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Events Industry Alliance Issues Open Letter To Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Ministers Calling For Support
Read the full open letter below.
On Saturday, Hot Press reported that The Event Industry Alliance were sending a letter to the Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar, seeking an urgent meeting to address the precarious position of companies and professionals working in the events business in Ireland.
Since we broke this story, it has now been confirmed that the letter – now framed as an Open Letter – has also been sent to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, Ministers Paschal Donohue, Catherine Martin, Robert Troy and Eamon Ryan, as well as the Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht. It has also been widely supplied to media.
The Events Industry Alliance is recently formed, cross-industry body, representing eight affiliated groups: including the Event Production Industry COVID 19 Working Group, Association of Irish Festival and Events, Event Industry Association of Ireland, Event Industry Ireland, Irish Exhibition Organisers Association, Irish Showmen's Guild, Wedding Band Association, and Venue Operators and Promoters Forum.
In the letter, signed by the Event Industry Alliance's Chair, Dan MacDonnell, the group calls for "immediate emergency action." The letter goes on to express that Event Industry Alliance are "extremely frustrated and disappointed at the unfair and unequal treatment" of their member organisations.
The group calls for an "urgent scheme that is comparable to the support level of the CRSS scheme that the hospitality and others in the Experience economy have enjoyed for many months now."
Read the full open letter below:
Open Letter Regarding Supports for the Event Industry
To: An Taoiseach Micheál Martin,
An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Minster Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports, & Media Robert Troy, Minister of State Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment Paschal Donohue, Minister for Finance
Eamon Ryan, Minister for Transport and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
26th of May 2021
A Chara,
It is with very great concern, that I write to you as Chair of the Event Industry Alliance of Ireland who represent over 35,000 people across the entire Irish Events sector.
After 14 months of forced government closure, without any meaningful supports we urgently require immediate emergency action from you and fellow Ministers.
Our member organisations, listed below, all have been in contact with your offices and at present have been given varying accounts of what is to happen with regards to sector supports.
We now again contact you directly, as a united voice.
We are extremely frustrated and disappointed at the unfair and unequal treatment of our member organisations, within The Event Industry Alliance.
Our Industry was the first to close and will be the last to open, many months after the hospitality retail and other industries.
We have been the subject of many announcements and good news stories to the benefit of those announcing but no such benefits or actions have been affected upon our members - and we have now had enough.
Each member organisation as well as numerous leading individuals within our industry has attempted to engage meaningfully with you and your office, and has for the past fourteen months been met with the same repeated stock answer on multiple occasions. Every single response has the same underlying tone, that your representatives are sympathetic to our concerns and the position of our industry, and then go on to illustrate and repeat what supports are available to the individual or member organisation ignoring the basic facts laid before them.
We as an industry fully comprehend the seriousness of the situation. Please do not repeat the supports you say are in place for our member organisations, or advise us that there are "updates pending".
What we require now and respectfully request is real meaningful action.
The simple facts are:
1. Many of the supports mentioned including the still undistributed €50m Commercial Live Entertainment Fund do not apply to the vast majority of businesses within this industry.
2. Despite been announced as an emergency fund by Minister Paschal Donohoe seven (7) months ago (Budget October 2020), not one Euro of this €50m fund for the live commercial sector has made its way or been distributed to businesses within the sector.
3. The €50M has now been reduced by €1m to fund the St Patrick's Festival, a non commercial and not for profit event.
4. When the €25m LPSS does pass, this will now only go some way to assisting those who will be successful as they scramble to survive this pandemic, leaving many behind and are expected to deliver events between when the winners of the scheme are announced and the end of September, demonstrating little understanding of the event industry.
5. The Event Management companies, SME's, event industry suppliers and event organisers not specifically having arts or culture as part of their proposed event (as per the requirements of the LPSS) such as Trade Fairs and Exhibitions, Marketing & Public Relations, lighting & Sound companies, along with many others do not qualify for any of the LPSS supports.
6. The MEBAS has not been announced yet.
7. The expanded SBACS scheme amounts to tokenism. It will help the smaller operators, but will do nothing for the many companies with larger turnover and staff numbers.
8. There seems to be a concern among government that you will have to support thousands of businesses when in fact the real number is in the hundreds, and it is sector specific supports that is needed.
9. A weekly payment that amounts to €350 per week or a small one off payment will do little to actively support the majority of businesses we represent, many of whom with pre COVID turnover from €500k to €50m and beyond proving they are substantial net contributors.
10. No other sector including Gardai, Teachers, Civil Servants, TD's, Ministers or the media would tolerate or accept forced closure for over 14 months and left to live on €350 per week in order to protect everyone else, while the rest of the country continues with their lives.
11. Our members have been living week to week since 12 th March 2020, many forced to sell equipment, borrow money, have not met house repayments and have repossessions as a direct result of the pro-longed government forced closure and have substantial mental health issues without adequate supports.
We require an urgent scheme that is comparable to the support level of the CRSS scheme that the hospitality and others in the Experience economy have enjoyed for many months now and we cannot understand why those in the events industry are been treated differently.
It is wholly unequal and unacceptable that these businesses cannot avail of any meaningful support, that will properly assist them in returning to pre COVID trade.
Many of our member organisations have directly supplied you with proposals, figures and worked examples of supports that could apply to business in our industry, but these suggestions have been ignored and post submission there has been no further engagement despite promise after promise.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding that the entire event industry in Ireland simply falls under one category. This is a very large industry with tens of thousands of people employed and billions of euros in revenue, and spans numerous business types and sizes from small local events to Internationally recognised large scale commercial live events, cutting edge world class business events, summits, exhibitions, trade show, weddings, event sponsorship activity, as we as outdoor entertainment operators such as funfairs and circuses, and the hundreds of SME's and suppliers involved in supporting every aspect of this once thriving industry.
You, or a member of your department has at some stage spoken to or engaged with each member organisation individually.
The Event Industry Alliance represents all the professional organisations and groups in the Irish Event Industry in one place, the largest cohesive voice within our industry.
Collectively we are now requesting urgent action and for you and your office to meet with us as a group immediately, so you can appraise all leaders of our respective organisations of the following:
What proposed supports are forthcoming with actual figures.
When and how will these be actioned- supported by dates.
Will these supports - both current and proposed be extended well into 2022 to allow us to recover.
When will the government provide us with the critical restart date and roadmap for events .
In advance of the meeting I wish to advise you that:
Our member organisations are in full support of this communication and The Event Industry Alliance actions, and a representative from each will also be in attendance.
The EIA and its members are aware of and have the ability to comprehend the current available supports so please do not repeat these, and we would reiterate that we have submitted industry figures on numerous occasions to the department.
We would ask the meeting be used as a platform to provide us (EIA member organisations) with the most recent government information including a Road Map for our sector, Department plans and figures for enhanced and meaningful financial support along with supporting scientific evidence to support the continued closure of our sector.
We have already sent this to the office of Minister Catherine Martin, and would request one meeting with both of you in attendance.
The Event Industry Alliance represents the following organisations from the Irish Event Industry:
Aoife Association of Irish Festival and Events
EIAI Event Industry Association of Ireland
EII Event Industry Ireland
EPIC Event Production Industry COVID 19 Working Group
IEOA Irish Exhibition Organisers Association
ISG Irish Showmen's Guild
WBA Wedding Band Association
VOPF Venue operators and Promoters Forum
The proposed agenda for our meeting is as follows:
Update on proposed supports as requested above, and the timeline for implementation of same .
Department response and update.
AOB.
The EIA request that this submission be treated with the highest level of urgency and that a meeting be scheduled with us without delay.
Dan MacDonnell
Chair, The Event Industry Alliance
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Q: text-overflow ellipsis without "white-space: nowrap"? I was wondering if there is any clever way, to achieve the css ellipsis effect without the need to apply white-space: nowrap also.
In other words, lets  say we have a block element of a certain height and we'd like to let it get filled up with text-content, but the ellipsis should get applied as soon as there is no more room in horizontal plus vertical directions.
Quick example: http://jsfiddle.net/fpv9n/2/
Text should be like it is, but also with an ellipsis at the end. Any way to achieve that using CSS ? I would take JS solutions also into consideration.

