We can start by talking about what Selam is and what does Selam do?
Selam is a music organization founded 14 years ago by Teshome Wondimu. At that time, in 1997, there weren't many organizers who presented ethnic minorities's music in central Stockholm — if there were any, it was mostly Folkets Hus parties, where the artists came out to the suburbs and played only for small communities.
In the case of Swedish concert halls or music institutions, there was no interest in bringing any major alternative/ethnic artists. While there are concert halls in Stockholm that have been instructed to book such groups, at that time they were offering relatively homogeneous concerts, more homogeneous than today anyway, so Selam was born as a way to raise interest and awareness about minority music.
During the first years, Selam showcased mainly African music — naturally, seeing as Teshome has an Etiophian background. Then, when I started to work for the organisation, Selam had started to broaden to include some Latin concerts, mainly Salsa. Teshome had a clear view to expand more on the Latin side, and that is how I got involved.
I have been here at Selam for three years, and we continue to broaden our horizons. We have continued to bring in artists from Africa and Latin America. Selam has opened a door and a market for artists from those continents, and we have received good responses — even if it is a hard job because we are relatively few in the office, given that our shows are often large productions, but they have all been well received.
You really are doing an amazing job when it comes to showcasing more varied music. Is it hard to find artists you want to showcase?
We try to maintain a balance with what we do, we can not just go for big established names, but we also want to showcase small groups or newer groups, to display the fusion taking place between different music styles today. The global trend, the digital revolution, the meetings that take place across borders without the need to relocate yourself.
There is a lot going on and, as a music organizer, it's a lot to keep up with. An incredible amount of music is launched not on a record, but online. It's an exciting world we live in, and we are trying to navigate through it to find a variety to an audience that feels relevant, that feels necessary.
So what has been the most fun that Selam has managed to do up until now?
We have been able to get many of these large concert halls, and institutions with us on this. They have understood the value of bringing in an audience that is different, coming from the suburbs, coming from a different origin, that may come to the Stockholm Concert Hall for the first time or a rock club like Debaser Medis, or a small club as Fasching.
We have managed to get partners that believe that our work is important — much of our work is based on what we get from our good forces because it's hard to do this as a commercial partner. We are an association, we are supported by the cultural support that is available to get. There, Selam, and especially Tesho, have been good at motivating and demonstrating an activity that deserves this support.
Of course, because what you do is really valuable. You give people an alternative to mainstream music.
When compared with rock and pop groups, we have a smaller setting — they can be four to five people on stage, usually coming from nearby countries or from Sweden itself. Our productions are quite different from that, our touring companies may include groups of 25 people, they come from Latin America or Africa.
There are many instruments to be hired, many hotel rooms to be booked, transportation, many who need food. It's very expensive productions that we do. It is hard to put together.
Even in marketing, we must often find new ways to reach out because our audience is so spread out over Stockholm and Sweden. It requires an extra effort to reach our main audience. We advertise in minority newspapers, community radio, in different languages. We really must make a great effort to spread our message. It is not always as easy as placing advertisements in a newspaper like Dagens Nyheter, which generally works for a specific audience.
If you are a fan then you find what you like, but I would guess that the real challenge lies in getting people that aren't fans to be able to spread this cultural experience.
Yes. What we think is interesting is the meetings that occur on our productions. We, for example, have a Swedish audience who follows us, that tends to be curious about what we do, and they might take a gamble and come to one of our events.
Interesting encounters happen around our productions, between people of different ages, origins, different parts of Stockholm, there will be people from outside of Stockholm — some people come from Västerås.
We have also started doing concerts around the country. There are a lot of these meetings, we call them "global meetings", that take place across borders and across ages, which is fun and gives us the strength to continue.


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and the news about taguchi and the gf…is that still going on?
I love this web page blog thing!!!
hi! i'm from america, and i'm a big kat-tun fan as well. i like your blog! it's nice to have translations and news about kat-tun since i can't get their updates any other way – thanks!
Its been awhile and gladly there is something written here in April. Thank you for the update and i hope this weblog will still exist. Oh one more thing, the more i watch Bleach-kurosaki ichigo look like Taguchi Junnosuke. So if someone(film producer) want to make Bleach come alive try out Taguchi for the role Ichigo..


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Redstone, Colorado
Ruby of the Rockies
History of the RAF
Labor Day Weekend Art Show
Links to Artists and Events
Jimmie Benedict, President
Jimmie Benedict and her husband, Ron Phaneuf, retired to Redstone in 2013 to be near grandchildren. Jimmie has been a studio fiber artist since 1970, creating art to wear and custom art for the home and business. She served as president of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, based in Asheville, NC, and founded The Wild Women Artists in Reno, NV, a group of women artists showing and selling their work in northern Nevada. Jimmie tends to play in the studio now and share what she can in the community.
Becky Trembley, Secretary
Becky is in the position of secretary, among all of her other jobs and interests. After many years of putting her love of art on the "back burner", Becky is now ready to follow her heart back into
 the art scene.
Betty Bradley, treasurer
Betty served as President for 12 years and has stepped down but will continue to use her organizational abilities to guide the Foundation in 2018 and beyond. Betty and her husband, Ernie, retired to the Crystal River Valley 19 years ago and have been active in the community volunteering their time and talents to many organizations.
Cathy Montgomery
Cathy is a self-employed psychotherapist. Her calm "voice of reason" has been invaluable to the board. Redstone was very fortunate when she moved from Minneapolis to our small mountain village.
KAREN ALLDREDGE
Karen has been involved in thE prehistoric art form of baske-tweaving for over 20 years. She teaches basket-weaving classes, lectures on the history of the craft and shows her baskets in several galleries throughout the Roaring Fork Valley and at the Redstone Art Show.
Traditional and functional baskets used throughout our nation's history are her specialty. Karen feels baskets hold the history of man, evoking a reminder of a simpler life and are fine companions, humble with an artistic nature. Simple things seem to work best in life; this is definitely true of baskets. The RAF is truly fortunate to add Karen as our newest board member.
PAM WADSWORTH
Pam is both an glass artist and retired certified fund raising executive who has worked with non-profits for more than 25 years. Opening a studio in 1978, Pam has designed, repaired and consulted on many residential stained glass installations and taught classes from beginning stained glass to advanced lamp building. Today she focuses on glass kaleidoscopes and one-of-a-kind dichroic glass and sterling silver jewelry. She brings considerable non-profit leadership experience, love of the arts and enthusiasm to the Redstone Art Foundation. Pam and her family have been part-time residents in the Crystal River Valley since 1974.
ANDREA GARR
Andrea, formerly of Boston, where she most recently owned Bead + Fiber a retail store in Boston, is also a recovering lawyer. Andrea now happily resides in Redstone where she and her husband are proprietors of the Redstone Cliffs Lodge. Over the years Andrea has dabbled in, instructed many and mastered at least a few 2 and 3-d arts. She is best known in the east for her crocheted beaded jewelry, now available exclusively at the Redstone Art Gallery. In her Redstone studio Andrea is trying to focus on metalwork jewelry, with a few new distractions such as welding and basket weaving.
Charlene Miller, alternate & art show Curator 2018
Charlene Miller is our "snowbird" board member. Charlene and husband, Ray, live here in the summer and fall months and return to their home in California for the winter. We are fortunate to have Charlene's enthusiasm and advice while she is here.
frances bogle
Frances and her husband moved to Marble where they retired in 2016. She has become involved in the community by volunteering in the Marble Charter School, serving on the School Board and the Marble Hub Board and singing in the choir of the Marble Community Church.
Prior to moving to Marble, Frances worked in the social service and educational sectors in the US, Canada and Middle East.


Jake, oil on canvas board, 8" x 8"
I've never had a pet dog, but after painting this smiling retriever I'm beginning to understand the appeal of a constant sunny disposition in a companion. My friends who have goldens truly adore them and Emma, my pet portrait winner, is no exception. Even with a menagerie of pets at home, she chose her family's aging golden retriever Jake to have his portrait painted. Jake's character seemed so epitomized by his big toothy grin that I decided to brave it despite the challenges of painting an open mouthed smile. Emma had such a good selection of photos from different periods in Jake's long life that although we've never met, I feel as though I've come to know him a little. And I've had welcome assurances according to various members of his human family that I managed to catch something of his personality in this little painting.


