No matter if you are working abroad or only planning a short term internship in a foreign country - in a globalized society we have to embrace our differences. That also means learning what is polite in other countries and what might offend your colleague, business partner or worse - your boss.
In China it is relatively common to use professional titles in everyday situations. If you are dealing with a high profile executive you might address them with "Director Ying Hong" instead of only "Ying Hong". While Mark Zuckerberg is sitting with his staff in one room, hierarchy is still appreciated in China.


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Taxpaying lgbts shouldn't sacrifice rights to 'religious liberty' propaganda
Religious liberty argument shouldn't override the fact that lgbts also pay taxes.
The homophobic hate group American Family Association is alarmed that Trump has yet to sign an anti-lgbt "religious liberty" executive order. The organization, via email, is asking its supporters to sign a petition asking Trump to do so.
It is partly as follows:
Liberals and homosexual activists are advancing their radical agenda by attempting to torpedo President Donald Trump's executive order on religious liberty that was recently leaked to the media. This is an excellent executive order that will protect your First Amendment rights.
I urge you to sign the AFA petition NOW asking President Trump to protect religious freedom for all Americans. I plan to personally deliver this petition with signatures during a meeting with the Trump Administration. Help me take your voice to the White House!
This is urgent! After the executive order was leaked, radical activists demanded that the White House keep in place the policy implemented by President Obama's executive order. The Obama policy bans federal contractors from funding if they refuse to change their non-discrimination policies to include homosexuals and "transgender" persons.
If Christians remain silent and do not let President Trump know they stand with him on religious liberty, then the only voices he will hear are those of radical homosexual activists.
. . . The religious freedom executive order under consideration by the Trump Administration:
Protects Christian colleges and universities, which maintain biblical views on sexuality, marriage, and gender, from losing federal funds.
Follows the long standing Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that states religious exercise "includes all aspects of religious observance and practice."
Instructs all federal agencies, "to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law," to reasonably accommodate the religion of federal employees, as required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Instructs the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury to grant relief to the Little Sisters of the Poor and others that are not exempt from the Obamacare contraception mandate.
Instructs the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure the federal government does not discriminate against the religious beliefs of child-welfare providers such as foster care and adoption services.
Instructs all federal agencies to provide protections and exemptions consistent with the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act to religious organizations that either contract with or receive grants from the federal government.
Instructs the U.S. Treasury not to revoke the non-profit tax status because a religious organization's ordinary religious speech deals with politics, or because they speak or act on the belief that marriage is the union of husband and wife, that sex is based on immutable biology, or that life begins at conception.
I'm not even going to refute these bullets one at a time because they can all be handled with a question, which unfortunately, has not been asked enough.
'Mike Huckabee under fire for transphobic joke about refugees' & other Mon. midday news briefs
Mike Huckabee shows his true and ugly face with a recent bad joke.
Mike Huckabee's Transphobic 'Joke' Slammed By Stars, Allies - A vile positive to the election of Trump is how certain members of the religious right are discarding their masks of piety and showing their true bigoted faces. Because mocking someone for crying about the Holocaust AND making fun of a transgender murder victim at the same time takes a special kind of nasty hate.
Editor's note - And this isn't Huckabee's first time at the "rodeo of homophobia." The article above isn't just about a simple joke. Mike Huckabee has a long history of attacking lgbts and reducing our lives to punchlines and illusions about sex all in the name of "his faith." He simply does not like lgbts, period:
Huckabee continues to hide his homophobia behind religion
Mike Huckabee is either a clueless fool or a brazen liar
Mike Huckabee's 'moral values' include lies about gay community
New Katie Couric documentary explains transgender identities in compelling detail - We need more television specials like this. I get so tired of people attacking the transgender community without even knowing anything about them.
People Have A Lot Of Feelings About This Mother Rejecting Her Gay Son On National TV - Oh no she didn't! DRAG. HER. BEHIND!
LGBT Equality Caucus doubles its membership - "We'uns done woke up."
Bryan Fischer: 'Would Jesus Be In Favor Of Restricting Immigration? Absolutely' - Based upon some of the other stuff Fischer has said, I cringe to think what else he claims that Jesus supports.
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Family Research Council wants Trump to give churches unfettered political power
FRC's Tony Perkins
According to the anti-lgbt hate group the Family Research Council, the two and half weeks with Trump in power have been wonderful. And it would be even more wonderful if he would repeal The Johnson Amendment, thereby allowing churches to publicly endorse or oppose political candidates without losing tax exempt status. The following is from FRC president Tony Perkins:
President Trump didn't waste any time proving his critics wrong. People who doubted whether the Republican would make good on his promises learned pretty quickly that there's nothing empty about this president's word. From the unborn to immigration, the new White House has been working its way through a long list of priorities -- which, we know from last week's National Prayer Breakfast, includes the Johnson Amendment. From almost the beginning of his candidacy, Trump has highlighted this 1954 law as one of the worst abusers of free speech in America.
And plenty of conservatives agree. After eight years of the Obama IRS breathing down the necks of nonprofits and churches, threatening to take away their tax exempt status, the Johnson Amendment has become just another way for liberals to crackdown on pastors' ability to speak openly about political issues and candidates. That changes now, say conservatives like Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), and Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), who together introduced the Free Speech Fairness Act to stop the government from muting pastors who apply God's laws to today's debates. They, like President Trump, think it's time to put an end to this culture of intimidation -- especially since that wasn't the purpose of the measure to begin with! In a joint op-ed for the Washington Post, the trio talks about their new bill and what it would mean for the pulpits of America.
"Specifically, our legislation would ensure that all 501(c)(3) organizations, including nonprofits, charities, and houses of worship are legally able to make comments about a political issue within the scope of their normal activities. An environmental nonprofit that sends out an e-newsletter educating its readers about the climate positions of candidates wouldn't have to fear an audit. A church employee who distributes election voter guides (for which her church did not incur any cost for distribution) could not be punished by the IRS."
As I said on CNN over the weekend, this has nothing to do with money being expended on political campaigns. And it certainly doesn't mean that churches will become the new arm of the Republican Party -- or either party. As Lankford, Scalise, and Hice pointed out, "Every American should be able to speak freely about their conscience and convictions -- no matter what their job is."
The truth of the matter is Americans are able to speak freely about their conscience and convictions. That is not the point. The point is should certain organizations be allowed to endorse or oppose political candidates without losing their nonprofit status? And let's not play games here. The organizations in question are in fact churches. Perkins can dodge all he likes, but we are in fact talking about churches, which is a main source of a lot of FRC's power and influence. Perkins seeks to distract people with jingoistic or religious words like "freedom," "conscience," and "convictions" because he has yet to make a concise defense on why should churches meddle deep into politics without losing their tax-exempt status.
