This is a phat Massive patch. It has a great balance between clean and dirty content. It bites hard, releases smoothly, and gives you a carefully chosen range of control over some really effective parameters. In the examples below, you will hear these parameters being automated gradually. You may find yourself using this sound in a variety of EDM styles. I hope you have as much fun customizing and contextualizing it as I did.
The generative modules in this patch are 2 oscillators. The first, a "Modern Talking" waveform, provides the main vocal-like timbre. As you can see, it is significantly hotter in the mix of oscillators than the second. The second oscillator is the fundamental tone, a hybrid of a sine and square wave dropped down an octave. They are both sent to filter one entirely.
The serial low pass filter has a pretty low cutoff frequency. At first you may think the cutoff is too low – but since it is "enveloped", it is actually set to the frequency that the envelope will decay to after a trigger. The filter drive is turned up just a little as well to exaggerate the modulation of the parameters.
Amp: a pretty standard ADSR shape.
Mod 1 —> OSC2 Wt-position: to sweep through the harmonic content of the second waveform.
Mod 2 —> Filter 1 cutoff and resonance: provides "bite" to the attack and tames resonance for that moment.
Low Frequency Oscillator —> OSC1 Wt-position: each bar, the control signal will modulate the wavetable position of oscillator 1 in a triangle contour, creating a cyclical "phasing" sort of effect.
Performer —> Filter 1 cutoff: this module will have no effect unless Macro 2 is moved. When Macro 2 is all the way up, the performer will modulate the filter cutoff at full depth in a sawtooth contour at a sixteenth note rate. This creates that resonant pulsating sixteenth note groove you hear in my examples above.
4 voices in unison are used to create depth. With slightly different pitch and wavetable positions, the voices "beat" against each other, making the combined output seem to be moving. The pan position fader in this section spreads the voices across the stereo image, creating an even stronger sense of vastness.
This Dimension Expander is like a fine-tuned chorus effect designed to make the source of the sound seem huge. Be careful with the parameters here. It should not sound like reverb or delay; rather, it should provide a sense that the actual source of the sound is getting larger.
The Delay Sync unit in Massive is quite useful. Here I have used it to add a quickly dampened echo to the output. It is wise to keep the effect very dry – barely noticeable in the context of the track.
As you saw in the images above of my oscillators and filter, there is some macro control set up in this patch. The first macro is controlling both the filter cutoff and the filter resonance. As Macro 1 is turned up, the filter cutoff will increase and the resonance will decrease simultaneously. It is mapped to the Mod Wheel CC (#1). The second macro is controlling both the phasing amount on OSC 1 and the stepper amount (the degree to which the stepper affects the filter cutoff). These two controlled parameters will increase simultaneously as Macro 2 is increased.
Automation: both Macros have been "Read" to Lumit's rack module for the instrument. Here or in the VST itself, you can record parameter changes over time.
These are the parameter changes I drew in for my audio examples.


This post was originally written on October 4, 2010 when I was visiting Macedonia.
Me, happy in the village of Dihovo with my Macedonian and American friends around the table enjoying dinner together - great food and friends - one of those magical cross-cultural moments.
A few more quick pics from Dihovo before we head to new sites.
This storybook house is across from Villa Patrice in Dihovo.Each time I see it I think of Hansel and Gretel, bez (without) the witch. The Babas (Grandmas) here and the magic of the nearby mountains, are all good.
Babas abound and are always willing to share a smile.
Seeing old friends and making new ones – has been a special part of the fun. Sharing it all with Americans, who have never been here before and seeing their excitement and enjoyment – priceless. A walk down the Shirok Sokak in Bitola led us south to the park and a nearby village-like community where we then followed the road (less than 1 km) to Heraclea, a town founded by Philip II of Macedonia in the middle of the 4th century BC. As a Peace Corps volunteer, I spent many a sunny afternoon reading at the top of the Roman theater where gladiators and lions and Christians engaged in violent combat centuries later. The expansive view and historic experience is mesmerizing.
Click here for a virtual tour tour of Heraclea.
Beautiful mosaics, did I mention they are ancient?
Religious messages and amazing colors.
The themes vary, the artistic quality remains intact.
Love this one, wonder what it means????
Ancient artifacts at Heraclea are everywhere, and out in the open.
And, because no day – sightseeing or not – in Macedonia is complete without a salad . . .
Vegetables roasted to perfection. Stuffed grape leaves included.
Eggplant, even alone, is still perfect and available just about everywhere.
That's all for now folks. Thanks again to my fellow travelers in Macedonia for sharing their photos. See you soon.


