsewhere.
15. No stand or exhibit or part there of may exceed 3 metres in height without the permission of the Organisers.
16. DANGER: Important Notice: Exhibitors are warned of the danger from the distribution of high and low voltage systems throughout the Showground. Exhibitors are asked to check on the position of cables before erecting stands. Cables also run underground and it is strictly forbidden to break the ground surface for any reason (e.g.: to erect signs, stands etc) unless written authority has been issued via the Organisers from the Society.
17. Litter: Exhibitors are required to keep their stands and the portions of the avenues and alleys immediately adjoining their stands clean at all times during the event. Any litter and refuse generated should be placed in suitable receptacles and put in the appropriate skips at the end of the event. At the end of the event the site must be left in a clean and tidy condition. The Organisers reserves the right to charge for clearance of excessive or dangerous litter.
18. Damage: The Organisers will not be responsible for any damage, breakage, loss or injury arising from any cause either in transit, erection or during exhibition, howsoever caused.
19. Responsibility for Exhibits: The Organisers will not be responsible for the safe keeping of any article exhibited but will require Exhibitors to take charge of their own property.
20. Electricity: Exhibitors requiring electricity must book and pay for this at the time of returning the Application Form.
electrician and documentation should show the test date and the name of the person carrying out the test.
All equipment should be connected to the supply through a residual current device and all cables and connections where not protected by a weather proof structure shall be of such construction or as necessary protected as to prevent, as far as is reasonably practical, danger arising from such exposure.
Electrical connections will only be made to installations that comply | 1,102 |
The sprawling 77-minute CD s_traits is comprised of 26 short tracks of academic glitch from two members of the faculty of Duke University, Bill Seaman and John Supko. In case you lose track of which "song" you're listening to, Supko recites the title of each one before it starts. (How nice of him! More artists should do that on their albums.) The whole shebang is built of cut-up samples from a 110-hour collection of sounds, all smeared out and laminated together like a pleasing aural layer cake. The ever-industrious Supko himself wrote computer software to surf these myriad sounds of field recordings, digital detritus, live instruments, his own juvenile compositions, piano and documentary soundtracks and combine them in surprising ways. You might call it automated improvised composition with occasional live instruments meshed in. As the pieces pleasantly ebb and flow, bobbing upon tranquil waters, I'm struck by how<|fim_middle|>igi-Pak is completely covered wall to wall with the tiniest text that will give you a headache if you try to read it–even with a big ol' magnifying glass.
You are currently browsing the archives for the John Supko category. | much they remind me of Oval's 94 Diskont. In fact, a few passages sound like they could have been lifted straight off of that album. Of course, they weren't, but you get the picture: Fans of Oval and Microstoria will have no problem navigating the waters of s_traits. On the visual front, the double-fold-out D | 73 |
One of the most important<|fim_middle|> element of prudent oversight and is increasingly looking for evidence that fiduciary training has been provided during plan audits.
Fiduciary Status & Duties – Reviews fiduciary vs. non-fiduciary functions as well as ERISA's fiduciary duties and elements of a prudent process.
Fiduciary Liability – Discusses common fiduciary breach claims, consequences of a breach, and prohibited transactions.
Plan Management – Addresses various aspects of the plan document, amendments, Form 5500, and participant disclosures.
Plan Investments – Describes investment duties under ERISA, selection and monitoring best practices, and 404(c) protection.
Plan Fees – Covers fee types, allocation methods, revenue sharing, and administrative vs. settlor expenses.
Vendor Selection & Management – Reviews how to properly evaluate and select vendors and service providers and outsourced 3(16) administrative services.
Hot Topics for Fiduciaries – Discusses fee litigation, DOL and IRS enforcement priorities, target date fund (TDF) selection, and the DOL Conflict of Interest Rule.
Litigation Lessons – Describes several landmark court decisions that provide "real-life" lessons about the importance of a prudent fiduciary process.
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Download our guide for 10 ways your company can manage corporate liability with a comprehensive governance process. | things a company can do to properly equip its retirement plan committee members is to provide comprehensive fiduciary training. It's an important step to minimize fiduciary risk through education and governance. Furthermore, the DOL views fiduciary training as a critical | 51 |
London, Oct 23 Besides a healthy lifestyle and diet, dental health also plays a significant role in triggering high blood pressure (BP), according to a new research.
People with healthier gums were found to have lower blood pressure and responded better to BP-lowering medications, compared with individuals who have periodontitis -- serious gum infection that damages gums and can destroy the jawbone.
Importantly, poor oral health was found to interfere with blood pressure control<|fim_middle|> patients with periodontal disease may warrant closer BP monitoring, the researchers said.
"Physicians should pay close attention to patients' oral health, particularly those receiving treatment for hypertension, and urge those with signs of periodontal disease to seek dental care," said Davide Pietropaoli, a post-doctoral student from the University of L'Aquila in Italy.
"Likewise, dental health professionals should be aware that oral health is indispensable to overall physiological health, including cardiovascular status," Pietropaoli added.
For the study, published in the journal Hypertension, the team examined more than 3,600 people with high BP.
The target blood pressure range for people with hypertension is less than 130/80 mmHg.
Patients with severe periodontitis were found to have systolic pressure (top number) that was, on average, 3 mmHg higher than those with good oral health.
"Patients with high blood pressure and the clinicians who care for them should be aware that good oral health may be just as important in controlling the condition as are several lifestyle interventions known to help control blood pressure, such as a low-salt diet, regular exercise and weight control," Pietropaoli noted. | in people diagnosed with hypertension.
They were 20 per cent less likely to reach healthy BP ranges, compared with patients in good oral health.
The findings stressed that | 33 |
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"It is always a time of great pressure between the end of the championship and the presentation, and Alex always kept his head when there was so much to do, even when I was losing mine," noted R&A chief executive Peter Dawson.
Prior to Harvey's employment by the R&A, winners of the claret jug were responsible for having their names engraved on the trophy. When 1967 champion Roberto de Vicenzo forgot to have it done, the R&A took the assignment in house. In 1973, the R&A brought Harvey, a one-time 8 handicapper, on site to engrave the champion's name at the immediate conclusion of the championship.
"Probably the most difficult name I ever had to tackle was Mark Calcavecchia at Troon [in 1989]," Harvey told reporters after he retired in 2005, passing the job down to his son Garry. "I made sure I checked that out a few times."
Fittingly when Harvey retired, the R&A gave him a replica of the claret jug as a gift.
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Longtime claret jug engraver Harvey dies
Golf fans might not immediately recognize Alex Harvey's name, but chances are they know his face ... or more appropriately his hands. For years, the Scotsman was caught by television cameras at the conclusion of the British Open, if only for a | 63 |
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JUMEME breaks ground on first phase of Lake Victoria hybrid solar mini-grid project
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JUMEME Rural Power Supply Ltd. brings hybrid solar power to widespread off-grid Tanzanian communities through a cost-effective and reliable mini-grids setup.
4 March 2019, Tanzania – RP Global, an independent renewable energy developer and majority shareholder of JUMEME Rural Power Supply Ltd., announced today that construction of the first phase of its ambitious solar-hybrid mini-grid project in Tanzania was in progress. In this first scaling phase, 11 new mini-grids are currently being constructed to bring 24/7 electricity supply to a population of more than 80,000 people. Built on a cluster of islands in Lake Victoria, these independent solar-hybrid mini-grids, equipped with battery storage technology, will electrify 20 villages. This project was enabled by the European Union, who provided co-financing through the ACP- EU Energy Facility. Commissioning is scheduled to take place in June of this year.
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In the upcoming second scaling phase of the project, JUMEME aims to build up to 11 more mini-grids to electrify 23 additional villages, bringing energy services to a population of over 160,000 people. This project extension is well underway, with consents and permits already secured and preparations for the implementation taking place.
Leo Schiefermüller, Director of RP Global Africa, commented on the development conditions in the country: "Besides the existing legal framework and the favourable solar resources, our decision to invest in Tanzania is a direct consequence of the low electrification rate in the country. Solar hybrid mini-grids are the least-cost electrification option, especially in rural areas and the pay-as-you-go business model of JUMEME makes electricity consumption for the customer affordable."
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The JUMEME venture was made possible through financial support from the European Union under the ACP-EU Energy Facility, and REA, Tanzania's Rural Energy Agency.
About JUMEME
JUMEME – Rural Power Supply Ltd. is a fully integrated energy service provider, developing off- and on-grid renewable energy projects in Tanzania. JUMEME was founded in 2014 as a joint-venture between INENSUS, a leading German company specialized in development, technology and consultancy services on rural mini-grids, Terra Projects, an Austrian specialist in renewable energy project development, and St. Augustine University of Tanzania, an independent higher learning institution based in Mwanza. In 2016, RP Global, an Austrian developer, investor and operator of renewable energy projects, joined JUMEME and being now the majority shareholder.
The modular design of the power system allows for a constant extension with growing electricity demand, making it possible to supply electricity to any existing or future customers such as shops, workshops and small to medium sized industrial users, in addition to households and public infrastructure. This enables customers to make full use of their development potentials while creating fair returns for JUMEME and its investors, thus ensuring long-term viability and scalability of the approach for the benefit of all parties involved.
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RP Global is a developer and independent power producer that draws its expertise from over 30 years of experience in the renewable energy sector. As a developer, investor and operator, RP Global's focus is on hydro, wind and solar PV projects. The company is focusing on flexibility, innovative solutions, and projects of the highest quality, with a special focus on all E & S matters. RP Global has cooperated with and has had many successful partnerships with investors and lenders, such as the IFC/World Bank, the EBRD, Mirova/Natixis, the Marguerite Fund and the Bank of Georgia, among others.
RP Global has constructed more than 40 power plants whilst retaining 16 plants under operation or construction. RP Global's international team is currently active in Europe, South America, and Africa: Austria, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, France, Poland; Georgia; Chile, Peru, Argentina, Colombia and Tanzania are the countries RP Global operates in. The headquarters are in Vienna, Austria and Madrid, Spain.http://www.rp-global.com
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Operating effectively in the hybrid world means making the most of the cloud's speed and flexibility while ensuring adequate governance is in place.
A blog post by Keval Mehta, senior manager; John Neels and Nasser Farimani, specialist masters; and Akash Tayal, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
As companies around the world seek to tap the numerous benefits of the public cloud, many find themselves operating in a hybrid environment, with a mix of cloud and legacy technologies. Offering a way to rapidly access the agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency of the public cloud without giving up traditional core systems, the hybrid approach has emerged as a new norm in the enterprise world. By 2023, the hybrid cloud market is expected to grow to $97.64 billion, up from $38.27 billion in 2017. But managing a mix of on-premise and public cloud technologies isn't typically straightforward. Doing so effectively requires balancing what might be called the yin and yang of modern IT: speed and governance.
Three key challenges
Using a mix of traditional and cloud technologies can present IT organizations with certain challenges. Three are particularly common:
Operating model and tools. In many ways, using public cloud technology is like having an open credit card—it's relatively quick and easy to buy and begin to use new services. That's part of the speed advantage of the cloud, but problems can arise when the company's operating model is not aligned accordingly. For example, when a large financial services company migrated its business-critical applications to the cloud, it established a DevOps team for build and deployment but underestimated the need to enhance, train, and transition to an effective 24/7 global operations team. This resulted in unplanned outages affecting customer satisfaction and experience.
At Pekin Insurance, on the other hand, some<|fim_middle|>TL (also referred to as "Deloitte Global") does not provide services to clients. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the "Deloitte" name in the United States and their respective affiliates. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms. | proactive planning enabled the insurer to avoid a similar outcome. "In a hybrid environment, it's critically important to have an operating model and tools that support essential governance and can work seamlessly across both cloud and on-premise platforms," says Michael Walsh, IT director of enterprise shared services at Pekin, which has adopted the ServiceNow platform for that purpose.
Data integrity and security. Taking advantage of public cloud services requires a paradigm shift in data management and application development. When data must persist across both cloud and legacy systems, for instance, it can no longer be saved in memory or volatile storage, which may be destroyed in an elastic environment like the cloud. "In the hybrid cloud, the focus of security efforts is no longer only on implementing controls around the periphery of the company's assets, such as with firewalls, but also on building security into the assets themselves," notes Raj Debroy, Pekin's director of cloud and digital operation.
Talent. In many cases, IT teams must be equipped with a different mindset and new skills to develop, maintain, and operate applications across multiple environments. For example, as part of a recent cloud initiative, Pekin started retooling its IT organization with new, agile processes and implementing end-to-end integrated tools to support them. To keep its hybrid cloud model working smoothly, the company has undertaken an ongoing effort to get the right focus in organizational communications and achieve better clarity in roles and responsibilities.
Bridging Two Worlds
Speed without governance can create the risk of failed audits, uncontrolled spending, and chaos in the IT organization; governance without speed risks agility, waste, and ineffectiveness. Making the most of the hybrid cloud requires achieving a delicate balance. A few fundamental steps can help:
Define and document. Spell out the organization's cloud strategy and then define and document specific tactical activities needed to coordinate the processes and tools for managing both on-premise and cloud applications.
Look beyond silos. Many IT organizations have taken a siloed approach to DevOps, Agile methodologies, and infrastructure operations, but in a hybrid world it's important to view the entire end-to-end IT organization as one and synchronize the various pieces. Legacy IT service management must also be engaged with cloud efforts to ensure that process and support coverage is adequate.
Create a single "pane of glass." On-premise and cloud technologies are very different from a technology standpoint, but both require many of the same processes, including financial management, demand management, and billing. Third-party service management tools can help implement many of these controls, but most focus on either cloud or on-premise technologies—not both at once. It's important for IT leaders in hybrid settings to have a single pane of glass for visibility across platforms.
Empower the business. Finally, cloud capabilities and a DevOps operating model can better enable IT to engage with the business to deliver new digital and data analytics capabilities. An important step toward maximizing the value of such efforts is making the process as easy, transparent, and well-governed as possible.
Even if the goal is ultimately to create a fully cloud-enabled IT landscape, most organizations will operate in a hybrid environment for at least part of their cloud journeys. When planning, execution, and operation are aligned to balance the yin and yang of speed and governance, the hybrid cloud can pay the richest dividends.
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Let's talk a bit about ganache. Ganache is made from chocolate and cream. Since there are so little ingredients used, you want to use the best quality of ingredients you can find/afford. It makes all the difference. The ration of cream and chocolate matters greatly since it is used from truffle making to glazing. If you want to use it as a glaze, you use about 3 times as much chocolate as cream. Since ganache is unbelievably rich, I wanted to add another layer of flavor to reign it in a bit, so I went with peppermint. I think it turned out to be pretty delicious, not to mention really easy! Try it out and let me know how it goes!
Chop chocolate into small chunks and put into heatproof mixing bowl. Heat cream in a medium size pan until it begins to boil. Pour the cream over the chocolate and let it sit for 1 minute. Using a rubber spatula, scrap sides and gently stir until melted and smooth. Gently mix in peppermint and pour mixture into baked tartlet shell and chill for at least 1 hour. | that will be shared in another post. Meanwhile, | 10 |
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Q: Flutter / Inject.dart - Is it possible to simplify or generate code for a 'provided' class instantiation? Been doing some research on Flutter Dependency Injection,and I kinda settled on Inject.dart
However, I am having some trouble using inject.
Is there any way to simplify instantitation of a injected class?
I have this MyClass, which I need to instantiate passing a HomeStore, however, how can I instatiate it without calling global acessors? (such as the ones made on the Injector file).
It seems I could just use the Get_It package otherwise, which would get me the same results, and without code generation, but I don't quite like the whole global access thing.
My sample:
// current code
class MyClass(){
store = HomeStore(AppInjector().globalHudStore, AppInjector().globalErrorStore);
}
// desired code
class MyClass(){
@instance ?
store = HomeStore();
store = HomeStore.instanciate?();
}
class HomeStore {
@provide
HomeStore(this._globalHudStore, this._globalErrorStore);
final GlobalHudStore _globalHudStore;
final ErrorStore _globalErrorStore;
}
A: If you are willing to work with json, you might want to consider this package json_serializable. Just search for it at pub.dev.
I can give a little example. Let's say you have a User class/model.
part 'user.g.dart';
@JsonSerializable()
class User {
int id;
@JsonKey(name: 'user_type_id')
int userTypeId;
String email;
@JsonKey(name: 'user_detail')
UserDetail userDetail;
@JsonKey(name: 'user_type')
UserType userType;
@JsonKey(name: 'user_location')
UserLocation userLocation;
User();
factory User.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) => _$UserFromJson(json);
Map<String, dynamic> toJson() => _$UserToJson(this);
}
and you fetched a<|fim_middle|> via API, and want to create a User variable and fill it with data without having to do that manually.
You can actually do that with just this line of code
User user = User.fromJson(jsonUser);
These even automatically json serializes classes in your User class, as long as those classes are also json serializable, which is defined with @JsonSerializable()
So even with just that single line of code, if the jsonUser which came from the API also has values for UserDetail, UserType, and UserLocation, you can also access them.
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Jane Severinsen has worked in education for 25 years, nearly 20 of which were spent as head teacher.
She is a registered Davis dyslexia facilitator and a Davis learning strategies school mentor and trainer, and for the last year and a-half she worked privately with dyslexic thinking clients, or "picture thinkers", as she described them.
She stressed her passion was in rural education and explained rural parents were usually more invested in their youngsters'<|fim_middle|> of 11 year old boy, British Columbia - ReSet | education, due to smaller school sizes and the opportunities that provided.
Ms Severinsen will start as principal at the beginning of the school year in 2021, along with a few new staff.
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How did Samurai educate their children?
When<|fim_middle|> maples, and it adds a good accent for the beautiful view.
Finally, I want to describe that my impression of Yamadera.
I really want to recommend to visit the temple. Because, the temple owns a mountain and the site is so vast comparing to some temples in Kyoto. And you might enjoy a lot of refined views.
If I say one fault, the temple is so far from some big city in Japan. So it's better to go there by the cars.
This time, I visited there in autumn. I can easily guess that there would be some difference tastes in other seasons, which are summer and winter.
Last week, I traveled at Tohoku area. And the provinces were Fukushima, Yamagata and Miyagi.
So, I'd like to write about my traveling at Tohoku Area with some pictures often.
For this reason, I wrote about "The Abukuma-Do", which is one of the most famous and deepest limestone cave in Japan, in Fukushima prefecture at first.
Maybe you can guess easily that the limestone cave is far from any stations, so we need to go the limestone cave by the car. So, the transportation isn't convenience for customer, because the cave is surrounded by mountains. However, The Abukuma-Do is so great and I have to recommend visiting there. In my case I visited the cave on weekdays, so there are few travelers and not busy. It made me take a lot of beautiful pictures! On the other hands, I think that we can't enjoy the cave well by a lot of travelers at summer vacation or the Golden Week. If you have any chances to travel Fukushima province on weekdays, please go there. It's so nice!
From beginning, I have to describe about The Abukuma-Do...... The limestone cave was found in 1916, and then it opened to the public after 4 years, and it received several prizes of Japanese tourist attractions. I can guess that you would have a lot of funs in the cave.
The picture is the photograph of the shrine and the surface of the mountain that have The Abukuma-Do. The Abukuma-Do was one of the places mining the limes, so we can see white rocks. The mountain and water have made The Abukuma-Do for 80 million years.
I took a sign of the entrance. The sign describe that The Abukuma-Do is one of the Japanese natural monuments. When I walked in the Abukuma-Do, I saw some Korean who wanted to scrape off the limestone during walk against the suggested route.
I thought that the reason was no sign written in Korean language. It makes some problems for international travelers. Maybe every tourist attractions have to write every sign with several languages to protect.
These pictures were taken at inside of the limestone cave. The inside is floodlighted by several colors that are green, yellow, orange and blue and it makes it be fantastic room.
This is the roof of the Abukuma-Do. We can see a lot of stalactites.
This is the largest room of the limestone cave, and the height is also enough to give strong impressive for us!
At the latter half of The Abukuma-Do, there are some table pools of limestone with so clear water. The place of inside is very special and unusual.
At this opportunity, I chosen the adventure route that is uneven and rough, so sometimes we used some ladders to advance. The route is more expensive than general one, but it's totally nice.
So please visit there with your good manners! Because, The Abukuma-Do is so great. | I visited at Tsuruga Castle in Aizu-Wakamatsu, I found a one of the answers.
Because of the castle is a museum now, and we can touch some facts about Samurai's daily life and the history of Tsuruga Castle and so on. At that time, I was really interested in a practice of every child of Samurai.
So this time, I would like to write about the practice called Juu-No-Okite that is the rule of the group.
The children had to belong their group called Juu when their ages were from six to nine years old for entering their school Nisshin-Kan at their age of ten. So Juu-No-Okite was a rule of the group Juu that were small group of children and they usual played with the group.
And every evening, they recited the Juu-No-Okite and had a meeting for reviewing.
1. Don't against what senior are saying.
2. We must make a bow for seniors.
4. Don't act in a mean way.
5. Don't dully to any weak people.
6. Don't eat anything in the outside.
7. Don't talk anything with women in the outside.
And we can't do any forbad things.
I think the rule includes two important means, first is looking up their seniors and two is helping weak people. Both would affect that they were be great leaders.
So, actually the Aizu-Wakamatsu domain was the most famous in valor. Because. Japanese valor should come with consideration for weak people.
I guess that it might be ten days ago. We had excursion for viewing scarlet maple leaves at the famous temple "Jakko-In" in Inuyama-City in North Aichi-prefecture. So, this time, I'd like to upload some of the pictures of scarlet maple leaves and the temple.
Inuyama-City is bit famous for tourist attractions, because the city has Japan Monkey Park, Meiji village and Little World, which are theme parks established by Meitetsu-Group. Every park is huge and interesting.
And there is Inuyama Castle that has a castle tower, which is national treasure on the rocky hill close by Kiso River.
The temple "Jakko-In" at Inuyama-city is so famous for scarlet maple leaves that there are a lot of posters in Meitetsu stations.
This time, I walked on the route that we passed through under Inuyama castle and go to Jakko-In to enjoy scarlet maple leaves, and then we visit the castle and came back with my friends.
From here, I would like to upload the pictures!
This is the tunnel under Inuyama-Castle. And Kiso River flows right of the picture. We would guess the area is the upper of Kiso River by the atmosphere of the rock.
I took the picture has a lot of scarlet maple leaves on the small brook when I walked to Jakko-In. There're a lot of leaves.
The road to go the temple was colored by a lot of scarlet maple leaves. The timing when I visit was end of the season of scarlet maple leaves. So we walk on the road covered by a lot of fallen leaves.
The road is like this picture. The trees are scarlet maple leaves at right side.
So, these are the pictures that I took when I found a small path at right side. The steps also covered by scarlet maple leaves. I guess that it's easy to slip at raining day.
I took the scarlet maple trees on the steps. So, there are just scarlet maple leaves!
There was a bronze statue after the steps. Of cause the background also scarlet maple leaves!
After the bronze statue, I guessed that it was the real beginning of the approach to Jakko-In. There were no autumn leaves on the steps, so I took the picture.
But, the scarlet maple leaves continued from next steps. We really loved the scarlet maple leaves. Don't you think it's beautiful?
These steps were under the roof made in scarlet maple leaves! The color was beautiful red at the foot, but the colors were changed to yellow! Because of the scarlet maple leaves are very sensitive in the environment, so there was a difference of temperature between the foot and top of the small mountain that Jakko-In locates on.
There is Jakko-In is a temple on the top of the mountain. And it has a special bell. How special? If we pray for our dream while striking the bell, the dream will come true. So, I struck it strongly! I wish the dream would come true.
And I took the picture of Inuyama-castle while going back. The left of the sun is Inuyama-castle, and the river is Kiso River.
Japanese really love scarlet maple leaves, and the leaves is one of the representatives of Japanese autumn. The atmosphere is difference from Canadian one. Canadian Maple leaves would be great and breathtaking, Japanese Maple leaves would be sensitive and breathtaking.
Because, Japanese beauties have been cared from old times and it was calculated.
This blog is also written about my travel in Tohoku area. And this time, I would like to write about the event that is The Dolls of Chrysanthemum Festival called "Kiku–Ningyo" at Kasumiga castle in Nihon-Matsu city.
When we wanted to enter into the Kasumiga castle, we could found the bronze statues who died at the Boshin-war when they were so young. Generally the bronze statues aren't decorated with flowers, but the date was special.
And this is the entrance of the castle, and there is a long stone stairway in front of the gate. Can you find the two dolls on the stairway? They are so small on the picture.
We enjoyed a lot of chrysanthemums in the castle. And the chrysanthemums is called "Sen–Rin-Zaki" that means "One thousand chrysanthemums". And the explanation about the chrysanthemums describe that the number is 1725. Wow, it's over one thousand!
we enjoyed a lot of single chrysanthemums also. And this was my best chrysanthemum at the event. Is it beautiful?
But some of the chrysanthemums were already dead, and others didn't start flowering yet. Because, it makes everybody enjoy some of full-blown chrysanthemums over the term.
The theme of this year is "Komyoga-Tsuji" that is the famous period drama and the story is the success story of Kazutoyo Yamanouch who was a just soldier when he was young. But finally he became a King. So a lot of the chrysanthemum dolls show some scene in the drama. I can't remember the exact number of the scenes and it might be around 15.
So there were a lot of people on the drama in included Kazutoyo. And this scene is Hanami that is cherry-blossom viewing.
We enjoyed a lot of chrysanthemums all over the event included the drama. And the waterfall is also dressed with the chrysanthemums.
This is the biggest scene of the drama that is Sekigahara-war. The Samurai on the horse is Kazutoyo. Maybe you can see that the dolls wear the chrysanthemums.
After the drama, the atmosphere was changed to Japanese story of olden times. And the picture is "Sichi-Fuku-Jin" that is the Seven Deities of Good Fortune.
If we see the picture carefully, we can find the autumn leaves.
We found the doll that is changing the chrysanthemums and we went near the doll and took the picture. And we found the fact that general people can try the change with our reservation.
These pictures are Japanese story of olden times. Someday, I would like to describe the stories.
This isn't Japanese story of olden times. And is a puppet show that describes a woman who fights with her incurable disease and her name is Chieko. They also wore chrysanthemums.
I took the picture on the hill after went out from the event. We could see the whole place of the event. This side is the scene of the Sekigahara-war, can you remember?
We enjoyed the chrysanthemum doll festival so much. And the festival is unique for me.
When I visited some places in Tohoku area. I found the fact that they really love their local famous people. It's bit difference from other country's one.
When I travel at Yama-Dera in Yamagata prefecture, we eat the local dishes, which are Soba and Imo-Ziru.
Do you know what kinds of noodles are famous in Japan? Ramen, Udon, and Soba are so popular in Japan. Udon is popular in Weston Japan, Soba is famous at north are popular and ramen is for all over Japan.
So at last travel in north are in Japan, it gave an opportunity to eat real Soba to me. The flavor was so nice and it was difference flavor and taste in other area.
At first, we ate the Konnyaku and Japanese pickles after our order. Both are special local dishes at the area.
Konnyaku has very unique feel in our mouth. Please try Konnyaku if you have any chances to try it.
And we were waiting for our Soba and Imo-Ziru during eating them.
This is the Imo-Ziru. This is a soup with Sukiyaki taste and several kinds of ingredients. The mean of the word 'Imo' is describing potato and taro, at that time we ate some taros in the soup. The most interesting ingredient was Sendai-Fu for me, and is so unique for me also even if I'm Japanese.
And this is another main dish Soba!
We ate them with cold temperature, the taste was difference from other area's one. Especially it was a good season for Soba, we enjoyed them very well.
So when you visit Tohoku Area, which is north part of Japan, don't forget to eat Soba. It's so nice.
At my traveling in Tohoku area, Yamadera in Yamagata prefecture was one of my important places to visit.
Tohoku area has four famous Buddhist temples, and one of them is the Yamadera, So I've watched some posters of it at some JR stations. So I 'm so happy! Because, I got the opportunity to visit the great temple, and I also get the opportunity to upload some my pictures about Yamadera!
I hope that my picture will make you visit the temple.
There are some reasons that Yamadera is famous, and one of them is Basho Matsuo who is one of the greats about Haiku that is Japanese poem. There is his bronze statue near the souvenir shops the foot of the mountain.
Then, if you see the next of the bronze statue, you would find the monument about his poem.
The poem describe below means.
My last boss sometimes gave me the explanation about this Haiku. The time he told me that there are a lot of cicadas and they are chirring in chorus in summer, the time Basho found the fact that he can't hear it. It just likes that the chirring are soaking in the rock.
This is the gate of Yamadera. At the gate we need to pay 300 Yen to enter. I think it's so cheap if I compare to the famous temples in Kyoto, and the price is the cheapest.
At inside of the temple, we can find some interesting things, and the below is also one of them.
Somebody put a lot of coins into in the cracks of the bark of the big tree.
Some of senior Japanese believe that big trees have a sprits or god. I guess that they might do it.
If I visited there with one of my Chinese friends who really love Ninja, I would say "They are present Shuriken and they are very safety, Because, it isn't dangerous, is it?" to him.
We found some sculptures on the big rock after few minutes ago. The mountain is a big rock mountain and it has a lot of sculptures and small shrines. The picture is just one of them.
Than, if we saw left side, there is a gate. It isn't the top of the mountain.
On the other hands, if we saw right side, there are some small shrines on the rock. Can you see some stone images of Jizo? I felt some spirits of the Buddhist monks who leads an ascetic life on the mountain that was the holy mountain for them before. And a lot of monks died here.
And this is the picture that I took after the gate. The view is so beautiful by the temple and the rocks and autumn leaves.
After few minutes, I took this picture. It was almost the top of the mountain. There are three roads to go the top, to go the foot of the mountain and to go the right side of the picture. There is a monumental image of Buddha at the top, but we couldn't see it at that time.
Can you see a lot of the shrines on the picture? At last junction, I went to right road and took this. Of cause we can't go there, the reason is so dangerous for general people.
But autumn leaves are so nice.
There is a kind of turret at the end of the road, and we can enjoy the great view on the turret. At that day, I climbed the mountain from the foot, but we didn't feel tired. I can guess the reason that the mountain is so interesting and we enjoyed convocations during climbing. Especially, this season is one of the best to visit there by autumn leaves.
On the turret, I took the picture. I think that this picture is so easy to guess the feature of the part of the mountain. Can you guess how the monks lived in the small hut on the right side of the picture? I have no idea.
When I went down the mountain, I took it. At this mountain I sometimes felt that maple is the best of autumn leaves. I really love deep red | 2,955 |
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NASA releases first Pluto flyby images
By James Rogers
Closeup image of Pluto. (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)
NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons' historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto.
"We have got a whole bunch of high-resolution observations safely on the spacecraft," said New Horizons' Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team Leader John Spencer, during a press conference at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, which is managing the mission. "We're now focusing on small details on this amazing world."
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NASA released its first closeup image of an area near Pluto's equator Wednesday, which contains a range of mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet above the dwarf planet's icy surface.
"These mountains are quite spectacular," said Spencer.
New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern compared the range to the Rocky Mountains, adding that they provide clues about Pluto's geology. "The steep topography means that the bedrock that made these mountains must be of H20, water ice," he said. "We can be really sure that the water is there in great abundance."
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Charon image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI). (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)
The image was taken about an hour-and-a-half before New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 478,000 miles from the planet's surface.
NASA also released an image of Pluto's largest moon Charon, which clearly shows a swath of cliffs and troughs stretching about 600 miles across its surface.
"Charon blew our socks off when we had this new image today," said New Horizons Deputy Project Scientist Cathy Olkin, during the press conference. "We have just been thrilled."
Imaging obtained by New Horizons and transmitted to Earth early Wednesday morning also sheds light on Pluto's outermost moon Hydra. Since its discovery in 2005, Hydra has been known only as a fuzzy dot of uncertain shape, size, and reflectivity, according to NASA, although New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) reveals the moon's irregularly shaped body.
Hydra observations by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI). (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI)
The spacecraft made its flyby Tuesday, passing within 7,750 miles of Pluto's surface, roughly the distance between New York and Mumbai.
Confirmation of the successful flyby came late Tuesday, when New Horizons contacted scientists back on Earth, 3 billion miles from Pluto.
Pluto has fascinated astronomers since 1930, when it was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh using the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Some of Tombaugh's ashes are aboard New Horizons.
New Horizons is the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far away from Earth, according<|fim_middle|>izons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI). (NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI), New Horizons', pluto, pluto flyby, pluto pictures | to NASA.
The spacecraft's flyby of Pluto and its five known moons provides valuable insight into the solar system's Kuiper Belt, which contains icy objects that range in size from boulders to dwarf planets, NASA said. Kuiper Belt objects, such as Pluto, can preserve evidence about the early formation of the solar system
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Will it be BRINO – Brexit In Name Only?
08-06-2018 | Insight
The UK is likely to end up with a Brexit In Name Only (BRINO) when it 'leaves' the European Union, says Robeco Chief Economist Léon Cornelissen.
UK government continues to bicker over Brexit terms
One solution is to remain half-in and half-out of the EU
Parallels with how Norway stays in the Single Market
In a new white paper, he forecasts a Norwegian-style half-in, half-out solution as being the only one currently possible given the limited timeframe available to make a deal. The time needed to solve the complex issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland makes it the only workable option of the models available, Cornelissen says.
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"Two years after the June 2016 referendum result that shocked the world, the UK is still struggling to agree terms that will secure its divorce after a troubled 45-year marriage," Cornelissen says in an updated white paper discussing the options available.
"Leaving the European Union is proving to be the most difficult thing that the UK has done in peacetime, as the Conservative Party continues to bicker over what it really wants. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking, with less than a year remaining to reach some sort of settlement before the UK legally exits in March 2019."
"That would make it a kind of vassal state of the EU, but is that such a bad thing? The UK would essentially be following the Norwegian trading model, and few doubt that Norway has proven to be a successful and wealthy country by adopting this more conciliatory half-in, half-out approach."
Soft or hard-boiled?
What will eventually prevail as the negotiations stumble on remains hard to predict, Cornelissen says. The main problem is that the referendum result simply called for Britain to leave; it did not say how, or on what terms. At the heart of the issue is whether the UK should pursue a 'soft Brexit', in which it remains in the Single Market, or a 'hard Brexit', in which it leaves the bloc entirely. Both are problematic.
"A soft Brexit would be the solution that is the most economically beneficial to the UK and solves a whole host of issues, including the complex Irish border problem (where Northern Ireland leaves the EU but the Republic stays in it), since the Single Market would remain in place," he says.
"However, it would mean the UK must continue to accept the free movement of people and also contribute to the EU budget. This would not solve two political problems that lay at the heart of the Leave campaign – immigration levels that were perceived as being too high, and the notion that Britain is being ruled by Brussels."
The Long Good Friday
"A hard Brexit does not though solve all political problems either. It would mean a hard border with customs checkpoints on the Irish border, which contravenes the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of the Troubles. It is also seen as being economically disastrous, since the UK would be leaving the largest trading bloc in the world, losing frictionless access to a market of more than 500 million people."
"And it raises the question over what future trading model the UK would then pursue, since none are without some sort of problem. All the others being considered, from trying to negotiate a Canadian style arrangement to crashing out of the EU completely and resorting to World Trade Organization terms with lots of tariffs, are not as good as a BRINO. Which by the way is of course still inferior to EU membership."
Cornelissen says it all begs the question of whether Brexit can be canceled, particularly in light of growing opposition to it within the 'Remain' camp in the UK. However, both major political parties in the UK are committed to it, public opinion has not changed that much, and even a referendum to approve the final deal would be legally fraught with problems.
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By applying the weight of evidence approach, the test chemical can be considered to be not sensitizing to skin. Comparing the annotations with criteria of CLP regulation, the test chemical can be classified under the category "Not Classified<|fim_middle|> total of 50 microliters of test chemical-FCA emulsion into two sites of the abdominal skin at both sides of the ventral midline.
Five days after injection, 25 microliters of test chemical in vehicle was applied to both sides of each ear for three consecutive days. Control mice were treated by intradermal injection of vehicle-FCA emulsion into the abdomen and then after 5 days they were exposed to vehicle alone on the ears for three consecutive days. The next day following the final topical application, auricular lymph nodes were excised and pooled for each experimental group.
Control mice were treated by injection of saline-FCA emulsion and topical exposure to DMSO alone. The next day following the final topical application, auricular lymph nodes were excised and LNC suspensions were prepared. The LNCs (5 x lo5 cells/well) were cultured for 24 h and the LNC proliferation was measured by 3HTdR incorporation (cpm), or fluorescence and absorbance by the Alamar Blue assay. Increases in 3HTdR incorporation, fluorescence and absorbance relative to vehicle-treated controls were calculated for each group.
