"I didn't expect" a Nobel Prize "at all," he said, "in part because of the nature of the work. There was less science [and more engineering] in it than the things customarily honored by the prizes." This is the observation of Jack S. Kilby (Texas Instruments) co-inventor of the integrated circuit, on being notified of his award .
The shift back to an earlier tradition by the Nobel Prize committee may reflect a growing recognition in the larger world of the deep value of applied work of broad impact as opposed to the highly theoretical work of relatively low impact that has commanded such high prestige in recent decades. Thus, these changes might be read as the small beginnings of a larger and more gradual swing back toward a greater respect for hand and eye and image building in the brain.
For some time the major contributions of visual thinkers have been eclipsed in many fields by theoretical approaches that did not lend themselves to pictures or images or imagined models and hands-on manipulation. For a long time, we have been told with confidence that visual approaches were old fashioned and somehow primitive. Modern scientists and mathematicians, we have been told, did not need images. Pictures and diagrams were for non-professionals, laypersons and children.
But we may now see that things may be going back the other way. With new visualization technologies, and a new sense of missed opportunities with the old narrow methods, researchers in many fields are becoming aware that in order to do really creative work, they may need to go back to visual approaches once again. So, perhaps, we come back again to the place where much of the most advanced and creative work is done by visual thinkers using visual methods and new visual technologies. Once again, pictures are not only for children.
Quiet indicators of these powerful changes are beginning, here and there, to gain broader attention. In one instance, on a bleak and rainy Saturday, a small but historic conference took place at Green College, Oxford University. With observations that will gladden the hearts of many strong visual thinkers, the conference presentations focused on high-level achievements in the arts and the sciences within families over several generations. Titled "Genius in the Genes?" and sponsored by the Arts Dyslexia Trust, the conference included an associated exhibition of art and scientific work from eight families. All these families showed evidence of high visual and spatial talents along with troubles with words. Several members of each family were also dyslexic.
In a view that is contrary to most of the generally held beliefs in educational testing and educational reform, the speakers indicated that very high level and creative achievement in the sciences has often come from the neurological resources linked to success in the arts. The speakers indicated that some of those who have excelled most in their scientific achievements are from families with varied visual and spatial talents--ones that often have trouble with words (and where some members may be dyslexic). As we are becoming increasingly aware, there does seem to be a kind of trade off--very early brain development (largely controlled by genetic factors), seems to gain unusual visual and spatial proficiencies at the cost of some lack of proficiency in some language system.
Consequently, there may be various family members who have special strengths in art, design, computer graphics, visual mathematics, mechanics or engineering--yet may have unusual difficulties with reading, spelling, arithmetic, rote memorization or foreign languages. It is all part of a familiar pattern--which is continually repeated with variations generation after generation. The pattern continues through families, parents to children, always different in details but frequently similar in the overall pattern of high visual strengths with notable language difficulties.
One of the speakers at the Green College conference was Patience Thomson, the former head of Fairley House School for dyslexics in London and later a publisher (Barrington Stoke) of "books for reluctant readers." She spoke of her family where there are many visual-spatial occupations in the arts and the sciences and no less that four Nobel Prize winners. She explained that all of the prize-winning achievements had a high visual component. Thus, in a most remarkable example of the larger pattern, in this extended family the exceptional visual and spatial capabilities that had contributed to so much creativity and innovation, seemed to have been balanced by problems in other specific areas.
On her side of the family, the Nobel Laureates were her grandfather Sir William Bragg (1862-1942) and her father Sir Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971). They received a joint prize for x-ray crystallography. On her husband's (David Thomson) side, the Nobel Laureates were his grandfather Sir Joseph (J. J.) Thomson (1856-1940) for discovery of the electron and his father Sir George Thomson (1892-1925) for discovery of electron defraction.
She spoke of her famous father and the other outstanding scientists in her remarkable family, her gifted children, and the way the power of visual-spatial thinking has colored their lives and has contributed to many of the considerable achievements of the family. Along with the scientists among the Braggs and the Thomsons, there have been several artists, architects, TV producers, computer experts and one actor along with a number of other occupations where the role of visual-spatial proficiencies is not so obvious.
However, in five generations of this family, with many children and grandchildren, there have been a number who have been dyslexic or mildly dyslexic. There are many great grandchildren who are still "too young to tell." Along with the award medals and family photographs, the exhibition showed drawings and paintings by family members including a self portrait by Sir Lawrence Bragg.
An indicator of the enduring importance of Lawence Bragg's work is that when James Watson wrote The Double Helix--about his discovery of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick--he asked Bragg (their boss at the time) to write the Foreword to his book. The use of x-ray crystallography pioneered by the two Braggs was fundamental to understanding the structure of this molecule that carries all genetic information.
Another speaker at the Oxford conference was Terence Ryan. Dr. Ryan described what turned out to be his own life story as man who was a leader in his field of medicine (dermatology) but had unusual difficulties with his early education and his medical education because of his dyslexia. For example, with exams, he would often recognize accurately symptoms and conditions but would sometimes come up with the wrong Latin names.
However, in his practice and clinical observations, he found he could be a leader and innovator because he could recognize disease patterns that his medical colleagues could not easily see. He suspected that he had greater powers of visual observation than many of his associates. He also thought his dyslexia helped him to be more flexible and innovative in his thinking, coming up with theoretical approaches quite different from others in his field.
As an example of the creative inverted thinking that dyslexics sometimes exhibit, he described one of his own theories, one that is still controversial. Generally, it is taught that skin grows as its lowest layers and older cells allow themselves to rise to the top layers to slough off at the surface. He explained that from his point of view, cells would be unlikely to allow themselves to automatically rise to the top layers--as they would thereby be moving away from their food supply in the bottom layers. Consequently, he uses the novel alternative explanation that the cells which rise to the top are in fact inadvertently pushed out of the way by other cells which are in fact making their own way down toward the nutrient supplies in the bottom layers. In many ways the final result is the same, but the actual process is quite different. Consequently, his associates see him as one of the important "lateral" thinkers in the field.
In spite of his extensive educational difficulties, his medical career has been highly successful. Now retired, he was Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Oxford University and Vice Warden of one of the Oxford Colleges. He has been president of many of the national and international professional societies in his field as well as being active in establishing regional dermatology training centers in Africa and Central America. He is "not easily confined by definitions" which has helped him break new ground and produce about 400 publications. As a hobby, Dr. Ryan does colorful flower paintings--often exploiting visual ambiguities in which it may not be clear whether a garden stair goes up or down or whether a flower is inside or outside a frame.
This family showed remarkable continuity over many generations of involvement with occupations that require a high degree of visual and spatial talent--construction and operation of these small leased mills in the village over hundreds of years--as well as barrel making and clock making. One clock made by a family member was in use in a church in a nearby village for over 260 years, from 1695 until 1962.
In 1658, one of the family members (William Warner) emigrated to America (settling in the Philadelphia area) were his descendents continued for generations in occupations and businesses that required talent in mechanics, invention, engineering, art and craft. For example, Joseph Warner was a silver smith in the middle of the 1700s.
It happens that this writer is a descendent of this family on his mother's side. Although at the conference I spoke mainly of the visual-thinking scientists who preceded the Braggs and Thomsons, the Green College exhibition did include oil paintings by my artist parents (Anne Warner West and Charles Massey West, Jr.) and sculpture by their grandson Jonathan. It may be no surprise that within this visually-oriented extended family, there are several possible or diagnosed dyslexics, including myself.
I have to admit that when I was originally urged to submit samples of family art for the Green College exhibition, I was interested--but also reticent. However, in time I thought it might be interesting to look at our immediate family and then go back several generations to see what I could find. I think many families with high visual talents (with or without dyslexia) wonder about this sort of thing.
As I noted previously, the neurologist Dr. Norman Geschwind said the dyslexia trait would not be so common and would not persist generation after generation (in its varied forms) if it were not good for something. So, I wondered, did it persist in our own family? If so, what was it good for?
