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UK-based Polish expat volleyball team makes history as it heads to the Champions League
Ewan Jones June 29, 2019
Up and away: Polonia Londyn will play in Europe next season. Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP
IBB Polonia Londyn, a Polish expat volleyball team and reigning English champions, will debut this season in the 2019 CEV Volleyball Champions League, making them the first British team to be included in the contest.
"We want to show something that hasn't been available to watch in England; volleyball at the European level," club president Bartek Łuszcz told PAP.
The draw to determine the first rounds of the competition will be held in Luxembourg on Wednesday. Polonia will find themselves playing the best teams on the continent, including the champions of Poland, Italy, Russia and Germany.
The current English champions will become the first British team to play in Europe's top event.Grzegorz Michałowski/PAP
In an interview with PAP, Łuszcz described IBB Polonia Londyn as "an exceptional project, not just sporting."
"Founded by Polish scouts in 1973, the team are currently the champions of England and are representing the country in European competitions. We're using sport to promote Polish-British relations (…)," Łuszcz explained. "Thanks to Polish know-how – and the knowledge of our partner team PGE Skra Bełchatów and the national team – we're organising events and we're showing that knowledge (to the volleyball community) in Great Britain. We're teaching the whole of England to play the sport, to understand it and support it."
"We want to show something that hasn't been available to watch in England; volleyball at the European level," says Łuszcz.Jacek Turczyk/PAP
Łuszcz said competing the Champions League would be "above all a test of our ability to manage the organisational, marketing and sporting challenge" as well as "a natural next step on the road of our development."
"For several years we've been doing things that until now many people thought impossible: a supporters club, transmissions from matches," he continued. "To many people, including English clubs, we are the main hope that playing that sport makes sense. We know we probably won't win the title this year but (…) we're going to learn a lot."
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John the Baptist, First Victim of the Cancel Culture
by Elizabeth ScaliaJanuary 23, 2020
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested,
he withdrew to Galilee.
He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea,
in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet
might be fulfilled:
Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles,
the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,
on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death
light has arisen.
From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say,
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matt. 4:12-17)
John has been arrested. The voice crying in the wilderness will soon be raised into eternity.
John the Baptist was descended from a priestly line, but as God's messenger, we did not see him in the temple observing the rituals as did his father, Zechariah. He was not dressed in priestly garments, nor was he taking his turn at offering incense and sacrifice.
Rather, we saw him in the desert, where he had moved away from every physical manifestation of religion beyond water and the word, and his own stripped-down humanity.
John, the priest, was also a prophet and his preaching was blunt, unyielding, and fiercely truthful, so much so that it was eventually the death of him, because the truth is a dangerous contraband to the worldly, the trendy, and the ambitious. A glance at history reminds us that a great deal of humanity—thrown into chaos on the force of the serpent's lie—has tried to silence truth one way or another, ever since Eden.
John's story can be a particularly useful sort of lectio if one is disturbed by the current social trend toward silencing (or "canceling") those who will not simply hit a refresh button and update their takes on moral and even on biological issues in order to serve the zeitgeist, or to just "go along to get along."
John, for instance, was already a teller of inconvenient truths, willing to call the Pharisees and Sadducees who observed his baptismal gatherings a "brood of vipers" (Matt. 3:7). But what finally got him thrown into jail was his forthright speech against the marriage of Herod Antipas to Herodias, the former wife of Herod's brother, which he called "unlawful."
His words were fierce. They sound harsh to our modern ears ("Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand" (Matt. 3:2) tracks poorly with "As long as you're a good person . . ."), but John's priesthood was fierce as well, because it was a radical rejection not of temple worship but of what that worship had become—so perfunctory, corrupt, political, and spiritually and economically suspect that even his father Zechariah (as we see in Luke 1:18) had succumbed to a spiritual ennui that left him questioning an angel, and poorly.
Stripped down to a camel's hair robe, feeding on locusts and honey, John still retained his priesthood. He demonstrated as much in the authority of his preaching, in his urgent call for a fundamental return to God, unmoored of extraneous manmade weights and unencumbered by the weeds of sin that did thrive in such a socially and religiously suspect environment.
In the end, John preached, all there will be is God, and us, and thus our self-consideration should be—as he exemplifies—lean and sparse, our lives uncluttered in order to sharpen our focus on heaven. Seek the Lord, See the Lord, Be in Awe of the Lord, Obey the Lord, was John's (paraphrased) message, because everything is about to change. The Lamb of God, living among them, would make it so.
This was not, as some might be tempted to argue, a full-on rejection of what we call "organized religion," and John never said as much. How could he when the Lamb he was announcing was himself a rabbi and defender of the temple who cast out the moneychangers who had defiled it — an observant Jew who told those he healed to show themselves to the priests, and do as Moses prescribed in the law?
But John had been telling the world not to become so hung up on the physical, on the externals—the exacting rituals and postures, and the impressive robes—as to lose sight of the God to whom it was and still is directed; not to be so caught up in the processes as to lose sight of their purposes, but to see all of the ritual, all of the observed traditions, as a means to an end. The transitional tools that assist in bringing about the great event—the kiss between heaven and earth in which the veil is thinned out, penetrated, and ordinary bread is made Supersubstianial and Holy—are all pointless in and of themselves, unless they are pointing us squarely to God.
Jesus said much the same, but very differently. He too said, Seek the Lord, See the Lord, Be in Awe of the Lord, Obey the Lord. But he went beyond John, adding, Love the Lord, Ephphatha! Be opened.
Because we must be opened in order to permit the Lord we claim to love, to love us back.
Elizabeth Scalia
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For turning gas or liquid flow on or off quickly, the Pyrovalve is ideal. This pyrotechnic actuator is mechanically coupled to a two-port valve. The actuator is a familiar design; however, the valve is somewhat unconventional compared to most other pneumatic devices as it is specifically designed for single-use function; i.e. once the electro-explosive pressure cartridge is actuated, the valve is permanently and positively closed.
To actuate the valve, an initiator cartridge is fired. The resulting force produced by the pyrotechnic actuator pushes against the tapered piston, shearing the Laser weld between the tapered piston and the bushing. The Initiator cartridge provides more than enough output to reliably actuate the valve. Once the weld is sheared, the tapered piston is driven into the tapered seat, locking the piston in place and effectively closing the valve.


