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Avant-grandparents
You carry your avant-grandparents inside you wherever you go. You carry them around inside you as voices you find yourself mimicking. It may well be against your will. It may even be your own "real" voice, but your avant-grandparents got there first. People hear you talking, people who knew your avant-parents and your avant-grandparents before that, and hear them. It makes you "cute", as cute as The Strokes. It makes you reassuring, reassuringly unoriginal. You fit a pre-cut hole. Hey, you sound just like grumpy grandpa Lou!
Lou's "up to Lexington, 125, feeling sick and dirty, more dead than alive" popped into my head, as it always does, when I found myself on Lexington Avenue yesterday. I also caught myself earlier in the day sounding remarkably like Laurie Anderson in my art show, with an 80s string machine loop backing a narrative about Hummers, recited in the glazed-appalled schizo-mesmer sprechgesang style Laurie has made her own over the years. And I've been doing the "prematurely air-conditioned supermarket" piece from Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, adding the twist that someone on the beach is listening to it on an iPod.
How appropriate, then, that a certain C. Depp, who's working on Robert Wilson's archives, would kindly give Mai and I tickets to see Wilson's new epic, I La Galigo at the Lincoln Center. The piece, three hours long, was inspired by the Galigo Manuscript, a sacred epic poem of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi in the Indonesian archipelago.
Unfortunately, I La Galigo was like the school play from hell, a three hour yawnfest of frigid tableaux, depoliticized Piscator, pastel lighting, costumes apparently bought from Saks 5th Avenue, tepid humanism, slow-mo tai chi, fake, neutered ethnic music, the mannerism but not the viciousness of Peter Greenaway, and animal scenes worthy of "The Lion King". The plot (projected in supertitles above the stage) constrained the gesture, everything worked to diminish everything else, the cast of thousands felt like nobody was on stage at all, and I felt a curious absence of any guiding theatrical intelligence whatsoever. It was like some tourist folk dance spectacular staged at the Hilton Hotel, Jakarta.
The audience at the Lincoln Center—average age 60—seemed to love the piece, though, giving it a standing ovation at the end. The elderly Jewish couple in front of me were typical. The man fell quickly asleep, which was fine, he wasn't snoring. I kind of envied him. But his wife insisted on waving her hand in front of his eyes and talking to him continuously to wake him up. "You're missing it!" she hissed. "I'll wake up when important bits of plot are happening", he grunted. "You missed important bits of plot already," she said, lying through her teeth, since for the last ten minutes all that had happened was that people had walked very slowly across the stage, gradually rotating their hands.
A couple of balconies down from us sat Shazna and her friend Claudia. In front of them were Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, pals of Robert Wilson. Shazna tells me that Lou slept through most of the play, while Laurie watched with a fixed, blissful smile. Mai and I ran into them on the sidewalk outside as we headed towards the subway. Lou was wearing long shorts and a faded Hawaiian shirt, small steel-rimmed spectacles. They'd left the Lincoln Center but were returning against the crowd, as if they'd just realised they'd left something under the seat. Lou glanced at my eyepatch and I recognised him, shocked to see how frail, silver-haired and dithery he looked, like a Floridian retiree. Laurie walked close behind, blurry-faced, unexpectedly tiny. They looked like your avant-grandparents from the countryside, frazzled by the big city.
PS: Just a reminder that your very own avant-grandfather Momus plays Tonic tonight between 8pm and midnight, joined by Rusty Santos and the Billy Nayer Show. Also, uberdionysus has a page of drawings, photos and descriptions of his trip to "I'll Speak, You Sing" here.


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Ґілі () — село в Ірані, у дегестані Аманабад, в Центральному бахші, шахрестані Ерак остану Марказі. За даними перепису 2006 року, його населення становило 280 осіб, що проживали у складі 97 сімей.

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Середня річна температура становить 12,31°C, середня максимальна – 30,64°C, а середня мінімальна – -9,55°C. Середня річна кількість опадів – 237 мм.

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With Wonder Woman 3 Scrapped, Will Henry Cavill Even Get a Chance to Return as Superman?
Big shakeups are happening at Warner Bros. Discovery's DC Studios. It was reported December 8 that Patty Jenkins' third "Wonder Woman" film will not move forward at the company, with insiders saying that plans for the overall DC Comics franchise, now under James Gunn and Peter Safran, conflicted with Jenkins' vision. Many fans are expressing doubts about the future of characters and actors at the company, particularly Henry Cavill as the flagship DC hero Superman.
Cavill first launched the so-called DC Extended Universe — also consisting of "Wonder Woman" and a grab bag of other films starring Aquaman, Shazam, and the Suicide Squad — as Superman in 2013's "Man of Steel." He next appeared in 2016's "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" and both versions of the "Justice League" film — the original 2018 theatrical release and the eventual HBO Max director's cut from Zack Snyder. Following those films, DC largely seemed to drop Superman from their planned slate, until Cavill made a much-hyped cameo in this year's "Black Adam" and confirmed he would be returning to the role in future projects.
Following the release of "Black Adam," fans received a further shock when it was announced that Cavill left his popular Netflix series "The Witcher," with his role as Geralt of Rivia taken over by Liam Hemsworth. Cavill was a passionate fan of the original fantasy book series, and many interpreted that his exit was so he could return to the role of Superman. Now, fans on social media are worried that Cavill made the big leap for nothing.
Following the hiring of Gunn and Safran back in October, the DC Universe remains in flux as Warner Bros. awaits the release of next year's "Shazam! Fury of the Gods," "The Flash" with Ezra Miller, "Blue Beetle," and "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom," which will be the last film made under DC's previous regime. The fate of Black Adam also remains unclear, as the film did solid opening numbers but ultimately grossed under $400 million at the global box office.
The Warner Bros. Discovery merger is behind many of the year's most shocking production developments, including the shelving of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's nearly complete "Batgirl." Gunn and Safran are reportedly expected to meet with Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav sometime this week to present their vision for the franchise, so the future of DC could become clear sometime soon.
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Calculations at a triakis icosahedron, the dual body of the truncated dodecahedron. A triakis icosahedron is a regular icosahedron with matching regular triangular pyramids attached to its faces. It has twenty vertices with three edges and twelve vertices with ten edges. Enter one value and choose the number of decimal places. Then click Calculate.
The triakis icosahedron is a Catalan solid. Lengths and radiuses have the same unit (e.g. meter), the area has this unit squared (e.g. square meter), the volume has this unit to the power of three (e.g. cubic meter). A/V has this unit -1.


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Jenna Dewan Engaged after Channing Tatum Split
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The future is looking bright for Jenna Dewan. Almost two years after splitting with her husband of eight years, Channing Tatum, Dewan has just announced that she is engaged to boyfriend Steve Kazee.
This news comes five months after the pair announced that they were expecting their first child together.
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Jenna Dewan and Steve Kazee's Engagement announcement
As most couples do, both Dewan and Kazee announced the news via Instagram.
"A lifetime to love and grow with you…you have my heart ❤" Dewan captioned a photo of the pair.
Kazee used song lyrics to mark the momentous occasion.
"When you wake in the morning I will kiss your face with a smile no one has ever seen," he wrote, channeling the lyrics to "Let It Breathe" by the Water Liars. "When you wake in the morning I will kiss your eyes and say it's you I have loved all these years."
The engagement was a community effort as actress Nikki Reed helped design the beautiful ring that Kazee gave to Dewan.
A post shared by Jenna Dewan (@jennadewan)
"An honor to be a small part of this special moment," she wrote on her Instagram story."I love you both, and all I can say is your love is pure magic. And I might be biased but that ring is gorgeoussssss! Steve, making this with you was such a beautiful experience. Thank you for loving Jenna the way you do."
Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum's split
This engagement comes almost two years after Tatum and Dewan told fans that they were deciding to split.
"We have lovingly chosen to separate as a couple," the couple said in a joint statement obtained by People. "We fell deeply in love so many years ago and have had a magical journey together. Absolutely nothing has changed about how much we love one another, but love is a beautiful adventure that is taking us on different paths for now. There are no secrets nor salacious events at the root of our decision — just two best-friends realizing it's time to take some space and help each other live the most joyous, fulfilled lives as possible."
Though the pair was no longer romantically involved, they wanted people to know that they were committed to raising their daughter Everly together.
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"We are still a family and will always be loving dedicated parents to Everly. We won't be commenting beyond this, and we thank you all in advance for respecting our family's privacy. Sending lots of love to everyone, Chan&Jenna."
The couple's breakup was shocking to fans who had considered them #couplegoals. For a while, neither Dewan or Tatum revealed why they decided to split. But Dewan finally spoke on the breakup in her book, Gracefully You: How To Live Your Best Life Every Day.
"I'd come to realize the dynamic I was in wasn't serving me nor was it serving my daughter," she said. "First and foremost I had to accept the realization this isn't working and had moved into hurting."
Dewan began dating Kazee in October of 2018 and their relationship has progressed quickly and steadily. Tatum has also moved on from his divorce and is currently dating singer Jessie J.
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A super cool robotic ball and geospatial intelligence are the products of a couple of cool entrepreneurs we met in Grand Junction and Boulder. The governor sat for an interview and we drove over the Rockies during a snow storm. Plus pool and cards with my favorite crew (missing one Brodee).


