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Diao Yinan on Cannes Pic 'Wild Goose Lake': 'I Try to Portray the Opposite of a Utopia'
By Rebecca Davis
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In competition in Cannes with "Wild Goose Lake," director Diao Yinan explained Sunday why he's fascinated by dark crime thrillers – and why his new film features dialogue in China's Wuhan dialect.
"Such thrillers are not only an exercise in style; they're also full of dramatic tension, and when you combine style with dramatic tension, you can easily make a film that's both good-looking and is an expression of the auteur," Diao said at the "Wild Goose Lake" news conference. "The social issues that are facing Chinese society at the moment make a fertile soil out of which this kind of film noir grows."
He added: "In my films and in this film in particular, I try to portray the opposite of a utopia – a space that exists in our inner hearts as a space of mystery and danger but also in the restaurants, bars and gray spaces outside the big cities."
His film tells the tale of a gangster on the run from the authorities and others who would betray him after he accidentally kills a cop during a fallout with rival gangs over rights to steal bikes from the choicest parts of town. It is based on a real-life event, Diao said.
For him, the violent film about gun-toting gangsters who decapitate each other or, in one scene, run each other through the stomach with an umbrella expresses important mainstream moral values. "The film expresses a person's inner drive, their aspirations, intention and intensity," he said. "This honesty and uprightness is something that I hope can be felt by more Chinese viewers, because this is a very traditional energy, a very traditional moral framework that I feel is being lost and falling by the wayside in society today as we develop."
Chinese actor Hu Ge is best known for his roles in wuxia martial-arts TV series, including his breakout turn in 2005's "Chinese Paladin" and 2017's "Nirvana in Fire." "Wild Goose Lake" marks his first turn as a leading man in a movie. Hu thanked Diao for the opportunity, saying: "It has been a very valuable experience that has made me decide to continue on this path" of film acting.
Preparing for his role as a haggard gangster on the run required a new approach, he said. "With the characters I've portrayed before, I've tried to be very confident and ensure that I acted as well as possible. This time, I didn't want this kind of confidence to really take hold of me. I wanted to be full of doubts because I realized that that's what the character needed, this lack of security and lack of confidence. Up until the end of the shooting, I remained in a state of insecurity and doubt to better portray him."
His co-star, Taiwan's Gwei Lun Mei, echoed the sentiment, laughing that, though they hadn't discussed it before, she too had the same feeling of needing to be open to uncertainty during the shoot. "I also felt unsure of myself and I believe that was exactly what I needed in order to play the character properly."
Diao said that he wanted the two characters to express themselves through words rather than action. "They're two very lonely souls who are under great pressure and feel very alone. But I want us to get the sense of the very complicated and refined feelings between these two through actions and gestures rather than words, because otherwise that wouldn't have matched the style of film.
The film was shot in Wuhan dialect, spoken in the capital of the central province of Hubei, although neither Diao nor his main actors have any ties to the region or its language. They studied the language for months before shooting, and actor Liao Fan ("Black Coal, Thin Ice") joked that his dialect coach had begun to despair. "He said it kept sounding like I was speaking Sichuanese."
The choice to use Wuhan dialect ended up being a purely practical one, Diao said. He had originally hoped to shoot the film in Guangdong, but was unable to find a lake there that was close enough to a city or urban village to suit his vision. An attempt to location scout further north in Yinchuan didn't work out either. In the end, Wuhan – a region that is one of the most dotted with lakes in China – fit the bill.
"Once we chose the city, I asked all the [main] actors to learn a sufficient amount of local dialect so that they could fit in with all the other local actors," Diao said. "Otherwise, it wouldn't have sounded right for the film. I also thought it would help them to understand their characters."
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Polar Bear Club announce release date for third album, Clash Battle Guilt Pride
Polar Bear Club's third album, Clash Battle Guilt Pride (out September 13, 2011), Bridge Nine has announced the release of the new 7-inch/digital EP The View, The Life. Available August 9, the three-song EP is up for pre-order now at Bridge Nine's webstore (http://www.b9store.com/PolarBearClub), and features the two songs off the upcoming full-length, as well as an exclusive B-side (see track listing below). The 7-inch is available in gray with blue marble, translucent red, and gray vinyl.
Polar Bear Club also unveils the first single "Screams In Caves" on the band's Facebook page. Fans can hear the song by clicking "Like" on their page: http://on.fb.me/pwl4uL. Polar Bear Club will be playing both songs on their previously announced Clash Battle Guilt Pride headlining tour this Fall, with support from Fireworks and Balance And Composure, and with Make Do And Mend and Such Gold on select dates.
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Mayday Parade Announces New Album + Tour With All Time Low!
Mayday Parade is gearing up for the release of their third full-length album, the eponymous Mayday Parade, which will hit stores on October 4, 2011. In anticipation of the release, the band will embark on a North American tour with All Time Low at the end of July.
Make sure you keep up to date with Mayday Parade by checking them out on Facebook. You can find their full tour schedule there, as well as updates from the band!
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Reverse The Curse release full length debut on 7/12
Paper + Plastick Records is excited to announce the release of Reverse the Curse's full-length debut Hither & Yon. Available on July 12, 2011, the label is giving fans a chance to get a sneak peak at the album by offering a FREE download of two new songs, "Bell, Book & Candle" and "To Dig A Hole." Download the EP here: http://store.paperandplastick.com/products/11231.
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All Time Low – 6/6 at Sound Garden in Fells Point
Wanna see All Time Low for free? Just preorder the deluxe version of the new CD, Dirty Work, at Sound Garden & Sound Garden give you a wristband that will serve as your ticket to the performance, which will be held outside the store in the parking lot!
THIS WILL BE HUGE AND SPACE IS LIMITED. GET YOUR WRISTBAND EARLY, GET TO THE SHOW EARLY. GO! GO!
The Sound Garden is located at 1616 Thames St. Baltimore, MD 21231
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Farewell Continental – streaming ¡Hey, Hey Pioneers! at AOL Music
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Paper + Plastick is excited to announce Farewell Continental's highly anticipated debut ¡Hey, Hey Pioneers! is available now through the P+P webstore, iTunes, and Amazon. Before ordering the album through the P+P webstore and receiving an instant digital download, fans can stream the entire album at AOL Music: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/17. In support of the record, Farewell Continental kick off their first and only tour of the year tomorrow in Cleveland at The Grog Shop, wrapping in Chicago at Schubas on June 19.
May 11 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
May 12 – Altoona, PA @ The Archway Center
May 13 – West Chester, PA @ The Note
May 14 – Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's
May 15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
May 17 – Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
May 18 – Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
May 19 – Buffalo, NY @ Xtreme Wheels
May 20 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
May 21 – Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot – Pike Room
June 02 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
June 07 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Project
June 08 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
June 10 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
June 11 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
June 12 – Upland, CA @ The Wire
June 13 – Silver Lake, CA @ The Satellite
June14 – Scottsdale, AZ @ Martini Ranch
June 16 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre
June 17 – Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
June 18 – St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird
June 19 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas
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The Wonder Years announce TRAVELING HANK CONTEST!
A message from The Wonder Years' frontman Soupy, in efforts for promotion of their new album, Suburbia, I've Given You All And Now I'm Nothing, via Hopeless Records…
"We're tired of the same contest over and over again. I'm not interested in anyone emailing us a picture of them with The Wonder Years written on their hand or some shit to win an iPod that I don't think actually exists in most contests. Instead, we wanted to get creative with it. Hopefully, at this point, if you're reading this, you're familiar with Hank. Hank is a pigeon and he hangs out with us. Think of him as a tangible projection of how we've always felt about our band, life of the pigeon. He is on the cover of our new record Suburbia, I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing.
We're sending Hank on a quick US tour. He's going to appear in ten cities for a few hours at a time. If you follow him on twitter (@HankthePigeon) you will get the scoop on where he's going to be and when.
Property of Zack is going to be hosting the blog where you'll get updates from Hank on the road as well as photos, clues, etc. Hank will be twittering clues about his exact location during the time where you need to go and find him. When Hank comes to your town, you've got to track him down and say what's up. You snap a few photos with him and you're on your merry way with some cool prizes.
The prizes are as follows:
1. The first 4 people to find Hank in each city will receive a copy of the Don't Let Me Cave In 7″ on orange and clear swirl vinyl. This color is limited to 100 copies and you can ONLY get it by finding Hank. It's never been for sale and it won't be until someone needs to pay their rent and flips it on eBay.
2. Everyone that finds Hank will receive and exclusive signed TWY poster featuring scans of the Polaroids we used for the album artwork. Mitch Wojcik took the photos and he's staggeringly handsome. Trust me.