A: There is no way to do this using pure CSS. It's monstrous and sad. I've often desired this myself when you want the browser to "ellipsify" a  multi-line text with possibly overflowing text whenever it spills out of the container.

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nowdays CSS line-clamp can be used with the latest browsers.

p:first-of-type {
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  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
  overflow: hidden;
  color:#777
}

Run that snippet to find out if your browser understand this

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You can fake ellipsis with content:'...' and position:absolute;
set height within a numbers of line (add eventually vertical-padding)
http://jsfiddle.net/V3ZQH/
span {
    background-color: red;
    width: 100px;
    /*height: 50px;*/
    height:2.4em;
    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    /*white-space: nowrap; */
    position:relative;
    padding:0 0.5em;
}
span:after {
    content:'...';
    background:inherit;
    position:absolute;
    bottom:0;
    right:0;
    box-shadow:0 0 5px red
}

A: I know only of ugly work arounds involving content, absolute positionings, helper elements holding the dots and padding. I think it is probably best to have your height to be an exact multitude of your line height, for example by doing so:
height: 2em;
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1em;

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#ifndef AIPPOINT_H
#define AIPPOINT_H

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

#include "aipGframe.h"
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#define HAIR_LEN 6
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class Point : public Roi
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public:
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Scale data was received via UDP packets over Wifi from the Raspberry Pi Scale corners.
From experience, we can assure you having a user friendly power switch is a necessity on the Pi. That said, Why not use the best looking and highest performance switch available? Our case includes a waterproof stainless steel momentary switch with blue LED ring indicator.
Now that we have a switch, we need some user feedback to indicate if the pi is operating or not. The indicator output is a bit of a hack but works beautifully. We simply enable the serial port to determine whether the Pi is active. When active, it provides a 3V signal an illuminates the blue LED ring light.
See below for the raspbian modifications to make the power switch and indicator operate properly.
Please note that on the Pi3b+ this is not a total power shutdown. The processor does halt and power consumption is decreased dramatically, down to approximately 90ma. The red power led does remain on the main board. The onboard LEDs can be seen through the two ports on the side of the case. Note that clear PETG filament makes a great light pipe!
Press the button again and the pi will wake from power down. Reboot and you are good to go after the normal boot process. EZ as pi!
#Added below for the MACSBOOST.com McPi Raspberry pi case soft shutdown and start blue ring led switch.
You can easily edit the config.txt on a pc. Insert the SD card on a PC. You will see a folder with the config.txt in it. Just edit the file, place the SD card back in the pi and hit the gas!
Attach the switch wires (blue) to header pin 5 and pin 6.
Attach the LED wires (white) to header pin 8 and pin 9. Polarity does not matter.


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Q: How to create geom_text and geom_point with matching manual color scales? I'd like to create a plot where my labels (derived from geom_text) match a manual color scale I'm using for my points. Here's an example using the Iris data set. When I enter the following code I get this error:
library(tidyverse)

labels <- tibble(
           Species = c("setosa", "veriscolor", "virginica"),
           Sepal.Length = c(4.3, 5.5, 7),
           Sepal.Width = c(3.5, 2.3, 3.7))

ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width)) +
  geom_point(aes(color = Species)) +
  geom_text(data = labels,
            aes(x = Sepal.Length,
                y = Sepal.Width, label = Species, color = Species),
            inherit.aes = F) +
  scale_color_manual(values = c("gray", "purple", "orange")

Error: Insufficient values in manual scale. 4 needed but only 3 provided.

I've seen that this has something to do with unused factor levels but I can't seem to apply their solutions here.

A: The error is not in ggplot, but in your labels data frame:
labels <-
  data.frame(
    Species = levels(iris$Species),
    Sepal.Length = c(4.3, 5.5, 7),
    Sepal.Width = c(3.5, 2.3, 3.7) )

You can also specify color in the global aes to simplify your code. And following Gregor comment, you don't need to specify x and y in geom_text, since it's also in the global aesthetics.
ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, color = Species)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_text(data = labels, aes(label = Species)) +
  scale_color_manual(values = c("gray", "purple", "orange"))


