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This Date in Pittsburgh Pirates History: December 19th, Seven Former Pirates Born on This Date
John Dreker
Seven former Pittsburgh Pirates born on this date.
Mike Fetters, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2001-02. He went to high school in Hawaii and he was drafted in the 22nd round by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1983. He decided to attend college at Pepperdine and the move paid off. He was a first round pick of the California Angels in 1986. He took just three years to make his pro debut, though his 1989 season with the Angels consisted of one rough outing in September. He debuted in pro ball with 12 starts for Salem of the short-season Northwest League, where he went 4-2, 3.38 in 72 innings, with 72 strikeouts. In 1987, Fetters pitched for Palm Springs of the Class-A California League. He had a 9-7, 3.57 record in 19 starts, with 105 strikeouts in 116 innings. In 1988, he spent most of the year with Midland of the Double-A Texas League. He had an 8-8, 5.92 record in 114 innings over 20 starts. He also made two starts for Triple-A Edmonton of the Pacific Coast League and won both games, allowing three runs in 14 innings. Fetters made 26 starts for Edmonton in 1989, going 12-8, 3.80 in 168 innings, with 144 strikeouts, six complete games and two shutouts. He pitched one game for the Angels and allowed four runs in 3.1 innings.
In 1990, Fetters spent the majority of the season with the Angels, after posting an 0.99 ERA in five starts for Edmonton. He went 1-1, 4.12 in 67.2 innings over 26 games, with two starts for the Angels. The 1991 season was split between Edmonton and the Angels. He went 2-5, 4.84 in the majors that season, with 44.2 innings over four starts and 15 relief appearances. Those starts were the last of his 16-year big league career. Fetters was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers on December 10, 1991. He spent the entire 1992 season in the majors, going 5-1, 1.87 in 62.2 innings over 50 appearances. In 1993, he had a 3-3, 3.34 record in 59.1 innings over 45 games. He moved to the closer role in the strike-shortened 1994 season and picked up 17 saves, to go along with a 2.54 ERA in 46 innings over 42 outings. That was followed up by a 3.38 ERA and 22 saves in 1995, when he threw just 34.2 innings over 40 games.
In 1996, Fetters went 3-3 and had a 3.38 ERA for the second straight season. He made 61 appearances, had 61.1 innings pitched, and he saved a career high 32 games, which was the fifth most in the league. In fact, he had just 26 more saves over his last eight seasons in the majors, so that was his peak season as a closer. In 1997, Fetters went 1-5, 3.45 in 70.1 innings, with six saves and 51 appearances. He was traded to the Cleveland Indians on December 8, 1997, but that same day he was traded to the Oakland A's. The A's would send him to the Anaheim Angels before the 1998 season ended. Fetters went 2-8, 4.30 in 58.2 innings that year. He pitched 60 games and had five saves. He signed with the Baltimore Orioles as a free agent for the 1999 season, but he had a rough year, posting a 5.81 ERA in 31 innings. He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2000 season and rebounded nicely, going 6-2, 3.24 with five saves in 50 innings over 51 appearances.
Fetters was in his 13th season in the majors when the Pirates acquired him from the Dodgers along with Adrian Burnside in exchange for Terry Mulholland on July 31, 2001. He had a 6.07 ERA in 29.2 innings over 34 appearances for the Dodgers. He finished the year going 1-1, 4.58 in 17.2 innings over 20 games with the Pirates, recording eight saves. In 2002 Fetters went 1-0, 3.26 in 32 games before the Pirates traded him to the Arizona Diamondbacks in early July for reliever Duaner Sanchez. Fetters had a 5.11 ERA in 24.2 innings over 33 games to finish the season. In 2003, he was limited to five shutout appearances and six innings with the Minnesota Twins. He needed Tommy John surgery, which ended his season in early August, though he last pitched in late April. He came back for one final season with the Diamondbacks in 2004 and had an 8.68 ERA in 23 appearances. He finished with a 31-41, 3.86 record in 716.2 innings over 620 appearances, with 100 saves. Despite the long career, his entire playoff record consisted of two outs recorded in the 2002 NLDS.
Jose Silva, pitcher for the 1997-2001 Pirates. He was born in Mexico, but he attended high school in California, where he was a sixth round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays in 1991. He debuted in the Gulf Coast League in 1992, going 6-4, 2.28 in 12 starts, with 78 strikeouts in 59.1 innings. Silva moved up to Low-A Hagerstown of the South Atlantic League in 1993. There he had a 12-5, 2.52 record in 24 starts, with 161 strikeouts in 142.2 innings. After the season, he was rated as the tenth best prospect in baseball. The next year saw him split the season between High-A with Dunedin of the Florida State League, and Knoxville of the Double-A Southern League. He had similar results at each spot, with a little more time at the higher level. Silva finished with a 4-10, 4.02 record in 134.1 innings, with 112 strikeouts. In 1995, he was limited to three relief appearances for Knoxville. His season started late due to injuries suffered in a bad car accident in December of 1994. Healthy for most of 1996, he made six starts and 16 relief appearances for Knoxville, going 2-3, 4.91 in 44 innings, which led to his first big league trial. He joined the Blue Jays in September and gave up three runs in two innings.
Silva came to the Pirates as one of the key pieces in a nine-player deal with the Blue Jays in November of 1996, with the Pirates sending three veterans to Toronto in exchange for six prospects. For the Pirates, Silva spent five seasons in Pittsburgh, making 53 starts and 87 relief appearances. He had a 24-28, 5.44 record in 402 innings during that time. He joined the Pirates for the first time in late June of 1997 and spent about half of the final three months in the majors, going 2-1, 5.94 in 36.1 innings over four starts and seven relief appearances. In 1998, he went 6-7, 4.40 in 100.1 innings over 18 starts, posting his lowest season ERA. The next year he spent more time in the bullpen, making 12 starts and 22 relief appearances. He went 2-8, 5.73 with four saves in 97.1 innings. In 2000, he went 11-9 in 19 starts and 32 relief appearances, though he amassed that record while posting a 5.56 ERA in a career high 136 innings. After posting a 6.75 ERA in 32 innings over 26 relief appearances during the 2001 season, the Pirates traded Silva to the Cincinnati Reds for minor league pitcher Ben Shaffar, who never made the majors. That 2001 season was cut short on June 3rd when a line drive by Andruw Jones broke his leg.
Silva played one season for the Reds, which was his last year in the majors. He had a 4.24 ERA in 23.1 innings over 12 relief appearances. He played in the minors and Mexico until the winter of 2012-13 before retiring at 38 years old. After his final big league game, he moved around the minors without any success or long trials. The Oakland A's signed him after the 2002 season, then released him in May of 2003. He signed with the San Diego Padres a week later and he was released after exactly two months. Three days later he signed with the Chicago Cubs and got released 15 days later. In 2004, he spent the final month of the season in the minors for the Arizona Diamondbacks, then became a free agent after the season. In 2006, he signed with the Texas Rangers in late January and got released in early May.
Tommy O'Brien, outfielder for the Pirates from 1943-45. He had spent three seasons in the minors before joining the Pirates for the 1943 season for his big league debut. His pro debut came in 1940, playing most of the season for the Class-B Southeastern League. He also saw brief time with two other teams, combining to hit .290 with 20 doubles, five triples and 11 homers in 106 games. In 1941, O'Brien spent the season with Savannah of the Class-B South Atlantic League, where he hit .285 with 23 doubles and 11 homers in 126 games. He had a strange route to get to the Pirates in 1943. O'Brien played for Atlanta of the Class-A Southern Association in 1942, hitting .261 with 36 extra-base hits in 129 games, but he refused to sign a contract for them the next year due to a salary dispute. Instead, he signed with the Pirates on April 16th and joined them three days later, just two days before Opening Day, but only on a trial basis. The Pirates had upwards of a month to decide whether they would return him to Atlanta, or keep him, which they did on May 21st. He played 89 games that rookie season, hitting .310 with 26 RBIs. During a doubleheader on June 6th, he went 5-for-5 in the first game, then collected hits in his first two at-bats in the second game, giving him hits in seven straight at-bats.
In 1944, O'Brien got into 85 games for the Pirates, but he received just 178 plate appearances, in which he hit .250 with three homers, 20 RBIs and 21 walks. In 1945, he hit .335 in 58 games, but missed most of both June and July due to a stomach ailment that reportedly bothered him since he was a football player for the University of Tennessee five years earlier. On June 16th he was operated on for appendicitis. O'Brien did well as a bench player after his return, posting a .314 average, but he had to compete for a job during Spring Training in 1946 because the Pirates had a much stronger outfield. O'Brien was one of the first cuts of the spring, getting sent to Hollywood of the Pacific Coast League on March 21st. He spent the entire 1946 season in the minors, hitting .276 with 17 homers and 73 RBIs in 119 games, then was sold to the Rochester of the International League on December 30th, ending his time with the Pirates. He hit just .239 with five homers in 105 games in 1947, then got demoted to Double-A Birmingham of the Southern Association, where he tore the cover off of the ball. O'Brien hit .359 with 131 runs scored, 51 doubles, 17 homers and 139 RBIs that season. He next played in the majors in 1949 for the Boston Red Sox, getting into 58 games between the 1949-50 seasons, before playing his final three big league games with the Washington Senators in May of 1950. He finished that year with Louisville of the Triple-A American Association, where he also spent the 1951 season. O'Brien played back in Birmingham for the 1952-53 seasons, then finished his career in Class-D ball with Orlando of the Florida State League, where he served as a player-manager. O'Brien hit .301 with 85 runs scored, five homers and 64 RBIs in 232 games with the Pirates.