3. Everyone that finds Hank will be entered to win two guest spots to your date of Warped Tour this year.
That's the long and short of it. We wanted to do something different that got you out of your computer chair and involved. I hope you have fun with it and when you see Hank, tell him I said what's up." – Soupy
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Everyone Dies In Utah posts new song "Bed, Bath and Beyonce"
Temple, TX's Everyone Dies In Utah has posted a new song titled "Bed, Bath and Beyonce" on MySpace and iTunes. Their new album Seeing Clearly comes out March 1st on Tragic Hero Records.
Seeing Clearly tracklist
01. The Storm Before The Calm
02. Bed, Bath, & Beyonce
03. Dude… I Know… It's Everywhere
04. Bar Fightz & Disco Lightz
05. So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
06. Dance War
07. Do What Diddy Did
08. Synthesize Me Captain
09. Adrian Makes It Rain
10. Bark Twice If You're In Milwaulkee
11. Simply Me
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Posted on March 9, 2020 by Stanley Fefferman
Steven McCabe's Meme Noir , Quattro Books, 2020. $20.00
The bold figurative abstract painting by the author, gracing the cover of Meme Noir, hints at the sophistication of its contents. At 85 pages, we're promised a tightly edited literary work and as with any Quattro edition, you can expect a quality read. But nothing can prepare you for Steven McCabe's ingenious writing. Owing to the clarity and scope of its vision, its originality and unique style, Meme Noir is a work of international significance. It speaks from a wealth of cultural memory to a world increasingly in need of reminding where it has been.
" I wore black pants, and a thin black turtleneck, with bare feet, impersonating imaginary beatniks. The owner of the resort, where I washed dishes, said, 'You look like the Viet Cong slipping through the shadows'." Drawn from events spanning decades and traversing more than one country, the anecdotal entries, each a tableau vivant, at once flowing and pooling in the reader's mind, constitute prose poems of the highest order, presented with transparency and without pretension. "When Eurydice came home from work and said 'There's a spoon in the sink' I knew it was over. I ran cold water over the silvery spoon. Not now, but soon."
McCabe's style, one combining poetic concision and eloquence with the insight and accessibility of great journalism, seems inconceivable without his plural lenses, shaped mainly, though not exclusively, within the borders of Canada and the USA. "We gave the waitress, wearing a pale-green uniform dress, a hard time. She said 'You won't talk so smart when you're in Vietnam'." Differently situated perspectives afford the author acute cross-cultural vision and impressive historical depth perception; the result is a kaleidoscopic journey that coheres beautifully.
" I lay beneath the ceiling light, mesmerized by the cut glass patterns emanating mysterious energies of the cosmos. The party went on around me".
Meme Noir achieves its integrity through craftsmanship, for, easy as it is to read, this fluency could only come from devotion, one that weds passion with discipline and matches imagination with the rigours of composition. It's no mere diary. McCabe's subtle ingenuity affects us through a series of dawnings, layered within each vignette and cumulative over the course of the book as a whole.
"My parents left me in charge. After everybody was in bed I aimed my brother's telescope at the moon. The close-up craters overwhelmed me with dread. I put the telescope down quickly." A curious mimesis occurs, in which McCabe's episodic approach is recapitulated in the reader's own thought processes, dappled of course, with personal memory. "I used a phrase, my father often used, during a visual art workshop in a school. I said 'Now you're cooking with gas!' The student said "What?". The teacher said 'What gas?'."
Wisdom about the terrain upon which we collectively dwell cannot be had without the successful cultivation of humour. This basic tenet of Mother Wit is put into practice here in a mercifully uncontrived way. McCabe has a green thumb and the reader feasts on a crop that gives blessed relief from the force-grown, genetically modified corn that so often lies in store for us these days. The roots of McCabe's produce are nourished by a richness found deep within the substance of our lives — decades of composted experience. We'll be feasting on this harvest for years to come.
"Al dropped us off and told us to say 'If I sell the most I win a trip'. A lady asked where. Off the top of my head I said 'Prague, Czechoslovakia'. She talked about chandeliers in Europe. Her daughter sat on the sofa in the shadows, looking like she was already famous for something." Exemplary literature always fosters new ways of thinking. The form of consciousness that Meme Noir presents, and surreptitiously encourages, is infectious. No doubt, McCabe will have imitators; maybe not such a bad thing when one considers some of the alternative models.
" A child at the non-profit cooperative daycare centre asked me for permission to do something. I said 'No. That's not possible' The child said 'Your words say no — but your mind says yes'." Formalist critics rightly decried the authorial fallacy, in which fore-knowledge of the artist's biography taints or impairs our critical judgement of the work of art; but familiarity with Steve McCabe as a painter and visual art instructor doesn't cloud the aesthetic virtues of Meme Noir. There's abundant evidence, within its pages, that we're in the presence of a true artist, from which we have much to learn. Should literary anthropologists decode Meme Noir 500 years thence, they'll exclaim "Wow! So that's what it was really like to live during the turn of the millennium."
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Posted on December 18, 2019 by Stanley Fefferman
Donna Langevin, Brimming, Piquant Press 2019, 119pp, I.S.B.N. 9781927396155
Donna Langevin's wonderful new book casts a spell. Here's a writer who isn't just an accomplished poet, but a master storyteller. Her sense of narrative is pitch perfect. She's also a superb imagist. In this beautiful volume from Piquant Press, you'll find poems steeped in the fragility and wonder of life. The book is divided into six sections. Part one focuses on the poet's brother who is "no longer the brat/ who snipped off/my doll's eyelashes". Now she blesses her brother's home, opens the windows to let in "the hymn of the wind/caressing treetops and ferns". More urgently, after a heart condition, the poet blesses her brother's veins: "May their blood sing clearly,/ glow like ripe strawberries". The same sense of the fragility of life is present in the heartbreaking and life-affirming section of the book where the poet deals with a son's heart attack: "Do anything/except dying." As uncertainty roils around her, the poet howls: "My love, my darling child,/ hope rips me open like birth". The reader shares the relief of the son's eventual recovery: "Because your blue lips turned pink,/ I bloom with your gift shop roses." As someone who has been obsessed for years by Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, I particularly like the section of the book which imagines the inner life of Niagara Falls daredevils. As Taylor anticipates the event, her "stomach churns white water." In contrast to a briny death in a barrel, Taylor remembers her time in Mexico and wishes her last breath would be "scented/with juniper and sage/ from the mountains". Another daredevil, Charles G. Stephens, isn't as lucky. After his failed attempt to survive the Falls, his hand reaches out of his barrel evocatively trapped "in sleeves of white water". The theme of the fragility of life, and the power of love to sustain loved ones, pervades this book. A lover eats a white diet during radiation and lives a pale existence. In contrast, the poet writes: "I exercise in sunlight/to gain strength to sustain you/with love in every colour." A powerful section named "The Thing in the Mirror" deals with the aftermath of a fall. This time it's the poet who is supported by a lover: "he holds my hand and whispers/ "You are still lovely to me." Particularly striking are the poet's recollections of the drive home from hospital, post-op, noticing the beauty of the world: "The day steps out from a golden cloud/softer than a fawn." In the final section, we are reminded that the "stories that write us", the stories of our lives, "flesh out their plots /in our bloodstreams and bones". Just so, you will feel the authenticity and power of this book in your bloodstream and bones. This is a book that reminds me powerfully of the reasons I turn to poetry. Moving, playful and wise, this is a work to savour. It's a wonderful offering by a poet at the top of her game.
To order your copy, send $24 ($20 + $4 p&h) payable to Donna Langevin, #313 – 39 Parliament St., Toronto, Ont. M5A 4R2.
Andy Lee. Love Is a Side Effect of Life. Casa del Alma, 2019 ASIN B081LSKJ8G
From the first poem in his book, the elements of Andy Lee's refreshing style are clearly in evidence. Contemporary poetry can be many things but its two most baleful tendencies are polar opposites: on the one hand, a-rhythmic windiness and on the other, self-constraint leading to a sort of cryptic shorthand. Luckily for the reader, Lee writes outside the magnetic fields of both schisms. His concise forms marry natural diction with a hitherto unvoiced metaphysics — to crystalline effect, as in "Astral Travel," which perceptively juxtaposes ways of knowing: "sea knows your secrets; I know your ghost"; the subject (lover) is at once engulfed, concealed and known by a dense, vast, impersonal (presumably social) medium but the speaker (poet) knows the ethereal soul of the beloved, who, in turn substantiates him: "I ascend from your depths, reformed from ether to fibre." Thus, a lover's experience: self-realization through immersion in the world of the other, is brilliantly enacted.
Original imagery flows in thought-provoking juxtapositions, to express ideas that prosaic verbiage could never approach. As if stating the claim for all verse, the nameless is named through a turning of the subject matter; "mechanical jackals" of the cybernetic present yield to the classical — "chariot piercing the pale horizon." Elsewhere in this collection ("Reverie"), our specific historical moment meets the universal; passing "between colossal capitalist columns" the speaker's "revolución" (a triumph of consciousness) manifests as an "inverse freefall… into the soft cosmos." The title "Never Leave a Burning Child Unattended" cleverly blends adages that warn against being careless with open flames and neglectful in the supervision of kids. In our daily routine: "recycled daylight," the "destructed" combines dissolution and distraction — a mood enhanced by constructions such as "prehistoric punchline" and "amniotic ocean." There's a sense of intimate solitude, further developed in "Bumbling Through Love," a comic indictment of online dating.
