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Month: March, 2014
Library of Congress: Inventing Entertainment Collection
Homepage: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
First, I should point out that LOC would prefer that I review this page, but I can't, because it doesn't work on my computer. Apart from that, the new version is really poorly laid out and harder to use than the old site, so I'm going to talk about the one I can use. Happily, LOC has left it up and available, and hopefully when they do their next upgrade, they will return to it as a basic format, and not the clunky new version.
Either way, what this collection represents is the movies produced by the Edison Film Company during its run in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. At the beginning of that period, Edison was pretty much the only film studio in America, and it remained dominant for several years, due in part to Edison's patents on 35 millimeter film format, cameras, and projectors. Even after other studios had sprung up, Edison Studios continued to make interesting and historically important movies.
This older website will look old-fashioned to people today, but it is refreshingly easy to navigate. You can find movies by title, subject, or keyword search, or, as I prefer, by looking at the chronological listings, which are broken down into neat, small portions of generally one or two years. You also have a choice of different viewing formats (MPEG, QuickTime, or RealMedia), which is good, because I find that Adobe Flash Player is pretty unreliable on older computers like mine which run Vista. I can almost always get one of these three to work for me, though.
Each entry includes a lot of useful metadata, often including entries from the original Edison catalog in the "Summary" section. These provide interesting insight into the way film was marketed during the Age of Attractions. Consider this excerpt from the movie "Overland Express Arriving in Helena, Mont." (1897): "We look down the long platform, crowded with people, and see the famous N.P. Railway Overland Express approaching rapidly…the whole scene being one of great interest and activity." The emphasis on activity and motion demonstrates what was novel or exciting about early film, and similar phrases appear throughout the catalog excerpts.
Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be reviewing a number of Edison movies, and most of them will have been viewed here.
Studios in 1914
The great "studio system" of Hollywood saw its high-water-mark in the 1930s and 40s, but it's antecedents could be seen many decades earlier. Due to the enormous hunger of the public for content in the new medium, tiny mom-and-pop filmmaking operations boomed into financial giants with remarkable speed, and then competed with one another for the best markets, often stepping on toes or breaking copyright laws to get there. In this week's contextual post, I'd like to talk a bit about the companies that created the century films I've discussed up to now.
Edison Studios is the logical place to begin any discussion of American film studios. By 1914, it was doing business as "Thomas A. Edison, Inc." and was a part of Edison's "Motion Picture Patents Company," also known as "the Edison Trust." Edison felt that his company owned the patent on motion picture technology, and controlled who could make films legally. His lawyers went after smaller companies making films with all the aggression of Disney, Apple or Microsoft today. This was one reason for the shift in American filmmaking away from New York (where Edison was headquartered) to the wilds of Southern California (which was close to the Mexican border, if you needed to dodge a subpoena). All that aside, by 1914 the Edison company was lagging behind the others in terms of innovation and productivity. You'll find a few exceptional Edison films from this period, but they often feel clumsy and old fashioned compared to the product put out by the more dynamic, smaller studios.
General Film Company was a part of the Edison Trust, and was founded in 1909 by the Trust. They were the strongarm wing that tried to use patent law to break the smaller studios or force them to join the Trust. They also produced over 12000 movies in their short span, including the popular serial "The Perils of Pauline." By 1914, much of their power was spent and the Motion Picture Patents Corporation was fighting for its existence against anti-trust prosecution.
The Biograph Company was another New York outfit, which started out when an Edison technician, William Kennedy Dickson, defected from Edison to start his own company. He avoided patent infringement by inventing a new camera-and-projection system, but this limited their audience until Biograph won an important lawsuit against Edison in 1902. By 1914, they had joined the "Edison Trust" to try to keep new companies out of the market. Biograph produced many artistic and original films, especially when director D.W. Griffith joined the company after a brief stint with Edison. However, their resistance to making feature films created a vacuum the independents were happy to fill, and ultimately drove Griffith, their biggest asset, to seek greener pastures.
Keystone Studios was one of those upstart companies that never joined the Trust. Located in Edendale, California, it was founded by Mack Sennett, who had previously worked for Biograph in New York, and made a name for himself as the "king of comedy." Keystone is remembered today mainly for slapstick, such as was seen in the many "Keystone Cops" pictures, as well as the work of superstars of comedy like Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin. Keystone focused on short movies, cheaply made, but with an eye toward innovation and dynamic motion. Chaplin, who may seem to define the company for us today, actually only worked for Keystone for about a year, beginning in early 1914 and leaving at the end of the year when Sennett refused to pay him $1000 a week.
The United States was only a part of the story of the history of film. In fact, up until the First World War, the real center of film production remained France, and since I've talked about some of those movies, it makes sense to devote some space to their studios as well.
Frères Lumiere were arguably the inventors of motion picture technology, no matter what Edison said in the US. They saw it as a technical toy, however, and claimed there was "no future" in it as an art. They were ill-positioned to move from the "Age of Attractions" into the "Nickelodeon Era" and largely stopped making movies after 1905.
Georges Méliès, then, was the French visionary who saw more than the Lumieres. He built his own production studio in his backyard, making a structure out of glass, like a greenhouse to let in the sunlight that early motion picture cameras required. He made short fantasy pieces that demonstrated the possibilities of film as a story-telling medium. His movies were seen all over the world, but unfortunately, he was a poor businessman and a lot of the copies going out were pirated. By 1914, desperate to hold on to what he had, he joined Edison's Trust, but it was already too late, and audiences were abandoning his fanciful creations for more elaborate, sophisticated movies.
Pathé Frères was a French company that was happy to pick up the slack left by less innovative studios. Today they are mostly known for Newsreels, which they developed and distributed from 1908 to 1970 (!). They also produced fiction films, however, and even had a short-lived deal with Méliès in 1913. Pathé's American branch did join the Edison Trust as well.
Gaumont Film Company claims to be the oldest continuous film company in the world, and it did get its start right about the time the Lumieres were first demonstrating their system. They managed to attract Louis Feuillade, a truly prolific director who found time to write manifestos about the art of cinema as well as making over 600 films in a relatively short career, including the "Fantômas" serial.
The story in France has a tragic side, however, because after the outbreak of war in August, 1914, the French film industry was literally sacrificed to the war effort. Film stock was melted down to produce armaments, and the French never recovered their dominance afterward, leaving it to the Americans to define the art form of the Twentieth Century.
Fantômas the Complete Saga
Worldcat Link: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670058288
This DVD release of the early French serial gives one the opportunity to "binge-view" the whole thing in a way that never would have happened a century ago, making more obvious some of the plot holes and redundancies, but is nevertheless an enjoyable presentation. The diabolical Fantômas (Rene Navarre, who apparently found it difficult not to be recognized after making the series) is a master criminal who disguises himself and plots gigantic schemes to make himself rich or, as often as not, simply to achieve crime for its own sake. He is pursued, and sometimes pursues the brilliant Inspector Juve (Edmund Breon, who went on to "Gaslight" and "The Woman in the Window") and his journalistic sidekick, Fandor (Georges Melchior, later in "Rocambole," another crime drama). This series came at the end of France's dominance of world cinema, and in someway represents the high point of filmmaking in the pre-World War One period, in spite of its narrative ludicrousness. The DVD includes a bombastic soundtrack, sampled from music libraries, and a somewhat disjointed commentary by film historian David Kalat, who freely admits that he can't pronounce French words. In spite of that, I found much of what he had to say informative and thought-provoking.
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
Director: Henry Lehrman
Starring: Charles Chaplin
This is the big start for Charlie Chaplin. It is a simple, seven-minute comedy reel in which an odd fellow blunders in front of cameramen trying to film a local soapbox racing event, and then refuses to go away, even when rather forcefully asked to do so. It was the first time that Chaplin appeared in his "Little Tramp" outfit on film, so is a milestone of sorts. It's also an example of Keystone Studios taking advantage of a local news event as the setting for one of their comedies, which gave them the opportunity to make what looked like "big" productions for very little money. In later years, Venice police would have chased them off the track for filming without a permit, but here, Charlie is nearly hit by several race cars, and his only adversary seems to be the other actor. Much has been made about the "breaking of the fourth wall," which refers to the point in the movie where we see the cameraman filming Charlie by virtue of a second camera, although I've seen examples of this going back as far as the 1890s. Cameramen were always fascinated by filming other cameramen.
Run time: 6min 21 sec
You can watch it for free: here
Fantômas Contre Fantômas (1914)
photo from Wikimedia commons, attributed to "Fredojoda." See Copyright.
Director: Louis Feuillade
This century film is the fourth installment in the long-running French "Fantômas" serial by Louis Feuillade (who also made "Les Vampires" and "Judex"). In it, the master criminal Fantômas manages to frame Inspector Juve, his one serious rival, and masquerades as an American detective called "Tom Bob" (a Frenchman's idea of an American name if there ever was one). One scene takes place at a masquerade ball, with no less than three men dressed up as Fantômas – the real Fantômas kills one of the false Fantômases while under observation by the third. Another key scene involves a body sealed up in plaster, whose presence is revealed when a workman hammers a nail into the wall, only to release a stream of blood. The French fascination with Poe seems to come out clearly in that sequence. The serial set the standards for future serials, both in terms of straining credulity for narrative effect and in terms of the structure of capture-escape-and-recapture, with the tables being constantly turned between hunter and hunted. Interestingly, these films, and the books on which they were based, would later serve as iconographic touchstones for the Surrealist movement, in part because of the incoherence of the plots.
Run time: 59 min
Find some of the novels: here
Chaplin at Keystone
Worldcat link:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/671500970
This collection of Charlie Chaplin's first year in Hollywood is surprisingly complete – and very interesting. You can see as he refines the persona of the "Little Tramp" and the nuances of his performance, but you can also watch several early experiments that maybe didn't succeed as brilliantly. Chaplin once said that the three necessary elements of a Keystone comedy were "a girl, a park, and a policeman," and you will see all three in abundance. Perhaps every movie has at least one of those elements, many have two, but really less than half have all three. In general, camera moves are rare, and intercutting is minimal, but there is an interesting ability of the different scenes to interact with one another, as Charlie throws a brick out of camera range in one shot, only to have his adversary duck it in the next shot, and finally in a third shot it collides with a hapless policeman or innocent bystander. Includes Chaplin's first movie as "the Little Tramp:" "Kid Auto Races at Venice" as well as "Mabel at the Wheel" and "Tillie's Punctured Romance" and many more. And, yes, for those who were curious, the policemen were frequently played by the famous "Keystone Kops," who at various times were rivals with Chaplin as comic stars.
Fantômas – in the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913)
This early French feature kicked off a series of popular "Fantômas" crime films. Here, the cunning criminal steals from and murders members of the nobility in a posh hotel, escaping despite all security precautions and leaving a mysterious calling card. He is pursued by the brilliant Inspector Juve of the Surete, but manages to stay one step ahead of him through his exploits. Unlike American thrillers of the time, the filmmakers increase the suspense by not giving away the identity of the criminal right off. Once it does happen, though, the action shifts to his daring plan to escape from police captivity and a death sentence. Fantômas appears to me to be a kind of anti-hero, someone the audiences rooted for in spite of themselves, because he was so subtle and sly, and ultimately charming, even though he put hurt innocent people for his own selfish ends. The DVD from Kino includes a powerful orchestral score, which at times threatens to drown out the silent action on the screen, but does add to the watchability, in general. The director, Louis Feuillade, made hundreds of films in the 1900s and teens (including "Les Vampires" and "Judex"), many of which are blessed with considerable cinematic vision.
Run Time: 54 min (this episode. Total run time for serial = 335 min)
Original novel is: here
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Director: Mack Sennett
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Mabel Normand
By the end of 1914, when this movie came out, film audiences were demanding two things: feature-length films and as much Charlie Chaplin as they could get, so it's not surprising that the two were combined. Chaplin had single-handedly put tiny Keystone Studios on the map by signing with them earlier that year and had become a true blockbuster star just by putting together slapstick shorts built around the formula (as Charlie would later describe it) of "a girl, a park, and a policeman." That wasn't enough to fill ninety minutes, though, so for this story we get a rather more complex story structure, in which Charlie (in a somewhat slick variation on his "Little Tramp" getup) is the "City Stranger" who comes into the life of homely farmgirl Marie Dressler (who was later in "Min and Bill" and "Emma") and promises to take her away from her abusive father (regular Chaplin foil Mack Swain, who had been in "His Trysting Place" and would later co-star in "The Gold Rush"). Once he's lured Tillie back to the city, he meets up with his regular girl (Mabel Normand, another Chaplin regular, who had been in "Mabel at the Wheel" and "The Masquerader") and the pair proceed to get her drunk and arrested, fleecing her of her purse. This is a parody of the standard "lost girl" melodrama of the day, and the satire carries on from there, becoming increasingly ridiculous and uproarious. One thing I've mentioned before about the Keystones is that they lock the camera down for each shot, framing a "stage" (sometimes corresponding to the size of a room) on which actors may perform, and which they enter and exit. The camera never moves, never follows, them, it merely defines a space for them to work in. However, in contrast to the days of Melies, complex editing structures allow the various shots/stages to interact with one another.
Run Time: 71 min (83 min restored version)
You can watch it for free: here (71 min version)
Audiences of 1914
For this week's "context" post, I'd like to discuss what it was like to be in the audience of a movie a century or more ago. As I proceed through the project, I hope to read and learn more about this, but for now, this will be more of a speculative, even whimsical, essay.
I've always imagined the atmosphere of an early silent picture as carnivalesque. Indeed, many of the first films, shown during the "Age of Attractions" were in fact shown at carnivals. Movies were novelties, not art, and people went to see them to be amazed by the wonder of it all, not uplifted. A lot of the early movies seem to draw from pantomime and vaudeville, not from the so-called "legitimate" theater, which makes it seem as if they were meant to attract a working-class crowd. More snobbish audiences paid the higher ticket prices to see Shakespeare or Shaw, while people who didn't know better plunked down their nickel at the nickelodeon. Because they weren't trained in middle-class niceties, they weren't the sorts to sit in silence while a performance went on. They were noisy and enthusiastic, or, if they didn't like something, raucous and outspoken.
Silent cinema hit this country at the same time as one of the major booms of immigration, particularly from Eastern and Southern Europe. It seems to me as if the movies were a great entertainment option for people who spoke English as a second language, or not at all. For the most part, you could follow the plot even if you couldn't read the intertitles. Or, you could go in a group, with one person along who could read and translate for you. Because it was a silent movie, it didn't matter if someone was talking in Italian or Yiddish – that needn't disturb the rest of the audience as they read along in English. And, those intertitles always seem to stay up far longer than anyone needs to read the English, but if you were semi-literate or trying to translate, that would be a boon.
So, my imagined theater of 1914 is a crowded, noisy place, with children running in the aisles and people speaking in different languages. People are smoking and maybe even drinking. There are loud outbursts of reaction to the screen, and audience members interact with one another and talk to the actors out loud. Once in a while the management has to eject a particularly disruptive character, but for the most part the audience polices itself, according to its own uncouth standards.
To a lot of modern movie snobs, this probably sounds like Hell, but when I was a teenager I used to go to movie theaters on 42nd Street in Manhattan, back when that meant something. It's the experience of participatory audiences that I miss from those days. I feel like I've wasted my admission if an audience sits in stony silence through a screening. If I wanted that, I could watch it at home.
Now, let's face it, my fantasy film audience is just that: a fantasy. I've heard film historians say that the target audience for early movies was more middle-class than is often assumed. A nickel wasn't much, but for a lot of working class people it was more than they could spare very often. Movies were a technical innovation, and they appealed to the kind of people who buy ipads or use smartphones. People whose education made them feel that they were a involved in the technical progress of the day, not that they were overwhelmed by it.
I'll leave you with a paraphrase that totally challenges my fantasized view. One of the commenters on one of the DVD sets I've reviewed (I actually don't recall which) mentioned a quote by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, which I have since determined is from his book Death on the Installment Plan. In it, Céline purports to have seen the movies of Georges Méliès at the Theatre Houdin, which would be about the most carnivalesque environment I can imagine. But, according to Céline, he remembered it as a totally silent experience, without music, narration, or talking of any kind. Just the quiet hum of the projector. That's much closer to my vision of Hell.
Update 4/2/2014: Since writing this, I went and got a copy of Death on the Installment Plan from my local library. The actual passage reads as follows:
Grandma realized that I needed a little fun, that it wasn't good for me to be in the shop all the time. It made me sick to my stomach to listen to my lunatic father shouting his inanities. She bought a little dog for me to play with while waiting for the customers…He went everywhere with us, even to the movies, to the Thursday matinee at the Robert Houdin. Grandma treated me to that, too. We'd sit through all three shows. It was the same price, all the seats were one franc, one hundred percent silent, without words, without music, without titles, just the purring of the machine. People will come back to that, you get sick of everything except dreaming and daydreaming. The "Trip to the Moon" will be back again. . . I still know it by heart.
Now, there's a few things: first of all, this is a novel. Although it is supposed to be somewhat autobiographical, it's also a black comedy, and it's hard to know where he's being truthful and where he's being funny. Also: the fact that the theater let him bring a dog in is more consistent with my vision. Finally, even if there's any doubt as to whether "A Trip to the Moon" was narrated or had music played along (that's how it's presented today), there definitely were titles on the original prints, so he's either exaggerating or misremembering to some degree.
So far as it goes, the last two sentences are confirmed by the very existence of this blog, and maybe that's the more important takeaway here.
Georges Méliès First Wizard of Cinema
This collection gives a wonderful insight into the man who introduced the idea that film was not "moving pictures" in the sense of still images that happened to have motion added, it was a medium for telling stories, an extension of the theater. Méliès was a stage magician and a pantomime artist, and he brought the standards and sensibilities of that style of common mass entertainment with him in the movies he made. Today, this nineteenth-century aesthetic is best known to us from old carousels and funhouses. Of course, the iconic image of the Man in the Moon, with a spaceship stuck in his eye, from Méliès's most popular film, "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) is known to almost everyone, and films such as "The Impossible Voyage," (1904) and "The Living Playing Cards" (1905) will seem familiar as well. But, I found some of the more obscure gems to be especially interesting. For example, in 1899 Méliès produced a series of 11 films (9 are here, perhaps all that survived), documenting the Dreyfus Affair as it happened. These were not newsreels, but dramatizations of what was going on in newspapers, and they were told from a decidedly liberal, pro-Dreyfus perspective. I was surprised that Méliès would take such a bold stand on a controversial issue, but he never did it again, so perhaps he learned from the result of this experiment.