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Brian Bronfman – Montreal, Canada
This story is part of the series We are human rights changemakers to celebrate Equitas' 50th anniversary (#Equitas50). All through 2017, we invite you to discover stories of 50 inspiring human rights changemakers. These are but a few of the hundreds who have changed lives around the world through human rights education with Equitas' support.
Brian Bronfman has an impressive educational background, with 11 years of post-secondary education, including a philosophy B.A. and two law degrees from McGill University, plus a Masters of Science in natural resource planning from the University of Vermont. But a twist of fate led him to use his final academic year studying mediation and conflict resolution at a small college in Vermont, a year that was the most significant of his academic life.
Brian returned to Montreal from Vermont in 1998, working for two and a half years as the founding director of Institut Pacifique's social mediation division. This experience, in tandem with relationships he was establishing with various other non governmental organizations (NGOs), led him to realize that mediation and peace are completely interlinked. In 2005, his father Edward – who was awarded the Order of Canada for his philanthropic activities – passed away, leading to the creation of the Brian Bronfman Family Foundation (BBFF) as the continuation of his late father's foundation.
"I wanted to focus the new Foundation on a very specific theme – at first, it was peace, mediation and conflict resolution, and now its focus has been further refined to be 'peace in action'. No other Foundation in Canada does what this Foundation does."
A few years later, Brian and his colleagues also created the Peace Grantmakers Network (PGN). This membership organization rallies players in the philanthropic and corporate world around the peace cause as a means of maximizing impact. For both BBFF and PGN, the working definition of peace is not political and it is not symbolic. The intention is to be involved with activities that have real and lasting impact. Both the Foundation and the Network are involved in activities related to matters such as violence prevention, diversity, conflict resolution, and social-emotional learning.
"We realized early on that we had to focus fairly tightly if we would be successful with a small Foundation, since the concept of peace is so incredibly huge. We work on creating healthy relationships, not tackling huge issues such as solving crises in the Middle East. That being said, healthy relationships are at the core of peace on every scale, large and small."
The BBFF's primary activity is to provide grants to organizations that create peace in concrete ways. One of those NGOs is Equitas, given that the organization uses a multitude of peace skills as part of its human rights training, such as those related to communication, empathy, and respect. At first, the BBFF was happy to provide grants for general support of Equitas. In 2012, one of the applicants for Equitas' summer International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) was a young man from Gaza who had been working to develop educational materials to help create more peaceful communities back home. Equitas approached Brian to support Mohammed's IHRTP participation, and BBFF agreed to pay half the cost of his tuition. The next year, an identical situation took place with Najme, a young woman from Iran.
Following the success of these two grants, BBFF agreed to change its annual general donation into an annual bursary that covers the entire cost of the IHRTP for a person working towards peace, including tuition and expenses. The bursary is given to a participant selected from a number of potential candidates, with the main criterion being their involvement in peace-in-action. Last year's recipient, Irene, is working on ensuring that peacekeepers in Africa remain respectful of the communities in which they serve and protect women's rights.
Of all of the activities that the BBFF supports, Equitas now ranks well above average in terms of total dollar support. They are also above average in terms of NGO relationships. All things being equal, the support of Equitas will likely continue, given the fit with BBFF's mandate, the close relationship that has evolved over time, and the unique and satisfying funding mechanism that has been developed.
President, Brian Bronfman Family Foundation, Montreal, Canada
Annual Bursary for Equitas' International Human Rights Training Program
Story prepared by Bill Horne, Launceston Services.
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If you find yourself looking for something a little different in the cookie world, look no further than these cookies. Thumbprint cookies certainly aren't anything new, but the addition of a cheesecake filling is worth some excitement.
The cookies themselves are very simple in flavor. They are made with just a few ingredients. Their simplicity combines magically with the richness of the cheesecake filling for a wonderfully delicious dessert.
There's not a lot of obvious flavor happening in the cookie dough. I contemplated adding a bit more sugar or augmenting in some other way. Instead, I decided to roll some of them in cinnamon-sugar for a Snickerdoodle-like variation. Then, I could compare the two and decide which works better.
Honestly? I can't pick. I love them both! The original version is not overtly sweet, but the cookies are just lovely. To me, the simple cookie serves as almost the crust to the cheesecake. If you're a big cheesecake fan, you'll enjoy that the focus is decidedly on the cheesecake filling.
With the cinnamon-sugar version, you get more flavor and sweetness in a quick and easy way. You can use a commercially available cinnamon-sugar, but it's also very easy to make your own. The most common proportions are 1 tablespoon of cinnamon per 1/4 cup sugar. One of the perks of making your own is that you can adjust that to your taste.
These cookies are definitely a departure from standard cookie fare. And that's a very good thing. Adding cream cheese is pretty much always a good idea in my book. That beautiful, delicious filling really elevates these thumbprint cookies into something quite special.
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Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add sugar and salt. Mix until smooth. Add egg yolk, sour cream, and vanilla, and beat until smooth.
Refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350°. Line baking sheets with silicone liners or parchment paper.
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add salt and egg yolk, and mix well.
Reduce mixer speed to low. Gradually add flour, mixing just until combined.
Using 1 tablespoonful of dough at a time, roll dough into balls. If desired, roll each ball in cinnamon-sugar. Place cookies about an inch apart on prepared pans.
Make an indentation in the top of each ball with a small tart tamper or the handle of a wooden spoon. Flour the tamper or spoon if needed to prevent sticking.
Bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven and make indentations again. Bake 8-10 minutes, or until the edges begin to turn golden.
Cool completely on pans on wire racks.
After cookies have cooled, preheat oven to 350° again.
Fill indentations with about 1 teaspoon of cream cheese filling. Mound the filling slightly.
Bake cookies 7-8 minutes, or until filling is firm. Cool cookies on pans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Then, transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
Transfer cooled cookies to an airtight container. Place waxed paper or parchment paper between layers. Refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving.
Allow cookies to sit at room temperature for 15-20 minutes before serving.
Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook.
Recently, I had a bit of a realization that I'm not using my cookbooks as much as I should. So, I've decided to make it a point to use them. And, you are going to benefit from that, too. About once a month, I will make a recipe from one of my dozens of cookbooks and give you the chance to win a copy for yourself.
I found this recipe in one of my favorite cookbooks. Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook has resided in a prominent spot on my bookshelf for the past several years. My deep, abiding love of this book is the very best reason to offer it as my first Baker's Bookshelf giveaway! To kick this off, I'm offering THREE of you a copy of this amazing book.
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Love snickerdoodle too! Bite size cheesecake….ummmm, hello?!? Delish!
These would make a great addition to a holiday cookie exchange.
Wonderful. Now, I am hungry.
I used to buy these at my grocery store with a chocolate base that had mini chocolate chips in it. It was delicious and I was so sad when they stopped making them/I moved away. Any chance you might make these in a chocolate variety at some point?
Looks like a great variation from the old jam standby!
I am a big fan of cream cheese frosting so I imagine I'd LOVE these cookies! Such a fun twist on a classic.
This is such a unique cookie, and I love all things cheesecake! Gotta try these!
What a fun twist on a classic cookie. And I love snickerdoodles, so the cinnamon sugar coating sounds awesome!
These are genius! I love thumbprint cookies but the jam filling doesn't do it for me- this sounds wonderful!
Love these cookies! Pinned them for later.
Wow! I have never heard of adding cheese to cookies, but this sounds delicious. I'm a huge cookie fan, but I'm getting bored of the classic chocolate chip or sugar cookie. This is such an innovative way of transforming cookies into a wonderfully inventive dish! I love how daring this is and I can't wait to try it!
Do these cookies need to be refrigerated for storage, because of the egg & dairy, or can leftover cookies (assuming there are some) be left at room temp?
Hi, Jenny. If the cookies will be eaten within a couple of days, I wouldn't necessarily refrigerate them. I kept mine refrigerated because I knew they wouldn't be eaten that quickly.
A lovely variety for the holidays!
Am I reading this wrong or are the cookies spending almost 1/2 hr in the oven? Is that correct?
Hi, Chrissy. Yes, that's right. Keep an eye on them for the second round of baking. They will just need to bake until the edges are beginning to brown.


