There's no need to lead a vanilla life with the tempting range of exotic flavours being scooped out by Perth's artisan gelato and ice-cream makers.
Sean Lee, owner of Gusto Gelato in Leederville and Elizabeth Quay, prides himself on using only the freshest ingredients.
If the flavour is apple pie or brownies, freshly baked whole apple pie or brownies go in. Real nuts and fruits are used, not pastes. Juices for sorbets are squeezed fresh in the morning and everything scooped is made on site each day.
"We use Harvey Fresh milk. We don't use their standard milk, we use their Jersey Girl because it is higher in proteins," Lee said.
Lee said he couldn't get great gelato in Perth on a regular basis and saw a gap in the market. He left corporate life, took himself to gelato university in Bologna in Italy, did a couple of internships and came back to Perth.
"One of the best things I did was I flew a couple of gelato masters out from Italy here to Perth and we spent weeks just perfecting our recipes to make sure that people, when they came into the store, were treated to a really true Italian gelato experience," he said.
Gusto's Leederville store opened in October 2014 and Elizabeth Quay, now the busier store, followed in June 2016.
"When I first opened Leederville three years ago there wasn't a lot of artisan gelato in Perth. In the last three years it has really exploded," Lee said.
Lee believes part of this is because Perth people are now prepared to pay a premium for quality products.
"Anything artisanal has been doing very well in the past few years. Whether it be artisan bread, artisan beer, artisan gelato, all of them are really cashing in on the same trend. The public wants to know where the food is coming from and they are getting a decent quality product," he said.
Gusto has 24 flavours available at any time, 22 flavours that stay in high rotation and two quirky specials that change weekly, with quirky names such as The Kramer, which was a vanilla bean gelato with salted caramel sauce and chocolate-coated pretzels.
A quarter of Gusto's flavours are dairy free and vegan and the traditional Italian sorbets don't use egg white as a stabiliser, making them safe for pregnant women.
Like Lee, Chicho Gelato's Chez and Carly De Bartolo turned their backs on corporate careers, as an engineer and pharmacist, to pursue their gelato dream. They started out with two gelato carts, custom made in Sicily, before opening their new-wave gelateria in Northbridge in 2016.
Camera IconChez and Carly De Bartolo at their new-wave gelateria Chicho Gelato in Northbridge.
Although he came from engineering, hospitality is in Chez's blood. His parents ran cafes and fish and chip shops but he credits Carly for being "the genius behind the recipes", mixing creativity with her technical skills.
They were living in East London when a wave of start-ups inspired them to give away the 9-5 grind to try something new. Chez saw a video about the gelato university in Bologna and a seed was planted.
"We packed up our bags after four years and that was the first place we hit on a six-month trip back to Perth," he said.
After they did the foundation gelato course they continued to travel and be inspired by flavours. When they returned to Perth they made gelato in a back shed converted into a kitchen and made their debut at the Subiaco Farmers Market in January 2014.
"The most important thing is understanding what your local produce is, what you're working with and that's when you really start to learn," Chez said.
Chicho has up to 20 flavours at a time in summer. The most popular flavour would probably be roasted macadamia with white chocolate. The whole macadamias are sourced from the Chittering Valley.
"When it sells out quickly there are disappointed fans," he said.
Chicho also has vegan offerings including its sorbets, which have a creamy rather than icy texture. Known for its collaborations, Chicho is currently selling the Wizz Fizz lolly-inspired Fringe Fizz to celebrate Fringe World.
It features peach sorbet topped with a passionfruit meringue shard and a raspberry sherbet straw.
The 10 months it took for Georgina Terrana to get council approval for her South Fremantle vegan ice-cream store Roho Bure allowed plenty of time to experiment and develop her predominantly coconut-based range.
Terrana came to Perth with her rugby-playing partner five years ago and they didn't want to go home.
She worked in real estate and recruitment then 18 months ago quit everything to decide what she really wanted to do.
"I have always been quite passionate about food, primarily organic food, and not eating dairy and meat myself, having somewhere to go for dessert was always like a real struggle," she said.
All of the ice-cream is made on site, with six flavours available and rotating specials. Terrana said coconut caramel was the most popular but regulars often came in just to see what the specials were.
"We always try to make it something quite unusual and interesting. Recently we did a charcoal special," she said.
Roho Bure, which means free spirit in Swahili, has been open since August. All of its products are gluten free.
"One of the really great things about some of our flavours is they are sweetened with Xylitol and Stevia so they are technically sugar free," Terrana said.
Although Terrana is new to gelato, it runs in the family; her Sicilian grandparents ran ice-cream shops and vans when they first moved to England.
"Obviously it is a very different kind of ice-cream," she said.
Gelato is also in the family at Whisk Creamery.
"It is actually something my grandfather started back in Italy. He used to have a bakery shop making pastries, cakes and they also opened a gelato shop," managing director Davide Nelva Stellio, who runs the business with brother Simone and father Giulio, said.
Nelva Stellio has been in Perth for four-and-a-half years, having loved a summer holiday in 2012 so much that he didn't want to go home to their small town of Aosta.
"We have been doing this pretty much our whole life," he said.
Whisk Subiaco opened in September 2014 and Northbridge in October 2016.
Whisk's products have developed a cult following on Instagram, from the calorific salted caramel cronuts to eye-catching fish-shaped taiyaki cones Simone discovered on holiday in Japan.
"It's yummy, it is freshly baked, it is like a waffle in a funny shape. Desserts are all about joy and happiness, we thought it was a good idea to bring it to Perth," he said.
Whisk's unicorn cone took off after a social media post by Qantas and will have its popular Tokyo watermelon sandwich special at De Lish Expo at Crown today.
Do you have a sweet tooth? Then this is the food festival for you.
VideoDo you have a sweet tooth? Then this is the food festival for you.
In store, customers can customise their orders and toppings via iPad.
"They can actually see what they are going to create and what it looks like," Nelva Stellio said.
Whisk has six fixed flavours and a monthly special and also makes a range of decadent, colourful birthday cakes. Where its gelato differs from other outlets is it is soft serve.
"I used to make the traditional gelato the scooped one; coming here we decided to go with something a little different," Nelva Stellio said.
"It is very popular in Japanese culture to eat soft serve.