The increases in LNC number and 3HTdR incorporation relative to controls were derived for each experimental group and expressed as SIn and SIP, respectively; SItotal was obtained from SIn, x SIP, which indicates the total lymph node activation induced by the test chemicals. A chemical was regarded as positive (a sensitizer) if it showed an SI total value of 3 or more.
The SItotal value for the test chemical was 0.80.EC3 could not be calculated as the SI total was less than 3. Hence the test chemical was considered to be not sensitizing to the skin of BAlb/c mice in the SLNA assay.
no adverse effect observed (not sensitising)
The results of the experimental studies from the various test chemicals indicate a possibility that the test chemical can be not sensitizing to skin.
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The skin sensitization potential of the test chemical was assessed based on the available results from the various test chemicals.
The dermal sensitization potential of the test chemical was assessed in guinea pigs using the Kligman – Magnusson procedure.10 female Hartley guinea pigs were used for the study.
Three pairs of injections (0.05 ml each) were administered intradermally into the shaved interscapular area of each guinea pig: Freund's complete adjuvant (in equal parts water), 0.1% the test chemical, and a mixture of equal parts of the adjuvant and dye. One week later, the sites were shaved again, and a 48-h occlusive patch containing 25% Disperse Black 9 in petrolatum was applied. Two weeks later, an occlusive challenge patch containing 25% test chemical in propylene glycol was applied to the shaved flank of each guinea pig. Sites were evaluated 24, 48, and 72 hours after patch removal.
No signs of dermal sensitization were observed on female guinea pig skin at any time point after challenge exposure.
Hence, the test chemical was considered to be not sensitizing to guinea pig skin.
This is supported by the results of LLNA assay performed on CBA/J female mice according to OECD 429 Guidelines to determine the sensitization potential of the test chemical.
The test material was soluble in dimethylformamide (DMF). This vehicle was selected on the basis of the results from a previous solubility study showing that HC Yellow n° 7 was non-soluble in other recommended vehicles, and that 25% (w/v) in DMF was the maximal practicable concentration. The test substance HC Yellow n° 7, DMF or HCA was applied in dose concentration 1, 2.5, 5, 10 or 25% (w/v) on the ears (25 μL per ear) of the animals for 3 consecutive days designated as days 1, 2 and 3. After 2 days of resting(day 6), mice received a single intravenous injection of triturated methyl thymidine (3H-TdR). Lymph nodes draining the application sites (auricular nodes) were sampled, pooled per group, and the proliferation of lymphocytes was evaluated by measuring the incorporation of 3H-TdR.The values obtained were used to calculate stimulation indices (SI), and the EC3 was estimated (theoretical concentration resulting in a SI of 3). The irritant potential of the test chemical was assessed by measuring ear thickness on days 1, 2, 3 and 6.
25% (v/v) α hexylcinnamaldehyde in DMF was used as positive control.
There were no irritation reactions and no lymphoproliferative responses, and the threshold SI of 3 values was not approached in any of the test chemical groups. Hence, the test chemical was considered to be not sensitizing in mice by LLNA method.
The above results are further supported by a sensitive mouse lymph node assay (SLNA) performed for the detection of contact allergens.
For intradermal injection of chemicals, a mixture of the chemical dissolved in saline with equivalent FCA and an emulsion was prepared for injection. Vehicle used for topical application to ears was DMF. The concentrations of the test chemical for the intradermal and topical applications were 2% and 10% respectively. Groups ofFemale BALB/c strain mice (n=3)were initially injected intradermally with a | 1,103 |
What You Can Learn from Sitting on the Sidelines
This NBA star went down with back-to-back injuries, but that time off the court made him a smarter player
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Orlando Magic guard Victor Oladipo was nearly back to 100 percent health following a sprained MCL that kept him off the court for nearly a month when it happened: SMACK!
He and a teammate collided during a late October practice, and Oladipo walked away with a cracked cheek bone. Just like that, months of offseason preparation for the second-year player and weeks of intensive rehab from the MCL injury were derailed. The 22-year-old was headed for surgery again.
"That was my lowest point as a player," says Oladipo, who made the NBA's All-Rookie First Team last year after the Magic drafted him second overall out of Indiana. "But I knew it was a test for me and my character. How do you respond to this? How can this situation make you a better player?"
For Oladipo, it meant observing—a practice he recommends for anyone struggling with injury, adversity, or disappointment. "I learned how to be patient," he says. "My first year in the league, I went 1,000 miles an hour. Sitting out and just watching gave me ideas on how to stay aggressive, but still keep everyone on the team involved. It's almost a blessing in disguise that it happened."
Logging time on the sidelines can also turn you into more of a leader, as it has for Oladipo in his second season. The Magic are the fourth-youngest team in the NBA, and when rookie Aaron Gordon recently broke his foot, he sought Oladipo's<|fim_middle|>reak Challenge
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"I told him to watch the games and ask himself what he'd do in other people's situations," says Oladipo. "You'll learn a lot, and it might even benefit your development in the long run."
He speaks from experience. Oladipo—who's featured on American Express's Homecourt Advantage, an online hub that takes you behind the scenes with your favorite young NBA players—is scoring more points than he did in his rookie year (nearly 15 a game vs. 13 last year). The guard has also tightened up his defense for an upstart Magic team that has exceeded preseason expectations.
Oladipo remains coy about the team's playoff prospects—"We just approach the season each game at a time," he says—but if he keeps producing and stays on the court, the team will remain competitive and might even make an underdog run at the playoffs.
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The rich land of Kythnos provides visitors<|fim_middle|>), prepared in the traditional way. | with a unique culinary experience. The island is known for the good meat and fresh fish, but you can also find several products that locals make themselves like sausages, crackers, white cheese and thyme honey which is considered one of the best honeys in Greece.
The local cuisine is about the same with the cuisine of the other Cycladic islands. Once you are in Kythnos, it is worth trying the cheese pie and the meat with the potatoes if you are invited in a wedding or any other celebration. The famous sfougato is a kind of cheese croquette made with cream cheese. The dairy products of Kythnos are present in every occasion and you should not miss them. It is worth mentioned that the cheese and wine of Kythnos are known from antiquity for their high quality and taste.
The cheese of Kythnos is very popular and is a must try during your stay on this island. Another famous product is the pie, served as both sweet and salty; it is available in numerous combinations such as with cheese, cinnamon, sugar and dill. Honey is another specialty of Kythnos and lasts for a very long time. Sweets are also famous in Kythnos, the most popular is the amygdalota (marzipan sweets | 258 |
Serving in Mission works hand-in-hand with evangelical churches to send and receive gospel workers equipped to make disciples of Jesus where people live and die without hearing the good<|fim_middle|>70 countries. We are committed to strengthening and equipping churches to be the expression of Christ in their communities and to reach out with cross-cultural missionary vision and action. We would love your church to be part of our vision to see more people reached.
Find out more about our mission, vision and purpose, our statement of faith and our core values.
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Our vision is to serve churches in proclaiming Christ crucified and making disciples of all nations where Christ is least known. In our constantly changing world, the gospel needs are getting greater and the need to work in partnership stronger.
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Working together with Christ-centred churches is foundational to our work at SIM. We are grateful for our gospel partnerships with churches all over the world in sending, receiving and supporting missionaries in more than | 102 |
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That's the fundamental belief which led us to start Platform University® in 2013.
Platform University is a members<|fim_middle|>iversity.com. | -only online community and public-facing blog with the training, resources, and guidance you need to build a successful online platform—all in one place!
Very simply, a platform is the thing you have to stand on to get heard. It's your stage. But unlike a stage in the theater, today's platform is not built of wood or concrete or perched on a grass hill. Today's platform is built of people. Contacts. Connections. Followers.
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Photo voltaic & energy storage solutions provider IBC SOLAR commissions 22.5 MWp project in India
IBC<|fim_middle|> a candidate for your portfolio | SOLAR has announced on Wednesday of commissioning 22.5 Mwp power project in Phalodi in Rajasthan last week.
With Phalodi, IBC SOLAR has built its sixth project in India and it tops 50 MWp installed capacity in the country, the release said. Representational Image. Image Source: IBC SOLAR
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1. IBC SOLAR has commissioned 22.5 Mwp power project in Phalodi in Rajasthan
2. With this latest project, IBC SOLAR has built its sixth power project in India
Global provider of photo voltaic and energy storage solutions and services company IBC SOLAR has announced on Wednesday of commissioning 22.5 megawatt peak (Mwp) power project in Phalodi in Rajasthan.
"Last week the 22.5 MWp project Phalodi was commissioned on time and handed over to the investor," cited IBC SOLAR in a press release.
The latest project was a co-operation between IBC SOLAR projects based in Mumbai and its parent company in Germany, it said.
With Phalodi, IBC SOLAR has built its sixth project in India and it tops 50 MWp installed capacity in the country, the release said.
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While IBC SOLAR in India had the lead and overall responsibility for the project, the engineering and technical supervision was done by the German parent company who also provided some key components.
"Engineers and construction crew had to fight loose sand as well as temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius. With this project IBC SOLAR has managed to double the size of their projects for the second time in a row," IBC SOLAR managing director Shailendra Bebortha, said in a statement.
The project also marks the important milestone of installing more than 50 MWp solar capacity in India, Bebortha further added.
Commenting on IBC SOLAR's timely delivery of project its customer LN Bangur Group director Shreeyash Bangur said, "The synchronisation of the 20 MW AC solar plant at Phalodi in Rajasthan marks a significant milestone in our drive to grow our portfolio of clean and renewable energy generation.The Project has been commissioned more than three months ahead of schedule."
The plant has been certified by the Bangalore branch of TÜV Rheinland, a leading provider of technical services worldwide.
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Every day, Kids Haven strives to live out the ideals of Nelson Mandela when he said 'it is in your hands to make the world a better place". On the 18th July 2014, many visitors came to Kids Haven and intentionally used their hands and hearts to help our children and give energy to the Organization. They came with smiles, celebrating the birthday of this unique Statesman who dedicated his life to South Africa. They came with gifts for our children to mark Madiba's birthday. Others came with party food so that all the children could have a fun-filled day. Even more came with food and clothing to fill our pantry, our fridges and our cupboards to overflowing so that we would feel the magic of Mandela's birthday for many weeks to come. Thank you to each one.
Kids Haven is grateful to every person who came to Kids Haven on Friday. Sometimes we become weighed down with the burden of suffering that we see when children walk through our door. We become angry and frustrated at systems and parents and family members who fail children. We are anxious and upset when our children fall apart after doing so well, or when some of them seem unable to take up the opportunities that Kids Haven has for them. We have our days when we wonder if we can keep moving forward.
On Mandela Day this past Friday, everyone at Kids Haven was energized by the messages of good will and strength that all our visitors brought. We were proud of our children and our home. You thanked us for the work that we do and encouraged us to keep doing it. All the visitors recognized that, while they give of their time in many small ways, Kids Haven is committed to full-time care and development of the children who live here. This was an incredible day – thank you to every person who said 'thank you', 'keep it up', 'how can I help', 'I brought you this for the children' and many other messages of support and kindness. Thank you for using your hands to make a difference.
2012 – The SEIFSA Training Centre (STC) initiated a relationship with Kids Haven in 2<|fim_middle|>iko expresses his gratitude to the SEIFSA Training Centre for giving him an opportunity to improve his life. "My dream is to become independent and be able to provide a stable life for my four siblings and myself" he concluded.
It has been a beautiful day and a rewarding experience and thank you so much for the opportunity.
Thanks to Joburg Photowalkers, Discovery, Kalahari.com, Digital Planet, Liveiro Civils, Legal & Tax, PPD, Smeg, Checkers Carnival Mall, NYDA, 94.7, CemAir, Naartjie, Bloomberg, TPA, Woolworths Nicolway, SSQ Exhibitions, APSO, Eastgate Shopping Centre, Johnson Matthey, Troux IT, The Open Society Foundation, Peacock Engineering, Bridging Loans, Major Tom, members of the Cunnings, Rees, Panther and Bothma families and Sweetness and Momo from the Council plus our angels who donated clothing and all sorts of goodies, made donations on line and funded books via Kalahari.com. THANK YOU. | 012 when the STC staff brought a donation of food and clothing to Kids Haven in commemoration of Mandela Day. In 2013, Adele Pillay (Manager: Youth Skills) approached STC requesting assistance for a young man, Nyiko S, who was about to complete his Matric.
Phalaborwa-born Nyiko and his 4 younger siblings have been living at Kids Haven for the past 8 years. Nineteen year old Nyiko was given a bursary by STC and joined the centre on 2 April 2014 and is currently training as an apprentice boilermaker.
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Food, eating habits and cusine of Bhutan
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The staple foods of Bhutan consist of rice, buckwheat and maize, and its diet, of pork, beef, yak meat, chicken and mutton. Since rice is the only crop cultivated in the country, the dishes usually contain rice in two varieties such as red and white. The red rice, however, is used in the rural areas, while the white rice is popular in urban centers. The rice-based delicacies include desi, a tasty mixture of white rice, sugar, butter, saffron and<|fim_middle|>, the Bhutanese have a common dish of steamed rice with choices of curries for both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food lovers. This dish is usually spicy and hot. International and Chinese foods are also served among the standard hotels in the tourist areas, and in restaurants in urban centers. | raisins, and zow or fried rice, which is also a mix of rice, sugar, butter and oil seeds. This is said to be a favorite of the King, and is served on special occasions. The Bhutanese even eat rice with curry at breakfast and dinner.
Bhutan's traditional dish is called ema datsi consisting of spices, cheese and chilies, which dominate most of the Bhutanese foods. The other traditional dishes include kawa-detsi, which is made of potato, cheese and chili; shama-datsi, a mixture of mushroom, cheese and chili; matar paneer, which is cheese and curried peas and also a north Indian dish; cheese momo, which is a small bun containing cabbage, cheese and onion; khuli, which is a buckwheat pancake; puta, buckwheat noodles served with curd; and kharang, dried corn kennels coarsely ground.
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According to the [[Jataka]]s and several [[sutra]]s, Mahasattva<|fim_middle|> call it by its actual name, which contains the word 'tiger', and so, as a way to protect themselves, they got into the habit of calling it "Namo Buddha."
On the eastern side of the hill is the monastic complex built by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche—Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery.
Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery
↑ The site can be accessed either through Panauti or Dhulikhel.
More information about Namo Buddha on the website of Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery
Retrieved from "https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Namo_Buddha&oldid=68698" | was one of [[Buddha Shakyamuni]]'s former incarnations. He was the youngest of the three sons of king Maharatha. One day as the three brothers were walking through the forest, they saw a tigress with the five cubs she had given birth to. She was so hungry she could hardly move. The three princes went away, but Mahasattva decided to go back and started to cut his flesh to give it to the tigress to eat. When his brothers went to look for him they found only his bones and hair. The stupa was built on top of these remains.
[[Image:StoneNB.jpg|thumb|200px|Stone with engraved scene of the Buddha offering his body]]
[[Image:DetailstoneNB.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Stone with engraved scene of the Buddha offering his body]]
Walking up the hill from the stupa, one can reach a place where the scene of the Buddha giving his body to the tigress is engraved in stone. According to the oral tradition, this is the actual place where the Buddha gave his body.
Namo Buddha Stupa
Namo Buddha or Takmo Lüjin (Wyl. stag mo lus sbyin) is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site of Nepal, and one of the three main stupas of the Kathmandu valley. Situated about 40 km to the south east of Kathmandu city, the stupa built on the bones and hair of prince Mahasattva (Tib. Semchen Chenpo), stands on the slopes of the Gandha Malla hill[1].
According to the Jatakas and several sutras, Mahasattva was one of Buddha Shakyamuni's former incarnations. He was the youngest of the three sons of king Maharatha. One day as the three brothers were walking through the forest, they saw a tigress with the five cubs she had given birth to. She was so hungry she could hardly move. The three princes went away, but Mahasattva decided to go back and started to cut his flesh to give it to the tigress to eat. When his brothers went to look for him they found only his bones and hair. The stupa was built on top of these remains.
Stone with engraved scene of the Buddha offering his body
Following the ridge to a second summit on the same hill, there is also a small stupa which is said to mark the den of the tigress. There, pilgrims lie down on the ground as if giving their bodies, and hair and pieces of cloth are hung to the branches of the tree for protection.
Statue of the Buddha and tigress near the den of the tigress
The Tibetan name Takmo Lujin derives from the events that took place on the site (stag mo means 'tigress', lus 'body', and sbyin 'to give'). Local people call it Namo Buddha (Lit. 'Homage to the Buddha!'). Because the region was infested with tigers, the local people wouldn't | 642 |
Evelyn Lamont, 93, of Fulton, passed away at the home of her daughter on Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
Born in Sweden, she came to the United States in 1916 and lived in Utica. She and her husband moved from Oswego to Fulton in 1942. A homemaker, she was an active, involved member of State Street United Methodist Church and her community. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Frederick in 2001.
Surviving are her daughter, G<|fim_middle|> mother. I will always remember her ever present warm and welcoming smile. Please accept my apologies for not attending her services – I simply missed any announcement in the paper. | ail Chesbro of Fulton; her son, Gary (wife, Pam) of Delhi; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
A calling hour will be held 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, January 2, 2010 with a 12 p.m. service to follow at State Street United Methodist Church, Fulton.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to State Street United Methodist Church, 357 State Street, Fulton, 13069; Friends of Oswego County Hospice, P.O. Box 102, Oswego, 13126 or to Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc., 116 Main St., Delhi, 13753.
Your mother was my Sunday school teacher when I was growing up. She touched many lives and will be remembered fondly. I am sorry for your loss but thankful that she was a part of my early faith. May your memories of her comfort you.
I remember Mrs. Lamont from my childhood, as being a friend of my Grandmother, Tressa Moon. When I was very small I thought her name was Mrs. Lemon, because I had misunderstood her name. She always had a smile on her face, and I'll bet that never changed in the years since I saw her last.
So sorry to hear of your Mom's passing. When I was very young I met her through the Soukey family. Christine Soukey & I went to many mother -daughter luncheons @ State St. Church with your mom. She was a very kind and generous person. I have & will always remember her fondly.
Please accept my condolences on the loss of your | 358 |
Appalach<|fim_middle|> The Bolivar Bullet | ian Trailblazers – Bolivar Countians taking the walk of a lifetime
Hiking the Appalachian Trail might sound easy. But strap on a 45-pound pack and the game changes. Factor in steep inclines, impossible rocks, slippery tree roots, blaring sun, rain, wind, snow, ticks, bears, snakes, spiders, mud, blisters (lots of blisters), shin splints, twisted ankles, body odor beyond description, and snoring shelter mates.
So why take on the elements, pain, and suffering?
"Because it's the experience of a lifetime!" says John Denton, a retired farmer who grew up in Shelby and lives in Cleveland. "Once you do the Appalachian Trail, you won't ever be the same again."
And he means it.
Two of the County's 2,000-Milers
Every year, an estimated two to three million people hike a little or a lot of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail, a footpath that extends from Georgia to Maine. Many start the five-million-step journey; few finish. In fact, since the 1930s, only 20,115 hikers have earned the prestigious 2,000-miler status. These include the "thru-hikers," who traverse the entire trail in a single season and the "section hikers," who complete the AT over multiple years
Many who have hiked the trail, say it is one of those life-changing experiences. In fact, those who have hiked it, categorize everything as "before the trail" or "after the trail."
Blake Moore, of Cleveland, was in college when he completed a 28-day backpacking trip in the Eastern Alaska mountain range as part of the National Outdoor Leadership School. This, in addition to a spring break trip to the Appalachian Trail, was inspiration for a "thru hike," which he completed at the age of 26, starting April 12 and finishing September 15.
"Thru hiking the AT was something I'd always wanted to do," says Moore. "I'd planned on doing it when I graduated from college, but then I went to work as an accountant. The last thing you want to do in a professional career is ask for six months off. But I did it anyway." (By the way, he was promoted and given a raise while on the trail.)
Denton section hiked the AT in just two seasons. Over the 2017 and 2018 summers, at the ages of 65 and 66, Denton alternated his time between the trail and the Delta.
"I read about the trail back in the '60s—I must have been 12 or 13 years old," he recalled. "The article was in National Geographic, and I said, 'One of these days I'm going to do that!' A few years ago, I thought I better hurry up. I almost waited too long."
Appalachian Trail hikers don't know each other by their given names. Instead, they go by trail names, which are usually gifted by fellow hikers according to noticeable habits, hobbies, or peculiarities.
Moore is "Mississippi Bear" because of Ole Miss's mascot debate of Colonel Reb versus the Black Bear. Although it's not the reason for his trail name, Moore is quick to recount a bear sighting in the Shenandoahs.
"One day I had my headphones on and was just rocking out the miles," he said. "I looked over and there was a bear, eating blueberries by the trail. I was like, 'Hi bear!' I was so close that I could have touched him."
Denton, appropriately is "Johnny Walker"—not because he drinks whiskey, but because he walks—a lot.
"I started with a group and hiked with them all the way to Virginia," says Denton. "I got off the trail for six weeks and then got back on at Hanover, New Hampshire. I didn't get across the street before I heard, 'Hey, Johnny Walker!' I fell right back in my same bunch."
The Big Concerns
"Hike your own hike" is the wise advice for hiking the Appalachian Trail. But, there are a few concerns that all hikers share on the trail.
Of course, shelter and water top the list. Shelters are dotted along the trail, and most hikers come prepared with ample clothing, sleeping bags, and tents or hammocks. As for water, creeks and springs are plentiful along the AT. On his hike, Moore didn't filter his water and had no problems. Denton always filtered his.
Minor injuries are to be expected (and hopefully prevented) on the trail. Blisters, sore muscles, fatigued knees, pack rash, and twisted ankles are just part of the fun. Pain and discomfort are constants, so there's no use in complaining. Clothes are never dry due to either rain, snow, or sweat.
It's the major injuries that are most worrisome. Imagine hiking all the way from Georgia to Maine and then having to give up and go home. That almost happened to Denton.
"I usually busted my you-know-what every 50 miles on the trail," he said. "I got all the way through New Hampshire and the rocks. The trail was finally getting a little easier. I was happy and bumping along when, all of a sudden, I fell hard. I screamed—it hurt so bad. I thought somebody was going to have to carry me out of there."
Eventually Denton got back up on his feet and hobbled three-tenths of a mile to a shelter.
"I thought I was done," he admitted. "But, the next morning I got up and kept going. I limped the rest of the way—I barely made it up Mount Katahdin."
Gear, pack weight, and proper footwear are other concerns. Then comes basic sustenance. With five million steps come at least one million thoughts of food.
"I figured out how to eat," Moore said, explaining that he had to change his diet after losing 30 pounds in the first three weeks of his hike. "It's all about calories. My goal was to eat ten thousand calories a day. I didn't always hit that, but it was my goal."
It's tough to eat that much without weighing down the pack. So, as THE TREK wisdom dictates, a hiker "should eat as much as possible, whenever possible." That means making the most of the occasional restaurants, fast-food joints, and gas station stores.
"You gorge yourself as much as you can when you get to town," Moore advised.
On the trail, hikers must carry high-calorie, low-weight food. A few of the favorites are tuna packets, dried fruit, peanut butter, Cheetos, tortillas, jerky, and dehydrated meals, as well as Pop Tarts, instant oatmeal, Nabs, instant coffee, and Snickers chocolate bars.
"I think my daily intake was three Snickers bars a day," Moore added.
Memories of a Lifetime
Completing the Appalachian Trail isn't as much about physical conditioning or prior backpacking experience as it is about raw determination. That was the case with Denton whose slow pace dictated early starts and late finishes. Moore suffered stress fractures to both shins negotiating a long, steep downhill slope, which resulted in ten days of forced rest.
Yes, there are challenges on the Appalachian Trail. But ,according to these hikers, the rewards far outweigh the difficulties. Lifelong friendships are made on the trail, bonds that connect people who appreciate the decision to make the arduous 2,200-mile walk.
Moore hiked the second half of the trail with a group of close friends—Team Party, as they called themselves. It's twelve years later, and they still keep in touch.
Denton once met up with an 80-year-old thru hiker.
"I thought, 'Man, I've found somebody I can hike with because he's going slow like me.' We bumped along for a while, then all of a sudden he was like the road runner—beep, beep, ptewwwwww!"
Mindfulness teaches us to live in the present, to notice details and be grateful. On the AT, a hiker's schedule is cleared by five million steps, one foot in front of the other. There are a lot of mindful moments.
"On the trail I kept having childhood memories—stuff I'd never thought about before," says Denton. "Maybe that's the reason I was so slow—my brain was going faster than my feet. You think about stuff you did and some stuff you wish you didn't do. A lot of people are running away from stuff."
"For me, the trail made me live in the moment," says Moore. "Every day is its own. Don't take it for granted."
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Published: 11:55 AM June 5, 2008
YOU batter believe it because there is nothing fishy about this!Keen fly fisher Grant Coleman, 91, certainly has his heart in the right 'plaice' as he has spent the last ten years catching fish and giving them away to family and friends in exchange for a donation to St Elizabeth Hospice.
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Keen fly fisher Grant Coleman, 91, certainly has his heart in the right 'plaice' as he has spent the last ten years catching fish and giving them away to family and friends in exchange for a donation to St Elizabeth Hospice.
Proving that his hobby hasn't just been for the halibut, he has just handed a cheque over to the hospice for an amazing £1,353.
Although he rarely goes fishing now, he is keen to reel in some help from others in the community to follow in his footsteps.
Mr Coleman, of Market Hill, Woodbridge, said: "I will be 92 on my next birthday and therefore I have reluctantly decided that gutting my own trout is no longer an option. "I would encourage any fisherman or anyone else that has any spare fish to follow my lead and give them away in exchange for a small donation for the hospice".
Brought up in Dublin, Mr Coleman, a member of the Suffolk Fly Fishers Club, began learning the skill of fishing when he was just six years old.
However when he moved to London to become an accountant, he gave up fishing and didn't return to his favourite pastime for 50 years.
When he eventually retired and moved to his wife's home county of Suffolk, he started to regularly fish at a trout lake in Trimley St Martin. It got to a point that he was catching too many to store in his freezer so after gutting them and having them smoked at Orford's smoke house, he began to give them away to family and friends.
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Romilly-sur-Seine est une commune française située dans le département de l'Aube, en région Grand Est. C'est la deuxième commune de l'Aube par sa population. Ses habitants sont appelés les Romillons.
Géographie
Localisation
Romilly-sur-Seine est une commune située au sud de la limite entre le département de l'Aube et celui de la Marne (au nord). Elle est accessible par la route à au nord-ouest de Troyes, à au sud de Reims et à au sud-est de Paris. Les communes limitrophes sont Pars-lès-Romilly, Maizières-la-Grande-Paroisse, Marcilly-sur-Seine, Gélannes, Saint-Hilaire-sous-Romilly et Conflans-sur-Seine.
Communes limitrophes
Géologie et relief
La commune de Romilly-sur-Seine est située dans la plaine de Champagne crayeuse. Seule éminence notable à l'ouest de la ville, une colline qui culmine à et domine le reste de la commune de quelque . Depuis cette colline se découvre l'horizon très vaste des platitudes champenoises.
Géologiquement, le territoire de la commune se partage en deux ensembles. Au nord, les dépôts fluviatiles laissés par les divagations du lit de la Seine que souligne la couverture végétale boisée, largement colonisée par les peupleraies, et trouée de gravières anciennes ou encore en exploitation. Au sud, les étendues sur sous-sol crayeux, livrées, lorsqu'elles ne sont pas bâties, à la grande culture à dominante céréalière.
L'altitude, comparée avec d'autres villes de l'Aube et de Champagne-Ardenne donne ceci :
Hydrographie
Contrairement à ce que pourrait laisser sous-entendre le nom de la commune, la Seine ne la traverse pas. La commune est bâtie au sud des zones inondables, en marge de la vallée du fleuve. Lui-même, partagé en de nombreux bras divaguant dans le lit majeur, reste difficilement identifiable. Le bras principal coule sur les confins nord du territoire de la ville, et ce n'est qu'après son confluent avec la rivière de l'Aube sur le territoire de la commune limitrophe de Marcilly-sur-Seine, que le cours de la Seine retrouve plus de cohérence. À l'imprécision de son cours, l'activité des hommes a ajouté sa marque : le tracé des bras les plus proches de la commune a été largement rectifié, canalisé, barré pour venir alimenter les moulins hydrauliques installés sur leur cours.
Dans l'ensemble, ce tracé complexe ajouté à la proximité du confluent avec l'Aube a créé un très vaste lit majeur, où se sont développées des activités spécifiques : sylviculture, trouée de pâturages et de plantations de maïs, horticulture, exploitation des sables et graviers, toujours active, meunerie, aujourd'hui disparue. Se développent aujourd'hui dans ce poumon vert de la ville, de plus en plus d'activités touristiques ludiques et halieutiques, qui bénéficient des nombreux aménagements réalisés ces dernières années.
Climat
Le climat de Romilly-sur-Seine est « tempéré océanique humide » (Cfb) d'après la Classification de Köppen. Il s'agit donc d'un climat océanique dégradé proche de celui de la région parisienne qui donne lieu à une atmosphère douce et humide. Les précipitations restent modérées autour de et réparties sur toute l'année, l'enneigement reste exceptionnel. Les températures moyennes oscillent de +2° à +18°. La commune est située comme toute la région dans une zone de conflit des masses d'air océaniques et continentales.
La station météorologique de Météo-France installée sur la commune et mise en service en 1881 permet de connaître en continu l'évolution des indicateurs météorologiques. Le tableau détaillé pour la période 1981-2010 est présenté ci-après.
Voies de communication et transports
La commune possède une gare TER Champagne-Ardenne et Intercités (Ligne de Paris-Est à Mulhouse-Ville) avec plusieurs aller-retours quotidiens reliant la gare de Paris-Est à Belfort, et desservant les gares de Nogent-sur-Seine, Troyes, Vendeuvre-sur-Barse, Bar-sur-Aube, Chaumont, Langres, Culmont-Chalindrey, Vesoul, Lure et Belfort.
Il existe un réseau de cars interurbains reliant différentes communes du département et allant jusqu'à Troyes.
L'aérodrome de Romilly-sur-Seine a été fermé en 2011.
Morphologie urbaine
Le bâti le plus dense, accolé, avec des toitures rouges à deux pans et différentes hauteurs, est compris entre la rivière et le canal, qui forment une boucle au nord, et la ligne de chemin de fer, située un peu plus au sud et suivant la même courbe. Au sud de la voie, l'urbanisation, plus récente, est composée de zones d'activités et de vastes lotissements avec voiries en impasses.
En cœur de ville, Romilly-sur-Seine garde son charme d'antan avec une architecture atypique. Face à la gare, les maisons bourgeoises rappellent l'essor du passé industriel de la ville de Romilly-sur-Seine.
Logement
En 2008, on dénombrait un total de maisons reparties en résidences principales, 924 résidences secondaires et 129 logements vacants. La majorité de ces lotissements ont été construits de 1949 à 1974. Il y a personnes qui en étaient propriétaires et qui en étaient locataires dont 240 gratuitement.
Projets d'aménagements
Les projets d'aménagement tendent vers la sécurité (avec l'installation de vidéo-surveillance) et le développement économique (avec la zone d'activités Aéromia)
Urbanisme
Typologie
Romilly-sur-Seine est une commune urbaine. Elle fait en effet partie des communes denses ou<|fim_middle|>il (1973), artiste-peintre né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Noan Lelarge (1975), coureur cycliste professionnel, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Héraldique, logotype et devise
Notes et références
Notes
Références
Pour approfondir
Bibliographie
Luc Hanus, Romilly-sur-Seine : Étude de géographie urbaine, 1951, 159 pages
Pierre Kalmar et André Dequéant - Soirées de boxe à Romilly-sur-Seine - Album de photographies anciennes - CRÉBU NIGO - 2014.
Pierre Guillaumot, Hier et d'aujourd'hui - 3 tomes
Pierre Guillaumot, Voltaire et l'énigme de Sellières
Articles connexes
Liste des communes de l'Aube
Liens externes
Site de la mairie
Romilly-sur-Seine
Commune dans l'Aube
Unité urbaine de Romilly-sur-Seine
Aire urbaine de Romilly-sur-Seine
Commune ayant porté un nom révolutionnaire dans l'Aube | de densité intermédiaire, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Romilly-sur-Seine, une agglomération intra-départementale regroupant et en , dont elle est ville-centre.
Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Romilly-sur-Seine, dont elle est la commune-centre. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .
Occupation des sols
L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (39,8 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (42,7 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (24,3 %), zones urbanisées (20 %), terres arables (18,7 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (15,5 %), zones industrielles ou commerciales et réseaux de communication (8,4 %), eaux continentales (5,1 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (4,9 %), espaces verts artificialisés, non agricoles (1,8 %), prairies (1,4 %).
L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).
Toponymie
Le nom du village est attesté sous la forme latinisée Romeliacum en 1163. Il s'agit d'un archétype gallo-roman *ROMILIACU, formé sur le nom de personne latin (porté par un Gaulois) Romilius, suivi du suffixe gallo-roman *-ACU, issu du gaulois *-ako.
Homonymie avec les nombreux Romilly, Rumilly, Remilly, Romillé, etc.
Le corps de Voltaire décédé en 1778 à Paris, y a été inhumé pendant quelques années dans l'abbaye de Sellières dont le prieur était son neveu, avant que sa dépouille ne soit ramenée à Paris et transférée au Panthéon : l'épisode explique l'appellation des lieux-dits portant le nom de Voltaire-Sellières.
Au cours de la Révolution française, la commune porta provisoirement le nom de Romilly-Voltaire.
Cadastre de 1810 : Il citait comme existant sur le territoire : les Abattoirs, les Ateliers, le pont Bancelin, la Noue des Barges, les Barres, la Belle-Idée, Bonnefasche, le Vieux-Bordel, la Boule-d'Or, le canal et la ferme du Château, Froid-Cul, Gué-Bourgeois et celui du Vailly, Hauts-Buissons, l'Ile et celle du Manoir, Lions, Maisons-Bourgeat, Maladière, Montois, la Motte et celle de Pars, Pont-Aubry, le Ravois, bois de Romilly, Sellières, Sainte-Colombe, la Villotte, Valdray.
Le Mesnil : lieu-dit où se trouvait un marais, une croullière, le moulin Ners et celui de Megny.
Histoire
Origines
Comme dans toute la vallée de la Seine, la voie de passage y a très tôt fixé le peuplement. Ce qui est attesté est l'existence d'une occupation gallo-romaine du site de la colline des Hauts Buissons: à proximité du cimetière actuel s'érige une croix dont le site aurait pu être autrefois un lieu de culte gallo-romain, dont il ne reste peu de traces perceptibles. En tout état de cause, les quelques vestiges attestent que ce fut un lieu de sépulture.
Moyen Âge à l'époque moderne
Une abbaye cistercienne a été fondée au .
Jusqu'à la révolution de 1789, Romilly-sur-Seine fut un village rural cerné de bourgs urbains (Sézanne au nord, Nogent-sur-Seine à l'ouest) qui concentraient de longue date les fonctions de commandement. Cette histoire justifie que quoique trois fois moins peuplée, la ville de Nogent ait rang de sous-préfecture dont dépend Romilly.
Le est marqué par l'apparition de la bonneterie à Romilly-sur-Seine. L'ensemble de ces métiers de l'habillement ont permis la création de . Profitant de ce succès fort de la bonneterie, Émile Camuset crée en 1882 un atelier de bonneterie à Romilly-sur-Seine et donne naissance à Le coq sportif.
Époque contemporaine
Le Grand Quartier Général de l'armée française est installé à Romilly-sur-Seine du au .
En 1918 se créée une base aérienne, qui accueille les équipes et moyens du Grand Parc Aéronautique (GPAé), qui sera suivi, en 1919, d'un important dépôt d'aviation.
La veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Romilly-sur-Seine est une base aérienne importante, dotée d'un centre de pilotage, replié à Étampes en . Elle conservera une station radar jusqu'en 1989, date de sa fermeture.
À la suite de l'invasion et de l'occupation de la France par les forces allemandes, la Luftwaffe y établit une base d'opération. Celle-ci est par la suite sujette au bombardement aérien par des formations américaines.
Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le char Romilly fut le premier à rentrer dans Paris lors de sa libération en août 1944.
