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The Final Links: Players Chelsea FC Are Most Likely To Sign
As is usually the case when the transfer window opens, Chelsea FC have been linked to a host of players. So far, we've only signed 2 players. Both Marko Marin & Eden Hazard are quality additions to the squad, but there is no doubt that the squad still needs to be strengthened. The release of Jose Bosingwa, Saloman Kalou & Didier Drogba means that replacements for these players must be signed.
The way I see it, we only need to sign a quality right-back & a winger. Keeping that in mind, let's now take a quick look at the players who seem most likely to join Stamford Bridge.
Wingers:-
Hulk– Born Givanildo Vieira de Souza, Hulk is primarily a right-winger who can also play as a forward. Hulk's main attributes include his speed, dribbling skills & a powerful left shot. The Brazilian international has been at FC Porto for the last 4 seasons. During his 4 years at the club, he has scored 76 goals & recorded 55 assists, which immediately dismisses the notion that he's over-rated (Some people believe he is). The player has expressed a desire to join the Champions League winners, although negotiations seem to have come to a halt due to Porto & Chelsea being unable to agree upon a transfer fee. Nevertheless, Chelsea seem likeliest to sign the Brazillian, & there is no doubt that he would be a valuable addition to the squad.
André Schürrle
André Schürrle– André Schürrle is a German international who can play as a forward & a winger. He made his Bundesliga debut in 2009 for Mainz 05, & spent 2 whole seasons in the club, scoring 20 goals for them. In 2011, he joined Bayer Leverkusen, signing a contract with the club until 2016. He played primarily as a winger for Leverkusen, scoring 9 goals in his debut season. He's known for his dribbling skills & clinical finishing, & has an amazing work-rate for a forward. He was linked to the club in May 2012, although some reports claim that Chelsea were interested in him in 2011 as well. He would be a good addition to the squad, but signing him seems unlikely as Leverkusen have stated that he isn't for sale.
Victor Moses– Victor Moses is a winger who can also operate as a second striker. Currently at Wigan Athletic, Moses is quick & skillful, with a keen eye for goal. Of all the players we've been linked to, Moses has to be the most low-profile. His stats for 2011-12 aren't exactly flattering (6 goals & 6 assists) but there is no doubting the fact that he has potential. The player has claimed interest from Chelsea & Liverpool, with Chelsea having had a £4M bid rejected by Wigan. If signed, there is no doubt he would do well at Chelsea.
Right-backs:-
Gregory van der Wiel– Gregory van der Wiel is a right-back who currently plays for Ajax. He is also a Netherlands international, having been capped 35 times for his country. Van Der Weil is known for his attacking ability down the wings, & has been labeled the spiritual successor of Michael Reiziger by his Dutch team-mate John Heitinga. He has expressed a desire to leave Ajax, with many clubs vying for his signature. However, a poor display for Netherlands during the Euro 2012 means that fewer clubs are interested in him now. It will be interesting to see if Chelsea still sign him.
Mathieu Debuchy
Mathieu Debuchy– Mathieu Debuchy is a right-back who plays for Lille. He started his career as a deep-lying play-maker, but later switched to playing as a right-back. Lille manager Rudi Garcia has described him as a player who "plays high and attacks but defensively is also very rigorous and he exudes confidence". An impressive performance in Euro 2012 so far has led to many clubs wanting to sign him, with Chelsea & Newcastle believed to be front-runners. However, Newcastle recently had a £4M bid for Debuchy rejected, meaning Chelsea are now in pole position to sign him. He would be a valuable addition to the club.
Maicon– Maicon is a Brazilian right-back who currently plays for Inter Milan. He is known for his attacking flair down the right wing & his ability to score spectacular goals for both club & country. Maicon has been a regular for Brazil & Inter, but was recently linked with a move away from the club. I honestly don't think the club would sign him; I don't doubt his talent, but age could be a deterring factor (he turns 31 in July 2012). If he does indeed sign for the club, I'd be very surprised.
Bear in mind that not every one of the players I mentioned above will join! At most Chelsea will sign 2 players, a right-back & a winger. If that happens, we will be a force to be reckoned with in 2012-13. I cannot wait for the season to begin.
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I hope to see Hulk and Van der Weil being a valuble addition to da team…BLUES 4EVA!!!
Up up up up up chelsea
Salako john says 7 years ago
I believe hulk,modric and debunchy will make chelsea a force depth wise….chelsea till lion give birth to snake
Tobmanuel says 7 years ago
Hulk, v.d.wiel, debuchy and cavani would be great
i don't tink we need vander wiel, debuchy wud be a good replacement for bosingwa. And i also feel hulk is overated. I tink RA sud use his russian power to get dzagoev
As our RB I'd prefer Kyle Walker for say £15m to any of those, he's younger&better than Debuchy, Maicon or Wiel. We'll get Hulk, plus a striker (cover for Torres and Lukaku), hopefully Falcao, otherwise Llorente. You can't play a potentially 75-game season with only 2 STs. Also we should get ship out some MFs i.e. Meireles, Benayoun, Malouda and bring in another couple of CMs e.g. Fellaini&Martínez. In total Bosingwa, Kalou, Drogba, Lalkovic, Meireles, Benayoun, Malouda OUT, Marin, Hazard, Walker, Fellaini, Martínez, Falcao, Hulk IN. Should give us a great chance of competing on all fronts next season. 7 trophies in 1 season IS POSSIBLE!
Malouda, Kalou, Drogba, Benayoun, Lalkovic, Bosingwa OUT.
Hulk, Hazard, Bastos or Deburchy, Marin, Falcao, Tiote IN.
Thats the best for chelsea this season. So far we are on point but if we can get this players listed above 8tropies in a season is possible
no please no Van der Wiel, did you see him play with the Dutch XI? he was no way near Chelsea's level, i'd love to have Maicon
with his cannon shot, but yea he is a bit old i think Mathieu Debuchy would be the best for Chelsea, and deffinetly Chelsea should buy Hulk, please ChelseaFC :D.
Kyle Walker would be a great deal indeed, but i'm not too sure about Fellaini or Martinez, + why should Meireles leave? well Drogba, Bosingwa, Kalou, Benayoun and Lalkovic dont do alot, but Meireles is still quite young and hes got a canon of a shot.
Walker will be the best to replace Bosingwa
Lenon will also do just great at chelsea to replacing Kalou.Malouda must leave to giving enough room to the incoming players.However,Torres must back up for we can no more tolerate such kinda of on and off performances from him any longer..he must do well now Didier is no more.
Debuchy,Wiel are neither to be compared to Walker nor Gabre Selasie..we can't afford anymore mistakes…Walker is most preferred if available otherwise Selasie peace!
Hulk,Kyle Walker,Seydou Doumbia will b the best signings for Chelsea from here on.If possible Modric.I also want Jordan Henderson(just to add to England blood in the squad) nd a gud quality back up goal keeper.
All these signings would make Chelsea a force to b reckoned with.
Chelsea need to sign Hulk, Rondon, Fellaini and Azpilcueta to compete effectively on all fronts this season.
im A guy is ready 2 play with chelsea so if any one who need a player please contact me i realy want to play for chelsea if u want me please send msg to my email address : jakemax79@yahoo.com


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Q: Getting the DB2 Resource online in Failover Cluster I'm using DB2 10.1 Enterprise Server Edition on Windows Server 2012 R2
After adding the DB2 resource to the cluster using the db2wolfi command, I go to the resources tab which is in the cluster properties and I find the new resource added under the user defined section. However, the problem is that the display name shows as Resource not available. I need to know why this happens and how to solve this problem because ahead when this resource is added to the role I created, I cannot make it online.

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According to Political Party Act (2005), a political party is considered as a union of Mongolian citizens who have consolidated voluntarily with the purpose of organising social, personal and political activities as stated in the Constitution of Mongolia. Political parties must be registered by the Supreme Court of Mongolia.

Current parties

Currently there are 36 political parties officially registered by the Supreme Court.