My last post inspired me to switching gears to be bit crazy.
That last post was about the Kindle Fire as a perfectly viable physical and distribution platform.
But I also like the potential disruptive models, and weird (but still possible) business scenarios that get me what I want as a consumer.
I've written before about Redbox buying Vudu and Blockbuster, Netflix buying Redbox, Amazon buying Netflix, and there being an explosion of content for Amazon (though not as much as people think; Amazon really does OK, and there's a high overlap in Hulu/Redbox/Prime Instant Videos), and an Amazon Netflix rental DVD distribution (which they might or might not keep), and "Amazon Redbox" stations everywhere.
Part of this has already happened, as Netflix bought those blue rental kiosks at Walmarts everywhere. Then (in case you missed it) Coinstar (the company who owns Redbox), bought NCR for $100MM. NCR operates things like ATM machines, point of sales and retail systems, airline check-in systems, and Blockbuster Express branded kiosks.
Coinstar's purchase of NCR (to be finalized quarter 3 of this year, if it's not considered anti-regulatory) includes DVD kiosks, "certain retailer contracts", and DVD inventory -- Giving Netflix a bunch of additional distribution points and product.
That's after the Verizon and Redbox announced a physical and streaming agreement, that's going to make things real challenging for Netflix (and maybe Amazon streaming).
That Verizon / Redbox streaming competition makes things harder for Netflix, but maybe it makes them more applicable for an Amazon partnership (who obviously has the bigger market cap).
One of my big frustrations with streaming media is having to go to multiple sources to get content, and/or a lack of compelling new content (Netflix), or content expiring sooner than I can watch it (Hulu). I actually think an explosion of streaming options could be a good thing, as licensors can charge less (say, 30% of what they do for "just Netflix", license out to multiple streaming sources (4 to n), and make a lot more money, and be on whatever streaming solution to which I want to subscribe as a consumer.
Going back to Amazon, as a consumer, I'd be fine if that scenario worked out somewhere that way (consolidated acquisition or more of the same content across multiple streaming services. Add scenarios where Amazon has an Xbox 360 media app. And buys Gamefly. That would give me my movie / book / music / gaming fixes in the same purchase / rent / stream / physical or digital model that I want, all in the same consumer-oriented ecosystem, whether I get it from my PC, phone, tablet, or game console.
Like I said, crazy. And I'm intentionally ignoring a lot of stuff. But not myopically.
The Kindle Fire, official Google tablets, and bad assessments from "experts"
I was reading an article, "Why Amazon Can't Win a Tablet Price War Against Google" (the title is basically the premise).
At first, I thought, "there are some good points here."
Moments later, that turned into, "WTF? This is ridiculous and invalid.
The article had some good points, but seems to be ignoring a lot, and overall, it's a poor article.
To be honest, I think the author was trying to center around the semi-clever analogy, "the Fire is just another box for Amazon", and intentionally or myopically left stuff out.
He ignored low-level things like Amazon is doing away with boxes (shipping items in their own packaging), and higher level things like their ridiculously successful digital distribution (their Prime subscribers, their hundreds per month $5 MP3 albums, Prime Instant Videos, etc.).
Then there's Amazon's cloud storage (consumer and enterprise S3), their negative inventory business model, the fact the business is built around making their money per transaction, etc.
And while this particular author says it's not sustainable to lose money on the manufacture of each device, it is when it's amortized across the business (think the Xbox and Xbox 360 business unit growth and P/L distribution across quarters and other business units under Microsoft's digital entertainment umbrella).
He claims the loss on manufacture of the Fire is between $10 to $70, which tells me he doesn't understand what the loss is, and is discounting reduction of manufacturing cost over time as components become far cheaper (economies of scale, efficiencies in manufacture, successive technologies, etc.) -- again, the Xbox / 360 growth is an example of that.
Also, Acer and Asus -- tablet providers he classifies as "Companies that are in the tablet hardware business only" "that sell tablets for profit" -- sell tablets for $199 (for a profit; they're not loss-leaders, which wouldn't work in this context). Amazon can easily do likewise.
"Any discount retailer, from Wal-Mart to Costco, has to make it up on volume. But Amazon can't."
Really? Amazon is an online discount retailer that's perfected the Dell negative-inventory distribution model. Of course they can make it up by volume.
As far as dogging the subsidy model (Amazon allegedly subsidizing manufacturing loss), think the handset carrier analogy (which is a perfectly sustainable model). The Fire is analogous to the handset, Prime to the phone service, and Amazon purchases are the way-higher-margin-than-microtransaction purchases.
This is not to discount Amazon having some serious competition from Google, and it's possible official tablets.
But Amazon's foremost advantage may be it genuinely has a product portfolio mindset, which is something -- to be frank -- Google struggles with. As a concrete example, I pitched an all-ecosystem offering to the stakeholders for each of the ecosystem pieces, and the people I talked to seemed genuinely confused and/or uninterested in its combinatorial value-add across the ecosystem (outside of their individual piece). Pitching the same concept to some other "ecosystem-type partners" blew their socks off, and there's a mad scramble from them to snag it and make it happen in some form or fashion.
Second, Amazon could open their Fire platform. Right now, the Fire is a semi-locked Android tablet, which turns a lot of people off (myself included, but not enough to keep me from buying one). Amazon could open the Fire up to a "legit" version of Android, and become a partner for Google's ecosystem, and make the device more appealing to more folks.
Amazon could make some content free or cheaper on the Fire, and charge more on other platforms. They could do the Microsoft Windows Phone model (Halo ATLUS, Kinectimals, Xbox Live app), and make the Kindle, Prime, and related apps free on the Fire, and charge for the other versions (or make them free on both, but feature-richer on the Fire).
So that's probably enough about the Fire and that myopic business assessment.


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Przyczepia się na powięzi piersiowo-lędźwiowej na wysokości kręgów od Th11 do L3, a jego pasma biegną skośnie ku górze, kończąc się na dolnych brzegach żeber od 9 do 12. Mięsień jest pokryty przez mięsień najszerszy grzbietu i częściowo przez mięsień czworoboczny.

