It's week 3 of our summer series on the parables of Jesus this week. And this week we're thinking together about two stories Jesus told with something in comon: the parable of the lost sheep and the parable of the lost coin.
Have you ever got lost? And/or, have you ever lost something and worried that it was lost forever? What was the "found" feeling like?
Why do you think the Pharisees objected to Jesus welcoming the "tax collectors and sinners" and eating with them?
Jesus says there's rejoicing over sinners who "repent". What do you think repenting means? Why is it so important to Jesus?
In both these stories, the "finders" are desperate to find the one sheep or coin that they've lost, even though they have plenty of others left. What does it say about God that he devotes so much energy to finding even just one lost person?
As Christians, we often think of ourselves as having been "found". But are there still ways that we're sometimes lost and need to be found?
Please share any of your answers to these questions, or any other thoughts or reflections about these parables in the comments below. And join us at 10:45 on Sunday morning as we worship, explore these parables and share Communion together!
Hello, it's me again – long time, no blog!
We at Greenfield Church want to end the Christmas season with a bang, not a whimper. So we want as many people in Urmston as possible to help us find Urmston's Favourite Carol!
Throughout December, we want you to nominate your top 3 Christmas carols. Over Christmas itself, we'll collate all the results. Then, at our special service on Sunday 5 January, we'll announce the top 5 and reveal what Urmston's Favourite Carol is.
By email: Send your top 3 in an email to info@greenfieldchurch.co.uk, putting "Urmston's Favourite Carol" in the subject line.
Your vote needs to be with us by Christmas Eve to be counted.
So what will it be? Hark The Herald Angels Sing? Away In a Manger? Silent Night? Vote now and join us on January 5th to discover Urmston's Favourite Carol and give this Christmas a special send-off.
PS Don't forget Greenfield Church is now on Twitter! Follow us using @GfieldChurch. Can you fit your vote for Urmston's Favourite Carol into one tweet?
Here's my sermon from yesterday, based on Malachi 3:1-4 and Luke 3:1-6. Not an easy set of passages to preach from, or a particularly easy theme (especially when it's the church Christmas lunch afterwards!).
By the way, if you do read these then please comment on them using the box below (or e-mail me if you'd prefer) – all (constructive) feedback would be gratefully received!
It's been a long time since I lasted posted one of my sermons (or even since I lasted posted here and enjoyed a brief moment of post-Baptist Assembly popularity). But since it's Advent and, therefore, technically the start of a new church and Lectionary year, I thought this was a good time to get into the habit once more.
So, here's the sermon from Advent Sunday, which is based on Jeremiah 33:14-16 and Luke 21:25-36. There's also a leaflet with some reflections and questions on it about the two passages.
(From memory, you have to right click on the links and then choose the equivalent of "Save target as…" from the menu that appears in order to download them – please let me know if there's another way. I'm going to look to find a better of way of linking to documents etc., all suggestions gratefully received!).
Yesterday's sermon was part of our special service for Education Sunday (as mentioned on this blog previously). The passage was Mark 1: 29-39, which covers Jesus' healing of Simon Peter's mother-in-law and His decision to spread His message through the other villages in the area.
We focussed on the latter part of this. It followed a testimony from a teacher from our local infant school who had come to this service. She shared what teaching meant to her, what a privilege it was and some of the ups and downs, highs and lows of teaching.
I tried to tie the sermon in with that. I took the idea of Jesus' mission being the thing that drove Him on, rather than the popularity He was experiencing in Capernaum; this mission, I suggested, was bringing the good news of the coming of God's Kingdom. And it was this I likened to what was shared about the job of teaching: how, like a good teacher builds relationships with pupils and parents, God works in our lives by building relationships with us, rather than just telling us what to do.
We then noted how, when Jesus leaves Capernaum and goes on, He calls His disciples to follow Him: "Let us go". I suggested that Jesus, too, was inviting all of us, in our own callings, to go with Him and partner with Him in His ongoing mission to spread the good news of the Kingdom. This is something that we are learning, but that at the same time we take with us.
Here's the sermon notes, if you're interested in reading them, they're in Word .doc format. Again, I think it works best if you right click on the link and select "Save Link As…" or the equivalent. And if you do read them, please comment below!
Yesterday's sermon was based on Mark 1:21-28, the story of Jesus driving out an evil spirit from a man in the synagogue in Capernaum. We thought primarily about what this (and the reactions of the people to Jesus' teaching in the synagogue before the exorcism) might have to say about Jesus' authority.
Authority often seems to be a dirty word these days: we don't like being bossed around. Yet Mark here presents a whole town (almost) as being amazed by Jesus' authority: in his teaching (which Mark says was like nothing they'd heard before) and in his freeing the possessed man.
We suggested that Jesus' authority was something that liberates: rather than seeking to control and exercise power over people (as a "bossy" authority would), Jesus brings an authority that somehow sets people free. It is an authority that exercised over the things that hold people, that prevent them from coming to God; it doesn't seem to be exercised over people themselves (in the sense of controlling them, putting them down).
We then thought about some of the things that might hold us: fears & worries; sins; things that have hurt us in life. Finally, we went through a short time of imaginative prayer, picturing ourselves in the synagogue and bringing just some of those things that hold us to Jesus.
The notes (and they are notes – I hope the above helps explain them!) are attached below; please read them and comment on what you think of them!
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India: Student housing rental Stanza Living in talks to raise up to $50m
Stanza Living co-founders Sandeep Dalmia (left) and Anindya Dutta. Photo: livemint.
By M Sriram
Student housing rental startup Stanza Living is in talks to raise up to $50 million in a fresh round on the back of significant inbound interest, said two people aware of the matter, requesting anonymity.
Its existing investors, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Matrix Partners, will participate in the round, said one of the two people mentioned above. Mint could not immediately ascertain the names of the new investors, but US- and Asia-based private equity funds and hedge funds are among those vying to lead the round, the person said.
Stanza, founded by Anindya Dutta and Sandeep Dalmia, offers fully furnished homes for college students with housekeeping, internet facilities and added services such as laundry, doctors and a concierge. It started in Delhi and Greater Noida and has expanded to Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Indore, Vadodara and Dehradun this year. Its monthly rentals range from ₹7,000 to ₹20,000.
Stanza said on Tuesday that it has raised $4.4 million in debt from Alteria Capital, a venture debt firm. This takes the total capital raised by the two-year-old firm to nearly $17 million. Accel and Matrix had invested $2 million in its seed round in November 2017. It had raised another $10 million round led by Sequoia last September.
Sequoia declined to comment, while Accel, Matrix and Stanza did not respond to e-mails seeking comment.
For the current fiscal year, Stanza, run by DTwelve Spaces Pvt. Ltd, will report revenues of ₹20 crore, which it plans to grow to₹150 crore by the end of the next fiscal year, said the second person, aware of the startup's plans. Stanza is profitable at the unit level and does not immediately need the money it is looking to raise, the person said. The startup aims to have 100,000 beds registered under its domain by 2021. It has 15,000 beds at present, he said. Stanza caters specifically to student housing.
However, the broader co-living market has seen rising investor interest, as startups look to tap into a fragmented and unorganized market. Another student housing startup, OxfordCaps, which provides housing facilities in India and Singapore, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $8 million from Times Internet, Kalaari Capital and Silicon Valley-based 500 Startups.
Co-living and home rental startup Zolostays had raised $30 million in January from IDFC Alternatives, Mirae Global Asset Management and Nexus Venture Partners, while Mint had reported on 15 February that home rental startup NestAway is talking to Chinese investors, such as Fosun and Shunwei Capital, to raise $100 million. The country's largest hospitality startup, Oyo Rooms, which has amassed a war chest of nearly $1 billion, launched its housing rental arm Oyo Living late last year. It aims to expand to the top 10 metros by the end of 2019 and offer more than 50,000 beds.
Co-living as an alternate to student housing is also a way for operators to increase occupancy and renewals, especially until India's student housing inventory develops.
Cities such as Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai, as well as the National Capital Region, are well-positioned to tap into the co-living market, according to a report from Knight Frank. This is evident from the gross enrolment ratios of students and job opportunities created as a result of expansion by occupiers across IT, BFSI, FMCG, telecom and media and other sectors.
