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July The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Case 1 The Forest of Traps By Grayshadow , Posted 15 Jan 2018 Right out of the tunnel The Vanishing of Ethan Carter presents a puzzle for player's to solve, but a lot of players might miss it on the first playthrough. To piece together the story, the player must solve the deaths of the Carter family. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Sap Trophy [PS4 Gameplay HD 60 FPS] Take an immediate left from the tunnel and walking to the back of the clearing. Have you got any tips or tricks to unlock this achievement?Add a guide to share them with the community. After you put the scenes in the correct chronological order, you visualize the murder. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a puzzle game where you play as " Paul Prospero ", a detective looking for Ethan Carter after the strange messages he's been receiving from him. 1972 26 Red Creek Valley is gorgeous, and I explored it with much gusto, combing the land for clues, square inch by square inch. Like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Hennepin is also a stupendous looking beer, with its golden yellow appearance and thick white head. 18 Going to the railcar's right side reveals a sense point that reveals the location of the crank, which appears to be on the bank of the lake. 1989 When you exit the tunnel head left towards 2 trees and a small one in the middle, a small hole will be exposed. Once you've completed the story go to the Main Menu > Continue to reach the final area and a fast travel map. Travis crawls away from Ed and Ethan watches. April 1971 Ed goes to talk to Travis about Ethan's whereabouts and picks up a rock along the way. 2003 24 Thanks to this guide, you will see the satisfactory ending of the game. After you approach each one of them, activate your character's sixth sense. August Your primary objective is to find Ethan Carter, however the world of Red Creek Valley has some dark secrets which you'll need to solve in order to find him. The house of portals – Recreate the house. I must say, there were some weird scenes in the game. The developers warn that the game will not lead you step-by-step throughout the game world so, in case of any difficulty, rely on this guide. 08 While following the tracks, you'll find rope and severed, bloody legs. 1995 Here, Ethan is trying to back away from his grandfather and mentions that he must destroy a room. 1986 Here's the five traps: Trap #1: To the left of the train tracks, wander around in the open land next to the purple flowers. January 12 But it's not gory and gruesome, where grotesque psychopaths chase after you. It's more akin to The Twilight Zone, odd and mind-trippy, where science-fiction meets horror. R, Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the biggest games this generation and was only a. 1970 2005 1978 20 2:51. 1984 All logos and images are copyrighted by their respective owners. 1996 01. 2004 The game still falls under the horror genre. 11 But, as it turns out, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter isn't too scary. The beer is also light on the mouth, very effervescent. Head back towards the tunnel and lean onto the rock wall till you see an opening, this will trigger the next trap. 1991 01 From the bear trap make a right and head forward to a small tree leaning towards the track for the next trap. This can be found by following the train tracks. But it's not gory … Indie Diamonds - The Vanishing of Ethan Carter [P#3] TRAPS … Just past the body is a trail that leads to the crank, which happens to be rather bloody. Travis tries to crawl away, but Ed follows him with the crank as he yells at Ethan to run away. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is set in an open world environment, in which the player can roam around and explore at will; in its opening the game notes that it "does not hold [the player's] hand", and as such features very little by way of explanation to the mechanics. 16 Your primary objective is to find Ethan Carter, however the world of Red Creek Valley has some dark secrets which you'll need to solve in order to find him. The horror genre and I don't get along. There's some funk in it too, like old cheese. 1988 May The man old man, Ed, picking up the rock. 04 1999 When you see the word sense, press the action button. Murder at the Dam Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 2008 2001 2007 10
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Talking with singers: Keri Alkema
Jenna Simeonov Sep 3, 2016
"I've been looking forward to it for a while," says soprano Keri Alkema of her upcoming season, which includes singing the title role in three different productions of Tosca. Her first will be directed by fellow Tosca-veteran, Catherine Malfitano, at English National Opera beginning October 3. "I'm really excited about all three productions for different reasons. I love [Tosca], so I think it'll be fun, and I love the challenge of portraying her different ways."
After her 13-show run at ENO, Alkema will reprise Tosca in Paul Curran's production at the Canadian Opera Company, and then Andreas Kriegenburg's at Oper Frankfurt, both in the spring of 2017.
Alkema loves Tosca's strength and her tendency to be fiercely opinionated. "I also think that there is a vulnerable side to her," she adds, "which makes her jealous." A female archetype of sorts for Puccini, Tosca is what Alkema deems "an iconic character," and she sees commonalities with Mimì in La bohème. "I think [these] women are just such strong beings, with strength of love and passion while trying to do what is right."
She couldn't be happier to take on the role. She laughs, "I still think, 'Oh my God, can somebody pinch me? Did I really just start rehearsals for my first Tosca?'"
When it comes to a role that is quintessentially Italian, how does Alkema find it to sing Tosca at the strictly-English ENO? Thought she admits to some initial hesitation, "a coach friend of mine said, 'Yeah, but how much better will you actually really know this role, because you're singing it in your native tongue?'" Looking ahead at the Italian productions later in her season, Alkema now agrees, "that was a really cool way of looking at it."
Perhaps not surprisingly, what she does find unnerving about singing an English Tosca is the short bit of spoken dialogue after that scene with Scarpia. She's perfecting her English accent for that moment, and she laughs, "I'm going to be in a hundred coachings for this."
Alkema enjoys a calendar filled with roles that most sopranos covet, like Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), and Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito). In fact, Mimì was her first Puccini role as soprano, after a shift from mezzo repertoire roughly 6 years ago that began with Donna Elvira in a critically acclaimed Christopher Alden production of Don Giovanni at New York City Opera.
"I was really hoping my voice was going to drop so I could sing the big Verdi mezzo girls," Alkema remembers. But instead, the natural change in her voice led her to higher rep. "I kind of walked into that in a natural way."
Alkema as Vitellia, with Isabel Leonard as Sesto, in La clemenza di Tito, Canadian Opera Company, 2013. Photo by Michael Cooper.
While still working as a mezzo, Alkema covered Donna Elvira in Washington, and she found it a difficult sing. A few years later, her coach suggested she revisit "Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata," Elvira's big aria. "And I was thinking, 'Are you kidding me? This is brutal.' I did it, and it was easy." Later, she sang Amelia's aria from Un ballo in maschera for Marilyn Horne, who heard the ease of the role in Alkema's voice, and gave her an additional (and significant) go-ahead.
Easy though it may feel, Alkema still discovered the pressure of singing high notes. "I didn't understand why tenors and sopranos always seemed so stressed out all the time. Because, you know, mezzos and baritones are always having a good time," she laughs. She acknowledges the heightened pressure to have gorgeous high notes, but chalks it up to a task best accomplished with technique. "Once you figure out the exact placement of those notes, then you're fine."
"It was one of those forks in the road," Alkema explains. "Do you do it? Do you take the chance of people not buying it?" Yet she went ahead with a "life is short" mentality, and "luckily people liked it!"
Now, she freely admits, "I'm just really enjoying being a soprano!"
"Music has been a part of my life since I was 5," says Alkema, who studied piano before seriously pursuing voice. She recalls a teacher advising her to make the switch to singing, saying, "No, honey, I think you're a better singer than you are a pianist."
Alkema as Desdemona in Otello, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, 2014.
Alkema navigates her singing career with the constant pursuit of the "next level." When her voice changed, she took advantage of the challenge, thinking, "OK, can I actually sing this soprano rep? What soprano rep can I sing?" It's a simple, yet malleable way of making decisions about what she sings, and one that allows her the technical foundation to enjoy her time in each roles.
Laughing, Alkema recalls the ongoing conversation she has with her manager. "If you see the writing is on the wall - that my career is over - before I do, you just call me and say the words 'real estate' and hang up the phone." Even if she were no longer a singer, Alkema has endless interest in the industry. "I'd love to be in arts administration, help with casting and other industry things," she says. "I just love the entirety of the business, not only being onstage, but how it all works, how it comes together, how they keep getting people in seats."
