text:
Has the second home peak passed?
Land use planning has entered a new phase of complexity as tight money has slowed the pace of condominium and second home development.
Coal shifts to West
A curious thing is happening on the way to energy independence: an east-to-west shift in coal production is actually going to be putting western coal into power plants in West Virginia and Ohio.
The Great Balancing Act
Plans to extract oil shale from northwestern Colorado raise concerns about how to balance energy development with efforts to address social impacts, air pollution, oil shale tailings, and impacts to water and wildlife.
It's chicken power tomorrow
Digesting human, animal and vegetable wastes to produce methane is sure to become and important source of energy in the future.
Energy boom -- plans and payments
A look at how Montana and Wyoming towns booming from energy development -- Rock Springs, Gillette, Hanna, Colstrip, Lame Deer -- are responding to pressures on their infrastructure, schools, police, health services, and social fabric.
Return of the windmill
There is nothing new about tapping the wind to produce energy, but a growing number of scientists are turning their attention to wind power as an alternative to burning fossil fuels.
Water dictates Western future
Water -- the lack of it and the need for it -- looms ever larger in the West's developing energy situation. Water is used in huge amounts to generate electricity in coal-fired plants, to gasify coal, to liquify coal, and to develop oil shale.
To dam a river
Few environmental challenges seem as stark as the threat to dam a stretch of wild river like Montana's Upper Missouri. But the heyday of big dam building may be nearing an end.
Judge calls showdown in Montana
Montana Gov. Thomas Judge has notified Interior Secretary Rogers Morton that the state will take the lead in regulating coal-fired power plants, rather than waiting for federal environmental impact statements for plants like Colstrip.
Harnessing limitless energy
As independent, idealistic inventors forge ahead with plans to heat buildings with the sun, traditional institutions and businesses are taking cautious steps in the same direction.
On the verge of extinction
The blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Hawaiian hoary bat and the light-footed clapper -- all endangered species -- don't receive the attention they deserve.
North Dakota's riskiest harvest
North Dakota landowners and policy makers are weighing the "one-time harvest" of strippable lignite coal against the productivity of agricultural land that would be sacrificed.
The hidden costs of coal
Arnold Miller, the leader of the United Mine Workers of America, discusses the energy crisis and the coal industry.
Everything you aren't supposed to know about nuclear power
Even as 146 nuclear power plants are under construction or on order -- on top of 36 nuclear power plants already operating -- public understanding of peaceful use of atomic energy has been inhibited by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Oil shale fever rises in West
With the present shortage of crude oil, industry is bidding hundreds of millions of dollars on leases to tap shale oil on public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
Not so exotic: Solar power for the Seventies
Even though President Richard Nixon didn't mention solar energy once in his outline of "Project Independence," there's a lot of solar energy around, and working solar equipment exists today. If the U.S. were really determined to introduce solar energy in the 1970s, it could be done.
Hooked on energy
We have been enjoying an energy "high" for as long as most Americans can remember. And the most remarkable thing about the energy crisis is not that it came so fast or that is may have been contrived, but that we lack specific information about the energy we depend on.
Reusing and recycling wastes: Kicking the garbage habit
Faced with growing volumes of trash, states like Connecticut and Oregon are leading the way with programs to reuse and recycle solid waste.
The crisis in energy: Water comes up short
In Wyoming and eastern Montana, plans for harnessing the Powder River Basin's coal to ease the energy crisis are running into the realities of limited water supply.
The making of an energy skinflint
Can citizens reduce demand by managing their energy more wisely? Experts believe they can, without greatly changing their lifestyles, if they wish.
1 ... 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 ... 60


The final Byte event of 2017 was a lively discussion on the topic of independent publishers, and the ways in which they are shaking up the book industry. Emma House of the Publishers Association chaired, and her four-strong panel comprised Nicolas Cheetham (Head of Zeus), Jasmin Kirkbride (Endeavour Press), Aimée Felone (Knights Of) and Sam Jordison (Galley Beggars Press).
Interestingly, Emma's opening question — "Are independents really shaking up publishing, and if so, what does that mean?" — was met with unanimous agreement from the panel. As indie publishers, they see themselves very much as part of the wider book community, as opposed to being angry renegades pushing a revolutionary agenda. "I'm slightly uncomfortable with the idea of 'shaking things up' or being a 'disruptor'," confessed Sam, "because it makes me think of Uber". In any case, argued Jasmin, it tends to be technologies, rather than companies, that truly disrupt the publishing landscape, the most recent examples being the internet and, as a corollary, the invention of the eBook.
What advantages, pondered Emma, do indies have over the major publishing companies? Aimée Felone was perhaps best placed to answer this question, since her company — the widely-hyped children's publisher Knights Of — is less than a month old, and employs only two people. "We're more flexible, we're quicker to respond and we can put a message out much faster," she explained, a sentiment echoed by Jasmin. "Independents are fast and nimble," she said, "whereas making a change at a big publisher can sometimes feel like turning an oil tanker". She added that when a small publisher takes on a project, it's "personal to everyone at that company; it's in their bones". Or, as Sam put it: "Editors at big publishers might only get one passion project a year, but at Galley Beggars, all of our books are passion projects".
As the event went on, it became very clear that 2017 is a fertile time for indie publishers. But why is that the case? "The current technological environment is very favourable to smaller outfits," reflected Nicolas. When they set up Quercus, his team had to shell out tens of thousands of pounds on an email server for staff; but when Head of Zeus was launched, just a few years later, the equivalent cost was £3.30 per employee. "And it worked better, too," he added, wryly. Meanwhile, Jasmin pointed to the current global feeling of instability and insecurity, commenting that "a world where no one knows what's happening can be a fruitful environment for storytellers". Similarly, Aimée credited reader dissatisfaction for the emergence of Knights Of, which among other things aims to address the glaring lack of diversity on our bookshelves. "There's a group of fed-up readers and fed-up writers out there who are sick of the lack of representation, and we're the answer to that".
Finally, asked Emma, what lies ahead for independent publishers? "Everything is connected now", responded Nicolas, foreseeing a bright future for Head of Zeus and its fellow indies. "From our leafy corner of Clerkenwell, we can now reach every single market in the world, and that simply wasn't the case ten years ago". Sam agreed, referencing Galley Beggars' growing subscriber base as evidence of their customer loyalty. "The average literary fiction novel sells 264 copies a year," he revealed, "but we break that number from the word go, just from our subscribers".
To close the conversation, Aimée laid down the Knights Of gauntlet in the plainest of terms. "We're giving the next generation the place and space to find books that they love. Hopefully they'll say about us that we kickstarted something that will eventually become normal". No mean feat, perhaps, but if the buzz in the room was anything to go by, one that is very much within their reach.


From Timorasso to Vermentino Nero, Italy's little-known grape varieties had their moment to shine at a dinner hosted by the drinks business HK and VinoVeritas.
Home to some of the world's oldest wine-producing regions in the world, Italy has basked in the adulation of wine consumers in the UK and the US for decades with its famous and not so famous grape varieties.
However, Hong Kong has historically been dominated with Italy's more commercially known grapes such as Sangiovese, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio but consumers' diversifying tastes and increasing interests have led some wine importers to source little-known wines from all corners of Italy.
And so, in partnership with Hong Kong's Italian wine specialist VinoVeritas and Michael Palij MW, dbHK hosted a dinner which took in some of Italy's premier wine regions, including Veneto, Piemonte, Marche, Puglia, Tuscany and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia in a '180 minute' journey, paired with a four-course Italian dinner at Operetta.
The evening started with a premium Prosecco, '26esimo I' by Treviso producer, Andreola, where Palij sketched out the overwhelming popularity Prosecco has seen over the years, especially in the UK where it has taken over Champagne in sales.
Travelling 500km or so up Italy's east coast is Matelica in Marche which nestles opposite Tuscany. The old vine Verdicchio di Matelica Riserva 'Mirum', La Monacesca's flagship, has scooped Gambero Rosso's Tre Bicchiere award four times. Palij explained Verdicchio's high acidity and high alcohol and long ageing ability was due to Matelica's wide diurnal temperature range, as the valley has no rivers.
Finally, to end the first course, Palij introduced the Timorasso from Monleale, Piemonte, which is made by the highly regarded producer, Walter Massa. Due to Palij's involvement in bringing Timorasso to the attention of wine critics, including Jancis Robinson in the late 1990s, he affectionately referred to it as his "signature" wine.
The Massa family's dedication in saving Timorasso, a tricky grape with high concentration and yet such tiny yields has earned them the enduring respect of the world's wine community.