The car ride from Niagara to Toronto along the shore of Lake Ontario was beautiful in spite of a heavy rain. We arrived safe and dry at the Marriott to find very comfortable, fancy, and expensive rooms.
The rain stopped and we ventured out to explore the entertainment district of the cosmopolitan city. There seemed to be people from dozens of different nations visiting, working, and living in Toronto. Perhaps many of them were there for the Toronto Film Festival. The lines to the theaters were around the block, but the tickets were either sold out or too expensive for me. I did, however, spot the top of Tommy Lee Jones' head as he got into a car at the Ritz Carlton.
Toronto's entertainment district was alive with activity. The Second City comedians' Saturday Night-style skits made us laugh, though we didn't understand several Canadian references. As we walked along the streets in a slightly buzzed condition, music emanated from many bars and taverns. Our destination was the Rex Club which offered blues and jazz. Fun, intimate atmosphere. Good evening.
Bright and early the next day we took a twenty-minute ferry ride to Toronto Island. The no-vehicle park boasted fabulous gardens, miles of walking paths, kiddie rides, a petting zoo, kayak rentals, beaches (including a clothing optional beach), and relative peace and quiet –– except for the Hong Kong students participating in team building activities. We wandered around to enjoy the sights and found a great old light house that the shifting sands left hundreds of yards inland.
Toronto's commitment to the arts and the environment is evident on the island from the formal gardens, to the programs to teach children how to garden or create their own art. Interesting sculptures dot the walking paths and artists live on the island under a grant program. A few opened their studio doors to visitors.
Finding Toronto Island was a surprising treat, but good food was not to be found. So, we ferried back to the mainland for lunch dockside at The Watermark Irish Pub.
Toronto apparently didn't want us to leave. They closed all the ramps on and off the expressway for construction. Side streets were jammed and took us through neighborhoods of every sort, but mostly clean and safe feeling. I enjoyed seeing the less-traveled roads of the city during the two-hour detour, but was glad when we broke free.
We crossed back into the United States via the Rainbow bridge with only two ornaments to declare. The customs agent believed us, and said, "Expensive up there, isn't it?" We agreed and headed to Buffalo where street signs make sense.


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Game of Thrones may be coming to a close, but the Era of Prestige Dragons is only beginning. George R.R. Martin says three "successor shows" (he doesn't like the term spinoff) are currently in development at HBO. "The one I am not supposed to call 'The Long Night' will be shooting later this year, and two other shows remain in the script stage, but are edging closer," he told Deadline. "What are they about? I cannot say. But maybe some of you should pick up a copy of Fire & Blood and come up with your own theories." Fire & Blood is the GOT prequel set 300 years before the particular throne game with which we are all familiar. It tracks House Targaryen — from Aegon the Conqueror doing all the conquering that gave him his name, to his making the Iron Throne, to the civil war that almost wrecked their whole house. One thing is for certain: It will be exciting to see so many blonde wigs in one place.
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The Tour de Staten Island is a friendly, non-competitive ride. Cycle through diverse Staten Island on the cusp of spring. Both the 35 and 50 mile routes cover some of the most breathtaking – and lesser known – spots of Staten Island. Rest stops include some of Staten Island's most bucolic and stunning spots: Freshkills Park, Great Kills Park, Historic Richmond Town and the oceanfront with its striking views of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and New York Harbor.
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I love Mermaids, and I love weaving them.
This Mermaid has been tapping me on the shoulder for months, asking to be woven, so I made a plan.
I carefully chose my colorways when I was making all the 'how to' videos on the hexagon loom, (see previous posts) so that I could use them to build a Mermaid tapestry.
She's about 44 inches tall.
She includes techniques for weaving tapestry technique, mandala (tapestry woven in the round), Teneriffe and floral motifs on hexagon looms as well as a little help from the Vasilisa and Mollie Whuppie looms.
The glittery narrow band that outlines her body was woven on my little narrow band rigid heddle loom, using Kreinik metallic threads.
This tapestry is a one of a kind piece, and there are no patterns for her.
The looms and latchet lucet are from Dewberry Ridge looms, and the metallic threads are from Kreinik threads.
My friend asked me to please photograph the process of how I was weaving the mermaid tapestry, so I have – although I was well into the project by the time I started the photographing.
I love weaving tapestries on small looms, and the hexagon loom is no exception.
Because of the nature of the hexagon loom, it's perfect for weaving in a circle, working round and round.
I've been weaving tapestry (the warp strands are all covered, only the weft strands show) on the hexagon loom, in a circle.
I call this, 'Mandala technique', as you can weave beautiful mandalas this way.
Mandalas are meant to be meditative, and this technique is very contemplative, as well as being a lot of fun.
I've made a video tutorial, showing how to weave the mandala technique.
Gamers who make their own hexagon tiles will be able to use this technique to make one of a kind, absolutely gorgeous tiles for their games.
Mandala technique works on all sizes of the hexagon looms.


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The ever-growing world of Lester Magoogan
Artist Lester Magoogan's fame has long since spread beyond his native Hastings to other parts of the UK, but now the 'Lester effect' is making itself felt abroad.
Lester's work – monster-like figures drawn in black on a white background, often but not always humorous – will be familiar to many in Hastings thanks to his regular shows in local cafes and bars. It all started at Pissarro's pub in 1999 and has led on to such high temples of art as Tate Modern and the Strand Gallery in London and The Lowry in Manchester.
Next stop the world, and Lester's invasion has already begun. In more recent times his art has been shown in Hong Kong, Turkey, New York, Finland and Siberia. TV has picked him up – an Irish channel made a programme about him a couple of years ago, and more recently so has BBC Southeast Today.
Photo: Brian Rybolt 2011
So what makes 29-year-old Lester so special? Born with Down's syndrome, he has become a leading light for all those with this condition. As his father Wesley explains, in the eyes of the Down's Syndrome Association (DSA) he shows a unique degree of creativity. "Many people with Down's syndrome are skilled and talented artists, but Lester's skill in creating images in relation to abstract thought put him in another league," he says.
"We're collaborating with the DSA so we can get Lester's art to a wider audience. We did a show a while back in the Strand Gallery in London, it was a Down's syndrome event in which Lester was one of the star artists – in fact he was the only drawing artist."
Lester's special talent is important for the DSA, which actively promotes his art, not only as an example to encourage others with Down's to cultivate their own creativity, but to show the rest of society what Down's people are capable of. His work is included in this year's Shifting Perspectives travelling exhibition.