Parties with MPs in the State Great Khural

Other parties
Mongolian Green Party (Mongolyn Nogoon Nam)
Civil Will–Green Party (Irgenii Zorig Nogoon Nam)
Mongolian Traditional United Party (Mongolyn Ulamjlalyn Negdsen Nam)
Mongolian Social Democratic Party (Mongolyn Sotsial Demokrat Nam)
Mongol Liberal Democratic Party (Mongol Liberal Ardchilsan Nam)
Motherland Party (Ekh Oron Nam)
Mongolian Liberal Party (Mongolyn Liberal Nam)
Republican Party (Bügd Nairamdakh Nam)
Mongolian National Women's Party (Mongolyn Emegteichüüdiin Ündesnii Nam)
People's Party (Ard Tümnii Nam)
Mongolian National Democratic Party (Mongolyn Ündesnii Ardchilsan Nam)
Freedom for People Party (Erkh Chölöög Kheregjüülegch Nam)
Civil Movement Party (Irgenii Khödölgöönii Nam)
Development Program Party (Khögjliin Khötölböriin Nam)
Mongolian Democratic Movement Party (Mongolyn Ardchilsan Khödölgöönii Nam)
All Mongolian Labor Party (Khamug Mongolyn Khödölmöriin Nam)
United Patriots Party (Ekh Oronchdyn Negdsen Nam)
Mongol Conservative Party (Mongol Konservativ Nam)
Independence and Unity Party (Tusgaar Togtnol, Ev Negdliin Nam)
Love the People Party (Ard Tümnee Khairlaya Nam)
For the Mongolian People Party (Mongolyn Khünii Tölöö Nam)
Truth and Right Party  (Ünen ba Zöv Nam)
Demos Party (Zon Olny Nam)
World Mongols Party (Delkhiin Mongolchuud Nam)
People's Majority Governance Party (Ard Tümnii Olonkhiin Zasaglal Nam)
Great Harmony Party (Ikh Ev Nam)
Ger Area Development Party (Ger Khoroolol Khögjliin nam)
My Mongolia Party (Minii Mongol Nam)
Mongolian Reform Party (Mongol Shinechlelt Nam)
Citizen's Coalition for Justice Party (Shudarga Irgediin Negdsen Evsel Nam)
Democracy and Reforms Party (Ardchilal Shinechleliin Nam)

Defunct parties
 Mongolian Democratic Party (1990) (MDP) - merged into Mongolian National Democratic Party
 Mongolian National Progress Party (MNPP) - merged into Mongolian National Democratic Party
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP)- merged into Mongolian People's Party

Notes

See also
 Politics of Mongolia
 List of political parties by country
 Elections in Mongolia

Mongolia

Political parties
Political parties
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"Burkina Faso One-person and family businesses Stats", NationMaster [Internet]. 1994-2006. Avaliable from: <http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Burkina-Faso/Labor/One--person-and-family-businesses>.
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What Are Frivolous Tax Arguments?
| What Are Frivolous Tax Arguments?
Frivolous tax arguments are false and unreasonable claims used to support fraudulent tax returns. The IRS maintains a non-exclusive list of frivolous tax arguments and can impose severe penalties on taxpayers who file frivolous returns.
Common Frivolous Tax Arguments
All of the following positions have been commonly used as frivolous tax arguments:
Paying income tax is voluntary.
Wages are not taxable income.
Taxpayers are citizens of specific states, not U.S. citizens, and are therefore exempt from federal income tax laws.
Taxpayers can refuse to pay taxes on religious or moral grounds.
The federal income tax laws are unconstitutional.
Many taxpayers have tried and failed to use these arguments in court. There is abundant case law to show that these arguments are simply wrong, but tax protestors and promoters of frivolous tax arguments continue to try to use them.
Frivolous tax arguments were one of the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams listed by the IRS for 2019 and in previous years.
Consequences of Frivolous Tax Arguments
Taxpayers can face both criminal and civil penalties for using frivolous tax arguments. The civil penalty for filing a frivolous return is $5,000, and this penalty can also be assessed when a collection due process request or other document is submitted contains a frivolous position.
You could also face many other tax penalties when you fail to report income, filing returns, or pay taxes due to frivolous tax arguments, such as:
The failure-to-file penalty of 5% of unpaid taxes per month.
The failure-to-pay penalty of 0.5% of unpaid taxes per month.
Interest charged on unpaid taxes.
Accuracy-related penalties of 20% of underpaid tax.
Civil fraud penalties of 75% of unpaid taxes.
Erroneous refund claim penalty of 20% of the over-claimed amount.
Fraudulent failure-to-file penalty of 15% per month.
On top of all that, you'll have a backlog of unpaid taxes that you'll need to pay off.
Even if you truly believed that these frivolous arguments were correct, you could still face all of these penalties and more. Contact a tax resolution attorney to determine whether you are eligible for penalty abatement or an IRS installment agreement to repay your tax debt.
The Gartzman Law Firm can evaluate your case to determine your best tax resolution options. Use our contact form to request a consultation with an Atlanta tax resolution attorney.

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Ireland to build bridge to France
IRELAND has confirmed it is beginning work on the Waterford-Caen overpass to link two countries that have yet to go mad.
The bridge wil span 600km and go directly from Ireland to the French port of Caen, supported by enormous concrete pillars offshore of Devon and Dorset while not directly touching the pariah state of the UK at any point.
Taioseach Leo Varadkar said: "Perhaps the magnificent span of this bridge will become a tourist attraction in England. We don't care. That's not what it's about.
"We have goods to sell, France and Germany and the rest have business to conduct, and we're frankly sick of you lot getting in the way so we're cutting out the middleman.
"Viewing galleries will be installed for our voyeuristic citizens to look down on the poor benighted tribes of the English, and we'll even scatter crates of medicine to watch you fight for them.
"Otherwise the Franco-Gaelic Overpass will be off limits to Britons. You'll hear our trucks blaring Vanessa Paradis and U2 as they pass, and pick up our discarded Tayto packets and Orangina bottles, but that's all. Good luck with your Brexit thing."
Taunton resident Roy Hobbs said: "I'm not happy about my house being in shadow 20 hours a day. I'm going to the EU court. Ah yeah. I forgot."
F**king show-off sends Christmas cards
A WOMAN has only gone and posted everyone lovely, thoughtful Christmas cards like a f**king ars*hole.
Emma Bradford, who is seemingly determined to make everyone hate her, actually hand-wrote at least 24 cards to family and friends before sending them in plenty of time.
Sister Kelly said: "P*ss off Emma, you ostentatious twat.
"The moment I saw a handwritten card on the doormat my bile began to rise. Who has time to write out cards with an actual pen, put a stamp on them and post them in the big red thingy?
"I also heard she buys everyone Christmas gifts from shops, not Amazon. And wraps them herself. What a d*ck.
"This isn't a 'nice' gesture. This is a message that clearly says 'I am better at Christmas than you' and demands we bow down in fealty.
"Personally, I'll be sending everyone a Facebook message featuring a GIF of a cat in a Santa hat on Monday. Because I'm not a swaggering egotistical w*nker."


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Q: KSQL: Jackson error when attempting to select * from stream This question is based on the solution path in KSQL stream from topic with heterogeneous JSON structures - I get an error when I try to select from a stream created from a topic with a value_format='json'.
 I can still print the underlying topic, but doing select * from stream; throws an error.
We're using Confluent 5.3.1 aka Kafka 2.3.1.
Here's how I (re)create the issue...

*

*Start with some simple json data

ksql> PRINT 'sms-reporting.status-updated';
Format:JSON
{"ROWTIME":1573688864403,"ROWKEY":"null","acceptTs":"1573603201000","eventType":"REPORTING","isFinal":"true","messageId":"8619Z-1113H-00007-01CF5","nodeId":"86","responseCode":"3041","submissionAttempt":"1","ts":"1573603201567","type":"statusUpdated"}

*Create the stream:

ksql> CREATE STREAM statusupdated ( \
 acceptTs VARCHAR, \
 eventType VARCHAR, \
 isFinal VARCHAR, \
 messageId VARCHAR, \
 nodeId VARCHAR, \
 responseCode VARCHAR, \
 submissionAttempt VARCHAR, \
 ts VARCHAR, \
 type VARCHAR \
) with (kafka_topic='sms-reporting.status-updated',value_format='json');

 Message
----------------
 Stream created
----------------
ksql> DESCRIBE statusupdated;

Name                 : STATUSUPDATED
 Field             | Type
-----------------------------------------------
 ROWTIME           | BIGINT           (system)
 ROWKEY            | VARCHAR(STRING)  (system)
 ACCEPTTS          | VARCHAR(STRING)
 EVENTTYPE         | VARCHAR(STRING)
 ISFINAL           | VARCHAR(STRING)
 MESSAGEID         | VARCHAR(STRING)
 NODEID            | VARCHAR(STRING)
 RESPONSECODE      | VARCHAR(STRING)
 SUBMISSIONATTEMPT | VARCHAR(STRING)
 TS                | VARCHAR(STRING)
 TYPE              | VARCHAR(STRING)
-----------------------------------------------

*Attempt (unsuccessfully) to review the contents of the stream:

ksql> SELECT * FROM statusupdated;
Query terminated
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "terminal" (class io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow), not marked as ignorable (3 known properties: "finalMessage", "row", "errorMessage"])
 at [Source: (String)"{"row":{"columns":[1573692743435,null,"1573603201000","REPORTING","true","8619Z-1113H-00007-01CF5","86","3041","1","1573603201567","statusUpdated"]},"errorMessage":null,"finalMessage":null,"terminal":false}"; line: 1, column: 206] (through reference chain: io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow["terminal"])
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "terminal" (class io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow), not marked as ignorable (3 known properties: "finalMessage", "row", "errorMessage"])
 at [Source: (String)"{"row":{"columns":[1573692743435,null,"1573603201000","REPORTING","true","8619Z-1113H-00007-01CF5","86","3041","1","1573603201567","statusUpdated"]},"errorMessage":null,"finalMessage":null,"terminal":false}"; line: 1, column: 206] (through reference chain: io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow["terminal"])
Caused by: Unrecognized field "terminal" (class io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow), not marked as ignorable (3 known properties: "finalMessage", "row", "errorMessage"])
 at [Source: (String)"{"row":{"columns":[1573692743435,null,"1573603201000","REPORTING","true","8619Z-1113H-00007-01CF5","86","3041","1","1573603201567","statusUpdated"]},"errorMessage":null,"finalMessage":null,"terminal":false}"; line: 1, column: 206] (through reference chain: io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow["terminal"])

If I now use this stream (on which I still cannot execute a select statement without receiving an error) to create another stream (which will, of course, be backed by a new topic), I still can't select on the new stream, but I can print the new backing topic and the data appears as expected.