I am writing as the chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Near Eastern Studies to respond to the grossly misleading submission by Ben Meiselman, a member of Bruins for Israel ("One-sided Gaza debate a disservice to UCLA," Feb. 5).
I have to wonder, as anyone who attended the symposium might have wondered, if Meiselman had actually attended the panel or if a member of the neo-conservative Campus Watch (all too present at the event) reported it to him. At any rate, giving Meiselman the benefit of the doubt, I am curious how he could have heard and interpreted what he did.
First of all, I feel it is incumbent on me to inform readers of the august academic figures who spoke at the event and to remind Meiselman that the title of the symposium was "Human Rights and Gaza," and was intended to inform the audience of the human rights tragedy unfolding in front of their eyes. A special emphasis was placed on the toll on Gaza's children (even before the invasion) as a result of Israel's blockade of any goods or humanitarian relief, including medical supplies.
This toll has been reported, with great alarm, by Doctors Without Borders and a number of other up-close humanitarian organizations. However, to not present the humanitarian crisis in a vacuum, two UCLA faculty and two UC Santa Barbara faculty presented historical and legal factors, placing Israel and Palestine and the Gaza Strip in context.
The symposium began with an historical overview by Professor Gabriel Piterberg, an Israeli who teaches history at UCLA and is the author of a new work, "The Return of Zionism" (2008) and dozens of other publications. This well-known and highly respected professor presented an analysis of settler colonialism, comparing aspects of occupied Palestine with the French in Algeria. Professor Lisa Hajjar, chair of the Law and Society Program at UCSB and the author of "Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza" (2005), informed the audience of the international laws that are at stake in the occupation of Palestine by Israel.
She emphasized that it is against international law (a general term I am using for a range of conventions, such as the Geneva Convention) for an occupying power to attack the territory it is occupying, among many other laws of war and humanitarianism that are being violated.
Professor Hajjar was followed by visiting Professor Richard Falk. Professor Falk is a pre-eminent human rights scholar who is United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories and the author of the new "Achieving Human Rights" (2008) and "Costs of War: the UN, International Law and World Order After Iraq" (2007). Falk further explicated the violations of international law that have been occurring in Gaza.
The last speaker was Saree Makdisi, a professor of English at UCLA and the author of the newly published "Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation" (2008). Makdisi, himself a Palestinian, gave the most ground-zero account of what is happening to Gazans, especially children. His account not only included the disproportionate death toll of children to the adult civilian population, but also the medical and nutritional conditions that are stunting Gaza's children in every way.
The dramatic and moving symposium stunned the audience in a number of ways. One can only compliment the director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, Professor Susan Slyomovics, who organized the symposium and was moderator, not only for her firm control of an active audience, but for her clear insight in organizing an event with just the right tone of seriousness, urgency and academic knowledge. Slyomovics herself is a highly respected scholar of Palestine and Israel. She wrote the book "The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village" (1998) as well as a more recent book on human rights in Morocco.
Clearly, these are scholars who are very well-informed on the subject of the symposium and whose scholarship is beyond repute. They are scholars who bring pride to the University of California. This was a group of highly informed and qualified Jews, Israelis, Arabs and Arab Americans examining and trying to make sense of the human disaster of Gaza and criticizing the state policies that have lead to this calamity. This is the role of the Center for Near Eastern Studies "" to bring us programs of this sort.
By not differentiating between what audience participants said and did and what the scholarly panelists presented, Meiselman did a disservice to Daily Bruin readers who had not attended the event, only doing the very thing he decried "" perpetuating further divisions among our students.
Hale is a professor of anthropology and women's studies at UCLA.


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Peoples Democratic Party Youths Attack 80-year-old Man With Machetes Over Political Disagreement In Edo
Some youths, who're members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State have brutally attacked an 80-year-old man in Atte group beneath Akoko Edo Local Government Area of the state.
The younger males, wielding sticks and machetes, dragged the previous man on the bottom for a number of metres earlier than touchdown a number of lethal blows on him with the weapons.
The assault, in accordance with a resident of the world, occurred following a political disagreement throughout a gathering of occasion members at Ikpeshi group throughout the similar council space.
"Atte people went there to hold a meeting with other PDP members when the incident happened.
"Those boys are in Governor Godwin Obaseki's faction whereas the previous man is within the camp of National Vice Chairman of the occasion (South-South), Dan Orbih, that was why they beat him and others due to disagreement within the harmonisation of the occasion ward govt.
"The 80-year-old man was beaten with a machete and sticks and then dragged on the ground. He is in a very bad state now because of the injuries sustained during that attack. This old man deserves justice for the inhuman treatment meted out to him by the attackers," Theophilus Ikioya, who lives locally, advised SaharaReporters.
In October, Governor Obaseki was current as members of the PDP ratified the suspension of Orbih.
Despite opposition from the nationwide management, the suspension of Orbih and others was ratified by all PDP leaders throughout the 18 council areas of the state.
Obaseki joined the PDP from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo shortly earlier than the 2020 governorship election.
The governor is allegedly mobilising sources beneath his management to take over the management of the occasion within the state – a transfer that has pitched him towards different PDP stakeholders in Edo like Orbih, who had been within the occasion lengthy earlier than 2020.
The scenario, in accordance with observers, has led to violent assaults between members of the varied factions of the PDP within the state.
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The RMS PTA uses funds raised through direct donations to the Raider Fund for student programs (speakers, authors, dances), academic programs (support of the faculty and professional development), and PTA programs (Reflections, RSVP, coffee and dessert gatherings with the principal, staff appreciation, school improvements such as signage and landscaping).
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General Mills "Box Tops for Education" can be found everywhere, on a wide variety of items, including Huggies products, Cottonelle products, many Betty Crocker and Pillsbury products, numerous brands of cereal, Yoplait yogurt, Juicy Juice, and many more. (For a full list of participating products, click here.) 10 TOPS = $1.00 for our school!! Simply clip the Box Tops cleanly along the dotted lines, being careful not to cut off the expiration date, and turn them in to your child's teacher. Another great way to support RMS PTA with Box Tops for Education is to do your on-line shopping through their website, btfe.com/marketplace. There are links to many retailers including Walmart, Lands' End and Expedia. By using the on-line site, additional money can be raised and sent to the RMS PTA.
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Kyrie Irving and Marcus Morris each scored 20 points, and the Celtics rallied in the second half to the beat Indiana Pacers 84-74 on Sunday (Monday, PHL time) in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
Game 2 is Wednesday night (Thursday, PHL time) in Boston.
Both teams shot under 40 percent for the game. Boston hit just 36 percent (28-of-77) and had 20 turnovers. Indiana connected on 33 percent of its shots (28-of-84) and turned it over 13 times.
Boston opened the third quarter with a 22-3 run to take a 60-48 lead. The Pacers didn't get their first field goal of the second half until Joseph dropped in a layup with 3:38 left in the third. They finished the quarter 2-for-19 from the field.
Pacers: Went 12-of-21 from the free throw line.
The period ended with Terry Rozier connecting on an acrobatic three-pointer with 0.1 seconds remaining to put the Celtics ahead 64-53. The lead grew to 84-62 on a three-pointer by Tatum with 3:34 remaining.
The change paid off with Morris going 3-of-4 in the period, including two three-pointers, and scoring 12 points. No other Celtics player had more than two points.
Boston hosts Game 2 on Wednesday (Thursday, PHL time).


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0.1 For decorating your kitchen, you will need some modern kitchen curtains that are chic and stylish.
0.1.1 There are many different designs and styles of modern kitchen curtains and here we are going to discuss some of them.
For decorating your kitchen, you will need some modern kitchen curtains that are chic and stylish.
The kitchen in your home is a place where you spend a great deal of time preparing food for your family. So it is essential that you have the right kitchen decor that exudes warmth and coziness. A kitchen has a lot of kitchen appliances and steel and chrome fittings, so to soften these elements you need kitchen curtains that are soft and inviting. Colorful modern kitchen curtains in various patterns made from different materials can be used.
There are many different designs and styles of modern kitchen curtains and here we are going to discuss some of them.
For working in the kitchen, you would require adequate light and air. This is possible with the aid of cafe curtains. Traditionally cafe curtains were used in small cafes and bistros as they allowed customers to look out of the window and at the same time giving them some privacy. Nowadays cafe curtains are very much popular and they are used as modern kitchen curtains in many homes.
If you prefer something more romantic, than go for tied back curtains in float fabrics and sheer fabrics. These tied back curtains in pastel colors look great in a large kitchen. It softens the look of the kitchen decor and gives it a very cozy and warm look. The biggest advantage of sheer kitchen curtains is that it allows light to enter the kitchen and at the same time gives you privacy.
This was all about modern kitchen curtains. Kitchen curtains are a necessary element of kitchen decoration, so you should choose them with care. The right kitchen curtain idea has the ability to transform and enhance the decor of the kitchen.