"The DSA is delighted to have the outstanding artistic talent of Lester as part of our Shifting Perspectives exhibition," a spokeswoman said. "Lester's talent is so great that we have created a selection of his images on gift cards."
Gus Garside, Mencap's national arts development manager, has his own take on Lester's ability. "What I feel about Lester is that he's a really interesting artist anyway, regardless of his learning disability," he says. "But his perception of the world is informed by his learning disability – the way he experiences the world will be different from the way non disabled people do, so his art enables other people to experience things differently.
"He stands out especially among artists with a learning disability because many of them are encouraged to emulate others while Lester is not, he has a completely unique approach to creating his cartoon characters.
"Lester's got a lovely surreal approach to what he does. It's really gritty, it's not nice. He's not totally unique, in that there are some very skilled artists with learning disabilities. But he's unique in that his work is instantly recognisable," says Gus.
Lester draws with a Japanese brush pen, black ink on white paper. "This is black and white art," he says. "I don't like colours. Some person saying, Lester, do colour. No! This is not a way of draw colour, this art is black and white, as I'm doing. Go away, leave me alone, I'll draw my life."
His creative flow appears irrepressible. "When I'm watching snooker, or listening to music, or Oprah, then comes an idea, and I draw," he says.
In fact every afternoon he sits down and draws for a couple of hours. In the course of a week he can produce up to 200 drawings. Wesley and his mother Marion help him select the best ones to exhibit. The others are stored at home, but recently the stock has become so large that they have had to start getting rid of some.
"Even though his drawings are quite different, there is a likeness that runs through them," Marion says. "So we have to be quite ruthless, we've got so many boxes that we can't keep everything. At first Lester found that extremely difficult, but now he's learnt that we can't keep everything."
So where does Lester draw his inspiration from? He is an acute observer of the world around him, whether he is out in town or at home watching television. Some of his drawings are self-explanatory, like Spiky Spike, which is based on a doorman he knew with spiky hair.
Events on the TV news may also get the Lester treatment. Terrorist was prompted by television images. Tears depicted the rubble of the Twin Towers after 9/11. Two-Face shows two sides of the same face, one smiling, one growling – it was Lester's take on Gordon Brown's gaffe during last year's election campaign when he was caught on microphone making uncomplimentary comments about a Labour voter he'd been chatting up.
"It's my hobby, I draw, and my life as well," Lester says. "I'm drawing about me and my life. The whole country hits at me, that's what I want to give, open me, a package from me."
When his parents explained to him that Down's syndrome results from a chromosomal disorder, Lester pronounced himself Chromosome Man.
Getting animated
From static drawings Lester and Wesley have moved into animations. Instead of a character frozen on the page a story emerges, complete with script. Lester does a lot of the voices himself, with family and friends joining in as required.
It was Lester who set the ball rolling by asking if his drawings could be made to move. Wesley entered the brave new world of animation, starting from square one. The first production, The Office That Overslept, took a year to put together.
It may have been time-consuming, but The Office marked a new stage in the development of Lester's surrealist world. "The idea was, people can oversleep, so why can't a whole office oversleep?" Marion explains. When work is over for the day, the office building gets up and walks home. But when the workers arrive the next morning, there's no sign of the office – it's still snoring in bed.
"I don't think we would have come up with anything like that!" says Marion. "It's come out of real life!" says Lester.
For Mencap's Gus Garside the animations bring a new dimension to Lester's art. "Because he creates so much work, he generates particular characters which are developed further in the animations. You don't get the same surreal quality in the single drawings."
The Office That Overslept – the first animation of Lester's drawings. Photo: Brian Rybolt 2011
Like his drawings Lester's animations have found their way abroad. With his parents he has several times attended the annual Normal Festival in Prague in the Czech Republic, an artfest for creatives with a learning disability. On the last occasion, in 2009, one of his animations formed the basis for a workshop, providing the inspiration for students with learning disabilities to produce their own dramatic ideas and characters.
Plans to attend last year were wrecked when Wesley injured his knees, but with the aid of a new high-end animation programme, he and Lester are working on a new set of 10-second animations for the festival.
After leaving school at 19, Lester studied at Hastings College until he was 23. Nowadays he attends the Parchment Trust's Friary Gardens horticultural centre for adults with learning disabilities. Here he has expanded his range of skills with, for example, pottery and wood carving. His creations in clay include a lion and a recognisable figure of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Among his wood carvings is a head named Dum-Dum, which was inspired by the film A Night at The Museum in which a monumental stone head from Easter Island comes to life, repeating the phrase, "Dum-dum."
Lester is not standing still. In April a series of his drawings, blown up to a metre square, were posted around the main square in Helsinki, Finland. At the time the DSA's Shifting Perspectives exhibition had just opened at The Reading Room in Frith Street, Soho, while an invitation, since accepted, had been received to participate in a festival for injured servicemen and partially sighted people at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex in September. An exhibition is scheduled for the Dragon Bar in Hastings Old Town, which regularly shows Lester's work, in November.
Given Lester's irrepressible exuberance and desire to share what he does with the rest of the world, he looks set to continue on his creative journey for a long time yet.
Everyone is invited. In the words of the man himself, "Come to Lester's world!"
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Crime city Mark posted earlier that when you hit lvl 50 cap all exp earned will turn into gold. For me the exp is credited, then just subtracted again. Nothing converted to gold. Am i doing something wrong?
I may have been working with information that was a bit premature. Apparently that is something that is being added.


Israelis love their cell phones but are increasingly concerned about the proliferation of the antennas that make them work. Fears of serious health risks are fueling court battles, Knesset debates and explosive neighborhood protests.
When the sun came up on August 1, 2004, there was a giant green- and-white cylinder atop the apartment building at 141 Yehuda Halevy St. in Tel Aviv, directly opposite Moshe Michaan's penthouse art studio. It hadn't been there the day before. Cellcom, a cellular phone provider, had signed a lucrative rent deal with the building's owner, and its technicians had come overnight, closed off the road, put up a pole with 10 cellular antennas, and then disguised it as something with the appearance of a large barrel that was peculiar but benign. Since then, Michaan, who is 69, has been unable to paint his pastel canvases of elegant, angular women. He has been suffering, he says, from headaches, insomnia and anemia. "Everywhere I look, I imagine arrows of poison coming at me," he says.