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Guest Post by Marie Laval, author of The Lion's Embrace
I have another author-treat for you all today! Marie Laval is here to tell us a little more about her book, The Lion's Embrace, and some of my favorite topics: archaeology, writing, and foreign lands! Enjoy!
Thank you so much Meradeth for welcoming me on your blog today to talk about the release of my second historical romance 'The Lion's Embrace'. The novel is mostly set in North Africa in 1845, as the heroin Harriet Montague and the hero, French guide Lucas Saintclair, travel throughout Algeria toward the Hoggar mountain range where Harriet's father was abducted by a gang of Tuareg fighters – or was he? Well, I can't reveal too much of the plot here….Harriet's father, Professor Oscar Montague from the British Museum, was on the trail of the legendary Garamantes' emerald mines when he discovered the tomb of Tuareg queen Tin Hinan.
I thought I would write a short post about Tin Hinan, the queen the Tuaregs still call 'Our Mother'. Tin Hinan is rumoured to have come from what would now be Morocco with her maid servant Takamat. They settled at Abalessa, an oasis in Southern Algeria, and their daughters are rumoured to be the founders of all the Tuareg tribes. Her tomb was discovered by archaeologist and adventurer Byron Khun de Prorok (I know, what a name!) in 1925.
In 'The Lion's Embrace', the heroin's father discovers the tomb in 1845 but the tomb is then closed up and left untouched. I kept all the details of the artefacts, of the gold, silver jewellery, precious and semi-precious stones which were found as accurate as possible and stuck very closely to the description of the remains of the Tuareg queen.
When her burial chamber was opened, archaeologists found the queen lying on a bed of hand-carved wood, facing toward the East. She was wrapped in a leather shroud, and wore fifteen solid silver and gold bracelets, a diadem made of emeralds, ostrich feathers and a long cornelian necklace. In the days before carbon dating, it was the imprint of a coin with the effigy of Emperor Constantine on a sculptured bowl which enabled historians to date the tomb from the 4th century AD. The body of Queen Tin Hinan as well as all the artefacts found in her tomb are now in the Bardo Museum in Algiers.
From the summit of the tomb, one can see the beautiful, mysterious Hoggar mountain range, particularly the great Koudia – which the Tuareg have named the 'Roof of the Sahara', and where according to local legends, the King of the Djins (the King of the Evil Spirits) lives. One can see the iconic Mount Illiman too.
Even before her tomb was discovered, the numerous legends surrounding Queen Tin Hinan inspired Pierre Benoit to write his classic novel 'Atlantide', published in 1919. His heroin, Antinea, and her followers are descendants of the people of 'Atlantis' who had taken refuge in the Hoggar after a great disaster destroyed their world. Antinea lives in a palace hidden in the mountains, where she seduced and entrapped lost explorers to the Sahara.
Recently there has been some controversy about the identify of the woman who was buried at Abalessa, with some historians now disputing that the remains belonged to Tin Hinan at all!
Whoever was buried there however was a woman of immense prestige and immense wealth.
Here is the blurb for 'The Lion's Embrace'
Arrogant, selfish and dangerous, Lucas Saintclair is everything Harriet Montague dislikes in a man. He is also the best guide in the whole of the Barbary States, the only man who can rescue her archaeologist father from the gang of Tuareg fighters that has kidnapped him. As Harriet embarks on a perilous journey across Algeria with Saintclair and Archibald Drake, her father's most trusted friend, she discovers a bewitching but brutal land where nothing is what it seems. Who are these men intent on stealing her father's ransom? What was her father hoping to find in Tuareg queen Tin Hinan's tomb? Is Lucas Saintclair really as callous as he claims—or is he a man haunted by a past he cannot forgive? Dangerous passions engulf Harriet's heart in the heat of the Sahara. Secrets of lost treasures, rebel fighters, and a sinister criminal brotherhood threaten her life and the life of the man she loves.
Originally from Lyon in France, Marie Laval studied History and Law at university there and developed a passionate interest in historical research and the study of ancient civilizations. The beauty and mysteries of the Sahara desert always fascinated her and provide the background for THE LION'S EMBRACE, a story of adventure and romance set in 1840s Algeria and England. Marie Laval now lives in Northern England with her family.
THE LION'S EMBRACE is Marie Laval's second novel.
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Tyrean Martinson February 19, 2013 at 6:23 AM
This sounds like an awesome adventure story!!!
Meradeth Houston February 19, 2013 at 11:22 AM
Doesn't it? I'm totally looking forward to reading it!
Elise Fallson February 19, 2013 at 9:30 AM
I agree with Tyrean. This book has all the elements for a great adventure story. And now I want to know what's in the tomb!
Me too! :) Hope you're feeling better, too!
Marie Laval February 19, 2013 at 10:00 AM
Thank you so much Tyrean and Elise for visiting and for your comments. I hope you enjoy the story!
Mary Raimes Curtis February 19, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Fascinating, Marie. So much history to draw on. Thanks for sharing. The Lion's Embrace is a definite addition to my wish list.
Hope you enjoy it! :)
Thank you for your comment Mary. Yes, it was fascinating to research the history and the culture of the Tuaregs for The Lion's Embrace.
Wow, this sounds like a fabulous adventure with a lot of history thrown in. This is a must for my wish list. My kind of story.
Thanks for telling us about it, Marie.
Marie Laval February 20, 2013 at 8:24 AM
Thank you for your comment Lorrie. I do hope you enjoy the story!
Morgan February 19, 2013 at 8:21 PM
Thanks for having Marie here, Meradeth! Her work looks fabulous. <3
Kelly Hashway February 20, 2013 at 6:26 AM
The blurb sounds really interesting!
Meradeth Houston February 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM
I think so too! :)
David P. King February 20, 2013 at 7:49 AM
Good to meet you, Marie, and your post gave me much to think about. Your books sounds great, too! :)
Thank you Morgan, Kelly and David for your comments. Nice to meet you too!
Natalie Aguirre February 20, 2013 at 6:36 PM
This sounds like a great story. Loved hearing all the historical facts.
Me too! Sounds like a great read, right?
Hello Natalie and thank you for visiting and leaving a comment.
Sara Durham Writer ~ Author February 22, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Marie this sounds like an amazing read! The research and history in itself is fascinating, and those mountains certainly evoke mystery, and what beauty! Thanks for sharing, I will be putting The Lion's Embrace on my TBR list for sure:)
Marie Laval February 23, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Thank you so much Sarah! It means a lot to me when people are interested, not only in the story, but in the setting and the history too.

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One of my earliest readers, Connie, surprised me a beautiful oil painting!
I love her aqua sky and green earth so much, I'm covering my pillows in the same blue for spring. You can see closeups of Connie's art at her new blog.
What lovely paintings and what a thoughtful gift.
Wishing you well with everything.
What a beautiful painting. She has amazing talent!
A Great Gift for sure!! Let's us know how the interview went OK?


It can be confusing for parents to try and figure out how to choose the best skates for kids in the market today. With so many brands, models, and advertisements from left to right, how does one know which one to pick?
The tried-and-tested rule is that skates from huge brands tend to give the best quality, regardless if they are for adults or children. Buying ones from generic brands can be cheaper, averaging $30 to $40, but there's the risk that they might not perform as well.
Often, cheaper skates for kids have wheels made of plastic, which offer limited control. They usually are made with bearings that are poor in quality, closures that keep opening spontaneously, and screws that give out on keeping the wheels in place. All of these issues pose danger to the children and should not be overlooked.
The thing to remember with kids' skates is that, despite being for children, they should never be considered as toys. As such, the level of safety that they offer should always be a priority. In fact, many parents report that, had they known the skates would perform so poorly, they would have invested a little bit more with skates of a higher quality.
For more info check out these best kids ice skate reviews.
Bearings – It is wise to check the bearings of the skates. If they have an ABEC 3 rating (or higher), they are able to provide a smooth roll for children without being too fast for them to spin out of control.
Boots – These should have a high cut. Higher cut boots allow for better and more ankle support. Comfort is another thing to watch out for with boots. In order to protect the feet, kids must wear socks to avoid pinch points.
Closures – There are typically three closure types: ratchet cuffs, laces, and hook-and-loop straps. All of these are easy enough to use, even with kids. Children aged six and up can put them on and take them off on their own. Noticing any difficulty with this task is a sign to look for another pair of skates. Having closures come off during use can be very dangerous.
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Players to watch: Notre Dame vs. Alabama
Carter Karels
Here's a look at a few players to watch in Friday's game (4 p.m. EST on ESPN) between top-ranked Alabama (11-0) and No. 4 Notre Dame (10-1) at the College Football Playoff Rose Bowl semifinal in Arlington, Texas.
TE MICHAEL MAYER, Notre Dame
Third down is the one category in which the Irish hold a significant advantage over the Crimson Tide. Notre Dame ranks No. 9 nationally in third-down conversion rate (49.3 percent). Alabama comes in at No. 70 in third-down defensive conversion rate (40.6 percent). Mayer (35 catches for 388 yards and two touchdowns) has been quarterback Ian Book's most reliable target on third down. He will be even more important if Crimson Tide cornerback Patrick Surtain II locks down his side of the field as usual.
S KYLE HAMILTON, Notre Dame
Slowing down the nation's best offense in the country means Notre Dame will need to use Hamilton wisely. The Irish could deploy him to shadow top Crimson Tide wide receiver DeVonta Smith (98 catches for 1,511 yards and 17 touchdowns) in double-coverage. Or they could feature him closer to the line of scrimmage in hopes to bottle up Alabama running back Najee Harris (214 carries for 1,262 yards and 24 scores). Or maybe he could alternate between both duties depending on the situation. How Notre Dame uses its rangy, versatile safety will be worth monitoring.
WR DEVONTA SMITH, Alabama
Smith cannot be contained. The shifty senior eclipsed 150 receiving yards seven times in his last nine games. Across his last six games, Smith totaled 53 receptions for 955 yards and 13 touchdowns. Smith also managed to produce when facing the SEC's best defensive backs. So he's expected to find success against a Notre Dame secondary that struggles against potent passing attacks. Considering how he can be used in a variety of ways, Smith could exploit ND's weaknesses at strong safety and field cornerback. With the attention he attracts, Smith also could create opportunities for his teammates.
CB PATRICK SURTAIN II, Alabama
Surtain is expected to be a tough matchup for top Notre Dame wide receiver Javon McKinley (40 catches for 697 yards and three touchdowns). Irish offensive coordinator Tommy Rees said Surtain is probably the best college football cornerback he's ever seen. The junior was named to the Associated Press All-American first-team on Monday, joining teammates in quarterback Mac Jones, offensive linemen Alex Leatherwood and Landon Dickerson, Harris and Smith. In 43 passes defended this season, Surtain allowed just 18 completions for 250 yards. He tallied 32 tackles, two tackles for a loss and 10 pass breakups.


