Harry Pearce is a graphic designer, accidentalist, eternal optimist, human rights activist and photographer. Since 1993 he has been an active member of the advisory board for WITNESS, a human rights charity founded by Peter Gabriel.
He has worked around the world devising identities and installations, posters, packaging, books and talks for institutions as diverse as the Royal Academy of Arts, Abu Dhabi cultural quarter, Berry Bros & Rudd, Phaidon Press, Pink Floyd Records, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lloyd's of London, Shakespeare's Globe, PEN International, Science Museum and the UN.
For Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor, he created identities for their major retrospectives at the RA.
Eating With The Eyes is a visual mediation and a photographic recording of accidental events spanning over a decade and collected from Harry Pearce's journeys around the world. The book is available to purchase from Unit Editions.


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This is where I document my adventures in style, travel, beauty, and life as I experience it as an African American woman living abroad in London.
It's an inside look at how I embrace all the different shades of life that make me, Me.
Click below to read more about my story.
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Senatore romano, era corrispondente e amico di Quinto Aurelio Simmaco. Aveva una casa a Roma, dove viveva con la moglie Sabina e i figli, tra cui un Sabino.

Negli ultimi anni nella residenza di Spoleto, di proprietà della famiglia della moglie. Qui tradusse un'opera dal greco e compose delle poesie e degli epigrammi, noti come Epigrammata Bobiensia, trovati a Bobbio e riscoperti nel 1950.

La maggior parte delle indicazioni sulla sua vita provengono dalla lettura degli Epigrammata.

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Hello, I use mobirise version 4.8.6 and now none of my sites want to publish!
Both locally, ftp and github..... Someone would have an idea!
he says his issue is his software doesnt publish at all. not even local.
It's always the same, impossible to publish! mobirise marks me "internal error". I uninstalled and reinstalled and it's always the same..... Anyone have any ideas?
C'est toujours pareil, impossible de publier ! mobirise me marque " erreur interne". J'ai désinstaller et réinstaller et c'est toujours pareil .... Quelqu'un à une idée ?
What MR-Theme do you use?
Does MR show "internal error or other info" while local publishing?
Try to create a test-site, which has only one (1) page ...... if you have no problem, then it´s just a MR-Bug :-( Some users have this problem with 4.8.6 .... see forum.
I removed Social comments and social feed and reconnected, it's always the same. Even in preview mode I have the error!
It´s just one more BUG.
Try 4.7.8 ...... in my case .... multipages work fine.
4.8.2 :-( I guess, you will find some other bugs ...... since 4.7.9 it´s just like an experiment with some main issues.