*Create a derived stream

ksql> CREATE STREAM statusupdated2 AS SELECT acceptts FROM statusupdated;

 Message
----------------------------
 Stream created and running
----------------------------
ksql> describe statusupdated2;

Name                 : STATUSUPDATED2
 Field    | Type
--------------------------------------
 ROWTIME  | BIGINT           (system)
 ROWKEY   | VARCHAR(STRING)  (system)
 ACCEPTTS | VARCHAR(STRING)
--------------------------------------

*Attempt (unsuccessfully) to review the contents of the derived stream:

ksql> SELECT * FROM statusupdated2;
Query terminated
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "terminal" (class io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow), not marked as ignorable (3 known properties: "finalMessage", "row", "errorMessage"])
 at [Source: (String)"{"row":{"columns":[1573692743435,null,"1573603201000"]},"errorMessage":null,"finalMessage":null,"terminal":false}"; line: 1, column: 113] (through reference chain: io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow["terminal"])
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "terminal" (class io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow), not marked as ignorable (3 known properties: "finalMessage", "row", "errorMessage"])
 at [Source: (String)"{"row":{"columns":[1573692743435,null,"1573603201000"]},"errorMessage":null,"finalMessage":null,"terminal":false}"; line: 1, column: 113] (through reference chain: io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow["terminal"])
Caused by: Unrecognized field "terminal" (class io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow), not marked as ignorable (3 known properties: "finalMessage", "row", "errorMessage"])
 at [Source: (String)"{"row":{"columns":[1573692743435,null,"1573603201000"]},"errorMessage":null,"finalMessage":null,"terminal":false}"; line: 1, column: 113] (through reference chain: io.confluent.ksql.rest.entity.StreamedRow["terminal"])

*print the backing topic of the new stream:

ksql> PRINT statusupdated2;
Format:JSON
{"ROWTIME":1573692743435,"ROWKEY":"null","ACCEPTTS":"1573603201000"}

A: Did you try

SET 'auto.offset.reset'='earliest';

before running the select query ?


In the process of welding a longitudinal or spiral pipe, external welding systems serve to weld a pipe on the outside in submerged arc welding. This is done, after the pipe has been tack welded in a MAG tack welding machine and welded on the inside in submerged arc welding.
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We are guided entirely by your wishes and needs when it comes to the components an external welding system shall be composed of.
Our service is not limited to development, assembly and commissioning of the welding system and also includes the supply of appropriate electrode - flux combinations for multiple-arc welding.
Here you find an overview of installed external welding systems.


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LG confirms mobile division to be shut down
Korean giant quits mobile after more than 25 years
After months of speculation, LG has confirmed it is pulling out of mobile.
The company was expected to announce its withdrawal in a few months but has now confirmed it is shutting down its smartphone division by July 31.
A statement from the company said: "LG's strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services.
"LG will provide service support and software updates for customers of existing mobile products for a period that will vary by region. LG will work collaboratively with suppliers and business partners throughout the closure of the mobile phone business. Details related to employment will be determined at the local level. Moving forward, LG will continue to leverage its mobile expertise and develop mobility-related technologies such as 6G to help further strengthen competitiveness in other business areas. Core technologies developed during the two decades of LG's mobile business operations will also be retained and applied to existing and future products."
The wind-down of the mobile phone business is expected to be completed by July 31 although the inventory of some existing models may still be available after that.
CCS Insight chief of research Ben Wood said: "For years it has been speculated that LG would exit its mobile phone business and recently the rumour mill has been deafening, so it is little surprise LG has finally pulled the plug.
"It's a sad day for the South Korean consumer electronics conglomerate given its long history of making mobile phones which has spanned a quarter of a century."
Wood says that LG's decision to exit the market reflects the fierce competition the vendor has faced in recent years from Chinese brands.
"LG's decision to abandon mobile phones reflects the unrelenting competitive pressure it has faced in recent years.
"Its traditional arch-rival, Samsung, was always considered to be the biggest threat, but arguably it's the slew of relatively Chinese rivals that likely beaten it into submission."
Quirky: But was the LG Wing a creation out of desperation?
And Wood was critical of some of LG's most recent smartphones, including the dual-screened LG Wing.
"More recently LG has offered a growing number of quirky devices, be that phones with a secondary clip-on screen or the dual-screened LG Wing which opened to form a cross-like shape.
"It's hard to know whether these were just ill-judged bets or acts of desperation as LG tried to take a different approach to rivals, but sadly, with the benefit of hindsight, they did little to help the company."
"There is little doubt that some other sub-scale phone makers will see LG's news and wonder how long they can remain in such a highly competitive, over-saturated market."
Mobile News' view – by Ian White
The demise of LG as a mobile manufacturer is not surprising, There are too many Android device makers in the market to be sustainable. The commodity handsets and app-based ecosystem pioneered by Apple killed Blackberry and Nokia. We wouldn't be surprised to see the number of Android handset makers pared down to just a few Chinese vendors.
"LG made good phones but they flopped at marketing, and became irrelevant in brand desirability. There are still room for others but the Chinese vendors are killing legacy manufacturers on price by having tiny margins of a few percent. So, without a strong brand it is nigh impossible to compete. Legacy vendors such as Sony are hamstrung by rigid corporate management, while the new kids such as OnePlus can make decisions in hours.
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International - Paul Lipscombe
Oppo confirms entry to Chilean and Colombian markets
The move strengthens Oppo's position in LATAM market
Apple to invest €1bn in expanded German chip design centre
It comes as the European Commission set a target of producing 20pc of the world's semiconductors by 2030
Oppo tops smartphone charts in China for the first time ever
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YouTube Yanks 210 Channels for Spreading Propaganda Against Hong Kong Protests
Google said it disabled a group of 210 channels on YouTube that were acting in a coordinated "influence campaign" directed against the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Google announced the action Thursday, three days after Facebook and Twitter said they had removed accounts identified as linked to China-backed disinformation campaigns on their platforms aiming to discredit Hong Kong protesters.
While Google did not identify the YouTube channels it pulled down, the company said they were operating in a "coordinated manner" to upload misleading videos related to the Hong Kong protests. "This discovery was consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter," Shane Huntley, director of software engineering in Google Security's Threat Analysis Group, wrote in a blog post.
Huntley said that the channels used virtual private networks (VPNs) and other methods to mask the origin of the accounts, along with other activity "commonly associated with coordinated influence operations."
YouTube, Google, Facebook and Twitter are all blocked in China, which operates one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world. That has not stopped Chinese state-run media outlets from posting content to such platforms themselves and spending "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to promote it in an attempt to find a wider audience for their messages, according to the New York Times.
Disney has become caught up in the fray after Crystal Liu Yifei, the star of its upcoming live-action "Mulan" film, expressed support for the Hong Kong police, who have been accused by bodies such as the U.N. Human Rights office of violating international norms in their use of force against the demonstrators. Accounts within China and abroad posting messages similar to those removed by Twitter and Facebook continue to proliferate under the hashtag #SupportMulan. Some compared the protesters to terrorists and cockroaches, and portrayed them as a violent mob incited by meddling foreign powers.
The U.S. State Department has expressed its concern over "Chinese attempts to manipulate public opinion by spreading disinformation about the situation in Hong Kong." But Geng Shuang, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, told journalists that "the will of 1.4 billion people cannot be blocked or controlled, and of course cannot be shut out."
Despite their best efforts, YouTube and other platforms — playing a game of Whac-a-Mole with bad actors — can't fully shut off attempts to spread propaganda.
Google's threat analysis group sends more than 4,000 warnings on a monthly basis to users about attempts by "government-backed attackers or other illicit actors" to infiltrate their accounts, according to Huntley. "Our teams will continue to identify bad actors, terminate their accounts, and share relevant information with law enforcement and others in the industry," Huntley wrote.
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Bashology is an event design company focused on creating custom built installations and beautiful event experiences. Being a fresh, new company, they needed entire logo identity design. I created a custom letter mark, which through it's unique shape, shows a little quirkiness and elegance at the same time.
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In his eyes, there's no better way to ensure that what's on the plate was raised humanely, without antibiotics and truly free range. Yet, in our modern world, few of us have fired a gun and taken an animal from hoof to stove. Houston, a gentle presence with a deeply patient and unassuming air, hopes to change all that by removing some of the mystery and intimidation many of us feel about the process.
Because the meat processed at Feral is brought in by customers, wild-harvested and for home use only, Houston avoids costly permitting and USDA regulation. An equipment orientation ensures that safe guidelines are followed, and all customers sign a liability waiver before getting started. Customers can use the kitchen and equipment by the hour—supported by Houston's guidance and resources—or sign up for a full culinary hunting package, which includes guided practice in hunting animals, along with field dressing, skinning and quartering, and a session on butchering and processing.
As we talked, I began to see the deep connection between this animal that had been wandering the Texas woods just hours ago, and my own family, who would gather around the table through the seasons enjoying meals we had first hunted and then cooked with our very own hands. Soon we had steaks, chops and ground meat in exactly the cuts and quantities we wanted—all in labeled, vacuum-sealed packages ready for the freezer. Houston also has recipes and equipment for making sausage, and can guide customers through that process—even offering information on where to buy casings and locally sourced pork fat. Not a bit of our animal was wasted (we even saved the bones for stock), and we would enjoy a winter's worth of delicious dinners knowing we were eating the most local and sustainable food available.