In "Love Is a Side Effect of Life," the title poem, the "desert" and the "Pacific," present a geomorphological leitmotif that will resonate with most readers. Lee conjures the beauty our forebears knew, embracing objective and subjective, natural and social domains in primitive oral/poetic imagery. The speaker detects a latent danger in clouds, situating us on the same topography as those dead sages, for whom everything was a sign to be interpreted. Today's faded emblems are contrasted with ancient, more potent associations of Eros with death: a reverse birth of Osiris alluding to the Egyptian god, also the Greek myth of Orpheus, both involving resurrection. To strengthen these already potent archetypes (he) awakens alone, bleeding from your kiss — an utterance that transcends its vampiric connotations to sustain the poet's juggling of solitary with interpersonal or personal with global concerns.
Our preoccupations with love, beauty and art can get pretty stodgy, but Andy Lee keeps it light in "Loving You Is a Cloisterfuck" wherein we are treated to the poet's characteristically vivid metaphors: "You redact me for the last time / Heatseeker still locked on my heart." "From Love's Gutter" gives us dad, dyad and dead in a single breath and the near oxymoron "next nostalgia" suggests the mutual saturation of emerging circumstance and memory — a familiar though generally unvoiced state. In "A Country Song," "a buffer between your heart and his charisma" hints at something equally subtle and elusive. "Desert Poem" reflects on the atonement that follows upon error. "Exit Wound" is a double entendre focusing on the severity of injury one feels when a bullet or a lover leaves us.
In "Hunter," "Conch," "Sea Dream" and "Death in the Evening," we find emotionally available, enigmatic allegories for physical affection; the poems are sequenced so as to lend them added layers of context and enhance their meaning. "The Periphery of Memory" offers some especially appealing lines: a series of clauses running from as time shears your mind away to we are sliding back to love. "Seeker" points to a dream's capacity to resonate beyond its own temporality; so we are primed for the most compact, gemlike poem in this volume, "Tender Trap," which reads: "headlong plunge into / your tender trap / I come in pieces / against your hard surfaces / pre-demented, / ready to tango."
Embodied in the ensuing group of poems is a critique of the electronic ethos; this follows, in true dialectical fashion, from poems earlier in the book that venerate the sagacity of our ancestors. "Carbon Copy" "hones in on certain cyber-age excesses, the digital soup, the simulacra in which humanity might altogether go missing. The pithy phrasing in "Generation Hexed": "addicted to next… craving a glib fix… broadcasting personas… lifetime of waste", braces us for the salutary dictum advanced in "Poetry Shall Persist": "to make the ineffable indelible" — which rises like a mission statement from the printed page and sets up "Final Call" with its vision of poetry as DNA, against a backdrop of soporific skies and its bold directive that could be an epitaph: exhume and resurrect my words so I live infinite.
Love Is a Side Effect of Life is full of speech-enriching takeaways. The most substantive poem is saved for the end, its rhythms working effortlessly through euphonic strophes: the "oxytocin has oxidized", and "in a vision she's breastfeeding a blue whale," towards the consummate agreement of content and form: "straining to recall the harmonies of a long forgotten song", the book's suitably musical conclusion. We have a beginning here too, insofar as the poet is bound to scope out an ever-broadening vista. One of Canada's best emerging poets, Andy Lee brings glad tidings; the stylistic achievement in this sample of twenty-two poems bodes well for the future of Canadian Letters and for the literate world in which humanity is re-invented.
Thomas Gannon Hamilton, Panoptic, Aeolus House, 2018, 110 pp. I.S.B.N. 978-1-987872-13-2
… which brings me to your assignment …
"Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes.
The optic heart must venture: a jailbreak
and recreation."
~ lines from Margaret Avison's sonnet "Snow"
Every book is an artifact, a technology, a delivery system for the work to be found within the covers, and as such first impressions involve an apprehension of and appreciation for those qualities that are particular to the publisher's attention to presentation. In the case of Aeolus House and Thomas Gannon Hamilton's book Panoptic the poems within are honoured by the beauty and clarity of production. The cover stock, the paper, and the legible font all contribute to the dignity that these fine poems deserve. The illustrations throughout compliment the poetry. The cover illustration by Hamilton, with its use of Feng Shui, its complimentary combination of water, flora, fauna, and architecture, and its rainbow-colouring of feminine and masculine human figures provides an introduction to the themes we will find within. The opening pen and ink illustration of a swallowtail imago, followed within the book by equally lovely images of catfish swimming tail to tail, and what appear to be mandalas of wheat woven within and emerging from the corolla of a paper flower in combination with Hamilton's opening epigram "This garden blooms in Fall" combine to prepare us for the delights that will follow when we begin to read. And I can tell you without equivocation that Hamilton does not disappoint. His work is complex without being needlessly obscure, deeply engaged with the world he inhabits and profoundly erudite without being arrogant. The reader lingers, turns a phrase every which-a-way under the light of understanding, sustained by the music that serves the theme, and then is rewarded if not always emerging from the experience unscathed.
It's a long book, packed with long-line poems, many of which are two to three pages in length, so I'll concentrate my attention in this review on four poems – the opening poem, the closing poem, the eponymous-to-the-title-of-the-book poem, and the poem that made me laugh out loud so often that I read it and re-read it to amuse my silly self. But then I once coined the question, "What's the difference between being Solomon, and being Sirius?" so you might forgive my deep appreciation of the truly funniest poem in the book.
The opening poem "Caul" and the closing poem "Mount Pleasant" provide us with something of a framing device in that "Caul" deals with birth and "Mount Pleasant" an apt coda, is a seven-verse contemplation of death and mortality. The alpha poem, rather than being metaphysical is an odd poem concerning a baby born "fully enrobed" in the amniotic sac, a one in eighty thousand rarity. I'm reminded of the star child in Kubrick's film 2001 when Hamilton compares his own christening to "the first cosmonaut who left earth,/ well in advance of his lift off,/ prior to his re-entry and splash down,/ I had already made my entrance." The originality of Hamilton's perceptions and the quirkiness of sensibility enrich the reader's experience throughout this volume.
In his closing poem he writes: "When you are little you learn to classify/ the living and make distinctions/ between those you've seen die;" and you've journeyed here if you read this book from front to back, by way of an intelligence that is restless and never satisfied with the obvious surfaces of life. The range and depth of this poet's concerns remind the reader of the importance of both breadth of knowledge and depth of understanding. He becomes something of a reliable guide directing our attention and illuminating what we see. And what we experience is sometimes achingly sad as he writes of the "untimely death of a lover, best friend,/ husband, wife or someone you love/ no less;" and the journey through grief is equal to the music of Orpheus and his doomed beloved Eurydice. The pain is almost too much to bear. Like Hamlet contemplating Yorick, we are brought to the edge of the grave to think upon "…this ultimate/ enterprise, each holds an equal share,/ all have a common stake; yet/ you distinguish, still you compare." And I note the way that word 'yet' lingers at the line's end before tumbling to 'you distinguish,' and the final words of the closing poem 'still you compare.' And is that not the poet's lot? To compare, to seek a metaphor for the strangest and most mysterious of all experiences – our own mortality. We are born only to die. This need not be morbid or ghoulish contemplation. Like the gravedigger's comic relief, there are lines in this poem that elicit a smile as it is with the punning of "the grave differences," leading to a list 'junior and gramps,/ magnate, minion, maven, twit" and so on. The wit in these lines does not go unnoticed. And the rhyming of "twit" with the phrase "pulses quit," disallows the reader from descending into a dark mood commensurate with the overplaying of morbidity.
In the title poem, "Panoptic" I am reminded of Avison's importuning of the reader to fully engage the world in her sonnet "Snow." The idea that in order to understand and appreciate experience, the individual must engage in active cognition, "Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes," she writes, and Hamilton's opening salvo in his poem "Diminished as I am in your ears,/ I cannot get between them,/ enter and leave without a hearing,/ the way rodents and roaches cross/ more freely than thoughts,/ from one cell to another." The word 'panoptic' is all by itself an invitation to engage. And the poem ends with an echo reference "Though diminished in your eyes," as the opening line in the last verse. Understanding these lines is not easy work, but wrestling with them is damned rewarding play. Like Avison, Hamilton rewards reading and rereading. The music sustains and the effort rewards.
And then there's the quirky "Home Ec." A poem in which the speaker is a teacher and the reader is privy to the reactions of an imaginary class wherein we are invited to contemplate the joy of cooking squirrels, rabbits, woodchucks, opossums, beavers, raccoons, bears, and finally humans. And the teacher chastises the imaginary class, like that in Monty Python's sex education class in their film The Meaning of Life. To give but one example: "Seminoles who tasted settlers, runaway slaves/ and their own, reported some differences;/ alright, that's enough, go stand in the hall." (Ialics are mine). The poem ends with "and now for your assignment," and so I end this review by suggesting to the reader of this review "and now for your assignment" read Panoptic and then see me after class. To order your copy, send $24 ($20 + $4 p&h) payable To Tom Gannon Hamilton, 577 O'Connor Dr., Toronto, Ontario, M4C 2Z9.
Posted on March 22, 2019 by Stanley Fefferman
Luciano Iacobelli, Dolor Midnight. Quattro Books. 84pp. $20.00
