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Exhibition: 'Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography' at the National Portrait Gallery, London Part 2
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Exhibition dates: 1st March – 20th May 2018
Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography is curated by Phillip Prodger PhD, Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Poster for the catalogue for the exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oh Clementina! the light, the stars!
There is enough text in the posting for me not to really have to say anything. It's all there…
Art, influence, technology;
Classical, formal, diaristic;
Intimacy, mystery, atmospheric;
Motherhood, sexuality, feminist identity, nascent womanhood;
'Profil perdu' (French, 'lost profile', which refers to a portrait in which the profile cannot be seen), mirror, loss, duplication and replication, illusion, and fetish
… all woven into a performative, psychological, expressive and creative (self) portraiture.
The real stars of the show are most definitely the women… the avant-garde artists of their era.
Many thankx to the National Portrait Gallery, London for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
This major exhibition is the first to examine the relationship between four ground-breaking Victorian artists: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Lewis Carroll (1832-98), Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) and Oscar Rejlander (1813-75). Drawn from public and private collections internationally, the exhibition features some of the most breath-taking images in photographic history. Influenced by historical painting and frequently associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the four artists formed a bridge between the art of the past and the art of the future, standing as true giants in Victorian photography.
"The women are the real stars of this exhibition. Their pictures are bolder and bigger, more imaginative and more daring. They portray people with a raw reality that is not just the result of the collodion method but a powerful, visionary insight.
Hawarden's pictures of Victorian women have an intimacy that transcends time and a mystery that asserts the autonomy of her subjects. They are feminist, and gothic too, in their eerie atmosphere. In an 1863-4 picture called 'Photographic Study', she poses a young woman by a mirror so that we see her twice. The "real" woman is in brooding profile while her reflection is a shadowy full-face image. The effect is spookily absorbing as we become witnesses to her melancholic introspection.
Hawarden's ultra-sharp yet shadow-rich prints create unresolved stories featuring women free to show who they really are. None of them look happy. All are curiously defiant – these pictures anticipate those of the 1970s US artist Francesca Woodman. As portraits of women created by women, these Victorian photographers' subversive creations have almost no precedents.
Not that Cameron looked to the handful of earlier women artists as models. She was trying to be a new Rembrandt: her portraits consciously compete with the masterpieces of the baroque age. While the painted portraits of male Victorian artists such as John Everett Millais and George Frederic Watts are period pieces at best, her great 1866 photograph Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty (Mrs Keene) with its subtle mix of resolution and suggestiveness brings us face to face with someone whose eyes hold ours and whose mind is as real to us as her tangled hair. There is a sensitivity to the magic of being human in Cameron's portraits that makes her the greatest British artist of her time. This exhibition puts her in a brilliantly delineated context of experiment and imagination, the first avant-garde artist of the camera."
Extract from Jonathan Jones. "Victorian Giants: the Birth of Art Photography review – the triumph of the female gaze," on The Guardian website Friday 2 March 2018
Clementina Hawarden
Her life cruelly cut short by pneumonia at the age of forty-two, Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden produced some 800 photographs in her lifetime, nearly all are of her eight children posed in poignant tableaux. She began to photograph on her family's estate, outside Tipperary, around 1857, later moving to Princes Gardens, London, near Hyde Park. Frequently compared to Cameron, she was much admired by Carroll, and on her death, Rejlander wrote her obituary. (Wall text)
"In that vein, the greatest discovery in the exhibition is a thrillingly strange image by Hawarden, to my mind always the most intriguing photographer of the four. Hawarden was a Scottish countess who had ten children. She photographed all of her daughters repeatedly, and there were so many of them it's hard to keep track. Her photographs, which are often classical in their formal qualities, nevertheless anticipate the diaristic work of the 20th century photographers Sally Mann and Nan Goldin. They often contain more than one girl, and often feature mirrors, so that everything is about multiplication or reflection – an effect that might also be seen as a form of self-portraiture in the mother of so many." (Gaby Wood)
Her photographic years were brief but prolific. Hawarden produced over eight hundred photographs between 1857 and her sudden death in 1864. During this time she gave birth to three of her eight children. Lady Hawarden's photographic focus remained on her children. There is only one photograph believed to feature the Viscountess Hawarden, yet it could also be a portrait of her sister Anne Bontine.
A collection of 775 portraits were donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 1939 by Hawarden's granddaughter, Clementina Tottenham. The photographs were torn, or cut, from family albums for reasons that are still unclear. This accounts for the torn or trimmed corners which are now considered a hallmark of Hawarden's work.
Carol Mavor writes extensively about the place of Hawarden's work in the history of Victorian photography as well as contemporary interpretations of the work. She states, "Hawarden's pictures raise significant issues of gender, motherhood, and sexuality as they relate to photography's inherent attachments to loss, duplication and replication, illusion, fetish." (Mavor, Carol (1999). Becoming: the photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1st ed.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.) (Text from the Wikipedia website)
Clementina Hawarden (1822-65)
Photographic Study, 5 Princes Gardens (Clementina Maude)
from The Photographic Study Series by Clementina, Lady Hawarden
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Given by Lady Clementina Tottenham
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
"Although her work has often been linked to that of Julia Margaret Cameron, the best known woman photographer of the Victorian epoch, Clementina Hawarden struck out into areas and depicted moods unknown to the art photographers of her age." ~ Graham Ovenden 1974
This remarkable photograph shows a woman gazing into a mirror, but not at her own reflection. Instead, the picture was carefully arranged so that the woman's face is seen in profile, while only her reflection looks back out of the mirror. Hawarden excelled at producing ambiguous narrative photographs such as this one, suggesting the rich inner life of the subject, without telling a clear story. The heroes of her pictures are nearly always women, who seem all but trapped in domestic interiors. (Wall text)
Photographic Study (Clementina Maude)
Albumen print from wet collodion negative
20.1 x 14.4 cm (7 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005
© Metropolitan Museum of Art
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, is a poetic, if elusive, presence among nineteenth-century photographers. As a devoted mother, her life revolved around her eight children. She took up photography in 1857; using her daughters as models, she created a body of work remarkable for its technical brilliance and its original depiction of nascent womanhood. Lady Hawarden showed her work in the 1863 and 1864 exhibitions of the Photographic Society. With the exception of a few rare examples, her photographs remained in the possession of her family until 1939, when the more than eight hundred images were donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Only recently have they been the objects of research, publication, and exhibition.
Clementina Maude, her mother's preferred model, is seen here in a reflective pose against a star-studded wall. The casual placement of the shawl on the table and the girl's loose hair contribute to the feeling of intimacy. In the airy room time seems to be suspended. The sensuous curves of the table legs, the soft weight of the crushed velvet, and the crispness of the starry wallpaper are enhanced by the skilful handling of the collodion technique. The composition, devoid of Victorian clutter, brings together light, shadow, and compositional elements in a spare and appealing interplay. In contrast to the prevailing fashion of giving literary or sentimental titles to portraits of young women, Lady Hawarden titled her works simply "Photographic Study."
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website
Photographic Study (Clementina and Isabella Grace Maude)
Hawarden frequently dressed up her sitters and arranged them in enigmatic narratives like this one. Although not derived from any known painting, the manner of dress, including the cloak and tricorn hat of the male figure (actually one of Hawarden's daughters dressed up), suggest an eighteenth century reference. (Wall text)
Photographic Study (Florence Elizabeth and Clementina Maude)
Working from upstairs rooms at 5 Princes Gardens, near to the South Kensington Museum (where both she and Julia Margaret Cameron were frequent visitors), Hawarden used light streaming from large floor to ceiling windows to illuminate her pictures. Her subjects were usually her children, especially her daughters Clementina, Florence, and Isabella Grace, whom she posed in domestic tableaux.
Both Carroll and Rejlander knew and admired Hawarden. On at least one occasion, Rejlander photographed her daughter Isabella Grace; after Hawarden's death, he also photographed her youngest daughter, Antonia. (Wall text)
Hawarden Isabella Grace and Clementina Maude, 5 Princes Gardens
c. 1863-4
Virginia Dodier thinks that this photograph belongs to an 'Orientalist' series. Here, Lady Hawarden gives her drawing room a tent-like atmosphere. Such scenes were popularised by the painter J. F. Lewis, and Roger Fenton exhibited his photographic 'Nubian Series' in 1859. Dodier writes that the idea of Orientalism allowed European artists to 'evoke sensuality on the premise of presenting quasi-ethnographical information about the customs of the East'. The idea of the fancy dress or allegorical portrait stems from an earlier tradition in English art. They are found, for example, in the work of the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92). (Text from the Victoria and Albert Museum website)
Lady Clementina Hawarden: Themes & Style (extract)
With careful choice of props, clothing, mirrors, balcony, and posture, Hawarden produced exquisite studies of her adolescent daughters. The figures and dress are the main subject, carefully framed in the room, and often in front of the balcony. The city beyond often provides a blurred background.