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Mac Games > Arcade & Action Games > ClearIt 4
ClearIt 4
Clear It is back with 180 new puzzling levels to complete. See why gamers love these unique color-matching challenges. The objective is simple – clear all balls from the center field by shooting them with like colors. Game time is unlimited, but the complexity grows in interesting ways as you progress through the levels. Are you up to the challenge?
180 unique color-matching levels
Fun mechanics with colorful animations
10 hours of gameplay
Clear It 3
OS: 10.14/10.13/10.12/10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8
CPU: 2.0 GHz (INTEL ONLY)
Browser: Safari 4.0 or later
Clutter 1000
Fantasy Mosaics 33: Inventor's Workshop
Fantasy Mosaics 32: Santa's Hut
Road Trip Europe
Next Stop 3
ClearIt 4 is rated 3.7 out of 5 by 6.
Rated 5 out of 5 by roadman01 from Clearit 4.. Fun Fun Fun Addictive & repeatable just like all previous Clearit versions...would like to see an onscreen Clock to time myself to clear any a level...and a move number counter...so I can improve both my time & reduce the number of moves each time I play...awesome...
Rated 5 out of 5 by andrewhow324 from Clearit 4 Another great game in the series to play these sort of games get me thinking about moves
Rated 5 out of 5 by Quickie from HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! This game is so addictive. I'm supposed to be doing so many other things and it is so difficult to stop playing! Concept is so easy but you just can't stop. Kind of like a Star Trek TNG episode. I seriously suggest you set some time aside to get into this game. Really.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Cyril48 from Too samey and got bored Well I have the first 2 and enjoyed them but 3 I found too alike to the others and got bored so did not purchase. Then when this one came out was hoping that there would be enough extra in it to make me want to buy it but alas no I lasted 20 mins then did not want to play anymore. If you do not have the others then yes it is worth getting but if you already have the others then think very carefully. It is so good to have these demos
Rated 3 out of 5 by pennmom36 from IT get's kinda boring trying to CLEAR IT When the original Clear IT game was released, IT was a really fun game and I purchased IT right away. I loved IT so much that I didn't even play the demo when Clear IT 2 was released, I just bought IT. After clearing several levels of the second game, I started to grow weary of the repetitiveness and I just gave up on IT. I think IT lost the IT factor, but by then a similar game was released called Quadrium, and I purchased the next two versions of THAT game. Oddly enough, I didn't lose interest in either of those games. When Clear IT 3 was released, I played the entire demo but didn't feel compelled to purchase IT. Now Clear IT has released the 4th game in the series, and I did finish the demo, but IT didn't do anything for me either, in fact, I was kind of glad the demo was over because I was certainly over IT! I found IT to be slow and the mechanics slow to respond. IT does have 150 Levels and you can also play IT in an Expert Difficulty Mode. There's no timer or limited moves, so you take all the time in the world to clear the balls, which makes this type of game very relaxing. The gameplay itself is simple, but the game itself isn't so simple to master. There are unlimited colored balls located on all four sides of the board, all you need to do, is select and click on a ball, which will travel in a straight line until it hits another ball (or power-up) If the selected ball hits a ball on the board that is the same color, they will both be destroyed. (requires groups of 3 in Expert Mode) Using a little bit of strategy, however, allows you to destroy several balls in a single move. Each level usually has power-ups that only remain briefly, and when hit with a ball it activates the power-up. There are Rotation power-ups that add more balls to the field, Stars that eliminate several balls, Lightning & fireballs that eliminates nearby balls, Exclamations that eliminates all balls of the same color, and 1 or 5 numbers that eliminate 1 or 5 boxes. Each level is slightly more difficult than the previous level, as more colors are added, there's less of a chance of getting the necessary colored balls along the edges. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice a few balls, by adding more to the equation, just to get to the colored balls you need, but there's no scoring so it doesn't count against you. CLEARIT SERIES LIST Title***Release Date***Average Rating 1-Clearit 1 (April 11-2016) 4.3 2-Clearit 2 (September 6-2017) 4.3 3-Clearit 3 (August 26-2018) 3.7 4-Clearit 4 (November 22-2018) n/a by: Itera Laboratories
Rated 1 out of 5 by iou001 from Definitely will clear it. After 3 or 4 clicks I was was ready to clear this game from my Game Manager. I made it half way through level 2 and couldn't handle it anymore. The game is so simple that I think a child would get bored with it too. There's no bells and whistles to this game, just keep clicking. This game might've been a big hit 25 years ago but it's an epic fail for this decade. Cleared it out of my Game Manager.
Clear It is back with a variety of unique color-matching challenges!