Dedicated to everyone for whom working in children's theatre is, was or will be special.
In the mid-sixties, while I was at Oxford, I went to see a big commercial pantomime at the New Theatre. It was a matinee and the audience was mostly children. As a child my favourite theatre treat had for several years been Peter Pan, but I had also enjoyed pantomimes.
Now, having grown up a little, I watched the show rather differently. I noticed that the story-line was very thin. The entertainment was really a succession of variety acts. The children in the audience were often restless.
After the story had rather perfunctorily been disposed of, the star comedian embarked upon his half hour obligatory spot. It was quite enjoyable, if, in my view, out of context. At one point he cracked a slightly blue joke. The children didn't understand it. A few of the adults did and cackled in the stalls. Whereupon the star walked eagerly down to the footlights, leant over and said: "Oh, come on, let's get the kids out of here and then we can get started!"
It was as though an electric shock had jolted me. I even blushed. How on earth, I thought, can this man, who is being paid a lot of money to entertain these children, blatantly tell us that he would rather be entertaining his late night cabaret audience. Surely those children deserved better. It struck me that there was very little theatre aimed at children. That moment was a turning point in my life.
The seeds for my career in children's theatre were sown early. At first it was Peter Pan and pantomime and then, by the age of eight, I had developed an interest in conjuring and puppetry. I loved my Pollock's toy theatre and performed puppet shows in the back garden. By the age of eleven I was part of a cabaret act, singing and performing magic tricks.
In my teens I started performing magic at children's parties. In retrospect I realize this taught me a great deal about how children respond en masse and how to encourage and control audience participation.
My interest in magic has continued. I am a member of the Magic Circle and perform my own Magic and Music Show in theatres. I often try to incorporate magic and illusion into my children's plays. Incidentally, magic helped me get into Oxford; Christopher Ricks, my long-suffering tutor, once confessed that although my academic abilities were no more than average, he thought I might be useful to have around - he had three young children at whose birthday parties I entertained.
As a teenager I took part in school plays, local amateur theatricals and youth drama festivals. For several years I attended residential youth drama courses run by a wonderful teacher / writer /director called Frank Whitbourn, who at eighty-five is still my mentor and is the first person to see the first draft of anything I write.
At Oxford I managed to do more acting and writing than I might ever have done at a drama school. Plays in the Oxford Playhouse, a European tour in Shakespeare, several Edinburgh Festivals and, perhaps the greatest thrill, writing songs for and appearing in Hang Down Your Head and Die, the anti-capital punishment revue that transferred to London's West End.
After scraping through my degree, I co-wrote and appeared in a University revue called Four Degrees Over, which was also lucky enough to transfer to the West End. The other performers were John Gould and Bob (now Sir Robert) Scott, with whom I later presented The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See ... in London, and Adele Weston, who, by a strange coincidence, also became a children's writer, and a highly respected one, under her married name, Adele Geras.
After a period of enforced 'resting', during which I tutored a prepschool boy in Latin and a Swiss ski-instructor in English, I co-wrote a documentary musical for the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and spent a very happy few months doing Theatre in Education at Watford, sharing in the early days of this new form of theatre which had been pioneered by the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. It taught me a hell of a lot about playing to cynical teenagers at 9.30 in the morning. I also learnt the importance of keeping moving and having eyes in the back of your head when playing in the round; one day I didn't and got spat at. Maybe that influenced me later to concentrate on younger children. For Watford TIE I also wrote a participatory play about Boadicea. From this I learnt a lot about taking children seriously.
1967 found me in repertory at the Swan Theatre, Worcester. I directed The Knack and a new musical called A Present From The Corporation, and as an actor I gave my Feste in Twelfth Night, played the juvenile lead in Caste and dragged up for Charley's Aunt. Then I had my first break as a film actor, playing Johnny, one of the rebel schoolboys in Lindsay Anderson's If.... which became something of a cult film.
This taste of the high life might well have detracted me from any idea of pursuing a career in children's theatre, but I was inadvertently hijacked from any thoughts of stardom on the big screen by my return to Worcester, and by the request of John Hole, the director of the Swan, to do some children's theatre.
First of all it was limited to Saturday mornings. I regularly compered and performed in a show with the other actors in the company. We presented a hotchpotch of stories, magic, songs and audience participation. Audiences grew and soon we were having to do two performances instead of one. I found that I loved doing these shows. Indeed I began to wonder whether I was enjoying it too much. I sensed a feeling of power over the audience. They were so willing to join in and to follow my lead. I felt that if I asked them to, they would do absolutely anything. I could understand how Hitler's youth rallies had been able to brainwash young Nazis into blind obedience. Children are impressionable. I now realized how responsibility is a quality vital to the children's entertainer.
Next John Hole suggested I wrote an adaptation of Hans Andersen's The Tinder Box. He didn't want a pantomime. The theatre was too small to present a traditional pantomime and in any case, he didn't really like them. He told me he wanted me to write a 'proper' play for children. I was not to worry about the adults in the audience - if the children enjoyed it, the adults would. He wanted the story clearly and imaginatively told. Audience participation was fine, but it had to be made part of the story. There were to be no speciality acts or irrelevancies. It may seem strange now, but at that time his brief was quite unusual. Most Christmas entertainments then were jolly romps or extravaganzas. Even adaptations of Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz were aimed at a wide audience and had to have a broad appeal. John's insistence that we concentrate on the children was refreshingly novel.
I never saw a performance of The Tinder Box - I was giving my Wishee Washee at Watford at the time - but I don't think it was very good, even though the cast and director were very talented and worked hard on making the story come alive. The writer still had much to learn. Luckily, John Hole didn't give up on me, and the following year asked for another musical play. Sonia Davis, his secretary, suggested The Owl and the Pussycat. This was the play that got me hooked.
My acting career continued. I did a play, After Haggerty, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was in films like Aces High and North Sea Hijack. I did lots of television including classic serials and even starred opposite Shelley Winters in a two-hander called The Vamp. In I970 I created the role of the Son in John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father and was nominated Best New Actor; later I played the part again in Toronto opposite Sir Michael Redgrave.
But all the time my commitment to children's theatre was developing. By the time I wrote my fourth play for Worcester we reckoned that the audiences trusted us and that familiar titles were no longer necessary. I wrote my first original play, The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner. This subsequently came to London and was directed spendidly by Jonathan Lynn, who was later to achieve a wider audience by co-writing Yes, Minister and going to Hollywood to direct feature films.
Jonathan's work reinforced my belief that children's plays should be directed seriously. He made the conflict between the insects in the garden totally real. The success of this production in 1971 and 1972 was also due to Sheila Falconer, the choreographer and Peter Pontzen, the musical director, both of whom have worked with me ever since. Their contribution to the style of my productions has been invaluable. Susie Caulcutt provided the brilliant set and costume designs. She had first worked with me on the London Owl and has since designed most of my own productions. Her sympathetic interpretations of my work have never been equalled.
For some years thereafter I rather turned up my nose at the idea of adaptation, thinking grandly that the original art of children's playwriting was the be all and end all. For Worcester, I wrote Flibberty and the Penguin, The Papertown Paperchase and Hijack Over Hygenia. But when John Hole departed to open the new Queen's Theatre at Hornchurch he persuaded me that the larger stage and better facilities now at our disposal might offer openings for adaptations of pantomime subjects. Also, there were many books and stories which had such splendid ideas in them that it was foolish to ignore them as subject matter. I called them my 'pantomime substitutes'. They were conceived as musical plays for children rather than traditional pantomimes. They retained certain elements of pantomime, but sometimes, as in Babes in the Magic Wood and Mother Goose's Golden Christmas, had original story-lines.
Looking back, John's continued confidence in me had a huge influence on my development. I ended up writing thirteen Christmas productions for him. A regular annual commission, a writer's dream.
Cameron Mackintosh came into my life in the early seventies, when he offered to co-produce a Christmas season and national tour of The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See ... Since then he has often financially supported my productions. For this I will always be most grateful. But perhaps his major contribution to my development began in 1976. I had been asked to write a new children's play for the Towngate Theatre, Basildon. Presented by the Theatre Royal, Norwich, The Gingerbread Man was directed by Jonathan Lynn.
Cameron came to see the play and immediately offered to coproduce it with me in London the following year. He secured the Old Vic, which proved to be a splendid venue, and the play ran there with considerable success for two Christmas seasons. We subsequently produced the play in several other West End theatres, as well as on tour.
We never sought subsidy and the play was never commercially successful, mainly because the seat price was kept low to encourage school parties to come. But the response was always positive and The Gingerbread Man became my most popular play. It has been performed all over the world, and one of my happiest memories is seeing Japanese children reacting to it in exactly the same way as their English counterparts. I subsequently adapted the play into a book and a television model animation series.
The response of audiences throughout Great Britain to the touring productions of Owl and The Gingerbread Man convinced me that touring was the best way to introduce the work to the widest possible audience. Ideas for a national touring children's theatre began to be discussed seriously, and in 1978, WSG Productions, the company I ran with John Gould and Bob Scott, presented a pilot tour of Flibberty and the Penguin. The tour was well received, but it proved conclusively that in order to maintain our standards and in order to keep our seat prices low, we needed subsidy or sponsorship or both. Commercial sponsorship was beginning to make its mark on theatrical projects, and we were lucky enough to secure funding from Clarks Shoes. They proved ideal sponsors, providing splendid give-aways for every child and never asking me to write a play all about shoes.
We decided to give the touring company a new name, Whirligig Theatre. It would be run as a public service rather than a commercial venture. The first tour for the new company was a revival of The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner. Arts Council Touring took an interest in our work, and supported it through the eighties. An average tour would play in middle-scale and large theatres to over 100,000 children. Most of the performances were day time matinees to which school parties could come. Teachers became our allies and we regularly presented seminars for them, as well as offering Teachers' Packs and competitions.
When Whirligig's second production, Nutcracker Sweet, was safely on the road, I went to Unicorn Theatre and wrote and directed Meg and Mog Show, based on the books by Jan Pienkowski and Helen Nicoll. Maureen Lipman made a wonderful Meg, and the production was revived many times. This play introduced me to even younger audiences than I had written for before. Although parties of five to seven year olds came from primary schools, the show was especially popular with groups of pre-school children from kindergarten and playgroups.
Talking to teachers in the eighties about children's growing interest in and concern for the environment led me to write The Selfish Shellfish, The See-Saw Tree and Save the Human (originally commissioned by the Cambridge Theatre Company). In these plays many of my own ideas from children's theatre became fused with some of the aims of Theatre In Education and led to what I believe is some of my best work.
In the nineties, it has become increasingly difficult for Whirligig to maintain its touring programme to the major theatres. In 1989, the Education Reform Act began to make its impact on theatres across the country. It stated that school theatre trips that had been traditionally subsidized by parents, now had to be paid for by the schools. As schools had no budget for such trips, the Act allowed them to approach parents for a voluntary contribution. However, when something is labelled 'voluntary', approximately one third of people are reluctant to pay. Therefore, many theatre bookings had to be cancelled.
For example, for Whirligig's 1989 Sadler's Wells season we had seven thousand advance pencilled bookings, but by the time we opened three thousand had been cancelled. This was echoed across the country. School party bookings dropped and theatre managers began wondering whether to include children's theatre in their programming. Children's theatre companies in turn found it very hard to survive. The Education Act is still in place, but many teachers seem to be ignoring this aspect of it, and schools do seem more willing to bring parties to the theatre. I sense that the tide has turned. The recent Whirligig production of The Gingerbread Man at the Birmingham Hippodrome appears to prove this point. The Hippodrome offered the production to schools at only £5 per ticket, including transport.
This was an initiative inspired by the visionary attitude of Professor Tim Brighouse, Birmingham's Education Chief, who has stated that every child in Birmingham is entitled to a theatre visit. In Birmingham, approximately 10,000 children attended the performance in one week, and the experiment was declared a great success. The Education Reform Act, therefore, seems to be less of a deterrent, but nevertheless had a devastating effect, which children's theatre is only just getting over.
This coincided with a shift in attitude by theatres where it was no longer feasible to present a children's play even as an important community service because its low seat prices might prevent it making money or even breaking even. Sponsorship and Arts Council funding have simultaneously become harder to achieve. The costs of mounting our relatively large-scale productions have increased, yet the seat price must be kept low (a third, say, of an average adult seat price). Thus the gap between expenditure and potential revenue has increased; filling that gap has proved difficult, sometimes impossible.
As a result, some of my most recent plays have been more commercial adaptations of very familiar and popular children's books. In 1990 James Woods and Justin Savage of Clarion Productions invited me to adapt and direct The BFG by Roald Dahl. This toured successfully and played to well-attended Christmas seasons in the West End. It was followed up by another Roald Dahl adaptation, The Witches, which also toured and played in the West End, and two adaptations based on Enid Blyton's Noddy books. All these productions were mounted with care and integrity. Many of them employed members of the Whirligig 'team'. I was very pleased with the results.
But I live in hope that it will soon be possible once again to present plays with lesser known or new titles for school parties. This does not mean to say that school parties do not come to the more commercial titles - many do. And it does not mean that the plays are not suitable for family audiences at the weekends. But the shift away from public service to pure commercial viability is a trend that threatens the future of children's theatre.
My tally of plays for children stands at approximately forty. I have been very fortunate in that most of them have been commissioned and that all of them have been published by Samuel French Ltd.
Many of the plays are regularly performed by professionals and amateurs all over Great Britain. Some of them have played successfully abroad. But so far the costs of transporting one of my own productions to other countries have proved prohibitive. Even The Gingerbread Man (one basic set, six actors) was unable to play the Vancouver Children's Festival because it was 'too big'. It required a theatre rather than a marquee and a day rather than a couple of hours to 'set up'.
In spite of the problems, I know I was right to concentrate on children's theatre, even though it has always been something of a crusade to keep up the momentum and persuade the theatre establishment to accept the work as important. Writing and directing the plays takes up far less of my time than trying to arrange productions or secure funding. But every time I witness an audience reacting positively to my work I know it has all been worthwhile. And I am greatly encouraged by the number of young actors, writers and directors who are now not simply interested but genuinely determined to make a career in children's theatre, sharing the ideals of those of us who started in the sixties, and who still believe that children are the most important audience.
I find children's theatre more challenging, and the rewards - though not necessarily financial - greater. For me, as writer, director and often producer, the creation of a new piece of work, the writing and the build-up, via casting, pre-production meetings, and rehearsals to the opening performance is always a daunting yet exciting journey. Nothing gives me greater satisfaction than to sit in an auditorium witnessing a full house of children unequivocally approving my work.
The challenge is to give a unique theatrical experience to an audience, many of whom will be first-time theatre-goers, to involve them emotionally, to sustain their interest in a story, to inspire and excite them using theatricality, to make them laugh, to make them think, to move them, to entertain and educate them by triggering their imaginations. Over the years the challenge has never faded. If it had, perhaps my single-minded dedication to children's theatre would have long since waned. But every new play, every new production stimulates the adrenalin, brings on the nerves and invites me to the fray.
Janet Grant is responsible for encouraging me to write the book Theatre for Children: A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing and Acting; she mapped out its structure and scope and helped me analyse the way I work. I am truly grateful for her patience and persistence and for her skilful ability to ask me the right questions. Janet expressed a professional interest in children's theatre which made me realize how little there is in the way of formal training available for people seriously interested in children's theatre: books, courses, and/or workshops.
Yet since I began my career there has undoubtedly been a sharp increase in the number of young theatre practitioners considering a career in children's theatre as a serious option. I am also concerned that the assumption that children's theatre is somehow second-rate compared to adult theatre is still prevalent. Maybe this is our own fault. Maybe we haven't banged our drum hard enough. Maybe we haven't yet convinced our adult theatre colleagues, the critics or indeed the general public of the importance and vitality of our work and the enormous improvements it has seen in quality and variety over recent years. Maybe now is the time for those of us involved in all aspects of children's theatre to speak up and wave the flag.
In my book I wanted to share my enthusiasm for children's theatre and encourage others to enter this exciting field. I want to erase the myth that writing, acting in or directing children's theatre is an easy option. It is not easy and is often done badly because there is little about the dramatic theory of theatre for children in print and therefore theatre practitioners haven't understood the depth or breadth of the art form. I want to pass on the knowledge I have gained through many years of practical experience of writing, directing and performing for children, in order to inspire all drama practitioners who enter the world of theatre for children to provide the highest quality theatrical productions possible.
The scope of the book has been defined by my own experience. By children's theatre I mean plays performed in theatres for children by adults, professional or amateur. I'm not writing about pantomime, although certain pantomime techniques often come in useful. Nor am I writing about youth theatre in which young people perform. And, although I have learnt a great deal from Theatre in Education, toured to schools by actor/teachers, I have not included a study of it. But I hope that everybody interested in theatre of all kinds for children will find I have something relevant to say, and I am certainly not implying that my particular area of interest means that I don't value the aims and achievements of other disciplines.
I have never received formal training in writing, adapting, acting or directing. It seems somewhat impertinent to be writing a book about all four. But by getting up and doing it for so long I feel I have learnt a lot that might be useful both for teaching purposes and as a platform for future discussion. There is no one way to write, adapt, act or direct. This book is not intended to be the 'be all and end all' on the subject of children's theatre. It is based on one practitioner's experiences, opinions and insights into what makes theatre for children so very special.
When I returned to England in 1993, the Unicorn Theatre in London was kind enough to invite me to every one of their new productions. On one occasion, I watched a children's musical that was so cohesive, I was left mesmerized.
As I walked in the lobby, I read the credits and saw that a David Wood had not only written the play but had written the lyrics and music too, and directed it. No wonder the play fitted together like an enchanted piece of Swiss clockwork!
So awed was I by the talent I had seen displayed, that for half an hour I tried to get up the nerve to approach David at the after-show reception and say, 'Congratulations. What a wonderful play.' Not normally a shy person, that day words failed me. In the end I took the easy way out and wrote him a letter. This book is the result.