There is a poetry in gambling and Luciano Iacobelli has written an important book about it. As a child watching the neighbourhood men play dice in the streets, he felt "the poetry crawled across our young souls…." Like poetry, gambling is an art. The energy of gambling inflames Iacobelli's language to a high level of poetic speech. " I come to practice my art…/so that when death arrives/ it's features will be known." Iacobelli is a kind of Canadian François Villon who finds glory in his vice: "…it's always my falls that summon miracles/draw up enough compassion and grace/to bring forth angels."
Dolor Midnight is a rich tapestry of stories: portraits of gamblers, anecdotes of addiction. Iacobelli is honest about his own addiction: "take a 16 hour bus ride to New Jersey…/play 3 or 4 hours just to quell the fever/then return home to be back in Toronto by Monday morning/in time to teach my first class." In the seven sections of the book, Iacobelli writes fascinating poems about the history of cards, dice, horse-racing, casinos, the habits of gamblers, and he reflects brilliantly on the kind of things that go through the mind of a player : "How many birds will land on a branch"; "some say luck can be trained/ you can whistle and it comes." His speculations rise up from philosophy to religion: "what counted was how nothing became something/how a fish and a loaf/multiply into/ feast."
Iacobelli's wit churns out surprising one-liners: debt is "a sea weighed down/ by its own salt"; nostalgia is "hope walking backwards." These are very satisfying to read. But, at the heart of his book, is Iacobelli's effort to articulate why the gambler is driven to take risks after losing. He asks whether it is a "genetic disposition…/or chemical wave washing the brain"? If so, is gambling a vice or a disease? He doesn't settle on either of these alternatives. Rather, he moves the issue to the spiritual level: taking a gamble is "an attempt to outrun the weight/return to the original lightness." If that is the case, who can point the finger at "tossing dice for the last time/ a sick old yellow man wears an oxygen mask/ and who is to blame him…." Iacobelli's art is both ruthless and compassionate. If I had to choose a single word to describe the poetry of Dolor Midnight, that word would be 'redemptive.'
Valentino Assenza's THROUGH PAINTED EYES reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
Valentino Assenza, Through Painted Eyes, Piquant Press, $19.95
Here are some admirable lines from Through Painted Eyes, Valentino Assenza's first full-length collection of poems: "that precious/subliminal taste/of the past through/my senses." These lines say that though his form resembles chopped prose, the lines are in fact made up of 'spoken word' held together by the real voice of a sensitive personality. Assenza's memories come through his senses, and this conveys the livingness of the episodes and characters making up his personal epic journey into the past. Whether he is chronicling growing up with his mother in Toronto neighbourhoods, or among relatives in Sicily where he spent summers with his father, Assenza's memories carry with them a sense of life: "my father peeling/me a cucumber from/the garden,/ and a lizard/crawling across a stone wall."
Through Painted Eyes contains a gallery of portraits, notably Assenza's father, grandfather, relatives and neighbourhood characters drawn so you get what these people meant to him, and still mean. The portrait of Jack the barber and his 'victims' is touching and deft, conveying a sense of neighbourhood life in the class of Laurence Hutchman's Two Maps of Emery, and that is makes me think somebody should appoint Assenza poet laureate of a Toronto neighbourhood, perhaps Leslieville.
Whether he writes about life in Sicily or in Toronto, many of Assenza's spoken words are in the Sicilian dialect, and he scatters phrases throughout these poems, where they function like charms and spells and incantations summoning up a richness in the mouth that is one of the more rewarding effects of reading his work, all the more so if you've had a chance to hear him read. "The Tobacconist" is one of his best in performance, where you also get a strong sense of how at ease the author in his world where he is happy to fit in. There are dark touches in the poems due to separation, death, and failure of ambition, but remarkably, there is not a trace of alienation in Through Painted Eyes.
Tom Hamilton's EL MARILLO reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
El Marillo is an elegaic work of great passion focused on Hamilton's late wife, Rhena Hymovitch, and her humanitarian passion to bring 'boots-on-the-ground' aid, relief and protection to thousands of displaced 'campesinos' during the 1980's in El Salvador where she lost her life.
El Marillo commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of her death with poems that record the brutal conditions she and Hamilton worked under from 1984-88 when Hymovitch drowned. The book concludes with a handful of poems in which Hamilton reflects how the passing years have been marked by his devotion to his late wife's memory.
Hamilton's verse forms are, as he says, "a consequence of extreme lived experience matched with a poet's imperative to give it voice." His lines are filled with facts: "penecillin, amoxocylin, tetracycline, Imodium, with no expiry date/ later than ours we hope…." They also record actions: "…finally we sneak under the bridge turret and sleeping/ machine-gunner as we cross Rio Lempa, then traverse the playa seca,/ to the pueblo, El Marillo, with our forbidden medicinal cargo."
The thought lines run in long narrative and discursive stanzas sometimes marked by a complexity of rhythm, a loftiness of diction, and a profundity of thought that blossoms into a more traditional mode of poetry:
"Terror is to the survivor what valor is to the warrior: a priest; consider the multi-faith corpses whose myriad beliefs had this covered; a mystery who will get it; humor is their talisman, any swatch in a field…."
Hamilton's verse often rises to an eloquence that extends to the limits of speech in lines like " No hand/ is big enough to cover the river's bloody mouth…" and, "oblivion/ pure, unmitigated nothingness compels him to pray." The latter line is from the closing poem of the book. Entitled "Susto," it serves as the concluding portion of Hamilton's elegy or lament for the dead, in which, traditionally, the grieving poet reconciles himself to the loss and experiences a realization that allows him to let go. Through the closing lines of the poem, in the formal elegaic manner, the poet uses his 'susto', the illness of his grieving, to liberate both the memory of his beloved and himself: "yet, with susto./ you take up and face what you've long been seeking/to exorcise: the dread you must embrace to extinguish."
Tom Hamilton's chapbook is so personal and so intense, I have to let go of some lines that leave me in the dark, even after several readings. It is possible their darkness forms a part of Hamilton's intention, as he seems to indicate in the closing lines of this remarkable poem: "bituminous train cars,/ their tomorrows trail off; each day/to follow they 'll see me, not whole, but if not for the darkness, they wouldn't see me at all and they wouldn't know."
El Marillo won 1st place in the 2018 Big Pond Rumours Chapbook Awards. I say it possesses the 'gravitas' to earn a permanent place in the archives of this country and beyond.
Penn Kemp's FOX HAUNTS Reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
Posted on July 26, 2018 by Stanley Fefferman
Penn Kemp. Fox Haunts. Aeolus House, 2018. 97 pp.
The way suburban garden fences are a line the fox crosses from the countryside to steal our chickens, is like the line fox, since time immemorial, has crossed from the countryside into our myths, into our dreams, into our literature and our language. Shenanigans is derived from the Gaelic word for fox. A skulk of foxes is the collective noun. Jimmie Hendrix sang of his "Foxy Lady." And here is a stanza from Penn Kemp's poem to Inari, the Shinto fox-god deity:
Fox girls dance beneath the twisted maple
caling their sister to tranform from mist
as beguiling women with red in their hair.
Fox Haunts is a meditation in 90 poems on a predator who is our closest neighbour and who is getting closer all the time as it's habitat yields to subdivisions. The longest section of Fox Haunts, entitled "Urban Fox," consists of poems about foxes Kemp might have encountered: her writing can be elegant.
It's true you walk on toes like cats
like a ballerina of the wildwood.
Kemp empathizes with the drama of the hunt, the inside as well as the outside of it.
Fox circles her prey, closing in
on her victim in ever tightening
gyres. Her fixed glare freezes
poor rabbit into terror so pure it
dissolves to acceptance, suspended
acquiescence, adrenalin overload.
Almost like peace. Soft as comfort,
this compliance in the fox's grasp.
Just a single shriek before the
neck snaps.
At her best, Kemp's narrative and poetry are transparent. She has variance in her voice: sometimes she addresses her images directly to the fox:" I come upon your prints on/muddy path, neatly, deliberately splayed." Sometimes, she drops into a journalistic mode and addresses the reader directly in what sounds to me like chopped prose: "Like Canada Geese, Fox may/be adopting city life to avoid/ hunters, the tough slog of/country life. Clever fellow." Only to follow that with a passage of the most startlingly direct poetry:
They look upon the easy prey of pets, soft
and vulnerable bichon frisés left outside
by themselves in the yard, those with no
defense but a petulant, startled bark —
before they are meat, carried off dangling
in the soft jaw of a mother triumphantly keen
on feeding her kits.
Kemp is 'entranced' with the world of "Wily wiry trickster tales," and devotes a section to 'Fox' references in the writings of Taliesin, Ovid, in the legend of Samson, in other Hebrew Scriptures relating to Solomon and Ezekiel, in Aesop, W.B Yeats and St. Exupéry, Akiro Kurosawa and Alice Munro whose father raised foxes for fur on a farm where he also kept " Old horses in the barn waiting/their turn to be fed, to be feed." As for the night sky, Kemp puts fox in the constellation Canis Major and Canis Minor, This bit of Fox arcana brings into close focus the mythical resonance of that beast in the human imagination.
After having the pleasure of reading Fox Haunts, and of writing down these few thoughts, I look forward to more hours with the book, looking into the stories behind lines like:
Fetch Laelaps, a bitch commanded to catch all
she chases. Let her seize that Teumessian fox!
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Q: Filtering DataTable and copying results to two different DataTables I'm trying to filter results from a method that returns a DataTable, by a certain column value (of type DateTime) and inserting them into two distinct DataTables, as follows:
var vAllItems = myClass.GetAllResults(x,y,z);
DataTable dtExpiredItems = new DataTable();
DataTable dtActiveItems = new DataTable();