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Secret Identity, Male Characters, Earth-One Characters,
Copper-Age Characters
Separated Characters
Height 6'
J.M. DeMatteis/Creator
Tom Sutton/Creator
Andrew Bennett (New Earth)/Quotes
Vampirism
Enhanced Senses
Enhanced Vision
Enhanced Hearing
Enhanced Sense of Smell
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Stamina
Phasing
Swordsmanship
Andrew Bennett (New Earth)
I...Vampire!
Andrew Bennett
Mary Seward (partner), Elise Bennett (mother)
Formerly Lords of Order, Team 13
Boston, Massachusetts · formerly England
Black · White
Earth-One · New Earth
J.M. DeMatteis · Tom Sutton
House of Mystery #290
(March, 1981)
Four hundred years ago my vampiric kiss transformed the woman I loved into a soulless thing called Mary, Queen of Blood! Today an unholy order follows her evil designs, and the blood they spill is on my hands! Thus I must stop her... I, Andrew Bennett... I... Vampire!
-- Andrew Bennett src
Andrew Bennett is a 16th Century vampire who hunts other vampires. Despite having supernatural strengths and weaknesses, he is able to resist the bloodlust to feed on humans. His immortal life is dedicated to hunting down his former lover Mary, Queen of Blood.
In the year 1591, Andrew Bennett was a celebrated English nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's court. He distinguished himself in military service during the Anglo-Spanish War. His lover Mary Seward was the Queen's handmaiden. During one of his late-night rides, he is attacked and bitten by a vampire. Bennett slays the vampire then hides in his bedroom to resist the bloodlust, feeding only on animals. Mary begs him to transform her too so she can be with him for eternity, and he agrees in a moment of weakness. To his horror she loses her humanity and becomes a merciless killer. Mary takes the name Queen of Blood and starts the Cult of the Blood Red Moon, a secret international organization of vampires. Bennett dedicates his immortal life to tracking her down across the centuries, trying to end the terror he released upon the world.[1]
In the early 1900s he worked with a man named Edward Trane in London, although Trane was captured by the Blood Red Moon and presumed dead.[2] Bennett met his friend and ally Dmitri Mishkin as a young boy when Mary killed Dmitri's parents. He took the young boy in and raised him as a vampire hunter, eventually becoming his oldest friend.[3] He recruited a young woman named Deborah Dancer to his crusade when he rescued her from Mary at the Woodstock festival.[4]
I... Vampire!
Bennett enlists the vampire hunters Deborah Dancer and Dmitri Mishkin to his crusade. They track down Mary, Queen of Blood after many years, but it's revealed to be an impostor sent to embarrass him.[1] They take down a vampire drug dealer named Emil Veldt who gives them the Blood Red Moon's financial records.[5] Investigating all of their properties, they fight the American Freedom Party and meet Dmitri's vampiric mother Dunya Mishkin.[6] Dmitri is shaken so badly he nearly kills them in a car accident before confessing his sorrows.[3] Their next mission is the Temple of the Ineffable Tao. They meet a group of peaceful vampire monks led by Master Shoju, and slay the manipulative Billy Kessler.[7] When they're attacked by human agents of the Blood Red Moon in daytime, the group is trapped in a cave-in. Bennett nearly gives in to his bloodlust and eats Deborah, but she wakes up and he kisses her instead. Realizing that he must stop putting his friends in danger, Bennett abandons them to continue his crusade alone.[8]
The next family to take him in are murdered when the Blood Red Moon finds him again.[9] He realizes that their activities are linked to a traveling carnival, and infiltrates them in disguise. Mary discovers this ruse and stakes him through the chest.[10] Bennett survives and thwarts their plans, burning the carnival to the ground. Every vampire is killed in the flames except Mary, who escapes again.[11]
Vampires start dying when a cancer cure is invented by Allen Barr that makes human blood poisonous. Andrew follows Mary to Egypt, where they travel backwards through time using the magic Rings of Kur-Alet.[12] Mary tries to kill Barr's grandparents in the 19th Century, but ends up fighting Jack the Ripper.[13] She strands Bennett in the past by threatening Deborah Dancer as a child and throwing his ring into the ocean.[14] Bennett and the young Dancer find his ring by scuba-diving when it reanimates Nazi Zombies in a U-Boat. He travels back to find Mary in their own history, where each of them knock out and switch places with their past human selves.[15] They are hunted down by witch-hunters and forced to flee before Mary can bait and kill him.[16] Finally back in present-day Manhattan, Bennett destroys the rings so they can't be used again. He briefly falls in love with another reluctant vampire, but she kills herself rather than become a monster.[17] When he sees a Woodstock documentary in theaters, he remembers how important his friends are and decides to go home.[4]
When he investigates a series of killings with reporter Maggie Carle, they are captured by Allen Barr.[18] It's revealed that Barr's cancer cure never worked, it's a ploy to kill vampires. Barr is a vampire himself trying to wipe out the competition, using a process that involves turning hobos into monsters to create the serum. Carle reveals herself to be a vampire, and they escape with the antidote after leaving him unconscious in his burning laboratory.[19] Bennett's next adventure takes him to Gotham City where he meets Batman. They team up to take down a vampire crimelord named Johnny the Gun working to claim Gotham for the Blood Red Moon.[20]
Edward Trane reappears after seventy years to take revenge, believing that Andrew Bennett turned him into a vampire. Deborah and Andrew are imprisoned together, but they escape and stake Trane before Andrew explains that it was the Blood Red Moon who were responsible and not him.[2] They meet Dunya Mishkin again when she's running the American Crusade, an extremist religious movement led by Reverend Warnock. Warnock is staked and the movement is dissolved, but they lose Dmitri when he goes to find his mother.[21] Tracking Dmitri down to Moscow, they meet a KGB officer named Yuri Rashnikov trying to use a formula to replace the Russian high command with vampires. Dunya Mishkin attacks Rashnikov's compound, and they learn that Dmitri has been turned into a vampire as well.[22] They are cornered by the Blood Red Moon in Dmitri's childhood home, but they slay every vampire in the attack. Deborah shoots at Dunya with a solar weapon and Dmitri leaps in front of his mother to save her. When Dunya scorns him and moves to kill Deborah, Dmitri stakes his mother before succumbing to fatal wounds. With his last breath he remarks that the monster was no longer his mother.[23]
Bennett takes Rashnikov's experimental formula, designed to create vampires without bloodlust or their usual weaknesses. He finally becomes a man again, able to eat food and enter sunlight. Andrew and Deborah enjoy one night together, but he is captured by the Blood Red Moon when his body begins to experience rigor morties.[24] Mary explains that the untested serum was not meant to be taken by existing vampires, as it causes their bodies to rapidly age and decay. She forces the immobile Andrew to watch as she turns Deborah into a vampire as well. Deborah reveals that she has taken the formula with no such drawbacks, and the two women fight to the death. Mary is defeated in combat and dragged into the sunlight where she explodes into flame. The now immortal Deborah returns to Andrew, holding him as he finally slips into peaceful death.[25]
Lords of Order
Main article: Doctor Fate: The Night of Brahma
Some time later Andrew Bennett is revealed to have survived, but now tires of living and has lost his compassion.[26] He explains that his body reformed after the first death, and he has tried to commit suicide several times since then but immediately resurrected. Revisiting Master Shoju at the Temple of the Ineffable Tao, he participates in a mass sunrise suicide with the vampire monks and still fails to die.[27] The Lords of Order ask him to help bring about mahapralaya, the end of Kali Yuga to usher in a new age of prosperity. This "sleep of Brahma" will mean the end of all mankind, but he agrees as a way of killing himself.[28] They enhance his powers to remove the vampire weaknesses for his travel, and send him to find the Holy Grail in Eustania.[29] It is protected by a vampire apostle named Azzarene who allows him to drink from the grail, purifying him to become a vessel for Brahma. Doctor Fate and Nabu hunt him down in India but are too late to stop him, as Bennett plays a flute signifying the end of the world.[30] The world momentarily blinks out of existence, leaving Bennett and Fate to witness the full love and glory of creation unfold. Bennett's faith in existence is restored and he ignores the Lords of Order, allowing mankind to survive. Now at peace, he plays the flute into the sunrise and accepts that either through death or rebirth he'll be in good hands.[31]
Day of Vengeance
Main article: Day of Vengeance
During Infinite Crisis he is seen at the Oblivion Bar talking to Doctor Occult and El Muerto about the Spectre's rampage.[32] Later he is enlisted to help in the conflict by the Shadowpact. He is one of the many magic-users Enchantress uses to channel energy into Captain Marvel during his fight with the rampaging Spectre.[33] Later he is seen in the Oblivion Bar talking to Jennifer Morgan when Kid Devil is kicked out.[34]
Main article: Doctor 13: Architecture and Mortality
I... Vampire joins Doctor Thirteen's Team 13 when they fight the Architects. This team includes Anthro, Captain Fear, Genius Jones, Infectious Lass, Pryemaul and Traci Thirteen.[35]
Reign in Hell
Main article: Reign in Hell
Bennett is one of the many demonic heroes and villains called in to fight during Neron's battle against Satanus, as Hell calls in its debts. At the time he is in Prague, where they free him of his nighttime restrictions.[36] The Outsiders bust up a ceremony held every three years by the Blood Red Moon on Halloween to resurrect Mary. It's revealed that the mastermind is Deborah Dancer, who succeeds in resurrecting Andrew Bennett now angry that his curse is restored.[37] He is later involved in a prophecy by Doctor Fate surrounding the Starheart during The Dark Things. If Alan Scott's children Jade and Obsidian come into contact, Scott will lose control of the faerie race in Starheart City and they will declare war on vampires. Bennett will be forced to create a new Blood Red Moon in self-defense, turning and recruiting heroes across the world. This leads to a chain-reaction where Lex Luthor eventually destroys the sun.[38] In another adventure, the new Batman and Robin help him take out a Blood Red Moon nest where he's been imprisoned.[39]
Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
Enhanced Senses: A vampire's senses are enhanced far beyond those of a normal human being.
Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
Superhuman Strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
Superhuman Stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
Metamorphosis: Vampires often demonstrate the ability to alter their appearance at will.
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Doctor Thirteen: Architecture and Mortality
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↑ 1.0 1.1 House of Mystery #290
↑ House of Mystery #291
↑ The Brave and the Bold #195
↑ Doctor Fate (Volume 2) #1
↑ Day of Vengeance #1
↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #42
↑ Tales of the Unexpected (Volume 2) #1
↑ Reign in Hell #1
↑ DC Halloween Special 2009
↑ Justice Society of America (Volume 3) #43
↑ DCU Halloween Special 2010 #1
Supporting Azzarene • Batman • Deborah Dancer • Dmitri Mishkin • Doctor 13 • Edward Trane • John Troughton • Justice League Dark • Lords of Order • Master Shoju • Team 13 • Tig Rafelson • Van Helsings
Enemies Allen Barr • Billy Kessler • Cain • Cult of the Blood Red Moon • Dunya Mishkin • Edgar Warnock • Emil Veldt • Jack the Ripper • Johnny the Gun • Maggie Carle • Mary, Queen of Blood • Yuri Rashnikov
Items Barr Cancer Serum • Rashnikov Formula • Rings of Kur-Alet
Comics Doctor Fate • House of Mystery • I, Vampire • Tales of the Unexpected
Storylines Architecture and Mortality • The Black Room • The Night of Brahma • Rise of the Vampires • Tainted Love
Creators J.M. DeMatteis • Tom Sutton • Bruce Jones • Dan Mishkin • Gary Cohn • Ernie Colon • Adrian Gonzales • Paris Cullins • Brian Azzarello • Joshua Hale Fialkov • Andrea Sorrentino
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This mountain town sits at the feet of three 14,000-foot peaks, and at 10,578 feet, it's the United States' highest incorporated town.
Located along Route 9, north of Fairplay and south of Hoosier Pass, Alma lies downstream from Buckskin Joe, one of the first gold-rush towns of the 1860s. At one time, area mines produced more than $1,500,000 annually, before the ore petered out and a smallpox epidemic all but wiped out town residents.
Relics and spirits remind Alma visitors of the town's mining history. The Sweet Home Mine was known until very recently for producing world-class specimens of rhodochrosite, a mineral known for its beautiful pink rose color (which you can see today over at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science).
Like oft-told tales of lost ore veins, Alma ghost stories abound, including that of Silver Heels, a mining camp dancer who stayed behind to nurse ill residents during the smallpox-induced exodus. Near the epidemic's end, she contracted the disease, which left her beautiful face scarred. She was never seen again, but to this day, residents and visitors alike claim to have seen a veiled figure walking among the graves of smallpox victims.
Today Alma welcomes mountain-hiking enthusiasts, ghost hunters and tourists from Leadville and Breckenridge. Must-sees include Kite Lake, at a crisp 12,400 feet, the ghost town of Buckskin Joe and Alma's spooky cemetery. The four-wheel-drive Mosquito Pass, the highest motor-vehicle pass in North America, above Alma is the area's most popular summer attraction.
Brochures available from the Forest Service in Fairplay interpret 17 different scenic and historic sites near town. The Windy Ridge Bristlecone Pine Scenic Area near Alma protects wind-sculpted pine trees, some of which are a thousand years old.
Alma's Festival in the Clouds celebrates the town's lofty location with regional art, live music and food each July.


We want to recognize students on our campus who are doing amazing service. More importantly, we want to hear their stories! Once a month, we will honor a student on campus for their community service contributions. Students will again be recognized at an awards ceremony later in the year.
Do you know someone who did an amazing service project? Email their story to saisha.singh@ihsvikings.org and they may win an amazing award!
Students In Action is a new program at Irvington High School designed to measure and celebrate the community service being done by students on our campus. With the program we will recognize individual students and the school as a whole. The goal is to have Irvington High School nationally recognized as a Jefferson Award Gold Banner School. Learn how you can participate below.
Every service project done by Irvington High School counts. Make sure you share the following information with our clubs commissioner so we can count you service towards our schools total.
How many students were involved and how many hours did your team work?
Provide a general timeline of your project.
What were the outcomes of your project. How much did you raise/collect or what did you achieve?
Provide photo evidence of your project.
March Jefferson Award Winner: Resonance!
Irvingthon was started by Corinne H. in 2017 to raise money for childhood cancer. Corinne got the idea from a similar event her siblings did while they were in high school. During IrvingThon, members of community perform activities and play games. This event has raised $900 and collected around 100 toys for children with cancer to be distributed during Holiday Season. Corinne is also organizing smaller events such as a coin drive starting in mid-February. This event has brought community members together and raised money for a worthy cause.
Friday 12/15 was Irvington Annual Resonance! Benefit Concert. This years concert raised money to benefit the island of Puerto Rico recently devastated by a hurricane that left most of the island without power. This years concert featured musicians and singers from IHS Resonance and Vams Clubs in addition to MSJ Vams Clubs preforming both festive songs and classical numbers. Resonance! was able to raise $2,200 all of which will be donated. If you missed this years concert make sure to mark your calendar for next December.
On Friday December 1st Irvington High School hosted our first of two blood drives. We were amazed to have over 120 people sign up to donate blood and more then a dozen students sign up to be runners, man the check in station and the recovery canteen. Our goal for this blood drive was to collect 60 units of blood for the Stanford Blood Center. At the end of the day we collected 68 units of blood! Thank you to everyone who helped and to the members of ASB who came to school at 6:45 to set up and stayed till 4:00 to clean up.
Irvington's students are in action!
Irvington High School held their second annual LGBTQ Tie Dye event on November 9th. Students of all backgrounds came out to the event to tie dye white crews. At this years event we raised $150 that was then donated to the Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa Country, a center that promotes the wellbeing of the LGBTQ community. In addition next week when we wear our Tie Dye shirts we will show that Irvington supports all students on campus. Thank You to the Irvington GSA club for their help in making this event successful.
Welcome to our new students in action blog. We are here to share the stories of the many service projects happening on campus. We would love to share the story of your service project too! If you have a story to share please send it to edjoycation@ihsvikings.org and don't forget to include pictures!