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Getting old is a weird thing everyone has to goes through, no matter how much money or power or might have, it'll still get you. Things keep constantly changing around you and you start feeling like a stranger to a lot of things you were once very familiar with.
Instead of adapting to their new way of life, some people keep constantly fighting it, which makes them look even older than they really are, but at some point, everyone ends up giving up and accepting the new state they found themselves in. Here are some hilarious Tweets about getting old that you might be able to relate to.


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Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014 Apr 21;55(4):2669-73. doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-13979.
A perspective on the mechanism of the light-rise of the electrooculogram.
Constable PA1.
Applied Vision Research Centre, City University London, London, United Kingdom.
The light-rise of the electrooculogram is believed to originate from a substance released from the rods after dark adaptation. The identity of this "elusive" light-rise substance has not been demonstrated, and therefore a new perspective on the light-rise is presented. The light-rise is caused by the depolarization of the basolateral membrane of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) has become clearer in the last decade with the identification of calcium as the intracellular secondary messenger and the role of bestrophin as a regulator of intracellular stores of calcium and controlling the cytosolic calcium levels through L-type calcium channels. The light-rise depends upon a change from darkness to light, which triggers the intracellular cascade resulting in the depolarization of the basolateral membrane. The same intracellular signaling molecules, notably calcium and inositol triphosphate (IP3), are strongly implicated in this cascade. Recent studies have now led to a clearer understanding of the roles and functions of the ion channels and their contribution to the light-rise with IP3 regulating the release of calcium for intracellular stores. Given that calcium and IP3 are also regulators of phagocytosis, and that the initiation of rod outer segment phagocytosis is initiated with light-onset, it may be that the light-rise is generated in response to this physiological event. Therefore, the putative light-rise substance may not be released by the rods, but follow directly from IP3 release from the RPE's phospholipid membrane following the onset of light and the initiation of phagocytosis. The light rise substance, could be considered to be light itself.
electrooculogram; inositol triphosphate; light-rise
10.1167/iovs.14-13979
Dark Adaptation/physiology*
Electrooculography/methods*
Membrane Potentials/physiology
Rod Cell Outer Segment/physiology*


Whether it's on your foot or you face, chances are good that you'll experience a wart at some point in your life. They can be anywhere from large and raised, to small and flat, and are all caused by the same villain—HPV. When people seek treatment, they most often go for the usual methods of removal including surgical excision, cryotherapy, and topical creams or solutions. But what if you don't want to go that route? The good news is that there's a whole army of home remedies available to help get rid of that wart asap.
Warts usually manifest as raised bumps, although they can sometimes be flat. Color varies and includes warts that are skin-colored, brown, red, and pink. Because a wart isn't caused by bacteria or fungus, you can't just kill it with standard medication like antibiotics. This makes the HPV viral particles more tricky to deal with and is the number one reason why warts come back. But make no mistake, they can be eliminated for good.
Most warts occur among children and teens.
Hand Warts: It's easy to pick up a wart on the hand, considering we use them constantly to touch surfaces, people, and pets. One thing to watch for with hand warts is your fingernails — if warts get underneath them, they can permanently damage the nailbed.
Something to try for hand warts is apple cider vinegar. This substance has strong antiviral properties and is a proven method of natural wart removal. Soak a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar and press it to your wart, then cover with a bandage or tape to secure. After a few days, the wart should begin to turn black, then fall off on its own over the course of another week or two.
Read for more information on using apple cider vinegar, beetlejuice and castor oil for warts.
Foot Warts: The most common type of wart on the foot is the plantar wart. These are the flat, skin colored, calloused warts on the bottom of your foot that can be hard to get rid of. Usually, you pick these up by walking barefoot on a dirty floor like a locker room, dirty shower, pool deck, or public restroom, although you can get them anywhere. You can also have the common wart show up on your feet, which will appear raised and on the top or side of your foot.
Never try and cut a wart out of your skin as a home remedy. It's hard for a regular person to see where exactly the wart tissue remains underneath the skin layers, and you may just end up causing more damage than harm. Infection is also much more likely when you try and cut a wart out yourself.
One method of home wart removal that has been shown effective time and time again is duct tape. Because of the airtight seal it creates, the tape cuts off the wart's oxygen, suffocating it to death. To use this method on your feet, cut off a small piece of duct tape and press it onto your wart, ensuring there's a good seal.Leave it on for three days uninterrupted, then take off to change into a new piece of tape, and repeat until the wart is falling off. Results usually take 2-3 weeks, depending on the wart size.
Interested in essential oils for wart removal? Go here to learn more.
Warts on your finger: When a wart pops up on your finger, it can be especially annoying. Not only do you use your fingers to touch everything, it can interfere with the dexterity of everything from writing to typing. The strains of HPV that cause them on your finger produce raised warts and will show up anywhere along the finger, including underneath the fingernail.
Fresh garlic juice can be applied onto the affected areaGarlic has been shown to be a good method for wart removal. This super-substance has antiviral properties that help kill the HPV causing the wart to appear in the first place. First, either cut a garlic clove in half or crush up pieces of it. Then, hold it directly to your finger, making sure juices from the garlic make contact with the wart. Tape into place and leave on for an hour or two,twice a day.
Wondering about thuja occidentalis and vitamin A when it comes to wart treatment? Click to find out more.
Going to the doctor can be a hassle for some people. Wart removal can take several visits and sometimes includes pain. Also, the cost of doctor's fees, facility charges, and prescriptions can make it impossible to go that route. But something nature has done for us is provide a pharmacy growing right outside our door, no co-pays needed.
Most natural wart treatment takes an average of two weeks.
Milkweed is a plant used for years by Native Americans. It contains a milky sap that is poisonous to eat, but safe for topical use. To use for your wart, cut off a section of the milkweed branch, squeeze out some of the sap directly onto the wart itself, then cover with a bandage. Do this twice a day until the wart is gone. Remember, be careful not to get any of the milkweed sap in your eyes or mouth!
Basil isn't just a tasty ingredient—it's also a wart-fighter. This herb you find so often in recipes has virus-fighting compounds in it perfect for getting rid of the ugly growths you can find with HPV. To use, crush up a fresh basil leaf and apply all over your wart, then cover with first aid tape or a bandage. Leave on for an hour or two, and repeat both morning and night.
Using a nail file or pumice stone to slough away the top layers of a wart will help to kill it faster. Taking off small layers will not only decrease the wart's size, it will help whatever substance you're using for treatment absorb more quickly and efficiently. Soak the wart in warm water before you file it, to soften the skin and make the process easier.
Besides apple cider vinegar and duct tape for warts, there are a few other home remedies that take the prize as best of the best.
If you have warts but don't want to go the traditional medicine route, there's still hope. Explore the various ways you can beat warts through natural home remedies and in no time at all, clear skin is all you'll have left.
Do you want more tips on DIY wart removal? Click for ideas and articles, including thoughts on wart removal using super glue and dry ice.


California is a 1927 American Western silent film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings and Frank Davis. The film stars Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Marc McDermott, Frank Currier and Fred Warren. The film was released on May 7, 1927, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
341 California is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt, that has an unusually high albedo.
It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 25, 1892 in Heidelberg.
"California" is a song by Canadian pop rock band Wave. It was released in April 2001 as the lead single from their debut album, Nothing As It Seems. In Canada, the song reached number one on the country's pop chart. It was also nominated for Best Single at the 2002 Juno Awards, losing to Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". "California" became the biggest song in the band's history, and they were unable to duplicate its success, making them a one-hit wonder.
The music video reached number one on Canada's MuchMusic Countdown for the week of August 10, 2001.
↑ "Aug 10, 2001". muchmusic.com.


