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A guide to the NHL trade deadline: Analyzing the most important decisions
HC at Noon debates the way the New York Rangers are handling their rebuilding situation, by sending out a press release, John Shannon is on board, but Doug MacLean is definitely not a fan.
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Anyone reading this is presumably already well-versed with the individual players most likely to be available on the trade market and potentially on the move between now and the February 26 deadline.
So instead of rehashing that list, let's instead try to prepare for the festivities by viewing things from a slightly different angle. Here's a look at some of the most interesting teams to keep an eye on, and the important decisions they face that warrant additional consideration.
Accepting Sunk Cost and Taking Advantage of the Seller's Market
Over the past handful of days, there have been two extensions handed out to incumbent GMs and news of both were received with raised eyebrows.
There are so many gaps in information that at this point it's awfully difficult to say anything definitive about Pierre Dorion and whether he's the right individual for the Sens job.
There's certainly some red flags and reasons to be skeptical of him. He clearly misjudged how good his team was when he paid an exorbitant price for Matt Duchene this season, and the double whammy of trading a top prospect (Jonathan Dahlen) for Alex Burrows before giving the 36-year-old a multi-year extension was bad. Dorion generally seems to have an affinity for inexplicably giving depth role players those types of restrictive deals, which is one of my biggest team-building pet peeves.
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But ultimately, as has been the case for years, it's difficult to know how much of the blame for those things can be laid at Dorion's feet, and how much of it is an unfortunate byproduct of him being handcuffed by the financial black cloud that looms over the Senators organization (and will continue to as long as Eugene Melnyk owns the team).
Dorion has some big decisions to make in the weeks and months to come with everything involving Erik Karlsson, a potential Mike Hoffman trade, and Mark Stone's next contract. The decision that may tell us the most about Dorion's ability as a GM will be in how he handles Cody Ceci's impending restricted free agency, and whether he's able to cut his losses, or whether he can't help himself from doubling down on a depreciating asset.
The Jim Benning situation in Vancouver is different. He's been around since the summer of 2014 and has a longer track record of moves for us to evaluate. His brigade of local supporters are quick to bring up the fact that he took over an aging team that was already on the decline, and that he's been slowly but surely building up the prospect pool from almost nothing.
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McIndoe on Canucks' Benning and other GMs sweating in the hot seat
While Brock Boeser certainly looks like a home run pick (and then some), and Elias Pettersson is tantalizing fans with his tremendous overseas production and highlight videos, it's fair to feel like Benning has left meat on the bone.
Despite the fact that a) his resume for the job was largely built upon the belief that his specialty was the draft and that he'd use it to rebuild the franchise organically, and b) the Canucks have been 26th in the league since he took over (only the Avalanche, Oilers, Coyotes, and Sabres have a worse point percentage), the team has somehow seen more picks shipped out than brought in under his watch:
Draft Picks In
Draft Picks Out
1st Rounder 1 0
2nd Rounder 1 3
3rd Rounder 2 2
4th Rounder 0 2
Total 9 11
That doesn't pass the smell test. There are certainly ways to increase the chance of success by prioritizing certain skills and attributes in the prospects you're selecting, but even so the draft is still something of a crapshoot. The best way to combat its unpredictability is to load up on picks, and use a volume-based approach to stack the deck in your favour.
The fact the Canucks have opted not to do so while bottoming out in the standings is a missed opportunity, and a legitimate criticism of this current regime.
The way they handled last season's trade deadline was a positive step towards rectifying that, and a pleasant departure from what they'd done the year prior. There's room for further positive strides to be made at this deadline, with Erik Gudbranson and Thomas Vanek (more on him in a second) sitting there as unrestricted free agents who would presumably draw interest from contenders as rentals. There's been chatter the Canucks are considering keeping and signing both of them, but that has to be posturing in an attempt to drive the price up.
Even though Vanek has established a nice connection with Boeser, he will be an easier asset for the Canucks to part with and cash in on. He's a 34-year-old winger who was sitting around looking for a suitor as late as September 1, and the fact the Canucks will get anything at all for him is gravy.
It's not quite as simple with Gudbranson. It's been less than two years since Benning essentially forked over a first, second, and fourth for him, which means he's personally invested in the defenceman. It was a questionable move at the time, and has only gotten worse with the benefit of hindsight.
Being able to accept sunk costs and move on from past decisions is an important part of the job, but it's also one that's easier said than done. There's a human element to all of this, and by parting with Gudbranson for a substantially lower price than the one he paid to get him, Benning would essentially be admitting defeat.
The thing is, that battle has already been lost. The only thing worse than taking that initial loss would be stubbornly doubling down on it by throwing good money after bad. Especially when the trade market is sorely lacking defencemen, and there are valuable assets out there to be recovered.
The (New York Sized) Elephant in the Room
Two of the most high volatile teams to keep an eye on leading up to deadline day play their home games in the state of New York.
The case for the Rangers as the powder keg for league-wide activity has been outlined by now. The team got out ahead of things last week and controlled the message, penning a letter to their restless fan base that suggested widespread changes were to come.
With a plethora of desirable assets to move – including rentals Rick Nash and Michael Grabner, and top defenceman Ryan McDonagh who still has a year left on his affordable deal – their apparent willingness to dive headfirst into the trade market is huge news for those hoping to see fireworks on February 26.
If Rangers fans lust for change, I'm not sure the English language has a verb that properly captures just how desperately their Islanders counterparts want their team to do something. Those feelings seem to have reached a breaking point, with a group of agitated diehards recently banding together to quite literally put their money where their mouth is – they raised nearly $6,000 in less than 24 hours for a billboard that would get their message across loud and clear.