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According to the bank website, the objetive of this project is the development, construction, operation and maintenance of a mineral and specialized bulk terminal port, GSEZ Mineral Port, in the city of Owendo near Libreville, Gabon. The port will be a viable logistics solution for the export and import of minerals and other products. It is scheduled to be built in two phases under a development agreement signed with the government of Gabon represented by the Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Transport and Logistics in the region of Owendo for a 90-year concession period. GSEZ MP also signed a concession agreement with the Office of Ports and Harbours of Gabon OPRAG for a 30-year period, extendable for 20 years (or more, in accordance with the Master Agreement).
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One Small Voice: My next vote goes to . .
My next vote goes to . .
I was reading the tabloid Pune Mirror today and happened to come across a really interesting article here.
The donkey is in no way connected to the Nehru-Gandhi family and/or their supporters. Though that immediately disqualifies said animal from any chances of coming to power, it does lend a solid basis of credibility to the candidature.
EITHER graze contentedly without disturbing proceedings.
OR stand in one place gazing with mild benevolence at the speaker.
Either way, it's not going to disrupt proceedings in any form or manner whatsoever. Which is more than you can say for the current crop of politicians (I am just going to refer to them as CCOP).
The donkey is MUCH more intelligent than the CCOP. I mean come on, we can't call the ability to collude and defraud as intelligence. We can call it cunning, shrewdness, dishonesty or any other adjective at best. But not intelligence. Other than that, I don't think the CCOP has displayed any evidence of grey matter between its ears. Planning, foresight, vision, moral characters are qualities unheard of in the CCOP. Compared to that, the donkey at least has the sense to not be harmful if it can't be useful.
The donkey makes more sense when it opens its mouth. That sublime bray has more content than anything the CCOP has come up with in recent years. Right from saffron terror remarks to comparing intelligence of Swami Vivekananda to Dawood Ibrahim the CCOP has been in rare form in the recent past. The donkey wins hands down when it comes to sense and content.
The donkey looks better. For all those who keep aesthetics in mind, the donkey is better looking than 80% of the CCOP. Right from Mamata's baleful glare to Mulayam's supercilious sneer.
Given the above points, I would say the donkey would make an excellent candidate. This might just be the best news that Indian society has received in a while. A shot in the arm. A new high.


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Q: Web API Owin self host multiple applications We are trying to setup an owin self host service for multiple applications (app1, app2).
We'd like to use the same behavior of IIS where one application pool uses one AppDomain per application.
Here is the code we use:
using (WebApp.Start<WebServerStartup>(url: "http://localhost:9000/")) { ... }

... and the WebServerStartup implementation:
internal class WebServerStartup
{
    public void Configuration(IAppBuilder appBuilder)
    {
        // Configure Web API for self-host.
        var config = new HttpConfiguration();
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "DefaultApi",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
        );

        appBuilder.UseWebApi(config);
    }

How can we use multiple AppDomains for each application? Is there a way to declare multiple webapps using Webapp.Start(...) in separate AppDomains that would share the same port? Or is there some way to route the requests to various appdomains somehow by defining a route like app/api/{controller}/{id} instead of api/{controller}/{id}?
Thanks

A: There's no built in support for running the apps in separate domains. You'd want to start each new AppDomain and then run WebApp.Start inside.


This year's spring equinox and Ostara arrive on March 20, for the northern hemisphere the same day as the Libra Supermoon, and offers an opportunity for getting into the spring spirit. Ostara occurs between Imbolc and Beltane as the middle spring festival and representing the Goddess in her fullest Maiden expression. As the sun moves north over the celestial equator creating equal parts day and night while also marking a solar milestone into warmth.
However, Ostara herself is also shrouded in mysterious folklore as she is technically only mentioned once in writings by a monk during the 7th century A.C.E. Some scholars even think he may have made her up. Because of this, there is debate among scholars about whether Ostara was traditionally celebrated or if it is a more modern neo-Pagan holiday.
Wiccan mythology may not have worshipped Ostara at all, but Druids and ancient Eastern European cultures painted eggs and had symbols of the rabbit for fertility. And without a doubt spring has been an important turning point for many cultures and religions. In fact, Hindu Holi, Jewish Purim, Sikh Hola Mohalla, and Christian Easter all occur around the same time as Ostara and the Vernal Equinox.
Create an altar with flowers, plants, crystals such as aquamarine or rose quartz, and symbolism such as ladybugs or bees.


Yesterday was vomit day. Today is cold day. Every day is mommy day. And I wouldn't have it any other way. She needs me. I need to be needed. Doesn't everyone? We were made to give and serve. We cannot be fulfilled by trying to meet only our own needs.
God made us to be needed because he made us in his image and likeness. He made us to need him. No person can ever meet our deepest needs. Yet he has made us like him, and graced us with the ability to meet other people's needs...when our reliance is on Him.
It's like a waterfall. God is the source, each cascade draws from him and pours into the next, filling the pool with an endless supply of life giving water that never runs dry...so long as the source isn't cut off or any part of the falls stopped up. The trickle down effect won't do the job. It's all or nothing.
On a lighter note (that actually has relevance to meeting needs), I traded a Bryan Adams CD for a jar of olives on eBay. I kept seeing the same jar of olives advertised and no one buying it, so I finally emailed the sellers and offered a trade. They're avid music collectors who dislike olives and I'm on a diet of olives and almost pure Christian music, so it was the perfect match.


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Q: kendo UI numeric textbox culture not translating correctly I'm using a numeric textbox on my MVC site that is bound to an object, like:
@Html.Kendo().NumericTextBoxFor(m =>  m.Latitude).Decimals(8).Min(-90).Max(90).Step(.01)

Where the Latitude object is just a property that looks like:
public double? Latitude { get; set; }

my website can be shown in 2 different cultures, both getting it's data from the same database.  So the value saved in the database looks like '48.33900606', etc.  This all works fine on my en-US website, but on my de-DE website the value doesn't show up at all on edit.  If i type in '48,33900606', it works fine and i can save and it saves as a double like it should.  If i 'edit', where the numeric textbox loads with that value, it just blanks out.  If i click on the box, i can see '4833900606' without commas, without periods, but when i click away it changes to 90,00 (becuase that's my listed maximum above).  Anyway to reconcile this?

A: Although the question is a bit old, it might work for some guys working with Kendo NumericTextbox on the latest browsers. You need to add the following code in the NumericTextbox declaration to override the type="numeric" attribute:
.HtmlAttributes( new { type="text" } )

I just found out that this happens due to the type attribute of the input values being validated by the browsers in some browser versions (I am getting this on Chrome 56.0.2924.87). This browser setting seems to mess up the values during validation and I get the same issue with the numeric textbox being blank
During the loading of the numerictextbox I get a console warning stating that:

The specified value "5,00" is not a valid number. The value must match
  to the following regular expression:
  -?(\d+|\d+.\d+|.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)?