However, it would be best to avoid presence in towns or cities that are heavily dependent only on education as a hub to attract millennials, according to the report. That said, the unmet demand for student housing is also a huge opportunity for the co-living sector as the end-user segment for student housing is also a subset for the co-living sector's overall demand universe, it said.
This article was first published on livemint.com
Stanza Living

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Earlier this month the American Cancer Society (ACS) released new guidelines for mammography screening for women as published by the American Medical Association. http://www.cancer.org/index The new guidelines delay the recommended age when most women (not those at higher risk) should start receiving mammograms to age 45. The previous guideline recommended women at normal risk for breast cancer to start getting screening mammograms at age 40.
Already the American College of Radiology http://www.acr.org/ and the Society of Breast Imaging http://www.sbi-online.org/ have released statements holding firm with their recommended age of 40. I suspect physicians and physician organizations will do the same. There seems to be no rationale to the ACS's new recommendation, although the changed guideline is claimed to be based on research and guidelines issued in 2009 by the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/ . The latter guideline issued by USPSTF has received much criticism as well.
How does the new guideline by the ACS make any sense? ACS advertisements ask us to "join the fight against cancer" while seeking donations for cancer research. The ACS claims to be "the official sponsor of birthdays" while promoting to us (and rightfully so) the lives they have saved in accomplishing their goals. Yet now the ACS has decided to cast away women younger than 45 years of age who may benefit from an earlier mammogram, or who may have their lives saved by this non-evasive, relatively inexpensive test. What a shame.
I have pursued many medical negligence claims against physicians who have not recommended earlier mammography. In the field of medical malpractice litigation, these new guidelines will have a profound effect. Physicians that fail to discuss earlier mammograms with their patients will now rely on the ACS guideline in court proceedings. Physicians that fail to prescribe a mammogram to their patients before age 45 will be absolved from liability.
Yet, according to earlier published reports by the ACS, one in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer during their lifetime, regardless of age. According to the ACS, there will be over 200,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer each year. Breast Cancer is the second leading cause of death for women with cancer between the ages of 20-59. Moreover, while it is well know that women at risk for breast cancer due to a family history or otherwise have a higher chance of getting the disease before age 40, the ACS has not recommended any guideline for earlier screening for the at-risk women in this category.
The new ACS guidelines will not save any more lives. They may lessen the burden of taking mammograms on the medical professionals, and lower the costs for the medical insurance companies. However, the end result will be women under the age of 45 with undiagnosed breast cancer and more deaths caused by the disease.


The word 'promotion' sends so many signals into our minds. We begin to build castles in the air just at the mere thought of attaining one. Not to mention the fat salary cheques and bonuses that will be finding their way into our wallets and purses. That's not all. You are entitled to more privileges than you can imagine. The thought of having been raised a position higher than you were will make you go crazy with excitement. However, most of us have worked for so long and can neither see nor smell any signs of a promotion. Not to worry, we shall unleash some rather helpful tips on how to rise fast at the work place.
If you are always late and the boss always misses you at your work station, you have some polishing up to do. Being a new year, make it your resolution to always be on time. With the goal of getting promoted in mind, you will get all the motivation you need. Set an alarm clock if you have to but just make sure that you are the earliest bird.
We all know that no one is perfect but in this case, try to be. Your work should speak for itself even when it finds its way to your seniors. This doesn't come too easy as you have to put in some extra effort. If it means you have to work late then so be it. This is that phase in your life when you have to stretch beyond your limits and grow. You might have to work late and wake up extra early. If you want that office with a beautiful view, you have to work towards it. Push yourself towards that promotion.
This might be a bit too hard for some of us to do but it's high time you left your comfort zone. Get those extra coffees and doughnuts in the morning, and you watch the atmosphere around the office change. Your colleagues will grow so fond of you they will even nominate you for president of the entire country! The point is that you have to learn to live in harmony with others. Not forgetting even the most annoying characters in the office. These need your attention all the more.
You have to learn how to do some tasks outside your area of expertise. A simple act of efficiency will catapult you to high positions beyond your wildest dreams. This way, your boss will begin to have confidence in you and will have no qualms about elevating you to a higher position. It will take time adjusting to this new way of doing things, but it is worth every effort you put in. Being indispensable involves doing things that no one else can.
The online platform should never pass you by especially in matters to do with getting a promotion. This is where all the most professional and qualified experts give their expert opinion at no extra cost. Read widely so that no useful information passes you by.


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Old Opera House Theatre Company
Charles Town, WV
Broadway-style musicals, plays, children's theatre, art, music and dance in the oldest live theatre in West Virginia.
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The Bennett Agency & American Public University System present ... KRIS KRINGLE THE MUSICAL ... DEC 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15. Book by Maria Ciampi, Music and Lyrics by Tim Janis and Angelo Natalie - A Family-friendly holiday treat
Tickets: www.oldoperahouse.org
Kris Kringle The Musical, The Nutcracker, Happy Thanksgiving! - https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/happy-thanksgiving-and-holiday-shows-3348693
A busy month ahead at the Old Opera House. KRIS KRINGLE THE MUSICAL, December 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and The NUTCRACKER, December 20, 21, 22. Plus the Potomac River Artists Guild in the Jean Heiler Art Gallery Dec 5-22. You don't want to miss the fun!! Tickets: www.oldoperahouse.org
Perfect Arrangement at the Old Opera House Theatre
PERFECT ARRANGEMENT by Topher Payne at the Old Opera House Theatre in Charles Town.
Don't miss Topher Payne's comedy/drama PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, opening Friday, October 11 at the Old Opera House in Charles Town. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two "All-American" couples are forced to stare down the closet door. October 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Tickets: http://www.oldoperahouse.org/
DON'T MSS this engaging and funny comedy/drama at the Old Opera House Theatre in Charles Town, opening this Friday. Directed by Glenn Frail and featuring Teri Partain Campbell, Tommy Hegarty, David Lusk, Jeffrey Marcum, Ryan McGaughey, Caitlin Caitlin Lebetz Mitchell, and Mel Powell.
It's the 1950's, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There's just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay and have married each other's partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two "All-American" couples are forced to stare down the closet door.
October 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20
Rated PG13
Don't miss the fun of our Annual Autumn Auction on OCT 5th or the opening of Perfect Arrangement on OCT 11th! - https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/autumn-auction-and-perfect-arrangement #auction #WV #CharlesTown
Deliver Us From Mama! - You won't want to miss this World Premiere of a Jones-Hope-Wooten Comedy - OPENS: SEPT 6! - https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/deliver-us-from-mama-a-sept-comedy
Great news … the Old Opera House Theatre Company & Arts Centre has a new employee. We have hired Lee Hebb to work as our new Production Manager / Volunteer Coordinator. This new position will keep the Old Opera House focused on its mission to "Excite and involve the community in all aspects of the performing and visual arts." Lee comes with an exceptionally strong background in theatre and design having earned degrees in scenic design from both WVU and Florida State University. He has worked regionally with such theaters as West Virginia Public Theater, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Musicals, Other Voices Theatre, and Washington County Playhouse, just to name a few.
We are excited to have Lee on board and send a special thanks to the Old Opera House Board of Directors and the WV Division of Culture and History for making this position possible.
Chelsea McBee Concert - Covers and Originals
AUGUST 9th 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:00pm, $15.00 General Admission.)
Join us for a special summer evening featuring Chelsea McBee, a fabulous local singer-songwriter on Friday evening, August 9th. The evening will also feature the aerial artistry of Mark Harding.
MATILDA the musical at the Old Opera House, July 26 - August 4, 2019. Scenery by Lee Hebb, Costumes by Christine Brewer, Lighting by Emma Eckert, Sound by Rico Massimino, Projections by Christina Smith. Photographs by Adam Blackstock.
AUDITIONS!! ... Deliver Us From Mama!
Sunday, July 28 at 6:30pm
Monday, July 29 at 6:45pm
The World Premiere of a Jones-Hope-Wooten comedy:
Norleen Sprunt is used to getting her way. No matter how much she has to cajole, wheedle or meddle, Mama knows how to get 'er done – just ask her grown children, Savannah and Walker. The two of them are just about to get another big dose of Mama's determination when Walker's wife unexpectedly goes into labor two thousand miles away in Alabama. Stuck in L.A. because of an Air Traffic Controllers' strike, Mama leads the charge and wrangles her reluctant children into embarking on what turns out to be a hysterical, out-of-control cross-country road trip. The clock is ticking as she and her quarreling offspring race through some of America's most unbelievably eccentric and hilarious backroad communities… and heaven help anyone who gets in Mama's way. Mama WILL get to Birmingham in time for the birth of her first grandchild. This World Premiere Jones Hope Wooten Comedy will get your motors racing as it delivers miles and miles of smiles and laughter!