Rakesh and his team have largely recuperated and have begun to resume their normal lives. They've come to accept the occasional disparity in their memories, and to rediscover the parts of themselves that have been forgotten.
This ends the prologue. Chapter 1 starts next week!


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A: If you are using Apache with Python 3 on Ubuntu, you should install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 instead of libapache2-mod-wsgi.

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The cells of a former Gestapo prison preserved to this day constitute a site of national remembrance and a monument to all those who fought for free and independent Poland during occupations by totalitarian powers.
During the Second World War, when Poland was under Nazi occupation, the Gestapo, the German Secret State Police, had its offices in the building at ul. Pomorska 2. A testimony to the horrors of the past are the preserved cells of the former prison, where during investigations the Gestapo tortured and murdered Poles fighting for free and independent Poland. The inscriptions prisoners scratched into the walls can still be read. An introductory exhibition entitled The People of Kraków in Times of Terror 1939–1945–1956, tells the tale of the history of the city during the Second World War, and also later – during the Stalinist terror that engulfed Poland after the country was forced into the Eastern Bloc and subjugated by the Soviet Union.
Along with Oscar Schindler's Enamel Factory and the Pharmacy under the Eagle, the site is part of the Remembrance Route of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków.


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An Orion Service Bus operating with T.J.Walsh - Halifax Bus Co in West Yorkshire
Seating in this vehicle is for 18 on conventional belted high back seats plus two in the wheelchair bay with tip-up seats and two standees giving a capacity of 22. The seats are Rescroft Ultra-lites. Seating can be track mounted if required
The wheelchair bay with ironing board back rest, lap belt and fold down security arm
The Mellor Orion Service Bus is directly accessible to wheelchair passengers and could be the saviour of vulnerable bus services
The entrance is fitted with a quick acting plug door. A ramp is available for wheelchairs but against many pavements may not be needed
The main dash is standard Fiat Ducato. All the body controls and the screen for the reversing camera are housed in a neat unit to the driver's right. This also incorporates a lockable driver's locker
The cab has a cab door with cash tray, mounting and electrics for a ticket machine and on the nearside a luggage pen
A feature of the Mellor Orion SB is the wide entrance way and low height step
An emergency exit is located at the rear offside
The clean, neat styling of the rear of the vehicle is evident here. Note the Mobitec destination equipment
The Mellor Orion service bus
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New flat floored, directly wheelchair accessible minibus
Mellor Coachcraft at Rochdale has now fully absorbed manufacture of the Orion low floored, directly wheelchair accessible minibus into its production system. Two basic versions are produced. One has wheelchair accessibility via the front entrance or through the rear doors and a shallow ramp. This version is primarily aimed at community transport groups, health and social services organisations. The second version which has wheelchair access only via the front entrance is designed specifically for service bus operations and it is upon this version that I am concentrating in this article.
Bluebird Vehicles who originally developed and produced the Orion design, before the Intellectual Property Rights for the product were sold to the Woodall-Nicholson Group, owners of Mellor Coachcraft, had already achieved some success in selling the Orion as a service bus, but Mellor are taking that to a new level and are reaping the rewards for so doing.
Some in the industry continue to question whether there is a place in the market for a small lightweight, relatively low cost service bus, arguing that such operations demand stronger more durable vehicles to cope with the arduous nature of continual service bus operation. As many have already shown, if utilised correctly, the lightweight bus can perform well, often enabling services to be opened up or retained when the costs of purchasing, running and maintaining a more conventional service bus would be prohibitive.
For many organisations particularly local authorities, health and education bodies the reduction in central funding has meant they have had to take a long hard look at the types of vehicles they run and how they run them. The days of a vehicle doing a couple of schools or special needs runs in the morning, a return in the afternoon and being parked up idle for most of the day, are gone. It just isn't financially viable.
Another key area is vulnerable but vital bus services, particularly those in rural areas. Over the past few years we have seen some draconian measures taken by local authorities with regard to the removal of subsidy for vulnerable bus services. In some Counties, such as Cumbria, they have just been simply swept away, leaving isolated and disadvantaged people with no public transport whatsoever. Others have taken a more pragmatic approach and looked for ways that they can still maintain these vital services but at reduced cost. This is where the Mellor Orion service bus can provide an answer. Its lower initial cost and lower running costs, particularly fuel, compared to a conventional bus, mean that it can potentially be the difference between whether an operator can maintain a service or not. It really is a case of looking closely at the proposed operation and deciding which type of vehicle is best for the job.
You wouldn't put a lightweight bus into service on a route with heavy demand where it was going to spend most of the day carrying a full load, which would be unwise. Some have tried to do that and been surprised when they hit problems. Where it does work is where loadings are relatively light, particularly for bringing people in from outlying areas to hubs for onward transport by more conventional bus services. Many operators have found that this system works very well.
The flexibility of the Orion design means that the interior can be set up to suit a variety of operations. Many simply operate them as conventional service buses with a single rear facing wheelchair bay at the front, the same as on most other service buses. But for others who need the vehicle to cover different duties, for example part service bus work and part movement of people in wheelchairs, the flexibility of the Orion allows that. The floor can be fully tracked to take a number of wheelchairs for part of its duty, operate as a dual wheelchair vehicle and service bus for another or as a complete service bus for another. These days, with seats like Rescroft's CT Space or the Phoenix Shuffle, you don't even need to remove seats they simply have fold up cushions and can then be slid along the tracks to pack together and create the wheelchair spaces.
I talked to Geoff Hudson, MD of Mellor Coachcraft about what they have done with the product since acquiring it last year. Geoff explained that the first thing they had to do was work out a way that the production of the new models could be integrated into Mellor's already cramped production facility at Rochdale so as not to impinge on production of the more conventional coachbuilt vehicles that Mellor build. The key lay in the skills of Brian Davidson owner of Woodall-Nicholson Group. Brian is well known for his expertise in sorting out production facilities. He is the man who revolutionised the production systems at the Dennis chassis factory of ADL and the Plaxton facility at Scarborough and he has done similar exercises for other industries. 'The key,' said Geoff,' was to increase our productive capability.' Anyone familiar with the Mellor factory will know that it was in effect a series of rooms joined together which meant that vehicles being built had to be constantly moved and re-positioned. There was no possibility of expanding the actual size of the building because Mellor occupies a very tight site which currently cannot be expanded. What Brian Davidson did was to open up the whole building so it became one massive production shop by removing all the walls. It was quite an exercise bearing in mind that it had to be done whilst vehicle production was maintained.
Into the space Brian organised for there to be two full length production lines capable of building any model from the range. He introduced just in time manufacturing whereby all the parts for a vehicle arrive at the appointed point on the line just as they are needed by the build crews to put on the vehicle. All the dirty operations such as framing etc. are carried out at in one enclosed area at the far end of the building, the vehicles then move down the lines to receive cladding, trimming and finishing arriving at the other end as a complete vehicle ready for final inspection, PDI, final valeting and despatch to the customer. Build crews are responsible for their own stages of the build, which is programmed against strict criteria, and they take responsibility for seeing that the work is carried out correctly. If it isn't they have to carry out the rectification in their own time and in a way that does not hold up the work of the next team. The result of this is that they have been able to raise production levels substantially and yet achieve some of the highest quality levels they have ever achieved.
The Orion is treated slightly differently, as Geoff explained. 'There was just no way we could introduce framing the Orion, building its unique chassis and attaching it to the van derived front end, into Rochdale; we just didn't have the space. So we decided to leave that part of the operation up in Scarborough utilising the skills of the people who were used to building the vehicles, to complete that stage. This is handled by our sub-contractor, B.E.S, operating out of the former Bluebird Vehicles facility. We've also continued to source many of the parts for the vehicle, notably glazing and fibre glass mouldings, from another sub-contractor; KFS Advanced Special Vehicles, who had been making them for a long time for Bluebird Vehicles. The only difference is that those parts now come to Rochdale rather than going to Scarborough. We've also brought down some key former Bluebird employees to Rochdale to smooth the introduction and train our guys. Most notable is John Randerson – no one knows more about Orion than he does. As Bus Operations Manager, John now has overall control not only of the Orion but of all Mellor minibus production at Rochdale.'