Lou Koupal, a pitcher for the World Series winning 1925 Pirates team. He debuted in pro ball in 1923 at 24 years old, playing for Hastings of the Class-D Nebraska State League, where he went 11-15 in 210 innings over 30 appearances (ERA's aren't available for his early minor league seasons). The Pirates paid $40,000 for Koupal on December 13, 1924 and also had to include young pitching prospect Robert Burns Jr in the deal. That was a large sum of money for the day, but he had just posted a 22-10 record for Omaha of the Western League, while throwing 274 innings. This deal was part of a youth movement by the Pirates, who released 36-year-old pitcher Jeff Pfeffer at the same time, despite a 3.07 ERA during the 1924 season. Koupal was used sparingly the first two months of his Major League career, getting into a total of six games, all in relief. He pitched just nine innings during that time, giving up 14 hits, seven walks, and he failed to record a strikeout. The Pirates sent him to Kansas City of the American Association on June 20th, then transferred him to Des Moines of the Western League on August 11th. He finished the 1925 season in the minors, then began the 1926 season there as well as one of the last cuts during Spring Training. On April 7th, they announced that he was being sent to Buffalo of the International League, though he remained with the Pirates for four more days as they traveled east. After going 13-5 for Buffalo, the Pirates brought him back to the majors on August 25th of that year. He made his first appearance one week later and he went 0-2, 3.20 in six games, in what would be his last year with the Pirates.
On November 23, 1926, Koupal was released to Indianapolis of the American Association as part of the return for pitcher Carmen Hill, who was acquired back on September 1st. Koupal had a career record of 10-21, 5.58 in six Major League seasons, also seeing time with the Brooklyn Robins (1928-29), Philadelphia Phillies (1929-30) and St Louis Browns (1937). He joined Brooklyn after going 14-15, 4.58 in 232 innings for Indianapolis in 1927. For the Robins in 1928, he went 1-0, 2.41 in 37.1 innings over 17 appearances, with one start. In 1929, he had a 5.36 ERA in 40.1 innings with Brooklyn before being traded to the Phillies on July 24th. After the deal, Koupal went 5-5, 4.78 in 86.2 innings over 11 starts and four relief outings. In 1930, he went 0-4, 8.59 in 36.2 innings before finishing the season with Baltimore of the Double-A International League, where he also spent the 1931 season. He went to the west coast and played for four different teams in the Pacific Coast League during the 1932-36 seasons. Before joining the Browns in 1937, he went 23-11, 2.69 in 1936 for Seattle of the Pacific Coast League. In his final big league season, he went 4-9, 6.56 in 105.1 innings over 13 starts and 13 relief outings. He returned to the PCL in 1938 and played for a fifth team in the league, spending the 1938-39 seasons with San Francisco. Koupal won 175 minor league games, playing until the age of 42. His final two seasons were spent against lower competition, playing for Tacoma of the Class-B Western International League in 1940 and Merced of the Class-C California League in 1941. In his big league time, he went 10-21, 5.58 in 335.1 innings over 34 starts and 69 relief appearances.
Eddie Yount, pinch-hitter for the 1939 Pirates. Yount didn't get much of a chance with the Pirates, striking out as a pinch-hitter in consecutive games. His only other Major League experience came with the 1937 Philadelphia A's shortly after attending Wake Forest, and that was just four games, giving him a total of six big league games over two seasons. The interesting part about him appearing with the Athletics is that when Yount joined the Pirates, the local paper thought it was his Major League debut. He had some brief minor league experience for an independent league in 1936, then spent the majority of the 1937 season with Williamsport of the Class-A New York-Penn League, where he hit .293 with 32 extra-base hits in 133 games. He debuted that year in the majors on September 9th and he went 2-for-7 with an RBI. In 1938, he played for three different teams at three different levels, including the aforementioned Williamsport, as well as Portsmouth of the Class-B Piedmont League, and Oakland of the Double-A Pacific Coast League. He combined to hit .271 with 21 doubles, six triples and 11 homers in 128 games, with a majority of the time coming with Portsmouth. He spent the 1939 season with Portsmouth, where he hit .350 with 27 doubles, 11 triples and 11 homers in 137 games.
The Pirates purchased him from Portsmouth on July 29, 1939, paying a price that was said to be in the five-figures (later announced to be $15,000). Yount was also being pursued by the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators at the time. When the purchase was announced, they also said that Yount would remain with his Portsmouth team until early September. He finished with a .350 average that year, but the current stats as of the date of his purchase said that he had a .380 average. They believed that he was 22 years old at the time, though he was actually a year older. Yount joined the Pirates on September 8th and the papers said that he was expected to break into the lineup immediately. His debut came on September 9th to lead off the bottom of the ninth, when he struck out as a pinch-hitter for pitcher Bill Swift. The next day he struck out again in the ninth, this time pinch-hitting for pitcher Bill Clemensen. The next day the Pirates gave Yount permission to return home for the winter. He had a job offer that needed to be immediately filled.
Yount was with the Pirates during Spring Training in 1940, but on March 19th he was optioned to Syracuse of the International League. After barely playing in Syracuse, the Pirates moved him to Oklahoma of the Texas League for 23 games and a .197 average, before he was transferred to Little Rock of the Southern Association on June 5th. He wasn't recalled in September, but he rejoined the Pirates for Spring Training in 1941. He lasted until April 12th, three days before Opening Day, before he was shipped to Albany of the Eastern League. Eight days later, after refusing to report to Albany, he was sold to Toronto of the International League, ending his time with the Pirates. He was also referred to as Floyd Yount, which is his given name, though most baseball sources call him Eddie. Yount played 12 years in the minors, retiring after the 1952 season. He missed three years (1943-45) during WWII. He played in the International League before and after the war, with the league reclassifying from Double-A during his early stint, to Triple-A for the 1946-47 seasons. His last four seasons were spent as a player-manager for Newton-Conover of the Class-D Western Carolina League, where he hit at least .305 every season, topping out at a .420 average over 107 games in 1948. He was a .302 hitter in the minors over 1,326 games.
Ray Poat, pitcher for the 1949 Pirates. He debuted in pro ball in 1939 at 21 years old, playing for a team named (no joke) the Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets of the Class-D Bi-State League. Poat went 15-4, 4.45 in 190 innings over 42 appearances. He then moved up to Cedar Rapids of the Class-B Three-I League for the 1940-41 seasons. In his first year, he went 12-8, 4.88 in 168 innings over 33 games. In 1941, he had a 17-6, 2.90 record in 211 innings over 31 games. He compiled a 44-18 record in the minors before joining the Cleveland Indians at the start of the 1942 season. After one start, he was sent to the minors, where he won 15 games and had a 2.86 ERA in 176 innings for Indianapolis of the Double-A American Association before returning to Cleveland in September, where he threw a complete game shutout in his first game back. Poat remained in the majors for all of 1943-44, then worked a war-effort job during the 1945 season. He went 2-5, 4.40 in 45 innings in 1943, with four starts and 13 relief appearances. He went 4-8, 5.13 in 1944, with six starts, 30 relief appearances, and 80.2 innings pitched.
Poat returned to baseball in 1946, playing in the minors for Baltimore of the Triple-A International League, where he stayed until joining the Giants in August of 1947. He won 12 games for Baltimore in 1946, though it came with a 4.07 ERA. He went 11-7, 2.44 in 162 innings with Baltimore before joining the Giants. He made seven big league starts to finish out the 1947 season, going 4-3, 2.55 in 60 innings. In 1948, Poat had an 11-10, 4.34 record in 157.2 innings, with 24 starts, 15 relief appearances, seven complete games at three shutouts. He came to the Pirates in a mid-season trade (June 6, 1949) with the Giants that also sent Bobby Rhawn to Pittsburgh, with pitcher Kirby Higbe going the other way. Poat had only been used twice in the first two months of the season by the Giants and he got hit hard each time, allowing a total of six runs in 2.1 innings. He also saw limited time with the Pirates, getting two starts and nine relief appearances over the final four months of the season. He was 0-1, 6.25 in 36 innings. That would end up being his last season in the majors. He went to Spring Training with the Pirates in 1950, but he injured his ankle early in camp, then injured his arm. He didn't pitch at all before being sold outright back to Baltimore on April 14th. He played one more year in the minors with Baltimore before retiring. Poat pitched a total of six years in the majors, going 22-30, 4.55 in exactly 400 innings over 47 starts and 69 relief appearances. He picked up half of his career wins during the 1948 season with the Giants.