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Many ways are there to get the word-out regarding your company, & the products as well as services which you offer. However, bear in mind all the times that advertising is quite a creative field. There's no limit to your creativity, as long as people keep an open-mind. For instance, placing huge inflatables in public area help you to get free advertising.
Advertising inflatables helium balloon or inflatable blimps are made from the durable rubber materials & when inflated, they turn into life size buildings, objects, structures etc. One of the most generally seen inflatables outdoors is advertising balloon. They are inflated with helium (a gas that floats). The huge object, when filled with hot air, increases into the air having an advertising message. As the blimp is quite high up in the sky, it tends to entice lots of attention. Custom Inflatable Advertising is very effective medium to show creative and dedicated you are with your business. In busy cities, which are already congested with 1000s of advertisements, a custom inflatable advertising balloon, which is floating in sky really stands-out.
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You can have custom inflatable advertising balloon that carries your company marketing message or logo. Actually, the bigger the balloon, the better it is.


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Q: Changing from wildcard app to explicit ID app I have created an app and it doesn't use anything like iAPs, GameCenter, Push Notifications... So I left to Xcode to manage profiles and everything.
But I decided to make an app with an explicit ID. Still, after I did this in iTunesConnect and changed bundle ID appropriately, when I click on Xcode Managed Profile button (under Signing section on General tab), I see this:

I can say that right bundle ID is matched, but I though I should see something like:
iOS Provisioning Profile : com.blahblah.myappname
App ID com.blahblah.myappname
Also, when I try to validate the app after archiving, I get this error:

I have many other apps (with explicit IDs) for which I left Xcode to manage signing automatically. The only difference is, that I haven't used explicit app ID from the start... How to make the Xcode to point to the right app ID, without disabling automatic code signing feature?
By the way, I have an Admin role in my team...

A: First create your App ID on the Apple Developer website.
Then just reference the same App ID on the Bundle identifier in the Identity tab from Xcode.
You can let Xcode automatically manage signing.
To be safe and clear create 1 production certificate for your Team.
And use it in the Signing Team part from Xcode.
You shouldn't have any issue from here.
I don't really understand your issue here or why you don't want to reference explicit App ID ?

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Brampton mortgage brokers often serve their surrounding area in addition to Brampton. These areas may include: Mississauga, Milton, Caledon, and Halton Hills.
Satyen Drepaul is the founder of Canadian Mortgage Services (CMS) which was started 30 years ago.
He is a member of the Independent Mortgage Brokers Association of Ontario.
Since 1988, CMS has brokered over 1 billion in deals. His experience is obviously vast and over a 30 year period of 1 billion in deals, he's probably encountered and handled every kind of financial situation you can imagine.
A quick look at his website shows that he's invested in his website and has created a mission and vision. For me, this implies greater involvement than just selling. He's committed to his business.
A quick review of his website shows reviews publicly listed between 2012 and 2016.
Pat Dowling is Mortgage agent with Mortgage Architects. As a Reverse Mortgage Specialist and an Accredited Mortgage Professional, her professional goal is to improve your day-to-day standard of living.Gregarious, energetic and ethical, Pat ensures correct and dedicated assistance in achieving your financial goals. As a mortgage agent she specializes in customizing your mortgage based on your unique needs and negotiates with lenders on your behalf while preserving your interests.
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Almost all mortgage brokers do not charge a fee. They should tell you if they do.
Brampton is part of the Peel Region, which in turn is part of the GTA. It has a population of 593,638 as of the Canada 2016 census.
It's known as the Flower City because of it's heritage of producing an abundant amount of flowers in greenhouses. Although, it's growth and industrialization has overtaken these greenhouses unfortunately.
It's close to Toronto and like Mississauga, it's a major transport hub and as a result has lots of warehouses.
Chysler is a major employer and the plant there produces all the cars for North America.
City of Brampton – The official city website is the source to go to, to learn about the community, culture, transit, and local city information so you can learn about the city you potentially plan to move to.


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It should be no surprise that wine makers also make vinegar. After all, vinegar is just wine that's gone bad. Of course that's a simplified version of what's going on here...and 'bad wine' doesn't make 'good vinegar.' You still have to start with great wine if you want to make a great vinegar and that's what we have here: a flavorful, straightforward white wine vinegar made from exceptional Parellada white wine.
Parellada grapes are native to Catalonia. They're a white grape and one of the main grapes used to make Cava (Spain's sparkling wine). Usually they tend towards the dry side of the spectrum, but they can be sweet too. The grapes in this vinegar tend more towards the sweeter side, in my opinion, because the vinegar has a sweet crispness that I associate with that style of wine.
It has an apple-y and berry type of fruitiness with some woody, toasty notes. Those flavors come from the twelve years of aging the vinegar receives in oak casks. It's great for marinades and especially vinaigrettes. This time of year I like to use it to saute bitter greens like kale or collards and serve with grilled vegetables.


