Mardi Gras in Louisianna, Carnaval in Brazil and the Olympic Winter Games in South Korea are all major international events taking place this February. With these being some of the the world's largest and most infamous gatherings, revelers are also partaking in other lesser known, albeit grand, celebratory displays in other parts of the world.
One such event is the Sapporo Snow Festival of Japan. Held annually for about a week in February, this year from February 1 – February 12 at the Tsudome site and from February 5 – February 12 at the Odori Park and Susukino sites in Central Sapporo.
Sapporo Snow Festival in a nutshell. Video credit to Gaijin Pot.
Locally known as Sapporo Yuki-matsuri, the event has been a Japanese tradition since 1950. Considered to be one of the largest and most distinctive events of its kind, the event was home to around 2 million visitors alone at its 57th festival in 2007. Considering the event all started when six high school students made snow sculptures in Odori Park. Just five years later the Japan Self-Defense Forces from a neighboring base joined in, building the first vast snow sculptures, for which the festival ultimately became known for. In 1959 participation grew to 2,500 people, who made snow sculptures, garnering nationwide media attention for the first time.
Dancers representing Hawaiian Airlines bear the snow to perform the typically tropical Hula dance in less than average temps!
1974 gave way to the festival's International Snow Statue Competition, featuring statues built by teams from different countries, including sister cities of Sapporo such as Munich. The festival eventually grew to include participation from teams representing Sydney, Australia; Alberta, Canada; Shenyang, China; and Portland, Oregon just to name a few. While the very first festivals were suspended during World War II, more recent events have grown to include greater attractions, amenities and beyond.
While the Odori site is home to grand sculptures created by the Ground Self-Defense Force, the Susikino site hosts an ice sculpture show and contest; all the while, the Tsudome site boasts snow slides and a snow rafting area where attendees can partake in a snow rafting experience. In addition to all of this, dance has become an integral part of this highly anticipated annual event. Various groups perform dances covering a wide spectrum of genres, dawning captivating costumes in front of a spectacular, dramatically lit ice sculpture.
Dancers perform in front of a large sculpture named 'Hokkaido – a Tourist Wonderland'.
Just this year, a group of young male dancers performed a traditional dance out in the snow amongst some of the snow sculptures. In frigid temperatures reaching the low teens, the dancers dramatically tore off their traditional robes, exposing stripping down to mere loin cloths, as they continued to perform enthusiastically in the freezing temps.
Showing the world that the snow festival is about performance and moving art on ice, as well as the motionless, frozen sculptures, these performance artists literally and figuratively bring life to the festival through dance.


Today was the last day at the bombed out church, pending the council's decision about who will run it in the future. I received a letter from Mayor Joe Anderson expressing his "sincere gratitude for my tireless work" which was nice of him to acknowledge.
Today was a wonderful day, lots of live music, street food and a screening of Casablanca to round off the day. All of the volunteers were in a sad but buoyant mood, fighting back the tears and getting on with the tasks at hand. Chris from the band Silent Sleep performed some of his songs, including our favourite, "meet me on the steps of the bombed out church". We closed for one hour to set up for the movie screening of "Casablanca", everyone pulled together to be ready in time; Little Anthony, Paul, Sam, Elsa, Jilly, Ash, Jake, Nicole, Anne-Marie, Dave, Connor, Lucas and I.
We had to put carpet down for people to sit on as we ran out of chairs, we thought 300 would be enough! The movie looked great, sitting under the giant transparent marquee. Couldn't help but cry a little during the film, it made me think back over the last decade and all that we had achieved. The audience loved the film and gave us a big round of applause at the end.