It's a hypothetical "what if" scenario, but Alkema's ease and positivity are rare among singers who consider a career change. "I've met singers who are just die-hard, and they say, 'Oh my God, my life would be over if I didn't sing!' And I think to myself, 'Are you kidding me? Life is so amazing, and there are 5000 other interesting things to do.'"
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"Upstate Landscape 1" (2016), an oil-on-canvas painting by Roger Patrick.
Local artists are well-represented in 'Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint' exhibit at BMAC
"Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint," celebrates its opening on Saturday, Jan. 12, with a brunch reception at BMAC, free and open to all, at 11 a.m. For more information, call 802-257-0124. An online gallery of selected works is available at bit.ly/OpenCallNXNE2019.
By Richard Henke/The Commons
BRATTLEBORO—An eagerly anticipated annual exhibit returns this month to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
Opening on Saturday, Jan. 12, Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint showcases work by 13 artists from New York and New England. This juried exhibit was selected from more than 300 artists who submitted work for consideration by juror Miles McEnery of Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City.
McEnery chose a baker's dozen of artists for inclusion in the exhibit: Scot Borofsky, Ari Chaves, Jorge Costa, Vita Eruhimovitz, Samuel Fisch, Julia Jensen, Jenna Lash, Shona Macdonald, Douglas Navarra, Susan Osgood, Roger Patrick, Walker Roman, and Carleen Zimbalatti.
Their work spans the gamut from pure abstraction to realism and employs a wide variety of types of paint, including acrylic, oil, ink, gouache, and latex.
"Brattleboro Museum & Art Center's annual open call for artists' submissions brought forth a plethora of exceptional responses," writes Miles McEnery at the BMAC website. "The effort to narrow down this comprehensive and talented group to exhibition size from more than 300 artists was a challenging yet rewarding experience."
McEnery feels that the works he ultimately selected "explore the pictorial language of space and perception, balance and symmetry, and the themes of mystery and reality."
Subjective, objective, social
BMAC's chief curator, Mara Williams, adds that "the selection was guided by McEnery's observations and thoughts on the originality, technical proficiency, and depth of content of the works submitted. Although the works chosen are diverse in execution and subject matter, they reveal three broad approaches to art making — the Subjective, the Objective, and the Social."
Even though the selections this year were limited to painted works, McEnery was struck by the diversity of art using this medium.
"Walker Roman's and Shona Macdonald's paintings evince a dreamlike quality, yet remain based in reality," he writes. "Jenna Lash's and Douglas Navarra's works manipulate recognizable imagery, using source material such as currency and historic documents to examine pattern, iconography, and historical context.
"Roger Patrick's bucolic landscapes appear idyllic at first glance, yet emerge peppered with unknown tensions. Ari Chaves' nostalgic interiors alter our perspective in order to reexamine the domestic and otherwise mundane.
"Julia Jensen's abstract paintings depart from the landscape yet remain rooted in nature, heeding the philosophy that abstraction cannot be self-referential. Carleen Zimbalatti intricately complex drawings invite the viewer to maneuver through a visual maze of discovery.
"[And] Scot Borofsky, Jorge Costa, Vita Eruhimovitz, Samuel Fisch, and Susan Osgood utilize their chosen media with fervor and dexterity to amplify their own unique voices."
Yet amid such diversity, McEnery finds a kind of unity among all the artists, and he encourages viewers of this exhibition to consider the pieces on display "both individually and as a part of this unique collective."
"Partnering these refreshingly diverse yet equally accomplished artists in this exhibit opens a portal to the vast possibilities of content, style, individualism, and artistic skill," he writes.
Local focus
BMAC initiated its Open Call juried exhibitions in 2005.
"There were a couple of motivating factors in the decision to have an open call exhibition," says BMAC Director Danny Lichtenfeld. "Foremost was that such a show gave the museum an opportunity to highlight local and regional artists. And there are many world-class artists working in our local area."
By and large, BMAC does not consider itself to be a museum specializing in regional art.
"The mission of the museum is to give visitors a chance to see works of national and international repute, which otherwise to see they would have to travel far, such as to Boston or even New York," Lichtenfeld says.
However, whenever possible, showcasing local artists is part of this equation.
"Visitors who come to the area and visit our museum hope to see a reflection of the regional art scene," Lichtenfeld notes. "While the many talented local and regional artists who make art in our area have a lot of opportunities to show their work locally in the area's restaurants and galleries, BMAC's special niche is to highlight museum-quality art by local artists."
No matter if the artists are local or have national or even international renown, BMAC shows usually focus on a single person.
"Our open call is a different animal," Lichtenfeld says. "Here, we hope to represent a regional sensibility by showcasing the local art scene."
A juried show became an ideal way to gather significant local artists who might have escaped BMAC's attention as the museum considered what to present to its public.
"The open call shows began shortly before I joined the museum, when the then-powers-that-be sent out the first call for submissions by regional artists," Lichtenfeld continues. "It became a nice way to cast the net to discover local artists not yet on our radar."
But what constitutes the "local" changed a from year to year.
The first Open Call show was subtitled "in the zone."
"What was considered then as 'in the zone' was any artist working within a 75-mile radius of Brattleboro," Lichtenfeld says.
That ultimately proved to be too restrictive.
"After two or three years when the second show was contemplated — at first these were not annual exhibitions — the zone was extended to 100 miles," Lichtenfeld said. "A few years ago, BMAC decided that since the shows were so well received to make the Open Call exhibition an annual event. And, to broaden the scope and introduce more new artists to the museum, the zone now included artists working in all of New England and New York state."
Unlike many juried open calls, Open Call has no theme. However, submissions are delimited by the media in which the artists work.
"Last year, the media was work-on-paper, which included photography," says Lichtenfeld. "This year, as the title of the show indicates, the call was for artists working in paint."
Yet, even with this restriction, the submissions revealed great diversity.
"Of the over 300 submissions, we had works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache and even ink paint," Lichtenfeld says. "They were painted on everything from canvas and paper to glass and board."
Lichtenfeld points out that from the very beginning a key feature of the BMAC's Open Call shows was to solicit someone outside the museum to jury each show.
"This proved to be a nice way of getting beyond the usual critical eyes of the museums board and staff to consider what to present at the museum," he said.
For its jurors, BMAC has chosen museum curators, critics, and gallery owners.
"We wanted our prospective juror to be someone who after seeing the submitted work would be in a position to benefit all the applicants in ways beyond this mere exhibition," Lichtenfeld says. "Our juror this year was a gallery owner. BMAC has a longstanding relationship with numerous galleries from which we borrow work for our exhibitions, of which Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City is one."
Miles McEnery's task was daunting.
Over 1,000 works to review
"This year we have had more submissions than we ever have, and since each artist could submit up to four different works, that made over 1,000 paintings that needed to be reviewed," Lichtenfeld says.
After these works were then digitally submitted to McEnery, the museum staff went to New York to help explain the pieces if any questions arose. Ultimately, McEnery limited the submissions to 13 artists, but since they could exhibit more than one piece, BMAC ended up with 40 paintings in "Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint."
This year, as in all years past, the juried selection was blind.
"Reviewing the work, neither Miles nor anyone at the museum knew who submitted the art," Lichtenfeld explains. "Nonetheless, out of 300 submission three Brattleboro artists are included in the this year's Open Call: Julia Jensen, Scot Borofsky, and Susan Osgood.
"While I suppose a contributing factor may be more artists from the local surroundings have heard about the Open Call and submit, I do think that the remarkably disproportionate percentage of Brattleboro artists blindly chosen for this exhibition definitely reflects the large amount of museum quality work being created in our town."