Un comité de jumelage a été créé en 1960. Les premières villes à l'avoir rejoint sont Gotha (Allemagne) et Medicina (Italie)la
Politique et administration
Administration territoriale
Romilly-sur-Seine est le centre de la communauté de communes des portes de Romilly-sur-Seine, qui regroupe les communes de Crancey, Gélannes, Maizières-la-Grande-Paroisse, Pars-lès-Romilly, et Saint-Hilaire-sous-Romilly. Par nombre d'habitants, il s'agit de la première intercommunalité du département de l'Aube hors unité urbaine. Elle est également le chef-lieu de deux cantons : le canton de Romilly-sur-Seine-1 qui groupe une partie de Romilly-sur-Seine et 11 communes et compte habitants (recensement de 2008 sans doubles comptes) et le canton de Romilly-sur-Seine-2 qui est composé du nord de la commune et compte .
Au , plusieurs équipements de la commune passeront sous la contrôle de l'intercommunalité : ferme pédagogique, piscine.
Tendances politiques et résultats
Liste des maires
Le conseil municipal est composé de 33 membres conformément à l'article L2121-2 du Code général des collectivités territoriales. À l'issue des élections municipales de 2008, Eric Vuillemin a été élu maire de Romilly-sur-Seine et succède à Michel Cartelet. La commune bascule à cette occasion à la droite pour la première fois depuis 1949. Depuis cette date, quatre maires se sont succédé :
Instances judiciaires et administratives
Dans le domaine judiciaire, la commune dépend de la commune de Troyes qui possède un tribunal d'instance et de grande instance, d'un tribunal de commerce, d'un conseil des prud'hommes et d'un tribunal pour enfants et dépend de la cour d'appel de Reims et de la cour administrative d'appel de Nancy.
Politique environnementale
La politique environnementale est marquée par l'installation d'espaces naturels dont le plus connu est le parc naturel de la Béchère, par les projets d'aménagement ou de recréation de quartiers dans le but d'améliorer le cadre de vie de la population et par l'instauration du tri sélectif.
5 ZNIEFF (Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique) sont identifiées sur la commune :
Bois alluviaux, prairies et marais du Grand Haut à Romilly-sur-Seine (type 1) ;
Marais et bois de la vallée du Pars au sud-ouest de Romilly-sur-Seine (type 1) ;
Forêts, marais et prairies de Sellières entre Romilly-sur-Seine et Conflans-sur-Seine (type 1) ;
La vallée de la Seine de la chapelle-Saint-Luc à Romilly-sur-Seine (type 2) ;
Les milieux naturels et secondaires de la vallée de la Seine (type 2).
Jumelages
Au , Romilly-sur-Seine est jumelée avec :
Population et société
Démographie
Évolution démographique
Pyramide des âges
En 2018, le taux de personnes d'un âge inférieur à s'élève à 35,1 %, soit en dessous de la moyenne départementale (35,2 %). À l'inverse, le taux de personnes d'âge supérieur à est de 30,2 % la même année, alors qu'il est de 27,7 % au niveau départemental.
En 2018, la commune comptait pour , soit un taux de 53,24 % de femmes, légèrement supérieur au taux départemental (51,41 %).
Les pyramides des âges de la commune et du département s'établissent comme suit.
Enseignement
Romilly-sur-Seine est située dans l'Académie de Reims. La commune administre six écoles maternelles et six écoles élémentaires publiques. Les Romillons disposent également d'une école primaire privée. Elle compte deux collèges publics gérés par le département et un collège privé. Enfin, la région Champagne-Ardenne gère un lycée d'enseignement général et technologique et un lycée professionnel. Écoles maternelles publiques.
Écoles maternelles : Elsa-Triolet, école Eugénie-Cotton, école de Lion, école Gambetta, école Robespierre, école Romain-Rolland.
Écoles élémentaires publiques : école Eugénie-Cotton, école de Lion, école Gambetta, école Mignonnette, école Robespierre, école Romain-Rolland.
Écoles privées : école Sainte-Anne.
Collèges publics : collège Paul-Langevin, collège Le Noyer-Marchand.
Collèges privés : collège Saint-Joseph.
Lycées publics : lycée polyvalent Frédéric-et-Irène-Joliot-Curie, lycée professionnel Denis-Diderot.
Enseignement supérieur :lycée polyvalent Frédéric-et-Irène-Joliot-Curie (BTS Technico-commercial option Génie Mécanique et Électrique).
Santé
Le centre hospitalier Maurice-Camuset de Romilly-sur-Seine, d'une capacité de 310 lits, comprend un service d'urgences générales comprenant un service mobile d'urgence et de réanimation (SMUR), un service de long séjour, un service de médecine, un service de cardiologie, une maternité, une unité de soins palliatifs, un service de radiologie, scanner, échographie, un service de consultations externes et un laboratoire.
La commune compte un établissement public de santé mentale de l'Aube, une clinique privé (Ccinique du pays de Seine), trois maisons de retraite (Les jardins de Romilly, résidence Pasteurs et résidence Julien-Monnard) ainsi qu'une maison de santé regroupant plusieurs professionnels de santé (1 orthophoniste, 2 sages femmes libérales, 2 psychologues, 2 chirurgiens dentistes, 4 cabinets infirmiers, 1 pédicure podologue, 1 diététicien…).
Sports
Il existe de nombreux clubs de sport à Romilly :
Aéromodélisme : route départementale D 160 (entre Maizières-la-Grande-Paroisse et Pars-les-Romilly)
Modélisme ferroviaire : route départementale R 160 (station Total)
Athlétisme : stade Bardin-Gousserey
Badminton : COSEC le Noyer Marchand
Boxe Thaïlandaise : salle des Champs-Élysées
Boules Lyonnaises : boulodrome municipal J.-Ramelot
Cyclisme : stade Bardin-Gouserey / école Robespierre
Cyclo VTT : stade Bardin-Gousserey
Culturisme : salle des Champs-Élysées
Danse : salle des Champs Élysées / école-Gambetta
Danse orientale : salle des Champs-Élysées
Qi gong : école Gambetta
Équitation : Cercle hippique
Escalade : COSEC le Noyer Marchand
Escrime : école Gambetta
Football : stade Bardin-Gousserey
Catch : salle des Champs-Élysées
Gymnastique : dojo de la Béchère
Handball : stade Bardin-Gousserey
Judo : Dojo de la béchère
Karaté : COSEC Noyer-Marchand
Piscine : piscine municipale : Les 3-Vagues ; centre aquatique Jean-Moulin
Boxe Française : salle des Champs-Élysées
Romilly Rugby Club : stade Thierry-Moussin à la Belle Idée
Taekwondo : école Gambetta
Tennis : stade Bardin-Gousserey
Tennis de table : salle Equey
Tir à l'arc : COSEC Noyer-Marchand /Béchère
Ultra-léger motorisé : ancien aérodrome de Romilly-sur-Seine
Médias
Née en 1982, Radio Aube et Seine est une radio locale associative couvrant Romilly-sur-Seine et son intercommunalité. Il émet sur le et est composé d'une quinzaine de bénévoles. Sa programmation est axée principalement sur la chanson française et sur les années 1960 à 1980. Elle diffuse également des programmes locaux et des émissions techno, rap et hard-rock.
La ville est couverte par les programmes de France 3 Champagne-Ardenne et les chaînes nationales de la TNT. Elle reçoit la chaîne locale Canal 32 via l'émetteur des Riceys.
Cultes
Les habitants de Romilly-sur-Seine disposent :
de trois lieux de culte catholique : l'église Saint-Martin, la chapelle Notre-Dame et la chapelle du Presbytère ;
de deux églises évangéliques ;
d'une mosquée administrée par l'Association Islamique de Romilly-sur-Seine (A.I.R).
Économie
Généralités
Depuis le milieu des années 1970 jusqu'à la fin des années 1990, elle a subi de plein fouet la crise industrielle liée à la concurrence croissante des pays à bas salaires. Les fermetures, les délocalisations, les licenciements se sont multipliés particulièrement dans le textile et ont traumatisé la population qui a connu un exode important, particulièrement entre 1975 et 1982 : moins habitants. De nombreux ateliers ont ainsi fermé comme Absorba, Devanlay, Le coq sportif, Jacquemard et ses filiales Aube Chaussettes et Olympia à la suite du transfert de l'usine.
Néanmoins, entre la fin des années 1990 et la première moitié des années 2000, les emplois dans les services se sont développés: implantation de services de santé (scanner, extension d'un hôpital de jour), création d'une nouvelle zone commerciale sur une friche militaire (zone de la "Belle Idée"). La commune, en lien avec la région, le département, les offices HLM et l'Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine a entrepris un vaste projet de restructuration urbaine destiné à améliorer le « Nouveau Romilly ». Ce projet se structurait autour de la naissance d'un centre culturel, des démolitions d'immeubles vétustes, de constructions de nouveaux pavillons.
Ce dynamisme a aussi reposé sur la rénovation des services de proximité : hôpital public et clinique du pays de Seine, lycée Joliot-Curie et lycée professionnel Denis-Diderot qui en font le deuxième pôle du département. La commune a aussi une antenne de la Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Troyes et de l'Aube. Ce dynamisme retrouvé s'est concrétisé par une évolution démographique nettement plus positive que celle de la Champagne-Ardenne.
À noter que la première étape de la LGV Rhin-Rhône a permis de libérer de la capacité, faisant profiter Romilly de 10 AR avec Paris pour une ville où l'immobilier est bien moins cher qu'à Troyes ou en Ile-de-France, gage certain de développement urbain et péri-urbain à l'instar de Nogent-sur-Seine.
Revenus de la population et fiscalité
En 2008, le revenu fiscal médian par ménage est de , ce qui plaçait Romilly-sur-Seine au rang parmi les communes de plus de 50 ménages en métropole.
Emploi
Selon les résultats du recensement de 2008, la population active (15-64 ans) de la commune compte personnes, soit 66,7 %, ce taux est de 71,4 % au niveau départemental. Les 15-64 ans représentent 13,6 % de chômeurs, 53,1 % de personnes ayant un emploi et 33,3 % d'inactifs. Les inactifs se répartissent de la façon suivante : les retraités ou préretraités représentent 12,3 % de la population active, les scolarisés 8,7 %, les autres inactifs 12,3 %.
En 2008, le taux de chômage (au sens du recensement) parmi les actifs de la commune est de 20,4 %, en augmentation par rapport à 1999 (19,5 %). Au , on compte à la recherche d'un emploi dont 445 chômeurs de longue durée.
Sur les actives de plus de 15 ans ayant un emploi, travaillent dans cette commune.
Répartition des plus de 15 ans selon le secteur d'activité
Entreprises et établissements
Au , la commune de Romilly-sur-Seine compte 518 entreprises hors agriculture et 83 ont été créées sur le territoire.
Répartition des établissements par domaines d'activité
Répartition des créations d'entreprises par secteur d'activité en 2009
Agriculture
En 2000, la commune compte de superficie agricole utilisée dont pour les grandes cultures et pour les agricultures en provenance d'autres animaux.
Industries
L'activité économique de la commune a longtemps reposé sur une base essentiellement industrielle :
le technicentre SNCF installé dès 1887 pour l'entretien et la réparation des fourgons et voitures à voyageurs notamment les Corail VU ;
le groupe Jacquemard, détenteur de la marque Olympia, leader français du chaussant et toujours présent sur la commune. En 2010, le tribunal de commerce de Troyes accepte que la production soit transférée à Vagney ;
les usines de bonneterie dont notamment les ateliers d'Émile Camuset qui sont le point de départ de la marque Le Coq sportif, la Sorotex qui fabriquait les sous-vêtements Jil mais qui a été reprise en Chine par le groupe Yangtzekiang ainsi que la Maroquinerie de Champagne ;
les usines de cycles : les vélos Peugeot y étaient fabriqués, puis « Cycles Peugeot » est devenu « Cycleurope International ». Cette dernière a été reprise par Peugeot en 2004 à la suite de la fin de contrat avec Cycleurope.
Commerces
Romilly-sur-Seine bénéficie de la proximité avec la ville de Troyes, capitale européenne des magasins d'usine et de négoce en Europe grâce à ses boutiques de grandes marques de vêtements, chaussures, lingeries, maroquineries et arts de la table.
Le volet commercial est marqué par l'ouverture en 2005 du centre commercial de la Belle Idée qui accueille un centre E.Leclerc ainsi qu'une sélection de boutiques. L'année suivante une autre zone d'activité commerciale a vu le jour, celui-ci est composée d'un supermarché Carrefour Market et d'une sélection d'enseignes
de la grande distribution.
En 2016, le parc d'activité Aéromia, situé entre les deux zones commerciales (mentionnées ci-dessus), offre la possibilité à de nouvelles enseignes de s'implanter sur le territoire. Ainsi des entreprises du tertiaire, de l'industrie ou de l'artisanat s'implantent.
Culture locale et patrimoine
Culture
Cinéma l'Eden
Galerie Jean-Paul-Belmondo
Conservatoire Gabriel-Willaume
Médiathèque
Espace culturel François-Mitterrand : salle des fêtes et salle de spectacles
Loisirs
le Parc de la Béchère : Circuits de randonnée, parcours de santé, arboretum, plan d'eau-pêche, jeux... (autrefois le parc du château)
la ferme pédagogique : animaux de la ferme, balade en calèche, mini-golf
les équipements sportifs : stade Bardin-Gousserey (terrains de foot, de basket, de tennis, piste d'athlétisme...), salle des Champs-Élysées (boxe, fitness, gymnastique...), stade Romain-Rolland (terrains de foot, de basket...), Complexe Sportif Évolutif Couvert (COSEC)
le centre aquatique Les 3-Vagues : trois bassins, un espace O'Calme, une petite plage
Fêtes et calendrier
le marché de Noël
les brocantes et fêtes foraines
les marchés hebdomadaires : tous les lundis, jeudis et samedis en centre-ville.
Patrimoine
Le château
Le dernier château de Romilly, qui occupait sensiblement l'emplacement des moulins de la SCARM (société coopérative agricole de Romilly et Méry-sur-Seine) fut construit en 1719 sur les ruines de deux anciens châteaux féodaux le château Nicey et le château st-Jacques. Après la mort en 1851 de son dernier propriétaire, le banquier parisien Olry Worms de Romilly, le domaine fut partagé par ses héritiers et le château livré aux démolisseurs au début de l'année 1854. Il avait sa chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Témoin de ce passé, il reste aujourd'hui le rocher et le parc de la Béchère.
L'église Saint-Martin
Construite à partir de 1903, elle n'a été achevée qu'en 1971 avec l'installation d'un clocher en bois puis en béton. Elle remplace l'ancienne église du , détruite en 1905 en raison de son délabrement, mais dont les vitraux, les cloches et l'orgue ont pu être restaurés. La partie instrumentale de ce dernier, œuvre de Paul Férat (1883), est classée en tant qu'objet, depuis 1982, à l'inventaire des monuments historiques. Cette église était d'une paroisse du doyenné de Marigny à la collation de l'évêque qui fut élevée en cure de deuxième classe le .
Deux fresques de Dom Angelico Surchamp ont été réalisées dans le narthex de cette église en 2012 et 2013 par l'association les Passeurs de Fresque de Troyes.
L'Association des vitraux pour Romilly œuvre à la création de vitraux dans cette église. Il s'agit d'un programme, ayant comme thème Lumière et Eau, principes de vie, de nouveaux vitraux ont été réalisés de 2010 à 2017. C'est Joël Mône et l'atelier Vitrail Saint-Georges de Lyon, qui sont chargés de cette création.
La bonneterie
L'industrie a marqué la ville de Romilly-sur-Seine avec la bonneterie. Aujourd'hui, les maisons bourgeoises des patrons de bonnetiers ont été conservées en l'état et ornent le centre-ville. Le style Art Nouveau définit l'architecture de ces habitations. Les façades des anciennes usines (Jacquemard, les ateliers d'Émile Camuset...), proche de ces résidences, témoignent de ce passé. En bref, pour ne manquer aucun détail et pour comprendre cette histoire, mieux vaut prendre le temps de visiter la ville.
Un musée intitulé "L'espace vivant de la bonneterie" présente les machines (encore fonctionnement) de fabrication de bonneterie, les étapes de confections et la célèbre chaussette cachou.
Rue Jean-Jaurès
Cette rue renferme le char Romilly. Il est le premier char de la blindée du Général Leclerc à rentrer dans Paris lors de sa libération en août 1944 et trône actuellement à l'entrée de la ville, une plaque commémorative rappelant cet évènement. Situé dans la même rue, le monument aux morts inauguré en 1927 rend hommage aux grands champs de bataille de la Marne.
Personnalités liées à la commune
Olry Worms de Romilly (1759-1851), banquier français, il acquiert le château de Romilly et change son nom d'Olry Hayem Worms en Olry Worms de Romilly.
Louis Partouneaux (1770-1835), général français, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Robert Liottel (1885-1968), escrimeur, champion olympique par équipe en 1924, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Émile Brachard (1887-1944), journaliste et député du Front populaire, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Delphine Aigle (1899-1967), résistante française ayant caché et hébergé plusieurs Romillons recherchés par l'ennemi. Un square de la commune est baptisé à sa mémoire.
Lucie Primot (1918-1939), résistante française, née à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Melito, Maurice Miot dit (1920-1994), artiste peintre, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Ricet Barrier (1932-2011), chanteur et fantaisiste, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Pierre Foglia (1940), journaliste d'opinion québécois, a passé son enfance au 13, rue Paul-Bert.
Gérard Klein (1942), animateur radio et acteur, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
Pépito Matéo (1948), conteur et comédien, né à Romilly-sur-Seine.
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Arantxa Araujo
LuminxSpace is a space to create art, find sanctuary, protest, resist oppression, and build community. Arantxa<|fim_middle|>
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info@chashama.org | Araujo conceives of LuminxSpace as a place to experience and share immigrant realities and to replenish and strengthen minds and bodies.
LuminxSpace will feature Araujo's multidisciplinary work, including photography, video, and sculpture. Araujo is pleased to collaborate with photographer and activist George de Castro-Day, to develop an ongoing portrait series. In addition to Araujo's work, LuminxSpace includes de Castro-Day's photo documentary work from the southern border and political protests in New York and elsewhere. LuminxSpace will also include a library of informational materials for immigrants and their allies, as well as texts for reflection and conversation. Dan Zlotnik will provide audio installations that evoke the experiences of migrants on the move and under pressure in our society.
Cuerpxs de Luz, a closing durational performance by Araujo, will occur on September 1st, 2019. Cuerpxs de Luz will last from sunset to sunrise, and take the form of a procession beginning at Grace Exhibition Space at 182 Avenue C at 7:00pm and ending at 21 Greenwich Avenue at 7:00am the following morning. Performers include Araujo, Maira Duarte, Mario Galeano, and Christopher UnPezVerde Nunez. The support team will include Valeria Avina, George de Castro-Day, Wei Chao, Ben Fisher, Boris Kourtoukov, and Dan Zlotnik. The team will collect donations for R.A.I.C.E.S. on the night of the performance.
Cuerpxs de Luz is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC. LMCC serves, connects and makes space for artists and community.
Arantxa Araujo is a Mexican multidisciplinary feminist artist with a background in neuroscience, based in NYC. She is interested in repetition and duration to access heightened states of awareness. Her work explores bio-behavioral research, gender constructions and the politics of migration—its effects and consequences in the construction of identity and performativity—by using video, mapping, LEDs and performance.
Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, University Settlement, Glasshouse Gallery, Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, and Art in Odd Places in NYC; El Monumento a la Revolución, and El Vicio, in Mexico; RAW during Miami Art Week; The Semel and Huret & Spector Gallery in Boston; SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh; and Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada. She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is a CONACYT scholarship holder, 2012.
For more about Arantxa visit her website at www.arantxaaraujo.com or follow her on Instagram.
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by John Cochran, published by William Sams
stipple engraving, published 1 May 1825
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Bequeathed by (Frederick) Leverton Harris, 1927
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William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester (1776-1834), Field Marshal. Sitter associated with 31 portraits.
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John Cochran (1803-after 1865), Engraver. Artist associated with 63 portraits.
William Sams (circa 1793-1842), Bookseller and publisher. Artist associated with 38 portraits.
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Madame D'Arblay Diary, 1778-1840 (volume 5, part 3)
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Strikes, contract breaking and worker intimidation prompt the passing of a new Anti-Trade Union Combination Act to the dismay of economist John McCulloch, MP Joseph Hume and radical Francis Place who had worked for the repeal of the previous year.
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The new Tax Reform Act: How will it affect your real estate life?
Tracy King
Real Estate The Market
The newly passed Tax Reform Act supplies perks based on investments in property, but not everyone benefits and there is a downside.
It's been all over the news. Pundits have been spinning the plusses and minuses of the newly passed Tax Reform Act. Some say homeowners are going to get the shaft. Some say there will be a windfall for homeowners and investors. As a long-time real estate professional, my inbox has been inundated with questions from those who just purchased homes in Highland Park and Eagle Rock this year, as well as those looking to invest in homes for sale in Pasadena, Mt. Washington and other areas of North East Los Angeles.
The long and short of it? I have good news and I have not-so-good news. The good news is, the new tax reform act that was just passed by both houses of Congress isn't as bad as it could have been for those who have some financial interest in real estate. The not-so-good news is, it's not going to be as good for real estate as it has been over the past several years.
We can still write off some state and local taxes up to $10,000. The bad news is that is actually a tax increase for those of us who have more than an $800,000 house and/or still pay some other state or local taxes.
We still have the mortgage interest deduction, but only up to a mortgage of $750,000, instead of the $1,000,000 it has been.
The $500,000 capital gains exclusion is not affected! If you have lived in your primary residence for 2 of the last 5 years, you and your spouse can each deduct up to $250,000 of your net capital gain when you sell your house.
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Opening Reception: March 13, 2010 from 6pm to 12am
Come to The Land of Odd Gallery's 5×7″ Group Show, opening on the evening of March 13, 2010 from 6pm to 12am. We will also be continuing our $100 and Under Art Show so if you missed getting to see it, now is your chance to come by and check it out. This event will be held in conjunction with the NELA 2nd Saturday art walk. As always refreshments will be served and the event is FREE!
We are proud to have the following artists participating in the 5×7″ show: Chito Arellano, Christie Bastet, Jeff Bertrand, Julie Bossinger, Deryke Cardenaz, Jennifer Cuellar, Brad Davis, Jolly de Guzman, Diane Harrelson, Chuck Hodi, Edith Ben Horin, Jinx, Bruce Kaplan, Patrick Quinn, Pablo Ramos, Monica Roache, Annalise Sullivan, Jason Sullivan, Melissa Sullivan, and Christopher Umana. Most of these works have been created especially for this event and have never been exhibited before, so come by and show your support.
We will also be continuing our $100 and Under Art Show, featuring the artwork of; Douglas Alvarez, Christie Bastet, Edith Ben-Horin, Charles Bennett, Terri Berman, Jeff Bertrand, Deborah Blanco-Flores, Chris Bonno, Heidi K. Born, Deryke Cardenaz, Bryan Collins, Emma Cooper, Josh Cooper, Creep Creepersin, David Daniel, Brett Gilbert, Jolly de Guzman, Brad Davis, William Reynolds Green, Joe B. Hall, Benjamin Harmon, Santiago Heredia, Nicholas Hernandez, John Hicks, Chuck Hodi, K. Howell, Chris Isner, Jinx, Bruce Kaplan, Amelia Lewis, Cynthia Llanes, Vivian Nguyen, Sean Madden, Demi Pietchell, Patrick Quinn, Pablo Ramos, Monica Roache, Glenda Rolle, Lisa Rosso, Therese Solone, Evil Paul Springer, Melissa Sullivan, Jason Sullivan, and Ckay Walker.
Mention the phrase — "The greatest FREE print on Earth" — and you may choose a FREE 5×7″ linoleum print. You might want to mention it to someone who works at the gallery. Otherwise people will just think you are weird.
MOSTLY SCULPTURE SHOW
Sea and Space Explorations, 4744 York Boulevard, Los Angeles 90042
March 13-28, 2010, Gallery Hours Friday/Saturday 1-6 pm, Sunday 1-5 pm
Opening Saturday March 13, 7-10 pm
This is a show of work that centers on material exploration. The six artists' works are unified by their emphasis on process and innovation. Each artist engages in a pas-de-deux with specific materials in a poetry of making. In the tradition of Schwitters, Tuttle, Franz West, Kippenberger, and Genzkin, this work is strongly formal and has to do with specific methods of making. Encompassing materials from draped fabric to dyed carrara marble to sheetrock to newspaper to fireproof canvas to human stand-ins and fake flowers, the show is made up of work that is sculptural and mostly sculpture.
Artists: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Clements, Heather Cook, Patrick Hill, Alice Konitz, Brett Lund
MIRROR TO A WORLD
José Vera Fine Art & Antiques, 2012 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles 90041
323.258.5050, www.joseveragallery.com
Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sun. 11am-6pm
Opening Reception on Saturday, March 13th, from 6 - 9
José Vera Fine Art & Antiques invites you to join us for our upcoming exhibit, featuring the work of Irene Carranza in her solo show "Mirror To A World". We are pleased to showcase her work from March 3 - April 11, 2010, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, March 13th, from 6 - 9 pm, in conjunction with the NELA ArtWalk. Please join us for wine, appetizers and a meet-and-greet with the artist herself.
Artist Statement: On the surface, Carranza's work is about women; that is the subject matter. At a deeper level, however, the works are about issues that women face, and they pay tribute to the resilient female spirit. Some of the images explore challenges of identity that we confront as women as we attempt to reconcile modern life with traditional Latino culture. Thus the art can be viewed as affirmations of strength and celebrations of a complex yet incredibly diverse presence as female human beings. She also explores themes of beauty, nature, solitude, death and rebirth. Feminism is expressed in many forms-virgins, mothers, mermaids, maidens, field workers, musicians and prostitutes, reflecting on the tender aspects of mankind. Carranza prefers to work with organic and richly layered oil pastels, using mineral spirits to blend, achieving painterly results. She also works with acrylic and oil paints, and occasionally some printmaking, such as aquatints, etchings and collographs. The artist's recent explorations of color are done with acrylic paintings on black-gessoed surfaces of canvas and wood, and oil pastels and oil bars on black museum board. She considers these pieces as transformations of darkness into light, or darkness and lightvying with one another. This fascination may come from early childhood memories of the Mexican paintings on black velvet she saw everywhere during visits across the border. It may also stem from her immersion in Catholicism growing up in religious schools and a deeply religious home, where the concepts of good vs. evil and light coming out of darkness were pervasive.
HOW OLD DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BE AN ARTIST?
The Judson Studios Gallery, 200 So. Avenue 66, Los Angeles 90042
Saturday,March 13th , 6:00PM~9:00PM
Students of ROOM 13, an international network of student-operated art studios will show work at The Judson Studios Gallery as part of NELA Art Night. Three ROOM 13 studios, including James Foshay Learning Center in South Los Angeles, Eliot Middle School in Altadena, and Marjorie Street in South Bay, will showcase paintings, drawings, sculptures, mixed media, assemblage, muralart and animation at this collaborative art installation. The Judson Studios, an internationally known stained glass maker run by five generations of family members, was also the first home to the USC School of Fine Arts until 1920.
Room13 originated in Caol, Scotland in1994 and has grown into an international network of student-designed and operated creative studios. It now provides learning and business enterprise skills to students in Scotland, Britain, Nepal, India and South Africa, and is currently expanding to Mexico, Turkey, China and Austria. The director of theTate Galleries has called Room 13 "the most important model for artistic teaching in school that we have in the UK."
In 2008, Light Bringer Project, a nonprofit arts provider, engaged with the program's international trustees and decided to take advantage of this opportunity for our own public school children. Partnering with Project Design Studio, the organization launched the first ROOM 13 in America at James Foshay Learning Center in South Los Angeles. They proceeded to found ROOM 13 at Eliot Middle School in Altadena. The third, an dmost recent model, ROOM 13 at Marjorie Street, was formed early this year in the South Bay vicinity. Like its peers, each creative studio operates as a physical space flourishing within a public school or community setting and is solely managed by the students.ROOM 13 is dedicated to provingthe worth of the individual with with the support and mentorship of schoolstaff and community members. Facilitated by an artist-in-residence, also from the community, students work in teams, as partners or alone, determining the scope and content of their own creative projects. ROOM 13 artists also learn self-reliance by designing a business model that will sustain their own studio operation. TBWAChiatDay advertising has also provided support of the ROOM 13 network through the contributed help of its creative professionals.
Proceeds from the sale of artworks will benefit ROOM 13 studios.
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Market Update for Eagle Rock 90041 and Highland Park February 22, 2010
These numbers indicate an active market where, in general, almost as many properties are selling as fast as there are properties coming onto the market.
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Just Slap a Coat of Paint On It
It's amazing what a well-chosen new paint color scheme can do for the exterior of your home. It's the least expensive major upgrade you can invest in and actually expect to make money on when you sell your home.
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Then and Now Trends for Highland Park, 90042
Let me emphasize how we need to look at these graphs and charts in terms of your own property: if you bought a house in Highland Park 2 years ago, just because the average price went down 44% doesn't necessarily mean that your own house went down that much.
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The Arroyo Arts Recovery Discovery Tour 2009
Over 100 artists in 51 locations all over Highland Park, Eagle Rock, and Mt. Washington opened their homes and studios to hundreds of ticketholders on a beautiful, sunny Sunday, November 22, this year. No one can possibly do the whole tour—it's that big! So we go back, year after year—this was the 17th year—finding new treasures, new artists, new studios. There's always a discovery of one kind or another.
My discovery this year was The Recording Kitchen, a music recording studio in the former Ray's Market at the corner of Avenue 50 and El Paso in Highland Park. This is hidden LA, folks. The security gates across the front were open just enough to allow us to pass through the doorway, but inside was a whole new world. Friendly, smiling Roxy Sosa, her family, and Chris, the art restoration specialist, welcomed me, offered me refreshments, and showed me through the whole facility. Who knew this was here? Go to http://www.RecordingKitchen.com for details about their facilities and the variety of classes and services they offer.
The Recording Kitchen Christian de Brer is an archaeological and fine art conservator who does work for places like the Getty and the Fowler Museums. But he lives with his family in Highland Park and works out of his space at the Recording Kitchen. Check out his website for all kinds of information not only about him and his work, but tips on preserving your own art collection at home. You can also hire him to restore your art or you can pay $50 for an hour of consultation. His website: www.ChristiandeBrer.com.
The Recording Kitchen is offering a holiday special: For $160, you can pick a song, poem, or dedication that you would like to sing or speak and give as a gift. The pros at the Kitchen, using all the tricks of the trade, will help you create a professional sounding audio CD that can be given as the perfect holiday gift! And you can make as many copies of the CD as you want! Take care of all your gift obligations in one fell swoop!
Look what's included:
1 hour singing instruction/vocal coaching
1 hour recording session
Backing music for your song/poem/dedication
A professionally mixed and finished CD
For an additional $80, you can record an extra song. For an extra hour of recording you pay only $75.
Now that is a unique gift idea. Call 323-821-3069 to schedule a session.
I took one of the 4 shuttle busses in the afternoon which was a wonderful way to see several studios. But it's not just the art and the studios, it's the homes, the surprising variety of people, many of whom have lived in northeast Los Angeles for decades, that offer the treasures of discovery.
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Arts Tour in Northeast Los Angeles
What I love about this tour is the chance to meet working artists in their studios and see a part of the community that you never get to see otherwise.
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New Listing, What a Deal!
Here is a hidden gem in the hills of the Garvanza neighborhood of Highland Park. For more information about this historic neighborhood, check out the Neighborhood Project from LAist at http://laist.com/2007/08/06/the_neighborhoo_2.php
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The Hits Keep On Coming with the Eagle Rock Business Model
What is the Eagle Rock Business Model? It's a unique, usually individually owned, business that offers good style and good value. That's my definition--what might yours be?
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Eagle Rock and Roll Farmer's Market
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Rid Yourself of E-Waste!
Here is your chance to clean out all those old computers, monitors, TVs, any electronic waste, and for free! It's local, too, right in front of the Carrow's Restaurant on York Blvd. in Highland Park, this Saturday, August 1, 9 am-4 pm. Tell your friends! Print out this flyer and post it! Be green and forward it to everyone you know.
http://www.historichighlandpark.org/modules/agendax/?op=view&cid=11&id=1441
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Just Sold: Home in Highland Park!
This Highland Park home received multiple offers and we negotiated a strong price with a solid buyer.
Listed for $799,000
3 bedrooms, 2 baths
If you are thinking of making a move, give us a call to discuss a strategy to achieve your goals in today's real estate market.
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Nine Single-Family Homes Being Built in Highland Park
The latest in Highland Park real estate news - nine single-family homes are being built on Burwood Avenue in Highland Park. Curious about the rumors of "gated community" and the like, I attended the Highland Park Neighborhood Council Meeting to hear a presentation by a representative from Williams Homes, a smaller developer who works out of Santa Clarita, who is building the project. I will tell you right now, this is an opinion piece, not a news article. And when you say Santa Clarita to me, I think of packed-in-like-sardines cheesy spec-built stucco developments with no soul. Here are the facts according to Keith Herren, Executive Vice President of Williams Homes:
The development plan has been approved. Grading has begun, sewers and water are in, the streets will be in soon, and home construction will begin within a couple of months.
The homes will be 2400-2700 square feet. The flat lots will have 2-story homes. The hillside lots will have 3-story homes with the main living area on the second floor, bedrooms on the top floor.
The lots will be about 5,000 square feet and the homes will each have yards.
The price is going to be in the $700,000-$750,000 range.
The style will be contemporary, a lot like the Rock Row development on Yosemite Drive in Eagle Rock.
The development will not be gated.
The discussion at the Neighborhood Council was lively. Neighboring residents voiced their objections to the style and the size of the homes because they felt it would be inconsistent with their smaller, historic Craftsman-style homes. These folks have every right to their opinion. They feel that no one will want to buy the new homes because they don't represent the historic nature of Highland Park.
I think it will be very interesting to see what becomes of these 9 homes. We have seen inappropriate developments in Highland Park before--the Monterey Hills development that sold out eventually, and the four homes on North Staley off of Avenue 64, to name two. Both projects were supremely not Craftsman style, the Monterey Hills project was a large enough development that it was its own community, separate from the main part of Highland Park. The four homes on North Staley were real tract-style homes, priced in the $800,000-plus range and they still haven't sold.
I think this development could be different. For one thing, the homes are going to have some style and character, even though it isn't a Craftsman style. I hope they will incorporate some green building materials and features, like the Rock Row development did. Personally, I would much rather see an honest contemporary-styled home next to an original Craftsman home than see an imitation of the faceless beige stucco homes that stretch for miles in so many developments in Orange, Riverside, or San Bernardino counties.
We have a contemporary home coming on the market next week which will set a precedent for this development, and it's maybe a half-mile away. 5830 Buena Vista Terrace is an architectural, eco-friendly contemporary that knocks my socks off, and I think the buyers are going to flock over to buy it. It has about the same square footage as these homes, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, views from almost every window, a very private setting, and much more. We listed it for $799,000, Come check it out and tell me if you agree that it's about good style versus no style. Highland Park is historic and full of Craftsman homes, but it also has some interesting modern and contemporary homes scattered throughout.
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New Listing! 5318 Raber Street, Highland Park
Tracy King | Teles Properties | (626) 827-9795
5318 Raber St, Highland Park, CA
New Listing! Open house Thursday 3/8 10-2pm; Sunday 3/11 2-5pm; and Tuesday 3/13 10-2pm.
offered at $399,000
Sq Footage 650
Floors 2
Lot Size 6,316 sqft
HOA/Maint $0 per month
Perched on a hill in Highland Park just a stone's throw from Eagle Rock, this updated 1926-era cottage has the privacy, views and serenity your artistic soul desires. Completely remodeled, this sweet cottage has a newer kitchen and down the spiral staircase is a master suite that includes a spa tub. The completely fenced street-to-street lot has a small garage at the end of the Avenue 53 culdesac, while the house sits at street level behind a privacy fence on Raber. The private garden offers a spa with a view, a deck with a view, and a porch with a view. This is a short sale and subject to lien holder approval. House is larger than assessor's records.
- Central A/C - Central heat - Hardwood floor
- Living room - Dishwasher - Laundry area - inside
- Balcony, Deck, or Patio
OTHER SPECIAL FEATURES
- Located on a street-to-street lot in the hills of Highland Park
- House is larger than assessor's records
- Amazing views toward Downtown LA
- Spiral staircase to lower level
- Quiet, private location
Teles Properties
For sale by agent/broker
Posted: Mar 6, 2012, 8:26am PST
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This one is freeway close!
Only $175k in Highland Park.
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What's So Great About Highland Park?
Buyer Tips and Resources
WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK, 90042? Lots of things!