PayPal acknowledged a password change but now has blocked my access to my account and now requires me to make a long distance call to Nebraska from BC CA at my expense over a security breach which has now cost me over $500cad – This is, to me, complicit with the perpetrators of the crime that Chantel-Tec committed by accessing my computer and PayPal account stealing the above monies – This matter involves Hewlett Packard and it is hoped that that company will exert enough pressure on PayPal to reverse this online theft.
I have only just learned that a scam calling itself PAYPAL has taken £500 from my Chelsea Building Society Direct Debit. I have tried to report it online, but do not know if I have been successful. On the list of transactions it is listed as NOT COMLETED, so I do hope you have spotted it and not paid it. Thank you.


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President Obama Calls Group Intervention To Stem Vladimir Putin's Crimea Addiction
President Obama Calls Group Intervention To Stem Vladimir Putin's Crimea Addiction
WASHINGTON — As Russian President Vladamir Putin sends troops to seize military bases and civil institutions in the Crimea area of Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama announced what the administration calls a "creative strategy" to ease tensions in the region.
Obama, speaking from the White House briefing room, said intervention was the key. "I'm not talking about military intervention," he said. "No, I'm talking about getting all of Putin's friends together in a room with an intervention specialist and telling him the truth about how his actions affect others."
The president added that he had spoken to other world leaders and made it clear that it required "everyone to make a serious effort to be there and show their support. This won't be easy, but together I think we can turn the situation around completely."
The Defense Department began to draw up plans early this weekend, which sources involved in the process say include President Obama, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung-un, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and Intervention Specialist Natasha Cartwright from the Detroit Center for Violent Addition.
"An intervention is a very emotional and potentially volatile situation," said Cartwright during an interview Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press." "It has the potential to cause anger, resentment or a sense of betrayal."
U.S. officials say that is precisely what they plan to avoid.
World leaders will first decide what each of their actions will be if Putin refuses to accept treatment. Then each world leader will write down exactly what he wants to say to Putin.
"I'll be honest," Obama said. "I'm gonna tell Putin how much it hurt me what he did in Syria, and he's gonna have to listen to me this time."
Neil Horton, a political analyst with Rand Corporation, says President Obama's effort likely won't be enough. "Other world leaders will need to step up and really demonstrate resolve in sharing their feelings," he said. That will include Maduro opening up about Putin not attending former President Hugo Chavez's funeral, Kim Jung-un talking about his separation anxiety, and al-Assad communicating his anger over not being invited to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi."
"They have to show Putin how much he hurts others, but also be careful not to alienate him," he added.
"Right now the situation is very fluid," Obama said. "We will continue to communicate with the Russian government and keep this meeting on the down low for now, and when the time is right we will come together and bring an end to this self-destructive lifestyle Putin's been living."
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Insight | What do we know about Mars' interior?
Home> CNES projects library> Insight> News and events> What do we know about Mars' interior?
The first missions to reach the surface of Mars date back 40 years, but many mysteries still lie beneath its top layer of iron oxide. To delve deeper into the red planet, the InSight lander is carrying a system able to drill down to five metres and sound Mars' surface over a radius of thousands of kilometres. Following its arrival on Mars, we talk about what we already know and what we hope to discover there with CNES's Francis Rocard, head of Solar System Exploration programmes, and Philippe Laudet, SEIS project leader for InSight and head of the agency's Astronomy and Astrophysics programme.
Mars lost its magnetic field between 3.9 and 4 billion years ago. It was generated by a dynamo effect fuelled by convection motions inside the planet's core. But Mars' dynamo shut down very early in its existence compared to Earth, because as a smaller planet it cooled more quickly. To measure how this energy dissipated and retrace the red planet's geological history, InSight is going to drill down in stages of 50 centimetres.
From the signals it measures beneath the surface and measurements from orbit, InSight will allow scientists to learn a lot more about the core. "Its radius is estimated to be 1,700 km, give or take 300 km," says Francis Rocard. "With this mission, we should reach a precision of 75 km, in other words four times better. We should also be able to improve significantly on the current estimate of its density of 6.4—give or take 1—to reach a precision on the order of 0.3." In comparison, the density of water is 1 and that of iron is 7.8.
But, as Mars cooled so quickly, we don't know if its core is still liquid or completely solid. To find out, we'll need to measure the planet's 'wobble' about its spin axis from the vantage point of orbit. To do that, the RISE instrument (Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment) will use InSight's communication antennas and orbital relays (Mars Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, probably MAVEN and ESA's TGO).
Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23° to the equator, which is what gives us our seasons. This tilt varies only slightly, between 22° and 24°, as a result of the stabilizing effect of the Moon's mass. But on Mars, with its two small moons, the axis of rotation is much more unstable. It's currently tilted 25°, but has experienced extreme shifts to more than 60° over the last billion years, and almost 90° over the last three billion years.
Mars was volcanically active in the past—indeed, very active—if the volcanoes on Tharsis Rise are anything to go by. However, no subduction zones are visible at its surface, which is not being renewed. This is what has maintained the volcanoes above their hotspot and made them such towering features, Olympus Mons peaking at a height of 22.5 kilometres. The last lava flows would appear to date back only 2 million years, which is nothing on the geological timescale, so Mars may still be volcanically active today.
Before SEIS, there haven't been many examples of extraterrestrial seismology. The Apollo 11 mission left a seismometer on the Moon in 1969, but it only operated for a month until its battery ran out. Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 each carried a seismometer (ALSEP for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package), forming a network that operated up to 1977 thanks to the instruments' radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) power supply. This experiment enabled scientists to study the Earth-Moon system and ascertain their common origin. At the same time, NASA was already preparing to send two seismometers to Mars aboard the two Viking landers. But when they arrived in 1976, Viking 1's failed to uncage and was thus inoperable, while Viking 2's was fixed to the lander's deck and thus sensed all its parasitic movements, in particular those induced by winds.
The story of SEIS began in the 1990s, when Philippe Lognonné at IPGP started developing a first seismometer designed to study the interior of another planet. This instrument, called OPTIMISM, was accepted for the Russian Mars 96 mission and lifted off with it in 1996. Unfortunately, the Proton launcher experienced a mishap and after only a few orbits Mars 96 fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere. Seismology on Mars would therefore have to wait for a future mission opportunity.
InSight was initially planned for launch in 2016, but in late August 2015 during testing at CNES, the sphere housing the three very broad band (VBB) seismometers designed by IPGP/Sodern suffered a leak when subjected to a temperature of –50°C. To avert any possible hitch, NASA decided to push back the launch to 2018.
"You run a marathon for 20 years and then a 7-year sprint," quips Philippe Laudet.
But unlike on the Moon, there will be nobody to deploy the seismometer on Mars. InSight's robotic arm is scheduled to be deployed around 10 December and then set down SEIS on the surface of the planet between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Its shield should be positioned over it around 5-10 January 2019, and everything should be ready to start beaming back the first science data in early April.
Confirmation of the landing should arrive back on Earth this Monday 26 November at 20:53:40 precisely. InSight will land in the Elysium Planitia plain, at the Martian equator, and then deploy its two circular solar panels to power its instruments for a planned two-year mission.
InSight with its French SEIS seismometer (left) and German HP3 heat probe (right).