And my guess is that Perkins doesn't have one. Giving churches unfettered access to political power is a dangerous game to play, but it only underscores what I have said about the religious right's relationship with Trump. They don't care to act as his moral conscience. They are only acting as his alibi so that he gives them what they want.
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Did Pelosi Knee-Cap Trump? Your Thoughts on POTUS' Deal to Re-open Government.
Dems Take Credit for Ending the Shutdown They Caused.
Immediately, Barack Obama's intel along with the usual suspects began to a false narrative around the President's announcement of a deal to end the government shutdown.
At the same time, another chapter to the false narrative and Trump-Russia propaganda stream came into play after someone in the Mueller camp (Andrew Weissman, perhaps? See [Sara A. Carter's Court Docs Allege More Corruption by Mueller's "Pit Bull" in Manafort Case, 7/9/2018])? leaked news in advance of FBI's Friday morning raid of Roger Stone's home. The ruling establishment speaks is as if theirs is the spoken word, except that it is not.
John Brennan, clueless and lying James Clapper even CIA paid operative Jim Acosta are out running a full court press against the President.
Keeping in mind that nothing is ever as it appears, that President Trump cannot do it alone, what are your thoughts?


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China's limits on exports of rare earths minerals Tuesday became the latest trade dispute between China and the United States.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- China and the United States are the world's largest economies and, by some measures, each other's most important trading partners. But it's a rocky marriage.
A dispute over rare earth minerals came into the spotlight Tuesday, as President Obama announced that the United States, Japan and Western European countries would file a trade complaint against China.
But it's only the latest in a series of pending trade disputes between the United States and China that experts say won't be resolved any time soon. Any one of the disputes could damage the economies of both countries as well as the relationship between them.
Here's a rundown of the most important trade disputes.
The United States and other Western economies charge that China is putting unfair restrictions on the exports of rare earths, elements crucial to the making of numerous high-tech products, to give its own manufacturers an edge. Rare earths are also critical to national defense -- used in products from tanks and ships to radar systems and night vision goggles -- as well as green-energy products such as wind turbines and batteries for electric vehicles.
China produces about 97% of all rare earths, although one U.S. company, Molycorp (MCP), is starting production in the United States. But even when Molycorp reaches full production later this year, it will be producing only a small fraction of the output from China.
"We want our companies building those products right here in America," said Obama on Tuesday. "But to do that, American manufacturers need to have access to rare earth materials -- which China supplies." He said China's rare earth restrictions go against the World Trade Organization rules that China has agreed to.
China denies the charges, saying its rules are defensible on grounds of environmental and economic sustainability, and suggests there would be consequences if the United States presses the case.
"Past experiences have shown that policymakers in Washington should treat such issues with more prudence, because maintaining sound China-U.S. trade relations is in the fundamental interests of both sides," said China's state news agency Xinhua in a commentary Tuesday.
Nothing gets more attention from U.S. politicians and other critics of China's trade policies than the value of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.
China is accused of manipulating currency markets to keep the yuan undervalued, thus making goods produced in China cheaper and more competitive on the world market. Critics say this is a major reason for the record $295.5 billion trade gap with China last year.
After years of having the yuan basically pegged to the value of the dollar, China allowed the yuan to start to rise in June 2010. But critics argue the increase has been slower than is justified, up only about 8% since then. Critics charge it is still undervalued by more than 20%.
In October, the Senate passed a bill that would have allowed steep penalties, known as tariffs, on goods from countries that manipulate their currencies, widely seen as being aimed at China.
Beyond the currency and rare earths issues, there are numerous additional trade disputes between the United States and China. In November, the Commerce Department announced it was investigating charges that Chinese solar cell manufacturers are illegally "dumping" their products on the American market at excessively cheap prices.
The United States is also fighting tariffs China has on U.S. chicken exports.
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address that he would set up a "Trade Enforcement Unit" to investigate unfair trade practices -- specifically in countries like China.
A coalition of union and trade activists joined together in January to urge action against Chinese auto parts exports in order to avoid overwhelming an industry that produces more jobs than the automakers themselves.
China has also complained about some U.S. policies, such as government subsidies of the auto industry. It used that government support as justification for imposing new tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles.
But the restrictions are unlikely to have much impact on U.S. automakers, such as General Motors (GM, Fortune 500), which is No. 1 in Chinese sales, since virtually all the cars sold in China are built there as well. Less than 1% of GM's Chinese sales are from vehicles built in the United States.
A few years ago, intellectual property disputes with China were typically over movie or software piracy. While that remains an issue, it only scratches the surface of the bigger dispute today: China's "indigenous innovation" rules.
U.S. manufacturers who have been eager to set up operations in China to produce goods for that market say the rules unfairly require them to transfer their technology to their Chinese partners.
And while U.S. businesses in a wide variety of industry sectors, from autos to technology to financial services, are unusually vocal in complaining about this set of Chinese rules, they haven't been challenged at the WTO.
"To me, that's actually the biggest issue, more even than currency valuation," said David Joy, chief market strategist for Ameriprise Financial. "Being forced to give up technology for access to the market is essentially blackmail."


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First Version of a Draft Text of a Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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In line with the decision of UNESCO's General Conference at its 40th session (40 C/Resolution 37), the Director-General constituted the Ad Hoc Expert Group (AHEG) for the preparation of a draft text of a recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence in March 2020. Adapting to the challenging situation posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the AHEG worked virtually from the end of March until beginning of May 2020, and produced the first version of a draft text of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence contained in this document. It is underlined that this first version of a draft text will continue to be revised by the AHEG until beginning of September 2020, taking into account the feedback received during the multi-stakeholder consultation process to be held from June to July 2020. This document does not claim to be exhaustive and does not necessarily represent the views of the Member States of UNESCO.
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Former Councillor | Derwent Valley Council | 2009-18
Tunnel talk
YESTERDAY I was asked for an update on the exploration of the "tunnel" beneath New Norfolk and although there does not seem to have been much progress on that front I was able to advise that the mayor had told a recent council workshop that he believes there are two tunnels running roughly parallel to each other under Burnett St.
The theory is that one is the disused sewer and the other is the historical tunnel reputedly used by convicts, patients or soldiers to travel underground between Willow Court and the river. I do not know what evidence exists to support this view and look forward to further investigations being carried out.