Art Butler, infielder for the 1912-13 Pirates. His pro career got started in 1910, playing in his hometown for Fall Rivers of the Class-B New England League. He hit .267 with 26 doubles, six triples and two homers in 116 games. He joined St Paul of the American Association in 1911 and hit .259 with 23 extra-base hits in 115 games. Butler saw brief time back with Fall River and also Worcester of the same league in 1912, but the majority of the season was spent back with St Paul, where he made a name for himself. The Pirates acquired him on August 13, 1912 in a trade with St Paul for infielder Bill McKechnie, the future Hall of Fame manager who had spent parts of four seasons in a Pittsburgh uniform. Prior to the trade, Butler's Major League experience consisted of just 26 games with the Boston Rustlers (Braves) in 1911. He was considered to be the best player in the American Association prior to the trade and came heavily recommended by Pirates scout Billy Murray. While the transaction to acquire him is listed as an even up deal for McKechnie now, the Pirates actually gave up five players to acquire him. Two moved prior to the deal and two after, but the Pirates gave up McKechnie on the same day that they received Butler from St Paul. Other teams made large offers to acquire him, so the Pirates needed to step up their offer as well. Butler was hitting .329 at the time of the deal and his 37 stolen bases ranked near the top of the league. Despite being 10.5 games out of first place with 51 games left in the season before he joined them, the Pirates believed that Butler's presence could help push them over the top. He was the Pirates everyday second baseman after the trade, playing 43 games in which he hit .273 with 17 RBIs. The Pirates went 32-18 (one tie) after acquiring Butler, though they still finished ten games out of first place.
Butler backed up at both second base and shortstop in 1913, getting into 82 games, while hitting .280 with 40 runs scored. Following the season, he was part of a regrettable eight-player trade with the St Louis Cardinals on December 12, 1913 that also included Dots Miller and Chief Wilson, which went horribly wrong for the Pirates when Miller outplayed their big get in the deal, first baseman Ed Konetchy, who then jumped to the Federal League after one season. Another piece in the deal, third baseman Mike Mowrey, was released in August of 1914, making it a 5-for-1 deal after one year. Butler was a decent role player for three seasons in St Louis, then semi-retired in 1917, before returning full-time to pro ball in 1918. In his first year in St Louis, he hit .201, with 24 RBIs, 14 steals and 39 walks in 86 games, with 80 starts at shortstop. His best season was 1915 when he batted .254 in 130 games, with 18 extra-base hits, 31 RBIs, 26 steals, 47 walks and 73 runs scored. He average dropped down in 1916 to .209 in 86 games, as he served more of a utility role, playing six different positions. He went on to play 11 more years in the minors before retiring, without making it back to the majors, seeing time with eight different teams, including a return to St Paul in 1918. His final five seasons were spent in the Class-A Eastern League, seeing time with four teams. In the majors, he hit .241 in 454 games, with 180 runs scored, 98 RBIs and 54 steals. He hit just three homers in his career and the last was an inside-the-park homer off of Bob Harmon, who was the third piece going to Pittsburgh in the 1913 Pirates/Cardinals trade.
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past Patient turned Shriner
"Fez-tastic" visitor
Past patient turned Shriner visits hospital
Thanks to the Membership seminar currently being hosted by Shriners International, Shriners Hospitals for Children - Tampa has had several "fez-tastic" visitors to the hospital this week.
One of those special guests was Noble Sean Orner, public relations chairman of the Abdallah Shrine Temple in Kansas. He was especially excited to visit the Tampa Shriners Hospital today because he wanted to show his wife, Lady Jillian, where he had received care as a patient. Pictured on the left, you will see Noble Orner proudly holding his "I'm a Shriners Kid" shirt he received after completing his tour.
What did he say after his stroll down memory lane? "Shriners change lives for the better, and I'm living proof of that. I have so many wonderful memories, and I am proud to be here on the other side of it now."
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Walk and Roll for Love this Saturday
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Chang the Dragon
This colorful dragon wagon, called "Chang the Dragon," turned 35 years old on Aug. 14. Chang has performed at festivals throughout the area this summer and had a star turn at the Midwest Shrine Convention in Bloomington a few weeks ago.
According to the Osman Shrine organization's history of the attraction, "it was created in 1982 by Maggie Bell Calin, who did prop work for the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre for approximately $6,000. Chang attended his first parade on Aug, 14, 1982, in Chatfield's Western Days."
The "smoke" that jets out from the dragon's nostrils is harmless carbon dioxide gas, Art tells me. While that adds to Chang's carbon footprint, it's all for a good cause. As the Osman Shrine's Dragon Patrol website says, "Chang parades so children can walk." The Shriners support the Shriners Hospital for Children in Minneapolis, and others across the country and in Canada and Mexico.
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Accordingly, the Worshipful Master placed a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, the person who was responsible for holding up the progress in the lodge was dead and it was everyones duty to give him a decent Masonic burial. The funeral would be held the following Monday afternoon, the notice said. Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In front of the Altar, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers.
After the Chaplain delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his Brethren to come forward and pay their final respect to their dead Lodge brother.
Filled with curiosity as to who it was all the Brethren eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look. In the coffin, tilted at the correct angle, was a large mirror. Remember the obligation we all took. Attend and support your Lodge.
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On Saturday, June 24, join the Masons for the 300th Anniversary Celebration of Freemasonry. The celebration starts with a parade from the Marietta Masonic Temple to Glover Park on the downtown Marietta Square. The parade begins at 10 a.m., followed by Family Festival from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. GO!
"Masonry (or Freemasonry) is the oldest fraternity in the world," said Event Chair Bryan "Rusty" Newport, an Acworth resident who was born and raised in Marietta. He is the managing director and CEO of 33 Events.
"The celebration has two main purposes: celebrating an incredible milestone in our history and an opportunity for the public at large to find out more about Freemasonry and the role it has played in our collective history," he said.
June 24 marks the formation of the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster. "Three hundred years before, four Masonic Lodges came together to form a Grand Lodge, from which all other Grand and Subordinate Lodges all over the world have their origin," Newport said.
Newport explained that Freemasonry is thought to have arisen from the guilds of stonemasons who built castles and cathedrals during the Middle Ages, and who were influenced by the Knights Templar, a group of Christian warrior monks formed in 1118 to help protect pilgrims who were making trips to the Holy Land.
"In 1717, Masonry created a formal organization in England when the first Grand Lodge was formed. A Grand Lodge is the administrative body in charge of Masonry in some geographical area," he said.
A Grand Lodge is located in each state of the United States, and each province of Canada. "Local organizations of Masons are called lodges. There are lodges in most towns, and large cities usually have several," he sai
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As we begin our next unit on Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, we will create an online guide to the book in order to better understand all the great stories of Greek Mythology featured in the book. There are two parts to this assignment.
Everyone will have to fill out an entry for an Olympian, Other God, Monster or Creature.
What is the god/goddess's name?
A: For this part you will tell us the myth in your own words and provide pictures illustrating the story.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Dec. 31, 2020) – Redmont Distillery, the first legal distillery to be founded in Birmingham, Ala. following the repeal of prohibition, has joined forces with The World Games 2022.
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Q: Reading and writing from a serial port in C#, part 2 I am trying to replace a C program with a C# one. The C program connects to an older computer via the COM1 serial port. I do not have any kind of information on how the C code connects to the other machine, but it does connect correctly, so I have to guess as to how it is doing it. I have been using Portmon to try to figure out how the C program is writing and reading successfully. I have also been running Portmon when my new C# application is running. In my C# program, I use the SerialPort class.
I am trying to determine what values the different items in the SerialPort class should have by using the output of Portmon on the working program. My thought is that if I can get the values correct for the class, it would write and read correctly. The program (below) is not working correctly. The program opens the COM1 port successfully, but it fails when it tries to write a period (and then another period). These give a timeout.
Looking at the output of Portmon running behind the old C program, the working program opened the COM1 port and then wrote one period and then another before reading a successful value (&OK) from the COM1 port. The old program set up several values that I want to duplicate in my C# program.
I have tried a variety of combinations of the SerialPort options below, but I obviously have not hit on anything.
BTW, I asked some preliminary questions in Stack Overflow question Reading and writing from a serial port in C#, part 2
I am using Windows XP on the machine that is running the programs. The machine on the other side of the COM1 port is a very old PC.
Is there a better way to do this? Use something other than Portmon? For the Portmon output for the old program the Process column is ntvdm.exe. Is that a problem? Should I not use the C# SerialPort class? Probably the most important question is: What values should I use for the Serialport class to match the old program?
My C# program:
SerialPort comport = new SerialPort();
comport.BaudRate = 9600;
comport.DataBits = 7;