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The Encircling Sea by Adrian Goldsworthy
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
AD 100: VINDOLANDA.
A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD.
Flavius Ferox, Briton turned Roman centurion, is charged with keeping Rome's empire intact. But from his base at Vindolanda on the northern frontier of Britannia, he feels enemies closing in on him from all sides.
Ambitious leaders await the chance to carve out empires of their own. While men nearer at hand speak in whispers of war and the destruction of Rome.
And now new threats are reaching Ferox's ears. Stories about the boat-dwelling men of the night, who have cursed the land and only come ashore to feast on men's flesh.
These are just rumours for now. But Ferox knows that rumours stem from truth. And that no one on this isle is safe from the great, encircling sea…
The Iberian Flame by Julian Stockwin
1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember Portugal and put his brother, Joseph, on the throne of Spain.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Renzi, the Lord Farndon, undertakes a deadly mission to stir up partisan unrest to disrupt this Napoleonic alliance with Spain.
Thrust into the crucible of the uprising, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is dismayed to come up against an old foe from his past – now his superior and commander – who is determined to break him. Kydd will soon face the greatest decision of his professional career.
Bonaparte, incensed by the reverses suffered to his honour, gathers together a crushing force and marches at speed into Spain. After several bloody encounters the greatly outnumbered British expedition have no option other than make a fighting retreat to the coast. Only the Navy can save them.
But the flame of insurrection has been lit – and the Peninsular War has begun.
Estocada by Graham Hurley
1937. Dieter Merz is the Reich's most celebrated fighter ace. Flying for the infamous Condor Legion over the battlefields of Spain's civil war, Merz has been able to unleash the full potential of the Luftwaffe's new fighter against his Republican opponents. In Dieter's hands, the Messerschmitt Bf-109 is as graceful as a matador's killing strike: la estocada.
Dieter's aerial prowess has brought him into close contact with the top echelons of the Nazi regime. He is not a political man ― all he wants to do is fly – but for how long can he deny the toxic nature of Hitler's rule?
Scotsman and ex-marine Tam Moncrieff is recruited by a nameless intelligence agency in London to go to Germany and sound out Hitler's resolve. Does he really intend to invade Czechoslovakia? Do his generals support him? Can the march to war be stopped?
As duty collides with conscience, fate will bring both men together. These are desperate times calling for desperate measures. To avoid war a killing strike is needed: la estocada.
The question is, who is the matador, who is the bull?
The Smile of the Wolf by Tim Leach
Tenth-century Iceland. In the darkness of midwinter, two friends set out on an adventure but end up killing a man.
Kjaran, a travelling poet who trades songs for food and shelter, and Gunnar, a feared warrior, must make a choice: conceal the deed or confess to the crime and pay the blood price to the family. For the right reasons, they make the wrong choice.
Their fateful decision leads to a brutal feud: one man is outlawed, free to be killed by anyone without consequence;the other remorselessly hunted by the dead man's kin.
Set in a world of ice and snow, Smile of the Wolf is an epic story of exile and revenge, of duels and betrayals, and two friends struggling to survive in a desolate landscape, where honour is the only code that men abide by.
For the Immortal by Emily Hauser
Thousands of years ago, in an ancient world where the gods control all and heroes fight to have their names remembered down the ages, two extraordinary women become entangled in one of the greatest heroic tales of all time . . . and must face how much they are willing to risk for immortality.
Desperate to save her dying brother, Admete persuades her father, the king of Tiryns, to let her join Hercules on one of his legendary twelve labours. Travelling to the renowned female warrior Amazons in search of a cure, Admete soon discovers that both Hercules and the fearsome Amazons are not as they first seemed.
The Amazons greet the arrival of the Greeks with mixed feelings – and none more so than Hippolyta, the revered queen of the tribe. For Hercules and his band of fighters pose a threat to her way of life – but also stir up painful memories that threaten to expose her deepest secret.
As battle lines are drawn between the Greeks and the Amazons, both women soon learn the inevitable truth – in war, sacrifices must be made; especially if they are to protect the ones they love most . . .
Mythos by Stephen Fry
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. They are like us, only more so – their actions and adventures scrawled across the heavens above.
From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry – who fell in love with these stories as a child – retells these myths for our tragic, comic, fateful age. Witness Athena born from the cracking open of Zeus's great head and follow Persephone down into the dark realm of Hades. Experience the terrible and endless fate of Prometheus after his betrayal of Zeus and shiver as Pandora opens her jar of evil torments.
The Greek gods are the best and worst of us, and in Stephen Fry's hands they tell us who we are. Mythos – smart, funny, and above all great fun – is the retelling we deserve by a man who has been entertaining the nation for over four decades.
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Kyra Wiens is a professional triathlete, yoga teacher, and holds AN MPA FROM UNC - Chapel Hill.
She has finished in the top 10 of all her pro races over the last year, in addition to 12th at the 70.3 North american Championships and 23rd at the 70.3 world championships in South Africa.
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Mar 8 Of colons and men; and learning by contrast
When my husband sends me a Google calendar invite for Colonoscopy @ Thu Apr 12, I shrug and accept.
"What did you do, book us the Couple's Colonoscopy Suite?" I say. "I'm imagining luxurious sheets, our tables side-by-side, the scent of lavender."
"I knew you were going to give me a hard time about that one," he says.
Perhaps I shouldn't. My husband's father has been in the hospital these last couple months; after several surgeries, most of his colon has now been removed.
Through this fluke of legalese, you can designate Power of Attorney to someone without their necessarily wanting it. Sean is not particularly close to his father. And yet his father lives a rather isolated life and it seems there wasn't anyone else.
For a period, the hospital was calling him multiple times each day. Sean's father was in a coma and, without the two of them ever having talked about such things in advance, Sean was suddenly thrust into having to make decisions about surgeries and other medical care.
One morning my husband called me from work. He was crying into the phone. "I feel like whether he lives or dies is in my hands," he said to me. "And I don't know what to do."
"You're not God," I said. "His life is in no way in your hands. Your job is to guess at what decisions your dad would make for himself. That's all power of attorney is. The rest is up to the surgeon—and to God."
I'm not going to tell Sean's story, what's passed (or not) between him and his father.
But I know for myself what it feels like that his father didn't come to our wedding. No visits over summer break. No holidays together.
We are blessed in that my parents have stepped into this void, in ways that are generous and continue to amaze me. They have embraced their role as grandparents to A and Z (even though it was hard, I know, for my mom to accept that I'd decided to not give birth to children of my own). My mom cries when she hears "Puff the Magic Dragon" and thinks about Z growing up. And they are stepping up for A as she goes to battle against adolescence.
Sean calls them "Papa Bear" and "Momma Bear". He says what's happening now with his father makes him see what a gift the Bears have given us four kids by having their affairs in order: My parents had a book, I'm Dead, Now What? out on their kitchen counter the last time I visited.
"Well something could happen and your dad and I could die at any moment," says my mother. She's full of comforting and practical little phrases like this one.
Over the past couple years, I've come to some kind of peace with Sean's dad not acknowledging our marriage. But with Sean driving to Boise and back twice in the last month and all the rest of it, it's brought my hurt back to the surface.
I can only imagine what it feels like for Sean to hold both an authentic commitment to doing the right thing and caring for his dad—while also having painful reminders at every turn of how much his father did not do for him.
How many times does Sean bring up his dad when we're talking about our kids? As in, "Do you think Z appreciates I drove down to see his basketball game? My dad never did that kind of thing."
What I hope for Sean is that he can find his way toward being the father he wants to be, for himself, rather than limiting himself to the contours of negative space left by his father's specter.
"I know you're disappointed your dad didn't measure up to the ideal you wanted," I said to my husband recently. "But one day your kids are also going to be in therapy because of you, because you didn't measure up to the ideal they wanted."
"No they're not," he said, enunciating every word. "I'm nothing like my dad."
I also hope for Sean—and for myself—that we can unplug from blaming our parents for...whatever...and accept that they did the best they could and the rest is up to us.
I will drive Sean to his upcoming colonoscopy appointment. And when the nurses wheel him out in a chair and he beams up at me with a lop-sided grin, as he did the last time he started to wake up from full-body anesthesia, shaking a styrofoam cup of ice and Mountain Dew in one hand and calling out, "Cocktail??" I will bring him home.
I love my husband. It's not easy to be forced to remember that empty place-setting at our wedding table. But if his dad had been a different father he would have raised a different son. And so may I learn love the lineage my husband came from.
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MARRIAGE, FAMILY
Mar 14 Redefining empathy and sympathy, so we may actually do good
Mar 4 Walls: how kids know we love them enough
"I don't know what I think until I write it down." - Joan Didion


Hannah Krening (formerly Hannah Taylor Jedeed) began her piano studies at the age of four, with her father, an accomplished pianist and teacher. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Wittenberg University where she studied with Stephen Siek, and earned her Master of Arts degree in Piano Performance at San Jose State University in California. Her principal teacher has been Aiko Onishi (California), additional studies being with Tobias Matthay's adopted daughter Denise Lassimonne (England) and Julian DeGray (New York). She is a competition prizewinner and has lectured and given master classes as well. She has performed as a symphony pianist with the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra and is an active solo performer.