It was the City of Los Angeles' first suburb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park,_Los_Angeles
It contains the city's largest HPOZ. http://www.preservation.lacity.org/hpoz/la/highland-park which recently incorporated the Garvanza area to make it even bigger.
It's an easy commute to Downtown LA or downtown Pasadena by car, bus or the Gold Line. http://www.metro.net/
The art scene is amazing. http://www.arroyoartscollective.org/. Best event is the annual Arroyo Arts Discovery Tour held the 3rd Sunday of November.
There is an Artwalk the second Saturday of every month. http://www.nelaart.org/
Chicken Boy lives here. 5558 N. Figueroa St. http://www.chickenboy.com/
Great food! Lots of Latin foods from tacos to menudo, but there is more. Check out my Restaurant Guide. www.LADigs.com for names and addresses, but here are some highlights:
Cafe de Leche
The York
My Taco
Schodorf's Luncheonette
Folliero's
La Abeja
Super A Foods has handmade tortillas and much, much more. 5250 York Blvd. 90042. http://www.superafoods.com/
Figueroa Produce has a real meat market, organic produce, a wide variety of ethnic foods--all at great prices! http://figueroaproduce.com/
Galco's Old World Market and Soda Pop Stop. 5702 York Blvd. Long for some orange Nehi or curious about Grapette? Over 400 kinds of soda here. Plus good deli sandwiches. http://www.sodapopstop.com/
What are your favorite parts of Highland Park?
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New Listing: 725 N Avenue 63, Highland Park
725 N Avenue 63
HIGHLAND PARK, CA
OPEN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 10-2; THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 10-2; SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1-4!
3BR/1+1BA Single Family House
Parking 1 car detached garage
Sweet Craftsman cottage has it all--even the white picket fence! Located in the newly designated Garvanza area of the Highland Park Historic Overlay Zone, this is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Highland Park, adjacent to Pasadena. This adorable 1923-vintage home has an efficient floorplan that covers it all--3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, hardwood floors, a rebuilt 1-car garage with rooftop deck, a backyard designed for entertaining with a patio, garden, and play area. Updated with central air & heat, remodeled kitchen & baths, crown molding, and bead-board wainscoting. The lot is completely gated and fenced for added privacy.
Tile floor Living room Laundry area - inside
Balcony, Deck, or Patio Yard
Great location in Garvanza, near the Pasadena border
Updated kitchen and baths
Great outdoor space with patio above garage and patio in back
For more pictures visit www.725Avenue63.com
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533 Neva Place, Highland Park
If you are looking for a completely done little Craftsman cottage in Highland Park then you are in luck. 533 Neva Place is back on the market! Two bedrooms, two baths, plus over 1,200 square feet of bonus space. Upgrades include: tankless water heater, central air and heat, laundry, and a finished two-car garage.
Specs: Listed for $479,000, 1,050 SF on a 4,600 SF lot. Built in 1908.
Want to see it? Give us a call at 626.844.2211.
Dining to Living
Back Yard and Garage
Listing Courtesy of Matt Manner, Extraordinary Real Estate
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Market Update for Eagle Rock and Highland Park October, 2010
As everyone knows, the last three years have been a roller coaster ride for real estate prices all over the country. In Eagle Rock (zip 90041) and in Highland Park (90042), the average price of single family homes that sold went down over 50% between the peak of the market in January, 2008, and the depths of the recession in March of 2009. Wow. Keep in mind that this doesn't mean that the value of your individual home necessarily went down 50%, but if you bought your home in January of 2008, you probably would not be able to sell your home for what you paid for it either in 2009 or today.
Since the so-called "bottom" of the market in March, 2009, we have seen an overall beginning recovery of prices so that as of August of this year, the average sale price in Eagle Rock was up over 27% and in Highland Park over 15%, even accounting for the slowdown that happened after the first-time buyer tax credit expired at the end of April. It felt kind of like home buyers all decided to take a long summer vacation, but about half the current pending sales have opened escrow since September 1, probably due to the most breathtakingly low interest rates we have seen in our lifetime (at least since 1955). Sales prices in 90042 so far this year have averaged both for list and sales price about $337,000. In 90041 Eagle Rock, the averages have been $454,000 list price and $457,000 sale price. Since the 90042 zip code is much larger than 90041, more than twice as many homes have sold there.
If you are new to Eagle Rock and Highland Park, you will love the eclectic mix of older character homes dating from the Arts and Crafts era of the early 1900s to the interesting midcentury moderns that often look out over stunning views of the Verdugo Mountains to the north and downtown Los Angeles to the south. There are traditional, Spanish-style and newer homes scattered through the mix as well. Truly something for everyone. You can purchase a small foreclosure for as little as $300,000, even less in some places, but expect to compete with investors who can pay cash. The highest sales prices so far this year in 90042 for a single-family home was $801,000 in Highland Park for an architect-designed contemporary with 275 degree views and $888,000 for an unusual Zen-influenced home with guest house on a wonderful private garden lot in Mt. Washington. In Eagle Rock, it was $876,000 for a remodeled older home-turned contemporary that also boasted amazing panoramic views.
The people of Eagle Rock and Highland Park are as diverse and interesting as the housing is. From long-time residents who were born and went to school here to the recent migration of renters from Silverlake, Echo Park and Los Feliz to purchase their first homes in our residential neighborhoods, everyone gets along pretty well and is generally devoted to this vibrant community. You will find a huge number of artists alongside many professionals who work downtown and love the relatively short commute. You will also find a growing number of family-owned places to eat and drink and shop that cater to just about every taste. The recession was a setback, but the positive spirit of our community is irrepressible. Welcome to Northeast Los Angeles!
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6220 Hillandale Drive, Highland Park
6220 Hillandale Drive is a beautifully re-done Craftsman-style home at the top of a great street in Highland Park. It was bought as a foreclosure by investors who do great work at keeping period features in place, and you can really tell in this home. With 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, the house is 1,532 square feet and sits on a 6,750 sq. ft. flat lot.
An Arroyo-stone front porch greets you upon entry
Practically everything is new in this home - new roof, new windows, new kitchen (from floor to fixtures), new bathrooms! And everything that isn't new has been beautifully refinished, including the hardwood floors, built-in buffet and built-in living room cabinets.
Living room features a working fireplace & built-ins
Dining room has a built-in buffet, plus a little nook off to the side
Kitchen, includes breakfast nook overlooking deck
The bedrooms are well-sized and include ample closet space. Each one features large windows that let in the natural light.
Master Bedroom, includes two closets and a full bath
There is additional bonus space underneath the house that offers extensive storage opportunities, or...? The yard is deep and flat and is shaded by a huge tree.
Deck, off of kitchen
Bonus Space
If you would like to see this amazing turn-key home, call me at 626.827.9795. For more pictures visit www.6220Hillandale.com.
6220 Hillandale is listed for $529,000.
This listing is courtesy of me! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
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Start thinking about what to do this weekend
It's always hard to get back into work mode after a 3 day weekend, so if you're wishing it was the weekend again, jot this down on your calendar for Saturday, July 10. It's NELA's Second Saturday Artwalk, of course!
From Amy Inouye:
Future Studio Gallery
5558 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 90042
Second Saturday and Opening Reception for An Exhibition of Quilts by Ruby Nishio
Ruby Nishio grew up in Los Angeles and was interned at Heart Mountain relocation camp during WWII. After returning to Los Angeles she began working at Cahill in Beverly Hills, sewing and designing wedding gowns. She was very talented and adept at doing patterns and creating wonderful gowns and custom clothing. For the past 18 years she has used her talents in creating beautiful quilts. Ruby Nishio is an amazing quilt artist and has won many awards for her work. This is her first one- person show.
Nishio has been sewing for over 70 years. She has done all types of handwork, from custom dressmaking, knitting, tatting, crocheting, and embroidery. In 1992, she transitioned into making quilts. The imagery she uses is taken from her personal interests. She loves gardening and many of the patterns she uses are of flowers and nature. She stitches fabric pieces together to form repetitive patterns that are then hand quilted. One quilt in the exhibition, Trip Around the World (1998), includes 2193(!) two-inch squares of flowered fabric where the stitched edges of each piece loses its sharpness and blends with the piece next to it, forming an impressionist patterned garden. In New York, New York (2005), echoes of the Statue of Liberty are depicted in the patterns, while the colors and fabrics are reminiscent of Broadway by way of the Ginza. Expressing her love of gardening and traveling, Nishio has created wonderful pieces that are truly works of art.
The exhibition will run till July 31 (on view by appointment).
Join us for a special Artist's Tea: Sunday, July 25 from noon - 4 p.m.
Also, don't forget to pick up July's trading cards (Chicken Boy trading card #9 and a Ruby card)--they'll be waiting for you in a bin inside the front door.
PS: Chicken Boy Shop will be open Second Saturday. We've gotten a few new items in to check out... like Tyvek pop art wallets and some magnetic jewelry...
On deck at Future Studio Gallery:
August: Manuel Gonzalez
September: Liz Mamorsky returns!
October: Fig Knit-On* (a Yarn-Bombing exhibit curated by Heather Hoggan)
November: Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour
December: an exhibit of artists' stuffed toys* curated by Edith Abeyta
*if you'd like to participate or get more info, sign up at the gallery Second Saturday
BOOK BOOTH HIGHLAND PARK is located next to the entrance of La Arca de Noe restaurant, 5570 N. Figueroa Street, LA 90042.
BOOK BOOTH is a free community art/literature project. The books and magazines found at BOOK BOOTH are all donated by your neighbors and are looking for new homes, so if you see something that interests you, please take it. If you have family-friendly books and magazines that you would like to pass along—just leave them at BOOK BOOTH. Please help keep BOOK BOOTH neat and trash-free.
*Some of the books at BOOK BOOTH are registered with bookcrossing.com, a free online book tracking service. If you find a label inside a book, there will be a an ID number that you can enter at the site and make a journal entry about the book and its ongoing journey.
A big gushy thank you to everyone who has been supporting BOOK BOOTH HIGHLAND PARK!
It empties out almost as soon as it fills up (we can't figure out exactly what's going on but we aren't seeing the streets littered with pages, so we're hoping it's all good). We've pulled out The Tipping Point, Stephen Colbert's I Am America (and So Can You), and Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover. (They'll all go back to the booth as soon as we're done reading them.) So, please keep bringing books and magazines (even CDs and DVDs) and taking stuff too. If it's all filled up, drop them off at the gallery (ring the semi-hidden bell). You can drop them off Second Saturday also.
We plan on identifying other vacated phone booths so others can make their own Book Booth. Watch this space for the latest.
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FYI: My Taco (6300 York Blvd.) has late night tacos (starting at 11 pm) on Saturday nights for your after art-ing snacking pleasure.
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Clear Your Calendar! It's Time for Art in Northeast Los Angeles!
Coming Attractions From the Arroyo Arts Collective
There is so much to do around here! Luckily, many of these shows run for a few weeks, but if you want to attend the openings, you'll have to pack most of them into Saturday, March 13!
GERARDO HACER: THE MYTH
PE Lofts Gallery, 610 S. Main St. LA 90017
Reception: Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 12:00 noon to 10:00 PM
Presented by The Avenue 50 Studio, with the support of Los Angeles Trade-Tech College (LATTC) at the Downtown Art Walk in the PE Lofts Gallery (corner of 6th and Main Street).
The work of Los Angeles-based sculptor, Gerardo Hacer, consists of monumental structural, metal, origami animals in bold, flat, solid colors. The centerpiece of the show, Gerardo Hacer: The Myth, is a 2-ton fourteen-foot Pegasus entitled, "Education Gives You Wings To Fly" that will be permanently installed at the gateway of the main entrance to Los Angeles Trade-Tech College's new $250M campus. A former graduate, Gerardo was selected as the face of their multimedia campaign, "Trade As Art". His works have received coverage from SoCal News, Huell Howser's "California Gold", as well as, featured on public transit DASH buses. Contact: Ashley Lund - 310-405-5285
ART AND ARCHITECTURE: MERGING THE CONTEMPORARY AND THE HISTORICAL
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles 90041
323.226.1617, www.centerartseaglerock.org
Panel Discussion: March 13, 2010, 4-6 pm
Panelists: Gwynne Pugh (Pugh + Scarpa), Isotta Poggi (Getty Research Institute), John O'Brien, Cielo Pessione
Bruno Bondanelli will be making a brief presentation on behalf of Italian Living Umbria at the end of the round table conversation and offering Baci Perugina for all.
FOLLOWED by NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night 7-10 pm
The March 13, 2010 panel discussion about "Art and Architecture: Merging the contemporary and the historical" is particularly relevant at CFAER, a historically listed 1914 Carnegie Library Building, that was itself transformed into a multicultural community center for arts and culture.
ASSEMBLAGE & COLLAGE
Howeeduzzit Gallery, 821 S. Raymond #27, Alhambra 91803
626.458.8811, www.howeeduzzitgallery.com
February 21st – March 13th, 2010
Closing Reception March 13th, 2:00-5:00 PM
Featured artists: Kathy Carvalles, Ruth DeNicola, Charles Dickson, Jack Fenn, Clare Graham, Frank Gutierrez, Cookie Hanson, Cidne Hart, Heather Hoggan, Jeffrey Kibbe, Dave Lovejoy, Mavis Leahy, Jaime Sabatte, Richard Sculley, Suzanne Siegel, Joseph Sims, Richard Turner, Howard Swerdloff, LaMonte Westmoreland
THE VIRGIN MARY CHAINSMOKING AT THE BEACH AND A COUPLE OTHER REALLY AWFUL THINGS I SAW WHEN I DITCHED SCHOOL THAT DAY
Future Studio Gallery, 5558 N. Figueroa St., LA 90042
futurestudiogallery.com
Opening Saturday March 13, 7 to 10 pm, part of NELAart.com Second Saturday Gallery Night
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: Drawings, Piñatas, Videos, Prints, Collages, and Photographs
(Don't forget to pick up your free Tati artist trading card at the gallery during the opening)
March's Chicken Boy Trading Card #6, also available Second Saturday. (It's CB, a guy's guy, repairing his cycle)
CUENTOS DE HADAS
Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, Highland Park 90042
323.258.1435, www.avenue50studio.com
Mercedes Gertz and Esau Andrade reinterpret fairy tales with photographs by Elizabeth Beristain
Opening Night Reception: Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 7-10 pm
The Avenue 50 Studio is proud to present "Cuentos de Hadas" (Fairy Tales), an exhibition of works by two contemporary Mexican artists. Through a narrative language, Gertz and Andrade portray the female vs. male versions of fairy tales. The exhibit opens with an artists' reception on Saturday evening, March 13, 2010 from 7 to 10 p.m. and closes on Sunday, April 4, 2010.
Mercedes Gertz. Using humor and sensuality, Gertz's fairy tale series asks us to consider where women are in the 21st century. Her heroines are unapologetic symbols of female confidence. We sense in them a comfort with the body, with play and decoration. They confidently own the sensual, and relish in being a woman in charge. "These … fairy or folk tales … recur over and over through millennia in the guise of innocent stories telling us time and again that the docile, young body gets the prince, that the girl brave enough to venture into the woods—the space of men--meets her fate at the hands of the big bad wolf. Peter Pan lives forever as a boy, Wendy must grow up--it is her calling, her duty, her essential nature." -- Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Art Critic, Essayist, Poet
Esau Andrade. Following in the footsteps of the Latin American surrealists, Esau Andrade twists reality, creating canvases bursting with color that are pop in nature. He instills a childlike exuberance into his delightful paintings. Andrade comes from a folk art background, as both his mother Guadalupe Valencia and brother Raymundo Andrade are also artists. He is mainly a self-taught painter, although attended La Escuela de Artes Plasticas de la Universidad de Guadalajara. "Unlike the candy colored confections of his more stylized folk art paintings, these other works by Andrade place him firmly in the surrealist tradition shared by many Latin masters. He retains a naiveté and originality with quirky images that are both charming and serious, and also remain indebted to his rich culture for visual symbols that are vivid and intense." -- Kathy Zimmerer, Artscene 11/2004
Elizabeth Beristain. Elizabeth was born in Mexico City. A graduate of the Escuela Activa de Fotografia and staff photographer for "El Reforma," one of the top national daily newspapers in Mexico, she moved to Los Angeles as a freelance photographer and later became Photography Editor for the cultural publication Latino Weekly Review. A product of her Mexican mother's artistic sensitivity and her Portuguese father's decidedly more adventurous side, this subtle mixture of Old and the New World influences are germinal elements of Elizabeth's artistry. Additionally, in devising the art direction of her own work, a wider range of crucial creative features shine through, from the world of opera, painting, music, and cinema, in a vision where a unique sense of artistry never intrudes with a boundless appreciation of our common humanity. Elizabeth has participated in various collective and solo shows, both in Mexico and Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, cinematographer Gabriel Beristain ASC, BSC, and their two children Max and Victoria. She is currently at work on her new series, entitled Crowned Nuns.
And the Annex Presents:
A PRAYER FOR JUAREZ, A CURSE ON THE KILLERS
March 13 through April 4, 2010
Alfonso Aceves, Ismael de Anda, Antonio Escalante, Judithe Hernandez, Cindy Suriyani, vincentmayakovsky
DECKED OUT - ART ON RECYCLED SKATE DECKS
Cactus Gallery, 4534 Eagle Rock Blvd. Eagle Rock 90041
323-256-6117, http://www.eclecticcactus.com
w/ Featured Artist Michael Pukac plus group show
March 13th – April 7th 2010, Gallery Hours: Weds-Sun 12-6pm
Opening Saturday, March 13, 2010 – 7-10pm
Group Show Artists: Amanda Sage, Motion One, Hans Haveron, L. Croskey, John Park, Spectr, Tommii Lim, Stix and Jones, Yuki Miyazaki, Nick Wildermuth, Ted Von Heiland, Anna Chung, Shahid Brown, Patrick Haemmerlein, Max Neutra, Jacob E. Roanhaus, Jose Carabes, Elle Seven, Liz Brizzi, Jonathan Bueno, Kelly Thompson, Carlos Ramsey, Dicapria, Mikolaj Wyszynski, Walt Hall, Art Martinez, Douglas Alvarez, Julie B., Delphia, Mike Russek, Amy Bernays, Krystle Smith, Alfie Numeric, and more.
Beats by Mr. Numberwonderful
Curated by The Imaginary Light Bulb Factory
10% of proceeds will go to Greenizm: a 501.3c rehabilitating neglected urban landscape into green skate parks in LA County while promoting the arts to skate culture.
More info: ArtSlant Event Page - http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/92985-decked-out,
Facebook Event Page - http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=301594547342&ref=ts
MICK & FRIENDS: A COLLECTION OF ROCK & ROLL PHOTOGRAPHY
drkrm/gallery, 2121 San Fernando Road Suite 3, Los Angele 90065
323.223.6867, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
March 13th- April 3rd, 2010, Tue-Sat 11-5 Sun 1-4
Opening Reception Saturday March 13th 7-10pm
drkrm/gallery announces it first show of 2010, a group show retrospective of fine art Rock & Roll photographs. Featuring Ethan Russell's 1968 portrait of John and Yoko, Cecil Beaton's portraits of Mick Jagger on the set of the film Performance | 6,977 |
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Ernest, and His Ways<|fim_middle|>, too, leaving Ernest feeling scared and uncertain. But these are growing pains he will feel year after year—into the middle school OST program, then into high school, and adulthood. It's the same discomfort we all feel when reaching new heights.
"You can do it, right?" is a question Mr. Dennis often asks Ernest.
But he already knows that the answer is yes. |
Ernest is getting individualized support that gives him the confidence to reach new heights.
Thinking back to grade school, most of us can recall that favorite teacher or counselor who helped shape us into who we are today. For Ernest, that person is Mr. Dennis.
The two have formed a tight bond over the years at the Out of School Time (OST) program. In a safe and nurturing environment, participants benefit from programming that promotes academic development and success into the future.
On a typical afternoon, nutritious snacks are served to help youth recharge their thinking caps before partaking in various educational activities. They are also given an hour to finish the day's homework, for which help is near. Ernest—who struggles with math though it's a favorite subject—received help with his times tables.
"[They] taught me how to do multiplication, like counting by fives. And it started getting easier," Ernest said with pride.
He is also quick to boast about his crossword puzzle skills. "Two in one day—I don't know how I did it, and I'm still doing more … to learn more words."
During the summertime, Ernest's parents enjoy knowing he and his siblings receive the same enrichment that they do during the school year in OST's summer camp. No matter the season, Ernest will be trailing behind his role model.
In the classrooms where STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) activities take place, in the gymnasium where games and sports are played, or on educational field trips to places like the Academy of Natural Sciences or Linvilla Orchards, there you will find Dennis and his eight-year-old shadow, Ernest.
"We want to make sure the children get something out of all project-based learning activities—that something extra they wouldn't get in a traditional classroom setting," Mr. Dennis said. "It opens them up to something new … things they may not otherwise discover, which gets them engaged in learning in a different way."
Ernest recently outgrew the seven/eight-year-old age bracket and moved onto the nine/ten group where the activities are a bit more challenging. There are new faces in the cohort | 434 |
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Alumni News | Journalism
Alumni-produced anthology chronicles IDS history
Daniela Molina
There's the time Kathryn Flynn, BA'87, used a Nick's English Hut menu as a straightedge to design the front page of the Indiana Daily Student after the IU men's basketball 1987 NCAA Championship.
There's the time the IDS reviewed the newly released "Breaking Away," deeming it "superficial" and "trivial."
"Indiana Daily Student: 150 Years of Headlines, Deadlines and Bylines" will be released Oct. 1.
The time the IDS started charging for the paper. The time the publication went online. The time the print publications cut back to two days a week.
And all the times it covered campus- and world-changing news,<|fim_middle|>.
"We learned a lot about the history and legacy of the institution on campus and how it covered not only the Bloomington community, but state and national news," he said.
By telling the history of the IDS, the book tells the history of IU. The IDS is one of the oldest entities on campus, and it has recorded the student perspective of campus news since its beginning. Scudder said he thinks anyone with IU ties can appreciate the book — not just IDS alumni.
"This is the kind of book that will attract those interested in student journalism, but it has something for everybody," Scudder said. "It has something for everybody to care about." | from the end of World War I, to the selection of Herman B Wells as IU's president, to the first Little 500 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"Indiana Daily Student: 150 Years of Headlines, Deadlines and Bylines" chronicles all those times and more. The 288-page, alumni-produced anthology features historic front pages, photographs, archived articles and alumni reflections in celebration of the publication's 150th anniversary in 2017 and IU's 2020 Bicentennial.
The book, published by IU Press, is available for preorder now and will be released Oct. 1.
Editors Amy Wimmer Schwarb, BAJ'96; Rachel Kipp, BAJ'02; and Charlie Scudder, BAJ'14, of the IU Student Publications Alumni Association spearheaded the project, which was funded by a $12,000 IU Bicentennial grant.
Schwarb, Kipp and Scudder started by creating a shared spreadsheet that split the work into IDS eras, which were assigned to the three editors.
"The process was tedious," Scudder said. "A lot of time was dedicated into reaching out to alumni to see if they wanted to contribute, but we focused more on being editors."
The editors commissioned articles from dozens of alumni contributors and scoured archives dating back to the 1800s. Kipp credited Marge Blewett, BA'48, for the extent of the available archive. Blewett, who worked as a lecturer and placement director in the School of Journalism, died in February.
"She (was) an amazing person. Without her the project couldn't have come together," Kipp said. "It was decades and decades of work preserving these documents and fact-checking. Her notes were noted on the edges of the margins."
Though the three editors lived in different regions, Schwarb — who lives in Indianapolis — worked directly with the IU Archives to access microfilm and correspondence between editors. She noted that finding some of the historical front pages was a challenge due to a lack of a digital archive.
Three interns — Jamie Zega, BAJ'18; Laresa Lunda, BA'18; and junior Matt Rasnic — contributed to the project by managing timelines and deadlines, scanning documents and designing the cover.
Featured articles include "It's in the Air," a column published by Ernie Pyle in 1922 about the beauty of IU's campus and students' love for the school. Alumni reflections include memories of moving into Ernie Pyle Hall, moving out of Ernie Pyle Hall and covering Bob Knight's Hoosiers.
While the book shares many heartwarming memories, it was important to the editors to portray the IDS experience accurately. Schwarb said it would have been easy to let nostalgia overpower authenticity.
"The truth is that the IDS has always been really hard work and it still is now, and that's why people are drawn to it," Schwarb said. "The work is important, but it's really difficult to pull off as a student."
Through this project, Schwarb, Kipp and Scudder learned that all IDS editors – themselves included – faced many of the same struggles.
"You find out that these problems are universal," Kipp said.
Scudder said that digging into the IDS's history and seeing how it responded to challenges taught him about the ultimate strength needed to continue to publish the paper | 726 |
Police forces in the three territories were small and under British control. The British Virgin Islands Police Force consisted of a chief of police, ninety-six police officers, and three civilian officers. Most of the police were native British Virgin Islanders. The headquarters was in Road Town on Tortola. In addition to the usual crime prevention and law enforcement activities associated with a police force, the police in the British Virgin Islands were responsible for firefighting. They also operated one marine patrol craft and two launches for use in enforcing the three-nautical-mile territorial limit of the islands, for fishery protection, and for antismuggling and antidrug operations.
The Anguilla Police Force was formed in 1972 to replace a detachment of the London Metropolitan Police that had served on the island since 1969, when the island seceded from the St. KittsNevis -Anguilla union. In the 1980s, the force was headed by<|fim_middle|> on Montserrat. (For further information and complete citations, see Bibliography.) | a chief of police, who reported to the minister of home affairs. There were eighty police officers, as well as special officers who could be deputized as necessary. The force's formal duties included national security, and, as such, it operated two ships for fishery protection and antismuggling operations. Most officers were native Anguillians, but some were recruited in St. Vincent. Headquarters was in The Valley. The British operated the criminal justice system.
The Royal Montserrat Police Force had eighty to ninety members commanded by a chief of police. As in Anguilla, the Montserratian force was responsible for enforcing the territorial waters limit and for fishery protection. On Monserrat, these duties were the specific responsibility of the Marine Police, which had the use of one marine patrol craft.
No insurgencies or mass-based antigovernment groups existed in these three territories in the late 1980s. Strikes occasionally occurred over wages and related issues, but political strikes appeared nonexistent. Since the British government retained responsibility for defense, British Army units would undoubtedly be brought in to handle any serious domestic unrest.
Britain maintained no army or naval units in the dependencies. The closest British Army forces were in Belize. Although Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands were members of the OECS as of 1987, neither had joined the Regional Security System (RSS). Montserrat also refrained from participating in OECS voting in late October 1983 to support the United States-Caribbean intervention in Grenada (the British Virgin Islands was not yet a member of the OECS). Futhermore, paramilitary forces from these territories were unlikely to participate in any proposed regional post-Grenada defense and security arrangements, since Britain had opposed such involvement by its dependent territories. Nevertheless, the British Virgin Islands were in the area patrolled by the United States Coast Guard forces based in the United States Virgin Islands (see Current Strategic Considerations, ch. 7).
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In 1987 there were few works that focused solely on the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, or Montserrat. The most useful sources of information on these islands can be found in a series of yearbooks and in compendium discussions of all the Caribbean islands. The Caribbean Handbook, edited by Jeremy Taylor, is one of the most comprehensive discussions of all of the Caribbean islands. Included in each country's profile are sections on history, commerce, finance, government, and general business regulations. The Europa Year Book provides current data and background, and the Latin America and Caribbean Review (published yearly), edited by Richard Green, is an excellent source on economic and political events of the past year. Current events can be followed through the monthly British newsletter, Latin American Monitor: Caribbean. Useful business information can be found in the Business Traveller's Handbook, edited by Jane Walker. Two works by residents of the islands also are worth noting. Colville Petty's Anguilla: Where There's a Will There's a Way presents an Anguillian view of the break with St. Kitts and Nevis. H.A. Fergus's Montserrat: Emerald Isle of the Caribbean describes day-to-day life | 649 |
On Saturday, Adam and Wes competed at the NZ grappler regional event and both won the bronze model.
Adam won the 100 dollars cash prize from the club for<|fim_middle|> Nationals which will in 5 weeks time anyway.
We will switch to gi only from the 08 April to prepare for the GI Auckland Regionals on the 15th June.
Please note that we are still taking students at our location at 681 Sandringham road, Sandringham.
Beginners welcome, $20 per week on AP and no contract.
Please come down for a free class or email us for more information.
Contrary to the general belief, Jon Danaher is actually born in the USA.
However, he did grew up in NZ and went back to the states to study at the PHD program at Columbia University in NYC.
This week, we covered the topic of guard submissions for the fundamentals.
We did couple of basic arm bar set up by looking at locking the shoulder in order to control the posture of our training partner.
Also, we said farewell to Blain as he is going back home.
He was one of the first students at our new and additional location in Sandringham.
He always rolls hard and never miss a class.
We also went for a curry buffet after training at Paradise restaurant.
Good food and good time.
In this picture, you can see him leading the V for our farewell picture.
We are still taking new students at the Sandringham location.
Come down for a free class or email us for more information.
Next week, we will be teaching guard passes for fundamentals and I will start introducing the front headlock system instead of the leg locks system.
Please note that the entries for the NZ grappler competition is closing on the 19 February. | the most submissions.
The NZ grappler NOGI National competition is on Saturday 06 April 2019.
Due to low number of competitors yesterday, I am not sure if it is a good idea to host an inter club to prepare for the | 52 |
Graduates from Waan Aelon in Majel training were honored recently by National Training Council Director Allison Nashion and WAM Director Alson Kelen (to the left of the grads) and NTC Board Chairman Carlos Domnick and Marshall Islands Resort General Manager Hirobo Obeketang (at right).
After weeks of stormy skies, the sun came out and shined on the Vocational and Lifeskills 2016 Trainee Graduation.
About 1<|fim_middle|> being sponsored by the United Nation's GEF program. | 20 attended the Waan Aelon in Majel event, which saw 14 young men and four young women receive their certificates for successfully completing the WAM program. The Class of 2016 all wore T-shirts they designed themselves for the day.
According to WAM's Associate Direct Tamie Bowman, "in just six months these trainees have become more self-confident, have improved their decision making, and learned how to work together as a team." On display at the graduation were the two sailing canoes built by the trainees.
WAM's next group of trainees is scheduled to start in January. "They will be doing the Environmental and Entrepreneurship Program," said Director Alson Kelen, adding that a focus of the vocational side of this course will be learning wood carving. It is | 166 |
The tenth season of Blue Bloods, a police procedural drama series created by Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, premiered on CBS September 27, 2019, with the first episode of the season celebrating the series' milestone 200th episode. Each season typically has 22 episodes, but due to production being halted during the COVID-19 pandemic, episode 19 served as the de facto season 10 finale.
Cast
Donnie Wahlberg (Danny Reagan), Bridget Moynahan (Erin Reagan), Will Estes (Jamie Reagan), and Len Cariou (Henry Reagan) are first credited. Sami Gayle (Nicky Reagan-Boyle) is credited next, marking the sixth season she has been included in the opening credits. (Gayle left the show after Episode 5 but returned for Episode 16.) Tom Selleck (Frank Reagan) receives<|fim_middle|> Janko-Reagan, continue to receive "also starring" billing for season 10. Gregory Jbara as Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Garrett Moore, Robert Clohessy as Lt. Sidney Gormley, and Abigail Hawk as Detective Abigail Baker, Frank's primary aide, appear regularly and receive "special guest star" billing.
Main cast
Tom Selleck as NYPD Police Commissioner Francis "Frank" Reagan
Donnie Wahlberg as Detective 1st Grade Daniel "Danny" Reagan
Bridget Moynahan as ADA Erin Reagan
Will Estes as Sergeant Jamison "Jamie" Reagan
Len Cariou as Henry Reagan
Sami Gayle as Nicole "Nicky" Reagan-Boyle
Marisa Ramirez as Detective 1st Grade Maria Baez
Vanessa Ray as Officer Edit "Eddie" Janko-Reagan
Recurring cast
Abigail Hawk as Detective 1st Grade Abigail Baker
Gregory Jbara as Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Garrett Moore
Robert Clohessy as Lieutenant Sidney "Sid" Gormley
Stacey Keach as Archbishop Kevin Kearns
Steve Schirripa as DA Investigator Anthony Abetemarco
Lauren Patten as Officer Rachel Witten
Peter Hermann as Jack Boyle
Tony Terraciano as Jack Reagan
Andrew Terraciano as Sean Reagan
Treat Williams as Lenny Ross
Callie Thorne as Maggie Gibson
Guest cast
Will Hochman as Detective 3rd Grade Joseph "Joe" Hill
Bonnie Somerville as Paula Hill
Whoopi Goldberg as Regina Thomas
Lyle Lovett as Texas Ranger Waylon Gates
Episodes
Ratings
References
External links
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2019 American television seasons
2020 American television seasons
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic | an "and" billing at the close of the main title sequence.
Marisa Ramirez, as Danny's partner Detective Maria Baez, and Vanessa Ray, as Jamie's former partner (now wife) Eddie | 42 |
On Tuesday the tech giant announced its IBM z13s, a main<|fim_middle|> speed, and won't slow down system performance as it protects.
Other features include "advanced cryptology," enabling data encryption and decryption that is twice as fast as previous versions of the mainframe. Another feature utilizes analytics that will learn user behavior in order to identify malicious behavior.
In addition, the mainframe allows for additional protection in the form of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), which requires users to enter a second form of identification, such as a PIN or randomly generated token, to gain access to the system. | frame for encrypted hybrid clouds, which is targeted at mid-size organizations.
Hybrid cloud systems harness a mixture of so-called private clouds on company's premises and public clouds that could be hosted by third-party firms.
According to IBM's website, the new mainframe provides customers with data encryption that is built for | 61 |
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Samsung announced this morning a partnership with Carphone Warehouse which will put over 60 Samsung stand-alone stores across Europe. After the success of three stand-alone Samsung stores, operated by Carphone Warehouse in Spain, the modern stores begins rolling out on the next three months. It roll across seven markets offering, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and also the Netherlands.
The stores have been proved to have a premium appear and feel. They will carry Samsung products which include laptops, cell phones, tablets, and wearables.
As Samsung looks to make an even bigger world presence it wouldn't be surprising to determine more deals and stores honestly pop up somewhere else. While Samsung may be using the store-within-a-store model for a short time, it's like it's finally breaking out on its own. We have the presser for you after the break.
SAMSUNG AND CARPHONE WAREHOUSE COLLABORATE ON NEW STORE<|fim_middle|> products across Samsung's huge selection of mobiles, tablets, laptops and wearables.
Shoppers should expect an exciting new customer experience which merges retail and technology innovations like Carphone Warehouse's assisted sales tool and connectivity platform using Samsung branded tablets.
There is possibility to expand the relationship going forward, with Carphone Warehouse acting as Samsung's preferred partner across Europe and operating nearly all dedicated Samsung stores.
This is a vital alliance playing to both companies' strengths. Together we will create a powerful new retail concept to showcase, for your customers, an array of products, content and services along with injecting both investment and new jobs to the retail sector.
Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive Officer of Carphone Warehouse said: "We are delighted to get been chosen as Samsung's preferred European partner for their store roll-out. Our Connected World Services business will combine Carphone Warehouse's retailing expertise and systems with one of the world's biggest brands and definately will help us make much more lives better through connected technology."
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London, 29 January, 2014 –Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced which it has signed a 'preferred partner' agreement with Carphone Warehouse Group plc to use over 60 Samsung stand-alone stores across Europe.
The agreement follows the successful opening in 2013 of three stand-alone stores in Spain, operated by Carphone Warehouse. The new stores will likely be rolled out in the next three months across seven European markets: UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden along with the Netherlands. The stores will have a premium appear and feel and will sell Samsung mobile communications | 132 |
When Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist was imprisoned in the death camps of Nazi Germany he stood face to face with probably the most horrible ordeal of his life. Apart from his sister, he witnessed the loss of his entire family – his wife, his parents and his brother. They either died in the camps or were sent to the gas ovens. He was tortured and suffered countless horrors, not knowing if he would be one of the next to be sent to the ovens. It seemed like his captors had stripped him of everything; his family, his possessions and his dignity. But in his captivity he came face to face with a reality of what his captors could not take from him – his ability to decide within himself how this was going to affect him. In other words,<|fim_middle|>.
The whole world doesn't have to stink…your attitude is a choice. | he could choose his attitude. He later came to call this "the last of the human freedoms." Frankl discovered that his attitude was a choice. He used both his memory and imagination to create within him a future of hope. And in doing so he became an inspiration to the other captives.