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On the human front, we just have to include here BODY WORLDS, the touring exhibitions of preserved human bodies and body parts.
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BODY WORLDS exhibitions have been held in more than 100 cities worldwide, and have been attended by 40 million people, making it the top attended traveling exhibition in history.
There is much that is special – and different – about the Washed Ashore exhibition, primarily in that is a collection of beautiful and giant sculptures … beautiful and giant exhibits … depicting marine life, that are made and crafted from trash that has been removed from beaches.
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New clubs, new causes
Graphic by Bernard Chen
Frances Wu, Asst. News Editor
Boasting over 80 different clubs on school campus, Diamond Bar High School is known for its diversity of activities, allowing students to get involved outside of the classroom—and this diversity is ever-growing. So far this school year, students have seen the rise of clubs like Investment Club, Support Education in Ghana Association, Music for Healing, and Pencils of Promise, all of which have recently been approved by USB.
Music for Healing, a club formed by seniors Tiffany Lin and Jessica Fan, will utilize the musical talents of students to entertain senior citizens. Lin, one of the co-presidents, aims to create a "chain reaction of kindness" for students to participate in by using their talents to help the community. Lin would like for the members to see the benefits of volunteering at senior centers around the area using their musical skills. (For more on Music for Healing, look up the "Club Spotlight" for the club on the website).
Another newly formed club, Investment Club, was started by junior Armaan Kohli in order to educate students on the stock market and the economy. To encourage members to participate and use their newfound knowledge, Kohli plans on holding competitions in which students can pretend to invest in the own stock market.
"I hope to teach the members about the market so that they can be better prepared in the future to take on a job that relates to investments," Kohli said over Facebook.
While many clubs on campus aim to help the less fortunate, the Support Education in Ghana Association sets itself apart by working internationally to achieve this goal. SEGA was formed by sophomore Kenneth Wah, who was inspired to create the club after volunteering in Ghana for two weeks this past summer. During his trip, the he learned about the culture and lifestyles in Ghana by interacting with the children there.
"I believe that I [can] make a large impact in changing the country through education," Wah said. Through SEGA, Wah hopes to raise money to allow individuals to take part in Africa's education, which costs $3 per year on average. He would also like to collect the necessary school supplies and donate them to various schools in Ghana.
Like SEGA, new club Pencils of Promise also plans on raising money to give children in developing countries the education that they deserve and raises awareness on the lack of funding for basic education in certain areas of the world. Junior Jennifer Chang recently restarted the club.
"My club aims to make a difference in every child's life so he can receive a quality education. PoP is a great organization that tries to give everyone the right to an education," Chang said.
Another club, A Place for Smiles, created by junior Felicitas Anijielo, is expected to be approved in November.
Having struggled with depression herself, Anijielo aims to transform the club into a place in which students can discuss the disorder and help those who are currently suffering from it.
"We all have our sad moments, even if we keep those to ourselves. I want to help through [hosting] awareness events, educating members on the warning signs, and creating a fun and supportive atmosphere," Anijielo said.
Anijielo felt that all of the pre-existing clubs on campus were geared towards helping or uniting a larger group of people. Therefore, she has decided to make APS, a club that focuses on the individuals themselves as opposed to the group as a whole.