A: You need to set the culture when you work in de-DE
Add to your page
 <script src="kendo.culture.de-DE.js"></script>

Set the culture
 kendo.culture("de-DE");

Kendo reference
Tutorial
Update
In that case, I'd suggest to format the number before sending it to the Kendo widget
<input id="txtLatitude" name="Latitude">
<script>
    $("#txtLatitude").kendoNumericTextBox({
        value: kendo.toString(Model.Latitude, "n8", "de-DE"),
        min: -90,
        max: 80,
        step: 0.01,
        decimals: 8
    });
</script>


I totally spaced when the Twisted hunt started, so I don't remember if I sent any notices or not. I know I forgot to do a blog post, sorry about that. RL has been handing my behind to me for the past few months, and it has not been easy on me.
That aside, the Twisted hunt has ended, and I am releasing the full pack of the Ringmaster boots, in male and female versions! 24 colors total, in two packs. Single colors will be available on the MP (if I can ever get it to cooperate with me), but until then, only the packs are available at the main store. The boots and buttons can be textured separately via the included HUD.
Also, I can't ever have enough pants...and I LOVE yoga pants, so I made some for you! Check em out!
Lastly....I think my gacha supply is long overdue for replenishment lol. Got some new doll keys for ya! Both interactive and decorative versions are available. Transfer only. Enjoy!


