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Pure passion since 1911. Benelli is this and lots more: heritage, emotion and innovation become legendary throughout more than 100 years of groundbreaking models, advanced technology, victories and world-renowned pilots. Elegant as well as sporting, Benelli motorcycles are created to meet the requirements of every rider, even of the most demanding, and ensure the ultimate riding experience and comfort while focusing on the consumption and respect for the natural environment. This is a challenge Benelli faces up to every day as the first aim of the whole group. A Benelli motorcycle has personality to spare and is immediately recognizable for its engaging design and the unmistakable sporty looks. The most innovative design concepts are implemented in all the models of the company of Pesaro thanks to the expertise of its R&D centre, where many experts work together. In addition, Benelli counts on a widespread and efficient distribution network which covers all the national territory.
Since 2005 Benelli is part of the QJIAN JIANG group, the first group in China for size and manufacturing capacity in the motorcycle field. Its production reaches 1.200.000 vehicles per year and 14.000 employees work in super modern factory large as a city which is located in Wenling, about 500 km away from Shanghai. The historic brand from Pesaro broaden his horizon to the world. Benelli is ready for future challenges thanks to an approach that combines Italian genius, style and engineering with business approach and global vision of a large group like QJ. The brand new models get the DNA and the history of Benelli, celebrating original look, innovation and brand strength. Benelli wants to put the world in motion and project its customers in the future. Benelli opens doors to past, present and future motorcycle enthusiast thanks to brand new models with innovative designs, cutting edge and, at the same time, easy to drive.
Six brothers, one story. Six men for a legend become reality. It was the spring of 1911 when Teresa Benelli, widowed, invested all the capital of her family to establish a workshop and ensure a stable job for her six sons, Giuseppe, Giovanni, Filippo, Francesco, Domenico e Antonio "Tonino" Benelli.
At the beginning it was only a service garage, where some spare parts for cars and motorcycles were also made. But the six Benelli brothers had a much higher ambition : building motorcycles. Eight years later, in 1919, the first engine was born, a two stroke 75cc applied to a bicycle frame which did not produce satisfying results.
In December 1921 the first real Benelli motorcycle appeared : the "Velomotore", 98cc two stroke lightweight bike presented in two models, Touring and Sport (125cc), followed in 1923 by a 147 cc version, with which Tonino Benelli started to win the victories which will make the company of Pesaro renown throughout Europe.
In 1926 Giuseppe Benelli designed a new motorcycle, a 175cc 4-stroke engine bike, overhead camshaft commanded by an original 'four gear train' and performances equal to or superior to the motorcycles of larger displacement, which would lead to countless triumphs of Tonino Benelli, Italian champion in 1927, 1928, 1930 e 1931. The production increase and sales success (the 175cc was produced in different models until 1934, when a 500cc and a 250cc 4-stroke motorcycle were presented) lead to the enlargement of the factory, and in 1932 the Benelli brothers bought the pavilions of the sawmill Molaroni in 'viale Principe Amedeo', which is now 'viale Mameli'.
Two years later, in 1934 Benelli introduced two new racing bikes: a 250 twin cam and a 500. In 1940 Benelli launched a 500cc with side valves and a fantastic racing bike (a 4-cylinder with double overhead camshaft and supercharger that would never be used on the track) but the outbreak of the war forced the company to produce only military motorcycles.
The company of Pesaro was at the height of success (800 employees worked in the factory) but the Second World War destroyed the factory. The allied bombing and the spoliations by the Nazis reduced this large company to a pile of rubble and empty sheds.
The Benelli brothers did not lose heart and, once retrieved machinery and equipments, started to convert about 1000 military motorcycles - mainly of English origin – left in the battlefields by the allies into bikes for civilian use. 1947 was also the year when the racing activities were resumed.
1948 was a milestone for Benelli : the company hired the motorcycle racer Dario Ambrosini and on October 14th the Benelli brothers announced the decision to continue producing motorcycles. The sports success of the new Benelli culminated in 1950 in Ambrosini' victory of the World Championship in the 250 class.
At the end of 40's Giuseppe Benelli, due to irreconcilable disagreements with his brothers, left the company. It was the beginning of Motobi, with the classic 2 and 4-stroke egg-shaped engine, of small and medium displacement. A new sales and sports success : more than 1000 racing victories in the 50's and 60's.
The manufacturing activity of Benelli continued in 1951 with the presentation of the 'Leoncino' whose great commercial success was at its peak when Benelli won the first 'Motogiro d'Italia' in 1953 with the racer Tartarini.
In 1961 the company of Pesaro celebrated its first 50 years and the following year, to tackle the crisis of the motorcycle industry, the two brands Benelli and Motobi were merged into one. This was the heroic time of Provini e Pasolini, of the 4-cylinder 250cc and of the second world title in 1969 with the Australian racer Kelvin Carruthers.
A wide range of models characterised the production Benelli-Motobi in the 60's: from scooters to the 'Tornado', a maxi bike 2-cylinder 650cc), the last original creation of Benelli. In 1972 the company was bought by the Argentinean entrepreneur Alejandro De Tomaso. The new property relaunched and enlarged the product range presenting multi-cylinder motorcycles and a prestigious 750cc 6-cylinder (the first 6-stroke motorcycle produced in series available for purchase by the general public) and built a new and modern factory.
The Japanese competition became increasingly fierce and technically advanced. The decline was slow and yet inevitable. In 1988 Benelli was brought on its knees. The industrial tycoon Mr. Giancarlo Selci, owner of the Biesse group, saved the glorious company from an uncertain future and bought Benelli on October 23th, 1989. The company targeted the scooter market segment with the models Devil and Scooty. It seemed that a new time had begun, but after the first moments of euphoria the prospects became uncertain again.
In 1995, the Merloni Group of Fabriano purchased the majority stake of the historical brand. Andrea Merloni, the son of Vittorio, was the leader of the new company and the fresh start arrived with the aggressive scooter 491. New ambitious projects, scooters and even sportsbikes: the Tornado 900cc three-cylinder which will also compete in the Superbike championship and the TnT 1130cc. But Benelli had soon to face up a new crisis again.
In December 2005 Benelli became part of the group Q.J. . Winner of the award as best motorcycle exporter of the year, Qianjiang is a corporation located in Wenling where 14.000 people produce more than 1.200.000 vehicles and two million engines per year in a super modern factory large as a city.
About 670.000 sq m of production area equipped with sophisticated parts manufacturing machinery imported from Germany, Italy and the U.s.a. .
The company, with a capital of more than 750 millions US$, is listed on the Chinese stock exchange since 1999 and produces also quads, electric bicycles, lawnmowers, golf carts, generators, pumps and other gardening equipments. 20% of its production is exported abroad, America and Europe included. Qianjiang is focused on quality and has obtained the internationally recognised ISO 9001 certification since 1997.
With the new capital and the synergy between Italy and China, Benelli Q.J. is currently working on the multiple projects aimed at relaunching the company of Pesaro on the world markets.
In 2011 Benelli has celebrated successfully its first centenary.
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Last Updated: Saturday, 10 November 2007, 00:23 GMT
Apple iPhone debuts in UK stores
Customers rushed to buy the new handsets
Apple's much-hyped iPhone has finally hit shelves in the UK.
Staff cheered as throngs of excited customers made their way into Apple's flagship store in London.
A small number of Apple fans keen to get hold of the handset had started queuing at stores overnight and numbers swelled to around 300 for the launch.
First out of the store with the £269 internet enabled device was 20-year-old north London student Tom Jasinski who said "It was worth the wait".
"I got here 26 hours ago," he told PA. "It is a great piece of hardware. It is a great thing and I love it."
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones described the scene in London as "mayhem".
He said before the doors opened at the store, Apple staff were walking up and down the lines of people "whipping them into a frenzy".
The internet enabled handset has also gone on sale at more than 1,300 other stores around the UK with each customer limited to two handsets each.
The first European handsets were sold at the T-Mobile store in Cologne, Germany just after midnight on Friday morning.
T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom said it had sold over 10,000 iPhones in Germany by late afternoon.
"It was love at first sight," one 50-year-old man told Reuters news agency.
The iPhone will go on sale in France on 29 November and Asia in 2008.
Lock-down
Although the wait is over for some fans, there are concerns that consumers are only able to use the phone with the 02 mobile network.
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N95 versus iPhone
The phones can be unlocked for use on other networks but this voids the warranty and could break the device if software updates from Apple are installed.
As many as 250,000 users in the US have unlocked the device using free and paid-for software to make the phone work on different networks, and to load third-party software not supported by Apple.
Critics have pointed out that the device, while boasting an innovative user interface which makes it simple to use, lacks technology found in rival phones.
The iPhone only works on slower 2G networks, limiting its usefulness as a mobile web browser, but it does also connect to wi-fi hotspots.
In the UK, iPhone owners can connect to the net for free at thousands of The Cloud's hotspots.
Greg Joswiak, head of marketing for the iPhone, denied that the phone had sacrificed function over form by choosing 2G.
"We wanted to make sure that we had a very small device and good battery life. You can't do that today with 3G.
"It's just too power hungry, which is why most 3G phones have nowhere near eight hours of talktime."
Fans queuing
One of the iPhone's big rivals, the Nokia N95, has four hours of talk time on a 2G network, while Apple's device has up to eight hours, according to technical specifications provided by both firms.
Customers have to pay in advance for the iPhone and cannot get it free on a mobile contract.
The Apple phones costs £269 and the minimum monthly contract with O2 is £35.
Jonathan Arber, an analyst with Ovum, said: "In the long term it will be interesting to see how consumers will react to having to pay for this device.
"Obviously in the UK most consumers are used to getting their devices for free."
Mr Arber also pointed out that the UK mobile market is predominantly made up of pre-pay users.
I don't like be imposed upon as to which network I want to switch to
iPhone unlocker Daryl
"That's a huge section of the market that is not going to be purchasing an iPhone. In the contract segment there are a lot of people who are not going to pay £35 a month.
"But for a large group of people the iPhone is certainly an attractive proposition."
According to analysts M:Metrics 10% of 16,000 mobile phone users surveyed in the UK expressed strong interest in buying the iPhone.
Fifty per cent of the survey sample with a strong interest had not paid for their current phone and almost half were on a pre-pay contract.
'Love experience'
Apple has sold 1.4 million iPhones since it went on sale in the US and O2 and T-Mobile are expecting strong sales.
Graham Gilbert was the first to buy the iPhone at the London store
Mr Joswiak said: "People love their experience with the iPhone. They don't love the experience with other phones. That is why our sales are through the roof."
"We assume that the device will find a very good reception on the market," said Rene Bresgen, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom, owners of T-Mobile in Germany.
More than a 1,000 O2 shops, Carphone Warehouse stores and Apple shops are expected to sell the device.
Some iPhone owners in the UK have not been content to wait for the official release and have bought the device in the US and unlocked it for use on any network.
One owner, called Daryl, told BBC News he had bought 14 phones in the US for himself and friends and unlocked them.
He said he had unlocked his original phone because he didn't want to be tied to one network.
"I like the current network I am on and I'd like to stay with that network. I don't like be imposed upon as to which network I want to switch to.
"Also the actual O2 network doesn't have very good coverage where I live; Orange has good coverage where I live, that's why I chose them first, and why I want to stay with them."
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Вячесла́вка () — село,
Вячеславский сельский совет,
Приморский район,
Запорожская область,
Украина.

