Fourth seed Novak Djokovic reached the third round at Wimbledon with a straight-sets victory over battling German qualifier Simon Greul.
Greul, ranked 106th in the world, was willed on by the Court One crowd but could not keep pace with the power of his Serbian opponent, who won 7-5 6-1 6-4 to set up a third-round clash with America's Mardy Fish.
A double fault allowed Greul to break Djokovic in the opening game and the German, playing at Wimbledon for the first time in three years, kept up the pressure on the tournament's number four seed by holding his serve.
Djokovic began to get his game together though, and turned around a 4-2 deficit to take the opening set.
Greul began the second set as he had done the opener, with a break of serve. Djokovic took his displeasure out on his racket, slamming it to the ground in anger.
And that show of rage sparked something in the former Australian Open champion who broke back immediately and then held serve to take an early 2-1 lead.
Two more service breaks later and Djokovic had the second set in the bag, and one foot in the last 32.
The pair twice traded breaks of serve in the third set but from 4-3 up Greul failed to win another game as Djokovic booked his meeting with Fish in the third round.


BOSTON (AP) — Assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment, a federal judge said in a ruling Friday upholding Massachusetts' ban on the weapons.
AR-15 assault-style rifles are under increased scrutiny because of their use in several recent mass shootings, including the February massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.
The Gun Owners Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts and other groups that filed the lawsuit argued that the AR-15 cannot be considered a "military weapon" because it cannot fire in fully automatic mode.
"The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional right to 'bear arms,'" Young wrote.
Young also upheld Healey's 2016 enforcement notice to gun sellers and manufacturers clarifying what constitutes a "copy" or "duplicate" weapon under the state's 1998 assault weapon ban, including copies of the Colt AR-15 and the Kalashnikov AK-47.
Healey's stepped-up enforcement followed the shooting rampage at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 patrons. She said at the time that gun manufacturers were circumventing Massachusetts' ban by selling copycat versions of the weapons they claimed complied with the law.
The Massachusetts assault weapons ban mirrors the federal ban that expired in 2004. It prohibits the sale of specific and name-brand weapons and explicitly bans copies or duplicates of those weapons.
Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts gun owners group, said Young's upholding of Healey's crackdown on copycat assault weapons gives the attorney general "unbridled authority" to interpret laws as she pleases.
Wallace said he couldn't yet say whether the group will appeal the ruling.
In a statement, The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action called the ruling disappointing.
"As long as politicians and judicial officials continue to flout the law in order to advance a political agenda, the five million members of the NRA will be here to hold them accountable," the statement said.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allows Americans to have guns in their homes for self-defense, blocking local governments from banning handguns.
But the court last year turned away an appeal from Maryland gun owners who challenged the state's ban on assault weapons.
That judge is even going against a prior example set in that particular state.
In a per curiam decision, the Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Citing District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Court began its opinion by stating that "the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding" and that "the Second Amendment right is fully applicable to the States".
Mass has become a Fascist state.
Just give the entire north east region to Canada…they can't screw it up any worse than the politicians have!


Confucius (Chinese: 孔夫子; pinyin: Kǒng Fūzǐ) is a 1940 Chinese film directed by Fei Mu. Produced during the war, the film was released twice in the 1940s before being thought lost. In 2001, the film was rediscovered when an anonymous donor sent a damaged copy of the print to the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA). The HKFA then spent seven years restoring the print which was finally screened to modern audiences at the 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival in April 2009. The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various warlords and kings his particular philosophy.
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Welcome to the many faces of London! Here you can still find the red telephone boxes as traditional double-decker buses drive by and Big Ben strikes the hour for all Londoners to hear. But there's more to the pride of Britannia than that: high tech, hustle and bustle, and style are all integral parts of London's fabric.
London is a megacity with influences from all over the world. The mother of all metropolises is enriched almost daily by a new attraction. Not that there's not enough tradition to keep you busy. We will take you on a journey where good old English traditions come to life and you will experience London from a new angle.
Follow the traces of Sherlock Holmes into Baker Street or watch William Shakespeare's timeless stories come to life in the Globe.
And, as your trip comes to an end, perhaps you'll enjoy the revered musical "Beautiful - The Carole Kings", or chat to locals at the pub, or perhaps you will notice that your stay with Sprachcaffe has really all been about "learning English".
The Sprachcaffe School is situated in a Victorian era building in the heart of Ealing, a typical London suburb. The school's design has the typical British charm that one envisages when thinking of Britain. The area surrounding the school boasts the hustle and bustle of daily city life with quiet side streets and parks where you can relax, unwind and reflect on the day's lessons as well as the excitement of your adventures. Enjoy a quintessential speciality in one of London's many English pubs and restaurants or simply spend a little while interacting with your hosts at your homestay to gain the ultimate language practice in an informal atmosphere.
The residential apartment is right next to the school. Our school is situated right between London Heathrow Airport and central London, and both can be reached with a short 20 minute train ride.
Classes are limited to 15 students per class to ensure a student-centered learning experience with knowledgeable and skilled English language teachers.
20 lessons a week is just the right amount to refresh your grammar and vocabulary, while leaving time in the afternoons and evenings for our culture program. Our teachers will attend to your individual needs and use lively, but also long-lasting, teaching methods!
In London you can choose between a 3-star and 4-star hotel. The typical English houses make everyone feel at home with their comfort and their proximity to many important landmarks. The language school is also only 10 minutes away by foot from either accommodation and you'll get to enjoy a lavish English breakfast buffet which will please even the most discerning foodie.
The 4-star Hotel is in the London district of Ealing, just 5 minutes' walk from the language school. And, with public transport, it's just a short 20 minute ride to central London. Each stylishly furnished and air-conditioned room also comes with its own private bathroom, a coffee machine, a mini fridge and a safe. The rich breakfast buffet will enable you to refuel each morning for the language course and cultural program. London Heathrow Airport is within half an hour by public transport.
Also in Ealing, at the edge of downtown London, the 3-star Hotel is just 10 minutes' walk from the language school. It only takes about half an hour to get to central London by tube. Each pleasant and spacious room comes with air-conditioning, a flat screen TV and its own bathroom, usually with a bathtub. Additionally, each room has access to free Wi-Fi. In the mornings you'll get to choose between typical English and continental breakfast.
On Sunday you'll arrive at Heathrow airport before making your way to the hotel. Check in and make yourself comfortable.
Your course starts in the morning. You'll polish up your English skills in a small group. And they'll be needed! After a small and relaxed icebreaker session and champagne reception we'll set off on a discovery tour.
To make it easier for you to find your way around, we'll be happy to show you the city in the afternoon and give you our insider tips on what to discover and try out. First we'll join you on a boat tour to Greenwich, where we'll visit the Royal Observatory there and finally round the evening off with a guided walking tour through downtown London.
Tower Bridge is the most famous bridge in England and offers spectacular views across London. However, in order to find out more about the inner workings of the building, we'll visit the Victorian era machine rooms as part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition.
When on the trail of English traditions, the National Gallery is a must. In one of the most famous art collections in the world, we'll share treasures from the 13th to the 19th centuries with you.
On Thursday we'll follow William Shakespeare's footsteps on a visit to the Globe Theater. On the exhibition tour, the world of Shakespeare's colorful stories comes to life.
One of the main highlights awaits you on the weekend. The oldest parts of English history are visible at Stonehenge. And the same day we'll visit the beautiful small city of Bath, famous for its Roman baths.
It's Sunday and after so many different impressions, you've earned a day off. Stroll through central London, go for a spin on the London Eye or go shopping in the city. When else will you get time to do whatever you want in swinging London?!
Your English lessons will finish just before tea time. We'll go to Fortnum & Mason, one of England's oldest and most famous tea houses.
In England every child knows about his adventures and he's popular among the Sprachcaffe staff too: Sherlock Holmes. You'll be hot on his heels when we visit his apartment on Baker Street.
London was once not only the center of England, but also the capital of an empire. It is not surprising that treasures and relics from around the world have been collected in the British Museum. With fascinating exhibits, from Egyptian mummies to Moai from Easter Island, you'll be truly amazed - guaranteed.
Not far from our school is the green oasis of Hyde Park. We'll take a stroll through the park and on to Harrods, London's most famous department store and one of the most illustrious, largest and most exclusive in the world.
On Friday evening your English comprehension will be put to the test - we're going to end the trip with class and discover the musical world of the '40s. Tonight's musical is "Five Guys Named Moe".
Time to pack your suitcase. If you wish, we'll be happy to bring you to the airport on time.
The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the event program.
In the classroom there are 15 people maximum per course. Depending on your language level, you could also be taught with regular language travelers.
The price offer includes: a 2 week language course of 20 x 45 minutes per week; accommodation in a single room in the 3*** hotel described with breakfast and the culture program as described. Hotel and leisure program subject to availability, subject to short notice alterations. At an additional charge, you can, for example, choose the 4**** hotel, another course, and/or book airport transfers.