My own parents were artists. They met in art school. Some would expect (not entirely seriously) that this alone might be a strong predictor of some degree of dyslexia in their children and grandchildren (along with some visual talents). I wondered what forms it might take in each generation. So, I thought I would provide a few examples in the exhibition to provoke discussion about the possibilities. Perhaps it will provoke discussion among other visual thinkers and their families as well. (In the process, I came to realize that my book, In the Mind's Eye, is in some ways an attempt to answer the question, "what is it good for?").
Viewing visual strengths and verbal difficulties over many generations (through many changes in technologies and economies) can be remarkably instructive. Accordingly, we may be led to ask whether it is true (as some believe) that many of the early dyslexics and strong visual thinkers (with reading, writing and language problems) quit their schools and small towns as quickly as they could--heading for the sailing ships and the railroads, the telegraph lines and wind mills, the oil fields and gold mines.
Did they mostly leave the small towns or established cities like London, Boston and Philadelphia -- and seek their fortune (in disproportionate numbers) in places like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Texas, Alaska and California? Did all the Swedes who could not read (and so were not permitted to marry), really immigrate to America (as one Swedish researcher speculates)?
We may ask: how have varied strong visual traits contributed over time to both school difficulties and to remarkable innovations and inventions, within an ever shifting technological context? Why do these individuals seem to be so often out in front of everyone else -- especially when they seem to be able to move ahead rapidly with the minimum of book learning and paper credentials (while using their special visual-spatial abilities, creative imagination and hands-on skills), often taking great risks?
I was busy researching family history for William Warner of Blockley UK and read your interesting article. I design gardens,my daughter is a film producer in NY and my son is a musician, linguist and woodworker..fascinating considering the family propensity.
This is a beautiful entry, heartening to read. I am an undergraduate student, just one year away from completing my degree in Physics at the University of Chicago. I continually find challenges and difficulties conforming to the rote, linear methods of teaching and studying Physics at this school, as it is becoming ever-more clear that I am a very right-brain dominant thinker. In fact, I have just learned that one aspect of my challenge is my mild math-dyslexia! It is nearly impossible for me to write lines and lines of numerical formulae without jumbling and mixing them up! In conjunction with this is my ADD-personality; I was first diagnosed with the condition in my second year of college, and am still discovering the many ways in which this personality type is both a blessing and a burden!
I am most interested in the places that seem to harbor these "rogue" right-brain visual-spatial thinkers, and the clever ways in which they craft their places in the world.
Sorry to be so late in replying to your comment. You are very much on target with what we are trying to do. I will send you more shortly.
Charles Darwin suffered from mild dyslexia which may be associated with his primary disorder, an inherited mitochondrial abnormality known as the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. As is common with dyslexics he had great difficulty learning a foreign language and with making verse. He had great powers of observation and I wonder if these observational powers may be more common in dyslexics.
excellent post. I've been reading this blog since the first entry and I think it is an amazing initiative.
Jack S. Kilby is right he always knows what to say and which the exact mommnet to do it is. They just have to talk and try to defense thier theories in a good way.


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New Nuclear Hysteria in the Middle East
By By Baher Kamal March 11, 2016
Inter Press Servce
Three years ago when the tsunami of panic around Iran's potential capability to develop nuclear weapons reached its peak, a combined diplomatic, media campaign warning that a Gulf Arab state would think of purchasing atomic bombs was spread like an oil spot.
Now that the so-called P5+1group (US, UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany) few months ago concluded an agreement with Iran to prevent the risk of an eventual military nuclear programme in exchange of lifting massive Western sanctions, a new wave of nuclear hysteria seems to be in the air.
In fact, just a few days ago, a news item that the Gulf states would be now seeking nukes, came out of the Munich Security Conference, which was basically meant to set an accord between the US and Russia to establish a humanitarian ceasefire as a step on the 18 December 2015 UN Resolution 2254 (2015) roadmap for Syria.
The majority of Arab media did not pay due attention to this piece of news which, if translated into real facts, would change the fate of the whole region.
What is this all about ?
The Persian Gulf states seeking nuclear weapons to counter "bad guy" Iran have held clandestine meetings with Israel despite not having official ties with Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon revealed at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, RT on 15 February reported.
Arabs Ready to Acquire Nukes?
"We see signs that countries in the Arab world are preparing to acquire nuclear weapons, that they are not willing to sit quietly with Iran on brink of a nuclear or atomic bomb," Ya'alon told fellow defense ministers on Sunday [14 February], the final day of the Munich Security Conference.
Ya'alon did not name specific countries who might be interested in developing nuclear weapons and gave no evidence to back up his claims –RT informed– however, he then made a surprise statement that the Gulf states – officially hostile to Tel Aviv because of its occupation of the West Bank – had held clandestine meetings with Israel.
"Not only Jordan and Egypt," he said, referring to the only Arab countries who signed peace treaties with Israel after three Arab-Israeli wars, according to this television network which runs cable and satellite television channels directed to audiences outside the Russian Federation.
"I speak about the Gulf states and North African states too. Unfortunately they are not here to listen. For them, Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood are the enemy. Iran is the bad guy for us and for the Sunni regimes. They are not shaking hands [with Israelis] in public, but we meet in closed rooms."
In the meantime, Israel is widely believed to possess dozens of nuclear warheads, although official statistics do not exist… Israel possesses Jericho-3 ballistic missiles capable of delivering up to 1,000kg load at ranges of 4,800 to 6,500km. Additionally, it is believed to have a naval nuclear strike capability, using Dolphin-class submarine-launched nuclear-capable cruise missiles, said RT.
The Israeli Air Force also has F-15I and F-16I Sufa fighter aircraft, which can be utilized to deliver tactical and strategic nuclear weapons at long distances using external fuel tanks or aerial re-fueling fleet of modified Boeing 707s, according to the Russian network.
"We do have atomic bombs. This is no news. World powers know that we have the bomb and we want to test it. This would take place should Iran conduct a nuclear test," prominent Saudi political analyst, Daham to Anzi, told RT," the Russian TV network on 20 February½ reported in its Spanish service.
"US sources said in May last year that Saudi military had traveled to Pakistan, an ally country, to acquire nuclear weapons "available for sale". This action of the Saudi military was motivated by Ryiad's concerns of a hypothetical nuclear threat from Iran."
A Nuclear Free Middle East
This is not the first time that the risk that Gulf countries may acquire nuclear arms has been raised. Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the United States, had over two years ago warned that nuclear threats from Israel and Iran might force Saudi Arabia to follow suit.
As the Wall Street Journal on November 2013 pointed out, the Saudis may conclude that international acceptance of a nuclear programme of any kind by Iran may compel them "to seek their own nuclear weapons capability through a simple purchase." The likely source: Pakistan, whose nuclear programme was partly funded by the Saudis.
Anyway, these reports bring to mind the half-a-century-long debate around the Egyptian-led Arab proposal to free the Middle East from all weapons of mass destruction, starting with the nuclear ones.
In fact, the 22 states forming the Arab region are all signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which meets, every five years, to review the state of implementation of this global agreement aimed at preventing the proliferation of atomic warheads. In all successive review conferences, the Arab states reiterated their proposal to declare the Middle East a nuclear-free zone.
Though the UN Security Council adopted in 1995 a resolution meant to pursue this goal, the NPT review conferences have so far failed to move forward in such direction, mainly due to Israeli, US-backed position against any attempt implying that Tel Aviv dismantles its nuclear arsenal.
Israel is widely believed to posses between 210 and 250 nuclear warheads, an amount that largely exceeds those in the hands of India (80 nuclear bombs) and Pakistan (90). The government of Tel Aviv systematically refuses either to confirm or deny the existence of such nuclear arsenal.
The sole attempt to implement the 1995 Security Council's resolution, came out in 2010, when the NPT review meeting called for an "international conference" –not under the UN umbrella– to deal with that resolution. Following intensive efforts to find a country ready to host the conference, Finland volunteered to have it in Helsinki. But diplomatic talks failed to organise the meeting.