Код КОАТУУ — 2324880401. Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 914 человек.

Является административным центром Вячеславского сельского совета, в который, кроме того, входит село
Мариновка.

Географическое положение
Село Вячеславка находится на берегах реки Лозоватка,
выше по течению на расстоянии в 3 км расположено село Болгарка,
ниже по течению на расстоянии в 3 км расположено село Мариновка.

История
 1862 год — дата основания села переселенцами-болгарами, выходцами из Бессарабии на месте ногайских поселений Джагенлы и Ягандашеклы.

Экономика
 «Первое Мая», ООО.

Объекты социальной сферы
 Школа I—III ступеней.
 Детский сад.
 Клуб.
 Дом культуры.
 Фельдшерско-акушерский пункт.

Достопримечательности
 Братская могила советских воинов.
 Памятник Ленину, возле Дома Культуры.

Примечания

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My Top 100 Favourite Music Videos: #44
#44: "Bad" - Michael Jackson
Fun Fact: In the full version of the video, the main person opposite Michael Jackson is a relatively undiscovered Wesley Snipes!
You can find the usual four minute version of this music video everywhere but there's an epic 18 minute version of it... if you've never seen it before! Below is the second half of that video.
I remember seeing the full version of this video when I was a kid, I've probably seen all of the full length Michael Jackson videos at some point or another. And I much prefer them to the shortened versions. There's a huge plot at the centre of the "Bad" video, where Michael Jackson plays a teenager named Daryl who is being challenged to see how "bad" he is. The main part of the music video is how Daryl proves how bad he is, hanging out with all of these gangsters and, erm, dancing really well with them. It's an underappreciated video really, because most people haven't seen the full version of the music video, which further explains why Michael Jackson is with all of these gangsters. Check it out!
Here's the (second part of the) video for your enjoyment!
Click here to see #43 on the list or here for #45!
Labels: listings, michael jackson, music, top 100 favourite music videos
#45: "Tribute" - Tenacious D
Director: Liam Lynch
Fun Fact: Ben Stiller has a discrete cameo in the video!
This is the greatest and best song in the world... tribute!
You gotta love this video. The video that perfectly works with a tribute to the best song in the world has got to be in this list right? It's just hilarious throughout, what with The D rigging the song recording studio that only plays cover versions to record The Greatest Song in the World, to Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters playing "The Shiny Shiny Demon", to Ben Stiller's brief cameo, to the way Jack Black flaps about outside the studio before getting arrested... it's just an awesome video. It at one point was the most played music video in Kerrang! history, and for good reason!
Here's the video for your enjoyment!
Labels: foo fighters, listings, music, tenacious d, top 100 favourite music videos
#46: "Enter Sandman" - Metallica
Director: Wayne Isham
Fun Fact: This is the first of SIX videos by Metallica that have been directed by Wayne Isham!
Also, Wayne Isham directed the "Sweating Bullets" video by Megadeth, which got to #64 in the list.
This is only Metallica's second music video, after "One" was made two years prior. The song and the video work together perfectly. Basically it's about this kid who is having nightmares about this old man, who is known as The Sandman. In his nightmares he can't escape from The Sandman, and is having horrible visions of near death experiences (or even, death experiences), such as falling from the top of a building, being covered in deadly snakes, falling down a hillside and being chased by a large truck. All the while The Sandman watches this boy throughout the video, and even watches while the boy recites a prayer.
This video is almost overlooked nowadays. There's two reasons for this. The primary reason is because it's overplayed BIG time on music TV channels like Kerrang and Scuzz. And secondly, the flickering of the lighting throughout the video (which comes with an epileptic warning) sometimes means you're not quite watching the video closely to appreciate it. Seriously, watch the video again properly if you can, I'm sure you'll appreciate its greatness once more.
Note: This is the second and last video from the year 1991 in this list.
Labels: listings, megadeth, metallica, music, top 100 favourite music videos
#47: "Smooth Criminal" - Alien Ant Farm
Director: Marc Klasfeld
Fun Fact: This song, "Smooth Criminal", is the only song on the list to be featured twice in this list! Michael Jackson's original hit #86 in the countdown.
This is one of the best cover version ever made. Period. Even if you don't particularly like this version, the impact it had was pretty damn impressive. Alien Ant Farm weren't that amazing, or at least, in my opinion they weren't. The fact that this song, and "Movies" are the only two songs that really got anywhere is a decent fact to back that opinion up. But, what Alien Ant Farm did with the Michael Jackson classic was damn impressive. Simple but impressive. Speed it up, give it some punky riffs, modernise it, and it sounds so damn good.
And the video is just hilarious. A true comedy tribute to the King of Pop, this song uses so many homages to Jackson's excellent music videos. From "Billy Jean" to "Thriller", and the hilarious scream that's a reference to the unedited "Black and White" video, it's just hella good.
Labels: alien ant farm, listings, michael jackson, music, top 100 favourite music videos
#48: "Tonight, Tonight" - Smashing Pumpkins
Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Fun Fact: The video was inspired by a 1902 French silent film called A Trip to the Moon! They had difficult finding decent costumes for the video because of the making of the Titanic movie!
This song and video is critically acclaimed and is found on many "best videos of all time" lists and rightfully so. It's just a beautifully crafted music video in every sense of the word; the costumes (which, credit to them because of the fun fact above) look brilliant, the artistic direction is flawless and exceptionally executed, and the band, even though they're kind of separate from the plot of the video, don't look out of place at all.
This is simply just one of those music videos you have to see before you die. Regardless of if you like the Smashing Pumpkins or the genre of music this band play, it's just one heck of a music video that you truly have to see.
Labels: a trip to the moon, listings, music, smashing pumpkins, titanic, top 100 favourite music videos
#49: "United States of Whatever" - Liam Lynch
Fun Fact: For five years, this song was the shortest song ever to get on the UK Top 40 Charts... until a song called "The Ladies Bras" took the title!
And it's certainly the shortest video on my list! What's not to love about this song and video? It's just fantastic. Seeing Liam Lynch who, back in the day I suppose, looked a bit like your stereotypical nerd with the glasses and the bad dancing and everything, telling people pretty much to "fuck off" but in a polite way? It was just hilarious and great at the same time!
By the way, believe it or not, this song is the only song on my entire list that I can't 100% confirm the music director. I believe it was Liam Lynch that directed his own music video but I can't find evidence anywhere. I'm purely making this assumption alone on the idea that he's a heck of a lot more successful as a film and music director than he ever was as a musician! Not to mention the design of this video fits nicely in with the videos he has directed elsewhere. So don't take my word for it, but yes, I think the director was Liam Lynch - please correct me if I'm wrong!
Labels: liam lynch, listings, music, top 100 favourite music videos
Hey everyone, we're half way there. Thanks for keeping upto date with this list. It's been 50 days... here's to the next 50!
If you want to see a recap, or have missed the list so far, here's from #100 to #51...
#100: "House of Fun" - Madness
#99: "Cosmic Love" - Florence and the Machine
#98: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
#97: "Keine Lust" - Rammstein
#96: "Bassline Junkie" - Dizzee Rascal
#95: "The Salmon Dance" - The Chemical Brothers
#94: "stevie" - Kasabian
#93: "The Hardest Button to Button " - The White Stripes
#92: "If I Had a Tail" - The Queens of the Stone Age
#91: "Lullaby" - The Cure
#90: "Dance" - Saul Williams
#89: "Pork and Beans" - Weezer
#88: "Pure Morning" - Placebo
#87: "Rockstar" - Nickelback
#86: "Smooth Criminal" - Michael Jackson
#85: "Life on Mars" - David Bowie
#84: "I'm on a Boat" - The Lonely Island
#83: "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai
#82: "Just a Day" - Feeder
#81: "Poison" - Alice Cooper
#80: "There There" - Radiohead
#79: "Dancing in the Street" - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
#78: "Psychosis Safari" - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
#77: "Common People" - Pulp
#76: "Forgot About Dre" - Dr Dre and Eminem
#75: "Fat" - Weird Al Yankovic
#74: "Links 2-3-4" - Rammstein
#73: "Cars" - Gary Numan
#72: "Dragula" - Rob Zombie
#71: "Here it Goes Again" - OK Go
#70: "Gangnam Style" - PSY
#69: "Wake Me Up When September Ends" - Green Day
#68: "Smack My Bitch Up" - The Prodigy
#67: "Leave Before the Lights Come On" - Arctic Monkeys
#66: "Scream" - Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson
#65: "Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz
#64: "Sweating Bullets" - Megadeth
#63: "Fell in Love With a Girl" - The White Stripes
#62: "Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel
#61: "I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News)" - Eagles of Death Metal
#60: "In the Air Tonight" - Phil Collins
#59: "Twisted Transistor" - KoRn
#58: "I Just Had Sex" - The Lonely Island
#57: "Girls and Boys" - Good Charlotte
#56: "Lonely Boy" - The Black Keys
#55: "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes
#54: "Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie
#53: "My Band" - D12
#52: "Coma White" - Marilyn Manson
#51: "Sic Transit Gloria… Glory Fades" - Brand New
Got it? Good. Well then, let's start off the Top 50!
#50: "Firestarter" - The Prodigy
Director: Walter Stern
Fun Fact: Even though it's not got any gore, violence, horror, swearing or drug use or anything visibly controversial, the video was banned before the watershed on certain channels because it was apparently too scary for children!
Ah yes. Firestarter. Such a great video. What's fascinating about this video is that they have done far more controversial videos than this... yet this one caused so much more controversy (probably "Smack My Bitch Up" being the only exception). Why? All it is, is Keith Flint, doing a promo video to the song with a mohican in an underground tunnel! But if you have seen the video, or if you watch it now, you will see why it caused some discomfort. Keith Flint is very intimidating in this video, bopping around like a lunatic, slapping his head constantly, getting in the "face" of the camera throughout. But it's just a brilliant video, despite very little actually happening.