We gathered Asiago, Gorgonzola, Parmigiano Reggiano, Pecorino Romano & even Gouda cheese ends & rinds to make a tasty spread. Modifying a recipe from a great resource we previously shared; SaveTheFood.Com, we used Villa Graziella Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil, a touch of our 8-year aged organic balsamic vinegar & Villa Graziella Bianco Toscano IGT white wine made with organic grapes. Prepare ahead, so flavors fully blend & enjoy as a cozy winter appetizer or snack. Makes 2 cups.
Set up a food processor with the chopping blade.
At Villa Graziella Organic our team tries & tastes every recipe we feature. While we love to share our family recipes & those of talented home cooks & chefs, sometimes we adapt them so they are even easier to make. As with our products, our goal is for you to have a healthy & delicious experience using Villa Graziella recipes. So try them out in your kitchen, feel free to tweak them & please tell us what you think. We welcome your comments & feedback!


text:
Pascal Groß (* 15. Juni 1991 in Mannheim) ist ein deutscher Fußballspieler, der bei Brighton & Hove Albion unter Vertrag steht.

Karriere
Der Mittelfeldspieler Groß erlernte das Fußballspielen beim Mannheimer Verein VfL Neckarau, bei dem zeitweise auch sein Vater, der vormals selbst als Fußballspieler aktive Stephan Groß, Jugendtrainer war. 2007 wechselte Groß gemeinsam mit sechs weiteren Jugendspielern des VfL, darunter auch Marco Terrazzino, Manuel Gulde und Robin Szarka, zur TSG Hoffenheim und spielte für diese in der Saison 2007/08 in der neu gegründeten B-Junioren-Bundesliga. Dabei erreichte die Hoffenheimer Mannschaft das Finale um die deutsche Jugendmeisterschaft, in dem Groß ein Tor zum 6:4-Sieg über Borussia Dortmund beisteuerte. Daraufhin rückte er zu den A-Junioren (U19) des Vereins auf, in der er sich für die deutsche U18-Auswahl empfahl, für die er am 18. November 2008 debütierte und bei seinem zweiten Einsatz zwei Tage später sein erstes Tor erzielte. Zum Jahresbeginn 2009 trainierte Groß zeitweilig mit der Bundesliga-Mannschaft Hoffenheims im Herrenbereich, für die er auch in einzelnen Freundschaftsspielen auflief. Im Pflichtspielbetrieb kam er aber zunächst weiterhin für die Jugendmannschaft in der Spielzeit 2008/09 der A-Junioren-Bundesliga zum Einsatz.

Am 30. Spieltag der Bundesliga-Saison 2008/09, ausgetragen am 2. Mai 2009, kam er erstmals in der höchsten deutschen Spielklasse zum Einsatz, als er bei der 0:4-Niederlage seines Teams gegen den VfL Wolfsburg in der Schlussphase eingewechselt wurde. Auch an den nachfolgenden vier Spieltagen lief Groß in der Bundesliga auf. 2009/10 absolvierte er für die Lizenzmannschaft der TSG nur noch ein Spiel in der Bundesliga und wurde vornehmlich wieder in der A-Jugend eingesetzt, die den Vereinspokal 2009/10 im Finale gegen Hertha BSC gewann. Mit Beginn der Saison 2010/11 gehörte Groß nicht mehr zum Bundesligakader der TSG Hoffenheim und wurde stattdessen Bestandteil der Reservemannschaft, die 2010/11 in der Regionalliga spielte.