In view of this yet another frustration and also of the brinkmanship games being played by big military powers in the region, the Arab countries in general, and in the Gulf region in particular, have lately been expressing fresh fears of Iran's nuclear programme and therefore focusing, again, on nukes.
Not That the Arabs Want to Go Nuclear, But…
Arab states have repeatedly heralded their opposition to any kind of nuclear activity in the region.
In fact, a couple of years ahead of the 2015 NPT conference, both Bahrain's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ghanum Fadhel Al Buainain, and Foreign Affairs Minister, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, told this journalist in Manama in March 2013 that their nation – likewise all other Gulf countries – do not want to hear a word about any nuclear activities, even for peaceful purposes.
Their arguments are that even civil nuclear activities of whatever nature, have strong, negative impacts on the very lives and livelihoods of the Gulf peoples, from polluting waters and thus affecting the fish –which historically constituted an important source of living– to the risk of a nuclear accident.
The Bahraini stand is still valid and it applies to all the Gulf states, said to IPS this week a retired high governmental official. "None of us want to have to do with any atomic weapon. But you must understand our fears from both nuclear Israel and a potential nuclear Iran… We have to defend ourselves, protect our people."
The Real "Security"
In an evident signal confirm their stand, the Bahraini capital, Manama, hosted a major anti-nuclear campaigners activity–the international exhibition "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Towards a World Free from Nuclear Weapons"
Organised by the Tokyo-based non-governmental civil society association Soka Gakkai International (SGI), with the support of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), together with the Inter Press Service IPS and the UN Information Centre in Manama, and promoted by the Bahraini and Japanese ministries of foreign affairs, the exhibition was held in Manama from Mar. 12-23, 2013.
"Nuclear weapons – the most inhuman and destructive of all tools of war – are at the peak of a pyramid of violence in this increasingly interdependent world," said anti-nuclear campaigners. "The threat of atomic weapons is not in the past… It is a major crisis today."
"This exhibition –the first ever in an Arab country – (represents) a step further toward making the human aspiration to live in a world free from nuclear weapons a reality," SGI's executive director for peace affairs, Hirotugu Terasaki, told this journalist.
"The very existence of these weapons –the most inhuman of all– implies a major danger," said Terasaki, who is also the vice president of this Buddhist organisation that promotes international peace and security, with more than 12 million members all over the planet.
Asked about the argument used by nuclear powers that the possession of such weapons is a major guarantee of safety and security – the so-called "deterrence doctrine" – Terasaki said, "The world should now move beyond this myth."
According to the exhibition's promoters, "Security" begins with basic human needs: shelter, air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat. People need to work, to care for their health, to be protected from violence.
These—and not nuclear bombs, are exactly the basic human needs that are lacking in Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen… and more to come.

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Home / Disney A to Z / P / Pleasure Island
Pleasure Island Evening entertainment area opened at Walt Disney World on May 1, 1989. Disney Imagineers felt that there should be a place where guests staying on the property could find nighttime entertainment, without having to travel into Orlando. This was one of the first Disney attractions that came with a mythology all its own, about the recent discovery of an abandoned shipbuilding operation of one Merriweather Adam Pleasure that the Disney designers decided to restore. It became the location of a group of nightclubs, restaurants, a multiplex movie theater, and shops, with entertainment culminating in a New Year's Eve celebration every night. The Empress Lilly became part of Pleasure Island. Originally, there was an entrance fee to the island only in the evenings; during the day guests could wander around the shops at leisure. In 1996, Pleasure Island became part of the Downtown Disney complex. In 2004, entrance to the island became free in the evenings; payment was only required to enter the clubs. The Pleasure Island clubs closed on Sep. 27, 2008, although many of the shops and restaurants remained open. It was replaced by The Landing area of Disney Springs.
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This tournament served as a pre-World Cup 1998 warm-up for the participating teams. The matches were played one after the other as doubleheaders. England did not play France and Morocco did not play Belgium.
Because each team played only two of the other three teams, special rules were adopted to ensure there would be a winning team in the tournament. Playing extra-time was ruled out; the participating teams were two weeks away from the World Cup final tournament in France, and in any event, it was too hot for extra-time in Morocco. One Reuters story aptly characterized the tournament rules as "an idiosyncratic points-scoring system." As usual, three points were awarded for a win and one point for a draw. But Belgium were awarded an extra tournament point in the draw with England for winning a penalty kicks contest, 4-3, conducted at the end of regulation time. Similarly, Morocco won an extra tournament point in the draw against France by winning a penalty kicks contest, 6-5, at the end of 90 minutes of play. The penalty kick goals were included in the goals for and goals against columns in the tournament table for purpose of breaking deadlocks in the team standings. France were placed over England and won the tournament by virtue of scoring a greater number of goals. Morocco were also placed above Belgium on the basis of the goals figures.
Most of the traditional European football sources ignored these special tournament rules in reporting the tournament table. Our table was taken from the Morocco Sports Online website. Morocco staged the tournament, and the Moroccans surely know best how the tournament was scored.
In any event, as it turned out, the team standings would have been the same even had they been determined by the usual method without resort to the penalty kicks tie-breakers, per the table below.


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Pitta is een geslacht van vogels uit de familie pitta's (Pittidae). Het geslacht telt 14 soorten.

Het Handbook of the Birds of the World, meerdere checklists en de IUCN vermelden ook de soorten uit  de geslachten Erythropitta en Hydrornis onder dit geslacht. In een onderzoek dat in 2009 werd gepubliceerd en waarbij alle soorten moleculair-genetisch werden onderzocht, bleek dat er duidelijk drie clades zijn, de drie geslachten  Erythropitta, Hydrornis en Pitta.

Soorten
Pitta anerythra  – zwartmaskerpitta
Pitta angolensis  – angolapitta
Pitta brachyura  – negenkleurige pitta
Pitta concinna  – ornaatpitta
Pitta elegans  – elegante pitta
Pitta iris  – regenboogpitta
Pitta maxima  – grote pitta
Pitta megarhyncha  – mangrovepitta
Pitta moluccensis  – blauwvleugelpitta
Pitta nympha  – Chinese pitta
Pitta reichenowi  – groenborstpitta
Pitta sordida  – kappitta
Pitta steerii  – Steeres pitta
Pitta superba  – prachtpitta
Pitta versicolor  – Australische pitta
Pitta vigorsii  – witkinornaatpitta

Pitta's

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Хмель-Кольонія () — село в Польщі, у гміні Яблонна Люблінського повіту Люблінського воєводства.

У 1975-1998 роках село належало до Люблінського воєводства.

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Села Люблінського повіту


Slope Side in the World's Largest Lift Linked Snow Sports Area!
Depart Friday Evening; arrive in the resort Saturday morning.
Return Saturday Evening; depart through Genève, Switzerland and arrive in Boston same day.
Land only package availible, <1--- only $1,295, --->where you arrange and purchase your own flights.
A Ski in/out hotel in the heart of the Three Valleys!
Hotel is in the BEST location in La Tania and many would say in the Three Valleys!
Special themed dinners including a Soirée Savoyard fondue evening and more!
Great location and part of the world's largest lift linked snow sports area, truly slope-side, ski/in out!
Discounted group parasailing & other specials!
The Three Valleys Escapade - 27+ different lifts, more than 12,000 meters or 42,000 feet of vertical. This is an Everest and a half. You are eligible to receive a certificate & badge if you achieve this over the week (small fee). Some try and do this in one day!
The Little World Festival with some of Europe's biggest bands. Watch intro on YouTube.
The lift map, no trails, just lifts! Arrow points at La Tania. Select for larger version.
Lift passes in Europe are much cheaper than in the USA and average around $50 per day for a multi-day pass. There are many different lift passes available, therefore we are not including them as part of our package at this time. Click here for a limited number of lift pass prices on the official La Tania web site. Click here more detailed lift pass information on the unofficial La Tania web site!