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Chicago Bears' Devin Hester knows he has to be better in return game
At 5-1 the Bears are in first place in the NFC North. Still, Chicago's coaching staff would still like to see improved play, especially from return man Devin Hester.
By Aaron Torres Oct 27, 2012, 1:12pm CDT
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For years Devin Hester was known as one of the elite return men in all the NFL, but entering Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers, the Chicago Bears coaching staff would actually like to see the veteran be a bit more aggressive on special teams.
It's something many would have never expected just a few years ago, when Hester was one of the leading return men in the history of the sport. His 17 combined kickoff and punt returns are an NFL record, but lately Hester has become a bit passive.
Most concerning to the Bears coaching staff was a play late in the fourth quarter of Monday's narrow 13-7 win over Detroit, when Hester had a chance to return a short, 35-yard punt, but instead elected to call a fair catch. Hester let a punt drop instead of signaling a fair catch earlier in the game as well.
Those are things Hester never would've done a few years back, and they caught the attention of Chicago special teams coach Dave Toub, via ESPN Chicago:
"He probably made some decisions in that game he would probably take back. He might have returned that last one possibly, but that's just the way it is. Most of the time he's going to make the correct decision. We just want him to get that aggressiveness back and we think we'll get it sooner or later."
Regardless, it's safe to say it's been a disappointing season for the 29-year-old Hester.
On the season he's averaging just 7.6 yards on his 12 return attempts, with a long of just 23 yards.
For more information on the Bears, be sure to check out Windy City Gridiron as well as SB Nation Chicago.
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Cutler shines in fourth quarter
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New home construction is making a comeback in Osceola County.
Thousands of houses are expected to be built over the next several years in the ChampionsGate community, and the development could provide Osceola County with 16,000 jobs over the next decade, and a $1 billion economic impact.
Each home added to the tax base gives Osceola county more spending power, which is something it needs, according to officials.
The 5,000 new homes that will be under construction at ChampionsGate are just a fraction of the new homes being built in central Florida. One area that has seen the most sales is Laureate Park in Lake Nona. There were 440 homes sold there in 2012.
"How does this compare to a couple years ago? It's night and day," said Aldo Martin of the Home Builders Association of Metro Orlando.
Martin said new home sales are growing as the number of available foreclosures drops.
"We might be in the beginning of a new run that might last several years," said Martin.
Real estate market research groups told WFTV that 27 new housing developments were started in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake counties from October to December of last year.