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"London's Properties are treated like Shares": Tinsel Edwards
Inspired by the spirit of Punk, DIY culture and rebellion, Tinsel Edwards (born 1979) is a Glasgow-based artist whose provocative paintings combine bold text and imagery, offering an often challenging but humorous commentary on a variety of social, political and cultural themes.
Tinsel graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2001 (Fine Art BA) and lived in London for 19 years before moving to Scotland in 2017. She is also the co-founder of A-side B-side Gallery in Hackney Downs, London.
Tinsel Edwards
Tinsel often collaborates with her childhood friend and art partner in crime Twinkle Troughton. Together they have created several public 'art stunts' including kidnapping a banker and dressing as traffic wardens to fine 500 cars with free artwork. From 2000-2007, Tinsel was one of The Fairies and a singer in The Fairies Band.
She was invited to speak and present work at the first edition of The Art Conference, held at The Ugly Duck building in London and produced by Tina Ziegler. In 2015 her work was selected to be part of Dismaland, Banksy's 'bemusement park' in Weston-Super-Mare. Banksy is a collector of Tinsel's work and previously invited her to take part in a Santa's Ghetto exhibition. Tinsel has exhibited widely across the UK and in Germany, Austria, Poland and America. She has worked with Jealous Gallery, The Pure Evil Gallery, The Art Car Boot Fair and Galerie Michaela Stock in Vienna amongst others.
I recently discussed with her her work on the housing crisis in the UK…
You've been making work in response to the housing crisis since 2012. Why did you choose this subject? (I'm glad you did!) Did you have a really negative and unforgettable personal experience with it or witnessed somebody close to yourself in discomfort because of the issue?
Wanting to make work about what's happening with housing was borne from an intense frustration about the injustice of the situation. It wasn't necessarily from a really negative and unforgettable experience, it was more like a gradual realisation. From around 2007/2008, it became apparent that rents in London were rising at a much faster rate than people's incomes. It was from my own personal experience but also from the observation of what others were going through (nearly everyone I knew!). Secure housing and having somewhere to call home is a fundamental human need, but it started to feel like renting a room or flat in London was perilous, rents were being increased frequently on the whim of a landlord. Because there is such a high demand for housing in London the landlords could name their price and the flats would be snapped up. This made things feel scary, people are on a one year tenancy which gives landlords the opportunity to raise the rent at the end of each year, and I heard stories of this happening on a regular basis. I believe it is greed that has fuelled the housing crisis.
My personal situation was also precarious. I was a single parent and at the time my income from employment wasn't enough to cover the monthly rent, housing benefit helped to make up the difference but I was constantly worrying that the landlord would increase the rent. Housing benefit is capped, which means if the rent goes up the benefits don't increase, so when the rent went up we were forced to move. The scariest thing is that all of this is increasing the numbers of people who are homeless in the UK.
The high rents and increases were forcing people to move out and away from their local community, their children's schools. There is no security, there are stories of multiple occupancy in tiny spaces. It all felt so wrong and watching it happen was so frustrating. Why was this being allowed to happen, and why wasn't the government doing anything? All of these feelings started to tumble out into my artwork.
Bedroom Apartment
The housing crisis is a global phenomenon but I suppose it has unfolded in a very uncommon way in London. This city happens to be the playground of the transnational elite. A billionaire Emirati sheikh or Malaysian tycoon can buy property over here remotely—very often holiday homes that might remain empty for much of the year but that will surely escalate the prices of the surrounding areas, making rent unaffordable for the average citizen (even respectable, well-educated workers like doctors and teachers), forcing young people to postpone or just abandon their dreams of starting a family. It is such a shame.
Look at the way market forces are running riot—they have created a situation that should be utterly avoidable and totally unnecessary in 2018. I have been thinking a lot about this aspect of capitalism that is simultaneously nasty and idiotic. In his book Slow Burn City: London in the 21st Century (2016), the architecture critic Rowan Moore breaks down the problem very well.
You must have done your own research over the past few years while investigating the subject for your projects. Where all did you go? What all did you read? Who all did you speak to? And what were your findings?
It is crazy that this has been allowed to happen. There are so many empty properties across London that are owned by rich oligarchs from across the world, often new builds bought off-plan. London's properties are treated like shares. They are purely for investment and there is no consideration given to the impact that these sales will have on the local communities who live and work in those neighbourhoods. The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead (aka Billionaire's Row) is a fascinating place. Most of the houses are boarded up, and they have been left to deteriorate whilst the price tag goes up. At one point I was wanting to make a series of paintings based on these properties, visually they are fascinating, but I had so many other strands I was following with this body of work I never got round to it.
Once I got stuck into this artwork I became so focussed and driven! My research led me to lots of different books, articles and films, I found out about organisations such as Generation Rent, March for Homes and grassroots campaign groups like Focus E15. Lots of housing estates were under threat such as the Heygate and Aylesbury Estates in South London, the New Era estate in North London, and the Carpenters Estate in East London, they all had a story and groups of local residents campaigned hard to save them from being demolished or sold on. Each story is different.
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I looked at Jack London's The People of the Abyss, which is a first-hand account of life in East London in 1902. The parallels with contemporary London were scary. An exhibition at PEER Gallery curated by Fugitive Images called Real Estates, a film by Andrea Luka Zimmerman called 'Estate, A Reverie' about a Hackney Housing Estate which was about to be demolished. There is a heartbreaking film called Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle that looks at the problem across the UK not just London.
I constantly came across articles in local and national newspapers reporting substandard homes for rent, or properties being used for multi-occupancy. For example, a shed in a living room being offered to rent, a house with a tree growing through the window, a tiny and overpriced studio flat in King's Cross that rented within half a day. These stories and images occasionally inspired paintings.