The writer Carol Mavor in Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden suggests that the often provocative poses of Hawarden's daughters are significant. The Victorians were bothered by the idea of sexuality and adolescence, and in 1861 the Offences Against the Person Act raised the age of consent from 10 to 12. This was also the year in which Hawarden began to make this kind of photograph, though there is no evidence that she was deliberately exploring this controversial topic.
Hawarden liked to use natural light in her studio at her South Kensington home, in a way that was seen at the time as 'daring'. She placed mirrors to reflect light and used them to explore the idea of 'the double', just as other photographers (and occasionally Hawarden herself) used a stereoscopic camera to produce twin prints.
From around 1862 Hawarden concentrated on photographing her daughters in costume tableaux, a popular subject at the time. Costumes from the dressing up box are combined with dresses at the height of fashion to produce beautiful and detailed studies that confound the contemporary with the make-believe.
Text from the Victoria and Albert Museum website
Photographic Study (Clementina and Florence Elizabeth Maude)
Uncut stereo albumen print
Figure 60 and 61 of the catalogue for the exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Figure 112 and 113 of the catalogue for the exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oscar Rejlander
According to his naturalisation papers, Rejlander was born in Stockholm on October 19, 1813. He was the son of Carl Gustaf Rejlander, a stonemason and Swedish Army Officer. During his youth, his family moved to the Swedish-speaking community in Rauma, Finland (then Russia). In the 1830s, he relocated to England, initially settling in Lincoln, England. In the 1850s he abandoned his original profession as a painter and portrait miniaturist, apparently after seeing how well a photograph captured the fold of a sleeve.
He set up as a portraitist in the industrial Midlands town of Wolverhampton, probably around 1846. In the early 1850s he learned the wet-collodion and waxed-paper processes at great speed with Nicholas Henneman in London, and then changed his business to that of a photography studio. He undertook genre work and portraiture. Rejlander also produced nude studies, mainly for use as studies by painters. There are no known erotic photographs of children by Rejlander. His so-called 'Charlotte Baker' photograph is a well-known forgery, produced by convicted child sex offender Graham Ovenden by Ovenden's friend Howard Grey in the 1970s, rephotographed and printed to look antique by Ovenden. No person by the name Charlotte Baker ever seems to have posed for Rejlander.
Rejlander undertook many experiments to perfect his photography, including combination printing, which he did not invent; however, he created more elaborate and convincing composite photographs than any prior photographer. He had articles feature in the Wolverhampton Chronicle, on 15 November 1854 an article called "Improvement in Calotypes, by Mr. O.G. Rejlander, of Wolverhampton" it suggests that by 1854 he was experimenting with combination printing from several negatives. He was a friend of photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by the nom de plume Lewis Carroll), who collected Rejlander's work and corresponded with him on technical matters. Rejlander later created one of the best known and most revealing portraits of Dodgson.
Rejlander participated in the Paris Exhibition of 1855. In 1856 he made his best-known allegorical work, The Two Ways of Life. This was a seamlessly montaged combination print made of thirty-two images (akin to the use of Photoshop today, but then far more difficult to achieve) in about six weeks. First exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the work shows a man being lured to paths of vice or virtue by good and bad angels. The image's partial nudity, which showed real women as they actually appeared and not the idealised forms then common in Victorian art, was deemed 'indecent' by some. Rejlander was also accused of using prostitutes as models, although Rejlander categorically denied this and no proof was ever offered. Reservations about the work subsided when Queen Victoria ordered a 10-guinea copy to give to Prince Albert. Victoria and Albert would go on to purchase three copies of the work, all of which are now lost. …
Rejlander moved his studio to Malden Road, London around 1862 and largely abandoned her early experiments with double exposure, photomontage, photographic manipulation and retouching. Instead, he became one of Britain's leading portraitists, creating pictures with psychological charge. He became a leading expert in photographic techniques, lecturing and publishing widely, and sold work through bookshops and art dealers. He also found subject-matter in London, photographing homeless London street children to produce popular 'social-protest' pictures such as "Poor Joe," also known as "Homeless". …
Rejlander's ideas and techniques were taken up by other photographers and this, to some extent, justifies labelling him as the father of art photography.
Text from the Wikipedia website
Oscar Rejlander (1813-75)
© Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Starting in the late 1860s, Charles Darwin began collecting photographs for use in the research that would eventually become his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). Hoping to find authentic photographs, that captured emotional expressions as they actually occurred, he visited print shops and studios in London, and contacted several photographers hoping to commission new pictures. Few, if any, of the photographs he acquired met his ambitious expectations.
In April, 1871, Darwin wrote, 'I am now rich in photographs, for I have found in London Rejlander, who for years has had a passion for photographing all sorts of chance expressions, exhibited on various occasions … instantaneously.' Rejlander would go on to become the main contributor of photographs to Darwin's book. (Wall text)
The Two Ways of Life
Albumen print, made from approximately 32 separate negatives
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
One of the most famous pictures in photographic history, Rejlander's Two Ways of Life caused a sensation when it was exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition in 1857. To make it, Rejlander combined some thirty-two separate negatives (there were variations between printings, and it is not always clear where negatives begin and end). Some viewers were offended by the nudes, whose bodies appear frank and realistic compared to the ideal fantasies painters were expected to produce. Others objected to its ambition, since Rejlander seemed to be saying that photography could be used to produce pictures just as meaningful, and as artistically composed, as any painting.
To make Two Ways of Life, Rejlander had to arrange the various subjects within it at the right size to maintain visual perspective. This was a challenge, since enlargement and reduction of negatives was not yet possible in the darkroom. The only way he could change the size of something in the negative was to rephotograph it.
This is the finest known print of the photograph, which is also known in a reduced form. The photograph is a parable featuring Rejlander himself, who stands in the middle, listening to 'good' and 'bad' angels luring him to paths of vice and virtue. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert loved the picture and bought three copies, none of which survive. (Wall text)
The Evening Sun (Iphigenia)
© Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Centre, The University of Texas at Austin
The Evening Sun (Iphigenia) (detail)
Iphigenia was a daughter of King Agamemnon who appears in legends about the Trojan War. When her father accidentally offended the goddess Artemis, he was forced to sacrifice Iphigenia to appease the goddess so that she would allow his ships to sail to Troy. She was tricked into going to the town of Aulis under the pretence that she would marry the heroic warrior Achilles. In some versions she was killed, while in others she was rescued by Artemis. (Wall text)
Albumen print from a wet collodion negative
Nude female study
7 3/4 in. x 5 3/8 in. (196 mm x 138 mm) overall
Given by Stephan Loewentheil, 2017
Rejlander produced a number of nude studies which he sold to painters for use as studies. He considered these pictures significant because they pointed up errors historically made by painters when depicting human anatomy. Although he was happy for painters to use photographs to improve their paintings, he also saw accuracy of depiction as one of the things that made photography special when compared to other art forms. (Wall text)
The Virgin in prayer (after Sassoferrato)
Purchased with help from the Art Fund, Jane and Michael Wilson and Stephen Barry, 2015
This photograph is a based on the famous painting The Virgin in Prayer painted by the Italian Baroque painter Sassoferrato 1640-50, now in the collection of the National Gallery, London. The rise of public art spaces in Britain in the nineteenth century, including the National Gallery (1824), and the National Portrait Gallery (1856), provided inspiration for countless photographers. Rejlander was particularly enthusiastic about restaging famous paintings, often in order to demonstrate mistakes that painters had made in scale and perspective. The process was fun, and the results fuelled the debate about photography's role among the arts. (Wall text)
Unknown young woman
Untitled (unknown sitter, possibly Rejlander's wife, Mary)
Printed by Julia Margaret Cameron
Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative
Given by Mrs Margaret Southam, 1941
Cameron invited Rejlander to the Isle of Wight in 1863. Before the visit, Rejlander provided her with some of his own negatives, so that she could practise printing. She experimented with some, decorating them with ferns. This picture, which descended through Cameron's family, was once believed to have been made by her. However, it is now recognised as one of the pictures Cameron printed from a Rejlander negative. The subject is one who frequently appears in Rejlander's work, and may even have been his wife, Mary. (Wall text)
'Sleep' (Mary Rejlander (née Bull))
Minnie Constable
'Art must assist Photography' (Putto as Allegory of Painting)
4 3/4 in. x 3 5/8 in. (120 mm x 93 mm) overall
Oscar Gustav Rejlander; Mary Rejlander (née Bull)
Unknown woman
8 in. x 5 3/4 in. (202 mm x 147 mm) overall
'A devotee' (Unknown woman)
Purify my heart also known as The Little Sisters
This photograph shows two sisters side by side in profile, their hands clasped in prayer. One girl seems almost to be a mirror reflection of the other. Rejlander exhibited versions of this photograph with two different titles. Purify My Heart is a reference to the biblical passage James 4:8: 'Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.' Lewis Carroll admired this photograph and purchased a copy for his personal collection. (Wall text)
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Here we go. Finally, pictures of the patchwork bag, made from Simplicity 2617 (I think).
The front, then the back, which is slightly different.
Closeups of the fabrics used and the decorative stitching.
The inside has a zipper. This is the first zippered pocket I've made in a purse. Even though it took me two tries to get it right, I'm pretty happy with it. Please ignore how the stripes don't line up in the bottom. You can't see the bottom when it's full of junk, anyway.