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Birth: 1912 | Death: † 1999
Harry Callahan (Harry Morey Callahan) (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was an American photographer and educator. He taught at both the Institute of Design in Chicago and the Rhode Island School of Design. Callahan's first solo exhibition was at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1951. He had a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976/1977. Callahan was a recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Along with the painter Richard Diebenkorn, he represented the United States in the Venice Biennale in 1978.
Harry Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan. He worked at Chrysler when he was a young man then left the company to study engineering at Michigan State University. He dropped out, returned to Chrysler and joined its camera club. Callahan began teaching himself photography in 1938. He formed a friendship with Todd Webb who was also to become a photographer. A talk given by Ansel Adams in 1941 inspired him to take his work seriously. In 1941, Callahan and Webb visited Rocky Mountain State Park but didn't return with any photographs. In 1946 he was invited to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy. He moved to Rhode Island in 1961 to establish a photography program at the Rhode Island School of Design, eventually inviting his close friend and fellow artist Aaron Siskind to join him, teaching there until his retirement in 1977.
Callahan met his future wife, Eleanor Knapp, on a blind date in 1933. At that time she was a secretary at Chrysler Motors in Detroit and he was a clerk. They married three years later. In 1950 their daughter Barbara was born. Callahan died in Atlanta in 1999. His wife Eleanor died on February 28, 2012 in a hospice in Atlanta at the age of 95. Callahan left almost no written records—no diaries, letters, scrapbooks or teaching notes. His technical photographic method was to go out almost every morning, walk through the city he lived in and take numerous pictures. He then spent almost every afternoon making proof prints of that day's best negatives. Yet, for all his photographic activity, Callahan, at his own estimation, produced no more than half a dozen final images a year. He photographed his wife and daughter and the streets, scenes and buildings of cities where he lived, showing a strong sense of line and form, and light and darkness. Even prior to birth, his daughter showed up in photographs of Eleanor's pregnancy. From 1948 to 1953 Eleanor, and sometimes Barbara, were shown out in the landscape as a tiny counterpoint to large expanses of park, skyline or water.
He also worked with multiple exposures. Callahan's work was a deeply personal response to his own life. He encouraged his students to turn their cameras on their own lives, leading by example. Callahan photographed his wife over a period of fifteen years, as his prime subject. Eleanor was essential to his art from 1947 to 1960. He photographed her everywhere—at home, in the city streets, in the landscape; alone, with their daughter, in black and white and in color, nude and clothed, distant and close. He tried several technical experiments—double and triple exposure, blurs, large and small format film.
Callahan was one of the few innovators of modern American photography noted as much for his work in color as for his work in black and white. In 1955 Edward Steichen included his work in The Family of Man, MoMA's popular international touring exhibition.
In 1956, he received the Graham Foundation Award, which allowed him to spend a year in France with his family from 1957 to 1958. He settled in Aix-en-Provence, where he took many photographs. In 1994, he selected 130 original prints with the help of the gallery owner Peter MacGill, and brought them together under the name of French Archives, to offer them to the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Some of these images were taken in Aix-en-Provence and in the South of France, and are the subject of a temporary exhibition at the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence in 2019.
Callahan left behind 100,000 negatives and over 10,000 proof prints. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona maintains his photographic archives. In 2013, Vancouver Art Gallery received a gift of almost 600 Callahan photographs from the Larry and Cookie Rossy Family Foundation.
Harry Callahan has won many awards for his photography, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 and the Photographer and Educator Award from the Society for Photographic Education in 1976, and he was designated Honored Photographer of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France in 1977, and received ICP's Master of Photography Infinity Award in 1991. Among the major exhibitions of his work were Photographs of Harry Callahan and Robert Frank (1962), one of the last shows curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art, and retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (1976) and at the National Gallery in Washington, DC (1996).
Callahan was widely respected in the photography community for his open mind and experimental attitude, qualities reinforced by his association with Moholy-Nagy and the principles of Bauhaus design. He produced work in both formalist and more documentary modes and worked in both black-and-white and color. He used a 35-millimeter and an 8x10 camera and worked with multiple exposures as well as straight images. Such versatility contributed to his success as a teacher, his students ranging widely in style--among them Ray K. Metzker, Emmet Gowin, Kenneth Josephson, and Bill Burke.
Source: International Center of Photography
French Archives: Aix-en-Provence 1957–1958
Harry Callahan: Retrospective
Dirk Luckow, Harry Callahan, Sabine Schnakenberg
The Photographer at Work
Britt Salvesen, John Szarkowski
National Gallery of Art, Sarah Greenough
Huxley-Parlour
Jackson Fine Art
Harry Callahan's Video
By Harry Callahan
Publisher : Publisher : Actes Sud/Maison européenne de la photographie
In 1956, when the photographer Harry Callahan was head of Chicago's Institute of Design, he received Graham Foundation funding to create the project of his choice. On Edward Steichen's advice he took a sabbatical year and headed to Europe with his wife Eleanor and his seven-year-old daughter Barbara. After two months in Germany, they lived in Aix-en-Provence from September 1957 through July 1958.
Callahan had never left North America before, and his work had always focused on Chicago and the landscapes of the American Midwest. France proved to be a huge culture shock. Looking beyond what he called the "picturesque" aspect of the French town, he methodically set about a deeper exploration of his subjects. As always, he spent the morning outside with his camera and afternoons in the dark room. In France, Callahan created a series of nature studies, urban views and portraits of Eleanor, who had already been central to his work for 10 years and would remain so for another 50. Callahan, who looked back on his time in Aix-en-Provence as a period of plenitude and absolute pleasure, donated 130 works from his "French Archives" to the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. This volume publishes a selection from that beautiful body of work.
By Dirk Luckow, Harry Callahan, Sabine Schnakenberg
Publisher : Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) is regarded as one of the most innovative and influential twentieth-century American photographers. By amplifying the abstract tendencies of New Vision in a lyrical mode evincing great sensitivity, he was able to overcome the prevailing realist aesthetic in American photography. This catalog presents the entire spectrum of Callahan's multifaceted photographic oeuvre, the product of tireless and prolific creative labors over the course of nearly sixty years.
By Britt Salvesen, John Szarkowski
Publisher : Publisher : Yale University Press
Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was one of the most influential photographic artists of the twentieth century. A master of modernist experimentation, Callahan explored a range of subjects—from landscapes to city streets to portraits of his wife—and techniques throughout his career.
Beautifully designed and produced, this book focuses on understanding how Callahan worked—both his day-to-day photographic explorations and his resulting fifty-year career in photography. Exploring the rich contents of the Harry Callahan Archive at the Center for Creative Photography, the authors look at how Callahan's choice of subjects and visual ideas emerged from deliberate and improvisational processes, and how such processes might be revealed with archival materials such as negatives, transparencies, proof prints, sequential ordering, and variant printings. This close investigation of Callahan's individual and experimental approach to materials in turn leads to a larger consideration of his relationship to seemingly contradictory strains in American visual culture of the twentieth century.
Reproducing a host of previously unpublished images and documents, this volume juxtaposes select artifacts—such as contact sheets and variants—with final images to explicate Callahan's life in and influence upon photography. Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work will offer a rare glimpse into the creative process of an important and fascinating artist.
By National Gallery of Art, Sarah Greenough
Publisher : Publisher : Bulfinch
The catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art and elsewhere displays the photographer's work in chronological order and reveals how he approaches such subjects as landscapes and portraits of his wife, Eleanor.
This excellent collection of Callahan's photographs accompanies a national tour of his work. Curator Greenough's decision to arrange the images chronologically works well to illustrate both the themes central to the photographer's aesthetic and his development as an artist. From early experiments using multiple exposures and light painting to the most recent color cityscapes, Callahan has sought to explore photography's potential. He often returned again and again to the same subject in a quest for yet a new way to "see" it via the camera. Now in his eighties, Callahan is a 20th-century master of American photography who places the highest value on the process of self-realization through image-making rather than on any individual photograph or series of photographs. His life's work stands as convincing testimony to this ideal. This retrospective will be a fine addition to public and academic photography collections.
Robert Bergman
Over more than 50 years, largely outside the mainstream, Robert Bergman has pursued a vision of advancing psychological and philosophical depth in photography and of transcending the boundaries between painting and photography. In Toni Morrison's words in her introduction to his classic 1998 book A Kind of Rapture, his color portraits are "... a master template of the singularity, the community, and the unextinguishable sacredness of the human race." In his Epilogue to that book, the pre-eminent art historian, Professor Meyer Schapiro, wrote, "... his recent color portraits ... have no forerunners in photography. ... he has introduced the processes of unification, as in painting, with the search for harmony, movement, variety and distinction within it, beyond what I have ever seen in a photograph.... His finest works bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits. ... truly profound works of art." Placing Bergman in the context of other, better known master American photographers, John Yau, poet, critic, and author of The United States of Jasper Johns, has said, "Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and William Eggleston. ...he is certainly in their league. ... One day Bergman will get credit for the richness of his photographs, the way they transcend image." Robert Bergman is currently producing a limited edition KEY SET of new master prints of 150-200 photographs that, together with the 51 A Kind of Rapture prints, will reveal the organic unity, the arc, of his creative journey: black & white street work of people and cityscapes; black & white portraits in nursing homes; black & white abstracts; hundreds of color portraits on the streets of American cities; and most recently, large-scale color abstracts. Bergman has had solo exhibitions at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, MoMA/P.S.1 in New York, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, and Michael Hoppen Contemporary in London. Group shows include the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the "Come Together: Surviving Sandy" exhibition in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to the collections of the Hill Art Foundation and Agnes Gund, President Emerita, MoMA, and numerous other individual's collections, Robert Bergman's work is in the permanent collections of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, which recently acquired a vintage set of the 51 A Kind of Rapture color portraits, the Cleveland Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The National Gallery of Art, the 21C Museum in Louisville, KY. His work has also been highlighted in books, magazines, and newspapers in the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany as well as on National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System. He received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2017.
Mike Magers
Michael Magers is a documentary photographer and journalist based in New York City. He is a frequent collaborator with the highly acclaimed team at Roads & Kingdoms and served as the lead photographer on their award-winning books, "Rice Noodle Fish" and "Grape Olive Pig" (as well as contributing to the 3rd book in the series "Pasta Pane Vino") published by Harper Collins/Anthony Bourdain. His images are exhibited both internationally and in the U.S. and have appeared in a wide range of digital and print publications including TIME, Smithsonian, Vogue Italia, Huck Magazine, Outside, The California Sunday Magazine, CNN's Explore Parts Unknown, Saveur, New York Times - T Magazine (Instagram Takeover), Grantland, Barron's, The Guardian.com, and L'oeil de la Photographie. Michael's work documenting craftsmanship in Japan was named a 2016 Critical Mass Finalist. About Independent Mysteries Independent Mysteries (pub. November 2019) is the first monograph from documentary photographer Michael Magers. In it, Magers exposes the persistent tension between connection and disconnection -- a feeling of "intimate distance" -- he grappled with while traveling to places like Japan, Haiti, and Cuba for various assignments and personal projects. Drawing on nearly a decade of work, each image can be viewed as a film-still, with little context other than light brushes of human contact, fleeting intimacy, solitude and vulnerability. Every one of the grainy, black-and-white photographs in this book carries with it a secret to be discovered and explored. Read more about Independent Mysteries here
Piotr Zbierski