Er wechselte am 28. Januar 2011 gemeinsam mit Marco Terrazzino zum Zweitligisten Karlsruher SC. In seinem ersten Pflichtspiel für den KSC, dem 2:1-Auswärtssieg beim FSV Frankfurt am 20. Februar 2011, erzielte Groß sein erstes Tor für die Karlsruher. Nach Einsätzen in der Reservemannschaft des KSC kam Groß in der Saison 2011/12 auf 22 Einsätze im Zweitligakader.

Nach dem Abstieg des KSC im Sommer 2012 verließ er den Verein und schloss sich dem FC Ingolstadt 04 an, bei dem er einen Zweijahresvertrag unterschrieb. 2014 wurde die Vertragslaufzeit bis 2016 verlängert. Beim FC Ingolstadt wurde Groß Stammspieler und hatte in der Saison 2014/15 mit sieben Toren und 23 Torvorlagen Anteil am Aufstieg der Ingolstädter in die 1. Bundesliga. In der folgenden Saison erzielte er am 8. Spieltag beim 2:0-Erfolg gegen Eintracht Frankfurt mit seinem ersten Bundesligatreffer das erste Heimtor für Ingolstadt, das den ersten Bundesligaheimsieg für den Verein einleitete.

Nach dem Abstieg des FC Ingolstadt aus der Bundesliga im Jahr 2017 schloss sich Groß dem englischen Premier-League-Aufsteiger Brighton & Hove Albion an. Für diesen gab er am 12. August 2017 sein Debüt in der höchsten englischen Spielklasse bei der 0:2-Niederlage gegen Manchester City. Mit seinem 1:0-Siegtor am 4. Mai 2018 (37. Spieltag) im Heimspiel gegen Manchester United sorgte er vorzeitig für den Klassenerhalt seiner Mannschaft.

Erfolge
 Deutscher B-Jugendmeister 2008 mit der TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
 Zweitligameister 2015 mit dem FC Ingolstadt 04 und Aufstieg in die Bundesliga

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Fußballspieler (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim)
Fußballspieler (Karlsruher SC)
Fußballspieler (FC Ingolstadt 04)
Fußballspieler (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Person (Mannheim)
Deutscher
Geboren 1991
Mann

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


To read the Globe and Mail's full obituary on the late Alan Cairns, click here, or read text below.
To read the Department's in memoriam post on Alan Cairns, click here.
In 1976, two freshly minted young scholars – Roger Gibbins and Rick Ponting – showed up full of vim and enthusiasm at the annual meeting of the Learned Societies, Canada's pre-eminent academic gathering on the social sciences and humanities, to deliver a paper on attitudes toward Indigenous peoples in Canada.
But Alan Cairns, the towering giant in Canadian political science designated as discussant for their session, was present. He suggested they go for coffee. He listened intently to the young men discussing their paper. He then, in response, proposed an agenda for their research work that they followed for the next 10 years.
This was Hugh Alan Craig Cairns, who died in Waterloo, Ont., on Aug. 27 at age 88, a mentor, a kind, self-deprecating man whose interest in the work of his colleagues – whatever their age and status – was forever supportive, a teacher loved by his students (including former prime minister Kim Campbell and a roster of some of the country's leading academics), a scholar described by fellow scholars as a genius and an elegant essayist who was one of the most original thinkers that Canada ever produced on the country's political workings.
Fellow political scientist David Cameron, dean of the faculty of arts and science at University of Toronto, likened him to an alpine skier who goes alone down virgin mountain slopes, plunging the slalom poles into the hills of political science so that those who come after him can structure their directions and professional trajectories. "He defined how people go down the hill," Mr. Cameron said.
He gave few media interviews. No one could recall him writing a newspaper comment-page article. He could not be labelled a public intellectual in the term's ordinary sense. Rather, he wrote with nuance, sophistication and layered depth for other academics and generations of students, and the breadth and originality of his writing in academic publications was described by colleagues as unparalleled.
Mr. Cairns once told a friend that a senior administrator at University of British Columbia – where he spent most of his academic career – informed him once that he was of limited value to the university because he didn't bring in much research money.
The reason: He didn't need much research money because primarily, he spent his time thinking.
He wrote an essay on electoral reform for the first issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science in 1968 that received more citations than all other articles combined in the CJPS's history.
He wrote about the "embedded state" – how governments and their institutions were shaping the nature of Canadian society. He wrote about "Charter citizens" – how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was changing the way Canadians gave themselves identities and visualized the mechanics of how their country should be governed (not, as he argued, by diktats of first minsters' decrees such as 1987's rejected Meech Lake Accord for constitutional amendment).
An article he wrote on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – Canada's top judicial body until it was supplanted by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1949 – turned academic thinking on its head in his discussion of judicial activism.
He wrote forcefully about Indigenous peoples as "citizens plus" in a way that he hoped would open the door for them to assume full and equal membership in Canada's larger settler society without assimilating. Instead, however, the notion of nation-to-nation separate identities has been gaining paramountcy.
What students found most compelling about his work, said Keith Banting, director emeritus of the School of Policy Studies of Queen's University, were his explorations into why it was so hard to find a constitutional framework the country could embrace – so difficult to reconcile the tensions between notions of equality of founding peoples (initially the French-English dualism and subsequently with the inclusion of Indigenous peoples in the equation), equality of provinces and equality of individuals.
Alan Cairns was born March 2, 1930 in Galt, Ont., now the city of Cambridge. His parents, Hugh, a factory worker, and Lily, a homemaker, were Scottish immigrants. His two older brothers, John and Jim, also became academics. As a youth, tall (well over six feet) and gangly, he was a star pitcher for the incongruously named Galt Pups baseball team.
He did his undergraduate and master's degrees at University of Toronto and then went to Oxford, where he did a doctorate on British pre-colonial views of Africa – the research for which he conducted while living in the former British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
He began his academic career in 1960 in the University of British Columbia's political science department and taught there for the next 35 years, heading the department from 1973 to 1980.
He was a member of the Hawthorn Commission, which in the early 1960s looked into the deprivations of Indigenous peoples ("Citizens Minus") and declared in its report that Indigenous people in fact possess additional rights as citizens ("Citizens Plus") through treaties, history and traditions – a kind of double-citizenship theme which Mr. Cairns developed in a 2000 book: Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State.
He was an adviser to the B.C. government during the constitution patriation negotiations of the 1970s and 80s.
He was appointed one of three research directors for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (the Macdonald Commission) with special responsibility for examining political and government institutions.
He and his late former wife Patricia Grady had three daughters, Lynn, Wendy and Elaine. His partner for the last 18 years of his life was Anne Innis Dagg, a world-renowned expert on giraffes (she titled her autobiography Smitten by Giraffe) and the daughter of University of Toronto's Harold Innis, author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. Mr. Cairns leaves his daughters, three grandchildren, Ms. Dagg and her three children.
Mr. Cairns, who was an officer of the Order of Canada, received many academic awards and honorary degrees and held visiting professorships at Harvard, the University of Edinburgh and universities across Canada. He held an adjunct professorship at University of Waterloo.
Kim Campbell, who studied with him at UBC in the 1960s, said she adored him as a teacher but could be annoyed by his inclination to dismiss surfacing feminist thought in the academy. Ms. Dagg, herself a feminist writer (she wrote a blistering account of the Canada Council's uneven awards to male over female artists), echoed the former prime minister. "It annoyed me, too," she said.
It is hard to proclaim a single outstanding legacy of his work because he wrote so deeply on so many topics. What's striking, however, is how much he is still read. U of T's David Cameron observed that a reading list put together this fall for political science PhD students at York University contains no fewer than nine articles by Alan Cairns.
The deepest themes he pursued were the embedded state, federalism, the impact of the Charter on Canadians' identities and the place Indigenous peoples could claim.
Queen's University political scientist Kathy Brock, a friend of Mr. Cairns, spoke of how he opened a major window into political thinking by writing about how the state acted on society, how the state was an actor in itself – an idea that underlay a lot of his writing on the Charter. It was, said Mr. Cairns's political science colleague at UBC, Richard Johnston, an important explanatory factor of societal behaviour that was commonly neglected in the political science of the time.
In his Citizens Plus thesis, Mr. Cairns raised concerns about a developing, sovereign, nation-to-nation association between Indigenous and settler communities in Canada – the risk, as he saw it, that the two communities could be left drifting downstream as side-by-side societies with no organic relationship, no willingness of Canadians to provide the support that Indigenous communities would need to develop. If this is a group that says they're not Canadians, Mr. Cairns said, would Canadians then question what obligations they had to peoples who aren't Canadians but whose land has been taken?
Former University of Calgary political scientist Tom Flanagan, on the other hand, likened Mr. Cairns's thesis to reaching into the U.S. civil rights movement to argue that Indigenous peoples needed help to become like other Canadians, as American blacks needed help to become like other Americans. The risk was that the goal would be seen as integrationist.
Indigenous law scholar John Borrows of University of Victoria suggested more common ground might exist between Mr. Cairns's double citizenship and notion of nation-to-nation relations than was acknowledged. As with many of the issues Mr. Cairns addressed, Mr. Flanagan said, he touched off a lot of significant debate.


