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Photo: Volker Beinhorn
Marta Górnicka – a theatre director, author, re-discoverer of the choral principle, creator of THE CHORUS OF WOMEN modern chorus theatre company. Graduate of the Faculty of Drama Directing at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw. She studied at the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw, and at the Warsaw University.
Górnicka describes the chorus as one of the most powerful elements of the theatre.
THE CHORUS which she brings into existence as the sole protagonist of her performances is always both a critical tool to examine modern mechanisms of control, exclusion and violence, and a vehicle of community. In her works, Górnicka often probes the relationship between the individual and society, she experiments with new forms of collective voices. She develops practices in the domain of the political character of the breath/ voice/ language.
In 2019 she founded POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE (PVI), social laboratory of a modern chorus theatre in Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin where she develops the CHORUS in its formal and political dimension. The institute is a workshop centre for the use of the collective voice/body and language. PVI's performing team consists of seventeen performers from Israel, Germany, Poland, Lebanon, France, Brazil or South Korea.
In 2009 with collaboration the Theatre Institute in Warsaw she founded CHÓR KOBIET, THE CHORUS OF WOMEN – a modern tragic chorus, writing librettos and directing the company's subsequent performances. Her work was accompanied by the idea of "recovering/creating a woman's voice" as the form the most repressed out of the western stage – and of using that gesture to regain women and the chorus for theatre. Experimental, laboratory work led her to the creation of a formula for the new chorus theatre – an aesthetic, formal and ideological concept of theatre which merges original power of collective voice, fundamental for the western scene with contemporary criticism of language as a tool of power.
Górnicka's performances THIS IS THE CHORUS SPEAKING, MAGNIFICAT, REQUIEMACHINE, M(OTHER) COURAGE, HYMN TO LOVE, were invited and presented worldwide during more than sixty theatre and directing festivals in Greece, France, Germany, Japan, Ukraine, Switzerland, India, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, Italy, Russia, Chile, Spain and other countries.
The events included festivals: BERLINER FESTSPIELE Foreign Affairs, Festival International de Théâtre SENS INTERDITS in Lyon, International Theater Festival THEATER SPEKTAKEL in Zurich, Athens & Epidaurus Festival in Athens, International Theatre Festival MESS in Sarajevo, New European Theatre Festival in Moscow, SPIELART Festival in Munich, Festival METTRE EN SCENE – Rennes, Bharat Rang Mahotsav Festival in New Delhi, LESSINGTAGE in Thalia Theater Hamburg, SPRING Festival Utrecht and HERBSTSALON Berlin.
Photo: Marie Petry
The first project THIS IS THE CHORUS SPEAKING: only 6 to 8 hours, only 6 to 8 hours… premiered on 13 June 2010. According to the "Teatr" monthly, the play was recognised as the best Polish alternative and musical theatre production in the season 2009/2010. It was followed by MAGNIFICAT, opened on 27 June 2011. The production received the Main Jury Award at the 47th Review of Small Form Theatres (Przegląd Teatrów Małych Form) KONTRAPUNKT 2012 in Szczecin, the Main Jury Award for Marta Górnicka for the Direction and the Audience Award for the best production at the 3rd Koszalin Youth Confrontations "m-teatr" 2012. It was distinguished with the prestigious Silver Laurel Wreath award for the Best Production at the MESS International Theatre Festival in Sarajevo in the Future MESS category, receiving also two special prizes awarded by the journalists of Radio Sarajevo and the "Dani" Magazine – "Hrabri Novi Svijet". In addition, Marta Górnicka received the main award for the direction at the "FastForward" European Festival for Young Directors in Braunschweig (Germany).
On March 24, 2013 an opening night of REQUIEMACHINE took place at the Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute in Warsaw. The libretto was based on poetic texts of Wladyslaw Broniewski. Marta's third production is a continuation of her project for a modern tragic CHORUS that serves as means of critical reflection upon man as shaped by the norms of culture, society, the economy and religion. The performance was co-produced by La Filature-Scene Nationale, Mulhouse, Theatre National de Strasbourg, Le Maillon – Theatre de Strasbourg and Ringlokschuppen. In September 2013, Marta Górnicka staged THE CHORUS OF ROMA PEOPLE, a performance involving the Roma community in Košice, Slovakia, where the largest Roma ghetto in Europe is located. It was opened as part of the X-Apartment project within the framework of the European Capital of Culture 2013.
Photo: Esra Rothoff
Górnicka develops the concept of modern chorus theatre in its formal and political dimension, transferring her search into a space of specifically understood social direction. In December 2014 in Tel Aviv, at the Museum of Modern Art, her subsequent production, MOTHER COURAGE WON'T REMAIN SILENT: A CHORUS FOR WARTIME was opened. For that project, Marta Górnicka invited a 60-member chorus of Arab and Jewish mothers, Israeli dancers-soldiers and Arab children. The performance thus involved groups functioning in radically clashing communities, which opened the possibility of expressing extreme emotions and direct interaction between those who are separated, in their day-to-day life, by an invisible barrier. The Israeli performance initiated the director's European triptych built around MUTTER COURAGE. On 25 September 2015, M(OTHER) COURAGE premiered at the Staatstheater Braunschweig in Germany. In that production, Marta Górnicka gave the voice to the generation of conflict in Germany and Europe. The Europe of the madness of neo-nationalistic language, prejudice, fear and violence. The critics of NACHTKRITIK.de ranked the production among the best plays of the year 2015 in the German-speaking area. In 2016, M(OTHER) COURAGE won Marta Górnicka a nomination for the prestigious "DER FAUST" German Theatre Award in the stage direction category.
In the same year, Marta Górnicka created a political performance "CONSTITUTION FOR THE CHORUS OF POLES" at the Nowy Theatre in Warsaw. For that work, she gathered over 50 people from the right and left wing of the political conflict, sport fans, Jews, refugees, children, pensioners, members of the "Strzelec" association, people with Down syndrome, actors of THE CHORUS OF WOMEN. "The show premiered on the 1st of May 2016 i.e. the International Worker's Day, during great national debate caused by the turmoil surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal. Marta Górnicka reacted to this crisis with a powerful gesture: she showed that Polish constitution is not a project of an ethnically homogeneous group, but very diverse group of individuals.". (fragment of the program booklet for Late Polishness [Późna Polskość] exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw) The performance was included in the main programme of the 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and it was presented at the Tretyakov Gallery (September 2017-January 2018). The production was also shown in Berlin as part of the 3rd Herbstsalon at the Palais am Festungsgraben and at the international exhibition The State is Not a Work of Art at the Tallinn Art Hall in Estonia (2018). In 2017, after the protests around the CONSTITUTION in Poland, the performance was presented again at the Plac Defilad Square, in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.
Photo: Maciej Rukasz
The director's European triptych around MUTTER COURAGE is closed by the HYMN TO LOVE for Orchestra, a Chorus of Plushies and Others. The image of an orchestra playing in extermination camps and the subject of the Holocaust becomes, for Górnicka, a starting point to address the threads of nationalist tendencies growing in Europe and the migration crisis. The Polish premiere of the production was held on 21 January at the Polski Theatre in Poznań, the German premiere on 11 June at the MAXIM GORKI THEATER in Berlin, and the French one on 12 November 2018 at the Théâtre des Celestines in Lyon. HYMN TO LOVE was distinguished with three awards for music, choreography, set design and costumes during the 10th Divine Comedy International Festival in Krakow, and nominated as the Best Musical Theatre Production in the voting conducted by the TEATR monthly. The production was presented during international theatre festivals in countries including Greece, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic and Italy.
On 28 May 2018, Marta Górnicka directed JEDEM DAS SEINE. EIN MANIFEST at the Kammerspiele in Munich. It is neo-fascism and backlash towards the female body that have become the subject of the latest production. Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin is the co-producer of the play. In the same year, during the celebration of the German Unity Day in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the premiere of GRUNDGESETZ. EIN CHORISCHER STRESSTEST von Marta Górnicka took place (prod. Maxim Gorki Theater). The Berliners, 50 people of different origins and languages,who participated in it tested how the German Fundamental Rights work out in a situation of crisis and conflict. Who is the subject of the German Constitution? To whom does it belong? Is the text guaranteeing fundamental rights "to all Germans" capable of stopping violence and racism? Is any text "guaranteeing" democracy capable of "defending" it? The critics of NACHTKRITIK.de ranked the production among the best plays of the year 2018 in the German-speaking area.
In 2019, Marta Górnicka won the "POLITYKA'S Passport" award for the contemporary concept of the ancient chorus as a vehicle of artistic and social change.
Photo: Krzysiek Krzysztofiak
In autum 2019 Górnicka founded the POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE (PVI) at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, which defines itself as a workshop laboratory of modern chorus theatre. The institute researches and develops practices in the domain of the political character of the voice/body/language. It looks for practical answer to the question: How can the voice be used for freedom? During Gallery Weekend Berlin 2020 had premiere MULTITUDE the first monographic exhibition of works by Marta Górnicka at Ebensperger Gallery Berlin. The title MULTITUDE refers to the collective subject with whom Marta Górnicka works. It indicates the radically political dimension of her artistic exploration.