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Your chance to play GM...
By bigbander, April 8, 2008 in Hurricanes Talk
goeb
All I'm gonna say is trading Whitney is a bad idea. Very consistent since he's been a Cane, and I think he's too underrated and we won't get fair value in return.
just-joe
I think there are plenty of general managers in the NHL that know how valuable Whitney can be, when healthy. He's the type of under-the-radar acquisition that can make a general manager look like a genius, which was what happened to Rutherford in '05-'06.
While both players (Cole and Whitney) have injury issues, only Whitney is signed to a contract that extends past this season. That's the #1 reason why I believe he would draw more attention on the trade block and would command a better player in return. Unless a team believes that a certain player is someone who can put them on another level (Hossa, Thornton, etc.), they won't give up immediate assets for someone with one year left on their contract. All you need to do is look at the trade deadline deals, where most of what is passed around are draft picks and prospects. Cole's contract history would also seem to indicate that he won't re-sign with whatever team he is dealt to before he can test the free agent market.
With all of those factors in play, I just don't think Cole is the guy that will get this team what they need through a trade. I would say, in a contract year, he is far more valuable to this team for what he can add on the ice or what he could fetch at the trade deadline. In his last contract year, he was on a point-per-game pace before Orpik ended his season early. That's why my proposal shifted from "Cole to..." and became "Walker and Whitney to...", because I think more teams would be interested in that package than would be interested in Cole alone. People may say how tough it would be to replace the production of Whitney and the toughness of Walker, but I would just point to the production of Samsonov and the toughness of Sutter. Both will most likely be with the Hurricanes next season and I could see both step up and replace Walker and Whitney immediately in the line-up.
It's tough to pin-point exactly what Cole means to this team. If you look back at the '05-'06 season, the team was clearly affected by his loss. It took Recchi AND Weight to replace what Cole brought to the table. While he hasn't really played up to the level of his '05-'06 performance recently, I still say there is enough reason to believe he could reach that level once more in a contract year. If he has the type of season we all know he is capable of, this team will be extremely hard to beat in the Eastern Conference and another Stanley Cup Finals appearance would certainly be possible. That success would make it much easier to say goodbye to him in free agency. However, that success could also make him change his mind about free agency and re-sign with the team at a discounted price.
cullen4firstline
I wish everyone would read your post. What ive been trying to explain in the Cole thread, is basically what you just said.
Teams would love to have those two for their gritty, veteran prescence. Teams wouldn`t want to give up one of their best defenseman for streaky Cole.
I especially agree with the Sutter and Samsonov easily replace Whitney and Walker.
caniac247
Retired Jersey
Teams are NOT going to take on 2 of our aging players, who are what 34 and 35, for their young defenseman. Not going to happen.
I see your Whitney point as I agree and think Samsonov can fill his void. When Samsonov came on, I felt he handled the puck better than Whitney. Not to mention he is younger.
No way you can compare Sutter to Walker. Sutter will in no way make up for Walker's absence this year. Walker has proven himself at this level. We have no idea how Sutter is going to pain out. And whose to say this guy who everyone feels needs to put on weight is going to come in here and provide that physical presence that Walker has. Is Sutter going to drop the gloves and fight guys twice his size like Walker? I doubt it.
If a Walker or Whitney are the ones, JR is going to have to sweeten the pot, like the rights to LaRose or Ruutu, or our first round pick or both.
I've heard rumors that JR is looking to trade up in the draft, so June 20th should be real interesting.
remkin
Carolina Hurricanes Admin
You make some excellent points. Walker has a NTC however. The multi-million dollar question is will Cole return to form? He is a high risk-high reward proposition for us or for another team. There is no question that we can succeed without him, and no question that if he returns to form we will be very tough to beat. I think the real question is this, is there a GM with a bit of a gambler's streak, who needs offense and will give up something good for Cole? And there is a good chance that the answer is "no" since JR has undoubtably tried this move in the past. Still, there is a chance that some GM would who's team has been burned by Cole in the past, might want to take that chance. If so, we should go for it. If not...
Whitney must have more value than people think. There are only 40-50 guys in the entire league that approach a point per game. That's less than two per team. Sampsonov can do it, but has not proven Whitney's consistancy. Still, a healthy Whitney would be the #2 scorer on several teams.
Gillis is looking to make a bang according to Nuck fans. Their blogger feels Carolina is their #1 trading partner b/c we have what they want....COLE. Yes he said they need Cole in a big way and they will deal with his injuries and negotiations. He felt if Cole signs an extension, straight up for Bieksa would be fair. If not, then the rights to LaRose or an NHL ready prospect (Nolan) would work.
Of course this was just me and him going back and forth and what we both decided was fair. But neither one of us are JR or Gillis so what we think doesn't quite matter.
I mentioned Walker and Whitney with Nashville clearly in my mind as their destination. They're a team that desperately wants depth on offense and desperately needs to unload some of their excess on defense. Not to mention a potential locker room problem in Suter, who may or may not have stated that he doesn't want to play for Nashville's head coach anymore. That's why I believe the Predators, before any other team, would overlook age in any type of deal that added solid offense to their roster. Another reason why Nashville was the destination I had in mind was because of Walker's no-trade-clause, which I doubt he would waive in any other situation EXCEPT to return to Nashville to finish off his career.
RedSox-n-Canes
NTC are broken often especially when the are handled appropriately. Players break them all the time b/c it ends up being a better situation for both sides. Don't count out the possibility of a trade because they have a NTC in their contract.
StateCaniac
Except for Wallin, who has shown he will use his NTC if we believe he was the one that was going to be traded to the Flyers last offseason.
Perhaps Suter didn't say that he would never play for Trotz again, as it sounds like he may be close to re-signing in Nashville.
This may have been covered before, but is there a list of the available free agent defenseman and their likely salaries for next year? What are we talking to pay one of the best on the list? I am wondering if our best move might be to sign one big time free agent. Just bit the bullet and get one of the top FA available, just this once. The only thing is that it would be ideal if they made less than Staal, so he is still clearly our top guy.
Then work whatever trade we can to pick up that 3-4 defenseman. If we can trade Cole for a solid 3-4 guy with upside, we can also free up cap space to use for that free agent I mentioned. I only remention Cole in this line of thinking that he could free up cap space.
Hopefully, Ruutu will be signed shortly. Most of the trade proposals have been based off of the assumption that Ruutu would be a Hurricane next year, which still may not be the case. If that happens, I don't see how this team could still afford to move a forward like Cole and it not have a significant impact on the offensive production. At that point, it may come down to free agency and who the team can afford to add.
IceFrog999
The whole point of trading Cole is that we have 10 top forwards and only 9 spots. If we lose Ruutu, then it all works out, and Free Agency would be our best bet. Though, it looks like slim pickings out there.
The Canes ended up #5 in the league in goals scored, that with lots of HuriRats, injuries, and trading Stillman. That was with Cole in the line up. Take away Cole's 22 goals and we are still #11 in the league in scoring, BUT, Cole's forward replacement will score some goals, and the upgraded offensive dman will contribute some also. Probaly they replace Cole's 22 goals, but even if they combine for 15 goals, we will only drop 1-2 spots in most goals scored, but will have bolstered the defense.
Losing the old Cole would hurt, losing last year's Cole, not so much.
The problem with Ruutu, until a trade is made, he falls on the 3rd line. JR has even mentioned that if he can make a trade Ruutu will move up to a top 6 role, but right now, the 3rd is all they got for him. Ruutu and his agent want top 6 money. So until JR can move a top 6 guy, Ruutu will likely go unsigned. Which is another reason why I keep saying Cole is the guy to be moved. Ladd was pegged to be Cole's replacement, but he was traded for Ruutu who has a more physical side to him, which we will miss when Cole leaves, but if we have Ruutu we won't miss.
Agent-Ironside
Agreed, Cole is going to be the big Cane to leave this year, its pretty much inevitable as far as I see it.
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We don't lose Ruutu; he's an RFA and all we have to do is make a qualifying offer. Then our choices are to negotiate with and/or trade Erik or negotiate with and/or trade Ruutu because we have 10 top 9 forwards. If somebody makes an offer for Ruutu we get draft picks back. But I agree that with Ruutu, if we do lose Cole, Tuomo is a more than adequate replacement. Given top 6 ice time this guy seems to be very, very capable.
I would like to see less wringing of hands over the potential trades, because we could really end up with some great assets back. I love our players, but I also loved Commie and Stiller, but we're a better, younger team w/Corvo and Eaves. I love Ladd's potential, but Tuomo more than proved his value late last year....in the event of moving Cole, Williams, Whitney, or Ruutu (I believe those are the most likely trading chips), we will get great players back who fit this team and help us move forward.
Also, I'm not necessarily one to shy away from trading draft picks for YOUNGER players. So if we have to throw in draft
pick(s) to get the young stud defenseman, I think that's more than fair. The trade-off is the 3 to 4 years of experience vs. the 3 - 4 years of career. Give me the 24 or 25 or 26 year old NHL ready player vs. the "potential" of what our draft pick yields. This does, however, only make sense if you're too stocked at certain positions (like forward)....
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if that happens will you change your moniker to "ruutularosefan"??
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Just doesn't have quite the same ring to it....
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ruutuneavesfan ... has the same amount of syllables.
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Can you say serious derailment of the thread? lol
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Another potential deal that makes sense would be Cole to the Predators for Klein and their second first-round draft pick (#15 overall). Klein is a NHL-caliber offensive defenseman who has been forced to the press box due to various circumstances in Nashville. That second first-round pick could either be used to select a prospect or packaged with our first-round draft pick to move up and pick another defenseman.