Keith Flint has incredible presence and a certain scary aura about him, and frankly, you can't keep your eyes on him. You barely notice that there are other people in the video other than him, that's how much you're fixated with the man!
Labels: black keys, brand new, d12, david bowie, eagles of death metal, good charlotte, korn, listings, marilyn manson, music, phil collins, the lonely island, the prodigy, the white stripes, top 100 favourite music videos
#51: "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" - Brand New
Fun Fact: The phrase actually comes from the latin phrase "Sic transit gloria mundi" which translates to "Thus passes the glory of the world". It was referenced in a 1998 film called Rushmore!
What a video. This truly is a magnificent video. I'm not a big fan of Brand New, and in honesty, I'd probably not give this song any time of day if it wasn't for the fact that I've loved this video ever since I first saw it, and in turn have listened and watched the video enough times to end up really liking the song. Seriously, watch this video if you haven't before.
You could make an arguement that this concept has been done before. But I can't really say I've seen it done in music video format. What would you do if you had the power to control people? This video explores that theme very well. What I love about this video is that the protagonist is running from someone... or something. We don't know what, we don't know why. The video leaves that open to interpretation. He finds himself in this bar and he starts to realise he can control people's actions. He takes full advantage of this... but is it such a good omen? I just love this video, and it definitely deserves your time of day.
Labels: brand new, listings, music, rushmore, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Samuel Bayer
Fun Fact: The giant in the video is Matthew McGrory, who played the character Tiny in Rob Zombie's films "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects"!
This is the first and last video by director Samuel Bayer in this list. He also did "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day.
Considering this is one of the tamer Marilyn Manson videos, this video and song was released with quite some controversy. The obvious one now is the re-enactment of the assassination of John F Kennedy. But in truth, it's actually quite tame, there's no bullet shot, no blood, Manson, playing Kennedy simply dies in the car. Obviously the topic itself is difficult and can cause controversy but I think Manson didn't really "abuse" the topic as much as he most certainly could have.
The other thing is, this was the first Marilyn Manson single released after the Columbine massacre, something that Manson and his music was pointed at as a reason for it happening, which of course is bullshit. But either way, the finger pointing and the controversial video didn't really help Manson at the time, and it actually was only a promo single rather than it seeing a CD release as a consequence. Either way, it's one heck of a great video, shot very cleanly by Mr Bayer, and Manson looks surprisingly good in the video. Not as good as his ex-girlfriend Rose McGowan mind!
Labels: green day, house of 1000 corpses, john f kennedy, listings, marilyn manson, music, nirvana, rob zombie, the devils rejects, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Philip Atwell
Fun Fact: The song/video mocks and references a few different songs - "In Da Club" by 50 Cent, the songs "Superman" and "Lose Yourself" by Eminem himself and, most hilariously, "Milkshake" by Kelis - yes - this is the "My Salsa" segment at the end!
Oh god, THIS video. I just absolutely love this video, it's just so funny and it was during a period where Eminem's ability to produce great quality comedy in his hip hop was ever present. Of course, this is D12, and while they do mock the idea that Eminem is "the lead singer of the band dude" there's so much truth to the fact that all the attention is on Eminem and rightfully so - he was the reason why D12 did so well, whether they like it, don't like it, but definitely mock it, it's the truth.
I didn't realise a few things about this video until checking out the research on it - as mentioned above, the hilarious "My Salsa" outro is actually based on the smash hit "Milkshake" by Kelis! I had no idea! Did you? The other thing is when Bizarre starts stripping, he is wearing a shiny outfit with his nipples covered only by nipple tassles, this is parodying the infamous wardrobe malfunction with Janet Jackson in the Superbowl only a month earlier. This is just one heck of a funny hip hop video, one of the funniest ever created, for sure.
Note: This is the first and last video from the year 2004 in this list.
Labels: 50 cent, d12, eminem, janet jackson, listings, music, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: David Mallet
Fun Fact: At the time, this was the most expensive music video ever made; it cost £250,000 to make!
Another song that brings me back to my childhood yadda yadda. But in fairness, it's a pretty epic video, that even by today's standards, is as striking as it ever was back in 1980. Sure, it does look really dated now, but you can't help but feel that if David Bowie made this video 30 years later, it'd be one of the most amazing looking videos ever made.
The scene in the middle and at the end of the video, where David Bowie is stuck to a load of tubes looking pale always brings me back to my childhood. It's funny how certain images stick in your head all your life - this is one of them. It's just one of the best videos ever made and I'll never forget it, if I like it or not!
Labels: david bowie, listings, music, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Alex and Martin
Fun Fact: The song has since become a HUGE football chanting anthem across the world, but in particular in Italy!
Here is yet another simple concept that looks incredibly awesome when put into music video format. Who would have thought that a journey down a load of triangles with changing images would have been so cool?
The video is simply, Jack White, Meg White, an elephant and some skeletons being used repeatedly in a mixture of white, black and red triangles. But it looks so so cool, and you can't help watching the video. I love simple ideas when they look great, and this is one of the simplest ideas in this entire list of music videos. It's just one heck of a good video, and also, of course, one hell of a fantastic song!
Labels: listings, music, the white stripes, top 100 favourite music videos
#56: "Lonely Boy" - Black Keys
Director: Jesse Dylan
Fun Fact: The dancing man, Derek Tuggle is an actor, musician, and a part time security guard!
Another awesome fact is that this wasn't the original video - the original video had a script and around 40 actors and everything, but the band weren't happy with the video edit at all. They sent it back and got a re-edit which too was crap. Then they got this dude to dance spontaneously for the video! Derek was an extra on the set at the time and did a completely improvised dance for the song.
I just love this video, Derek's moves are great if not completely flawed, which gives the video and song so much character. I love how he looks a little nervous and you can tell just by looking at him that he doesn't know what moves are going to come out next. It's just a simple and lovable video that anyone can watch - it truly has to be seen if you've not seen it before!
Labels: black keys, listings, music, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Smith N' Borin
Fun Fact: There was an extended version of the video (which seems to be hard to find online nowadays) which had a skit where Good Charlotte take the piss out of Avril Lavigne's song "Complicated"!
This is just a great video because there's nothing better than seeing older people acting like they were teenagers again. It's a concept that's been done many times but I actually can't remember many music videos doing the idea. Good Charlotte did and they did it really well, not only because these are older people doing youthful things, but because the band are all tattooed punk goths that wear make up and band t-shirts. I do live the part of the video when they take the piss out of the boyband dancing, when Joel has a team of older female dancers like in the pop videos of old. It's just a great video, probably a little underrated due to Good Charlotte kinda losing their reputation as a decent little pop punk band at one time.
Labels: avril lavigne, good charlotte, listings, music, top 100 favourite music videos
#58: "I Just Had Sex" - The Lonely Island and Akon
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Fun Fact: The two girlfriends who had the disappointing sex are Jessica Alba and Blake Lively! Also legendary tennis player John McEnroe makes a cameo.
I love this video, well of course I would, it's in this list for a reason! It's just hilarious though, honestly, from start to finish the video is full of hilarious segments, all over the top about how amazing it is to have sex. I think the two girlfriends do a fantastic job of being embarassed by the whole thing, and I also love Jorm's parents when they've been told that he's had sex.
There's very little I need to say about this video, either you've seen it and, I hope, agree with me, that this video is just hilarious, or... why on earth haven't you seen this video before! Watch it now!!
Labels: akon, john mcenroe, listings, music, the lonely island, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Dave Meyers
Fun Fact: The four hip hop artists are Lil Jon as Jonathan Davis, Xzibit as Fieldy, David Banner as David Silveria and Snoop Dogg as Munky!
I do feel like this video is incredibly underrated. I mean, I'm sure a lot of metal fans really like this video but truly, it deserves a lot more attention and a lot more respect. I honestly don't know if this idea has ever been done before, or since. Four major hip hop artists pretending to be a metal band? It's an awesome concept and it's hilarious.
If you like these hip hop artists or not, you have to appreciate the great jobs they did in being fake versions of the members of KoRn. I'm not sure who I like most, it's a toss-up between Snoop Dogg being a very (very!) angry version of Munky, or Xzibit being a very (very!) pukey alter ego of Fieldy. I do also love the vein David Banner, modelling and worrying about a cut on his face. It's just a hilarious video, and to see the actual members of KoRn at the end being spoof music execs is just the icing on the cake. If you've not seen this video watch it! NOW!
Labels: david banner, korn, lil jon, listings, music, snoop dogg, top 100 favourite music videos, xzibit
Director: Stuart Orme