comport.StopBits = StopBits.One;
comport.Parity = Parity.Odd;
comport.RtsEnable = true;
comport.DtrEnable = true;
comport.Handshake = Handshake.RequestToSend;
comport.ReadBufferSize = 8192;
comport.WriteBufferSize = 100;
comport.WriteTimeout = 30000; // 30 sec
comport.ReadTimeout = 30000; // 30 sec

comport.PortName = "COM1";

string tempFbuffer;
byte[] Fbuffer = new byte[200];
string alldata5;

tempFbuffer = "..";

for (int cnt = 0; cnt < tempFbuffer.Length; cnt++)
{
   Fbuffer[cnt] = Convert.ToByte(tempFbuffer[cnt]);
}

comport.Open();
comport.Write(Fbuffer, 0, 1);
comport.Write(Fbuffer, 1, 1);

for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
    alldata5 = alldata5 + comport.ReadChar();

}

comport.Close();

The Portmon output of the application I want to mimic is below. This application connects to the other machine and works correctly. I manually put the headings in at the top.
As you can see, on lines 33 and 34 there are successful writes and then on lines 35 and 36, there are successful reads. I ran the program with Portmon in the background.
#       Time            Process         Reuest                          Port    Result   Other
0       0.00004407      ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_CREATE                   Serial0 SUCCESS Options: Open
1       0.00000198      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
2       0.00000115      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
3       0.00000104      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
4       0.00000106      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
5       0.0000008       ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
6       0.00000082      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
7       0.00000085      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
8       0.00000081      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
9       0.00000712      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 1200
10      0.00000349      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_RTS            Serial0 SUCCESS
11      0.00000366      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
12      0.00000225      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: NONE WordLength: 5
13      0.00000111      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_CHAR           Serial0 SUCCESS EOF:0 ERR:0 BRK:0 EVT:0 XON:11 XOFF:13
14      0.00000735      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS Shake:0 Replace:0 XonLimit:2048 XoffLimit:512
15      0.00000133      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_LSRMST_INSERT      Serial0 SUCCESS Char: ffffffff
16      0.00000338      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_QUEUE_SIZE     Serial0 SUCCESS InSize: 8192 OutSize: 100
17      0.00000083      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_TIMEOUTS       Serial0 SUCCESS
18      0.00000092      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_TIMEOUTS       Serial0 SUCCESS RI:-1 RM:0 RC:0 WM:0 WC:0
19      0.00000349      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
20      0.00000342      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_RTS            Serial0 SUCCESS
21      0.00001121      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 1200
22      0.00000262      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_WAIT_MASK      Serial0 SUCCESS Mask: RXCHAR CTS DSR RLSD ERR RING
23      36.94054111     ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_WAIT_ON_MASK       Serial0 SUCCESS
24      0.00000403      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
25      0.00000356      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_RTS            Serial0 SUCCESS
26      0.00000351      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
27      0.00000348      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_RTS            Serial0 SUCCESS
28      0.00000717      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 9600
29      0.00000145      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
30      0.00000246      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: ODD WordLength: 5
31      0.00000086      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
32      0.00000226      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: ODD WordLength: 7
33      0.00002222      ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_WRITE                    Serial0 SUCCESS Length 1: .
34      0.00002142      ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_WRITE                    Serial0 SUCCESS Length 1: .
35      0.00000562      ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_READ                     Serial0 SUCCESS Length 4: &OK.
36      0.00000239      ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_READ                     Serial0 SUCCESS Length 0:
37      0.00000533      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_WAIT_ON_MASK       Serial0 SUCCESS
38      0.0000023       ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_READ                     Serial0 SUCCESS Length 0:
39      95.8854497      ntvdm.exe       IOCTL_SERIAL_WAIT_ON_MASK       Serial0 SUCCESS
40      0.00002486      ntvdm.exe       IRP_MJ_WRITE                    Serial0 SUCCESS Length 1: D