La Tania is a nice village in a great location in the Three Valleys with easy access to the villages of Meribel & Courchevel. As a skier/snowboarder you can ski/ride in/out of our hotel and end up for après ski in Meribel or the villages of Courchevel and arrive back in our hotel for dinner using the ski bus. You can also check out the nightlife in La Tania, Meribel & the villages of Courchevel, so La Tania gives us the most options. As a club we have stayed in all of the villages of the three valleys villages, but believe La Tania is the best as it offers the most for our members!
La Tania is part of the famous Les Trois Vallees domain and offers numerous activities to suit all mountain lovers with over 600km of pistes, snowparks and halfpipes for the modern day skier & rider. La Tania was created for the 1992 Olympic Games, and now stands out as an excellent destination. The architecture of La Tania consists mainly of traditional style chalets with a few apartment blocks that blend well with the magnificent forest backdrop. The hotel La Montana is built in a rustic style with nice amenities, making it ideal for groups and families. The resort is entirely pedestrianised and in a great location. Our hotel is in the best location in the village, which has a warm and friendly atmosphere and a strong sense of community.
The Three Valleys area is very big, ski/ride from village to village! The "Trois Vallees" area is recognized as the biggest and best-linked ski/snowboard area in the world. With 600 kms of pistes (373 miles of runs), 200 of the most modern lifts available (Killington has 32 lifts), and tens of thousands of acres of off-piste terrain, it's sure to wear out even the heartiest, as it offers unlimited skiing an boarding for all levels in snow-sure terrain. There is more skiing and riding in this area than all the resorts of Colorado, Utah, and California combined! Snow Country magazine published that the six largest ski areas in the United States could fit inside Les Trois Vallées. That means that Killington, Vail, Heavenly, Steamboat, Squaw Valley and Park City could all fit inside the space covered by Les Trois Vallées with almost 10,000 acres left over! The expanse is breathtaking, the scenery is spectacular and the overall skiing and snowboarding unmatched.
It is truely a skier's and rider's nirvana for all levels! The resort holds the world record for high capacity gondola lifts, which means lines are almost unheard of, so you get to ski/ride more terrain than anywhere else! Check out the stats: 200 lifts, 260,000 skiers transported hourly, 1,500 snow cannons, 2,500 Hectares of groomed runs, 320 Ski patrollers, 70 groomers and 1,500 Ski instructors. 50% easy runs (green and blue) and 50% advanced runs (red and black), with virtually an unlimited amount of off piste, so something for everyone.
Non-Skiers/Snowboarders can purchase a pedestrian pass which enables access to the hiking trails, walks, villages and slope side restaurants using many of the gondolas. Here is a web page with information from Meribel and Courchevel 1650. There is a lot to see and this is highly recommended as a great way to explore the Three Valleys.
In addition to enjoying skiing or snowboarding you can also enjoy snow shoeing, snow mobiles, dog sledging and ice climbing with a guide. In the evenings there is a choice of friendly bars, some with live music, restaurants, a cinema and nightclubs to guarantee a fantastic après-ski atmosphere! The Three Valleys has a reputation second to none, it is the biggest snowsports area in the World.
For many, one of the best features of Les Trois Vallées are the restaurants! There are a great variety of restaurants, from inexpensive pizza and "take-a-ways" to high end Michelin star gourmet French restaurants. Lunch options include packing lunch and having a slope side picnic (nice), eating a sandwich on the fly in one of the gondola rides as you push for the maximum vertical, to eating a long lunch at one of the many gourmet restaurants. Slope side gastronomic/gourmet restaurants include: L'Oxalys, Val Thorens, La Bouitte, St Martin de Belleville, Le Bateau Ivre, Courchevel, Le Chabichou, Courchevel and our local, highly recommended Le Farçon, La Tania. They are amazing and expensive, so bring your appetite and your wallet!
Hotel Allodis Restaurant Meribel (Slope side - ski in/out) gastronomic/gourmet restaurant, beautifully prepared and presented French food.
Le Bel Air - 1650 top of Ariondez, Chic-er than average, savoie menu, fabulous views, great for a long lunch, but you must make a reservation! I believe it is possible to get to both of these restaurants with the pedestrian pass (none ski/snowboard pass).
La Casserole - Above 1650, bottom of Signal Chair. Large sunny terrace, great salads, omelets, pasta dishes and reasonably priced savoie fare.
Guide to La Tania Very good info.
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The Black Cats boss revealed that he saw the Reds star in action in his formative years back in their homeland, and claimed that he didn't see the potential.
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How tall is Fess Parker
Fess Parker's Height
6ft 5 ½ (196.9 cm)
American actor known for the TV series Daniel Boone and films such as films like Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Old Yeller, Hell is For Heroes, The Light in the Forest, The Hangman, Springfield Rifle and Battle Cry. In a 1955 news article he was quoted saying: "I'm six feet five. The real Crockett? Well, as nearly as I can make out, he was a little under six feet."
I was too tall to be an aviator. I was already 6-5. I couldn't scrunch down at all.
Buddy Ebsen
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6ft 5.05in (195.7cm)
Sotiris Gravas said on 2/Apr/19
Parker and 6'6" Arness w/ the same woman... Click Here
Parker (in slippers) and Arness in the 1954 film "Them"... Click Here , Click Here
W/ 6'4.75" Mike Mazurki... Click Here
W/ maybe 7'1" Richard Kiel... Click Here
Kiel and 6'1" Carl Weathers... Click Here
joe### said on 8/Nov/17
fess parker measure taller than howard stern.Parker huge is probably look in 6´5.5-6´5.75 in cawboy bots over 6´7 and maybe 6´5.25 at night.
Canson said on 8/Nov/17
Keep in mind he wears boots a lot too. No reason not to believe he's closer to 6'5" than 6'6
@Joe: could be same As Howard stern. 6'5.25 and rounded down. A 6'5.25 and 6'5 don't look that much different really neither does a 6'5.5 and 6'5.25. But most people inflate their own heights and guess others as being taller rather than actual or being shorter because of optimism. So a guy who is 6'5.25 or even 6'5 will edge out even an honest guy who believes he's 6'5. You could have a guy who measures 6'4.75 or 6'4 7/8 be told he's 6'5 by a doctor an hour out of bed and be closer to my height then a guy like him measure afternoon height of 6'5"-6'5.25 and he will be told he's 6'5.5 or maybe even 6'6". I get it all the time where I'm 193.9 on a normal day yet a guy who is maybe 191 claiming 6'4 because he thought he was will tell me I'm 6'5. My perspective on it is that the afternoon height is the more accurate of the two because you carry it longer and average it longer than a morning height. And if I measured someone at 3pm or 6pm and they are 6'4 1/4 or 3/8 (my height) I wouldn't even take them saying they are 6'5" seriously or they were measured at 6'5" seriously because there is no way for me to verify it. Anyone else who measures someone at that time that isn't on celebheights would have the same attitude and outlook on it and would just take what they measure. I don't even entertain the morning height argument as honestly I've only maybe heard few people say it outside of this site that you are taller in the AM when you wake up but even one or two have still said they're so and so (true height) and mention well in the morning when you're "half inch taller" not referring to their morning height just making a general statement
look he with Mike mazurki I seem to be 6'5.5
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Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 28/Aug/17
I actually think there's a greater chance that he rounded down to 6ft5…
Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 6/Jul/17
Rob, how likely is 6ft5?
Editor Rob: a chance of course, he did claim it...but did he round down? You could see a 6ft 5.5 mark for him and maybe he went low rather than round up?
Scott said on 23/May/17
He almost never stood straight, but when he did he was a solid three inches taller than Buddy Ebsen in the Davy Crockett movies. He didn't look a full two inches taller than Jeff York, however, in Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.
Canson said on 28/Dec/16
Editor Rob said on 14/Aug/16
I found an early quote with Fess claiming to be 6ft 5...
Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 25/Apr/16
Rob, who do you think was taller in their prime Parker or Walker?