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At 10:30 AM FCPS announced that all schools would close 2 hours early today due to the forecast for snow later this afternoon. As a result, all recreational activites scheduled in the school gyms for tonight are cancelled. This includes all CYA practices/games and any FCYBL (travel) games that would have involved CYA's travel teams.
In addition, interscholastic events are also cancelled. Thus, the CYA nights at Chantilly and Westfield high schools involving the CHS and WHS boys and girls freshman, JV and varsity basketball teams are now cancelled as these games will not be played tonight. CYA will inquire with the athletic departments of the two schools to see if these two events can be rescheduled.
There are no planned closures for either Saturday or Sunday at the schools at this point in time so both Saturday and Sunday CYA games will be played as scheduled. Note however that there is a gym closure on Saturday at Franklin MS (due to installation of a speaker system in the gym by the County) so games originally scheduled there on Saturday have been moved to new times and locations. For those changes, check the CYA Basketball scheduling website (http://cyabasketball.assn.la).
We will continue to monitor the weather situation and send out a new notification if FCPS decides to close the schools for either Saturday or Sunday.


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Marie Catherine Abena, née le 20 mars 1954 à Yaoundé et morte le 19 mars 2014 dans la même ville, est une haut-fonctionnaire, femme politique et auteure camerounaise. Elle occupe les fonctions de Secrétaire d'État au Ministère des enseignements secondaires de décembre 2004 à 2009, dans le gouvernement du Premier ministre Ephraïm Inoni.

Biographie

Enfance et débuts
Marie Catherine Abena est née le 20 mars 1954 à Yaoundé. Originaire d'Awaé dans la région du Centre au Cameroun, elle est la première fille des neuf enfants de Manga Pauline Jacqueline et de feu Abena Hubert Claude, administrateur civil et ancien préfet.

Carrière
Diplômée de l'École normale supérieure de Yaoundé, Marie Catherine Abena est d'abord professeur des lycées d'enseignement général (PLEG). Avant sa nomination en décembre 2004 comme Secrétaire d'État au ministère des enseignements secondaires, elle est inspectrice provinciale de pédagogie de français dans la province du Centre. Ensuite, elle est promue cheffe du centre des ressources de Yaoundé et après inspectrice nationale de pédagogie de français.

Poursuites pour détournements de fonds publics
Le 8 janvier 2010, elle est incarcérée à la prison de Kondengui dans le cadre de l'opération épervier. Elle est accusée de détournement de fonds publics à hauteur de de 250 millions de francs CFA, avec neuf autres coaccusés. Après la sentence du tribunal de grande instance du Mfoundi, elle est placée sous mandat de détention provisoire. Rejetant cette décision, elle entame une grève de la faim pour clamer son innocence. Son état de santé se fragilise si bien qu'elle passe le clair de son temps à l'hôpital qu'en prison. Elle meurt le 19 mars 2014 à l'hôpital de la Cnps de Yaoundé.

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 Sur les traces de Pépé, CCINIA, 20 juin 2008.

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Ministre camerounaise
Femme politique camerounaise
Naissance en mars 1954
Naissance à Yaoundé
Décès en mars 2014
Décès à Yaoundé
Décès à 59 ans

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Söräng en Norrbo (Zweeds: Sörang och Norrbo) is een småort in de gemeente Bollnäs in het landschap Hälsingland en de provincie Gävleborgs län in Zweden. Het småort heeft 58 inwoners (2005) en een oppervlakte van 23 hectare. Eigenlijk bestaat het småort uit twee plaatsjes: Sörang en Norrbo.