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Tell us more about your modified estate agent signs that you put together for "Dismaland", Banksy's bemusement park in Somerset…And have you really met or had a talk with BANKSY??!!!!
I modified a whole load of real estate agent signs, subverting the branding and imagery to tell the real stories from London's streets. Screen-printing and painting over the found signs, some of these were displayed at Dismaland and others were put back out onto the streets where they were found. Banksy invited me to be part of the show, which was amazing and out of the blue! But no, I never met him. I just feel really lucky to have been part of such an exciting and now legendary event.
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You are inspired by the spirit of Punk, DIY culture and rebellion. Who are the artists working with a similar approach that you look up to?
I love it when artists do their own thing and have a strong, unique voice sometimes with disregard to the rules and the establishment, or at least the norms and trends. I find I am drawn to artwork when there is a story to it. When the art is executed in a polished and sophisticated way—for me it doesn't make it better. Rather, I like it when you can see the 'wobbly lines' and the traces of the person who made the work. In the punk era many people formed bands without knowing how to play, I like the spirit of that. I like the idea of artists making artwork within limitations and the limitations can end up making the work more innovative. For example, Jenny Holzers' A4 paste-ups that she made at the beginning of her career.
The 'art world' is a complex and funny thing. There is a hierarchy, there are cliques and it can be elitist, I like seeing artists who do their own thing outside of those perimeters.
In no particular order, here are some artists whom I admire and who I think have the spirit of punk, some of them my contemporaries and some from a long time ago—Esther Pearl Watson is a painter from LA who I have recently discovered on Instagram. I love what I have seen of her work. Recently I saw some really interesting paintings by Rabiya Choudhry in her solo exhibition at Transmission in Glasgow. Then, Henri Rousseau, Frida Kahlo, Billy Childish, Rose Wylie, Monster Chetwynd, Jeremy Deller, Margaret Harrison, Sarah Maple, Grayson Perry, Harry Pye, Magda Archer, Lucy Sparrow.
You often collaborate with your childhood friend and art partner in crime Twinkle Troughton. (I love the names together—"Tinsel" and "Twinkle".) The two of you have created several public 'art stunts' including kidnapping a banker and dressing as traffic wardens to fining 500 cars with free artwork. What do you find appealing about such participatory/interactive initiatives?
Twinkle and I haven't collaborated in a little while now, and I miss it so much! She lives in Margate and I live in Glasgow so the distance makes it more difficult to work together, but we will do again, it is always lots of fun. It's nice to laugh lots when you are plotting ideas and making artwork.
We met when we were 9 years old at primary school, later we formed the Fairies Band with Tinky and Sparkle (which is another story) but that's why we are called "Twinkle and Tinsel". We see the art stunts as a way to engage with people outside of a gallery setting. We would always end up having conversations with loads of different people. Each stunt had a political motivation but it was often tongue in cheek, there would be humour too.
Flat in King's Cross
When viewers see those paintings of yours with beds next to commodes and kitchen sinks, how do they react?
Those paintings always strike a chord with Londoners, most are affected by the housing crisis so there is a familiarity with the imagery and with the language used for the titles. People express their own frustrations with the situation and often it opens up the conversation and they share their stories and experiences. I showed one of the paintings in Vienna once, and people who came to the exhibition were really intrigued by the story of London's housing. In Austria, renting is the norm, there isn't the same preoccupation with owning a home because people have long term secure tenancies. The people who saw the painting in Vienna were shocked to hear about how different housing and renting is in London.
I just read that Theresa May is trying to solve the housing crisis by imposing a new levy (stamp duty) on foreign buyers of properties in the UK. She plans to use the money to fund a drive that will help tackle the indignity of rough sleeping. Do you think such a scheme could work?
I think it's a positive step which is long overdue. It's a start and if properly managed, hopefully it can work. However, I do think that the government could be doing so much more to tackle the problem! The horror of Brexit is dominating politics right now.
If you were Prime Minister, what strategies would you adopt?
I would focus on creating lots more good quality and genuinely affordable social housing, so that councils wouldn't have to use their budgets to pay private landlords. I would also introduce a rent cap to control the market, and prevent private landlords from increasing rent levels as they wish.
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Finally, what innovative ways do you have in mind for further exploration of your themes?
I had a long list of ideas, I wanted to do a series of paintings of the properties on Billionaires Row, and of the housing estates which were threatened and now mostly gone. Another series I wanted to make was of those shocking reports in local newspapers showing horrible run down flats being rented for ridiculously high sums. I also had an idea of creating an installation, my own version of a high street estate agent with me as the estate agent! I visualised it in a shop with a display in the window and a 'show flat' out the back complete with toilet and bed like in my paintings. I had lots of ideas but a year ago I began to feel absolutely frazzled and emotionally drained.
I wrote a book called 'Priced Out' and this was published by Dunlin Press, it launched in August 2017, this was the month that I left London myself. We were priced out too! My husband and I realised that our lives were no longer financially sustainable in London so we chose to move to Glasgow. After moving cities, launching the book and with my daughter still less than one, I felt exhausted. The art I was making was becoming draining because it was such an emotional subject and I had put so much of my energy into it.
I also started to feel that the politics and the subject of the work was overtaking the art somehow. I have taken a big step back and it has given me the opportunity to reflect on my art practice and think about where I want to take it next, I haven't stopped painting but I haven't made any major pieces of new work, I have mostly been observing, reflecting, absorbing, thinking. Perhaps my other ideas for the housing series will be realised one day, I would like that very much but I need to come back to it with renewed energy and the time and space to make the work.
Find Tinsel on her website (tinseledwards.com), Instagram (www.instagram.com/tinseledwards) and Twitter (@TinselEdwards).
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Q: How to access the Sharepoint SPNavigationNode.QuickLaunch Property? I have a site as follows:
--SiteA
----Subsite1
----Subsite2
Now whenever i try to access the QuickLaunch Property its always empty e.g
SPNavigation nav = spWeb.Navigation;
if (nav.QuickLaunch.Count == 0)
{
      // ALWAYS TRUE
}