And their agitation is warranted. With just one playoff series win (and 11 combined wins) over the past 12 years, the organization finds itself at a unique high leverage point. All of the following things are true:
a) They have to find a way to convince their best player he can legitimately win there or he'll walk for nothing this summer
b) They've accumulated a healthy collection of draft capital, including two picks in each of the first two rounds this year
c) Their best players are all currently making well below market value, with their top six forwards of John Tavares, Jordan Eberle, Josh Bailey, Anders Lee, Mat Barzal, and Anthony Beauvillier counting for a measly $20.3 million combined against the cap this season
All of that has made it harder to stomach the lack of urgency with which Garth Snow has approached addressing his team's glaring defensive needs. While the Islanders' offensive attack is nightmare fuel for opponents, it's ultimately all for naught because they give it all right back on the other end of the ice. They're on pace to allow nearly 300 goals against this season, which would put them right up among the most porous defensive teams the NHL has seen in the 21st century, and would be unheard of in today's goal scoring climate:
PIT 2005-2006 310
WSH 2005-2006 300
PHI 2006-2007 297
NYI 2017-2018 296*
NYR 2000-2001 290
ATL 2000-2001 289
COL 2010-2011 287
TOR 2008-2009 286
BOS 2006-2007 285
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The goaltending hasn't helped matters. Prior to Thursday night's shutout win they were 25th at five-on-five and 28th overall in save percentage as a team (mostly due to Thomas Greiss' disastrous campaign). But an even bigger concern is that they've been getting hammered on the shot counter. No team surrenders more shots on goal against than their astronomical rate of 36 per game, and those woes have carried over regardless of whether they've been at even strength or on the penalty kill.
As such, it's unlikely that there's one single quick fix move out there for the Islanders that'll alleviate all of these concerns, but that doesn't mean they should just sit tight with what they've got. Especially since small strategically executed tinkering on the margins and the back-end would go a long way towards at least giving the top of their roster a fighting chance to take care of the rest.
Forget just missing the playoffs this season. Each day they do nothing and keep bleeding goals against negatively affects their future outlook as well.
The Atlantic Division Arms Race
It's interesting how much the way we view the Eastern Conference power dynamic has shifted as the season has progressed. In the early going, the Metropolitan was widely considered to be the superior of the two divisions out East, largely due to its crowded and competitive nature from top to bottom.
But then a funny thing happened: as the season has gone along, the Atlantic Division has wrestled our attention away from the Metro. While it'll still never be able to match the Metro's intrigue in terms of who will make it and who won't, the jockeying for position amongst the Lightning, Bruins, and Leafs up at the top may very well wind up being the most important subplot of the final third of the regular season.
The deadline should only spice things up even more, since there's a very distinct possibility that all three of those teams could make a notable upgrade. Whether or not they ultimately do it remains to be seen, but they all certainly have the assets and flexibility to do something.
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In Toronto, the most prevalent need is on the blue line, though their biggest upgrades may come from internal options. By unleashing Kasperi Kapanen, Travis Dermott, and finally providing Nazem Kadri with a suitable running mate in Mitch Marner, the Leafs already look more dangerous and well-suited for the post-season than ever. The Lightning and Bruins have both been rumoured to be in on someone like Ryan McDonagh, which would obviously be a game changer if it came to fruition.
I'll be curious to see whether the urgency for the Lightning to make that kind of a splash trade they've been linked to, but seemingly reluctant to make, changes now that there's pressure being applied from the on-ice performance.
A couple of weeks ago the Lightning had a big cushion in the Atlantic, but thanks to Boston's insane stretch of success since December, it's suddenly become legitimately attainable for the Bruins to take top spot in the division.
No team in the league has been hotter during that time than Boston, which has ripped off a 30-game sequence of unparalleled dominance for the ages:
Record 23-3-4
Goals For 114
Goals Against 59
Shot Share 55.2%
Shot Share League Rank 1st
The reason why this race is noteworthy is because of the potential ramifications it'll have on the Eastern Conference playoff picture, and how we handicap it. It's also sure to raise more questions about the current seeding system, and how it can be altered to reward teams for regular season success.
If we were to reseed 1 through 16 based on point percentage, the Bruins would be first, the Lightning third, and the Leafs seventh. In terms of goal differential, those teams are second, first, and fourth, respectively.
To be the team that lifts the Stanley Cup, you'll inevitably need to beat some quality competition, but surely it's less than ideal that two of those teams will be forced to face each other right off the bat, with one of them being prematurely knocked out in the first round.
Especially when, as a current example (which is subject to change thanks to how close the race is), the Penguins would be facing the Flyers or Devils in their opening matchup. In this case, the Penguins at 12th overall would draw either the 15th- or 16th-ranked team in point percentage.
Just something to consider as business picks up here.
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I've made a global list of more than 100 inspirational maritime women. How many inspirational women can you count within your organization? How many of these are visible internally? And how many of them are encouraged to engage and inspire outside of their own team, unit or organization? Let's talk a bit about the importance of visible role models!
For women joining shipping some 20-30 years ago, there were few female role models. Fortunately, this has improved over the past decade, and will continue to do so; but the number of visible women across the industry is still far too low. I'd really like to see a cultural change in shipping where we proactively seek to promote female role models to a much bigger extent than we currently do.
When I speak with students, youth and younger industry colleagues it's very clear that we still need so many more role models for those to gain inspiration from. 50+ white males still dominate the picture most people have of shipping. In other words; our industry still looks very homogeneous from the outside, and this reduces our attractiveness not only among females, but also among other groups who don't identify themselves with our external stereotypic image.