The Music Circus production of Cabaret begins July 26.
The 66th Music Circus season continues July 26 with John Kander and Fred Ebb's classic American musical Cabaret, which runs through July 31 at the Wells Fargo Pavilion.
Glenn Casale directs the limited engagement with choreography by Bob Richard and musical direction by Jeff Rizzo.
The cast is headed by two-time Tony nominee Robin de Jesus as the Emcee, Kaleigh Cronin as Sally Bowles, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Clifford Bradshaw, Tony nominee Mary Gordon Murray as Fraulein Schneider, Ron Wisniski as Herr Schultz, Heather Lee as Fraulein Kost and Shannon Stoeke as Ernst Ludwig.
For more information, visit SacramentoMusicCircus.com.


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Geschichtswissenschaften
Geschichte Australiens
Jon Piccini
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
This groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today's debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history.…mehr
Bruce Scates (Canberra Australian National University)
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939
Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific
People and Change in Indigenous Australia
Peter a Daw
Battlers and Bushmen
Paul Dibb
Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors: Australia and the Threat from the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today
The Special Relationship: Australia and the Monarchy
Elizabeth Malcom
A New History of the Irish in Australia
This groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today's debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history.
Human Rights in History
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm

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Çò des de Bieu és un monument del municipi de Bausen (Vall d'Aran) inclòs en l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
Antiga "pardia" situada entre els carrers Major i Sant Antoni, amb els diversos elements formant un recinte clos articulat al voltant d'un pati obert, amb l'accés a través d'un portal. La casa perpendicular a les corbes de nivell, i de secció rectangular, segueix el model establert en la dinovena centúria. La façana paral·lela a la "capièra", orientada a sol ixent, presenta obertures de fusta sota arcs de descàrrega en les dues plantes (3-3), i al capdamunt un "humarau" amb dues "lucanes". La coberta d'encavallades de fusta sosté un llosat de pissarra, de dos vessants, amb un "tresaigües" en el front i una estructura graonada de "penaus" en el "penalèr" superior amb la "humenèja" adossada. Damunt de la porta una pedra duu la inscripció següent: JOSEPH AMIELH 1832 (destacada en vermell); les bordes només conserven bons fragments de parets bastides damunt de la roca.

Història
L'any 1672 es fa esment d'un Joan Amiell de Bieu. Un seu homònim destacaria al  com a conseller del terçó de Bossòst i per dur a terme les negociacions amb el poble veí d'Hòs.

Referències

Patrimoni monumental de Bausen
Edificis de Bausen

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As straphangers face the possibility of higher fares and tolls, the MTA's freebie E-ZPasses are costing the authority $14 million in lost revenues a year.
In March alone, cars and other vehicles with a free E-Z Pass made nearly 300,000 trips via Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bridges and tunnels – amounting to approximately $1.2 million in uncollected tolls, MTA records show. Many of the trips were made by city employees, including on-duty police officers and firefighters.
The MTA is planning fare and toll hikes in 2010, but they could be put on the table for next year because of budget gaps. Given the MTA's shortfall, fare hikes could come around next year – and Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign said the city should pony up some dough.
"The City of New York should reimburse the agency's cost, as it now does in part for discounted fares for city students and senior citizens," Russianoff said.
Toll revenues go toward maintenance and operating costs associated with MTA bridges and tunnels. They also help fund the bus, subway and commuter train network. Of the approximately 24,000 freebie tags issued or honored by the MTA, nearly 14,500 were distributed to city agencies.
The largest batches went to the police and fire departments. Smaller numbers went to sanitation, recreation and other city departments, records show.
The city Office of Emergency Management has 107 of the non revenue tags. The mayor's office has 14 but is only using 10, spokesman Jason Post said. Those 10 are assigned to city cars for official business by senior staff, including deputy mayors, Post said.
For decades, the MTA has granted free passage to government agencies that "provide services directly to us … to save public money by avoiding the need for these agencies to budget public funds for tolls," the MTA's bridge and tunnel division said.
The MTA also has doled out more than 2,700 special free-travel passes good only on the Triborough Bridge approach to Randalls and Wards islands.
These limited freebies, given to city and state workers assigned to the islands, include 543 passes given to the city Parks and Recreation Department, 559 to the Fire Academy and 493 to the Department of Environmental Protection. Two state mental health facilities have 859 tags.
City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said those assigned to the East River outposts have few options.
The department provides a shuttle bus over the bridge to a Manhattan subway line on a very limited basis, Benepe said.
Does it really surprise anyone that the MTA has lost millions due to idiotic practices? I am not the least bit surprised as it has been a staple of the MTA since day one. They seriously need to find a way to accurately determine who deserves a free E-Z Pass tag & monitor the use of it. It is common knowledge that these tags are being used outside of the confines of official business trips. If the agency would shore up such revenue holes like this, they could start to fix the financial woes they are in.


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For outsiders, ASMR has always been weird. "One thing that's interesting about the ASMR experience is that it's about close personal attention," says Giulia Poerio, a psychology professor at the University of Sheffield who has undertaken multiple ASMR studies. Role-play videos thrive in the ASMR community – online, you can watch someone pretend to be your dentist, masseuse, or even a receptionist checking you into a hotel. "They're basically a simulation of what would happen if you got ASMR in real life," Poerio explains. "Multiple triggers are layered to get an effect."
Of course, when I go looking for it, these things won't give me shivers but it's very calming and pleasurable. There are also other singers and bands like Digital Daggers, Kanon Wakeshima, Lacey Sturm, etc., that could give you shivers and such. Also I like to listen to classical type music, music boxes, pianos, violins, soundtracks, like fantasy type music composed by people like Peter Gundry, a very famous violinist named Lindsey Stirling, soundtracks from RWBY or Vampire Knight, etc. These may not actually be asmr but it could be very shiver inducing and pleasurable.
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The burgeoning Internet phenomenon was so new, it didn't even have a name. It was so strange and hard to describe that many people felt creepy trying. It resided at the outer edge of respectability: a growing collection of YouTube videos featuring people doing quiet, methodical activities like whispering, turning magazine pages and tapping their fingers. Some viewers reported that these videos could elicit the most pleasurable sensations: a tingling feeling at the scalp and spine, coupled with euphoria and an almost trance-like relaxation.
Smith speculates that ASMR may be similar to synesthesia, the fascinating neurological condition in which people see numbers in color and "taste" shapes. "In synesthesia," he says, "there have been some studies that show there's slightly atypical wiring in the brain that leads to slightly different sensory associations, and I think that may be the same thing we have here."
At Google BrandLab, we help brands tap into the full potential of YouTube. Many sounds can trigger the calming sensation of ASMR, and brands should listen up. We are not just talking about an enormous engaged audience to tap; we are talking about an enormous engaged audience that is already using your brand. ASMRtists often employ objects, especially food products, to create the tingly effect: crinkling wrappers, chewing candy, cracking open cans. (A search for "beer ASMR" on YouTube returns over 81,000 video results.) Tic Tac, Swedish Fish, and Taco Bell are all brands that make cameos in YouTube creator videos.
The term ASMR was coined by a woman named Jennifer Allen in 2010. It was around that time that she ran across a group of people on a steadyhealth.com forum who described a sensation she herself had experienced, but which no one seemed to understand well. Frustrated by the lack of community organization on that forum, she created a Facebook group called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response Group. The group name was one that she believed captured the key characteristics of what's now known as ASMR. She wanted to create a community that would bring together people who had also been experiencing this sensation. She consciously created a term that she felt people would be comfortable using: one that sounded objective, clinical, and impersonal. Soon after, a worldwide community began to take shape.
But the video doesn't work on me the way it's supposed to. For many of her fans, Maria's voice causes a sensation the Internet has dubbed ASMR—autonomous sensory meridian response. Those who get ASMR describe the experience as a tingling inside their heads, or a head rush. Sometimes the sensation extends down their backs or limbs. It's often referred to as a brain-gasm, but counterintuitively, it's also supposed to be relaxing, a mellow feeling. Some people watch the videos to help them sleep at night. And even without the tingles, it is sort of relaxing, if you can get past the dissonance of someone whispering in your ear while you scroll through Twitter in your cubicle, or whatever.
Daniel and Prunkl keep a folder full of this man's transgressions and have notified the local police. "Sometimes it scares me," Daniel confesses, quieter now. "It does scare me that this guy could be anywhere." Similarly, Makenna Kelly fears that kids at her bus stop will follow her home and leak her address online. "I just go down to the clubhouse and wait ten minutes just to make sure nobody knows where I live."
In another study, detailed in a forthcoming paper, Smith and colleagues tested 290 people who experience ASMR for what are known as the Big Five personality traits, and compared their results to those of an equal number of "matched controls." Smith and colleagues found that ASMRheads scored higher on measures for what's known as "openness to experience" and neuroticism and lower for conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness—findings the researchers say warrant more study.
Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz suggests that a passage from the novel Mrs. Dalloway authored by Virginia Woolf and published in 1925, describes something distinctly comparable.[25][26] In the passage from Mrs. Dalloway cited by Setz, a nursemaid speaks to the man who is her patient 'deeply, softly, like a mellow organ, but with a roughness in her voice like a grasshopper's, which rasped his spine deliciously and sent running up into his brain waves of sound'.[27]