The Portmon output of the C# application that I am creating is below. The C# code above, when run with Portmon in the background creates this output. I put in the headers.
As you can see, there is a timeout error on line 69 during the write. I need this to run close enough to the C one so that the writes and reads work.
Obviously the baud rate, wordlength, parity and several others are set correctly.
#       Time            Process         Reuest                          Port    Result   Other
0       0.00004362      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_CREATE                   Serial0 SUCCESS Options: Open
1       0.0000019       fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES     Serial0 SUCCESS
2       0.00000263      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_MODEMSTATUS    Serial0 SUCCESS
3       0.00000096      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
4       0.00000097      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
5       0.00000084      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
6       0.00000097      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
7       0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
8       0.00000088      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
9       0.0000008       fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
10      0.00000079      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
11      0.00000715      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 9600
12      0.00000355      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
13      0.0000024       fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: ODD WordLength: 7
14      0.00000107      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_CHAR           Serial0 SUCCESS EOF:1a ERR:3f BRK:3f EVT:1a XON:11 XOFF:13
15      0.00000779      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS Shake:8 Replace:84 XonLimit:1024 XoffLimit:1024
16      0.0000008       fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
17      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
18      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
19      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
20      0.00000705      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 9600
21      0.00000349      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
22      0.0000022       fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: ODD WordLength: 7
23      0.00000098      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_CHAR           Serial0 SUCCESS EOF:1a ERR:3f BRK:3f EVT:1a XON:11 XOFF:13
24      0.00000493      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS Shake:9 Replace:84 XonLimit:1024 XoffLimit:1024
25      0.00000684      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
26      0.00000108      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_TIMEOUTS       Serial0 SUCCESS RI:-1 RM:-1 RC:30000 WM:0 WC:30000
27      0.00000227      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_WAIT_MASK      Serial0 SUCCESS Mask: RXCHAR RXFLAG CTS DSR RLSD BRK ERR RING
28      35.62327662     fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_WAIT_ON_MASK       Serial0 SUCCESS
29      0.00000399      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_QUEUE_SIZE     Serial0 SUCCESS InSize: 8192 OutSize: 100
30      30.00157726     fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_WRITE                    Serial0 TIMEOUT Length 1: .
31      0.00000767      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_FLUSH_BUFFERS            Serial0 SUCCESS
32      0.00001012      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_WAIT_MASK      Serial0 SUCCESS Mask:
33      0.00000402      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
34      0.00000116      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_FLUSH_BUFFERS            Serial0 SUCCESS
35      0.0000023       fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_PURGE              Serial0 SUCCESS Purge: RXABORT RXCLEAR
36      0.00000163      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_PURGE              Serial0 SUCCESS Purge: TXABORT TXCLEAR
37      0.00000404      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_CLEANUP                  Serial0 SUCCESS
38      0.00322359      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_CLOSE                    Serial0 SUCCESS
39      0.00004607      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_CREATE                   Serial0 SUCCESS Options: Open
40      0.00000188      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_PROPERTIES     Serial0 SUCCESS
41      0.00000277      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_MODEMSTATUS    Serial0 SUCCESS
42      0.00000092      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
43      0.00000112      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
44      0.0000008       fancom.exe  IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
45      0.00000093      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
46      0.00000079      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
47      0.00000085      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
48      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
49      0.00000082      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
50      0.00000704      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 9600
51      0.00000352      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_CLR_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
52      0.00000225      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: NONE WordLength: 8
53      0.00000113      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_CHAR           Serial0 SUCCESS EOF:1a ERR:0 BRK:0 EVT:1a XON:11 XOFF:13
54      0.00000489      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS Shake:8 Replace:80 XonLimit:1024 XoffLimit:1024
55      0.00000084      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS
56      0.00000083      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS
57      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_CHARS          Serial0 SUCCESS
58      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS
59      0.00000696      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_BAUD_RATE      Serial0 SUCCESS Rate: 9600
60      0.00000344      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
61      0.00000222      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_LINE_CONTROL   Serial0 SUCCESS StopBits: 1 Parity: NONE WordLength: 8
62      0.00000102      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_CHAR           Serial0 SUCCESS EOF:1a ERR:0 BRK:0 EVT:1a XON:11 XOFF:13
63      0.00000474      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_HANDFLOW       Serial0 SUCCESS Shake:9 Replace:80 XonLimit:1024 XoffLimit:1024
64      0.00000345      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_DTR            Serial0 SUCCESS
65      0.00000081      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_TIMEOUTS       Serial0 SUCCESS RI:-1 RM:-1 RC:30000 WM:0 WC:30000
66      0.00000192      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_WAIT_MASK      Serial0 SUCCESS Mask: RXCHAR RXFLAG CTS DSR RLSD BRK ERR RING
67      30.00755135     fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_WAIT_ON_MASK       Serial0 SUCCESS
68      0.00000353      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_QUEUE_SIZE     Serial0 SUCCESS InSize: 8192 OutSize: 100
69      29.99287343     fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_WRITE                    Serial0 TIMEOUT Length 1: .
70      0.00000349      fancom.exe      IRP_MJ_FLUSH_BUFFERS            Serial0 SUCCESS
71      0.00000985      fancom.exe      IOCTL_SERIAL_SET_WAIT_MASK      Serial0 SUCCESS Mask:

A: PortMon outputs a period for a \n.


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Gastornis (Diatryma)
Dinosaurs & Birds
Prehistoric Mammals
Habitat Profiles
Science, Tech, Math
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Science, Tech, Math › Animals & Nature
Ryan Somma
by Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss is a freelance writer and editor with over 25 years of experience in print and online media. He is the author of three books.
Gastornis (Greek for "Gaston's bird"); pronounced gas-TORE-niss; also known as Diatryma
Woodlands of Western Europe, North America, and eastern Asia
Historical Epoch:
Late Paleocene-Middle Eocene (55-45 million years ago)
Size and Weight:
About six feet tall and a few hundred pounds
Unknown; probably herbivorous
Short, powerful legs and beak; squat trunk
About Gastornis
First things first: the flightless prehistoric bird we now know as Gastornis used to be called Diatryma (Greek for "through a hole"), the name by which it was recognized by generations of schoolchildren. After examining some fossil specimens unearthed in New Mexico, the famous American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope coined the name Diatryma in 1876, not knowing that a more obscure fossil hunter, Gaston Plante, had bestowed his own name on this genus a couple of decades earlier, in 1855, based on a set of bones discovered near Paris. With true scientific evenhandedness, the name of this bird gradually reverted back to Gastornis in the 1980s, generating almost as much confusion as the roughly contemporary switch from Brontosaurus to Apatosaurus.
Naming conventions aside, at six feet tall and a few hundred pounds Gastornis was far from the biggest prehistoric bird that ever lived--that honor belongs to the half-ton Aepyornis, the Elephant Bird--but it may have been one of the most dangerous, with a tyrannosaur-like profile (powerful legs and head, puny arms) that demonstrates how evolution tends to fit the same body shapes into the same ecological niches. (Gastornis first popped up in the northern hemisphere about 10 million years after the dinosaurs went extinct, during the late Paleocene and early Eocene epochs). Even worse, if Gastornis was capable of pack hunting, one imagines that it could depopulate an ecosystem of small animals in no time flat!
There's a major problem with this pack-hunting scenario, however: lately, the weight of the evidence is that Gastornis was a herbivore rather than a carnivore. Whereas early illustrations of this bird depicted it munching on Hyracotherium (the tiny prehistoric horse previously known as Eohippus), a chemical analysis of its bones points to a plant-eating diet, and its massive skull has been reinterpreted as ideal for crunching tough vegetation rather than flesh. Tellingly, Gastornis also lacked the hooked beak characteristic of later meat-eating birds, such as Phorusrhacos, aka the Terror Bird, and its short, stubby legs would have been little use chasing prey through the rough underbrush of its environment.
Aside from its numerous fossils, Gastornis is one of the few prehistoric birds to be associated with what appear to be its own eggs: shell fragments recovered from western Europe have been reconstructed as oblong, rather than round or ovoid, eggs measuring nearly 10 inches long and four inches in diameter. The putative footprints of Gastornis have also been discovered in France and in Washington state, and a pair of what are believed to be Gastornis feathers have been recovered from the Green River fossil formation in the western U.S. As prehistoric birds go, Gastornis clearly had an unusually widespread distribution, a clear indication (no matter the details of its diet) that it was well-adapted to its place and time.
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Before national voting for the Liberal leader began at midnight and polls opened for those in Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the leaders left in the running gave their final speeches.
Although the media reported the showcase was said to be undersold, latecomers were standing behind the chairs looking for a place to sit.
Before the leadership candidates made their final speeches, outgoing leader Bob Rae made his. He spoke about unity – saying the Liberal party has to be united when facing the Conservatives.
First up: Deborah Coyne.
After being introduced by Brian, a supporter who travelled from Vancouver Island, she thanked Bob Rae then went into depth about her "One Canada" plan, a plan where services that all Canadians receive are equal. Each part of the plan received applause.
She ended her speech with Liberal unity.
She received a standing ovation.
Next up: Karen McCrimmon.
Making a pragmatic down to earth speech, she related it to her military history. She was also the first to say that she was tough, tough enough to withstand Conservative attack ads. At one point, while relating her goals and policies to her experience, she said she was a leader saying "the team matters" and that as a military leader she can lead the Liberal party to unity and victory. She walked off the stage to a standing ovation.
After playing a video that showed the change and the environment, Joyce Murray stepped on the stage. In the first-half of her speech she talked about change. She said that she was running to change the politics of Canada. After that she spoke about cooperation, saying it's needed for the Liberals to get elected. She also said that she wasn't scared of Conservative attacks. In her opening video she said "big things come from one little seed". Then she ended her speech by saying "Change is in your hands". She received applause, but not an ovation.
Trudeau. His entry didn't just begin with a standing ovation as he walked onto stage, the applause continued into the beginning of his speech. At every pause during his speech his team was using their bam-bams and cow bells to support a pure election campaign speech.
After saying that he was "a servant of Canada", talking about reaching out to Canadians, and talking about the principles and ideal of the Liberal Party, he said "I want to be your leader because I want to work with you" later adding « Canadiens ne simplement un gouvernement différente ils veulent un gouvernement meilleur » (Canadians don't just want a different government, they want a better government). A while after he said Harper and Harper's government weren't bad, just "unambitious" he said that "45-years-ago tonight … Canadians made my father leader of the Liberal Party". Throughout his speech he spoke about helping Canada progress using the legacy it has to the ringing of cowbells, non-stop applause and the sound of bam-bams before walking off-stage to a standing ovation.
Whether Martha Hall Findlay knew about Trudeau's entrance or not, she came through the crowd with people screaming "Martha!" and supporters blowing their horns. After stepping onto the stage and waving her hands, asking her supporters to calm down, she said "Thank You" repeatedly and introduced herself. She then said "I will be your underdog this afternoon but as my friend just pointed out, the Liberal party actually elected the underdog" to the sound of cheers and horns.
Rather speaking about personal policies in a straightforward manner, she began by speaking about the Canadian identity. She then spoke about rebuilding the Liberal party and its identity and reaching out to the diverse issues facing Canadians and creating policies and messages to help Canadians from coast to coast during an election campaign to "see the Liberal party as the only party" that will meet their needs. She did receive applause, but only a scattered ovation.
The final speaker: Martin Cauchon. With a video that had diversity and said that he was a visionary he began his final vision to the Liberals.
Après il a dit merci à Bob Rae en français (After saying thanks to Bob Rae in French), he spoke of equal opportunity in Canada – providing all Canadians with an equal chance, having their qualifications recognized across the land. He also said that he'd listen to Canadians, reminding Liberals of his weekly "Have your say" site, and said that he wasn't scared of attack ads.
As he walked off stage after speaking in English and French, he received a standing ovation.
Seats started to empty after Trudeau spoke; after Findlay spots were seen; many Liberals stayed behind as advanced polls opened.
Online and telephone Polls are opened nationally at midnight. The winner of the race will be announced in a week's time on April 14, 2013.
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Otso Virtanen (born 3 April 1994) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ilves.