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2007 Films I wanna see!
So I was talking to my friend about the movies we wanted to see this year, and here is a list so I don't forget about it:
Spider-Man 3 (May 2007)
The Simpsons Movie (July 27, 2007)
300 (March 9, 2007)
The Host (March 9, 2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (July 13, 2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (2007)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Hopefully 2007)
Goya's Ghost (2007?)
My Blueberry Nights (2007?)
I'm a Cyborg, but it's OK (2007???)
So there you go~ I'm keeping those in mind ;)
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ANTM8 has begun~
Cycle 8 of America's Next Top Model began on Feb. 28th – my thoughts on it, after I saw it on YouTube (mainly because Sony takes like 6months to bring new cycles – stupid fuckers)
Now, I was never big on watching reality tv, but you know – it's mostly all you see on television now. The first cycle I saw was cycle 4, the last 2 or 3 episodes, but I loved the photographs taken there. (if you haven't noticed, I like photography) Then I saw a few eps of cycle 5, but didn't like it – cycle 6 I saw while I was in Canada, and I sorta liked, so then I watched reruns of cycle 1 and 2. The formula is simple, get a nice candidate, get a shy one, get a tomboy, get a sexy one, get a sassy, get a crazy one, and a bitch one. Make sure you get color contestants, latinas, and if you can… don't forget the asian one. The rest is up to you.
Cycle 7 – began with really interesting photoshoots, but then the pictures became less interesting. However, you could tell there were some good ones. AJ was my pick for that season, but she got the boot after 5 eps… then it was Michelle, Amanda and CariDee. CariDee was fun, most of them were fun… Megan was so sweet (she even left me a message on MySpace), Megg was "ROCK ON!!!", AJ was great. The whole bunch was a great group of people that you could really like.
Cycle 8 – Episode 1-2 sucked talent-wise. The photos were WEAK, even though the theme was a really good one. I think they said it was "political views," but I saw it as "ways of thinking". It was really a thought-provoking theme, if contestants only had thought about this issues. "Pro-Choice," was a great theme, but the Russian girl (natasha?) did a REALLY poor job at doing ANYTHING AT ALL. She just stood there being "pretty," and she ended up with a horrible picture. The mom of the season did a poor job portraying "Anti-Guns" and let's not get into "Pro-Fur". Although, Kathleen (sp?) who did Pro-Fur was sorta funny accepting how she didn't get the photoshoot.
Now onto contestants – Jael looks like a fused version of AJ, CariDee and Megg, drunk and doped… she's got this way of talking like she's tired or something, that sounds like a speech impediment. She's funny, and seems nice, but it's really hard to understand. There are two or three that seem uptight, total bitches or just plain stupid. The mom (who I can't remember her name,) the Russian girl who seems like a total bimbo who thinks girls with short hair are not feminine enough, and the photographer chick who seems to know much, but doesn't know shit.
Ok, I'm being harsh on the photographer chick, but she does seems uptight. There's potential there, but she needs to loosen up. The mom needs to stop being the mom of the show, and the Russian girl needs to start thinking… that thing she said not wanting to get into political issues, she just wanted to be pretty. That's gonna work against her…. and if she's not careful on babbling about her marriage, immigration is gonna bust up her ass.
Some of the candidates I liked personality-wise were the two plus-size models… Whitney and Diana. They seem like really nice people, but they need to step it up! Their photos were weak, and Diana's commitment to jumping around wasn't there (she was Pro-Gun). Whitney had a Pro-Gay Marriage shoot with another contestant I kinda liked, Samantha. In her regular picture, she doesn't look like much, but on the show she looks really great… almost like a fused version of Keira Knightley with Natalie Portman in a Girl-Next-Door sorta way. However, she seems too shy, and that might work against her. Another one that seems shy is Brittany, her picture was the one I liked the most, but it was still weak.
Anyway, not seeing much potential there…. we'll see this coming week. Rant's over.
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This is simply freaking awesome.
Fanta, Psyop style~
Gosh, I'm a freak~~~
And just in case, I don't wanna blog more for today~~
– A short film by Lee HeeBok
– VW Phaeton Shadow Plays
– Forget the Film, Watch the Titles~
– Contenders and Feats of ESPN
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Björk 6th Album~
I'm so excited! I just read a press release for Björk's 6th album, entitled "Volta" – three years after "Medulla"
Here's what was posted:
"Musical innovator Björk releases her next studio album 'Volta' on May 7th 2007.
'Volta' is Björk's sixth studio album and follows the release of 'Medúlla' in 2004.
Featuring ten brand new and original tracks 'Volta' is entirely written and produced by Björk.
In the role of producer Björk has brought in various other musicians to work on her songs and 'Volta' features some of her most interesting collaborations so far with Antony Hegarty (Antony And The Johnsons) singing on two tracks, and Timbaland (Jay-Z, Missy Elliot etc) working with Björk on beats that she created for three further songs.
Other artists that feature on 'Volta' include electronic pioneer Mark Bell of LFO and two unique drummers – Chris Corsano (the improvisational drummer who has worked with Sonic Youth amongst others) and Brian Chippendale from Lightening Bolt.