Blast Doors are locations created for individuals to have a look at in order to protect themselves from blasts triggered by bombs. An additional kind is a results sanctuary, however these vary as they are produced to protect from infected rains where as blast sanctuaries are developed to safeguard versus overpressure along with shock waves. They spread blast waves much from the area, this protects against inside in addition to ear injuries. A traditional framework would definitely go down from simply 3psi of overpressure; however blast shelters can tackle numerous hundred psi. I strongly suggest you to visit blast door to learn more about this.
The door is usually produced from steel, this lowers weight. They afterwards have actually fitted steel lintel along with framework stuck to the steel support of the concrete. If the door gets on the lands surface and will definitely be divulged to the blasts, the door ought to be counter sunk at the sides, this gives up the blast wave elevating the side. Preferably they should be developed so the door is not straight on the surface together with is secured by different other frameworks.
Usually Expedient Blast Refuges are frameworks (Civil Layout) which have actually hidden pipelines or tubes such as quick transportation moves or sewage system (these tubes as well as pipelines are regularly big in measurement). They do not nevertheless operate on their own in addition to demand different other enhancements to get them function: Air Filtering Bonus Separations Air flow Equipment Air Proofing The Door The doors are simply amongst among the most vital parts in order to assist the sanctuary function; they need to most likely to the incredibly the extremely the very least as strong as the wall surface areas.
The doors are a standout amongst one of the most crucial segments to enable the sanctuary to ability; they must be in any type of occasion as solid as the divider panels. The door is generally developed from steel, this reduces weight. They then have fitted steel lintel and also edge welded to the steel assistance of the solid. On the off chance that the door gets on the premises surface as well as will be presented to the blasts, the door should be counter sunk at the edges, this quits the blast wave lifting the side. In the event that conceivable they should be created so the door is not particularly at first glimpse and also is shielded by different structures. The structure needs to reliably have an auxiliary Blast Door incase the essential one end up significantly blocked.


text:
Tag Archive for: Stop Online Piracy Act
You are here: Home1 / Blog2 / Stop Online Piracy Act
GoDaddy Sucks and Here is Why – Part 2 – Premium DNS Crashes Networks
Abuse, Marketing, Press Release, press release, Rant, Reviews, Server Upgrade, Social Media, SOPA, Technology, World News
GoDaddy sucks. Period. If it isn't obvious to you from the smutty campaigns with Danica Patrick, supposed President and former CEO "Bob Parsons" having 'secrets' like, "The SECRETS to finding and hiring GREAT employees. + 2 Smoking-Hot Go Daddy Girls!", while being totally sexist and a general creeper, poor advertising in general or the absolutely crappy hosting plans they over-sell hosting nodes on, then we need to talk. This has been a long time coming from us as timing is everything. We wanted to make sure that we took proper precautions to protect ourselves, our intellectual property and free speech as what we're pissed off about is far from acceptable and borders on near to criminal on Go Daddy, Inc.'s behalf. So to make it crystal clear, this is an account of our experience and not some random slanderous prose on who to hate.
Might as well preface this with: A) It's technical, B) It's personal, and C) We gave them ample opportunity to make this problem right before we had to take the issue into our own hands. And in light of recent SOPA problems with GoDaddy, we hope this testimonial is even more of a reason that you don't use their service. Speaking of, their real CEO, Warren Adelman, put out a statement about SOPA stating that because the Senate couldn't come to a consensus that GoDaddy was no longer supporting SOPA. Read that again if you need to figure out why we're astonished or read the whole article about SOPA and GoDaddy sucking. Now, on to the show!
We affiliated ourselves with GoDaddy, a.k.a. GoDaddy.com or Go Daddy, Inc., as an ICANN domain provider back in 2006 before we went public and as a reseller in 2008 to offer competitive pricing and an alternative storefront when we did begin offering public services. As a reseller, they take one of their other companies, Starfield Technologies as well as Wild West Domains (remember this name, it's key to what went wrong) and have your WHOIS/Registration information pass through them. Since then, we've obviously learned that there are just as viable alternatives to domain acquisition and purchases than dealing with GoDaddy, often for pennies more or less. And our network continues to grow.
Looking for a way to keep costs the same or lower and provide the same if not better service, we looked at integrating what was called GoDaddy's AnyCast DNS now called 'Premium DNS'. We suspect that they stopped calling it 'AnyCast DNS' because you can't serve DNS from one datacenter and honestly call it AnyCast… sort of a technical oxymoron. This was to be used as an extension of our services and as an alternative to running solely our own network of DNS servers. We didn't jump in with both feet, but we were deep enough to start losing air before it was too late.
We called and spoke to a sales representative about their services a long time ago, long before our trust was broken and our issue ever occurred. At the time, we declined moving forward with their DNS service because there was no way to CNAME or create a hostname for the servers that matched a domain name of our own as we said a moment ago. When GoDaddy added the 'vanity name servers' bit to the DNS service, we were more interested. We called back several months later and spoke to a sales representative that we had make sure with her supervisor her statement was accurate and ordered the Premium DNS service because we were able to not hand out a string like a CDN does. At the time, we had been hosting our own servers and wanted at least one extension off of that for even more redundancy. Since we already had our .com at GoDaddy at the time with the core hostnames coming from GoDaddy, it was easy to say yes to testing out something for like $2.99 a month since we were paying much more than that per DNS server.
Before I get too far into this, a very important part of hosting relies on DNS. DNS to the layman is a server or network system which broadcasts the IP address or location of a server by converting the name of a top-level domain like turkreno.com into an IP address. DNS serves out usually every request that goes through a network and it also plays a very large part in the latency, or speed, in which content is found. There are times when a network is undiscoverable or slow just because of routing issues with backbone service providers. Those providers in the United States, such as AT&T, Global Crossing, Layer3 and others actually run the flow of the Internet and usually own the fiber optic cable on which it runs. So, when a DNS server does a query, the response or reply may tell your traffic to go to Washington first, because that's where the first router is between you and the domain that resolved and the server you're asking for, then further "hops" to other locations until your request reaches its destination. Having multiple servers, or an AnyCast-type network, that are within multiple datacenters around the world where those backbones are routed through provides what's known as a Point-of-Presence (POP) and will decrease latency since the answer is locally cached to that router. In a worst cast scenario, the traffic where a network client requests a site that isn't cached by the ISP, which is the usual case, the router may have to search or query the router ahead of it to search for a resolving DNS server, thus creating latency. Speed is of the essence and maybe that explains why this improvement is important for any network.
Digressing back to what happened is most likely easier if we just put it into a handy mind map and bullet out the entire issue here for those who don't want to view a huge PDF. For months this issue was up on the whiteboard in the office and it took precisely that long to fix all of the screwed up issues that happened. We ended up making a mind map chart of what went wrong and we'll go from there.
GoDaddy Network Failure Mind Map
PDF of the Mind Map — MP3 of the Voicemail
We spent hours on this with them. Hours we want back from our lives. Maybe we can save you some time. Switch hosting to us, we're not on GoDaddy's crappy 4GH Network or whatever they want to call it. Or maybe you want to contact the Office of the President for GoDaddy. No problem, here's all of their contact info:
E-Mail: president@godaddy.com
CEO: Warren Adelman
Alt. Numbers to GoDaddy Corporate Offices: 408-505-8800
So, when you think of DNS hopefully GoDaddy won't be the first that comes to mind. We've got an awesome platform setup to accommodate multiple types of needs, including those of web masters using Linux or WHM/cPanel. Contact us if you're interested. It's private for the time being, but will be live soon.
Don't trust GoDaddy with your DNS, their SysAdmins know NOTHING of how to complete a ticket and they COULD be stealing your traffic, or worse, blocking it because their tech support knows NOTHING.
January 6, 2012 /by TurkReno Website Design
https://turkreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png 0 0 TurkReno Website Design https://turkreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png TurkReno Website Design2012-01-06 18:31:252016-08-14 22:51:47GoDaddy Sucks and Here is Why – Part 2 – Premium DNS Crashes Networks
GoDaddy Sucks and Here is Why – Part 1 – The SOPA Truth
Abuse, Local News, Off-Topic, Press Release, Rant, Reviews, SOPA, Technology, Web Hosting, World News
The great evil of the modern day Internet: SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or as it's formally known H.R. 3261, which threatens Freedom of Speech and Expression on the Internet. The Bill titles itself with the very false objective – "To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes." – and it's the "Other purposes" as usual we're all worried about. Blocking a site at the DNS level is one of the primary concerns. The other concerns that we've heard and see online are the linking of one site to a site that is infringing against Copyright laws. With SOPA marked as it is now, the whole site would be taken down rather than the offending content. What ever happened to the DMCA? Wasn't that good enough? Apparently not.
This Act, when read in further detail, not only pressures Internet Service Providers like TurkReno to make rather extraneous measures to filter content and national providers of ICANN services to block a domain that they blacklist from search engine results and beyond. If they passes it to the US Senate then you can expect more than one derivative of its kind following SOPA. You see, it's failed before. And, like a bad cold, this is another variant. Here's the best summary from Wikipedia that shows what it was and how it's moving:
The PROTECT IP Act is a re-write of the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which failed to pass in 2010. A similar House version of the bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced on October 26, 2011.
What's disgusting about this is that GoDaddy, one of the largest ICANN domain registrars was, and under speculation still is, supporting the writing of this Act. They crafted it themselves. And then they release a press release today stating they would not further support SOPA, but we don't trust it and neither should you. If they knew what they were getting themselves into, then it's clear that their Executives are bluffing their way into keeping business. What really matters here is that they see the big picture. GoDaddy isn't the only registrar.
And, with as much content as GoDaddy hosts, and over-sells (see Caption 1), they'd shut down 5,000 to 6,000, yes – THOUSAND, customers at a time per ONE (1) SOPA takedown order.
And here's what they had to say:
GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA
Looks to Internet Community & Fellow Tech Leaders to Develop Legislation We All Support
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Dec. 23, 2011) – Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation – but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."
Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago. Jones has fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill by proposing changes to key defined terms, limitations on DNS filtering to ensure the integrity of the Internet, more significant consequences for frivolous claims, and specific provisions to protect free speech.
"As a company that is all about innovation, with our own technology and in support of our customers, Go Daddy is rooted in the idea of First Amendment Rights and believes 100 percent that the Internet is a key engine for our new economy," said Adelman.
In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.
"Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," Jones said.
Here's the great crux in this Press Release: SOPA has not been introduced to the US Senate. And it's a reaction, not something they've done after hearing the SOPA proceedings. As celebrities threatened to leave GoDaddy, they pushed this out to stop the bail out. It's a House of Representatives Bill. As stated on the US House of Representatives Website under "How Are Laws Made?" this answer can be found (We're at the In Committee phase):
Laws begin as ideas. First, a representative sponsors a bill. The bill is then assigned to a committee for study. If released by the committee, the bill is put on a calendar to be voted on, debated or amended. If the bill passes by simple majority (218 of 435), the bill moves to the Senate. In the Senate, the bill is assigned to another committee and, if released, debated and voted on. Again, a simple majority (51 of 100) passes the bill. Finally, a conference committee made of House and Senate members works out any differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. The resulting bill returns to the House and Senate for final approval. The Government Printing Office prints the revised bill in a process called enrolling. The President has 10 days to sign or veto the enrolled bill.
Anyone with half a brain can see this is just a PR stunt on GoDaddy's behalf. Maybe even the protection of the recent additional DNSSEC properties which don't totally jive with their product offerings. And admittedly DNSSEC doesn't really jive with SOPA either, but it's their main point of pressure to go after when attempting to take down a domain aside from seizing the name registration itself.
And the kicker to both Go Daddy and the rest of the world? DNSSEC is all controlled by IANA, Verisign, the gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) registrar for ALL .com and .net domains, acknowledging these Zone directives. ICANN and the U. S. Department of Commerce. Don't believe me? http://www.root-dnssec.org.
Either way, this is part one of a few more that will outline why GoDaddy is failing as a company and why we believe that it's not in your best interests to continue to do business with them.
Update 1/5/2012: GoDaddy, in all of it's uncanny glory, has released a statement from CEO Warren Adleman. They don't support SOPA because the representatives could not reach a consensus. I like one of the comments that state that "transparency should be a two-way street and not a one-way mirror". Here's the statement:
Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities. Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority, and we hope to repair those relationships and win back their business over time.
Still don't trust them. Part two coming soon.
https://turkreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png 0 0 TurkReno Website Design https://turkreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png TurkReno Website Design2012-01-04 18:09:412017-11-28 18:17:20GoDaddy Sucks and Here is Why – Part 1 – The SOPA Truth
Anonymous Declares War on the Sony PlayStation Network for SOPA Support
Abuse, PlayStation Network, Sony, SOPA, Technology, World News
This was just released from a Sony Fan-site. Hopefully this is an idle threat because we're tired of the PSN going down…
Anonymous To "Destroy" Sony's Online Network for SOPA Support
With Sony's online service hacked and brought down earlier in the year by internet activists Anonymous, gamers everywhere suffered from the downtime of the PlayStation Network and its subsequent hack. Unfortunately, if you thought that it was all over, then you'd sadly be wrong – Anonymous seems to have declared war on Sony, again.
Hello, SONY.
We are Anonymous.
It has come to the attention of the Anonymous activist community that you have chosen to stand by the Stop Online Piracy Act. This act will halt online businesses and restrict access to many sites for many users. Supporting SOPA is like trying to throw an entire company from off a bridge. Your support to the act is a signed death warrant to SONY Company and Associates. Therefore, yet again, we have decided to destroy your network. We will dismantle your phantom from the internet. Prepare to be extinguished. Justice will be swift, and it will be for the people, whether some like it or not. Sony, you have been warned.
To those doubting our powers. We've infiltrated the servers of Bank of America, The United States Department of Defense, The United Nations, and Lockheed Martin. In one day.
For their approval to SOPA, we have also declared that our fury be brought upon the following persons. Justin Bieber. Lady Gaga. Kim Kardashian. and Taylor Swift.
Operation Blackout, engaged.
Operation Mayhem, engaged.
Operation LulzXmas, engaged.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Supporters of SOPA, you should've expected us.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the highly controversial bill that, if passed, would give the US government and copyright holders powers to block access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods". But SOPA has received growing criticism by free speech activists and tech companies like Google and Facebook due to the vague terminology of the bill, which could mean sites like YouTube (or even PSLS) could be blocked for having copyrighted material submitted by users rather than the actual site owners.
With Sony being one of the largest publishers and producers of films, music and games, piracy has severely impacted their profits, and have a vested interest in SOPA being passed. While it's fair to protest SOPA and any company that supports it, Anonymous' actions earlier this year showed that the group is willing to let normal consumers suffer from their attacks.
It's important to note that Anonymous have no central leadership, and this video seems to be the only declaration of war against Sony so far, so it's hard to tell just how many Anonymous 'members' are actually behind the new attack.
Via: http://playstationlifestyle.net/2011/12/29/anonymous-to-destroy-sonys-online-network-for-sopa-support/
While we don't support SOPA ourselves, we do understand the importance of anti-piracy measures. As stated above, no one knows just how many people are behind this, but it screams "look at me, we need attention" on behalf of Anonymous. This ridiculousness needs to be stopped, and by stopped I mean Anonymous stopped.
December 29, 2011 /by TurkReno Website Design
https://turkreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png 0 0 TurkReno Website Design https://turkreno.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image.png TurkReno Website Design2011-12-29 20:17:312016-08-14 22:56:13Anonymous Declares War on the Sony PlayStation Network for SOPA Support
Digital Millenium Copyright Act Policy
Gaming Consulting for Business and Brands
Pokémon Go Business Consulting
Prohibited Services
Required Maintenance Agreement
Service Application
Technology Advisor
Web Design Mobile, AL | TurkReno Website Design
Web Design, Hosting and SEO Mobile, AL :: TurkReno
Website Design Pricing
Website Design Services for Reno, Nevada
Website Design Services in Mobile Alabama
WordPress for Websites
Self-Advertising
SEO for Google
SEO for Images
SEO Methods
Server Upgrade
Sony Entertainment Network