Whatever we find will add to the story of Willow Court and its significance as a historic site of national importance. Needless to say, I have a hardhat and headlamp ready to go!
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The Gordon Dam at the furthest corner of the municipality is one of the jewels of our area
We are very fortunate to have Tasmania's equal oldest national park in our municipality. Its centenary will be celebrated in 2016.
Dick Adams MHR has been kind enough to launch both volumes of the recent Derwent Valley history books we have produced locally.
In 2001 I travelled to England at my own expense to bid for the right to host the 2008 World Gathering of Norfolk and Norwich here in the Derwent Valley. During this interview on BBC Radio Norwich, it was announced that our bid had been successful
Official welcome
During my visit to Norwich, the chief city in the county of Norfolk, I was officially welcomed by the chairman of the County Council who probably didn't think signing the official visitors book was as funny as I seem to have done


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The Enjoyment Of Music Analysis
In Unit One of Kristine Forney, Andrew Dell'Antonio and Joseph Machlis' book, The Enjoyment of Music, we discuss a ton of different things. In the beginning of unit one, the authors write about melody, rhythm and meter, harmony, and the organization of musical sounds. Near the end of the unit the authors begin to write about musical texture, music styles, and music functions. The last topic discussed in unit one is sacred music in the middle ages. This unit provides us with insight on the basics of music and gives us a brief history on music during the middle ages.
In chapter one and two of The Enjoyment of Music, Forney, Dell' Antonio, and Machlis write about melody, rhythm, and meter. In chapter one, melody is the topic of discussion. Melody …show more content…
Music from is the organizing principle in music; its basic elements are repetition, contrast, and variation. Repetition puts the music in our heads while contrast catches our interest and variations keeps us from hearing the same thing every time. There are two basic forms in music Binary form and Ternary from. Binary from is the musical from (A-B). Ternary from is the musical form (A-B-A). Music has many different styles now, but it used to be primarily two different styles, secular or sacred. Secular music is worldly music not pertaining to the church. Sacred music is strictly religious based music. These two styles of music led to the creation of genres. Style has been defined as the characteristic way an artwork is presented. Genre are branches of styles in my opinion. Genres are like opera or symphony. For example, Symphony is a genre designation for a standard form usually a four-movement orchestral work. Music styles changes with every period of time. The authors wrote that music started with Gregorian chant (600-850), went to the Romanesque period (850-1150), then to the Renaissance period (1450-1600), to the Baroque period (1600-1750), to the Classical period (1750-1825), to the Romantic period (1820-1900), and through the twentieth century to now. Music has evolved drastically over these period of time and has changed the world for the
Music has a starting and ending point. What is different for all composers and their compositions is the middle. In the Baroque period, the piece generally begins on tonic, modulating to the dominant, transitioning back to tonic. Bach follows these conventional standards, yet he is able to invent music in such a way that his counterpoint is able to reflect interest and attention in his melodical ideas. Starting from the beginning, the Menuet spells out a G major chord.…
Analysis Of Symphony No. 40
In this exposition, the first theme is repeated several times, and then the second theme is introduced shortly after the first theme. The next section is the development, in which the various themes are developed, or expanded. The development of Symphony no. 40 includes the addition of several new chords, and the repetition of the first theme. This section also includes several sudden outbursts.…
The Argument Between Absolute Music And Program Music
He uses 4 movements change to present the intensity of melody. This piece has extreme contrasts which are dark to light and then high to low. Beethoven basically shows his talent in composing this music. He puts his technical skills in classical style and binds symphony into the unified whole. The use of…
Programme Music In The Romantic Period Analysis
Programme Music in the Romantic Period This essay will be exploring the romantic period in general, as well as the composer Edvard Greig and his piece: In the Hall of the Mountain King. Later on this essay will be critically analysing: 1. The Romantic period and its styles of music. 2. The importance of Romanticism in the history of music 3.…
Characteristics Of Romanticism In Poem
All these characteristics of romanticism that were shaped by the evolutionary changes made by the composers were also appeared in the requiems of the time. Requiem was now an independent musical form; the form of the concert requiem, which replaced the traditional liturgical one. The romantic requiems were performing in the concert halls and opera stages, and that was mainly because of their extended length. Although some composers such as Gounod, Liszt, Faure and Bruckner followed the traditional requiem length, most of romantic composers wrote longer compositions for one hour and more. Berlioz's and Verdi's requiems exceed one hour and the Dvorak's one last for two hours.…
Recitative Role In Music
Its debut in the earliest form came about in 1580 in a series of Discourses on Ancient Music and Good Singing written by Vincenzo Galilei. Galilei strived to build upon the idea of recreating the structure of dramatic storytelling. He began with a single melodic line that would act as the "narrator," ("Recitative"). Members of the Florentine Camerata also contributed to the development of the recitative by implementing their principles of virtuosic music. The earliest composition of recitative also came from the Florentine Camerata (Ulrich 68).…
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Programmatic Music Analysis
After Beethoven presents his two themes, Coriolan Overture enters the development section. An extended bridge means that the transition from exposition to development isn't clearly defined, but it has evidently taken place by 3:30, as the piece enters a period of dramatic long notes held in the lower register followed by sharp accents of higher forte notes played at marcato. This section of the piece, until about 4:40 when the resolution begins, is characterized by its surprises. The development of sonata-allegro is meant to explore the two themes established in the exposition, and Beethoven does so by weaving the two themes together and elaborating on each. The recapitulation again features each of the themes, one entering at 4:40 and one at 5:30.…
Classical Period Analysis
In the exposition the themes are present, then in the development the themes are presented in a new way and the themes reappear in the recapitulation. This is all concluded by the coda. An example of this is Symphony No. 40 in G Minor K. 550, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this piece, he displays sonata-form by displaying an initial theme, treating the theme in a new way, and the theme returns again.…
Rhetorical Analysis Rhetoric
So like reading a book title with a huge title insists that the composer wants you to see this first before any other smaller texts on a cover (like the author). LOGOS is a texts arrangement. So in other words what does the composer wants you to see first. To help you understand how to use analysis, follow the steps and ask yourself many questions regarding the text. Using rhetorical analysis to understand my assignment I see many strategies the composer used.…
Aesthetics: Chapter 4: The Artistic Impulse
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Vertov, sound technology, and 3D: Recent Blu-ray releases
Posted By bordwellblog On September 14, 2015 @ 8:46 am In 3D,Directors: Vertov,Documentary film,DVDs,Silent film | Comments Disabled
The Man with a Movie Camera.