However if i go into the Naviation Settings (Through the UI) of SiteA and reorder any site in the list, only then will the QuickLanuch become available.  (Other settings are left as default)
Can anyone explain this behaviour? I really need access to the QuickLaunch items.
Thanks

A: This error occurs if you access quicklaunch while site is being created.Below code causes the feature activated code to wait until the site collection has been created before executing.
using System.Threading;

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
    {
        //Queues changes until after site exists.  For use in provisioning.
        SPWeb web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb;
        ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ApplyYourChanges, web.Url);
    }

private void ApplyYourChanges(object state)
    {
        string webUrl = state as string;
        Uri uri = new Uri(webUrl);

        // additional conditions here -- perhaps check if a feature was activated
        while (!SPSite.Exists(uri))
        {
            Thread.Sleep(5000);
        }
        using (SPSite site = new SPSite(webUrl))
        {
            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
            {
                //configure the quicklaunch menu
                configureQuickLaunch(web);
            }
        }
    }

public static void configureQuickLaunch(SPWeb spWeb)
    {
        SPNavigationNodeCollection nodeCollection = spWeb.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
        SPNavigationNode heading = nodeCollection.Cast<SPNavigationNode>().FirstOrDefault(n => n.Title == headingNode);
        SPNavigationNode item = heading.Children.Cast<SPNavigationNode>().FirstOrDefault(n => n.Url == url);
            if(item == null)
            {
                item = new SPNavigationNode(nodeName, url);
                item = heading.Children.AddAsLast(item);
            }
    }

A: I seem to remember reading somewhere that the QuickLaunch collection only stored customisations to the default ordering. Looking around, I can't find that documentation to show you, but it would explain the behavior you see if true.
So your QuickLaunch.Count == 0 is just confirming that default ordering of items is in place.
You can still add nodes, if that's at all helpful;
SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
SPNavigationNode node = new SPNavigationNode("Node Name", "Node URL", true);
nodes.AddAsFirst(node);

A: I think, by default, the QuickLaunch uses shared navigation. In other words, the QuickLaunch for a subsite doesn't have its own collection of nodes until you do something with it. If you reorder a site, that gives it its own unique set of nodes.
If you wanted to programmatically set your QuickLaunch to have its own set of nodes programmatically, you should be able to do so this way:
SPNavigation nav = spWeb.Navigation;
nav.UseShared = false;
spWeb.Update();

I think your count should be something other than zero at that point.