You could definitely claim that this is up to the women themselves, and that not everyone feels comfortable with attention and visibility. But quite often people don't consider themselves role models- and fail to realize their own potential impact in inspiring others. And for most, it's easier to be vocal and visible if you see support and interest from your employer and/or colleagues.
So in this case, I think that the lack of visible female role models is so important for shipping, both for the current and next generations, that we should all – any individual, leader and company – nudge maritime women to take up more space and share their knowledge, experiences and drive.
Anyone can be a good role model I this context, you don't need to be a CXO with massive amounts of power. It might just as well someone junior, who is super engaged in their field and able to translate nerdiness into interesting insights. Or someone who's a female first in their role or field.
Today I'd like to challenge you specifically; if you're an industry female reading this post, think of how you can contribute either within or outside of your own organization. And if you're a male industry colleague, I'm certain that you know someone in scope. Nudge them, and look into which efforts your company have in place.
Within every company, every professional field, every segment of our industry, age group and hub there should be visible, inspirational and inclusive leaders to inspire young female talents through their studies and first junior roles, and eventually onwards as they aspire for new challenges – cracking glass ceilings, walls and conquering the infamous glass cliffs.
And so so many more….
Now, let's work together to make sure this list of visible role models grows exponentially during the coming years! And please share your input with me – which of your female role models are missing from the list..?!
Great list. I would certainly include my former colleague Lucy Hine at TradeWinds who has quietly become a highly influential commentator on LNG shipping. Known and trusted by many, she is at the top of her profession.
I am glad to see Oritsematosan Edodo-EMORE's name on the list. She is convening the Lagos International Maritime Week in May (15th – 17th ). She is truly a role model because she is providing mentorship opportunity for young people to attend the Lagos International Maritime Week.
Of course! She is amazing!


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Turn To Tara: Boys say unsafe crosswalk is tragedy waiting to happen
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:05 PM EDT
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS -
A group of young boys from Westchester Turned To Tara for help with a school crosswalk that they say is a tragedy waiting to happen.
News 12's investigative unit receives hundreds of emails a month, but this was the first time they ever heard from an 11-year-old boy.
Trent Patane, his two brothers and their friends reached out to News 12, saying that their daily walk home from Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle School in Yorktown Heights is a test of courage.
"Your life is just at risk when you are crossing the street," says Patane.
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News 12 drove to the crosswalk on Route 132 to check out the situation. There were cars speeding by, overgrown shrubbery, no curbs, no sidewalks, no blinking lights and not a crossing guard in sight.
"I almost got hit twice because I was walking, and all of a sudden, the car stopped. And then it just kept going and no one was there to help us. It gets pretty scary and dangerous," says Vincent Savastano, a sixth-grade student.
The boys say there is an easy fix. They want strobe lights installed to alert drivers when they are crossing, as well as a crossing guard.
Route 132 is a state-owned roadway, so News 12 reached out to Sen. Peter Harckham to see what could be done. His office said the issue is on their radar, and that budget constraints are the reason crossing guards have not been hired. They also said they will be scheduling a site visit to the crosswalk.
The school's principal admitted that crossing is unsafe for students, and said until the state takes action, parents should think twice about allowing their children to walk home from school and to use the bus instead.

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4 Years Too Short For Mahama - Sly Mensah
The Greater Accra Regional campaign coordinator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Sylvester Mensah, (NDC), has likened the achievements of President John Dramani Mahama to that of Ghana's first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
According to him, Dr. Nkrumah is the only past president who can match the achievements of the current president and pleaded with Ghanaians to extend his mandate.
Addressing the media in Accra on Wednesday about the achievement of the current NDC government, the former National Health Insurance Authority boss admitted that the business of nation building is a very difficult task and expressed the opinion that four years is too short a time to enable a performing president to achieve what he has set out to do."
He further added that the Greater Accra Region has seen massive development projects under the current government which, according to him, demonstrates that government is committed to developing the country.
"A second term for a president who has fully demonstrated that he is up to the task of nation building is therefore perfectly in order to enable him to bring his police, programmes and projects fully to mature," he said.


Hal Macomber always has interesting things to say about the world project management. In Misunderstanding Project Planning as Anticipation he is thinking about the essense of planning.
Martin Dugage writes about a blogging executive, who has built social/trust capital via a weekly forum he has written for three years.
David Weinberger has a nice piece on Fact-based ethics for bloggers , and I think it actually adds a bit to the ideas about blogs as a vehicle for conversations.
Amy Gahran has a nice list of "10 Reasons Why Blogs Are an Awkward Conversation Tool" that talks about how blogs hinder the flow of a conversation. I agree, and yet conversation still happens.
Denham Grey and Paul Hartzog and I thinking about conversation and extending the social network.
Joy London highlighted an interesting article about the value of conversation in knowledge-intensive firms.
Dina Mehta has written a piece about what blogs have done for her in the past three years. I have to agree with a number of her sentiments, but most critically "My blog has become my social network."


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Ich + Ich (čteno jako ich und ich) je německé popové duo, které tvoří hudebníci Annette Humpe a Adel Tawil.