Fun Fact: The myth that this song is about a drowning incident that Phil Collins witnessed is all a complete and utter fabrication - don't believe it!!
This song and video is incredibly iconic. Similar to my entry for "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel though, this entry is because of how good the video is, rather than my love of the song.
And the video, actually isn't a technical genius of a video. But it's simple and absorbs you in. Sometimes the simplest of ideas are the best ones, and this video is an example of that. The majority of the video is Phil Collins' face in black and white, but you can't help but look at it. It's just a great video, and it matches the song to perfection.
Labels: listings, music, peter gabriel, phil collins, top 100 favourite music videos
#61: "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" - Eagles of Death Metal
Fun Fact: The song has been covered live by none other than Meat Loaf!
Oh god this video is just hilarious. I don't know if it's the silly concept that doing guitar solos takes all of your clothes off and makes you aroused or if it's the hilarious wigs worn by Josh Homme, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Jack Black of Tenacious D - I mean look at Jack Black in that picture above! He looks so bad in that wig it's good! I just love this video and I really think that anyone who hasn't seen this video before needs to see it quite frankly, if you have a sense of humour.
Two more facts are that the video was directed by Kiv from The Lonely Island (who will feature in this list again), and that the last guy at the end who loses his clothes in the business suit with the case plays as Richardson in the film Hot Rod, which was also directed by Kiv and features The Lonely Island, and Josh Homme actually. Also, Meat Loaf plays Jack Black's dad in the Tenacious D film The Pick of Destiny... what a connection game this music video is!
Labels: eagles of death metal, foo fighters, hot rod, listings, meat loaf, music, pick of destiny, the lonely island, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Stephen R. Johnson
Fun Fact: The video has won a whopping NINE MTV Music video awards, which is still a record to this day!
This video is also the most played video in MTV music channel history too. That's of course part to how old the video is but also to how damned good the video is also.
Now, I'm going to level with you here. I'm not a massive fan of this song. It's okay; I can listen to it when it comes on the radio but it's not on my personal media player or anything like that.
But this video is just amazing. It draws you in, you can't stop looking at it. The director and the team who took part in the creation of this video have done an insane job. It's just simply one of the best videos of all time, and in an unbiased list, this would be a certain Top 10, if not Top 5 entry.
Another fun fact - Aardman Animations, the guys who made Wallace and Gromit, as well as Shaun the Sheep, took part in the making of this video!
Labels: listings, music, peter gabriel, shaun the sheep, top 100 favourite music videos, wallace and gromit
Director: Michel Gondry
Fun Fact: Jack White actually asked Lego if they would like to put some lego pieces with each single that sold, but Lego refused. After the single became a massive hit, Lego contacted Jack White again to do the deal but then he refused!
This is the second song by the White Stripes (so far) on this list, and both videos have been directed by Michel Gondry. It's simply a fantastic video, using Lego to do a whole music video. Don't forget this was before Lego did all of these amazing video games and the movie and so on, so I suppose you've got to give great credit to the White Stripes and Michel Gondry for thinking outside of the box. The video just looks amazing and you can clearly see how much effort they put in to the video, brick by brick building each frame, it's just insane really.
Fun Fact: The term to "sweat bullets" means that you're incredibly anxious or nervous. Dave Mustaine was thought of to be a schizophrenic, and while he denies it, he found the topic interesting so wrote this song!
I actually remember seeing this video when I was a young lad but completely and utterly forgotten about it until I was an adult. I remember all the camera panning from one asylum door to another, and it resonated with me.
Watching the video as an adult makes me love the video even more. Naturally when I was a kid I had no idea what dementia was, what's schizophrenia was. Now that I know, and know that I've been around people who have had one or the other, I completely and utterly sympathise with these people who have to deal with all of this mental trauma. This video is a fantastic symbol of dementia, and mental health in general, and the video stands stronger and stronger each day and each year as each passing moment, the world is starting to become more aware of mental health and how to help people who truly struggle to help themselves.
If you like Megadeth or not, please, watch this video, it's just a fantastic way of using imagery to describe what people really go through, who can't cope with their minds, thoughts and feelings.
Labels: listings, megadeth, music, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Jamie Hewlett
Fun Fact: There's lots of tributes to film and games in this video... see below for more details!
What a video. I fondly remember this video coming out and blowing everyone away, just because of how cool it was. Damon Albarn had left Blur and created this cartoon band out of nowhere, creating a lot of intrigue. Then this comes out and it's just amazing.
There's lots of tributes and homages to different things in this video, some you may have picked up on, others you may not have:
The obvious is the reference to the legendary actor and director, Clint Eastwood.
The "howling" at the beginning of the song is a reference to the howling in the beginning of his film, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".
The Japanese text at the start is the same text at the beginning of the film "Dawn of the Dead".
The main singer 2-D is wearing what looks like a T-Virus shirt, which is a reference to the Resident Evil games.
The guitarist Murdoc gets grabbed at the crotch at one point - this is homage to the film Braindead when the scene happens in that film as well.
Another obvious one is the zombie apes dancing in the same style as Michael Jackson in "Thriller".
It's just an amazing video, and if you didn't pick up all of those references re-watch the video again to spot them!
Labels: blur, dawn of the dead, gorillaz, listings, music, resident evil, the good the bad and the ugly, top 100 favourite music videos
#66: "Scream" - Michael and Janet Jackson
Director: Mark Romanek
Fun Fact: At $7 million, this video is STILL the most expensive music video of all time. I'd say it's a record that's unlikely to be broken anytime soon.
When I say that it's unlikely that the World Record this video has for the most expensive music video of all time will be broken I mean it. Why? If you look at this list here, only 14 of the 50 most expensive videos have been made in the last 10 years. Only two of those videos have cost $2 million or more, which is not even half the budget for this video!
If you haven't watched the video recently, watch it again. This video is 20 years old now, and it looks just as good now as it ever did when it came out. 20 years of longevity in terms of quality of production is impressive. You can truly see where the money went when it comes to the production value. Not to mention they were in very safe hands with legendary director Mark Romanek; trust me, you'll see him in this list again!
Labels: janet jackson, listings, michael jackson, music, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: John Hardwick
Fun Fact: The actress is Kate Ashfield, and the actor is Paddy Considine; Kate was in "Shaun of the Dead" and Paddy is in "Hot Fuzz" and "The World's End", so between the both of them they've appeared in the entire Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright film trilogy!
This song and video was/is easy to miss out of the entire Arctic Monkeys discography because it was a stand-alone single released between the first and second albums.
But I've never forgotten it and I never will. It's just an incredible video that highlights some of the issues with suicide. Are people who commit suicide doing it for attention or are they simply doing it to end a tragic life? It's a sensitive topic and I don't mean to step on any toes. What I will say is that each case is different and you can't say all people do it for attention, but at the same time you can't say each person is ending a truly tragic life.
This video demonstrates to great effect, a suicide attempt, and shows you the perspective of the person attempting the suicide, and someone trying to save a life. You can judge this case for yourself, bu either way, it's a fascinating video and the song is great too.
Labels: hot fuzz, listings, music, shaun of the dead, the world's end, top 100 favourite music videos
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Fun Fact: Despite being heavily banned and very little airplay due to the nature of the lyrics and the video content, the song did very well, getting to #8 in the UK charts and was nominated for 4 MTV Music Video Awards!
This is probably the most controversial video on my list. But if you've seen the video, and understand the message behind the video, then you must agree that this is one of the best music videos of all time.
Of course, if you haven't seen the video before, then be warned of lots of drugs, violence, nudity and general graphic content.
But the video is just brilliant, just for the message alone. All the way through the video, with the main character doing all of these horrible things; snorting cocaine, groping women, beating up men, vomiting, throwing men out of toilets, taking heroin, and much more, we all assume that the main character is a man. The truth? It was a woman all along. It really opens up your eyes to the perception of events, and shows you that women can be just as bad as men when it comes to bad behaviour. It's just an incredible video that has to be seen... just make sure you're old enough to watch it!
The only problem with the video? How on earth do you eat a kebab at the start of a night out?!
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Q: Is every Montel locally convex vector space compactly generated? Let $X$ be a Hausdorff locally convex vector space. Recall (my reference is the book of H. Jarchow, Locally Convex Spaces. B.G. Teubner, 1981) that we say that $X$ is a semi-Montel space if every bounded subset of $X$ is relatively compact (equivalently, every closed and bounded subset of $X$ is compact), and a Montel space if it is semi-Montel and satisfy one (hence all) of the following conditions (equivalent under the semi-Montel hypothesis, see Proposition 11.5.1, pp. 230 of Jarchow's book):