var expiredItems = vAllItems.AsEnumerable().Where(r => r.Field<DateTime?>("ExpDate") <= DateTime.Now && r.Field<DateTime?>("ExpDate").HasValue);
var activeItems = vAllItems.AsEnumerable().Where(r => r.Field<DateTime?>("ExpDate") > DateTime.Now || !r.Field<DateTime?>("ExpDate").HasValue);

foreach(DataRow row in expiredItems)
     dtExpiredItems.Rows.Add(row);

foreach (DataRow row in activeItems)
     dtActiveItems.Rows.Add(row);

rptExpiredItems.DataSource = dtExpiredItems;
rptExpiredItems.Bind();
pchExpiredItems.Visible = dtExpiredItems.Rows.Count > 0;

rptActiveItems.DataSource = dtActivetItems;
rptActiveItems.Bind();
pchActiveItems.Visible = dtActiveItems.Rows.Count > 0;

Thing is, on the second foreach loop the following error occurs:
This row already belongs to another table.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: This row already belongs to another table.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

A: A DataRow can only belong to a one DataTable, you should create a new row from given row values.
Use ItemArray property of the DataRow to get values and pass object[] as an input to create new row.
dtExpiredItems.Rows.Add(row.ItemArray);

or use ImportRow
dtExpiredItems.ImportRow(row);

Another option is using CopyToDataTable (DataTable)extension to create new table from Linq output, then use new table for your binding.
dtExpiredItems = expiredItems.CopyToDataTable<DataRow>();

A: Where you are doing the following
dtExpiredItems.Rows.Add(row);
dtActiveItems.Rows.Add(row);

You could instead do
dtExpiredItems.ImportRow(row);
dtActiveItems.ImportRow(row);

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A friend asked for help as she wanted to dye one kilo of handspun woollen skeins all the same colour. Dyeing such a large quantity of fibre is not easy, unless one has suitable equipment. I don't have a pot large enough which could be heated and I no longer have a large Burco boiler, so the only option seemed to be to use a plastic container and opt for cool dyeing. Cool mordanting with alum is not a problem, as long as the fibres remain in the cool mordant bath for at least 24 hours and preferably longer. However, cool dyeing limits to some extent the dyes which can be used, as not all dyes can be successfully applied without heat.
To achieve this colour, I decided to apply an alum mordant and then dye with weld extract, followed by indigo. I already have a large plastic container I keep for alum mordanting and fortunately it was just large enough for the quantity of wool, so I filled the container with cool water, added the alum mordant and left the yarn in the mordant bath for a couple of days.
I decided to use a large plastic garden trug as my dye pot, so I dissolved the weld extract in boiling water and added it to the cool water in the plastic trug. I stirred well and then added the wetted-out yarn and allowed it to steep in the dye bath for about 24 hours, by which time it had become a suitable shade of yellow and was evenly dyed.
The final step was to make an indigo vat, also in the large plastic garden trug. The wool was then over-dyed in the indigo vat.
Although the trug seemed large enough for the quantity of wool being dyed with weld, I think the wool probably needed even more space in the indigo vat, as the results were somewhat variegated. However, the colour on the sample was also variegated and my friend was pleased with the results of our labours, so all was well.
I then decided to dye a further kilo of wool, this time Romney Marsh fleece from local sheep, processed into yarn at Diamond Fibres in East Sussex. I wanted a colour suitable for a jacket that I could wear with most things and as I would have to dye without heat I chose to use buckthorn bark, which responds well to cool dyeing and which would, I hoped, give a caramel colour.
I simmered up about 200gms of buckthorn bark and then strained the dye liquid into the water in the trug. I added about 1 teaspoon of walnut hull extract in the hope that this might make the shade slightly browner in tone. (However, my initial feeling that walnut might not dye well without heat probably proved correct, as there is little evidence of any walnut influence in the final colour.) I added the wool skeins, which absorbed the dye more quickly than I had expected and I removed them after about one hour, rinsed and washed them and then left them to dry. These skeins also appear variegated but not this time because the trug was too small for the yarn. Buckthorn bark tends to change colour a little when left to dry in the light and it is important to open up the skeins and move them around, so they dry evenly. However, because the skeins were so dense and thick it was more difficult to open them up, so the final colour effect is variegated. Fortunately, I like this effect anyway and, although I had been aiming for a more caramel tone, I am also pleased with the colour.