Editor Rob: can be hard telling guys this size apart at times.
Sam said on 7/Mar/16
Parker for sure pulls off looking a solid 6'6" next to the recently added 6'3" Buddy Ebsen.
SHORTY said on 16/Jan/16
It would've been interesting to see a film or t.v. show that featured both Fess Parker and Clint Walker, another 6'6" actor.
Shadow2 said on 30/Oct/15
Yes, I agree with jervis, there's always a clear three inches between Buddy and Fess, especially in personal appearance photos they did while not in their "Davey Crockett" costumes. Buddy often claimed he was over 6' 3" (and that Fess was not 6' 6") but the various images show otherwise. Rob, how are we going with a page for Buddy Ebsen, definitely a 6' 3" but no taller. I look forward as well to pages on Robert Reed (6' 2.5") and Mike Connors (6' 1.5"). Thanks.
jervis said on 23/Aug/15
Clear 3 inches on 6ft3 Ebsen.If Ebsen was 6ft3 then Parker was an easy 6ft6.
Sam said on 25/Jun/15
I remember watching them and knowing about Arness's height but not Parker's so I was shocked that it had such a towering guy in another role.
Rob can you add a photo and TV series Daniel Boone films like Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, The Light in the Forest, The Hangman, Springfield Rifle and Battle Cry and also add an entry for Dorothy McGuire, also from Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, Friendly Persuasion and Gentleman's Agreement etc..
marcus said on 31/May/14
Saw a Disney Show on Youtube with Buddy Epsen and Fess Parker talking about their Davy Crocket show. Buddy said that when the show began in 1954 he was 6'3 and 1/4" and Fess was 6'5 and 1/2"
VC said on 24/May/14
I guessed Fess is somewhat 6'5 because Jim Arness may be listed at 6'7 because he was listed with shoes. My opinion is Jim is actually 6'6. Most tall chaps in Hollywood are measured with shoes so an inch here & there is pretty common.
Ian C. said on 17/Feb/14
I'll tell you the truth, daddy cool, you may have got me there with superior research. And good for you.
daddy cool said on 28/Nov/13
There's quite a difference between Arness and Parker in "Them" movie.
Parker is tho wearing slippers in this scene and he allways slouched in his movies. I truly believe Parker was a legit 6'6 guy. An inch shorter than Arness.
Ian C. said on 5/Aug/13
Fess Parker never looked an inch less than six foot six. You can see him in a bit part in the giant ant movie Them where he stands next to James Arness (credibly listed at six foot seven), and there is little difference between them. Or you can see him in the Adventures of Davy Crockett with Buddy Ebsen (six foot three),and Parker is easily three inches taller. When he stands with Steve McQueen in Hell Is for Heroes, he looks like a tree.
Gary said on 26/Aug/12
I think how a shot is framed automatically calls attention to the height of people. Unless a lead man can give being shorter an edge, as Cagney did, we lend more focus and more pure rooting to the taller actor. Victor Mature knew this and blew up at directors who positioned him either with taller actors or ones standing on higher ground. John Wayne began to see, as he got older and was less the romantic interest, that his being "the big man" ensured the continuance of his stardom, so he wore lifts. So from the audience's viewpoint this is understandable, and the actor is thinking in business terms.
Shaun said on 10/Feb/12
They certainly don't make em like they used to!
Good call Rob, if he was eye to eye with Napier must be this.
AZmink said on 24/Aug/11
We went to his hotel in Santa Barbara and saw him and then to his winery in the late 90's I believe. He was 6'6" and a very nice and friendly man. I will always remember him as an American Hero from the Walt Disney movies, Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett.
mstock said on 17/May/11
Fess Parker was every bit of 6'6". Buddy Ebsen was 6'3" and he was at least 3-4 inches taller. Ed Ames is at least 6'3" and Fess was at least 3 inches taller maybe 4". He was about 4" taller than George Sanders who was the same height as John Wayne. Robert Logan is a true 6'3" and again Fess was "AT LEAST" 3" taller.
Yes,Fess Parker was at least 6'6" tall. And he was a great actor and person
Clay Siwell said on 21/Jan/11
Fess Parker was a great actor and his height had nothing to do with his success. We live in a superficial world filled with shallow people. Fess new this and that is why he never focused on his height at least that is what I got from our conversation.
Shadow2 said on 6/Dec/10
Rob, thanks for upgrading Fess. Almost every contributor on this page is unanimous that Fess was a legit 6'6" during his movie and TV career. But typical of the humble man he was during his lifetime, Fess never emphasized his height to others.
There is a 1954 science fiction classic called "Them" (giant ants on the rampage) where Fess appears in one of his very first roles, coincidentally in a scene with fellow extremely tall actor (and future TV legend) 6'7" James Arness.
Sam said on 18/Nov/10
Fess was 6 ft 6 in, when he was young. 6 ft 5 in, later in life. FACT.
Shadow2 said on 2/Nov/10
Further to The Jayhawkers, in several scenes Fess was paired with legit 6'6" Don Megowan so as to divert attention from Fess towering over everyone else in the cast. Megowan was one of the actors who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon in those movies. Henry Silva and Leo Gordon, both 6'2", looked short next to Fess. Even legit 6'4" Jeff Chandler seemed to be at times three inches shorter than Fess. In one scene Fess is barefoot and still looks 6'6" alongside one of his co stars.
Tom said on 5/May/09
O' Daniel Boone was very tall. 6 ft 5 sounds spot on.
Manitobaboy said on 18/Apr/08
Those are fair to impressive heights based on today's standards. In the 19th C. they would have been notably tall. What's you source for this?
larry said on 3/Apr/06
Frank2 - Sorry about the late reply. "Camping out" with slaves... er, I mean: GRADUATE STUDENTS in Montana now. Oh, post DIVORCE ire, huh! :-) Dan Daily?! That's a SCREAM!!! And Daily was a dancer too (unlike Jeff). Yep: saw a screening of the new THE ALAMO IN San Antonio with my daughter. OK, it was more historically accurate AS FAR AS ANYONE KNOWS. It didn't play well in San Antonio EXCEPT with the historians BECAUSE (in this version) David Crockett was taken alive, then executed. I liked it, BUT I like the John Wayne movie too (even though I know some of the history was dubious). Of course I grew up with Fess Parker (all 6'5" plus) swinging away at the end! But Billy Bob did (IMO) a good job of portraying the man BEHIND the bigger than life legend. BTW: "Col" Crockett NEVER believed his own BS - he was supposed to have been a funny guy. He also was probably about 5'10" to 6' tall in real life. Don't know HOW tall Billy Bob Thornton is. In MY opinion as a South Texan AND a history buff the best movie version was THE LAST COMMAND with Sterling Hayden, Richard Calson, and Ernest Borgnine. Just to kind of stay on topic the heights of the main participants in the battle of The Alamo are NOW thought to be:
David Crockett - 5'11", 180 pounds
William Travis - 6'0", 170 pounds
James Bowie - 6'1", 190 pounds (though much thinner at the time of his death)
James Bonham - 6'2", 185 pounds
Santa Anna - 5'10", 175 pounds (yes, he was described as that height many times)
Frank2 said on 2/Apr/06
I'm not saying he was a crossdresser. Actress/swimming star Esther Williams made that charge in her book. I still find it hard to believe. I do know that Dan Daily would go out in drag. In fact supposedly he got arrested wearing women's close at some gay bar in Hollywood. MGM had a hell of a time covering it up. And Daily like Chandler was 6'3"!
Larry, what did you think of the recent film on The Alamo starring Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett?
Thank you Frank2! :-) a 6'3" cross-dresser? Must have looked like Tugboat Annie!!! The Thimblerig character Conreid played played was based on a historical character: James Erastis Stewart. He was played by Denver Pyle in John Wayne's THE ALAMO. SUPPOSEDLY he was an ancestor of ours. But EVERYONE in Texas claims they had an ancestor who died at the Alamo! :-) If they'd had that many men they would have won!