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DVD Review: Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power Live
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Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power Live – In the Hands of the Fans
Directed by Joey Carey and Luis Valdes
MVD Visual, 2011
81 minutes, USD $16.95
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I am just going to assume that whoever is reading this is a Stooges fan – as well you should be – and does not need for me to go into a history of the band, other than some comments here and there to explain the DVD. Okay with you? Great, let's get started.
Apparently the In the Hands of the Fans idea is catching on and it is becoming a series; I know of another one about Dinosaur Jr. playing their album, Bug. The premise is simple enough: hold a contest to find half-a-dozen devotees to send video contributions about themselves in relation to the band via various social media. The winners get to meet the Stooges and do an interview, then are handed cameras and they film the show. The footage is later edited together into a flow.
The DVD starts off with clips of some of the winners' entries, most of them the nerdy, rock'n'roll obsessed type (i.e., like me). One asked a great question which I'm sure got him in: nearly all of the songs on Raw Power fade out, so what happens after that point, when the songs are played live? From there we go to the concert, filmed at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival, held at Kutsher's Country Club (at one time a center of Jewish Catskills comedy and music) at Monticello, NY, on September 3, 2010.
At this festival, the revamped Stooges (James Williamson continuing as replacement for the late Ron Ashton; Scott Ashton on drums; and ex-Minutemen / fIREHOSE – among others – Mike Watt on bass; with Iggy Pop as always in front) decided to perform their seminal LP, Raw Power all the way through, though not in the same order. However, they don't end there, and play a number of their other hits, including "I Wanna Be Your Dog." They even mine some in the early post-Stooges Bomp! years (when Williamson came on board). The set list is below.
Part of what is thrilling about this DVD is that it's the entire concert, rather than just the songs. With the crisp sound and multiple camera work – even though done by amateurs – the viewer gets a full experience of being at the show. Thanks for that!
[Digression paragraph: I only saw Iggy twice, once at the Palladium, off Union Square, in 1977 (backed by the Hunt Brothers; dad Soupy introduced the band and got as much of an ovation as did the band), and another time in the 1980s playing at the more intimate Brooklyn Zoo, a club for a moment in Sheepshead Bay (the Helen Wheels Band opened, if I remember correctly). During the show, someone threw some ice at the Pop-ster, who stopped mid song and firmly stated, "Don't throw ice at me, motherfucker. This isn't a request, it's a command." He then started the song over from the beginning. They were both great shows. Okay, I'm back now…]
Bathed in blue and red lights, Iggy still manages to keep the energy level high, even at age 63, bouncing around the stage like a marionette on the strings of someone yanking him around. Yeah, Ewan McGregor did a great impression of him in Velvet Goldmine, but there are very few who can command like Iggy when it comes to stage presence. His voice is still in top form, and he knows how to manipulate the willing audience into a frenzy. Total fun (as opposed to "No…"). He is completely at ease with the crowd, and it is amusing how every once in a while he will leaned into the assembly as if to body surf, and some of the club's security lean over and pull him back in, sometimes by the belt . The security also does a thorough job making sure no one else takes the stage, with the exception of during the song "Shake Appeal," where Iggy cajoles, "I want dancers, I want spazzers, I want freaks. Get up on the stage with the fuckin' Stooges. Let 'em up! We got a dance number, and we need volunteers."
Even on some of the slower, mid-speed songs like "Penetration" and "Gimme Danger," there is a force field that waves out from the band, giving these songs no less power than the faster ones. Of course, the main reason is the singer, but it doesn't stop there. Williamson remains a powerhouse of a guitarist, and a perfect replacement for Ron. He wields a strong ax and isn't afraid to flail with it. His solos are so different than, say, Jimmy Page, with more intense and terse sounds that are never boring (as some solos can be, such as by, oh, let's say Jimmy Page). Scott pounds the skins fiercely. While he is a rhythm drummer rather than a "wildman," he gives the tunes the backing they need, as does Watt, a way underrated bassist. Despite an injured leg (which one would never know by watching the show), he nearly crouches down and follows Iggy's every move and command (reminding me of Tina Weymouth, of Talking Heads, back in the '70s, as she stared nearly unblinking at David Byrne). His bass strumming is amazing to watch and hear. Joining the band is Steve Mackay on tenor sax, who was also an instrumental part of the Stooges era. He shares an interesting atonal exchange with Watt at the end of "1970 (I Feel Alright)."
The crowd is really into the music, which makes the show all the better (though there is some fool towards the front holding up a clear plastic pint beer cup distracting from the action, and I'm sure annoying the people around him/her).
One of the reasons why the Stooges are considered the godfathers of punk (among others) is that the songs are based on stark chords rather than classically straight melodies, and while appearing simple, are actually quite complex. For example, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," always one of my fave riffs, is played faster than on the record, except for the interlude. Plus, it's easy to tell that the band is having fun, which is transmitted to the viewers, both at the show and those at home.
After the show, Iggy's allowed to body surf (see the DVD cover, above), and we are introduced to the camera people and we see which angles are whose in the show, a nice touch indeed.
The extras are quite interesting here. The main part is the interviews the six winners do with the band backstage, in shifts of three. For 43 minutes (additional above the 81-minute concert time) we hear some great - and others bizarre - questions from the group, and Iggy, as always, proves himself to be quite articulate. For example, he explains that the origin of "Death Trip" is actually taken from the much covered chestnut, "Sea Cruise." Watt does a great talking ramble (always has), and Williamson and Ashton seem like they don't really seem comfortable, but actually give some great answers anyway.
Also included, of course, are most of the full videos sent in by the winners. Additionally, there is also a promo for the contest hosted by the great Handsome "Dick" Manitoba (hey, how about a Dictators In the Hands of the Fans reunion for Go Girl Crazy? I would so love that).
The liner notes are long, written by Watt in his wonderful meandering style, with insight, humor, and intelligence.
So, if you're a street walkin' cheetah who wants to be a dog coz your pretty face is going to hell, you just have get this excellent document. Even if you turn the picture off and just listen to the soundtrack, it's worth the death trip.
Set List (original album):
Raw Power (Raw Power)
Search and Destroy (Raw Power)
Gimme Danger (Raw Power)
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell (Raw Power)
Shake Appeal (Raw Power)
I Need Somebody (Raw Power)
Penetration (Raw Power)
Death Trip (Raw Power)
1970 (I Feel Alright) (Fun House)
Night Theme (Kill City)
Beyond the Law (Kill City)
I Got a Right (I Got a Right)
I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges)
Open Up and Bleed (Open Up and Bleed)
Fun House (Fun House)
No Fun (The Stooges)
Rent it here.
Labels: FFanzeen, Iggy Pop, In the Hands of the Fans, Mike Watt, MVD Visual, Raw Power, Robert Barry Francos, Stooges
DVD Review: From Straight to Bizarre
From Straight to Bizarre: Zappa, Beefheart, Alice Cooper and L.A.'s Lunatic Fringe
Executive Producer: Rob Johnstone
Narrated by Thomas Arnold
Sexy Intellectual, 2011
161 minutes, USD $19.95
Chromedream.co.uk
Frank Zappa (RIP, 1993) has always been known as bit of a lunatic, be it his diverse and non-mainstream musical directions, to his meandering anti-censorship rants during the whole '80s PMRC debacle led by Tipper Gore (Al's spouse).
However, it was this borderline behavior that made him able to land a foot on both sides of the line, appealing equally to those in the straight world (i.e., general audiences) and those on the bizarre periphery (i.e., the fringe of culture). Because of this, he became a mediator of the latter to bring them into the former, even if only in the representative form of a 12-inch oil-based black disc with their voices.
As a visionary living in the hills of the Los Angles, Frank attracted groupies (including making them babysitters for then-young son Dweezil and -infant daughter Moon Unit), schizophrenics, control freaks, and rockers trying to find their direction. Obviously, Frank felt a bond with them, as he was usually seen as an "other," or trickster character on the scene.
After finding some success with his own releases, such as the Mothers of Invention's seminal Freak Out, Frank managed to get the record label to support his own vanity label, Bizarre, which he started with Herb Cohen; and after they were dismayed by the lack of sales and cancelled it, he started another called Straight (the DVD title has it backwards, y'see), until its collapse in 1973.
To paraphrase a song by the band Sparks, talent wasn't a needed asset for those who joined in the Zappa stable. Rather, it was a collective of degrees, from very able to those whose personality and oddity weighed in more than culturally classical facility.
Despite being L.A.-focused, their first artist was actually New York singer-songwriter Sandy Hurvitz, who would later go more famously by the moniker Essra Mohawk. According to Mohawk, who is interviewed on this DVD, she had a personal relationship with Frank, which soured, resulting in him leaving her studio tracks unfinished as far as tweaking, and that was the reason for the lack of success of the product. Actually, that becomes the central theme here: Zappa was all gung-ho, something happened between him and the artist(s) with whom he was working, and he bailed on the final work. This was also true for the groupie/dancers-turned-singers collective known as the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously, two of whom are interviewed here including the lovely Miss Pamela DesBarres), the Alice Cooper band, and Captain Beefheart (RIP, 2010), to name a few.
As for Larry "Wild Man" Fischer (RIP, 2011), the crack in their working relationship happened after his release, when he psychotically accused Zappa of not paying him royalties on records that he believed sold better than it actually did (see the recent film about Fischer, DeRailroaded for his entertaining-yet-sad side of the story), which lead to his one Zappa-released album never to be reissued. Due to health reasons, both mental and physical, Fischer was not a part of this documentary.
While Captain Beefheart was a control freak who kept his Magic Band on a very short leash, Zappa (his ex-college roommate, apparently) was equally prickly, which of course makes the story of the Bizarre/Straight labels all the more interesting looking back in the rearview mirror (as Marshall McLuhan may have put it).
Surely, Zappa is the more recognized name, but Cohen also has his cadre of artists that mostly went nowhere, that are also represented on this DVD, such as Tim Buckley (RIP, 1975), Jerry Yester (ex-Lovin' Spoonful) and his wife Judy Henske, and Harlem-based R&B a cappella group the Persuasions (lead singer Jerry Lawson tells some great anecdotes here), among others.
For nearly three hours, this Chrome Dreams documentary (this is the second by them on Zappa I've seen) keeps the attention level high, by relying more on the people who were there and directly affected, rather than only those who reported on it (though it's always a joy to see and hear music historian Richie Unterberger). While chock full of rare clips of the band – both visual and aural – it is these recent interviews that really put out tales from the past and make it not just academic, but palpably alive. There are two members of the GTOs (the aforementioned Miss Pamela, and Miss Mercy Fontenot, aka Judith Peters), two from the first lineup of the Nazz, aka the Alice Cooper Band (drummer Neal Smith and bassist Dennis Dunaway), two of the Magic Band (drummer John French, aka Drumbo, and guitarist Bill Karkleroad, aka Zoot Horn Rollo), Essra Mohawk, and scenester and ever creepy Kim Fowley. For the historians, along with Unterberger, there are the likes of Zappa biographers Billy James, Barry Miles and Ben Watson, and others who wrote extensively on the Los Angeles music scene.
This is possibly one of the best of the Chrome Dreams series I've been fortunate to see, and I've seen quite a few now. By wisely focusing on the musicians and those there, and keeping the music biographers / historians / critics as more of a Greek Chorus rather than the core, they have produced a document that is much more first hand reporting, and thereby making the story more than just second-person circumstantial.
There are two extras (along with the usual contributors bios and an online link): First up is "The Art of Persuasion: Jerry Lawson and Frank Zappa After the Straight Label." During its 5:40 length, Lawson discusses his band's contribution to the Frank Zappa tribute album, Frank, after his passing. They did "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing," which we hear in a clip.
Second is "Hunger!: The Struggles of the Magic Band," which describes the diets (minimal, mostly veggies, due to lack of funds) forced on the band by Beefheart, and how this resulted in the band getting arrested for stealing food.
Both of these are fun, and just the right length.
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Labels: 1960s, Alice Cooper, Captain Beefheart, Chrome Dreams, DVD review, FFanzeen, Frank Zappa, From Straight to Bizarre, MVD Visual, Pamela DesBarres, PMRC, Robert Barry Francos, Tim Buckley, Wild Man Fischer
Book Review: Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of the Jefferson Airplane, by Jeff Tamarkin
Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of the Jefferson Airplane
By Jeff Tamarkin
Introduction by Jann Wenner
Forward by Paul Kantner
Atria Books (NY), 2003
408 pages, hardcover; USD $27.00
My bad. I was given this book to review a while back by Joe V., and, well, the book ended up boxed for a while, and then it was a matter of out-of-sights came to the forefront. My apologies.
Jeff Tamarkin
I've been a fan of author Jeff Tamarkin for years. So, in a case of better late than never – and the fact that the book deserves to be read – here we go:
It can be argued that the Jefferson Airplane was to the San Francisco scene at the height of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene in the mid-'60s what the Ramones was to the nascent punk scene in New York in the mid-'70s: not the only band around that deserved notice, but one that helped spearhead a new sound, and a revolutionary subculture that spread throughout the world.
But calling this book one about the Jefferson Airplane is not exactly accurate. Sure, the band is in the forefront of this story, but Tamarkin wisely doesn't put on blinders by giving a narrow reading of the time, but rather he shows how the Jefferson Airplane (JA) not only brought the scene to the world, it was also formed and shaped by it. Nothing grows in a vacuum, the old chestnut reads, and the JA is no exception. The Kennedy Assassination, Elvis, the Beatles, Viet Nam (or Vietnam, if you prefer), and the explosion of available pharmaceuticals all played a part in what would foster bands like the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and JA, and impresarios like the querulous Bill Graham (who at one time managed JA).
Over the years, Tamarkin has had substantial access to the band, including early and later members, and he wisely uses this to plump up the story using quotes in abbreviated "oral history" style, with direct quote callouts from his own personal interviews (i.e., original material). Even though there are many books about the "Summer of Love" period of San Francisco and the music that arose from it, very few focus this much direct light on this important band. While, in history, singer Grace Slick has been the main focus of much of the media attention (thanks in part to her being a wild card, not to mention attractive), Tamarkin focuses equally on all members of the band, including founder and main vocalist Marty Balin (who is once again becoming musically active), guitarists Jorma Kaukonen and Paul Kantner, bassist Jack Casady, and all of the many living drummers who played with the JA.
But just as the JA was part of the milieu that Tamarkin investigates, this book is not only about the JA, but the various other bands that were offshoots of the original, such as Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, and of course, the band with eventually none of the original JA members left who built this city, Starship.
With the exception of an early manager, it seems like everyone who has either been in the band(s), managed it, worked for it, friends with the members, were scene-makers, or saw them crossing the street one day (I say this whimsically, of course), are quoted. This includes wives/girlfriends, ex-wives/girlfriends, and (now adult) kids. Did I mention that this is thorough?
And with all the personal changes in management and in the band(s), such as (also lovely) original singer Signe Toly Anderson and later singer Mickey Thomas, Tamarkin manages to keep them all straight as they weave in and out of the story, in part by giving histories of most of the members, usually going back to the grandparents! While a large and complex mix, even without a scorecard, the reader can follow along through its many pages.
I must admit, at this point, that with the exception of a few songs, I was never a big JA follower (I have their Surrealistic Pillow album, and the 2-disk 2400 Fulton Street "best of" compilation, but it's not something that goes on my playlist often. Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna music was around, but I don't own anything of them, and I'm sure my love affair with the then-contemporary stripped down punk sound is a solid reason for that (though I had forgotten that I liked "Miracles"), and as for Starship, well, everything I heard by them was not just boring, but a clear symbol of everything I hated about '80s synth rock (and I'm hardly the only one who feels that). And yet, because of the way Tamarkin describes the music, the scene, and the historical importance of the music, I went back and listened to a much of it (my two sets, and the rest online).
[Sidebar: as the author describes, bassist Casady formed a punk(ish) band named SVT, who recorded a decent single with "Heart of Stone"; I saw them play at the Bottom Line, in New York City… yes, I was on the guest list).]
The fact that Tamarkin can pique my interest to the point of my going back to relistening (and I'm not saying much of my opinion has changed), and kept me riveted throughout, say a lot to both the story, and the way he presents it.
The book has since been released in paperback form (2005), so it may be worthwhile to look into it. Meanwhile, Tamarkin is working with Howard Kaylan (Turtles, Flo & Eddie) on his autobiography, due this year, which I look forward to, as Kaylan is a keystone of the Los Angeles scene of the same period (not to mention having a very sharp tongue).
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Labels: 1960s, Book Review, FFanzeen, Got a Revolution, Grace Slick, Haight-Ashbury, Jack Casady, Jeff Tamarkin, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Robert Barry Francos
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Courage Films
Courage Films creates documentaries that truly matter. We want to tell stories that inform, inspire, and entertain and kindle a sense of hope in our viewers. It's a big, beautiful, and complicated world out there and we hope to bring some of the best of it to you.
MIKE DOWNIE – President
Mike Downie is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker and the co-founder of The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous together to build a better country. Mike's production company Courage Films explores how our individual and collective stories define us, remind us of our past and shape our future. Leading us on a never-ending journey inwards, onwards, and upwards.
DAVID WELLS – Producer
David is an accomplished and award-winning writer and producer of documentary films and factual television. Over a 15-year career, David has travelled to Dubai, Hong Kong and Afghanistan to produce films about the biggest stories of our time. David was awarded a Gold Medal at the 2013 New York Festivals for The Man Who Tweeted Earth and won the Best Science Documentary prize for Invasion of the Brain Snatchers at the 2015 Canadian Screen Awards.
Kim Creelman – Producer
Kim Creelman is a Producer of factual television and documentary films with over 20 years experience. She is currently Producing a 3-part documentary series for CBC and STARZ based on the investigative podcast Evil By Design and recently Produced Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks, for Prime Video (Amazon). Kim is passionate about telling stories about extraordinary people and social issues and likes to take on projects that examine and expand our perspectives.
JACOB AKMAN – Research & Development
Jacob is passionate about the business of storytelling. He's a creator and marketer of music, film, television and digital media. He's worked with international leaders in production and distribution as well as start ups. He's excited to be working with the Courage team, telling stories that need to be heard, educating and inspiring change through documentaries.
Mike Downie
Universal Music – Platinum Video Award – WINNER
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MuchMusic Video Award – Best Performance in a Video – WINNER
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"Poets" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in June 1998 as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Phantom Power. The song reached number-one on Canada's Alternative chart, and stayed number-one for 12 weeks straight, longer than any song in the history of that chart.
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The Hockey Nomad
This documentary follows Dave Bidini, a noted Canadian musician and hockey fan, as he travels the globe to unique locations in search of other die-hard hockey fans and the true spirit of the game. He makes his way to the desert of Dubai in the UAE where a beautifully maintained ice rink miraculously rises from the scorching red sands, then on to Romania's famed Transylvania, where hockey first started in the 1920s after one local caught sight of the game being played on a 10-second newsreel.
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In this episode of CBC's Project X – Memory, Dr. Gardy looks at how elite athletes perform dazzling feats, seemingly without effort. She joins a group of British "free runners," athletes performing the urban street stunts, to explore how muscle memory works. Dr. Fleck and grad student Marc Huot then unearth some surprising news in the classroom:
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ONE OCEAN tells the story of the world's vast interconnected ocean ecosystem. With a wealth of never-before-seen HD footage, the spectacular 4-part series bears witness to underwater volcanoes erupting metres from the camera and discoveries of rare and bizarre life forms.
CTV Discovery – Genie Best Short Documentary Film – WINNER
National Parks Project – Sirmilik
On the eve of Parks Canada's Centennial, thirteen filmmakers and thirty-nine musicians embark on a historic expedition through thirteen Canadian national parks.
CBC – Canadian Screen Award for Best Science or Nature Documentary Program – WINNER
Invasion of The Brain Snatchers
Parasites brainwashing their hosts — it sounds like something straight out of science fiction. But this is no horror movie, this is a fascinating, new field of study. From zombie ants to a creature that may be influencing whole human cultures, INVASION OF THE BRAIN SNATCHERS isn't afraid to dive in
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The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack.
CBC – Canadian Screen Award for Best Entertainment Program – WINNER
The Secret Path: In Concert is a concert film that captures once in a lifetime performances by Gord Downie (The Tragically Hip), Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies), Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers), Dave Hamelin (The Stills), and Charles Spearin (Broken Social Scene). The film also incorporates elements from the original animated film, as well as intimate backstage moments.
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Finding the Secret Path
Finding the Secret Path is an intimate concert film and documentary that captures Gord Downie, behind the scenes, as he prepares for an emotional and historic Secret Path performance, before the entire Wenjack family, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, interwoven with footage from the original animated film