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These Are the 10 Best Burger Joints in America
By Allana Akhtar
Nothing rings in the summer better than the smell of burgers on the grill.
Getting a ground beef patty between two sesame buns is easy enough, but some folks have mastered the art in ways the rest haven't — winning awards or becoming local legends for their juicy burger meat, or for sauce and condiment combinations.
MONEY partnered with Yelp to find the best-loved burger joints in the country. Their menu offerings range from sloppy barbecue burgers to fried bologna burgers and diner-style standards — there's even a burger with peanut butter and jelly in the middle. (The Yelp algorithm factors in both the number of positive reviews and an eatery's star rating; to ensure that we had winning burgers from around the country, we limited the picks to one per state.)
Here are the 10 best places to get a burger this summer:
1. Manny's Restaurant
Manny's Restaurant offers customers the best of two worlds. Fans of simple, no-nonsense burgers can enjoy beef patties flavored with carne asada and traditional fixings, while Instagrammers in search of their next quirky food post can dig into one of the wilder burger creations — including the, ahem, Peanut Butter Jelly and Creamy Burger.
Yep, Manny's Restaurant dared to go there. They stuffed a whole wheat bun with two quarter-pound beef patties, cream cheese, bacon, peanut butter, and strawberry jelly. The burger sounds insane, but at $9.25, one of the shop's best-selling items.
If peanut butter and beef isn't your cup of tea, try the equally perplexing $9.75 Lasagna Burger, which stacks lasagna on beef patties inside of garlic-coated sesame buns.
Dino's Gourmet On-The-Go
courtesy of Dino's Gourmet On-The-Go
2. Dino's Gourmet On-The-Go
Kahului, Hawaii
Head over to this food truck next time you're vacationing in Maui. Dinos Gourmet On-The-Go blends flavors from the Mediterranean, Polynesia, France, and the U.S. to get its burger combinations, Dino's partner Kellina Zagouras tells MONEY.
Try the Big Hawaiian Big Blue Cheese Burger, topped with sautéed onions, peppers and habanero chipotle mayo for $13. You can even get Solo Comfort Fries with your burger, which come with a the food truck's "special dipping sauce."
Frenchy Bro Burger at Bros Sandwich Shack
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3. Bros Sandwich Shack
Avon, North Carolina
Bros Sandwich Shop takes its name from the two brothers who teamed up to open their own small restaurant on North Carolina's Outer Banks. After hitting the beach, head over to Bros for one of the shop's signature creations, such as the Carolina Bro (with chili, coleslaw and American cheese) for $11.25, or the Cowboy Bro (with Sriracha barbecue sauce, gouda, and peppered bacon) for $10.25.
Vegetarians also have a place at the table: Try the Quinoa Bro, a patty made with red quinoa with all the burger fixings, for $9.65, or the $2.55 Sweet Potato Waffle Fries with any 10 of the BroMade custom dipping sauces.
4. Papa's Burgers
Movie lovers will enjoy Papa's Burgers for its takes on classic films. Take The Godfather: an Italian-influenced dish that pairs a beef patty with grilled salami, mozzarella, and marinara sauce, serving it between two garlic toast slices for $7.50. The Raging Bull Burger has the protein and calories fit for a boxer — you get six fresh grilled patties with triple cheese all for $20.95.
Some of the more traditional burger combinations include the $7.50 Chili Burger, with beef chili and pickles, and the El Caliente, with pepper jack and sliced jalapenos for $7.25.
Burger at PDX Sliders
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5. PDX Sliders
PDX Sliders started out as a food truck in 2014, specializing in beef, pork, chicken and veggie sliders. They found fans quickly: Culture Trip named PDX Sliders one of the 12 best places for American street food in the nation, and Yelp reviewers helped National Geographic name it one of the Best Burgers in America in 2016.
PDX's Sellwood burger is named after the neighborhood PDX Sliders originated in, and contains a beef burger, bacon, aged cheddar, onions, and aioli on a brioche bun. You can get a big burger for $9.50 or three sliders for $4.75. Other PDX creations include the $11 Tilikum — buttermilk fried chicken with barbecue sauce on a ciabatta — and the Burlington, with pecan-smoked pork and Carolina mustard barbecue sauce for $11.
6. Fox Smokehouse BBQ
Boulder City, Nevada
If you're looking for the smoky, tangy flavor of barbecue on your burgers, Fox Smokehouse BBQ has you covered. Named the premier smokehouse in Southern Nevada by Las Vegas Now, Fox Smokehouse BBQ is a member of the Kansas City Barbeque Society, a national community for the top barbecue joints in the country.
The popular Smokehouse Burger mixes Angus Beef with Brisket and uses their homemade BBQ mayo for $12. If you want to taste more of Fox Smokehouse's meats, try getting a sliders combo for $11; you can mix and match the chicken, pork and brisket sandwiches on toasted buns.
7. Zorbas Gyros Burgers And More
You might not associate ground beef burgers with more typically lean, veggie-heavy Greek cuisine. Zorbas, however, manages to blend American and Greek flavors to offer delicious Greek and gyro burgers.
"It's just so tasty, and it gives people the feeling — the Greek taste, the Mediterranean taste," store owner Mustafa Ozen told The Daily Advertiser. "You can eat burgers everywhere, but you can't get gyros everywhere."
The $8.99 Greek Burger comes dressed with feta cheese, red onions and tzatziki, while the Gyro Burger has the same fixings over slices of beef and lamb gyro instead of beef patties. Another popular burger is the Guacamole Burger, which includes pepper jack cheese and jalapenos, to give it a kick, plus red bell peppers.
8. Hate Mondays Tavern
Unlike many burger cooks in the Miami area, Hate Mondays Tavern owner Karl Hayden shapes each of his burgers by hand, seasoning them with his custom blend of spices. That's the reason his burgers stand out, Hayden tells MONEY.
Hayden has been the cook, owner, and founder of Hate Mondays Tavern for 23 years after deciding to leave a job in retail, he says. Most of his customers are regulars: "I strive on both the customers service and to make sure the food is out there and it's quality."
One of Hayden's most popular burgers comes with pulled pork and a fried egg on top for $12.95. Yet ever since Hayden won Hamburger House Party, a local competition, the prize-winning burger — the Mondays Remedy, with beef brisket, bacon, and cheese on a sweet bun for $13.50 — has taken the top spot among customers.
9. Around the Corner
Around the Corner is a small diner just outside of Richmond, marked by a cartoon-style mural of smiling food and animals. The simple, diner-style burgers are easily customizable and among the most affordable on this list: A single quarter-pound burger is just $3.80, with cheese and tomato available for 50 cents each, a fried egg for $1.25, or bacon or chili for $1.50. Or you can try one of the specialty burgers, like the Fried Bologna Burger for $5.25 or the Big BLT with a whopping 10 pieces of bacon for $9.
Burger at Lucky's Burgers & Shakes
courtesy of Lucky's Burgers & Shakes
10. Lucky's Burgers & Shakes
After watching their parents manage two successful burger joints, Yolanda Chalabi and her sister thought they'd try their hands in the restaurant industry. The risk paid off — Lucky's Burgers & Shakes became known across Phoenix for its clean store, helpful customer service, and affordable grub.
Try a quarter- or half-pound charbroiled hamburger for $3.79 or $4.99, respectively, paired with the homemade Thousand Island or ranch dressing. Wash down your food with either the popular fresh squeezed lemonade, for $2.99, or a $3.89 milkshake and malt — flavors include butterscotch, cherry, peanut butter, pineapple, and cinnamon.