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Laos Deports 3 Detained US Missionaries, Evangelical Group Claims
U.S.-based group says three American volunteers who were detained for proselytizing have been freed and deported.
By Associated Press for The Diplomat
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
A U.S.-based Christian evangelical organization says three of its American volunteers who were detained in Laos more than a week ago for proselytizing have been freed and deported.
The operations manager for Vision Beyond Borders, Eric Blievernicht, said in an e-mail that the three crossed into Thailand on Thursday night.
"Our prayers for their release and that they might be home for Easter are being answered," Blievernicht wrote. He gave no other details.
The missionaries, identified by the Casper, Wyoming-based group only as Wayne, Autumn, and Joseph, were detained by Laotian police on April 8 while visiting villages in the northwestern province of Luang Namtha to distribute Gospel tracts and other Christian material.
The website of U.S.-government funded Radio Free Asia, citing an unidentified district policeman, reported Tuesday that the three were detained for handing out religious materials without receiving official permission.
Christians in Laos, especially those carrying out proselytizing work, face pressure from two quarters. The country's rigid old-style communist government is suspicious of outsiders and seeks to regulate all religions. The mostly Buddhist country's animist community, usually found in rural areas, also is often hostile.
The U.S. State Department's 2017 International Religious Freedom Report said about Laos that "Reports continued of authorities, especially in isolated villages, arresting, detaining, and exiling followers of minority religions, particularly Christians."
Vision Beyond Borders is one of a number of missionary groups that do semi-covert work in countries whose governments are often hostile to Christianity, and are best known for actions like smuggling Bibles into places such as China.
The group says it also helps support poor and orphaned children, provides safe houses for women who have escaped sex trafficking, and has sent refugee relief supplies to the Middle East.
By The Associated Press.
Christianity in Laos
Religious freedom Laos
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Are Laos' Land-Linking Dreams a Risky Bet?
By Fabio Figiaconi
The Lao government aspires to gain centrality in the Greater Mekong Subregion via new infrastructure; but at what price?
The Only Way to End Corruption in Laos
A true elimination of the problem will only come with broader political change in the country.
Can ASEAN Play a Greater Role in the Mekong Subregion?
By Shawn Ho and Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit
ASEAN should aim to be "central" in the Mekong subregion too.
How Worried Should Laos Be About Its Debt Problems?
The issue poses significant challenges for the Southeast Asian state's future trajectory.