Björk also brought in two acclaimed African artists for 'Volta' – Toumani Diabate, the Malian kora player and Konono No1 the experimental band from The Congo who won a BBC World Music Award in 2006. She has also put together her own 10 piece female brass section of Icelandic musicians who play on three further tracks. Meanwhile Chinese pipa expert Min Xiao-Fen plays on one song."
It's so exciting!!!! ^^
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Bloody hell~
I tried to add really old entries from when I started blogging, but it's really impossible. It's effing retarded to see how I was blogging almost daily when I was 17, and I find it almost impossible now. Gosh~ So I just gave that idea up.
Since it's been so long since I last really, really blog, this post might just turn up a little too long, but here goes~
I have been a Dixie Chicks' fan since I first heard "Without You,' back when Napster was still free, and I was merely a kiddo living in Lima, Peru. I had NEVER in my life been exposed to Country music, because it's really not the type of music you hear in a country like mine, so we'd never get anything related to them or their music.
Recently, at a forum, I created a topic to discuss Country music, because I was so excited by the Dixie Chicks sweeping off the Grammy awards. Soon, the topic turned from Country music songs to a heated argument about the Dixie Chicks, so I have been wanting to rant about this.
PS: I think the Chicks will be so proud to create so much controversy in forums~ ;)
However, I must say that their music prior this whole thing was pretty great. Loads of fun to listen to, and lovely ballads.
You can't take that away from them (hmm… mariah carey's flashback)
I just saw the documentary "Shut Up & Sing," which was pretty good… I was expecting more politics, but it was actually moving in bits of the film.
I am not American, but I do not condemn or praise what Natalie Maines said. Well, sure I don't like Bush… I'm guilty of that, but to defend Natalie's mistake, her comment wasn't part of the act. They had just finished a song, and during that moment where they were preparing for the other, she wanted to express something that was bugging her, since the US was invading Irak THAT DAY. The Chicks were watching the news… and closely watching Internet news, when they had to go perform, so that kinda messes with your mind a little, and makes you voice your opinion easier than in other circumstances.
Totally opposite to what Tobey(sp?) Keith did insulting Natalie Maines – that was actually PART of his show, which then turned into that stupid kid's game of insulting. But whatever~ FUTK, FUDC… but I must say I found Natalie hilarious. x'D
However, watching the documentary – you did see them taking advantage of it. At first, Natalie was all about not making a big deal out of it – and their manager was like "wouldn't it be great if this and that happened?" – I think that was wrong, and the press didn't wanna let it go either. If the press and republican groups hadn't made a big deal out of it, nothing would've happened – and probably, the Dixie Chicks would've been left standing worse.
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Any type of publicity is good publicity.
Now, I never saw the big deal with insulting Bush. Everyone does. Every political comic artist in the world pokes fun at every politician they know, because that's what they do. Otherwise, they'd have no jobs.
Bush is as any other president, or any regular person in the planet. Respect should be earned for the things you do, not the title you wear. That's my opinion…
After my post, the discussion turned to the definition of "freedom of speech" – And I must say that their arguments weren't valid to me. Freedom of speech is not "saying whatever you like" – Freedom of speech is "giving your opinion about something." Yelling "FIRE!" at a cinema does not count as part of Freedom of speech because it doesn't state anything about anything. I rest my case.
In other crap things~ The Oscar was held a few days back. I guessed a few of them – and I loved the surprise for Alan Arkin =D I was really happy for him, even though I wanted Djimon Honsou to win. ^^ – I also loved "Happy Feet" kicking "Cars"' ass for Best Animated Feature. However… WTF – I know Jennifer Hudson was a shoo in for all the awards she's been getting, but WHATEVER in HELL possessed people to give her an Oscar for playing a singer? It wasn't much of a stretch now, wasn't it? – Is Rinko Kikuchi a deaf-mute person? Is Adriana Barraza ever an illegal nanny in the States? – ah, I didn't think so.
But, ok – whatever~ rant's over~
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On the Up and Up for Jennifer!
AN Armagh woman who provides music and movement classes to babies and toddlers has had her work recognised on a national level..
Jennifer O'Neill has been named 'New Up and Coming Franchisee of the Year' for her work with Jo Jingles, which operates across Counties Armagh and Tyrone.
She told Armaghi: "It was completely unexpected. There are so many great franchisees out there that I was just really happy to be nominated. To win is just a dream come true."
This was Jennifer's first year running the franchise at branches of Jo Jingles in Armagh, Portadown, Lurgan, Cookstown and Dungannon. Holding classes in five locations, she serves over 200 people, as well as taking her activities to nurseries, schools and mother and toddler groups.
"Currently we are also expanding into Armagh and starting classes in the Orchard Leisure Centre in September," added Jennifer.
Jo Jingles is the UK's largest provider of fun and interactive pre-school music and singing classes with an educational slant, operating in over 700 centres across the UK and Ireland.
Son running marathon for Portadown dad who died while undergoing heart surgery