Kristin here:
Every now and then we accumulate a few new DVDs and Blu-ray discs and write up a summary of each. This entry is the first time when all the discs discussed are Blu-ray. In fact, none of these releases is available in the DVD format.
Vertov and more Vertov
Soviet director Dziga Vertov is known primarily for The Man with a Movie Camera (1929), one of the most revered silent films. It is a documentary, an experimental film, a city symphony, and a witness to Soviet society in the late 1920s, all in one. Flicker Alley has done great service to silent Soviet cinema with its Landmarks of Early Soviet Cinema [2] and the serial Miss Mend [3] by Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep. Now it has brought out a Blu-ray disc [4] of a remarkable 2014 restoration of The Man with the Movie Camera.
This version is based largely on a print struck from the original negative and left by Vertov with the Filmliga of Amsterdam, an early cine-club. It subsequently passed to the Nederlands Filmmuseum. The restoration added clips culled from other archival prints to fill in gaps in this copy, producing an edition that will be a revelation to many who are used to the scratchy, contrasty, and cropped prints that have circulated for decades.
For one thing, seeing that missing left side of the frame makes a big difference. A booklet included [5] with the disc points out that modern versions are usually taken from sound prints of the film, which required that the left portion of the frame be reserved for the sound track. As a result, that area of the image was cropped out. This new release restores the full-frame original, and the result is dramatically different from earlier versions. Its visual quality is also impressive (see top).
Yet Flicker Alley has been too modest in emphasizing this as a release simply of The Man with a Movie Camera. The full title of the release is "Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and other Newly-Restored Works." Yet the "Other Newly-Restored Works," featured in very small print on the cover, are hardly incidental. They include features that many researchers and cinephiles have long wished that they could view in good prints–or any prints at all.
These other works include most of Vertov's famous features of the 1920s and early 1930s: Kino-Eye (1924), his first feature; Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1931), his first sound feature; and Three Songs about Lenin (1934), a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the death of Lenin.
I don't think any of these films is as important as The Man with the Movie Camera. For me, Kino-Eye is the most charming, with candid depictions of peasant festivals and the like. It was Vertov's first opportunity to stretch his ambitions after years of work in newsreels and documentaries. It has a spontaneity that perhaps disappeared in the later features.
The disc includes an informative booklet that discusses both the films and their restorations. As an extra, there is the 1925 Kino-Pravda newsreel episode that Vertov made to commemorate the first anniversary of Lenin's death. It incorporates rare newsreel footage of Lenin, cutting it together in ways that look like modern gifs.
The visual quality is inevitably variable, with the earlier films looking contrasty, but these are no doubt the best versions that we are likely ever to have. This Man with a Movie Camera supersedes the one from the BFI (in the UK) and from Kino (in the USA), though many will want to have the latter for its lovely score by Michael Nyman. The Flicker Alley version has a very different, but highly appropriate, score by the Alloy Orchestra.
Not all of Vertov's early features are included. For those who want more, Edition Filmmuseum's release [6]of A Sixth Part of the World (1926), The Eleventh Year (1928), both with a Michael Nyman score, and one shorter film plus a documentary on Vertov, remains a necessity.
3D curiosities
Flicker Alley has also developed a specialty in releasing DVDs and Blu-rays exploring film formats. The company has paid particular attention to Cinerama (This Is Cinerama [7], Cinerama [8]Holiday [8], South Seas Adventure [9], Windjammer [10], Seven Wonders of the World [11], and Search for Paradise [12]). Now, in celebration of the centennial of 3D exhibition , it branches out into 3D with 3-D Rarities [13], described as "A Collection of 22 [14]Ultra-rare and Stunningly Restored 3-D Films." (Since we cannot reproduce 3D frame enlargements, the images below are taken from the Flicker Alley webpage just linked.)
This BD brings together a thoroughly heterogeneous collection of short items, assembled into two programs. The first, "The Dawn of Stereoscopic Cinematography," covers the years from 1922 to 1952, with short films made outside mainstream Hollywood. Some test footage by Edwin S. Porter and William E. Waddell shown in 1915 no longer survives, so the earliest films on the program are "Kelley's Plasticon Pictures" (1922-23), including Thru' the Trees, a travelogue of Washington, D. C. featuring shots of famous buildings framed primarily by foreground tree branches to create planes in depth.
The items that follow range from promotional films to animated shorts to a burlesque comedy featuring two fairly tame striptease segments and two fairly unfunny comedians. A [15]promotional film for Chrysler shown at the New York World's Fair (New Dimensions, 1940) traces the assembly of a new Plymouth in great detail and with impressive animation, with the parts hopping around and sliding into place on their own.
For many the highlights of this first program will be four shorts from the National Film Board of Canada, two of them by Norman McLaren. The first, Now Is the Time (1951), uses the filmmaker's familiar drawn-on-film style (right), while the second, Around Is Around (1951), employs an oscilloscope to create more abstract patterns.
Films by two of McLaren's colleagues are also included: O Canada (1952) by Evelyn Lambart and Twirligig (1952) by Gretta Ekman. These films are among the only ones on the whole program where objects are not thrust or thrown "out" at the audience.
The first program ends with an advertisement, Bolex Stereo (1952), a camera which supposedly was going to bring 16mm 3D home-movies into people's living rooms. The complicated technology demonstrated shows why the idea did not catch on.
The second program, "Hollywood Enters the Third-Dimension," consists mainly of trailers interspersed with a few shorts. The trailers include It Came from Outer Space and Miss Sadie Thompson (both 1953). One fascinating film is Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott (1953), and I say this as one who has no interest in boxing. This 16-minute black-and-white film starts at the training camps of the two opponents and moves on to the match itself, in which Marciano famously knocked out Walcott in less than two minutes. The in-ring controversy over the call occupies the last part of the film, giving the whole thing a distinct dramatic shape. Multiple-camera filming and 3D add visual interest.
Stardust in Your Eyes (1953), a comedy short starring comic and impersonator Slick Slavin (aka Slaven in the credits), is said in the program notes to have been "a big hit at 3-D festivals. Judge for yourselves, but I advise keeping a finger on the next-chapter button for this one.
Few of these shorts can be said to be important classics of the 3D repertoire, but overall one gains a sense of the surprising range of films made with the process. One also learns that thrusting guns, spears, swords, and even sling-shots toward the audience, as well as throwing stones and other missiles at them, never grow old as far as the makers of these films are concerned. We have a pistol aimed at us in one of the "Kelley's Plasticon Pictures" from 1922 (below left) and a rifle in the trailer for Hannah Lee (1953, right).