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Critical Moments
In Chapter 14 of his wonderful book Think First, Move Later, Willy Hendriks takes objection to the well-established idea of critical moments, with a direct reference to my book Excelling at Chess Calculation (Everyman 2004).
Obviously I am honoured to be the antagonist in a full chapter of Hendriks book, even if he does not elevate me to the level of a Bond villain. Especially because he initially represents my explanation of what a critical moment is rather truthfully.
The position I use to explain the concept and which Hendriks represents is this:
Aagaard – Ong, Sweden 2003
After Black's last move, to my horror I realized that 18.e5 would be met with 18…Bb4. I understood quickly that unless I found something strong, I would be seriously worse. For that reason I struggled with the position for almost 50 minutes before I came up with the solution:
18.e5 Bb4 19.Bf5!! Bxe1? 20.exf6 Qb6 21.Be3 Rxe3 22.fxe3 Bxg3 23.Qg4 Bf2+ 24.Kh1 Qxf6 25.Bxc8 h5 26.Qd7 Bxc8 27.Qxc8+ Kh7 28.Qc2+ g6 29.Rf1 1–0
So far all is well, but then Hendriks starts to psycho-analyse (me?), claiming that it is all hindsight. Maybe there could have been no 19.Bf5 available. His argumentation is probably fairly represented by this quote: "With hindsight it's easy to say: 'there I went wrong, that was the critical moment, why didn't I use some more time there?'"
Quality Chess Newsletter – ACP Book of the Year Prize
All modesty aside, we must announce another Quality Chess prize winner – in fact a 1-2. Jacob Aagaard won the Association of Chess Professionals' 2013 Book of the Year prize for Grandmaster Preparation: Calculation. In second place, just one vote behind, was How I Beat Fischer's Record by Judit Polgar. My personal congratulations to both authors.
This award means that Jacob is the chess author who has won the most prizes – ACP, ECF, Boleslavsky, ChessCafe and Guardian. It was close with Mark Dvoretsky and John Nunn before, but Jacob now has his nose in front.
In a supersized chess file (pdf or pgn) there are many games from the Danish Championship and Danish Blitz Championship, plus analysis that updates and adds to Grandmaster Repertoire 12: The Modern Benoni. The new Danish Champion is GM Davor Palo, but who is their new Blitz Champion? It was another prize for GM Jacob Aagaard.
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What is Calculation?
April 22nd, 2013 Jacob Aagaard	9 comments
In his generally thought provoking, deeply intelligent and beautifully human book Think First, Move Later Willy Hendriks talks about various concepts. One is calculation, another is combinational vision and a third is seeing. But when reading the book I did not get the impression that the author had a clear definition of all of those; especially calculation.
In order to have a meaningful conversation, it is good to know if you mean the same things with the words you use. We can all think of words that have two opposite meanings, with my personal favourite being the word original, which prior to around 1750 meant "as it was in ancient Greece" or something to that effect; a permanent truth. After this of course it has meant "not seen before", which is the way we use it today.
When discussing things or explaining complex points, it is good to agree that a cat purrs rather than barks. I have often made the mistake of believing that people would understand what I meant, when I used common terminology, only to find that this was not the case. A recent example was a review where my book Positional Play apparently did not deal with dynamics. As one of my three questions is: which is the worst placed piece, I found this confusing, but rereading it today, I see that the reviewer is a bit all over the place:
Taken from Adams-Giorgadze, Groningen 1997. The correct move is 29.h4! to put further pressure on the hook (a type of weakness) on g6. The reviewer insists that the tactical point that 29…Bxh4 is refuted by Bxg6 and Qh6 (in either order) is dynamics. Something very similar in Hendriks book is called calculation.
Let me give my own definition of some of these words (which others are by no means forced to follow!). Hopefully they will be meaningful and helpful to those reading this blog.
Dynamics: The immediate aggressive potential of the pieces. e.g. a dynamic advantage means your pieces are ready to do harm, while the opponent is uncoordinated.
Tactics: Operations based on very concrete variations.
Combinational vision: The ability to spot well-known tactical patterns.
Seeing: To me this includes something like why 29…Bxh4 does not work. It is definitely because of a tactic. But what it is not (for me) is:
Calculation: Forcing yourself to look for moves/variations either a) beyond your natural horizon or b) outside of your intuitive spectrum.
Obviously, the last two are subjective. What a GM sees, others will have to grind their way through with gritted teeth (calculation). When you work on your calculation, you will automatically improve your ability to see. You are slowly (very slowly) pushing your horizon away from you.
Sorry if this post is a bit technical, but it will all make sense when I discuss Hendriks book a bit more intimately next week, specifically Chapter 14, in case you want to read it in advance.
(A final note on the review: To make some sort of point, the reviewer puts the black king on g7 in a comparative diagram, to make a point I don't fully understand. Obviously chess is not an entirely static game; the pieces move! But at the same time, chess is also a static game, so those armed with poor understanding and a computer will struggle to understand quite a lot.)
Calculation won the ACP book of the year prize with one vote ahead of How I Beat Fischer's Record. Sort of random and a bit undeserved, as Judit's book is far richer than mine. But obviously people care most about improvement, so a training book always has an advantage.
This is not said to be ungrateful. I am terribly chuffed and proud and want to thank everyone who voted for me. I only say that it is a shame John and I did not vote, as we would have voted for Judit!
At the same time congratulations to Ruslan Sherbakov, who won the Chess Publishing members vote for the best opening book of 2012. Previously this was won by Avrukh and Marin. We are big fans of Sherbakov and think he is a worthy successor. If I am a worthy successor to last year's winners of the ACP award, Nunn and Dvoretsky, I am less sure.
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April 15th, 2013 Jacob Aagaard	111 comments
Inspired by Willy Hendriks' book Move First, Think Later, I want to write about a subject I have been thinking about for some time.
Before I get to that topic, I will say a few words about the book. Hendriks swings between clever insights, self-professed modesty and falling for the Dunning-Kruger effect 🙂 which he even portrays in the book. One of the big highlights for me is his estimate that a tournament of nine rounds with a score of roughly either +1 or -1 on expected score is just as much about chance as anything else. There is no reason to over-interpret, Hendriks explains.
Something similar happened in Wijk aan Zee this year. My student GM Sabino Brunello scored 11/13 and qualified for the B-group. It was quite an overscore, though he was one of the pre-tournament favourites. When asked by journalists after the tournament why he had scored so many points, he correctly said that he had no idea and that he had actually played rather badly for a while and only regained the recently lost rating points with this result. Sure, he played well, but chance was also a factor, as well as something called the winner effect, which I will probably write about another time.
I have been a chess trainer since the late 1980s, when I was still a relatively weak junior player. Obviously I was a poor trainer for the first 10-15 years, but since then I have learned a lot and now feel that I can consistently help people get better at chess. I still prefer to see myself as an expert on chess literature rather than as a trainer, but I have taken on a few more training jobs in the last few years than I previously did. Also, I now feel confident enough to charge a rate that makes it worth my while to engage intellectually and emotionally with the work of improving someone's chess. However, there are definitely trainers out there who offer better value for your money than working with me; especially as many chess professionals are struggling to make ends meet and therefore need all the work they can get.
April 8th, 2013 Jacob Aagaard	46 comments
On request I will talk a bit about goal setting this week. In the general style of this blog, it will not be a to-do-list or in any other way clear advice that will work for everyone. It will be my own reflections and experience with goal setting, which probably will be more interesting for the older readers, while the really young and restless, might find the lack of commitment to any position frustrating. But I will try to give advice to them as well.
In what is known as "coaching" the most famous goal-setting acronym is SMART goals. The idea is that your goals should be: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-dependent.
The idea behind this is rather obvious. The goal will be easy to track when you are on course to its completion. The famous metaphor used in relation to this kind of goal setting is an aeroplane, which will be off course 95% of the time, but will always arrive at the right destination more or less on time. (The oldest source I have heard this from is Tony Robbins in the 1980s, but many have repeated it as if it was their own since then, so maybe it is even older? I think it is a Robbins original, because a lot of people repeat his ideas in book length as if they were their own.)
This kind of thinking will definitely appeal to some, specifically those with no second thoughts. You set your goal, you do the work, you arrive at your destination after some problems on the way, but still more or less as you expected.
But obviously this brings us back to the basic question I like to ask about more or less anything: what is the function of setting a goal?
The problem with failure
April 1st, 2013 Jacob Aagaard	64 comments
"Good judgement comes with experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." – Tony Robbins
A lot of the people I know suffer a lot when they lose a chess game. Especially younger guys, though I once had the pleasure of being insulted by an old guy rated 600 points lower than I, after I surprisingly prevailed in 22 moves.
I used to be a poor loser myself. Not a poor loser like Korchnoi, who fantasizes throughout the game about insulting the opponent after it (despite the result), but the introvert unhappy loser to whom a loss is a sort of autoimmune disease.
But at some point along the way I realised what could be called the problem with failure: It had no beneficiary effect on me.
Actually I never looked at it like this before, I just reacted to the chemical reaction of emotions in my body, believing that it was real and that it was as important as it felt. It was only later, when I got seriously fed up with feeling awful about a game I love, that I started thinking about function.
But before we go there, we need to ask ourselves: what is failure actually. Is it a result below expectations? And if so, then who's? Is it the feeling we get when we lose? And if so, then why do we get this feeling?
At first I did not have a clear answer to any of these questions. I just knew I had to rethink my reaction to "failure". I also had no idea what the benefits of failure were supposed to be. Now I would probably talk about a wiring in the brain left over from the caveman, which has little to do with chess. But the cables are still there and we have not yet learned to produce new ones.
So, at some point I decided to change the rules. I wanted them to work in a way that made sense to me.
I decided that I would only be unhappy with my play if my effort at the board was not up to scratch. I would no longer be a victim to whether or not the opponent had a good day. I would not kick myself for not having done work that I had not done after last time I struggled with the same issue, because feeling bad about it the last time had not worked, in the sense that I had not done the work subsequently.
As a result, I did not mind when I missed winning two pawns in a blitz play-off for the Danish Championship 2006 (against Steffen Pedersen), even though losing this game left me 6th rather than 1st in the bizarre (but entertaining) gladiator system. Actually some guys were really shocked with the indifference I took the loss, but to me it was far from indifference. I was actually a happy loser!
Obviously I was not happy to lose and I had fought hard against it all the way. Actually I had recovered from a 0/3 start to play for the championship in the last round. There was no indication that approaching chess from a positive standpoint was damaging to my results. Actually, the following year was my best year in chess: I beat some great players, won a few nice events and surpassed 2500, the final need for the GM-title.
Later on when I worked with Sabino Brunello, we talked a lot about this. Sabino used to be devastated by defeats. Actually it was so bad that if he failed to solve an easy exercise, he would feel worthless.
I did not believe that it was working for him. Because the only possible function with feeling like this would be if it improved his game. It really did not.
Over the six years we worked together he transformed entirely as a person. Obviously he matured just by growing up, but I think our discussions about mental approach helped a lot too. These days he seems happy when he loses and even happier when he wins!
Is it working? Check out the C-group of Wijk Aan Zee this year and judge for yourself.
If you beat yourself up when the results do not go in your direction and it does not motivate you to work harder, probably you will find what I had found: What you can do with anger and pain, you might be able to do at least as well with joy and harmony.
Personally I have the rule that if I feel I let myself down; then I am allowed to be angry. But after I started trusting myself to do my best, I often did. There have of course been times when I played below my level. But trusting that I am on my own side, I am no longer angry with myself or have other negative emotions. I just try to find out why I made the mistakes. Even when I lost in 12 moves (!) with White a few weeks ago I did not feel especially bad. I simply realised that I was not ready to play such a morning round and that I should not put any value to this game. Besides, I am retired 😎 .