On 11 September 2020 the first performance of the POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE COMMUNITY – AN APP FOR ONE PERSON had premiere in GORKI KIOSK. "The answer to the death of the COMMUNITY/ CHORUS is the ONE PERSON CHORUS. DIGITAL/RITUAL. DEFUSED. The CHORUS stops speaking in the literal sense. But it starts lip-syncing, uses technology which imitates voice, plays with the (non-)living voice, with distanced bodies and language, but it also multiplies its individual voice, turns the voice up to full volume! It is a CHORUS which functions somewhere between speaking and not speaking (like lip-syncing), but it is not silent. From one person, it grows into a multitude, it works with shreds, trash, key words, fragments of mythological songs and voices from computer games. It works with the scream, which comes from the very heart of the ritual, and with the digital laughter, which is its most powerful tool. This CHORUS plunges into death, but it still speaks in favour of life".
Currently, Marta Górnicka is an artist in residence at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. Since the 2020/2021 season she has been a member of the Artistic Advisory Board, which advises Artistic Director Shermin Langhoff on the artistic direction of the Gorki Theatre.
Marta Górnicka developed a method of vocal-acting training for breath/voice/body, aimed at finding an organic voice. According to this method she has led drama workshops in among others: Dresden, Tokyo, Berlin, Kiev, London, Tel Aviv, Nottingham, Lyon, Athens, Brussels, Havre, Tehran, Moscow, Paris.


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[GUEST POST] A Newcomer's Viewing Guide to Doctor Who
Posted on July 29, 2014 by William Ritter in Doctor Who // 7 Comments
William Ritter lives and teaches in Springfield, Oregon. The Sherlock Holmes–style adventure Jackaby is his first novel. He began writing Jackaby in the middle of the night when his son was still an infant. After getting up to care for him, Will would lie awake, his mind creating rich worlds and fantasies—such as the one in New Fiddleham. Follow William at his website and on Twitter as @Willothewords.
Doctor Who Distilled
by William Ritter
Your fervent, occasionally unhealthy enthusiasm for Doctor Who has finally piqued the interest of your last non-Whovian friends. You've been scribbling "Bad Wolf" in the margins of their history books for years, freaking them out by staring unblinkingly at every stone angel you see, and answering their legitimate questions, such as "What have you done with all of my left shoes?" with a cheeky "Spoilers!" Well, congratulations, all of your hard work has finally paid off—they've reached out an arm and given you the chance to pull them aboard the TARDIS!
One problem—that big Peter Capaldi party you've been planning is right around the corner! Your Whovian hold-out doesn't have time to sit down and start from the beginning! You need to cherry-pick the best of the best. (Trust me, don't leave them to their own devices. My brother-in-law tried "giving it a go" three times on network television. By pure chance he got "The Girl in the Fireplace" EVERY time. He is a fan now, but he's developed a Pavlovian response and weeps uncontrollable whenever he hears the opening credits.) I don't recommend starting a newbie with the classic series either—not because it isn't worthy, but because fine wine is wasted on an unrefined palate. So where to begin?
Without further ado, because I know you've got darling little Dalek cupcakes and Cybermuffins to bake before the big day, here is Doctor Who Distilled. In just 5 hours of screen time, these episodes showcase the breadth of Doctor Who. They feature Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, and Hurt's incarnations of The Doctor, and introduce viewers to Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy, Rory, Jack, River, and Clara.
"The Doctor Dances"
(s.1: ep.10) 45 min
Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor
Billy Piper as Rose Tyler & John Barrowman as Cpt. Jack Harkness
MEMORABLE LINES: "Are you my Mummy?" & "Just this once, everybody lives!"
WHY THIS EPISODE?
Eccleston's finest. Set in the middle of the London Blitz with a plot involving rogue time agents and alien tech, it provides a nice cross-section of the space and time aspects of the series. It has a more somber tone, (none of the farting rubber aliens of the season's earlier episodes), but it is also the moment that the 9th doctor decides that he wants to be fun. In spite of war, sadness, and misery—or perhaps because of it—he wants to laugh and flirt and hope. The doctor dances, giving the first real sign that he is ready to become the Doctor fans will come to love in Tennant and Smith.
BONUS: Along with the already popular Rose Tyler, this storyline introduced Captain Jack Harkness, an instant fan favorite for his cheeky grin and sweet yet insufferable swagger.
David Tennant as The Doctor
Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones & Carrey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow
MEMORABLE LINE: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey…stuff."
In spite of the notable scarcity of the Doctor on screen, "Blink" remains one of David Tennant's finest stories. The plot highlights just how creative the series can be with time travel, obviously an important aspect of the show. It also introduces the Weeping Angels, villains who quickly took their place amongst the Daleks and Cybermen in the rogues gallery of terrifying Doctor Who adversaries. Blink gives incoming fans a taste of the suspense the series is capable of. "Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead."
BONUS: This episode teasingly celebrates the nerd. Incoming fans can relate to Sally Sparrow taking it all in as Larry enthusiastically gushes over how neat the Doctor is. "That's my favorite. I've got that on a tee-shirt." Like Sally, though, they are being gradually brought into the fold.
The Fires Of Pompeii
(S.4: ep.2) 45 min
Catherine Tate as Donna Noble
MEMORABLE LINES: "Every waking second I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That's the burden of the Time Lord, Donna. And I'm the only one left."& "You were right. Sometimes I need someone. Welcome aboard."
In addition to giving fans a taste of the tremendously funny Catherine Tate, this episode also demonstrates the emotional weight behind the Doctor's adventures. The concept of a fixed point is never more clear than when the story must end with failure. Pompeii must burn. Everyone must die. No companion has done more than Donna to help the Doctor see, in the face of these terrible burdens, that he needs the little victories. "Just someone. Please. Not the whole town. Just save someone." Both actors are at the top of their game in this episode, from irreverent and brash to heart-breakingly tender.
BONUS: As is a common trend in Doctor Who, two actors playing small parts in this episode would later return as much more significant recurring characters. Karen Gillan, playing a nameless soothsayer, would become Amy Pond-a redheaded firecracker to rival Donna Noble. The actor playing the Roman Caecillius is none other than the upcoming Doctor, Peter Capaldi.
"The Doctor's Wife"
Matt Smith as The Doctor
Karen Gillan as AmyPond, Arthur Darvill Rory Williams, Suranne Jones as The TARDIS
MEMORABLE LINES:
"Then you stole me. And I stole you… Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?" &
The Doctor: "She's a woman. And she's the TARDIS." / Amy: "Did you wish really hard?"
Amy and Rory are marvelous companions, but one of the most iconic and consistent characters in Doctor Who is the TARDIS. Like The Doctor, it has experienced surface changes over the decades, but the heart of the little police box remains the same. This episode, written by Neil Gaiman, gave the time machine something it had never had before-a voice. Gaiman's affection for the series is obvious in this endearing and exciting tribute, and he conveys in just one episode the deep and abiding love the Doctor (and every loyal Whovian) feels for this mad blue box.
BONUS: This episode is bigger on the inside. It looks like a neat, tidy package with a simple story arc, but it's loaded with references and allusions to episodes as far back as the sixties, and some of the biggest series revelations yet to come. Like a glimpse at the heart of the TARDIS, it contains the past and future all at once, and your Whovian hold-out will suddenly know more about the Doctor Who universe than they could possibly fathom.
"Let's Kill Hitler"
Karen Gillan as AmyPond, Arthur Darvill Rory Williams, Alex Kingston as River Song
"You've got a time machine, I've got a gun. What the hell. Let's kill Hitler."
& German Officer: "What are you doing here?" / River: "Well. I was on my way to this gay gypsy bar mitzvah for the disabled, when I suddenly thought, 'Gosh. The Third Reich's a bit rubbish. I think I'll kill the Führer.' Who's with me?"
River Song is one of the most masterfully crafted and enjoyable characters in the series, but also one of the most difficult to pin down in a single episode. As knowledgeable a time-traveler as The Doctor-and in some ways an even more capable one-she proves to be one of the few people who can go toe-to-toe with the Time Lord. "Let's Kill Hitler" shows her most dramatic character development as she evolves from the Doctor's greatest enemy to becoming his greatest love. All the while, it also captures the madcap, irreverent tone that defines Matt Smith's run.
BONUS: Having now sped through each of the doctor's companions for the last decade, your Whovian hold-out will be able to spot the images of Rose, Martha, and Donna as the TARDIS attempts to bring up a voice interface to the dying Doctor (a trick the TARDIS showed off in "The Doctor's Wife").
"The Day Of The Doctor" Special
David Tennant, Matt Smith, John Hurt, & (briefly) Peter Capaldi as The Doctor
Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald & Billie Piper as The Moment
The War Doctor: You're me? Both of you?
Ten: Yep.
The War Doctor: Even that one?
Eleven: Yes!
The War Doctor: You're my future selves?
Ten & Eleven: Yes!
The War Doctor: Am I having a mid-life crisis?
The 50th anniversary special stood atop everything the series had done in the past and reached up to set the scaffolding for the future. The revived series began with Eccleston's Doctor emerging as a war-weary Doctor Who had just brought about the destruction of his home planet of Gallifrey, leaving himself broken and alone, the last of the Time Lords. This was an enormous fundamental plot jump from the original series, and the guilt and pain of this development continue to weigh on the Doctor's heart as Tennant and Smith carried on the story. "The Day of the Doctor" was a much-anticipated answer to all of the questions fans had about the epic Time War, and its climax brought a cathartic peace to the deep hurt the doctor had been feeling throughout the revived series. Finally, and most significantly for the incoming Peter Capaldi, it gave the doctor a driving purpose. "It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going. Where I've always been going. Home. The long way around."