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Dr Lakra
Incomplete Dr. Lakra street art in San Diego, CA in 2010
Jerónimo López Ramírez (born 1972), known as Dr Lakra, is a Mexican artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca. Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing found images and objects—for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines—with macabre or tattoo-style designs.[1]
He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Stolen Bike at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City, Los Dos Amigos at MACO in Mexico, Pin Up at Tate Modern and Pierced Hearts and True Love at The Drawing Center in New York.[citation needed] In 2008 he participated in the Goth: Reality of the Departed World exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, curated by Eriko Kimura.[citation needed]
He is the son of the graphic artist Francisco Toledo[2] and Elisa Ramírez Castañeda, a Mexican anthropologist and poet. He is also the brother of Natalia Toledo (poet) and Laureana Toledo (artist).[3]
In 2007, he co-produced the book Los Dos Amigos'with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas.
His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[4] the Hammer Museum[5] and the Walker Art Center.[6]
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1989 Dr Lakra, Galería El Juglar, Mexico City, Mexico
1990 Dr Lakra, Galería Caracas, Berlin
1991 Dr Lakra, Café Primo, Berlin
1993 Dr Lakra, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
1998 Dr Lakra, Juárez 65, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry, London
2005 Los Dos Amigos, Dr. Lakra & Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico
2006 Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry
2009 Dr Lakra, kurimanzutto
2009 Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry
2010 Dr Lakra, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA
2011 Dr Lakra, Amparo Museum (museo Amparo), Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
2011 Dr Lakra, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO) Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2012 Mexican Demons and Dancing Skeletons, Holstebro Art Museum, Denmark
^ Dr Lakra, review at BBC Collective
^ Alumnos amagan con ´tomar´ la Universidad de Oaxaca, Jorge Octavio Ochoa, El Universal, 21 September 2006
^ Biography of Dr. Lakra at Artspawn, Artspawn
^ MoMA online catalogue
^ Press release, hammer.ucla.edu Archived May 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ Walker Art Center Annual Report 2005 - 2006.
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Tommy Wingels powers Worcester Sharks to win
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Dec 18, 2011 at 12:04 AM Dec 18, 2011 at 1:53 AM
Tommy Wingels extended his goal-scoring streak to five games with a second-period tally that turned out to be his fourth game-winner in five games as the Worcester Sharks rolled to a 5-2 victory over the Binghamton Senators last night at the Broom County Veterans Memorial Arena.
The Sharks improved to 5-0-1 on their season-long, seven-game road trip, which concludes at 3 p.m. today in Manchester.
Sean Sullivan scored a short-handed penalty-shot goal, and the line of Benn Ferriero, John McCarthy and Wingels all extended their point streaks to five games.
Goalie Tyson Sexsmith made 31 saves for his seventh win of the season.
The Sharks tied a franchise record with their fifth straight road win and have points in eight straight games (7-0-1). Worcester is 13-6-6 overall, 6-1-5 on the road.
Mike Bartlett gave the Senators a 1-0 lead when he deflected Mark Borowiecki's shot from the blue line past Sexsmith with 4:32 left in the first period.
But the Sharks dominated the second period, scoring four goals against Binghamton's Mike McKenna.
Brodie Reid finished a 2-on-1 rush with Jack Combs by banking a terrific shot off the crossbar and into the net from the right circle at 5:05. McCarthy gave Worcester a 2-1 lead when he deposited the rebound of a Wingels shot past McKenna at 6:25.
Wingels made it a two-goal lead with a low shot from the left side at the end of a power play at 10:08.
The Senators got one back on the power play at 12:16 before Sullivan was tripped from behind on a short-handed rush and was awarded a penalty shot at 16:50. Sullivan skated straight down the middle and snapped the puck past the glove hand of McKenna for a 4-2 Worcester lead after two periods.
Nathan Moon finished the scoring with a power-play goal with 57 seconds left in the game.