When we understand that our attitude is a matter of choice and not chance we can go far. But the noblest attitude is not only the positive one, it's the one where there's a vision and a plan behind it. Where there is no purpose a positive attitude can end up misguided. And once it's misguided it's unlikely that it will last.
Jesus Christ left us the perfect example of how our attitude should be. He not only had a positive attitude, He had a winning attitude. The purpose in front of Him was to please The Father. His incentive was the joy of being with His Father (Hebrews 12:2) knowing that He had done His will and saved mankind | 202 |
Intesa partner and public affairs strategist Maddy Kilkenny has been named to the prestigious USS Midway Museum board of directors. The USS Midway opened as a museum in June 2004 and is<|fim_middle|> San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, is secretary of the board of directors of Reality Changers, and was recently appointed by San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer to the Civic San Diego board of directors.
Learn more about the USS Midway Museum at www.midway.org. | the most popular naval warship museum in the United States.
The USS Midway was America's longest-serving aircraft carrier of the 20th century, from 1945 to 1992. Approximately 200,000 sailors served aboard the carrier, which is now berthed at San Diego's Navy Pier.
As a partner at Intesa, Kilkenny manages day-to-day client activities and is responsible for working closely with clients and project teams to develop and implement government and community relations strategies. She also serves the board of directors for San Diego Young Leaders, an initiative of the | 125 |
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On this day in 1911, December 14, Norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole. I feel a bit the way I do about people climbing Everest before it became a tourist trap, or some forbidding lonely mountain today. Way to go, dude. Amazing accomplishment. Now ruuuuuun.
I mean, there are places you go because you want to be there. Some are easy to reach, others mind-bogglingly hard. But once you get there you kick back, satisfied not only with what you have achieved but where you are. Mountaintops aren't like that.
Mountains are amazing, magnificent, forbidding, dangerous, scary things. I have always remembered a warning line from the pioneering back-to-the-land-adventurously classic Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills that "mountains are always more topologically complex than they appear from a distance". Which means getting up them is way harder than it looks and getting around them is no picnic either. And that's just peanuts to Antarctica.
Its name is Latin<|fim_middle|> less dangerous. But I figure it's somewhere warm in the gorgeous tropical Pacific. So while you might not fancy my chances of making it, at least if I do, it will be worth hanging my hat on the thing and staying a while. | for big white place where you die. No, actually, it's not. And yes, I stole that line from Leslie Nielsen's hilarious documentary on the ocean. Antarctica is of course boring Latin for "place that isn't the Arctic". But might as well be in terms of its equal or even worse inherent hostility to human life.
Getting to the South Pole is an amazing achievement even if he cheated by doing it in summer. Just ask Robert Falcon Scott, whose team lost the race to the pole by just over a month and their lives. It is amazing. It is worth doing if only because it is there. But you shouldn't be for long.
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The Gray Wolf Throne by Cinda Williams Chima
Book Stats:
Reading level: Young Adult
Genre: High Fantasy
Ebook: 517 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Series: Seven Realms #3
Reviewed by: Tynga
Order: Amazon | Book Depository
Han Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend Rebecca Morley near death in the Spirit Mountains, Han knows that nothing matters more than saving her. The costs of his efforts are steep, but nothing can prepare him for what he soon discovers: the beautiful, mysterious girl he knew as Rebecca is none other than Raisa ana'Marianna, heir to the Queendom of the Fells. Han is hurt and betrayed.
Here I am with a third Seven Realms review in as many weeks and I will try very hard not to repeat myself. The key element here you need to know is that this series is AMAZING! Exceptional world-building, rich and colorful culture, tri-dimentionnal lovable (or hate-able) characters and fantastic plot twist will keep you hooked to each of the 517 pages (and it felt like such a short read too!).
There has been a lot going on in the previous installment and Raisa is still on the run in this novel after escaping multiple kidnapping attempts and is still trying to stay out of her enemies (as in multiples..) hands'. It will be no easy feat though as she is alone in enemy territory, with none of her allies knowing her location. The first part of the novel is focused on her difficult journey to return home and her never-ending worries. Fear not, none of it is boring because everyone is out to get her so her traveling is pretty action packed.
Hans is unfortunately not very present in the first part of the novel but will make a very grand entrance in a surprisingly convenient timing. His life will entirely change when he finally learns that his sweet-heart Rebecca Morley is Princess Heir Raisa. We have been awaiting this moment since the first novel and this showdown was worth the wait. It will change everything in their relationship and the tension between to two was really something!
The second part of the novel is about Raisa's quest to regain her place. I'm not gonna give anything away but there has been a lot of political drama in the Queendom during her absence and her place as princess heir isn't as secure as it used to be. A very difficult journey awaits her and with everyone pushing their own agendas, Raisa doesn't know whom to trust, even among allies.
The event in The Gray Wolf Throne are game changing on so many levels and I am sure every fan will be happy with the outcome. There isn't any cliffhanger at the end of this installment, but it sets the table for the final novel to come. I was glad to have The Crimson Crown at hand because I really wanted to know where all those adventures and heartbreak would lead us.
The Seven Realms series is definitely up there with my favorite ones. I know I am late to this party, but if, like me, you hadn't read this series yet, I urge you to get your hands on it! The hardcover edition are quite a workout on those poor arms if you read the pages at break neck pace like I did, so maybe the ebook edition might tempt you lol
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The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson
Hardcover: 688 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Release date: August 2nd, 2016
Series: The Remnant Chronicles #3
Reviewed by: Kara
In the escape from Venda, Lia and Rafe were separated from the other four Dalbrecht men and Lia was severely wounded. Rafe manages to doctor her a bit enough for him to carry her for miles until they all meet up again. Though Lia's barely recovered, she has a feeling some Vendans are after them and they must press on towards Dalbreck. On the road, they are met with a wounded Kaden and Griz, whose only allegiance anymore is for Lia.
When they reach an outpost, Rafe is announced to be King of Dalbreck. In his new role, he and Lia have more conflicts as Lia feels she must continue on towards Morrighan to warn them of the Komizar's army, and Rafe wants to keep her safe and out of a country that has declared her to be a traitor. After some deliberation, Rafe decides to let Lia go but sends his four best men to accompany her to the border. Once in Morrighan, Lia seeks Pauline and to find out how best to gain entrance into the citadel. Despite a setback, she stages a coup to take her place as First Daughter and rule Morrighan to help them survive. She must confront old enemies, her parents, and inspire new loyalties or everything will fall to the Komizar's bloodthirsty horde.
In this final volume, Lia's sense of self is split into many parts. First, she is the First Daughter of Morrighan and loves her kingdom and her people and knows that the Komizar will do everything in his power to destroy it. She also loves Rafe and would not want to jeopardize his country for her own, especially when he had done so much to help her. Lastly, her time in Venda and among the actual Vendan people, with the Morasi clan and Aster, has made her identify with them too. She's seen their suffering, their children made to be soldiers, and their lack of hope or future. She can no longer just act like only the Morrighese matter to her. In assuming leadership of Morrighan, her Vendan sympathies are hard for her people to comprehend and accept, but really, only Lia can embrace and hopefully pacify the two cultures instead of continuing the decades long bloodshed.
Lia still intends to marry Rafe at some point, but her insistence on going back to warn her country creates problems for Rafe. While he was in Venda his mother died unexpectedly and his sickly father also passed, making Rafe the new King of Dalbreck, news that was kept close to prevent instability and allow time for Rafe to be found. In his absence, one of his generals staged a possible bid for the throne. Rafe already has a lot to deal with for his country, let alone the threat of Vendan attack and Lia's plans. Despite their love for each other, Lia and Rafe have one of their biggest conflicts. She needs to go back to her people and doesn't want to wait as the threat of the Komizar edges closer while Rafe can't bear losing her to the possibility of such danger. Still, he must remain and deal with the issues facing his country rather than keep his promises to her. Eventually, he swallows his fear and allows her to leave. Rafe still has more sacrifices to make if he wishes to keep his alliance with Lia. To gain her troops and assistance, he betroths himself to the general's daughter in a show of good faith. For both of them, it's a hard price to sacrifice their love for the good of their countries, but the reader will probably be pleased by the turn of events in the end.
Kaden makes great strides in this book at confronting his past, including revealing his father and his own deep loyalties. Kaden discovers his love for Lia isn't quite the thing of romance, and he develops strong feelings towards Pauline and her new baby. Pauline, meanwhile, grows into her strength and confronts Mikhael for his womanizing ways, manages being a new mom, and supports Lia. She also realizes Kaden has changed, and she should give him another chance to prove himself to her.
This was a solid finale to a good high fantasy series though I really wanted more of a wrap-up. (Don't we all want more of our favorite books/characters?)
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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!
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As you read this, I'm at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago. ALA is kind of like BEA for librarians, so I'm probably wandering through the exhibits desperately trying NOT to pick up too many books.
I know that sounds contradictory, but books are HEAVY. The exhibits floor is HUGE and everything I pick up has to ride on my back until I get back to my room. Overindulgence is painful. Which doesn't mean I won't arrange for entirely too many eARCs from Netgalley and Edelweiss.
Meanwhile, here are a couple of teasers from my Stacking the Shelves post over at Reading Reality:
Barbarian by Anna Hackett
Someone to Wed by Mary Balogh
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The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima
Release date: September 24th 2010
Haunted by the loss of his mother and sister, Han Alister journeys south to begin his schooling at Mystwerk House in Oden's Ford. But leaving the Fells doesn't mean that danger isn't far behind. Han is hunted every step of the way by the Bayars, a powerful wizarding family set on reclaiming the amulet Han stole from them. And Mystwerk House has dangers of its own.
I picked up The Exiled Queen the moment I finished reading The Demon King. I HAD to know what was happening next and I was not disappointed. Both Raisa and Hans left the 'safety' of the Fells and are now deep in Arden territory at a school called Oden's Fort. Raisa attends Wein House, the military school, undercover and I swear she will blow your mind. Hans is attending Mystwerk along side Dancer to learn all things magic, and more. Speaking of magic, the point of view still alternates between the two and neither of them has any idea the other is there! This, along with many familiar and new supporting characters sets the table for another epic adventure.
I find it really hard to tell you about this book without giving anything away. The world is still as rich as it was in the first book and we built upon that lore. We learn a lot more about this history and we learn new facts that plants a seed of doubt on what we thought were facts.
Raisa learns a lot in Wein House and becomes more confidant in her physical abilities and she has a better idea of her objectives for when she will be Queen. She always wanted her Queendom to be a better place, but now she is owning tools that will allow her to do it. Staying away from home for the greater good is weighting her down though and she feels very lonely until she stumble upon Hans very late in the novel and then everything changes.
Hans Alister faces different challenges. He knows his old turf and now finds himself in enemy territory, with no bearing, and no idea what the rules are. He needs to find his way among all these blueblood wizards or he might not survive to tell the tale. He finds very unlikely allies on his quest, most of whom he doesn't trust and that's just as well. I loved following his struggles and witnessing his determination to succeed.
Romance finally enters the premises at the end on this novel and the romantic in me couldn't be happier. I was anxiously awaiting this moment and this young love was so sweet despite the dire situation the young lovers were in. It really set the table for the future to come and as you might guess, I picked up the third book as soon as I set the second one down :)
The Seven Realms series is an awesome high fantasy series and I know it's been released a few years ago, but if you haven't read it yet, you should definitely pick it up! Happy reading!
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I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
Three weeks ago we welcomed a little fur baby to the family so I thought I would show you a picture :) His name is Marcus and he is a seal point cornish rex. We love very much!
Now book wise,
I added to my virtual shelves quite a few books:
The Crimson Crown by Cinda Williams Chima
Shadowcaster by Cinda Williams Chima
and Cage of Deceit by Jennifer Anne Davis (which is currently free)
I've already read all the books by Cinda (reviews to come) and I'm in love! So if you have any suggestions of a similar feel series, please leave a comment!
Please link your STS post in the linky below ^^
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The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for himself, his mother, and his sister Mari. Ironically, the only thing of value he has is something he can't sell. For as long as Han can remember, he's worn thick silver cuffs engraved with runes. They're clearly magicked—as he grows, they grow, and he's never been able to get them off. The thrilling debut in a new high fantasy trilogy, from New York Times bestselling author, Cinda Williams Chima (The Dragon Heir).
I am in love with this series like I haven't been in a long time. I say series because even though this is my review of the first book, after reading it I had to rush and read all four of this series, and than the first two of the spin-off series. I. Am. In. Love. And I will try not to confuse each book in my head as I write each reviews (the other ones will come in the coming weeks).
This high fantasy novel takes place in a world where rules have an extremely important place. A thousand years before, a wicked sorcerer tried to possess the first of the new queens, Hanalae, and when she fought back, the world was almost ripped apart by magic. The clans (think Native American) stepped in to mend the damage and set new rules to prevent it from happening again. And here we are, 30 or so generations later with a line of Queens called Gray Wolwes ruling over the QUEENDOM, yes you read right, along side Wizards who would love to have control back, The Clans, who will do everything to stop it from happening and the Valefolks (the commoner). Each of theses groups are richly portrayed, multi-dimensional, and have their own agendas.
To lead us through this amazing world we have Raisa, Princess Heir and Hans, former Street lord. The narration alternates between the two, allowing the readers to really grasp the reality of each of them. Raisa wants to be a good Queen for her people, she strives for her Queendom to be fair for everyone, for every class to get along and she is extremely stubborn. Hans on the other hand comes from nothing. He fights everyday to put food in his mother and sister's mouths after his father died in the war. He is weary of everyone and everything but he is very hard-working and will do anything to achieve his goals.
Along with those two amazing main characters are great support characters. Byrne, Raisa's childhood friend and bodyguard and Fire Dancer, Hans' best friend were absolutely great, to name only those two.
I don't want to give anything plot wise but I will say that to lore is extremely rich and Cinda Williams Chima offered an impressive historical background to her story. Sometimes fantasy novels can seem lengthy at times mostly because of travel times and what not but I never felt that way reading this novel. Every moment is colorful and gripping, everything happens for a reason and the action kept me glued to the pages.
I've read some complaints about a love triangle when I browsed reviews before, and really, those people are totally off. Yes there are two boys and a girl, but there never was an actual triangle. So if you've heard that, please don't let it keep you away from a great fantasy.
Another thing I thought I would mention, even though the characters are between 15 and 17 years old in this novel, it never felt that way. As you know, I'm a grown woman with kids and I just can't stand childish and whiny behavior from younger characters and thank the lord, it wasn't the case here. They always felt strong, determined and driven and I loved every moment.
I will conclude by urging to get your hands on this novel. It was released in 2009 so I am late to this party, I know. But the first spin-off novels were released in 2016 and April 2017 so I would strongly suggest you read the original series before you pick up the spin-off. Your experience will be that much more amazing!
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Happy weekend everyone! I've been MIA for the past few weeks but I'm back from BookExpo America (BEA) and BookCon with a large stack of books. I had the chance to go to New York last week and I really enjoyed my experience.
Felicia, the Geeky Blogger, was nice enough to let me room with her during the week. She was there mostly for the Audies, the award ceremonies celebrating the best audio books of the year and their narrators. As a proficient audiobook reviewer, Felicia won the award of audiobook blogger of the year. Congrats Felicia! Also, thank you Felicia of letting me tag along to all the social events that allowed me to meet wonderful narrators working the the audiobook business. I had a blast!
Felicia and I sightseeing near Time Square.
I spent Thursday and Friday at Book Expo where I met many different authors and publishers, and picked up multiple ARCs. It felt better organized compared to last year in Chicago, however BookCon was way too crowed for me. Because Book Expo is limited to those in the industry, such as writers, publishers, reviewers, educators, librarians, etc, access was limited. However, BookCon is opened to the public so the main floor was way too crowded and the panel rooms were so small, I was only able to get into two out of the five panels I wanted to attend. They were very strict with the amount of people they could fit into the rooms and I feel they should have anticipated for bigger rooms considering the amount of people in attendance. Overall, I loved the experience, and I would definitely go again some day, however, not next year.
Entrance to main floor of Book Expo<|fim_middle|> which means that summer has unofficially started, at least in the northern hemisphere. School is either out or the end is in sight, and it's supposed to be warm and sunny. I live in Atlanta now, and one of the great things about living here is that while we definitely have all four season, winter generally just deals us a glancing blow. On that other hand, summers can get pretty beastly.
Which makes the height of summer the perfect time to curl up with a good book in an air conditioned house and a glass of iced tea. Come to think of it, there are no bad times to curl up with a good book, not even when the cat is sitting on it.
While my full shelf-stack is, as always, over at Reading Reality, here are a couple of teasers from this week's stack.
Cover Fire by Jess Anastasi
And speaking of teasers, the Beach Reads Giveaway Hop also just started, so hop on over to Reading Reality for a chance to enter.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release date: July 7th, 2015
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save Lia's life, her erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.
Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: There's Rafe, who lied to Lia but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be savages. Now that she lives among them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country... and her own destiny.
I really enjoyed the transformations of our three main characters in this second story as we have unraveled who is who, assassin vs. prince, and seen how that plays into their relationships and political allegiances. Now with the Komizar in the picture, this places a third suitor for Lia's affection (or simply her political status) in play, since he decides to marry her and thereby make her a traitor to Morrighan in one fell swoop.
While Lia shows she is really in love with Rafe, she has a complicated relationship with Kaden. His betrayal of her still stings, but she sees his love of her clash with his loyalty to Venda and the Komizar, even if the latter is stronger. As the Komizar's cruelty and manipulations come to light, Kaden becomes more conflicted, especially when Lia lies to him, pretending to be more in love with him than she is though she does manage to get him to open up about his past, his parents, and his abuse, which he has never spoken about to anyone.
Rafe, too, is playing a dangerous game since he masquerades as an emissary from the Prince of Dalbreck and spins a number of lies as a desperate ploy to buy his small elite team of soldiers more time to help him and Lia escape. Meanwhile, he and Lia are also hiding their secret relationship from everyone and might at any moment be discovered for lovers not spurned enemies.
In this second book, Lia really has the opportunity to confront and explore more of her gift as well as her relationship with the true history of Venda and the Remnant, partially revealed to her by the vagabond leader Dihara. Though Venda has always been considered full of barbarians by those in other kingdoms (possibly due to their history of bloodshed and war), Lia is faced with the reality of her prejudices when she meets other Vendans like Aster and her clan who welcome Lia in light of an ancient prophecy. In meeting Aster, Eben, Calantha...the unnamed enemy has a face and is real and quite not the enemy she pictured. Instead, Lia embraces some Vendan culture and recognizes that the prophecy has tied her to the real Venda in some way, not the same cruel one ruled by the Komizar and that killed her brother and wars with her country.
With Venda being a patriarchal and violent society, both Kaden and the Komizar discount Lia's capacity for resourcefulness and brilliance, seemingly much like her own family did. As we find out, our heroine is strong, fierce, and determined to make her own choices about her future, even if everyone tries to take it away from her.
I also listened to this book on audiobook as a refresher (I'm finally getting to read book 3!), and that was very good too, even if the brief breaks to Gaudrel and the Song of Venda histories were irritating. Still one of my top favorite fantasy series! While this was a middle book, it did not disappoint! It was just as well-written and fantastic as the first. This series is very character-driven with enough satisfying world-building to keep you hooked to the end and dying for the adventure to continue. | and BookCon.
While in New York, I also decided to see a Broadway play which has both american and canadian roots. Come From Away has been nominated for seven Tony Awards and it really deserves to win. It was an amazing musical which is based on the true story of thousands of stranded plane passengers during the 9/11 attacks. In the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, many transatlantic planes were diverted to their small airport and it tells the story of how the town people gathered their resources to help close to 7000 unfortunate travellers. Very touching, and very well choreographed, the actors and songs were wonderful. Highly recommended.
Come From Away playbill.
Come From Away set.
Now, on to the real reason why you're here today. Here's what stacking my shelves this week:
Day 1 at Book Expo.
Purchased Day 1 at Book Expo.
Berserker by Emmy Laybourne
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
A Perfect Obsession by Heather Graham
All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
Year One by Nora Roberts
The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli
Zenith by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings
The Ultimatum by Karen Robards
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
27 Hours by Tristina Wright
For Love of the Duke by Christi Caldwell
Living with the Living Dead by Greg Garrett
The Tiger's Daughter y K. Arsenault Rivera
Warcross by Marie Lu
As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti
Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Jady City by Fonda Lee
Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular by Mayim Bialik
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Getting my book signed by Mayim Bialik.
Getting my booked signed by Margaret Atwood.
Two authors I absolutely wanted to meet (however briefly) were Mayim Bialik and Margaret Atwood, and I was so happy I got the chance to meet both! Even though BookCon was overcrowed, it definitely attacked to some big names. I had the chance to attend Margaret Atwood's panel and it was brilliant hearing her talk about The Handmaid's Tale and the TV show based on her book. She is a very intelligent lady, and oddly enough, very funny.
So now you turn! Let me know what's new on your shelves!
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Joke News article: Dummy Falls Down
January 28, 2016 January 29, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogAndrew Halter, Andrew Halter Comedian/Writer, Chicago, Comedy, comedy news, funny, joke news, parody, self-deprocatingLeave a comment
This is a parody news article I've written, more to come.
Dummy Falls Down on his Stupid Face in Front of Everybody
Chicago, IL — Andrew Halter, fledgling journalist and part-time stand-up comedian, looked like an idiot last Thursday when his right toe clipped the curb in front of the Walgreens at Foster and Lincoln, causing him to drop his bag of candy and painfully exclaim "Dammit!"
Most of the 11 bystanders who witnessed the event declined to comment on it, though a few mentioned that he did look foolish, most averted their eyes, looking instead at the sky out of politeness.
"Yeah that was pretty funny I guess," remarked David Grant, local father of five, after witnessing the doofus peel himself off the asphalt.
Immediately after falling, Halter tried to gather himself as quickly as he could and walk away. Though he tried to, he could not hide the painful limp in his stride, consequence of his badly scraped right knee.
When authorities attempted to reach Halter for comment, he yelled "I don't know what you're talking about!" before slamming into the nearby Lincoln bus stop kiosk as he attempted to hurry away.
Upon hearing him walk into the bus stop, Margaret Atwood, grandmother of twelve, was unable to keep herself from audibly guffawing at the silly boob as he hobbled down the sidewalk toward his apartment.
"I'm sorry," Atwood explained as she attempted to cover her mouth with her right hand, "it was funny, I feel bad for him though."
Douglas and Jerry Ignacio, local high schoolers who also witnessed the disturbance were less kind, remarking that "(the) b!*ch better watch where he's going."
Reports say that after he got back to his apartment, Halter turned off the lights and watched Fargo on Netflix under his heavy comforter, vowing to never again mention the occurrence.
Zen Comedy 7: The Only Thing (repost)
January 27, 2016 January 27, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogAndrew Halter Comedian/Writer, Comedic timing, Comedy, Jack Benny, Old-time radio, Standup comedy theory, Timing, Zen ComedyLeave a comment
I am here reposting an earlier Zen Comedy article of mine. If you seek to read this blog in its original form, I've included the link here. From this link, you can read any of my previously logged Zen Comedy posts.
https<|fim_middle|> film a joy to behold, and announce Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, Eagle vs. Shark) as one of the most exciting filmmakers in the world. Underneath the surface of hilarious revelry and indomitable childhood positivity, there is an emotionally devastating undercurrent of hopelessness and death. The complex emotions and simple themes of Boy make it instantly enjoyable, hilarious, and emotionally devastating.
Zen Comedy 25: Jokes with Heart
January 24, 2016 January 24, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogcomedians, Comedy, Emo Phillips, Mitch Hedburg, standup comedy, Standup comedy theory, Steve Martin, ZenLeave a comment
The Zen comedian says: "The joke teller must always be smiling in his heart." Personally, I find this to be extremely practical and valuable advice. Taken most simply, this counsel could mean that every joke one writes must first make him or herself laugh, but that is only one possible meaning. The Zen Comedian's advice is not so simple, and is open to a myriad of interpretations.
First of all, I find it important that The Zen Comedian's advice, in this case, is directed to the "Joke teller," and not the comedian. Not every comedian tells jokes per se, as there are many comedians that tell stories, rather than crafting jokes. For the comedian that tells a story, especially a story that would normally be considered sad, an inner smile is not necessary, and may not even be helpful. When the Zen Comedian speaks of the "Joke teller," I believe he is referencing a certain type of comedian, most clearly typified by the likes Mitch Hedburg, Emo Phillips, and the man who showed us what standup comedy could be in the hands of a performance artist, Steve Martin.
Steve Martin had a joke that he did at least near the beginning of countless performances. In this bit, Mr. Martin would simply step to the microphone and say "here's something you don't often see," after which he'd pull his lips apart with his fingers and yell while jumping up and down at least three times. It is such a simple joke that it may elicit more eye rolling than laughter, but when he was fully energized, his spirit was infectious.
The standup comedy of Steve Martin gets right to the center of what the above lesson teaches us. What is most evident in Steve Martin's standup, and what made his unconventional style loved by the largest crowds that any standup act had ever seen at the time, was the joy he took in each piece of it. The joy you feel telling jokes that make you laugh will spread to your audience, and they will join you.
Addendum: The Zen comedian does not encourage laughing out loud on stage at your own material. He gave me no specific lesson on this, as he felt it obvious. | ://thezencomedian.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/zen-comedy-7-the-only-thing/
The Zen Comedian, upon hearing reference to the cliché; "timing is everything," responded with the use of another cliché from the immortal Vince Lombardi: "timing isn't everything, it's the only thing." With this lesson, the Zen Comedian meant that timing is not only the most important aspect of each and every joke, but is in fact the true substance of all comedy. I learned this lesson very powerfully when I was around ten years old, from comedy's greatest master of timing, Jack Benny.
When I was a child, I collected cassettes of classic radio comedy, and though I had many favorites (The Bickerson's, Fred Allen, Abbot & Costello) Jack Benny, who will be referred to as Zen Master Jack from here on, was my favorite. Zen Master Jack's most dominant character trait was his stinginess, and likely eighty percent of the jokes on his radio show revolved around this aspect of his personality. He even had an underground safe in which he kept his massive fortune. On one of his trips to this safe, he was accosted by an assailant who held a gun to his face and demanded: "Your money or your life!"
At this Zen Master Jack said nothing for a very long time. I remember listening to the audience bristle, ready to erupt as the pause went on and on. I could envision the burglar's frustrated expression as I listened to the sounds of laughter from the live audience grow louder and louder. Eventually the burglar had enough waiting and yelled "Well! Your money or your life!" to which Zen Master Jack responded almost immediately "I'm thinking it over!" The crowd roared with laughter, not at the joke itself, because it was even then a simple and predictable gag, but simply because of the way it was timed.
Though the live audience at the recording of this classic bit had the advantage of watching Zen Master Jack's vaguely effeminate annoyed expression, most of the crowd and all listeners at home laughed simply at their own imaginations. Many listeners at the time I'm sure didn't even know what the face attached to this voice on the radio even looked like, but they laughed at the anticipation of a response. The Zen Comedian tells us that if the audience is offered an effective set-up, even if it is extremely simple, they can fuel their laughter with their own anticipation. Searching my own comedy for the places I most make use of this lesson, I recall the punchline to my "Burger King Confessional" joke.
The concept of this joke is that to expedite the penance process, Burger King has merged with St. Ignatius (a Chicago Catholic church) and created the worlds first Drive-Thru/Confessional. The punchline to this joke comes after the fast food patron confesses to molesting his nephew. The Priest/drive-thru operator begins by repeating the order, "Large Fry, Medium Dr. Pepper, Whopper Jr. and," and then pauses for a good length of time. After I've allowed the audience to anticipate what they well know will be a joke, I drop it on them. "Hey who hasn't?" I've learnt (or believe I have) from Zen Master Jack that the greatest laughter comes from anticipation, even if it is anticipation of the laughter to come.
A New Dawn: Chapter 1
January 26, 2016 February 3, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogAndrew Halter, death, epic poetry, gore, Poetry, sex, violent, zombie apocalypse, zombiesLeave a comment
Volume 1:
I woke today to hordes charging the mall fortress
clawing at walls and breaking windows teeth first
getting at the sweet moist meat as it screamed "they got in!"
we called it rage disease and imagined a possible antidote
we might have developed a vaccine but it was too late
two weeks of peace before hell broke and came to roost
and now we're passing out reloading and scribbling desperation
empty soul cages come and come In waves to the barrier
introduced with a thick wet thud and then the scraping
we found a stash of tranquilizers but sleep is dangerously sad
filled with the screams inside and out of each of us
and I don't care that the laughter's gone I have nothing
I saw my wife eat my child so I shot her in the head
in my son's crib was only a dark red squishing
look in the mirror and scream what the difference is
I decided to blow it up and send everyone home at once
but there's no way so I sunk and wept a river for everyone
can't even do myself staring down a rifle barrel screaming
saying they need me but I'll be dead soon and so will they
everyone is dead when they're born and alive when they die
we created hilarious irony when when we did whatever we did
probably an environmental cause they all said when it began
whatever we did to make these things we should let them eat us
that would be a fitting punishment for whatever it was we did
but we have to survive so I pick a post and stand watch
in academic reference books it will have a term henceforth
"Disciplinary Injury" is what they call self-castration
if you're turned on by a zombie then it all must come off
A puddle of tears on the ground I looked up into the sky
The sun hurt my eyes so I buried them in the floor
"my family's dead too" a deep female voice utters above
Angelica is a survivor like me sitting in the dirt to my left
"they died before the zombies came in a house fire"
I said "lucky bitch" because I didn't need to hear that
pouring her tragedy over me when I have my own to admire
then she stunned me with her eyes and asked "wanna fuck?"
"no" because I'm not the guy and you're not the girl for it
"so you're staying loyal to a shadow" she said and smiled
"I can still see her holding my son" I lied without knowing why
I can still see them but then Angelica got up to walk away
I said "wait" and noticed tears streaming down my face
Day 205 and hell started to feel just like home
Angelica's a fixture in my life now of love and comfort
her eyes are a kind grandmother's because she is one
her husband and children and grandchildren are all dead
swept away in a fire years earlier her tears have scabbed
she is a pillar of strength in all the wailing masses
I will never forget my wife but I am in love with Angelica
I love her strength and her beauty and the flow of her body
end-of-the-world sex is exhilarating and enlivening
I really should write a book about it but I never will
no one talks about fictitious ambitions anymore
art was the first casualty of the new way of life
art takes time and there's not enough time anymore
all there is to do now is to live and fuck and die
we the survivors of the end call ourselves holdouts
holdouts tell themselves life is a choice they've made
life is a choice and not at all an easy one anymore
suicides are a normal every day kinda thing now
all who kill themselves are thrown to the zombies
lowered from the wall slowly and eaten as they go
we call them cowards and we hate their bones
they die without honor and are afforded no dignity
our leader Angelica pisses and spits on their bodies
she is our pillar of strength and our master of destiny
our struggle is aimed to a pinpoint by her vision
we will demolish the old and introduce the new
and I will stay by her side through the rebuilding
my role is tertiary and I hold no real influence
I will be privy to the birth of a survivor society
Short Story: The VICTORY
January 24, 2016 January 24, 2016 AndrewHalterOmniblogAndrew Halter, Andrew Halter Comedian/Writer, autobiographical, Chicago, hospital, pathos, Short Story, victoryLeave a comment
You thought you'd stared up at that sad white paint for the last time a year ago, didn't you? You really believed the lie you scribbled on the wall, that this complex wouldn't swallow you again, and that you had it beat. There's no winning against this place. The hospital is a living organism and it has your number. You were smiling, laughing, the first time you left, and now you're crying and you're back. You'll wear their pity like a bloody carpet.
And you'll know it's all your fault, that's what'll make it sting. Not the injury, that comes from some infected scar tissue in your abdomen, but the true pain. The true pain comes from flashbacks of Carmen, how she helped you recover emotionally, and the love you feel for her. After you almost died in a car accident, rehabilitation was daunting, but Carmen was there to help. Every week, she would come over to your house and watch House. You fell in love with her then, in those hours spent glancing at her when she chuckled.
Lovely, sweet, dusky eyes peer up at you from a smiling face, and you're caught.
You thought you could be someone to Carmen, but she helped you, you didn't help her. When you tried to kiss her what else was she gonna do? And you were crushed, fucking flat Stanley crying like a little bitch. And you can't even stop thinking about her.
This is a pediatric ward, so there's dead and dying little kids in every direction, but you're not even sad about that. Deep down in your core you're sad about one thing, and it is pathetic.
What, when Carmen began spinning behind your pupils, you called it love, but the bad kind? You know there's no such thing as unrequited love; you know that's not fair. Obsession is real, devotion and doe-eyed obedience are real, but you can't call these things love, because it's not fair to. How much do you even know Carmen? Yes you know her better than before the accident, and that time in the bookstore you felt like maybe she liked you, but you should've known that that was just pity. Pity is the most horrible thing in the world, because it is not emotion; pity is only judgement and classification.
Those that would pity you look at your life and say to themselves "There but for the grace of god go I," and they move on, which would be fine. The problem comes when cripples like you try to hit on normal people. Everybody was just lying on the bed at Clark's because we were all tired and high, and it wasn't anything; but you saw Carmen lying next to you and you tried to kiss her, God.
And now she's in love with Kirk and it doesn't even matter, because she's human and you're fucking gross. You can tell yourself that hole in your throat is cool all you want, but it's nasty and it makes people uncomfortable. It's like you're showing off, Mr. I've-Been-To-Hell-and-Back. Look at me, I'm better than you because I know what it's like to need a wheelchair and see a hospital ceiling all day, but that's bullshit. What could Carmen love in you? Fuck, what could Carmen like about you? Admiration though? What's that? She admires you for what you went through, and that's sexy? That's attractive? That's endearing? You know it doesn't even matter, anyway, because she's just not into you.
But that's all just slings and arrows, and everybody's got those; you're not special, you're fucking typical. You can lie there feeling sorry for yourself but around the bed next to you are new parents watching their infant child die. You'll probably never know pain like that, and you think you're hurt. Even with all that you've seen and been through you'll never have to see that kind pain up close. They seem nice; a little boring maybe, but that doesn't mean they deserve this. That baby might have been bouncing around and giggling a short time ago, and now it's in the hospital. Or maybe it never bounced or giggled. Being in the hospital makes me consider these things..
What will you be when you go home after all this?
All you did today was watch the clock with bated breath like you were hoping for something, but you were just waiting for your parents to show up towing their sad eyes, and when they did it wasn't any help. Your dad came and he was like "Let's go get a board game or something." and you said yes because you saw hope in his face. He wants so bad to see you smile; he wants to hear you joke, so joke, you say, you'll really try to.
Last time you were in the hospital you and dad actually walked to a video store and picked up some Yes, Prime Minister, and that was so funny. You can remember sitting on the hospital bed and laughing your asses off, and Fawlty Towers too, and when dad would take you out on walks sometimes and he would jog and tilt the chair back. Going fast like that was simply fantastic, like you didn't even know that the shadow you were rolling in was from the hospital. it was just sharp and cold and bitter and wonderful. It's strange to think but you miss those times, when you were learning how to walk again, and when you could feel progress.
But you can't do that now, it hurts so bad to walk. Every time you take a step you feel like nails are being pried out of your abdomen, wrenched by the tool on the back of a hammer.
So you were wheeled back to the game room with dad and what did you expect? All it was was a bunch of sad children in bandages playing stupid board games and giggling, but their giggles didn't sound whole. In those little minds, even if their consciousnesses don't realize it, score is kept and they're way behind. Those little kids know that their friends aren't in the hospital, but that's really only the beginning; they don't even know that this is supposed to be the time their discovering girls; they don't know what it means to miss that, and that's probably worse than seeing it pass by. You watched it pass by, so you at least have someone to blame. Obviously blaming yourself isn't ideal, but it's better than nothing at all, you guess.
God, Hannah, when was that? Fourth grade? And you're remembering that? Thinking about how that should've been your first kiss, and maybe then the whole story would've been different? You know, if you access your reason and really think about it, you know that it wouldn't have made any difference. If while working on building the model Navaho town hall or whatever, you know that if you'd said "fuck it" and leaned over puckering it wouldn't have been what you'd always imagined. Face it, she'd have recoiled.
Even when it actually first happened for you that wasn't real, not like it would've been if you'd created it, it was made for you and dropped in your lap because even before the accident people pitied you. Some new fellow freshman friend set you up out of the goodness of her heart, with Lin. You and Lin sat on the bench swing discussing what you each felt in your heart about the tenderness in human voices and the art in utilitarian craftsmanship or something, you can't even remember, but it seemed important.