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Energy Fuels (NYSE American: UUUU) (TSX: EFR), the largest producer of uranium in the United States, is committed to playing a significant role in the growing uranium mining sector. According to a Business Research Company report, the uranium mining market is projected to reach nearly $10.18 billion next year and should see CAGR of 4.6% during the forecast period (https://ibn.fm/vvT93). "With nuclear energy expected to see strong growth in the coming years as nations around the world work to provide affordable, sustainable clean energy, Energy Fuels looks to be in an ideal position. The company is the leading producer of uranium, the fuel for carbon- and emission-free nuclear energy, in the country," reads a recent article. "Energy Fuels has more uranium production capacity, licensed mines and processing facilities, and in-ground uranium resources than any other U.S. uranium producer. It boasts diverse cashflow-generating opportunities, including vanadium production, uranium recycling and rare earth processing."
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Energy Fuels is a leading U.S.-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. The company also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and is ramping up to commercial production of REE carbonate in 2021. Its corporate offices are in Lakewood, Colorado, near Denver, and all of its assets and employees are in the United States . Energy Fuels holds three of America's key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch in-situ recovery ("ISR") Project in Wyoming and the Alta Mesa ISR Project in Texas. The White Mesa Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S. today, has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of U3O8 per year and has the ability to produce vanadium when market conditions warrant, as well as REE carbonate and uranium from various uranium-bearing ores. The Nichols Ranch ISR Project is currently on standby and has a licensed capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year. The Alta Mesa ISR Project is also on standby and has a licensed capacity of 1.5 million pounds of U3O8 per year. In addition to the above production facilities, Energy Fuels also has one of the largest NI 43-101 compliant uranium resource portfolios in the U.S. and several uranium and uranium/vanadium mining projects on standby and in various stages of permitting and development. The primary trading market for Energy Fuels' common shares is the NYSE American under the trading symbol UUUU, and the company's common shares are also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol EFR. For more information, visit the company's website at www.EnergyFuels.com.
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Wish You Were Here? Local Airbnb Rental Lands On The Most Wish Lists For New Hanover County
By Cece Nunn, posted Jun 18, 2019
On Airbnb, this vacation rental dubbed, "Wilmington's 'The Great Escape' with Hot Tub!" is the No. 1 wish-listed rental in New Hanover County, according to a recent Airbnb report. (Photos courtesy of Airbnb)
A Wilmington vacation rental dubbed "The Great Escape" landed recently on an Airbnb popularity list.
The vacation rental, which is located not far from Mayfaire, was the No. 1 wish-listed rental in New Hanover County, according to an Airbnb report on the most wish-listed properties in each of the hospitality company's top 20 home-sharing counties in North Carolina. Its full name on Airbnb is "Wilmington's 'The Great Escape' with Hot Tub!"
"Airbnb's 'wish-list' function allows users to save the listings they most desire when planning trips . . .The most wish-listed listings in North Carolina are among the most unique and special homes on Airbnb's platform," the report stated.
Wilmington resident Tim Worman and his wife, Carrie Worman, are the owners and hosts of The Great Esca pe and The Great Escape 2 in Wilmington, with two other vacation rentals listed on Airbnb that are outside city limits in New Hanover County.
Tim Worman said the Wormans started renting out vacation properties about five years ago when they lived in Colorado.
Of being on the Airbnb list for the No. 1 wish-listed property in New Hanover County, Tim Worman said, "I'm happy about it. I put a lot of work into it, so it's a good thing."
For the report, Airbnb tabulated and added up to tens of thousands of wish lists to establish which listing in each area was No. 1.
"It stays booked every night of the year," Tim Worman said of The Great Escape. "I've got hundreds and hundreds of reviews . . . Everyone leaves good reviews, and it's kind of close to the beach, kind of close to downtown and only a few minutes from Mayfaire. It's a pretty convenient location."
He said the hot tub (pictured above) is a popular feature of the rental.
Airbnb officials have said that more than 14,000 people in North Carolina rent out their homes on the platform. Last year, Airbnb hosts in New Hanover County earned nearly $13 million and welcomed 85,000 guests, according to Airbnb
According to the wish-list report, the company recently announced that it delivered $24 million in state and local tax revenue to the state on behalf of its North Carolina hosts in 2018.
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Sonic Highways, con't. Part 3 (last part, I promise)
In the Clear- New Orleans
I went to see a band play in New Orleans once. Just once. It was Cage the Elephant- I've seen them eleven times. I'd like to see them about a billion more times. They are my favorite live band, one of my favorite bands ever… I never get tired of them. They are insane live. Insane. But seeing a rock band play a show in a relatively small venue in New Orleans is just… It's a bad idea. It is a truly terrible place to go to see rock.
It was still a great show. I just wouldn't ever go see a rock band play there again.
The thing is, though, that rock is perfectly at home in that city. Just like all the other styles of music are perfectly at home there. New Orleans is… for music, it's just a big huge blend of sound and beats and styles and energy. There isn't anywhere like New Orleans, for a lot of reasons, but the music is definitely something that sets it apart. I love that the music is so entwined in the culture. I don't think there's really anywhere else like that. A place where your roots as a person are the same roots that your songs have. There's some really heavy magic to that.
This seemed sort of like the life and death episode. You play music to make life fuller, to feel happy, to make people smile. You play to tell a story or get something across. And you play when life is ending, when you're full of grief, when everything's dark. That's what's so amazing about music- most art, really- it's not for one mood.
Subterranean- Seattle
Have you ever heard the song I Should Have Known by the Foo Fighters? Go listen. Just… go. Anyone who's heard that song could probably have guessed that Seattle would be sort of an emotional episode. Not that they're not all emotional. But Seattle is… well. This was an episode about loss.
I think I was… six years old when Kurt Cobain died. I didn't know who he was. My parents were pretty awesome about playing every damn thing they listened to for us, so I didn't grow up on, like, Old MacDonald, but David Bowie and Green Day and the Rolling Stones and the Smashing Pumpkins. But Nirvana was not… my dad's favorite, so I never heard them until I started listening to music on my own. And that was long after Kurt passed away. But when I did hear them it was just… the start of everything.
I listen to a lot of music, in a lot of really varied genres. But my roots, the thing my music is built on, is the Seattle music scene of the 1990s and 2000s- two very different scenes, but sort of… built on each other in a way. And that's my music. That's the stuff that influences me, that influenced the bands I love. It's the stuff that made me want to play music and basically dictated a large part of how I lived my life. You could even say it influences my writing, since I feel like music plays a huge part in how I think and feel and how I translate that to paper.
I miss Kurt Cobain, and I wasn't even… aware, when Kurt Cobain died. I can't imagine what it was like for the people who were there. The people who loved that music and what it meant and represented. It must have been like the world was ending.
I love this song, Subterranean. It's an incredible song from every aspect- musically, from both, conversely, a pop aesthetic and a sort of risky I-can-do-as-I-please rock angle. Lyrically, because… dear god. It's so simple and so painful and so beautiful. And I love that the Foo Fighters had Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie sing on it. I think Ben Gibbard's a genius. But here, it was the meeting of the two- the grunge scene and the softer Seattle alt-rock that came after- so very different than grunge but maybe… influenced by that time and the losses and everything that was happening around people like Ben Gibbard as they grew up? It was like my two Seattle loves, colliding. It's gorgeous and it means something. This episode meant something. God. It made me feel, in a strange way, very connected. That's really what this whole series seems to have been about for me- all these different cities and different genre and very different people, all connected by music. It's amazing.
I Am A River- New York
I could totally talk about this episode, but it would just be me repeating what I've said about the other episodes—how amazing the history of music is, how fascinating it is, and touching, and personal, to hear that history being told by the people who were there. How beautifully Dave Grohl has created a space for these stories to be told. And by repeating myself in the last several episode conversations, I think I've probably lost anyone who was reading this anyway, so I probably could blather on about that and no one would notice.
But one of the things that really struck me about this episode was something President Obama said when Dave was interviewing him, at the end. He said something along the lines of how music is something that connects us more than any other thing. And I think that's true. Anyone who's ever been to a concert knows that when you're standing in that audience, you feel connected to a group of strangers in a way nothing else really compares to. Anyone who's watched Dave travel around the country and talk to people from different walks of life, in different musical genres, can see that.
I've been sort of struggling with how to finish this blog series, or whatever it is, up. It started out as just something fun and then I sort of… let it drag while I rambled… But truthfully, a lot of this show spoke to me, as a musician, as a writer, as someone who wants to be connected. And this last episode, with President Obama saying what he did, even though he was only interviewed for a short time, really struck me. I'm writing this just after inauguration day, 2017, two days after the Women's March. And there are many, many things we can, and should, do to fight against the terrible things that are happening around us. We should call our representatives. We should sign petitions. We should march. We should stand with our neighbors, and we should donate time and money where we can.
But there are also smaller, everyday things we can do. We can listen to music. We can support bands and artists that create beautiful things, that fly in the face of convention, that connect us, that speak out, that put good into the world. We can read books—all the books. We can buy paintings. See films that tell the important stories, the stories that need telling. Buy an album or a movie ticket, or tell a friend. Pass along a good recommendation. Let art connect us, and teach us, and help us explore, because wow, we're going to need all of that we can get.
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As a resident of New Orleans, I can absolutely confirm that this is *the* city of live music. I have been to so many concerts and have kept a majority of my tickets stubs. I've spent so much of my life at concerts, traveling to concerts, reliving concerts…ha ha. The absolute best time of my life was when I was a radio DJ for my college station. I got to discover all kinds of new music that I was never exposed to in the small town I grew up in. I had collected gobs of autographs flats and posters, and had tape recorded interviews with bands. Unfortunately, I lost all of it in Hurricane Katrina. But at least I have the memories!
I had the pleasure of seeing Cage the Elephant perform at Voodoo Music Fest last year and the energy on stage was amazing. Can I please follow Matt Shultz around on tour to absorb some of his effervescence? A live performance can absolutely change my feelings about a band. I enjoyed Cage the Elephant's music before Voodoo; now I'm obsessed.
I was 14 and on spring break in Georgia when Kurt Cobain died. The news was absolutely devastating. My friend and I spent the rest of the trip inconsolable, eyes glued to MTV until our return trip home. I often wonder how Nirvana would have evolved had Kurt not died.
Music has always had an impact on my life. There are specific songs that I can "assign" to different events in my life, and songs that bring back strong memories of both good and bad times in my life. Although I am not musically included, I cannot imagine going day to day without a soundtrack. For that, I am grateful for the musicians in this world.
Oh gosh, I feel terrible about saying New Orleans wasn't a good place to see rock. /o\ Now I want to go to lots more shows there. I think the crowd was just particularly bad for this one.
But that's so awesome that you were a DJ! That must have been amazing, all that new music and meeting people. *daydreams* I'm so sorry you lost those things in Hurricane Katrina. *hugs* I can't even imagine. But I'm glad you have the memories, and it's so cool that you get to live in a such a wonderful city, so steeped in music.
I'm with you about following Matt Shultz around on tour! They're so energetic and the vibe they put off when they're on stage is really like nothing else I've ever experienced. I was the same way–before I saw Cage the Elephant play, I liked them but I wasn't crazy about them. Now I'm super obsessed and I wish I could see every show of theirs. 😉 I'd *love* to have seen them perform at the Voodoo Music Festival. Live music has such a raw energy to it that's almost like some kind of magic, and I've definitely had it change my feelings about a band.
I wonder the same about Nirvana, and the whole way rock music might have looked different if Kurt hadn't died. How would he have shaped the music that came next? How many other musicians would he have influenced? It must have been absolutely heartbreaking to hear that news. He was such a force and such a musical genius. ❤
I'm grateful for the musicians in this world, too. ❤ That's such a lovely way to put it. Music has been such a huge influence on me–I can't imagine what my day to day would look like without it. ❤
(I'm glad I got to read your comment! It was worth the wait! 😉 )
I didn't mean for my New Orleans comment to come off as critical. I can absolutely see how a particular venue or atmosphere could make or break a performance. If you ever have a chance, definitely try to attend a show at the House of Blues, or even The Parish, which is a smaller venue above the HOB. Both are perfect for a more intimate show. And Voodoo is just awesome every year, as most weekend-long festivals are.
DJing was my life! In person I'm socially awkward, but being behind the mic made me a completely different person. I suppose being passionate about the music gave me confidence I don't generally have in every day life.
Oh no, you didn't sound critical at all! 🙂 I love that you've gotten to see so many awesome shows in a place that's has so much music at its core. It must be such an amazing atmosphere for concerts.
That's so cool that DJing gave you confidence like that! Music has such a magic quality to it. I always feel so much more confident and myself (and usually I'm a complete introvert and definitely socially awkward 😛 ) when I'm playing or at a show. Music can be so freeing. ❤