B.E.S. produce the special low floor chassis with its trailing link rear suspension and attach it to the Fiat Ducato Maxi front power unit. The remainder of the bus is then framed in aluminium alloy and the wiring for the body systems fitted. The vehicle is then transported down to Rochdale where it is fed onto the production line to receive its fibreglass moulded cladding and glazing before being fully trimmed and fitted with all the various systems such as heating and ventilation, power door, seating etc. It emerges at the end of the line as a fully completed minibus ready for delivery to the customer.
I asked Geoff whether they had made any changes to the Orion. 'Nothing major, but a lot of detail improvements,' he said. 'The first thing we did when we took over the product was to evaluate it, particularly looking at the warranty record. This produced a list of 18 areas that we felt needed addressing. Some of these were design issues but most were connected with how we put the vehicle together. We sorted out those problems quickly and before we started to build customer's vehicles. Not only are we now achieving very high reliability, the exercise has also enabled us to streamline the production process which means that with our new flow line system at Rochdale we can produce the vehicle much faster without compromising the quality standard. As a result we are getting very good feedback from customers and particularly those we have supplied to who had previously bought from Bluebird who tell us that the quality of the Rochdale built vehicles is outstanding.'
'Word of this is getting around,' said Sales Manager, Alison Prince, 'and as a result we are getting enquiries and orders from many new customers and I have to say we have been surprised at how many of them are ordering the service bus version.'
The Mellor Orion Service Bus
So what is the Mellor Orion? As mentioned previously it is basically the amalgam of a Fiat Ducato Maxi front end to an aluminium alloy framed body and a low line chassis with trailing link suspension. The body structure meets all the required legislative standards and the product carries IVA Small Series Type Approval.
The Orion Service Bus in standard form is 7.772m long, 2.2m wide and 2.645m high. It has a 4.80m wheelbase. The drive system uses a Fiat Ducato Maxi front wheel drive unit fitted with the 3.0-litre four-cylinder Multijet 180 diesel engine to Euro6 developing 177bhp(130kW) at 3,500 rpm and with an impressive maximum torque figure of 400Nm available across a wide speed range. The engine is matched to a six-speed automated ComfortMatic transmission. This is actually the same transmission used by Iveco in the Daily (as indeed is the engine) and is called the Agile transmission. This has recently been replaced in the Iveco New Daily by a new ZF fully automatic eight-speed transmission called the Hi-Matic, which has been very well received, and it is reasonable to assume that this transmission will also feed on to the Ducato, probably in 2016.
The front suspension is McPherson type with coil springs, shock absorbers and anti-roll bar. The rear suspension is a trailing link system utilising a Fiat Ducato rear axle with coil springs, hydraulic shock absorbers and anti-roll bar. There is an air option at the rear using two bellows. The axles are rated at 2.1 tonnes on the front and 2.9 tonnes at the rear giving a GVW of five tonnes. Braking is by discs all round. Wheels are 16in diameter steel units shod with 225/75 R 16 tyres.
The Orion features a 950mm wide front entrance and is fitted with a glazed, rapid action, electrically operated, sliding, plug door. The entrance is a single step leading to a completely flat floor and for wheelchair access there is a fold out ramp. Step height is only 310mm from the ground meaning that when operating against a standard kerb most wheelchair users can actually access the vehicle without needing the ramp. The flat floor is made of a lightweight composite material and is covered in non-slip flooring.
Seating can provide for 20 passengers when not carrying a wheelchair and additionally the vehicle can carry two standees. Various seats are available but the vehicle I inspected was fitted with Rescroft Ultra-lite's with all age belts. In the 20 seat configuration 16 of the seats are fixed high back units with grab handles and two opposite the wheelchair bay have fold up seat cushions. There are also two fold down units mounted on the offside in the wheelchair bay. Some operators prefer to delete the tip ups in which case the standee capacity rises to four to maintain the maximum carrying capacity of 22. When a wheelchair is carried, seating capacity is reduced by two or four depending which seating configuration has been selected and the standee capacity is zero. The Orion is also available with a slightly shorter overall length of 7.41m with a maximum seating capacity of 16.
Glazing uses large panoramic tinted units with two on each side incorporating top opening sliders. In addition there is a glazed, four way roof hatch. On the offside at the rear there is an outward opening emergency door.
Heating uses an Eberspächer system ducted through the ceiling.
The body is clad in fibreglass mouldings and is heavily insulated for temperature and noise using lightweight composite materials. The interior is trimmed in soft touch moulded trim panels. Lighting uses full length diffused units with an optional night time setting.
The cab is basically Fiat Ducato in terms of the driver with ergonomically laid out controls, instrumentation and systems. An additional control panel to the driver's right is provided for the body systems and the vehicle has a reversing camera with audible buzzer and dash mounted screen. Alongside the driver there is a luggage pen. The driver's cab is also fitted with a cab door, a position for mounting a ticket machine and the necessary electrics and a cash tray.
Electronic destination equipment is fitted at the front behind the screen and at the rear using Mobitec units.
Putting it through its paces
I took the new Mellor-produced Orion Service Bus demonstrator out to see how it performed on typical stage carriage operations. Rochdale is a good place to do this because not only has it got a typical urban road system with plenty of traffic, traffic lights and other traffic calming measures but also it is easy to get out of the urban area into more rural parts which feature some pretty stiff gradients, narrow roads and tight bends.
In town I found the vehicle light to handle, very responsive and positive. The light positive powered steering and excellent suspension giving precision, security and manoeuvrability. The ComfortMatic transmission is not a fully automatic but if driven properly it approaches that standard. The secret is not to force it. If you let it do its thing it will make surprisingly quick and smooth changes up and down the box. Stopping frequently in the urban situation presented no problems whatsoever and pick up from stationary to normal traffic speed easily accomplished. I was also impressed by the speed of the opening and closing of the door. That's important because with such a large door keeping it open too long could mean a marked drop in internal temperature. I did manage to confuse quite a few people who were waiting for the normal FirstGroup bus. The bus behaved perfectly in this urban situation and was very much akin to driving a small Optare Solo. Vision through the big screen is excellent and the rear view mirrors gave good clear imaging. The ride was comfortable as was the in-vehicle ambience.
Heading out into the rural area you really appreciate the power of the Ducato Maxi's 3.0-litre engine. There is bags of power and masses of torque. Tackling the hills proved to be no problem, it just sailed up them.
Early versions of the automated transmissions could sometimes be troublesome on hills, having a habit of shuttling between gears as if not able to make its mind up which gear it wanted to be in. Changes to the programming and fine tuning of the systems controlling the transmission mean they rarely do this now. I would expect that if the Ducato does get the new Iveco Daily Hi-Matic automatic transmission this problem will disappear completely. You do of course have the option of changing the transmission manually. There is no clutch pedal involved so you are in effect simply holding the vehicle in a particular gear rather than letting it change itself. I sometimes use this on long hills more as a precaution against unwanted changes than anything else. Another useful feature of the transmission is the instant kick down which can be useful in tight spots.
Dropping down some of the steep hills calls for measured braking but at all times I found it to be totally secure giving nice smooth, straight line stopping with plenty in reserve.
Riding as a passenger in the vehicle you really appreciate the light and airy ambience of the vehicle and the excellent view from the massive windows. The seating was comfortable and supportive and the heating and ventilation gave a nice balance between warmth and freshness on what was quite a chilly day. The ride from the rear suspension was excellent with no nasty bumps and shocks and this vehicle had the coil sprung rear suspension. I was impressed with the quality of the build of the body as there was a solid integrity to it with an absence of shake and shimmer and no nasty squeaks and rubs from the fitting of the trim. It was a real credit to the staff at Mellor.
To my mind there is no reason at all why the Orion cannot be used for service bus work. It is perfectly capable of doing it and doing it well provided one is sensible about the type of duty you expect it to perform.
It does of course have some big advantages. It's lower initial cost means that there is no need to run it for years and years before replacing it and its frugality on fuel usage, typically around the 22-24mpg mark though some are getting even more than that, is a major cost saving.
I predict we will be seeing a lot more Mellor Orion's on service bus work in the future.


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Q: How do I modify the second column of a CSV file based on the first column? I'm new to Perl and I have a CSV file that contains e-mails and names, like this:
john@domain1.com;John
Paul@domain2.com;
Richard@domain3.com;Richard
Rob@domain4.com;
Andrew@domain5.com;Andrew

However, as you can see a few entries/lines have the e-mail address and the ; field separator, but lack the name. I need to read line by line and and if the name field is missing, I want to print in this place the begin of the e-mail until @domainX.com. Output example:
john@domain1.com;John
Paul@domain2.com;Paul
Richard@domain3.com;Richard
Rob@domain4.com;Rob
Andrew@domain5.com;Andrew

I'm new with Perl, I did the iteration of read line by line, such this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

open (MYFILE, 'test.txt');
while (<MYFILE>) {
    chomp;
}

But I'm failing to parse the entries to use ; as a separator and to check if the name field is missing and consequently print the begin of the e-mail without the domain.
Can someone please give me a example based on my code?