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After stepping out of the cinema at the end of Toy Story 4 (TS4), I was livid. Although, I didn't start writing my review straight away, because I think I needed some time to digest the film and actually figure out what my feelings were towards it. Did I hate the film? No, absolutely not. Was I simply acting like a stubborn child who was refusing to accept the changes that took place and the end of a franchise I dearly loved? Yeah, that was probably it. The critics' reviews of TS4, as well as its box office performance, show that the film has been long awaited and well received. TS4 has broken the global box office record for the earnings of an animation, raking in £187 million in just its opening weekend!
'You know, Bonnie wasn't [Woody's] first kid, there was this other kid called Andy and y'know what? I don't think he's ever gotten over it' - Forkie
The opening credits show Andy as a young child playing with Woody, this image invokes such a huge sense of nostalgia and it's wonderful that in this sense, the openings of all of the films have been consistent. Also, the audience is reminded of Andy and his importance to toys like Woody. The final instalment of the 24 year-old franchise, contrary to my initial thoughts, definitely does not disappoint; from plot to score and performance, everything is up to its normal high standards. There is also a stellar voice performance from Tom Hanks (as Woody) and Tim Allen (as Buzz) as always! These men have the most comforting voices.
If you compare the animation details from TS4 to Toy Story, or even Toy Story 3, you can tell that it has been steadily improving over the years. Everything is just that bit sharper and defined. I like the way Forkie has been animated because it is in an ever so slightly different format to the rest of the toys, which perfectly highlights the fact that Forkie has been made by a child from things like putty and chewing gum. Forkie is the most dim-witted character in the gang, and I love him for it. Most of the humour in TS4 comes from this character and his interacts with others.
( Forkie & Woody)
Let me introduce 'Forkie', a plastic spork that Bonnie has fashioned into a toy and whom she becomes very attached to. The problem is: Forkie was made from 'trash' which has resulted in him having a sort of existential crisis as to why he is alive and why he is now a toy. Woody, being the good ol' caretaker that he is, takes it upon himself to teach Forkie about the purpose of a toy, and tries to ensure that Forkie doesn't keep throwing himself into the bin. The story really kicks off when Bonnie loses Forkie and Woody on a road trip, and the two try to make their way back to her. Along the way there are pit stops in which they cross paths with old friends as well as new enemies.
I remember thinking: What is going to be different about the storyline? Because all of the other films have followed the same arch which is: toy gets lost, toy makes friends whilst lost, toy's companions search for the missing toy and eventually everyone makes it home to their child safely. However, whilst the formula of the plot is still the same, there are a few curve balls that get thrown into the mix that certainly make this film stand out from the rest.
One thing that also makes this film exceptional is the new characters. Especially the 'antagonists': Gabby Gabby and Benson. Benson is extremely akin to Slappy the ventriloquist doll from Goosebumps and is just as TERRIFYING. I think this is the one time where Toy Story has actually introduced a toy that appears to be very visually menacing; I would even go as far as to say Benson is the scariest villain Pixar/Disney has ever introduced.
( Benson & Gabby Gabby)
Not all of the original characters are focussed on in this film; in fact the only real focuses are on Woody, Forkie, Bo and Gabby Gabby. Having not featured in Toy Story 3, Little Bo Peep's character is brought back and she's better than ever. I never thought much of Bo's character; she was never involved in main plots and was always just a meek little lady who stayed in the house whilst the others went on adventures. NOW, Bo is independent, adapt to the world around her and SMART. Bo is actually pretty badass, more so than Jessie in my opinion!
Furthermore, the soundtrack to this film is perfect because it hasn't changed since the first film! Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Personally, I will never get sick of Randy Newman's 'You've Got a Friend in Me', and the many renditions of Buzz Lightyear's theme song will never cease to get me excited for some action.
The film isn't a bad ending for the franchise. The film is actually brilliant: it's funny, it has astounding new characters, and it shows character development. Most importantly, TS4 manages to keep all the things that make Toy Story Toy Story intact. However, it is also heartbreaking and hard to accept for someone who grew up watching these films.
In Toy Story 3, Andy second guessed giving Woody away because of his attachment to his childhood toy but eventually entrusted Bonnie to take care of Woody. It was a tear jerking but understandable ending. However, in hindsight, I feel a bit bitter about the ending of Toy Story 3 because of the way events subsequently played out in TS4. My dislike for Bonnie has shown me that I am surprisingly capable of hating a 5 year-old child. This isn't because there are any flaws in Bonnie's personality, but her favouritism of her toys does not lend in Woody's favour and this is as hard for an audience to handle as it is for Woody.
Even my 8-year-old niece exclaimed that she 'didn't like this one, [because] it's sad'. But I suppose, endings are sad and growing and accepting things that are out of your control is hard to do... even if it concerns a fictional animated toy character! We see Woody at his most selfless but at the same time, a wonderful lesson is finally learnt: that you need to be selfish sometimes, and that doesn't make you a bad person.
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"Push the Feeling On" is a house song by the Scottish music group Nightcrawlers and American DJ Marc Kinchen (MK). The original version released in 1992 was also partially disco and acid jazz-influenced and was a minor chart hit in the United Kingdom. The song was later remixed extensively by Marc Kinchen, creating a series of additional remixes for the song. One remix known as "Push the Feeling On (MK Dub Revisited Edit)" became an international chart hit in 1995, reaching the top 10 in various European countries, including the UK, where it peaked at number three.

In the wake of its success, the band deleted the original version from their catalogue, reclassified the remix as the first single from their debut album, Lets Push It (1995) and changed their genre to house music. Despite the Nightcrawlers' Scottish origin, the song was actually less popular in Scotland than in the UK as a whole (and many worldwide markets), only peaking at number 11; mainly due to the more subtle and low-key style of the track, which differentiated it from the dance music popular in Scotland at the time such as bouncy techno. On the Eurochart Hot 100, "Push the Feeling On (MK Dub Revisited Edit)" reached number five.

Background and release

Original song
The original song was initially issued in the United Kingdom in 1992. The song reached No. 86 in the UK charts, before quickly falling off. A similar effect happened with the reissue in the US when it was released there in 1993, reaching No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song itself was rooted in acid jazz and disco, and the vocalist of the band John Reid noted later it was quite out of date for the time.

Marc Kinchen remixes

The original 1992 version's B-side was a remix by a new producer named Marc Kinchen. Known originally as "MK's Nocturnal Dub", the remix was renamed "Push the Feeling On (The Dub of Doom)" for its US release. This remix was a hit in the underground scene in the UK, being heavily played for around two years, until the same remix was later released as a single in 1994 in Europe. It proved to be a greater success than the original, reaching No. 22 in the UK charts, and No. 76 in the Eurochart Hot 100.

A later issue, entitled "Push the Feeling On (New MK Mixes For '95)" with a revised remix from Kinchen entitled the "MK Dub Revisited Edit" solidified the potential of the song - proving to be such a great commercial success internationally that it replaced the original song in both the minds of the public and the band, who subsequently focused on house music for the rest of their career, and deleted the original version from their catalogue, subsequently using the new remix on their debut album, Let's Push It and all subsequent releases.

Later remixes
In 2003 and 2007, the song was released again, in other remixed versions.

"Push the Feeling On 2014" was credited to Nightcrawlers vs DJ S.K.T. and appeared on various house music compilation albums and broke the top 40 of the UK iTunes chart.