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Q: Angular CLI assets folder not going into dist folder We have an Angular 6 universal application. My application suddenly started giving an error. Actually assets folder is not going into dist after production build. It was working properly, but suddenly assets folder is not copied into dist folder .
Please help what may be the case ?

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You use the assets array inside the build target in angular.json to list files or folders you want to copy as-is when building your project. if you think you need to exclude files, consider not putting that thing in the assets

First i will i have an updated project using angular cli 6.x.x. Then Adjust your assets paths into your angular.json like this:
"assets": [
    "src/favicon.ico",
    "src/assets",
    "src/manifest.json",
    "src/ngsw-worker-mod.js",
    "src/sitemap.xml",
    "src/robots.txt",
    "src/sitemap_video.xml"
],

Then make sure you never try to copy a file outside the project output path.
Second method
If you really want to use the glob method from  node glob, i think you will need make sure it's installed like in the documentation explained.
You can take a look in the official documentation of assets angular cli

A: below is my angular.json file
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A: I don't know if it can be help you, but my angular.json assets is like
    "assets": [
      "src/favicon.ico",
      "src/assets"
    ],

there no "input" and "output". Angular-cli: 6.1.3, Node 10.5.0


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"Good Taste" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a limited edition book of the same name by Apocalypse Press in 1976. It subsequently appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction (Fall 1977) and in the 1983 collection The Winds of Change and Other Stories.

Plot summary
Chawker Minor returns from his 'Grand Tour', including a visit to Earth, to his home on Gammer, one of several artificial satellites orbiting the Moon. The introverted society of Gammer specialises in artificial computer-designed food flavourings much in demand in Earth, to the point of shunning "natural" food grown in "dirt", and Chawker is inspired to enter the annual competition for flavouring, using something new and radical.

Despite the disapproval of his parents and elder brother, Chawker Minor does design a new flavouring which wins the competition. Asked by the Grand Master, who can taste and analyse flavourings to the smallest detail, to explain his successful and intriguing entry, he reveals that he has not used artificial computer-designed molecules, but an actual raw ingredient, garlic, maintaining that no assemblage of molecules may duplicate the complexity of a living organism.

The Grand Master, and all Gammer society, are revolted by this breach of good taste. Chawker Minor is disavowed by all and exiled from his home.

Relationship to other works
This story has links to three of Asimov's works, and ties together with the history of the Spacers. The Orbital Habitat, Gammer (a corruption of the Greek letter Gamma), is one of "51 Colonies" making up an O'Neill Halo in Earth Space. More of the society of the colonies is explored in "The Nations in Space."

The 51 Colonies are imagined to be independent but united, a space-borne analogy of the United States of America. Not only this, but the emergent Spacers on the colonies are engaging in technology and lifestyle changes that mark them afterwards – dependency on Robots, use of Micro-foods, and an enhanced immune system.

The colonies later engage in interstellar exploration, and retain an antipathy for Earth and its ways; this is explored in Nemesis and the Robot series.

The mastery of microfoods, explored in this story, becomes the mainstay of the survivors of the Spacers, when they settle in Mycogen on Trantor (Prelude to Foundation).

References

External links

Full text of the short story

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Paul Armstrong
Paul Armstrong is former Dean of the College, Brown University, where he is currently Professor of English. Books include Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form, and How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art.
Lynette Hunter
Lynette Hunter is Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance, and Chair of the department of Theatre & Dance at UC Davis. She has written and edited over 20 books and many essays in a range of disciplines from the history of rhetoric and literature, to philosophy and feminist theory, to post/neo-colonial studies, to the history of science and computing, to women's history and gender studies (from the early modern period), to performance studies.
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Ellen Grabiner is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Communications Department at Simmons College. Her scholarly work explores an interstitial space: between art and philosophy, between high and low culture, between seeing and saying, between doing and undergoing. Publications include, "The Heideggerian Disruptions of Zippy the Pinhead," (Philosophy Now, 2011) and a recently completed book, I See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameron's Avatar (2012).
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In a statement, Nottinghamshire said Ms Brooks places importance on "championing the voice of the people who need social care" and has managed social care services with a particular focus on supporting greater independence.
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Q: How do I show required attendees on the printed copy of meeting invites? I print each meeting invite for my boss to take to meetings.  He likes to see who the organizer is and who the attendees are.  Now in Outlook 2013, when I print the meeting invite, it only shows the organizer name and not the required attendees and optional attendees.  Is there a function in Outlook 2013 I need to enable or change?

A: when I print the meeting invite, it only shows the organizer name

and not the required attendees and optional attendees.

Outlook only offers limited support for this. You can use the following workarounds.

Create a List of Meeting Attendees and Responses

This code sample gets the appointment details and attendees (along with their responses) and inserts it into a new Outlook message form, which you can print, send or copy the data for use in other applications.

Tested in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. It should work in Outlook 2000 and up. Note that the code will trigger the security prompt.
Tested in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. It should work in Outlook 2000 and up. Note that the code will trigger the security prompt.
Get Meeting Attendee List Macro
To use, open Outlook's VBA Editor by pressing Alt+F11. Right click on the Project1 in the left pane and choose Insert > Module. Copy this code and paste it into the Module.
Get the GetCurrentItem function from Outlook VBA: work with open item or selected item and paste it at the end of the module.
Then select or open a meeting you organized and run the macro to create a message containing the meeting details. The total counts of accepted, declined, tentative, and no response is added to the list.