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St Michael's Thirroul Turns 75
It was standing room only at St Michael's Catholic Parish Primary School's 75th Anniversary dinner at Thirroul Bowling Club.
The event capped off a week of celebrations for the school and its 250 students, bringing together 350 past and present teachers, students and local dignitaries, celebrating the success of the school, which opened its doors in 1940.
Current principal Danny Sykes says although it was difficult to pick a highlight of the celebratory week, the Mary Mackillop Outdoor Mass was a great day.
"It was held on the eve of St Mary Mackillop's Feast Day and more than 200 people joined our 250 students, including the Sisters of St Joseph, to celebrate with current students. The weather was perfect and the afternoon was extremely special.
Anniversary week included a dress up day where students and teachers donned fashion from the 40's and adhered to the stricter teaching conditions of the period. But it wasn't all marching and 'Yes Sirs", the students also got to try knocks and marbles, and other old school games, to give them a taste of life 75 years ago.
The celebrations also included the burying of a time capsule which will be opened in 2040, when the Thirroul school celebrates its centenary.
Mr Sykes says it's lovely to see how warmly the school is still received today.
"St Michael's continues to be a much-loved school for families in the Northern Suburbs. Judging by the smiles on people's faces, there is a great sense of pride for the work that has been done over the years to make St Michael's the great school it is today."
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A Firefight 2.0 scenario for two players by Greg Rumbles.
After their recent engagement in Zone 5's 'Pig Alley', Sinclair and Oxford come to blows again during a horrific thunderstorm.
A disturbing amount of rain and fog mixed with the darkening atmosphere of Bosworth IV, pushing Sir Connar Sinclair onward towards the welcoming, if somewhat bleak, Sea Moor Inn which rose monolithically from the drab grey blast damaged buildings around the tired Post of Canlastrian Tocs Borderers.
Tired as he was from the day spent on the training and firing ranges, the middle aged knight had learned long ago that, all too often, danger lurked in the darkness. Not creatures of legend, although rumors suggested things may still prowl the Borderlands, but something far worse and more calculating; men! Yordist could be lurking about anywhere in this dreadful weather and making matters worse the ground was becoming saturated, making movement difficult.
Even though the front had moved on, there were still Yordist insurgents wandering about the near destroyed city of Coggshall. They were thick as fleas on a stray dog in the Zone 5 slums. That was why a crack mercenary company like the Lothian Tocs Borderers were kept on station here. They said it was to keep the peace. Sinclair and the other Borderers knew the truth though, it was to hunt down and kill the Yordie stay behinds. After listening to the silence for what seemed like an eternity, the Knight slowly waved his Post forward. This damned weather made their heavy weapons near useless as their laser sighting system was only working at half efficiency due to low batteries. Normally fog or rain wouldn't degrade these much, but with low power packs they were buggered and would be forced to use normal sights if it can down to blows this damp night.
Sir Reginald Oxford could not believe his luck, the figures rising like silent ghosts from the building doorways lining the shell cratered road west of the inn had a familiar look to them, especially that big Household Knight up front. Canlastrian Retained. And that swaggering walk was unmistakable, it was him! That 'Govnar' Toc Sinclair was taking a leisurely stroll right towards his position! "I say, there is a God!" Oxford slid back from his covered vantage point along the inn's garden wall and quickly crawled back to his own post of Retained men. He was blessed to have command of a Yordist Retained Assault Post this night, it was the perfect weapon for such weather and such a target! "Vengeance shall be mine!" Thought the smiling Yordist as he rounded the corner of the inn and dog trotted towards his waiting men.
The next flash seen this night was not from lightning.
A copy of IAG001 Firefight 2.0 Killing Streets for the Firefight rules is necessary to play this mission. Also required are two squads of ION Age Retained miniatures.
This mission is for two players.
One player has a Canlastrian Retained Post returning late one rainy night from a training exercise, low on ammunition for their Moth Type XII rocket launcher.
The other player commands a Retained Post of Yordist Assaulters, lurking insurgents, led by a newly promoted Retained Household Heavy Weapons Knight. The Yordist Post is seeking reprisal for insults and dispersions cast upon them by the Canlastrian Post's commander.
The mission objective for the Canlastrian player is to find shelter from the heavy downpour, and to stay out of the hands of their attackers. See the special rules for weather in this scenario.
The objective of this mission is for the Yordist player is to seek out cover from the heavy rainstorm then, find and kill the hated Canlastrian Mercenary Tocs Borderer Knight they are seeking, utilizing much stealth to do so.
Create the map as shown in the illustration below. Then place 2 debris markers randomly on each street board (use 1D6 x 1D6 to determine which square, just re-roll any sixes).
You have a 119 point veteran squad of Retained troops. One Retained Household Errant Knight (Sinclair) with a Tumbler MkIII SMG and an Octa Sword, one Retained Household Medic with a Tumbler MkIII SMG and an Hobbes Bomb, and two Heavy Weapons Esquires, both armed with a Moth Type XII Rocket Launcher with only 15 points worth of 50mm rounds, the loader also packs a Tumbler Mk III MPI.
Place your Canlastrian Tocs on starting places 3D6 to the west of the Sea Moor Inn, on the opposite side of the road. Roll for each squad member individually. On game turn one, your Post will move towards the inn until the Yordists are spotted. Once the Yordist are seen, you have freedom of action. Do you enter the inn and fight room to room, or do you determine that discretion is the better part of valour and use the cover of the rain storm to fade away from your hunters and play the rabbit to their hound until game end and you can return with a greater force?
You have a 122 point elite Post of Retained troops. One HW Knight with a Minstrel Taser (Oxford), and three Household Assaulters with 12.5mm Angis Automatic Rifles. All four carry one Hobbes Bomb each.
Place your men on starting places 3D6 to the east of the Sea Moor Inn, on the opposite side of the road to the inn. Roll for each squad member individually. On game turn one, your Post will move towards the inn until the Canlastrians are spotted. Once the despised Cannie Mercenaries are seen, you have freedom of action. Do you enter the inn to get out of the storm and hope you haven't been seen, so you can set a trap for the approaching enemy, or do you immediately attack your hated foe and use the cover of the rain storm to sneak in close and ensure a kill by game's end?
There are three special rules in use for this mission. Please read and apply them in your playing of Firefight for this mission.
2. Terrain – Roll a second 1D6 at the start of the game only, this die sets the movement restriction for weather degraded terrain, which will remain unchanged for the duration of the game. On an odd (1, 3, 5) roll, each outside (non-building) square cost one additional general die for a character to enter. On an even roll (2, 4, 6) there is no terrain degradation due to weather.
3. Buildings - The 'off-board' sections (shown as grey squares on the map) are considered to be buildings. The central square of each building which faces an alleyway or a road are considered normal entrances (doors) into the building. On the accompanying map these entrances are shown, marked by green squares. It costs two general dice to move through a door. Walls block standard line of sight, however, any figure inside the buildings adjacent to the wall may fire at figures outside at no penalty, representing windows or access hatches granting them LOS to the street. These figures, whilst adjacent to the wall, can in turn be targeted by those outside. They are treated as being in Hard Cover.
This mission is part of the Firefight 2.0 Campaign Mission Arc , set after the fall of Bosworth IV, and should be played with other missions in the Arc in the correct order.
It may also be played as a stand- alone scenario, in which case it should not usually need to be expanded. You could try using Muster squads instead of Retained posts to fight this scenario, in which case no energy weapons should be allowed.
This mission is the sixth of a series of missions in an Firefight 2.0 Campaign Arc which is meant to show the difficulties faced by an occupying force in a built up area in time of war. I have drawn upon the reports of recent military experiences in the modern age and have applied them to this mission arc. When the players have finished all of the missions, it is my hope they will be enlightened to the truly difficult job military personnel have when forced by circumstance and orders to occupy and garrison a city in a foreign land.
The mission introduces the concept of weather impacting the battlefield. Players can add this extra element of entertainment and difficulty to overcome in their missions of Firefight, as the forces of nature and even the very ground may sometimes seem to be against them.
During playtesting the Canlastrian force was able to fight their Yordist foes to both a win and a running gun battle draw over two games. However, one game saw the Yordist take merciless vengeance upon the hapless Tocs, making a casualty of their Knight, leaving him to lie in the cold, wet darkness, alone and frightened, as his Post was forced back by fire as heavy as the weather.
This article was originally published on Barking Irons Online and is reproduced here with permission.


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è uno dei 24 quartieri di Ōsaka, in Giappone. Si trova nella zona orientale della città, il 1º dicembre 2021 contava su  abitanti distribuiti su una superficie di 8,38 km², per una densità di  ab./km².