Lin just felt like home, and you loved talking to her. You can remember sessions of kissing and rubbing over the clothes and over the sheets of Lin's bed, you felt like that was what it was all about. That was your mistake; you were too satisfied; you didn't think you would have to do anything. When she said she'd prefer to stay friends, you smiled and said "that's cool." And when you tried to reconnect with her after your accident it was like she didn't know you and who could blame her? But you deserved it, the way you acted when you were first getting to know Lin was shameful.
So when dad wheeled you to the game room the letters on the boxes were all laughing at you, or that's what it felt like anyway. At first you were like "I kinda wanna go back," but then he looked sad so you said "Okay, Connect Four." Who knows what it would look like to have your heart in a game of Connect Four, but your heart wasn't in that one.
You must've looked real pissy grunting every time you slid one of the pieces into place, because as soon as you finished like 2 games dad was like "Alright wanna go back to the room?"
"Yeah, lets go."
And as soon as you got back in bed dad was like "Sorry, I just thought maybe we could have a little fun."
"Nah, it's okay," and you raised your chin to look into dad's eyes. You know it's really a shame you can't cry anymore, because that might've been a really good time.
And then when he saw you look at the mattress he put his hand on your shoulder, "How ya doin?" he asked like he didn't know.
Not too fucking good dad. I'm in the hospital again, my stomach hurts like hell, and the girls, the girls hurt worst of all. "Fine. I mean, not fine, it sucks, definitely, but it'll be over soon, so, ya know." What the fuck? Where the fuck do you get off Mr. Tough-Guy? Everyone knows, though; everyone knows it's just a fucking act, you've got no one fooled.
"All right," the words slid out of your mouth like ash, "I'm doin alright"
Now it's been a week and you're still staring at the ceiling and the baby's crying so you get up. You know what? Now, fuck this, that's what, it's time to walk. Grab the walker it's not so hard, grab it with both hands. It's right next to your bed and when you grab it it doesn't slip away, it's yours, and fully it is.
Okay now move the walker to the front of you. It's a machine, it's supposed to make a crippled bastard like you walk, so walk. Alright, for the first leg we'll go to the window. You won't even do any more than that, will you? Oh boo-hoo it hurts so much, that's psychological and you know it, nothing hurts anymore, you push through that shit. And you won't cry. Yeah you guess you can't cry, but you wouldn't cry if you could, because you've got more in the tank than they all have put together; they're all jealous, they wish they could be given this kind of strength, but you know, they'd have to earn it. They'd have to earn it through pain and disability and rehabilitation, and then they might remember what joy is. They would know the joy of walking around and talking with Carmen on Halloween at the zoo.
That joy, whatever happened afterwards, will always be there. When you looked in her eyes she did love you back, and it had to be special for her too. You reach the window and look out; you can see the black, but there's specks of light too, and it's not so bad.
You can see the stars and they're beautiful and fuck the pain, because it means nothing to nobody, so fuck it. Smile now, that's right, show those motherfuckers who's the boss of who—you can't tell me what to do!—that's right because what's even trying to tell you? Thousands of dollars, hundreds of man hours spent just to make sure you can think and talk and walk so what are you gonna do? No, you're not gonna lie down and throw that pillow over your head and cry; because you're tough, that's why, and you're not gonna let pain tell your legs not to move you to a better place.
When you see Carmen again your head will try to fool you again, but you won't let it will you? So what if you keep thinking about her? She's a major figure from the past it's only natural, the way of the world. You're the doting skinny pale best friend of the spicy Latina, that movie came out like 7 times in 1982. Maybe you'll find someone who excites you like you're alive like never before and maybe not, who cares? Unoriginal people with nothing to offer anybody would care but you're not one of them; you're a hero and an artist, and that's why you're gonna turn around and do it again. You'll walk through the pain again, while it disappears, or shows you that it never existed in the first place.
Here's what winners call the wall. They don't mention it's made of nails but who cares, you said you're the toughest son of a bitch that ever lived so fight through that shit, beat it into the ground till it coughs blood and its mother comes to save it. You're passing your room again and your bed looks better than ever before. Maybe something good's on TV now? Who cares so you turn left and get ready to face the pain again. TWO, say it out loud in your mind, TWO!
Fuck two, why not three? Fuck three, why not five? Fuck five, how about fucking EIGHT!?
Wait? Who's this talking? No nurse, I'm fine. I'm just walking around the hospital I don't need help. No I don't need a wheelchair I'm not goin anywhere, just makin laps. Why? You know I'd never really considered it, just feels good I guess. Yeah I guess it did hurt yesterday but I'm fine now. Feels good because I'm free and I can do anything.
Almost, almost. Almost! TEN, done, you can lay down now, you beat it and it's never coming back.
I woke up a week after the surgery and my stomach didn't hurt anymore. It was thanksgiving, and on the way out I saw that couple from the other bed in my room walk through the doors carrying their baby, the baby was laughing.
In an instant, the earth will open below you, and you will be swallowed into the agony and horrible congestion of the reality that exists for all of us the same. In accepting this as an inevitability, which all of us must do, the appropriate thing is to gird your loins and paint your face.
Movie Review: Boy (2011)
January 24, 2016 February 4, 2019 AndrewHalterOmniblogBabe, Boy, Coming of age story, James Rolleston, Movie Review, New Zealand, Taika Waititi2 Comments
Director: Taika Waititi
Writer: Taika Waititi
Stars: James Rolleston, Taika Waititi
Boy, Taika Waititi's wonderful 2011 coming-of-age story, is the most heartwarming and honest depiction of childhood I've seen since Babe (1995). Like the main character in Babe, Boy (James Rolleston) is an orphan, his mother having died in childbirth while delivering his little brother, Rocky (Te Aho Eketone-Whitu). This orphan lives in a land of broken-down cars and rampant unemployment, yet at the very beginning of the movie, he introduces himself to the camera wearing bright eyes and a million dollar smile. "Ora (Maori greeting), my name is Boy, and welcome to my interesting world."
In this opening speech, Boy describes his absentee father as "A master carver, deep-sea treasure diver, the captain of the rugby team, and he holds the record for knocking out the most people with one hand." None of this is true, obviously, and Boy's father is actually in prison for robbery. Boy's father Alamein (Director Taika Waititi) shows up early in the film, and drives most of the action. As Alamein constantly invents stories about what he's done and will do, he actually spends all his time getting high in the garage and searching for the "Treasure" he buried in a field and forgot to mark.
Though poverty and desperation are omnipresent in Boy, and Boy's father is a loser and a petty criminal, the implacable cheeriness of the film and its main character make the mere hour and twenty-three minute runtime breeze by like a dream. Beyond the film's perspective, instantly relatable characters and its emotionally powerful story, it is often astoundingly funny. I have many times gone back in my netflix window and watched the moment when Boy's teacher yells at Boy and a classmate, "Both of you fuck off or I'll send you to the principal!"
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So I wondered as I tiptoed over her parents' snow dusted driveway late last night. It was so still, the crunching snow thundered under my sneaks. "Someone's going to call the cops if they see me," I further assured myself.
I have just completed my first term in Oxford, away from the family. We sold our home at the end of the summer, just before I left for term, and Julie and the kids have moved into her parents' home near Vancouver. I was able to return home from Oxford for Christmastide, after the eight week term, sooner than I thought. I was able to move my flight forward by two weeks! And, being the responsible husband that I am, I opted not to tell Julie.
I gently pulled the door tight to the frame and slowly turned the key. You have to unlock that boot-room door just right to keep it from squeaking (I learned that while we were dating ;). I set my case down ever so slowly, removed my shoes and, after slowing my breath, began my creep up the back staircase.
Thankfully the door to our room at Julie's parents' house never squeaks. I still only hesitantly pried it open, not daring to breathe, peeking in.
There she was, all snuggled in under the duvet. In the pitch black, I could barely make her out, but I could hear she was fast asleep and wasn't just pretending. After 14 years of marriage, you know the difference. It worked! All my fears about the surprise leaking out and backfiring on me vanished. Now for the final trick.
Julie loves having her feet rubbed.
I knelt at the end of the bed, folded the covers back and found those familiar feet.
As I<|fim_middle|> set up before the kids got out of bed in the morning. I closed myself in it, along with gifts not only for the birthday boy, but the girls as well – including a giant bear for Anna.
To be sure, it's been a sacrifice to be apart for term-time. But it hasn't been void of sweetness as well, and fresh appreciation for the incredible gift God has given our family in giving us one another.
Oxford Under a Rainbow was captured by friend E. S. Kempson, and is used here with permission. | pressed them, soon her breathing changed. I could no longer hear it. The room went from being sleepy quiet, to that terse quiet that sets the hair on the back of your neck on edge.
"It's you," she whispered through the dark, "It's you." I'll never forget that moment.
But the daring foot rub was only stage one of the surprise. Today was stage two. My son's seventh birthday! My exceptionally resourceful father-in-law had managed to lay hold of a giant box, which I | 105 |
From the December 2012<|fim_middle|> degree in tae kwon do. I don't know what's required for that. I have a first-degree black belt and a second-degree black belt. I'd like to get another.
MH: You have a big role in the recently filmed Christmas movie When Angels Sing. How did that come about?
WN: Turk Pipkin [who wrote the novel that the film is based on] and I are old buddies. When he was writing the novel, he told me if they ever got the movie together, he'd want me to do it. I liked the idea of this one—a family movie, it was time for one of those. I don't do that many movies, but when one comes along that sounds good, it's a no-brainer. The character I play is a good one, plus it has Kris [Kristofferson], Harry [Connick Jr.], and a good cast and director.
MH: Your character is a kind, bearded man named Nick who brings joy to a family. In real life you are a kind, bearded man who brings joy to millions. Are you, in fact, Santa Claus?
WN: Well, I won't come down your chimney, I can promise you that! I like to think I treat people like I want to be treated: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If everyone did that, it would put everyone in the same place. I'm not Santa Claus, but I do what I can.
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Willie Nelson on getting old, getting busted, getting along with Pat Robertson and Snoop Dogg, and getting mistaken for Santa Claus.
Is Santa Claus real? The question has tormented children and adults alike for generations. But what if the answer is right in front of our eyes? What if he walks among us year-round in the guise of a relatively jolly 79-year-old country singer with a white beard and a twinkle in his eye? What if Willie Nelson is Santa Claus? Think about it for a second. Like Santa, Willie is known for his generosity and his ability to bring joy to millions. He travels the world in a customized vehicle.
A detailed mythology surrounds them both. For Santa: the home and workshop at the North Pole, the retinue of reindeer and elves, the list, the ability to slide down chimneys. For Willie: the ranch and recording studios at his Pedernales spread, the retinue of roadies and band members in the Family, the annual picnic, the ability to slide out from under pot busts. And then there's Trigger, the weathered and beaten guitar Willie has played for 43 years—his sidekick, his Rudolph.
Willie, of course, is a lot more complicated than Santa. He smokes a ton of marijuana, for one. He records with country goofballs like Toby Keith and jazz classicists like Wynton Marsalis. He's an outlaw and a hero—which is to say, he's naughty and nice. Two years ago he was busted for possession of marijuana (for the fourth time) in Sierra Blanca and faced two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Last April 20 (an unofficial holiday for weed-smoking), he was honored with an eight-foot bronze statue in downtown Austin—on Willie Nelson Boulevard, a block away from city hall. The mayor gave a speech, city leaders stood in line to shake Willie's hand, and hundreds of people applauded when Willie spoke and played. The statue was no sentimental riff on how our heroes have always been cowboys. It was a nod to the fact that without Willie, who moved to the Austin area in 1972, the city wouldn't be an internationally renowned musical mecca—and Texas wouldn't boast a multimillion-dollar music industry.
Willie turns eighty in April, and he isn't planning on leaving anytime soon. He's got songs to write, drugs to legalize, and black belts to earn. And, for all we know, stockings to fill on Christmas Eve.
Michael Hall: Great cities have statues that personify them. Austin has you. What does that say about you—and the city?
Willie Nelson: That we're f—ed! I'm just kidding. I was honored, though I'm kind of surprised the people who run the city would think it's a good idea to have a statue of me.
MH: Why?
WN: All the controversies and things. Maybe you don't want to be known as a "pot town."
MH: Apparently people could smell the weed in the air at the unveiling. There must have been police there.
WN: There were cops standing around, just looking and laughing.
MH: You've been active in all kinds of ways, trying to change the marijuana laws. You recently campaigned for an Oregon cannabis law.
WN: Yeah, they want to make it completely legal across the board. That'd be great. We could stop a lot of crime by getting rid of that law. [Note: The ballot initiative was defeated on November 6.]
MH: At the Summit of the Americas, in April, world leaders openly talked for the first time about legalizing drugs.
WN: It's ridiculous to have all those people down there on the border killing each other, trading drugs and guns. There's a huge industry down there, and the prisons are full, and the people who own the prisons are very happy about it.
MH: You yourself have gotten busted, and then—
WN: And then I do my two-hour show without missing a line or a note. And I've already proved, at least in my instance, that I can either smoke or not smoke; it's no big deal. I know a lot of people who can't. They have no tolerance for it. They take a couple drags, and they're in a coma for the rest of the day. There are some of us that have a higher tolerance. It's definitely a stress reliever, and stress is the biggest killer on the planet. My old buddy Pat Robertson—remember him? The preacher? He said some interesting things about it. He came down to the studio to do a promo thing. I like him a lot. I think he's about as extreme one way as I am the other, but he was saying it's crazy to send a teenager to prison for smoking a joint, when he goes in an innocent kid and comes out a hardened criminal. And he's right, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
MH: For years you've helped American farmers, mostly through Farm Aid, and lately you've reached out to the Occupy people, talking about occupying the food system. Did that go anywhere?
WN: Well, it's a work in progress. More people are waking up to the fact that companies like Monsanto are not our buddies. They're ruining the environment and they're forcing farmers off the land. They're not the only corporation doing it, but the big corporate farmers are happy when a farmer has to sell to them. Farm Aid was started because of that fact, that we are losing so many of our small family farmers. I think our food is the most important resource we have, and if we can keep it from being poisoned and pesticided and chemicalized, it will be healthier for us and our kids. The farmer who raises his own food and drinks the water, feeds his family, lives on the farm, takes care of the land, and is the steward of the land, these are the guys that need to stay there.
MH: Let's talk about family. Two of your sons, Lukas and Micah, are on Heroes, your latest album, and one of the best songs, "The Sound of Your Memory," was co-written by Lukas.
WN: That's a great song. As much as I love my sons, I still wouldn't make them a part of the show if I didn't think they were pretty good. For years Lukas and Micah would come out and play—we'd jam a lot, ever since they've been old enough to play music together. And there's nothing better than playing music with your kids.
MH: How did you get Snoop Dogg to sing on "Roll Me Up [and Smoke Me When I Die]"?
WN: He's an old buddy of mine. We met when he had a song called "My Medicine" and asked me to sing on it. This was a few years back. I was in Amsterdam, and he called me and asked if I'd sing on the record. I said, "Yeah, but I'm in Amsterdam. Where are you?" He said, "I'm in New York, but I'll be right there." He flew over, and we did it.
MH: Did you hit any of the coffee shops?
WN: We did allthe coffee shops. We had a lot of fun. We started hanging out together a little bit. When I did "Roll Me Up," it was natural to get Snoop on it.
MH: Did you see the quote from him after the Sierra Blanca bust? "They better leave Willie the f— alone! Willie Nelson is a legend, man. . . . Willie Nelson is our elder. He's somebody who lived through many decades of music, and hard times and whatnot, and living good, and going up and down. So give him that respect."
WN: He was upset over that. They f—ed with him around the world too.
MH: He was busted in the same place, at Sierra Blanca. If you're going through Texas on I-10, you have to go through that checkpoint.
WN: That's right. Every time you go through there, you think about it—whether you get stopped or pulled over or arrested or not, you definitely remember when you were. I like to go through there when it's real cold and bad, so they don't want to open the door. They just say, "Move on."
MH: Is it all over now?
WN: Yes, I paid a fine, and we moved on.
MH: "Roll Me Up" was a big hit at the CMT Music Awards, in June.
WN: I was surprised they requested it. The opening of the song, they had smoke coming out. I said, "Hell, Nashville's turning around!" The town has definitely done a 180. The song has become pretty popular. Every night I play it, it becomes a sing-along. It gets everybody moving and laughing.
MH: Have you been writing any new songs?
WN: I haven't had time to write anything new. I've gotta take some days off and write. When I get an idea, I have to write it right then. I don't know, I've got probably a dozen half-written ones lying around. The last thing I wrote, I put down a title: "You Don't Have to Say a Word." And the more I looked at it, the more I laughed and realized, I don't have to say a goddamn thing.
MH: You're turning eighty in April, and you recently suffered a ruptured bicep. How is that healing up?
WN: It's all right. Not 100 percent, but it's okay. I can still play and everything.
MH: Do you still run?
WN: Not as much as I'd like to. I do quite a bit of biking now.
MH: A lot of good friends of yours have died in the past decade—from Johnny Cash and Ray Charles to, more recently, your longtime stage manager Poodie Locke and bassist Bee Spears. Has this made you think more about dying?
WN: No, I don't think about dying. It's inevitable, it's gonna happen, why worry about that shit? Remember the song "Let's Think About Livin' "?
Let's think about livin'
Let's think about lovin'
Let's think about the whoopin'
And the hoppin' and the boppin'
And the lovie, lovie dovin'
Whoever sang it, he died.
MH: You're still writing songs, putting out albums, going on tour, making movies. With all the stuff you've done, what do you feel like you still have to prove?
WN: I'd like to get another | 2,246 |
2022 Nissan Armada Platinum AWD Review & Test Drive
The landscape of large body-on-frame SUVs has only a handful of players that vie for being the king of the hill and are now facing an uphill battle with gas prices being the highest in history. However, the steady hands of large SUVs still have a place in the American lifestyle and vehicles like the refreshed-for-2021 Nissan Armada continue to win over buyers thanks to its lower price of admission compared to the competition.
The 2022 Nissan Armada is unchanged for the model year proudly sporting its few essential updates from the 2021 model where it received some updated front and rear-end styling along with a welcomed 12.3-inch standard infotainment touchscreen.
Performance and Driving Character
Apart from the subtle updates, the Armada remains to be a good value for a large body-on-frame SUV with decent power from its aged but powerful 5.6-liter V8 engine producing 400 horsepower and 413 lb-ft of torque. The gas-gulping V8 continues to be mated to a 7-speed automatic transmission and the Armada can be had in the standard two-wheel-drive setup or an all-wheel-drive configuration that permits power to be automatically directed up front when additional traction is needed in addition to selecting a four-high or four-low drive setting via a 2-speed transfer case.
The surefootedness of the Nissan Armada is much of what I remember in the many previous test drives of the vehicle, including its similar but more upscale Infiniti QX80 cousin. The Armada feels huge and mostly drives huge, which can be a good and bad thing at the same time.<|fim_middle|> newsgastheking
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Sneak Peek Of Gooding & Company's London Auction At The 2022 London Concours | There's a lot of weight that's felt in driving the Armada, but it surprisingly responds well to inputs if you ever dare start to push the Armada a little hard on the road. I would never go as far as to force the large 22-inch tires to start screaming as the Armada doesn't inspire much lateral confidence but feels nicely planted with a smooth, well-dampened quality out on the highway.
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How Do You Like Them Apples?「ヤングジャンプ 2013年9月12日No.39 feat. 指原莉乃~♡」
Still the most troublesome aspect of ordering any weekly/monthly manga magazine are their enormous size and therefore weight which means upped shipping costs xD…still for a Sasshi cover it's still worth its weight in adorableness~♡. Also in this issue are Passpo's leader Negishi Ai and model/actress Taketomi Seika.
you get the idea (。ーωー。)笑。
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Sasshi's photo sequence is really striking. What does 'ma, sore wa sore toshite…' on the apple mean? 'ah, this…'?
Let's see, that's like saying….be that as it may or something along those lines but it's in context with a previous dialogue. 'toshite' creates like a role for its direct subject. For example if wanted to say…."Kamei's last photo book as a Hello! Project girl" it could be said…."Kamei eri no saigo shashinshuu, Hello! girl toshite…."
Sasshi has such a unique beauty to her, her outgoing and extra expressive personality makes her such a rare beauty too as she's such a fangirl herself of the culture, I find that so special about her. Back in 2010 when AKB48 visited the U.S. headlining as guests of honor for the Anime Expo in L.A. a friend of mine hooked up with some friends I had met online in L.A. and attended the festivities there including nearly every AKB48 event held. He agreed to attempt to get the girl's autographs along with as many photographs as he could take and luckily he succeeded with pretty much everything he had planned to attend and collect there. He also got to<|fim_middle|> freezer.
I was so jealous knowing that he had been seated directly beside Sasshi for the meet & greet! It was amazing that Andy was able to accomplish all of the goals we were planning out before he left for L.A., I think he was most starstruck or idol~struck coming back after seeing so much there! That's a great pv!!..and Sasshi yes really strikes a chord there for fans' hearts I would have to believe just as you've described. That was a total triumph for her and management surely was put on notice that Sasshi's not to be messed with although they did ship her out to HKT48 but in true hindsight it was the perfect move for her as she's now manager and mentor to the entire group there which also says that management truly understands what fans think of Sasshi~♥. Haha I love that!..I hadn't even considered how interesting that photo was as if it could be an ad which would most likely sell many units upon arrival =). I'll take a Yuko~refrigerator or perhaps a Manodryer =P!
Fukuoka is Sasshi's kingdom (or rather, queendom) for the time being. I would never have bothered with HKT48 had she not been involved. Interestingly, in the pvs she's never foregrounded at the expense of the other singers. She's really part of the team. I hope she can get s to stay there for a while.
U~n I'm sure many other fans too were attracted much more to HKT48 upon Sasshi's sudden arrival =D….great for the group gaining much more publicity too. That's a great point as although one would have expected her to be the center there, they've certainly made it a point to not push Sasshi to the forefront and she being their manager too says a lot about that =).I'm thinking she'll be there for the long haul, although with the AKB world one can never tell.
Ivan says:
humm i see this magazine before
really the first time i see negishi on magazine with solo pics… and she is so beauty… but her voice talking is really funny 😛
It's surprising as she's Passpo's leader, her voice is amusingly cute, agree!
i think they cam give her a PB too, like they make makoto, miomio and sakopon :3~~
Maybe this pictorial could be a sign of things to come for her… =D. She's certainly pb~worthy without doubt!
lets wait and see :3 | meet and shake hands with Manoeri at her movie screening for her horror feature and got some photos too of her which are so cute…he says that she has the most tiny~adorable hands a person could ever have and actually he lucked out and got her autograph too on a photo he had taken with him and lol in the end he couldn't part with it but he did give me the AKB48 girl's autographs that he was able to get on a wonderful shikishi! Anyway the reason why I'm mentioning this is that Sasshi was there for the red carpet, concert, their panel appearance Q&A and a really exclusive meet and greet in a private room which he actually won in a raffle style game and so he actually sat just like a foot away beside here at one of the tables there which also featured Kitarie (the old duo~♥!!) they were so perfect together! And he got to ask her questions and said that Sasshi was so candid and friendly singing and laughing and being open to everyone's questions of her….it was quoted as being the 'loudest' table at the private room meet & greet!
After he got back and after a bit….no a lot of nagging I actually got him to sit down and properly chronicle his entire trip to the Anime Expo along with Manoeri's event in wonderful detail here…I only helped with some of the blogging format as he doesn't blog and never has and probably sadly never will again but all of the text and excitement and amazing details are all in his own words, it's the only guest post I've ever had and if you have the time to read through it in entirety it's so rewarding in showing just how an AKB48 event can be if one is lucky to attend and all of the wonderful drama and treasures that go along with it, there are also quite a few eye opening times as well as humorous moments to enjoy:
https://morningberryz48.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/guest-feature-akb48-anime-expo-2010-mano-erina-club-nokia-my-la-experience/
If you do happen to comment in that post I'll try to get him to log in and reply =D.
Thank you for explaining 'toshite'. Quite often in the performer blogs there are little phrases that I simply cannot 'get' and aren't in the dictionary. Learning is so much easier (and quicker) when you have a native 先生!
I love your friend's story, and thanks for the guest blog link: I'll bookmark that for later. It looks a great read. Sasshi must be so much fun to know. (No one can match the wonderful faces she can pull.) You can see her early total commitment in the pv of 'Kimi no koto ga suki dakara'. You can tell how much she's adored by the fans too, because last year's hurtful 'scandal' didn't make a jot of difference as to how she was perceived. In fact, the fans voted an overwhelming 'we love you!' at the election.
As for that last Seika Taketomi photograph, do you think white goods manufacturers, inspired by CD retailing, are now including idols/actresses as external privileges?! I'm wondering if I might get an Aragaki Yui with a new fridge | 703 |
Currently a fast-rising media hound at the Sunlight Foundation, Elizabeth Nolan (Lizzie to those who have spoken Spanish with her) is an original inhabitant of the City of No Illusions.
Before gracing this government city with her open-government agenda, Lizzie made the "east west connection" come alive on local TV sets in the land of hot sauce,celery and bleu cheese.
1) What is the first website (other than your own or email) that you visit in the morning? I'm a newly converted netvibes user/abuser.
2) What is the most interesting bit of information that you've picked up in the past month? The most active 2% of users on Wikipedia , which is 1400 people, have done 75% of all the edits on Wikipedia or something like that.
7) How did you first get interested in music and how has your taste developed since then? My father sang TV jingles to me in the womb. It set up family influenced musical interest. Our car trip playlist was a colorful blend of soundtracks, greatest hits, classic albums. Think: Tom Petty, Waiting To Exhale, Fiddler On The Roof, Talking Heads – Little Creatures. … Joint X-mas gifts were A Boy Name Goo – Goo Goo Dolls , TLC – Waterfalls, + Coolio. A tape recorder gave way to the ultra low fi cover of Sublime's "What I Got." Lots of classic rock + "oldies pop" preceded a period of hippy<|fim_middle|>.
Now, for her and your listening pleasure (hopefully), a mix. | expiermental sillyness I thought was cool to listen to. But, really I just wanted to listen to the two R. Kelly cds I had. One for my room. One for travel. I became "indie-fied"@ college Ithaca. Elliot Smith, Decemberists, Broken Social Scene, Coco Rosie, etc.
8 ) What are some of your musical guilty pleasures? Any female vocalists/groups from pop lady empowerment era of 90-00′s. Or anything that will make everyone want to dance @ a family wedding.
9) If you were running for President in 2008, what song would you use as your campaign theme? I thought common was running for president in the " the people" video.
10) What is your opinion on downloading copyrighted material without paying for it? I just downloaded my very own first torrent today. I am conflicted and excited | 185 |
For a CRM to really work in helping a business grow their sales, the whole team has to be on board. Here are some best practices for on boarding your sales reps to ensure an effective adoption of a CRM.
Changing up a routine is never easy, so asking a sales rep to adopt different processes will require focusing on how they will benefit. Focus shouldn't be on how CRM adoption will help grow your business. Instead, focus on how using a CRM will help grow your rep's pipeline and commissions.
Tip: Have the team watch tutorial videos together and have them document any questions they have throughout. That way, you can bring those questions to the Method team to address.
Winning business over your competitors can often be as simple as being the first one to get back to the lead with an estimate. In Method:CRM, sales reps can create and send out estimates, allowing them to promptly get back to new leads, instead of waiting for someone else to create estimates in QuickBooks.
Your sales reps can also close deals quickly when the lead is ready. All the information and transactions related to a sales opportunity are centralized and easy to find in Method:CRM. Without going into QuickBooks, your sales reps can see the contacts, activities, estimates, sales orders, and invoices associated to an opportunity. Gone are the days of tracking down information needed when a lead calls in, ready to go ahead with the deal.
The best leads are ones in your customer database because they're familiar with your products/ services and they have a rapport with your team. Knowing they won't have to work as hard to close a deal with a CRM will definitely peak the interests of your sales reps.
In Method:CRM your sales reps can review customer invoices, synced over from QuickBooks, to see the last time a customer purchased from them and decide if it's a good time to reach out to get additional business. And if it isn't the right time to connect with their customer, they can simply create an Activity that will remind them to follow-up at the appropriate time.
Let's say your sales reps collect new leads from attending an event. When they<|fim_middle|> mobile devices. No more taking notes on paper and entering information into a system when back in the office. Your reps can keep the database updated in real-time during their meeting or when they're back in their car.
And, as I mentioned earlier, speedy follow-ups are part of winning business over your competitors. After a visit with a potential customer, your reps can send off an estimate before they even head back to the office and schedule a follow-up so they're sure to close the deal. | return from the event they're eager to send follow-up emails to keep the leads hot, but what if they collected 200 leads?! They want to have some personalization in the email, but writing individual emails is not an efficient use of their time.
Not to worry — in Method:CRM they can create email templates for commonly sent customer communications, such as an intro email to a new lead. Or, to further streamline their lead communications, your reps can quickly create and send out mass emails to filtered lists through Method's Email Campaigns app.
If your sales reps visit leads outside of the office or spend a lot of time on the road, they'll appreciate that Method:CRM is cloud-based and designed with for | 146 |
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INTERVIEW: Neil Davis
RJ Frometa July 25, 2019 Artist Interviews Leave a comment
Hi Neil, welcome to VENTS! How have you been?
Hi! Thanks for having me. I've been good!… busy with all the newness!
Can you talk to us more about your latest single "Chasing You"?
For sure.<|fim_middle|>Hi guys, welcome to VENTS! How have you been? Hey there, thanks for having us! … | Well… it's a really fun, energetic feeling summer song about chasing both relationships as well as career goals and big dreams. You can really feel that 'chase' in the backbeat of the song, which i love. I actually recorded it before my last single 'not better' but I put it on hold since I suddenly lost my dad. So I didn't feel that it was the right timing (or even relevant) to release it. But now it feels more right than ever.
Did any event in particular inspire you to write this song?
Yeah. I think being in new york city especially, we're all on the go. the hustle is real! and genuine relationships have become harder to find. So the song started mainly about searching for real, genuine relationships. but it was also inspired by the constant grind i'm on with my music career. and not letting those closed doors get me down.
Any plans to release a video for the single?
YES! We shot such a fun music video for this song, i'll just say … beach vibes for sure. i can't wait to release it. We're in the final editing stage right now, but it should be out very early August.
How was the recording and writing process?
It was fairly quick and easy. Some songs that i write happen quicker than others, and 'chasing you' was a quick one. I remember just sitting at my piano and writing it almost in one sitting. Then i recorded it, along with a bunch of other new songs – and it just naturally felt like it should be the first release out of the bunch.
What was it like to work with Christian Medice and how did that relationship develop?
It was great! He just gets pop (which is my world) – and he knows how to take a song and make it sound finished. I just randomly messaged him years ago after hearing some of his mixes – so he actually ended up mixing/co-producing my single 'See You Again' with me back in like 2014. For this new bunch, i recorded it live in a studio first – and then i felt like it just needed an extra spark. So i took it to Christian, which is then where we made the final tweaks on this mix.
Do you feel like this new release was a whole new direction for you?
eh, not really. It's definitely a different vibe than my last single 'not better,' that's for sure! but 'chasing you' almost feels like an elevated take off my first album ' In My Mind', which i like. it's me. Organic pop, with rock and soulful elements.
Do you tend to take a different approach when collaborating with someone else rather than working on your own?
Yes and no.. I try to still stay true to what i'm envisioning for the song. As soon as i write it (or actually, while i'm writing it), i see a picture and a story in my head for it. So that really sets the tone, before i even go into the studio. But then i also try to be open to new ideas, and branch out wherever possible. i arrange/executively produce all of my stuff – so it has really been more about collaborating with people (whether it be musicians or engineers/mixers) who are on-board with my sound but who can also help me grow as an artist.
Does the new single mean we can expect a new material – how's that coming along?
Yes! For sure. Lots of new music in the works. as well as new videos too. I have a bunch of new material recorded and ready to roll. I'm so excited about it, I just want to make sure i have the right visual elements ready for them too.
Any tentative release date or title in mind?
Late fall of 2019, you can expect another new release. But for now, stay tuned for the upcoming 'Chasing you' music video – it's gonna be really fun!
Any plans to hit the road?
I hope so! That's really my next goal- is to get on the road. atleast even just in a few major cities. Especially if there's demand- let me know where you are! You can always connect with me on instagram, @neildavismusic, and let me know what city you're in.
What else is happening next in Neil Davis' world?
hmm. lot's of coffee. haha. Other than that, lots of music right now. I'm currently on a few days of filming for the upcoming West Side Story film. I'm not even sure if i'll even make it in the final cut of the actual film, but it's been so fun to be on set and ofcourse casually be in the company of director Steven Spielberg. I'm exploring tv and theatre opportunities as well. My new music definitely has me pretty focused though for right now!
Listen Chasing You here
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I talk about camera flash communication methods (TTL vs E-TTL i-TTL p-TTL) as well as thyristor sensor based auto mode.
This was the original method of flash power control. It happens as the film/sensor is being exposed to light. There is a dedicated sensor near the film that monitors the reflected light off of the film/sensor and eventually tells the flash to "quench" (stop) outputting light. The nice thing about TTL is that it works with any lens and was generally pretty reliable.
Some flash units have a built-in light meter called a Thyristor. This allows the flash to control the output itself to achieve a decent exposure. Some flash units pull the aperture value from the<|fim_middle|>, but keep in mind that large light modifiers should not cover or block the sensor.
This entry was posted in Learning Series, Technical & Testing, Video and tagged auto flash, communication, e-ttl, flash, i-ttl, p-ttl, pre-flash, thyristor, TTL. Bookmark the permalink. | camera and other units have manual input fields to take the aperture and ISO from the user. This works quite well in most situations | 25 |
Bridgewater's Ray Dalio advises being underweight cash due to inflation environment
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U.S. investor Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge<|fim_middle|> one of the most active foreign hedge fund operating in China, since it registered with the Chinese authority in 2016. It now has more than 10 billion yuan ($1.57 billion) of assets under management in China.
"I think a lot of people… tend to make a mistake of thinking that this is like a return to communism under Mao, rather than understanding it's just part of the evolutionary process," he said. "I think the United States through its own system needs more common prosperity and a lot of countries do." | fund, says investors need to be mindful of the current inflationary environment and stop viewing cash as a safe investment.
The comments come as major central banks around the world have started or are preparing to tighten monetary policy to curb rising inflation pressures, even as the Omicron coronavirus variant poses a risk to the global economic outlook.
"The mindset needs to change in which everybody looks at the returns in real terms," Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, told a virtual UBS Greater China conference this week.
"In other words, inflation adjusted because you want buying power, that's what you're trying to store."
"If you're holding an asset that has very little return virtually and is not volatile, but loses to inflation.., you have to start to look at that and so basically for the most part underweighting or under-using that cash," he said.
Instead, he suggested investors stay very well diversified, in terms of currency and geography, without elaborating further.
Dalio also endorsed China's campaign to promote "common prosperity" among its people. He said Chinese leaders understand a cycle in which the country gets rich first and then makes effort to distribute opportunities in a more equal way.
Bridgewater is | 243 |
by The Eye-Dancers in Movies, On Writing Tags: author, classics, fantasy, horror, humor, Movies, reading, sci-fi, writing
Before the start of fifth-grade, I was afraid. Granted, I never wanted summer vacation to end, but that year, I was filled with an unusual dread. My teacher that year would be Mr. Bansbach. He'd been teaching the fifth grade since the time of Confucius, or so it seemed to my ten-year-old sensibilities. He was old-school, even when old-school was still in vogue–this was the 1980s. He was tough. He was no-nonsense. But, more than anything, he was strict.
Not that I was a troublemaker. Shy to the core, I said little at school and was a good student. But I still worried. Stories about Mr. Bansbach circulated through the school. He was as feared as any teacher I ever had. I dreaded that first day.
When it arrived, Mr. Bansbach introduced himself and, standing at the front of the class in his suit and tie, his thick glasses reflecting the fluorescent overhead lights, his thinning, dyed-black hair combed back on his head, he called us "preteens." "You're not 'kids,'" he said. "A 'kid' is a baby goat. You are preadolescents, you are growing up, and you will take responsibility in my class." Great, i thought. The rumors were true. This guy was going to be a nightmare.
One day, about a week into the new school year, I finished an in-class assignment early. Not sure what to do, I just sat there, hands folded, waiting for the other students to finish.
Mr. Bansbach was not impressed.
"Class," he said. "I want to direct your attention to this young man." He pointed at me. "He finished his assignment early." That was good, wasn't it? I was on the ball! Evidently not. "Don't do what he just did. Ever. When he finished, he sat there, blankly, wasting time. Next time, young man"–he stared right at me–"take out a book and read. Make use of your time. Understand?"