At least we now have the 3D version of Mad Max: Fury Road to recharge this particular visual trope in highly original ways.
Sound marches on
Way back in 2008, when this blog was a mere two years old, I reported on the first volume of a two-disc set of DVDs inaugurating the highly ambitious project, A Century of Sound: The History of Sound in Motion Pictures [18]. That first volume covered the period to 1932. This one is entitled "The Sound of Movies: 1933-1975." There was of course a lot more recorded sound in that period, and the new set stretches to four Blu-ray discs, for a total of over twelve hours of running time.
I can't claim to have watched all those hours, but every section I sampled boasted extraordinary amounts of information. Robert Gitt, who originated the project with a 1992 lecture, again narrates. The coverage includes a huge number of rare diagrams, photographs, documents, and demo reels. In addition, many of the chapters add clips from films that contained the most innovative sound techniques of their day. The Garden of Allah, Okhlahoma!, Medium Cool, and many other titles are excerpted in superb copies.
The set as a whole is a gold mine for specialist researchers and technology buffs. The discs include long and detailed passages on such topics as push-pull recording and noise reduction, the latter a crucial challenge to the sound-recording industry for decades. Teachers who searched assiduously could find many clips suitable for classroom use.
A fair amount of the material ought to be interesting to nonspecialists too. For example, the third disc includes a history of early multi-channel and directional sound. The section on early stereophonic systems is fascinating, with its coverage of Leopold Stokowski's participation in the two most important early films to introduce this new technology to a popular audience: 100 Men and a Girl (1937) and Fantasia (1940). We get generous clips from each. From 100 Men and a Girl, we see most of the famous scene in which an orchestra plays on different levels of Stokowski's house and multiple channels allow sonic "close-ups" of each type of instrument over close views of that section of the orchestra:
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A thorough history of Fantasia includes the image below, typical of the sorts of material The Century of Sound presents: the Fantasound optical printer invented in order to print the multiple optical tracks used for the film's stereo.
And someone obviously could not resist including a goodly dose of the short dances from the Nutcracker Suite section of the film (see bottom).
The Century of Sound is not for sale commercially. It "is available free of charge to educational, archival and research institutions and to qualified individual educators, researchers and scholars as a not-for-profit educational resource." There is a modest fee for shipping. For information on ordering, write to CenturyofSound@cinema.ucla.edu.
Flicker Alley's release of This Is Cinerama provoked David to a survey of Cinerama aesthetics in an earlier entry [23].
Fantasia.
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[7] This Is Cinerama: http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/This-is-Cinerama-1952-60th-Anniversary-Edition/p/41384385/category=12445054
[8] Cinerama : http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/Cinerama-Holiday/p/41384434/category=12445054
[9] South Seas Adventure: http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/Cineramas-South-Seas-Adventure/p/41384435/category=12445054
[10] Windjammer: http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/Windjammer-The-Voyage-of-Christian-Radich-1958/p/41384398/category=12445054
[11] Seven Wonders of the World: http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/Cineramas-Seven-Wonders-of-the-World/p/41384444/category=12445054
[12] Search for Paradise: http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/Cineramas-Search-for-Paradise/p/41384465/category=12445054
[13] 3-D Rarities: http://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies/#!/3-D-Rarities/p/49245170
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[17] Image: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/Hannah-Lee-rifle-into-camera.jpg
[18] A Century of Sound: The History of Sound in Motion Pictures: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2008/02/01/all-singing-all-dancing-all-teaching/
[19] Image: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/100-Men-shot-1.jpg
[22] Image: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/Fantasia-Fantasound-optical-printer.jpg
[23] in an earlier entry: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2012/09/26/the-wayward-charms-of-cinerama/
[24] Image: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/Fantasia-dance-e1442673369432.jpg


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Letsrun is mentioned twice in the article. Fact.
Any R/Shiny experts in here? Would be awesome to have a slider bar for min/mi threshold and watch the graph change!
Yes could do percentage of miles as well as total maybe.
Any chance of making this a google sheet at least?
Trying to get you the KML data after 6/9, I know it exists. Reached out to UList and "Rob Arvie" strava user.
Awesome. I've 31 of the original 100. You're just outside that group, but it would be awesome to meet you too. Where are you running again?
Damn Gravity on those downhills!
Hi there typical off meds, depressed millennial LRCer stuck in mom's basement expecting everyone else to do work! How is your day so far?
The Guardian article has been shared 97 times already. Not a bad start for an article about ultrarunning.
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After realising that the team1.kml had disappeared, I started monitoring and saving the locations.js. It's 3 minute samples of just the timestamp + lon/lat, and only starts from 10:53 on 11 June, so misses the interesting stuff.
Awesome! 3 min time intervals for days! that's more accurate than the original team1.kml. how did you get that data?
Good to hear there are still British runners who don't blindly believe him.
Be careful, he has a lot of very aggressive fanboys.
I suspect his biggest problem is that he doesn't have a continuous set of data. But will he get away with that with the sponsor and investigator if the gaps happen to coincide with the most controversial sessions?
I saw a legitimate film crew with Rob east of Emporia during the day on June 4th. I don't know for sure that it was ESPN, but it seemed to match up with his blog (indicating the film crew was not with him continuously).
"...ESPN TV crew turned up to film Rob for the next day or two. The rest of that day was ESPN taking Rob off to film him in various situations..."
He didn't make much progress during the day on the 4th, (the tracker was even turned off for the afternoon).
"Rob made pretty good mileage through the night with ESPN joining us at about 4am to get some footage of Rob running at night and with the sun rising. For the rest of the day Rob allowed ESPN to interview me and him and to get other bits of footage that they wanted..."
Well, notice on the Guardian article which is a UK media outlet, basically no one is defending or supporting him. It's only on Facebook where that happens and in that UK Ultra Facebook group.
Yep. That was Robert "the troll" Lopez in that news article. Trust me. There was a good reason he was kicked out of MM and HMM. But that's a story for another time.
I ll have no issues with calling him a cheat each lap I see him at Equinox. At the end of the day, he is lying, making money from his book, and who knows how many false claims he has stated. He is a complete wanker!!
I put a post in there. Here is what I wrote.
I find it ironic that you write, "Discipline, self-regulation, integrity, respect for the rules. It helps set golf apart from other sports. A bit like the SKINS brand!"