Geografia fisica
Il territorio di Jōtō-ku è quasi del tutto pianeggiante e confina con Asahi-ku a nord, Tsurumi-ku a nord-est, la città di Higashiosaka a sud-est, Higashinari-ku a sud, Miyakojima a nord-ovest e Chūō-ku a sud-ovest. Nel quartiere di Chūō-ku, lungo il confine con Jōtō-ku si trova il Parco del Castello di Osaka, una delle maggiori aree verdi della città. Il centro del quartiere è attraversato lungo l'asse est-ovest dai corsi d'acqua tra loro paralleli Neyagawa e Neya-Dainigawa, che danno origine ad alcuni canali e si uniscono per poi confluire nel Kyū-Yodogawa poche centinaia di metri a ovest di Jōtō-ku.

Storia
Il territorio di Jōtō faceva parte della distesa d'acqua formata a est dell'altopiano di Uemachi da diversi fiumi, tra i quali lo Yodo e lo Yamato. Gradualmente emerse dalle acque grazie ai sedimenti portati dai fiumi. I primi nuclei abitati che formarono il villaggio di Jōtō nacquero all'inizio del periodo Edo, nei primi anni del XVII secolo. I sedimenti rendevano però l'alveo dei fiumi poco profondo e con una portata limitata e le terre che erano emerse erano quindi soggette a frequenti inondazioni. Il problema delle inondazioni fu in parte risolto con il canale artificiale inaugurato nel 1704 che cambiò il corso dello Yamato, le cui acque furono convogliate direttamente in mare con un nuovo estuario situato alcuni chilometri più a sud. L'economia della zona trasse giovamento, l'area fu bonificata e divenne in prevalenza agricola con coltivazioni di cotone e riso, gli insediamenti si ingrandirono e furono costruite le prime strade.

Vi erano però ancora le inondazioni dello Yodo e fu particolarmente devastante quella del 1885, dopo la quale si progettò il canale Shin-yodogawa, inaugurato nel 1909, che raccoglie gran parte delle acque dello Yodo e le scarica in mare verso nord. All'inizio del secolo furono inoltre dragati i fiumi, costruiti nuovi canali che migliorarono i trasporti via acqua e vennero attuate drastiche misure di controllo idraulico che ridussero il rischio di inondazioni.

Nel frattempo erano state inaugurate le prime ferrovie che passavano nel territorio di Jōtō e le stazioni divennero nuovi poli di aggregazione. Erano gli anni dell'industrializzazione e lungo le ferrovie furono costruite molte fabbriche che richiamarono sempre di più i nuovi abitanti. Il tasso di crescita della popolazione negli anni a cavallo del 1900 fu enorme e le aree rurali divennero presto industriali e residenziali. Il territorio di Osaka fu ampliato per la prima volta nel 1890, e con la seconda espansione nel 1914 assorbì il villaggio di Jōtō, che fu inserito nel quartiere cittadino di Higashinari-ku. Proseguì lo sviluppo ferroviario e la stazione di Kyōbashi, facente parte di Jōtō, divenne nel giro di pochi anni una delle più importanti di Osaka. Fu inaugurata nel 1895 assieme alla Linea Jōtō, che negli anni 1960 sarebbe diventata parte della Linea Circolare di Ōsaka. Le inondazioni dovute alle forti piogge causarono maggiori danni con l'urbanizzazione.

Nell'aprile del 1943, durante la seconda guerra mondiale, la parte settentrionale del quartiere Higashinari-ku e la parte meridionale del quartiere Asahi-ku vennero scorporate e unite per formare Jōtō-ku, che fu uno dei sette nuovi quartieri inaugurati dalla città di Osaka. Durante il conflitto Jōtō-ku fu sottoposto a pesanti bombardamenti alleati per la sua vicinanza all'arsenale cittadino, che era stato trasferito al Castello di Osaka, e per la presenza al suo interno di importanti fabbriche e ferrovie, causando molte vittime e ingenti danni. La ricostruzione nel dopoguerra procedette velocemente di pari passo con il boom economico dell'intero Paese. Nel 1955 Jōtō-ku fu ingrandito con l'inserimento di nuovi distretti, mentre una parte del territorio fu staccata nel 1974 per formare il nuovo quartiere Tsurumi-ku.

Nel 1968 fu inaugurata la prima linea della Metropolitana di Osaka che passa per Jōtō, la Linea Chūō, a cui fecero seguito negli anni successivi le linee Tanimachi nel 1977, la Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi nel 1990 e la Imazatosuji nel 2006. Nel corso degli anni furono inoltre inaugurate nuove arterie stradali e ampliate quelle esistenti. Con il prevalere dei trasporti su ruote, fu abbandonata la navigazione dei corsi d'acqua, che si erano nel frattempo inquinati e furono quindi bonificati. In quel periodo si iniziò ad affrontare la questione ambientale, molte delle aree industriali furono dismesse e le fabbriche che vi sorgevano furono sostituite con edifici a destinazione uffici o residenziale, con la costruzione di diversi grattacieli. Già nel 1970 la popolazione del quartiere era di  abitanti.

Infrastrutture e trasporti

Ferrovie e metropolitana
Lo snodo ferroviario più importante è quello di Kyōbashi, con la stazione delle JR West, dove fermano i treni delle linee Circolare di Ōsaka e Katamachi-Tōzai, la stazione delle Ferrovie Keihan, con i convogli della Linea principale, nonché la stazione della Linea Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi della Metropolitana di Osaka. Vi sono nel quartiere altre stazioni delle suddette linee, ma anche delle linee Chūō, Tanimachi e Imazatosuji della metropolitana e della Linea Ōsaka Higashi delle JR West.

Strade
Tra le strade che attraversano Jōtō-ku vi sono quella che collega il centro città a Nara e quella che porta a Kyoto passando per Katano.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Quartieri di Osaka


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Delaware students head back to school
Governor Jack Markell made the first day of school extra special for a few students and teachers this morning.
Markell visited three schools in Delaware – Middletown High School, Cedar Lane Elementary and Cedar Lane Early Childhood Center, to greet families and help students start off the school year on the right foot.
"It's an exciting day and we look forward to keeping the enthusiasm going throughout the year," said Markell.
The governor handed out flowers to parents and students during drop-off and chatted with students and teachers as they arrived.
Markell said there are a lot of positive programs going on in the public schools and he hopes to be able to continue helping the teachers that go above and beyond for their classrooms.
"We have so many wonderful educators throughout the state and we want to make sure that we're supporting them as we can but there's a lot of work going on with the common core standards, with the world language immersion, with the early childhood, with all the things going on in K-12," said Markell.
In his state of the state earlier this year, Markell said he'd like to see a change in teacher compensation however, salary increases didn't end up making it in the FY2014 budget.
"Its not the easiest thing in the world to do because it's changing compensation but we really want, as I said in the state of the state last year, we want to really focus on making an improvement there," he said.


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Our Friends in Berlin
Author(s): Anthony Quinn
'The best spy novel set in wartime London. A masterpiece'
Edward Wilson, author of A Very British Ending
London, 1941. The city is in blackout, besieged by nightly air raids from Germany. Two strangers are about to meet. Between them they may alter the course of the war.
While the Blitz has united the nation, there is an enemy hiding in plain sight. A group of British citizens is gathering secret information to aid Hitler's war machine. Jack Hoste has become entangled in this treachery, but he also has a particular mission- to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country.
Hoste soon receives a promising lead. Amy Strallen, who works in a Mayfair marriage bureau, was once close to this elusive figure. Her life is a world away from the machinations of Nazi sympathisers, yet when Hoste pays a visit to Amy's office, everything changes in a heartbeat.
Breathtakingly tense and trip-wired with surprises, Our Friends in Berlinis inspired by true events. It is a story about deception and loyalty - and about people in love who watch each other as closely as spies.
Publisher : Vintage Publishing
Imprint : Jonathan Cape Ltd
Availability date : July 2018
Author : Anthony Quinn