Jeff Chandler was 6'3". (not in heels! Hahahahahaha!) Buddy Ebson was also 6'3". I met him on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies. Hans Conreid was a good friend of my family and I saw him frequently. He was about 6'2". And for those who still think Danny Thomas was nearly 6', please check out one of the episodes of Make Room For Daddy where Conreid played Danny's Uncle Tonoose and you'll see quite clearly that Thomas was just 5'10" Conreid is a good four inches taller.
I'd say that Fess Parker was closer to 6'6". He wasn't much shorter than James Arness in Them.
That movie was called THE JAYHAWKERS. Fess looked 2-3 inches taller than Jeff Chandler, but how tall was Jeff Chandler? Where's Frank2? Also Fess looked at least 2" taller than Budy Ebsen and Hans Conreid in the DAVY CROCKETT series. Weren't they both 6' 2 or 3"?
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Smoking Section
St. Vincent doesn't like to be questioned about where her songs come from. She doesn't like to be accused of writing about herself. She retorts, rightly, that the presumption of intimacy in songwriting is incredibly condescending and inherently gendered. We may ask a man if he's writing about himself, but we don't take it for granted that he does. Songwriter Annie Clark resents the assumption that she's incapable of purely intellectual writing. That having been said, though, intellectual and imaginative writing, and emotionally intimate writing aren't mutually exclusive, and it is in fact the tricky balance of being both that marks the songs of St. Vincent, while escaping the skills of most other songwriters male and female. St. Vincent writes incredibly intimate songs that feel like they're coming from directly inside her head; it also so happens that St. Vincent herself is a fictional persona. We never really know what Annie Clark is thinking and feeling, we only know what she wants us to know St. Vincent is thinking and feeling.
June 18, 2019 ladygarfunkel	2017, Masseduction, St. Vincent	Leave a comment
For some of you older folks, St. Vincent may still be considered a 'new artist'. She is under 40, after all, and has only been making records for about a decade. But really, you should be all on board with her by now. It's been a very satisfying trajectory, as a fan, to watch such a gifted artist rise from being an indie singer-songwriter who inspires mild respect from the Pitchfork crowd to real rock star status. Because not too many people fill the role of a real rock star – complete with vision, ambition, style and persona – anymore these days. It's just really, really heartening on a deep-down personal level to witness the birth of a complex and interesting and hopefully long-lasting star.
May 6, 2019 ladygarfunkel	2017, Masseduction, St. Vincent	Leave a comment
Severed Crossed Fingers
St. Vincent is a woman of mystery. She doesn't like to open up her personal life, which is understandable enough. We should all be wary about trying to draw straight lines between art and real life. But she does write such passionate and complex love songs. They're not even love songs in the traditional sense. They're not about the usual business of desire and putting the loved one on a pedestal (then tearing them down from it in due time, of course.) She writes songs about looking at a person, seeing them for their good and bad sides, having an intense and ambiguous web of feelings about them. It's hard to tell when listening to a St. Vincent song if it's about a loved one or a passing stranger or even just a reflection of herself. A very intellectual approach, I think. I would like to know who some of her muses are, besides that bug-eyed English waif, but of course she'd never stoop to picking her work apart like that.
August 11, 2018 ladygarfunkel	2014, St. Vincent	Leave a comment
The Sequel
More of an interlude. An interlude and an outro. In St. Vincent's world nothing is ever just filler or a toss-off. If it's on there, it's been thought about deeply and should be parsed deeply. You can't say that the album Actor has a grand concept, but it was loosely inspired by Annie Clark's idea of writing her own music for her favorite movies. So the loose idea is something about identity and the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives. Ironically, this was a few years before Clark's own identity came to include being a tabloid celebrity, so she was writing from the point of view of a normal person. She needs to now make a concept album about how we act out our lives and write out our stories in an age where our inner lives have become our public lives. In the meantime, an interlude.
July 28, 2018 ladygarfunkel	2009, Actor, St. Vincent	Leave a comment
So it seems that St. Vincent got saved from what she wanted, but she's not going to be anyone's savior. Or something. I doubt that it's a conscious throughline. Maybe you can hear the artist growing as a person, though I personally don't parse St. Vincent's lyrics all that closely given that she's adamantly not a gut-spiller. You can certainly hear the person growing as an artist, though. There's a difference between the sound of a relative beginner who's still building her sound, and a confident artists who's very clear about who she is and what she wants to sound like. Her latest record was so universally praised and acclaimed it feels obvious to say that it was one of the year's best and a new height for her blah blah blah, but it really was. Here is an artist in full control of her aesthetic, and that's a marvelous thing to behold.
May 18, 2018 ladygarfunkel	2017, Masseduction, St. Vincent	Leave a comment
Save Me From What I Want
St. Vincent has been a darling for her last two albums, but let's go back to before she became well known. A time when, I must confess, I had only the vaguest awareness of who she was. Late to the party again! Well, now I know. It takes a while for an artist to really come into their own, and it takes a while to build an audience, instant-superstar prodigies notwithstanding. And it's especially hard, sad to say, to break out of the pastel ghetto reserved for Women Who Write Songs and Play an Instrument™. So I'll admit that the first time I listened to St. Vincent I dismissed her as yet another earnest singer-songwriter type with too many feelings. That was before she really let her freak flag fly, so to speak, but it was wrong of me anyway. The keen and clever songwriting was always there, and Annie Clark has always been too intellectual to lean on her feelings for material. She's said many times that her work is not confessional and she resents the implication that it is. She is absolutely right and I'm glad that she's put her foot down on it, because it is an absolute fallacy that women's creative work must by default be confessional, rooted angst and emotion rather than in the imagination or in the intellect, or primarily a means of working out personal trauma. Those tropes are wearying and dull.
May 15, 2018 ladygarfunkel	2009, Actor, St. Vincent	Leave a comment
And now, the moment you've been waiting for. Or dreading. Or, more likely, irrelevant and weeks too late to the party. 2017 is over and no one wants to think about it any more. It was a crap year, but crap years often inspire great feats of creativity. At least we had a tide of good music. Oh, so much good music…
1. Pure Comedy – Father John Misty
This is the album we deserve and need. It's depressing as fuck, its bleakness relieved only by Misty's signature hyper-articulate mordant wit. After the wedding album comes the hangover album. It's the work of a man who's snapped out of his honeymoon haze, looked around and saw the world all gone to hell. If there was one record I leaned on all year, it was this one.
Pure Comedy
Ballad of the Dying Man
Total Entertainment Forever
2. Low In High School – Morrissey
You would think that Morrissey, with his nasty eccentricity and tone-deaf statements and complete inability to learn from controversy, has outlived his usefulness as a public figure. Yet he's still capable of writing some of his punchiest music, and musically at least, he's still relevant and on-point. He's still both narcissistic and self-deprecating, angry at the world, romantic, petty, and inexplicably interested in Israel. He may even have matured a little; some of the new songs are quite sexy, as befits a man with some life experience under his belt, no longer pretending to be a celibate little naif.
Spent the Day in Bed
Jacky's Only Happy When She's up on the Stage
I Bury the Living
3. Woodstock – Portugal. The Man
In a crap year, we kind of need a little escapism, a little fun. These guys have been plugging away for years, to little notice, but this year they finally hit the big time. They've always had a knack for great catchy tunes, tempered with a little darkness. They're more catchy than ever, almost too catchy, like a tweaked out parody of catchy. Which is perfect, because we need to get tweaked on something that looks and tastes like pop sugar.
Rich Friends
4. Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey
Well, I certainly couldn't have predicted that Lana Del Rey would become one of the most consistent artists on the scene. She burst out in a blaze of way, way too much hype, and then she went and lived up to it. She likes to toy with romantic cliche in a way that both knowingly ironic and yet sincerely romantic, and she knows her way around retrofitted reference points. On this album she sounds like she's beamed in from an alternate-universe Summer of Love, and it sounds nothing but timely.