Historie
Annette Humpe a Adel Tawil se poznali na jaře 2002 v jednom berlínském nahrávacím studiu při práci na stejném projektu. Humpe se líbil Tawilsůw hlas a kontaktovala jej. Tawil byl tehdy známý jako člen skupiny The Boyz. 18. dubna 2005 vydali své první společné album Ich + Ich, které obsahovalo hity "Geht's dir schon besser?" a "Du erinnerst mich an Liebe und Dienen". V lednu a v únoru se kapela vydala na turné, které sklidilo velký úspěch. Skoro všechny koncerty byly vyprodané. Druhé studiové album Vom selben Stern bylo vydáno 29. června 2007. 15. června byl vydán stejnojmenný singl, 7. listopadu 2007 singl "Stark" a 4. dubna 2008 singl "So soll es bleiben". 13. listopadu 2009 vydali třetí studiové album Gute Reise. Koncem srpna 2010 se oba umělci rozhodli dát si od Ich + Ich pauzu a soustředit se na své sólové projekty. 1. září 2009 Humpe a Tawil popřeli fámu, že se kapela rozpadla. 1. října 2010 se Ich + Ich spolu s Mohamedem Mounirem zúčastnili soutěže Bundesvision Song Contest a se 100 body obsadili třetí místo.

Diskografie
Studiová alba
 Ich + Ich (2005)
 Vom selben Stern (2007)
 Gute Reise (2009)

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Německé hudební skupiny
Popové hudební skupiny
Dvojice v hudbě
Hudební skupiny založené v roce 2003
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Gold Medalist Ice Dancer Dan Whiston
6 September, 2011 - All, Dan Whiston's Latest News, Dance Artistes, News
Daniel Whiston is one of the UK's leading, professional ice dancers, known to millions for winning ITV television's Dancing On Ice a record three times!
Having competed nationally and internationally he is a multi gold medal award winner, achieving his first major title at the age of nine, making him the youngest person ever to win the Robin Cousins Trophy of Excellence award.
Passionate Skater
Skating was Dan's passion from as young as six years old until turning professional at the age of 18. Having trained in drama and dance he has been featured on pop videos, films and commercials and theatre productions. Dan has performed in many lavish productions including the Hot Ice Show, Holiday On Ice, Disney On Ice and Strictly Come Ice Dancing. He has also appeared in pantomime as Dandini alongside Bradley Walsh and Dan played The Story Teller in Peterborough and Hanely for Paul Hammond.
Natural Presenter
Alongside his ice dancing career, Daniel has also done a significant amount of presenting work, appearing on ITV's 'This Morning' and co-presenting on 'The British Soap Awards' and on 'Dancing on Ice Extra. He has also guest presented on Radio Aire and on Radio Wave and he devised and appeared in Gaynor Faye's best selling fitness DVD 'Fit Friends.'
Perfect Sixes ITV's Dancing On Ice
He became known to the masses when he was personally invited to join ITV's Dancing On Ice team by Olympic winners Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. Since then, Dan has appeared in every series since 2006 and won the Dancing on Ice title a record three times. The first time was with actress Gaynor Faye, then with Hayley Tamaddon, with whom he made history by being the first to receive the perfect score from all judges for their performance of Jai Ho, before going on to win the title. Dan then partnered Jennifer Ellison in 2012 and reached the semi-finals of the show and in 2013 he won the title for the third time with Olympic Bronze medal winner, gymnast Beth Tweddle. Dan also performed on the Dancing On Ice Tours.
He starred in the final series returning to the Champion of Champions Show with celebrity partner and Coronation Street actress Hayley Tamaddon where they were runners up to winner Ray Quin and Maria Filippov.
Dan assisted choreographer Kim Gavin for the Olympic Ceremonies for the off ice skating and he danced alongside Coldplay on special off ice skates.
By Royal Appointment
2010 brought one of the major highlights of Dan Whiston's career when he was invited to perform his unique silks and skating act at The Royal Variety Show. As well as ice dancing, Dan can use specially designed off-ice skates that enable him to skate on any dry, non-ice surface and this was the performance that the audience enjoyed seeing at The Royal Variety Show as he blended beautiful, aerial skills with skating on a normal stage surface
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On 5 May 2015, the AJC convened its Strategy Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, "A Defining Moment for Europe," in Brussels.
Jan Jambon, Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Security and the Interior, and Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers, and Gender Equality, delivered keynote addresses at the opening session Tuesday. Both speakers recognized that the surge of anti-Semitic incidents poses a fundamental threat to individual European countries and, more generally, to the European Union.
In the presence of numerous Members of the European Parliament, European Commission and government officials, and representatives of civil society, AJC unveiled an action plan for European governments to address the intensifying crisis of anti-Semitism.


strongest level in more than three years against the U.S.
of an initially disappointing jobs report.
U.S. dollar, or $1.05, its strongest since late 2007.
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"It's certainly helping to underpin the currency."
$1.048, up from Thursday's close of C$0.9585 to the U.S.
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caused minimal response, noted Chandler.
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I have original abstract paintings for sale. These paintings were all painted by myself, Darryl G Green.
This original art for sale USA only unfortunately. It is my opinion that Shipping costs are probably too much to sell internationally. I guess I would sell a fairly small painting to a buyer in another country if they were willing to pay the shipping rates.
I only have a few original abstract oil paintings for sale. Almost all of the acrylic paintings that I have done are original modern abstract paintings.
I do now paint large original abstract paintings. I did not start with painting abstract paintings. Also I did not start doing large paintings either until fairly recently.
painting the large abstract paintings. I think they would be perfect for many office walls.
They do take up a lot of room at my place though. So It's very nice to sell one for more than one reason.I did have my original art for sale on ebay. But I did not like it there as an artist that platform encourages too low pricing. Almost all of my large paintings are original abstract canvas paintings. Just the canvas itself cost me more than people were willing to pay on eBay.
very favorite paintings is one of these. You will see it below.