Virtanen started his professional career in 2011 at TPS, appearing primarily for their reserve team ÅIFK. Before the 2013 season, he moved to IFK Mariehamn and appeared in 22 matches. In 2014, he served primarily as the backup for Swedish goalkeeper Simon Nurme.

Virtanen signed a three-and-a-half year contract with Scottish club Hibernian on 24 January 2016. Virtanen was an unused substitute as Hibs lost the 2015–16 Scottish League Cup final to Ross County. He made his first appearance for Hibs in a 2015–16 Scottish Cup tie against Inverness, coming on as a substitute after regular goalkeeper Mark Oxley lost a contact lens. Oxley was shown a yellow card by the referee during this incident, which caused him to be suspended for the Scottish Cup semi-final. Hibs manager Alan Stubbs then signed Conrad Logan as an alternative goalkeeper, and chose to play Logan in the semi-final ahead of Virtanen.

Virtanen made one starting appearance for Hibs, playing in a 2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying first leg match against Brondby. He was at fault for the Brondby goal in that match and was replaced for the second leg by Ross Laidlaw. Virtanen left Hibs in January 2017 and signed for Finnish club KuPS.

In May 2014, Virtanen was selected for the Finland national under-21 team for the match against Moldova.

Honours
Hibernian
Scottish League Cup runners-up: 2015–16

References

External links
 Otso Virtanen at IFK Mariehamn

1994 births
Living people
Finnish footballers
Turun Palloseura footballers
IFK Mariehamn players
Veikkausliiga players
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Finnish expatriate footballers
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Expatriate footballers in Scotland
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Q: Regex to add part of string to end of line in my Text Editor I'm using Sublime 2 Text Editor which accepts RegEx search and replace. I'm attempting to find a whole line, then replace that whole line with a string found in the line itself.
This is my text that I am searching:
 strEventID = CheckForNull(reader("
 strEventKey = CheckForNull(reader("
 strEventTitle = CheckForNull(reader("

I want to this text to become:
 strEventID = CheckForNull(reader("EventID"))
 strEventKey = CheckForNull(reader("EventKey"))
 strEventTitle = CheckForNull(reader("EventTitle"))

I know that FIND: (^.*$) will match the whole line and I can REPLACE with $1 and add to that line manually, but I can't figure out how to add part of the string back in.

A: Update:
(str(\w*).*)$
replace with $1$2")) or $1$2"\)\) here in notepad++.
Make sure the ". matches newline" is unchecked
old answer:
Try:
^(str(.*\b).*)$
replace with $1$2")).
I don't have sublimeText with me right now, but this test http://regex101.com/r/hM2oX2/1 says group 1 is the whole line, and group 2 is your first match. concatenate...

A: In Sublime, you can use the following regular expression: \K resets the starting point of the reported match and any previously consumed characters are no longer included.
Find What: str(\w+).*\K
Replace With: $1"))


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Publications Systematic reviews Interventions to reduce in maternal mortality
What kinds of policy and programme interventions contribute to reductions in maternal mortality? The effectiveness of primary level referral systems for emergency maternity care in developing countries. A systematic review
What do we want to know?
The overall objective is to assess the effects of interventions for timely emergency obstetric referral in developing countries. Referral of the pregnant or postpartum woman is the focus of interest. This will have implications on the well-being of the mother, and of the unborn and newborn baby, so maternal and perinatal outcomes are of interest, along with process indicators of service utilisation, timeliness and delays.
Who wants to know and why?
Maternal mortality in developing countries is showing signs of a decline. Despite this good news, it is still unlikely that the millennium development goal target reduction of 75% from 1990 levels to 120 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015 will be reached. In the period remaining up to 2015, global agencies and country governments will make concerted efforts to scale up and speed up the effective coverage of maternity services. This review assesses evidence on the effectiveness of referral interventions that will inform the implementation of policies and programmes to improve access to maternity care.
Of 19,484 hits, 19 papers met the inclusion criteria. The included studies were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental studies in rural settings in Africa, Asia or South America. Interventions were organisational or structural in nature, or contained both characteristics. The studies did not show statistically significant reductions in maternal mortality. Reductions in neonatal death were noted in four RCTs comprising multiple components, including generation of transport funds in community groups. Sub-group analysis revealed no reduction in stillbirths in the complex RCTs but stillbirths decreased in studies of maternity waiting homes. There was some evidence of increased utilisation of health facilities and health professionals. The included studies did not allow assessment of factors explaining the effects of the interventions.
The effects on health outcomes of referral interventions which improve women's ability to reach appropriate care during an obstetric emergency are unclear. Conclusions are limited by difficulties in isolating the effects of multiple components and factors related to the design of some studies. We recommend continued inclusion of referral interventions within maternal and newborn health programmes and as part of wider health system improvements, but urge implementers to improve practices in monitoring, research and evaluation of these interventions.
Systematic review procedures and techniques were used to generate the results. The 19 papers included described 14 interventions, as five papers investigated the same intervention but provided supplementary information to the original paper.
The EPPI-Centre reference number for this report is 1910. This review should be cited as:
Hussein J, Kanguru L, Astin M, Munjanja S (2011) What kinds of policy and programme interventions contribute to reductions in maternal mortality? The effectiveness of primary level referral systems for emergency maternity care in developing countries. Technical report. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. ISBN: 978-1-907345-16-6