In 2017, a garage version simply titled "Push the Feeling" credited to Nightcrawlers x John Reid featuring Big Narstie was released, alongside a lyric video. The official music video followed in 2018, in which Reid made cameo appearances.

The original CD single release (catalogue no. BRCD 258/864491-2) credits John Reid as 'Jon Reed'.  The 1995 release "New MK Mixes for '95" (UK cat. FCD 257, international cat. 854 275-2) credits John Reid as 'J. Reed'.

Critical reception

Original song
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Dance act is making quick club inroads with this delightfully retro romp. A chunky, midtempo groove is dressed in snakey funk guitar licks, bright horn thrushes, and pulses of strings. Radio viability comes from the song's traditional structure and a contagious hook. Bolstered by prerelease interest on European import, cool track has the makings of a multiformat hit. Not to be missed." A reviewer from Lennox Herald described it as "confident sassy soul with good hook and chorus." James Hamilton from ''Music Weeks RM Dance Update commented that "the soulful John Reed led Glasgwegians get really classy with this Seventies-style chantingly harmonized joyful swirling and soaring brazzy jiggler".

Marc Kinchen remix
Scottish Aberdeen Press and Journal called the song "infectious". John Bush from AllMusic deemed it a deep-house hit and a house anthem. Larry Flick from Billboard stated that "Push The Feeling On" "is one of those records that simply will not go away." He noted Marc "M.K." Kinchen's "sinewy rhythms" of the remix. James Masterton said in his weekly UK chart commentary, "With hindsight it is easy to see why, as it is one of those dance hits to rank alongside the Source's "You Got The Love" and Robin S's "Show Me Love" - a simple but insistent rhythm upon which is built layer after layer of production to reach a rousing climax... watch it go Top 3." Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "Third time lucky for the Brits who finally score a hit at home with the MK Dub Revisited Edit. In fact they're the creators of that "canned vibraphone" sound as popularised by Robin S." James Hamilton from Music Week'''s RM Dance Update described it as "a bouncily honking and jolting infectious 121.8bpm beefy strider that chops up Jon Reed's vocal into almost continuously looped gibberish lacking any quotable hook".

The remix was present on many retrospective top ranking lists of the best dance singles of the 90s, including Mixmags "The 100 Best Dance Singles of All Time", MTV's "The 100 Biggest 90's Dance Anthems of All Time" and Vibe's "Before EDM: 30 Dance Tracks from the '90s That Changed the Game".

Music video
A music video was produced to promote the Marc Kinchen version. It takes place inside of a photo booth and shows different characters entering and leaving. One of them is John Reid. The video was later published on Nightcrawlers' official YouTube channel in January 2015. It had generated more than 32 million views as of December 2022.

Track listing
 Original song (19 October 1992)
 "Push the Feeling On" (radio mix) – 3:32
 "Push the Feeling On" (extended mix) – 6:48
 "Push the Feeling On" (MK's nocturnal dub) – 6:22
 "Push the Feeling On" (MK's Deep Dawn mix) – 5:00

 MK Mixes (3 October 1994)
 "Push the Feeling On" (Dub of Doom) (Short) – 3:36
 "Push the Feeling On" (The Dub of Doom) – 6:41
 "Push the Feeling On" (Dub of Doom DDT '94 Edit) – 7:00

 New MK Mixes for '95 (20 February 1995)
 "Push the Feeling On" (MK dub revisited edit) – 4:04
 "Push the Feeling On" (The Dub of Doom) – 6:39
 "Push the Feeling On" (MK dub revisited) – 7:03
 "Push the Feeling On" (MK mix 95) – 7:06

Charts and certifications

Original song

Weekly charts

Marc Kinchen remix

Weekly charts

1 2003 remix
2 JCA remix

Year-end charts

Certifications

Marc Kinchen remix

Impact and legacy
The MK version of the track has been extensively sampled and covered:

In 2020, AJ Tracey sampled the track for "Dinner Guest" featuring MoStack which reached the UK top 10 singles chart.
Nightcrawlers and Riton collaborated to release "Friday" in 2021, which samples "Push the Feeling On" and features Mufasa & Hypeman.

Accolades

For "Push the Feeling On (MK Dub Revisited Edit)"

(*) indicates the list is unordered.

See also
 List of number-one dance singles of 2004 (U.S.)

References

1992 songs
1992 debut singles
1994 singles
1995 singles
2003 singles
2004 singles
2007 singles
Number-one singles in Zimbabwe
Nightcrawlers (band) songs
FFRR Records singles
4th & B'way Records singles
Island Records singles

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Elan launch game changer – folding skis for all mountain terrain
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Filip Flisar taking the Voyager skis through their paces.
The ski world has seen some amazing innovations over the years, from the invention of the snowboard to the heated socks and Bluetooth ski goggles now on the market.
But there's now a potential game-changer that has just hit the mountains. It's the Elan Voyager, the world's first folding all-mountain ski, born out of the Slovenian alps and tested rigorously for the recreational skier.
We know. Folding skis. What the? And no, it's no early April Fool's joke – the real deal is here.
We know you have a lot of questions, so do we.
Why a folding ski?
Think of the pre-COVID days of travelling with your skis. You'd have to sort the extra-large Uber for the ski bag, lug everything through the airport then drag your bag to the oversize baggage counter, where the baggage attendant would more likely than not act as though they'd never seen a ski bag before.
Then you'd have to find somewhere to store it all when you got to the other end. No thank you.
With the new foldable ski life, all these woes may soon be a thing of the past. According to the press release: "The Voyager is super convenient to transport by any means. It simply folds in half and quickly packs into its own custom bag. It is easy to take to and from the main ski lifts, and at folded length under 1 meter, it stores just about anywhere."
It's not only an excellent storage solution for the home, but also for the car. Think of those long road trips to the Aussie ski fields; there's no more fiddling around with roof racks, or shoving the skis awkwardly between seats. Plus no wasting time in lines at the rental shop once you get to your destination – bonus.
There's also the additional selling point for those who love touring; strapping folding skis to a backpack is much easier than full-length skis, allowing for way more manoeuverability for technical ascents.
Elan's had a military folding ski for a few years, which was developed for the Slovenian army to increase mobility and transport capability, especially with helicopter operations. This testing then inspired them to develop a recreational model.
The folding joint of the Voyager features a four-axis mechanism that bonds and seals the ski together; there's also a carbon-reinforced fusion plate as a load-bearing platform. When unfolding the ski, you rotate the binding, align it and lock it in, releasing the ski brake in the process. The whole process takes from 15 to 30 seconds, and is marked on the ski to prevent confusion.
When it comes to performance, the Voyager features the same Amphibio tech as other Elan flagship all-mountain skis, the Ripstick and Wingman. This essentially means that the ski design has integrated both rocker and camber profiles to the left and right skis to allow for precision, edge grip and stability on the inside edge, with a more forgiving outside edge.
The ski comes with bindings, adjustable poles and the custom bag, which measures 100cm X 26cm X 16cm – actually pretty compact.
But can it still, well, ski?
We haven't had the chance to test them, so we can't say for sure; but the Elan team claim that the foldable ski has no compromise on performance: "The Voyager can easily handle any ski conditions from a day out with the family to a day of carving up groomers, floating through powder and attacking moguls."
This hilarious video may serve as some proof.
Elan tasked skicross world champion Filip Flisar to put them through their full paces – and the result does look pretty good, especially as Filip really doesn't go easy on them (watch as he specifically tries to break them against a box, two pallets and his own body weight).
He also takes you through the whole process of unpacking the ski, locking it in and going for gold from there. And yes, it seems easy enough to do once you're up on the mountain.
I'm sold! Where can I get them?
They are not on the market in Australia just yet, so hungry caterpillars will need to hold off until they come to a shop near you, especially as COVID has impacted distribution.
They may also be shaping up to be pretty pricey in the Aussie economy, with current pricing in Europe at €1,499.95 (or about AU$2352.00 at time of writing).
Specs will be as follows:
160cm (packed to 87cm) – 127/78/110 width / 12.6 radius
There are also three colours available: green, black and pink.
Watch this space for more, or head on over to the Elan website for more information.
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While the LAZ format is a good compression format it would not make for a good processing format.
In all fairness, that was a Terrascan question.
I was remiss in not posting an update here following some further discussions with Terrasolid in late Feb.
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[WASHINGTON] Men diagnosed with cancer have the option of freezing their sperm ahead of chemotherapy, which can render them infertile.
But sperm freezing is not an option for prepubescent boys, some 30 per cent of whom will become sterile as a result of toxic cancer treatments.
It's a problem that scientists have been working on for years: the idea being to harvest and cryopreserve immature testicular tissue before chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatments, and then graft it back during adolescence so that it will produce fertile sperm at puberty.
Three experiments conducted on monkeys since the 2000s have successfully demonstrated that sperm production, or spermatogenesis, was possible via such auto grafting.
But none had resulted in conception and the birth of a baby, until now.
A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine announced Thursday they had achieved the milestone, using sperm gathered from a male rhesus macaque to generate embryos that were transferred to recipient females.
In April 2018, one of the females gave birth to a healthy baby named Grady - a portmanteau of "graft-derived" and "baby."
The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was published in the journal Science.
The experiment represents a successful proof of concept for the technique and brings it one step closer to reality for human boys affected by cancer. For girls, further research will be required on ovarian tissue grafting.
In Pittsburgh, 206 boys and 41 girls treated for cancer have had their tissue frozen since 2011 in the hope that the technique will one day become available, said the study's senior author, Kyle Orwig, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
"I believe we will have this technology in the clinic in the next two to five years," he continued, adding that discussions were already underway with regulators.
Over the course of reporting the story, AFP came across differences in stated methodologies, which the editors of Science have said they are evaluating in case a correction may be required.
All five macaques that were a part of the experiment underwent chemotherapy but the treatment did not result in them becoming infertile, said Prof Orwig.
Their sterility at the time of the experiment instead came about as a result of castration, standard procedure for studies of this kind, according to the authors.
But while the chemotherapy treatment was not mentioned in the study published by Science, it was highlighted in interviews and a video produced by the university, which could create the impression that the primates became infertile because of the anti-cancer treatment.
Prof Orwig put the discrepancy down to human error. "I had forgotten that we decided not to mention the chemo in the paper because we thought it was irrelevant to the experimental plan and had no bearing on the outcome," he said.
Stefan Schlatt, a professor at the Center of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, in Munster, Germany, who wrote an editorial on the study for Science, concurred with Prof Orwig.
"It is indeed irrelevant," he said, because the purpose of the test was to show that the testis could grow ectopically, which it did.
"However it would have been more honest and scientifically correct to mention all treatments in the manuscript," he added.
In a comment to AFP, Science said its editors were not aware of the chemotherapy experiment, while adding that it was usual for experimental design to evolve.
"An author makes a judgment as to which elements are needed to provide clarity and transparency with regard to the methods used to produce the results and conclusions," it continued, adding that it would evaluate whether a correction was required.