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A Film Education
November 12, 2018 December 11, 2018 / PAJNewman
It started with the Care Bears, (said nobody ever.)
But, for me, it really did start with Care Bears: The Movie. I was 4 and this was 1985 and my parents took me, along with some friends from play school, to the local cinema for the first time.
I remember nothing. One of the friends may have been celebrating a birthday. She may have had a sister. I'm guessing that may explain the choice of movie.
Subsequently, I've done some research. Cinematic golden age problem child Mickey Rooney was in it. The writer, Peter Sauder, had written on such top notch fare as Inspector Gadget, Star Wars: Droids (that's the cartoon which Disney are still trying to resolve the issue of its place in the cannon 30 years later) and went on to the glories of Barbar, Rupert and the Beetlejuice cartoon.
Mickey. Rooney: cinematic legend – Care Bear extraordinaire
But I knew none of this. What I remember is my mum tapping me on the shoulder – was it a minute? An hour? A day into the movie? I had no idea. I had disappeared. She learnt across and said, "Were you in the film?"
When I finally came to, I had to just nod and grin. All I knew was that I was in the screen. There was a ringing in my ears. I'd forgotten where I was. I'd forgotten that there was a here I'd forgotten about. Far as I knew, there was only Care Bears world now.
Total immersion is tough to describe. Bognor Regis' Picturedrome dates back to the 1880s and, these days, appears to have been rejuvenated. In the 80s, when the average cost of a cinema ticket I'm reliably informed was a whole £1.70 for an adult, it was known unaffectionately as the "flea pit". Salubrious it was not. I loved it.
The Bognor Picturedrome: previously known as "the Fleapit". Quite nice now.
My next love was TV and Granada classic, The Professionals. I mean, due to a speech impediment, I couldn't actually say that. So, in fact, my next love was The Procesionals, much to my parents' delight and amusement but for me there was nothing like two U.K. Starsky and Hutch rip offs sliding across the bonnet of a pair of Ford Capris under the disapproving eye of that bloke from Upstairs Downstairs to excite my pre-school heart.
The addiction grew. But the world was very different then, even though it's not that long ago* (*It may, in fact, now be quite a long time ago). My parents couldn't afford a video recorder so we didn't get one till at least 1989.
By the time I went way to boarding school in the early 90s, I was sat in the phone booth whilst my poor father had to go to the shop on a Thursday to get both the Radio Times (BBC1&2) and the TV Times (ITV/Channel 4) and then my mother had to spend her telephone bill reading out to me which movies were on that week so she knew which ones to VHS for me to watch when I got home at the end of term. No parents are perfect, but the fact they didn't excommunicate me or leave at boarding school does speak very highly of this particular pairs' good humour and tolerance.
I watched Barry Norman and Film Insert-Whichever-Year-Here like other people went to church. I was easy to buy for at Christmas – the latest Halliwells Film Guide would keep me occupied for hours. In fact, I'd read them so thoroughly that kids used to test me by asking me to the name the year, main actors and synopsis of any film in the book. I usually did ok too.
Last week, I began work on a script with a guy I've known forever and who is a successful film maker of many years' standing. He's thrown me an invite because he's very kind and because… I don't know, he took pity on me? Who knows. All I know is ill forever be grateful for the opportunity.
I hope the script gets finished.
I hope it's good.
I hope we can get it made.
But mainly, I hope that it has the power and emotional resonance of Care Bears: The Movie.
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During Retail Slump, Thom Browne Secures Investors
Thom Browne Secures Investors, Is Now Worth $500 Million
Landon Peoples
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If you thought the Cleveland Cavaliers decked out in Thom Browne was the biggest news to surround the New York-based fashion label, think again. As of Tuesday, there's more: Luxury group Ermenegildo Zegna — which boasts a namesake label in addition to its ownership of Brioni, Etro, and Brunello Cucinelli — has bought an 85% stake in the brand, a valuation worth $500 million.
In an official press release, Browne elaborated on the next steps for the brand. "My conceptual approach to design and the long-term vision of growing a true luxury design-led collection for men and women is something we both feel strongly about as the future strength of Thom Browne...with Zegna."
Browne will continue to fulfill his role as chief creative officer while the funding will aid the label in expanding globally. "Thom Browne will have a partner who not only understands the fundamentals of this business but truly embodies them and brings the knowledge and skills of a global leader." Besides its expert tailoring, Thom Browne is known for its outlandish runway shows, which often bend gender and stretch beyond the imagination via design.
This all means that Browne's fabrics will get better (and presumably more Italian) and his luxury goods will be more readily available around the world. It also means that the business of $2,500 suits is still viable. Of its newest acquisition, Zegna Group CEO Ermenegildo Zegna said, "Thom's visionary approach and his unique point of view have enabled him to build and nurture the most loyal clientele. On this strong footing, and thanks to a thriving women's business and strong appeal with millennials, we believe that we can build long-term value for all of our stakeholders."
Both Browne and Zegna have agreed, however, that Thom Browne will remain independent of the Zegna style, which makes sense given Browne's unique, conceptual collections. With this latest boost, the speculation of whether or not Thom Browne could be the next Supreme seems less of a stretch than it does logical. With the support of millennials whose penchant for recognizable-yet-subtle branding and logos doesn't seem to be waining, we could be seeing a lot more of those red, white, and blue stripes come next season.
Thom Browne Secures Investment From Ermenegildo Zegna
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Polish Festival Jazztopad Expands Further Into America
The fest's fifth U.S. edition will feature the New York and Chicago premieres of a piece by trumpeter Amir ElSaffar—on Sept. 26 and 28, respectively
Published September 17, 2019 – By JazzTimes
Amir ElSaffar (photo: Lukasz Rajcher)
The Polish festival Jazztopad, which turns 16 in November, is extending its reach into the United States, marking its fifth year of events in New York and its first in Chicago, where the Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar will present a new chamber-music piece, Ahwaal (the title translates roughly as "states of consciousness"), on Sept. 28 as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
ElSaffar will perform the piece, which was commissioned by Jazztopad, with clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel, bassist Ksawery Wójciński, and the Lutosławski Quartet.
The festival has previously commissioned works from Brad Mehldau, Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Nicole Mitchell, and William Parker.
"We're a fairly small festival with a fairly small budget, so a challenge doing these projects is to build a relationship with artists based on mutual interests," said Piotr Turkiewicz, the festival's artistic director, in a press release announcing the festival. "We're not offering a suitcase full of money. We're offering something completely different—space, amazing venue, recording facilities, we're offering the whole experience."
The New York edition of the festival runs from Sept. 24-26. On Sept. 24 at Soup & Sound (292 Lefferts Ave., Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn) at 7 p.m., Polish artists Zimpel, Wójciński, and Aga Derlak (piano) will be joined by Uri Caine, James Brandon Lewis, Cat Toren, and others. On Sept. 25 at Dizzy's Club (10 Columbus Circle, Manhattan) at 7:30 p.m., Derlak will play with her new quintet featuring trumpeter Alonzo Demetrius, tenor saxophonist Luke Norris, bassist Aaron Holthus, and drummer Connor Kent. And on Sept. 26 at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium (61 W. 62nd St., Manhattan) at 7:30 p.m., Zimpel will play a solo set, followed by the U.S. premiere of ElSaffar's Ahwaal, featuring the same performers as in Chicago. The latter concert is free.
The performance of Ahwaal in Chicago on Sept. 28, at the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at 11 p.m. (also free), will be followed by one additional Jazztopad-related set in that city, featuring Zimpel and Wójciński with drummer Mike Reed at Constellation (311 N. Western Ave.) at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 29.
The Polish edition of the festival will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, from Nov. 15-24. Among its highlights will be a new version of Charles Lloyd's Wild Man Dance, with a freshly composed movement, performed by Lloyd's band and the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra; a newly commissioned Nicole Mitchell composition to be performed by the Artifacts trio (Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid, and drummer Mike Reed); and new pieces by French cellist Vincent Courtois and his trio with the Lutosławski Quartet, as well as performances by Danilo Pérez's Global Messengers, Makaya McCraven, the duo of Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, and The Comet Is Coming.
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text: MILES Sil PAGE 7 Milfors Moniter 'Ecumenical Luncheon BACK PAIN Persistent or recurring aches and pains in the lower back and limbs may suggest a lower spinal or pelvic problem. * You may APRIL 21, 1995 lift something the wrong way, sit or stand the wrong way over long. periods of time, receive a jolt in a car accident or stepping off a curb or by falling. When the vertebrae of the spine becomes misaligned nerves, resulting in mild to severe pain. they can irritate the A Doctor of Chiropractic will give you a thorough physical, orthopedic and neurological examination to locate the problem and align the spine and sacroiliac to their proper position for normal functioning. © When the backaches occur, consult a Doctor of Chiropractic This year the Ecumenical luncheon: will be hosted by the women of the LDS Church: It will be held at the LDS Church Cultural hall on Saturday the 29th of April at 12 noon. We will have a nice luncheon and a short program and a special guest speaker. Our guest speaker this year will be Helen Gardner, a writer and author from Southern Utah. All of the women of the different churches are invited. for correction and relief. ( Dr. Thomas McGinn 801-387-2468 The Free Press _ We hope you will come and join us. If you need more information please contact Betty Jimenez. vEW At VFW POST April 18, officers were and sworn in the ESCALANTE 1546 meeting held" 1995 the following elected or appointed for the 1995-96 year as follows; Commander, Thomas McGinn-SR_ Vice Commander, James. C. Pierce-JR.Vice _ Commander, Rex Willis- Quartermaster/Adjutant, James Sherwood-By vote of the membership it was established that the 3rd Thursday of each month, at 7:00 -p.m., would become the regular meeting day and time in the future. "Congress shall make no law respecting _an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the PRESS; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Our founding forefathers recognized the | Activities safeguards guaranteed by a free press when they granted protection in the first amendment. In doing so they provided an independent parity between government and citizens; a balance to | insure honesty. A great portion of the credit for this precaution is undoubtedly due to Benjamin Franklin and his knowledge of the power of the written word. With only two years of formal schooling, Franklin made self-education a lifelong characteristic. At a very young age he was apprenticed to his brother James, printer of The New England Courant. By the time he was 16, Franklin was writing satirical pieces about the hypocrisy of Boston society for the Courant. At 17 he ran away to Philadelphia. A year later, and penniless, he went to England. He returned to Philadelphia as a master printer in 1726 to establish his journalistic career as owner of the Pennsylvania Gazette. His most famous work, Poor Richard's Almanack, emphasized honesty, hard work and moral virtue as the way to success. How would -this expert journalist rate today's. news coverage? The technology of worldwide satellite news broadcasting versus Franklin's printing press is a striking comparison, - but how does the spirit of journalism rank? After flipping through the channels once, would Franklin jump on the bandwagon and scope out the Allen Edwards salon to make a list of the celebrities sharing the services of Marsha Clark's hairdresser? Or, would Franklin attach more importance to the sinking dollar? Would he notice, with some amusement, that the O. J. trial-has a theme song? Would he view the Carlos Salinas de Gortari story, including NAFTA and who really killed Jose Francisco Massieu, as a subject worthy of Would he stand in awe of or would he issue a stern, but about the role of the press freedom? Ruiz some air time? our technology witty, warning in maintaining T-Ball. Girl's Softball | Men's & Women! s Softhall Coed Over 40 or Over 50 Teams lf you are interested in playing, being a coach, umpire, or helping in any way, call: | Lola Bridge - 387-2653 Russell Smith - 387-2287 Milford City Office 387-2711 Before May 1st |