Roles are available for a adults age 20+
This show will be presented at the Old Opera House in Charles Town on September 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
Summer Family FUN: Matilda the Musical Opens July 26th & fabulous local singer-songwriter, Chelsea McBee on stage AUG 9th- https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/summer-family-fun-matilda-the-musical
Two great events at the Old Opera House in Charles Town this summer. The 2019 Summer Family show, presented by Charles Town KIWANIS ... Roald Dahl's MATILDA the Musical on July 26, 27, 28, & August 2, 3, 4, 2019.
And Singer-songwriter Chelsea McBee ... a fabulous evening of music that will also feature the aerial artistry of Mark Harding on August 9th at 7:00PM
Tickets for both events at https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/
Charles Town Kiwanis and The Old Opera House Theatre Company present the 2019 Summer Family Show: Roald Dahl's MATILDA THE MUSICAL, July 26, 27, 28, & August 2, 3, 4, 2019.
The story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny.
The Old Opera House's 19th Annual New Voice Play Festival came to a close yesterday. The weekend was full of exciting new plays by some very gifted playwrights and performed by some very talented actors. Here are the weekend results:
Winning the Golden Curtain Award (1st place) was the play YARD SALE (2019) written by Charlie Perkins (Charles Town) and directed by Jennifer Donnelly George. This warm-hearted play featured Sheree Cipicchio, "Geronimo Miranda Caitlyn Caitlin Lebetz Mitchell, Kevin Udy, and Katie Wilson
Winning the Silver Stage (2nd place) was a play that told the naked truth, WHEN ALL IS REVEALED by Carl Williams (Houston, TX), directed by Meaghan Barry Whitney, and featuring Thomas Bricker, Autumn Cathleen Carver, Glenn Frail and Donna Hamstead.
Winning one of the two Spotlight Awards (3rd place) was the chilling comedy FROZEN IN TIME by Mike Sockol (Holmdel, NJ) and directed by Gilbert Z, and featuring Jeff Elkins, Richard Hamstead, Dominic Massimino, Kelly Pannill and Linda Romero.
Winning the second Spotlight Award was the hard-hitting drama TEMPTING THE HAND OF FATE by Chuck Smith (Woodbridge, VA) and directed by Valorie Phillips, featuring Charles R Boyce, Liz McCormick, and Elizabeth Egan
Lighting by Danielle Dodd, Sound by Enrico Massimino, Pin Rail by John-Michael Rolnick, Stage Managed by Christine Brewer and Photographs by Alexis Davies, Jackson Avenue Photography
Enjoy 4 Plays in 1 Night! - https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/enjoy-4-plays-in-1-night
It's Recital Time!! Let's all Wake Up and Dance!
Its recital time (an exciting time of the year) at the Old Opera House. This past Saturday, the Old Opera House youth choir performed at Black Dog Coffee and the Acting Performance Class performed their play, The Wizard of Wonderland for family and friends. Tonight (Monday, May 20th) the Dance Studio begins their final two weeks of rehearsals for the Annual Dance Recital; WAKE UP & DANCE!! Don't miss your opportunity to see these talented dancers perform. Tickets are on sale at: www.oldoperahouse.org
AUDITIONS This Weekend and more fun! - https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/auditions-this-weekend
Summer Camps are just around the corner. Join all the fun at the Old Opera House this summer with our Summer Theatre Camp or a variety of Summer Dance Camps. See the OOH Webpage: www.oldoperahouse.org for more information.
Don't miss the musical-comedy DISASTER at the Old Opera House, May 2, 3, 4 & 5, 2019. An hysterical mix of hijinks, music, explosions, laughter and dance. Based on the 1970s disaster films we all loved and some of the best toe-tapping music from the 1970s. Directed by David Porterfield, Musical Direction by Alison E Shafer, Choreography by Ed Conn, Scenery by Lee Hebb, Costumes by Karen Martin & Carole Hupke, Sound by Enrico Massimino & Neal Nilson, Lighting by Steve Knapp and Stage Managed by Meaghan Whitney.
Rehearsals are underway for one of the funniest shows of the season ... the musical DISASTER! This high-energy hijinks by Seth Rudetsky & Jack Plotnick is guaranteed to keep you rolling in the aisles with laughter, dancing in the aisles to the 1970s music, or BOTH!! Don't wait, get your tickets now!! Directed by David Porterfield, Produced by Karen Martin, with Musical Direction by Alison Shafer and Choreography by Edgar Conn.
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Today is WORLD THEATRE DAY... a great opportunity to celebrate all that has made the Old Opera House come to mean so much to so many. Enjoy some highlights of our current season, concludes with the hilarious musical-comedy DISASTER opening on April 26, 2019.
Photographs by Adam Blackstock & Travis Fouche
UNBROKEN CIRCLE by James Wesley at the Old Opera House in Charles Town. March 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2019.
The drama Unbroken Circle by James Wesley tells the story of a family dealing with some dark and unsavory issues. The patriarch has just passed away and on a hot Texas afternoon, three generations gather in the family home following the memorial service. Over the next 24 hours, issues that have been buried and kept secret are revealed putting the family in turmoil and their love for one another to the test. Some of the issues are recent, some have been buried for almost a generation, but unless they are exposed and confronted the circle of pain and deception will continue. Unbroken Circle deals with how the distasteful sins of the father can affect generation after generation. While exposing these issues, James Wesley, uses a touch of humor and plenty of love, to keep this family from coming apart at the seams.
Don't miss James Wesley's drama UNBROKEN CIRCLE; at times hilarious, at times disturbing, always engaging, now appearing at the Old Opera House in Charles Town. Tickets: https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/
Photographs by Travis Fouche
Don't miss James Wesley's adult drama UNBROKEN CIRCLE at the Old Opera House, March 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 & 24, 2019. Tickets: https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/
Photographs by Travis Fouche, featuring in photos: Sandra DeRocha, Teri Campbell, Katie Wilson, and Lee Hebb.
Unbroken Circle: Opens March 15th (DRAMA, Rated Adult) | Night at the Races: March 30th! - https://mailchi.mp/oldoperahouse/unbroken-circle-opens-march-15th
As the Old Opera House prepares for the opening of the adult drama UNBROKEN CIRCLE we would like to draw attention to all the good works being done by our friends at the Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center (formerly the Shenandoah Women's Center.)
After the death of a family's patriarch, several long-hidden and unsavory secrets come to the surface in this drama by James Wesley. The secrets could destroy this Texas family, but their unwavering love for one another binds them together. The Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center works to ensure that the circle is broken and families are not continually subjected to these issues, generation after generation. You can help today by making a donation to the Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center (see donation button below)
You also do not want to miss UNBROKEN CIRCLE opening March 15.
Tickets: https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/
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Well, FACEBOOK just let me know that you have not heard from the Old Opera House in a while and I needed to post something to keep everyone engaged. Well, this seems strange, since classes (acting, dance, and choir) have been hopping all week, the annual Recital is being planned, preparation for NIGHT AT THE RACES (one of our few fundraisers) is well underway, the cast for the musical DISASTER was just announced (it is going to be one hysterical show with an all-star cast) and rehearsals for UNBROKEN CIRCLE by James Wesley are underway with an exceptionally talented cast that includes Sandra DeRocha, Lee Hebb, Teri Campbell, Melissa Powell, Katie Wilson, Claire Mason, and Caroline Brewer. We are busy (as always) at the Old Opera House BUILDING EXCITEMENT FOR THE ARTS. Come join the fun!!
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AUDITIONS for the musical DISASTER!
Sunday, February 10 at 6:00pm
Tuesday, February 12 at 7:00pm
A musical written by Seth Rudetsky & Jack Plotnick
Directed by David Porterfield
Musical Direction by Alison Shafer
Choreographed by Ed Conn
Please prepare an upbeat Broadway-style show tune or pop song from the 1970s to sing. Bring sheet music, an accompanist will be provided and be prepared for a simple dance audition.