Over the past few years, and with gathering intensity in recent months, the notoriously cell phone-addicted residents of Israel have been displaying increasing unease, even panic, about the infrastructure that is necessary to support their habit. The antennas that provide cell phone coverage emit radiation, and the belief that this radiation causes cancer and other maladies is widespread, though no link has been clearly established. Nearly every appearance of an antenna in an urban area now draws vocal opposition from angry neighbors. One recent site of contention was the home of Israel's national theater, Habimah, in downtown Tel Aviv, which has no fewer than 27 cellular antennas on its roof.
Three hundred residents of upscale Ramat Aviv showed up in early July to protest at the Land of Israel Museum in that Tel Aviv neighborhood when the institution added eight new antennas to several already on its roof. Also in early July, residents of the Arab town of Shfaram rioted when cellular technicians came to erect an antenna, and police had to be called to extricate them.
Israelis are angry about laws that favor the cell phone companies - Pelephone, Partner, Cellcom and MIRS - allowing them to erect antennas without notifying the public or allowing any objections from citizens. They are angry about the disastrous effect antennas can have on the value of their homes, and about the fact that no one is legally liable for that damage. People are worried about the exponential increase in the number of antennas that is expected to accompany the introduction, now under way, of third-generation technology, known as 3G, phones that can carry faster Internet and video. This anger is translating into new local citizens' organizations, a lot of press coverage, appeals to the High Court of Justice, three new Knesset bills, and into proposed, and controversial, changes to regulations governing antenna construction, debated in the cabinet in mid-July.
Those active in the coalescing public opposition to the cellular companies see those companies as a corporate juggernaut with no regard for the well-being of the country's citizens, and see the government agencies that supervise them as complacent at best and corrupt at worst. The cell phone companies treat their critics as if they were cranks and dismiss their anxieties and complaints with contempt.
Israelis started snatching up cell phones as soon as they became widely available and affordable here, in the mid-1990s; the terror attacks that began five years ago helped push mobile phones from a convenience to a necessity. Everyone had to be in touch, all the time.
Today, 6.9 million Israelis have 7 million cell phones, supported by a network of 6,700 cellular antenna clusters. (A cluster can have one antenna, or it can have far more; the 27 at Habimah, for example, make up one cluster.) Sometimes the antennas look like antennas. Sometimes they are clumsily disguised as trees, or made to look like rooftop solar water heaters. Inside cities, they are typically mounted on roofs of public buildings and homes, with the cell phone company paying generous rent of thousands of dollars a year to the owner. The number of antennas is growing by around 10 percent every year.
As the number of antennas grows, so do the worries. "There's real concern in the public today, and there's no outlet for it," says Tammy Gannot, a legal adviser at the environmental group Adam, Teva V'Din (known in English as the Israel Union for Environmental Defense). "People feel that their eyes are covered and their hands are tied."
The public feels helpless, Gannot says, because the law so blatantly favors the cellular providers. National Zoning Plan 36, which laid out guidelines for cellular antennas, does not require cell phone companies to notify the public before erecting an antenna, and does not provide any forum for objections.
If a cellular provider wants to put an antenna up on your neighbor's roof, it must get your neighbor's permission, approval from the local planning council, and a radiation permit from the Environment Ministry, which the cellular company gets after sending its own technicians to carry out a survey of the site. The antenna will likely be put up in the middle of the night; the cellular companies explain that this is to avoid snarling traffic with trucks and cranes. You will find out about the antenna when you see it on your neighbor's roof in the morning.
The antennas' link to adverse health effects is uncertain, but their effect on housing prices is not. According to Davyd Tal of Jerusalem Homes, a high-end real estate firm in the capital, a cellular phone antenna nearby can lower the rent on a house by as much as a third. And if there is an antenna on the roof, Tal says, the house will simply not be sold. Moshe Michaan says the antennas across the street from him have driven the worth of his rooftop studio from $250,000 to $180,000. Michaan's real estate agent has told him, however, that in practice his studio is now unsellable.
Ordinarily, if the value of your property is damaged by something your neighbor builds - a second-floor addition blocking your sunlight, for example - you have three years to petition the local planning council, which approved the addition, for compensation. But thanks to a legal loophole, if it's a cellular antenna bringing down property values, no one is liable. In order to streamline the process of putting up antennas, National Zoning Plan 36 requires the cell phone provider to get only a building permit approved, not a building plan, which is more complicated, and which is what you would need if you were adding a floor to your house.
The building plan for all antennas was approved, technically, when National Zoning Plan 36 was, in May of 2002. Citizens can petition the local council, therefore, within three years of that date. This means that as of May of this year, no one at all is liable for a lowering of property values. Adam, Teva V'Din appealed to the Supreme Court on this issue in July. A decision is expected in late summer.
One of the only places in Israel with no cellular coverage is the Druse town of Usfiyeh, in the Carmel hills near Haifa.
In the late 1990s, residents became convinced that high rates of cancer in the town - they counted 200 cases out of 10,000 residents - were connected with the 73 cellular antennas inside Usfiyeh. Suleiman Abu Ruken, a member of the town council, plotted the incidence of cancer in the town on a map, and saw that many of the cases were located near the highest concentrations of antennas. The cell phone companies, Abu Ruken says, had put up most of those antennas without the necessary permits. "We tried to get rid of them legally," he says, "but we saw that we weren't getting anywhere."
On March 14, 2000, when Cellcom technicians arrived to add another antenna, residents rioted and destroyed all the antennas they could find in the town by burning them, knocking them down and ripping out their cables.
After that, Abu Ruken recounts, the companies began hiding the antennas in water heaters and inside people's homes.
"For a lot of people, the money that the cellular companies were offering was too tempting," he says. Pressure from neighbors forced some of those residents to give up their antennas.
The community went one step further this spring, when Usfiyeh's religious leaders issued a ruling excommunicating anyone who rented out space for a cellular antenna. After the ruling, three more antennas were located and dismantled. Abu Ruken still suspects that there are more - installed illegally, without permits, and so unknown to the authorities - hidden in the town. "The companies swear that there aren't any, but I don't believe them," he says.
The Environment Ministry, which denies any link between cellular antennas and disease, has suggested that the high rate of cancer in Usfiyeh could be related to pollution coming from heavy industry in Haifa Bay.