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Picture of the Week: Fukang Pallasite
Cut off a thin slice of the dazzling Fukang pallasite (a type of meteorite), and its green chunks—a mineral called olivine—shine like stained glass when held up to light.
"It's absolutely gorgeous. It's really a beautiful meteorite," says Dante Lauretta, professor of planetary science in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, where a large hunk of the Fukang pallasite is on display.
Discovered in 2000 in China's Gobi Desert near the town of Fukang, the rock in its entirety originally weighed about a ton, making it one of the largest and heaviest pallasite masses ever encountered, according to Lauretta. It was subsequently cut in half, with one portion going into the commercial meteorite market—"if you go to a gem and mineral show and you see a pallasite, there's a good chance it'll be Fukang," says Lauretta—and the other to a buyer who has loaned it to the University of Arizona (a small piece of that is reserved for research, and the rest is on display).
Pallasites are a rare type of meteorite. The Meteoritical Society's meteor database shows only 99 records of pallasites found on earth, according to Lauretta (for comparison, the most common type of meteorite, the chondrite, has 43,750 records). There are a few theories about where in an asteroid pallasites form, but the leading theory suggests that they originate where an asteroid's mantle meets its core, because they contain both the silicate material of a mantle and the metallics of a core (the olivine grains are surrounded by an iron- and nickel-based metal).
By studying pallasites like Fukang, "we can start to understand processes deep inside the interiors of asteroids and how those asteroids evolved and melted in the earliest stages of the geology of our solar system," says Lauretta. "But the [Fukang pallasite] also gives us insight into what might be happening deep in the interior of our own planet."
What differentiates Fukang from all other known meteorites, and even pallasites, is the presence of a mineral called tridymite in small inclusions within the olivine, says Daniella DellaGiustina, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory who has also done research on Fukang. Tridymite, she explains, is similar to quartz but has a different crystalline structure, and doesn't typically coexist with the type of olivine that predominates in Fukang, which is rich in magnesium. The two minerals form under very different pressure, temperature, and chemical conditions, she says, so it's unusual that they could occur together.
"Having these two things that should form in very different situations—one encapsulated into another—it tells us that if [some environmental factor] changed, it had to change very quickly," DellaGiustina says. "It's the sort of thing that makes you scratch your head."
The researchers hypothesize that the pallasite might have undergone a "reheating" stage, whereby molten metal was somehow injected into the olivine that had formed in the asteroid, causing the olivine to rapidly heat up. The tridymite might have subsequently crystallized out of melted portions of olivine.
DellaGiustina says her team also found another mineral in microscopic inclusions in the Fukang pallasite that scientists so far have been unable to identify. The composition is similar to that of a garnet, but X-ray diffraction measurements were inconclusive. "We were never able to determine what the actual crystalline structure was," DellaGiustina says. "So it could be a new mineral, for all we know."
The Lunar Planetary Laboratory scientists hope they'll be able to learn more about this mineral, as well as trace the origins of the tridymite, pending more research funding. Perhaps then they'll uncover even more mysteries to Fukang than first meet the eye.
Picture of the Week: Blue-Green Algae Bloom
This picture, shot by a drone, reveals the verdant fingers of a blue-green algae bloom.
These picturesque clouds reveal a particular kind of turbulence in the atmosphere.
A Sleepless Night Aboard the Spaceship
An excerpt from Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Picture of the Week: Pluto
Our most up-close-and-personal shot of the (dwarf) planet yet.


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/* GStreamer EBML I/O
 * (c) 2003 Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
 *
 * ebml-read.c: read EBML data from file/stream
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Library General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
 * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 */

#ifndef __GST_EBML_READ_H__
#define __GST_EBML_READ_H__

#include <gst/gst.h>
#include <gst/base/gstbytereader.h>

G_BEGIN_DECLS

#define GST_TYPE_EBML_READ \
  (gst_ebml_read_get_type ())
#define GST_EBML_READ(obj) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST ((obj), GST_TYPE_EBML_READ, GstEbmlRead))
#define GST_EBML_READ_CLASS(klass) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_CLASS_CAST ((klass), GST_TYPE_EBML_READ, GstEbmlReadClass))
#define GST_IS_EBML_READ(obj) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_TYPE ((obj), GST_TYPE_EBML_READ))
#define GST_IS_EBML_READ_CLASS(klass) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_CLASS_TYPE ((klass), GST_TYPE_EBML_READ))
#define GST_EBML_READ_GET_CLASS(obj) \
  (G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS ((obj), GST_TYPE_EBML_READ, GstEbmlReadClass))

GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY_EXTERN (ebmlread_debug);

/* custom flow return code */
#define  GST_FLOW_PARSE  GST_FLOW_CUSTOM_ERROR

typedef struct _GstEbmlMaster {
  guint64       offset;
  GstByteReader br;
} GstEbmlMaster;

typedef struct _GstEbmlRead {
  GstElement *el;

  GstBuffer *buf;
  guint64 offset;
  GstMapInfo map;

  GArray *readers;
} GstEbmlRead;

typedef GstFlowReturn (*GstPeekData) (gpointer * context, guint peek, const guint8 ** data);

/* returns UNEXPECTED if not enough data */
GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_peek_id_length    (guint32 * _id, guint64 * _length,
                                          guint * _needed,
                                          GstPeekData peek, gpointer * ctx,
                                          GstElement * el, guint64 offset);

void          gst_ebml_read_init         (GstEbmlRead * ebml,
                                          GstElement * el, GstBuffer * buf,
                                          guint64 offset);

void          gst_ebml_read_clear        (GstEbmlRead * ebml);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_peek_id           (GstEbmlRead * ebml, guint32 * id);

/* return _PARSE if not enough data to read what is needed, _ERROR or _OK */
GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_skip         (GstEbmlRead *ebml);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_buffer       (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          GstBuffer  **buf);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_uint         (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          guint64     *num);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_sint         (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          gint64      *num);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_float        (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          gdouble     *num);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_ascii        (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          gchar      **str);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_utf8         (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          gchar      **str);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_date         (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          gint64      *date);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_master       (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_pop_master   (GstEbmlRead *ebml);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_binary       (GstEbmlRead *ebml,
                                          guint32     *id,
                                          guint8     **binary,
                                          guint64     *length);

GstFlowReturn gst_ebml_read_header       (GstEbmlRead *read,
                                          gchar      **doctype,
                                          guint       *version);

/* Returns current (absolute) position of Ebml parser,
 * i.e. taking into account offset provided at init */
static inline guint64
gst_ebml_read_get_pos (GstEbmlRead * ebml)
{
  GstEbmlMaster *m;

  g_return_val_if_fail (ebml->readers, 0);
  g_return_val_if_fail (ebml->readers->len, 0);

  m = &(g_array_index (ebml->readers, GstEbmlMaster, ebml->readers->len - 1));
  return m->offset + gst_byte_reader_get_pos (&m->br);
}

/* Returns starting offset of Ebml parser */
static inline guint64
gst_ebml_read_get_offset (GstEbmlRead * ebml)
{
  return ebml->offset;
}

static inline GstByteReader *
gst_ebml_read_br (GstEbmlRead * ebml)
{
  g_return_val_if_fail (ebml->readers, NULL);
  g_return_val_if_fail (ebml->readers->len, NULL);

  return &(g_array_index (ebml->readers,
          GstEbmlMaster, ebml->readers->len - 1).br);
}

static inline gboolean
gst_ebml_read_has_remaining (GstEbmlRead * ebml, guint64 bytes_needed,
    gboolean auto_pop)
{
  gboolean res;