Disaster! is a new musical featuring some of the most unforgettable songs of the 1970s! Knock on Wood, Hooked on a Feeling, Sky High, I Am Woman and Hot Stuff are just a few of the hits in this hilarious musical comedy!
It's 1979, and New York's hottest A-listers are lining up for the opening of a floating casino and discotheque. Also attending is a faded disco star, a sexy nightclub singer with her eleven-year-old twins, a disaster expert, a feminist reporter, an older couple with a secret, a pair of young guys who are looking for ladies, an untrustworthy businessman, and a nun with a gambling addiction. What begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, tidal waves, and infernos. Disaster! will have you dancing in your seats and rolling in the aisles!
The script is available to read (at no cost) on the Music Theatre International webpage: https://www.mtishows.com/…/proceed-at-your-own-risk-free-sc…
This musical will be presented on the Old Opera House stage on April 26, 27, 28, May 2, 3, 4, 5, 2019.
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Call any friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, mistress, lover, even your mother ... and take them to the Old Opera House to see LOOKING! It is the perfect way to celebrate the weekend before Valentine's Day. What happens when 4 middle-aged singles set out to find love is hilarious. Directed by Amy Hebb, and featuring Julie Smith, Christine Brewer, Geronimo Miranda and Micheal W George, this show is guaranteed to both tickle your funny bone and rekindle that romantic flame. Sponsored by BANK OF CHARLES TOWN.
Friday & Saturday 2/8 & 9; Sunday 2/10 at 2:30pm. Tickets: https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/
Stage Managed by Meaghan Barry Whitney, Costumes by Jennifer Donnelly George and Kelly Pannill, Scenery by Lee Hebb, Sound by Enrico Massimino, Properties by Katie Wilson and Lighting by Patrick Wallace
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The Bennett Agency & American Public University System present ... KRIS KRINGLE THE MUSICAL ... DEC 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15. Book by Maria Ciampi, Music and Lyrics by Tim Janis and Angelo Natalie - A Family-friendly holiday treat Tickets: www.oldoperahouse.org
Today is WORLD THEATRE DAY... a great opportunity to celebrate all that has made the Old Opera House come to mean so much to so many. Enjoy some highlights of our current season, concludes with the hilarious musical-comedy DISASTER opening on April 26, 2019. Photographs by Adam Blackstock & Travis Fouche
UNBROKEN CIRCLE by James Wesley at the Old Opera House in Charles Town. March 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2019. The drama Unbroken Circle by James Wesley tells the story of a family dealing with some dark and unsavory issues. The patriarch has just passed away and on a hot Texas afternoon, three generations gather in the family home following the memorial service. Over the next 24 hours, issues that have been buried and kept secret are revealed putting the family in turmoil and their love for one another to the test. Some of the issues are recent, some have been buried for almost a generation, but unless they are exposed and confronted the circle of pain and deception will continue. Unbroken Circle deals with how the distasteful sins of the father can affect generation after generation. While exposing these issues, James Wesley, uses a touch of humor and plenty of love, to keep this family from coming apart at the seams.
Stop LOOKING for that perfect Valentine's date ... take your special someone to the Old Opera House this weekend and enjoy theatre, comedy, and art. See the hilarious production of the Norm Foster comedy, LOOKING this weekend! Featuring in Micheal George, Christine Brewer, Julie Smith and Geronimo Miranda, directed by Amy Hebb. Also, enjoy the artwork of Paul Berryhill and Sandra Nichols in the Jean Heiler Art Gallery, and pick out that perfect Valentine's gift before it is too late.
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It has been a wonderful start to the 2018-19 Season ... now it's on to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (opening November 30)
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Don't miss Ken Ludwig's hilarious farce, A COMEDY OF TENORS appearing at the Old Opera House, September 14, 15 & 16. Laughs a plenty!! https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/
Ken Ludwig's A COMEDY OF TENORS opens this evening at the Old Opera House Theatre in Charles Town. This hysterical farce will keep the OOH filled with laughter for two weekends (Sept 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 & 16). This is the perfect way to get out of the heat and add some humor to your life. Kick off the OOH's 2018-19 Season and get your tickets now at https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/oldoperahouse/ or call the OOH Box-office at (304) 725-4420 Directed by Susan Thornton, Scenery by Lee Hebb, Costumes by Jennifer Donnelly George, Sound by Enrico Massimino, Properties by Karen S. Martin, Lighting by Patrick Wallace and Stage Managed by Amy Hebb. Featuring Tim Phillips, Kelly Pannill, Geronimo Miranda, Brooke de Medici, Edgar Conn, Jeff Czerbinski and Elizabeth Absher
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Man that looks really good pretty good priority as well. They want $350 in shipping alone? If that is what you want I'll ship it up to you for what it costs at the local shipping place. Or perhaps you can try eBay? I know some shipping calculators freak out when you input other countries.
Depends on your tolerance level. I'd say the folding ones on eBay are super unsafe, you could buckle them if you try. A solid bucket like that I'm not sure what to think without seeing the internal construction. I know the bride knockoffs were like hard plastic in some case. If it gets you moving on and you plan on replacing it then not much more to be said. If it saves it for more important things down the road, I can't argue with that either, I have a lot invested into suspension and drive train and very little in the interior so my attitude is pretty lax compared to others.
I believe ours are 8mm thread? Maybe it could be used with one of these. http://www.linghunt.com/PartDOCS/B2409-X/B2409o14.html I wish there was an 8mm stand off which could save you the use of another lock nut. I suppose a tall nut (also found it mentioned as a studding nut) with all thread would be similar although it would require another lock compound on one side, maybe red locktite would do. Clevis female rod end is apparently the correct name according to mcmaster https://www.mcmaster.com/clevises 2448k48 seems like a longer variant of what I purchased before so it may be a viable commercial option.
No, I've heard the pin called the clevis as well so I should have led with a picture of some sort. That is not a bad idea. My original thought was to weld one of those to the backside of the clevis U thing itself. I wonder if there is enough length for the appropriate locking hardware to keep that all from rattling loose. I'll check mcmaster's catalog as well. I remember when I did this a while ago I looked up the grainger catalog and only found 1 option, maybe things have gotten a little better since then.
Just found this post. I am running the 15/16 on a 240z booster. Curious I don't recall which I set the booster to if it was the early or the later spec. I'll do some diving and maybe pull the booster and see what would be involved with swapping the external pushrod if the internal one is correctly set.
Thanks for the link NewZed I'll have to dig through the parts diagram and see if Nissan has something, but I think my terminology may be incorrect? The clevis I am referring to is: https://zcardepot.com/collections/master-cylinder/products/copy-of-power-brake-booster-7-240z The U-shaped pivot point? I think the last time I found it they called it a threaded hitch or something at the local hardware store. After a lot of searching and for a ridiculous shipping charge I did find the clevis that looks identical to the Z car depot one a long time ago, but it was really short as in there was not very much room from the pivot to the thread, I think the brake was too thick for it to work in that application. I am being lazy here, I'll get under the dash and make some measurements, as miles says my current setup is maxed out with only one thread showing past the clevis and I have a good 2-3 inches of dead pedal before I get to the brakes which can be kind of alarming. The solution is to either extend the arms of the piece, add a coupler for more threads at the bottom like a hybrid of the z car item and the current one, or find a longer push rod if the brake booster can swap the push rods about.
eBay seats will eventually show their colors. Either the material will fade, crack, fall apart, or it will rip if you look at it funny. I ripped the fabric in mine getting out of the car in an odd way. My low buck sparco's were sitting outside in a shed and all they needed was a bit of wiping to bring back. The factory seats I've seen in remarkable condition even almost 50 years on. By the time you have it reupholster with some decent foam you would be looking at the price of a good seat. I sold my last eBay set as office chairs as I didn't feel comfortable advertising them as car seats as the back had so much flex. Aesthetically it would pass as "period correct" to an untrained eye. Those breathers look like they would be cheese graters if you tried to slide into the seats. The old school rivet style seems like a better overall choice.
Neat. I do feel like they are a one time type of thing unless you have a coating that lets all the oil bead up and fall down and the shape was concave or something.