I have decided to feature that one to sell here. I call this painting Strange Fruit. Of course it is an original abstract painting also.
It measures 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide, or 48" x 24". This wood panel is specially made for me by a friend that is really good at woodworking, I did help a bit to build it too.
This very colorful abstract acrylic painting is on this heavy wooden panel. It's very sturdy, almost too heavy to ship I fear.
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Art of dissent: How Russians protest the war on Ukraine
They risk jail, stigma and fines. But Russian protesters are finding creative ways to get their message out.
By Robyn Dixon
Mary Ilyushina
Natalia Abbakumova
July 7 at 9:00 a.m.
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It was 4 a.m. on Moscow's second ring road. Early light bathed the empty street.
Lyudmila Annenkova and Natalia Perova remember stepping out of a taxi, draped in blankets to hide white dresses splashed with red paint, like blood. They were terrified of arrest, they said, so they worked quickly.
They flung off the blankets, posed, held hands and gazed into a smartphone lens. Snap, snap, snap. Three photos and they fled. The images went viral on independent and activist Telegram channels and social media pages.
Russia's antiwar movement has found creative ways to express dissent despite President Vladimir Putin's hard line crackdown. Protesters are arrested for crimes as trivial as holding up a blank sheet of paper, merely implying opposition to the war.
"You have about 30 seconds to show what you want and then you will be arrested," said Annenkova, a photographer.
"We were very afraid. We had so much adrenaline," Perova said.
The red splashes on white dresses symbolized the killings of innocent people, especially women and children. They held hands to send a message to Ukrainians "that we want to hold the hands of everyone who is there and who is in trouble now," Annenkova said.
"With performances, you can get into people's minds and you can inform them," Perova said. "Otherwise if you don't show them through actions like this they will continue to live in their propaganda bubble without any understanding and any desire to understand."
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Activists Natalia Perova and Lyudmila Annenkova in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on May 29. (Courtesy of Lyudmila Annenkova and Natalia Perova)
Activists Natalia Perova and Lyudmila Annenkova in front of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on May 29. (Courtesy of Ludmila Annenkova and Natalia Perova )
Annenkova said documenting and posting their protest was key "because people live on the internet, they live on Instagram, and when they see something online it can influence them more than text."
Activists have donned "pacifist" clothing or dressed up as skeletons to protest in cemeteries, written antiwar messages on bank notes, baked bread decorated with doves for peace, and left small antiwar installations in city parks. One woman was arrested for loudly playing a song by legendary Soviet songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky about the Nazi occupation of Ukraine with the lyrics: "Ahead of us, all is blooming. Behind us, everything is burning."
Yekaterinburg street artist Timofey Radya uses posters and signs on buildings for his installations. On June 12, he spelled out "Live in the Past" in huge Soviet-style letters on two buildings in his city, next to another with a hammer and sickle. When he came up with the idea late last year, he saw the words as a prediction.
Now he sees them as "a sentence." Authorities removed the letters two days later.
Artist Andrei Kuzkin, used his own feces and blood to paint three words — blood, s--- and war — for a work he titled "Mixture." (Courtesy of Andrei Kuz'kin/Courtesy of Andrei Kuz'kin)
Artist Denis Mustafin was jailed for 15 days for hanging a Russian flag in front of the Defense Ministry on Russia Day, June 12, with the words "Today is not my day." His friend, artist Andrei Kuzkin, used his own feces and blood to paint the three words "blood, s--- and war" for a work he titled "Mixture."
"I felt a kind of relief," Kuzkin said. "I really wanted to do something to express what I feel, and to show to others that this is what war is: It is a mixture of these two things. For some reason our society and Putin forgot this very simple truth."
In this repressive climate, protests, including performances, are less about artistic merit than raw courage, he said. "I cannot exhibit my very powerful and vivid antiwar work anywhere, for obvious reasons. So the only way I can reach out to my audience is to post pictures of this work on Facebook."
Party of the Dead, a Russian protest art group, focuses on what they see as their country's morbid obsession with "necrophilia" in politics and culture. They don skeletal masks and costumes and stage protests with "corpses," or in a cemetery where Soviet war dead and victims of the Leningrad blockade are buried. The Post is not identifying the members out of concern for their security.
Russian performance art group "Party of the Dead" hold antiwar protests against the invasion of Ukraine. (Courtesy of Party of the Dead)
"This regime has nothing to give to the world except destruction and death, which is perfectly showcased by the military invasion of Ukraine," a member of the group said in an interview.
They argue that Putin's regime is guilty of deceiving the public, even as it criminalizes "fake news" about the war.
"The only problem is that in this spectacle people are being killed for real."
As Russian galleries censor exhibitions, many Russian artists are turning inward and painting secret works at home, for themselves and their own sanity, Kuzkin said. Most public protests are not artistic — just raw eruptions of frustration and pain.
Dmitry Skurikhin, who owns a shopping center in the small town of Russko-Vysotskoye, southwest of St. Petersburg, vowed last year not to shave his beard until Putin left office — after he was arrested for protesting the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He has painted the names of Ukrainian villages, towns and cities under Russian attack on the walls of his shopping center.
Dmitry Skurikhin carries a poster that says "To Victory Day of Ukraine! Glory to you and your heroes."
Skurikhin painted the names of places in Ukraine attacked by Russia in large red letters on his shopping center in the town of Russko-Vysotskoye. (Courtesy of Dmitry Skurikhin)
LEFT: Dmitry Skurikhin carries a poster that says "To Victory Day of Ukraine! Glory to you and your heroes." (Courtesy of Dmitry Skurikhin)RIGHT: Skurikhin painted the names of places in Ukraine attacked by Russia in large red letters on his shopping center in the town of Russko-Vysotskoye. (Courtesy of Dmitry Skurikhin)
One of Skurikhin's five daughters had a breathing disorder as a baby. Several times he found her with blue lips. He and his wife worried constantly, until she grew out of it.