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Numlock News: March 25, 2022 • Tyrannosaurus Rex, Hacker, Space Helicopter
Have a great weekend! Be sure to check out our Numlock Awards Supplement spinoff newsletter to catch up on the Oscar race before Sunday night.
A Tyrannosaurus rex that had gone missing has been located. In October of 2020, an unknown individual bought Stan, a T. rex skeleton, at auction for $31.8 million, an incredibly comprehensive 39-foot specimen hauled out of South Dakota's Black Hills in the 1990s and forced to go to auction over a dispute over an estate. Since then, we've seen neither hide nor scale of Stan, despite lots of people attempting to track down the whereabouts of the dinosaur. Earlier this year, though, an investigation tracked down a U.S. Census record of a 5.6-ton shipment worth $31,847,500 that was exported from New York to the United Arab Emirates last May. After following up on it, Stan has been located: The fossil will be the centerpiece of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, a forthcoming facility.
Michael Greshko, National Geographic
The average price of a new car in the United States was $46,085 in February, up $5,000 from a year ago. The Consumer Price Index has new vehicle prices up 12.4 percent in the past year, and it's worth looking at where that price increase is coming from. Because yes, inputs and component price increases as well as labor and transportation costs are certainly contributing to that rise in costs, but a substantial portion of that is just markups from the auto dealers, who know that given the supply crunch, they're really well suited to run up the price on new vehicles. In January, 82 percent of buyers paid more than sticker price for a new car, which is up from 2.8 percent in January of 2021 and 0.3 percent in January of 2020. Indeed, the average transaction price of a car in January of 2022 was $728 above sticker price, whereas in the prior two Januaries the average price was over $2,000 less than sticker price.
Emily Stewart, Vox
Space Helicopter
NASA's Ingenuity space helicopter, which is on Mars attached to the Perseverance mission, has completed its 22nd flight, flying for 101.4 seconds, hitting an altitude of 33 feet, scouting out the best route forward for Perseverance. Over the course of the first 21 flights, Ingenuity flew 15,247 feet and had a combined flight time of almost 39 minutes. The helicopter is reportedly in great shape and its operations — initially slated for just five flights — have been extended by the space agency through September.
Mike Wall, SPACE.com
The U.S. Postal Service announced that it ordered 10,019 new electric delivery trucks as part of its initial $2.98 billion order of 50,000 new vehicles. That's double the original plan, which was that 10 percent of the vehicles under the contract would be required to be battery electric, or about 5,000 of the initial order. The USPS will order up to 165,000 vehicles for north of $6 billion over the coming decade to replace its aging fleet, and given that the needs of the postal service are particularly conducive to electrified vehicles it's been an enigma as to why they've committed so little of their resources to the variety of vehicle.
Riley Beggin, The Detroit News
Since last November, the Oxxo convenience store in Mexico has been pushing ready-to-go app-connected Visa cards to its customers, and already it's making a huge dent in getting Mexico's unbanked access to debit tools. As of early March, the company has had 1.6 million sign-ups, which makes the convenience store one of the fastest-growing debit card companies in the country, numbers that put it in league with actual banks and more than many of the fintech companies making a play in Mexico. With 20,000 locations — now turned functionally into bank branches as well — it's already got the enviable brick-and-mortar footprint that many companies attempting to win the Mexican market can scale up to.
Daniela Dib, Rest of World
Spotify said that it paid more than $1 million in music royalties to 1,040 different artists of recorded music, which is 126 percent more than the number of artists getting a million dollars a year from Spotify in 2020. Spotify's $7 billion in total royalty payments last year made it worth 20 percent of the global recorded music revenue that year, itself up from 15 percent in 2020. The company also claimed that 238,000 songs got over a million streams. Interestingly, the number of artists truly making a killing on the platform — more than $5 million last year — is just 130.
Glenn Peoples, Billboard
Lapsus$
A 16-year-old from Oxford has been accused of being the leader of a cybercrime gang called Lapsus$, and authorities said the teenager racked up $14 million from hacking. Police said they arrested seven teenagers in relation to the gang. The Lapsus$ organization breached Microsoft and Okta and boasted about it, but after a falling out with business partners the teenager's identity was revealed by rivals. The organization and the alleged ringleader have been in the sights of researchers for over a year.
Joe Tidy, BBC News
This past week in the Sunday edition of Numlock, I spoke to Jasmine Estrada, a producer of the new Marvel podcast The History of Marvel Comics: Black Panther. I worked together with Jasmine back at FiveThirtyEight, and I really love the show she's put together here; she read over 500 comics to catalog pretty much every appearance of the character to tell the story of the history of the company and the evolution of Black Panther. As a big fan of pop culture data journalism, it was extremely up my alley. I dropped the paywall on the post, so do check it out!
The podcast can be found at SiriusXM and Apple Podcast for its initial run and then wherever you get podcasts a short time after. Jasmine can be found on Twitter and behind a few of Marvel's other shows, including Marvel's Pull List.
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A new technology for cleansing nutrients from water leaving Iowa's tile-drained fields began with two Iowa State University researchers brainstorming after a professional meeting. Their "back of the napkin" discussion in 2010 led to development of saturated riparian buffers, a new conservation practice that is rapidly gaining interest in Iowa and far beyond.
The challenge they were addressing - how to make traditional riparian conservation buffers more effective at reducing nutrient pollution - has since become a major research focus for Tom Isenhart, professor of natural resources ecology and management, and Dan Jaynes, a soil scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service's National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment on campus and affiliate professor of agronomy.
Hi everyone! My name is Mary Melcher. I recently started as a new Program Technician here at the Allamakee County FSA office. I grew up on a dairy farm near Harpers Ferry. Along with the dairy we have a small beef herd. I graduated from Waukon High School in 2015. I then went on to continue my education at NICC in Calmar. There I completed degrees in Dairy Science Technology, Agriculture Business, and Agriculture Finance.
I have enjoyed growing up in Allamakee County and I am looking forward to working with area farmers!
Tuesday, December 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) proposed a clear, understandable, and implementable definition of "waters of the United States" that clarifies federal authority under the Clean Water Act. Unlike the Obama administration's 2015 definition of "waters of the United States," today's proposal contains a straightforward definition that would result in significant cost savings, protect the nation's navigable waters, help sustain economic growth, and reduce barriers to business development.
Iowa dairy producers have the opportunity to learn about emerging dairy industry issues during 2019 Dairy Days events hosted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach specialists. The program is scheduled at seven eastern Iowa locations between Jan. 21 and Feb. 7.
Confinement site manure applicators and anyone interested in learning about manure issues should plan to attend a two-hour workshop offered by Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach in January or February 2019. These workshops are offered in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. There is no fee to attend the workshops, but applicators will need to pay certification fees to complete certification requirements.
"Iowa law requires confinement site manure applicators to attend two hours of continuing education each year of their three-year certification period or take and pass an exam once every three years," said Dan Andersen, associate professor, ISU Ag and Biosystems Engineering and coordinator of the manure applicator certification program.
Commercial manure applicators can attend annual training to meet commercial manure applicator certification requirements on Thursday, January 3, 2019, from 9 a.m. to noon. Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will conduct Commercial Manure Applicator training at that time. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. There is no fee for the workshop, but applicators must register by December 28 by contacting the ISU Extension and Outreach Allamakee County office at 563-568-6345.