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It's childish and a waste of time.
But it happens every time an election year rolls around.
Candidates start complaining about their political signs being stolen or vandalized. The culprits who are guilty of these crimes should be ashamed of themselves. They also need to know what a waste of time their actions are.
Tearing down a campaign sign doesn't stop anyone from voting for the candidate they prefer. Of course, it does hurt the candidate in that the money they spent for the signs is wasted. Maybe that's the goal all along.
Let's hope our county residents are too mature to participate in these juvenile activities. If you support a candidate, volunteer to help with the campaign. But don't try to do this by hurting his opponents. And if you see someone destroying or stealing a sign, report them to the authorities.
Last summer, I made an effort to join the pro Putt-Putt golf circuit. Unfortunately, that effort died after only a couple of hours.
But this year, I have a new passion. I'm leaving the green and I'm putting away my putter. No more windmills and waterfalls. This year, I'm going pro in badminton.
Now, I think I'm prepared to do this. The first semester of this past school year, I took badminton at UGA. For fifteen weeks on Tuesday and Thursday, I went to the Ramsey Center at school at eight in the morning to play badminton.
For one hour at a time, I went through drills and practices. I learned the rules, for both singles and doubles play. My teacher, who had not played badminton ever before teaching my class, taught us all the shots-a drop shot, a clear shot, backhand, forehand, underhand, overhand, lefthand, righthand.
I practiced a good bit and got on top of my game. But I didn't play like the rest of the people in my class. They would drag in lazily at 8 a.m. and just stand around. Oh no, not me.
I played with heart. I played with passion. I played with determination. If had to dive on the gym floor, I dove. If I had to leap into the air, I leaped. If I had to run and slide and put out some effort, I did it. I was an excellent player.
Last semester, I wanted to take badminton again. But I can't. UGA won't allow you to take the same course twice, provided you passed it the first time. And, there is no intermediate badminton, only beginners. I wanted to play really bad, though.
As last semester moved on, I eventually forgot about badminton. I didn't have the class anymore, and I just didn't think about it. But as the weather has gotten warmer, outside sports are on my mind again.
Recently, I picked up badminton once more. My girlfriend put up a badminton net at her house. And, oh yeah, I've been playing.
The passion is back, and I'm still good. I've got all the moves and all the shots I had before. That's right, I've still got game.
I'm trying to help my girlfriend out too. Lori is a really good player, don't get me wrong. In fact, she's even taught me a couple of shots. But, I'm going to get her on my comprehensive training program, and she'll be a pro in no time. Then, maybe we can go in as a team.
Next week, at the company picnic, there is supposed to be a badminton net set up. We are going to have a little tournament. My co-workers just don't know what they're in for. After I get done training, and after I get Lori through the training program, we'll be unstoppable. Guys, you better watch out. I'm hoping the tournament will jump start my pro career.
I've been practicing hard and I'm searching for sponsors. In fact, if there are any sporting goods manufacturers out there who need a big-name badminton spokesman, I'm here. Just call my agent. We'll get things set up.
In the meantime, I'll be hanging out at the house, practicing for the big tournament next weekend.
This is in response to the article in last week's Banks County News about our mobile support team with the fire department.
As a member of Banks County Mobile Support Team, First Responder and a firefighter, I cannot express my disappointment and outrage in this article.
There are many members of support team and I feel this article belittled and alienated myself, along with the other members who were not mentioned or thanked for their time and efforts.
It takes everyone in the group to make this organization work with daily operations, scene successfulness and, of course, fund-raisers.
This article to me, as a member, was one-sided and did not paint the picture I wish it had for everything we have done and hoped to do. I was proud to be a member of Banks County Mobile Support, but not anymore.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an announcement in this paper about the Banks County Mobile Support Group being formed to assist the fire department during emergencies. These volunteers respond to fire calls with cold drinks and other supplies. I know that most of these volunteers have full-time jobs and families which take up much of their time. They likely also have other church and civic responsibilities which cuts their free time down even more each week. I also assumed that the volunteers could use as much help as possible in their efforts.
As editor, I make news and feature assignments each week. I thought this would be a great feature to highlight the selfless devotion of these volunteers and to bring more helpers to the group. I assigned a feature article to reporter Beth Chester. I asked her to contact a few members and write about what they do. I was pleased with her feature and thought it was not only newsworthy, but might help the group out.
I was shocked to find out that some members of the group were "outraged and disappointed" because they were not mentioned in the article. The intent was not to list every member of the group, although I have no problem doing that. The intent was to bring attention to the new organization and, hopefully, bring in more volunteers or even donations.
A look through past issues of this paper or any other newspaper will show you that a feature article does not have to provide a list of all involved in order to have an impact or to provide helpful information. Last week's feature was on Day at the Fort at Fort Hollingsworth. Many people had displays at this annual event and many people worked to make it a success. There was not a list of names of those who had exhibits nor were their pictures of everyone involved. The reporter who handled that feature got photographs and comments from several representatives.
In this week's issue, the feature front is on the high school graduation. It does not include a list of all 88 graduates, or photographs of all of them. This doesn't mean that they all aren't very important. We are proud of all the graduates, just as we are proud of all of the volunteers in the mobile support group.
I want everyone to know that the ladies quoted in our feature article did not contact us. They did not call us and asked to be quoted in a story. We contacted them at random and did not intend to slight anyone. The story was on the group as a whole, not on individual people. I assume the volunteers are dedicated and caring because they want to help someone, not because they want to get their name in the paper. We certainly appreciate everyone in the group. They are all serving a much-needed role and are to be commended for volunteering.
This is in response to the article about Banks County Mobile Support in the paper last week. As president of the mobile support team, I feel that the article was very selective with its information. Our team is made up of lots of people, not just a few. I don't feel like our team as a whole was properly represented. It takes every single person in our group for us to be a success.
Most of our group are trained in other areas also. Ten out of the 12 active members are also nationally certified first responders. Three of these same members are also firefighters. We are a diverse group, in which everyone brings something good into the group. I'd like to thank everyone who was not mentioned in this article for all of their hard work and time. It is each of you that makes us a team!
Thank you: Chris Bray, Carence Burks, Kedra Burks, Denise Kreig, Starla Smallwood, Kyllie James, Perry Smith, Cindi Cheek, Sandra Evens and Nicole Evens. Thank you for everything you do! Thank you also to the Banks County Board of Commissioners and Perry Dalton and the firefighters, whom without your support, we wouldn't be here.