Sub GetAttendeeList()

Dim objApp As Outlook.Application
Dim objItem As Object
Dim objAttendees As Outlook.Recipients
Dim objAttendeeReq As String
Dim objAttendeeOpt As String
Dim objOrganizer As String
Dim dtStart As Date
Dim dtEnd As Date
Dim strSubject As String
Dim strLocation As String
Dim strNotes As String
Dim strMeetStatus As String
Dim strCopyData As String
Dim strCount  as String

On Error Resume Next

Set objApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objItem = GetCurrentItem()
Set objAttendees = objItem.Recipients

On Error GoTo EndClean:

' Is it an appointment
If objItem.Class <> 26 Then
  MsgBox "This code only works with meetings."
  GoTo EndClean:
End If

' Get the data
dtStart = objItem.Start
dtEnd = objItem.End
strSubject = objItem.Subject
strLocation = objItem.Location
strNotes = objItem.Body
objOrganizer = objItem.Organizer
objAttendeeReq = ""
objAttendeeOpt = ""

' Get The Attendee List
For x = 1 To objAttendees.Count
   strMeetStatus = ""
   Select Case objAttendees(x).MeetingResponseStatus
     Case 0
       strMeetStatus = "No Response (or Organizer)"
       ino = ino + 1
     Case 1
       strMeetStatus = "Organizer"
       ino = ino + 1
     Case 2
       strMeetStatus = "Tentative"
       it = it + 1
     Case 3
       strMeetStatus = "Accepted"
       ia = ia + 1
     Case 4
       strMeetStatus = "Declined"
       ide = ide + 1
   End Selec

   If objAttendees(x).Type = olRequired Then
      objAttendeeReq = objAttendeeReq & objAttendees(x).Name & vbTab & strMeetStatus & vbCrLf
   Else
      objAttendeeOpt = objAttendeeOpt & objAttendees(x).Name & vbTab & strMeetStatus & vbCrLf
   End If
Next

 strCopyData = "Organizer: " & objOrganizer & vbCrLf & "Subject:  " & strSubject & vbCrLf & _
  "Location: " & strLocation & vbCrLf & "Start:    " & dtStart & vbCrLf & "End:     " & dtEnd & _
  vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Required: " & vbCrLf & objAttendeeReq & vbCrLf & "Optional: " & _
  vbCrLf & objAttendeeOpt & vbCrLf & "NOTES " & vbCrLf & strNotes

 strCount = "Accepted: " & ia & vbCrLf & _
  "Declined: " & ide & vbCrLf & _
  "Tentative: " & it & vbCrLf & _
  "No response: " & ino

Set ListAttendees = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
  ListAttendees.Body = strCopyData & vbCrLf & strCount
  ListAttendees.Display

EndClean:
Set objApp = Nothing
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objAttendees = Nothing
End Sub

Source Create a List of Meeting Attendees and Responses

Copying the attendee list with responses

Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 do allow you to copy the attendee information for direct usage in another application. To copy the information, open the meeting, expand the Tracking button and choose "Copy Status to Clipboard". You can now paste the attendee list in another application.

You can copy the attendee responses in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 and paste it in another application.
Note 1: The copied list is tab-delimited and might not be suitable for usage directly in Word. If you paste it in Excel first, then copy from Excel and paste in Word you'll end up with a table which you can easily format in Word.
Note 2: If you want to update the responses so they will reflect whether they actually showed up or not see Manual meeting responds tracking

Source Print or copy the meeting attendee list

Printing the attendee list with responses

Outlook itself does not include the responses of the attendees when printing the meeting. A workaround would be to use the copy method as described above and print it from the application that you pasted the image or list in.
This above workaround might not be practical if you need to do this a lot and a screenshot image might look quite out of place when used in a professional meeting report.
A more streamlined solution can be achieved when using an add-in called Attendees Print from IMIBO. With this add-in you can…
- print directly the names of the people who have been invited to a meeting.
- print directly response status – Accepted, Declined, Tentative, None
- save/export report directly to Microsoft® Office Word
- save/export report directly to Microsoft® Office Excel
- save/export report as RTF file
- save/export report as Adobe PDF file
- save/export report as HTML file

Note the add-in is available as trial software and a license must be purchased.
Source Print or copy the meeting attendee list


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Head coach Ken Pauly guides you through a number of up-tempo, attacking style drills that will help your team generate more scoring opportunities. It also includes drills for defensive zone positioning, neutral zone transitions and small area games.
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import makeLoader from "./utilities"
import {
	offersRequest,
	offersSuccess,
	offersFailure
} from "../actions/offers"

const offerGet = makeLoader({
	defaults: {
		kind: "offers"
	},
	actionCreators: {
		actionsRequest: [offersRequest],
		actionsSuccess: [offersSuccess],
		actionsFailure: [offersFailure]
	},
	options: {
		didValidate
	}
})
export const offerDelete = makeLoader({
	defaults: {
		method: "DELETE",
		kind: "offers"
	},
	actionCreators: {
		actionsRequest: [offersRequest],
		actionsSuccess: [offersSuccess],
		actionsFailure: [offersFailure]
	},
	options: {
		hideFetching
	}
})

