@why-yu: yes it does. but in a way some people say you shouldn´t take doubles: by pushing the little button for rewinding but then advancing. the problem with this cam when taking doubles is that you have to re-"advance" really slow because otherwise the roll will move. and then on top it might hapen that the little button does not come out again which means you have to expose again - well you can hold your hand in front of the lens then. and: the film might only advance a little bit for the next pic. so you see it´s not made for taking doubles ;)
I once tried to make doubles with my hi-matic S, I rewound the last shots, but somehow I was not able to get double to the same place - in same shot/frame
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism, by Tomson Highway. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2015. 37 pp. $10.95.
The cover of this slim book prints “Monstrous” and “Highway” at the top and bottom in the same 44-point sans typeface, in contrast to the 12-point and 9-point non-sans of the remaining text. Monstrous Highway. In the cover photograph Highway is striking a head-back Elton John pose while singing to his own piano accompaniment. A similar vocal-piano photo of him appears on page 3 – perhaps a metaphorical substitution for one of him speaking.
The text is Highway’s lecture in the University of Alberta’s Henry Kreisel Lecture series in March of 2014 – a lecture that was, as the photographs suggest, also a performance. The typographers have worked with some success to enliven the text symbolically with contrasting fonts and music symbols, and to present its delivery as – and as it deserved to be – a career-celebrating moment.
The lecture itself is essentially a narrative of Highway’s life from birth in a tent pitched by his Cree parents on a Nunuvut snowbank some hundred kilometres north of their home Brochet, Manitoba, to his current career as an internationally productive playwright, novelist, and entertainer who along the way has become fluent in possibly seven languages (eight, he implies, if one includes that of music notation). His performance of the lecture – mostly in English but also in Cree and French – makes this journey seem amusing, pleasant, enriching, and paradoxically both unlikely and easy. Highway builds the unlikeliness of his story on the cultural
contrasts between subsistence cultures that are oral and improvisational and western industrial culture that is text- based, bureaucratic, and hierarchical -- and on his apparently easy transitions between them.
A mostly unspoken/unwritten element in his text is the contrastingly desperate condition of most of Canada’s aboriginal cultures – their current high levels of internal violence, high suicide rates, high rates of criminal convictions, low levels of educational attainment, high rates of unemployment, and the epidemic abuse and murder, both outside and inside aboriginal communities, of aboriginal women. None of these things – the subject in May 2014 of a United Nations report that characterized them as constituting “a crisis among [Canadian] aboriginal communities in terms of their basic necessities” – appear to have been a part of Highway’s own life, a fact which throughout the lecture adds to the humour he is able to create by his story’s unlikely evasion of the stereotypes his educated audience is certain to have encountered about similar aboriginal subjects. The book cover’s “monstrous highway” becomes both an hilarious and troublingly unlikely road away from aboriginal failure and hopelessness.
Only once in the book does Highway appear unhappy about this. About half way through his entertaining celebration of his how a pastoral northern aboriginal multilingual childhood led to his being able to recommend Budapest, Santiago, and Tokyo as each a “fabulous city” (35-6), he recalls for a short paragraph the savage 1971 murder in Manitoba of the young Cree woman Helen Betty Osborne and the serial killings, mostly of aboriginal sex workers, committed in British Columbia more recently by Robert Pickton (17). But the paragraph segues quickly back to Highway’s personal avoidance of stereotypes: “At age almost seven I left the paradise that is northern Manitoba to go to boarding [residential] school. That’s what I call it because, for me, it was a positive experience.”
Goodbye much more than that. I’m left thinking less of Highway’s enviable travels than of how it is to Canada’s shame that his story can seem so extravagantly unlikely. Pickton’s victims might have also enjoyed visits to “fabulous” Budapest, Santiago, or Tokyo. I’m left wondering also what Highway thinks of this contrast between his own formative experiences and the effect which similar experiences appear to have had on others. What can we learn from a remarkable individual about a systemic disaster by which he claims to have been only positively touched? Should there have been more Jesuits? Could multilingual education succeed as a national social policy?
Multi-day & Extended Tours, Collection from central Port Elizabeth hotels to Tour ends on arrival in Cape Town. Guests can be dropped off, on request, at Cape Town International Airport
ReturnsTour ends on arrival in Cape Town. Guests can be dropped off, on request, at Cape Town International Airport
Explore the Garden Route and its abundant attractions in just four days. Experience the highlights of the Garden Route, traveling from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town in this four day tour. Visit Tsitsikamma Park en route to the quaint holiday town of Knysna. Enjoy the bright greens and blues of the forests and lagoons and the evocative landscapes of the Klein Karoo and Oudtshoorn.
Day 1: Port Elizabeth to Knysna. (D) Head westwards along the Garden Route, which follows the Indian Ocean coastline and is bordered inland by soaring mountain ranges and indigenous forests. Visit Tsitsikamma Park and Storms River Mouth. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure at the hotel. Dinner and overnight in Knysna. Day 2: Knysna (B, L) Enjoy the shops and atmosphere of this quaint town before joining a lagoon cruise to Featherbed Nature Reserve. Enjoy a trailer ride to top of Western Head and walk back through Milkwood trees for lunch. Overnight in Knysna. Day 3: Knysna to Oudtshoorn (B) Travel through the Outeniqua Pass to Oudtshoorn, the centre of the world’s Ostrich farming industry. You’ll visit an Ostrich Farm for a guided tour and light lunch, before taking a tour of the spectacular limestone caverns of the Cango Caves, one of the world’s great natural wonders, sculpted by nature through the ages. Late afternoon you will travel to your hotel in time to check in and relax before dinner (for own account). Overnight in Oudtshoorn. Day 4: Oudtshoorn to Franschhoek to Cape Town (B) Enjoy an early morning meerkat safari (optional & for own account). Witness these incredible wild, habituated creatures emerging out of their burrows, in time to soak up the sun before they head about their daily activities (weather permitting). After this thrilling experience, head back for a delicious breakfast. After breakfast, the journey continues through the "Little Karoo" to Barrydale, where you will have the opportunity to visit a local farm school before travelling to Montagu, a picturesque and historic spa town. (The school visit is subject to the school being open.) Continue to Franschhoek, a picturesque village surrounded by spectacular vineyards, where French Huguenots settled more than 300 years ago. Here you will disembark the tour and be transferred (with a driver only) to Cape Town, spectacularly set at the foot of Table Mountain. The journey ends on arrival in Cape Town. [B] Note for 2019 season: The tour will continue straight through to Cape Town, and may only travel via Franschhoek to collect other guests booked on the Franschhoek Winelands Option from the SJC14 South Africa Odyssey Tour.