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Data shows huge shifts for frozen seafood in China
Frozen seafood production has declined in China's traditional processing regions as new hubs like Tianjin and large inland cities have emerged as new areas for frozen seafood consumption.
Overall Chinese production of frozen seafood totaled 3.02 million metric tons (MT) in the first four months of 2015 — up just over 3 percent on the same period last year, according to the country's ministry of commerce. The eastern province of Jiangsu leads the way: It produced 1.06 million MT, down 1.8 percent on the same period last year. Second-place Zhejiang province produced 1.02 million MT — up 18 percent.
The fastest growth occurred in Tianjin (pictured) — a city with an ambitious municipal plan to build a marine processing center — which saw its production increase 186 percent to an albeit modest 16,976 MT. But three provinces that have traditionally dominated seafood production were all down in the first four months: Output in Liaoning province — home to key processing hubs like Dalian — fell 37 percent to 296,154 MT while frozen seafood output in Shandong — home to processing and trading ports like Qingdao and Yantai — fell 1.3 percent to 277,151 MT.
The key industrial province of Guangdong was flat at 357,465 MT of frozen seafood output in the first four months. It appears the province has lost the initiative to neighboring and second-place Fujian, which was at 533,849 MT,up 11.6 percent year on year. The tilapia producing Hainan province's output of frozen seafood at 36,734 MT was flat year-on-year and looks modest next to provinces with large urban populations.
There appear to be several factors at play in the changing landscape of China's seafood processing scene: rising consumption in inland provinces but also a shift to cater for domestic demand.
"Frozen seafood production is happening nearer the consumer markets, that's why there's growth in inland provinces, near the big inland cities," explained Wang Long, a spokesman for Ningbo Aquatic Products Association, a trade body representing processors in Ningbo, a city with a growing seafood processing and canning industry.
It's clear that huge growth in large inland provinces like Shanxi and Xinjiang are still restricted by a lack of cold-chain logistics services. There was a 30.7 percent jump in production in Xinjiang and a 591 percent jump in Shanxi but each produced only 340 and 22.7 MT, respectively, in the first four months of the year.
"There are great difficulties in producing frozen seafood in north-western provinces but it's also a great opportunity," according to a note analysing the figures from Minsheng Securities. Investors have carefully followed firms liked to benefit as China has prioritized state subsidies to improve the logistics chain nationwide, allowing some movement into inland markets.
Growth in inland production of frozen seafood is significant, given more than 75 percent of China's seafood export traffic goes through the easterly ports of Dalian and Qingdao. Aquatic processing bases are located in or near four major aquatic production regions. Of the total 9,611 seafood processing facilities counted by the ministry of agriculture, 6,413 (or 67 percent) are concentrated in Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian and Guangdong provinces. The province of Shandong (home to the Qingdao and Yantai processing hubs) ranks first for processing capacity at 7.9 million MT per year followed by Fujian at 3.3 million MT.
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It seems at spring time the turkeys are lingering and loitering in the most unusual places. They're flocking at schools, strutting at store parking lots and gathering on city side streets. They are literally crossing the road to get to the other side. Chickens aren't the only fowl finding a reason to cross the road.
We even discovered tom the turkey sitting up in the tree in our backyard.
These city dwelling birds have been known to be aggressive and it's been reported that they've attacked and pecked at innocent postal workers just trying to deliver the mail.
Spring has sprung for tom turkey and he's ready to fly the coop to copulate a hen and gobble his way to a good time.
Who knew Tom and Tina (yes, I had to name them) would find their love nest right outside my business office window.
I have to admit, this was my first turkey peep show and it unveiled something I hadn't seen before.
Tom stood on Tina's back perched pompously like he had just won King of the Hill. It's possible that Tom may have gotten his animalistic maneuvers from 50 Shades of Grey Duck or Grey Goose...whichever one fits the bill.
However, Tina was fairly accepting of this ritual and didn't seem to mind that Tom's passion was expressed by having her pinned down with his turkey talons, while he waited for just the right carnal moment.
No romance. No cuddling. No pillow talk.
Then, in less time it would take to make a turkey sandwich, the feathered foulness was over.
Just like that, Tina fluffed her tail feathers and ran for the hills.
Meanwhile, Tom cocked his head, turned to look at his audience glaring from the window and then swaggered off with pride. Go figure...I suppose, it was just another notch in his feathered belt. Later, this big guy was still wandering the woods, perhaps still searching for more turkey tail to conquer.
As far as I know, a turkey never tells, so this National Geographic moment was an unforeseen eye-opener. To be honest, I don't think I remember any turkey tango episodes on Wild Kingdom!
Too bad Tom and Tina didn't have a fairy tale ending. But, who knows maybe they'll meet up again one day at the crossroads of Butterball and Jenni-O.
Who'll be talking turkey then?
Have you ever interrupted a real life Wild Kingdom moment of untamed romance?
So funny! I don't think I've seen a wild turkey before. What a show!
Yes, a Jennie-O Turkey burger....mean huh? Great post, have a wonderful weekend - heading to Wawa for a Turkey and Cheese sub today!
Antionette, I do enjoy turkey burgers! Haha! I got you thinkin' turkey now...enjoy that sub! Best wishes to you this spring season.
So funny. I have to admit, I've never seen a carnal turkey moment!


Oswego East junior Allison Adams (8) is a skilled defender and free-kick specialist who has proven her abilities as a two-way player.
Oswego East junior Allison Adams takes a great thrill from glancing actions that pieced together make up the nerve center of each game.
"If there is a play and I make a really good tackle or a good pass, those are the plays that always get me excited to keep going," she said.
After seeing situational time as a freshman, Adams flourished last year as a two-way talent who organized the Wolves' backline and also proved an invaluable weapon as a free-kick specialist.
Adams earned all-conference and all-sectional recognition last year. As a defender, Adams has the requisite combination of toughness, skill and a tactical feel.
Her ability to quickly read and assess actions as they unfold is her finest quality.
A Purdue Fort Wayne recruit, Adams has also demonstrated the ability to send long free kicks into the final scoring third to make up an essential part of the Wolves' attack.
On Wednesday, the Wolves start group play in the Naperville Invitational, the state's most prestigious tournament. The platform is an ideal way for Adams to show off her special abilities.
Growing pains: First-year coach Melissa Jennings is trying to rebuild the co-op program at Hinckley-Big Rock/Somonauk that won just one game last year.
Her quest has already been complicated by joyous personal news, the birth of her child that caused her to miss training and the first two weeks of the season. Assistant coach Brad Phillips ran the team in her absence.
With eight sophomores and five freshmen among the 19-player roster, Jennings knows it is going to take time. The leaders are senior midfielder Tori Prellberg, sophomore defender Cara Davis and sophomore goalkeeper Avery Zabel.
"We are really young, but we are working hard and trying to add some more victories to our record," Jennings said.
Conference showdown: Despite a free kick goal by junior forward Gracie Prather, West Aurora saw its seven-game winning streak halted in a 2-1 loss against Waubonsie Valley in the semifinals of the Plainfield Classic on Saturday.
Now the Blackhawks train their focus on the conference race. West Aurora, Bartlett and Glenbard East are the favorites in the Upstate Eight.
On Wednesday, West Aurora (7-3, 2-0) travels to Glenbard East.
The two programs have each played West Chicago. West Aurora beat the Wildcats 2-0 and Glenbard East had to settle for a tie, giving the Blackhawks an early advantage in the point scoring system.