Missed me? I know the mental pain and anguish is hard to bear when I take a short break, dearest Melted Felt readers. Back from the iGaming Supershow in Prague, refreshed if a little hung-over and utterly shocked to find out the latest move in the US... where Senator Jon Kyl is proposing a an entirely ficticious, yet radical solution to cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil leak - using online poker players.
Until now, online poker players have added little to society. Sitting in darkened rooms clicking away, totally failing to pay tax and scoring a 'nil' on social interactions in general. Kyl, a long time opponent of anyone enjoying themselves in any way whatsoever (oh and online gambling too)who is prone to throw his toys out of the pram if he does not get his own way, has suggested that ending the worst environmental disaster in the history of the US could be achieved using online poker players.
With oil gushing out at 5000 liters per hour some serious thought is required as to how the online poker player solution will be constructed. It is thought that a compact plug of slowrollers and serial limpers will be forced in first, with rakeback grinders filling in any gaps around the edges. Next a layer of (preferably backed) lower to middle limit tournament pros will be used to prevent the plug being forced out, sit n go specialists used to prevent bubbles and then some degen PLO fans layered over the top to hoover up any loose equity, erm, oil.
According to Kyl, around 23,000 online poker players should be enough to kill the leak, with an addtional 10,000 on standby in case the plan fails. All being well, there will be nobody left online to actually witness the implementaton of the UIGEA tomorrow.