In Ghost, Castle, the main character, is real. He loves his mom dearly but is trying to figure out how to live after his father tries to shoot and kill him and his mom. On top of that, he loves his mother so much that he's willing to participate in her daily Lifetime-like movie routine and never ask for anything, even if he feels forced to turn to other methods to get what he wants so that he doesn't have to ask his mom to sacrifice.
Ghost's story was so powerful to me because of this line from his track coach near the end of the novel: "Show you that you can't run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be" (155). And that line reminds me of the conversations I've had with a mentee so many times. You get to make a choice: you can be the person you are or the person you want to be.
Overall, this was a solid read, and I'm looking forward to the sequel.


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Tag: Darius Days
MBB: Historic Bona season ends at hands of LSU
photo courtesy of 2021 NCAA photos
By Jeff Uveino
BLOOMINGTON, IN — The St. Bonaventure men's basketball team's offense had been fickle since November.
Mark Schmidt's team hadn't counted on its offense to win games on its way to the NCAA Tournament, instead relying on a top-ten defense.
While 3-point shooting came and went, defending, rebounding and taking care of the basketball were constants. Against LSU on Saturday, however, the Bonnies were bested at two of their strengths.
No. 9 SBU (16-5) never found its way back from a first-half deficit and lost to No. 8 LSU (19-9), 76-61, in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
It started with poor first-half shooting. The Bonnies labored to a 22% mark from the field in the first half, paired with an 0-of-10 3-point shooting performance.
By halftime, Bona trailed by nine points. SBU's defense held its weight throughout the first stanza, holding the Tigers to 31 points on 36% shooting and a 3-of-14 mark from 3-point range.
"I thought we were getting some good looks in the first half, and we were missing some shots," said Schmidt, SBU's head coach. "As I said, offense is fickle. But I thought we were getting some decent looks."
As the Bonnies started to find offensive rhythm in the second half, LSU did the same. Junior forward Darius Days began the half with a 3-pointer for the Tigers, and from there, Bona failed to muster a comeback. Despite repeatedly counter-punching LSU's eighth-ranked offense, the Bonnies never cut the lead to less than nine.
LSU's rebounding on both ends of the floor helped the Tigers keep their distance. The Tigers finished the game with a 49-30 rebounding advantage, 14 of which came on the offensive glass.
While LSU only scored two more points in the paint than the Bonnies, the Tigers enjoyed an 18-8 advantage in second-chance points.
"That's one of our strengths," Schmidt said of rebounding. "We got out-rebounded by 19; second-chance points by 10. So that was a big difference."
Freshman guard Cam Thomas scored a game-high 27 points for the Tigers. Thomas heated up in the second half after a 1-of-8 first half from the field and got to the free-throw line 13 times, making 11 of his attempts.
"(Thomas) is a great player," Bona junior guard Jaren Holmes said. "It was a very tough assignment. One of the things was trying to keep him off the foul line. I don't know how many foul shots he got… but we did the best we could."
Holmes, who scored a team-high 18 points for the Bonnies, said that his team "did what we were supposed to do," but poor shooting limited its opportunity for offensive success.
"That's basketball," Holmes said. "Sometimes it just doesn't fall. Those are shots we want. Those are shots we normally hit."
Days and sophomore guard Aundre Hyatt each scored 13 points for LSU, while sophomore forward Trendon Watford added 11 points.
"You get down, and I thought the key going into the game was we gotta control tempo," Schmidt said. "If you look at the score, we held them below their average, and I thought we did a decent job on everybody but Thomas. They hurt us on the backboard. But when you get down, you've got to push the ball and you've got to play a little bit quicker, and that's to their advantage."
Of Schmidt's three evergreen keys to victory, protecting the basketball was the one category in which Bona succeeded. SBU only turned the ball over four times while forcing nine turnovers. The nine that they caused, however, only resulted in five points.
Junior forward/center Osun Osunniyi scored 15 points and pulled down nine rebounds for the Bonnies. Osunniyi, the Atlantic 10 defensive player of the year, looked confident while protecting the rim in the first half. As the Tigers got hot in the second half, however, they drew Osunniyi from under the basket and began to find more success scoring in the paint.
"They're a good team, athletic team," Schmidt said. "Like I said, I thought we got some good looks. We missed some shots early. But they're a good team, you know, and they were disciplined, they were focused, and when they play like that, they're hard to beat."
Junior forward Jalen Adaway scored 11 points for the Bonnies in his return to his native state to Indiana, while junior guard Kyle Lofton scored 10 points and dished out five assists. Lofton struggled from the field in the first half, shooting 1-of-10, before finishing at 3-of-18.
Bona junior guard Dominick Welch, one of the team's best defenders, missed time in the first half after turning an ankle during a scramble for a loose ball. Welch returned to the game late in the first half and played the rest of the way, but the pain from his foot was visible the rest of the way.
"Yeah, it hurt," Schmidt said. "(Welch) played like at 50%. Give (Welch) credit. He's a really tough kid and he was hurting, as you saw. Went back in to get re-taped and he was a shell of himself."
While Bona's season ended between the walls of the historic Assembly Hall, Indiana University's cathedral of basketball in which the Hoosiers have played for 50 years, the program can find solace in knowing that it doesn't graduate a single senior.
Still, Holmes said, the pain that comes with the end of this group's NCAA Tournament run will sting long beyond the bus ride home to Western New York.
"Every guy in that locker room is a competitor, and I know one thing about a competitor is he wants to be the best and continue to be the best, and right now today we weren't the best," Holmes said. "That's a problem for us. That's going to be in our heads for a long time. But it's just going to make us better, and it's going to just make us keep fighting and working hard and coming closer together."
LSU advances to the tournament's second round, in which it will face top-seeded Michigan. From there, three more wins secure the East region title and a spot in the Final Four.
Disappointment will accompany Schmidt's group on its way home. However, after a season in which the Bonnies won the A-10 regular-season title and A-10 tournament for the first time in the same year, the 14th-year coach knows that he has as much to be proud of as ever.
"It's good that they're disappointed," Schmidt said. "I'm disappointed. You put so much into it. If you're not disappointed, there's something wrong. So we'll get the 24-hour rule and we'll realize, as I told the team in the locker room, we did some amazing things."
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NCAA PREVIEW: Bona defense faces biggest test of season in LSU
photo courtesy of Atlantic 10 conference
BLOOMINGTON, IN — Offense comes and goes. Defense is the staple.
That's been the identity of the St. Bonaventure men's basketball team this season. While the Bonnies and head coach Mark Schmidt haven't produced flashy offensive numbers, they've allowed 60.4 points per game en route to a 16-4 record.
That number makes the Bonnies the fifth-best scoring defense in the country. On Saturday against LSU, they'll need it.
After receiving a No. 9 seed in the NCAA tournament, SBU drew eighth-seeded LSU (18-9) in the tournament's first round. The Tigers, which are coming off of a one-point loss to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) title game, boast the nation's eighth-best scoring offense.
The Bonnies have frustrated, bullied and stymied many of the Atlantic 10's best offense players this season. Head coach Will Wade's Tigers, and their multiple NBA prospects, however, will be Schmidt and SBU's biggest test to date.
"If the (scoring) is in the 80s on Saturday, we're probably not going to win," Schmidt said. "We've got to somehow control the tempo and keep those guys out of the paint."
LSU scores 82.1 points per game and features three players that each average over 15. Freshman guard Cameron Thomas, a projected first-round NBA Draft pick, averages a team-best 22.6 points per game. He leads a potent group of guards that spread the ball in Wade's "five-out" offense, giving all five players on the floor the ability to shoot the 3-point shot.