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*$X$ is reflexive;

*$X$ is barrelled;

*$X$ is quasi-barrelled.

It is known that the strong dual of a Montel space is also Montel (Jarchow, Proposition 11.5.4, pp. 230-231). In the proof of Theorem 4.11 (5), pp. 39-40 of the book of A. Kriegl and P.W. Michor, The Convenient Setting of Global Analysis (AMS, 1997), it is shown that if $X$ is the strong dual of a Fréchet-Montel space (hence $X$ is a Montel space), then $X$ is a compactly generated topological space (also called a k-space or a Kelley space), i.e. the topology of $X$ is the final topology with respect to the inclusions of compact subsets of $X$. However, it seems to me that the proof of this assertion uses only the fact that $X$ is Montel.

Question: Are Montel spaces compactly generated, or is there a counter-example to this claim?

A: Komura's example mentioned in the comment is just a big product $\mathbb R^{\mathbb R}$ which is a Montel space and its (strong) dual $X$ is thus also Montel. As Komura showed the finest topology $\tau^f$ which agrees on all compact (=equi-continuous) sets with the weak* (and hence with the strong) topology is not a vector space topology. In
particular, it is different from the strong topology. This should show that $X$ is not
compactly generated.

The story is quite different if you consider the finest locall convex topology such that all inclusions $K\hookrightarrow X$ ($K$ compact) are continuous. This is indeed the associated bornological locally convex topology.

A: An(other) example of a Montel space which is not compactly generated is $\kern.4mm\mathscr D\kern.4mm(\kern.4mm\mathbb R\kern.4mm)$ . This follows from Theorem 6.1.4(iii) and Proposition 6.2.8(ii) on pages 190 and 195 in
A. Frölicher and A. Kriegl: Linear Spaces and Differentiation Theory, Wiley, Chichester 1988.

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A Wider Angle: New Programs at the 2019 AGH Film Festival
For a decade now, the arrival of fall has meant the arrival of Film Festival season here at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Over the first ten years, we welcomed over 60,000 film lovers to more than 350 films. This year, we are screening over 100 films in 18 languages from 24 countries. For the first time in Festival history, we have reached gender parity, with women directing over 53% of the films in our program this year – an achievement very few film festivals are able to boast.
2019 marks the start of a new decade for the Festival and we are excited to be launching several new programs.
Nimic. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
One new addition is our Short Films Program, featuring a range of works and filmmakers; from first-time Hamilton directors to the Oscar-nominated Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite and The Lobster. These programs take place over three screenings at the Lincoln Alexander Centre and two at the AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion. You can take a look at these programs below:
Shorts Program 1
Close-Up Film Committee Shorts & Performance Program
Images Festival Shorts Program
Another exciting new initiative for 2019 is our Exhibition Connections, which offer an array of programs connected to current and upcoming exhibitions. These include the following:
Clyde Fans: A Theatrical Staging of Seth's Picture Novel
Sunday, October 20 at 1:00 pm & 4:00 pm | AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
Venerated Soulpepper actor William Webster takes on the role of Abe Matchcard, the patriarch at the heart of Seth's recent masterwork, Clyde Fans. This short theatrical presentation combines Seth's artwork and Webster's performance to bring to life the novel's opening sequences. Directed by Soulpepper alum Derek Boyes as part of THIS IS SERIOUS: Canadian Indie Comics.
Reason Over Passion | Joyce Weiland, Canada, 1969, 84 minutes
Tuesday, October 22 at 7:00 pm | AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
A rare 16mm film screening to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film. Reason over Passion is one of Joyce Wieland's most renowned experimental films– a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment— that embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre. More of Wieland's work is featured in The Collection.
Back and Forth, Dripping Water, One Second in Montreal | Michael Snow, Canada, 1969, 86 minutes
Wednesday, October 23 at 7:00 pm | AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
To celebrate the publication of James King's Michael Snow: Lives And Works and our upcoming exhibition we are screening three seminal film works by Michael Snow on the 50th anniversary of their release. James King will read from his biography and also present the films in 16mm format. Our exhibition, Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962, opens February 8, 2020.
Celebration | Olivier Meyrou, France, 2007, 74 minutes
Unzipped | Douglas Keeve, America, 1995, 73 minutes
Friday, October 18 at 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm | AGH Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
Join curator and writer Nolan Bryant for an evening of high fashion on the big screen. Bryant will talk about the Canadian and international fashion industry before introducing Celebration, a documentary chronicling the final show by fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent followed at 9:00 pm by the 90's fashion classic Unzipped, a behind the scenes profile of Isaac Mizrahi. Presented in conversation with Milli: A Celebration of Style.
Nature as a Necessary Inspiration: A Guided Hike
Becoming Animal | Peter Mettler, Emma Davie, 2018, 78 minutes
Sunday, October 27 at 12:00 pm (Hike) & 3:30 pm (Film)
This multi-faceted afternoon begins with a guided hike through Cootes Paradise, led by venerated Canadian artist Reinhard Reitzenstein, and David Galbraith, Head of Science at the Royal Botanical Gardens, and member of the Hamilton Naturalists Club. The hike will explore both the shifting identities of the city's most celebrated marshland and how natural spaces affect and shape our own identity.
Presented as part of In Residence: REITZENSTEIN and Cootes Paradise: A Place Above All Others
We hope you enjoy everything we have in store for the 2019 AGH Film Festival! For all the info on everything the Festival has to offer this year, check out our full Film Schedule or our Digital Program Guide.
For tickets, see our Ticket & Pass page or email ticketing@artgalleryofhamilton.com
AGH Film Fest
Ryan is the Curator, Film Program here at the AGH.
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maude.girard needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Teo was accommodating, friendly, timely and extremely helpful during this entire process! THANK YOU!!!
Rossi has been a pleasure to work with. His submissions were truly unique and reflected his careful examination of the brief given. He is also responsive and willing to provide constructive input to explain his design principles and improve concepts. A co-creative experience!
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I would like a logo related to food (fruit especially), health, future, and life. I do not want something related to weight loss or dieting. I do not want a logo related to milk products or cereals.