BONUS: A cameo by the most popular Doctor of the original series, Tom Baker, reveals that the writers know precisely what they are. They are curators, and that is the greatest role in storytelling. This celebration of the series pays homage to literally every doctor to ever fly the TARDIS, including a very first glimpse of the twelfth. In the process, the special encapsulated all of the drama, suspense, tenderness, and silly banter that make Doctor Who such a beloved phenomenon.
Oh, I almost forgot-you'll need one more episode. Don't worry, they won't notice you've gone a little over five hours, time is wibbly-wobbly, remember? Forget what some blowhard on the internet suggested, show them your favorite episode. Doctor Who is built on love. From writers, actors, and directors down to the smallest fans, the series succeeds because it is loved. So, pop out the fish fingers and custard and hit play. Doctor Who is on.
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7 Comments on [GUEST POST] A Newcomer's Viewing Guide to Doctor Who
Tracey // July 29, 2014 at 3:35 pm //
This is a well-timed post, Will. Dr. Who ads are constantly interrupting my watching of Star Trek TNG and Orphan Black, so I finally have decided to try it out. I've seen a couple of episodes. I think "Blink" was one…and I had to immediately get rid of the little angel statue in my garden. (Not that she was made of stone or anything, but you can never be too careful!) Anyway, the prospect of starting from scratch seemed, well, insane. So thanks for this. I'm sure I can queue them up on Netflix.
Paul (@princejvstin) // July 29, 2014 at 4:22 pm //
I'd love it if the 'resemblance' between the 12th Doctor and Caecillius is at least lampshaded at some point.
(The last time this happened, with the 6th Doctor and another Time lord, it was, sadly, not…)
Amber M // July 29, 2014 at 4:51 pm //
I read somewhere that they are going to address it!
Robert Mammone // August 3, 2014 at 9:24 am //
Moffat recently said it will be alluded to in series 8, but nothing much made of it.
Marilynn Byerly // July 29, 2014 at 6:43 pm //
I made a list like this for my brother. I included the ones you list with the exception of the "Fires of Pompeii."
I also had "The Empty Child" with "The Doctor Dances" since they are one story.
"Rose" is a great introduction to the premise of the Doctor so it should be number one.
I also included "The Girl in the Fireplace" and a few others I don't recall at the moment.
I just looked over the list of all the episodes of the reboot.
For readers like my brother, I recommend
'The Shakespeare Code" because it had Shakespeare, witches, and references to Harry Potter.
"The Unicorn and the Wasp" had Agatha Christie, and "The Unquiet Dead" had Charles Dickens.
"A Christmas Carol" was a playful reboot of Dickens' classic, and "The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe" was a retelling of the first Narnia novel.
The very last story I'd recommended to a new viewer is Let's Kill Hitler. It's appalling tripe of the highest order. An absolute dog's breakfast with no redeeming features whatsoever, it makes the grave mistake that anyone give's a tinker's about River's childhood. Avoid at all cost.
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Still from drone footage of traffic circle on SE Milwaukie.
Our story about the City of Portland's new traffic circle on SE Milwaukie and Mitchell spurred a robust conversation about its strengths and weaknesses. New drone footage (below) sheds more light on how it works.
Many readers feel the circle is over-engineered and circle portion is too small and narrow.
Others think it's a major safety improvement.
To help deepen our understanding of this new piece of infrastructure, friend of the blog Ted Timmons captured some excellent drone footage. It shows several people riding through the circle and approaching it from different angles. Hopefully the comment thread and this video give PBOT more solid feedback they can in projects going forward.
Appears that cyclists take any way around the circle they please, some clockwise and others counter clockwise. The circle isn't actually functioning as a circle. It's just a big obstacle.
I'd like to see a little less "innovation" and a little more "equality" in our bike infrastructure — PBOT would never build a car intersection this way. In this case a triangle would work much better.
What about the 71 neighborhood traffic circles?
PBOT is planning two bike sized mini-roundabouts, on on NE 7th, and one on Tillamook, where cars have to squeeze around the circle designed for bikes.
Also, I think you mean 'equity' not 'equality'.
Those are awful. Offal? Many car drivers don't slow down appreciably. To often they either pass bikes aggressively before, crowd over in the pinch point, or tailgate and then pass aggressively afterward.
This is not a good way to sell bike circles by whatever name.
It seems a majority of cyclists did not use the facility as designers intended. Does that make it a design failure? I tend to think so, though compliance may improve over time.
My biggest complaint is that it was a much more expensive solution than was needed. We have so many locations where projects of more modest expenditure would serve far more users and solve more severe safety issues.
People are generally selfish, shortest safe path and all.
I say, no harm, no foul, but the smallness should be recognized as undesirable for just such reasons. This also looks a little 'self-enforcing' like speed cushions, where, the more traffic there is, the less people will try to circumnavigate the feature.
Huh, not a proper traffic circle at all with only two entrance/exits. And there is no transition for people that cross the street and turn left. I like the guy at the end that just stops.
This design has a whiff of "swing gates" about it.
A 'T' intersection on a 1-way street can't have a circular traffic control?
It's almost as if they want to impede and slow bicycles, rather than cars.
yeah…that's one of my main criticisms of this facility. curbs would have worked well.
….or landscaping, trees, and/or stormwater facilities.
Portland taxpayers can't afford to maintain the landscaping they have now.
Portland taxpayers can't afford to maintain the roads they have now.
That's a legitimate answer, and generally, I'd rather see most safety projects getting built without landscaping than not built at all.
On the other hand, landscaping could be afforded if money wasn't going elsewhere. That's especially true if you look at budgets beyond just PBOT's. Many people seem to think we have a half billion to spend on freeway widening, for example.
Even on this project's own budget, perhaps simplification of the turning circle or less concrete might have paid for a few street trees (installation and maintenance) on the island.
And the City requires landscaping on private property, and street trees, when private entities build projects. Claiming "it's expensive" won't get you anywhere.
Plus, the City is constantly claiming (with validity) that each street new street tree adds tens of thousands of dollars of value to the City. Why isn't that true on its own projects?
False comparison. Federal highway safety funds can't be used for such projects (or maintenance). The total cost of a freeway safety project includes local match and only the local match could be repurposed to other activities. Not even sure if the 'local' is Portland money or Oregon money, and ODOT is not yet in Portland's camp regarding multi-modal safety.
Sure, but why do we feel the need to spend vast amounts Federal and state money on something like the RQ boondoggle and pretend like it's only the local match we should care about? Federal & state transportation dollars take money away from other programs.
It's not false at all. It's the heart of the problem. We have lots of money for some things, but none for others that may be just as, or more, important. Priorities can be changed, and should be.
Sorry for being a yo-yo who now lives out of town, but where do the south-bound bicyclists go after they've crossed the crosswalk?
There's a sign directing southbound cyclists to use the sidewalk, which is an atrocious slalom of utility poles and street signs bounded by a creeping wall of vegetation.
The alternative is to take the lane on SE Milwaukie for about 350 yards to SE Ellis, where you can peel off to the west and onto other southbound side streets. I did that the other day, and despite my generally high confidence taking the lane, I was gritting my teeth as cars anxiously crept up on my heels.
In short, there are no good options.
Or, go downhill to 17th where there's a southbound bicycle lane that goes to Insley. That's the connection to the 19th Ave neighborhood greenway.
True, but that generally works only if your destination is east of SE Milwauikie. If you're going west to SE 13th, Sellwood Park, Sellwood Bridge, etc, then diverting (ba-dump-cha!) to SE 19th is a pretty roundabout (here all night, folks) way to get there.
it's like a bike couplet.
That intersection was previously a wide-open expanse of pavement. Narrowing the travel area for autos makes sense, so the outer edges of that concrete has some value. But as that video shows, the interior design leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm still stumped by green cross walks? Am I a vehicle that needs to follow vehicle laws or am a pedestrian? Green crosswalks put me into a limbo I do not enjoy.
get used to those green crosswalks. they are being used in many cities and it's only a matter of time before they gain more formal recognition.
But they don't mean much, do they. I mean, motorists aren't required to stop for a cyclist in the green. Yet if you were to move a couple feet over to the white, they would be required to stop. Pretty silly if you ask me.
i treat them as if a motorist is required to stop and most of the time they do. i'm a huge fan.
You are a vehicle that needs to follow vehicle laws. The green "cross-bike" does not give you any legal protection like a white cross-walk does. You must stop and yield to crossing traffic. If you get hit by a car in the green zone you'll most likely be found at fault. Then you'll have to sue the city for creating that confusing situation.
i am most definitely not a vehicle.
i also believe that this kind of "confusion" is badly needed in our car-centric society.
You are not a vehicle. But your bike is.
You're an operator of a non-motorized vehicle.
only because cycling is not viewed as a legitimate transportation mode and, therefore, does not merit a separate legal definition.
My proposed definition, which I recently mailed off to the good folks at Oxford. I'm awaiting their reply.