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Young farmer winners focus on diversification
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Craig and Jinel Ference of Double F Farms, seen here with their three children, Nate, 7, Macy, 3, and Maddie, 9, farm near Kirriemuir, Alta. | Double F Farms photo
Outstanding Young Farmer winners are Craig and Jinel Ference from Alberta and Jordan and Alex McKay from Ontario
For the first time in the 38-year history of Canada's Outstanding Young Farmer program, two brothers from Ontario are sharing top honours alongside a husband and wife team from Alberta.
Jordan McKay and his brother, Alex, from Port Perry, Ont., along with Craig and Jinel Ference from Kirriemuir, Alta., were chosen as the national winners from the program's seven regions during its national event held in Winnipeg, Nov. 27-Dec. 2.
The McKay brothers operate Willowtree Farm, located an hour's drive northeast of Toronto.
Their father started the original seasonal store in 1990, which the brothers expanded in 2016 to include a 4,300 sq. foot retail market complete with a butcher shop and commercial kitchen open year-round.
With a focus on fresh local food, the vertically integrated 650-acre farm produces a large selection of hand-picked fruits and vegetables, maple syrup, and beef and lamb.
They also participate in a community supported agriculture program, which delivers fresh fruit and vegetables to customers' doors each week.
From left, Alyson, left, and Jordan McKay and Kelty and Alex McKay stand outside Willowtree Farm's sugar shack at the family's farm near Port Perry, Ont. | Willowtree Farm photo
The brothers' goal is to create a working farm experience for customers while making the most use from the large variety of home-grown products.
"The way we describe our operation is it's very diversified and we do a lot of value-adding on site as well," said Jordan, who focuses on the day-to-day retail and marketing side of the business.
Alex oversees the farm's daily production, which involves growing crops, raising animals and managing about 35 seasonal employees.
The brother's spouses, Alyson and Kelty, are also involved full-time in the day-to-day operations, which has seen the customer base more than double since the new market space opened in 2016.
"Customers can come into the market's cafe and have lunch made with soup that we used our own vegetables, our own meat to produce. They can go over to the butcher shop and buy beef, lamb, chicken and pork. We've got a lot of frozen meals and frozen soups," Jordan said.
"It really is a true farm-to-table experience."
As part of their marketing platform, Willowtree Farm also hosts a variety of hands-on events throughout the year.
Weekends in March saw more than 3,000 visitors tour their 600-tree sugar bush area, where they learned how maple syrup is made. In April, more than 1,000 children participated in Easter activities. Then in September, more than 22,000 people picked their own strawberries, and the brussels sprout festival wrapped up in November, in which customers could pick their own while learning how to grow them.
As well, culinary or "foodie experiences" are held in the store, which include craft brews and taster plates made from the kitchen.
"We're always coming up with different ideas to bring people to the farm by keeping a core focus on education and food," said Jordan.
Craig and Jinel Ference of Double F Farms live in the southeastern Alberta community of Kirriemuir near the Saskatchewan border.
What began as a wheat field in 1985 by Craig's father has grown into a 4,000 cow herd, 8,000 head feedlot with 13,800 acres of crops and 41,000 acres of grazing, and a custom farming business.
Like the McKay brothers, diversification is key to success for the Ferences' various operations.
Craig said working smarter and doing more with less in all aspects of their farm achieve diversity.
The advantage of multiple enterprises is getting more use out of the same equipment, labour and land base, which in turn allows for different cash flows, income streams and better equipment.
Creating diversity in many agriculture sectors is also fuelling success, which in turn feeds into their succession planning.
"It's a lot easier to have succession planning in place if you have a successful business. And because of the multiple enterprises, it's allowed us to be more successful, which is a lot easier for the exiting generation, or the incoming generation," said Craig.
"We want a succession plan that's going to work for multiple generations. So we're very careful on how we put it all in place because we want it to work time and again. We're not short-term farmers. We're building my dream, my dad's dream, the next generation's dream. And so it's important that it transfers down with ease."
Part of that multilayer succession plan is leaving the soil in better shape each year by improving the organic matter.
"We're naturally increasing it the way we're farming today as a farm in general, but we've really focused on more marginal land to increase that organic matter level faster," he said.
Because of the size and scope of their operation, good employees are another important key to their success, which they secure through the foreign worker program and an immigration consultant.
"Our operation has diversified alongside growth in employees, because when you have a strong workforce there's so much more you can do. So diversification and our employee base go hand in hand," said Jinel.
OYF organizers found this year's crop of nominees to be a diverse selection of farming operations, however all regional winners were progressive and forward thinkers.
"They have gone beyond the traditional ways of farming and they're seeking new innovative methods that's increasing their efficiencies and they're great ambassadors for agriculture, not only in their own sector but for all of agriculture," said Luanne Lynn, past chair of OYF.
"We always think every year we found the cream of the crop, but then you always find the cream of the crop the next year, it seems."
"The (OYF) program itself seeks out those pockets of agricultural excellence across Canada and it's not always visible to everyone. They might not have been heard by everyone, but they're thriving and doing amazing things in a small area of Canada that gets showcased at this event."
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Dial meter viewers reaction to Biden's Acceptance Speech
Vice President Biden delivered an acceptance speech that produced an exceptional response with the New American Majority (people of color, millennials, and white unmarried women), college women, and white working class voters — one that advanced the campaign's strategy, defined him as a leader, weakened Donald Trump, and raised Biden's vote margin. In our experience, the scale of shifts after watching a speech in such an artificial setting produces an exaggerated response, but nonetheless, the direction of the movement is always real. Biden's gains on personal favorability and shift in the vote is impressive — and certainly, much bigger than anything Donald Trump achieved with his State of the Union addresses.
On behalf of the Center for Voter Information and the Voter Participation Center, Democracy Corps on August 20, 2020, conducted online dial meter research during Vice President Joe Biden's acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for President, among 201 registered voters nationally. Key line groups include African Americans, Latinos, white millennials, white unmarried women, white working-class women, white college women, and white working-class men.
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Dr. Cathy Heilferty, Associate Dean of the School of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, and Dr. Mary Wombwell, Professor & Coordinator of the RN-BSN Program, presented at the NLN/Sigma Theta Tau: Nursing Education Research Conference, held from April 19-21 in Washington DC.
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Water, water everywhere … even in the air
Severe water shortages already affect many regions around the world, and are expected to get much worse as the population grows and the climate heats up. But a new technology developed by scientists at MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh water almost anywhere on Earth, by drawing water directly from moisture in the air even in the driest of locations.
Technologies exist for extracting water from very moist air, such as "fog harvesting" systems that have been deployed in a number of coastal locations. And there are very expensive ways of removing moisture from drier air. But the new method is the first that has potential for widespread use in virtually any location, regardless of humidity levels, the researchers say. They have developed a completely passive system that is based on a foam-like material that draws moisture into its pores and is powered entirely by solar heat.
The findings are reported in the journal Science by a team including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate student Hyunho Kim, research scientists Sungwoo Yang and Shankar Narayanan (currently at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and alumnus Ari Umans SM '15. The Berkeley co-authors include graduate student Eugene Kapustin, project scientist Hiroyasu Furukawa, and professor of chemistry Omar Yaghi.
Fog harvesting, which is being used in many countries including Chile and Morocco, requires very moist air, with a relative humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such water-saturated air is only common in very limited regions. Another method of obtaining water in dry regions is called dew harvesting, in which a surface is chilled so that water will condense on it, as it does on the outside of a cold glass on a hot summer day, but it "is extremely energy intensive" to keep the surface cool, she says, and even then the method may not work at a relative humidity lower than about 50 percent. The new system does not have these limitations.
For drier air than that, which is commonplace in arid regions around the world, no previous technology provided a practical way of getting water. "There are desert areas around the world with around 20 percent humidity," where potable water is a pressing need, "but there really hasn't been a technology available that could fill" that need, Wang says. The new system, by contrast, is "completely passive — all you need is sunlight," with no need for an outside energy supply and no moving parts.
Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance that pulls all the water the household needs out of the air, even in dry or desert climates, using only the power of the sun.
Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally/UC Berkeley
In fact, the system doesn't even require sunlight — all it needs is some source of heat, which could even be a wood fire. "There are a lot of places where there is biomass available to burn and where water is scarce," Rao says.
The key to the new system lies in the porous material itself, which is part of a family of compounds known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Invented by Yaghi two decades ago, these compounds form a kind of sponge-like configuration with large internal surface areas. By tuning the exact chemical composition of the MOF these surfaces can be made hydrophilic, or water-attracting. The team found that when this material is placed between a top surface that is painted black to absorb solar heat, and a lower surface that is kept at the same temperature as the outside air, water is released from the pores as vapor and is naturally driven by the temperature and concentration difference to drip down as liquid and collect on the cooler lower surface.
Tests showed that one kilogram (just over two pounds) of the material could collect about three quarts of fresh water per day, about enough to supply drinking water for one person, from very dry air with a humidity of just 20 percent. Such systems would only require attention a few times a day to collect the water, open the device to let in fresh air, and begin the next cycle.
What's more, MOFs can be made by combining many different metals with any of hundreds of organic compounds, yielding a virtually limitless variety of different compositions, which can be "tuned" to meet a particular need. So far more than 20,000 varieties of MOFs have been made.
"By carefully designing this material, we can have surface properties that can absorb water very efficiently at 50 percent humidity, but with a different design, it can work at 30 percent," says Kim. "By selecting the right materials, we can make it suitable for different conditions. Eventually we can harvest water from the entire spectrum" of water concentrations, he says.
Yaghi, who is the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, says "One vision for the future is to have water off-grid, where you have a device at home running on ambient solar for delivering water that satisfies the needs of a household. … To me, that will be made possible because of this experiment. I call it personalized water."
While these initial experiments have proved that the concept can work, the team says there is more work to be done in refining the design and searching for even more effective varieties of MOFs. The present version can collect water up to about 25 percent of its own weight, but with further tuning they think that proportion could be at least doubled.
"Wow, that is an amazing technology," says Yang Yang, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not involved in this work. "It will have a tremendous scientific and technical impact on renewable and sustainable resources, such as water and solar energy."
The work was supported in part by ARPA-E, a program of the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Ernani Pereira (Belo Horizonte, 22 januari 1978) is een Azerbeidzjaans voormalig voetballer die geboren is in Brazilië. In het seizoen 2010/11 speelde Pereira bij de Turkse tweedeklasser Mersin Idman Yurdu.