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COMMENTARY – Truth behind Michigan State Senator Knollenberg, who said, "We can't make an African American white."
By Wendy Thompson on	 December 10, 2015 Featured, Editorial/Commentary, Newsmakers and Issues
Lee Spieckerman
President of SpieckermanMedia
Michigan State Senator Marty Knollenberg was waylaid by an intrepid WXYZ TV reporter and responded to the outrage over comments he made that were widely perceived as racist this week. I don't presume to read Knollenberg's heart and am unversed on his record. But beyond what he said at the hearing, Knollenberg's defensive and borderline haughty attitude when confronted by the reporter is awful. It reinforces the reality that, no, most white people don't get it.
But, you know what? The truth is that the vast majority of white kids do have enormous family wealth, income, stability, and neighborhood security advantages over most of the African American children living in Detroit and Michigan's (and America's) other failing urban school districts. This has a profoundly negative effect on how well these disadvantaged children of color do in school.
If that wasn't bad enough, the schools themselves are — for the most part — disastrous. There is not one. Not one large urban school system in the U.S. achieving anything approaching satisfactory — never mind world-class, performance. This includes the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth districts here in Texas. Such an unmitigated, uninterrupted, exorbitantly expensive (Government-run schools spend more than three times what was spent in 1960 per pupil, inflation-adjusted.) record of failure wouldn't be permitted in any other arena. But because most of the victims seem to be poor pupils of color, this disgusting tragedy is allowed to continue.
But black and Latino kids aren't the only victims. Wake up middle and upper-income white people. You're paying thousands of dollars a year for this heartbreaking catastrophe that saps American competitiveness and exacerbates every social problem you decry. Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone, St. Philips in Dallas, Success Academies in New York City, KIPP Academies and similar non-government-run schools and before and after school programs demonstrate how the disadvantages that frequently accompany being poor and of color can be overcome spectacularly.
Key: Government should fund — but not run — the schools.
So race isn't the issue. The legacy and social pathologies all too often attendant to being black in our country due to what the white power structure put into place over centuries is. Beyond the racial insensitivity he demonstrated, it's sad that this maladroit politician gave the AFT teachers union a PR layup. It, along with the NEA, is as damaging to our country as Daesh — more damaging, in terms of the sheer number of low income African American children whose lives are destroyed by unionized, government controlled schools.
Lee Spieckerman, President
SpieckermanMedia
Twitter: @spieckerman
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Madison-Oneida Board of Cooperative Educational Services » For Staff » Innerviews » Kudos to Staff!
The following staff members presented breakout sessions during this year's MORIC Tech Showcase: Amanda Palmer, Dave Pellow, Ryan Mahoney, Chad Hatch, Dan Chmielewski, Heather Shaffer, Amy Konz, Dan Potter, Andrea Paoni, Tracy Sharlette, Nicole White, Sally Zielasko, Emily Blake, Stephanie Gillette, Valerie Draghi, Alana Boylan, Carl Manganaro, Kristina Donley, Andrea Stabak, Derek Lalonde and Chris Shaffer.
Alana Boylan, Chris Shaffer and Colleen Wuest also presented at the School Library System's Leatherstocking Conference.
Graphic Designer Gary Plunkett recently join Team HOPE, an arm of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Team HOPE is a group of volunteers from families that have had missing and exploited children, and they offer peer counseling and support to others in the same situation. Gary, a longtime participant in the NCMEC's Ride for Missing Children, was invited because of his own family's experience with child abduction and reunification, and his work last year supporting a friend trying to locate his three children.
School Library System Director Sue Leblanc was recently elected to a two-year term as secretary of the New York State School Library System Association.
Staff Development Specialist Jody Popple led a two-day district-wide math training for a school in Louisiana this summer. Jody was invited to lead the training after a national education agency recommended her following her work developing the NYS Next Generation Math Standards and other national presentations she has given.
Pre-K teacher Robin Pierce started a new PLC for pre-k teachers in the region.
Early Childhood Director Colleen Wuest joined the new Early Learning Standards Statewide Group, part of the statewide Staff and Curriculum Development Network, to discuss next generation learning standards for early learners.
Planning and Grant Writing Specialist Lisa Seitz participated in a statewide workgroup to discuss a potential new Recovery Schools CoSer, including a needs assessment and logistical considerations.
Roy Coston, of the Print Shop, performed in the pit band of the Stockbridge Valley musical "Grease!"