Vehicle: a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart, except a bicycle, which is proper legit and thus merits its own definition. See bicycle.
It's probably the same as here: in some contexts yes, in others no.
I think you have a good point. There's a similar situation with standup paddleboards. When they came on the scene a few years ago, instead of viewing them as a distinct thing needing their own regulations, the Coast Guard deemed them "vessels" which meant they automatically became subject to the same regulations as boats, leading to a crazy hodgepodge of some regulations that are overkill, and others that lead to people drowning–all because people who wrote the rules for "vessels" never envisioned them applying to unsinkable boards with people standing on them. Nobody has ever written regulations specifically meant for standup paddleboards.
People riding bikes are doing something much different than driving cars or walking, yet unlike people driving or walking, they get saddled with rules and places to ride that were not designed well for them.
I mean soren has a good point.
I would much rather all the green bike area's be colored red, blue or maybe purple!
The Feds decide the correct color of pavement markings.
Also, damn, that's a lot of concrete/impervious surface….how about some green-infra around that porkchop?
I like the porkchop! (operative city budget word: "pork").
got any vegan options – bottle opener?
Landscaping is high cost ongoing maintenance Portland taxpayers can't afford.
Road it last week and thought of the many other places that could use the excess amount of concrete that was used for this project. It reminded me of the facility on 28th/ NE Hoyt.
Is the dirt in the little circle there so a tree can be planted there in the future? They didn't put any landscaping where it would be logical–in the expanses of concrete that also aren't needed for sidewalk use–and then, in the already-constricted biking area in the middle, they shoehorned a circular planter into it.
It looks like half the concrete could have been (pervious) landscaped area. Even without that, it looks like several street trees (with all their associated benefits) could have been incorporated into the design.
I think dirt circle is supposed to be a blackberry patch… in a couple of years, it will serve to slow the bike traffic even more.
As someone who has only commuted by bike for just over a year, I think this is an improvement. I bike through this intersection to get to the Springwater trail on my way to/from work regularly and it used to always stress me out. I am not fast enough on my bike to be comfortable taking the lane and then making a left turn in the midst of 40 mph rush hour traffic on Milwaukie that, for the most part, did not want to stop for bicyclists. With the new green cross bike and the beacon cars actually stop to let you cross! I don't mind slowing down to go through the circle if I know I can easily cross the street. Yes, the circle could have been larger and yes, it would have been better to just have a bike lane on Milwaukie on both sides of the street, but this is still better, imho, than what was there before.
who took those shots? Sellwood is in a clearly marked no-fly zone per most every air map for drone use.
I did. My understanding is that Sellwood is well outside the Class C airspace, which has a 400ft restriction from roughly Fremont south for a ways. Thanks for your concern.
This is at the north end of Westmoreland. Quite a ways from Sellwood.
Technically this is still Sellwood Moreland n'hood FWIW.
In the video it looks like ants versus cars!
Sellwood? I don't think so.
So many neutral-colored cars in Portland. Black, white, grey, silver.
Don't our alien overlords get tired of looking at all this blandness?
Bring on the General Lee!
I saw it last week, strangely enough. Notable enough that I pointed it out to the humans with me.
This is a huge dramatic improvement over the previous.
A traffic circle is a confusing, objectively poor choice.
Note the pedestrian crossing illegally in the lead photo.
Is it illegal? It looks like the person is going from the curved sidewalk in front of the curved building (he shows up at 0:30 on the video but there's a tree in the way so I'm not certain he came from that sidewalk). So, he's leaving a corner (but it's undefined due to the curve) and crossing directly to the corner of the island. And while it seems the intent is that people should cross from the nearby curb cut to the island's curb cut, that's not a marked cross walk, nor is there any other marked crosswalk that would allow you to get to the island from the sidewalk the person left from.
If it's not illegal, then someone forgot an ADA ramp.
A crosswalk is not the marking on a road, but a legal definition in the state statutes, which can be marked and other non-statutory locations that are marked. Unmarked crosswalks are the norm in Portland. The choice to put in ADA ramps is a grey area, but since the statutory crossing created by building the island is clearly not intended for pedestrians to use, due to all the other marked locations nearby, no ADA requirements are triggered.
I'm not sure what you mean by, "the statutory crossing created by building the island is clearly not intended for pedestrians to use, due to all the other marked locations nearby…" . It looks to me like the island is an integral part of the crossing path for people crossing from many starting points to many ending points, including the route the person in the photo is using.
In the case of that person, who's stepping onto the northeast tip of the island, it looks to me like he's taking an appropriate path if he started at the curved building/sidewalk at the north of the island, and is heading towards the sidewalk on the east side of Milwaukee. It may not be the path the designers anticipated him taking (I'd guess they'd want him to cross at the curb cuts) but he is going from corner of block to corner of island, and there's no marked crossing nearby.
Interestingly, the diagram you posted: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/index.cfm?&a=666348 does not match what was built–it shows an additional marked crosswalk connecting the island to Milwaukee's east sidewalk.
Would it be clearer if curb cuts were typically accompanied by marked crosswalks? As it is, curb cuts without markings signify "This is sort of where we want you to cross".
The place the person is crossing constitutes a statutory crossing. The designers should have A) installed ramps or B) closed the crossing with signs.
Crosswalks are not required to be marked, since their location is defined by law, but ADA ramps at crosswalks are required as a Civil Rights issue.
Everyone should know crosswalks exist at every intersection unless closed by signs. Markings are used as reminders, especially in business districts, schools and high volume crossings.
What I recall is that if there's a marked crosswalk nearby (within 150′?) then you have to use that one, even if there are nearby unmarked ones that are not closed by signs. If that's true (but not at all sure it is) then if the curb cuts were connected with a marked crosswalk, the person in the photo should be using that. Not that anybody within the general public would ever know that except by chance.
The situation that I think is dangerous is when there are curb cuts at midblock that aren't accompanied by a marked crosswalk. The person walking assumes they should cross there, but the person driving may not even notice the curb cuts, and not expect someone to be crossing at midblock. So the curb cuts make it more dangerous in a sense.
That also suggests that the paint does have a legal meaning, beyond just highlighting the underlying, pre-existing crosswalk. It also closes nearby unmarked crosswalks.
Yes (again if it's true). I remember this being discussed in an article about people who painted a crosswalk near a daycare or school, after getting tired of waiting for the City to do it.
It brings up some issues. If one crosswalk is painted at a standard intersection, doesn't that mean you can't cross at the other two corners? So shouldn't crosswalks at standard intersections typically be painted in pairs?
True roundabouts typically have splitter islands that direct/deflect entering vehicles in the correct, counter-clockwise path around the circular island.
How will the circles work with trucks? So many UPS sized vans/trucks on every street, pickups with long utility trailers, and 18 wheelers will keep driving around even if we wish they didn't. If fancy curbs/landscaping will get runover then you haven't planned it well.
Except in the most severely congested areas (possibly around PSU? Definitely around the University of Minnesota campus, which I recently biked across during the first week of school) devices like roundabouts shouldn't be needed for cyclists. As has been amply pointed out above, we can usually negotiate around each other.
Ok, everybody, the design of this one is (sort of) specifically my fault.
I'm the person who came up with the idea to put a tree in the middle of that huge intersection. I had a vision of a mini-park-lett, with benches, and flowers and greenery all centered around a huge tree. I did a couple of google drawings and crayon drawings of how it would work and sent it off to Winston Sandino at PBOT. My design was little different (the triangle was supposed to occupy the northbound car traffic lane completely and route it around the park-lette, but it definitely had the big circle for the tree right in the middle.
The people at the city liked the idea of a tree in the middle, they took my idea, and came up with this thing.
Unfortunately, when our neighborhood association looked at it and gave the thumbs up , "Ok! we at least get a tree!" we did not understand from the overhead diagrams that the bike route would be completely hemmed in by concrete. That was a huge disappointment.
I'm glad it's working. I hate how ugly it is. And I'm really sad there's just a huge hole and still no tree.
Your version sounds great. I wish we could see your drawings. It makes me think that the thing that seems worst to me is all that land going to waste–basically an island of concrete cut off from all the surrounding buildings and sidewalks.
What I'd love to see would be your park idea, combined with eliminating the barrier created by the bike lane between the east sidewalk and the island. Imagine the bike lane raised to the sidewalk level, and the pedestrian-unfriendly pavers that are currently between the street trees replaced with regular sidewalk. That would mean the whole island would become connected to the sidewalk and accessible from the adjacent building. You could walk directly onto the island for its whole length–it wouldn't even be an island anymore. As it is, the connection from the sidewalk to the island is a single, narrow, token crosswalk with curb cuts.
There are great examples of these types of spaces in cities everywhere. Portland seems to have a predilection for chopping spaces up and trying to tightly control and segregate each type of user, so all space becomes either circulation or leftover space isolated by circulation.
The question is, how much money was wasted on this project that could be used on others? It's funny. The city uses tons of concrete when paint and posts would do it..but avoids concrete when it's needed and puts down paint and posts.


Have you seen the charts ?
If your cup sits low, you could always trim the stem.
I don't think softer cups leak more, if anything, they tend to conform to your body better. The only case when a soft cup might leak is if you have strong muscles down there, from exercising, kegels, pilates and such. Several brands have a fuller stem : Si-Bell, Lunette, Miacup, Meluna, etc.