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I have written in over the years that I am the proud son of a WW II European Theatre of Operations U.S. Army veteran. And what I know about his army service, is my Dad's oral history he repeated to me over the years of his life when I could even get him to talk about his army experience. I have no doubt that the stories he told me are true; that he served in France, Belgium and Germany; that he built bridges and was posted on sentry duty close to the front lines among a lot of other duties.
However, it is oral history; it was his recollections thirty or forty years after the fact. Time can play tricks with memories and the day to day grind of being a GI. I do have his discharge papers. It is fact that he got an honorable discharge. It is fact that he served in Europe and there are other indisputable facts, such as unit medals that he received while in the service.
His personnel records unfortunately no longer exist. A huge fire in the archives in St. Louis destroyed his and thousands of other individual servicemen's record who served in WW II, back in the 1970's. All I know for sure is what was printed on his discharge papers.
I recently found out through a good friend, whose dad also served in Europe, and whose personnel record no longer existed, that there was another way to research my dad's military service. He told me that while individual service records were destroyed in the tragic St. Louis fire, unit records were not destroyed. And these records are still preserved in the archives also in St. Louis. In fact my friend through an archives researcher he worked with was able to trace his dad's unit's movements all throughout Europe.
Turns out that all army units were, and are to this day, required to keep daily logs of all unit activities and movements. And like I said these World War II documents still exist. My friend, in fact received a packet of information from the researcher chronicling his dad's footsteps (his dad served in a mobile medical unit), and just this past year he walked in his dad's footsteps as he retraced his military journey through France and Belgium.
As I write this I am waiting for that same researcher to hopefully provide me with my dad's unit's history. If as and when I receive this information I have every intention in walking in my father's footsteps as he served our country in Europe during WW II. I can think of no better way to honor his service and honor his memory. I will keep you posted on my progress. And who knows maybe a VEGAS VOYAGERS trip in conjunction with the VEGAS VOICE'S SPIRIT OF 45 initiative might lead to a World War II historical trip to Europe.
I did indeed, receive the information on my father's army units movements at the end of World War II. Fact is, based on the daily logs that were provided to me, my Dad's memory turned out to be a bit hazy.
Unit movements show that his unit only got as far east as Rheims in France. At least that's where they appeared to be encamped. Unit patrols might have moved further east but I was unable to determine if he set foot in Belgium or Germany. He always claimed that he was stationed in the city of Rheims on the day in may 1945 that the German army surrendered to General Eisenhower and the allied forces, and that memory appears to be accurate. The records provided even show the date that the unit departed Europe bound for New York.
And finally, the records provided show any daily log unit remarks where my Dad's named is mentioned. As he always claimed, he was treated in a field hospital in England for a hand laceration that he claims was the result of an enemy shell that landed in his vicinity.
How a German shell might have landed in England in March of 1945 is an interesting question. The Germans were in retreat and not likely shelling England. German fighter aircraft were possibly still flying sorties over the UK but on a limited basis. I suspect the injury was more likely the result of "friendly" fire.
In any event the injury was identified as combat related. Technically speaking he was probably eligible for the Purple Heart. Realistically, the injury was so minor, that upon the completion of a minor surgical procedure to remove a piece of shrapnel. he went on his way. Knowing my father, the small lifelong scar in the palm of his hand was just enough reminder of his service to the country he dearly loved.
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Watch Kanye West's Medley From the World Aids Day (Red) Concert
Kanye West joined U2 (minus Bono), Carrie Underwood, Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin at a Time Square concert Monday to recognize World AIDS Day supporting (RED). Kanye delivered a nine-minute medley with some of his biggest hits, from "Power" to "Jesus Walks" to "Black Skinhead" to start.
"New York City, you are now rockin' with Yeezus," West announced to the excited audience.
He continued on with "Stronger" before a mixup that had his DJ playing the backing track too long, at which West had to tell him "Next song, you're supposed to cut. We on TV," before closing his set with "Touch the Sky."
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This is my first year taking part in Vegan Mo Fo, and wow… I feel kinda over my head. I've been trying to prepare for about a week, kind of getting a back log of recipes to upload so I don't fall behind. I'm feeling a little more confident now, very nervous but also extremely excited to read everyone else's posts this next month!
To have such a concentrated month of vegan everything pouring in from all over the world is just amazing, and shows how big this movement/way of life/thinking has spread and will continue to spread across the world. With every blog post we write one new person might be reached, (hopefully more) who will take a second look at the way they live and eat and re-think their decisions… hopefully deciding in future to make more compassionate choices. After all… most of us wouldn't be who we are today without certain conversations had, or videos watched at important times in our lives.
So I plan to spend this next month celebrating the vegan food that I love to eat and love to make and hopefully some of you will get as much enjoyment from vegan food as I do everyday!
My first recipe comes from a meal I made about a week ago where I catered a dinner party for some family and family friends… to some people who were new to veganism, and very new to seitan!
Start by rubbing together 3 Tbsp of the olive oil, seitan and ras el hanout and place in the fridge to marinade while you prepare everything else, or for 30 minutes or so.
Heat olive oil in a large high sided non stick pan (or if you have a tagine even better!), add onions and cook until softened. Then add the seitan and turn up the heat to brown and crisp up the seitan chunks. Once brown add the garlic, stir and cook for 1 minute then add all ingredients from chopped tomatoes through to the agave.
Bring tagine to the boil, reduce heat to simmer, half cover with a lid and leave to simmer for about 1-3 hours to combine all the flavours and reduce the liquid (depending on how much time you have, the longer the better really).
Once liquid has reduced down and your kitchen smells amazing, throw in the coriander, parsley and almonds, stir through and serve.
I like to serve this Tagine alongside lemon and coriander couscous and a mint and cucumber yogurt.
So happy to announce the winners of our VegFest London Tickets giveaway are….
Congratulations!! I will be sending you both a pair of tickets for London VegFest, Sunday 28th September. Thanks to everyone that entered on the blog page or via twitter and facebook!
Ooh, this looks awesome! I should make it for my boyfriend, he loves tagine – or as he calls it 'tahinis'. At first I'm sure it was a mistake but I think now he just does it because it makes me giggle. Have you used a mix of regular and pearl couscous there?
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That looks incredible! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
As for Vegan MoFo… I've been doing it for years, and it's kind of nervous, but it's also super low pressure. If you miss a day, that's okay! It's a challenge, but there wont be any vegan police coming around to take you off the vegan mofo RSS feed.