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I recently came across some 50+ yrs old photos, magazines and paper cuttings. Most of the photos were taken in the early 1930s and the printed material 1929 - 1957. Come with me on a trip down memory lane. For those that weren't born before WW2, it will have to be a somewhat imaginary trip.
Remember when you only needed a little imagination and a launch to fly. And you thought that movie invented this. 1935
Remember Boofhead. This is 1949.
Would you like to see more Boofhead?
Remember Bluey & Curley. Also 1949.
Would you like to see more Bluey & Curley?
Remember when you didn't need electricity to listen to your records. 1949
Remember when the above was a good thing as Sydney didn't have much electricity after the war. 1950
Remember when Luna Park was closed during WW2 to reduce the light on the harbour shores. 1946
Remember when after the war Australia was in a bad way and the Federal Govt. actually did something to improve the situation. 1946
Remember when some of the above wisdom continued on. 1951
Remember when you had to get it right the first time. 1935
Remember when we could takes these and never go to the doctor again. 1935
Remember when we had to be told that our medicine didn't contain strychnine. 1949
Remember when it only took one of these to keep our little glamour girls happy. 1949
Remember when you could give them food that was out of this world. 1949
Whatever happened to Siren Soap? It went down the drain. 1934
Remember 1969 when we had more than four banks (actually 13) and they all made a profit, even though Housing-Loans cost 5.5%, Savings-Book accounts received 2.75%, and they charged no transaction fees either. The following ads show that the Big Four were inevitable as, even by 1929, some banks had already started swallowing others. When was the last time you saw a bank publish this info in the popular press?
Remember when Coca-Cola was less than 5 cents a bottle. 1953
Remember when Sydney had a picture show on every corner and people went to the "flicks" twice a week. 1946
Remember when we had one of these taking pride of place in the corner of the lounge room. 1935
Remember when your radio just had to have an Octode. 1935
Remember when women loved to cook. 1954
Remember when ice-cream came in a brick. 1953
Remember when people other than children were told to drink milk. 1935
Remember, when you got lost in the bush, you could always eat your cigarette papers. 1941
Remember when this was what every boy wanted. 1935
Remember when cars had gearsticks on the steering column and Australian-made radios in the dash. 1954
Remember when no cars had gearsticks on the steering column. 1929
Remember when Car Ads told you the prices weren't going to drop. 1929
Whatever happened to these automobiles? 1935
Remember when air in your tyres was optional. 1929
Remember when Australian made corrugated iron roofed the country. 1929
Remember when Tractors had steel tyres. 1929
Remember when Advertisers had optimism and assumed the readers of The Australasian could afford to buy one of these during the Great Depression. Dec. 1929
Remember when aeroplanes were toys and the real way to travel was by ship. 1929
Remember when the Railway was proud of its thirty-eighters. 1952
* Remember when the latest home appliances looked like this. 1950
* Country people may remember this appliance. 1954
* Remember when we had three big airlines and they all made a profit. 1949
* Remember when the latest radio looked like this. 1957
* Remember when Television was new and exciting and we all wanted one. 1957
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December 2020 in Other Languages and Libraries
We're more connected than ever and with that comes a lot of opportunities to make amazing new things - but with that, we also get a lot of new tools with which to make them. Programming languages for just about every purpose now exist, but on the other hand, a fast-growing development is the concept of making traditional web and mobile apps without code at all.
New platforms like Bubble and Adalo allow people to create web and mobile apps with no knowledge of code at all required. Of course, this makes it perfect for those who don't want to learn a programming language to get up and running with making something as quick as possible. It also means that people can turn their ideas into concepts a lot quicker. However, does this come with a deficit in quality? I'm yet to come across any apps or websites that have made it big using something like this but there's still plenty of time.
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Thunder Mountain Diamond Boys to Celebrate Senior Night
Thursday, May 20th, 2021 9:26pm
Thunder Mountain baseball seniors Tyler Halverson, Josh Rosenbruch, Josh Carte and Oliver Mendoza will be celebrated on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. before their game at Adair Kennedy Field against Petersburg. (Klas Stolpe/KINY
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Thunder Mountain High School Falcons baseball team will honor its seniors at 5:30 p.m. Saturday on Adair Kennedy Field before its game against Petersburg. The seniors commented on what they learned during the coronavirus pandemic seasons.
"I learned a lot in this pandemic," outfielder Tyler Halverson said. "I learned to enjoy things when I got them and not take things for granted. I would tell my freshman self to keep working harder and don't take plays off. I would want to change my attitude when I mess up on a play."
Tyler Halverson will be attending Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, pursuing a degree in business. His favorite food is pizza, favorite book "The Hobbit" and favorite movies are "The Lord of the Ring" series and the "Star Wars" series.
Pitcher/shortstop Oliver Mendoza will attend Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, and play baseball for the RiverHawks. His favorite food is tacos, favorite book "Hunger Games" and favorite movie any in the "Fast and the Furious" series.
"Something I learned over the pandemic was don't take things for granted," Mendoza said. "Just work hard every day. I would tell my freshman self to work hard every day, too. Don't take days off, go to the gym every day, work out every day and be in shape."
First baseman Josh Carte plans to apply to an apprenticeship with the IBEW in Juneau and hopes to become an electrician. His favorite food is beer-battered halibut, favorite book "My Side of the Mountain" and favorite movie "Road House."
"Over this pandemic, I really learned the importance of just being around friends and family," Carte said. "And it is so much fun to come out here and play baseball with all my buddies after not seeing them for a long time. I would tell my freshman self to just keep working harder and enjoy every moment you have on the field with your friends."
Catcher/pitcher Josh Rosenbruch will be attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, studying wildlife management. His favorite food is orange chicken, favorite book is "The Other Side of Heaven" and favorite movie "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith."
"One thing I learned over the pandemic was to not take things for granted," Rosenbruch said. "To get outside as much as you can. I took that for granted over the pandemic. I would tell my freshman self to work harder and start playing baseball."
The Thunder Mountain baseball coaches compiled thoughts on their seniors:
Oliver Mendoza - "Oliver is a silent leader, one of our captains, and he never gives up. And it never shows on his face. He would be a scary poker player because you can't tell if he is excited, happy, down or nothing. He has been a pleasure to coach because you tell him something and he will listen and go out and do it. Great teammate who never says a bad comment about anyone. Four years of varsity. He is probably one of the best middle infielders in the state. Everything he does is smooth."
Josh Rosenbruch - "This would have been Josh's second year on varsity. Things have really come together for this young man as far as baseball. Wish we had him for four years. He is a wonderful surprise, a great shot in the arm. He is a wall puncher, a hard worker and will run through a wall if it will help his team. He is peaking at the right time. He has worked so hard the past few years and he has just become a ball player, a real ball player. He is a good role model, another of our captains. He soaks everything up and he wears the biggest smile, which is the biggest compliment to coaches. You know he is having fun, you know he is learning."
Tyler Halverson - "This is Tyler's third year with us. Wonderful young man who gives it his best on and off the field. He has had an injury this year but continues to support his teammates and work hard on his grades. He is taking a big load in school. He is a very good musician, an excellent teammate and he is a good person from a good family. He put in a lot of work in the off season and has really improved from where he was when he came into the program."
Josh Carte - "Josh is a tough young man who has been on team for four years and is coming off injury and fighting hard to help his team. He overcame what could have been a season-ending injury and has worked his way back. He gives 100%. He likes to help his teammates out with understanding the game and defenses so our team can get stronger and be better. He will be needed to help this team in the Southeast tourney."
The Falcons will also play Petersburg tonight at 6 p.m. at Adair Kennedy Field and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Senior Appreciation is Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Above: Thunder Mountain baseball seniors Tyler Halverson, Josh Rosenbruch, Josh Carte and Oliver Mendoza will be celebrated on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. before their game at Adair Kennedy Field against Petersburg. (Klas Stolpe/KINY)