The 3 bolt has 1.5 or so of adjustment if I remember. It ships with the adjustment knob centered in the hole which is max negative. I have adjustable arms, but my jig was made off of a factory arm so pretty close to stock. I pushed the camber plate to max positive which brought the -4 down to -2.5. The shop I took it to then dialed out some more with the adjustable arms. You could get by with either a 4 bolt top, or camber bushings if you want it closer to -1 or 0.
You may need some camber adjustment at least in the rear. I had -4* with the included camber tops, I dialed it out to something like -2.5*, but if you want less than that you will need some arms to bring it in or more adjustment in a different camber top.
So I had this problem in the past, and I've just kind of ignored it. Time to finally address it. Has anyone found a source for the clevis for the brake pedal? I took one off of my clutch as the one I found and paid a lot for ended up being too short to reach around the metal plate of the pedal itself and I foolishly left it attached on my booster when I traded it in. I'm hoping for something a bit longer as well as there is a lot of slack before the brakes engage and I can't dial in the preload as it is maxed out on the threads. If a source isn't available does anyone have recommendations on how to lengthen the clevis correctly? Should I lengthen the arms? Or should I weld on a coupler to the threaded side to extend the clevis length?
Getting the motor in physically won't be too difficult. If I recall you have to keep the mounts on the engine side from the current motor in your car. Wiring isn't too difficult to sort through once you have the motor as the wiring is a little different between the years. With a 2+2 you may run into issues with the drive shaft length if you plan on running the T5 transmission. If you plan on keeping the 5 speed you have now it won't be a problem, but it will be a weaker setup if you decide to up the power down the line. If you are looking for a shop I think Z-sport up north in Everett or Fairlady Motors/U.P. garage down in Tacoma are the only specialist, not that you would really particularly need one, a competent shop should be able to tackle it. I think the only person I know that does private work is Dave up in Marysville. If you are looking for input/advice, there are quite a few local guys around who have done it. @Boog has one in his car, @TheFairlady went through a few in his. @AlbatrossCafe is also sporting one if I'm not mistaken, you may be able to pick their brains about questions.
I was talking to a friend about it, he was going over the math involved for assisted mechanisms and it was quite complex so I imagine the little box has a lot to figure out especially without speed input involved.
You are right, I imagine that would come in on freeway driving in a straight line, minute corrections could mean you are hunting for a straight line, I was thinking more long sweeping turns and such. That is one of the downfalls of the E-steering setup. It usually needs to sense a force to begin applying the force which can come across as play or delay. The beauty of the bruno setup is that you can turn it off for most of the time other than when you are at low speeds where the assist would be appreciated. The other downfall while we are at it would be a general numbness that can be attributed from too much assist, which also could be toned down with a knob versus a feedback. I was really really really into having power steering, even built my own setup following another member's build. I have about half an hour more work to install it, but I really can't seem to be bothered. I went auto crossing which should have been a workout in theory, but it never even occurred to me that I was missing out on the assist. I can definitely feel for people running more than my measly 225 width tires, or if they have tight parking spots to navigate, but short of perpendicular spots, parallel parking, or meaty tires I haven't found a necessity to finish. Edit: also people with shoulder or joint issues, I'm sure could benefit as well.
Not recommended for anything more than casual driving. By relying on the force input there is a delay before it assists, so slightly difficult to suddenly easy, hard to do precision maneuvers, but perfectly adequate for say parking or moving down a freeway. I guess it depends on your usage. I only really wanted it for low speed, so I thought that might be useful, but I believe he recommended for any automotive events you don't use it.


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Shaq Recalls a Story That Let Him Know Stevie Wonder Can See
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If you ask Shaquille O'Neal, Stevie Wonder can see just fine. The story came on an episode of Inside the NBA, where Diesel recalled a "true story" of an encounter with the "Ribbon in the Sky" singer. "We l... Read Article
Shaq Says His Beef with Dame Lillard Was All 'For Fun'
If you thought the Dame Lillard a.k.a. Dame D.O.L.L.A. versus Shaquille O'Neal rap beef would be a storyline through the NBA season, there is some unfortunate news for you, it won't. The All-Star and NBA leg... Read Article
Dame D.O.L.L.A. Blasts Shaq with 'Reign Reign Go Away' Diss Track
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Damian Lillard and Shaquille O'neal are now officially in a rap beef. To catch you up to speed, it all started after Lillard a.k.a. Dame D.O.L.L.A. was a guest on the Joe Budden Podcast and stated that he fe... Read Article
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The NBA Finals begin in just a few weeks, but we've always wondered: what does it actually feel like to win the Larry O'Brien Trophy? Well, for the span of us that can't hoop like Bron-Bron, we now have a monta... Read Article
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How to Cope When Your Teen Wants to Move in With Your Ex
What to Do If Teen Wants to Live With Your Ex?
June 8, 2012 by Mary Beth Sammons
There are few experiences as heart-wrenching as when your teen tells you he wants to live with his dad, say Circle of Moms members Mel and Kimberley B. Following their divorces, both of these moms saw their teens announce that they wanted to leave and move in with their fathers.
"My son and I had a huge argument and he decided to call his father and left with him," Mel says of her 13-year-old son. "I am doing the best I can, but I am angry, upset and feel helpless."
When Kimberly's 16-year-old daughter moved out of her home and into her ex's, her words echoed Mel's: "I feel screwed over. I am angry about it. I feel lonely, alone, and hurt — to say the least."
Hearing from your child that she wants to live with your ex instead of you is very painful indeed, but moms who've lived through it say that how you respond is what really matters. Here they share seven strategies to help you get through it, too.
1. Call Your Teen's Bluff
When your teen repeatedly threatens this to leave, "you just have to call their bluff, as hard and emotionally painful as that can be," say moms like Christina M. "If your child is threatening to leave, the next time you just have to pack his bags yourself, then drive him over there. It may take a few months, but he will come back. When he comes back, you tell him that the next time he threatens to leave, he will not be allowed to come back."
2. Let Them Go
Sometimes the only thing you can do is to let your child go, says Rhonda C. "... we have to allow our teens to make their own decisions so they can deal with the consequences. We have to remember we are still their mother and continue to mother a child who leaves. If you support [your child's] decision instead of making her feel guilty about it, she'll be open to compromises to make this work. Keep the communication lines open between you."
3. Set Rules
Rhonda C. and other Circle of Moms members agree that it's important to maintain contact with a teen who moves in with his or her other parent. It helps to establish rules, both with your child and with your ex, Rhona adds. "The other parent needs to help ensure you are visited regularly, and your child needs to know a schedule for coming to see you."
4. Don't Take it Personally
Jane S. offers that teens are sometimes under pressure from their other parent to make a switch. For this reason, she cautions moms not to take a teen's threat to leave too personally: "Odds are [that your child's] dad has lured her with promises that things will be different if she lives with him," she says. "Try not to focus on your hurting feelings. Instead, see this as a test of all the things you taught her since she was little."
Wendy D., who has gone through this several times, also urges moms to realize that it is not their fault: "It's the kid testing the limits," she says. "They think the grass is always greener on the other side. Just keep the lines of communication open and stick to your guns. . . . My daughter ran to her dad because of [my] rules. Now she is home and behaving better than ever. Sometimes you have to let them go [in order] for them to come back."
5. Don't Let Them See You Cry
If your ex-spouse still harbors ill will, he may be working behind the scenes to convince your child to move out from your home. For this reason, a Circle of Moms member named Jana recommends not crying in front of the child in response. "It does seem so cruel, but just try to keep your chin up and try to be strong."
Marie W. also suggests protecting yourself. "You cannot let [your child] see you upset," she says, referencing her own experience with her 13-year-old son. "This is what he wants. Let him go live with his father. He may come back on his own later. If you make a big deal of it he knows he has you licked and will hold it over your head."
6. Allow Yourself to Grieve
It is okay – and necessary – to recognize the pain and grieve the loss, says Ruth W. "It is extremely painful to be rejected by your child, and it's okay to feel pain and sadness. . . . Personally I am allowing myself the time to grieve and think. . . . you have been through all the stuff of raising a child and now he's gone."
7. Move On
As hard and gut-wrenching as it sounds, you have to take care of yourself and move on with your life, "trusting in your gut that your child will finally see the light," says Wendy H. "If your relationship is strong she may be back sooner than you think."