The Health Ministry has also rejected Abu Ruken's claims. But many Israelis see, as Abu Ruken does, a link between radiation emitted by the antennas and a long list of harmful effects, from headaches and insomnia to cancer.
They've got it all wrong, if we are to believe the world's foremost authority on the radiation emitted by cellular antennas, the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), which advises the World Health Organization. The ICNIRP standard, measured in microwatts per square centimeter, is 450; radiation above that level begins to heat tissues and can cause harm.
The American Federal Communications Commission standard is even looser, at 570 microwatts. Nearly all cellular radiation falls far short of those levels. The Israeli Environment Ministry approves antennas that emit radiation only up to 45 microwatts per square centimeter, a tenth of the radiation allowed by the ICNIRP standard. That measurement is carried out at the antenna; the radiation dissipates with distance.
The scientific debate over the health damage caused by antennas is fierce, with ICNIRP and its allies accused of peddling corrupt science paid for by the cell phone companies, and the cellular opponents of amateurish research and needless panic-mongering. The disagreement is essentially about one point. ICNIRP, and most researchers, believe that harm is only caused by the radiation when it begins heating tissues. That happens, says ICNIRP, when levels pass 450; anything under that is fine. By that standard, the Israeli level is far under anything that could possibly cause damage. But critics of this approach charge that radiation emitted by the antennas causes all kinds of other damage, including scrambling brain waves, altering DNA, encouraging cancer genes and inhibiting genes that fight the disease. The most vocal Israeli proponent of this second view, and one of the gurus of the anti-antenna lobby, is Dr. Zamir Shalita, a retired microbiologist who spent 30 years at the government's Nes Tzionah biological research facility. (Foreign sources have reported that the facility is where Israel develops biological weapons and countermeasures.) "Studies have shown that even at 5 microwatts this kind of radiation causes damage," Shalita says. Switzerland and Italy, he adds, have set radiation standards many times lower than Israel's - 10 and five times lower, respectively. "Every country sets its own standard, according to how much it cares for its citizens," he says.
The dangers from antenna radiation, all agree, are less than the dangers from the actual cell phone. Two Israeli scientists, Dr. Elihu Richter of Hebrew University and Dr. Zvi Weinberger of the Jerusalem College of Technology, posited in a 2002 paper that when you use a cell phone your head serves as an antenna and your brain tissue as a radio receiver - in other words, that your body is actually used by the cell phone to broadcast and receive signals. This, they wrote, could explain some of the reported health effects, like headaches and insomnia, reported by cell phone users. As Weinberger, head of JCT's physics department, explains it, the cell phone waves "wreak havoc with the brain's own frequencies." Though the antennas are farther away from people than phones, he says, "they broadcast the same waves and cause the same kind of damage. It's a real threat."
Still, the cell phone companies' claim that the technology is safe is backed by ICNIRP.
In a survey of studies on the subject in 2004, the organization declared firmly that to date there is "no consistent or convincing evidence of a causal relation" between cellular radiation and any adverse health effect. It did, however, note that little was really known about the effects, especially on children, and that research was difficult to carry out.
"People are afraid of new developments, of new technology," Ghelberg says, "and the fear of antennas isn't necessarily rational. The fear itself," he suggests, "is making people sick." The anti- antenna activists believe that more antennas mean more radiation, and this, Ghelberg says, is a fundamental misunderstanding. Each antenna broadcasts according to the number of cell phones communicating with it at any given moment, so the more antennas there are, the less each one has to broadcast.
Furthermore, a cell phone expends more effort - meaning more radiation - the farther away the antenna it's communicating with. The more antennas are available, the closer they are to your phone, which gives off less radiation as a result and causes you less harm.
Moshe Michaan, spurred to action by the appearance of the antennas on the rooftop opposite his studio, has become an outspoken opponent of the cellular companies and of the Environment Ministry. "The ministry is doing nothing," he rages, "but it's worse than nothing, because the cellular companies brandish the ministry's permit and say, 'What do you want from us?' And people have the illusion that someone is looking out for them, when in fact that isn't true at all." Michaan reserves special venom for Ghelberg. "The person in charge of guarding our health and that of our children insists that no harm whatsoever is being done," Michaan says. "He's either stupid or lying." Michaan wants the number of antennas decreased by three-quarters, wants radiation standards tightened by a factor of four, at least, and wants radiation meters installed on rooftops around any antenna to make sure no excess radiation is being emitted.
Three bills that would increase regulation of the antennas are in various stages of legislation in the Knesset. In addition, Interior Minister Ofir Pines-Paz is pushing for changes to be made to National Zoning Plan 36 that would force the cell phone companies to inform the public of the impending construction of an antenna and provide a forum for objections.
Most painful for the cell phone companies, Pines-Paz also wants to make them liable for 80 percent of any drop in property values nearby. The remaining 20 percent would come from the local planning council that approved its construction. Not surprisingly, the cell phone companies are strenuously opposed, and Communications Minister Dalia Itzik has been making efforts to get the issue buried indefinitely in committee.
Yuri Shtern, a National Union Knesset member, has become one of the more active legislators on the cellular front. His proposed law, one of the three bills now before the Knesset, would, like Pines- Paz's proposals, make the process of antenna construction more transparent and would also make the cellular companies pay for research into the technology's health effects.
"It's true that so far no one has been able to prove that they cause harm," says Shtern. "But no one has proven that they don't. The fact that people are panicking is already a kind of harm, and making the process more transparent would go a long way toward calming people down."
Public advocates like Tammy Gannot of Adam, Teva V'Din are in a hurry to tighten the rules governing antennas before a new push of construction that, Gannot says, will see the cell phone companies erect as many as 18,000 new antennas - quadrupling the number that exist today - in order to support the demands of the new 3G phones, which transmit more information and need greater band width. "We have to stop them before the third generation," Gannot says. "These phones are not a matter of life and death. You can live without a 3G cell phone."
Moshe Michaan agrees. "The situation today is bad," he says, "but the third generation is going to make this look like child's play." Zamir Shalita charges that not only are there going to be thousands of antennas built, the new 3G antennas emit more radiation than the older models.
Iftah Kramer, spokesman for the Israeli Cellular Forum, which was set up by Pelephone, Partner and Cellcom to handle their increasingly sticky public relations, assures me that there will be no push of new antenna construction. The number of antennas, he says, will continue to expand by 10 percent a year. And the new antennas being erected for the 3G phones don't emit more radiation, he maintains, they emit less.