Each class has a library slot every week where the children are able to take books out to share with their grown ups at home.
Mrs English / Mrs Hardman's class go to the library on a Tuesday.
Miss Peek's class go to the library on a Thursday.
Please can you ensure your child has their library book in school on those days, so that they can exchange them for a new one.
Both classes have an allocated PE slot each week and children are expected to participate.
Mrs English / Mrs Hardman's class have PE on a Tuesday morning.
Miss Peek's Class have PE on a Wednesday morning.
Please can you ensure your child has their PE kit with them on these days, with hair tied back and jewellery removed.
Home learning bags have been provided to keep Rainbow words, library books, reading logs and reading books in, (for those who have them). Please can you ensure that these are brought back into school on a Thursday so that we can issue any new words or books and send them back home on a Friday.


No Menthol Sunday, a national observance day led by NAATPN, Inc. is an important opportunity to engage faith leaders and their communities in a discussion about how to improve health outcomes for African Americans. Tobacco is still the number one killer of African Americans, and people of faith can play a major role in changing this.
This year's theme, One Step Ahead, is inspired by council from the prophet Micah (Micah 6:8). He proclaims that we must do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. It is for justice that we stand with marginalized communities who continue to experience the ill health effects of disparities. We act justly by fighting for policies that equally offer everyone the privilege of optimal health—especially as it relates to tobacco. We commend the Food and Drug Administration's recent proposal to ban mentholated cigarettes, but NAATPN, in partnership with communities across the country, has been working toward this for decades. We have always been a step ahead concerning this issue because this has always been the just thing to do. You can read more about this year's theme here.


School / parents' partnership – We will develop a strong partnership with our parents.
We live in a world of constant and rapid change. As a society, we are facing challenges at a social, economic, environmental and political level. More importantly, we live in a world where education is one of the most important factors in finding solutions to the challenges ahead. How we raise and educate our children may be the single most important factor in the development of our planet.
A healthy and a prosperous society can only be built on a foundation offered by a strong and efficient educational system. From this perspective, the school plays a fundamental role in the development of our children and the consolidation and the perpetuation of strong values and principles which will define us.
Great schools understand that their role goes way beyond the process of delivering curriculum information and evaluation of knowledge; they understand that equipping students with skills and abilities for life is equally important.
All children are born with a tremendous potential for development. Their curiosity and desire to learn new things every day is natural; children start school with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and keen desire to take risks. It is up to us to maintain and develop their talents and unlock their potential through everything we do in the school.
For an educational establishment to be successful in achieving its goals, it must be founded, built, and run on fundamental values like: respect, tolerance, integrity and honesty.
For a school to be successful it must promote a culture of imagination, of creativity and innovation. These features provide a strong foundation on which our teachers and children can explore, discover, learn, experiment and grow.
At BIST we understand that a school is as good as the sum of all its components. Great teachers are at the heart of great schools. Although a rich and rewarding task, educating students caries a huge responsibility; we are after all in the field of building characters and shaping the future of our world.
All the students studying at British International School of Timisoara will be faced with vast opportunities to develop and to start connecting with the world at international level.
Students joining our school will be stepping into a world of dreams and opportunities which can grow proportionally with their desire, effort, determination and ambition.
Education starts at home in the family. The involvement of parents and a positive, constructive parent – school partnership is vital for a child's education and development. It is fundamentally important that the school and the parents work together and have similar approaches when it comes to implementing our values and our educational programmes.
I would like to start by saying that I am equally happy and proud to be part of the team that has developed in Timisoara, what we like to call, the Foundation on which our children can flourish, the British International School of Timisoara. I am looking forward to the start of the academic year 2019 – 2020 as this will be the beginning of a wonderful journey for our children and our community.
Education is the greatest gift we can give our children and is the key to their future and to their very identity. For this reason, we must ensure that what we do in our homes as parents and in our schools as educators is provide our children with the best possible environment to nurture emotional wellbeing and development at all levels.
Our commitment here at BIST is to do our best to ensure that using a British based curriculum and a truly international approach, we provide the best possible experience for our children and members of staff.
At BIST we want to ensure that all members of our community understand and adhere to our school ethos and values. Education is the key to a successful, purposeful and a happy life and it is one of the main aspect that contributes to building a healthy and a strong society. Strong education can only be built on a foundation that combines fundamental values with rules and regulations that are in place to protect all members of the community and to give everyone equal opportunities for development and progress.
One of our long-term aim is to ensure that our children leave our school at graduation as knowledgeable, responsible, independent and happy young adults with a complex, positive and balanced approach towards life and equipped with a set of skills, values and abilities that will enable them to build a successful life and make a valuable contribution to the community they will be in. We want our children to leave our school well aware of their strengths and weakness, passions and abilities and we want our children to learn how to live purposeful and meaningful lives.
Please take time to read the information on our website and do contact us for further information if you feel our ethos, values and provision are in line with what you want for your child.


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I'm going to lead off with the fact that I do not represent a corporate entity which means I don't have the means to purchase high-end cards specifically for this purpose. This is purely for educational, proof of concept & testing purposes in a home lab environment.
As the topic suggests, I'm just looking for a list of GPUs that support Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) in Server 2016 so I can pass through GPU's (or vGPU's if the card supports it) to Hyper-V VMs running on a Dell PowerEdge R710 Gen II.
get firsthand accounts from others who have done this complete with gotcha's, lessons learned tips etc.
My biggest concern is stability: Although it's just for testing & labbing, I don't want to waste cycles jumping through a bunch of hoops to create something hackish that could result in the server BSOD'ing.
I've read some things online that suggest AMD doesn't currently do anything to artificially limit or otherwise nerf or prevent the use of it's cards in virtual environments. Candidly, I appreciate that decision and I hope it stays. But I'm reaching out to the community for some guidance and recommendations as I don't have the means to burn through various models (e.g.: Radeon HD 6950, Radeon HD 6450, Radeon 3870 FirePro W5000 etc) in trial & error.
Also, just to clarify further this is not about RemoteFX: If I'm understanding things correctly, RemoteFX would require RDS licensing and I just don't have the means for all that. So DDA would allow me to add one or two inexpensive cards into a machine for use in VM's without having to spend a fortune on licensing. I'm open to correction here as I'm not an exprt on the subject.
This post about a Server environment will be better posted here : AMD Server Gurus . Here are the experts on Servers and it software.
Thanks elstaci - I'll cast a net there in hopes of reaching a wider audience.
AMD integrated Vega graphics are a lot more useful for a server as the cores are on die making it space efficient.
Good information here hardcoregames™ - thanks!
I gotta say, for non-gaming and purely testing purposes, I was hoping to get away with an older model (read: inexpensive) card to avoid spending a small fortune to buy a graphics core next GPU.
For anyone still interested in this topic, I tested DDA on S7000 and S10000 with Windows Server 2016 host, Windows Server 2016 guest. I was required to use the 17.12 version of the drivers to get as far as I did. Newer drivers cause more trouble. Everything appears to work normally until, random host server BSOD when connecting remotely to the guest. Conclusion: Do not use DDA with the early S series, since I don't think the drivers were even updated to try to support it. Like the original post, I'm wondering which Firepro multi-processor S models would work with DDA, if any.


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Cocoon In The Park
Cocoon in the Park returns to Temple Newsam, Leeds. Set a stone's throw from Leeds city centre, the Cocoon in the Park festival site lies within the grounds of a 450-year-old mansion house surrounded by forests and lakes in a celebrated area of outstanding natural beauty. The historic estate of Temple Newsam once again plays host to an exclusive line-up over one stage.
The festival site includes various food outlets and bars, a chill-out area and a VIP platform where VIP ticketholders can enjoy views across the site and main stage with access to separate toilets and a bar.
Cocoon in the Park 2012 returns to Temple Newsam
it has just be announced that Desolat boss, Circo Loco favourite and house and techno producer extraordinaire Loco Dice has been added to the already heaving line-up


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Expert insights Investing Okeland sell Providence, Ipswich site for new childcare centre
Okeland sell Providence, Ipswich site for new childcare centre
Okeland Communities (formerly Amex Corporation) has secured the sale of a South Ripley land parcel to the childcare operator Mother Duck.
The $1.1 million sale of the 2,500 sqm site on Botany Drive, South Ripley was the first time Okeland had sold down non-residential land within the Providence community.
Separate primary and secondary schools are already under construction by the State Government on a site adjacent to the new childcare centre and due to be opened for new students in 2020.
The new Mother Duck centre, designed by Context Architects (above), will provide 180 spots with eight separate classrooms spread over three levels.
A Development Application has been submitted to Ipswich City Council for the final piece in the development of a major new education precinct at the Providence township in the Ripley Valley.
Okeland Communities Project Manager Michael Khan said, "With more than 1,000 homes and families the Providence community is now approaching critical mass for a range of community services and infrastructure."
"Providence is the heart and soul of the Ripley Valley, Queensland's fastest growing corridor, and we look forward to delivering a town centre that provides our community with everything they need to live their very best life, he added.
The completion of the masterplan for the education precinct comes just weeks after the launch of a $3 million sport and recreation precinct with 4.5 hectares of playing fields, outdoor sporting equipment and shaded play areas for residents and sporting clubs.
Ipswich Childcare