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Top military leader says China's hypersonic missile test 'went around the world'
By Chandelis Duster, CNN
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China's test of a hypersonic missile over the summer "went around the world," the second most senior US general said in an interview released Tuesday, shedding new details on the test and warning that China might one day be able to launch a surprise nuclear attack on the United States.
"They launched a long-range missile," General John Hyten, the outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told CBS News. "It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China."
When asked if the missile hit the target, Hyten said, "Close enough."
Hyten, who previously called the pace at which China's military is developing capabilities "stunning," warned that one day they could have the capability to launch a surprise nuclear attack on the US.
"Why are they building all of this capability?" Hyten said. "They look like a first-use weapon. That's what those weapons look like to me."
The revelations about the test come amid heightened tensions over Taiwan as China seeks to expand its weapons capabilities. The Pentagon warned in a report released earlier this month that China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal and may have 1,000 nuclear warheads by the end of the decade.
The US currently has 3,750 nuclear warheads in its stockpile, according to the latest data from the State Department, dwarfing the size of China's nuclear stockpile
China has denied it has tested hypersonic weapons.
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As China and Russia are developing their own versions of hypersonic missiles, the Pentagon has made developing hypersonic weapons one of its top priorities. A US hypersonic missile test failed last month but the Pentagon insists it remains on track to deliver offensive hypersonic weapons in the early 2020s.
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Q: 2 Vectors under for loop I have a dataframe df with ID column. I am trying to make all possible combination between another vector called dates
df

ID
Asda
Dsaa
Fasd
Das

dates <- seq(as.Date("2019-12-27"), as.Date(" "), by=1)

I have written a following for loop. But I get only below result
for (i in df$ID) {
  for (j in dates) {
    new_value <- c(i, j)
  }
}

Result below
new_value
        ID        Date
      "Das"     "18258"

Expected result is : Can i get all combination of ID and dates?

A: You can use merge to get all combinations of your variables:
df <- data.frame(ID = c("Asda", "Dsaa", "Fasd", "Das"))
dates <- seq(as.Date("2019-12-27"), as.Date("2019-12-28"), by=1)

merge(df, dates, by = NULL)

Result:
    ID          y
1 Asda 2019-12-27
2 Dsaa 2019-12-27
3 Fasd 2019-12-27
4  Das 2019-12-27
5 Asda 2019-12-28
6 Dsaa 2019-12-28
7 Fasd 2019-12-28
8  Das 2019-12-28

Edit: For loop only
new_df <- data.frame()
for (i in df$ID) {
  for (j in dates) {
    new_df <- rbind(new_df, data.frame(ID = i, Date = j))
  }
}

A: All possible combinations of ID and dates
expand.grid(df$ID,dates)

Edit: using for loops
k=1
temp=matrix(NA,length(df$ID)*length(dates),2)
for (i in df$ID) {
    for (j in dates){
        temp[k,]=c(i,j)
        k=k+1
    }
}

A: It is not a for loop but for the sake of completeness (expand.grid and mergeare R base nice answers) here is another solution using tidyr::crossing(). I am not sure why you would do so here since it is harder to optimise (see here a nice article from Miles Mcbain for-loops ).
dfr <- data.frame(id = paste0("id", 1:10), dates = seq.Date(from = as.Date("2019-12-27"), by = 1, length.out = 10 ) )
dfr
#>      id      dates
#> 1   id1 2019-12-27
#> 2   id2 2019-12-28
#> 3   id3 2019-12-29
#> 4   id4 2019-12-30
#> 5   id5 2019-12-31
#> 6   id6 2020-01-01
#> 7   id7 2020-01-02
#> 8   id8 2020-01-03
#> 9   id9 2020-01-04
#> 10 id10 2020-01-05

tidyr::crossing(dfr$id, dfr$dates)
#> # A tibble: 100 x 2
#>    `dfr$id` `dfr$dates`
#>    <fct>    <date>
#>  1 id1      2019-12-27
#>  2 id1      2019-12-28
#>  3 id1      2019-12-29
#>  4 id1      2019-12-30
#>  5 id1      2019-12-31
#>  6 id1      2020-01-01
#>  7 id1      2020-01-02
#>  8 id1      2020-01-03
#>  9 id1      2020-01-04
#> 10 id1      2020-01-05
#> # ... with 90 more rows


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'Something has to happen' - Celtic and Rangers urged to leave Scottish football with England or Super League move mooted
Referee named for Old Firm clash between Rangers and Celtic at Ibrox
John Beaton will take charge of the hotly-contested fixture
By Craig Fowler
10th Mar 2020, 12:21pm
Updated 10th Mar 2020, 12:21pm
John Beaton has been named as the referee for this Sunday's Old Firm encounter at Ibrox.
Rangers host their arch-rivals Celtic desperately seeking a victory that would keep their slim title hopes alive.
The official last took charge of an Old Firm contest on December 29, 2018.
Referee John Beaton will take charge of Sunday's match at Ibrox. Picture: SNS
Rangers won the match 1-0 thanks to a Ryan Jack goal, but the game was shrouded in controversy with Alfredo Morelos involved in a number of potential red-card incidents with Celtic players.
After the player escaped retrospective punishment as it was said Beaton had witnessed all the incidents at the time, Celtic released a statement calling for Beaton to explain his decision. The whistler was then the victim of alleged online threats.
Celtic man eyeing exit, Rangers man a doubt for Bayer Leverkusen clash, £40m for...
His last match involving either side also contained some controversy as Beaton missed a handball in the build up to Killie's equaliser.
He last took charge of a Celtic game as they thumped St Johnstone 3-0 at McDiarmid Park on January 29.


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Q: How can I add an "active" class based on the URL? when a user clicks on a link in the sidebar, it should stay underlined to remind them where they are. i'm trying to use jQuery to add the "active" class to the anchor if they're on the corresponding page. here's what i've got so far:
var pathy = $(location).attr('pathname');
pathy.val().replace(/\\/g, '');
if(pathy == $('#sidebar ul li a').text) {
    $(this).addClass('active');
}
else {
}

needless to say, it really doesn't work. should i be doing this in php instead?

A: Try this:
$('#sidebar ul li a').each(function() {
    if ($(this).text() == pathy) {
        $(this).addClass('active');
    }
});

I'm not the best with regex though, so make sure that you return your value first to ensure that it should/shouldn't match.
Edit - after comments below
It doesn't seem like you really need to do much manipulation of the string, so I don't think that a regex is necessary. Also, it will probably be better if you check the href attributes in the a tags rather than their text names, as you may want a href value of "about.php", but a text value of "About Me".
Here is what I would do:
var pathy = location.pathname; //should return something like "/filename.php"
pathy = pathy.slice(1); //this will trim the first "/" character

$('#sidebar ul li a').each(function () {
    if ($(this).attr('href') == pathy) {
        $(this).addClass('active');
    }
});

Here is a sample fiddle.

A: You are using $(this) in the wrong context. To actually select an item so you can affect it, you would use this instead:
$('[pathname="' + pathy + '"]').addClass('active');

Using the [name="value"] selector you can grab a selector to an item by its attribute.


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