"It's almost like an NBA-type of style of play," Schmidt said. "(We will) try to get back in transition and force them into the five-on-five game as much as we can. You can't be one-on-one. If they isolate us, they're probably better than us one-on-one."
Joining Thomas in LSU's backcourt is Javonte Smart, a junior that averages 15.9 points per game and shoots the 3-ball at a team-best 42% clip. Darius Days, a 6-7 junior forward, shoots nearly 40% from distance and averages 11.7 points per game.
If that weren't enough, sophomore forward Trendon Watford averages 16.7 points per game. The Tigers' desire to spread the ball out and run isolated offensive plays hinders their ability to feature a true under-the-basket presence, but Watford's skill set allows him to play that role when needed.
"Keeping the ball above the foul line, being able to guard your yard, keeping the guys in front of you, is going to be very important," Schmidt said. "They play a five-out offense, a lot of dribble-drives and isolations, so it's really important for us to be able to guard them one-on-one. But, at the same time, get guys in the gaps and really try to force contested jump-shots."
Slowing down LSU's offense will be a team effort for Bona, which has only allowed more than 70 points twice this season. One of those instances came in SBU's season opener against Akron, while the other came against A-10 foe La Salle. Both were double-digit Bona victories.
"We've got to play great team defense, and we need to rebound the basketball and keep them to one shot," Schmidt said. "It's the Southeast Conference. They've got SEC athletes, high-major guys, but it's a challenge that we're looking forward to."
Osun Osunniyi, the A-10 defensive player of the year, has anchored SBU's defense all season. The junior forward/center has seemed to continually improve on the defensive end as the season has gone on, however, culminating with a 13-block A-10 tournament that contributed to him being named Most Outstanding Player.
While Schmidt will rely on his guards to limit the Tigers on the perimeter, Osunniyi's rim-protecting capability will be key.
"Where we're at, a lot has to do with (Osunniyi) on the defensive end blocking shots," Schmidt said. "That's going to be a critical thing against LSU, but at the same time, LSU is going to try to pull him away from the basket."
Another point of concern for Bona fans is LSU's size, as Thomas' 6-4 frame is the smallest in the Tigers' starting lineup. Schmidt, however, feels that the Bonnies have enough size to match-up.
"It's not like we're going in there with 5-8 guards going up against 6-4; we match up in terms of size," Schmidt said. "That's not a concern; it's the athleticism. Like I said, they've got two first-round picks."
Bona junior guard Kyle Lofton pointed to LSU's size, length and speed as points of interest in Bona's defensive planning. A key to SBU's defensive success has been limiting opposing star players, or as Schmidt and his players say, the "knowns." LSU features more "knowns" than the Bonnies are used to seeing in the A-10.
"Usually, it's one known or two knowns, but I feel like they have four knowns," Lofton said. "It's a good test for us to see where we're at, and we've just got to be ready to come out and play."
While Bona prides itself on winning games on the defensive end, Lofton was quick to mention the team's offensive potential. The Bonnies score an average of 70.5 points per game, with each starter averaging in double digits.
"Obviously, the goal is to keep it a low-scoring game and grind it out on defense, but I feel like we have five players that can have a big game on any given night," Lofton said. "The scoring, sometimes it's not there, but I feel like in moments like this, good players shine, and we have good players."
Bona's starters have taken turns filling the offensive spotlight this season.
Lofton did so in the team's A-10 championship victory over VCU with a game-high 23 points. Before that, juniors Jalen Adaway and Jaren Holmes combined for 32 points in SBU's semifinal win over Saint Louis, and Osunniyi and junior guard Dominick Welch each scored 18 points against Duquesne in the quarterfinals.
Lofton leads the unselfish group with 14.6 points per game. Schmidt said that it could be Osunniyi, however, that keys his offense against the Tigers.
"We'll try to go inside with (Osunniyi) and try to get him going to the basket on some screen-and-rolls and stuff. But like I said, when (Osunniyi) is scoring the ball inside for us, we're a better team.
Schmidt added that the Bonnies would likely run their offense from the inside-out, whether it be via the pass or the dribble.
"When we're open, we've got to make some (3-pointers)," Schmidt said. "There are a lot of things that are going to be important. Transition defense, rebounding the ball, keeping them to one shot, staying out of foul trouble."
Regardless of what Schmidt and his assistants draw up to defend and attack LSU, Lofton said that the players' mindset ahead of the game remains the same that it's been all season: trust the coaches' game-plan.
"That's why we have great coaches," Lofton said. "The coaches will handle that well, and we've just got to follow the game-plan and come ready to play."
The Bonnies and Tigers are scheduled to tip-off from Indiana University's Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall at 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, and the game will be broadcasted nationally on TNT. The Tigers were 1.5-point favorites as of Friday.
"Like I said, good players live up to these moments," Lofton said. "You don't shy away from these moments, and they have a lot of great players, so you know a lot of people will be watching this game. I just want to get St. Bonaventure's name even more on the map."
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This is from the newspaper, The Honduras Weekly Workers frustrated with the ramifications of the recent minimum wage increase took to the streets recently to make their voices heard. On January 15, hundreds of teachers, farmers, nurses and other workers marched through the streets of San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and La Ceiba to put pressure on the government and businesses of Honduras. They continue to wait for a response that will make them happy. Wendy Figueroa, a public school teacher in La Ceiba, was among the marchers. Figueroa said that she taught for five months but was only paid for two. She said other teachers have it even worse. She said that she and the other teachers involved in the march expect the government to pay them the money they�re owed. One can only imagine the impact this would have on Honduras� already suffering public school system. �Many teachers haven�t been paid since last February or May. The government doesn�t want to pay. If the government doesn�t pay, teachers won�t work.� Wendy Figueroa However, teachers weren�t the only participants in the march. Everyone involved had the same complaint: If we can�t work we can�t pay our living expenses. We need to work�� Wendy Figueroa She said that the march had several goals in addition to wanting payment for teachers. She said that marchers hoped to put pressure on the government to reduce general costs of living including transportation and food costs as well as put pressure on the government and businesses to respect the new law and use it to better Honduras, not to make the country poorer. Juan Melendez, also a teacher in La Ceiba, said he thought the new minimum wage was a good thing. �Right now the salary is perfect,� Melendez said. �It used to be too little.� However, Melendez said that although the new law was intended to bring the country a little further out of poverty, it is only making life more difficult for people. Many march participants have lost their jobs as a result of the new wage. The new wage, which increased minimum salaries from 3,400 lempiras to 5,500 lempiras in urban areas and 4,055 lempiras in rural areas, went into effect January 1. Within the first week of January, 700 people were fired, according to the Ministry of Labor. While trade unions rejoiced at the news, businesses were outraged. Businesses complain that they can�t pay the new wage without firing workers. A December 24, 2008 article in �La Prensa� said that the government increased the minimum wage after it failed to bring about an agreement between workers and business, as stipulated by the country�s labor laws. President Zelaya was quoted saying that the minimum wage increase �will force the business oligarchy to start paying what is fair.� Manuel Zelaya Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with a poverty rate of 70 percent, according to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The 2009 Index of Economic Freedom lists Honduras is one of Central America�s poorest countries; two-thirds of its people live below the poverty line, and unemployment is about 28 percent.