Piotr Zbierski - Studied photography at National Film School. Author of three individual exhibitions (White Elephants, Here, Love has to be reinvented), participant in collective exhibitions and publications including Photokina and Lab East. He presented his works in many countries like Poland, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia. As well as magazines (Shots Magazine, Ninja Mag, Archivo Zine, Die Nacht, Gup Magazine). In 2012 he won the prestigious prize for young photographer Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award. His work was nominated to Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and has been shortlisted in many other prizes (Les Nuits Photographiques 2012, Terry O'Neill Award) for his series Pass by me. His works has been shown at festival in Arles 2012 and are in collection of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts. He lives and works in Lodz.About Love has to be reinventedThe series "Love has to be reinvented" began in 2012 and its starting point was not an image but my personal experience, which changed my view and redefined my opinion on many issues. At the same time, it is neither my diary nor any personal document; recently such a name is given to whatever cannot be named. Titles of my series are just mottos for my creative works at their particular stages. Words are created by letters in the alphabet, which is a matter of convention depending on culture. I build my series out of emotions, which are a biological fact, they are unquestionable. The key objective I identify for myself is availability of a feeling. I really want the person looking at my photographs to experience something more and not just say whether photographs are good or bad. Photography does not begin with an image, it does not end with an image, either; I put on authenticity, and not on originality. An image is a form of communication of a higher art form, which is life itself. I took the title from the French poet, Artur Rimbaud, who wrote these words and expressed criticism of France and times he lived in about a hundred years ago. I returned to these words because I think the world has not changed so much, and I criticize a contemporary world, which has gone in the wrong direction, in my opinion. And I do not mean people but structures built around the castle, which the book hero has never reached. A major objective of my work is to get through to the essence of human emotions, to their purest form with no additions, no gadgets. To show a man in the way he has been created, a man from a primeval village. In a contemporary world, such an image may be created using a certain type of imagination because we are very far away from such a status quo; therefore, my work is reality-based but it is not the reality itself. It is an attempt to invoke and depict certain human impulses with full acceptation of their inherent contradictions. Like love: it is as full of adoration as hatred; a day could not exist without a night. I will finish this three-year's series in spring 2015 during the total sun eclipse, which can be observed in Iceland. It is a characteristic clamp for my creative work in which I start from a personal, private and single experience at the very beginning, and come through an image to a part, which is common for us all, and independent of me. A macro scale has its reflection in a micro scale while a normal scale, in which we live in, is its pulsating reflection. To follow theories of contemporary scientists, only a ballet-dancer may be smaller, and in macro scale - a multiple universe. Life is a film directed by the universe while the world is the largest accumulation of sensually available metaphors, a secret in secret or a metaphor in a metaphor. Rimbaud has also written that eternity is skies mixed with water; quite right: black and white, grey on grey; in a child's drawing huge blue and objectively sacred transparency. In my opinion, there is one reality and infinitely many visions. To sum it up as simple as I can: if the world is a tree growing more and more branches (metaphors), then life is the fruit. While love is juice of various tastes in the same way as resin is what a tree uses for weeping. All this happens in the surroundings of eternal gases where toxic ones come away leaving space to healthy ones. Rootstocks and roots grow expanding in the same way. Who are people then?Undoubtedly, they are savages from a primeval village who have learnt what a real taste of love is: they adored each other at the expense of "god's" hatred, they are Adam and Eve. It is only owing to such a full image of love that new generations could come into existence. I also invite to see the video work titled "Lodz", in which I develop motifs I have earlier discussed. Another continuing video is in progress. Bottomless source is RGB without DNAPiotr Zbierski
Bettina Rheims is a French artist and photographer. She is the daughter of Maurice Rheims, of the French Academy. After having been a model, a journalist, and opening an art gallery, she began to be a photographer in 1978 at the age of 26. Initially she did many commissioned works such as albums covers for Jean-Jacques Goldman and photos of various stars. From 1980 she devoted herself solely to photography. She made a series of photographs of strip-tease artists and acrobats, which were shown 1981 in two personal exhibitions, at the Centre Pompidou and at the Galerie Texbraun in Paris. Encouraged by this success, she worked on a series of stuffed animal portraits, which were exhibited in Paris and New York. At the same time she took portrait images for worldwide magazines and advertising campaigns (Well and Chanel), created her first fashion series, worked on cover sleeves, and film posters, and in 1986 directed her first advertising campaign. In 1989 her portraits of women were published in a monograph, Female Trouble, and were exhibited in Germany and Japan. In the following year she made a series of portraits of androgynous teenagers, Modern Lovers, which were shown in France, Great Britain and the United States as well as being issued in book-form. Her series Chambre Close, which was realized between 1990 and 1992 in collaboration with Serge Bramly, had an immense success not only in Europe but all over the world. The book is a collection of photographs of nude young women in various postures. It became a bestseller and is regularly reprinted. In the following years her fame began to become worldwide and she is renowned as a one of the most important photographers not only in Europe, but also in the United States, Japan, Korea, Australia and Moscow.(Source: en.wikipedia.org)
Stephen Wicks
Stephen Wicks' attraction to photography began during his childhood. He says he was inspired by the photo essays in LIFE Magazine. Each week when a new issue arrived it seemed like the world beyond his home was in his hands and he had feelings for and wanted to meet the people who appeared in the pictures and visit the places he saw on the pages in the magazine. Wicks has always had a deep interest in all forms of communication. He says his attraction to the visual world and belief in the power of images triggered his imagination, cultivated his intuition, awakened within him a natural curiosity and an instinct to questioning everything. These qualities have been the inspiration for Wicks to follow parallel careers as an imagemaker and visual educator. As an artist Stephen Wicks has been using photography, videography, monologues and soundscapes to tell stories about the things he see's, questions and values. His motivation has been to create picture stories, in print and now also on the screen, to share with others what he has experienced, discovered and captured. During his early career Wicks created traditional B&W photo essays with up close and personal photographs made, often while living with his subjects over a long period of time, and returning many years later to see and capture changes in their lives. More recently, Wicks has been making digital color photographs of landscapes, places and objects found in spaces shared by the natural landscape and built environment. Although these photographs are void of people, he believes a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, he see's his Nature/Culture images as social landscapes. It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks and artifacts left in the environment, he now finds most fascinating. Stephen Wicks is currently developing two presentation/performance/storytelling projects: PICTURE STORIES: a series of live presentations based on thematic video vignettes, photographs and monologues about American people, places, experiences and events; including a dialogue with the audience (in development / launch: September 2019) BEING THERE: his YouTube Channel - a video magazine about American Culture - including picture stories, video journals and commentary on education, art, communication, politics, economy, media (in development / launch: October 2019)
Angelika Kollin
Angelika Kollin is a 44 year old Estonian photographer currently based in Tampa, Florida. She is self-taught and engages with her passion for photography and art as a tool of exploration of interhuman connections, intimacy, and/or the absence of such. Angelika has spent the last 8 years living in African countries (Ghana, Namibia, South Africa), where she explored the same topic in a variety of different cultures and economic conditions. More and more it strengthens her belief that despite many circumstances in life, the one thing that shapes us the most is our relationship with our parents. Through intense artistic evolution she has arrived at her current and ongoing project You Are My Mother/Father. Statement: My main project for the year 2020 became You are my Mother that subsequently expanded into You are my Father. As the covid pandemic rolled over the world, many of us found ourself going back to basics and spending more times with our families. I started photographing my project in April, while we were still in complete lockdown in Cape Town,South Africa. Initially I only wanted to document an act of acceptance and joining I witnessed between a mother and her adult daughter. Afterwards I continued to explore same "story" in other mother/child connections, examining the impact it has on my own family life and on my audience. There is no groundbreaking story occurring in my project, and yet, at least for myself, I am learning to understand the significance and value of connection to our family and how it shapes us for the rest of our life.
Martin Bogren
Martin Bogren was born 1967 in Sweden and is now based in Malmo. His photographic practice has developed by a personal documentary tradition in the early 90's – photographing bands and artists. His first book The Cardigans_- Been It was published in 96 after several years touring with the band. Swedish born Martin Bogren first came to attention in 1996 with his book on the Swedish band, The Cardigans, who he photographed over several years while touring with the band. He has since published two photobooks, Ocean and, most recently, Lowlands. A winner of the prestigious Scanpix Photography Award in Sweden he has been exhibited throughout Scandinavia as well as in France, Ireland, Portugal, India and USA. Christian Caujolle is one of the France's leading curators and critics. A founder of Agence VU he has curated major festivals such as PhotoEspaña, Rencontres d'Arles and Foto Biennale Rotterdam, and his extensive writings on photography have been published worldwide.
Ragnar B. Varga
Ragnar B. Varga is a Hungarian-born Norwegian photographer with a passion for emotive storytelling through his photography. He spent several years discovering the world, living in Hungary, England, Spain as a freelance photographer and even sailing around the globe as a cruise ship photo manager before returning to Norway. The energy and character of all these places have profoundly influenced his art. His passion for photography revolves around contemplating human connection through metaphors found in natural spaces. The photographs are a contemplation of the world around us. They slow time just enough to capture the narratives and anecdotes that can be found in a moment of stillness amidst an otherwise chaotic world. Ragnar currently lives in Bergen, Norway.
Miles Aldridge
Miles Aldridge rose to prominence in the mid-nineties with his arresting, highly stylised photographs with references to film noir, art history and pop culture. An acclaimed colourist, he renders elaborate mise-en-scènes in a palette of vibrant acidic hues. These glamorous, frequently eroticised images probe society's idealised notions of domestic bliss where sinister undercurrents swirl beneath a flawless surface. Aldridge has worked prolifically for more than twenty-five years, and today he remains one of the few photographers still shooting predominately on film. His creative output encompasses large-scale c-type prints, Polaroids, screenprints, photogravures and drawings. Born in London in 1964, the son of famed art director and illustrator Alan Aldridge, his interest in photography began at an early age when he was given a Nikon F camera by his father. He went on to study graphic design at Central Saint Martins, graduating with a BA in 1987. Aldridge initially worked as an illustrator and music video director, before turning his attention to photography. In 1996 he began working with Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia, and their boundary-pushing collaboration would continue for twenty years. In addition to the many international editions of Vogue, Aldridge's images have featured regularly in prestigious titles including Harper's Bazaar, Numéro, W, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. Aldridge develops each new photographic narrative by rendering his initial thoughts in ink or pencil sketches with washes of watercolour and pastel. These drawings and storyboards are an essential early stage in his creative process. He believes that 'fiction and theatricality can be more truthful than documenting reality' and translates his sketches into meticulously arranged compositions to create images reminiscent of film stills: frames snatched from a broader story. Aldridge notes that many of his favourite moments in cinema are, as he describes, "closeups of a woman's face thinking", and he shares Hitchcock's ability to create powerful moments of suspense, turning viewers into voyeurs. In Aldridge's Chromo Thriller (2012) there is a palpable resonance with David Lynch's neo-noir mystery Blue Velvet, where immaculate façades hide darkly strange stories. As one author has noted: "Aldridge's female protagonists recall the glamour and splendour of Isabella Rossellini's character whilst at the same time remaining suggestive of something more sinister." Only rarely does he allow the real world to encroach upon the imagined realm. Through his lens, even reality appears artificial. In the series Capital Gains (2007) and Open Tour (2008) the cities of Washington DC and Paris look cleaner and sleeker than ever before. In The Last Range of Colours (2007), a lone figure in a children's playground evokes both the Technicolor splendour of The Wizard of Oz and the haunting dreamscape of a Giorgio de Chirico painting. A recurring theme throughout Aldridge's oeuvre is the false promise of luxury. Psychedelic interiors are furnished with the trappings of mid-century suburban comfort: gleaming kitchen appliances, candy-coloured telephones and well-groomed pets denote success. The work conflates historic and modern motifs and makes subtle reference to the art historical canon. The project Immaculée (2007) points to Catholic depictions of female saints in ecstasy, whilst his portraits of Lily Cole (2005) and Maisie Williams (2017) draw inspiration from Northern Renaissance masters such as Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein. Pop Art tropes feature predominantly: Coca-Cola logos (3D, 2010; A Family Portrait #14, 2011), soup cans and tomato ketchup bottles (A Drop of Red #2, 2001; First Impressions, 2006) all form a striking part of his visual lexicon. His fascination with art history led Aldridge to undertake projects with several significant contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Gilbert & George and Harland Miller. For the project (after Cattelan) (2016), he was invited by Cattelan to respond to the Italian artist's exhibition, Not Afraid of Love, in the grand neoclassical rooms of the Monnaie de Paris. The resulting series of c-type photographs depicts statuesque nudes dominating Cattelan's hyperreal sculptures in a series of absurdist tableaux. A second series, titled Love Always and Love All Ways after Gilbert & George (2016), was made with the British duo at their London townhouse. Drawing on the conventions of Victorian melodrama, Aldridge devised a series centred around the story of an enigmatic young visitor staying at the house for the weekend. In a further nod to Victoriana, the images were printed using the nineteenth-century photogravure process, whereby an etched copper plate produces highly detailed intaglio prints. The monotone prints were augmented with blocks of bold colour and hand-painted details to create a contemporary aesthetic. His most recent collaboration was with Harland Miller, known for his paintings of imaginary book covers that were partly inspired by Alan Aldridge's 1960s designs for Penguin paperbacks. In a satisfying symmetry, Aldridge transformed Miller's paintings into real books, used as props in his photoshoot. The resulting screenprints evoke the grainy colour supplements of Aldridge's youth and were published by Poligrafa, Barcelona's renowned fine art publisher, who launched them at the 2017 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Poligrafa went on to publish the subsequent screenprint series New Utopias, which they exhibited at the 2018 edition of Art Basel. Most recently, Tan Lines, one of Aldridge's largest screenprints to date, was unveiled by Poligrafa at the 2019 edition of The Armory Show, New York. Aldridge's major museum exhibitions include his upcoming retrospective Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn. Photographs 1999 - 2020 at Fotografiska, New York, which opened 7th May 2021 having first appeared at Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm (2020-2021), solo shows at The Lumiere Brothers Photography Centre, Moscow (2019) and OCA, São Paulo (2015) and I Only Want You to Love Me at Somerset House, London (2013). In 2014, he was commissioned by Tate Britain to create a photographic installation in response to Mark Gertler's 1916 painting Merry-Go-Round. London's National Portrait Gallery houses a large collection of Aldridge's portraits and his work is held in prestigious museums and institutions around the world including the Victoria and Albert Museum and British Museum in London, the Fondation Carmignac and the Palais Galliera in Paris, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts and the International Center of Photography in New York. -- Susanna Brown Curator of Photography Victoria and Albert MuseumSource: milesaldridge.com