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Theatre Aspen canceled its Wednesday night performance of "Ragtime," as lead actor Michael Andreaus' injury prevented the show from going on.
Andreaus, playing Coalhouse, ruptured his Achilles tendon during the show's final dress rehearsal last month. The company had opted to keep him in the lead rather than using an understudy. Andreaus has been performing from a stage-side folding chair since the June 26 opening.
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Marcus Jordan, who has been playing Booker T. Washington in the production, will take over the role of Coalhouse.
"Ragtime" runs through Aug. 18 at the Hurst Theatre in Rio Grande Park.
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The A.J. MEERWALD, New Jersey's Tall Ship, leaves Cape May on Sunday, Sept 1st. After a brief visit to her home port of Bivalve, NJ for Labor Day Weekend, she will head up the Delaware River to visit Burlington, NJ and Philadelphia, PA. The MEERWALD then returns to Bivalve and Greenwich, NJ to finish out the month.
Learn navigation and nautical skills while sailing up the Delaware Bay from Cape May to Bivalve, NJ. Passengers can help hoist the sails, stand bow watch, take a turn at the helm, and enjoy beautiful views of the Bay, lighthouses, wildlife and more. This is a great opportunity for outdoor photographers. Departs Cape May at 9:00 a.m. – duration approximately 6 hours. Return transportation is not included.
Sunday Sept 1: Maurice River Cruise 4:00-5:30 p.m. A short afternoon sail on the scenic Maurice River.
Monday Sept 2: Labor Day Birding Sail 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. An early morning cruise along the Maurice River from the Bay to the Mauricetown Bridge. There with be experienced birders aboard to help spot and identify a wide variety of birds, coffee and breakfast goodies to enjoy, and spotting scopes to share.
Burlington NJ Sail Schedule: Sails depart from the riverfront dock at the intersection of York & Pearl Streets (near the Oneida Boat Club).
Friday Sept 6: Evening Sail 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday Sept 7: Delaware River Cruises from 1:00-2:30 p.m. & 3:00-4:30 p.m.; and a Maritime Heritage Sail with a guest speaker from 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Sunday Sept 8: Senior Special Sail 2:00-4:00 p.m., Evening Sail 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Philadelphia PA Sail Schedule: Sails depart from Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd & Walnut Street (Penn's Landing), Philadelphia, PA.
Saturday Sept 14: Family Special Sail 10:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m.; Irish Music Sail with PA Irish band "Friends of Eric" 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Evening Sail 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Sunday Sept 15: Afternoon Sail 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Friday Sept 20: Evening Sail 5:00-7:30 p.m.
Saturday Sept 21: Maurice River Cruise 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Sunday Sept 22: Maurice River Cruise 2:30-4:00 p.m.; Evening Sail 5:00-7:30 p.m.
Saturday Sept 28: Family Special Sail 10:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m.; History Sail with guest speaker Bill Jenkins talking about Floating Cabins of the Delaware Bay 2:00-4:00 p.m.; Evening Sail 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Sunday Sept 29: Raptor Sail 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Experienced birders will help guests spot and identify migrating hawks and other birds during this cruise up the scenic Cohansey River.
The Bayshore Center at Bivalve is a non-profit organization whose mission is to motivate people to take care of the history, the culture and the environment of New Jersey's Bayshore region through education, preservation and example. BCB operates the authentically restored 1928 oyster schooner A.J. MEERWALD, New Jersey's official Tall Ship, as a hands-on sailing classroom throughout the region. The Bayshore Center is housed in the historic 1904 Oyster Shipping Sheds on the scenic Maurice River in Bivalve, NJ. In addition to the schooner, the Center is home to the Delaware Bay Museum & Folklife Center, the Oyster Cracker Cafe, an art gallery and a gift shop, and offers events and educational programs year-round.# # #The Bayshore Center at Bivalve received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of the Department of State.
WHERE: Various Ports of Call – see schedule below.
HOW: Tickets may be purchased online at www.bayshorediscovery.org or by calling Bayshore Discovery Project, 856-785-2060. Reservations are recommended.The ship is also available for charters. Anyone interested in a private sail should call for more information.
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Carey Mulligan excels as a Promising Young Woman
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Carey Mulligan (Cassandra Thomas), Bo Burnham (Ryan Cooper), Alison Brie (Madison McPhee), Clancy Brown (Stanley Thomas), Jennifer Coolidge (Susan Thomas), Laverne Cox (Gail), Chris Lowell (Al Monroe), Connie Britton (Dean Elizabeth Walker), Adam Brody (Jerry), Max Greenfield (Joe Macklemore), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Neil), Alfred Molina (Jordan Green)
It's late at night, you've had a few drinks and someone nice offers to drive you home. If you're a man you probably think, what's the problem? If you are woman, this can be just the first act of a night of sexual assault. It's depressing to think this is the world we live in, but if there is one thing #metoo taught a lot of men, it's that many women experience danger in situations we wouldn't think twice about. These ideas are wonderfully explored in Emerald Fennell's directorial debut, the striking, witty and deeply suspenseful Promising Young Woman.
Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan) goes out week after week to clubs. She lolls in the corner, slurs her words and waits for guys to offer her a lift home. Those taxis always swing past their own apartments, they always ask her to pop in for one more drink which swiftly turns into an attempt at sex. At which point, Cassie reveals she is entirely sober… Cassie's revenge campaign is all about revealing to guys who think they are nice, that they are in fact not nice at all. Dealing with trauma over her past, Cassie's only meaning in life is this campaign, at the cost of any personal life. But a chance meeting with Ryan (Bo Burnham), someone she used to go to college with, presents her with a choice – a new start or a settling of accounts with the man at the root of her trauma.
Emerald Fennell's film is a superbly timely drama that brilliantly dances from genre to genre. It's possibly the sweetest and most romantic revenge drama you'll ever see, or the funniest shocking tragedy. But it's primarily a film powered by righteous anger: the world shouldn't be like this.
Many of the men are of course vile – and perhaps most of all because they are so superbly certain of their self-satisfied niceness. The film opens with one of these nights, Cassie pretending to be utterly wasted in a bar while three men chat about how drunk she is, but also how hot. The guy who seems the nicest pops her in an uber, takes her home, pours her a massive drink and takes her pants off. At which point Cassie, stone-cold-sober announces "What the fuck are you doing?". Later Neil (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) will whine it's not fair Cassie has "tricked" him into feeling bad (after he has already assaulted her). As if her not being helpless somehow makes him the victim.
But it's not just men. Fennell's film shows several times how many women conspire in keeping this status quo going. Cassie's focused campaign against the people she holds directly responsible for the rape of her beloved best friend Nina starts with two women. One is the fellow student (now a self-satisfied mum-of-two, played with suburban smugness by Alison Brie) who thought that, by behaving like that, Nina basically had it coming. The second is the Dean of the university (a smoothly uncaring Connie Britton) who didn't want to ruin the men's careers. Both of these women are as much a part of the victim-blaming culture as the men Cassie shames on her nights out.
Fennell's film is a brilliant expose of how toxic a certain kind of masculinity has become. And it's not just the vile alpha-males responsible for the horror that happened to Nina (when we reach these people late in the film, their basic lack of humanity is staggering – even if Fennell strips them of any possible nuance by making them cartoonish in their Bullingdon-club vileness). The bulk of the men in the film are convinced that because they try and be nice, they therefore are nice.
But it's still a film with a great deal of compassion. It notably isn't a straightforward endorsement of revenge. It's made clear what Cassie is doing is hugely dangerous – she has lucked out that the men she encounters are shamed into pleading and defensive whining. There is the distinct possibility that Cassie could be seriously hurt or worse – for all her planning and determination. That's not to mention the psychological damage this has on her. She is a deeply disturbed, troubled and unhappy woman whose life is going nowhere.