I, too, began looking for a second cup after using the Diva (s) for a while.
Others in this community disagree with me but: I do think my soft meluna medium leaks more often than the stiffer meluna classic.
That said, I highly recommend either the meluna soft or the meluna classic medium. You could try some of their stem options: I looove the ball stem!
My ideal cup would be a medium meluna classic with ball stem (shorter cup than diva, but similar in capacity -- meluna m holds slightly less than diva, plus the comfort of the ball stem, entire cup easier to clean than the Diva).
You could try a soft as well, but insertion is trickier and, in my experience, my soft cup leaks more.
Not so much that I never wear it, but I'm more confident with my classic.
As for those who say it's just a matter of finding the right technique to get a soft cup to open: well...that takes time, energy, and a lot of patience, frankly.
I'd rather just stick with an easy-to-open cup...and not risk yanking out my IUD to triple check to see if my soft cup has popped open. Which by the way, my soft cup always seems to have a delay in opening. It doesn't feel all the way open after I insert it, but sometimes it will open on its own after I've given up.
I alternate between meluna soft medium with ball stem and my meluna classic medium with regular stem.
I'm part of the ones who support soft cup and think they aren't that difficult to pop open. In fact I wouldn't get a stiff cup just because I'd be afraid to feel it, which is more important imo. But I use a Cuplee, not a Meluna, which probably makes a difference : although it's supposedly just as soft, the pointed shape may help it pop open easier. I've heard the Mini Melunas are a lot easier to pop open for this very reason.
If it's of any help, I found that the tighter, most complicated folds made the cup most eager to pop open (origami, labia, half diamond). And also, that incerting lying down it made it pop open like a charm because everything feels so much looser around the cup. Basically, you want to get air to reach the top of the cup for it to fill up like a balloon, all the while preventing your tissue to collapse the little thing.
I personally found the MeLuna soft a PITA and not worth the irritation to get open, but the Mini MeLuna soft is super easy. I also didn't like the new shape MeLuna for other reasons, so you might want to diregard that.
Maybe because it's the type of sports I do, Ballet and Figure Skating, but I find my softer cup leaks less. In fact my Mini MeLuna soft has never leaked at all. The seal is very secure. There's a lot of bending and contracting of my muscles in my pelvic area and my cup has to be able to move with it. I think the pointed shape is a lot more sport friendly.


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VMware and Samsung Form Alliance to Accelerate CSPs Transformation to 5G
Samsung Press Release | October 27, 2020
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced a collaboration with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to further extend its leadership in 5G. Through this alliance, the companies seek to help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) meet the requirements of 5G networks and accelerate the roll-out of 5G by optimizing Samsung's portfolio of telco offerings from Core to Edge to RAN for both containerized network functions (CNFs) and virtualized network functions (VNFs) with VMware Telco Cloud Platform.
As 5G continues to gain traction, CSPs will require a cloud native network that will improve the flexibility, speed and efficiency of deploying services into new verticals. At the same time, CSPs can only achieve this with a cloud-first automated network designed to simplify management and operations while lowering operational costs. The Samsung and VMware collaboration aims to accelerate the innovation cycle through improved end-to-end network design and the agility required for 5G networks. With VMware Telco Cloud Platform, CSPs can deploy a cloud native, software-defined 5G network that will accelerate the delivery of services and applications across distributed telco clouds with operational consistency, integrated lifecycle management and multi-layer automation, while maintaining carrier-grade performance, scalability and reliability.
As part of this collaboration, the companies have been working together at Samsung's lab to optimize and accelerate the readiness of Samsung's various VNFs and CNFs, such as vRAN, 5G Core, MEC, Management, and Analytics, with the VMware Telco Cloud Platform. Samsung's VNFs and CNFs have been and continue to be integrated with VMware's Ready for Telco Cloud program. The VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program will support Samsung to accelerate the onboarding and deployment of their 5G-ready services on the VMware Telco Cloud Platform, thereby enabling CSPs to accelerate their time to deploy and time to revenue.
"With innovative and open 5G networks beginning to transform the landscape, Samsung sees value in delivering carrier-grade solutions with VMware that help CSPs easily embrace cloud native technology and efficiently deliver our network functions and services across their 5G networks with automation," said Wonil Roh, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.
"The infrastructure supporting 5G will depend on virtualized and containerized network functions delivered from software-defined telco and edge cloud platforms," said Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Telco and Edge Cloud Business Unit, VMware. "We are thrilled to be working with Samsung to deliver carrier-grade solutions that leverage the VMware Telco Cloud portfolio to help CSPs seize this 5G moment and transform into leading technology innovators."
"5G investments will continue to accelerate globally, and over time, CSPs will expand their focus on delivering Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) to include Ultra-Reliable Low-latency Communications (URLLC) and Massive Machine-type Communications (mMTC), leveraging new core, edge and RAN infrastructure," said Patrick Filkins, IDC senior research analyst. "To efficiently and simultaneously support these new services, CSPs are best-served adopting cloud-native architectures that can provide the service agility, accelerated innovation and end-to-end optimization to meet today and tomorrow's customer requirements. VMware and Samsung have demonstrated their leadership in 5G, and we see this partnership beneficial for CSPs as they modernize their network infrastructure."
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MINSK, 4 May (BelTA) - The trilateral contact group on Ukraine has resumed talks in Minsk, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The meeting of the trilateral contact group was preceded by the talks of its working groups.
During the previous meeting on 18 April the Working Group on Humanitarian Issues continued discussion on the exchange of detainees and the conditions of their detention. The Working Group on Economic Issues considered further steps to restore and maintain Vodafone-Ukraine mobile communications in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The group also discussed the issues of pension payments and the water deliveries in "Karbonyt" and "Voda Donbassa" supply systems. The Working Group on Political Issues continued its discussion on the implementation of the so-called 'Steinmeier formula'. The importance of cooperation with the Normandy Four was stressed for the successful work of the group.


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Charlotte Crosby wears a tight-fitting bodice dress and prepares for the beautiful Joshua Ritchie in Manchester's star-studded In The Style bash
She recently raised her pregnancy rumors after sharing her boyfriend Joshua Ritchie's tenderly holding her belly.
Charlotte Crosby looks as confused as the former beach star as they participate in the engagement party of style owners Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett at the Impossible Bar in Manchester.
The 27-year-old Geordie Shore star wore a tight-fitting white bodice dress, in the star-studded revelry of Saturday, Joshua, 24 years old.
Charlotte insisted on monotony and finished her small outfit with a pair of white lace-up high heels and a Louis Vuitton clutch.
She portrayed her blond hair extension with a messy wave and outlined her character with a mascara and taupe lipstick.
At the same time, Josh wore a strange striped vest with tight-fitting black jeans and monk shoes.
The duo also has a group of Geordie Shore co-starring, including Chloe Ferry, Sophie Kasaei and Abbie Holborn.
Charlotte's outing was discovered after she used the Instagram short film to trigger a pregnancy rumor, indicating that Joshua was holding her stomach.
Charlotte made her fans fall into disarray when shooting, indicating that she was standing next to a naked upper body Joshua, her hand on her stomach.
The real star who suffered an ectopic pregnancy with former Gary Biddle two years ago paid tribute to Joshua in the title.
"I love you on all good days. But more importantly, I love you on bad days," she wrote.
"There is no change through rough and smooth, in fact I just love you more. I think this is love.
Fans flocked to the comments and began to test the real stars. One person asked: 'God! Are you pregnant? ? '
'Are you pregnant ? ? ? ! ! ! ! 'Another person exclaimed, and another asked: "Hey, why does this seem to be holding your stomach?"
'This looks like a baby announcement. He is holding your belly! "Another fan commented.
Despite heated speculation, a source confirmed to MailOnline that Charlotte was not pregnant.
Deer Park senior graduates show some skins in the "horror show"
In the third "rock horror show" performed at the Purple Box Theatre in Friendswood from October 19th to 28th, actor Alec White will show off his slimmer body with boxers and bow ties.
"We became very embarrassed," said Dear Park High School graduates in 2016. He lost 30 pounds last year. "Work 5 days a week, exercise 3 miles a week, and exercise 2 to 3 days a week."
As a result, his 6-foot frame now carries about 230 pounds, compared to his previous weight of 260 pounds.
"At the end of the show, I wore corsets, women's underwear, stockings and high heels," White said, 21 years old.
White plays Brad, a clean, healthy guy whose car blew in the storm, forcing him to take refuge in the refuge of the crazy scientist Dr. Frank Enfurt.
"Brad is the 'straight man' of this comedy; so the audience responded to his reaction to the absurdity around him," said White, a junior at the University of Houston's media production.
"He is a good man. He is like the father of a comedy in the 1950s. He said, "Dear, I am going home!" Then he sat down to eat a frozen TV dinner and went back to work at 8 am the next morning.
The mad scientist played by Chase Harris has become a cultural icon with the midnight screening of the 1975 film "The Rocky Horror Photo Exhibition".
White has never seen this movie until he plays in the purple box drama.
"Now I have read the script and watched the movie, and of course I understand its fascination with it and why it is so popular," he said.