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Great Barrier Reef's bleaching is even worse than expected
Experts believe the Reef is damaged beyond repair
The Great Barrier Reef, 2300 kilometer long reef which is listed under the World- Heritage sites, is now at a point where it has a better shot of being listed as a World Heritage site now in danger. Recent studies of the Great Barrier Reef have left the scientists horrified with the increasing water temperature of the Pacific Ocean leading only to an increase in the coral bleaching from that in 2016. Coral Reefs cover only 0.1 percent of the world's sea surface but are home to 25 percent of marine fish species which include at least 1500 different species of fish.
Corals are essential for the survival of the marine species and increase in the mass bleaching of the coral reef is going to hit the survival of those marine fish species real hard. Bleaching is what occurs when the water gets so warm that the algae abandon corals and turn white. The warming of sea waters is caused due to global warming.
According to scientists, the number of bleached reefs have only increased and the news is getting grimmer with each passing day. Coral reefs can be saved only if the water temperature of the Pacific ocean is controlled but it would take a decade to fully restore itself. This bleaching has mainly affected the northern area which is popular among the tourists. To make the situation worse, the occurrence of El Nino in the eastern Pacific disrupted the weather patterns leading to fluctuations in the water temperatures.
For the corals to restore, the CO2 emissions need to be reduced to prevent the increase in the water temperature. Increasing warming of the earth's surface will lead to the reef getting perished and a major loss of the marine life residing in that area as well, creating a major imbalance.
The reef has been hit by at least three significant mass bleachings in recorded history. If immediate action isn't taken, it would ultimately lead to the loss of a big chunk of the marine life with an unabated bleaching of the reef. According to the reports, in order to save 50 per cent of what exists at present, we need to limit the warming of the ocean from 2 degree celsius to 1.2 celsius.
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I know it's late BUT I've got to let you know about my best coffee of 2010 because it will just be unforgivable if I didn't. So what was it ? It was, CAPAO CHAPADA DIAMANTINA or Capao for short. It hails from Brazil, was roasted by Square Mile Coffee Roasters in London. It's primary taste notes were described as toffee, cocoa, hazelnut with a slight vanilla finish. There, they got me – whilst it's almost normal to find taste profiles along the lines of toffee, caramel, hazelnut, almond, cocoa, chocolate, it's very rare to find vanilla. Trust me, I've tried. Square Mile even went the extra mile to tempt me "it's like snickers in a cup". Snickers being the chocolate bar with a peanut nougat base, topped with peanuts and caramel and wrapped in milk chocolate. Now ! tell me that isn't tempting.
However, I'm not that shallow to fall for looks alone or in this case, taste profiles. So what did it really taste like and why did I really like it that I gave it the high accolade of "COFFEE OF THE YEAR".
So, what did it taste like as an espresso….
and finally, in a French Press…. OK ! you've got to be kidding right.
You know what they say "somethings are better left unsaid" OR "few words have the impact of thousands ". OK ! the last one is slightly made up, but you can quote me on that.
In summary, let's just say this coffee was inspirational. Even my barista at Escape Caffe, poured his best latte art so far.
As a cappuccino, it was the best experience – creamy and buttery (the latter a square mile signature), toffee like, cocoa all over my mouth, finishing off with vanilla.
As an espresso, nice body (and looks too) with toffee and hazelnut to the fore, just wrapping around your tongue and delghting your stomach.
As an Americano, there was almost full body crema and similar tastes experienced in the espresso were enhanced with toffee and caramel dominating.
The final taste test was in a French Press, but before that one proviso for those less gifted. Usually, coffee that is made with such vigour using the espresso machine, just doesn't cut it when extracted using more subtle methods like the French Press, but not in this case. The taste was still amazing "vanilla and cocoa with a hint of berry in the finish and lingering way past 30 minutes".
So, in summary again, this coffee was not only great, or should I say fantastic in taste, but very versatile across many ways of drinking it.
So sad to see it go, but I pray it comes back in 2011. Well done Square Mile for getting it and roasting it just perfectly for me.


Mother's Day 2016 falls May 10 this coming Sunday. Every year, it's one of the most anticipated events in the world to honor and give thanks to our loving mom! Now if you're looking for trendy gift ideas and wanting to give her the most memorable, unique gifts, take some time checking this infographic for some best Mother's Day gift ideas!
8. Coupon for massages or dish-washing or room cleaning services is few of the most thoughtful gifts for her. Commit to tasks you don't like doing.
7. Create a digital card for her! There are applications, such as Buncee Bits is an easy and fun way of creating a unique card with animation, photos and texts.
6. Scrap pad photo collection is another nice Mother's Day gift. You can make lovely journals with pictures and print it out! You can also post it on Facebook.
5. Record a video greeting. This is one of the unique presents for mother's that will surely send her to tears (of joy).
4. Watch and enjoy a movie together. Make some of your favorite snacks and watch your favorite movie with mom this coming Sunday.
3. Voice mail greetings are also great but affordable. In fact, you can do it free, too with some of your favorite apps. You can record a voice mail message with some interesting texts.
2. Flowers are all time favorites! What are mother's favorite flowers? Well, you can either give her fresh or handmade flowers. It is up to you. Nevertheless, she'll surely appreciate something from you.
1. Handmade cards are also good gift ideas. Write some meaningful messages for here to show how much you appreciate and love her!
Mother's Day is the most popular day in the US to eat in a restaurant, make long distance calls and buy jewelry.
The youngest mother in the world is Line Medina, who was five years old and seven months old.
Older mother in the world was Satyabhama Mahapatra, 65, who gave birth to a baby boy in 2003.
24.8 is the median age of women in giving birth for the first time.
There you have the best Mother's Day presents to give your mom this Sunday! Give her the gift of love and make her very happy. So, what are you waiting for? Pick the right present she'll surely appreciate and cherish!


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Q: metric conversion problem, why is my output inaccurate? I am trying to understand why this code is not giving me an accurate answer to my conversion
import math           # for access to pi
diameterLargeZa = 35  # in Europe, a large pizza is 35cm across
cm2in = 1/2.54      # conversion ratio from centimeters to inches
radiusLargeZa = diameterLargeZa / 2            # calculate radius from diameter
radiusLargeZa = radiusLargeZa / 10             # convert to cm from mm
radiusLargeZa = radiusLargeZa * cm2in          # convert to in from cm
euro_za2 = radiusLargeZa**2 * math.pi       # calculate area from diameter
print( euro_za2 )

A: Why are you converting mm to cm (line 5: this is conversion from cm to decimeter)?. You already have the radius in cm.
You your code should be like this:
import math           # for access to pi
diameterLargeZa = 35  # in Europe, a large pizza is 35cm across
cm2in = 1/2.54      # conversion ratio from centimeters to inches
radiusLargeZa = diameterLargeZa / 2            # calculate radius from diameter
# radiusLargeZa = radiusLargeZa / 10             convert to cm from mm (this is cm to decimetre, you already have value in cm)
radiusLargeZa = radiusLargeZa * cm2in          # convert to in from cm
euro_za2 = radiusLargeZa**2 * math.pi       # calculate area from diameter
print( euro_za2 )
# 149.12777453063953

A: Sorry folks, can't add a comment, not enough points.
@Loocid Radius is twice the diameter, not half is it ?
Well for the answer, why would you convert it to cm if you started with cm already.
import math           # for access to pi
diameterLargeZa = 35  # in Europe, a large pizza is 35cm across
cm2in = 1/2.54      # conversion ratio from centimeters to inches
radiusLargeZa = diameterLargeZa / 2            # calculate radius from diameter
# Line commented, not needed.
# radiusLargeZa = radiusLargeZa / 10             # convert to cm from mm, why ?
radiusLargeZa = radiusLargeZa * cm2in          # convert to in from cm
euro_za2 = radiusLargeZa**2 * math.pi       # calculate area from diameter
print( euro_za2 )


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Watch the Coach autumn 2021 presentation live from New York
The autumn/winter 2021 presentation goes live on Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 10pm Singapore time.
Feb 23, 2021 Words By Asri Jasman
The biggest trend in fashion it seems, is that big brands are moving at their own pace. New York Fashion Week may have officially just passed, but American brand Coach is only getting ready to present its autumn 2021 collection.
Coach Forever Season Two—what the brand is calling its autumn 2021 collection—is slated to be a continuation to its spring/summer 2021 effort of bringing sustainability to the fore. We're expecting more mixed-season combinations where older and more classic Coach pieces are paired up together with the season's latest offerings. It's about constantly building up a Coach wardrobe that's timeless and season-less.
What's also set to make a return is the brand's community of Coach Family members. Members such as Jennifer Lopez, Michael B. Jordan, Kaia Gerber, Wisdom Kaye, and a slate of other collaborators, are set to make appearances throughout the presentation.
Executive creative director Stuart Vevers is taking the concept a step further this time around, with Juergen Teller bringing the collection to life through fashion images and film. Writer and director Frances Frances has also been tasked with creating short films for Coach Forever Season Two, adding on to the multidimensional approach.
Watch the Coach autumn 2021 presentation live here, as we bring you the action straight from New York.
What: Coach autumn 2021 presentation
Where: New York
When: Tuesday, 23 February 2020 at 10pm (Singapore time)
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ZeWatch3 tracks your daily steps, calories burnt, distance travelled, and sleep (sleep time, quality of your sleep).
How ZeWatch3 calculates the number of steps done, the distance performed and the amount of Calories burnt ?
How do I read SMS on ZeWatch3 ?
It seems the number of steps I have done is inaccurate, what can I do?