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Tell the Customer's Story, Not Your Story
Why are you wasting everyone's time telling your company's story?
Every day, I receive around a dozen press releases from companies announcing new products. Here's a real-life example (name changed):
"I'd like to introduce you to Acme, a new cloud-based call center solution. Acme asked the question, 'Why can't your CRM software easily talk to your call center?' and when they couldn't find a solution to do that-they built their own."
Okay, they're telling a story. I give them credit for that. It's better than blitzing me with a list of product features.
However, while they've told a story, it's a story about them. And frankly, nobody gives a flying squirrel's sphincter about your company's decision-making process, which is the corporate equivalent of "how I spent my summer vacation."
This "look at us! we're so smart!" style of marketing has become woefully common in the post-Facebook era. People--particularly young people, I note--seem convinced that business communication consists of telling people about YOU.
But in business, it's never about you. It's always about the customer.
Ironically, call centers are full of vivid customer stories waiting to be told:
Call center people stressed out of their minds because they're under pressure to handle calls more quickly but they can't get the data they need.
Customers going nuts trying to figure what else they need to buy while talking to a call center person whose only answer is: "I dunno..."
Executives tearing their hair out at the cost of customer support and the apparent inability of the call center to upsell anything.
Investors selling stock short because the companythey've invested in can't make their numbers predictably.
Given that there's so much going on in this situation, why not tell a story that has real human drama? Like so:
Imagine you're calling a vendor for support and the call center guy has NO CLUE what you've already bought. Suddenly you're spending your valuable time providing information that your vendor should already know. So here's my question: how long before you start looking for a new vendor who has their sh*t together?
That took me two minutes to write that. I'm sure somebody really talented could up with something better, but that's not the point. The point is:
Tell the customer's story not your story.
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There have been theatres of a sort in Colchester since recorded time- uniquely there were not one but two Roman theatres in the town. Records exist for the existence of guild plays and the Colchester men in the middle ages, Throughout the seventeenth century Colchester had been part of the circuit of the Norwich Company of Comedians. For many years plays had been given in 'a good temporary building' behind the Moot Hall leased by the Mayor and corporation. The nineteenth century had seen that building replaced by a grandiose new building the Theatre Royal, in Queen Street seating 1200 people, With its magnificent proscenium and forty foot stage, this theatre was a modern wonder The silver token that gave the mayor priority booking is still in the borough regalia. Not only the Norwich company performed there but also public talks such as "An astronomical lecture wit the assistance of an Eidouranion or large transparent orrerry" or perhaps Crocketts famous performing horses and Poole's Myrioma.
Its boards had been trod by Macreadym Kean, Mrs Langtry, Edward Terry martin Harvey, Mrs Patrick Campbell and Gladys Cooper.
But early one morning in September 1918, fire was detected in the Theatre Royal and within a few hours nothing remained but the side walls. Today it is the Queen Street repair depot for Firstbus and will shortly be home to an indoor market as part of the planned cultural quarter.
In the meantime the Grand Theatre had opened in the High Street, later known as the Hippodrome and now Liquid/ Envy nightclub. Although it was a theatre for a while, albeit specialisng in variety, it soon succumbed to the modern demand and installed the silver screen.. Six years later the Playhouse opened, but it too, quickly turned to films, reverting only occasionally for amateur musicals and plays.
The Odeon opened in 1931, Designed by Cecil Massey in the Moroccan Style which, under the modern plaster board tripling boasts decorated stage boxes and a beautiful semi-atmospheric ceiling. It boasted a full stage and indeed at one point all the great touring singers appeared there, Cliff Richard, Johnny Laton, the Rolling Stones, yes they played Colchester.
The Grand Theatre and the Playhouse ( now Weatherspoons) were listed and are protected, but there has been no success in listing the Odeon. Its future is uncertain now, its owner is determined to turn it into yet another nightclub.
Bob Digby was a man with the gift of the Gab and a silver spoon in his mouth. A hugely imposing man with a booming voice and dressed with what can only be described as shabby gentility. His political views were somewhat left of socialist and he had a habit of being generous to those who had nothing. . When I first got to know him, I called him Mr Digby "Call me comrade Bob" he instructed. My mother instructed me to do nothing of the kind.
His Elizabethan Ancestor was the Elizabethan adventurer Kenelm Digby. Here he is. I think you might spot a resemblance/ Kenelm Digby was known as "The Ornament of England" To me its to be sort of ornament that a particularly fond aunt with no taste whatsoever might give, and you just have to put it out when she comes to stay, but let that pass.
The building belonged to the Corporation, and had been used intermittently by the Colchester Players who had expanded the platform stage and build a proscenium arch. The Corporation were persuaded to let it at a peppercorn rent. For the fledgling company to use alternate weeks.
Behind the theatre and approached by a passage through Cullingford's Stationery shop next door was a the St George's Hall, built as a public hall. . The Theatre were allowed to use part of this to store their scenery. I spent some time in there over the years fascinated by the dusty flapping scenic flats and cut out trees. There was a basement approached via a trapdoor :The Glory Hole" where all the furniture not in use that week were stored. A door was cut into the side wall of the stage which led straight into this passage, but it was impossible to get scenery through there. Instead it had to be carried into the street and back in through the front door. When the wind got up, unless you held on very tightly, you stood more than a fighting chance of finishing at the other end of the Street. This was made ten times worse when the workshop had to move to Trinity Street, and everything had to be carried from there.
The actors were housed in a row of tiny rabbit hutches formed- literally from cardboard sheets bought as a job lot from a company which packed fuel tanks. Later the walls were made permanent with breeze blocks and metal half-doors. The actors toilets ( which were also used by all the bus crews in Colchester by arrangement were separated from the public ones by a thin wall, and most intervals the actors would listen for comments good or bad through the wall. Most days the actors could be found in Neil and Robarts during the day and the Waggon and Horses or the Fleece after the show where they graciously acknowledged the compliments..
Audiences were presided over by the House Manager and goodness knows what other jobs besides , Mary Rawlings, a lady of 'a certain age'. Dressed in a faded slightly and dusty green velvet evening gown, she would stand at the front door and greet each and every member of the audience by name and saying goodnight personally to everyone at the end.. She always seemed a little worse for wear, which was evidenced by the small pile of empty Johnny Walker bottles in her office.
She , like Bob, drank a great deal – some said that she drank Meths! I can certainly remember her swaying over me with knockout breath fumes! She was very kind to us Kelly children though, always a huge tin of sweets at Christmas. She has two of our kittens at home in Constantine Road. She called one of them Whiskey and the Other Brandy. I had visions of her standing on the doorstep last thing at night calling them in by name.
During each interval she would sweep majestically to the front of the stage and stand there in splendid glory, gently swaying and occasionally hiccupping ready to receive the compliments and (rarely) complaints. Following her were Fred and Eileen who carried a trestle table and Hep and Molly with an urn of tea and biscuits and the ice creams. A sort of tea party among the women and children of the town ensued for the next fifteen minutes while the men repaired to the upstairs bar for more convivial refreshment and vied to buy Robert Arthur Digby one of the many drinks of his day.
Once, I was there during the day watching a rehearsal, when I was dispatched at high speed to Chapel Street where Fred Bird the caretaker lived, with an urgent message that the pile of coal in his beloved boiler room in the theatre was on fire. He didn't seem to be best pleased to see me, and seemed to take an eternity finding his coat while I hopped from foot to foot urging him to hurry.
Now it really is important to say at this point that although at its peak the Rep was producing over forty plays per year, the standard of production was staggeringly high, and the plays chosen mostly for their quality.
Shakespeare of course, Hamlet ( where my father played it with a broken rib sustained in a set building accident the week before ( yes, they all mucked in, office people as well- and that was just one year.
What I am wanting to say here was that the standard both in choice offered and in the standard of production was very high indeed, .Ok so the sets were basic and yes, to be fair they wobbled a bit, but the acting was experienced and impeccable. And where can you see forty good plays a year now?
The Chief Director, Wallace Evenett, a sort of Doyen of Repertory producers was adept at turning a production around in less than a week.
Set up furniture and props and costumes , then final rehearsal for this weeks play , Afternoon Dress rehearsal, and evening First night. Scenic artist to sort out scenery for next week and start to paint it. Stage Management to have list of needed props furniture and costumes.
Give out the parts for the next play but one. Then read through next weeks play and then work on Blocking Act One. Free time to learn act one , then get ready to perform in this weeks play. Stage management send spare people out to borrow props and furniture and order hired costumes ( actors had to have their own basic outfits including frocks and suits, casuals and dress as well as top hats, Bowleres, flat caps, Ladies big and small hats. Special and period costumes were hired by the management. They also returned last weeks borrowed pieces.
Block Act two and work on it, run act one. Perform matinee of this weeks play. . Then perform evening show of this weeks play. Learn act three in odd moments Find time for the pub.
Block Act Three and work on it. Stage management to have all props and furniture ready. Afternoon run acts one two and three.
Run whole play again, then do matinee and evening performance. After show, all hands to break down set and carry it to workshop. Get new set in and set it up, complete with props and furniture Stage management to pack up borrowed props and furniture.
A day off unless it was really difficult show.
And all the time thinking about the following week.
Probably the most loyal Monday nighter was the Bishop of Colchester The Rev Dudley Narborough. Here he is. After a wartime ministry in the blitz-proof crypt at St Martin's in theFields he arrived to tend the flock in Colchester and its rural environs.. An immensely popular local figure hroughout the fifties and sixties, he augmented his duties by becoming governing chairman of both the Colchester Rep and the Grammar School He came to every first night and then again on Thursdays. The actors always knew he was in- he sat in the centre of the front row and laughed uproariously at every single joke.
But in about 1958, an event occurred that split the Colchester Theatre world in two. Frank Woodfield, a very popular actor who played all the older leading men and character parts found himself summarily dismissed. The Theatre Club was outraged and demanded an explanation as to why he had gone. No answer was forthcoming, and the club withdrew its support and ostracized Bob Digby and anyone else they could identify as having a hand in this unspeakable outrage.
My mother who was at that time an active member of the club and went on all the day trips to other theatres and social occasions. found herself ejected- 'because you are one of them!" and received icy hostility from the Colchester friends establishment. But neither Bob, nor my father could reveal why he had to go..
But the split with the theatre club grew deeper and there were all kinds of movements to have the theatre closed down. The playwright Stella Martin Curry was dispatched by George Young to tax Bob with his drinking the profits away. On hearing this all Bobs actorly instincts kicked in and he went into full histrionic spate of crocodile tears, laughter, tragic despair and red-nose comedy before making a notice "I am a lush" which he wore around his neck on and off for a week.
As time went on and money became a little easier, the productions went fortnightly rather than weekly and two producer/directors could do alternate weeks. They could then do even more ambitious plays. Bernard Kelly alternated with James McInnes. I recall a superb production of Under Milk Wood which has burned itself into my memory, with an elaborate multi-layered set.
The theatre continued until 1978 but then things got very expensive and the prospect of a new theatre seemed ever far away. Bob Digby's bottomless pockets found that they had holes in - and even the bar and catering operation was not producing enough to keep the theatre going.. Bobs health had got steadily worse: drink and strain took its toll, and he was admitted to a nursing home.
The actors led by Bernard Kelly tried to keep the theatre going by sheer will power. They failed of course: there was no money to pay actors or even to buy light bulbs. When David Forder, the new Director arrived from the Belgrade Coventry, supported by some generous arts Council help, he was appalled by the state of the building and the lack of everything from toilet rolls to light bulbs. The theatre took a turn for the better and under David Forder's tutelage and the Artistic Directorship of David Buxton, the theatre thrived again and eventually moved into the much promised new theatre, Changing its name, but not its ethos to the Mercury Theatre.. The old guard had to go of course, like all new brooms, they needed to make changes.
The old Rep building still stands in the High Street as the Co-op Bank. It still has its ghosts. Perhaps not literally, but I still hear the sound of those old audiences clapping and the chinking of that essential cup of tea. I still hear the roar of laughter of the Bishop and the echoes of Hamlet and Professor Higgins, old Falstaff and Charley's Aunt. I still see the wonderful pantomimes and hear the music in my head. And most of all I can hear and see the figures of Bob Digby and his theatre manager Mary Rawlings as they greeted each and every member of the audience.