For college students, spring break means road trips to big cities and balmy beaches. Northwestern students do that too, but some of them pack a hammer. Northwestern College annually sends more than 200 students, faculty and staff in teams to places like Nicaragua and the Netherlands, to California, New York, Mississippi and Florida. They repair homes, visit prisons, tutor youth, serve in soup kitchens, live alongside residents in homeless shelters and more.


This is the shirt for summer's outdoor pursuits, designed to keep you cool and comfortable as you hike, bike, see the sights or indulge in a spot of fishing. The fabric performs on several levels, providing stretch flexibility along with UPF 50 and moisture control, wicking perspiration away from your skin; meanwhile the vented, mesh-lined back yoke allows fresh air to circulate.
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The whole time I was painting this record, I kept getting stuck on the Badger Badger earworm. If you've never heard it, well, here ya go (*also be sure to check out Weebl and Bob- "When come back bring pie...").
I painted this far out, psychedelic Mushroom label record, which was once the Canadian band Chilliwack.
LOOK AT THIS CRAZY RECORD!
You will see colors you have never seen, much like the elusive and silently powerful mantis shrimp. You will go on a mind journey. You will see auras. You will see your past lives.
Hmmm, no. None of those things are true. You will not see those things, most likely.
Or maybe you will. Who am I to say?
All I can say is that this is a beautiful record with pretty colors that makes me happy to look at.
UPDATE: SOLD! AND NOW BEING DISPLAYED IN BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY CALIFORNIA.


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Felicia Battle: 'I am committed to the success of Eagle County students'
News News | Oct 29, 2015
Randy Wyrick
rwyrick@vaildaily.com
Felicia Battle, right, is running for the school board from Eagle.
Special to the Daily |
Meet Your Candidates
The Vail Daily is profiling candidates for the Eagle County School District Board of Education.
Today is Felicia Battle and Bob Ticer, running for District D around Eagle.
Election Day is Nov. 3.
EAGLE COUNTY — Working with people who have the same opinion — that's easy, says Felicia Battle.
"The best solutions come from working with people with whom you might disagree," she said.
Battle is an incumbent who said her role as a school board member is to make decisions based on analysis. She's an accountant and oversees large financial operations, and is a former director of finance with Marriott International.
"I bring a strong financial background as a board member," she said. "I believe my role as a school board member is to make decisions based on analysis, to balance needs and concerns, and have the ability to see the long-term implications of an action."
Battle is an incumbent and said she worked for local and state funding initiatives, finding ways to increase funding. She co-founded the Education Foundation for Eagle County to help provide funding directly to schools when state lawmakers were slashing local budgets.
She has served as Brush Creek Elementary School PTA president, Eagle Valley Middle School PTA member, Education Foundation of Eagle County founder and trustee, and she has served on her neighborhood homeowners association board of directors. Her two children attend Eagle Valley Middle School.
Battle has lived everywhere from the mid-valley to the Middle East, the Northeast, Southwest, New Orleans and Oklahoma City.
Like many of us, she got involved when her children started school, volunteering in classrooms to teach the alphabet to small groups of small kids.
"As they grew as children, I grew as an advocate," Battle said.
Battle agrees that the starting pay for teachers should be boosted but said it goes beyond salaries to things like professional growth opportunities, lodging and lifestyle opportunities.
All it takes is money, and education funding in Colorado is convoluted at best.
"I learned how dismal our state funding is because of TABOR. It's the devil," she said.
The school district is headed in the right direction, but there's still much to do.
Education should ensure that graduates are ready for careers and colleges by helping students develop employer-identified skills, she said.
Graduation rates are 80 percent, which is higher than the state average, but not high enough, Battle said.
"I am committed to the success of Eagle County students and care about our valley-wide community," Battle said. "Working with this board has been a great honor."
Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 and rwyrick@vaildaily.com.
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Strong Room holds an enchanting collection of photographs alongside a short story that reignites a sense of archaic longing within us. The focus is, as with many other things, on the digital age, and the things modern day humans are missing out on. But this doesn't come across as a stuck-in-the-past piece. Instead it's more of a pining recollection, a remembering and longing for the past whilst being firmly set in the present. It's a collection of photographs from an old strong room, a council chamber and a maintenance room, and a story that sits us in the centre of a library, surrounded by books and silence.
The collection of photographs taken by Roelof Bakker are wonderfully reminiscent of older times, if a little repetitive. The photos really set us up for the story to follow and intertwine nicely with it, making us see and even smell the old, worn furniture and battered packaging. It does exactly what it is meant to do, in that we find ourselves thinking and remembering what it would be like to live in a world without technology, where second hand shops are for the old and the new, and where people's history can be found simply by looking through a pile of papers.
But what really makes this collection for me is the story that follows. The photographs manage to put us in just the right mind set to read the wonderfully descriptive 'A Visit To The Archives', and it is no disappointment. We find ourselves lost within a beautiful world of old books and shelves, that are falling apart and smell of their previous owners, until technology swims back to the surface, interrupting the memories and bringing us firmly back to the present, to our virtual reality.
And this is where the piece manages to succeed where many others fail. Instead of being brought back to the present and feeling comfortable there, we find ourselves longing once more for rows and rows of books, or old fireplaces filling the room with their scent, and for the things that can be touched. And whilst taking us on a physical trip down memory lane, the persona also goes down one from a memory, reminding us that it is often the smells of old things that remind us of our own pasts, of the good and the bad things that happen. And this is something that we realise won't happen with technology, for it has no smell, and so no gateway to our forgotten memories.
The photographs taken are wonderfully nostalgic and perfectly reflect on the story. The old gallery chairs with the leather worn away to show the fibrous maze beneath give a real sense of abandonment, and along with 'Strong Room (4)', a photograph taken of rows upon rows of rolled up blueprints and drawings, we can almost feel the dust building up in our throats. But this isn't a bad thing, not at all. Instead it's a reminder of the things that have been forgotten, and like in the story that follows, we remember what it's like to remember.
Jane Wildgoose has managed to create a piece that fits perfectly with Bakker's photography to allow us a short walk into the past, so that we can remember what it is to touch and smell and feel. But don't be put off, for the feeling resurrected within you when you read this won't be that of sadness, more of remembering and longing, so that you can once again lose yourself within a world that has almost been forgotten.


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This week's Atlanta Symphony Orchestra stream was an all-Ravel concert that drew a link between the composer's 20th-century music and the world of Baroque. Le Tombeau de Couperin was Ravel's stylistic nod to a composer who lived some 200 years before him, as well as an homage to friends who had died in World War 1. Its four-movement orchestral version is drawn from the original six-movement piano version. One of its most salient characteristics is the demands it places on the oboe in the first and third sections, here played remarkably well by principal Elizabeth Tischone. For the complete review, go here:
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Sister Rose Margaret West, IHM, first met the IHM Sisters during her senior year of high school when she transferred to St. Mary of Redford in Detroit. She joined the community shortly after graduation. She appreciated the value of her religious formation and came to understand the encompassing nature of spirituality.
For many years, she tended to the sisters' foot-care needs, even returning monthly during the year she ministered at St. Mary of Redford, where she cooked for the IHM Sisters, taught sewing to 17 high school girls and helped in the grade school library.
Back in Monroe, she returned to the Motherhouse Health Care Center and earned membership in the National Alliance of Certified Cardiovascular Technologists. She ministered as a physical therapist and continued to provide foot care to the sisters.
She retired in 2003 and stayed busy with crafts, especially drawing and painting. Her favorite media are chalk, pen and watercolor, and many of her pictures hang in the IHM Motherhouse.
Sister Rose Margaret expresses deep gratitude for her years in the IHM community and feels that her experiences in ministry have expanded her understanding and love for all people.