It's the emotional heart of Carey Mulligan's wonderful performance. Mulligan nails the furious calm Cassie has on campaign – and her chilling authority in situations where she is on top. But she also shows Cassie's emotional damage. She finds it impossible to open herself to any form of relationship, romantic or otherwise. She's so shutdown she can't even remember her own birthday. This crusade has sucked everything out of her life, and had a shattering emotional impact on her. Mulligan has never been better: a career defining performance, heartfelt and impassioned, dark and emotionally complex.
Fennell shoots the film with a real assuredness. When Cassie is in control, Fennell uses a series of carefully controlled static shots, often centring Cassie in the frame. Its only when events are out of her control that the camera shifts to greater movement and less stable shots. The confrontations are both darkly amusing but also chillingly edge-of-the-seat – because we can't be sure whether everything will go wrong, or how far Cassie will go. Promising Young Woman is also very witty and even rather sweet – the slow, hopeful romance between Cassie and Ryan (a charmingly sweet Bo Burnham) is hugely endearing and gives the film a sense of hope. We're torn: we want Cassie to have her revenge, but the damage to her is so huge that we also want her to move on.
It's what makes Promising Young Woman a kaleidoscope of a film. Every time you shift it, your perspective changes. We thrill at seeing Cassie shame bad men, just as you worry for her safety every time. We never know what to expect from Ryan – after all we've seen so many men like him turn out to be predators – but we want him to be genuine. You'll laugh one scene and have your stomach in knots the next. It culminates in a confrontation that shifts shockingly from black comedy to simply pure dark, more disturbing and difficult than you can imagine. Fennell – and a magnetic Mulligan – maintain all these different beats perfectly. A wonderful, and hugely timely, film.
Labels: Alfred Molina, Alison Brie, Bo Burnham, Carey Mulligan, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton, Emerald Fennell, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox
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AUG. 8 ? CACI International Inc. of Arlington, Va., gave its electronic commerce business another boost by signing a deal with Cyclone Commerce Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., to work together developing online trading community solutions.
CACI will deliver consulting and technology integration solutions to customers that put into service Cyclone's business-to-business electronic commerce, secure data communications management software.
The agreement with Cyclone is the second CACI has signed in the past week. Under an agreement with Commerce One Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., signed Aug. 2, the two companies are selling an online solution for contract management, invoicing, acceptance and receipt as well as electronic catalog procurement.
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first precaution of intelligent tinkering." Usually, we imagine those cogs and wheels as species to be kept from going extinct, but we can also think of them as the abiotic forces, like fire, that keep our forests ticking even while we tinker.
Applied to the Yellowstone area, though, this policy starts to get tricky, and the difficulties of western forest management become clear. There's a general sense here that all fuel reduction is good and all fuel buildup is bad, and a lot of resources are spent thinning the forest to prevent fires. But there is huge variation in forest type here, meaning that a blanket fire-management system is no better than blanket fire suppression. In dry, low, arid pine forests, fire is driven by fuel build-up, with climatic conditions such as temperature and humidity playing relatively small roles. In these forests, reducing the fuel load is essential to reducing forest fires. However, in the high altitude, fir-dominated, wetter parts of the western landscape – the subalpine canyons of the Tetons, for example – fire is driven not by fuel load but by climate. Reducing the fuel load in these forests does nothing to mitigate forest fires, and yet, at least here in Jackson, forest management for fire has come to mean fuel reduction, everywhere, and nothing else.
Complicating matters is that it's getting harder to determine what baseline fire cycle is "natural" in a place where climate, water supply, economy, and human population have been changing for decades. Data from 1974 to 2004 show that as spring and summer temperatures increase above average, so does the number of large (greater than 500-acre) forest fires. Since the 1970s, more acre-Left: 2015 was a bad year for forest fires. Here, the Wolverine Creek Fire, northwest of Lucerne, Washington. Above: For those in the West, forest fire is a part of life. A reminder on a hike near Fourth of July Lake in the White Clouds Mountains, Idaho. Bottom: The infamous 1988 Yellowstone fire, near Old Faithful.
also correlate to increases in average temperature.
pines covering the glacial moraines in the valley?
on those forests will have to respond.
I love living in these forests. Elk walk through my backyard. Moose come during the night to eat the willows outside my bedroom window. I can hear owls hoot, and I observe the daily flight patterns of hawks without leaving my deck. These western forests hold an expansiveness and wildness that is unique to the region. Wildfire, though, is our reality check. Today's forest fires are not the fires of the past, and they are taking us, and our forests, into a different future.
about wildfire, and the answer will largely be theoretical, and maybe not even linked to forests. Ask anyone in the West, and the answer is going to be based on lived experience and closely linked to forests, whether from hiking through a stand of snags, clearing "defensible space" around a home, or watching a local mountainside go up in smoke.
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Hocus Pocus #5 is the final issue of the Eisner Award-nominated series and is selling its final copies at Thought Bubble tomorrow from Rik Worth and Jordan Collver. Levitation is the fifth and final instalment of their Hocus Pocus series exploring the history of science, stage magic and all things paranormal.
The duo created the series with Professor Richard Wiseman, parapsychologist and technical advisor to the likes of Derren Brown, and brought in small press hero Owen Watts for colouring duty. The series has had one hell of a year, picking up a Best Limited Series nomination at the Eisner Awards – up against the likes of The Many Deaths of Leila Starr, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and eventual winner The Good Asian. They also picked up a nomination in the same category at the Tripwire Awards with Worth up for Best Newcomer.
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With the series drawing to a close, now is your last chance to pick up a series with rave reviews from the likes of Broken Frontier and PipeDream Comics. Kieron Gillen describes it as a "Witty, compulsive and formally tricksy history of Parapsychology" while upcoming superstar Mark Russell Olson said the series is "argues that a piece of work fully using the medium of Comics is unlike any other medium. An adaptation would be a paler thing." Reece Shearesmith, from League Of Gentlemen and Inside No.9 makes a comic book cameo in the series, as he says "I adore it." Which for someone with his hangdog expression, is a lot!
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They are all here - for a change - and ready to do battle! Well, that is what everybody had thought until the day of the championship. In the end it didn't happen. But the 2016 WDSF PD World DanceSport Championship Standard was an outstanding event regardless.
The close to two hours of coverage that are provided in this Vimeo on Demand programme confirm that. Great DanceSport combines with the emotions of a retirement: the new PD World Champions Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet made this their last competition.
A 4-camera production in HD covering the decisive stages of the 2016 PD World Standard. The programme is made up of four parts: the full-length semi-final, a Latin show by Peter and Kristina Stokkebroe, the full-length final and an in-depth interview with Emanuel Valeri and Tania Kehlet. Here is the trailer set to Willow (The Best 17) from Casa musica.
Having been there and compete in the same dance floor with the dance legends Tania and Emanuel was an honor. What we learnt as a couple was that most whether you are a world champ and looking to retire you need to retire with a bang which is what these legends did on the 11 November in Denmark. We also learnt that once you retire it doesn't necessary mean you have to not be in that particular sport but you need to groom other dancers so they that you make others more successful too.