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Drimnagh Castle Primary School is an all boys school on the Long Mile Road in south-west Dublin, Ireland. Our school has 16 mainstream teachers, 3 Learning Support teacher, 7 Resource teachers and 1 Principal. The classes range from 2nd to 6th.
The school was first opened in 1957 and now has 455 pupils. Our school also has music lessons, swimming lessons, a chess club, hurling, Gaelic football, quiz teams, computer lessons, French lessons, an athletics team & our own school choir.
Awards are given at assembly for positive behaviour and good attendance.
When Rudolph 1, the founder of the Hapsburg Dynasty, came to the throne in Germany in 1273 and when the Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299 Drimnagh Castle was already a home.
The first state recorded owner of Drimnagh Castle was Hugh de Barnewall who was of an Anglo-Norman family and came to Ireland in 1212 at the invitation of King John.
The Barnewall family lived in Drimnagh Castle until the early 17th.century when it came into the care of Sir Adam Loftus who occupied it until his appointment as Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1619.
From then until 1951 it was in continuous occupation, the Hatch family being the last to live there.
It was acquired by the Christian Brothers in 1953.
The school has been functioning since 1954.
The old ballroom of the castle was converted into two classrooms one being equipped as a science lab. A nissen hut acted as another classroom.
So there it stands, Drimnagh Castle, the only moated castle in Ireland, cheek by jowl with our school – the old and the young – history and potential all together on what was known as An (Fearann) Druimneach -"the ridged land".
The Norman ancestry of the Barnewall family is remembered in the heraldic shield of the family coat of arms which is inlaid with the fleur- de- lis, the royal arms of France. For their motto they chose "Malo mori quam foedari" – "Death rather than dishonour" an ideal now incorporated into the school crest.
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Aurèlia Muñoz
1926 — 2011 | Barcelona, Spain
Portrait of Aurèlia Muñoz in artwork Xarxes vegetals in 1973, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
√ Graphic arts √ Textile √ Graphic arts √ Embroidery √ Drawing √ Textile √ Spain √ Europe √ 1960s √ 1970s √ 1980s √ 1990s √ 20th century
Dengra, Andreu, Ventosa, Sílvia, Aurèlia Muñoz. Recerques infinites. Fibres, textures i espai, Datatèxtil [on line], no. 29, 2013
Giralt-Miracle, Daniel, Aurèlia Muñoz. Estructures, Tarragona, Museu d'Art Modern, 1994
Parcerisas, Pilar, Aurèlia Muñoz, Barcelona, Ámbit Serveis Editorials, 1990
Anudar el espacio. Donación Aurèlia Muñoz, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, October 2019–December 2020
Aurèlia Muñoz, Centre d'Études Catalanes, Generalitat de Catalunya, Paris, November– December 1985
Aurèlia Muñoz, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, 1990
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Spanish textile artist.
The outstanding textile artist Aurèlia Muñoz was associated with the Nouvelle Tapisserie (also known as Fiber Art) movement during the second half of the twentieth century. Somehow – incomprehensibly – she has been missing from Spanish museums, although the New York MoMA's 2020 acquisition of three of her pieces for its permanent collection sparked renewed interest in her work.
On numerous occasions, A. Muñoz recalled the importance of her early education at the Institut Montserrat, Barcelona's first Montessori school, where she learned to work with her hands. Later on, she attended the Escola Massana – Centre d'Art i Disseny, one of the city's leading art schools, where she trained in various techniques. This explains the centrality of manual skills in all her practice: she insisted on taking charge of the entire productive process herself, without resorting to a team. She started with a preliminary study, from which she made a cartoon, using this to make an outline, dye her materials, weave them together and assemble them.
After taking up embroidery to produce work such as Personajes místicos y cruz [Mystical figures and a cross, 1964], in the mid-1960s she discovered macramé, a knotting technique that was to play a major role in her practice. After an experiment in making a voluminous macramé knot in 1969, she took a leap into three dimensions with pieces that created spaces suggesting the concepts of protection and shelter. During this period, she made Homenaje a Gaudí [Homage to Gaudi, 1969], a hanging sphere resembling orange segments. Later, her work took a monumental turn, with pieces like Ente social [Social entity, 1976].
In the following decade, A. Muñoz went deeper into this line of reflection, giving special attention to the materials and volumes of her work. Her tapestries abandoned walls to embrace architectonic functions, entering into dialogue with space. In this way, she presented them as a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk that blurred the lines between the fine arts and crafts, and muted the hierarchy between techniques and materials. Consequently, her work is usually categorised as being at the confluence of tapestry, sculpture and architecture; it discarded the "functionality" attributed to the decorative arts, making them an autonomous medium of expression. Using natural fibres such as hemp, wool and sisal, and her profound knowledge of folk techniques and wisdom concerning textiles, A. Muñoz infused her pieces with meaning, linking them with an ancestral and organic universe in dialogue with the natural world.
During her lifetime, this Catalan artist enjoyed widespread renown in Spain and internationally, accumulating many honours from the beginning of her career onwards. Her work appeared in leading biennials (for example, Lausanne and São Paulo), and the main international bibliography of textile art includes an entry on her work signalling her status as a reference in the field. Her production is held by museums including the MoMA (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh), the Umêleckopruumyslové Museum (Prague) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). The exhibition Anudar el espacio. Donación Aurèlia Muñoz at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona) in 2019 marked the beginning of a reconsideration of her career in her native country.
Inés Molina Agudo
Translated from Spanish by Leo Stephen Torgoff.
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Aurèlia Muñoz, Àngel còsmic [Cosmic Angel], 1966, embroidery, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Tòtem, 1967, wool embroidery on burlap, 155 x 255 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Verge de la Macarena [Virgin of the Macarena], 1967, collage with fabrics, trimmings and reliquaries, wood and mirror, 70 x 53 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Macra vermell, 1970, macramé with sisal and cotton threads, 220 x 120 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Estel ancorat [Anchored Star], 1974, macramé with nylon strings, 280 x 900 x 900 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Ocell seda natural II [Bird in natural silk II], 1982, natural silk fabric and leaded metal rods, 90 x 120 x 120 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Ocell seda natural II [Bird in natural silk II], 1982, natural silk fabric and leaded metal rods, 90 x 120 x 120 cm, XII International Tapestry Biennial, Lausanne, 1983, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Llibre [Book], 1985, handmade paper and wooden rods, 90 x 110 x 80 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Washi </em [Japanese paper], 1984, hand-dyed vegetable paper, 106 x 100 x 15 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
Aurèlia Muñoz, Mobils cubistes [Cubist Mobils], Mòbil M#19 [Mobil M#19], 1989, handmade paper and rushes, 148 x 60 x 100 cm et Mòbil M#24 [Mobil M#14], 1989, handmade paper and rushes, 130 x 70 x 20 cm, Estate of Aurèlia Muñoz
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Yellow Pages - ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines, independent media and the small press.
Yellow Pages is a micro zine created by Kari Tervo. It was published in California, U.S.A. in October, 2014. It is 16 pages, and printed on yellow paper. It contains movie references, jokes, and fun finds, all created with information from that classic telephone resource, the yellow pages.
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Samsung S6 Edge Bends Just as Easily as the iPhone 6 Plus
by Elizabeth Harper on April 06, 2015
in Phones and Mobile, News, Blog, iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6 :: 0 comments
With the tendency for our favorite high-tech gadgets to be thinner and lighter, it's no real surprise that the end result can be a bit fragile. When the iPhone 6 was released, controversy exploded over the fact that the phone — particularly the super-sized Plus model — could easily be bent from something as simple as carrying it in your pocket. The fix to this is also simple: you probably shouldn't keep your phone in your back pocket where you put weight on it whenever you sit down, causing it to bend.
Still, the fact that this was avoidable didn't stop Samsung from jumping in to say that their next-gen flagship phone, the S6 "will not bend." Unfortunately, that's not proving true for the just-released Galaxy S6 Edge — the version of the S6 with a contoured screen — which bend tests by SquareTrade prove is just as fragile as the iPhone 6 Plus that spawned "Bendgate" in the first place.
According to SquareTrade, the iPhone 6 Plus bent under 110 pounds of pressure and broke completely under 179 pounds of pressure. The Samsung S6 Edge also bends at 110 pounds of pressure — but unlike the iPhone 6 Plus, that much pressure also causes the screen to crack, though the phone remained useable even so. However, the phone broke completely at 149 pounds. So much for the phone that wouldn't bend — S6 Edge users don't seem notably safer from phone damage than iPhone 6 Plus users. SquareTrade ominously points out that the Edge's more easily broken screen may actually pose a larger problem due the potential for users to wind up with "a pocket full of glass."
However, Samsung isn't taking this sitting down (at least not with a Galaxy S6 Edge in its pocket, we hope): the company's produced its own bend test video, and reports that the stresses shown in the SquareTrade video aren't normal use. Samsung states that "the normal force that generated when a person presses the back pocket is approximately 66lbf (30kgf)" which is rather less than the 110 pounds required to make the S6 Edge bend. Still, it seems a bit hypocritical for Samsung to have called Apple out for its own phones to have exactly the same problem — even if users of neither device are likely to have problems so long as they treat their phones with care.
Have you had trouble with your new S6 — or is this problem as theoretical as Samsung claims?