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Jerusalem, full of golden-hued buildings that reflect the desert sunshine, is both an ancient capital and a bustling metropolis. Its walled Old City, a labyrinth of narrow streets divided into four quarters, contains sites sacred to Jewish, Christian and Muslim pilgrims.
In Jerusalem, Bible stories leap off the page into vivid life. Through the centuries, millions of Christians have re-lived Jesus' final hours by walking the Via Dolorosa, which tradition says traces the route he followed to the cross. The sacred pathway ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to have been buried. The cavernous, twelfth-century building contains altars and shrines commemorating his suffering, death and resurrection. Other sacred sites include the Western Wall (the only remnant of the Second Temple), the Mount of Olives, Church of all Nations and the Garden of Gethsemane.
Ephesus was one of the most important cities of the Roman Empire and an influential center for the early Christian church. The Apostle Paul lived here for about three years and addressed one of his letters to the community at Ephesus. One strain of Christian tradition says that the Gospel of John was written here and that the mother of Jesus spent the last years of her life in Ephesus under the care of John the Apostle.
Pilgrims to this site in western Turkey gather at two major landmarks: the House of the Virgin Mary (located on top of a mountain several miles from the city) and the ruins of the Basilica of St. John, where the remains of the apostle are said to lie. The city's many well-preserved Roman-era sites provide an evocative backdrop for imagining the earliest years of the Christian church.
Spain's northwestern province of Galicia is home to one of the most important Christian pilgrimage sites, second in importance only to Rome and Jerusalem. The city of Santiago de Compostela contains a massive Roman Catholic cathedral where the remains of the apostle St. James are said to lie.
For centuries, the routes that lead to the city from throughout Europe have been filled with pilgrims walking on foot to reach the cathedral. The most popular trail, the French Way, takes about six weeks to complete and is lined with religious, cultural and artistic monuments. Pilgrim hostels along the way offer low-cost lodgings, and the cathedral in Santiago offers La Compostela, a Latin document certifying that the pilgrim has completed at least the last 100 kilometers (62 miles) on foot.
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Artistic treasures fill Vatican City, including the ceiling frescos of the Sistine Chapel and the "Pieta," both by Michelangelo. Among its newest places of veneration is the tomb of St. John Paul II, located less than 100 feet from the tomb of St. Peter.
The desert peninsula that lies between Egypt and Israel is home to Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. For thousands of years, pilgrims have climbed to the summit of this remote peak. The surrounding landscape is both bleak and beautiful, particularly at dawn and evening when its harsh terrain glows with an almost unearthly light.
At the base of the mountain, a small community of Greek Orthodox monks lives at St. Catherine's Monastery. Visitors enter through massive stone walls, that were built in the sixth century to protect the monastery from attack. Winding through a narrow passageway, they enter the Basilica of the Transfiguration, which dates back to AD 527, when the Emperor Justinian ordered that a church be built here on the remains of an even older chapel. Inside, Byzantine icons line the church's walls and an ornate icon screen separates the altar from the sanctuary. The adjoining library is home to a priceless collection of icons, paintings, mosaics, altar pieces and illuminated manuscripts.
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Two basilicas stand at the shrine today. One was built in the eighteenth century; the other constructed in the 1970s. The latter structure houses Diego's tunic, an object of veneration for pilgrims. During the week of December 12, the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, millions visit the shrine. At any time of year, many pilgrims choose to do the last part of the pilgrimage on their knees as a sign of devotion.


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Adelheid von Rothenburg (* 4. März 1837 in Krummkavel (poln. Krężelin), Kreis Soldin; † 29. Januar 1891 in Baden-Baden) war eine deutsche Autorin.

Katharina Mathilde Adelheid von Rothenburg war die Tochter des preußischen Majors und Gutsbesitzers Otto von Zastrow (1803–1875) und dessen Ehefrau Elisabeth Salingre (1807–1878). Ihr ältester Bruder war der spätere Generalleutnant Wilhelm von Zastrow. Sie wuchs von 1841 bis 1845 in Soldin auf. 1861 heiratete sie in Berlin den preußischen Oberstleutnant Eduard Alexander von Rothenburg († 1888).

Werke (Auswahl)
 Katharina von Angerburg. Erzählung 1878.
 Kathrine aus Angerbach. Eine Erzählung fürs Volk. Herausgegeben vom christlichen Verein im nördlichen Deutschland. Klöppel, Eisleben 1879.
 Was unsere Mutter auf Erden erlebt hat. Perthes, Gotha 1881.
 Wassermüller und Windmüller. Eine Erzählung fürs Volk. Herausgegeben vom christlichen Verein im nördlichen Deutschland. Eisleben 1882.
 Die Nähterin von Stettin. Eine Erzählung aus der Zeit der Thränen und Wunder. Perthes, Gotha 1882. 7. Auflage, Berlin 1925. (Digitalisat der 6. Aufl. 1919)
 Der Bienenkönig. Die verschwundene Kriegskasse, [u.a.]. 3 neue Novellen. Schriften-Niederlage des Evang. Vereins, Frankfurt am Main 1884.
 Hildegards Liebe. Ein Stückchen Leben [u.a.]. 3 Novellen. Schriften-Niederlage des Evang. Vereins, Frankfurt am Main 1884.
 Aus dem Tagebuche einer Haushälterin. Perthes, Gotha 1885.
 Jenseits der Grenze. 2 Bände. Perthes, Gotha 1886.
 Aus der Tiefe. Erzählung. Perthes, Gotha 1886.
 Verworrenes Garn. Roman. Perthes, Gotha 1886. (Digitalisat der 2. Aufl. 1886)
9* Echte und falsche Edelsteine. Erzählung. Evang. Schriftenverein für Baden, Karlsruhe 1887.
 Erlöst. Roman, Perthes, Gotha 1888. (Digitalisat, Anmeldung erforderlich)
 Ferenand getrü. Eine Erzählung aus dem Volke und für das Volk als letzte Gabe. Buchhandlung des Erziehungs-Vereins, Elberfeld 1891, mit Bildnis der Autorin.
 Von dem Hohensteine am Rheine. Roman aus dem sechzehnten Jahrhundert. Perthes, Gotha 1892.
 Die Techows von Groß-Beeren. Eine Erzählung aus den Befreiungskriegen. Nassauischer Colportageverein, Herborn 1892.
 Die Hochzeitsreise. Eine Erzählung. Buchhandlung des Nassauischen Colportagevereins, Herborn 1895.
 Das Käthchen von Riedbach. Eine Erzählung. Buchhandlung des Nassauischen Colportagevereins, Herborn 1895.
 Der Siegfried aus dem Blumentalwald. Erzählung für jung und alt. Buchhandlung des Erziehungsvereins, Elberfeld 1924.