Stelian Ghelberg of the Environment Ministry confirms this. The new antennas, Ghelberg says, give off a third to a half of the radiation of the previous generation, "just as a new Ford uses less gas than an old one." In the next few years, he says, the companies will not need to dramatically increase the number of antennas.
According to Kramer, the Israeli cellular network is among the safest in the world. "People criticize the cell phone companies, but we don't set the health standard," he says. "That's set by the Environment Ministry. No one has found any evidence that this technology is harmful." Kramer seems to have an intense dislike for Shalita, the anti-antenna microbiologist. "He simply doesn't know what he's talking about," Kramer charges. "It's easy to wage a campaign of fear and to frighten the public, to cause panic and hysteria. But he's just telling people stories."
And why do the cellular companies oppose rules that would allow citizens to be notified ahead of time, and guarantee them compensation for any drop in property values that result? "The companies don't oppose moves to let the public know more," Kramer says carefully, "but they have to be balanced. Pines-Paz's proposals are not balanced. The Israeli government decided that the country would have a first-rate cellular network. We must be allowed to carry that out." Growing public unease is going to make that increasingly hard to do.
"There's going to be an explosion here, like there was in Shfaram and Usfiyeh," Moshe Michaan predicts. "If people feel that they have no other option, that the government isn't looking out for their health, they'll take the law into their own hands."
When Suleiman Abu Ruken described Usfiyeh's vigilante solution to its antenna problem at a June conference organized by the public advocacy group Shatil, the audience applauded.
But there are no signs that this unease and anger are making Israelis throw out their cell phones. People may get upset when an antenna is built in their backyard, but everyone wants good coverage. Everyone interviewed for this story uses a cellular phone. "Our society can decide to live with or without this technology," says Stelian Ghelberg of the Environment Ministry. "It's clear what choice Israelis have made."


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TheHill.com Covers Stearns' Visit to TRAFFIC Plus Domain Lobbying
by Andrew Allemann — October 16, 2010 Policy & Law 2 Comments
Influential political web site discusses domain name industry involvement in politics.
The popular political site TheHill.com — which gets well over a million unique visitors a month — has published a post about Rep. Cliff Stearns' (R-Fla.) visit to the TRAFFIC conference in Florida next week. The story mentions the types of people that will attend next week's conference (including an optimistic 500+ attendee figure), as well as Stearns' political ambitions.
The article also covers the domain name industry's lobbying contributions, citing Go Daddy as particularly active. Although Go Daddy spends more on lobbying than any other registrar, domain registry VeriSign spends much more.
The TRAFFIC show starts Sunday evening at the Loews in South Beach. Show co-founder Rick Schwartz estimates that 300-400 people will attend.
2 Comments Tags: Cliff Stearns, go daddy, thehill.com, traffic conference, VeriSign
Congress Beats Up ICANN (Part 3)
by Andrew Allemann — June 4, 2009 Policy & Law 9 Comments
Question and answer period at hearing gets testy.
In part 1 of our coverage of today's U.S. House of Representatives hearing on ICANN, DNW covered committee member's opening remarks. Part two covered witnesses' opening testimony.
The real fireworks started when the committee members asked questions of the witnesses. Committee chairman Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) started the questioning by following up on Verizon's comments about cybersquatting. (Verizon had said that cybersquatting is still rampant and that many of the cybersquatters are actually ICANN-accredited registrars.)
Boucher addressed ICANN president and CEO Paul Twomey about this, asking how registrars that are cybersquatters are allowed to exist. Twomey said ICANN has significant resources committed to enforcing its registrar agreements. Verizon Vice President Sarah Deutsch responded that ICANN hasn't taken any steps against registrars that are cybersquatters. Twomey said his recollection is that they have taken action against cybersquatter registrars, but sometimes they take action under a different contract breach for expediency.
Boucher asked Twomey to write a letter explaining what ICANN has done to address cybersquatting registrars and the number of related de-accreditations.
Rep. Cliff Stearns, (R – FL) proceeded to blast ICANN's financial surplus. He said ICANN should start acting like a non-profit and use excess money to lower costs to registrars and registrants. Stearns continued to berate Twomey, suggesting the current $7M surplus should be used to address cybersquatting or make domain names cheaper for consumers.
Stearns addressed Thomas Lenard, president of the Technology Policy Institute, during his questioning of Twomey. Stearns said that ICANN is able to choose what it does with the money because it is only accountable to itself.
Rep. John Dingell (D – MI) then asked a series of yes or no questions, such as if ICANN's contract with VeriSign was transparent. For most questions the NTIA representative abstained, ICANN answered yes, VeriSign went with ICANN some of the time, and the rest of the witnesses replied 'no'.
Next there was a bit of a showdown between GoDaddy's General Counsel Christine Jones and Twomey. Jones chided ICANN for lack of transparency, citing its private board meetings and contract negotiations with registrars. Jones said Go Daddy has made several requests to ICANN for information but "we basically get stonewalled". Twomey responded that Jones' claims weren't true, but Rep. John Shadegg ( R – AZ) strongly questioned Twomey's assertions. For example, he questioned if Twomey's assertion of meeting transcripts were true or if there were just meeting minutes.
I spoke with Jones after the hearing concluded. She was very happy with "huge turnout on that type of hearing" by representatives. She said ICANN won't be accountable if it's only accountable to itself. For example, ICANN's outside review boards operate under rules created by ICANN's board, and ICANN's board ultimately decides what action to take based on the outside review.
Jones said she thinks most representatives want to extend the JPA "not because they want the U.S. government to have a heavy hand in the internet, but because the transition to private sector management is still in process. We just haven't quite reached that destination yet." Jones continued, "It's not a partisan or controversial issue. Let's keep the internet safe and secure until ICANN can stand on its two feet to do that."
9 Comments Tags: Christine Jones, Cliff Stearns, GoDaddy, icann, Paul Twomey, VeriSign, verizon
by Andrew Allemann — June 4, 2009 Policy & Law 17 Comments
Members of the House rip into ICANN over pricing, transparency, and security.
It wasn't pretty.
For better than two hours today, members of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet took turns ripping into Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its President/CEO Paul Twomey. If nothing else, ICANN's experience on Capitol Hill today will give it all the more reason to try to get out of U.S. oversight. In addition to discussing the Joint Project Agreement, members also discussed the introduction of new top level domain names.