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Q: Prove that if Ax = b has a solution for every b, then A is invertible I am interested in the case that $A$ is a matrix over a commutative ring, not necessarily a field. Is it still true that if $Ax = b$ has a solution for every $b$, then $A$ is invertible? I know that in the general setting, $A$ having the trivial nullspace does not imply that it is invertible. However, I cannot seem to find a counterexample to the fact in the title of the question, so I am starting to believe it is true. Any ideas how to prove it?

A: The result is wrong as stated, since by taking for $A$ a rectangular matrix (more columns than rows) one easily gets counterexamples. I will therefore suppose you implicitly assumed $A$ to be square (a necessary condition for being invertible).
This is then a complement to the answer by basket, using a simple argument found in this answer. By the hypothesis you can find a matrix $B$ such that $AB=I$, since this amounts for every column of $B$ to an equation of the form $Ax=c$, where $c$ is the corresponding column of $I$. Now taking determinants we get $\det(A)\det(B)=1$, so the determinant of $A$ is invertible in your commutative ring. Then $A$ as well is invertible in the matrix ring, namely $\det(B)$ times the cofactor matrix of $A$ gives $A^{-1}$.
That was all that was asked for, but multiplying $AB=I$ to the left by $A^{-1}$ shows that in fact $B=A^{-1}$ and hence $BA=I$. Note that commutativity of the base ring (which allowed taking determinants) is essential; the result does not hold over non-commutative rings (even for $1\times1$ matrices, since for a scalar having a right inverse now does not imply having a left inverse).

A: For each standard basis vector $e_1, \dots, e_n$, we have some $b_1, \dots, b_n$ such that $A b_i = e_i$, respectively. Then simply 'squishing' the $b_1, \dots, b_n$ together into a $n \times n$ matrix directly gives $A^{-1}$.

A: As user basket wrote there are solution vectors $x_i$ for
$$
A x_i = e_i
$$
where $e_i$ is the $i$-th canonical basis vector.
Then $X = (x_1 x_2 \dotsb x_n)$ fulfills $A X = I$.
If there exists a $Y$ with $Y A = I$, then we would have
$$
Y = Y I = Y (A X) = (Y A) X = I X = X
$$
I still lack a simple argument, why there should exist a left-inverse for $A$ as well, or rather why would $X$ work as left-inverse too.
Marc's argument looks nice but would have me to review determinant theory over commutative rings instead of the usual fields. :)
Let us assume $A$ is invertible and
$$
X A =: B \ne I
$$
Then
$$
A B = A (X A) = (A X) A = I A = A
$$
and
$$
A (B - I) = 0
$$
If $B- I \ne 0$ then at least one of its row vectors is non-zero, let us call it $r$ and we got
$\DeclareMathOperator{ker}{ker}r \in \ker A$.
For regular linear algebra (over a field) this would prevent $A$ from being invertible. No idea what happens for just commutative rings.