"When the war started, I saw pictures of children who had been killed and it was unbearable for me. They were not just killed, they were torn apart," he said, voice choking. "If I didn't paint the names of these places where children were torn apart with red paint symbolizing blood, I thought I would just go crazy."
One anonymous activist protested Russia's massacres of civilians in Bucha by posing as if he were dead, in some of Moscow's most popular sites. The images were published by the independent Russian magazine, Holod.
An unknown activist protested Russian atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, posing outside landmarks in Moscow. (Courtesy of Holod Magazine)
Russian journalist Peter Ruzavin, who fled the country and now is reporting in Ukraine, recently launched a Telegram channel collecting images of antiwar actions, often small and anonymous.
"Ninety-nine percent of this visual art is not made by artists, just by regular people in their regions and near their houses, writing something on the walls," he said.
There are antiwar slogans and Ukrainian flags on buildings, bridges, behind fences, on street poles, bus stops, beside highways, and in trains and buses.
"It's really therapy because you see it and you realize that there are lots of people who are against the war. We cannot calculate them. But it's better to know that there are people who are against war and they do what they do," Ruzavin said.
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War in Ukraine: What you need to know
The latest: Ukrainian officials expect the death toll from an attack in the eastern city of Chasiv Yar to rise, as two dozen people remain trapped under the rubble of two high-rise apartment buildings they say were struck by Russian missiles. "Unfortunately, this is not the final number," President Zelensky said on Sunday.
The fight: A slowly regenerating Russian army is making incremental gains in eastern Ukraine against valiant but underequipped Ukrainian forces. The United States and its allies are racing to deliver the enormous quantities of weaponry the Ukrainians urgently need if they are to hold the Russians at bay.
The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade "kamikaze" drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Russia has used an array of weapons against Ukraine, some of which have drawn the attention and concern of analysts.
Photos: Post photographers have been on the ground from the very beginning of the war — here's some of their most powerful work.
How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian people as well as what people around the world have been donating.
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The Art of the Movie Poster: Dawn Baillie on Chinatown and a Lucille Ball Cover of TV Guide
The work of Jim Pearsall and Richard Amsel
By Ashley Falls on Sep 14 2018 - 6:30am
Dawn Baillie is no stranger to groundbreaking movie posters. In fact, she's responsible for one of the most iconic: The Silence of the Lambs. She's a storyteller whose preferred canvas happens to be a 27-by-41-inch sheet of paper, paired with a creative brief.
Over the course of her career, Dawn has designed world-renowned posters. Her creative agency, BLT Communications, collected numerous Clios for its storytelling skills, and in 2012, Dawn was the recipient of the inaugural Saul Bass Award.
Despite her own success, Dawn remains ready to celebrate the artists and work that inspired her own creative journey. She chatted with Muse about two of those pieces.
Muse: Looking back, is there a piece of key art that stopped you in your tracks and made you think, "Wow, I want to do that"?
Dawn Baillie: When I was a kid, I loved and collected the covers of TV Guide. I loved to analyze every colored pencil stroke made by the likes of Richard Amsel. I looked at the direction of the strokes, how he blended his colors, how he broke his compositions into designs that ended in twirled strands of hair. The Lucille Ball cover from July 6-12, 1974 is a prime example.
I never got the chance to meet him, but I am forever grateful for the inspiration. Studying his work as a small child helped me to understand the history of illustration when I studied at Otis-Parsons. Understanding the Leyendecker, Rockwell and Coles Phillips references in his work helped me with my own compositions. If it weren't for his TV Guide covers, my life would have probably taken a different direction.
Jim Pearsall's key art for Chinatown captures much of the same elegance and confidence of Amsel's work. And like Amsel, Chinatown is arrestingly unique while still paying homage to illustrators past. That reverence, coupled with his exceptional technique and style, was incredibly inspiring to me. It remains one of my favorite pieces of key art to this day.
What about the Chinatown poster stood out to you most?
The purple logo! Its Leyendecker pinstripes, its water as design element but also part of the storytelling, its noir, and design. The ethereal face of Faye Dunaway. The no eye contact. So, this invites you to think about the story. This isn't two celebrities. This is a story! I was too young to see the film when it came out, but I remember the feeling of first seeing this poster outside a theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The beautiful logo evoked flowing water and an exotic take on a part of the city where I lived.
How did the Chinatown poster move the needle for entertainment marketing?
Skilled designers really took movie posters to a new level of beauty and simplicity. There was a confidence that came from not just the quality of the films but the illustrators and designers working at that time. This work is timeless, and will be referenced in movie poster history forever.
Generally speaking, what makes a great piece of key art?
A great piece of art is one where I am stopped in my tracks and forced to think about what I'm seeing. One where the technique or the storytelling actually cuts through my cluttered sensory overload.
What elements of key art inspire your work today?
I still think about storytelling in key art. I still like little hints or Easter eggs. I still like surprising use of color and will always like purples and greens.
Q: Who created the Chinatown poster for the German release?
A: Richard Amsel.
Q: Who was on the cover of the first issue of TV Guide?
A: Desi Arnaz Jr., the baby of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (1953).
Q: How many covers of TV Guide did Richard Amsel illustrate?
A: 37 published covers.