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Customer Story: Learn the Secret Strategy Behind Canada's Biggest Cannabis Retail Franchise.
Post by Dayna Van Buskirk
PUBLISHED April 18, 2019 - LAST UPDATED April 26, 2019
In the spring of 2018 came a flood; a new retail landscape was being carved out in Canada, as legislation took shape to end the prohibition on recreational cannabis within the year. On the final stretch of the road to legalization, a surge of retailers scrambled to set up shop. They competed for space and raced to establish brand identity even as they speculated on licenses and regulations.
"It was one of the fiercest real estate battles I've ever seen," recalled Darren Bondar, President and CEO of Inner Spirit Holdings, speaking a year later to an audience at the Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Calgary.
His company's retail concept, Spiritleaf, had already become the largest cannabis retail franchise in Canada. Five stores open in Alberta and Saskatchewan, a sixth set to launch in Kingston, Ontario – one of the very first in the province. Big picture: a hundred stores in various stages of development across Canada.
"I love the franchise model," Bondar said. "I have local owners and operators who are invested, living and working in their communities, incorporating different elements of that community with the Spiritleaf brand. It's proven to be really successful and a good model for us."
An ambitious model. One that posed additional challenges. And that's saying something in an industry fraught with more than its fair share of hurdles, both unique and ubiquitous.
"Ensuring that you're complaint, keeping up with the ever-changing regulations, those are the challenges," Bondar said. "And it seems to change every day, between inspector, province and agency. It's complicated, it's frustrating at times, but we've just got to keep trailblazing and working through it."
Bondar's 20 years of retail experience instilled the importance of working with industry partners who could keep up that trailblazing pace. When Spiritleaf chose Cova's POS software to power their franchise, it was, to be certain, after careful consideration.
Cova had compliance covered: inventory reporting, purchase limit alerts, age verification—automation to reduce human error. The kind or errors that could jeopardize a retail license.
Sure, other software did that too. What set Cova apart was how its POS not only reduced human error, but also streamlined the learning curve with a user-friendly design.
"How this point of sale system looks is a big part of it," Christine Kitz told Cova just weeks before the opening of Spiritleaf's milestone Kingston store. As the company's operations manager, she appreciated the system's sleek appeal and intuitive user-interface.
"How simple it is to use, how interactive and intuitive it is—those are all really big points," she said. "I've worked with point of sales over the years and—especially when you're franchising—you need something that's user-friendly for those who have never run a business before. You don't want that to be their biggest hurdle, because they have so much more to deal with."
In a market only recently legitimized, inexperience was somewhat expected. Spiritleaf's franchise model invited a diverse breed of intrepid entrepreneurs, but many were completely new to the industry.
"Each franchise partner is unique in their challenges," Kitz said. "Inexperience is our biggest challenge, but Cova's support hub is a great resource for us and for our franchise partners to access when there are questions."
Of paramount importance to Spiritleaf was finding a software partner who not only stood behind their product, but also proved willing to take it in new directions.
"We looked at a number of different companies," Kitz explained. "We found that Cova really addressed a lot of the needs that we had, and the things you didn't really have built, you were very willing to work with us to get where we need to go, which was really exciting for us."
"Usually, when you're signing up for something, you have amazing support, and everybody's there for you. And then you sign on, and everybody disappears. Cova has been really supportive, and always there, working with us in terms of a partnership, which is something we really appreciate."
It was a sentiment echoed by Bondar the audience in Calgary. "We spent a year looking at point of sale systems, and having been in retail for 20 years, it's something we knew we wanted to get right. For any retailers, if you haven't chosen a point of sale system, I'll save you a year and hundreds of thousands of dollars in bearing bad systems—Cova is your winner."
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I have a large grid of 0.001-degree fishnet cells. I want to label each cell using the coordinates of its own southeast vertex.
I have the coordinates for all the vertices in the entire grid, but I don't see a way to select the SE vertex for each cell except brute force. I do understand that all the vertices in the entire grid are SE corners of "some" grid cell. My challenge is to associate a single vertex with each cell for label purposes.
I did try identifying the "start", "end", and "midpoint" vertices, but I see that different cells in the grid have each of these vertices at different corners, e.g., the "start" vertex was not in the same corner for all cells, so this didn't work.
I think a simple way to do this would be to create a second fishnet that is the same size but offset by half the cell width and height.
Make it as polygons with labels but throw away the polygons and keep the label points which you can add XY values to and label.
The cells were aligned with the geographic grid, i.e., the coordinates of each corner of the cell were multiples of 0.001 degrees. What I ended up doing was to calculate the coordinates of the centroid in each grid cell and then subtract 0.0005 degrees from each coordinate to get to the SE corner (since I'm in the northern and western hemispheres). I gave each cell a unique label using the first 3 digits of the latitude and the longitude.
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#264 / Ending In A Revelation
Pictured within the YouTube clip above is Jad Abumrad, creator of the hit public radio series RadioLab. RadioLab is produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and is then broadcast on public radio stations throughout the United States.
Since I am not much of a podcast listener, I had never heard of Abumrad until I ran across the TED Talk presentation linked above. I encourage you to listen to it, in its entirety. It is extremely professionally produced (though I was personally disappointed that no one ever picked up that banjo in the background). Abumrad's TED Talk is just over thirteen minutes long, and celebrates Dolly Parton's wonderful song, "My Tennessee Mountain Home." Hearing from Abumrad, in this TED Talk, is a worthwhile commitment of your time.
Abumrad tells us how his work with Dolly Parton gave him a new perspective on what his RadioLab segments should be trying to accomplish. Getting to "Wow" is good, and that is where he began, but Abumrad started to think that "Wow" wasn't quite good enough. Then, Abumrad began understanding that if his podcasts could present and dramatize significant divisions and difference within our society, this could help listeners gain important and worthwhile insights. He focused his podcasts on doing that, but he ended up not being completely satisfied with that kind of focus, either.
Finally, Abumrad did a nine-part series on Dolly Parton, and came up with a new idea. "A story cannot end in difference," says Abumrad. "It has to end in revelation." We have to find a place, he says, "where the things we hold as different resolve themselves in something new." Dolly Parton, Abumrad says, has found a way to do that with her audience.
We have to do that with our country.
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Aspen ski racer Wiley Maple reaches the bottom of the Birds of Prey downhill course following a training run on Dec. 2, 2017, in Beaver Creek.
BEAVER CREEK — Call this the no drama edition of Birds of Prey. Snow dances, constant checking of weather forecasts and reading assorted almanacs were not necessary this year.
The Xfinity Birds of Prey Audi FIS Ski World Cup races are a go after the International Ski Federation gave Beaver Creek positive snow control on Friday, Nov. 16.
In English, the resort has snow and it's been cold enough during the last month to make snow to complement the natural stuff and so World Cup racing is on for the week after Thanksgiving.
After 2016 was scrubbed because it was too warm and the 2017 edition was an iffy proposition because of similar conditions, there was much happiness for all involved.
"Early season conditions have been excellent, and we are excited to host the best men's racers in the world once again at Beaver Creek," said Mike Imhof, president of the Vail Valley Foundation.
When last Birds of Prey touched down in December, Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr became the sixth first-time World Cup winner at Beaver Creek's super-G. That proved to be a breakout moment for him as Kriechmayr won three times on tour last season, finishing second in the super-G points and seventh overall.
Beaver Creek podium regular Kjetil Jansurd was second, followed by Austria's Hannes Reichelt.
Ironically, Reichelt is also one of the six to get his first win at Birds of Prey way back in 2005.
While Austrian legend Hermann Maier holds the record for wins at Birds of Prey with eight, Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal pulled into a tie for second with American Ted Ligety with his sixth win here last season in the downhill.
Running out of the first bib, the Norwegian started the day on the hot seat and watched as everyone tried unsuccessfully to bounce him off the chair. We'll see if Svindal is up for another campaign. At the end of last season, he was leaning toward retirement, but he has been training back in Europe.
Switzerland's Beat Feuz and Germany's Thomas Dressen rounded out the downhill podium.
In the giant slalom, to the surprise of no one, Austria's Marcel Hirscher won. Perhaps, it was a surprise to him as he had broken his ankle during the offseason, but that win started his march to a seventh consecutive World Cup championship, so the skiing world knows he's dominant in the tech events.
That was Hirscher's sixth win here, making it a three-way tie among racers not named Hermann Maier for victories at Birds of Prey, while Henrik Kristoffersen and Germany's Stefan Luitz were second and third, respectively.
Birds of Prey week starts with downhill training runs from Tuesday, Nov. 28, though Thursday, Nov. 30. The general idea is to get in two runs of training during the three days, allowing one day for weather, which in this case could be snow as opposed to the warm temperatures that have plagued the event the last two years.
The super-G is on Friday, Nov. 30, followed by the downhill on Saturday, Dec. 1, and GS on Sunday, Dec. 2.
Meanwhile, the World Cup starts up earnest this weekend in Levi, Finland. Eagle-Vail's Mikaela Shiffrin is the favorite in Saturday, Nov. 17's first slalom of the season. She won seven of nine in that discipline last year. On Sunday, Nov. 18, the men get their first crack at racing — also a slalom — after their stop in Soelden, Austria, back in October was scrubbed.
While everyone celebrates Thanksgiving and prepares for Birds of Prey, the women are in Killington, Vermont, for GS and slalom, while the men head to Lake Louise, Alberta, for speed events before heading to Beaver Creek.