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Are We Sure This Mitt Romney–Pierre Delecto Thing Isn't the Singularity?
"C'est moi."
By Kenzie Bryant
By Rick Bowmer/AP.
Mitt Romney, alleged human man, has always seemed more like a robot. He moves all stiff. He keeps his women, remember, in binders. He feeds on hot dogs and Twinkies, i.e., not real food, and blows candles out like this, i.e., like no human person would. And on Sunday, here came proof that a bot was, in fact, human person Willard Mitt Romney, Republican senator of Utah.
An uncoordinated reporting effort between McKay Coppins of the Atlantic and Ashley Feinberg of Slate revealed the senator's secret Twitter account. The senator mentioned in a recent interview with Coppins that he was a "lurker" on Twitter. He also offered enough information for interested parties, like internet gumshoe Feinberg, to smoke out a loitering account. Here's what she was running with, from Coppins's profile:
"I won't give you the name of it," he said, but "I'm following 668 people." Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians ("What's his name, the big redhead from Boston?"), and athletes. Trump was not among them. "He tweets so much," Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. "I love her, but it's like, Ah, it's too much."
Feinberg started digging with Romney's family members who are active on Twitter, then reverse-searching based on followers. (She found success with his oldest grandchild, Allie Romney Critchlow, who had under 500 followers to sift through.) She discovered that Twitter user @qaws9876 followed many of the Romney children, as well as Conan O'Brien, the Jimmys, some Romney stans, and official jawline of the New England Patriots, Tom Brady. The name attached to the account? Pierre Delecto. Pi-erre De-lecto. Dele-cto. Delect-o. Pierre Delecto.
"C'est moi," Romney said when he realized he'd been found out.
The secret Twitter account is not unheard of among high-powered men with axes to grind, it would appear. Two others who come to mind are Kevin Durant, NBA superstar now of the Brooklyn Nets, and Bryan Colangelo, former president of basketball operations for the NBA's 76ers. Both were believed to have had multiple burner accounts. Romney admitted to one. Colangelo resigned due to his (or his wife's) behavior on Twitter. Durant is just ridiculed mercilessly. Pierre appears to only defend Romney and like a bunch of positive tweets about the senator. Nothing too untoward. It's all fairly normal. Celebrities and normal people alike google themselves, and powerful men monitor the conversation through burner accounts. He's not even just like us. He's just like his niece and your nephew. Mitt Romney is a TikTok teen with a finsta and a dream to one day be YouTube famous.
So all that is awfully human-seeming. And "Pierre Delecto" especially gives pause. It suggests an interior life, one full of fantasy, as if Romney is a person who can dream up a self that is diametrically opposed to his robot self. Pierre: a man who does not just feed on Twinkie fuel and crunch poll data. Pierre is a man of fire, a dreamer, a Frenchman.
The droids have become both bot and man, and that is a sign that the singularity is upon us. The robots will rise, and, well, that's all, folks. Pity we have to go out like this, a broken world that could have been better. C'est la vie. Or as Romney would say, "01100011 11100010 10000000 10011001 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101100 01100001 00100000 01110110 01101001 01100101 00100000."
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Encyclopedia > Alphabet
An alphabet is a small set of letters--basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language. This is distinguished from other writing systems such as ideograms, in which symbols represent complete ideas, and syllabaries, in which each symbol represents a syllable. The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet.
Each language may establish certain general rules that govern the association between letters and phonemes, but, depending on the language, these rules may or may not be consistently followed. In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling. However, languages often evolve independently of their writing systems, and writing systems have been borrowed for languages they were not designed for, so the degree to which letters of an alphabet correspond to phonemes of a language varies greatly from one language to another and even within a single language.
Languages may fail to achieve a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds in any of several ways:
A language may represent a given phoneme with a combination of letters rather than just a single letter.
A language may represent the same phoneme with two different letters or combinations of letters.
A language may spell some words with unpronounced letters that exist for historical or other reasons.
Pronunciation of individual words may change according to the presence of surrounding words in a sentence.
Different dialects of a language may pronounce different phonemes for the same word.
National languages generally elect to address the problem of dialects by simply associating the alphabet with the national standard. However, with international languages with wide variations in its dialects, such as English, it would be impossible to represent the language in all its variations with a single phonetic alphabet.
Some national languages like Finnish and Spanish have a very regular spelling system with close to a one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes. In standard Spanish, it is possible to predict the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently represented. French, with its silent letters and its heavy use of nasal vowels and elision, may seem to lack much correspondence between spelling and pronunciation, but its rules on pronunciation are actually consistent and predictable with a fair degree of accuracy. At the other extreme, however, are languages such as English, where the spelling of many words simply has to be memorized as they do not correspond to sounds in a consistent way (though they may have at some earlier time in the language's evolution). However, even English has general rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful a majority of the time.
The first alphabet was probably developed by the Canaanites around 1700-1500 BC (see early Semitic alphabet), and nearly all subsequent alphabets are derived from it or inspired by it, directly or indirectly. Of special note among its descendants is the Greek alphabet, which was the first to have separate symbols for vowels (Semitic didn't need them). Most subsequent alphabets with vowels are derived from the early Greek alphabets. The most popular alphabet in use today is a modern 26-letter version of the Roman alphabet, used by the English language and most European languages. Writing without letter(s) is a type of Constrained writing called the lipogram. In modern linguistic usage, the term latin alphabet is usually used to refer to the modern derivations from the alphabet used by the Romans (i.e. the Roman alphabet).
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
An alphabet also serves to establish an order among letters that can be used for sorting entries in lists, called collating. Note that the order does not have to be constant among different languages using this alphabet; for examples see Latin alphabet, "Collating in other languages".
In recent years the Unicode initiative has attempted to collate most of the world's known alphabets into a single character encoding. As well as its primary purpose of standardising computer processing of non-Roman scripts, the Unicode project has provided a focus for script-related scholarship.
The sounds of speech of all languages of the world can be written by a rather small universal phonetic alphabet. A standard for this is the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The smallest known alphabet is the Rotokas alphabet, which contains only 11 letters. The largest known non-ideographic alphabet is Armenian with 39 letters. However, this depends on what is included in the alphabet, since some languages represent syllables instead of individual sounds, and therefore include many more symbols.
List of alphabets:
Bengali[?]
Bopomofo
Burmese[?]
Cherokee[?]
Cree[?]
Deseret
Devangari
Glagolitic
Gurmukhi[?]
Initial Teaching Alphabet
Inuktitut[?]
Khmer[?]
Lao[?]
Latvian[?]
Meroitic
NATO Phonetic
Oriya[?]
Rotokas
Shavian
Syriac[?]
Tamil[?]
Telugu[?]
Thaana[?]
Tibetan[?]
Tengwar
Old Turkic
Old Italic[?]
Ugaritic
abjad, abugida
Alphabetic Writing Systems (http://omniglot.com/writing/alphabetic.htm)
Alphabets of Europe (http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/index)
The Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/)
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GPD may refer to:

Police departments
 Gaithersburg Police Department, Maryland, United States
 Gatlinburg Police Department, Tennessee, United States
 Gladstone Police Department, Oregon, United States
 Greenbelt Police Department (Maryland), United States
 Guam Police Department
 Greensboro Police Department , North Carolina, United States

Other uses
 Geassocieerde Pers Diensten, a Dutch news agency
 General purpose datatype
 Generalized Pareto distribution
 Generalized Parton Distributions
 Glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase
 Mount Gordon Airport, in Queensland, Australia
 People's Liberation Army General Political Department
 Tradewind Aviation, an American airline
 GamePad Digital, a Chinese company, creator of the GPD XD, GPD Win, GPD Win Max, GPD Win 2, GPD Win 3 and GPD Pocket

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The Ralph Cantafio Soccer Complex, originally known as the Winnipeg Soccer Complex, is a multi-use stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is currently used mostly for soccer matches. The main pitch, John Scouras Field, holds 2,000 spectators. The complex replaced Alexander Park as the main soccer venue in Winnipeg. It has also hosted some matches for the Canada men's national soccer team.

The complex was renamed in 2016, in honor of Ralph Cantafio, a local soccer executive and pioneer for the sport in the province of Manitoba.

External links
Stadium information

References

Soccer venues in Manitoba
Sports venues in Winnipeg
Venues of the 1999 Pan American Games
1991 establishments in Manitoba
Sports venues completed in 1991

Fort Garry, Winnipeg


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Senator Booker Announces Key Staff Hires in Early-Voting States
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, speaks during a news conference outside of his home, Feb. 1, 2019, in Newark, N.J.
COLUMBIA, S.C. —
Days after the official launch of his presidential bid, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker announced key staff hires in several early voting states on Monday, naming veteran political operatives to head up his campaign in some of the first critical battlegrounds of the 2020 voting calendar.
The hiring moves are the New Jersey Democrat's push for strength in some of the places where presidential hopefuls must mark successes if they're going to build crucial momentum leading into the primaries and caucuses.
Booker has named state directors in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In Iowa, Mike Frosolone served as caucus director for the state House Democrats, successfully recruiting dozens of Democrats to seek office there. Erin Turmelle is leading the campaign in New Hampshire, where she oversaw the state party's 2018 midterm efforts. South Carolina's Christale Spain worked in political outreach for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 bid and has served as executive director of the state Democratic Party.
In each state, the campaign also named senior advisors, posts that will likely fill a variety of roles and serve to formulate overall strategy in the states, where Booker and other hopefuls have already begun to spend considerable time. Joe O'Hern, a former Obama campaign field organizer and Iowa caucus veteran, will fill the post there. Former Obama campaign deputy director Sean Downey will fill the post in New Hampshire. In South Carolina, the role goes to Clay Middleton, a longtime aide to House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and Hillary Clinton's 2016 state director.
Booker also named organizing and special projects directors in Iowa, as well as a communications team there, and a deputy state director in New Hampshire.
Booker plans to visit all three states in the next two weeks, starting with a trip to Iowa on Friday and Saturday. From there, he'll go to South Carolina — overlapping with at least one other presidential hopeful, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who's making her first trip to the state around that time. Booker plans to visit New Hampshire over Presidents' Day weekend.
Booker campaign manager Addisu Demissie said in a statement to The Associated Press the hires were aimed at "growing a grassroots movement to unite Americans and make change happen."
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