The Art of the Movie Poster
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Willamette - echo park (2011, Infraction)
Willamette river is 301 km long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon, mostly known for the beauty of its valley. Echo Park is a hilly neighborhood in Los Angeles , California, mostly publicized for its park and particularly its small lake, which at one time was said to contain the largest planting of lotuses outside Asia before they suddenly all died.
My favor goes to the lotus lake and to the park, but with a vegetation I imagine luxuriant and of forest type, light green, emblematic of late spring and early summer, still not marked by the drought and the burning summer rays. I also dream of a subdued lighting, a stable feeling of comfort and safety, and soft rain, falling episodically, with a sky all shades of gray, long and massive clouds floating, crossing the sky while silently changing forms.
Willamette is a trio, formed by Davin Chong, Kevin Chong (who both released a couple of records as Northern) and Joseph Edward (who released as "Automobile, Swift", under his own name but who is mostly responsible of the impressive album "Composite" as Pasture), with cello contributions by Danny Norbury.
Of course, references to the Stars of The Lid and William Basinksi are difficult to avoid but Willamette is exploring an entirely different scale and perspective, with probably Georges Delerue as one of the directions.
While your emotions may are naturally inclined by such references, on "Echo Park", you are much more free to plunge yourself into the setup or no. Like Northern, nothing is imposed, like Pasture, there are vibrant atmospheres you need to embrace, adopt and interpret. The changes, the elements, are subtle and understated.
You can cross the album some days just like if you were blind and at another moment, while you're playing it, you will resonate with this music entirely. It is not an easy record which show all its content directly, it is far more complex and subtly than you may think it is, and up to now I have listened to it thirty times and i just start to really feel into it.
The only mystery is why it took them three years, between 2006 and 2009 to compose and record, and two more years to release this album, maybe it was the time necessary to drown all the melodies and movements until they are no more but pure and delicate impressions, translucent ghosts, breathing nostalgia and melancholy.
It takes time too, as a listener to understand how much the compositional backbone of this record is solid, precise and precious. Maybe the best time to listen to it is when you feel pensive and quiet, when you're alone for a drifting walk or just contemplating the view from the window of your room or from an empty train crossing the countryside between two distant towns.
Then "Echo Park" could make you feel strangely both relieved and lightly depressive, able to just enjoy the beauty of the late afternoon light, when the sun is low and glowing, revealing the surroundings even better than at dawn. Highly recommended.
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Q: Lottery - better try to hit numbers-group that appears often, than hope for a "one-in-thousand-years" combination? Please correct my reasoning:
There is a 5 out of 36 lottery (5 unique numbers out of pool of 36 numbers ranging [1,2,…,36]).
Strategy 1: just play any random combination. Like 12345, or better 11111. Chances of such combination to appear are so low that I need to live thousands of years for it to appear. Maybe in my lifetime, but probably not.
Strategy 2: I know that 198492 (5-number) combinations out of all 376992 (that is 53% !) have some property (say arithmetic mean in range x..y). So I would 100% hit into that group many times in my lifetime! It is better to try to hit something that appears often, rather than some rarely-appearing ghost?

A: The probability that the winning combination has this property is $53\%$, but you don't get to choose all the combinations from this selection of combinations when you buy your ticket, you only get to choose one. The probability of any individual 5 digit combination is equal - you still have to find a way of choosing one of the combinations with this property. You are not accounting for this, so this is where your reasoning fails.
With strategy $1$, the combination $1,2,3,4,5$ is just as likely as something like $3,11,19,22,34$, but the fact that all the numbers in this second combination seem to follow no pattern is probably why it intuitively may seem more likely to occur. That is because the probability that a "random-looking" combination will win is much greater than the probability that the winning numbers will be consecutive. This is true. But which random-looking combination will win? That's just luck.

A: The first answer is absolutely correct, and clear, I just wanted to add some more intuition.
Suppose (instead of a 5 out of 36 lottery), you are facing an $n$ out of 2 lottery, where the two numbers are 0 and 1.
This is equivalent to the case where you are asked to guess a sequence of $n$ coin flips, each flip being heads or tails with equal probability. Then, you know that the number of 1's that appear is almost certainly going to be $n/2$ (for large $n$), but this information does not help you "choose" the right sequence of flips. It is still the case that any sequence is equally likely to occur, it just so happens that the majority of random 0-1 sequences have $n/2$  1's.
Intuitively: approximately half of all possible coin flip sequences have $\approx n/2$ heads, so this set is very dense in the solution space, however,  given that it is so dense, the number of choices amongst these sequences is large. If the lottery operator guaranteed you that "tonight's coin flips seuence will have $\approx n/2 $ heads!", your probability of winning just increased two fold. Without that information, you would have had the same luck just buying two tickets :).

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Odia Movie 'Bhoka' To Portray Plight Of Surat Returnees
Bhubaneswar: Corona pandemic has affected people across the globe. The lockdown and shut down left many without a livelihood and several others lost lives to the virus.
Such real life situations will be portrayed in the reel by Jyoti Productions through their upcoming Odia movie 'Bhoka'.
The film has been directed by Rajib Mohanty while the story, screenplay and dialogues are by Ranjan Das.
Actors Ankit Kumar, Kavya Kiran and Queen will be seen in lead roles while Kuna Tripathy, Pushpa Panda, Prativa Panda and Rabi Mishra will essay important roles in the film, whose producer is Sabyasachi Mohapatra.
Music for the film has been given by Bikash Das.