Happy Vegan MoFo, you're already off to a great and delicious looking start!
yay!! three cheers for first time mofoers! You can do it! I'm a veteran mofoers, but I still always feel nervous and excited at the beginning of the month. Also, that dinner looks really spectacular! I bet your dinner guests were delighted!
Thanks for your comment. Its so awesome to hear from other mofoers! I only started this blog earlier this year and it feels like such a community online. The guest were very happy-one guy had never heard of seitan so it was nice to show new people some easy, tasty and filling alternatives to meat where you can't even tell the difference.
First time mofoer here too! Definitely overwhelmed. This looks incredible I'm hungry now!
As a fellow first-timer, I feel your stress! Looking forward to seeing your favorite recipes this month. This tagine looks amazing!
Thanks stephanie. I look forward to your recipes too… its gonna be an awesome month of food!


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A gauge of success for any exhibit is how well it engages the community. With a good turn-out from its very start, community support and enthusiasm have been evident at Thacher Gallery's current exhibition, Interwoven: Indigenous Contemporary, curated by museum studies graduate students in John Zarobell's Fall 2015 curatorial practicum and open until February 14, 2016.
Interwoven: Indigenous Contemporary's November 19 opening packed the house! Through events like an artist panel, a reception, art activities, and a community day, the artists whose work is on display have been able to reach their audience not only through their work, but through a deeper and more varied dialogue.
Artists Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Katie Dorame, and Rye Purvis spoke at the Artist Panel, in USF's McLaren Conference Center, the evening of the opening of this powerful show. These three provided an excellent variety of perspectives on the uneasy interactions between contemporary California Native Americans and the historic missions.
Hulleah discussed how she had initially eased people into an understanding of the topics in her art. But, she believes that if an artist remains continually in this introductory mode, the art will always start at square one. Eventually, it is necessary to move forward, into more meaningful work. Hulleah also mentioned the merits of studying traditional art, but again emphasized the need to move forward, artistically and culturally. Much progress is yet to be made in museums and in galleries, who both often play it safe and frequently stereotype Indigenous art.
Katie described Hollywood's misrepresentation of Native Americans, as well as its alternate total absence of portrayal. As Katie said, "Hollywood is not the most reliable source for history"— a comment that drew knowing laughter from the audience. Growing up in Southern California, she saw Hollywood's influence on American culture. Katie inspirationally described making the art that she would've wanted available for her 5-year-old self, or during her own childhood.
Rye is aware that her art will evoke a variety of responses. She sees this even within her own family. Rye's art breaks down assumptions about the southwest and New Mexico. Rye also raised awareness for us about the local Native organization SNAG, which works with Native youth artistically, spiritually, and politically. You can check it out at SnagMagazine.com.
At the conclusion of the Artist Panel, Kanyon Sayers-Roods began the opening reception for the exhibit in Thacher Gallery, with a blessing and a welcome to Ohlone Territory. She raised this important question: "other people will always know something that we do not, but, once we learn this knowledge from them, how do we apply it and change our perceptions and our actions?" Food for thought indeed.
Geri Montano leading activities at Community Day at USF in November.
Community Day arrived that weekend. And for that day, we were fortunate to have talented contributing artists leading public programs. For example, visitors were engaged by exhibiting artist Geri Montano, as she led us in a printmaking activity. A fun time was had by all, thanks to Geri's artistry and her gracious warmth. Following our art activities with Geri, a community meeting continued in the gallery, led by True Pride Music's hiphop artists Tyler Peyron, Nataanii Means Witko, and Curtis Ray Yaz, who facilitated a strong dialogue on the ideas underlying much of the art in Interwoven: Indigenous Contemporary. Thanks to these artists' intelligence and talent, the exhibit reached the community in a more comprehensive way.
True Pride, a collective of Native American hip hop artists.
As we students arrive back on campus in January 2016, you are again invited to come to Thacher Gallery and see Interwoven: Indigenous Contemporary, open though February 14, 2016. Come experience this beautiful array of styles presented by fifteen talented contemporary Indigenous artists. Experience the thought-provoking visual expressions and the strong bright humor of the descendants of those who lived here first.
Featured artist James Luna will speak at the closing ceremony, wrapping up this vibrant event, Thursday February 11, 2016, at 5pm in McLaren 251 on the University of San Francisco campus. Everyone is invited.
Jenna, Annie, Isabel and Owen installing work by James Luna for the exhibition.
The convergence of talent for these events has been a blessing to USF, Thacher Gallery, and San Francisco. Bravo to Curatorial Professor John Zarobell and Gallery Director Glori Simmons. Many thanks also to the Museum Studies students and to all those who worked hard in the background to guarantee a superb show.
For more information on USF's Museum Studies program, click here.


Lakeland College's Student-Managed Farm (SMF) – Powered by New Holland is making headlines in Norway thanks to Tore Glaerum.
He and three other students – Camilla Bye, Andreas Myki Beachell and Ole Jakob Ulberg – are studying at the Vermilion campus on exchange from Hedmark University College. All are completing the final semester of their bachelor degree program, which ranges from engineering to agronomy. And Glaerum's sharing this learning opportunity with everyone back home with his articles in Traktor – a Norwegian magazine.
"The first article I wrote about featured the SMF, the college and why we're here," he says, adding two other articles will feature machinery and equipment. "We talked about doing an exchange program and we wanted to go to North America. Lakeland is one of the colleges our college has an agreement with and here we are.
According to Glaerum, the average farm in Norway is 70 acres, whereas the average Canadian farm is 778 acres (2011 Stats Canada).
"We're dreaming of bringing a swather back home with us," adds Ulberg, with a laugh.
The exchange students had the opportunity to visit a few local farms, thanks to their classmates. They've also travelled to Banff, Jasper, Vancouver and Calgary.
"And New Norway," says Ulberg with a laugh, of the town close to Camrose.
"It's been really enjoyable to meet new people and spend time with Canadians," says Bye.
The exchange students are completing several courses in the crop technology program, including diversified crop production, integrated crop management and financial management – while they complete their bachelor thesis, which is a requirement of their degree program. Living on campus, the students have participated in a number of college activities including Greenspiel, Little Royal and a visit to Farm Tech.
"We'd definitely recommend this exchange to other students," adds Ulberg.
Photos: Top from left, Ole Jakob Ulberg, Tore Glaerum, Camilla Bye and Andreas Myki Beachell left Norway to complete the final semester of their degree programs at Lakeland College. While taking three crop technology courses, they are writing their thesis for Hedmark University College. Bottom, photos from Glaerum's first article - titled "Enterprising exchange in Canada" - for the Norwegian magazine Traktor.