5. Masseduction – St. Vincent
St. Vincent's hi-fashion aesthetics may make her look like a 'fun' artist, but she's actually a 'dark' artist, one who likes to explore the poses we strike in life. She can be depressing, she can be witty, she can be glamorous or scary, she can be all of those things all in one song. She's one of those increasingly rare artists who work to please themselves, and end up with accolades they never aimed for, because they've hit on something pleases a lot of people.
6. Double Roses – Karen Elson
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for this record for years. Karen Elson's first album became an instant classic for me in 2010. Now she's finally back with her gorgeous voice, sophisticated songwriting and gothic folk/chamber-pop aesthetic intact. You gotta appreciate an artist who knows how to make the most of a harp solo.
Call Your Name
Wonder Blind
Distant Shore
7. Lotta Sea Lice – Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
Courtney Barnett deftly dodges our elevated expectations. And after the big breakout of her debut LP in 2015, the expectations couldn't be higher. Instead of trying to live up to the hype all over again, she offers instead an informal-feeling collaboration with fellow deadpan songwriter Kurt Vile. It's just as articulate and insightful as you would expect, with irreverent observations about the mundane and a sense of friends just having fun. Maybe they should form a band.
Over Everything
8. If All I Was Was Black – Mavis Staples
I have a shameful confession to make: I've never listened to Mavis Staples before this year. I know that she's been a force in soul music for decades, and somehow, I've never paid attention. Maybe the thing that pushed this particular record into my conscience is its relevance. It's an of-the-moment piece of work that's politically relevant, from a veteran of the civil rights movement who can't believe she's still fighting the same old battle. But it's not a work of anger and indignation, but an openhearted and optimistic one; as befits someone who made her name in the 60's, Staples still believes that love can heal all of our rifts. And if she can, so should we.
We Go High
Peaceful Dream
If I Was Was Black
9. The Far Field – Future Islands
I can't get enough of Future Islands' retro-synthpop romanticism. Their music sounds like a collage of 80's New Wave elements, but it's far too emotional to ever be called a retreat. It's something beautiful and brand new that sounds like something that's been around forever. That kind of instant familiarity is what we look for in new music, and we rarely find it, but when we do, it's like an addition to the family. Samuel T. Herring remains one of the most unforgettable vocalists of the moment.
Time On Her Side
10. Hopeless Fountain Kingdom – Halsey
Halsey is a young songwriter whose work is both intimately confessional and ambitiously high-concept. On her second album, she writes about the effects of fame (it's no cure for loneliness) and the challenges of challenges of love, quotes Shakespeare, and ties it all together with a loose narrative about disaffected youth in a near-future world. It's catchy, modern, and ready for heavy airplay on indie radio at least, but satisfying challenging and personal.
Bad at Love
11. Every Where Is Some Where – K.Flay
K.Flay is an artist whose work can be called post-genre. She's been called – nominally – a hip hop artist, but that doesn't cover it. She's pulling sonic influences from all over, but her writing is confessional, almost emo. It's also her strength. Sometimes dark and laced with profanity, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes funny. She's part of a new generation of female artists who present themselves as unapologetic anti-heroines, telling their stories, taking pride in their honesty and pain, not afraid to be get weird and ugly. This is her second album.
Blood in the Cut
High Enough
You Felt Right
12. Melodrama – Lorde
Last but not least in the series of outstanding second albums by precocious young women. Who could forget about Lorde? She was the teenage prodigy sensation of 2013 and now she's almost all grown up. Sure, first love and first fame aren't exactly fresh topics, and, no, there's no way anything could be as unexpected and original as Pure Heroine was. But Lorde is approaching those topics with her usual wiser-than-her-years aplomb, and she's still unique in her eccentricity.
Perfect Places
Homemade Dynamite
13. Salutations – Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst used to be the teenage prodigy sensation of his time. Now he's just another nearly-middle aged man who's not as relevant or as cute as he used to be. That could be a cue to drop off the map. Or it could be a cause for renewed inspiration. It's frankly great to see a major songwriter, who the emo generation grew up with, becoming mature and staying interesting. Also, what best of- list is complete without a shoutout to Oliver Sacks?
A Little Uncanny
You All Loved Him Once
Gossamer Thin
14. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream – Open Mike Eagle
This is the first time I've featured a hip hop album as one of my favorites. As you may have noticed, hip hop accounts for a huge swath of today's pop culture, and it's something I'm slowly educating myself about. This is a great place to start; it's free of the aggressive posturing and machismo that makes most mainstream rap (and frankly, most mainstream anything anymore) so unappealing. Open Mike Eagle isn't here to beef with other rappers or name-check the designer brands in his closet. What he offers is smart, personal, relevant songwriting that cuts across genres. Michael Eagle does standup on the side, and his wit lightens every track (and especially evident in videos.) Also, bonus points for year's best Bowie shout-out.
Brick Body Complex
95 Radios
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Sustainable Fashion: Radical Rethink Needed on Global Clothing Trade
Today's throwaway clothing or "fast fashion" has negative environmental impacts at every stage of its life cycle. Current systems are not sustainable. We need to change what our clothes are made from, where and how they are produced, and how we dispose of them.
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CLOTHING MANUFACTURE CAUSES ONE-TENTH OF WORLD'S CARBON EMISSIONS
THE ISSUE AT STAKE
MOST PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE the environmental damage that their clothes may be causing. But the facts are indisputable. The $2.4 trillion global clothing industry, which employs some 300 million people, is a huge carbon emitter, wasteful of resources and grossly polluting. China produces 65% of the world's clothes and is the world's largest exporter of textiles by value, followed by Germany. Globally, we are consuming more and more clothes each year and wearing them for less and less time. The clothing industry is responsible for 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually. That's one-tenth of all emissions – more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. Clothing manufacture is the world's second-largest consumer of water and causes one-fifth of all water pollution.3 Humans will always need and want clothes, and with 8 billion people on Earth, it will always require a substantial amount of energy, water, and raw materials to produce them. And as the textile industry is almost as omnipresent as agriculture, it will always play a major economic role, especially in low income countries. This means that we should not try to make the textile industry disappear, but instead try to make it as sustainable as possible. As we show, most of clothing's carbon impacts occur during production, followed by clothing in use, and far smaller proportions for retailing and end-of-life disposal. Synthetic fibers, used in around 60% of clothing, are made from carbon intense chemicals derived from oil. They also release one-third of the microplastics found in the oceans. But natural fibers also have bad environmental impacts – growing cotton requires huge amounts of water.4 Despite these facts, it is estimated that just 12% of the material used for clothing is recycled. The world's two largest exporters of used clothing for reuse, recycling or disposal are the US and the UK, and the largest markets are in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
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Webservice requests are any that refer to filename "search.pz2". Arguments are GET-style parameters. Argument 'command' is always required and specifies the operation to perform. Any request not recognized as a webservice request is forwarded to the HTTP server specified in the configuration using the proxy setting. This way, a regular webserver can host the user interface (itself dynamic or static HTML), and Ajax-style calls can be used from JS (or any other client-based scripting environment) to interact with the search logic in Pazpar2.
Each command is described in sub sections to follow.
Returns version and statistics about the Pazpar2 instance.
Initializes a session. Returns session ID to be used in subsequent requests. If a server ID is given in the Pazpar2 server section, then that is included in the session ID as suffix after a period (.).
If the init command is performed as a HTTP GET request, service and settings from local files are used. The service parameter may choose a particular local service.
If the init command is performed as a HTTP POST request and the content-type is text/xml, then the content is XML parsed and treated as service for the session. The root element should be service. Refer to description of the service format. The posting of a service appeared in Pazpar2 version 1.2.1.
If this is defined and the value is non-zero, the session will not use the predefined databases in the configuration; only those specified in the settings parameters (per session databases).
If this is defined it specifies a service ID. Makes the session use the service with this ID. If this setting is omitted, the session will use the unnamed service in the Pazpar2 configuration.