And I didn't like Mr. Bansbach.
A few weeks later, before class, Mr. Bansbach pulled me aside in the hallway, just outside his classroom. I stiffened. What had I done now? Finished my homework too early the night before? Did he have some way to monitor me at home?
"That was an impressive victory last night," he said. "Maybe your Steelers will win a fifth Super Bowl this season."
And he patted me on the shoulder and winked. Then he went into the classroom and I followed.
What had just happened? And how did he know I was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan? And why did he care? Was he a sports fan, too?
He was. Throughout that fall, he would talk to me about the Steelers games. Win or lose, he always took a few minutes early in the week to go over their previous game with me. I didn't say much. I was still nervous around him. But it impressed me that he was so in tune with his students.
As the year rolled on, I genuinely learned to like Mr. Bansbach. And he seemed to like me. He congratulated me on several homework assignments, when I went above and beyond the parameters of the assignment. The following year, when I entered sixth grade and had a new teacher, Mr. Bansbach would still seek me out in the hallways on Monday mornings and talk about the most recent Steelers game.
And while I learned to like him more and more as my fifth-grade year progressed, it was that first kind gesture, that initial time he talked to me about my favorite football team, that stuck with me. I can still remember it–the way he stood there, outside his classroom, waiting for me. His way of letting me know we were okay. That I was okay.
You might call it a moment of epiphany, a realization, that the rumors were false, and that Mr. Bansbach was different from his reputation. Oh, he was strict. You definitely did not want to slack off in his class. That part was true. But no one ever said he was nice, that he cared. That he would take the time to learn about his students and show them he was on their side. I had to learn that for myself.
There are moments like that throughout literature and film–moments of awakening, when a character learns something about him- or herself, or someone else. Indeed, The Eye-Dancers and The Singularity Wheel are chock-full of such moments–Joe Marma learning that he doesn't even like football, a sport he pursues with reckless abandon, but only plays it to best his brother; Mitchell Brant finding out that his long-distance (a multiverse away!) relationship with Heather doesn't mean what he's thought the past five years; or Marc Kuslanski coming to grips with his guilt over the accident he feels responsible for with his little brother. The characters realize these things in a moment of revelation, a tipping point in the symphony of their lives. Epiphanies are real. But they are also hard to pull off in literature or on film.
You want to say so much without, well, saying so much. You want the scene to speak for itself. You want the reader or the viewer to feel it right along with the character.
Like the performance of "Suddenly Seymour" in the 1986 remake of the musical Little Shop of Horrors. Throughout the film, Seymour (Rick Moranis) and Audrey (Ellen Greene) work together at a florist shop. Seymour is shy and awkward, but clearly carries a torch for his coworker. She, however, is in a relationship with someone she, herself, describes as a "semi-sadist" (an outrageous dentist played by Steve Martin). Audrey thinks lowly of herself, and she gets involved with abusive men like the dentist. Throughout the movie, she speaks in a squeaky, mousy voice, almost as if she doesn't even feel she is worthy to say anything.
But then this scene happens. Seymour encourages her, praises her, and expresses his true feelings for her. He stands, and sings "Suddenly Seymour."
Audrey is touched, listening to him. Then she joins in the song. At first, her singing voice matches her speaking voice–timid, lacking in confidence, unsure. But then, when she hits her own "Suddenly Seymour" note, there is a transformation, an awakening. An epiphany. Audrey finds her voice, literally, and she belts out the rest of the song in an astonishingly strong, beautiful, and full-throated rendition. Before our eyes, without any speeches, without any blaring announcement, she and Seymour have changed. They have awakened. It is a cinematic performance for the ages.
And that's how epiphanies work–in life, and in story. They hit you with the force of a tidal wave, but, counterintuitively, they also do so quickly, quietly, in a moment, without any narrator making a bold, big proclamation. There is no need to tell or exclaim or pontificate. There is only a moment, the moment, when everything becomes clear.
Even just a moment in a song, or a moment when your fifth-grade teacher shows you–rather than tells you–that he's had your back all along.
People You Know, Characters You Create
30 Apr 2022 9 Comments
by The Eye-Dancers in Eye-Dancers General Stuff, On Writing Tags: author, characters, fantasy, fiction, reading, sci-fi, writing, YA
Have you ever wanted to write–or actually written–a piece of fiction that featured characters based on actual people you know? Now, granted–even when we create our characters "out of thin air," there are elements of people we know in them. Or, sometimes, a composite of several people's characteristics rolled into one. This may be on a subconscious level–you're not necessarily trying to base your characters on anyone. But it's inevitable that traits from some people you know (or you. yourself, as the author) will find their way into some of your characters.
However, that's not what we're talking about here. What we're talking about is . . . you know Jane from across the hall in your apartment complex, and you want to create a character "based" on her. Or perhaps someone from school–a bully, your best friend, a teacher, a nerd–whoever it is. You want to feature them in your next novel (with a different name, of course). Can you literally have at it, and re-create the real-life person in your fictional story? Or do you need to add several layers of a literary buffer, effectively "disguising" them, perhaps even from themselves should they read your work?
The interesting thing about that is–whatever your intention, it likely doesn't matter because as you write, as you go forward with your literary endeavor, creative elements will take over.
As I've posted about in the past, the main characters in The Eye-Dancers were based on friends I had growing up. Specifically, Mitchell Brant was inspired by Matt B.; Ryan Swinton by Rick S.; Joe Marma by, well, Joe M.; and Marc Kuslanski by MattK. The supporting character of Matt "Grronk" Giselmo was also inspired by a Matt–Matt G. A lot of Matts! As for last names, of course I changed them, though I matched the first letter of the fictional characters' last names with their real-life inspirations.
And, honestly, when I set out to write the novel, my intent was to keep the characters relatively close to my real-life friends. I wasn't aiming to incorporate much "separation" at all. Sure, I'd change details and respect their privacy. Of course. But as for their personalities, quirks, inside jokes, nicknames, and even physical tendencies, I was drawing form the real thing.
But then, as I continued to move forward with the story, a funny thing happened. I began seeing the protagonists solely as who they were, and wasn't even thinking of the real-life Matts or Rick or Joe. Ryan Swinton was only Ryan Swinton. Marc Kuslanski was only Marc Kuslanski. At a certain point during the writing process, it was as if the characters weren't inspired by anyone. They had matured, grown, morphed, and become exclusively who they were. Obviously, even with this development, the characters retained elements of their real-life inspirations. How could they not? That's how they were "born." But they had fully and completely become their own entities. As I wrote their scenes, I no longer even glimpsed the actual people they were based on. I saw only the protagonists themselves.
It was a revelatory experience, one I honestly did not expect. At the outset, I was "seeing" them so much as offshoots of the people I knew; I assumed it would remain that way throughout the process. But as so often happens with creative endeavors, the process, the experience, the flow, the wonder takes on a life of its own and leads you where it will. The writing is in charge. Not the author.
So, if you are in a similar circumstance–about to begin a novel or a fictionalized work of some sort and are basing your characters on people you know (or knew), and you're wondering how "close" to cut it . . . you probably have nothing to worry about.
Because as you begin, as you wade through the literary waters, as the bones of the story fill out with muscle and sinew and soul and emotion . . . the characters will become who they decide to become, and the initial inspirations will fade into the background.
So write. Let your characters lead on. It promises to be a journey as exciting as it is unpredictable.
From the Micro to the Macro (Or, a Red Squirrel Tells a Story)
by The Eye-Dancers in On Writing Tags: art, author, books, life, reading, story, writer, YA
Imagine this situation. A writer (let's call her Jane) has a story idea–something that reson<|fim_middle|> it possible that some of those stars aren't even there anymore?" Matt B. (Mitchell) would ask.
"What kinda stupid question is that?" Joe shot back. "'Course they're there!"
"Well, I don't know," Matt K. (Marc) would chime in. "Theoretically, they could be gone. The light we're seeing is from millions of years ago. We have no way of knowing what's happened in the intervening years." (Hey, Marc Kuslanski didn't materialize out of thin air! Matt K. was a grade-A inspiration for the character.)
We'd keep walking, talking, wondering, arguing. We felt very young, and very strong. Full of potential, the years ahead of us yawning wide, decade upon decade.
That's what I remember the most. The feeling of possibilities. Ambitions. Dreams. The sense that we had all the time in the world, and nothing was going to stop us. The full-throated expression of creativity and what-ifs. Daring to imagine. To wonder. To consider. Nothing was off-limits.
Which brings me back to today, 2020, decades removed from those days of my childhood. Back then, the year 2020 would have seemed like a century away, some distant, inconceivable future on the other side of tomorrow. Yet here I am. Here we are.
But those memories live on. And the energy and enthusiasm of those long-ago days, and the friends with whom I shared them–spur me to press on, to continue dreaming and writing and creating. To continue looking up at the night sky and asking questions.
And to never, ever forget.
The Name's the Thing (Or, "Call Me Galen!")
30 Sep 2020 30 Comments
by The Eye-Dancers in Anecdotes, On Writing Tags: adventure, author, childhood, fantasy, memories, Movies, nostalgia, reading, sci-fi, writing, YA
By all accounts, I have a simple first name. "Mike" is as run-of-the-mill as it gets. Throughout my life, whenever I've been in a group of people and someone says, "Mike! Hey, Mike!" several heads turn toward the voice. It's a common moniker.
In my case, though, there are backstories, and stories behind the backstories.
When I was a toddler, I decided early on that I loathed the name "Michael." "I don't like the 'cole' at the end," I said. "Everyone call me 'Mike.'" And, basically, they did. In fact, this is a preference I still hold to this day. I still prefer "Mike" to "Michael"–though I do not loathe my "proper" name anymore. It's okay! I don't hate the "cole" anymore. But "Mike" is still the name of choice.
The thing is, shortly after I declared that childhood proclamation, I swerved headlong into a new name. When I was four years old, I fell in love with Planet of the Apes. And I mean, head over heels! I watched the movie dozens of times, collected the action figures, played made-up games with all the characters. One time, my cousin Symone–born in the same year I was–came over to play. She wanted to play with my Planet of the Apes action figures. "Okay," I told her. "Just don't play with Galen! You can touch anyone else, but not Galen." I can't remember why I didn't play with her. I just let her play with my action figures, and did my own thing.
To back up, as much as I loved Planet of the Apes, I loved the character Galen more. I wanted to be Galen. In fact, in my mind, I was Galen!
"Call me Galen," I announced one morning to my mother. She may have thought I was joking. I was not. "I won't answer to 'Mike' anymore. My name is Galen!"
I also announced this to my sister and two brothers, my father, grandparents, aunts, uncles, everyone. I was Galen! Not Mike. Who was he? He didn't exist anymore.
So, when Symone did exactly what I told her not to do, I lost it. The first thing she did was reach for Galen.
Instantly, I snatched the figure away from her. But that wasn't all I did. I got up, ran out of my room, Galen in hand, and yelled to my mother, "She touched Galen! She touched Galen!" I felt compelled to make the case against her, as if arguing before a grand jury. This was an infraction of the highest order.
Symone came running out, too, trying to take Galen back. "It's not fair!" she said. "It isn't fair!" (Keep in mind, we were both four!)
I honestly cannot remember how it all turned out that day. But even now, all these years later, the family gets a good laugh out of it.
But that was just the start.
I didn't limit my new name of choice to my family. Far from it. My mother had recently signed me up for a book club at the local library. Two dozen or so toddlers would sit in a circle in the library once a week, and the librarian would read to us, the parents watching, nearby. Each child in the group had a name tag they needed to wear. I insisted the librarian write my name in as "Galen." I'm sure my mother had to explain why, but in the end, "Galen" it was.
It was summer. There were two months before I would begin kindergarten. My mother, surely, was anxiously eyeing the calendar, hoping against hope that my Galen obsession would clear, like the summer heat and humidity, at the start of the school year right after Labor Day.
But right then, in mid-July, it was going as strong as ever.
My parents took the entire family to the Adirondack Mountains, a three-hour drive through upstate New York, before arriving at our destination of Whiteface Mountain. It was a rare mini-vacation for us back then. And I was in full Galen mode. Both of my older brothers mocked me on the drive up, taking liberties with my adopted name. Bring it on! I was Galen. I didn't care what they said.
At one point during the trip, after we'd arrived, I was frolicking in a playground, my mother right there, monitoring. Several other children were there, swinging, sliding, running around in circles like puppies chasing their tails. I was having a blast. But then my mother called out, telling me it was time to go.
"Michael, we have to go," she said above the din of children's voices and the sounds of our play.
I ignored her, kept right on playing.
"Mike!" she said, knowing that was the name I preferred. I didn't acknowledge her. She knew what my name was.
There was a pause. Then: "Galen!"
I came running! All I asked was to be called by my new name! There were other parents there, too, no doubt glancing askew at the child with the odd name.
But from there, the Galen fascination did in fact wane, I moved on to other things, and, indeed, by the start of school that fall, I was "Mike" again.
In the years since, I have never populated a story I've written with a character named Galen. But I always think about what to call my characters. They are not named without consideration and consequence. It's an odd feature of being an author–we create people, living, breathing human beings on the page–and we must name them.
For The Eye Dancers, the protagonists were inspired by real-life friends of my childhood. Each character's initials mirror those of my actual friends, so Mitchell Brant is inspired by the real-life "MB," Ryan Swinton by "RS," Marc Kuslanski by "MK," and so on. Beyond that, why Mitchell Brant? Why Marc Kuslanski? Why Joe Marma? Like Galen when I was four, something popped. The neurons fired. The names felt right. It's the kind of thing where . . . you know it when you see it (or hear it). It's more an art than a science.
So much of writing, creating, exploring, imagining, is.
The main thing is–when you write for your characters, when you craft their dialogue, personas, loves, hates, dreams, fears, hopes, and aspirations . . . invest in them.
Maybe even as much as I did when I was four with my favorite character from Planet of the Apes. | ates, will not recede into the background, and something that, as if having a life of its own, continues to progress and grow and mature. Jane is fired up, enthusiastic, and prepared to put in the long hours to craft a novel.
But she hesitates. Despite wanting–needing–to write it, she pauses and thinks about it. Her mind is all too ready to issue doubts and protestations, reasons to chuck the project and go back to reading others' work instead of creating her own.
"Your idea's too small," her inner critic says. "It's so common, so run of the mill. It's just day-to-day family stuff, domestic life. Who cares?"
Jane shoots back that she cares, and, as the author of the piece, doesn't that count? Doesn't that matter?
But her inner critic is unrelenting. "You have to come up with something bigger. Bolder. More exciting and universal. Don't waste your time on what you have now."
Angered by the thoughts swirling in her own head, Jane feels an urge to punch . . . what? Her own thoughts? Her own doubts and fears? But how can she do that? And besides, maybe her inner doubts are right. There is little violence in her story. No international politics or major business deals. No espionage. The movers and shakers of the world do not appear. It's insular, isolated, just a mother, a daughter, a beloved cat. A few friends. Small-town settings, and small-town goings-on. She's writing about her memories. Her loves and passions. But they are small. Who will care? Who will be engaged with any of it?
She sleeps on it, tossing and turning through the night.
Early the next morning, Jane takes a walk through the woods that surround her home. It is fall, there is a bite to the air, but it is invigorating, wakening, a tonic to her senses. Fallen leaves crunch under feet. Squirrels chatter nearby, scolding her for the intrusion. Chipmunks dart to and fro, preparing for the winter ahead. Songbirds twitter, mostly unseen, from the trees. A particularly brazen red squirrel darts in front of her, on some mission that, evidently, cannot wait.
And that's when she realizes.
To that rushing squirrel, at that moment, in this remote, out-of-the-way corner of the globe–no human voices to be heard, no car engines roaring in the distance, no city noises or excitement for miles around–this is the universe, the be-all and end-all. It is everything. Perhaps no one but Jane will ever know of this squirrel. Perhaps her eyes are the only human eyes who will ever see it. But that doesn't matter. This squirrel's mission, this squirrel's task, is the most important thing in the world, here and now, in this place.
And, she realizes, isn't that the same for us? For the lonely widow with no one to talk to you? For the homeless person, down on his luck, trying to figure out a better way? For the high-end executive, alone, at night, stressing over the details of the latest progress report? For the little boy or girl, with two days before summer vacation, looking forward to two months without homework? For the neighbor down the street who everyone disregards as "boring" and "dull" and doesn't really talk to?
We all have stories. Our lives are comprised of moments, thoughts, hopes, dreams, triumphs, sadness, and countless "mundane" things that make up the bulk of day-to-day living. To us, as individuals, our "little problems" are the universe. They are our stories. And they are worth sharing.
Because what you are feeling today, countless others are, too. What I am struggling with in my day-to-day, many others are, too. Are there differences? Of course. We are each our own person, with our own unique set of experiences and thoughts and feelings. But there is a thread, invisible perhaps, but as real as the air we breathe, that links us. We are both unique and universal, individuals and a part of the whole.
There is no such thing as a story "too small," a subject too "mundane." If someone is living it, feeling it, if someone is moved by it, then it can reach others, too. It can serve as both a window and a mirror, a reminder that we are all different, but all inextricably connected.
So, if you have an idea about a "small" thing, a particular "mundane" situation, write it. Share it. Give it to the world.
We will all be better for it. And, if we are looking, really looking, we will see the macro in the micro, and recognize ourselves in the story. And maybe, even learn something new about ourselves (and those we know) along the way.
The Swing Set in the Backyard (Or . . . So, You Want to Write a Novel?)
by The Eye-Dancers in On Writing Tags: author, fantasy, fiction, passion, reading, work, writing, YA
When I was eight years old, my parents bought a swing set for the backyard. It was red and yellow, with two swings. My father installed it at the extreme northern end of the yard, a few feet to the left of the brick fireplace he had built upon moving into the house, years before I was born. I cannot say I remember whether or not I had asked for a swing set or if my parents decided it would be a good idea to get one. Either way, that summer–the summer I was eight–I spent a lot of time on those swings.
Well, I mainly used the swing closer to the fireplace. If anyone wanted to join me, they needed to use the other swing. Sometimes, I'd swing for hours. I used to love swinging on July evenings, the air warm, the yard fragrant with flowers and freshly cut grass, the scent of a late barbecue from next door wafting on the breeze. I'd plop down on the swing, push my way into a swinging motion, and kick . . . and kick . . . and kick. Higher. Always trying to get as high as possible, so I could see.
Indeed. Especially at twilight, when I reached the apex of my swinging journey, I would peer to the north, beyond the backyard, beyond the neighbor's yard . . . above the rooftops. And I would glimpse . . .
But then I bottomed out again, beginning another rotation. When I returned to the top of the arc, though, there it was . . . a netherworld. A distant, ghostlike village just beyond the horizon. As dusk descended, the village would, counterintuitively, glow brighter, shining in contrast to the darkening landscape. If I looked closely enough, I could see spectral shapes moving to and fro. Every few seconds, as I reached the apex of my swinging arc, I would see them again, a moment or two removed from my last glimpse. Glimpse after glimpse, for an hour or more each night . . . before it became full-on dark and my mother called me inside. Snapshots into another world, another dimension.
Back then, immersed in the wonder of being eight years old, I believed–fully–that what I was seeing out in the twilit distance was real–an alternate dimension of sorts, with wraiths living their lives and doing whatever it was they did. I'd think of them during the day, too, or when I was inside, or at night while I slept. What were they doing when I couldn't see them? I began to write down ideas. Stories. A love of the creative process was born.
That's probably how it starts for many writers and artists–early on, at some point during childhood, you realize that your mind tends to drift. That, even more than most kids, you question and conjure and wonder, and ask, "What if?" You get lost in story and have conversations with yourself when no one's around . . . or sometimes even when they are. And as you get a little older and master the language more, the nuances, the flow, the texture and taste of the words . . . you write. Short stories. Essays. Plays. Novels.
Novels. I would have to say the number one question I get from non-writers who are aware that I have written novels is: "Where did you get the idea?" And that is often followed by: "I could never write a novel. Way too long!"
Long it is. And that's the challenge. That's the price that must be paid if you want to turn your aha-light bulb idea into three hundred pages of story and forward motion. Ideas are a dime a dozen (even good ones). Be it fiction or nonfiction, writing a book is work. A lot of work.
Do you outline? If research is needed, how much do you do? After writing seven chapters–riding the roller coaster of inspiration–what happens when you come to chapter eight and, suddenly, the shine wears off, the plot becomes murky, and you're not sure which direction to take? And–if you're like 99.9 percent of writers in the world, you also have a day job. You have bills to pay, responsibilities to attend to, tasks to complete, people to care for. How on earth do you carve out the time to write a novel? And even if you do, will you have any energy left over after all the responsibilities of the day are done? Writing takes energy and creativity. These may be in short supply after a full day.
Or maybe you set your alarm for 4:00 a.m. and try to get some writing in before anyone else is up. But are you? Or will you feel like a zombie author, staring half-asleep at your screen, unable to process thoughts? Make no mistake about it–writing a book is difficult. In many ways, the writing itself is the easiest part. It's everything else that can trip us up, even when we enter the project with the best of intentions.
And that's the trick, really. Does writing a novel take talent? I suppose. Some writers have an abundance of talent; others may not have quite as much, but they have enough–they can do it. If they didn't have the ability to write a book, they wouldn't have arrived at this point–planning out a story line, falling in love with an idea so much, they are willing to spend the next year or more bringing it alive on the page. Anyone who reaches this point in the journey has the ability to write a book. It is hard–it requires creating something out of nothing and then spending countless hours editing and honing and slicing away at the result–polishing it, killing your darlings, and revising, revising, revising.
Which brings us to the key. The secret ingredient, if you will, of not only starting, but finishing a novel. Well, perhaps there are two ingredients. The first is commitment. Given all of the challenges already touched on here, it can feel impossible–literally–to find the time and energy to complete a novel. How do you overcome the challenge? You have to be committed to your work, your idea, and have the perseverance to see it through. There is no other way.
The other ingredient? Confidence. Self-belief. Have you shared your idea with others? Quite likely, you have received some very encouraging and positive feedback. "Great idea! I'll buy it when it's available! Wow! I wish I'd have thought of that! Sounds like a best seller!" But, just as likely, you will have received some lukewarm or even negative feedback, too. "Really? Sounds contrived to me. I don't think your idea is believable. Who cares? The market is full of stories like that. Your novel will get lost in a sea of similar stories." Or–"There's no market for that, though. No one will buy it." The list of would-be criticisms can stretch on, as long as the Sahara Desert. It is easy to become discouraged, assess the monumental task ahead, and then shrug your shoulders and say, "Maybe they're right. Who am I kidding? Who would want to hear what I have to say?"
This is where belief must come in. There is no one–no one–in the world with your unique perspective. It is likely true that your story idea is not entirely original (in reality, at this point, there may not be a truly original idea in existence; everything, in one way or another, has already been done). But it has not been done, and not been told, in your point of view. Only you can bring your life experiences, your voice, your essence, to the subject. In short, only you can tell the story you have inside you, the story you feel a need to share with the world.
And that matters. That's what it's all about. Something–some force, some pure and true element of your soul–has instilled in you a need to write a story. If you don't write it, it will nag you, always. So, press on. Don't listen to the naysayers (including the ones inside your own head). Find a way to complete the project, even if it takes years.
Because, when it comes right down to it, we all have that eight-year-old inside of us, full of inspiration and imagination and wonder–with a story to tell.
So tell it. Share it. The world will be a better place when you do.
Carpe Diem (Or, Pursue an Idea When It Hits)
by The Eye-Dancers in Movies, On Writing Tags: author, fantasy, life, Movies, philosophy, reading, writing, YA
There is a scene, early in the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society, where the new English teacher at the Welton Academy prep school, John Keating, has one of his students read aloud from a 17th-century Robert Herrick poem. The stanza reads:
Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to day,
To morrow will be dying.
Keating and his class are standing in a hallway, beside the school's trophy case. Old team photographs of long-ago academy sports teams are hung inside the case, the students from a different time staring out at the onlookers, their expressions locked in place across the chasm of decades.
Keating asks his class what the verse means. What was Herrick getting at? "Carpe diem," he tells them. "Seize the day." But why? Why "seize the day"?
"Because we are food for worms, lads," Keating goes on. "Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room, will, one day, stop breathing. We'll die."
Here, Keating asks the students to step forward to look at the photographs of the old sports teams.
"They're not that different from you, are they?" Keating says to his class. "Same haircuts. . . . Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they are destined for great things, just like many of you do. . . . But you see . . . these boys are now fertilizing daffodils."
Keating then has them lean in close, tells them to listen, listen to the voices, the murmurs of the ghosts before them. Do they hear it? Keating whispers in a voice meant to sound like the grave: "Carpe . . . diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
This scene is memorable for many reasons, not the least of which is the remarkable performance of Robin Williams, who plays Keating. But what of the message? What of carpe diem? Is it wise counsel?
As with anything, if misunderstood or taken to the extreme, it can harm more than help. After all, I may want to "seize the day" by climbing Mount Everest, even though I have no training and no preparation. Or I may want to drop everything and experience life to the full by walking across America, leaving all my responsibilities and cares behind me. That might feel good in the moment, but doubtful it would lead anywhere beneficial.
What, then, is carpe diem, and how should we apply it? How about with writing or creativity? Is there a literary version of carpe diem? And if so, what does it look like?
I don't know about you, but when it comes to anything creative–a story idea, a scene from a novel, an inspiration–I cannot force things. If I say, "I want to write a short story today," but have no workable idea to write about, try as I may, I won't produce anything of value.
On the other hand, my best ideas always come unasked for, unplanned. I can be doing anything–mowing the lawn, taking a walk, lying in bed–and boom! It hits. Where does it come from? We may never know. But it comes. And it comes in its time and its choosing. What to do then?
Carpe diem, of course! It's not every day an inspired idea strikes. Whether it's a novel idea, a short story, a poem, a song . . . it doesn't matter. When that idea strikes, in the white-hot fire of the creative epiphany, that is the time to act.
If it's a poem, write it. Right then and there, if possible. Same with a song. If it's a short story, maybe jot a few notes if you can't write it immediately. Capture the details lest you forget them, and then, at the first opportunity, write the story. If it's a novel, again, jot down plot points, character traits, perhaps even make an outline. However you work, whatever preparations you need to do before undertaking a long-form creative endeavor . . . do what you must. And then begin writing the actual novel as soon as you can.
Because . . . why wait? Why wait and allow apathy or indifference to seep into the picture? Carpe diem. Seize the literary day! Take advantage of that gift–that new idea–while it's fresh and you are fired up.
Write. Create. Make your words sing.
And make your (literary) life extraordinary.
A Walk Down Memory Lane (Or, Where the Inspiration Comes From)
30 Jun 2021 10 Comments
by The Eye-Dancers in On Writing Tags: author, fantasy, life, memories, New York, nostalgia, reading, sci-fi, writer, writing, YA
Recently, I took a short trip "back home" to visit my family in Rochester, New York, where I was born and spent the first two-and-a-half decades of my life. Only . . . "Rochester" is too general. I stayed at the old house, the house where my father still lives, where I grew up, where I spent a childhood and adolescence living and learning, and dreaming.
Mostly dreaming. I was an introvert growing up (and still am), and I spent a good portion of my time "elsewhere" in my mind. I'd go out into the backyard and hit the Wiffle ball, pretending to be participating in the World Series. I'd create lineups, do play-by-play, and even keep statistics. Or I'd head out to the driveway and shoot baskets. My parents had a hoop attached just above the garage. The gutter that lined the garage bore the brunt of numerous misfired shots–by me, my friends, my brothers–you name it. Even today, though the hoop is long gone, that gutter still wears its decades-old battle scars. Other times, I'd go down into the basement and spend hours writing in the cool, dimly lit space, escaping the heat and humidity of summer days. The common theme was–a lot of solitary activities, sequestering myself away from others, content to create an alternate universe, as it were, one as boundless as my imagination, with no limits and no restrictions.
That's not to say I was always alone! I often got together with my neighborhood friends, some of whom were the real-life inspirations behind the protagonists in The Eye-Dancers. We'd do all manner of things throughout the year, but especially during summer. We'd even have sleepovers, in my basement, that same space in which I spent so much time on my own. I'd tell them of the ghosts and vampires that lurked in the shadows, under the stairs, in the crawlspace. I was so convincing, I avoided going down there alone after sundown! My solo basement adventures were exclusive to times when the sun was up and streaming through the cellar windows. To be down there at night, I needed the company of my friends.
In the main, however, I was a loner. Though often by myself, I never felt "lonely." There was always so much going on in my imagination, so many story plots being concocted, so many "out-there" scenarios playing across the movie screen of my overactive and fanciful mind. And these flights of fancy did not occur only within the confines of the house. No, indeed.
I would take walks through the neighborhood, sometimes for hours. I'd go far afield at times, several miles out, walking, observing, saying hi to the cats and dogs that sometimes would follow me for a block or two. I'd look at the houses, the architecture, especially examining the older abodes. Two stories, with rotting shingles, mature oak trees and maple trees, and surely full of memories and experiences lurking within their walls, these houses never failed to capture my attention. Sometimes I'd stand there on the sidewalk, just looking at the house, a corner of the yard, a specific tree or bush. More likely than not, people inside probably watched me and wondered what the odd boy on the sidewalk was doing, and what he was staring at. No one ever came out to interrogate, though.
Numerous story ideas were born on those walks. Potentialities, possibilities, hauntings, evil, goodness, all manner of things would percolate in my mind, to the point where, often, when I arrived back home, I would whip out my old-school pencil and paper and jot down notes, or even dive right in to the story proper.
When I visited the old house, the old neighborhood, earlier this month, I took a long walk. It was along the same route as some of my childhood walks. Some things had changed. Some of the houses–especially the ancient, haunted ones (or at least what I always told myself were haunted)–were gone, replaced by newer, more sterile homes. Much of the neighborhood remained unchanged, however, and as I walked through the interlocking streets, it felt as though I were walking through time, my steps commingling with those of my younger self. Memories swirled, regrets. Joys. And when I returned to the house, I whipped out a pencil and some old-school notebook paper, and jotted down a few new story ideas.
Works every time.
Dalkowski vs. Koufax (Or, the Importance of Sharpening Your Tools)
by The Eye-Dancers in On Writing, Sports Tags: author, baseball, fantasy, life, reading, sci-fi, sports, writing, YA
There is likely something you take to–something that, for as long as you can remember, has always come naturally to you. As a child, when others around you struggled, you enjoyed doing it; it flowed like water down a mountain slope, easy, fast, and free. The something in question can be anything: tennis, a foreign language, algebra, memorization, dancing, singing, juggling, writing. But whatever it is, you always knew you had a natural bent toward it, a tilt, as if the skill in question were a star and you were a planet kept in orbit through its gravitational pull.
For Steve Dalkowski and Sandy Koufax, the talent in question was throwing a baseball. Indeed, it's possible that someone could be a bodybuilder, the world's strongest human, and still not be able to throw a ball inordinately hard. And then you get someone like Dalkowksi, an unremarkable five foot eleven and 175 pounds but who could, reportedly, throw a baseball as fast as 110 miles per hour. Koufax wasn't quite as fast, but he was a contemporary of Dalkowski's, and he threw plenty hard enough.
Both men were lefthanders, and, at least early in their careers, despite their obvious inborn natural gifts, they were not overly successful. Dalkowski, in fact, never was. He never made it to the Major Leagues. Blessed with that golden arm though he was (every batter who faced him maintained no one ever threw harder), he was fragile mentally, heaping enormous pressure onto himself before he took the mound. He also, how shall we say, enjoyed a good time and did not train with the vigor he might have. During his minor-league heyday, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dalkowski would essentially strike out, or walk, every batter he faced. In 1960, for instance, he both walked and struck out 262 batters in a single season. Statistics that would be unthinkable for anyone else.
Dalkowski never made it out of the minor leagues. He toiled away for nine seasons before flaming out, a footnote in baseball history despite being the fastest pitcher who ever lived. He had all the natural talent in the world. But talent, alone, wasn't enough.
Meanwhile, Sandy Koufax began his career in much the same manner. Admittedly, Koufax was never as wild as Dalkowski–no one was. And he did make it to the Major Leagues at a young age and stuck around. But for the first handful of years of his career, Koufax was a mediocre pitcher–full of potential but not coming close to realizing it. Like Dalkowski, Koufax was a lefthanded flamethrower, but he was also blessed with an off-the-table curveball that, coupled with his fastball, made batters look silly. He had one major problem, though–he did not have pinpoint control. He would walk too many hitters and didn't hit his spots consistently in the strike zone. As a result, for the first five years of his big-league career (1955-1960), Koufax was a forgettable player–just "a guy" as they say.
But he worked at it. He was determined to get it right, smooth out his form, take away the hitches in his delivery, and overcome his control issues. The hard work really started to pay off in 1961, when he won eighteen games and posted a 3.52 ERA. Not earth-shattering numbers, but he was on the right track. Then 1962 came along, and the countless hours he'd put in, perfecting his craft, would manifest in the best five-year stretch of any pitcher in baseball history. From 1962 until his forced early retirement in 1966 (Koufax had suffered massive arm injuries during his career), the lefthander was virtually untouchable, posting ERAs as low as 1.93 and 1.85, winning twenty-five or more games in three of those magical seasons, and striking out 382 overmatched hitters in 1965. "Trying to hit Sandy Koufax," Pittsburgh Pirates great Willie Stargell once said at the peak of Koufax's career, "is like trying to drink coffee with a fork."
Two pitchers–both blessed with almost freakish talent–but only one of them "made it." The difference? One honed his craft, worked endless hours, refused to accept mediocrity, and never relied on just his talent alone. If you are a writer, for example, maybe you have an innate sense of pacing, of language, of turning a phrase just so. Maybe people have said things to you like, "Wow. You are such a poet! The way you put words together. You make them sing."
All may be true. But if you don't take that gift and work with it, if you don't master grammar and punctuation; if you don't study story structure and learn how to "kill your darlings": if you don't strive to prune and pare down and remove pesky adjectives and adverbs and redundancies from the text, you will be the equivalent of the 100-mph pitcher who couldn't throw strikes. Your talent will shine through, but it will be buried underneath too-wordy and sloppy prose. It will not be maximized, and your potential will not be reached.
So, whether you write or sing or play basketball, or pitch a baseball–put in the hours necessary to master your skill. Sweat the small stuff.
It can make all the difference.
Just ask Steve Dalkowski and Sandy Koufax–and the batters they faced.
What's Old Is New Again (Or, Tapping into Your Own Personal Literary Slush Pile)
31 Jan 2021 15 Comments
by The Eye-Dancers in On Writing Tags: author, creativity, fantasy, literature, reading, sci-fi, stories, writing, YA
One way or another, fiction or nonfiction, seeking publication or simply scribbling away for my own enrichment and edification, I have been a writer for a long time now. Not all of my literary endeavors have been successful, that's for sure. And some will never be seen, even fleetingly, by any eyes not belonging to me. But the point is, good or bad, published or unpublished, I've been at this for a while. And so–there is quite a "slush pile," as it were, on my hard drive.
But before delving into the slush . . . of course, I am wanting to create something new, to explore an idea that is swimming around, like a rogue fish, in the fluids and nooks and crannies of my brain. Do I have such ideas? I do. All writers do. Ideas are our stock-in-trade, after all. The thing is, not all of these ideas are good, or even workable. In fact, the majority are not. Or–maybe an idea has potential, but, in its current state, it is too unformed, too skeletal to work with. So, though enthused by the germ of it and intrigued to pursue it, you temporarily set it aside, allowing it the space and quiet it needs to form sinews and cartilage and nerve endings, to pulse with the literary blood flow of a living, breathing story. I know, for me, such idea-germs need to work themselves out on their own. I can never force them. I must be patient and wait for them to tell me when it's time to put them down on paper.
The question naturally arises, then. What to do in the meantime? What to write, what to create, while awaiting the muse's unannounced and capricious call? For me, I sometimes simply write a scene–even if it has no chance of developing into something more. Working out the narrative muscles, keeping dialogue top of mind, describing the situation, letting it all play out. It's the literary equivalent to practice. And sometimes–rarely, but sometimes–such a writing exercise can bloom into a full and fleshed-out story. It does happen.
But what if even that amounts to nothing more than a dozen unrelated scenes, scattered around your hard drive like unreadable hieroglyphics from an ancient civilization, unable to be deciphered or turned into anything more? Where do you go when the fully formed ideas are few and far between, or even nonexistent?