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Description NAV, Sunroof, Heated Leather Seats, Alloy Wheels, All Wheel Drive, Power Liftgate. Elite trim, Modern Steel Metallic exterior and Black interior. Warranty 5 yrs/60k Miles - Drivetrain Warranty; SEE MORE! KEY FEATURES INCLUDE Leather Seats, Navigation, Sunroof, All Wheel Drive, Power Liftgate. Rear Spoiler, MP3 Player, Remote Trunk Release, Privacy Glass, Keyless Entry. Honda Elite with Modern Steel Metallic exterior and Black interior features a V6 Cylinder Engine with 280 HP at 6000 RPM*. Horsepower calculations based on trim engine configuration. Please confirm the accuracy of the included equipment by calling us prior to purchase.


Beginning this year, school districts will have to sign agreements with the state that spell out how they plan to raise the educational achievement bar.
Under Senate Bill 1581, passed by the Legislature earlier this month at the urging of Gov. John Kitzhaber, school districts every year must set and meet an increasingly challenging set of goals.
The state isn�t allocating more money to meet the new goals and there will be no initial penalties for districts that don�t perform, but down the road educators expect that schools whose students succeed may be freed from some current state regulations.
The agreements, also known as achievement compacts, help set the groundwork for the governor�s education objective: to have 100 percent of students graduating from high school by 2025, with 40 percent of those students going on to get four-year college degrees and another 40 percent going on to two-year college programs.
It�s an ambitious plan. Last year, just 67 percent of Oregon students graduated from high school in four years.
When it comes to higher education, just 29 percent of all Oregon residents have a four-year degree, while 27 percent have a two-year degree.
Kitzhaber has been pushing for greater achievement as a way of improving the state�s economic well-being on the theory that a more competitive work force will help create a more robust economy.
Achievement standards are nothing new. For years, districts have been testing students and reporting their progress toward benchmarks set by the federal government under No Child Left Behind, a national education bill passed in 2001.
No Child Left Behind was trailblazing for requiring schools to make sure all students were improving academically, and imposing sanctions on schools that allowed even small demographics of students � such as low-income or minority students � to fall behind.
But the federal one-size-fits-all approach, which expected all schools and students to show continuous improvement, has drawn increasing criticism as its 2014 deadline looms. That�s the year when every student in the country is expected to pass reading and math tests at their grade level. No one expects that goal to be met.
This year, states can opt out of the requirements of No Child Left Behind by setting their own improvement goals. Oregon has applied for a waiver from the federal rules, and part of its application includes the achievement compacts.
The new Oregon Education Investment Board, created by the Legislature and appointed by the governor to oversee education reform, announced last week the specific categories where districts must show improvement.
The categories were chosen specifically because they represent key moments in student learning that educators say can predict future success or failure, said Nancy Golden, the Springfield School District superintendent who served as an education policy adviser to the governor and is a member of the new board.
Kids who are successful readers by the third grade are more likely to succeed in subsequent grades, and high school freshmen who fail a class or two are much more likely to drop out of school than their more successful peers, Golden said, so the compacts require districts to focus on those areas.
But the districts set their own goals for improving each year.
The districts will be working on their individual compacts in coming months with a deadline to complete them by July 1. Golden has created a sample agreement so people can get a sense of the possibilities. The final version for the Springfield district likely will be slightly different, Golden said.
The Springfield sample calls for a 2 percent improvement in reading and math proficiency for Springfield students in the third grade in the 2012-13 school year, compared to student achievement this year; a 5 percent increase in the number of students earning a diploma in their fourth year of high school; and a 3 percent increase in the number of ninth-graders passing all of their classes.
Golden knows the governor�s 100 percent success goal is a lofty one.
�It�s aspirational, but I really think it is achievable,� she said.
The governor is banking on a more seamless education administration � the goal of the new board � to help get there, Golden said.
Anything to do with education from preschool through college is within the purview of the board.
For example, getting high school students to think about going to college hasn�t always been a clear goal for all schools, Hepper said. The compacts now call for a percentage of students to have at least nine college credits before they graduate.
�If you�re earning college credits in high school, you�re more likely to attend and stay in college,� she said.
The compacts are still very much works in progress, Hepper pointed out, because Oregon still hasn�t been given permission to opt out of No Child Left Behind regulations.
She expects that to get the federal waiver, the compacts will have to include specifics about dealing with districts whose students aren�t meeting the new goals.
�We will have to spell out our process for providing supports and interventions,� she said.
Current proposals suggest that successful schools be paired with schools struggling to meet their goals in a mentoring relationship, but those details have yet to be worked out.
Also on the drawing board: relief from reporting and other regulations that educators often find burdensome, Golden said.
This year, for example, districts won�t be asked to produce a particular report that the state usually requires. And in the future, districts meeting their goals may be given some freedom from other state requirements, Golden said.
For example, districts might allow students to get credits by proving their knowledge through testing rather than sitting through a semester�s worth of classes. That would require suspension of a state rule about the number of hours of instruction students must have.
�The better you do, the more your ability to suggest freedom from rules or regulations,� Golden said.
Will a better educated work force translate into a more prosperous Oregon?
Routine jobs are being sent overseas or done by computers or machines, said John Tapogna, president of the Oregon-based economic consulting firm EcoNorthwest.
Computer chip manufacturer Intel, for example, sends some work overseas, but is expanding its Hillsboro work force, home to its high-end research and development activities, Topogna said.
But nothing ties residents to the state that educated them, and people migrate when they can�t find work locally, he said.
Supplying the work force is one thing; having other policies in place to attract business and industry is another, he said.
�(Education) does need to be married with all the other levers that a state and a governor have to pull in order to make this an attractive place to live and do business,� he said.