The imitation of science fiction and B-horror movies invites viewers to wear their favorite characters, dance "The Time Warp" on the show and yell "Hot Patootie!".
"For the 1970s, it really did improve, but today it doesn't look like a ridiculous concept," White said. "These songs are very appealing."
Kathy Holbrooke, the founding art director and owner of the Purple Box, said, "Everyone always asks us to do this" program.
The cast also includes: Teddy Waddell, Elle Anders, Victoria Reyes, Brandee Sibley, Matthew Hailey and Matt Rosenthal.
Other actors include: Daniel Partida, T'Mar Bunch, Mikayla Lovejoy, Rebeccah Bauerlein, Sydney Moore, Adriana Rodriquez, Lily Newsom, Mylana Valdina, Allessandro Baldan and Cassie Seba.
Deer Park High White is in the opposite of his friend Eli Martinez, in the scene of Tom Stoppard's ridiculous comedy "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", in the 2016 Inter-University League 6A Singles Championship in Austin.
In all levels of the game leading to the state finals, the judges agreed that White was the best actor or All-Star actor; in the state, White was nominated for the All-Star lineup.
White also served as the co-team leader of the impromptu comedy team, who co-founded his senior year at Deer Park.
He and Deer Park's old friends Andrew Green, Luke Holt, Marc Moland and Lucio Vasquez also formed "a small production company", Sad Tree Films, released a short video on YouTube.
White is the production manager for Walker Cable Productions in Woodlands.
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Or inspirational Rita Ora reveals a bodice dress at the premiere in London
She wore a long-sleeved printed gown and paired with a pair of knee-high boots at Kings Cross's Everyman Cinema.
She finished the look with a striking top structure and dramatic eye makeup.
Rita seems to be very happy to accept these gimmicks – a storm on the stairs of the venue.
Later she was seen hugging the actress Jaime Winstone.
Just before her dinner at the Casa Cruz restaurant in Notting Hill.
This is entirely a musical event.
Celebs flocked to the luxury venue for the Women's Harmony Dinner co-hosted by Rita and her daughter co-singer Bebe Rexha.
Girls Aloud's star Nicole Roberts joined them.
Rita shook a very beautiful dress for this occasion.
Rather than the usual style, Rita chose a sleek, long-sleeved white silk dress.
She added a pair of leather boots to make her look more subtle to show her natural beauty.
The star did not show signs of slowing her busy schedule – she just returned from her fascinating appearance at Milan Fashion Week.
Nha Phuong bride used wedding dress corset to o round big waist
Appearing next to him Truong Giang, Nha Phuong really shine like a queen. White tones are the shades that the celebrity couple chooses to be the main color for the costume, and the whole wedding.
Truong Giang and Nha Phuoc embrace in gorgeous white dress.
The splendid wedding dress of Nha Phuong, making millions of women jealous of too extravagant, splendid.
Chung Phong Phong shared: "The entire upper part of the wedding dress uses lace imported from France. In addition to high-grade lace, Phong has hand-made lace and symmetrical embroidery, resulting in delicate layout. , creating a separate fabric material is attached and hand embroidery meticulously.
So that half of the dress on the wedding dress has the lines of luxury, unique fancy. Phong also set up a complete color corset with Nha Phuong does not use any jewelry on the person. skin color Nha Phuong. With corset frame carefully measured will help the bride to thoroughly round 1 and tighten the ants waist ten thousand lovers.
The mesh is also used material imported from Korea with beautiful bồng. In order to create the sprouting skirt, but still the lightest possible for the bride, I have processed by jarring layers of layers.
In particular, the fashion house has used more than 30 layers of fabric, nearly 300 meters of mesh fabric to create a luxurious influx, elegant for the dress of Nha Phuong.
Nha Phuong used the corset to tighten the waist to make round 2 become slim, while creating a full round, attractive.
The skirt is made up of 30 layers of chiffon and other material.
The corset of the body of the skirt is sewn very clever, if you look not sure enough to see.
The design of multi-layered puffing bồng bồng, making Nha Phuong look like a beautiful princess next to Chang Jiang. Only the skirt part consumes up to 200 meters of chiffon fabric, the tail up to 2 meters long.
In 1927, he became the murder of the media circus and a famous movie.
A housewife and salesman had an affair, then hatched the conspiracy to kill her husband and demanded insurance money when he died. If this sounds like a black movie plot, it is because it is; this is the plot of James Kane's 1943 crime novel "Double Compensation" and the 1944 film adaptation. But this is also what happens in the real crimes that Double Indemnity is based on.
On March 20, 1927, Ruth Snyder claimed that two "giant Italians" broke into her house in Queens and stunned her. She said they tied her up and left her in the hallway. Then, when her 9-year-old daughter was still asleep, they killed her husband and stole her jewelry.
The police immediately suspected that Snyder did not seem to have been eliminated. They also found her "stolen" jewelry stuffed under her mattress. Within a few hours, she gave up the name of the married corset salesman who slept with Henry Judd Gray and nailed the murder to him.
When the police arrived in Gray, he confessed but accused Snyder of tempting him and planning to murder her husband, the art editor of the motorboat magazine. The police also found that just before her husband was murdered, Snyder forged a double compensation insurance policy in his name because he accidentally died nearly $100,000.
In addition to failed insurance fraud, one of the most significant aspects of crime is how Snyder and Gray can do nothing. They hit him with heavy objects in the window, killed Snyder's husband, stuffed the chloroform-soaked cotton into his nose and strangled him with a frame. They tried to cover it up as a bad "break into", and when the story fell, the former lovebirds immediately turned to each other.
At the time, journalist Damon Runyon called it "dumbbell murder" because it was too stupid. However, in the past year, it has received "the attention of the press, which is not commensurate with the importance of murder to society as a whole," said Maurine Beasley, a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland. "These are not politicians, these people are not important, these are not celebrities – these are ordinary people."
The driving force behind this report is the Daily Graphic, the daily news and the New York tabloid news battle between William Randolph Hearst's Daily Mirror. In order to transcend each other, they have locked in stories that have little to do with the public and draw readers with sensational details. The tabloid "has not hesitated to fabricate details because it does not strictly follow the facts," Beasley said. Prior to Snyder and Gray, the New York tabloid triggered a similar media sensation in the murder of a pastor and chorus in New Jersey in 1922.
In the report, the tabloid turned Snyder and Gray into sensational figures in Hollywood movies. This is especially true for Snyder, who became the beauty of the story. The tabloid described her as a "synthetic blonde murderer", a "vampire's wife" – the most unusual – "ruthless Ruth, Queen's Village Viking Ice Girl", Penelope Pelizzon and Nancy West in 2005 10 Written in a narrative article of the month.
Gray also often speaks to tabloids and portrays himself as a victim. Before Snyder and Gray's trial began, he described his relationship with Snyder's "Daily News": "She will put her face one inch away from me, watching deeply. My eyes, until I am completely her. When she hypnotizes my thoughts with her eyes, she will pat my cheek with my palm to control my body."
Such reports have aroused public interest in the case. "There are 1,500 people packed in court every day, and as many as 2,000 people besieged the streets," Jessie Ramey wrote in an article in the Spring 2004 Social History Journal. The hawker sells fake tickets for $50, and souvenir vendors sell sticks with murder weapons – belt weight – ten cents.
How did the whole legend end? In James Cain's novella, the salesman (selling insurance instead of a corset) fled to a ship in Latin America, only to find that his female accomplice was also on board. Because the criminal records in the newspapers have become "sensational", they are afraid of being arrested, and they will all commit suicide by jumping off the building at night. In the movie version of double compensation, it was not taken out of the country. The celluloid salesman killed his girlfriend and waited for the police to take him away.
But somehow, the real ending of the story is more morbid.
How to wear an OG blockbuster like Sophia Roland like 2018
Sophia Loren was there before we brought Tom Kardashian West to Tom Ford for Gucci thongs and Versace chain mail dresses.
The Italian actress concentrated on the sultry fashion in the 1950s and 1960s, her chest-enhanced bodice, tight-fitting dress, and her seaside shorts. She even looks tempting in a simple pair of jeans and a striped T-shirt.
Roland has an enviable confidence and a gorgeous figure. She never deprives her of her hobbies, nor is she a person who discusses her fitness habits if she wanders around Rome or starred in Hollywood's main movie.
Roland is proud of her body and is still 84 years old today. We can all learn one or two things from Ms. Dolce Vita. Her clothes are just to show her sexy style without apology and her preference for beautiful fashion.
Today, to celebrate her birthday, there are seven ways to do some blockbusters like Loren, not including championships, PVC or Kardashian-approved underwear.
Jenna Coleman studies maternity and brings Queen Victoria to life
I am now on the corset at the airport," Jenna Coleman said with a smile. She called from Victoria's phone and explained the intermittent buzz of our conversation.
But we are not discussing Victoria now (we will certainly do this – later). We are discussing Coleman's latest TV series "Cry", which literally speaks far beyond her depiction of the cursed monarch. Coleman is located in a coastal town in Australia, playing Joe, a woman's mental state and relationship unraveling when her baby disappears.
"This relationship with the mother and the relationship with the child is very important," she talked about the roles and research. "Obviously I am not a mother, so it is an interesting thing to be closely related. Fortunately, I have many friends who have just given birth, so they are very helpful. Some of them also sent me. Some real, inner details tell the daily reality of being a mother."