In an unexpected statement this weekend, Mr O Bradaigh confirmed that he would not be seeking the position of party president at the forthcoming Ard-Fheis [annual conference].
I wish to record my appreciation and thanks to all who worked with me over the past sixty years," he said.
Mr O Bradaigh, who turns 77 next month, joined the IRA at a young age and remained a stalwart of traditional Irish republicanism throughout his life.
Possible successors include vice-president Des Dalton, Mr O Bradaigh's son Ruairi Og O Bradaigh or Galway county councillor Tomas O Curraoin.
A former chief of staff of the IRA, the Longford man was president of Sinn Fein between 1970 to 1983 before being replaced by Gerry Adams.
He has held the position of president of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fein since its inception 23 years ago.
The party was established after Mr O Bradaigh and other hard-line republicans walked out of Sinn Fein's Ard Fheis in Dublin in 1986 after a majority of delegates voted to recognise the Dublin parliament as Dail Eireann.
Since the mid-1950s, Mr O Bradaigh has played a key role in the Irish republican movement.
The child of Irish Republican veterans, Mr O Bradaigh has led IRA raids, been arrested and interned, and even spent a period of time on a hunger strike.
In 1955 he led a daring raid on British Army barracks in Berkshire, seizing a vast array of arms and ammunition, after which he served six months in Mountjoy Jail and then was interned at the Curragh. During his time in prison he was elected TD for Longford-Westmeath but refused to sit in the Dail.
He has at different times been excluded from the Six Counties, Britain, the United States, and Canada.
He was a key figure in the secret negotiation of a bilateral IRA-British truce.
Educated in St Mel's College and University College Dublin, he was elected to the executive of the military council of the IRA in 1954.
In February 1962 it was Mr O Bradaigh who called the end of the 1956 to 1962 IRA 'border' campaign.
Throughout the 1960s he taught in Roscommon and was an active member of Sinn Fein.
In 1972 he was arrested under the Offences Against the State Act and immediately went on hunger strike. After two weeks the charges against him were dropped and he was released.
It is understood, though Mr O Bradaigh is not seriously ill, he has been advised by doctors to reduce his work commitments. His tiny party remains dedicated to continuing the Irish republican tradition but is reviled by the Irish political establishment, who have identified it with the Continuity IRA. With an almost invisible media profile, it has long struggled to make electoral progress.