Literatur
 Jahrbuch des deutschen Adels. 1. Bd., Berlin 1896, S. 976 (Digitalisat)
 Sophie Pataky: Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. Berlin 1898, S. 205f. (Digitalisat)
 Peter Walther: Musen und Grazien in der Mark. Bd. 2, Berlin 2002, S. 148f. und 267, ISBN 3-931836-69-X

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Adelheid
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Geboren 1837
Gestorben 1891
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Harvey Nash recently published the results of its annual CIO survey. This year's study covered 3,691 IT leaders from more than 30 countries. One of the findings being reported is that 10% of respondents do not think that their business will be affected by digital disruption in the next few years. The flip side to this statistic is that presumably the other 90% do think their organisation could be disrupted in the short- to medium-term.
That figure is consistent with research published last year by Forrester based on a global survey of executives that found that 93% of respondents believed that digital would disrupt their industry within the next 12 months.
And a recent study by Vanson Bourne revealed that 68% of respondents said that digital technologies were already having a direct impact on the way they do business. The survey, which covered 3,600 executives from 18 countries, also found that 73% of executives believed that digital will directly impact the way they do business at some point over the next five years. Whilst these numbers are not quite as high as the other two surveys and the time horizon is a little longer the key point is the same: if your industry is not already feeling the effects of digital then it soon will; it may be just round the corner or it may happen in a few years time. But it will happen. It is a question of when, not if.
But can we trust these surveys? If the UK's recent general election has told us anything about polls and surveys it is that they can be wrong. And, as was the case with the UK election, having multiple surveys all saying broadly the same thing is not necessarily an indication that their forecasts are correct. It was only when the first results were announced – and hence when actual data became available – that the real story started to unfold.
The good news is that as far as digital is concerned we already have some real data to validate these survey findings. Just look at the media and banking industries where disruption has been happening for some time. Think about companies such as Blockbuster and Borders that no longer exist as a result of digital disruption or Kodak that was forced into bankruptcy. And consider what AirBnb and Uber are doing to the taxi and hotel industries.
There is clear evidence that digital is happening to some extent in every industry. And its effects and reach will continue to grow until it becomes the norm – the standard way of doing business. And when this point is reached we will no longer need to use the word digital as a prefix.
There will be many more casualties along the way. Many more companies will join the list of victims of digital disruption. Businesses that refuse to change or that simply cannot change quickly enough will cease to exist. The only real question is how long it will take to reach this point. And that is the real lesson from the numerous surveys about digital and its impact: most business leaders know digital is coming to their industry and they know the risk of disruption is real, but they just don't when it will happen.
For the unlucky ones it could be imminent; there may be already be a company out there – possibly a start-up – that is about to launch an Uber-type alternative to their core product or service.
The more fortunate organisations have time. But they need to use it wisely; they need to act now to prepare their businesses for digital. For many this will require a significant transformation. They will need to reinvent their business model, change their culture and implement policies, processes and systems that are fit for the digital age. This may even involve disrupting an existing and healthy revenue stream to create a new, digitally-enabled source of income that is more sustainable in the long-term. And while that may sound like a frightening thought for many CEOs, that is exactly what a start-up or a competitor will be trying to do at some point in the future if they are not already. It is better to be in control of the disruption than reacting to it when it happens.
Just like death and taxes, digital is inevitable. Eventually every business will need to become a digital business if it wants to have a long-term future. The message to CEOs is that they need to act now to maximise their organisation's chances of being around when the digital prefix is no longer required.
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The Appeal of Madonna vs. The Appeal of Lady Gaga
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I think I've figured out what's fundamentally different from Madonna and her protege-without-permission Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga makes bold statements with her words during interviews, her fashion and her performances, but her songs themselves are mostly standard pop music. She claims there's a deeper meaning behind them and I believe it, but she doesn't actually express that meaning. Poker Face might really be about bisexuality and Paparazzi might really be about media killing those with fame, but the lyrics of the songs themselves just suggest cliche sexy pop themes, nothing extraordinary. Even Gaga's best music (and make no mistake, she has some great music) is still pop music that rarely makes a truly bold statement. Whenever she DOES attempt to make a bold statement, as with Born This Way, Speechless, or Dope, it comes off sounding inauthentic and forced, and a little cringey.
With Madonna, however, the message is right there in the music and doubly so in the performance. When she says "I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby," she's making a bold statement, and for the time in which she said it it was in incredibly bold statement. It's the same with all of her music. With each new album she reinvents herself and chooses a new direction, and though there are plenty of standard love song and breakup ballads, she makes bold statements and follows through with them, rather than just hinting at them. Making her songs even more powerful are the fact that Madonna said the things she was saying and expressed her sexuality at a time when people didn't openly flaunt their bodies on stage in an attempt to sell records. When Madonna rolled around grinding the stage on the VMAs, she was making an actual statement about freedom of sexuality, but when Britney Spears did it it meant nothing, it was a marketing campaign and she herself probably never put any thought into the performance. Madonna still has staying power, her newest album is ripe with fantastic pop music as well as messages that are sometimes hard to swallow, but always topical, and always true.
Madonna might not have the singing chops Gaga has, but Madonna reinvented pop music, and Lady Gaga is simply doing more of the same. I really love both artists, but even though Lady Gaga brings her own brand of weirdness to pop music, her open appeal to the gay audience (something that, by the way, every pop star since Judy Garland has had) has rallied crowds of fans around her who are so obsessed with her that they don't even look at what messages she does try to send, and insist that Madonna is "tired" and "old," but between the two of them, Madonna was the one who forever changed pop culture, and the one who continues to reinvent herself with each new album. Her voice hasn't gone downhill, her performances haven't gone downhill, she is still just as relevant today, as are her songs from the 80's. In twenty years, I still think that "I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby" will have more of an impact that "Puh-puh-puh-po-ker-face-puh-puh-po-ker-face."
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The Crossbow is a weapon featured in Half-Life.
The Crossbow is a silent projectile weapon with a scope. It is first acquired in the chapter Apprehension kept inside a suspended shark cage where a nearby scientist refers to it as a Tranquilizer Gun. It has both primary and secondary firing options. Its primary attack fires a bolt, while the secondary fire zooms in with the scope. Unlike most weapons, it can be fired underwater, making it especially useful against Ichthyosaurs.
It is very effective against distant targets, but the bolts aren't as fast as bullets, making the weapon a poor choice against extremely fast enemies or moving enemies at long range. Its massive damage output is offset by the scarce ammo supply available for it. The weapon can hold only a small number of bolts at once, and its reload time is slow. In multiplayer, the bolts explode on impact. When fired while using the scope, the bolts do not explode.
The Crossbow was designed by Steve Theodore. The High Definition version was created by Gearbox's Stephen Bahl. The unused HEV Suit lines refer to the weapon as "high velocity stealth crossbow" with "neuro toxin treated bolts". There are no references to the bolts having this trait in the final game. The Female Assassins were originally to be armed with Crossbows. In the final game, they still have a quiver attached to their belt.
In the multiplayer mode, the Crossbow could fire bolts with the player's name written on them, and these arrow would pierce and stick in enemy players and remain in their corpses. This was later removed as it was too difficult to read the names on the bolts, deeming the feature pointless.
In chapter Power Up, Crossbow bolts appears in a breakable crate. It is unknown if the weapon was to be acquired earlier in the game. There was to be a similar weapon called the Tranquilizer Gun which the player could use to put other players to sleep, steal their weapons and items, and then humiliate them. The bolts can pin enemies to walls in Half-Life: Source as is done in Half-Life 2.
The Crossbow is available for use in the multiplayer portion of Opposing Force but does not appear in the singleplayer portion of the game or any of the other expansions. However, it can still be spawned using the console. The original Crossbow viewmodel was used as a placeholder for its Half-Life 2 counterpart in G-Phoria 2004 demonstration.
Promotional artwork featuring a Female Assassin with a Crossbow.
Female Assassin with a Crossbow.
The Crossbow used as a placeholder for the Half-Life 2 version at G-Phoria 2004.
The Crossbow as it is first seen in a cage.