Keeps a session alive. An idle session will time out after one minute. The ping command can be used to keep the session alive, absent other activity. It is suggested that any browser client have a simple alarm handler which sends a ping every 50 seconds or so, once a session has been initialized.
The settings command applies session-specific settings to one or more databases. A typical function of this is to enable access to restricted resources for registered users, or to set a user- or library-specific username/password to use against a target.
Each setting parameter has the form name[target]=value, where name is the name of the setting (e.g. pz:authentication), target is a target ID, or possibly a wildcard, and value is the desired value for the setting.
Because the settings command manipulates potentially sensitive information, it is possible to configure Pazpar2 to only allow access to this command from a trusted site -- usually from server-side scripting, which in turn is responsible for authenticating the user, and possibly determining which resources that they have access to, etc.
As a shortcut, it is also possible to override settings directly in the init command.
If the settings command is performed as HTTP POST and the content-type is text/xml, then the content is XML parsed and treated as settings - with a format identical to local settings files. The posting of settings appeared in Pazpar2 version 1.2.1.
Limits the search to a given set of targets specified by the filter. The filter consists of a comma-separated list of setting+operator+args pairs all of which must be satisfied (matched) for Pazpar2 to include the target. The setting is a Pazpar2 setting (such as pz:id). The operator is either = (string match) or ~ (substring match). The args is a list of values separated by |. If either of these values match, the key-value pair is matched.
For Pazpar2 1.13.0 the filter can be prefixed with vertical bar (|) as first character. In this case, if any of the key-value pairs matches, Pazpar2 includes the target.
Narrows the search by one or more fields (typically facets). The limit is sequence of one or more name=args pairs separated by comma. The args is a list of values separated by vertical bar (|). The meaning of | is alternative (i.e. OR). A value that contains a comma (,), a vertical bar (|) or backslash itself must be preceded by backslash (\). The pz:limitmap configuration item defines how the searches are mapped to a database.
Specifies the first record to retrieve from each target. The first record in a result set for a target is numbered 0, next record is numbered 1. By default startrecs is 0.
Specifies the maximum number of records to retrieve from each target. The default value is 100. This setting has same meaning as per-target setting pz:maxrecs . If pz:maxrecs is set, it takes precedence over argument maxrecs.
Specifies sort criteria. The argument is a comma-separated list (no whitespace allowed) of sort fields, with the highest-priority field first. A sort field may be followed by a colon followed by the number '0' (decreasing) or '1' (increasing). Default sort order is decreasing. Sort field names can be any field name designated as a sort field in the pazpar2.cfg file, or the special names 'relevance', 'retrieval' and	'position'.
Sort type 'position' sorts by position/offset for each database. Sort type 'retrieval' sorts by position of retrieval (first record retrieved is 1, second record is 2, etc.).
If not specified here or as sort-default in pazpar2.cfg, Pazpar2 will default to the built-in 'relevance' ranking.
Having sort criteria at search is important for targets that supportnative sorting in order to get best results. Pazpar2 will trigger a new search if search criteria changes from Pazpar2 to target-based sorting or vice versa.
Sets mergekey for this search and rest of session, or until another mergekey is given for show/search. The mergekey value is a comma-separated list with one or more names as they appear in the service description equivalent to mergekey="optional" inside a metadata element. If the empty string is given for mergekey it is disabled and rest of session will use the default mergekey from service or stylesheet.
This facility, "dynamic mergekey", appeared in Pazpar2 version 1.6.31.
Sets rank method for this search and rest of session, or until another rank is given for show/search. The rank value is a comma-separated list of field=value pairs. The format is the same as rank for a metadata element. If the empty string is given for rank, it is disabled and rest of session will use the default rank from metadata or stylesheet.
This facility, "dynamic ranking", appeared in Pazpar2 version 1.6.31.
First record to show - 0-indexed.
Number of records to show. If omitted, 20 is used.
If block is set to 1, the command will hang until there are records ready to display. Use this to show first records quickly without requiring rapid polling.
If not specified here or as sort-default in pazpar2.cfg, then Pazpar2 will default to the built-in 'relevance' ranking.
Having sort criteria at search is important for targets that supports native sorting in order to get best results. Pazpar2 will trigger a new search if search criteria changes from pazpar2-based to target-based sorting.
For targets where pz:sortmap is defined, a sort operation will be executed (which will possibly include extending the search).
Sets mergekey for this show, and for the rest of the session, or until another mergekey is given for show/search. The mergekey value is a comma-separated list with one or more names as they appear in the service description equivalent to mergekey="optional" inside a metadata element. If the empty string is given for mergekey, it is disabled and rest of session will use the default mergekey from service or stylesheet.
Sets rank method for this show, and for the rest of the session, or until another rank is given for show/search. The rank value is a comma-separated list of field=value pairs. The format is the same as rank for a metadata element. If the empty string is given for rank, it is disabled and rest of session will use the default rank from metadata or stylesheet.
If specified and set to 1, then data will include snippets marked with <match> tags. Otherwise snippets will not be included.
This facility, "snippets", appeared in Pazpar2 version 1.6.32.
If specified and set to 2, enables Pazpar2 to return approximation on hits and counts when doing record filtering using the limit parameter on search and a limitmap with a value of "local:".
This facility, "version", appeared in Pazpar2 version 1.6.13.
record ID as provided by the show command.
This optional parameter is an integer which, when given, makes Pazpar2 return the original record for a specific target. The record set from first target is numbered 0, second record set is numbered 1, etc. The nativesyntax setting, as usual, is used to determine how to create XML from the original record - unless parameter binary is given in which the record is fetched as "raw" from ZOOM C (raw, original record).
When offset/checksum is not given, the Pazpar2 metadata for the record is returned and with metadata for each target's data specified in a "location" list.
This optional parameter is a string which, when given, makes Pazpar2 return the original record for a specific target. The checksum is returned as attribute 'checksum' in element 'location' for show command and record command (when checksum and offset is NOT given). The nativesyntax setting, as usual, is used to determine how to create XML from the original record - unless parameter binary is given in which the record is fetched as "raw" from ZOOM C (raw, original record).
When offset/checksum is not given, the Pazpar2 metadata for the record is returned and with metadata for each targets' data specified in a 'location' list.
This optional parameter can be used to override	pz:nativesyntax as given for the target. This allow an alternative nativesyntax to be used for original records (see parameteroffset above).
This optional parameter is the record syntax used for raw transfer (i.e. when offset is specified). If syntax is not given, but offset is used, the value of pz:requestsyntax is used.
This optional parameter is the element set name used for retrieval of a raw record (i.e. when offset is specified). If esn is not given, but offset is used, the value of pz:elements is used.
This optional parameter enables "binary" response for retrieval of a original record (i.e. when offset is specified). For binary response, the record by default is fetched from ZOOM C using the "raw" option or by parameter nativesyntax if given.
Makes Pazpar2 stop further search and retrieval for busy databases.
comma-separated list of termlist names. If omitted, all termlists are returned.
maximum number of entries to return - default is 15.
For the special termlist name "xtargets", results are returned about the targets which have returned the most hits. The 'term' subtree has additional elements, specifically a state and diagnostic field. In the example below, a target ID is returned in place of 'name'. This may or may not change later.
The following client states are defined: Client_Connecting, Client_Idle, Client_Working, Client_Error, Client_Failed, Client_Disconnected.


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Guadalupedia: Secret Swap
Did you know that during the Christero Wars 1926-1929 the Image of Our Lady was secretly removed for safekeeping in a plan devised by the priest in charge of the basilica?
A replica was painted and installed at the basilica while the original image from 1531 was clandestinely smuggled at night from the basilica into the home of a pious family for safekeeping. She would remain there for the remainder of the Christero War of Catholic persecution.
She was returned to the old basilica a few years later and remained there until she was moved to the new basilica where the original remains today.
Guadalupe Stories – Dan Jason


We're happy to announce that we're invited to play a showcase at Buma Jazzdag. Which is part of the North Sea Round Town Festival. Apart from that we will be playing a concert at "De Machinist" for the same festival!