Carrière
Hij begon zijn carrière bij de Braziliaanse club Vila Nova. Hij speelde daar tot 1999 en werd meteen verkocht aan de topclub van Brazilië, namelijk Cruzeiro EC. In 2001 maakte hij een overstap naar Guarani Futebol Clube; daar speelde Pereira tot 2003. In 2003 ging hij naar Turkije om te spelen voor Konyaspor. Van 2005 tot 2010 speelde hij voor de Azerbeidzjaanse club FK Karvan Yevlax. In 2007 werd hij ook verhuurd aan Orduspor. Na FK Karvan koos hij voor Mersin Idman Yurdu. Van 2006 tot 2009 is hij ook Azerbeidzjaans international.

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 Lijst van spelers van Konyaspor

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Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in…
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Neomachlotica is a genus of sedge moths. It was described by John B. Heppner in 1981.

Species
 Neomachlotica actinota
 Neomachlotica atractias Meyrick, 1909 (from Bolivia)
 Neomachlotica nebras
 Neomachlotica spiraea

References

External links
 Neomachlotica at Global Species

Glyphipterigidae


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O eclipsă de Soare s-a produs la 25 octombrie 2022. A fost cea de-a XVI-a eclipsă parțială de Soare din secolul al XXI-lea.

O eclipsă de Soare are loc când Soarele, Luna și Pământul sunt aliniate. Când alinierea este aproape perfectă, conul de umbră al Lunii atinge suprafața Pământului și obstrucționează întregul disc solar: eclipsa este totală.

S-a produs acum .

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Atenție! Să nu se privească niciodată Soarele direct prin luneta astronomică / telescop / binoclu! Este necesară așezarea unui filtru solar adecvat, în fața obiectivului! În caz contrar, pierderea vederii este iremediabilă! În locul folosirii filtrelor așezate în fața obiectivului, o altă variantă sigură este proiectarea imaginii solare pe un ecran. Eclipsele de Soare pot fi observate, în siguranță, folosind o mască sau ochelari de sudură cu factorul de minimum 14, însă din cauza grosimii sticlei pot apărea imagini duble.

Eclipsa din 25 octombrie 2022 este o eclipsă parțială de Soare care a fost vizibilă din Europa (cu excepția Peninsulei Iberice), Urali și Siberia de Vest, Orientul Mijlociu, Asia de Vest și din nord-estul Africii. Faza maximă a eclipsei parțiale a fost înregistrată în Câmpia Siberiei de Vest din Rusia, lângă Nijnevartovsk.

Eclipsa a debutat la ora 8 și 58 de minute UTC (11 și 58 de minute, Ora de Vară a României), în Islanda, a atins maximul la ora 9 și 49 de minute UTC și a luat sfârșit la ora 10 și 42 de minute UTC, în India.

La București, primul contact a fost observat la ora 09:26:20 UTC (12:26:20, Ora de Vară a României), faza maximă la 10:38:15 UTC (13:38:15, Ora de Vară a României), iar ultimul contact la ora 11:49:42 UTC (14:49:42, Ora de Vară a României).

Dimensiunea fazei maxime, la București, a fost de 0,4944.

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Legături externe

 Eclipsa de Soare din 25 octombrie 2022 , astro-urseanu.ro

Vezi și
 Lista eclipselor de Soare din secolul al XXI-lea

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Bill Gates Shuts Down Conspiracy Theory About Owning Farmland
During his 11th appearance on Reddit's Ask Me Anything this week, Bill Gates tried to set the record straight about purchasing American farmland.
The tech billionaire was asked by Reddit user bortodeeto, "Why are you buying up so much farmland, do you think this is a problem with billionaire wealth and how much you can disproportionally acquire?"
In recent years, Gates has bought nearly 270,000 acres of farmland across the country, leading many to question his motives. Some conspiracy theorists even claim he is buying "the majority" of American farmland as part of a sinister plot to cause widespread food shortages.
But Gates responded to the question on Reddit by trying to put his recent land grabs in perspective, "I own less than 1/4000 of the farmland in the US," he wrote.
Indeed, if Gates wants to buy up all of the American farmland, he's got a long way to go. According to a 2021 USDA survey, there are 895,300,000 acres of farmland in the U.S. Reuters calculated Gates' holdings were a mere 0.027% of that.
Gates went on to explain why he'd taken such an interest in agriculture.
"I have invested in these farms to make them more productive and create more jobs. There isn't some grand scheme involved – in fact all these decisions are made by a professional investment team."
This is not the first time (and certainly won't be the last) Gates has responded to concerns about his farmland purchases on Reddit. So-called "FarmGates" was also the topic at a 2021 Reddit Q&A, when a Reddit user asked him, "Hey Bill! Why are you buying so much farmland?"
"My investment group chose to do this. It is not connected to climate," Gates wrote. "The agriculture sector is important. With more productive seeds we can avoid deforestation and help Africa deal with the climate difficulty they already face. It is unclear how cheap biofuels can be but if they are cheap it can solve the aviation and truck emissions."
Related: 8 Takeaways From Bill Gates' AMA: Banning Billionaires, His Friendship With Warren Buffett, and Why He Is Buying So Much Farmland
A mixed response
Despite Gates's insistence that there's nothing to see here, some Reddit users still expressed concern at just how much land Gates has acquired.
"I did the math out of him owning 1/5000 and it comes to 180,000 acres or 281 sq miles. That's the size of 4.6 Washington DC's for perspective," one wrote.
"Bigger than the total area of Singapore or Bahrain," commented another.
But some Redditors came to Gates's defense, like WaywardTraveller, who wrote:
"Most farmland today is under corporate ownership, with the entire intent being to extract as much profit as possible. What Bill is doing here is different. I know it seems like a lot, and in reality it is. But given what's happening to the vast majority of farmland in the US, I'm leaning towards this being a Good Thing."
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Q: SimpleXML, iteration on all element I have a stock report file (coming from an outer source, therefore I can't modify in any way) and I would like to iterate over all elements (I have to save them into a MySQL table). As I see the $xml->Stockfile is an array of objects (2 items), so I tried to put it into an array.
For some reason the $myarray contains only the first element after the $myarray = $xml->StockFile assignment.
here is my code:
$xml = simplexml_load_file("../docs/stock.xml");
print_r($xml);
$myarray = $xml->StockFile;
print_r($myarray);

stock.xml:
<NewDataSet>
  <StockFile>
    <MatrixID>1533</MatrixID>
    <Brand>myBrand</Brand>
    <ProductCode>001</ProductCode>
    <RRP>29.99</RRP>
    <Image2Name />
    <Image3Name />
  </StockFile>
  <StockFile>
    <MatrixID>1534</MatrixID>
    <Brand>myBrand</Brand>
    <ProductCode>002</ProductCode>
    <RRP>29.99</RRP>
    <Image2Name />
    <Image3Name />
  </StockFile>
</NewDataSet>

Why I'm getting only one item instead of all?
What should I do do retrieve the whole array?

A: Take care with SimpleXMLElement. It has a lot of magic. Know the magic or get puzzled by print_r or var_dump or similar output. Your example extended:
$myarray = $xml->StockFile;
print_r($myarray); # shows one element

# foreach has both elements:
foreach($myarray as $name => $stockfile)
{
    echo $name, ":\n", $stockfile->asXML(), "\n\n";
}

Even though it is the same variable ($myarray) it behaves differently depending on context it is used in. Inside a foreach the SimpleXMLElement (that is the type of that object) will provide an iterator over the child-elements named StockFile as specified here:
$myarray = $xml->StockFile;

However using that variable in some kind of single context, it will for example return the inner string of the first child-element with that name:
echo $myarray, "\n";

(which in your case is just some lines of whitespace).
See Demo: https://eval.in/83787
Running into this "trap" by SimpleXML is actually pretty common. I suggest to understand the basic usage by the example given in the manual:

*

*Basic SimpleXML usage

A: change the last two lines to
foreach ($xml->StockFile as $nextStockFile) {
    print_r ($nextStockFile);
}


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