text:
NEWS: Rising of the Shield Hero English Dub Debuts, Future Episodes to Debut Simultaneously With Japanese
Thespacemaster
Thats Great but why was it delayed in the first place?
If anyboy who saw the premiere of the first ep of the dub last year and sees it again. do you think you can spot differences ? thanks?
Greed1914
It's Over 9000!
Thespacemaster wrote:
I'm kind of curious about that too. They obviously had the materials and were working on it if they can have multiple episodes uploaded at once, and it doesn't seem like there was a problem with delayed materials if they can commit to having them ready on the same day as the simulcasts going forward.
Nice, somehow I missed or forgot the original dub cast announcement, always up for hearing more Erica Mendez.
And Billy's been a lot of fun as Josuke in Jojo so far as well as good voice for Yuya in the re-dub of AICO.
Daeat
I assume Pst since it's done in LA?
and is it today the 13th or 20th?
(edit) today.... so new question... is funimation still getting it since its not up?
SnowWarren
I think it might be to do with the music. I've seen the first episode and they've done an English cover for the OP and I heard the song in episode 4 is different as well. If all the Japanese vocal tracks are going to be replaced then that would easily delay a simuldubbing schedule. They probably kept recording the characters lines so the music was the last thing and if it's going to be released week to week from now on then maybe that means there are no more insert songs to be dubbed.
MiloTheFirst
maybe it wasn't for a technical reason as much as a marketing one. you know, just like the smartphone companies release their new X model only to release the smaller Xs 3 weeks to a couple months later, it helps them stay on the news (and in peoples conversations) for a longer spam
Richmyster84
Is it still going to be released dubbed on Funimation?
Sheupe
Richmyster84 wrote:
I want to know that as well. It's not on FunimationNow at the moment
Sheupe wrote:
No. Crunchyroll has the rights and Bang Zoom are the studio dubbing it. The first 6 episodes are available dubbed on Crunchyrolls website and the series, from now on, will be keeping pace with the Japanese version.
squirrelmecha-2.0
Yeah, The dub is pretty good so far
nDroae
Wow, I'm not really a fan of the OP, but great respect for producing an English version. I miss that from 80's/90's anime like Bubblegum Crisis and Tenchi Muyo. You get two versions to choose from.
Though when it's Jojo, you might get a good English alt version from Japan anyway.
Sethimothy
I am in a weird place with this because I am very curious about how an English dub could turn out and am at a point in my life where a lot of JP voices sound too much of the same for their own good...
But this is one of those series I jumped into with a little bit of faith despite friends who disliked how things developed in the light novels (and I guess there is a web comic too?) I am admittedly less concerned about the use of false sexual assault or slaves as party members, and more concerned with how quickly this show is turning into the very worst kind of wish fulfillment Isekai harem show. Do I really want to watch episode 5 again, but this time in English? Guess we will see...
Catsplay
Sethimothy wrote:
Shield Hero isn't really a harem series at all (I'm speaking as someone up to date on the English releases of the light novels) and I'm not sure what you mean by "worst kind of wish fulfillment". The light novels aren't finished and they majorly diverged from the web novel early on by introducing new characters and entire new story arcs fleshing out the world and the anime is directly adapting the light novels. If anything Raphtalia is the only one that actually likes Naofumi like that while Filo just views him as her father figure and there's only 2 other characters later on introduced that like him and that's not until several story arcs later, and other side characters get their own love interests. Not every female character is going to pine over Naofumi and he's just frankly not interested in women, so you really don't need to worry about that haha.
Catsplay wrote:
Shield Hero isn't really a harem series at all
[...] while Filo just views him as her father figure
That's a harem trope though.
You ignored everything else I said just to try to point out that? I can assure you, Filo isn't part of a "harem" and she's strictly treated as an ally/daughter figure in the scheme of the series, if anything later on she gets shipped with another female character around her age. This is a series focused on telling a grand plot with many big plot twists and epic battles, it does not try to play into "Harem" tropes at all even if that's how you're viewing it.
cloudflare ray# 4f6deab280b3567f-IAD


Very excited to announce that I will be part of a working group – a small assembly of people brought together to study a situation or problem, reporting on what has been discovered – Constellations gives eight artists the opportunity to come together to study socio-political contexts as the site for their artistic practice.
Group members: Beverley Bennett, Connie Butler, Ting-Ting Cheng, Edmund Cook, Carla Cruz, Sophie Hoyle, Gal Leshem, Camara Taylor.
Running from October 2017 – May 2018, the group will explore different methods and approaches to artistic research and community-orientated practice, through a series of day-long monthly workshops hosted by Flat Time House. Each session will be led by an invited guest, the first four guests include; Ain Bailey, Jasleen Kaur, Rory Pilgrim and Rehana Zaman – the other workshop guests will be invited by the group.
Alongside the workshops, there will also be budget and curatorial support to programme two public events, the form and content of which will be shaped and determined by the group collaboratively.
The programme will support artists to develop their practice, collaborate with others, access new networks, and spend time at FTHo as a place to study and research between the monthly workshop sessions.
Constellations has been conceived by UP Projects in collaboration with FTHo and draws on the history of John Latham's house as a site of experimental art education where students, artists and the wider public can come together to test the boundaries of what is teachable and knowable.


This home is located in downtown Austin at the Four Seasons Residence and has views of Lady Bird Lake and easy access to Austin's vibrant, urban scene. The client, a bachelor and part-time Austin resident, wanted to create a space which was at once both masculine and soft to provide a backdrop for showcasing local artwork. A neutral gray palette coupled with warm artwork maintains masculinity while keeping the space cozy and modern. The Murano Chandelier provides the space with a sophisticated Art Deco accent and eclectic furnishings from Chicago, New York, and Austin make the space unique. Custom mill-work was designed to hide a Murphy Bed in the second bedroom, which allowed the space to function as a "Man Cave" by day and a functioning guest room by night.


Born in a small town in Southern Italy. As a young man he showed a strong interest in fashion. His passion was further nurtured by his mother, a traditional seamstress, who gave him his first experiences working with fabric, thread and needles.
Every product offered at Pasquale Iovinella© is handmade by Pasquale himself, starting from him personally sourcing and selecting every fabric used, to the pattern design and the sewing, stitching, threading and packaging of the final product.
Pasquale's lifelong enthusiasm drove him to turn his passion into a reality. He loves to dress in a simple traditional manner, essential to everyday life, while adding an element of elegance with a necktie even when wearing a pair of jeans. Every day he creates handmade neckties, bowties and pocket squares using high quality fabrics from Italy.


text:
When did Ronald Reagan visit ballyporeen?
What is Reagan's ideology?
Did you know Ronald Reagan visited Ballyporeen?
What is Ballyporeen famous for?
President Reagan visited the village on 3 June 1984 and delivered a speech to its residents, during which he discussed his ancestry and what he called the "Irish-American tradition".
Reagan believed in policies based on supply-side economics and advocated a laissez-faire philosophy, seeking to stimulate the economy with large, across-the-board tax cuts. Reagan pointed to improvements in certain key economic indicators as evidence of success.
What were some controversies during Ronald Reagan's presidencies?
1 Iran–Contra affair.
2 Department of Housing and Urban Development grant rigging.
3 Lobbying scandals.
4 EPA scandals.
5 Savings & loan crisis.
6 Operation Ill Wind.
7 Wedtech Scandal.
8 Debategate.
Who was the Brokest president?
Truman was among the poorest U.S. presidents, with a net worth considerably less than $1 million. His financial situation contributed to the doubling of the presidential salary to $100,000 in 1949. In addition, the presidential pension was created in 1958 when Truman was again experiencing financial difficulties.
For a certain generation, the Tipperary village of Ballyporeen will forever be associated with the visit of another (much less) controversial American president — the late Ronald Reagan. He visited the village of his ancestors back in 1984, raised a pint of beer in the local pub, was greeted warmly, and then he left.
Ballyporeen is best known for being the ancestral home of United States President Ronald Reagan. His great-grandfather, Michael Regan (who later changed the spelling of his name), was baptised in the village in 1829 and lived there until his emigration to London not later than 1851 and ultimately the United States in 1857.
Where is the ancestral home of the Reagan family?
Ballyporeen, county Tipperary is the ancestral home of the Reagan family. President Reagan's ancestry has been traced back to his great grandfather Michael Regan who was born in 1829 in the parish of Templetenny, and emigrated first to London and then to the USA. Templetenny was renamed as Ballyporeen around 1900.
What happened to the famous Ballyporeen pub?
It was sold back in 2004, its interior carefully dismantled, and then reassembled by its new owners at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. The people who owned the famous pub are the vendors of a 33-acre holding located in the townlands of Glennacunna and Gorteeshal, adjacent to Ballyporeen.