Day 1: Port Elizabeth to Knysna. (D) Head westwards along the Garden Route, which follows the Indian Ocean coastline and is bordered inland by soaring mountain ranges and indigenous forests. Visit Tsitsikamma Park and Storms River Mouth. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure at the hotel. Dinner and overnight in Knysna.
Day 2: Knysna (B, L) Enjoy the shops and atmosphere of this quaint town before joining a lagoon cruise to Featherbed Nature Reserve. Enjoy a trailer ride to top of Western Head and walk back through Milkwood trees for lunch. Overnight in Knysna.
Day 3: Knysna to Oudtshoorn (B) Travel through the Outeniqua Pass to Oudtshoorn, the centre of the world’s Ostrich farming industry. You’ll visit an Ostrich Farm for a guided tour and light lunch, before taking a tour of the spectacular limestone caverns of the Cango Caves, one of the world’s great natural wonders, sculpted by nature through the ages. Late afternoon you will travel to your hotel in time to check in and relax before dinner (for own account). Overnight in Oudtshoorn.
Day 4: Oudtshoorn to Franschhoek to Cape Town (B) Enjoy an early morning meerkat safari (optional &amp; for own account). Witness these incredible wild, habituated creatures emerging out of their burrows, in time to soak up the sun before they head about their daily activities (weather permitting). After this thrilling experience, head back for a delicious breakfast. After breakfast, the journey continues through the "Little Karoo" to Barrydale, where you will have the opportunity to visit a local farm school before travelling to Montagu, a picturesque and historic spa town. (The school visit is subject to the school being open.) Continue to Franschhoek, a picturesque village surrounded by spectacular vineyards, where French Huguenots settled more than 300 years ago. Here you will disembark the tour and be transferred (with a driver only) to Cape Town, spectacularly set at the foot of Table Mountain. The journey ends on arrival in Cape Town. [B] Note for 2019 season: The tour will continue straight through to Cape Town, and may only travel via Franschhoek to collect other guests booked on the Franschhoek Winelands Option from the SJC14 South Africa Odyssey Tour.
Assigned parking! One of the best units in Nolde Bakery! True one bedroom with no half wall, but full bedroom. Walking in you're going to be wow'd with the huge windows and northern exposure. Second floor living means wonderful views and privacy. This unit has a spacious kitchen with ample cabinet space and granite countertops. The tall ceilings and open floor plan provide almost limitless layout options. Bedroom features two large closets. Office area in foyer is perfect for a stay at home office or studio. Full sized stacked washer/dryer by the large bathroom. Tasteful bathroom built to please! On your way in or out check out the huge gym just down the hall. Not your average condo gym but a large, fully equipped gym. Condo also features a movie theater, business area and common room. Locked storage in basement (room #135) and off-street parking spot #37. Assigned parking spot is mere steps from elevator to unit! Pets allowed!
Long Beach Marina’s roots on can be traced back as far as 1947, when employees started the tradition of writing the year of the summer they worked at the marina.
More than 70 years later, owners Sam and Jan Minervino continue to keep the history of the marina alive by offering convenient and hassle-free ski boat, pontoon boat and mooring rentals to those looking to enjoy all that a Maine summer has to offer. Since the Minervinos purchased the marina in 1988, they have strived to provide customers with the same memorable, enjoyable experiences that the family has enjoyed for years.
For the Minervinos, Long Beach Marina is more than a business. As Sam says, “It’s a lifestyle thing.”
Sam spent many a summer at Long Beach Marina, growing up on the water and eventually sharing his love of boating with his own children. The marina was always like a second home for the Minervinos, as the family spent pretty much every summer weekend on the lake.
So, it should come as no surprise that when Sam’s father, Henry, heard that marina was being put up for sale, he jumped at the opportunity to purchase it. Sam and Jan decided to take the the leap with his mom and dad and went in on the deal. Fast forward to the year 2000, when Sam and his wife, Jan, took full control of the business. Today, they continue to offer the same personalized service that people expect from Long Beach Marina, getting to know most of their long-time, returning customers on a first-name basis.
The Minervinos have worked to keep intact the original charm of Long Beach Marina while continually modernizing their offerings to boaters and vacationers.
Today, Long Beach Marina still maintains the original dock that was built on the property, providing infrastructure upgrades to keep it in use for years to come. For customers looking to keep their boat on the lake, the marina offers 50 moorings with a convenient shuttle service and easy access to a launch ramp.
For those looking to rent, the Minervino’s are constantly maintaining and upgrading their rental fleet of ski boats and pontoons, providing a clean, worry-free rental experience.
For more than 30 years, the Minervinos have had the pleasure of providing their customers with personalized service, many of whom continue to come back to the marina. Sam and Jan want to share their love of boating and Sebago Lake with all of their customers. Call us today to learn how we can provide you with a fun, relaxing experience on the water.