SACRAMENTO – A week after announcing an outreach program and urging Corinthian Colleges Inc. students to apply for loan relief, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today demanded that the U.S. Department of Education quickly act on these requests. The Department of Education has already found that Corinthian Colleges targeted low-income, vulnerable students through false advertisements that misrepresented job placement rates and the value of school programs. Attorney General Becerra joined the Attorneys General of 18 states and the District of Columbia in a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos calling for no delay in reviewing and approval of student loan forgiveness applications.
In their letter, the Attorneys General also asked Secretary DeVos to provide information on what the Department is doing to rectify the growing backlog of applications, a timeframe for discharge of the student debt, and to abandon the application process altogether and automatically discharge all eligible loans.
About 27,000 students nationwide, including thousands in California, who have already been approved for loan forgiveness have yet to see their loans discharged. Some students are nearing the end of 12-month forbearances on their loans and face restarting monthly payments on debts that should be forgiven.
"Relieving these hard-working Americans of their fraud-induced student debt will free them to participate more fully in their local economies, or even continue their educations with reputable schools," the Attorneys General write.
The California Attorney General's Office led the charge against Corinthian and its subsidiaries, seeking to put an end to abusive practices that left students under a mountain of debt and far too often without the jobs Corinthian had falsely promised its degrees would provide. The Office ultimately obtained a $1.1 billion judgment against Corinthian on March 23, 2016.


iFixit.com liveblogs the disassembly of two brand-spanking new 8GB iPhones. Ooh, they just figured out how to get the antenna off. Look at that naked circuit board!
no if I win one, but it will never replace a laptop and wireless connection. Stilll will require addditional devices.
That comment was so bad, I came back to edit and clean it up. So not liking Steve Jobs right now.
Using an iPhone now to comment. [I] Cannot adequately type with my thumbs. [I] Must hunt and peck with one finger. [I] Must bite all [my] fingernails off first in frustration else they skate across the glass. Pretty but I think I am really underwhelmed. Will not say no if I win one, but it will never replace a laptop and wireless connection. [It will] Still require additional devices.