Perhaps . . . to your own work? If you have any sort of track record of writing projects, surely you have some old stories lying around. Some of them may be so old, and so forgotten, they read as if another person created them. (An odd, almost disembodied sensation, but recommended!) Now, it's true–some, or even most–of these stories may strike you as second-rate–especially if they're more than ten years old. After all, we move forward as writers, as artists. We accrue more life experiences, hone our craft, enrich our voice. Our old work really shouldn't be as polished as our more recent efforts.
But sometimes, every now and again, they are–or, if not, they contain enough depth, imagination, and spark to revisit them. So, if the well is running dry–maybe dig into that old slush pile. And if you see a short story, or even a novel that has been collecting dust for years–perhaps sit with it for a while, and then . . . if you're encouraged by what you're reading–begin to rework it. Editing an old piece of writing to make it new again. Superimposing your in-the-now abilities over your abilities from ten or twenty years ago. Making the old new.
Of course, such a project is only applicable if you are, in fact, short on new ideas, and if you find the old work in question worthy enough to edit. But it's an often overlooked source of material–your own stories! (Sometimes, too, your old stories can ignite an entirely new idea, and off to the races you go on a brand-new novel.) There are plenty of possibilities.
Either way, though, it is a good idea to check out your old stuff–whether you want to rework it or not–if, for nothing else, to see how far you've come as a writer, how you've matured and grown. And to see a snapshot into what the younger version of you thought was important enough to write about. In some ways, it's almost like reading old journal entries.
And, right now? I think I've convinced myself. I have an entire thumb drive of old stories I wrote, years ago. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to revisit them.
After all, our younger selves have much to say to our current selves. There has to be a story in there, somewhere.
Thankful (for the Memories, and the Inspiration)
by The Eye-Dancers in Anecdotes, On Writing Tags: author, childhood, fantasy, life, memories, nostalgia, reading, sci-fi, writing, YA
Late November, the northeastern United States, the hill country of east-central Vermont. No snow whitens the landscape yet this year, as the fields and meadows remain a stripped, subdued green dotted with dead, scattered leaves. Cows and sheep enjoy the cool, bug-less weather. There is a stillness, a quietness in the air. It is a season of thanksgiving, even amid the calamitous year of 2020.
And for me, today, this year–and always–one thing I am eternally thankful for is my childhood. I was lucky. I was raised in a stable and loving family. My father still lives in the same house where I grew up. I never had to move as a kid. And, with that stability, I acquired neighborhood friends who stood the test of time, season after season, year after year. Fixtures of my youth.
Indeed, as I've mentioned previously over the years on this blog, the protagonists from The Eye-Dancers were inspired by the friends I grew up with, the kids from the old neighborhood. And I think, even back then, in those long-ago summers of the 1980s, navigating a childhood without the Internet, without smartphones and tablets and smart speakers and Wi-Fi, I knew that what we shared was something special. Something enduring. To this day, when I hit a dry patch in my creativity, I pause, think back, and remember. Because I know that the essence of creativity–my creativity, anyway–streams forth from those adventures decades ago–the inquisitiveness of childhood, the explorations, the stories, the inventions. The wonder.
I am thankful for that.
Rick and his brother, Bill (Ryan and Tyler from The Eye-Dancers), lived next door, and Joe (well, Joe, from The Eye-Dancers) lived kitty-corner across the street. Grronk (well, Grronk from The Eye-Dancers), Matt K. (Marc from The Eye-Dancers), and Matt B. (Mitchell from The Eye-Dancers) lived a few streets away. If I felt bored or had nothing to do on a weekend or a summer day, I'd head outside, grab the basketball, and start shooting at the hoop my parents had in place above the garage. And–like clockwork–snap! Screen door opening and shutting. Rick next door, coming over, responding to the bouncing basketball. And, moments later: slam! Joe's screen door across the way banging shut, as he waddled over. And we'd shoot at the hoop. Talk. And plan something for when Matt, Matt, and Grronk would come.
There were sleepovers, too. We'd head down into the basement, where we'd play games I had invented. Sometimes I'd read aloud from stories I'd written, and it would be well past midnight before we turned in in our sleeping bags. The basement was old, creepy, with mysterious noises and strange clicking and hissing sounds that would come unbidden, in the dark. As we drifted off to sleep, I'd be sure to tell them of the ghosts, the goblins, and the vampires that hid, silently, underneath the stairs. Invariably, a flashlight would flick on, cutting through the gloom.
Mostly, though, I just remember the camaraderie. The walks we'd take. On some of those summer sleepovers, we'd take a walk around the neighborhood, after midnight. Was it safe? We thought so. Safe enough, anyway. Besides, there was strength in numbers, and there were half a dozen of us. As we walked, we'd look at the houses. Most were dark. A few still had lights on. We'd guess who lived there (if we walked far enough afield and no longer knew), what they might be doing on the other side of the walls and windows. We'd look up at the sky, and if the stars were out, we'd talk about space travel, time travel, and how the light from those stars took millions and millions of years to reach us, and how, seeing them now, we were, in effect, gazing into the past.
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Robert Jacobus Forbes or Robert James Forbes (21 April 1900, Breda – 13 January 1973, Haarlem) was a Dutch<|fim_middle|> | chemist and historian of science and professor in the history of applied science and technology at the University of Amsterdam.
In his days Forbes was internationally one of the best known and respected historian of technology, and recipient of the first Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the highest award by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
Biography
Family, youth and education
Forbes was born in Breda as son of William Forbes, a military engineer and later administrator at the Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij, and Maria Sara Johanna (van Houten) Forbes. The Forbes family was of Scottish origin and a descendant of the Scottish theologian John Forbes of Corse. He spent much of his childhood in China, where he attended the Public School of the International Settlement in Shanghai.
Back in the Netherlands from 1912 to 1917 he attended the Hogere Burgerschool (HBS) in Leiden. From 1917 to 1923 he studied chemical technology at the Delft University of Technology, where he obtained his engineering degree.
Career
From 1923 to 1958 Forbes worked for Royal Dutch Shell. The first two years he worked as chemist at the Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam. From 1925 to 1931 he worked in the Dutch East Indies as engineer at oil-refinery at Balikpapan, Borneo. After his return to the Netherlands in 1931 he did research about the application of asphalt in the construction of roads. In the later years he moved into the development of analytic methods, and participated in the Standardization Committee of the Institute of Petroleum in London. In his last three years from 1952 to 1955 he managed the scientific publication department, and wrote about the history of the Royal Dutch Shell.
In 1947 Forbes had also been appointed professor in the history of applied science and technology at the University of Amsterdam. After his retirement from Shell in 1958 he was secretary of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in Haarlem as successor of the late Johannes Abraham Bierens de Haan. In 1960 he was appointed professor in the history of physics and chemistry at the University of Amsterdam.
Forbes retired from the University of Amsterdam on 1 September 1967. He died at his home at Haarlem 13 January 1971 at the age of 72.
Recognition
In 1953 Forbes was awarded an Honorary degree by the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He was appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959. The Newcomen Society awarded him the Dickinson Memorial Medal in 1960, and elected him Honorary President. In 1962 Forbes was awarded the first Leonardo da Vinci Medal by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
Work
As science historian Forbes wrote about the history of technology, particularly oil technology in the ancient world. In the 1930s he had studied the use of bitumen, asphalt, petroleum and building of roads in the Ancient world. Subsequently he had studied metals and mining from 1935 to 1950, and in between also ancient irrigation and water resource management in the years 1938 to 1941.
Forbes also wrote a book about Simon Stevin, describing Stevin's mill building and hydraulic engineering work. His work A history of science and technology, written with Eduard Dijksterhuis, proposed a synthesis of the history of science. In total Forbes published over thirty books and about two hundred articles.
History of ancient roads and their construction
In his youth Forbes had developed an interest in archaeology, which became of interest when he started to study the application of asphalt in the construction of roads at Shell in 1931. Under guidance of the Dutch archaeologist and orientalist Henri Frankfort, Forbes went to Iraq to collect samples of ancient mastic, which he analyzed in the Shell laboratory. This research first let to the 1934 publication of Notes on the history of ancient roads and their construction. This work was reviewed in multiple publications.
In 1936 Forbes also published Bitumen and petroleum in antiquity. In this work Forbes summarize the use of bitumen and petroleum in antiquity, as Hassan (2013) described, that:
According to Hassan (2013) Forbes had also pointed out, that "by 347 AD the Chinese local oil and gas industry had developed considerably, because oil wells up to 800 feet were being drilled using bits connected to bamboo poles."
Cooperation at the University of Amsterdam
At the University of Amsterdam he became befriended with David Cohen (1882–1967), professor of Ancient History, who became his mentor. He became supporter of the Allard Pierson Stichting with its Allard Pierson Museum, the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam, and joined the Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap Ex Oriente Lux. Their annual publication gave Forbes a forum to publish his work.
In Shell his historical work became known to its chairman Henri Deterding, who supported the publication of his work. With Deterding Shell supported the Allard Pierson Stichting, which initiated the chair for the history of applied science and technology at the University of Amsterdam in 1946 for Forbes.
Bibliographia Antiqua: Philosophia Naturalis 1940–1963
From 1940 to 1963 Forbes published his first book series, entitled Bibliographia Antiqua: Philosophia Naturalis, in 10 parts with 6 volumes and 2 supplementary volumes in Dutch. The subjects of these works were:
1. Mining and geology
2. Metallurgy
3/4. Building materials; Pottery, faience, glass, glaze, beads
5/8. Paints, pigments, varnishes, inks and their application; Leather, manufacture and application; Fibrous materials; Paper, papyrus, and other writing materials.
9. Man and nature
10. Science and technology
Supplement I: 1940-1950
Supplement II: 1950-1960
The latest work, Supplement II was reviewed by Eugene S. Ferguson 1964.
Studies in Ancient Technology, 1955–1964
From 1955 to 1964 Forbes published his second book series, entitled Studies in Ancient Technology, in nine volumes. This work was reprinted and new editions occurred from 1964 to 1993. The titles and subjects of the nine volumes are:
Bitumen and petroleum in antiquity; the origin of alchemy; water supply
Irrigation and drainage; Power; Land transport and road-building; The coming of the camel.
Cosmetics and perfumes in antiquity; Food, alcoholic beverages, vinegar; Food in classical antiquity; Fermented beverages 500 B.C. - 1500 A.D.; Crushing; Salts, preservation processes, mummification; Paints, pigments, inks and varnishes.
The fibres and fabrics of antiquity; Washing, bleaching, fulling and felting; Dyes and dyeing; Spinning; Sewing, basketry and weaving; Weaving and looms; Fabrics and weavers.
Leather in antiquity; Sugar and its substitutes in antiquity; Glass.
Heat and heating; Refrigeration, the art of cooling and producing cold; Light.
Ancient geology; Ancient mining and quarrying; Ancient mining techniques.
Metallurgy in antiquity, part 1; Early metallurgy, the smith and his tools, gold, silver and lead, zinc and brass.
Metallurgy in antiquity, part 2; Copper and bronze, tin, arsenic, antimony and iron. Two of his latests works were The principal works of Simon Stevin published in 1966, and The Conquest of Nature: Technology and Its Consequences published in 1968.
Selected publications
Forbes, Robert James. Bitumen and petroleum in antiquity. 1936.
Forbes, Robert James. Bibliographia Antiqua: Philosophia Naturalis. 10 volumes and 2 supplements, 1940–1963.
Forbes, Robert James. Metallurgy in antiquity: a notebook for archaeologists and technologists. Brill Archive, 1950.
Forbes, Robert James. Studies in Ancient Technology. Vol. 1-9. Brill Archive, 1955-64.
Forbes, Robert James, and Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis. A history of science and technology. Vol. 1. Penguin books, 1963.
Articles, a selection
Forbes, Robert James. "Short history of the art of distillation." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3 (11):273-275 (1952).
Forbes, Robert James. "Metallurgy in antiquity." Studies in Ancient Technology VIII. Leiden. 1971.
References
Further reading
H. Gabriëls, "Ter herdenking – prof. dr. ir. R.J. Forbes," De Ingenieur 85 (20) (17 mei 1973) 407–409. (with bibliography).
Rupert Hall, A. (1976); Robert James Forbes (1900-1973). Archives internationales d'histore des sciences, 26 (1976), pp. 160-162.
White, Lynn Townsend Jr. (1974); "Robert James Forbes (1900-1973)." Technology and Culture, 15, #3 (July 1974), pp. 438-439.
Wittop Koning, D.A. (1975); "Robert James Forbes, *Breda 21-4-1900, † Haarlem, 13-1-1973," Janus, 62 (1975), pp. 217-221. Complete Bibliography on pages 221-233.
External links
Biography in the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland
1900 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Dutch historians
Historians of science
20th-century Dutch chemists
Delft University of Technology alumni
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
People from Breda
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Diary of a Corrèze Conversion
First published: 21st August 2009 by FrenchEntrée
By FrenchEntrée
Setting up a Limousin cycling business -Dalles and Digging
As Tim and James were making their way through slating the barn roof, our French Contractor Remy arrived to start the dalle (foundations and concrete platform) for the extension that would link the barn with our house. Our Architect had faced multiple challenges when designing the shape of the extension – the boundary fence gave the space a wedge shape; an existing retaining wall needed to be incorporated; there needed to be a terrace large enough for 12-16 diners on the west side; the area was not level, dropping 1.5 metres between the house and barn. On top of this we wanted a very large kitchen and an interesting building. David excelled himself with the design and from the moment that we saw the plans there was no going back to anything sensible easy and rectangular.
Of course this meant several virtual nosebleeds whilst trying to map out the building on the ground as there would be 2 sections with multiple compound angles. I finally managed to get a good string line plan marked out on a hot July day. Just as I had finished, Johnny, Carpenter Tim's lovely Collie cross, decided to help me out by charging around pulling up most of the markers as he got tangled in the string. Once reinstalled Remy then prepared marker boards to map out the actual trenches for the footings. We also had to determine the exact levels of the site using our existing kitchen floor as Point Zero and calculating everything else in relation to this. For me this was the most complicated and critical part of the entire build, luckily James was occupied on the barn roof and could remain blissfully unaware of the nail biting on the ground below as Remy and I planned it all out.
There then followed a frustrating wait as we had given the job of excavating the site to our neighbour Jean Louis. Every time we asked him when he was coming we would be told 'Beh Oui – certainly tomorrow or maybe the weekend'. After 4 weeks delay and some tense conversations with all concerned we were finally relieved to see John Louis trundling up the lane in a 'Pel' Digger. Over the next 2 days our garden turned into a muddy building site made more entertaining by a big summer storm.
Remy then came back to clear and board up the trenches for the first cement pour. With the position of the house, barn and potager, access was always going to be challenging. The solution for the cement lorries was to use a huge extending hose that was able to go over the roof of the house
After a week of drying time, Remy started to lay the block work that<|fim_middle|> using metal supports which were graded in length so that the water would easily run out to the new fosse (septic tank) that would be installed later.
Once the block work was completed and allowed time to dry, concrete beams were laid across the width of the building. As with everything associated with our unusual design, these had to be made to length and so were more expensive than standard beams. Would the end result be worth it?
Blocks were then laid suspended between the beams to create the floor and the whole area of just under 100 square metres was then covered with the metal trellis that would bind the concrete together.
Once wood shutter boards had been fixed in place around the edge of the dalle it was then time for more Beton lorries to arrive for the final pour of cement which would bind together all the blocks and give us our finished subfloor. Unfortunately this coincided with the hottest day of the year, so it was all hands on deck to spread the concrete and spray it with water to stop it drying too fast and cracking.
The pour went well, but we had to keep spraying the finished Dalle every hour until after dark. It wasn't until the next day that we could breathe a sigh of relief that no cracks had appeared. True to form our boys hadn't seemed to notice all the work going despite being on school holidays, and memorably William (then 11) came round the corner of the house and said 'Wow! Where did that come from?'
The final step was for Tim and I to lay out the wood base plate onto which our timber frame would be attached. Slowly and carefully we worked through the architects plans marking out the positions of all the doors and patio windows and adjusting them as necessary now we actually had the real thing to work with. It was at this time that I could calculate the length of walls available for kitchen units and other pieces of furniture and make sure that things would fit where we finally wanted them. The finished dalle was tangible proof that we would eventually realise our goal to set up a company running cycling holidays in the Dordogne, but this did still seem a long way away
You can read part 1 of Sam's story here
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Pools are so fab, aren't they? There's nothing like perfecting a flawless dive, doing muscle-toning laps, or just frolicking in the cool water on a blazing day. It all sounds heavenly -- until you think about the fact that the pool water is loaded with chlorine, which practically obliterates your hair, making it tangled and dry.<|fim_middle|> Damage Detox Daily Revitalizing Shampoo and Daily Rebuild Conditioner every day to nourish hair and help rid your strands of impurities. In conjunction with this regimen, once a week use the Weekly Deep Cleanse Purifying Shampoo and Deep Restoration Complex Weekly Rehab Crème – both of which intensify your detox and infuse pool-frazzled tresses with serious moisture. | Plus, the copper in pool cleansers can oxidize on hair, turning blonde tresses green (the Statue of Liberty effect). The good news is, there's no need to let these hair-harmers ruin your pool experience!
Before even dipping your toes in the water, make sure to take a shower, dousing your hair in water. Your hair acts like a sponge, so if you allow it to soak up the fresh water, it'll take in less of the chlorine-spiked H20. Then, coat your hair with a moisturizing leave-in conditioner to help act as a barrier against chemicals, while also hydrating your tresses. After your swim, rinse the chlorine and mineral deposits out of your hair immediately. If you don't mind spending the extra cash, use bottled water or club soda to ensure that you're rinsing with the freshest water. Follow up with a detoxifying shampoo and conditioner.
One of the side effects of chlorine is terrible tangling, which disrupts the cuticle and causes rough, weak strands. Before swimming, prevent knots by slicking wet hair into a high ponytail, then wrapping hair around the elastic, creating a bun. For extra insurance against chlorine-damage, slip on a tight swim cap. If you're a serious swimmer, you could even try a cute short cut, like a pixie or a bob, to help take some of the stress out of your routine.
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Home Music Concerts & Tours The Global Tour For Tribalistas Is Coming To America
The Global Tour For Tribalistas Is Coming To America
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The global tour for Tribalistas, the Brazilian pop supergroup of singers Marisa Monte, Carlinhos Brown and Arnaldo Antunes is coming to America in early 2019.
As great experiences, go, this is one for your musical bucket list.
The announcement came only days ago, on November 6th with the first five cities named in a press release from Live Nation and Brazilian Nites: New York, Boston, Miami Beach, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Word spread quickly: the Miami Beach date sold out in a matter of days, if not hours.
The global tour for Tribalistas got underway in Brazil nearly a year ago, after a successful launch of their second self-titled album.
Connectbrazil.com was one of the first to cover the album's release here in the USA.
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"Thursday, August 10, 2017 saw the arrival of four new singles from the upcoming album which was released by Universal Brasil laterf that month," we wrote.
"Aliança, Diáspora, Fora da Memória and Um Só were unveiled during a late-night, hour-long streamcast on social media and already available on digital platforms worldwide."
Read the Connectbrazil.com review of Tribalistas 2017 here.
Last week's press release noted that the new album was a social media success from the very start:
"A live streaming broadcast occurred simultaneously on the artists' fan page and had 5.62 million views by followers in 52 countries, including Brazil, all of Latin America, United States, France, Spain, Japan, Russia and even Pakistan.
The new album also earned a Latin Grammy nomination for "Aliança" for Best Portuguese Language Song.
"According to data from Spotify, the release of the four singles produced the best performance<|fim_middle|>3%."
The global tour for Tribalistas is great news for American fans of the three Brazilian stars, and for Brazilian pop music in general.
The debut of Tribalistas with their first self-titled release in 2002 helped to make Marisa Monte a household name among Brazilian jazz fans, and particularly with listeners to The Sounds of Brazil radio program.
Read: Marisa Monte's Top Ten Songs And Stories
Back then, Connectbrazil reviewed the album for Brazilian music fans. You can read our original review here.
This week, listeners worldwide can re-connect with both Marisa Monte and Tribalistas with The Sounds of Brazil's weekly radio and streaming show.
You'll hear plenty of Marisa Monte fan favorites along with a track from Tribalistas's new album … one you're sure to hear when you go 'front row center' when the global tour for Tribalistas arrives early next year!
'The Best of Marisa Monte' airs daily on our streaming Station from 11-14-18 through 11-20-18 Monday-Friday at 7 am, 3 pm, 6 pm and midnight Central Time (US). Weekends, too.
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Tribalistas U.S. Tour
FEBRUARY 5th – Hammerstein Ballroom, NY
FEBRUARY 6th – House of Blues Boston, MA
FEBRUARY 9th – Fillmore Miami Beach, FL
FEBRUARY 15th – Orpheum Theater Los Angeles, CA
FEBRUARY 16th – The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
Tribalistas' current single on The Sounds of Brazil's streaming station (click the 'play' arrow at the bottom of this page to listen live, anytime):
Brazil's World Cup Legends
Bossa 60
Ruy Castro's Bossa Nova
Warming Up To Djavan | in the MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) category since the platform reached Brazil, in 2014.
All four hit the Top 100 Spotify and there was an increase of 65% in the group's monthly listeners. Taking just the 23-27 years demographic, the increase was 7 | 68 |
Vicon, the motion capture technology specialist for the life science, entertainment, and engineering industries, today announced that the University of Derby has invested in a Vicon motion capture system to help with research aimed at improving the quality and consistency of golf swings. Vicon mocap technology will also be used by the University to support student learning and give lecturers stronger tools to teach biomechanics.
The University has bought 12 Vantage V5 cameras and Vicon's data capture software, Nexus 2. These will be installed at the University's Performance Suite in the brand new Sports Centre. Launched this year, Vantage is Vicon's new intelligent flagship camera platform which combines innovative technology with accessible design to open up motion capture to a broader audience.
Working with the Derbyshire Institute of Sport (DIS), the University will use Vicon technology to examine the sequencing of segment kinetic energy in the golf swing - the energy that it possesses due to its motion. The Vicon system will also help researchers understand the causes of energy generation and track how each segment of the golf club and the body performs and reacts during the swing.
The project will be led by Dr Tom Outram, lecturer in Biomechanics and Performance Analysis, who will work with elite and amateur golfers to improve their sequencing of body segment movements with an ultimate goal of increasing the distance and accuracy of their shots. The research is due to be published<|fim_middle|> As well as research, the technology will aid student learning and help staff deliver aspects of the final year biomechanics module which focus on motion capture in striking and throwing movements.
The University also plans to use the technology to support research in other disciplines in sports science, for example examining the impact of psychology on putting and how anxiety affects the mechanics of the stroke. They also plan to use motion capture to test movement in other sports like the long jump, hurdles and weightlifting. | in the spring of 2016 with Vicon technology being used for further data collection after this date.
Motion capture will also play a big role in teaching and will act as a draw to attracting more students to the University. | 47 |
InSight : the drilling of Mars finally resumes !
– News of October 22, 2019 –
InSight's drill rig has been stuck for 8 months
The HP3 drill rig installed on the InSight lander has been designed to dig to a depth of 5 meters, unwinding thermal sensors. This should make it possible to study how the heat propagates in the Martian crust. But the drill rig dug a few tens of centimeters before stopping in the soil of the planet Mars on March 7, 2019. This situation puts the whole mission in danger.
For almost 8 months, the DLR and NASA engineers have refused to give up. They have made repeated attempts to resume drilling and it looks like they have finally found a viable solution last week. The drill rig has dug a too big hole. It needs friction with the walls of this hole to work. A few months ago, the mission team attempted to collapse the hole by pressing the surface with the manipulator arm of the InSight lander, but without success.
After another attempt, drilling finally resumes
They decided last week to take a little more risk. InSight's robotic arm was pressed against the top of the drill rig to lock it in a position of maximum friction, which could damage it. The HP3 drill rig is not designed to work this way, but sometimes you have to make daring bets. This method allowed the HP3 drill rig to resume drilling.
The InSight mission is not saved yet
However, it's not over yet. The HP3 drill rig has not even reached 10% of its goal. But this success gives reason to be optimistic because it confirms that it is a friction problem that prevents drilling from continuing. The HP3 drill rig does not seem to have stopped on an underground rock.
The technique is effective as long as at least one end of the drill head is exposed to the open air. Once the drill head is underground, the InSight manipulator arm will no longer be able to help the drill rig. If the experience blocks again, however, German and US engineers already have ideas, like trying to fill the hole with soil using the InSight's robot mini-excavator. This could work if the HP3 drill rig reaches a depth of 2 or 3 meters, but the results will be harder to interpret.
This shows that we can do miracles with a little ingenuity. Hopefully the HP3 drill rig will join the pantheon of missions that have started badly but have continued their mission.
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The InSight's drill is still inoperative
– News of October 8, 2019 –
On the planet Mars, the InSight's drill is still blocked a few dozen centimeters below the surface. NASA and DLR, the German space agency, will make another rescue attempt by using the lander arm to press the drill against one of the walls of the hole it has dug. This should increase the friction and thus the drilling efficiency.
Meanwhile, the other scientific instrument of InSight, a seismometer designed by CNES (the French space agency), works perfectly. It has already recorded more than 100 seismic events of which 21 have been confirmed as Marsquakes. These observations already make possible to get an idea of the properties of the Martian crust. They seem to be halfway between those of the Earth and those of the Moon. Another amazing observation comes from the magnetometer<|fim_middle|> part the composition of the Martian mantle. The seismometer should be sensitive enough to capture the impacts of meteorites on the planet Mars. By studying their frequency, it will be possible to better understand the risks associated with a possible inhabited mission. In May of next year the lander InSight will be launched. It is currently the only mission scheduled for the planet Mars for 2018, before the invasion of orbiters, landers and rovers that will leave for Mars in 2020.
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The drilling of the planet Mars by InSight still has not resumed, the DLR and NASA imagine a new solution
– News of September 15, 2019 –
It has now been more than nine months since InSight landed on the planet Mars and the drill of its HP3 instrument is still stuck about fifteen centimeters below the surface of Mars. The heat flow sensor is supposed to go down to a depth of 5 meters. This scientific instrument is thus for the moment incapable of fulfilling its mission.
NASA and DLR have multiplied initiatives to resume drilling but so far without success. InSight's robotic arm was used to remove the HP3 support structure, and then broke the ground close to the hole, the goal being to increase the friction of the drill head with the ground. The main problem is that HP3 drilled a hole too big for itself. German and American engineers working on the mission, however, have not yet abandoned.
A new solution could be tested in the coming days. This time, the robotic arm will be used to press the drill head against one of the walls of the hole, to artificially increase friction. The method is risky but it may be worth it.
SEIS, the other scientific instrument of InSight that has been provided by CNES, the French space agency, continues to function normally. It listens to the soil of the planet Mars in search of micro-earthquakes. The way these waves cross the planet Mars can allow us to learn a lot about its inner composition.
So far, the results of the InSight mission are mixed. One of its scientific instruments works perfectly while the other is unable to take action. Let's hope that the DLR and NASA engineers will find a solution for HP3.
NASA and DLR continue their investigations so that InSight can resume drilling
– News of July 16, 2019 –
For several months, the drill of the HP3 instrument of InSight is blocked a few centimeters under the surface of the planet Mars. In June, NASA and DLR decided to raise its support structure to try to see it more clearly. This operation was successfully conducted on June 25th and 27th. The drilling probe is now exposed, which should allow American and German scientists to make a better diagnosis. It might be possible to try to increase the friction of the soil by pressing it with the manipulator arm of InSight. It is also possible that the drill had hit on a large rock, a problem that would probably be insurmountable.
The InSight's seismometer records tremors on Mars
– News of April 28, 2019 –
On April 6, the SEIS seismometer put on the Mars planet by the InSight lander recorded a signal that could be "Marsquakes". Three other signals recorded at different times could also be Marsquakes, but it is less likely. The 6 April signal is very weak. It corresponds almost exactly to the type of signal that the Apollo program teams had been able to record following tremors on the Moon.
This point of comparison is important because the Earth is too active to be an effective referent. This first signal is unfortunately too weak to analyze the depths of the planet Mars. However, it provides crucial information. The planet Mars is not completely dead. It does not have plate tectonics but its slow cooling continues to cause tremors.
Hopefully the InSight seismometer will record some more violent seismic events. The analysis of seismic waves could provide valuable information on the internal composition of the planet Mars. It is impossible to know when these events will occur. Let's hope it will be soon because the InSight's solar panels are already starting to be covered with Martian dust.
NASA is trying to find out what is blocking the InSight drill
March has been complicated for InSight. The HP3 scientific instrument encountered difficulties early in its operations. The drill of the scientific instrument stumbled upon something, perhaps rock or a harder layer of regolith. This triggered the interruption of drilling to understand what is happening.
NASA has devised a test in which the hammer HP3 will be started while SEIS, the seismometer of InSight, will record the vibrations. This may help to uncover clues about the nature of the problem. But there is a good chance that the HP3 drill will still be immobilized for a few weeks. For the experiment to be successful, it must be able to dig up to at least three meters deep, ideally up to 5 meters. A first problem just 30 centimeters from the surface of the planet Mars shows that drilling will be complicated.
The seismometer of the InSight mission recorded its first signals from the planet Mars. These signals are not due to Marsquakes or meteor impacts. Martian winds produce microseism in SEIS data, such as low frequency tremor. This first detection shows that the seismometer works as well as expected.
Over the two years of InSight's primary mission, the mission team expects to detect about one Marsquake per month. They should occur in groups, and they should be distant of several weeks or months. It will therefore be necessary to wait before InSight gives its first results.
Martian soil exploration by InSight is delayed by stones
– News of March 5, 2019 –
The heat flow sensor installed on the InSight lander on Mars is designed to collect valuable information on the thermal conductivity of the Martian crust. It must first drill five meters deep. To dig, the instrument uses a kind of jackhammer that hits the ground a hundred times an hour. The process is very slow, especially as the terrain seems more difficult than expected.
The first hours of drilling allowed the instrument to dive a few tens of centimeters into the ground. It has already met two stones. The indenter is designed to be able to spread them to the side while bowing slightly, but this process requires a lot of time and slows the maneuver. Let's hope that the depths of the planet Mars will have fewer stones.
It would be very annoying to encounter a large stone at shallow depths because they can not be pushed so easily to the side. Drilling should continue for at least the entire month of March.
The InSight lander continues to deploy its scientific instruments
– News of February 18, 2019 –
The SEIS seismometer, deployed by InSight at the end of 2018, was covered with a protective bell at the beginning of February to isolate it from wind and temperature changes. The position of the cable between the lander and the seismometer was slightly adjusted because the seismometer vibrated a bit because of the Martian wind. The seismometer aims to record the seismic waves spread in the crust of the planet Mars.
InSight's robotic arm has just installed a jackhammer right next to itself. The heat flow sensor needs to dig five meters deep to set up its thermal sensors. It will take 30 to 40 days for the instrument to make its hole. Let's hope there are no big boulders on the drill's path as it is designed to dig only in relatively soft terrain. If it can not go down to 5 meters deep, the experience data will be much more difficult to analyze.
However, there is almost no rock on the surface of the place where InSight landed, which is a good sign for the composition of the subsoil. Thanks to the seismometer and the heat flow sensor, we will understand a little better the internal structure of the planet Mars.
InSight records the sound of the Martian wind
– News of December 11, 2018 –
On Mars, the InSight lander continues its deployment. For now, the priority is to test the instruments and systems of the lander. The photos of the environment where InSight is located show that NASA seems to have well chosen the landing site, which seems extremely flat. This will facilitate the installation of the ground seismometer of the planet Mars, named SEIS.
The placement of instruments is a critical decision for the mission. It could be several months before a site is designated. But even on InSight, the seismometer SEIS already records small vibrations caused by the Martian wind blowing on the solar panels of the lander. This corresponds to a barely audible sound. This is the first time we are able to hear the Martian wind. But we must not forget that this same wind and the dust that it carries will be a real danger for the mission in the long run.
InSight landed on the planet Mars !
– News of November 27, 2018 –
The landing of InSight on the planet Mars went smoothly. As usual, the atmospheric reentry and landing phases have been moments of high tension, but this is starting to be the routine for NASA. Indeed, the US space agency has succeed all its martian landings the last two decades.
The landing took place in the area of Elysium Planitia, a region close to the Martian equator that has the distinction of being very flat. NASA generally prefers to put its robots near ancient rivers, where geological and biochemical discoveries are most likely. But InSight is not directly interested in life on Mars, it is the interior of the planet that preoccupies this new lander. The chosen area has made it easy to land, its proximity to the Martian equator will provide maximum brightness for InSight's solar panels, and the ground should be flexible enough to allow deep drilling.
One of the two main tools of InSight will require to dig up to 5 meters below the surface of the planet Mars. A heat flux sensor will help to understand how heat flows from the planet's core to its crust. This should help us better estimate the internal composition of the red planet. This scientific instrument was designed by the german space center (DLR). The other main instrument of InSight is a seismometer designed under the supervision of CNES. The tectonic activity of Mars has never been measured directly. We will therefore be able to discover the frequency of Mars quakes and the frequency of meteorite impacts. The study of seismic waves should provide valuable clues to the internal composition of the planet Mars.
While waiting to be able to start its scientific mission, InSight must carry out a medical assessment and to start. For the moment, everything seems to work well. NASA said that the solar panels of the robot are properly exposed to light. InSight has also sent its first pictures. As expected, the landscape around InSight is very flat.
The CubeSats MarCO A and B were launched in the wake of InSight with the mission to monitor its landing. These CubeSats transferred the signal that announced that InSight landed. This is the first time that CubeSats are used in an interplanetary mission. They survived for months under the harsh conditions of the interplanetary void. Since they do not have the ability to orbit the planet Mars, they will continue their path in a heliocentric orbit. This first success may push NASA and other space agencies to consider CubeSats as interesting tools for exploring the solar system. Their very light weight and high standardization makes it possible to launch this type of mission at a ridiculous cost.
It will take a few months to launch the scientific experiments of InSight and to carry out the drilling necessary for the installation of the heat flux sensor. The data collection will last at least two years. The first results should be released in 2019 or 2020.
InSight mission approaches Mars
The InSight lander is approaching the red planet. If all goes well, it will land at the equator on November 26. InSight will have to observe the Martian depths using its seismometer and its heat flow sensor. The InSight lander is followed by the first two interplanetary CubeSats. These CubeSats will fly over Mars following the descent of InSight. The two tiny explorers, each the size of a shoebox, have transmitted their first images of the red planet.
The InSight lander has tested its seismometer in space
The Insight lander is currently travelling to the planet Mars where it will land at the end of November to carry out measurements of heat propagation and seismic activity of the red planet. The Insight lander tests its instruments before arriving at its destination. Testing a seismometer in space is not useless because the instrument was able to detect and measure the launches of the micro-thrusters of the space probe. It even may have identified a micro-meteorite impact. This seismometer seems in perfect condition to help us understand what is happening in the depths of Mars.
The InSight robot will study the Martian soil
The InSight lander is currently undergoing a series of tests before being launched next year to Mars. InSight is a robot designed by NASA to study the depths of the Martian subsoil using seismology and geodesy. It is not a rover but a stationary robot that will stay at its landing site.
By studying the depths of Mars, we can learn more about the Earth. Indeed, Mars is a relatively inactive planet for three billion years. Its rocky mantle has therefore changed very little since that time. But we think that the structure of the Earth and the structure of Mars are very similar. The activity of the Earth's mantle makes it difficult to study its past. By focusing on Mars, we can look at a photo of the Earth's mantle three billion years ago.
The InSight lander should be positioned near the Martian equator. InSight will be powered by two circular solar panels. The robot will deploy its two scientific instruments using a robotic arm. The first scientific instrument is a precision seismometer that will record any trace of seismic activity in the landing zone of the robot. This seismometer was designed by CNES. Its second scientific instrument will be a heat flow sensor. It must sink five meters below the surface of the ground, which will be the greatest depth dug by mankind on Mars. The heat flux sensor will be used to determine the thermal activity of the core and to understand the geothermal history of the planet Mars.
The mission is initially planned to last two years, but InSight could continue well beyond that date. The mission also includes two CubeSats that will serve as a communication relay during the descent phase of the InSight robot. Unable to fit into Martian orbit by their own means, they will then pursue a trajectory that will place them in an orbit around the sun.
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A common question when planning for a record is how much to budget for mixing. (Check this out if you're not sure what mixing is.) Unfortunately, there is no universal answer. Ta da! That was helpful, wasn't it? Seriously though, my usual response is: "Double what you plan to spend tracking and expect to spend that mixing." In my experience, it's a formula that works for the majority of bands.
Some folks are surprised that mixing requires that much of an investment. After all, you spent all that time tracking your songs to make sure you got just the right sound. Isn't it now just a matter of twisting some pots and sliding some faders?
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