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Q: Matlab zoom or pan an image while 'Clipping' is 'off' I try displaying image with non standard aspect ratio (width>>height) in my GUI.
But when I zoom-in the image is clipped to the original axes position. I've managed to solve this problem by setting the 'Clipping' property to 'off'. But now for some reason the pan and zoom tools are only active while the mouse hovers over the initial position of the image (the position it had before I zoomed in).
Here is a piece of code for demonstration (I'm using Matlab 2011a, but also noticed the problem in other versions):
I = repmat(imread('cameraman.tif'), [1 20]);
figure,
h=imshow(I);
set(h,'Clipping','off')

(Just run those lines and try zooming in once or twice. The zoom/pan tools will only work in the area where the image initially was.)
Is there a way of zooming in without clipping the image, and yet getting the pan and zoom tools to work all over the enlarged image?


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What's in your hangar?
October 19, 2007 by Meg Godlewski
How would you like it if you were on the waiting list to get a hangar at your airport and you knew that one of the current tenants used his hangar to store his motor home, a pool table, and parts of a car and old furniture — everything but an airplane? Chances are that you'd complain about the unfairness of it all to the airport manager. And chances are the airport manager would agree with you.
That's the case at Falcon Field Airport (FEZ) in Mesa, Ariz., where airport officials are taking a hard line with airport tenants who violate their lease agreements by not using their hangars for aircraft storage.
According to Airport Director Corinne Nystrom, the airport has 412 hangars, most of them T-hangars built within the last 30 years. Airport officials have decided to conduct random inspections of the city-owned facilities to make sure tenants are operating within the guidelines of their leases.
"Most of them do," said Nystrom, "but occasionally there is someone who does not. Over the years we have found hangars converted into workshops or people storing boats and RVs in them."
The city also has spotted illegal businesses, such as paint shops, operating out of hangars.
"They get found out because they have the door open and a city employee drives by and sees it," she said. "The agreement that they signed specifically states that they cannot operate businesses out of their hangars."
Aircraft construction and some light maintenance is permitted, she noted, as long as the hangar occupant complies with city fire codes.
At the present time, tenants are allowed to keep some non-aviation items in their hangars as long as they are incidental to the aircraft storage, she said. "We're okay with bicycles and such as long as there is an aircraft in there."
In order to inspect the hangars, city officials are notifying tenants 48 hours in advance, then meeting them at the building. Their leases stipulate that the city is allowed to inspect the premises, said Nystrom, but the leaseholder has to open the door.
"The city does not have keys to the locks. The tenants supply their own," she said. "We visited with the tenants about the possibility of the city putting locks on the hangars and the tenants were adamant that they did not want that."
She noted that Falcon Field is the only airport in the region that does not have city-supplied locks on hangars.
In addition to looking for improperly used hangars, the city is also checking to be sure that the aircraft are properly registered and that the registration matches the name on the hangar lease.
"We do not allow subletting," Nystrom explained. "That is one of the biggest problems we have. There are over 200 people on the waiting list to get a hangar and then there are people who sublet a hangar to one of their buddies who is way down on the waiting list or maybe not on the list at all and that is not fair."
Tenants who blatantly violate their leases are sent notices of termination and given 30 days to move.
Hangar inspections also are done to make sure the buildings are up to code and not in need of repair. In past years the inspections uncovered potentially life-threatening situations.
"This was before my time, but one of the inspections found a meth lab operating in one of the hangars," said Nystrom.
The good news is that the city has leased some land to private developers who have expressed a desire to build more hangars.
"The city ran the numbers to see what it would cost to build more hangars and learned that we would have to charge twice as much as we are charging now to make the project work. When the private sector gets hold of it they will charge what they need to charge to make it work."
About 990 aircraft are based at the airport, with the majority single-engine planes. A basic T-hangar rents for $198 a month.
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Why Do Multi-level Marketing Companies Love Kyrsten Sinema?
Laura Clawson
November 07 | 2021
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
Reprinted with permission from DailyKos
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has emerged as the favored candidate of multilevel marketing companies, and it's not because of her statement handbags and dresses, as easy as it would be to imagine her recruiting a group of coworkers or friendquaintances to aggressively pitch said handbags and dresses over a few glasses of red wine.
It's because multilevel marketing companies, many of which come about as close as possible to being full-on pyramid schemes while remaining within the law, are worried about Democrats passing the Protecting the Right to Organize Act and see Sinema as a key ally in defeating it, Politico reports.
The PRO Act would, among other things, make it more difficult for companies to misclassify workers as independent contractors rather than employees. Independent contractors don't have many protections and rights that employees have—little things like the minimum wage, overtime pay, Social Security contributions, and protections against discrimination. Multilevel marketing companies want to keep it that way because their entire business model is built around people working for them for very little—in some cases, even losing money.
Sinema is one of three Democratic senators who hasn't signed on to the bill, with her fellow Arizona senator, Mark Kelly, who has said he wants changes to the independent contractor provisions, and Sen. Mark Warner, who has signaled support despite not having formally co-sponsored it. Even Sen. Joe Manchin is theoretically on board.
Multilevel marketing companies are not traditionally big political givers, and especially not to Democrats. The DeVos family got its wealth through Amway, one of the early big names in the industry, and they are obviously huge Republicans. But the PAC for Alticor, Amway's parent company, gave Sinema $2,500 in June. The bat signal definitely went out in June, because, Politico reports, three other multilevel marketers gave Sinema $2,500 apiece that month. She got other chunks of $2,500 from industry players in April and July. Aside from the DeVos family, several of these firms make few political contributions: two of the PACs that donated to Sinema haven't given to any other federal lawmakers this year, and a third has otherwise only given to lawmakers in its home state of Utah.
In addition to her opposition to strengthening worker protections, Sinema has been a supporter of multilevel marketing, joining a virtual town hall put on by the Direct Selling Association and Isagenix in May 2020, and saying she would help them "succeed through these difficult circumstances." The Direct Selling Association has described her as "One of the few Democratic Senators who supports direct selling."
Come to think of it, if Sinema gets primaried out in the future, she could have a future as a real rock star MLM seller and recruiter.
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Three Tips For Getting Your Asking Price On Your Home
Melissa Brewer
September 13 | 2021
When it comes time to sell a home, sellers usually want their homes sold quickly and for their asking price. But getting the best price and selling your home quickly usually requires a sound strategy. After all, buyers decide the value of a home and they want to feel like they're getting the most bang for their buck.
So how can you sell your home in a timely and cost-effective way? These tips can help you pull it off.
Time Your Move With the Market
It's estimated that the average homeowner moves every five to seven years on average. When they move, they're looking for the right fit for themselves and their families and they're looking for value.
One thing you need to be aware of when it comes to real estate is that timing can be everything. For example, house prices usually experience their biggest gains in summertime. Why? That's when the weather is at its best and buyers can get outside and look at homes. So if you're sprucing up your home to sell it, make sure to have it ready for summer. That's not to say buyers won't be interested at other times of the year, especially in areas where there's a shortage of housing. But summer is ideal, and if you need help selling, a local realtor can help make sure buyers see your home.
Replace the Necessities
As previously mentioned, when potential buyers are looking at homes they're interested in, they're looking at size and location, yes, but they're also looking for value. Put more plainly, they want to see that everything inside and outside of the house works and functions like it's supposed to.
If you're getting your prized piece of real estate ready for selling, you want to make sure everything is in tip-top shape. You don't necessarily have to fix everything, but curb appeal is a big factor in selling and a little TLC can go a long way toward making your home look more attractive. If the driveway has cracks in it, take steps to have it repaired. If the outside of your home could use some touch-up paint, get to work.
If your home needs a new roof, look into getting it repaired or at least negotiate something with a buyer so that they're not stuck paying the full price on a new roof. A customer survey identified durability as the top factor to be considered, followed by longevity. If a new roof is going on the house, a new owner is going to want something that lasts a long time.
Play Up Desirable Parts Of Your Home
When it comes to real estate, buyers certainly like to see value, but they can also be attracted to things that are new and different. If you've spent time and money on upgrading your home, don't be afraid to show that off. If you've got energy-efficient lights and windows -- a major draw for nearly 50 percent of buyers -- make that a major selling point. Potential buyers may also be interested if you've got a backyard pool, a fenced-in backyard, or a bigger garage than other homes in the area.
A realtor can help accentuate all the really cool features of your home, ensuring that buyers don't miss them when they look around.
With the right features, the right attention to care, and selling your home at the right time, your house can be off the market in no time at all.
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