A: First, if the file may contain real CSV  (or space SV in your case) data (e.g. quoted fields), I'd strongly recommend using a standard Perl module to parse it.
Otherwise, a quick-and-dirty example can be:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

# In modern Perl, please always use 3-aqr form of open and lexical filehandles.
# More robust
open $fh, "<", 'test.txt' || die "Can not open: $!\n";

while (<$fh>) {
    chomp;
    my ($email, name) = split(/;/, $_);
    if (!$name) {
        my ($userid, $domain) = split(/\@/, $email);
        $name = $userid;
    }
    print "$space_prefix$email;$name\n"; # Print to STDOUT for simplicity of example
}
close($fh);

A: Try:
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

for my $file ( @ARGV ){

  open my$in_fh, '<', $file or die "could not open $file: $!\n";

  while( my $line = <$in_fh> ){
    chomp( $line );

    my ( $email, $name ) = split m{ \; }msx, $line;
    if( ! ( defined $name && length( $name ) > 0 ) ){
      ( $name ) = split m{ \@ }msx, $email;
      $name = ucfirst( lc( $name ));
    }

    print "$email;$name\n";
  }
}

A: I am not a pearl programmer, but I would split first on the space character, and then you could iterate through the results and split  by the semi-colon.  Then you can check the second member of the semi-colon split array, and if it is empty, replace it with the beginning of the first member of the semi-colon split array.  Then, just reverse the process, first joining by semi-colons and then by spaces.


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Warm down incl. 10c30'' intervals with 30'' jog recoveries.
10k steady at 4:30 pace on treadmill. Super boring but happy I'm able to run.
Easy half long trail run in Ballincollig regional park. Dead tired.
6x1600m intervals on treadmill at 4:05-4:09 pace with 2min walk recoveries. Time was long but pace didn't feel too bad and calf was ok as well.


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Kristóf görög királyi herceg, hivatalosan Kristóf görög és dán királyi herceg (görögül: Πρίγκιπας Χριστόφορος της Ελλάδας; magyaros átírással: Príngipasz Hrisztóforosz tisz Eládasz; Pavlovszk, 1888. augusztus 10. – Athén, 1940. január 21.) görög és dán királyi herceg, az első világháború után felajánlották neki Litvánia trónját, melyet azonban visszautasított.

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Kristóf herceg 1888-ban született I. György görög király hetedik, utolsó gyermekeként, illetve ötödik fiaként. Édesapja a görög trón megszerzése előtt dán királyi hercegi rangot viselt, melyet továbbörökített utódaira is. Édesanyja a Romanov-házból származó Olga Konsztantyinovna orosz nagyhercegnő volt.

A Krisztónak becézett Kristóf herceg édesanyja szülőhazájában, Oroszországban látta meg a napvilágot. Orosz ortodox hitre keresztelték meg, keresztszülei maga III. Sándor cár és a herceg nagynénje, Mária Fjodorovna cárné voltak. Olga királyné és Kristóf herceg később is gyakran visszajártak Oroszországba, több hónapot töltve el Olga királyné rokonainál. Remek kapcsolatot ápoltak a későbbi II. Miklós cárral és feleségével, Alexandra Fjodorovna cárnéval. Emellett Kristóf herceg már kisfiúként szoros barátságot kötött unokatestvérével, a majdani V. György brit királlyal.

Akárcsak bátyjai, ő is igen fiatalon került be a pireuszi katonai akadémiára, bár a herceg maga sokkal jobban szeretett volna zongorázni. Zenei tehetségét maga Enrico Caruso, a híres olasz tenorista is elismerte. 1908-ban ő és testvérei is kénytelenek voltak otthagyni a katonai pályát egy nacionalista szerveződés hatására. Az első világháború után a hercegnek felajánlották Litvánia trónját, ám ő nem fogadta el azt. A herceg erről így vélekedett: "Semmi nem vehet rá engem arra a nap alatt, hogy elfogadjak egy királyságot. Egy korona túlságosan is nehéz dolog ahhoz, hogy könnyen fel lehessen venni. Azoknak kell viselnie, akik a sors akaratából arra születtek, de hogy bárki önként vállalja fel ezt a felelősséget, arra véleményem szerint senkit nem szabad a kötelezettségeivel kényszeríteni."

Az első házasság

1910-ben eljegyezte Alexandrát, Fife hercegnőjét, Viktória brit királynő egyik unokáját. A kapcsolatnak azonban a szülők nyomására hamar vége szakadt, s Kristóf herceg nagy érdeklődést mutatott egyik unokatestvére, Olga Alekszandrovna orosz nagyhercegnő irányába. Ezt a házasságot azonban lehetetlenné tette az ortodox vallás, mely nem engedélyezi közeli rokonok házasságát.

1914-ben a herceg megismerte None May Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds-t, egy elvált amerikai milliomosnőt. Egymásba szerettek, azonban Nancy nem származott királyi vérből, így a család nem engedélyezte a házasságot. Kristóf herceg mégis eljegyezte Nancyt. 1917-ben lemondatták I. Konstantin királyt, Kristóf bátyját. A görög királyi család legtöbb tagja svájci száműzetésbe vonult, s Nancy anyagi segítséget nyújtott nekik. A herceg és Nancy végül Vevey-ben, 1920. február 1-jén házasodtak össze. Nancy áttért a görög ortodox hitre, és felvette az Anasztázia nevet, mellé pedig görög királyi hercegnéi rangot kapott. A pár Olaszországban, Palermóban telepedett le, ahol Villa Anastasia néven megépítették közös otthonukat. Olga királyné később odaköltözött hozzájuk, s itt élt egészen 1926-ban bekövetkezett haláláig.

Nem sokkal a házasság után, 1923. augusztus 29-én Nancy rák következtében elhunyt Londonban. Házasságukból nem született gyermek, bár Kristóf hercegnek volt felesége révén egy mostohafia, aki a herceg egyik unokahúgát, Kszenyija Georgijevna orosz hercegnőt vette feleségül.

Özvegyként Kristóf herceg rengeteget utazott, bejárta egész Európát. 1927-ben még az Amerikai Egyesült Államokba is eljutott, hogy meglátogassa mostohafiát és unokahúgát. Később találkozott Anna Andersonnal, aki azt állította magáról, hogy ő az utolsó cár legkisebb leánya, Anasztaszija nagyhercegnő. A legtöbb Romanovhoz hasonlóan a herceg sem hitte el Andersonnak, hogy azonos Anasztaszijával.

A második házasság
1929. február 10-én, Palermóban, polgári esküvő keretében Kristóf herceg újra megnősült. Ezúttal Franciskát, Orléans és Guise hercegnőjét vette el. Február 11-én tartották az egyházi ceremóniát. Egyetlen gyermekük született, Mihály herceg 1939-ben, nem sokkal Kristóf herceg halála előtt.

Franciska hercegnő és Kristóf hol a Villa Anastásiában, hol Rómában laktak, szerény körülmények között. 1936 novemberében restaurálták a görög monarchiát, így a család visszatérhetett Görögországba; Kristóf herceg első nejét pedig újratemették Tatoin.

A második világháború kitörésekor II. György király hazarendelte Kristóf herceget Görögországba, hogy őt bízza meg a külföldi tárgyalások egy részének lebonyolításával. A herceg tüdeje az úton súlyosan megbetegedett, és 1940. január 21-én Athénban meghalt. Felesége már csak halála után érkezett meg a görög fővárosba. A herceget Tatoin, a királyi temetkezőhelyen temették el. Emlékiratait 1938-ban adták ki Ő Királyi Fensége Kristóf görög királyi herceg memoárjai címen.