"Some things you didn't really think of so much," she continued. "Even the logistics of leaving the house and the questions about your identity. This is an eye-opening process."
Complex emotional exploration is not the only challenge Coleman finds in his role. Her first psychological thriller, the plot is intricate, the plot twists and turns, keeping the truth beyond the mastery of the audience. "This is about things you won't give up," she said. "You often put your card on your chest."
Although the scene is painful, the atmosphere during the shooting is far from this. "It became very enjoyable, dizzy and happier because it was so emotionally a roller coaster. We just wanted to get rid of it, so it actually turned into an extreme opposite between the two."
Coleman's career trajectory brought her into some wonderful TV series – from Waterloo Road to Mystery Doctor, perhaps most notably, as the Queen Victoria described above in her growing drama – when she boarded The throne was married to Prince Albert. Which part of the job does she think is the most valuable?
"When you are given life, it is such a gift," she thought. "Things like Victoria can grow up with this character. To be a few series, she is old now, we have seven children!"
However, there are countless opportunities to appear on yourself every day, and often have the opportunity to turn her hand to something new that appeals to actresses. "We are doing the stadium next week, so I am learning polka now, one of them is a large wig from Georgia," Coleman said with a smile. "I think this is change. There is not much time to be bored. This is an amazing thing."
Mariah Carey, 49, presents her famous assets on a bodice while having dinner with friends in West Hollywood.
As her latest music video will prove again – she has never been afraid to show off her sensational curves.
Maria Kelly was no different on Monday night, and Mariah Carey showed her wafer shape while dining with friends in West Hollywood.
The 49-year-old female singer's crumbling black corset top caused everyone's attention to her famous assets.
On the night of Le Meridien, the opera actress and her girlfriend had dinner and enjoyed a two-hour dinner. Her boyfriend Bryan Tanaka is nowhere to be seen.
Just last week, Maria released a new musical "GTFO" in which she placed a mysterious, unnamed lover in the explosion.
Although she did not reveal any names, it is speculated that the singer is taking a fierce attack on her former fiance, Australian billionaire James Packer, a relationship that broke out in a legal fireworks explosion two years ago. .
The acronym for Get The F * ck Out, the first single in the opera since the messy breakup.
Although it sounds very quiet, her lyrics are not prisoners.
"You take my love for granted / you make me lost, no longer fantasizing / overthrowing my heart, as if you have a plan," Kelly sings, then re-sings 'how' round your f * ck?
Critics say this sounds much harder than the romantic ballads whose names soared in the 1990s.
Not your average royal engagement! Sophie Wessex visited the underwear department of Windsor's historic Daniel department store for 100 years – and stopped to stare at the stylish retro corset
The Countess of Wessex is in Windsor today, but she does not visit the famous name of her luxurious mother-in-law.
Instead, the 53-year-old Sophie is helping the historic department store Daniels celebrate his 100th birthday – visit the lingerie show.
Sophie enjoyed the finish line at a famous store just a short walk from Windsor Castle, and saw a vintage bra and corset in the lingerie department.
The mother of the two children came to the tour wearing one of her favorite costumes, a daisy detail designed by designer Suzannah.
Sophie loosened in a gold-colored lock and finished the look with a pair of nude-colored high heels and a taupe clutch.
To celebrate the store's milestones, local schoolchildren from the Windsor Boys School and the Windsor Girls' School performed for the countess, and she unveiled the commemorative plaque to commemorate the birthday.
The store was originally founded by Walter James Daniel in Ealing in 1901. His son, Charles, bought a sister shop in Windsor in 1918 and worked with his brother Mabel.
The property is located at 120 Peascod Street, renting only £150 a year and soon becoming a high-end department store.
Earlier today, it was announced that the countess would travel to Isle of Wight on Thursday to name the new ferry and visit Liz Earle Cosmetics.
Lord Lt on the island, Major General Martin White said: "I am very happy to welcome His Royal Highness back to the island, both of which are Wightlink's White Victoria, and it is important to support important aspects of our charity and business sectors.
The Isle of Wight Council Chairman Cllr Lora Peacey-Wilcox said: "The Countess of Wessex will warmly welcome back to our island. Thanks a lot for her knowledge, interest and care for nature.


We've been so busy adjusting to and working with the new forum software (more info here and here, for those who haven't been around recently), we forgot to plan a birthday party for Crochetville!
But we do have a couple of presents!
The first is... a new tagline!
Enrich your life through crochet.
This tagline communicates, simply and memorably, what our vision has always been, as well as a basic truth about this fulfilling handicraft.
The second is... we are giving away a $50 gift certificate (in USD) to the yarn-related online shopping site of the winner's choice!
Hop on over to the giveaway topic for instructions on how to enter.
Thank you to all of you for being members of Crochetville! Amy and I work hard on Crochetville, but this site is what it is because of you. Thank you all for being who you are and sharing yourself with us here on Crochetville!
There is a big Thank you and Happy Birthday to Crochetville.
Don't know what I would do if it was not here. The happiest and nicest place on the internet.
Big Thank you to you Donna and Amy for all the work.
Wow 9 years, it seems like only yesterday I found you all.
Thank you! And a big thank you to you too, Mary Jo! What would we do without you?!
I can't believe it's been 9 years either!
I Love the new tagline! It's perfect!
Thank you all for the compliments and birthday wishes!
I have learned so much, I just love this community. Love the new tagline also.
Lots of hugs to the 'ville.
Happy Birthday and may you celebrate many, many more! I can't imagine being without this wonderful site. I look forward every day to logging on and seeing what's new or find out updates on posts. It's an honor and a pleasure to belong to this wonderful and sharing community of caring hookers! Thanks to you and Amy for all of the time, hard work and heart that you put into making Crochetville what it is!
Crochetville! May your yarns remain untangled!! It's an honor to be part of this community!
Thank you, Amy & Donna!! Love the tagline, too!!
I am so glad I found this community. I enjoy my time her so much.
Happy Birthday Crochetville...I love visiting here and finding inspiration.
You guys are awesome - THANK YOU SO MUCH! & a BIG HAPPY B-day to C'Ville!!!!!
The new tagline is great and perfectly describes in a simple way what the intent for each and every member is - love this!
I have enjoyed SO many of the members and sharing and creating with them all!
Thanks to Donna and Amy for all the hard work they do to keep us all here and happy.
Wow this wonderful that Crochetville celebrating 9th birthday I too would not know what I did before Crochetville. I love it here met many wonderful people and love to be able to share creative ideas get new ideas from everywhere. Thank you Amy and Donna for your wonderful input to make this forum just like a second home with wonderful people I meet everyday.
Happy 9th birthday a big thankyou for all the hard work you do Donna for keeping the site up and running. I really enjoy it here and an awesome group of Members this is my favorite group and I come here everyday sometimes all day long.
WISHING CROCHETVILLE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!
Happy, Happy Birthday to Crochetville!!!! It is one of the first sites I go to when I log on.
May you have many, many, many more great years.
Thank you all so very, very much!


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The old port town of Hoi An in Central Vietnam is celebrated for its bright, yellow old town and the colourful lanterns that decorate almost every building in the town. I'd heard Hoi An compared to Luang Prabang, Laos which I absolutely fell in love with during our time there last year for its amazing food and chilled out vibe. I'd also heard that the food in Hoi An is something to experience and so this just sounded like a recipe for a perfect destination for me. So did it live up to expectations? Well, here's what we got up to.
The Old Town in Hoi An is lined with iconic yellow buildings and is beautiful to walk around. It becomes pedestrianised twice a day which means that you're not having to watch out for motorbikes, but cycles are still permitted and it does get very busy with tours during these hours. We found the best time for us to be first thing in the morning when it's a bit quieter. In order to walk around the Hoi An Old Town you actually have to buy a ticket at one of the five-or-so ticket offices scattered around the town. The ticket allows entry into five of the Old Town historical sites and you can use the same ticket for your whole stay in Hoi An.
We saw the Japanese covered Bridge or the Cau Chua Pagoda from the outside so we didn't need to use up a ticket to make the most of it. We also visited the Hoi An Museum which was interesting as it covered archeological findings from the area as well as the history of Hoi An as a port town, and of course the impact of war on the area as well. Tan Ky house was a beautifully preserved merchant's house that was worth a look around and the Cantonese assembly hall was really beautiful too. My favourite sites in the old town though were the Phuc Kiên Assembly Hall and the Duc An merchant house. We visited Phuc Kien Assembly Hall as it was opening so it was quiet and tranquil to walk around and we could soak up the ornate gates and beauty of the setting in a bit of peace. Duc An House is similar to Tan Ky but felt even more decadent and well preserved.
As we left Duc An House we noticed a beautiful tea room next door. Reaching Out Tea House is run by speech and hearing impaired staff, so communication is in silence using sign language if you know it or they have helpful blocks on the table that you can use too. It was a lovely calm oasis away from the crowds and the tea selection was fantastic. I opted for a cold Vietnamese green tea, and Mark had an oolong, and we sat and enjoyed some quiet time. The staff told us about their craft wares shop just around the corner so we headed there afterwards to look around. The products are all made by the local community, and particularly those with disabilities and they really are beautiful. Both the Tea House and the Arts & Crafts Shop are well worth visiting.