Keeping yourself busy by finding something else to focus on also helps to ease the loss, says Donna L. "Find a way to vent and rebalance. Pick up an activity that you love, join a support group, anything that gets you enjoying your life again. Regain your peace of mind, faith and hope."
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Bad Boys for Life Dominates Box Office for Third Weekend in a Row
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For the third weekend in a row, Sony Pictures' Bad Boys for Life dominated the global box office with another $17.7 million from domestic theaters and $30.8 million from 63 international markets. The North American total for the sequel has now reached $148 million after three weeks and the overseas total is $142.7 million, for a worldwide total of $290.7 million. It is now the biggest film in the franchise.
Bad Boys hit theaters in April 1995 and grossed $141.4 million worldwide, while Bad Boys II reached $273 million globally in 2003. You can buy both movies at Amazon.
Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Bad Boys for Life features the return of Will Smith as Detective Lieutenant Mike Lowrey, Martin Lawrence as Detective Lieutenant Marcus Burnett and Joe Pantoliano as Captain Conrad Howard, and also stars Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Jacob Scipio, Paola Nuñez, Kate Del Castillo, and Nicky Jam.
Remaining in second place was Universal and DreamWorks Pictures' 1917, which added $9.7 million domestically and is up to $119.2 million after six weeks of release. The film also grossed $20.9 million from 61 international markets this weekend and has earned $129.8 million overseas. The worldwide total is at $249.1 million.
Directed by Sam Mendes, 1917 stars George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Universal's Dolittle stayed in the third spot with $7.7 million to bring its three-week total to $55.2 million. With an international total of $71.4 million, the film's worldwide total is $126.6 million.
Directed by Stephen Gaghan, Dolittle stars Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Harry Collett, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Frances de la Tour, Carmel Laniado, Jason Mantzoukas, Craig Robinson, and Kasia Smutniak.
Opening in fourth place was Gretel & Hansel (Orion Pictures), which brought in $6.05 million from 3,007 theaters, an average of $2,012 per location. The film received a C- CinemaScore from audiences. Directed by Osgood Perkins, the movie stars Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw, and Charles Babalola.
Guy Ritchie's action-comedy The Gentlemen (STXfilms) rounded out the top five with $6.01 million and has earned $20.4 million after two weeks. STXfilms acquired U.S. rights to the film from Miramax for $7 million. The Gentlemen cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant.
In sixth place, Sony's Jumanji: The Next Level added $6 million and is up to $291.2 million domestically after eight weeks. The sequel has also earned $463.6 million overseas and has crossed the $750 million mark at the global box office. Directed by Jake Kasdan, the film is produced by Matt Tolmach, Kasdan, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia.
Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker remained in seventh place with $3.2 million, bringing its seven-week domestic total to $507 million. The final film in the Skywalker saga has also grossed $551 million overseas and is at $1.058 billion worldwide.
Universal Pictures horror release The Turning added $3.05 million in the eighth spot and has made $11.7 million after two weeks. With $2.3 million overseas, the global total for the film is $14 million.
Greta Gerwig's Little Women (Sony) earned $3.02 million in ninth place and has collected $98.8 million in North America after six weeks. Made for $40 million, the film's international total is $64.1 million and worldwide sum is $162.9 million.
And struggling to open in the top 10 was Paramount Pictures' The Rhythm Section, which earned just $2.8 million from 3,049 theaters, an average of only $918 per theater. Directed by Reed Morano and starring Blake Lively, Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown, the film received a C+ CinemaScore from audiences.
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When Worlds Collide is a multi-arena map for use with the Rocket Arena 3 (RA3) or CPMA mod, from the Multi Mapper Multi Arena (M3A) project. My contribution to this map was the teamplay arena Lost Colossus: a long-abandoned temple complex of an ancient civilization, spanning two lofty plateaus in a mist-wreathed mountain range.
Several other authors contributed smaller arenas in a variety of themes, beautifully crafted and great fun to play. I won't be writing about the other arenas on this page, but the second row of thumbs in the gallery below contains two images from each of the other arenas, just to show them off. Check the readme for more information.
N.B.: No bot support in this map. RA3 doesn't have bots, and this map was created before CPMA supported rocket arena maps. It's a bummer. Maybe someday I'll remix Lost Colossus as a deathmatch map, but it's not a simple job. Probably I'll always have something new I'd prefer to work on instead.
Since Lost Colossus is a rocket arena map, it contains no items. The playable surface is made up of two areas. The main (lower) area is largely open to the outdoors, but there is an underground room beneath the Colossus and another at the end opposite the Colossus. The area around the Colossus can be good for observing and sniping, but it is vulnerable to attack from the underground rooms via jumpshaft or teleporter. A few other teleporters help provide extra connectivity around the main area too... in general, there's a bit of a learning curve for effective map traversal.
Lost Colossus actually started life as an idea for a Quake 3 Fortress map. Opposing teams would start in the lower area, initially separated from each other but converging on a common path to fight their way up the inside of the mountain to an objective. I was still in the "noodling around" phase when the M3A project started, and I decided to try to repurpose the texture theme and general structure for a large clan arena.
This is a huge departure from a typical clan arena layout; fortunately, the M3A project was able to attract a solid group of RA3-experienced playtesters. As a result, Lost Colossus has several layout tweaks — and some heavy lifting from the teleporter placement — to de-emphasize hiding, eliminate super-defensible areas, and allow knowledgeable players to chase and cut off a fleeing enemy.
Less fortunately, m3amap1 didn't get accepted in the RA3 community, and I'd guess that it's largely the fault of my arena. For a third-party map, first impressions are everything, and that's bad when a map requires a player to go through a learning curve before they can effectively punish "lame play." Also there probably still are real problems with the map; sometimes you can't completely force a strange layout into shape. If I had more RA3 chops of my own, perhaps I would have clued in to more design pitfalls and been able to better use the playtesters.
The teleporter model and most of the brick and stone textures are derived from materials provided by Todd "Mr.CleaN" Rose (his "Egyptian" set). The Colossus and fountain models are based on models from, respectively, Bjornar Johansen and Ranjeet Singhal; I think that both were entries in a model-making contest for QuakeCon 2000.
• For an arena that is ostensibly set on top of a mountain, Lost Colossus is surprisingly resistant to death-by-falling. If you get knocked off the back or side of the area around the Colossus, for example, you're going to be "blown" back into the playing area, regardless of your exit vector. It's a fun effect; you get a second of freefall over open space before the push kicks in, so that (at least the first time this happens) you can experience a momentary holyshit reaction.
The flimsy fiction behind this behavior is that... well, it's really windy up there. The real mechanism is a carefully oriented shell of jump triggers. A similar protection exists for a side opening in the lower area, but it's not nearly as funky looking in the editor.
• I didn't want sharp shadows in the warmly-lit indoor areas, but I didn't want a blandly even ambient light either. To help simulate scatter along the light shaft from a major light source, I used chains of point light entities leading out from the source.
The compiled result doesn't obviously look like scatter from those sources, but that's for the best... varied and soft lighting is all that I was after. The light compiler available these days (in q3map2) would take care of these sorts of effects without requiring a mapper to jump through any such hoops.
• The teleporter that takes you to the Colossus services three different destinations in that area; one behind the throne, and one on each shoulder. You can pick a destination by entering the teleporter from a different direction, as it is composed of three teleporter triggers.
The readme mentions this, and there are markings in the ceiling over the teleporter that hint at this behavior, but I'd bet that most players never realize. Which is probably the reason that most mappers don't do this sort of thing, although I know I'm not the first; I remember seeing a multi-destination teleporter in a Quake map as early as 1997 (Contaminate by Dennis "headshot" Kaltwasser).
The Tolkien-esque script glowing on walls around the map is from a font for the synthetic language Denden. I picked it because a) it looked neat, and b) it was free for anyone to use. Apparently it's part of an imaginary world that a particularly persistent Dutchman has been tinkering away at for decades.


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Welcome to the Equine Research Unit here at Purina Animal Nutrition Center. My name is Dr. Robert Jacobs, a research equine nutritionist, and today, I'm here to demonstrate our new gastric support supplement, Outlast.