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Nights at the opera in Vientiane, Laos
October 31, 2019 November 1, 2019 Aliza
Notice how heavy makeup makes the actor's face look like a mask.
Serendipity. It's one of the wonderful things about travel. You're walking back to your room after dinner, when the sound of clashing cymbals and high-pitched singing draws you to the end of your street.
We crossed the the busy road separating us from the riverside park that borders the Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos, to discover a full-blown Chinese opera in progress. At first, it was nearly a sensory overload: extremely loud music, bright costumes, lively movement, lots of glittering gold, wafts of incense. And an audience that came and went at will – rearranging the plastic chairs as they wished, leaving to chase small children or buy snacks, holding up their mobile phones to capture video – yet despite all this activity, raptly following every line and movement.
Neither of us had ever seen live Chinese opera before, and we certainly didn't expect to see it in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos. We've been here a few days, applying for our new Thailand visas, walking around looking at beautiful wats, searching out vegetarian food and staying out of the midday sun.
It gets dark early here, so by the time we were walking back from our dinner a couple of nights ago, evening entertainments had already started. As we walked toward the river, we caught some familiar music: John Denver's "Country Roads," sung live. As we walked around a large circular wooden platform, I was surprised to see the singer/guitar player was a young Laotian man with a young lady shaking a rhythm instrument to accompany him. His voice sounded so much like John Denver, I'd assumed he was a foreigner, even a North American.
We stood and watched the singer until he'd finished, and clapped for the performance. As he launched into a new song, his sweet voice and melodic chords were soon replaced by something else: the clashing cymbals and high-pitched music of traditional Chinese opera.
The stage was set up across from a newly built Chinese temple that's located at the roadside edge of the riverside park. It's so new it hasn't been fully painted yet, and there's more new construction underway. Beside the temple were tables with canvas canopies sheltering them, just like you'd see at any outdoor market or festival, and between the canopies and the brightly decorated stage was a sea of white plastic chairs arranged in rows.
We had no idea what was going on, but were entranced by the spectacle. The stage was filled with elaborately dressed actors in what looked like a court scene. A group of courtiers waved fans and circled before two seated actors who were portraying royal personages, I presumed.
The actors' faces were thickly covered in makeup designed to look like they were wearing masks – but masks with unusual animation and expression. I loved the contrast between the artifice and the lively expressions conveyed by the actors' eyes and facial movements. It reminded me of how classical Indian dancers are trained in abhinaya, or expression, especially the use of the eyes and gestures of the hands, arms and head.
The costumes were wonderful to look at. Extremely bright colors, lots of gold trimming, sleeves ending in long white cuffs that hid the actors' hands, and huge glittering belts like hula-hoops that the actors had to lift before sitting down.
The courtiers in the fan-dance scene had long skinny feathers extending from their heads at least three feet into the air, waving about like antennae. On their backs they wore pairs of flags, giving the effect of wings. They were like butterflies, but butterflies with bodies of elaborate brocade, and brightly-colored faces.
As I said, I didn't understand the plot at all, but in fact it was pretty easy to follow the action. At one point, two actors turned their backs to the audience, then suddenly whirled around to face us. Each actor held a small figure of a baby in their arms. A series of gestures indicated feeding the babies, before they were suddenly swept away again and concealed, probably in the voluminous sleeves of the actors' costumes.
In the middle of one scene, all the actors descended from the stage to the aisle between the rows of white chairs. I thought for a moment they were going to interact with the audience, but they trooped off to a large alter area under a big tent behind the audience. The audience – us included – got up and followed the actors. Along with people dressed in ordinary clothes, the actors took part in an offering at the altar, their praying gestures more defined than those of the non-actors, and their masklike makeup and bright costumes making it much more ceremonial. It was as if legendary, historical beings had time-traveled, or perhaps floated down from heaven, to take part in the ritual, blessing us ordinary mortals with their presence.
After a few minutes of group photos and selfie-taking with excited audience members, the actors trooped back up onto the stage, exited into the wings, and, after a couple of minutes, resumed the show.
The second night, we heard the now- familiar music from our room where we were holed up, studying and writing. We couldn't resist – we had to return to the opera. I saw the same actors, but this time in different costumes, and the action and plot seemed to be completely different. I was amazed. I guess I had assumed the actors would simply repeat the same show each night, but this was an entirely different one. We went back last night, and the show was completely different yet again: costumes, characters, songs, scenes. I marveled at how much these actors have memorized: dialogue, songs, dance, movements. And these shows are long – they go on for hours.
Our host in the place where we stayed told us that this troupe of actors are actually Thai Chinese, and that they come every year. Apparently they travel from place to place, performing their repertory. It reminded me that performers in many cultures (and in many periods of history) normally travel to their audiences, rather than being able to stay in one place and have the audience come to them.
The second night, we watched the actors take the stage, one by one, and introduce their characters. Each would walk in circles before us, describing their character with its own set of distinctive gestures. These movements might be martial, or regal, or small and graceful, depending on the character they were depicting. There's a tall female actor I watched intently whenever she took the stage; during her character introduction, she occasionally kicked her long legs into the air as she circled, the panels of her costume flying up around the white silk pajamas she wore below.
This same actress impressed me with her emotional range. Her face and her deliberate, graceful movements conveyed every mood, from scorn to humor to pride to grief.
This actress showed incredible emotional range in her facial expressions and gestures.
The second and third nights' performances had a lot more conversation than we'd heard the first night. The words were pronounced with care, in very high-pitched voices, many of the words drawn out for emphasis. We've been studying Thai, which like Chinese, is a language that relies on tone for meaning. I could really hear the tones in these dialogues; it was almost like singing.
Each night I found myself more absorbed in the performance. I don't know any Chinese, but layers of meaning seemed to unfold as I watched. I understood when characters were fighting, when they were posturing their strength, when a character was surprised, or pleased; when they were declaring something important, when they were merely gossiping, when they were crying.
From time to time, the actors would talk to one another out of character. It seemed they were either giving each other directions or commenting on conditions either onstage or off. For example, it started raining the second night we attended, and the audience members, a few at a time, began moving their plastic chairs back a few feet and arranging them under the canopies. Two of the actors watched and passed a few remarks to each other. Somehow, though, these breaks from character weren't disturbing; in fact, they were fun. Sometimes you'd see an actor barely suppressing laughter at another actor's lines or movements.
Getting absorbed in the performances really changed my feelings about Chinese opera. I'd seen a little bit in films, and found it stilted and strange. Traditional Chinese music, too, seemed strange to me: oddly high, almost whiny, both discordant and repetitive. These past few nights, I responded very differently to the music; I could hear much beauty in it. The plucking of strings reminds me of wind ruffling through the treetops, of water running between rocks. The thin high cries of the singers summon the moon shining through a nimbus of cloud. Deep drum beats followed by clashing cymbals are thunder and lightning.
Late at night in our room, close to midnight and just meters away from the Chinese music, I lay in bed and witnessed images of natural scenery appearing before me. I moved through the familiar forests of the Pacific Northwest, across the grassy hilltops of North Wales. I wound my way through the tropical forests of Meghalaya, huge bright butterflies darting everywhere. I watched clumps of tall bamboo swaying in the wind, clouds rolling behind. Like the scenery of a Chinese scroll painting unrolling before me, my gaze took in mountains, plains, fields and villages, arriving finally before sleep at the shore of an ocean, its vastness studded with wavelets sparkling like tiny gems.
One of my favorite landscapes: The escarpment behind Castell Dinas Bran, the 12th-century castle fort that rises above Llangollen, North Wales.
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2 thoughts on "Nights at the opera in Vientiane, Laos"
Alan November 22, 2019 / 1:50 pm
Lovely, Aliza! Suk Yin will be jealous… she loves Cantonese opera and I hear it all the time when she's cooking. And I appreciate your style. These posts are a lot of work!
Aliza November 22, 2019 / 2:46 pm
Hi Alan! I am sure you two can find some Chinese opera somewhere, someday. I hope to see more.


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Caratteristiche tecniche
È una seconda punta dinamica e tecnica ed è dotato di potenza nei tiri,un'altra sua qualità è soprattutto la corsa che abbinata allo spirito di sacrificio lo rende un attaccante di movimento la cui specialità è creare spazi per i compagni.

Carriera

Club
Nato nel 2002 a Dublino, capitale dell'Irlanda, dopo gli inizi nel , squadra della sua città, nel 2017, a 15 anni, si è trasferito in Inghilterra, al , entrando poi la stagione successiva nella formazione Under-18.

Ha esordito in prima squadra il 24 settembre 2019, partendo titolare e venendo sostituito al 66' nella gara del 3º turno di English Football League Cup (Coppa di Lega) sul campo del , squadra di League Two (quarta serie), poi persa per 4-3 d.c.r.

Il 1º agosto 2020 viene ceduto in prestito al .

Il 1º febbraio 2021 gli spurs lo richiamano dal prestito, per poi cederlo nuovamente a titolo temporaneo, questa volta all'. Il 13 marzo seguente realizza la sua prima rete con l'Ipswich (oltre che tra i professionisti) decidendo la sfida contro il  (1-0).

Nazionale
Nel 2017, a 15 anni, ha ricevuto le prime convocazioni nelle nazionali giovanili irlandesi, in Under-17, con la quale ha disputato fino al 2018 11 gare segnando 5 reti, tra le quali 5 presenze e 1 gol nelle qualificazioni all'Europeo di Inghilterra 2018 e 4 presenze e 3 reti nella fase finale del torneo, nella quale ha giocato tutte le partite, segnando nelle vittorie nella fase a gironi contro Danimarca (1-0) e Bosnia ed Erzegovina (2-0) e nel pareggio per 1-1 contro l'Olanda, poi campionessa, ai quarti di finale, sfida poi persa per 5-4 d.c.r.

Nel 2018 ha debuttato in Under-19, giocando anche 3 gare e segnando 4 gol nelle qualificazioni all'Europeo di Armenia 2019.

Il 6 settembre 2019 ha esordito in Under-21, giocando titolare e segnando la rete decisiva al 31' nell'1-0 casalingo contro l'Armenia a Dublino nelle qualificazioni all'Europeo di Slovenia e Ungheria 2021.

Il 14 novembre dello stesso anno ha debuttato anche in nazionale maggiore, a soli 17 anni, venendo schierato dal 1' nella vittoria per 3-1 in amichevole contro la  in casa a Dublino.

Il 3 giugno 2021 realizza le sue prime reti con la selezione irlandese realizzando una doppietta nell'amichevole vinta 1-4 contro .

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Statistiche aggiornate al 20 aprile 2020.

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