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Writer and director Nicole Holofcener on her new film: 'The Land of Steady Habits'
Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener recently received an Academy-Award nomination for best adapted screenplay and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film "Can You Ever Forgive Me?." We'll revisit our conversation with Nicole – when she stopped by we talked about another one of her recent projects, "The Land of Steady Habits."
Nicole is probably best known for her films "Friends with Money" and "Enough Said." She's also worked on TV shows like "Parks and Recreation," "Orange is the New Black" and "Sex and the City."
Nicole's projects are intimate and always feature strong female leads. For the first time, her movie centers on a man. "The Land of Steady Habits" is about a middle-aged, retired finance guy, named Andres played by Ben Mendelsohn. Anders is going through kind of a late midlife crisis. He just left his wife, Helene, played by Edie Falco. And his relationship with his adult son is drifting away – Anders is losing him to drug use. It's safe to say that Anders has trouble figuring out where he fits in these days.
Nicole will tell us how she adapted the novel by Ted Thompson into this very poignant film, and why she felt this was an important story to tell. Plus, she'll reflect on her childhood – when she moved to Los Angeles as a early teenager she couldn't believe that the guys on the Metro bus would be exactly like the jerks on the New York subway.
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Nicole Holofcener is a writer and director probably best known for her films "Friends with Money" and "Enough Said." She's also worked on TV shows like "Parks and Recreation," "Orange is the New Black" and "Sex and the City." Her latest project is a film called "The Land of Steady Habits" – it's out now on Netflix.
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Jim Gavin & Peter Ocko on the new Television show 'Lodge 49'
AMC has produced some of the most stunning dramatic television programs in recent memory. "Mad Men," "Better Call Saul," and "Breaking Bad" come to mind – but they're television shows that are grounded in gritty realities. "Lodge 49" is one of the newest shows on AMC, and it's a drama like you'd expect from the network. But it's on a different wavelength, and it's very funny.
The show's about Sean "Dud" Dudley. He's a 30 something burnout who lives in Long Beach, California. One day he's metal detecting on a beach and he finds a ring. He asks around, and it turns out it belongs to a lodge for this secret society - the Order of the Lynx. Sort of like the Freemasons or the Elks. The ring brings him into the lodge, and before long, he becomes a member. He's fascinated by the robes and rituals, charmed and befriended by the members. He gets swept up by the mythology and mystery.
We spoke to Jim Gavin, the show's creator; and Peter Ocko, a TV veteran, showrunner and Executive Producer for "Lodge 49." They'll give us the scoop on all the quirks of the show, and their fascination with fraternal organizations. Jim Gavin grew up in Long Beach, naturally, we asked him some extremely specific Long Beach questions.
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New Album – Mic Capes – Concrete Dreams
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Portland's rising star Mic Capes drops his long awaited album Concrete Dreams after four years of preparation and buzz. The saying "you can't rush great art" definitely applies to Cape's sophomore release as you can hear the blood, sweat, and tears put into this project with even one listen. From the opening "Alia's Prologue" featuring Alia Zin to the closing North Portland anthem, "Jumper Cables" featuring Vinnie Dewayne, Mic uses an array of producers and musicians throughout the 19 track project but it's Capes himself who is the breakout star. Topics ranging from police brutality, to gang violence, to aspirations of making it out of the neighborhood, to straight up bars, Mic Capes really does it all on latest release. Stand out track "Black Pearls" taps Trox and Tony Ozier on production, with vocal stylings from Aaron O'Bryan Smith and is an ode to the strong black woman, drawing inspiration from Mic's own relationship. Take your time with this album as it defintely deserves your full attention.
Stream/Download Concrete Dreams below, plus catch up on Cape's visuals to go with the album.
Mic Capes – Concrete Dreams
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/concrete-dreams/id1157285536
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Concrete Dreams (Promo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzrzdQWnRg
Concrete Dreams (Promo 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmCSiwl2ip8
Fessenden Flow (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqXTAYXQuNc
No More (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OfWsTvvLU
Razor Tongue (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxRiMkeWrw
"Over 18 tracks, including a bonus cut dedicated to the street he grew up on ("Fessenden Flow"), Capes is vulnerable, revealing and bold, letting brash and colorful production bring a heartiness to listeners. He possesses a slick voice, commanding enough when he adopts a Kendrick Lamar vocal affect ("A.M. Thoughts") or effortlessly destroys a bouncy flow ("Jumper Cables"). While Capes got our attention with the lyrical barrage of "Razor Tongue," Concrete Dreams offers a sizable sampling of his gift for creating meaningful conversations that travel outside the city." ERIC DIEP.
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"Concrete Dreams is a raw expression and reflection of Capes' experience as a young black man growing up in North Portland. At the listening party he told the room about his writing process, and how he finds inspiration riding the bus, walking down the street, or from the kids he mentors, and then listens for emotion when choosing a beat. It's an honest take on serious topics that have shaped his reality." JENNI MOORE
http://www.portlandmercury.com/music/2016/09/21/18579804/record-review-mic-capes-concrete-dreams
"Where many attempt to mimic or improve upon the popular sounds of the moment, Capes benefits from a sound all his own. New aged flows with a boombap feel, all spat through a perfectly pained voice that somehow exemplifies both struggle and determination, add to his unique vibe and truly captivating message." MACSMIFF
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It seems like every time Mic Capes turns on the television these days, he sees a reflection of himself. He saw it in Beyoncé's nod to the Black Panthers at the Super Bowl, and in Kendrick Lamar's uncensored display of pain and anger at last month's Grammys. It's fuel, the St. Johns native says, to see like-minded artists on the world's biggest stages.
"With their celebrity, they could just choose to sit back and collect money," says the 26-year-old rapper born Michael Caples, "but they put a message out there, and they're willing to make some people uncomfortable to do so."
Capes is well aware of how America responds to raw displays of black pride. But the willingness to push through all the noise and express one's personal truth is basically his mission statement. On songs like the fiery "Razor Tongue," Capes engages closely with the country's legacy of racial inequality, pointedly bouncing from references to broken homes and race wars, from Ronald Reagan to Marcus Garvey. He acknowledges that, if things had gone just a little differently for him, he easily "coulda been slangin', bangin', a killer, even a pimp." If listeners take offense to any of it, his answer is curt: "I don't really care if someone feels uncomfortable with me speaking on something I feel is wrong."
Capes' aim to empower his community on wax is an outgrowth of the real-life work he does with Step Up, an organization supporting ninth-graders through their transition to high school and beyond. His forthcoming album, Concrete Dreams, is essentially directed toward those students, because he knows what they've been through. "It's dedicated to inner-city youth," he says. "People that come from poverty, messy violence and a rougher life." He hopes it will also reach the nearsighted masses living across the bridge from where he grew up, and "open their mind to a new perspective."
That's no simple feat. But Capes embraces the challenge.
"I don't just do this because I like to rap," he says. "I do it because I feel like what I'm saying needs to be heard, and there's people that don't have the voice that I have, or the platform I have." – MATT SCHONFELD.
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Bharti Airtel arm buys additional stake in Bangladesh's Robi Axiata
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The acquisition of the shares of Robi from Docomo has been done at mutually-agreed valuation
Bharti Airtel, an Indian global telecommunications services company, said its subsidiary has bought an additional 6.3 per cent stake in Bangladesh's telecom operator Robi Axiata from Japanese NTT Docomo for an undisclosed sum.
The all-cash deal will raise the stake of Bharti International (Singapore) -- wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel -- in Robi Axiata to 31.3 per cent from 25 per cent at present, the company said on Tuesday in a BSE filing, reports The Times of India.
"...Bharti International (Singapore) Pte Ltd (directly and through its affiliate entities)... has acquired additional 6.3 per cent stake in Robi Axiata Limited (an entity in Bangladesh) from NTT Docomo Inc and its group entities, on June 09, 2020," it said.
The acquisition of the shares of Robi from Docomo has been done at mutually-agreed valuation.
"The said valuation is non-material and is not disclosed herein due to reasons of confidentiality," it added.
Robi is the second largest mobile network operator in Bangladesh. It is a subsidiary company of Axiata Investments (Labuan) Limited, which is an arm of Asian telecom giant, Axiata Group Berhad, based in Malaysia.
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Moody's downgraded four bonds of Austrian banks on Tuesday. The outlook is negative.
A paper reporting about the four options for downsizing Hypo Group has not been published by the government yet.
Nationalized problem bank Hypo Group Alpe Adria has listed a need for state subsidies in the amount between € 400m and € 900m in this year's downsizing plan.
The governor of the Austrian National Bank presses the government for swift actions to find an acceptable downsizing solution for Hypo Group. Further steps will only be made in February.
The long-awaited meeting between the government and Hypo Group's taskforce has been fixed to find a solution of the Austrian problem bank. The option of a bank participation is still on top of the list.
The Governor of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) presses the government to act quickly and avoid further straining the budget and burdening the taxpayers.
Deputy CEO and chief risk officer of Hypo Group Wolfgang Edelmüller will resign as of the end of February.
According to media reports, Hungarian partly nationalized Szechenyi Commercial Bank has placed an offer for the take-over of RBI's Hungarian affiliate.
As announced in a statement Hungarian MKB Bank has sold its entire stake of its Romanian subsidiary.
Austria was granted more time for a possible appeal of the purchase of problem bank Hypo Group Alpe Adria from former parent company BayernLB.
BayernLB's plans to seperate from loss-making Hungarian affiliate MKB were not put on hold. Instead, the German bank wants to continue to push forward with austerity measures and cut jobs.
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) does not take into consideration capital increase.
The Austrian economist Franz Hahn argues that capital injections into Hypo Group Alpe Adria are ineffective.
Insiders do not expect the downsizing unit for state-owned Hypo Group Alpe Adria to be established before 2014.
According to "Kathimerini", the exit of Greek banks froms the Western Balkan region is a difficult undertaking.


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