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Mischief - part 18 - Aftermath
Author: archaeologist_d
Title: Mischief Part 18 – Aftermath
Rating: R for language
Pairing/s: none
Character/s: Merlin, Arthur, Morgana
Summary: Arthur deals with what just happened. Is he being an idiot or heroic?
Camelot_drabble Prompt 483: Secret meeting
Author's Notes: unbetaed.
Disclaimer: Merlin characters are the property of Shine and BBC. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
"What the fuck was that?" Morgana snapped at him, hands on her hips, glaring at him as if she could vaporise him with a single look. "Do you have any idea of how that made Merlin feel?"
At least, Arthur hadn't driven off after the debacle with all that magic bollocks. He was still a little woozy from whatever the hell they had given him to drink, and he didn't think that moonlight shimmering in the air, and the leaves talking to him were real. But he certainly couldn't drive anywhere until it was out of his system.
No hangovers, she said. But he didn't know what else to call it. No, it didn't hurt as a normal hangover would, but the pain in his chest wasn't going away any time soon.
Sighing, knowing that he could have handled it better, still upset, Arthur said, "I don't know how Merlin would feel. Why would I? He's a stranger who used to be a cat and make a mess of my flat and purr into my ear and grumble about me feeding him less-than-top-grade tuna. But I don't know him. At all."
Spying the human Merlin walking down with the others—at least someone had loaned him a robe so he wasn't traipsing around naked, Arthur lowered his voice. "What am I supposed to say? Hi, I'm Arthur. I used to own you?" When Morgana glared some more, Arthur sighed again. "He's better off without me, anyway. I haven't a scrap of magic, and if he's as magical as you say, then I'll just be in his way."
Morgana softened at that. "Arthur, don't you think that he knows you, though? He's been living with you for months now. If he hated it, he could have escaped at any time."
"I was just his meal ticket, nothing more," Arthur said, looking down at his feet.
"You were never that, Arthur," Merlin said. His voice was low, a little rough as if only now speaking properly. "You took me in, treated me with all the love anyone could show, and then sacrificed your own well-being so that I could change back to my true self. You let me be who I was meant to be."
"Well, I… I only did what was right," Arthur said, embarrassed at the warmth in Merlin's voice. He sounded like he thought Arthur was some kind of damn hero, and honestly, Arthur was far from that. Just a confused bloke who used to own a cat.
But the idea that this stranger would come back to the flat with him, would try and maybe take his cat's place in his heart, just made his chest hurt more.
Arthur glanced up then, looking into a pale, moonlit face and blue eyes that gleamed a little in the darkness. Feeling the intense need to be alone and come to terms with everything that had happened the last few months, Arthur said, "Perhaps it would be best if you stayed with Morgana. She'd understand about your magic and things in ways I can't. And then you could see about going back to your old life."
"So you don't want me to come back with you, then?" Merlin sounded almost hurt.
"We have nothing in common. I would think you'd want to return to your old life and get back to doing whatever you were doing before this whole thing began. I'm just a boring accountant and you have magic and power. I'd just be holding you back." The thought of his flat, once so full of joy and energy and mischief, was giving Arthur a hollow feeling in the pit of his stomach, but really, there was nothing to be done. His cat was gone, and he wasn't coming back. Arthur would throw away the toys, donate the rest of the tuna to the shelter and get on with his life.
Morgana shook her head. "You are being an idiot."
"Maybe, but Merlin needs to go back to his old life and so do I," Arthur said, then pushed himself up and got into his car. "It was nice meeting you, Merlin, and good luck with everything."
"Morgana is right. You are an idiot," Merlin said, frowning a little. But he stepped back out of the way when Arthur just nodded and drove his car out of the parking lot and into the darkness beyond.
"I am an idiot, Merlin," Arthur muttered to himself as he sped away. "But at least I did the right thing this time. Hopefully, someday you will understand that."
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Ballarat's - The Great Outdoor and 4X4 Expo - Adventures from where you want to be.
As we walked through the Gates of The Great Outdoor and 4X4 Expo in Ballarat early on its opening morning, we looked around and saw that only moments after it's official opening time, people were already beginning to stream in.
Ballarat's "The Great Outdoor and 4X4 Expo" has been running now in Ballarat for the last five to six years and every year it keeps getting better with more and more exhibitors on site.
This year the weather is perfect for it, With warm temperatures for Friday and Saturday before a cool change hits on Sunday.
The Great Outdoor and 4×4 Expo has a huge range of exhibitors, from Caravans, 4WD, Fishing, Electrics bikes, Fire pits, Lawnmowers, Generators, Tires, Solar Panels, the list goes on. Which is why it holds such a wide appeal from young families, retirees, to people looking for their next way to explore the Great Outdoors.
Ballarat "The Great Outdoor and 4×4 Expo" Event information.
There is free parking at the venue, however, expect the Car park to fill up quickly on Saturday afternoon with the AFL game playing next door at Mars Stadium. Western Bulldogs vs Hawthorn.
Make sure you bring a little cash, whilst you can now pay with EFTPOS to enter and some stalls will have portable Eftpos machines, I found when walking around many of the food stalls were still cash only. Otherwise, you will need to leave and head across the road to the BP for the ATM to get some cash-out.
Photos all taken just after opening on Friday morning. Expect more crowds as the weekend progresses.
There are some great Food trucks, Coffee, Souvlakis, Potato twists, Dim Sims, and Burgers. Most of them required cash so make sure you bring some spare change.
As you walk around their are quite a few fire pits, and other stands cooking up meat, so if you enjoy meat the smell makes you hungry.
The Charcoal Pit sells Chicken, Lamb or mixed souvlaki, and a variety of Soft drinks or Water.
Apart from wandering through and looking at the Caravans a favourite in our house.
There is also a Jumping Pillow that the children will love to have a play on. It wasn't open yet on the Friday morning when I walked past, so I am not sure what price it will be.
There was a stall with free Gold mining which I am sure will be a huge hit with the kids.
So make sure you head down to Ballarat, to see "The Great Outdoor and 4X4 Expo" you won't be disappointed.
Do you love visiting Expos? What is your favourite?


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