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Which is all well and good, so I start reading this fairly detailed white papper explaining how things go. And immediately, that table at the start looks a lot like the sort of biased table a manufacturer would produce; did they really need 5 different variations of the thing which only they have? Well, ok, it's technical, so they were refining things, so I could bear with that. But then it turns out the '?' for the one spot in the table is really just a '-', they say "the probability is small" but hey, the probability of some of these other entries is probably small too.
If an ideal Democratic Winner (IDW) exists, and if a majority prefers the IDW to another candidate, then the other candidate should not win if that majority votes sincerely and no other voter falsifies any preferences.
An IDW is somebody who beats ever other candidate in the simple test described in the first paragraph. The idea of this criterion is great: does this voting system discourage "strategic voting", where you don't accurately express your preferences, hoping to improve your top choice's result? The problem is that they observe that the majority can achieve their victor by just voting sincerely and no other voter falsifies any preferences. So this criterion says "the majority-favored candidate will win as long as those opposed don't vote strategically"! So they're just encouraged to vote strategically. They explain this in the notes as requiring "risky offensive strategy" rather than defensive strategy, and hence less of a big deal, but I dunno, that sort of attempt at classifying just seems like hedging to make their favored scheme seem better, especially given that probability comment about the Favorite Betrayal Criterion mentioned above.
so when they write "B is preferred to A by 12 votes to 8, and B is preferred to C by 13 to 7, hence B is preferred to both A and C. So according to common sense and the Condorcet criteria, B should win," they overstate what commen sense suggests in this case: B is preferred to A by 12 votes to 8 but it is only in second place on most of those votes (with A 3rd place); so when you see the actual votes, at least for me, common sense is kind of stumped.
There was another weirdness somewhere in there that I forget now.
Anyway, it seems like a weird thing for people to use wacky tactics to convince people about, especially as it's not like it's their idea.


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In der Pflegewissenschaft wird Kompensation als vollständige Übernahme einer Verrichtung oder Leistung verstanden, die der Gepflegte nicht selbst leisten kann. Die kompensatorische oder ausgleichende Pflege steht im Gegensatz zur aktivierenden Pflege, die den Gepflegten fördert seine noch vorhandenen Ressourcen zu nutzen.

Auch wenn fast jede Pflegeintervention Anteile kompensatorischer und aktivierender Pflege beinhaltet, gilt der Grundsatz: So wenig Kompensation wie nötig, so viel Aktivierung wie möglich. Kompensatorische Pflege ist auf Defizite ausgerichtet; sie ist notwendig, wenn der Gepflegte die Handlung nicht selbst durchführen kann und wenn durch die Unterlassung ein Schaden droht. Aus Pflegesicht hat diese Form der Pflege den Vorteil zeitsparend zu sein und häufig zu besseren Ergebnissen zu führen, die Nachteile sind, dass die gefühlte Hilflosigkeit des Gepflegten stärker wird und die Abhängigkeit von der Pflege steigt.

Literatur

Nicole Menche, Lektorat Pflege (Hrsg.): Pflege Heute Urban & Fischer Verlag/Elsevier GmbH, 2014 ISBN 978-3437267741
Nicole Menche: Repetitorium Pflege Heute Urban & Fischer Verlag/Elsevier GmbH, 2014 ISBN 978-3437278433

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Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger NOT Engaged, Despite Report
By Andrew Shuster	| 2:31 pm, August 22, 2018
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are not engaged, despite a false tabloid report. Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk the claim. A rep for the actor tells us he hasn't proposed.
Pratt has only been dating the lifestyle blogger for a couple of months, but according to In Touch, the actor popped the question a few weeks ago. An alleged insider tells the magazine, "The proposal was very simple and understated. They didn't want to draw any attention to it. She's a simple girl. She didn't need an over-the-top production." Tellingly, the magazine provides zero details about the "simple and understated" proposal, such as where it happened and what it entailed.
Still, the questionable source goes on to say that Pratt and Schwarzenegger "can't wait to become husband and wife" and she "can't wait to become an official stepmom" to the actor's 5-year-old son Jack, who he shares with ex Anna Faris. Speaking of Faris, she and Pratt haven't finalized their divorce yet, making the magazine's story even less credible.
The tabloid's premise is coming from an untraceable "insider," but Pratt's own spokesperson tells Gossip Cop on the record that it's "inaccurate." The actor simply hasn't proposed to his new girlfriend. Unfortunately, outlets such as HollywoodLife have spread the bogus story online without bothering to do any fact-checking.
It should be noted, Pratt and Schwarzenegger's relationship appears to be getting more serious, and she has in fact been spending time with his son, but they're not preparing to walk down the aisle. Credible celebrity news outlets such as People and "Entertainment Tonight" have been covering the couple's relationship since its onset, but none of these publications have said anything about an engagement.
The actor's love life has become the subject of bogus tabloid stories ever since he split from Faris last year. In June, Gossip Cop busted Woman's Day for falsely claiming that Pratt wanted to date Emilia Clarke. The phony story came after the actor had already started developing a romance with Schwarzenegger.
In March, Gossip Cop debunked a phony Star article about Pratt dating a "mystery blonde." The report emerged after the actor was spotted grabbing coffee with an unidentified woman in Los Angeles. However, we learned that the woman was one of Pratt's employees, and as time has shown, he never had a blonde girlfriend following his breakup. Gossip Cop will update should there be any new developments in the actor's relationship with Schwarzenegger, but we can confirm the two aren't currently engaged.
Chris Pratt In Touch Magazine
Russian, Ale. "Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger 'Getting More Serious' as She Spends Time with His Son." People. 2 Aug. 2018.
Shuster, Andrew. "Chris Pratt Wants To Date Emilia Clarke?" Gossip Cop. 29 Jun. 2018.
Shuster, Andrew. "Chris Pratt Dating Mystery Blonde?" Gossip Cop. 14 Mar. 2018.
Allison Garman, Spokesperson for Chris Pratt. 22 Aug. 2018.
Chris Pratt Using Katherine Schwarzenegger To Upset Anna Faris?
Meghan Markle, Queen Elizabeth Summer Vacation NOT "Awkward," Despite Report
George Clooney Never Sold Lake Como House, Despite Report A Year Ago
Justin Theroux NOT "Leaning On" Olivia Munn Following Jennifer Aniston Split, Despite Report
Story About Justin Theroux "Moving On With Stylist" After Jennifer Aniston Split Is Not True