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Finished up the Maintain Balance necklace yesterday.
The clasp turned out cool, with a handcrafted toggle and a found rubber gasket.
Here's a close up of the main elements.
And, modeled by the lovely headless zombie torso, Missouri-Abigale. PS: Two words I am TIRED of seeing together: Statement & Necklace. AGHHHHH, make it stop!
Home Sweet Home was also finished yesterday.
In love with this picture frame scored at half price on the Hobby Lobby field trip!
Another nice aspect of the new model is that she is lifesize, so this will give a sense of scale without my having to constantly provide measurements of everything.
Full size images over on flickr.
I LOVE this necklace… awesome and fun and wicked and great… and so different from what is seen everywhere!
these are flippin glorious! how come i havent seen these?!?!
YOU GUYS! you are flipping me out. Fanci, I'm in making-not-listing mode at the moment. Awaiting site redesign / overhaul.


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A school in northern California has changed its tune and will allow a student to play "Joy to the World" on the piano.
13-year-old Brooklyn Benzel, a student at South Sutter Charter School in Placerville, wanted to play the song during a student piano performance for a nearby retirement home. A recording of the performance would then be submitted as part of Brooklyn's independent-study portfolio. However, the Benzel family's attorneys at Pacific Justice Institute say the child was initially told the song was too religious, and she was advised to perform "Jingle Bells" instead.
"We stepped in and said the courts have made it very clear that the government cannot censor student speech like this simply because of its religious content," reports Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute (PJI). "That amounts to state hostility of religion and a violation of her free speech and free exercise rights."
Dacus
At first, Brooklyn's mother, Julianne, thought there must be some mistake. In follow-up e-mails, though, school officials said they must "err on the side of caution" and pointed to words like "Savior" and "heaven" in the carol that they deemed problematic.
"The Benzels were floored," says Dacus. "For one thing, the piano performance would not actually include the lyrics of 'Joy to the World,' as it was purely instrumental."
The legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom helped the school see the situation sensibly.
"We're thrilled that Brooklyn will now be able to bring joy to this retirement home with a timeless carol," says PJI attorney Matthew McReynolds. "No student should be made to feel that their choice of a musical performance is unacceptable just because it has both religious and cultural significance."
Dacus adds that, without fail, the grinches come out every year during the Christmas season to try to take away timeless traditions and censor Christian speech.
PJI is currently suing another charter school operated by the same officials over similar concerns. In that case, the charter school rejected an application from a piano teacher to become an approved vendor because they thought the name of her studio—His Song Piano—was too religious. They also said she would need to tear out or cover up songs in her piano teaching songbooks like "Amazing Grace" and "When the Saints Go Marching In."
The Pacific Justice Institute has printed a free, downloadable book called Reclaim Your School to empower students, parents, teachers, and communities on all that they can do legally to express and live their faith in public schools.
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const fs = require("fs");
require("../js/utils");
const ut = require("./util");

class GenVariantrules {
	_doLoadAdventureData () {
		return ut.readJson(`./data/adventures.json`).adventure
			.map(idx => {
				if (GenVariantrules.ADVENTURE_WHITELIST[idx.id]) {
					return {
						adventure: idx,
						adventureData: JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(`./data/adventure/adventure-${idx.id.toLowerCase()}.json`, "utf-8")),
					}
				}
			})
			.filter(it => it);
	}

	_doLoadBookData () {
		return ut.readJson(`./data/books.json`).book
			.map(idx => {
				if (!GenVariantrules.BOOK_BLACKLIST[idx.id]) {
					return {
						book: idx,
						bookData: JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(`./data/book/book-${idx.id.toLowerCase()}.json`, "utf-8")),
					};
				}
			})
			.filter(it => it);
	}

	async pRun () {
		GenVariantrules._WALKER = MiscUtil.getWalker({keyBlacklist: MiscUtil.GENERIC_WALKER_ENTRIES_KEY_BLACKLIST, isNoModification: true})

		const output = {variantrule: []};

		this._addBookAndAdventureData(output);

		const toSave = JSON.stringify({variantrule: output.variantrule});
		fs.writeFileSync(`./data/generated/gendata-variantrules.json`, toSave, "utf-8");
		console.log("Regenerated variant rules data.");
	}

	_addBookAndAdventureData (output) {
		const advDocs = this._doLoadAdventureData();
		const bookDocs = this._doLoadBookData();

		advDocs.forEach(doc => {
			const foundVariantrules = this._getAdventureBookVariantRules(
				doc,
				{
					headProp: "adventure",
					bodyProp: "adventureData",
					isRequireIncludes: true,
				},
			);
			if (!foundVariantrules) return;

			output.variantrule.push(...foundVariantrules);
		});

		bookDocs.forEach(doc => {
			const foundVariantrules = this._getAdventureBookVariantRules(
				doc,
				{
					headProp: "book",
					bodyProp: "bookData",
				},
			);
			if (!foundVariantrules) return;

			output.variantrule.push(...foundVariantrules);
		});
	}

	/**
	 * @param doc
	 * @param opts
	 * @param opts.headProp
	 * @param opts.bodyProp
	 * @param [opts.isRequireIncludes]
	 */
	_getAdventureBookVariantRules (doc, opts) {
		if (!doc[opts.bodyProp]) return;

		const out = [];

		GenVariantrules._WALKER.walk(
			doc[opts.bodyProp],
			{
				object: (obj) => {
					if (!obj.data?.variantRuleInclude) return;
					const variantRuleMeta = obj.data.variantRuleInclude;

					const cpy = MiscUtil.copy(obj);
					// region Cleanup
					delete cpy.data;
					GenVariantrules._WALKER.walk(
						cpy,
						{
							object: (obj) => {
								delete obj.id;
							},
						},
					);
					// endregion

					cpy.ruleType = variantRuleMeta.ruleType;
					cpy.source = doc[opts.headProp].source;

					out.push(cpy);
				},
			},
		);

		return out;
	}
}
GenVariantrules.BOOK_BLACKLIST = {};
GenVariantrules.ADVENTURE_WHITELIST = {};
GenVariantrules._WALKER = null;

const generator = new GenVariantrules();
module.exports = generator.pRun();

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
/*           The Toolkit for Building Voice Interaction Systems      */
/*           "MMDAgent" developed by MMDAgent Project Team           */
/*           http://www.mmdagent.jp/                                 */
/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
/*                                                                   */
/*  Copyright (c) 2009-2011  Nagoya Institute of Technology          */
/*                           Department of Computer Science          */
/*                                                                   */
/* All rights reserved.                                              */
/*                                                                   */
/* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or        */
/* without modification, are permitted provided that the following   */
/* conditions are met:                                               */
/*                                                                   */
/* - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright  */
/*   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.   */
/* - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above         */
/*   copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following     */
/*   disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided */
/*   with the distribution.                                          */
/* - Neither the name of the MMDAgent project team nor the names of  */
/*   its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products     */
/*   derived from this software without specific prior written       */
/*   permission.                                                     */
/*                                                                   */
/* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND            */
/* CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,       */
/* INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF          */
/* MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE          */
/* DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS */
/* BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,          */
/* EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED   */
/* TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,     */
/* DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON */
/* ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,   */
/* OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY    */
/* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE           */
/* POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.                                       */
/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- */

/* headers */

#include "MMDFiles.h"

/* PMDIK::initialize: initialize IK */
void PMDIK::initialize()
{
   m_destBone = NULL;
   m_targetBone = NULL;
   m_boneList = NULL;
   m_numBone = 0;
   m_iteration = 0;
   m_angleConstraint = 0.0f;
}

/* PMDIK::clear: free IK */
void PMDIK::clear()
{
   if (m_boneList)
      free(m_boneList);
   initialize();
}

/* PMDIK::PMDIK: constructor */
PMDIK::PMDIK()
{
   initialize();
}

/* PMDIK::~PMDIK: destructor */
PMDIK::~PMDIK()
{
   clear();
}

/* PMDIK::setup: initialize and setup IK  */
void PMDIK::setup(PMDFile_IK *ik, short *ikBoneIDList, PMDBone *boneList)
{
   unsigned char i;

   clear();

   m_destBone = &(boneList[ik->destBoneID]);
   m_targetBone = &(boneList[ik->targetBoneID]);
   m_numBone = ik->numLink;
   if (m_numBone) {
      m_boneList = (PMDBone **) malloc(sizeof(PMDBone *) * m_numBone);
      for (i = 0; i < m_numBone; i++)
         m_boneList[i] = &(boneList[ikBoneIDList[i]]);
   }
   m_iteration = ik->numIteration;
   m_angleConstraint = ik->angleConstraint * PMDIK_PI;
}