The hearings started with committee members spending two minutes on opening remarks. You can generally divide the members' into three categories:
1. Well informed about subject matter
2. Didn't know subject matter and admitted it
3. Didn't know subject matter but read their staff notes and pretended like they knew about it
Almost all representatives were in favor of extending the Joint Project Agreement with ICANN, which they believe will provide more U.S. control in the internet's naming system. Here are a few of their comments:
Rep. Cliff Stearns, (R – FL), seemed to focus on ICANN's financial interests. He sharply questioned Twomey on ICANN's reserve fund, Twomey's salary, and even how much Twomey worked in the California office. Stearns repeatedly referred to ICANN as "I-CON" by accident in his opening remarks.
Rep. Mike Doyle (D – PA) questioned ICANN's $4.5 million in stock losses. "I'm afraid ICANN seems better at furthering its own interests" than those of internet constituents, said Doyle. He also questioned the introduction of new top level domain names.
Rep. Lee Terry (R – NE) said control of the internet's naming system "could be a matter of national security". He also said the United States Government created the internet and needs to be in charge.
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D – CA) said she's against cutting ICANN loose because countries that try to stifle freedom of speech may get control.
Rep. John Dingell (D – MI) was particularly harsh, saying ICANN was hardly a good model of governance and that it would be "wholly unwise to reduce further participation" by the U.S. Government. He also said ICANN's contracting process with .com registry VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) had a "deplorable lack of transparency".
In the next part of Domain Name Wire's coverage of today's hearings I'll summarize what some of the witnesses said and the line of questioning from committee members.
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Q: Entity Framework Core is not loading entities when using Include I'm trying to get list of users and its related companies and tags using Entity Framework Core 2.1.
When I'm using Include in the query, I'm expecting to get all the objects without lazy loading, but when I open the object, I'm seeing the list of companies and tags are returned using proxy, and iterating over the objects takes forever.
Here's my code:
IQueryable<User> usersQuery = _context.Users
    .Include(u => u.UserTags).ThenInclude(t => t.Tag)
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return usersQuery.ToList();

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                {
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What am I missing here?


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Art in Austria Fast Forward: Art History from Waldmüller to Valie Export
Artists' Associations
The Künstlerhaus
The Vienna Secession
The Forum Stadtpark
The Salzburger Kunstverein
Art Universities
Art Magazines
Support and Funding at the Federal Level
Funding by the Austrian Federal States
Artists' Associations
Founded in 1861, the Künstlerhaus, or, to spell out the name in extenso, the Künstlerhaus, Gesellschaft bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs, is the oldest association still in existence. This private association with around 440 members from the disciplines of painting, sculpture, architecture, applied arts and film wants to provide a platform for creative artists and art lovers and acts as a cultural-policy advocacy forum for its members. As a matter of principle, the Künstlerhaus (current president: Michael Pilz) is non-aligned with museums or galleries and pursues an exhibition programme with a thematic focus on the connection of everyday culture, film, music, design, architecture and the new media. During the current renovation, Künstlerhaus has been temporarily moved to the Altmann'sche Textilfabrik (Künstlerhaus1050) predictably until fall of 2019. www.k-haus.at
The Vienna Secession, or more precisely, the Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession, (Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession) was set up in 1897. Following disputes within the Künstlerhaus association relating to the status and future direction of contemporary art, a group of artists led by Gustav Klimt left the association to establish their own movement and exhibition venue. The exhibition programme is drawn up by artists on a democratic basis, guided exclusively by artistic aspects. The fundamental mission of this association is the presentation of current developments in Austrian and international art, as well as the readiness to engage in experimentation. The board (current chairman: Herwig Kempinger) invites artists to prepare exhibitions dedicated to this venue. The association has 250 regular members and a great number of honorary and corresponding members. www.secession.at
Forum Stadtpark was founded in Graz, Styria, in 1959 by artists, scientists and creative professionals at the vacant former Stadtpark-Café. The name refers to both the association and to the building in Graz's Stadtpark. Forum Stadtpark is open to multiple disciplines with an extended notion of art and a cross-genre approach. Carola Peschl was the first woman to lead the association in 2009. Followed by former vice president Heidrun Primas in 2011. www.forumstadtpark.at
Maerz was founded in Linz in 1913 in Linz when a group split from the Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein which was too conservative in the seceding group's opinion. Re-established again after the Nazi regime, but without their own premises, the association organised exhibitions, concerts and readings, with artists such as the sculptor Daniel Spoerri. In 1968, the association took up premises at Galerie Maerz on Taubenmarkt in Linz, offering a regular programme and a forum for all artistic disciplines. In 2003, Maerz moved to the premises of the former Linzer Volksküche. The scope of the association extends to the visual arts, architecture, literature and music. In 2011, Peter Sommerauer was appointed its president. The majority of the approximately 200 members are visual artists. www.maerz.at
Founded in 1844, the Salzburger Kunstverein was one of the first institutions of its kind in Austria (set up on the initiative of Cardinal Prince Schwarzenberg). 1885 saw the erection of its venue, the Künstlerhaus, today the only surviving free-standing building from the 1880s in Salzburg. Since the 1990s, the association has consistently pursued an international programme in fulfilment of the intentions of its founders. Committed to providing a fertile ground for art production, new ideas and creative practice, the Salzburger Kunstverein places the artist at the centre of its programme. While the programme is open to all types of contemporary art, the focus lies on new media, film and video installations, concept art and photography. Current president: Séamus Kealy. Members are free to apply for a studio at the Künstlerhaus and for a place in the annual exhibition. www.salzburger-kunstverein.at


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Home Art Day 98: Seeing stars
Day 98: Seeing stars
This quirky little statue outside the Brisbane Planetarium has both a Russian and a Scottish connection.
It's of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), a Russian scientist and founder of cosmonautics.
The Scottish connection is that Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (1773-1860), who gives his name to both the city and the planetarium, was also looking to the skies.
Plenty have polished Tsiolkovsky's knees for good luck.
He was an astronomer, hailing from Largs, not so far from Glasgow on the west coast of Scotland.
The statue, by Sergei Bychkov, was donated to Queensland during Russia Week in Australia in 2007, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Tsiolkovsky.