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Americana Highways
on the road collecting the stories of Americana music
Interviews & Stories
Key to the Highway Series
Venues & Studios
Playlist: Back Roads
Playlist: Road Trip to Yesterday
Video Series: Drive In Video
Album Premiere
Playlist: Heartbreak City
Video Series: Little Orange Room Sessions
Video: Art Inside the Craft
Burger, On the Record
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Interview: Andrew Bryant (Water Liars) Waxes Philosophical on New Album, Birds, and Searching for the Meaning of Life
March 23, 2018 March 22, 2018 Melissa Clarke1
Andrew Bryant of the Water Liars has a new solo album out on Last Chance Records: Ain't It Like the Cosmos? (available right here). We took one listen and had to discover more about it, tracked him down and asked him to call us. Bryant phoned Americana Highways from his truck, on his way to drop off his rent.
We started out by asking how he gave the record such a philosophical name, and he responded: "The theme running through the album is trying to figure out the meaning of things that happen in life, but at the same time accepting the way things are. "Bittersweet" is the song that the title lines came from. Its first line is: "ain't it like the cosmos to line up the magnolias at dawn;" but the second line is "ain't it like the cosmos to play every card in the deck?" which asks a more existential question. It's referencing death, and a recognition of mortality. The whole album explores these existential themes. The phrase evokes the feeling behind the way we deal with wondering why things happen and what it all means."
We wondered what motivates Bryant's songwriting. "It's a search for meaning in life. I think that's what music is. It's a way to understand the meaning of life. I grew up in an isolated small community in Mississippi. I was homeschooled, and any friend I had was from church. Music was so prevalent in the church, as a healing thing, that led me to want to play music to express myself and work things out."
"If you think about it, creating songs is uniquely human. Birds sing as part of their essential makeup, and humans have that but it's coupled with our need to create things. Humans have a really innate need to be "creating" or "making" at all times."
Tell us more about the music community in your area in Mississippi. "There are not a lot of people in the Water Valley, Mississippi area. Everyone knows each other. Jimbo Mathus is my property manager. When I called you I was just dropping my rent check off at his place. I dropped off a copy of my album, with the rent, in the bucket where I put my check. I can sit on my porch and see Jimbo Mathus on a zero-turn mower, mowing the lawn, it's kind of surreal." Is he wearing a glittery top hat and red jacket? I asked him. "His yard work attire is overalls and red converse all-stars," Bryant laughs.
Should we speculate that Jimbo Mathus might be writing songs doing yardwork? Bryant considers this thoughtfully, "In all seriousness, I think so. I may be doing things that seem mudane from the outside but in my mind I am always trying to figure out what does it mean, where am I going. " Bryant has a song, "Robert Downey Jr's Scars" on the new album, and he confesses that song is autobiographical. "I've had that experience, watching Iron Man on television, while absent mindedly wondering what I'm doing with my life, where things are going. I can picture myself on the sofa in Water Valley like the song says, in a place where I needed to figure things out, to figure out how to "start again." I had written that song after the others were already written, but I hadn't set the overall tone for the theme of the album. Then that song came to me and everything came together."
Do you find inspiration for your music in other genres? "I'm reading a book by Oliver Sacks called Musicophilia. It's a scientific exploration of the way music affects the brain, where humans store harmonies and frequencies. It's a fascinating idea. Music harmonizes melodies and uses these frequencies that go into our ear and we hear them as harmonies. I am trying to understand the science of it. I know music is extremely special and I want to stay tapped into that as much as possible."
"Harmonies are a deeper way for us to communicate things that normal language simply cannot do. If you just read lyrics it wouldn't affect you the same way. I write songs because people can do that."
"It's a way for humans to connect with each other. I can remember the first time someone told me a song I wrote meant something to him. That connection is the fire that makes you want to do it for your whole entire life. Because if you're doing it for the money, that's not going to work out. "
"In a lot of ways, musicians help bars make money, we're in it together. Every service industry person I know in Oxford is either a musician or a comedian or a writer. We try to get people out when we play so the bartenders make money and they want us to get paid, we are all sharing the experience." Helping beer companies make money, too, we might add.
The album just came out last week, tell us more about the process and the production. "It was technically self produced, we collaborated and recorded it at Dial Back Sound studio in Water Valley, Mississippi. Dial Back Sound is now owned by Matt Patton, the bass player for the Drive-By Truckers. It used to be owned by Bruce Watson, the general manager at Fat Possum Records. This is the studio Watson built when he lived in Water Valley; and he produced two of the Water Liars' albums when he was the owner. He moved to Memphis a few years ago and sold the space to Patton – it still has a lot of the same gear and the same mystique."
Kell Kellum is a pedal steel player from Water Valley who's also associated with Jimbo Mathus and Eric Ambel's Solo Sounds project, which Americana Highways has highlighted. "Kellum played pedal steel on the album and Matt Patton played bass."
What's on the horizon for Andrew Bryant this spring? "I'm going to the UK and then a longer Southeast/East Coast tour in May. And then get in a van and touring some more." Follow Andrew Bryant's tour here and get his album here or here.
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Johannes "Johnny" Rohrweck (* 5. August 1990 in Steyr, Oberösterreich) ist ein österreichischer Freestyle-Skier. Er gehört aktuell der Nationalmannschaft des Österreichischen Skiverbandes an und ist auf die Disziplin Skicross spezialisiert.

Biografie
Johnny Rohrweck stammt aus Großraming und begann seine Karriere als alpiner Skirennläufer. Im Alter von 15 Jahren bestritt er in der Schlick seine ersten beiden FIS-Slaloms. Bis April 2010 bestritt er zahlreiche FIS- und Citizen-Rennen in allen Disziplinen und nahm mehrmals an den österreichischen Meisterschaften teil. Seine beste Resultate erreichte er im Jänner 2008 mit Platz drei im Citizen-Riesenslalom von Turnau und Rang sechs in der FIS-Abfahrt von Innerkrems.

Nach ausbleibenden Erfolgen wechselte Rohrweck im Winter 2010/11 die Sportart und gab im Jänner in St. Johann in Tirol in der Disziplin Skicross sein Debüt im Freestyle-Skiing-Weltcup. Drei Wochen später startete er in Le Sauze erstmals im Europacup und gewann gleich sein erstes Rennen. Im Dezember 2013 holte er mit Rang 19 in Val Thorens seine ersten Weltcup-Punkte. Einen Monat später musste er sich als Zweiter am Kreischberg nur Alex Fiva geschlagen geben und feierte damit seinen ersten Podestplatz im Weltcup. In den kommenden Jahren gelangen ihm drei weitere Podestplätze. Ab 2015 nahm er viermal an Weltmeisterschaften teil, wobei er sein bestes Ergebnis 2021 mit Rang acht in Idre erreichte. Am 19. Februar 2021 feierte Rohrweck nach zehn Jahren als Skicrosser auf der Reiteralm seinen ersten Weltcupsieg.

Rohrweck ist gut mit seinem oberösterreichischen Landsmann Vincent Kriechmayr befreundet und teilt sich mit ihm einen Konditionstrainer.

Erfolge

Olympische Spiele
 Peking 2022: 7. Skicross

Weltmeisterschaften
 Kreischberg 2015: 17. Skicross
 Sierra Nevada 2017: 19. Skicross
 Solitude 2019: 13. Skicross
 Idre 2021: 8. Skicross

Weltcup
 6 Podestplätze, davon 2 Siege:

Weltcupwertungen

Europacup
 Saison 2010/11: 9. Skicross
 2 Siege:

Weitere Erfolge
 3 Siege in FIS-Rennen

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Freestyle-Skier (Österreich)
Olympiateilnehmer (Österreich)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Winterspiele 2022
Skicrosser
Sportler (Großraming)
Österreicher
Geboren 1990
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Why Are We Here Now?
After the Wildly Improbable
Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence
How Close Could We Get to the Light and Survive?
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Trains in the Past, Tracks in the Present
With Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon, Zeynep Çelik, Rania Stephan and Salim Tamari
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The memory of the Ottoman Railway Network as an expression of modernity, capitalism, and imperiality in the past has its own workings today. In parts of Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, the initial functions of certain sections of the railway have been elapsed by mechanical decay, types of vegetation, and human activity. Other segments have disappeared from the landscape, the collective memory, from documentary evidence; only remaining in films, ditties, wedding songs, or literary texts.
Rania Stephan
Train-Trains: A Bypass
Film, ca. 30 min, Arabic with English subtitles, 2017
A journey following the traces of the old railway line linking Lebanon to Palestine. The coastal train used to operate as an extension of the so-called Orient Express and Egypt lines, before being put out of service. Bypass is based on material Rania Stephan had originally filmed in 1999—as a personal vision of post-Civil War Lebanon, focusing on rural residents living near derelict stations. By embedding Polaroid photographs into moving images, the film is also reminiscent of the mechanisms of memory, thus becoming itself an interrogation into what happened in between the now and then.
Zeynep Çelik
The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity
In accord with the nineteenth-century centralization reforms, which changed the governance patterns of the empire, the Hijaz Railway aimed at connecting the Arab provinces to Istanbul and, along the way, to each other. The railway project was intertwined with the pan-Islamic policies of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who turned to the Eastern Mediterranean territories to rejuvenate the empire around the concept of the caliphate. Serving an ideology based on religion with cutting-edge technology, the Hijaz Railway embodied an idiosyncratic modernity. Çelik examines the rationale and the materialization of the railway project, paying attention to local reactions, which were not always in synchronization with imperial agendas. Furthermore, she situates the Hijaz Railway within the broader scope of turn-of-the-century imperialism and capitalism.
Salim Tamari
Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train
An examination of a particular extension line of the Hijaz Railway that used to run from Jerusalem to Ramallah-al Bireh, a district of Palestine. The line was crucial for the war effort on the Palestinian front, enhancing the transfer of both troops and equipment. This particular part of the railway, however, has completely disappeared from documentary evidence. Its existence can only be traced back through wedding songs celebrating the "Bireh Babor," which indicates the opposite of the collective denial of its possibility. How can an entire section of the railway disappear without tangible traces that attest to its former existence in the archives? In this presentation diverse material, such as aerial photographs from the Bavarian State Archives, private letters, and folk narratives, are used in the search for the lost section of the railway track.
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon
Steel that Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track
Literary reading
Objects tell their stories quite often, but humans rarely listen. It is impossible to follow just one track. You are inevitably pulled elsewhere, lured by other trains of thought, other forces. There are multiple tracks, running in all directions: opposite, parallel, crossing, merging, disappearing—and never beginning or ending quite where you imagine. This is an attempt to listen to the tracks as they tell their stories, and trace their itineraries. How they were extracted from the bowels of the Earth to its surface. How they were forced into forms not of their choice. What they saw and heard.
Part of After the Wildly Improbable, curated by Adania Shibli
#Imperialism
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#Ottoman Empire
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Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity
Presentation, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity (German)
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train (German)
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel that Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track
Scenic reading, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
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6th edition, 26th – 30th November 2019
Kampala's premier international theatre festival
Dominique Lentin
Dominique Lentin : Musician, composer
He began his career in 1970 in Paris with the experimental group DAGON. The adventure lasted five years.
In 1980, he joined the group "Les I" at St. Etienne, worked at the Maison de la Culture in Firminy and began composing for the theater.
He also taught drums in music schools.
From 1990 to 1995, he did numerous concerts in Europe and the United States with the group "Ferdinand et les Philosophes". He then formed a duo with the voilinist Takumi Fukushima.
In the theater, he collaborates with Fréchuret Laurent, Jean-Paul Delore and Philip Vincent. For five years he has been an associate musician with the Sartrouville CDN and participates in the South/North Diaries with Lezard Dramatic. He recently starred in Medee by L. Fréchuret and created the show Pas si Vite with Colette Goupil.
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Review: Nintendo released a 'Mario Kart' app, and it will make your inner child angry
Morgan Pravato
'Mario Kart Tour' by Nintendo (Photo via YouTube.)
I, a 20-year-old adult, keep my Nintendo DS in my desk drawer. It's always in close reach, just in case. Some may judge me for never aging out of playing Mario Kart or Cooking Mama, but I will continue to play them until I find better ways to procrastinate.
Many young adults happily recall spending hours on their DS or Wii while laughing with friends or screaming at the screen in frustration. So, when a trailer for a Mario Kart app dropped at the end of August, I was ridiculously excited. I even put a reminder to download it on my calendar and hoped that this would be a more socially acceptable version of the game.
In reality, Mario Kart Tour is a let-down. The trailer teases Nintendo's old audience with the classic characters, same powers and similar tracks. Unfortunately, the actual game is structured very differently. It mimics any random racing game in the app store already, just with the Mario characters sloppily placed in. As someone who is strictly a Mario Kart fiend rather than a gaming or racing fan, this automatically made the app less appealing.
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The new version feels intense. It is packed with new features in an unfamiliar layout, including stats that I'm still trying to understand. Good luck to any actual child trying to play this game. I prefer the kind of intensity I felt as I tried to avoid falling off the track in my last lap on Rainbow Road in the original version.
Nintendo does give players the old characters they know and love. However, users cannot simply choose one, select a kart and begin racing. Instead, they start the game with only one character, and are forced to unlock the others. This is disappointing, especially for players who downloaded the app purely for nostalgia's sake. Nintendo is probably trying to capitalize on the in-app purchase feature and is attempting to make Mario Kart Tour more addicting. However, its many failures are much stronger reasons to delete it than to keep it.
Racing is the point of the game, but is also its biggest confusion. There are no controls, as players simply tap and swipe to navigate the tracks. While I felt like I was racing at 20 mph, I barely had control over my kart. Since I am not a "gamer girl" by any means, I had to deal with a learning curve. To make matters worse, though, players cannot fall off the tracks. Despite having embarrassing driving skills, I still came in first on most tries.
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It is definitely fair to excuse technical difficulties during an app's initial release, especially for one with such a massive following. However, some details were just sad. As a child, Mario Kart was a social game whether it was on the Wii or DS. Now, multiplayer is "inbound" and players will have to ride solo until it arrives.
Overall, Mario Kart Tour is absolutely not giving me any reason to move my DS from its rightful home: in my hands. While the app is free, it is certainly not worth the $4.99 subscription that the creators advertise. While Mario Kart Tour has the potential to be intense if you are playing with friends — separately, of course — it simply does not compare to the game that this generation remembers so fondly.
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We sat at the edge of the ocean—my sister Henri and I—inches apart but not touching at all. We'd been so sure someone would find us by now.
Emma had always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an older sister, and the two had always been best friends. Until something happened that wrecked them.
I'd trusted Henri more than I'd trusted myself. Wherever she told me to go, I'd follow.
Then the unthinkable occurs—a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast. The girls wash up on shore, stranded. Their only companion is Alex, a troubled boy agonizing over his own secrets. Trapped in this gorgeous hell, Emma and Alex fall together as Emma and Henri fall catastrophically apart.
For the first time, I was afraid we'd die on this shore.
To find their way home, the sisters must find their way back to each other. But there's no map for this—or anything. Can they survive the unearthing of the past and the upheaval of the present?
Hello guys! Long time no talk. Lately, I've been feeling really disconnected from blogging just because of all the madness with school and tests that I need to take. I love when I'm able to do these fun tags and blog tour posts because they always inspire a little creativity in me. Today I'm here to do the Book Lover Survival Tag created by Penguin Teen in celebration for A Map For Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor. Although I haven't read my copy yet, I was immediately drawn to the premise because of the promise of a close sister relationship. I hope it compares with me and my sister's relationship.
What are five to eight books I'd choose to bring with me on a deserted island?
1. Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom. You're probably so sick of hearing me say that this is my favorite book of all time. I know it's kind of pointless to have a book you've already read, but I plan on reading this one over and over again. I'm probably going to feel really stuck, being on that deserted island because I'm no Bear Grylls. This book always puts me in such an inspiring mood, one that will probably encourage me to save myself when I fall into a giant quicksand pit and not hopelessly sink to the bottom.
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding. LOTF was the first book that ever made me think to myself, 'Wow I don't ever want to be trapped on a deserted island'. But if this tag permits me to be deserted, then so be it! If a bunch of kids can survive on a deserted island, then so can I (right?).
3. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. Gonna need my favorite classic right? I wouldn't be bored with this book because every time I reread it, I notice something new. That's the most exciting part about opening and closing it. Do I think I can live without this book? Probably not. Also on a island with no civilization, I'm going to need a book that sets the foundation of our history. Why not start with the 1920's?
4. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns. I'm guessing Penguin Teen is going to drop me on that deserted island pretty soon so if so, I'd want to take my ARC copy of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao. This book comes out in October so I'd be damned if a deserted island got in the way of me reading this book. There are so many other anticipated releases I could choose, but I really can't bear the thought of never having the chance to read this one (if I'm never saved). Better safe than sorry.
5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. I've actually never had the pleasure of reading this book! I feel like being deserted on an island is the perfect opportunity for me to try out this minimalist lifestyle. I mean, I won't have many things with me anyways so I'm going to have to learn how to be less materialistic as I create a new life for myself. I've heard great things about this book and how it helps with transitioning into a minimalist lifestyle, so I'd definitely have to bring this with me!
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Jessica Taylor adores atmospheric settings, dangerous girls, and characters who sneak out late at night. She lives in Northern California, not far from San Francisco, with a law degree she isn't using, one dog, and many teetering towers of books.
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I don't have a sister, so reading about sisters is fun for me. I love the idea of this book and have it on my TBR for this year.
I still have to read it haha!
I would have to bring Jellicoe Road with me on a deserted island.
I'm excited for this book--I love thrillers and I love books with sisters. If I were taking books to a deserted island, I'd probably take "How to Survive on a Deserted Island" or something like that lol. Or really long ones that I don't have time to read now, like Game of Thrones or The Iliad (maybe). Thanks for hosting!
OMG Game of Thrones is so worth it. I just recently read it and absolutely loved it and think it's so worthy of many rereads!