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Trying to figure out a problem that just started today. Got an AX650 with an Asus P8Z77-V and an 3570K. System was built in early July and has been running fine. No over clock at this time.
Booted up today and got an error that 5V was too high. PC rebooted.
Went into the BIOS and 5V in voltage monitoring section was showing around 5.5v in red. As I watched, it climbed to over 6v and the PC rebooted again. Tried resetting BIOS to defaults, no good. Checked all cabling, everything seems fine.
Can't get the PC to stay up for more than 30 seconds. Is this a bad PSU? It was fine yesterday.
Also tried disabling Asus surge protection and 5v monitoring. Still rebooting.


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Should never have listened to that spider.
The hat frenzy continues. I fear that it may be some knitted form of procrastination, where I pretend that I'm doing something vitally important and crafty when all I'm really doing is using up some odd bits of yarn. Creative? Of course, but what I'm creating is a big pile of hats whose intended heads haven't been discovered yet. I'm sure some heads will occur to me later on but for now all I seem to be doing is making hats when I should be spinning, or writing or feeding the cat.
This hat has found the correct head..
All the same, hats are handy things to have if you don't want to think too much about a pattern or, if like me you are knitting on the bus, or in a cafe. There are at least two jumpers in the back of my mind that I'd love to cast on but I know that they will take up too much room in a bag and will definitely take up too much room in my brain to knit in company. Hats it is then.
Hat surgery was required to re-knit a floppy rib.
I was in Glasgow last weekend, hence the need for travel-safe knitting. Friday saw us at the wonderfully named Glad Cafe in Shawlands, watching the Scottish Clarinet Quartet. The SCQ were performing a score by Matt Rodgers which was accompanied by visuals from my chum Matt Hulse. There was a trailer shown for Matt H's latest feature film which oddly enough features me. You can see it here. I'm easy to spot.The rest of the week has been peaceful and often horizontal. I've read and knitted and slept. When that became too much, I wrapped the cat up in brown paper.
Scottish children are brought up with the story of Robert the Bruce. Robert was a disheartened king who was inspired to carry on by the sight of a spider trying and eventually succeeding to make her web. The lesson he learned - if at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again.
I'm in need of some spiderly inspiration myself this week after spending days knitting what I thought would turn out to be a fabulous hat. Instead of a beautiful striped affair all I have to show for my efforts is two skeins of unravelled yarn soaking in a bowl. I had hoped to make this hat and I've got no quarrel with the pattern as I was using handspun yarn and didn't make a gauge swatch. That'll teach me. While I loved knitting the clever shaping and the bright slipped stitches, the end product was too floppy to show them off and the rib had a terrible tendency to slide down over my eyes. To make matters worse, I'd already used this yarn to knit another hat pattern that tuned out too big. I'm beginning to wonder if I've been cursed with a particularly small noggin.
The felt balls before. best use for a pair of tights ever.
If at first you don't succeed - rip the thing back and cast on for another hat. That's what I love about knitting, there are very few mistakes that can't be rectified by ripping back, felting or some other radical act of craftwork. This time I will be re-knitting in a pattern called Joon. I'll make the stripes different and omit the slipped stitches for this one. Who knows, the third attempt might just be the winner.
After - cat waits patiently.
It isn't all bad, in the last wee while I've knitted two successful projects and have been persevering with my Jacob fleece prep. I'm using some of the leftovers from combing to make felted balls. Magnus thinks that they are cat toys but I really meant to make felted garlands. The cat has won so far. There are wooly spheres rumbling around all over the floor. There is a lot of fleece to use up so by Christmas there might be enough of them to please me and the beast.
Kaiso pattern from Knitted Socks East and West. Modified to use some Manx Laoghtan handspun.


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MIL-OSI Russia: Employees of the Representative Office of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Czech Republic were awarded with departmental medals "For services in perpetuating the memory of the fallen defenders of the Fatherland"
As part of summing up the results of military memorial activities for 2019-2020. 23 Russian and Czech citizens were awarded medals of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "For services in perpetuating the memory of the fallen defenders of the Fatherland." The award ceremonies were held at the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic, the Russian Consulates General in Karlovy Vary and Brno, as well as at the Russian Center at the West Bohemian University in Pilsen.
As a result of archival research work in 2019-2020. The mission established 9132 names of servicemen previously buried as unknown. Additional personal data (place of birth, place of service, information about relatives) have been clarified, allowing to identify a serviceman and thereby determine his fate, for 11,813 people.
An alphabetical list has been formed for more than 25,000 people, Russian and Soviet military personnel, as well as citizens of the USSR buried in the Czech Republic.
The "Catalog of Russian (Soviet) military burials on the territory of the Pilsen region of the Czech Republic" has been published, which includes 89 Russian (Soviet) burials, where the remains of 544 soldiers are buried.
A methodological manual has been published to obtain the necessary amount of knowledge and skills for organizing and cataloging Soviet military graves in European countries, for an independent search for information about the dead. The manual is actively used to train members of military historical associations and search activists.
To cover the military memorial activities aimed at solving the problems of perpetuating the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland, and events to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Victory, the Representative Office has developed and is actively filling the page "Military Memorial Work" on the official website of the Russian Embassy.
Additionally, 20 publications were prepared for the Embassy's Facebook page, and more than 100 publications in the central media of 20 regions of Russia with lists of established names and information on the work done.
Repairs were carried out at 65 military graves with funds from the Russian Federation, as a result of which the names of 10,235 Red Army soldiers were immortalized.
10 solemn and mourning events were held to unveil memorial plates and tablets perpetuating the names of the Red Army soldiers. At the honorary military graves in the cities of Frydek-Mistek, Jihlava, Orzhekhov, the grand opening was combined with the ceremony of taking land for the Main Church of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco prosecutors have charged former 49ers tight end Bruce Miller with multiple counts of assault and battery after police say he attacked a 70-year-old man and his son while intoxicated.
The San Francisco District Attorney's office said it filed seven charges against Miller Thursday, including assault with a deadly weapon.
Police say Miller tried to enter a hotel room occupied by an elderly couple on Monday. The couple's son was staying in the next room, and police say Miller attacked him and his 70-year-old father after the son told Miller he was at the wrong room. Miller allegedly punched the father.
Prosecutors say the deadly weapon was a cane.
A call to Miller's attorney, Joshua Bentley, was not immediately returned.
Miller's agent, Jack Reale, said there was more to the case than meets the eye, but declined additional comment.
The 49ers released Miller on Monday.
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