From my research for this trip and accounts from friends, lanterns seem almost synonymous with Hoi An and I loved how almost every building had strings and strings of lanterns in all the different colours. Walking along the streets in the evening was spectacular and I couldn't help but feel warmed by all the colours. There were a few stalls in the night market that sell the lanterns and the stalls themselves were beautifully decorated and lit up. It was a bit of an Instagram magnet with everybody taking pictures and selfies in front of them (some of them charge for this), but it was easy enough to get through to look at them and we ended up buying two white ones for our living room.
We took the shuttle bus one morning from our hotel up to An Bang beach for some relaxation time. The sea was perfect for swimming to get a break from the heat, and the beach itself was lovely. We enjoyed sipping on a couple of coconuts as we let the world go by for a while.
A receptionist at our hotel saw us looking at fliers one afternoon and pointed out one for a performance called the "AO Show" at the Lune Performing Center. Reading through the information it sounded really interesting so we figured we'd see what it was like. The show itself used a mixture of traditional and modern dance, music and acrobatics to tell a story of the urbanisation of Vietnam. The performers were incredible and there were plenty of comedy elements as well. I'm so glad we went as it was a great show.
Cao lau is the most famous Hoi An dish, particularly as it doesn't exist anywhere else in Vietnam. According to locals, the thick off-white noodles have to be made with water from specific wells in the city (including Ba Le Well in the old town) as well as ash from log fires that can only be obtained from a nearby Cham island, and the herbs that garnish and flavour the dish have to be sourced from Tra Que Herb Village (who offer cycling tours and cooking classes that looked quite good). The broth is reduced down to a richer sauce and the whole thing is topped with char siu pork and crispy crackers made from frying the noodle batter in the pork juices. I have to admit I was somewhat taken in by the legend, and it is certainly true that you won't find cao lau elsewhere in the country. The exclusivity and intrigue probably made it taste even better! We had a great cao lau at Trung Bac Restaurant just as they were about to close and loved every bite. The noodles had a delicious depth of flavour (perhaps from the ash) and were a perfect texture – not too soft. The pork was tender, the sauce rich without being cloying, and those crispy crackers on top were the icing on the cake. It was altogether fairly salty and rich, but the portion was just right that it didn't become too much.
I had also read that the cao lau at the street stall in front of the Japanese Bridge was really good, but we didn't manage to fit in a visit as they aren't open later in the evenings.
Like the other dishes listed here you can find white rose dumplings in restaurants across Hoi An, but I'd heard that the place to go is White Rose Restaurant. Serving only White Rose dumplings and banh trang nuong (vietnamese pizza), they certainly drew a crowd of Vietnamese patrons which, for me, told us we were in a great place.
Shaped like little white flowers with a ball of shrimp in the centre, sprinkled with crispy shallots, and served with a sweet sauce for dipping, these dumplings were fiddly to eat but mouth-wateringly delicious. I mean, why wouldn't you get a second plateful?!
So did Hoi An live up to the high expectations? Yes and no – the Old Town and historical buildings really were beautiful and the food was definitely a highlight. The only slight downside is the crowds that descend throughout the day and into the evening, so it does lack the peaceful vibe of places like Luang Prabang. I'd say it's more like a cross between Luang Prabang, Venice and Disneyland… Having said all that we had a really great time and it is still absolutely a must when visiting Vietnam.


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If all you want for Christmas is two Wilson sisters singing with a bunch of famous friends, you're going to love what Heart has in store for you on Dec. 25.
Ann and Nancy Wilson will lead the band back to its Seattle hometown for 'Heart & Friends: Home for the Holidays,' a Christmas Day special promising a "once-in-a-lifetime" event that will feature "an array of holiday songs written by Joni Mitchell, Harry Nilsson, Bob Dylan and Sammy Hagar ... as well as some of Heart's favorite songs." Enthused Ann Wilson in a press release, "We are thrilled and delighted to be joined by our band and our friends onstage to ring in the holiday season for our fans everywhere."
Those "friends" include Hagar, Shawn Colvin, Richard Marx and Pat Monahan from Train, all of whom are scheduled to join Heart onstage at the Benaroya Symphony Concert Hall. Marx will be on hand to reprise his vocal cameo in 'All Through The Night,' one of two new holiday recordings Heart recently released, and the whole show will be broadcast at 8 PM EST on AXS, the television network that recently aired specials dedicated to Cheap Trick and Kiss.
"We couldn't have passed up this wonderful opportunity to celebrate the season with two of the most talented rock 'n roll artists ever, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart," explained AXS TV Founder Mark Cuban. "Having Shawn Colvin, Sammy Hagar, Richard Marx and Pat Monahan join them for this holiday special makes it the perfect gift for our audience to enjoy on Christmas night."


1) Sending Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's books to inmates in jail and prisons around the country and the world who request them.
2) Providing meditation classes to inmates at San Bruno Men's Jail and SF Women's Jail.
3) Providing meditation classes to residents and staff at A Woman's Place homeless drop-in center, Atria Senior Housing, Agesong University Senior Housing, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, and members of the Tenderloin Boys and Girls Club.
We are very interested in creating ties with local community organizations and welcome inquiries. Please email epc@MeditateInSanFrancisco.org or call (415) 503-1187.


In the latest edition of The Safety Report, aviation lawyer Mary Schiavo wrote the article, "Holiday Travel Tips the Airline Won't Give You."
The Safety Report is a magazine that promotes education and awareness relating to consumer safety. Read the full article on holiday travel safety in the winter issue of The Safety Report.


Gary Rowett is confident James McClean will be unscathed after running the gauntlet of angry Middlesbrough fans at the end of this evening's game.
And the Irish international, who controversially refused to wear a poppy tonight, was also booed by his own supporters when steping off the bench late in the goalless draw.
McClean was heading to the tunnel and towards the Boro fans when he was abused and there was a suggestion of objects being thrown.
Some fans tried to jump onto the perimeter track, while McClean was restrained by stewards and safely ushered up the players' tunnel.
"I think it's any opportunity for away fans to goad somebody," said Rowett, "it's pretty poor.
"It's his belief and he's strong enough to come out and with his belief, whether you agree with it or not."
Asked about the reception from Stoke fans, Rowett added: "It's old news. He's aware that it's always going to be a controversial game."
Meanwhile, Boro boss Tony Pulis took a swipe at his striker Jordan Hugill for going down too easily in search of free-kicks this afternoon.
"He went down a couple of times," said a disappointed Pulis. "He went down twice dramatically and I don't like that nonsense and it's got to stop."
Asked if he fancied his old club hacking it all the way to the finishing line when it comes to promotion, Puliis added: "I think they have a got a strong enough squad, but it does take time to settle.
"They are a scalp now because they've been in the Premier League for quite a few years.
"They have to understand that wherever they go other teams are going to be up for it because of what they have achieved over the last 10 years.
"I think the Championship has moved on since I was here and got promoted. Teams are bigger and more organised and managers set their teams out well.
"And there's been a filtering of good players from the Premier League and it's made the Championship a better league."


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Microsoft Plans Expansion For Cheyenne Data Center
By Irina Zhorov • Apr 25, 2014
Microsoft plans to expand its data center operations in Wyoming. Microsoft opened a data center outside of Cheyenne last year…and this spring plans to grow it with a $274 million addition. Governor Matt Mead met the news with excitement. He says he's made growing the Wyoming technology sector a priority and sees the expansion as a good sign.
"When you have Microsoft coming in the first place it is huge. But probably even a bigger story is they've only been here a short period of time and they're already doubling their investment. It shows not only did they make the right choice in the first place but things have worked out so well that what we represented Wyoming could present to a company like Microsoft was not only true, it was true to the fullest extent," says Mead.
The total investment by Microsoft will be nearly $500 million. The first stage of the new data canter is estimated to come online in the summer of 2015.
Money added to Data Center recruitment
By The Associated Press • Mar 19, 2012
The State Loan and Investment Board has
approved a $5 million grant to help bring a proposed $112 million
data center to Cheyenne.
Cheyenne is one of two finalists in the Rocky Mountain region
for the data center. State officials have declined to identify the
company behind the project, but they say it is a Fortune 100 firm.
The state board approved the $5 million grant on Monday.
Gov. Matt Mead says he's willing to provide another $5 million
in state money to help land the center, bringing the state's total
Wyoming is a national leader in data center recruitment
By Rebecca Martinez • Oct 23, 2013
Wyoming is aggressively working to attract data centers to the state. The industry magazine Expansion Solutions recently recognized the Cowboy State's efforts to accommodate companies looking to build or expand their computing operations.
Wyoming Business Council CEO Bob Jensen says his organization targets trade shows, real estate directors and data management industry publications to promote Wyoming's offerings, including a cool climate, cheap power, and lots of space to build.
Jensen says Wyoming has a lot of competition to attract these businesses.


This weekend in the capital will be held the fourth International Competition "Conquer the stage" on which his main talent show not only Ukrainians, but also guests from abroad. This is an incredibly large Battle, in which participants are completely different age categories will compete in the categories: vocal, choreography, folklore-ethnographic genre, fashion theater, theatrical genre, instrumental genre.
Where: DC "Sprout," Cultural Arts Center KNEU.