"The story of 'Bhoka' is based on the struggles of a couple during lockdown. The film will showcase the struggles of the members of one Odia family after their return from Surat to Odisha. What problems they faced on their way and plight of the wife of Surat returnee will also be showcased. The shooting of the movie will be completed soon," said Pranay Jethi, Creative head of the movie.
Notably, this is the fourth film of Jyoti Productions
Mahurat of the movie was held in the presence of internationally-acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik, OFDC Chairman Kuna Tripathy and director-cum- additional secretary, Odia Language, Literature and Culture department, Ranjan Das. Cast and crew of the movie were also present.
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It Follows (2015)
April 12, 2015, Posted in Horror, Thriller Comments: One comment
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Writer/Director: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Lili Sepe, Jake Weary, Daniel Zovatto
"It could look like someone you know or it could be a stranger in a crowd. Whatever helps it get close to you."
I can't get IT FOLLOWS out of my head. It's a finely crafted horror that creeps under the skin with its high concept narrative hook serving as allegory. Ambiguous enough to inspire speculation without sacrificing narrative cohesion IT FOLLOWS is more of a sustained atmospheric suspense of dread than outright terrifying fear frightener. It's a campfire yarn that exploits the power of suggestion by manipulating, embracing and subverting the tropes of the genre.
Where I went in completely blind aside from the positive buzz of lasts years Fantastic Fest and some enthusiastic recommendations from friends I feel that now that the central premise is splattered all over the web I can reveal the core concept without being labeled a spoiler. (Treat this as your warning to avoid the rest of this paragraph if you would prefer to remain completely in the dark) So here it is, a sexually transmitted specter stalks an infected teen and with the aid of her friends must survive its unstoppable malevolent power. This shape-shifting, waking succubus/incubus terminator advances the timeless thematic collision of sex and death that's been the crux of numerous horror legends and also a staple of teen slashers birthed with Carpenter's HALLOWEEN.
It's Carpenter's seminal work along with a slew of other non-teen horror classics like INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and CAT PEOPLE that subtly make their stylistic presence known as the tale progresses. A huge component of the film's success is the creeptastic musical score from former video game contributor Rich Vreeland under the name Disasterpeace which also harkens back to the master of horror. It's this soundtrack in unison with Mike Gioulakis' (JOHN DIES AT THE END) manipulatively composed cinematography that forms a relentless atmosphere of impending doom and consequence. (Listen to the soundtrack at the bottom of the page)
The predatory camera is always in motion. Wide lens shots framed to unnerve through forced perspective cunningly place out of focus, side bar and background movement to draw the eye and raise the pulse. It's nothing new, but Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell obviously understands the tricks of the trade and uses them all effectively. Right from the unbroken opening shot through an idyllic suburban neighborhood as the tranquility is abruptly shattered by a petrified underwear and heels clad young woman fleeing from an unseen attacker I was immediately in the filmmakers clutches. (See the Anatomy of a scene video below with commentary from Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell to witness it for yourself)
Another element of storytelling effectively employed is a world largely devoid of adult influence. These teens already navigating the identity confusions we all face growing up confront this murderous monster largely isolated from their elder's wisdom. This adds an element of futility and importantly means when their largely ineffectual attempts to end the curse border on silly it's actually tangible instead of frustrating.
Despite a very conscious effort to operate in a non specific time period there is a loving reverence for the 70's and 80's both in technique and content that had me almost feeling nostalgic. VHS tapes are placed beside modern e-reader technology (purposefully designed to appear like a birth control pill) and a cell phone that appears early on is never seen again, the effect is disorientating but never distracting.
Cleverly, although the cat is let out of the bag early in the running time when the "rules" are established it's revealed via a somewhat unreliable narrator, Hugh (Jake Weary). The lack of concrete laws creates a conceptual quicksand where the viewer must process every clue just as the characters in peril onscreen.
The largely unknown cast adds another dimension to the off-center movie reality rather than one distinctly ours. In the lead, the nubile Marika Monroe fresh off of last year's inevitable cult classic THE GUEST really anchors the whole thing with a strong performance. Vulnerable enough to leave doubt of end game survival while still strong willed enough to make her plight one we care about. As her younger sister Lile, Kelly Height brings out the sibling conflict of caring while simultaneously being judgmental of her older sister's attractive but naive maturity. Keir Gilchrist captures the character of the geeky, lovelorn Paul who encapsulates many of the scripts themes of sexual awakening, desire and awkwardness. As the charismatic loner Greg, Daniel Zovatto reminded me of Judd Nelson's Bender from THE BREAKFAST CLUB through a filter of post-modernism.
It's these modern sensibilities that largely inform why IT FOLLOWS works on more than just a surface level without being overtly, self-consciously meta. Formulated for deeper analysis the STD/AIDS commentary is only the entrance to a rabbit hole for those who wish to obsess on the films subconscious intent like the horrific twisting and inverting of sexual abuse and victimization. This residual power makes it hard to objectively criticize the debatable flaws that emerged during the screening.
I began this review by stating that I haven't been able to get this film out of my head and that isn't just due to the experience while sitting in the darkened cinema. It's that while in motion the story is intriguing enough to immerse you in each reveal but it's not until you are alone that you begin to analyze just why it manages to permeate…Listening to its unnerving, moody soundtrack on a loop ever since has probably also played a part in why it clings to me like some skin disease ever since too.
Watch the spoiler heavy, THING fonted trailer for it FOLLOWS trailer
IT FOLLOWS – The opening unbroken shot with commentary from Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell
Listen to the unnerving, downright terrifying IT FOLLOWS Soundtrack
Tags: 2015 films, david robert mitchell, horror films, horror movies, it follows, it follows review, maika monroe, teen horror
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