Coffee and Roses - Life as an Eternal Optimist: It Started With a Kiss episode 21: Writing retreat and bard biscuits!
It Started With a Kiss episode 21: Writing retreat and bard biscuits!
All this year, I'm keeping a video diary of everything that goes into writing my third novel, It Started With a Kiss, due to be published on 10th November. This week, I'm off on a writers' retreat to beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon (watch out for the ultimate in edible Shakespeare memorabilia), take you to a key location for It Started With a Kiss and much more!
I finally managed to get some time off (first holiday all year...) so I headed off to Stratford-upon-Avon and The Cotswolds with my fab chum Kim Curran for a few days of writing (well, talking about writing at least...), nattering (lots) and generally having a bit of a break before all the crazy stuff begins for promoting my new book. It was fab and I even received a round of applause from a group of Japanese tourists when I recreated the cover for Fairytale of New York on one of the bridges in Bourton-on-the-Water!
While I was out and about in gorgeous Warwickshire, I also stopped off at one of the key locations for It Started With a Kiss: Kingsbury, home to the narrowboats that inspired Our Pol, the floating home of Uncle Dudley and Auntie Mags. This is a place of real sanctuary for Romily because her aunt and uncle are such positive people and, in many ways, are more like parents to her than her own parents are. I wanted a place that would be peaceful, colourful and fun to match Mags and Dudley's characters - and this stretch of canal by Kingsbury Water Park was ideal!
I'm so excited for you, Miranda!! Just two weeks to go WOO HOO!!
I've finally just bought Welcome To My World for my Kindle... can't wait to read it! And then I'll just be in time for It Started With A Kiss!!!!
I loved your vlog this week (as you know, I just LOVE to see England!). There was one familiar place there that I've been to (briefly) and that was Bourton on the Water. Beautiful place! I'm getting pangs again!
Keep up the FAB vlogs, Miranda. I hope you'll keep them up once the book is launched?!
Question: do you have any plans to write any books in the future in a different genre?
What a wonderful vlog, I love your location filming. My parents used to have a canal boat and I can't wait to read about Our Pol! I'd like to ask how this book launch feels in comparison to your first book launch? Is it just as scary ... or scarier?
I apologise for not having commented in a while, Miranda, I still watch every week religiously though and I'm with Suzy, I hope you continue after ISWAK is released!


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package fs

import (
	"io"
	"os"
	"syscall"

	"github.com/containerd/continuity/sysx"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
)

func copyFileInfo(fi os.FileInfo, name string) error {
	st := fi.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
	if err := os.Lchown(name, int(st.Uid), int(st.Gid)); err != nil {
		if os.IsPermission(err) {
			// Normally if uid/gid are the same this would be a no-op, but some
			// filesystems may still return EPERM... for instance NFS does this.
			// In such a case, this is not an error.
			if dstStat, err2 := os.Lstat(name); err2 == nil {
				st2 := dstStat.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
				if st.Uid == st2.Uid && st.Gid == st2.Gid {
					err = nil
				}
			}
		}
		if err != nil {
			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to chown %s", name)
		}
	}

	if (fi.Mode() & os.ModeSymlink) != os.ModeSymlink {
		if err := os.Chmod(name, fi.Mode()); err != nil {
			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to chmod %s", name)
		}
	}

	timespec := []unix.Timespec{unix.Timespec(StatAtime(st)), unix.Timespec(StatMtime(st))}
	if err := unix.UtimesNanoAt(unix.AT_FDCWD, name, timespec, unix.AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW); err != nil {
		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to utime %s", name)
	}

	return nil
}

func copyFileContent(dst, src *os.File) error {
	st, err := src.Stat()
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Wrap(err, "unable to stat source")
	}

	size := st.Size()
	first := true
	srcFd := int(src.Fd())
	dstFd := int(dst.Fd())

	for size > 0 {
		n, err := unix.CopyFileRange(srcFd, nil, dstFd, nil, int(size), 0)
		if err != nil {
			if (err != unix.ENOSYS && err != unix.EXDEV) || !first {
				return errors.Wrap(err, "copy file range failed")
			}

			buf := bufferPool.Get().(*[]byte)
			_, err = io.CopyBuffer(dst, src, *buf)
			bufferPool.Put(buf)
			return errors.Wrap(err, "userspace copy failed")
		}

		first = false
		size -= int64(n)
	}

	return nil
}

func copyXAttrs(dst, src string) error {
	xattrKeys, err := sysx.LListxattr(src)
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to list xattrs on %s", src)
	}
	for _, xattr := range xattrKeys {
		data, err := sysx.LGetxattr(src, xattr)
		if err != nil {
			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to get xattr %q on %s", xattr, src)
		}
		if err := sysx.LSetxattr(dst, xattr, data, 0); err != nil {
			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to set xattr %q on %s", xattr, dst)
		}
	}

	return nil
}

func copyDevice(dst string, fi os.FileInfo) error {
	st, ok := fi.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
	if !ok {
		return errors.New("unsupported stat type")
	}
	return unix.Mknod(dst, uint32(fi.Mode()), int(st.Rdev))
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Nikos Chalvatzis Tour in Three Acts
One of the most eccentric "creators" of the new generation that comes and passed, with a representation of his songs in a space that hosts and proposes the different not as a solution but as a consolidated and familiar function. Nikos Chalvatzis, an idiosyncratic songwriter with a new way of expression and sound will perform songs from his two personal albums: the "Plano Exodou" ("Exit Plan") in Sokratis Malamas production (involving Malamas, Tania Tsanaklidou, Theodosia Tsatsou and Giorgos Michail) and "Golem #" (with the participation of Maria Papageorgiou), as well as in progress songs from the end of the trilogy to come. Snapshots and fragments of our personal diaries, which we are just beginning to discover. Aptaliko and delta, dirges and noise, of post board. With background un–cut video por–no, our hidden sensibilities untamed in the friendlier possible price....more
Kostas Tsiolis, Keys (Rhodes, synthesizer, toy piano)
Kostas Tsiolis was born in 1985. He lives and works in Athens as a musician. He has composed music for theater, short films and for personal use. He participates in audacious bands, collaborates with promising songwriters and occasionally works as an outdoor music.
[Biography updated on: 26/3/2012]
Nikos Chalvatzis, Guitar, baglamas, other
Nick Chalvatzis recorded his first album "Plano Exodou" ("Exit Plan") (Lyra) in Sokratis Malamas production in 2006 and got great reviews debut composer. In the album, except from himself, songs were performed by Sokratis Malamas, Tanya Tsanaklidou, Theodosia Tsatsou, Giorgos Michail and Martha Iliadou. In 2010 his second solo album was released, titled "Golem #" (Lyra) with the participation of Maria Papageorgiou in the song "Telos" ("End") also earning considerable criticism. He has composed original music for theater (Tiresias directed by Elena Timplalexi, Experimental Stage of the National Theatre – 2005, Scars directed by Afroditi Parzakoni, Apletoi Kipoi Group in collaboration with Nikos Platia and Christos Tolis – 2011) and film (Damo Suzuki, documentary, directed by journalist Antonis Boskoitis – 2007) and in 2011 he participated in the tribute collection of Lena Platonos "Whoever sees her screams her name" on the adaptation of the song "Only in poetry K. Karyotakis". Nick Chalvatzis creates and records in warehouses and lofts, with whatever comes up and borrows, concept albums storyline and roles, handling the songs as episodes. He borrows sound colors and styles at will avoiding as much as allowed, stereotypes. He was born in Athens in 1975, and studied piano and theory at the Conservatory of Kozani ochtaetias – unsuccessfully. He is completing the daily studies in Electrical Engineering specializing in the management of EU funds. After a short tour in the fields of Greek province, he was reinstated in the city for further studies.
Saturday, 31 March 2012 @ 21:30


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