Outlast is designed to provide gastric support and help comfort the horse's stomach. The horse is an herbivore, designed to consume forages eighteen to twenty hours a day. Modern management practices, however, require that we feed our horses concentrate and meal feed them throughout the day. Outlast is designed to support the overall health of the gastric environment in the horse.
So today what we're going to do is we're going to demonstrate how the horse's stomach would respond to a feeding of Outlast. In this beaker here we have a constantly churning fluid at a pH right around 2, which is the constant pH of the horse's stomach when they're at a fasting state. Additionally, we've heated this environment to approximately 37 degrees Celsius, which would be the internal body temperature of the horse.
So what we're going to do is we're going to take Outlast, our gastric support supplement and grind it up as you can see what we've done here to stimulate the chewing that the horse would do before this supplement would reach the gastric environment or into the stomach of the horse, and we're going to put this into that gastric environment, and we're going to show you exactly what happens to the pH.
So what I want to do is focus on this pH meter. We put this gastric buffer into this gastric environment. So what we'll do is we'll simply put this in here. We'll give it a little bit of a mix, again to help stimulate what would happen in the horse's stomach, and we'll set this timer here to about two minutes.
We've done a significant amount of lab work here at the Purina Animal Nutrition Center, as well as at universities throughout the country to better understand how Outlast buffers the equine stomach. We've done in vitro trials similar to what you can see in this setup here as well as in vivo trials, in which we've fed this supplement to hundreds of horses and examined what happens with the pH of the gastric environment as well as what happens to the overall health of the horse's stomach.
So what we're going to do is we'll wait until this gets to its buffering capacity at about two minutes and we'll take another pH reading to see exactly how this gastric support supplement works.
So you can see here, after two minutes we're going to take another pH reading on our simulated gastric environment. So, we look here at this pH meter, and you can see after only two minutes, the pH has already risen to approximately 6.3. Well above the threshold of four which we generally consider a buffered stomach environment.
Now remember, a higher pH is indicative of a lower acidity in the stomach which is what we would want to see to provide the gastric comfort and the support that Outlast is designed to do.
Outlast gastric support supplement is different from some of the other products that are currently on the market, in that it acts quicker, in only two minutes you can see the pH rose substantially; it acts longer, as we saw in our in vivo as well as our in vitro trials; and has a significantly higher buffering capacity and buffering ability, as is demonstrated here in these test tubes.
In these test tubes, you can see a representation of how much acid a single serving of any one of these supplements including Outlast is able to buffer in a simulated gastric environment. You can see here in these tubes that Outlast is able to buffer a significantly larger quantity of acid than even alfalfa or some of the other competitive products on the market as is demonstrated by these different colored tubes.


Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) fined Bunyodkor Tashkent and Navbakhor Namangan.
The Association noted that the clubs were fined for 500 million soums each for violating the decisions of the Bureau of the Executive Committee of the UFA.
The statement said that Navbakhor and Bunyodkor in friendly matches used players, who were suspended from football for understating their ages.
It should be recalled that the player Navbakhor Oybek Kilichev was suspended from football for a period of one year, and the player Bunyodkor Dilshod Ahmadaliyev - for life.
The clubs are warned that in the case of repeated violations, more stringent sanctions will be adopted.


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In The Book of Wood Carving, Sayers recommends a basic set of five tools for bold relief carving.
To this tool selection, we have added a 3/8" skew chisel. The set comes in an 18-pocket canvas tool roll and includes a copy of Sayers' book.


I just bought a new home and this is the deck built by the builder.
As you can see, the concrete landing and the stairs are misaligned. The stairs overhang and are offset from the bottom edge of the concrete slab. You can see the overhang better in the second photo.
This looks like an error by the builder and while it does not look like the deck or the stairs are going to fall down any time soon as a result, it does show a lack of attention to detail.
Clearly, the concrete landing slab was located where it was intended the stairs would terminate. Either the person pouring the slab for the landing or the builder of the deck erred.
But this is not going to be a danger given that 90% of the stairs are secured to the slab in what appears to be a pretty solid manner.
However, this is not how a new home should be built. It does not take a lot of effort to observe the location of a landing and take the appropriate measurements and build the stairs at the correct location so they align with the landing.
I would demand as a condition of the final sale that the builder take the extra hour or two of time and move the stairs over 6", adjust or rebuild the portion of the affected railing and do the job the way it was supposed to be done the first time.
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Touring in support of their latest album, Passwords, Dawes are in St. Paul for a full, two-set concert at the Palace Theatre. Before the big show, members of the band — minus bassist and handyman Wylie Gelber — walked over to The Current to play an acoustic set hosted by Mark Wheat.
Dawes begin this session with the song, "Crack the Case," which cracks open a window into the band's process. "That was the first song that was written that led the way to the rest of the songs [on the album, Passwords," says frontman Taylor Goldsmith. "That often is the case for me, where one song will get written, and that will help me figure out how to write the rest of [the album]. It will kind of send me off as to what kind of record it is."
Naturally, Goldsmith takes seriously the kind of record each of Dawes's albums becomes. "Every record that you make as a writer, it needs to really represent what's been on your mind for the last year and a half or two years," he says, noting that while politics has been on so many people's minds, he didn't want to make something overtly political. With "Crack the Case," Goldsmith says "I wanted to write a song that was more about communication in a broader sense, and how to speak not only to express your opinions but speak with the objective of being heard by someone, which I feel like is something that we've — myself included — we've all forgotten in a big way. Right now, it's more of just a screamfest, and I'm going to wait until you're done talking so I can yell at you, rather than actually posing anything in some way to actually get through to somebody."
Another element that has had a powerful effect on Goldsmith is his engagement to Mandy Moore, a cast member on NBC's This Is Us. Goldsmith describes how he and his fiancée support each other in their respective careers, and it has also influenced his songwriting, particularly for someone who has been described as one of the best breakup-song writers of a generation. "There's not really breakup songs [on Passwords]," Goldsmith explains, "there's just 'I love you' songs. It was a different space for me to put my head in."
Listen to the entire interview to hear more from Dawes, including how they decided to reconnect with producer Jonathan Wilson, what it was like to open for ELO, and which song bassist Wylie Gelber would like played at his funeral.
All songs from Dawes's 2018 album, Feed the Fire, released on the band's own HUB label.
Theft of the Dial: Dawes Before their big gig at the State Theatre, Taylor Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber and Lee Pardini of Dawes stopped by The Current to curate a playlist and take over our airwaves with a Theft of the Dial.
The Current's Guitar Collection: Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, 1965 Gibson J-45 On tour with Conor Oberst as both his opening act and backing band, Dawes stopped by The Current's studio during a two-night stand at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes took some time to tell us about his trusty Gibson acoustic guitar -- and about an important life lesson he learned from a taxi trip in Chicago.
The Current's Guitar Collection: Wylie Gelber of Dawes and his homemade bass, the 'Model 2' When Dawes visited the studio for an in-studio session, bassist Wylie Gelber was playing an instrument he built himself. 'I was unsure of how it would sound,' Gelber says, 'but it's become my favorite bass ever. It's the only one I play now.' Find out more about Gelber's handmade bass guitar.
Dawes perform in The Current studio In town to play a show at the Cabooze Plaza in Minneapolis, Dawes -- Taylor Goldsmith, Wylie Gelber, Griffin Goldsmith, Tay Strathairn and recent addition Duane Betts -- stopped by The Current's studio to play some songs off the new album and to chat with Bill DeVille.
Conor Oberst and Dawes perform in The Current studio Between gigs at their two-night stand at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Conor Oberst and Dawes stopped in to The Current's studio to play an acoustic set and to chat with Mark Wheat.


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MARLENE DUMAS:
Myths & Mortals
Marlene Dumas, Longing, 2018. © Marlene Dumas. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong.
David Zwirner
April 28 – June 30, 2018
Marlene Dumas has had every accolade, every apotheosis a living artist could want. She could easily rest on her laurels but instead trades her laurels for myrtle, the evergreen with white flowers sacred to Venus. Which is to say, she focuses on the erotic, specifically female love. Her point of departure for this huge show of twenty-nine oils and thirty-three ink wash drawings is Shakespeare's debut poem of 1593, Venus and Adonis, a Baroque exploration of a tale Ovid includes in Book X of his Metamorphoses, and a subject Giambattista Marino transformed into a literary labyrinth in his 1623 L'Adone.