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Skiers And Snowboarders: Why Now Is Your Best Time To Buy Next Season's Pass (Updated)
Larry Olmsted Senior Contributor
Whistler Blackcomb is the largest and most popular ski resort in North America. If you have an Epic Pass, skiing or snowboarding here is unlimited.
Vail Resorts
I just wrote here at Forbes about what an amazing snow season it has been, and how several major resorts have extended their seasons, in some cases by over a full month, and a couple well into summer. If you own one of the snowsport industry's hottest products, a multi-mountain season pass, then this is a fantastic bonus for you, because all these extra days of skiing are free.
But even if you don't you can still benefit. These new generation multi-mountain passes are the best deals in winter sports, and every year they are introduced right now at the lowest prices of the season, with incentives to encourage early sales. If you are going to buy one you might as well do it early, because they can only get more expensive, the extras go away, and in some cases, they are taken off the market altogether. Plus, you still don't have to pay most of the cost up front. This year there is even more incentive: one pass added extra companion ticket discounts for early adopters, another is making its passes good for the rest of this season as a bonus - buy one and you can start using it right now. With several major resorts open through Memorial Day, and California's spring skiing champs Mammoth and Squaw Valley running through July Fourth weekend, that is potentially a lot of extra free skiing.
The 2019-2020 crop just rolled out in the past week, and these fiercely competitive passes keep trying to outdo each other, adding more resorts and benefits every year. The biggest players are Epic and Ikon. The Epic Pass is from Vail Resorts, good at all Vail Resorts' properties worldwide (they have the single most popular resort in the US, in Canada and in Australia), plus several partners here and abroad, including red hot ski destination Japan. Epic's chief competitor is the Ikon Pass, primarily backed by Alterra Mountain Company, Aspen Skiing Company, two other industry resort groups, Boyne and POWDR, and numerous top independently owned resorts like Jackson Hole and Alta, as well as overseas partners, also including Japan. There are also a few dramatically smaller and regional pass products, the most notable of which are Mountain Collective and the Peaks Pass.
Here's what's new:
Biggest Changes: The addition of up to 7-days (each) skiing or riding at Sun Valley, ID and Snowbasin UT; 5-consecutive days at Japan's Rusutsu Resort; rollout of Epic Day Pass program.
The full Epic Pass includes unlimited, unrestricted access to all of Vail Resort's own properties, with no blackout dates, even for holidays, and no limit on the number of days. This means Whistler Blackcomb, BC; Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Crested Butte, CO; Park City, UT; Heavenly, Northstar, and Kirkwood, CA: Stowe and Okemo, VT; Mount Sunapee, NH; Stevens Pass, WA; Afton Alps, MN; Mt. Brighton, MI; and Wilmot, WI. It also includes Australia's largest resort, Perisher, and Vail's latest acquisitions Down Under, Falls Creek and Hotham (pending closing of the transaction).
Access to non-Vail partner resorts around the world is usually limited to 5-7 days each, and while the big addition last season was Telluride, CO, more was added for next year, including two major world class resorts, Sun Valley, ID and Snowbasin, UT, the primary alpine venue for the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. Epic Pass holders get seven days each at Telluride, Sun Valley, Snowbasin, and the Resorts of the Canadian Rockies; five consecutive days at Hakuba Valley (comprised of ten ski resorts) in Japan; five consecutive days at Japan's famed Rusutsu Resort; and limited access to Les 3 Vallées, Paradiski and Tignes-Val D'Isere in France; 4 Vallées in Switzerland; Arlberg in Austria and Skirama Dolomiti in Italy. Depending how you measure, these include the world's three largest interconnected ski resorts.
The full Epic Pass is just $939, which is simply an amazing deal considering many single mountains charge appreciably more than this for just their pass, and it is good without limit all across many of the most desirable ski destinations on earth. But there is also a scaled down alternative for skiers and snowboarders willing to skip peak holiday dates at some of the Vail-owned resorts (not all, as many such as Breckenridge, Okemo and Crested Butte are still unlimited), skip Europe, and take fewer days at partners. The Epic Local Pass is $699. To purchase either version requires paying $49 now and the remainder in September, and one big bonus for those buying now is the opportunity to purchase up to 16 discounted companion tickets next winter.
Vail Resorts, which was founded by 10th Mountain Division veterans, also has been aggressive about military discounts. The Military Epic Pass program will continue into the 2019-20 season. It doesn't include partners but is totally unlimited and unrestricted at all Vail Resorts' properties worldwide for just $129 for Active and Retired Military and their dependents, or $529 for Veteran Military and their dependents That includes the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, Canadian Armed Forces and Australian Defence Force.
The Epic Day Pass is new for next year as part of the bigger "Epic for Everyone," initiative. It is basically a customizable and flexible 1-7 day pass that replaces the basic lift ticket with steeper multi-day discounts. The days are good across all seventeen Vail Resorts properties, while the 4-day and longer versions include access to partners like Telluride, Snowbasin and Sun Valley. It's a bit confusing because the level of discount increases as you add days, reaching about 50% of standard full window pricing. Further confusing things is the option to buy it with or without peak holiday access at different prices. Basically, if you know you are skiing no more than seven days all season, or taking just a single trip, especially over a holiday week to a prime destination like Vail or Beaver Creek, it's usually the least expensive option, peaking at $731for the full-blown holiday access 7-day version. However, if you are planning to visit a resort that is unrestricted on the Epic Local Pass, like Breckenridge, Keystone, Crested Butte, Okemo or a combination of those, you can get the same 7 days - plus as many more as you want - for less.
After record breaking February snowfall, Squaw Valley will stay open through July 4th. Buy an Ikon Pass and the the rest of this season - and all of next - is unlimited.
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows
Biggest Changes: Unlimited spring skiing this year at Big Bear Mountain Resort, Snowshoe, and Blue Mountain immediately, and at Winter Park, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, Mammoth Mountain, Crystal Mountain, Solitude and Tremblant beginning April 8, with purchase of 2019-20 Ikon Pass or Ikon Base Pass; Renewal discount of up to $30 for existing pass holders (if purchased before April 24).
The Ikon Pass is a bit more confusing as it is a mix of unlimited, limited and even more limited mountains. The full Ikon Pass incudes unlimited skiing at fourteen resorts including Steamboat, Winter Park, Copper Mountain, and Eldora, CO; Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, Mammoth Mountain, Big Bear, and June Mountain, CA; Stratton, VT; Snowshoe, WV; Crystal Mountain, MI; Solitude Mountain Resort, UT; Canada's Tremblant; and Blue Mountain, PA.
Then you get 7-days each at another sixteen resorts worldwide: Deer Valley, UT; Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, WY; Big Sky, MY; Canada's Revelstoke and Cypress,; Sugarbush, VT; Boyne Mountain and Boyne Highlands, MI; The Summit at Snoqualmie, WA; Sunday River and Sugarloaf, ME; Loon Mountain, NH; Taos, NM; Brighton, UT; Thredbo, Australia; and Valle Nevado, Chile.
Finally, Ikon includes seven days of skiing at each of several groups of mountains, that can be split up in any way you want among each group. Examples include the four comprising Colorado's Aspen (Ajax, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk) and three comprising Canada's SkiBig3 (Banff Sunshine, Lake Louise, Mt. Norquay), along with Alta and Snowbird, UT; Killington and Pico, VT; Niseko United, Japan; and New Zealand's Coronet Peak, The Remarkables, and Mt. Hutt.
For most ski travelers these limitations are less than they seem, as you could still do a 7-day trip to Aspen, a week in Snowbird or Alta, and full weeks each at Jackson Hole, Big Sky, and Deer Valley, before dipping into the totally unlimited access to places like Squaw Valley, Steamboat and Copper. Like the full Epic Pass, there are no holiday blackout dates whatsoever for limited or unlimited destinations, and the cost is comparable at $949 ($919 if you are renewing an existing pass). You also get access to ten discounted friend and family tickets.
The Ikon Base Pass strips the unlimited destinations down from fourteen to eight, most notably keeping Winter Park and Copper while adding peak season restrictions to Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows and Mammoth, and moving Stratton and Steamboat to 5-days, along with most of the 7-day resorts from the full Ikon. Similarly, the third category of combined resorts is reduced from seven to five. That's still a ton of skiing, and the Base Pass is $649 ($619) with option for eight discounted friend and family tickets.
Bottom Line: The Epic vs Ikon matchup is too close to call. Both include lots of great, world class resorts, and for travelers, simply wanting to ski one particular place in enough to be the tipping point. Likewise, if you are happy to take your week in either Jackson or Whistler, but also want to summer ski in Australia, it leans Epic. But if your summer trip is Chile, it tips Ikon. Both have a good Japan presence, and both are well represented on the Rockies, Utah and Tahoe. Both have high-end luxury resorts and hardcore terrain. The marquee resort that jumps out to me as the biggest advantage for each is Whistler Blackcomb for Epic and Jackson for Ikon. The most glaring difference is Europe - if you are planning to do a trip across the pond, Epic wins hands down.
Peaks Pass: Peak Resorts also just announced its 2019-20 Peak Pass. The company is strictly for Eastern skiers, and operates twelve resorts in Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Ohio, the best known of which are Mt. Snow, Attitash, Wildcat and Hunter, the closest major mountain to New York City. But it also has popular mid-Atlantic resorts including Jack Frost, Ski Liberty and Roundtop. Peaks offers a whopping half dozen pass options, which vary by age and access, but the highest end Explorer Pass, with unlimited, unrestricted no-blackout access to al 12 resorts is $629 (before April 30), while the most popular option is the Drifter Pass, which offers unlimited skiing and riding for 18-29-year-olds for just $399. Unlike the other passes, prices have not been raised for the past two years.
UPDATE: Mountain Collective: This pass was the first response by independent ski resorts to defend against the early success of the Epic Pass, but with with the subsequent rollout of Ikon it seems outdated, especially since it includes many of the exact same resorts. All of the other passes went on sale in the last week, but while its website for this year says it will be back "next season," there's no way to be sure, and I tried but could not find out. In any case, the Mountain Collective has always been more for road trippers than destination vacation skiers, offering two free days each at 17 marquee resorts including the likes of Aspen, Jackson Hole, Banff, Revelstoke, Niseko, Snowbasin, Snowbird, Alta, Sugarbush, Sun Valley, Taos, Thredbo and more.
But realistically, no one is going to Japan or Australia to ski two days, and it is most applicable for those living in a drive market where they can cherry pick days at Utah, Wyoming and Idaho resorts, or for those headed to Salt Lake who want to split their 5-7 day trip between multiple mountains. This totally makes sense, and given that Salt Lake City is the single most accessible high-quality ski destination on earth, and there's something to be said for variety. In this sense, the Mountain Collective fills a void, but nor for the destination skier looking for a weeklong trip to a ski town without repacking. On the other hand, last year the early season price was just $409, so the pass can pay for itself in as little as 3-4 days of skiing, and if it returns, it is likely the cheapest option out there. UPDATE: Since this was originally written, the Mountain Collective Pass for next season just went on sale. It offers 2-days of skiing or riding each at 16 mostly top-tier resorts, one less than last year, for $449.
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Parents billed for missing family wedding – after babysitter cancelled last minute
Errr.... what?
A couple from Minnesota in the US were billed after missing a family wedding, according to recent reports.
Mum Jessica Baker and her husband were given an invoice for $75.90 (roughly £50), to cover the cost of the food that had been made for them, and a service charge, by the bridge and groom.
Jessica, who says she was originally set to attend her relative's wedding, had to cancel at the last-minute when her babysitter (her mum) rang to inform her she would no longer be able to look after her kids.
Since the wedding was child-free, she wasn't able to go, and since it was so last-minute, she didn't let anyone know they wouldn't be in attendance.
Jessica told local news channel KARE11 that she didn't plan on paying it (obvs) but she wasn't sure where to go from here…
"I guess I don't know what the right answer would have been. What the right thing to do would have been," she said.
But her reaction to the bill was pretty straightforward: "You've got to be kidding me."
Firstly, it's definitely not cool to bill guests – it's not like a wedding RSVP is a contract! These things happen.
But we also totally get why the bride and groom might be a bit ticked off that Jessica and her hubby didn't call someone to let them know they wouldn't be attending, along with the reason why.
The bottom of the invoice seems to allude to this being the case: "…and explanation for no show, card, call or text would be appreciated."
Perhaps the newlyweds would've understood the difficulty of finding a last-minute babysitter (let alone one who's qualified to nanny for the entire length of a wedding) had they known.
But another mystery is: why did mum cancel babysitting duties so close to the big day? As one MFM team member suggested, perhaps one parent could've attended the ceremony, while the other stayed at home?
We reckon something else might be going on here to spark this drastic action of sending a bill.
What do you think of all this? How would you react if a family member sent you a bill for the same reason?
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