/* PMDIK::solve: try to move targetBone toward destBone, solving constraint among bones in boneList[] and the targetBone */
void PMDIK::solve()
{
   short i;
   unsigned char j;
   unsigned short ite;
   btQuaternion tmpRot;

   btQuaternion origTargetRot;

   btVector3 destPos; /* destination position */
   btVector3 targetPos;

   btTransform tr;
   btVector3 localDestVec;
   btVector3 localTargetVec;

   float angle, dot;

   btVector3 axis;
   btQuaternion rot;

   btScalar x, y, z;
   btScalar cx, cy, cz;
   btMatrix3x3 mat;

   if (m_boneList == NULL)
      return;

   /* get the global destination point */
   destPos = m_destBone->getTransform()->getOrigin();

   /* before begin IK iteration, make sure all the child bones and target bone are up to date update from root to child */
#ifndef MMDFILES_DONTUPDATEMATRICESFORIK
   /* this can be disabled for compatibility with MikuMikuDance */
   for (i = m_numBone - 1; i >= 0; i--)
      m_boneList[i]->update();
   m_targetBone->update();
#endif

   /* save the current rotation of the target bone. It will be restored at the end of this function */
   m_targetBone->getCurrentRotation(&origTargetRot);

   /* begin IK iteration */
   for (ite = 0; ite < m_iteration; ite++) {
      /* solve each step from leaf bone to root bone */
      for (j = 0; j < m_numBone; j++) {
         /* get current global target bone location */
         targetPos = m_targetBone->getTransform()->getOrigin();
         /* calculate local positions of destination position and target position at current bone */
         tr = m_boneList[j]->getTransform()->inverse();
         localDestVec = tr * destPos;
         localTargetVec = tr * targetPos;
         /* exit if they are close enough */
         if (localDestVec.distance2(localTargetVec) < PMDIK_MINDISTANCE) {
            ite = m_iteration;
            break;
         }
         /* normalize vectors */
         localDestVec.normalize();
         localTargetVec.normalize();
         /* get angle */
         dot = localDestVec.dot(localTargetVec);
         if (dot > 1.0f) /* assume angle = 0.0f, skip to next bone */
            continue;
         angle = acosf(dot);
         /* if angle is small enough, skip to next bone */
         if (fabsf(angle) < PMDIK_MINANGLE)
            continue;
         /* limit angle per step */
         if (angle < - m_angleConstraint)
            angle = -m_angleConstraint;
         else if (angle > m_angleConstraint)
            angle = m_angleConstraint;
         /* get rotation axis */
         axis = localTargetVec.cross(localDestVec);
         /* if the axis is too small (= direction of destination and target is so close) and this is not a first iteration, skip to next bone */
         if (axis.length2() < PMDIK_MINAXIS && ite > 0)
            continue;
         /* normalize rotation axis */
         axis.normalize();
         /* create quaternion for this step, to rotate the target point to the goal point, from the axis and angle */
         rot = btQuaternion(axis, btScalar(angle));
         /* if this bone has limitation for rotation, consult the limitation */
         if (m_boneList[j]->isLimitAngleX()) {
            if (ite == 0) {
               /* When this is the first iteration, we force rotating to the maximum angle toward limited direction. This will help convergence the whole IK step earlier for most of models, especially for legs. */
               if (angle < 0.0f)
                  angle = - angle;
               rot = btQuaternion(btVector3(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f), btScalar(angle));
            } else {
               /* get euler angles of this rotation */
               mat.setRotation(rot);
               mat.getEulerZYX(z, y, x);
               /* get euler angles of current bone rotation (specified by the motion) */
               m_boneList[j]->getCurrentRotation(&tmpRot);
               mat.setRotation(tmpRot);
               mat.getEulerZYX(cz, cy, cx);
               /* y and z should be zero, x should be over 0 */
               if (x + cx > PMDIK_PI)
                  x = PMDIK_PI - cx;
               if (PMDIK_MINROTSUM > x + cx)
                  x = PMDIK_MINROTSUM - cx;
               /* apply the rotation limit factor */
               if (x < -m_angleConstraint)
                  x = -m_angleConstraint;
               if (x > m_angleConstraint)
                  x = m_angleConstraint;
               /* if rotation becomes minimal by the limitation, skip to next bone */
               if (fabsf(x) < PMDIK_MINROTATION)
                  continue;
               /* get rotation quaternion from the limited euler angles */
               rot.setEulerZYX(0.0f, 0.0f, x);
            }
            /* apply the limited rotation to current bone */
            m_boneList[j]->getCurrentRotation(&tmpRot);
            tmpRot = rot * tmpRot;
            m_boneList[j]->setCurrentRotation(&tmpRot);
         } else {
            /* apply the rotation to current bone */
            m_boneList[j]->getCurrentRotation(&tmpRot);
            tmpRot *= rot;
            m_boneList[j]->setCurrentRotation(&tmpRot);
         }

         /* update transform matrices for relevant (child) bones */
         for (i = j; i >= 0; i--) m_boneList[i]->update();
         m_targetBone->update();
      }
   }

   /* restore the original rotation of the target bone */
   m_targetBone->setCurrentRotation(&origTargetRot);
   m_targetBone->update();
}

/* PMDIK::isSimulated: check if this IK is under simulation, in case no need to calculate this IK */
bool PMDIK::isSimulated()
{
   return m_boneList[0]->isSimulated();
}


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December 14, 2019 10:13pm PT by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
'SNL': Scarlett Johansson Plays Naughty Elf, Singing Bathtub Ghoul in Holiday Episode
Late-Night TV
The Christmas-heavy installment featured multiple musical sketches and a parody of 'Marriage Story.'
Landing on the Saturday Night Live stage for her sixth time as host, Scarlett Johansson led a holiday-heavy episode that included her fiancé Colin Jost, who suddenly showed up during her Avengers-themed monologue.
Later in the show, the actress appeared in a musical sketch alongside Kenan Thompson, in which they played naughty Christmas elves, while a Macy's commercial parody featured kids complaining about uncomfortable winter clothing.
In a sketch set in an office after a wild holiday party, Johansson and Thompson played employees getting fired for their inappropriate behavior. The co-workers were all charmed by Thompson's character's blatant harassment, while they were disgusted by Johansson's slightly off-handed comments.
In another moment, Johansson and Cecily Strong played ghosts who appeared in a hotel hot tub and sang to characters played by Ego Nwodim and Chris Redd. "We're just two dead strippers who get to haunt this hot tub every Christmas," they said.
A holiday dating show parody featured Johansson as a woman searching for love. Kyle Mooney played Santa but tried not to reveal it; Beck Bennett played a guy from her hometown who turned out to be a ghost; and Alex Moffat played "Prince Simon of Caucasia." The sketch also referenced the recent controversy between One Million Moms and the Hallmark Channel, which pulled an ad featuring a same-sex kiss after being pressured by the anti-gay group.
On top of performances by musical guest Niall Horan, it was a music-heavy episode. One of the numbers was a play on "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," in which Johansson took on the role of the mom.
Later in the show, Johansson and Bowen Yang played the people featured on the choking warning sign in a restaurant.
The episode's final sketch starred Johansson as a scientist behind a new invention that lets humans read the minds of household pets. Her dog informed her and the other scientists in the lab that he thinks President Donald Trump is going to get impeached, only to then be re-elected. "He's playing a game the Democrats don't even know the rules to," her dog Max said of Trump.
Saturday Night Live Late-Night TV
THRnews@thr.com KaylaKumari


"The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has accepted Mr. Cohen's request for postponement of tomorrow's hearing due to post surgery medical needs," Michael Cohen's attorney said.
Michael Cohen had a shoulder surgery, says source.
Trump has said repeatedly there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia and has called Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation a witch hunt. Moscow denies meddling in the election, despite U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion of Russian interference.
Last week, the House Intelligence Committee postponed his testimony until February 28, citing "the interests of the investigation."


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