Cebu, an emerging powerhouse in the national tourism industry, prides itself in being one of the premier Philippine destinations as well as a gateway to the wonders and spectacles of the far reaches of the globe.
In promotion of local and international travel, The Cebu Travel and Tours Association will once again be holding its 3-day Expo: The Cebu Travel Catalogue 2015 at the Ayala Activity Centre CEbu from January 30th to February 1st.
With its aim to open up Cebuanos to different travel deals, offers and even assistance the event will be participated with a total of 80 booths spread around the Ayala Activity Center. Booths for various travel agency, tourism offices, airlines both local and international players as well as real estate and insurance firms to name a few.
This One-Stop-Shop offers deals, flight assistance, hotel reservations and even group rates from various destinations await visitors of the said even. I can't wait to check them out. Offers and discounts are only exclusive for the event and will only be announced on the day itself. This opens up Cebuano travelers and neighboring cities to travel locally and abroad.
This is definitely something to look forward to! See you there! Event is from January 30th to February 1st at Ayala Center Cebu!


Sun had a really rough night. Earth told sun not to go to that party, but Sun didn't listen. Just as sun was leaving the house, Earth said don't take the green pills from Hector, but Sun didn't listen to that either, mainly because Sun was drunk of her mind, and when Hector came around, her defenses were down, and was an easy sell on the green pills.
Then, it was a blur for Sun. In fact, it was a blackout night of mayhem she can't even remember. But, Sunday morning came and she had obligations in the AM. Earth stayed home, went to sleep at a decent hour and is obviously chipper, sipping a cuppa coffee. I'm betting Sun doesn't quite get there this morning.
So, that's why you should get the Good Morning Sunshine T Shirt…obviously. Plus, stick figure legs and plush bunny slippers.
Snorg Tees oftentimes likes to give you some adorable stuff to put on your chest. Enjoy!


Looking back now there is nothing I would change or do differently about our day, which we made into a weekend Wedstival!
We had a venue with exclusive use for an entire weekend. A collection of converted farm buildings in sleepy Suffolk. Our immediate families arrived on the Friday prior to the wedding for a big share a dish supper. We had 24 people coming and going around a big table.
My cousins were over from Australia with my uncle so three boys under 10 were running noisily around. My cousins baby daughter was charming us all with smiles. There was noise and chatter around the table as we caught up with the news and passed the salt.
We set up a marquee in the grounds with miles and miles of home made bunting from my mum and hand made cake stands lovingly drilled by my uncle with plates collected from a family friend. We had jugs of sweet peas from my nanny's garden on the top table. My mum had also made flavoured vodkas and gins for each table and we had collected a hundred small shot glasses instead of favours. We had an M&S cake decorated with ribbon by my cousin.
A photo corner was set up using left over fancy dress from stag and hen do's and bulked up with trips to the joke shop. A finger print tree using the same design as our wedding invite and drawn by my nanny was set up ready for our guests to record their presence. I had handmade a table plan to tie in with the bunting theme.
It felt like such a team effort with everyone rallying round to help and support us, it cemented that the commitment we were making wasn't just to each other but to our families, and that our families would be supporting us in this commitment.
The next day we started early, girls in the farm house, boys in the barn. Hair dressers and photographers arrived and seamlessly got to work. The florist arrived and handed out beautifully scented bouquets and button holes. Two men carried a piano into the marquee. I was blissfully unaware laughing and doing sudoku with my girls and mum.
We had a slightly unusual set up in that we were getting married twice. One legal service followed by a wedding blessing in a local church. It was important to me to have the church blessing and to have the congregation asked to support us in our vows to each other. Also we got to sing Jerusalem really loudly! My new father in law read a fabulously funny Pam Ayres poem which seemed like it had been written for us, in fact people congratulated him on writing such a funny poem.
Both services were wonderful. I had expected to cry the entire day. I well up at the slightest invitation. But unusually for me I hardly shed a tear the entire day. I think I was too caught up in the excitement, that or I was afraid my waterproof mascara wouldn't actually be waterproof!!
I personally do not like weddings when I don't see the bride and groom because they are busy being photographed. We squeezed ours in between the two services so we were around to enjoy the reception drinks. Gin and tonics and Bellinis were served from the mobile bar company set up in the marquee.
A local catering company came and served an afternoon tea, my favourite meal and in honour of a dearly loved aunt who had passed away two years before. Sandwiches were served alongside fresh scones and clotted cream, small fruit tarts and edible mouse cups finished off a fabulous meal. All washed down with an endless supply of prosecco.
The wedding speeches has us all in hysterics. Daddy Morkus had two best men, both called Ben, the Best Bens! They had us rolling off our seats with their oh so close to the mark stories of my new hubby at university! They even sang his own boat club song to him!
We danced the night away with a brilliant Dj who read the crowd just right so it was like a proper cheesy night out at uni. I changed into my converse half way through the night so I could dance some more! The Dj also kept us informed of Super Saturday which was happening in London with a bumper haul of gold medals.
The next day in a haze we had a BBQ and watched Andy Murray win his gold medal.
It was a wonderful family affair, and two months later we got the news that we would be extending that family with an addition of our own.
Good luck Modern Mummy, I hope your day is everything you want and that if marks the start of a new and exciting chapter of family life for you as it has for us.
Photographs courtesy of Patrick Leverton.
We're TOTALLY getting excited about Hallowe'en!


[Ffmpeg-devel] Fwd: How to encode video?
Next message: [Ffmpeg-devel] Fwd: How to encode video?
Subject: How to encode video?
How can the encoder know that the frame_rgb contains a raw RGB frame?
How can I save the frames to disk?


Since 1950, we've been serving hot, made-to-order burgers and more with a smile. So come on over. We're cooking up breakfast, lunch and dinner—from burgers and chicken sandwiches to biscuits and pancakes—to satisfy the heartiest appetites in San Antonio, TX. Visit our drive thru or dining area at our New Braunfels & Fair at 3500 S New Braunfels.


Image Title: Dingo Coloring Book Pages Playing Basketball Goofy S Throughout 17. Post Title: Basketball Coloring Book. Filename: dingo-coloring-book-pages-playing-basketball-goofy-s-throughout-17.jpg. Image Dimension: 607 x 850 pixels. Images Format: jpg/jpeg. Publisher/Author: Schuyler O'Connell. Uploaded Date: Friday - September 28th. 2018 05:42:30 AM. Category: Coloring Pages. Image Source: homedit.com. Page Pdf 10. Within Books Intended Basketball For Book 9. Goofy Toys And Color Fan Com Pages Coloring To Player Aubreyo Inside Free Games Medium Of Ideas Together Amazon 19. Win 6. Pertaining Best Sports Mickey Regarding 14. 18. 13. With Printabl Players Size 3. 15. Image Playing Lovely 0.


text:
Grace Lutheran Church -Everett
Deacon Bio
Mike Ryan grew up in Grantsburg, WI. He was the second oldest of seven children with one older sister and five younger brothers. He was raised on a country farm and was in Cub Scouts, 4-H, and played football, baseball, basketball, ran track, pole vaulted and wrestled in high school. He was also a hunter and a trapper.
He joined the Air Force in 1974, received training in industrial engineering, real property management, cost accounting and budget analysis at San Antonio, TX. He was assigned to Lowry AFB in Denver before being stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, AK from 1976-1978. He worked as a budget planner for Base Civil Engineer. While in the service in Anchorage, he also managed a pizza parlor on base and worked as an assistant sales manager in a local furniture store.
After leaving the Air Force he became the co-owner and operating general manager of a furniture group. After experiencing the plunge of oil prices and the collapse of the Anchorage economy, he worked as an account executive for the local NBC television station until transitioning into the automobile business as the sales manager for a Lincoln Mercury dealership. For over thirty years he has been in the car business as salesman, customer relations director, sales manager, fleet sales manager, and general manager. He is currently employed as the Commercial Sales Manager at Brien Ford in Everett. For the past four years he has served on the Board of Directors of the Northwest Ford Truck Association; holding the office of Treasurer and currently the office of President.
He and his wife, Marilee, met in Anchorage in 1986. They have been married twenty-seven years this coming June. Together they have four children and eight grandchildren. While in Anchorage, Mike and Marilee were members of Zion Lutheran Church, LCMS. He served as an Elder, Chairman of the Elders Board and Congregational President. Over the years he also chaired the Board of Education and the Board of Evangelism, led adult Bible studies and instructed confirmation students. He oversaw the operation of Zion Lutheran's Pre-School, was a member of the Board of Directors at Anchor Lutheran School and a member of the Board of Alaska Mission for Christ. He has been an active supporter of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League events, assisting with worship and sacraments at retreats and conventions, and participating in skits.
In 2002 and 2004 Mike campaigned as an East Anchorage candidate for the Alaska State House of Representatives.
Under Pastor Ken Schauer, circuit rider pastor for Alaska Mission for Christ, he received Lay Ministry training and service assignments, qualifying him to serve as a deacon under pastoral direction. Mike conducted Sunday services and Word and sacrament ministry in rural areas in Alaska as well as in his home congregation.
Last year Mike interviewed with the LCMS Northwest District to complete the final step to be certified by the NW District LCMS as a licensed deacon. After the completion of a Deacon Purpose and Ministry Description for Grace Lutheran Church the voters' assembly of Grace approved the position of deacon in May 2014 and Mike was selected to fill the office. In July the NW District LCMS approved Mike as licensed deacon for Word and Sacrament Ministry.
September 13, 2014 Pastor Schultz placed the deacon stole on Mike and commissioned him as a deacon at Grace Lutheran Church.
In January the NW District LCMS Office of the President renewed his license to serve in Word and Sacrament Ministry for 2015 as a deacon at Grace.