In Ovid, Cupid accidentally pricks his mother Venus with one of his arrows, and she falls madly in love with the beautiful hunter Adonis. Ovid is clear: Venus is a victim of mad love, a pathological condition that makes the immortal goddess love the all-too-mortal hunter. When Adonis is killed by a wild boar, Venus sees to it that anemone flowers spring from his blood. He is traditionally linked to springtime and nature's rebirth in early flowering and quickly dying flowers. The ancient Greeks even created "Gardens of Adonis," either with cut flowers or quickly withering blooms to celebrate his holiday.
Shakespeare and Marlene Dumas short-circuit all of that. Lovesick without the excuse of Cupid's arrow, the physically powerful Venus (she is a goddess after all) snatches Adonis off his horse, tucks him under her arm, and engages in date rape. And this demonstration of divine power and erotic frenzy is Shakespeare's point: Venus becomes a macho celebrity, wishing she were a man and Adonis a woman and chiding the indifferent Adonis for not wanting to have sex with her when so many gods (Mars especially) would do anything for such an opportunity. Dumas transforms this gender inversion into a brilliant commentary on male-female relations by conquering the traditional territory of male artists: the nude. Amends (2018) is a full-frontal male nude we view over the shoulders of female spectators.
This cheesecake rendition of the male body she replicates in her Adonis (2018), an almost identical male figure. Here, Adonis, hands at his sides, stares at us, empty of emotion. He is not really beautiful, which is Dumas's way of saying the object of love is not necessarily beautiful in itself but made beautiful by the projected desire of the lover. Beauty, in fact, is not important in Dumas's expressionist style, which does, however, explode in its depiction of emotional states.
Marlene Dumas, Amends, 2018. © Marlene Dumas. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong.
Oils like Kissing (2018) and Tongues (2018) or ink drawings like Venus Insists, Venus in Bliss, or Venus Praises the Pleasures of Love (all 2015 – 2016) capture erotic fury without being in the slightest pornographic. This is a feat in itself. Dumas's gestural style swerves her subjects toward abstraction so that we are enthralled by the idea of the erotic rather than its spectacle. If anything is aroused by these works, it is the intellect. This reminds us of Shakespeare's bizarre blending of comedy, tragedy, eroticism, and chastity. His love-sick Venus is ridiculous and oafish despite the fury of her passion, but at the same time the innocent, sexless boy must be killed by the savage but equally innocent boar. And it is here Dumas parts company with Shakespeare. She reroutes his exploration of female sexual arousal beyond grotesque caricature to deliver a sense of emotional depth that is potent and profound.
Alfred Mac Adam
Alfred Mac Adam is Professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator, most recently of Juan Villoro's Horizontal Vertigo (2021), about Mexico City.


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Blu-ray Review: Queen of Katwe
This socially observant chess drama looks spectacular on Disney's Blu-ray release, which flawlessly retains the film's rich and integral color palette.
Matt Brennan and Jake Cole
In her new film, Queen of Katwe, Mira Nair casts a spell with color. She signals her interest in bright hues from the opening sequence, as three figures pass through the door to Uganda's National Junior Chess Championship: Wunderkind Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), with her tangerine sweater and pebbled headband; her coach, Robert Katende (David Oyelowo), in his neat floral button-down; and the chairwoman of her chess federation, sporting a long, smart dress of hot pink.
Arrayed in a small flying V, the trio becomes an emblem of the film as a whole, in which color is also texture and depth—a form of resistance to the treatment of the global South's slum dwellers as a teeming, undifferentiated mass. It's this empathic precision of swatches and shades that distinguishes Queen of Katwe from other inspirational sports movies. No reinvention of the genre, the film is nonetheless a rich and vibrant rendition of it, full of proof that the particulars of life in East Africa reward the keen eye's attentions.
From the sunny compositions to the exquisite costumes, Nair crafts a remarkable sense of people and place for what is, in essence, a studio crowd-pleaser. As Phiona and her brother, Brian (Martin Kabanza), sell maize to support their widowed mother, Harriet (Lupita Nyong'o), in the Kampala slum of Katwe, the film neither dismisses their hardship nor revels in it, careful to sustain the spiritedness of bricklayers, chapati vendors, and streetwise hawkers alongside its suggestions of indigence and hunger.
As a result, the film emphasizes the enterprising intelligence of its characters: When the siblings stumble into Robert's chess class, their makeshift boards are thrilling little fillips of invention; later, at home, the turquoise light catching on the bottle caps of their homemade set reflects the same blue-green spectrum of Phiona's dress, or the checkerboard blanket they play on. The film is so suffused with these lively details—lime-green earrings and high-shouldered gowns—that the palette itself assumes a starring role.
Against the formulaic rhythms of the screenplay, adapted by William Wheeler from Tim Crothers's account of Phiona's real-life coming of age, Queen of Katwe's energetic images become a kind of syncopation, akin to the strains of hip-hop we hear in the shoreline market: "Bring the flavor to the fish, bring the flavor to the rice." Phiona, it turns out, possesses a preternatural talent for chess, soon able to see eight or nine moves ahead, and under Robert's tutelage, she and her classmates venture into the wealthier districts of Kampala, to Sudan and thence to Russia, competing in rarefied air.
As far as the film's structure goes, Queen of Katwe hews close to expectations. The charming Oyelowo spars with the understated Nyong'o as Robert, a dreamer, confronts Harriet, a pragmatist, to win her blessing for Phiona's training; snobs from more refined schools cast doubt on the hardscrabble team's abilities. Queen of Katwe is, in the narrative sense, a mere fulfillment of familiar tropes, though it approaches the genre's conventions with a light, funk-inflected touch. As one of Phiona's fellow students proclaims before their first big tournament, for instance, the "Richie Riches" are no match for the "Katwe Cool Kats," and the film evinces similar confidence.
Though the film's use of chess as a metaphor for life is rather strained ("You must never surrender," Robert tells Phiona as she topples her king), its perception of chess as a symbol of class divide, and of the resilience displayed by those for whom educational and economic opportunities are scarce, is potent. As Nair contrasts school and soccer uniforms with the Katwe kids' chaotic bursts of color, or glimpses stern, hard-edged Harriet in breathtaking shades of vermillion and gamboge, the form of the film, if not its plot, points to the possibilities that inhere in defying expectations.
As if to correct the worst commonplaces of Africans' depiction in the mainstream American cinema, Queen of Katwe focuses not on ceaseless strife or faceless crowds, but on the coexistence of distinct individuals within the collective, whether it be the family, the chess team, or the Kampalan slum. By the time the film returns to that first, forthright sequence, after all, we know that Phiona's choice of orange is a variation on her mother's color, and her step forth into the next challenge a variation on her mother's strength.
One of the great contributions of digital cinematography over its analog counterpart is its easier balance of skin colors. Sean Bobbitt's cinematography captures the various shades of the actors' skin in all levels of light; night scenes in particular look marvelous in the way fire and artificial light illuminate the actors without washing them out. Additionally, the vibrant hues of clothes and objects pop off the screen without overpowering the other, more subdued color tones that fill the frame. The sound, meanwhile, is well-balanced, with music and the ambient sound of city and village life blended in the side speakers to keep dialogue clear in the front channel.
Mira Nair provides an informative commentary track that covers various minutiae of the production, from casting locals to play themselves to the challenges of shooting chess in a dramatic fashion. A three-part making-of documentary focuses on the overall production and the input of the adult and child casts. "A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight" is a short from Nair that documents the real Robert Katende, and Nair also provides a music video for Young Cardamon (the director's son) and HAB's featured song "#1 Spice." The disc also comes with a brief interview with Alicia Keys regarding the film's music selection, a lyric video for Keys's "Back to Life," and several deleted scenes.
Mira Nair's socially observant chess drama looks spectacular on Disney's Blu-ray release, which flawlessly retains the film's rich and integral color palette.
Cast: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Kabanza, Taryn Kyaze, Ivan Jacobo, Nicolas Levesque, Ronald Ssemaganda, Ethan Nazario Lubega, Nikita Waligwa, Edgar Kanyike, Esther Tebandeke Director: Mira Nair Screenwriter: William Wheeler Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Running Time: 124 min Rating: PG Year: 2016 Release Date: January 31, 2017 Buy: Video, Soundtrack, Book
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