As it suggests, the Russian provincial teacher and scientist was ever looking upwards to the universe and a future not even he could have imagined.
The bronze statue (which like all good bronze statues everywhere bears the polish of being rubbed for good luck) weighs 600kg and has the diminutive, bespectacled scientist wearing his big winter boots and trench coat with his hands plunged deep in his pockets.
His attire is at odds with his tropical location outside the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium in the Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, a setting wildly different to his home of Kaluga in frigid Russia.
Brisbane's meridian pillars hidden in the bush above Largs.
Meanwhile in Largs, the remains of Sir Thomas Brisbane's early observatories are much harder to find so it's just as well Brisbane has the planetarium in his memory.
The concrete columns "meridian pillars" he built to align the telescopes at his observatory in his work to accurately map the position of the stars are on top of a hill hidden among overgrown bush not farm from the centre of Largs.
John Bonsor, in his book The Observatory in Brisbane Glen says: "Sir Thomas Brisbane has been called the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy because wherever he resided, he planted an observatory, the scientific fruits of which were much appreciated by his contemporaries."
Brisbane served as governor of the colony of New South Wales 1821-25 and while he was there, established an observatory at Parramatta for mapping the southern skies.
The Brisbane Planetarium
It was the former that led to the name of the city and the latter that led to naming the planetarium, which was opened in May 1978.
A trip can become a whole day's adventure to the base of Mount Coot-tha at Toowong, about 5km from the CBD.
Tsiolkovsky, dressed like a Russian under the palms.
After wandering the spectacular botanic gardens (and that's another story), enter the planetarium where there are extensive space exploration and astronomy displays, a gallery with a replica of Neil Armstrong's space suit from the 1969 moon landing and a mini theatre featuring a regularly updated Space Telescope Science Institute web feed.
At this point, there's a day's entertainment without even putting your hand in your pocket.
The observatory has a Zeiss 15cm refractor and a Meade 25.4cm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (my eyes glaze over but I'm sure that means something to the astronomy savvy). There's an admission fee for the 12.5 Cosmic Skydome, a hemispherical planetarium theatre.
And of course, there's Tsiolkovsky sitting in the garden for a photo op or to rub his knee for good luck.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Sergei Bychkov
Thomas Brisbane
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Pauline Mar 28, 2015 At 5:59 am
Looking forward to visiting and seeing some if these for myself.
Kent Johnson Mar 29, 2015 At 11:33 am
More great history. Thank you.
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Kathryn Mar 31, 2015 At 4:48 am
Interesting post. Reminds me I must visit Mt Coot-tha Gardens again, especially as I love close by.
Kay Dibben May 15, 2015 At 10:31 pm
Love the statue


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mk2 VR, the first permanent space entirely devoted to Virtual Reality in Europe, opens its doors...
mk2 VR, the first permanent space entirely devoted to Virtual Reality in Europe, opens its doors in Paris
All year long, discover the best of virtual reality and experience mk2 VR's exclusive contents.
In partnership with BNP Paribas, mk2 VR, the first permanent space entirely devoted to virtual reality, opens its doors tomorrow, December 9th at 6:00 PM in Paris. After two years of research and development, and with an investment of 1.5 million euros, mk2 VR will be unveiled at the mk2 Bibliothèque movie theatre. This lively, interactive space covers 300 square meters (approx. 3300 sq.feet) and has joined forces with Le Perchoir – pioneers in Paris' roof-top bar scene – which will open its new patio-bar : le perchoir mk2.
With content and experience including fiction, documentaries, video games, and simulations, mk2 VR offers an eclectic program that is faithful to the group's editorial line. Exclusive content and sneak previews will be offered all year long.
"With over 100,000 visitors expected in 2017, the first mk2 VR will be the biggest virtual reality center in Europe. This is the first step for the mk2 group's ambitious strategy in this new sector," said Elisha Karmitz, CEO of mk2 group. "Virtual reality is a revolutionary medium and will radically change the way we view images and watch films. The DNA of the mk2 group is to be at the cutting edge of innovation and to defend a certain idea of creativity. With mk2 VR, we wanted to create a space that was both beautiful and optimal, that could showcase the best content in VR."
"As a major actor of the seventh art, and with a history of 100 years, positioning us in this domain as the reference among European banks, BNP Paribas - the bank for a changing world - is delighted to be the partner of mk2 for the opening of the first place entirely dedicated to virtual reality, in Europe. This partnership allows BNP Paribas to continue its commitment to sourcing emerging talents and offers over 1000 clients the possibility to discover this unique venue", says Bertrand Cizeau, BNP Paribas Group Head of Communications.
mk2 VR in brief:
• An interactive space spread over 300 square meters (3300 sq. ft.)
• In the heart of Paris' "3.0 district" near the BNF François Mitterrand library and Halle Freyssinet, Europe's biggest start-up campus, opening its doors soon
• 12 "VR pods" for individual experiences
• The latest technology, with HTC VIVE, PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and MSi
• 1.5 million euros invested
• 100,000 visitors expected in 2017
As a thriving hub of culture and entertainment, mk2 VR will live to the rhythm of the exclusive contents and sneak previews revealed every Wednesday, all year long. VR experiences will include:
Birdly® by SOMNIACS: The best VR flight simulator, exclusively at mk2 VR.
Birdly is cutting-edge technology at its most thrilling. The goal of Birdly is simple: to make one of man's craziest dreams come true. To fly.
"SOMNIACS is excited to team up with mk2 to create highclass VR experiences with and for Birdly. mk2 convinced us to team with them due to their fantastic track record. MK2 understands how to combine sophisticated story telling with innovative technology and strong design. Their full focus is always on the complete audience experience. That's exactly what makes the difference between empty VR promises and real cultural impact…" Max Rheiner, Founder and CTO of SOMNIACS
About mk2
An emblem of international art-house cinema, mk2 is a family business founded by Marin Karmitz in 1974, and now run by his sons Nathanaël and Elisha Karmitz. mk2 defends quality cinema, inventing interactive spaces, and creative discoveries. mk2 is also a staff of 400 people for 26 theatres throughout Europe. mk2 has always been at the cutting edge of technology, and on December 9th 2016, it opens the first space ever entirely dedicated to virtual reality, right in the heart of the mk2 Bibliothèque cinema.
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Marion Saraf - 00 33 1 57 43 88 63 - marion.saraf [at] bnpparibas (dot) com
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