export default offerGet


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Sun, 12 Feb 2017
Charities invited to apply for share of £300,000
Greenham Common Trust has money to give away
dan.cooper@newburynews.co.uk
GREENHAM Common Trust is making £300,000 available for local charitable projects – but anyone wishing to apply for the funds has just three weeks to apply.
Applications can be submitted via the website at www.thegoodexchange.com and should be received by Friday, March 3.
Eligible applications will then be reviewed and funding awarded to successful projects in early April.
Greenham Common Trust provides a total of £300,000 each year in reactive grants for a wide range of charitable projects aimed at benefitting the residents of West Berkshire.
The money is split equally between two rounds of funding during spring and autumn.
Projects missing out on funding in spring will have another opportunity to apply later in the year.
The deadline for autumn 2017 funding is mid-September.
Applications will also be considered for Trust Top-Up, a scheme where Greenham Common Trust offers up to £5,000 of matched funding against public and company donations made online via The Good Exchange.
"To date we've donated more than £37m to more than 1,000 local organisations and charitable projects in the West Berkshire area," said chief executive of Greenham Common Trust Chris Boulton.
"We use The Good Exchange, the successor to 'findmeagrant' to administer our applications, so please make your applications via this web portal."
He added: "We support a wide range of projects that benefit our local communities.
"These include areas such as youth development, public safety, education, poverty relief, sport, culture, heritage and science, and rights and equality schemes."
If you'd like to find out if your project is eligible for funding, or to submit an application, then visit the Greenham Common Trust website at www.greenham-common-trust.co.uk and click on 'How to apply'.
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At a Domestic Violence Shelter
We performed at a Barrier Free Living domestic violence shelter. Due to high security around the shelter, no photos were taken at this outreach. It was two days before Thanksgiving and it was easy to miss the location—in fact, Gary and I almost walked past it at first. We met Rene and a small group of choir members inside. We displayed our IDs at the front desk and made our way to the room downstairs where we would rehearse and leave our belongings. We actually equaled over 20 singers at this outreach which is quite impressive considering it was arranged on such short notice. We did our vocal warm-up, rehearsed some of our repertoire and began to make our way upstairs.
Wonderful photos of residents lined the hallway—really candid shots which were so real and beautiful at the same time--photos that I would later find out were actually taken by the CEO, Paul Feuerstein. As I walked into the dining room where we would be performing, a young girl perhaps twelve-years-old held the door open for me and told me with a warm, welcoming smile that I looked pretty. We lined up according to our respective sections and we knew it was going to be a tight fit, but that was ok
There was a homey feel about the room. There were 17 tables with Thanksgiving-themed tablecloths with arrangements of pumpkins and gourds. Smells of the Thanksgiving meal filled the air. A fellow choir member noted to me that the smells were making her hungry. There were more than 100 people in attendance mostly women and children with a small number of men.
We launched into our signature opening, Siyahamba. The sounds of welcome continued with the lovely sounds created by us on Wanemo. Pocarekare Ana sounded so pretty in the dining room. One of this season's new songs, Chiribim, introduced and performed beautifully by Leslie was a big hit with the children. The audience was having fun. There was such an excitement, particularly from the young people. But then again pretty early on, it became obvious that we had a fan club at this outreach. The wide smiles, clapping and singing along were priceless and very touching. You would not know the distress or the trauma that our audience have experienced, but only feel the joy of our audience—women, children, and a few men all in the moment.
During Down by the Riverside, we ran out into the audience to shake hands and there was such warmth I felt. Kudos to Dave and Marv for fine musical accompaniment throughout. Dave was going to perform the solo in James Taylor's That Lonesome Road but couldn't find his glasses. There was a mad dash to find his glasses and when it was apparent they wouldn't turn up, Nancy stepped in with a lovely solo. Nancy and Gary partnered up for the Carole King classic, You've Got A Friend. Ruth pointed out that Give Us Hope was an anthem for our children because children are our future.
The outreach ended with a warm thank-you from the CEO, a generous man who expressed his appreciation for our visit and we were greeted with warm, enthusiastic applause. We made our way downstairs to get our coats and spoke to the director before we left. It was her third Thanksgiving party that day and her energy and her passion for the mission of empowerment is undeniable. We left the outreach on an absolute high.
There would be no photos of this outreach. But I know this was one of the best outreach concerts I've been so fortunate to be a part of. I also know the images are indelible in the minds of all who took part—exuberant souls and those wonderful, smiling children. This is what Thanksgiving is all about—the ability to experience joy in the moment, the triumph of spirit and true gratitude against all odds.
-Choir Singer
It has become a tradition for a member of POHC to do a post-concert write-up. It started when our Sign-up Coordinator began emailing her summaries to the other members in order to entice newer members to sign-up to sing at community concerts held early in the season. It didn't take long for Concert Write-ups to become greatly anticipated amongst our members, so we share them here in hopes that you'll join us at a future concert
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Josephine Mackerras debuted her first feature film, "Alice," at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. The story depicts how Alice, a wife and mother, reacts to her husband's double life, leaving them in debt and on the brink of eviction. Where she turns is an unexpected choice, creating emotionally loaded questions regarding preconceived notions of independence, motherhood, and marriage. Mackerras recently shared her thoughts about making this complex, compelling film.
PAMELA POWELL: What was the spark that helped to create this story?
JOSEPHINE MACKERRAS: Years ago I did a screenwriting weekend with Mark Tilton in London. He proposed an exercise of joining opposites in character traits to think up a story. I came up with a one-line pitch based on the exercise. The idea kept niggling at me, it got bigger and bigger, and years later it became "Alice."
POWELL: The opening scene beautifully exemplifies the idyllic facade in which Alice and Francois live. … You truly give the viewer a different point of view about prostitution and society's perception. Can you tell me about your own understanding of it before and after writing the script?
MACKERRAS: I guess at the beginning I had the idea that most working girls are actually victims, and we know that is often true. What I now know is that many of them (particularly at the high end) are in the job temporarily with specific goals and do not experience the work as degrading or feel themselves to be victims.
POWELL: Take me into your thoughts as you look at prostitution from multiple angles: the public, those that use it, those in the profession, and those that are hurt by it.
MACKERRAS: I think the easiest angle is about those that are hurt by it, because this is an open, understood dialogue. We all know about the exploitation that goes on, and usually it is poverty that perpetrates terrible and damning conditions for so many women around the globe.
What we hear less about are women at the higher paid end who chose this work because the money is so high. They may work one or two hours a week and be paid more than the average full-time job. There is actually a sort of female privilege that seems to me a bit taboo to talk about. … The stories I've heard about clients can also be surprisingly human. Some clients have a desperate need for human connection that for whatever reason they cannot find in the "real" world. I guess this is the aspect that fascinates me the most.
POWELL: What parallel lines do you find that are drawn between Alice and her profession and Alice's marriage?
MACKERRAS: To prostitute oneself by definition means to erase your own desires for someone or something else. The parallel for me would be Alice's training has been always to put the needs of others before her own. As she has done this her whole life, it's unconscious. At the beginning of this story, Alice is not aware that she doesn't know her own true desires in life.
POWELL: I loved the focus on female friendships and their importance. Tell me about creating Lisa and Alice's friendship and why you felt the need to have this aspect in the film.
MACKERRAS: The power of female friendship is phenomenal. I wanted Alice to discover the feeling of courage that comes when she finds that connection. I wanted her to experience the fun of it, but also the deep strength that comes from it. Without Lisa and the bond these two women have, Alice would not have had the fearlessness to do what she does in the film.
POWELL: And finally, do you feel the tides changing for female filmmakers?
MACKERRAS: Absolutely! I've wanted to make films since I was a teenager. I recall a filmmaker telling me at the time "actresses can't make films," and I bought it! I cannot imagine a young woman buying that nonsense today. … everything is changing in the world; power dynamics are not as stagnant as we once thought.
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Pamela Powell has been reviewing big blockbuster films as well as independent gems for nearly a decade. She writes film reviews for The Daily Journal and FF2 Media, and appears weekly with film critic Chuck Koplinski on review show "Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam" on WCIA-3. With a graduate degree from Northwestern in Speech-Language Pathology, Pamela has tailored her writing, observational, and evaluative skills to encompass all aspects of film. With a focus on women in film, Pamela also gravitates toward films that are eye-opening, educational, and entertaining with the hopes of making this world a better place.
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