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Judge Allows SF To Temporarily Close Club Suede
A San Francisco Superior Court judge today granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily closes a Fisherman's Wharf-area club where a fatal shooting occurred earlier this year.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit in April against the owners of Club Suede, located at 383 Bay St., seeking to shutter it permanently.
Herrera cited not only a Feb. 7 shooting outside the club that left a 19-year-old Richmond man, Lawon Hall, dead and three others injured, but also prior acts of violence, vandalism, noise and security problems in recent years.
The club agreed to close voluntarily after the February killing, but Judge Peter Busch today granted Herrera's motion ordering the club not to reopen until the lawsuit is resolved.
"San Francisco treasures its vibrant nightlife and the vast majority of entertainment venues that operate responsibly," Herrera said in a statement today.
"Unfortunately, Club Suede's refusal to abide by the law has created a dangerous environment for club-goers and neighbors alike," he said.
Ari Burack, Bay City News


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Outdoor learning in computing can be great fun. The kids will have thousands of lessons sat in front of a computer, but I guarantee they'll remember the time you took them outside and turned them into computers!
For my lesson this week I took my year 3 group out on to the muddy field, to explore under the autumnal trees. The sun was shining, it wasn't too cold, and we had our boots on! For our first task I turned the children into computers who needed to do a sorting task. They had to collect a bunch of leaves and, deciding how for themselves, had to think of ways to categorise them. For the most part they stuck to three methods; size, type and colour. This was great, and the kids really got into it. The hard part was keeping the piles of leaves in place with the blustery winds! As they were working we were talking about how they were similar to computers, and about why a computer likes things sorted all neat and tidy.
We managed to fit in a second activity while we were out there too. I got the kids on the small stone patio, and asked them to collect as many little bits and bobs as possible, putting them in a great big pile in front of them. The week previously we had been working with Scratch looking at the different control loops. We talked about how computers and programmers like to find patterns to make the processes work quicker and neater, and how we can put them in their work to make it more efficient. With the random assortment of leaves, sticks, stones and grass in front of them I asked them to make repeating patterns on the floor. The kids loved this one, and every single child was completely engaged in the process, even the usual pain in the bum kids! Once they had made a pattern I blew the whistle (Outdoor Learning essential!) and asked them to add another step to it, inserting the right item in the right place. We finished off by asking the pairs to swap places, and to try and identify the pattern. This little plenary was cool, because it meant the kids were showing me they understood, and could read the patterns.
I honesty had as much fun as the kids on this one. Plus, we have a really gorgeous DSLr camera in school, and I'd let it go away for a week on the London residential. After getting it back I was itching to play with it again, and the lighting for this lesson was perfect. Some great snaps so please have a look here for some more.


Where to get Dr. Oz Green Coffee Extract in Steiermark Austria?
Green coffee grain capsules give a substantial increase to weight loss when taken daily. The preliminary study that has actually obtained every person so fired up monitored 16 individuals over a period of 22 weeks, and also discovered that each had actually incredibly shed usually concerning 17 pounds.
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I'll Give You Something To Cry About
Occasionally, I will be surprised to find Ravi, our smallest cat, hanging from the top of the curtains in our living room.
I find these moments to be hysterically entertaining. It's like being in a cartoon.
Paloma is less amused. In fact, for reasons inexplicable to me, she is not amused.
Ravi's hanging antics – and whether or not they should be celebrated, perhaps even encouraged – is one of the few major points of contention between Paloma and I.
The other is her declaration that Morrissey would take Bruce Springsteen in a fistfight.
I thought it was kooky talk.
Paloma will profess her affection for Springsteen, but she is a long-time devotee of The Smiths and has argued that, should fisticuffs ensue, Morrissey would fight dirty.
I first heard The Smiths, for whom Morrissey sang lead, on 97X in high school – it must have been their clasic How Soon Is Now? – and the band was hugely popular with a lot of my friends and peers in college.
I just was hardly rabid about The Smiths, though, and The Smiths fans that I knew often were.
(as a lot of Springsteen fans are rather obsessive about Bruce)
I liked The Smiths, but I never totally embraced the band. However clever and literate the lyrics, despite the wonderful, jangly guitar, the mopiness of it all wore out its welcome with me.
"What's he bitching about now?" I'd ask a college buddy when he'd put on The Smiths and Morrissey would lament how he never got what he wanted.
I thought of Paloma's pugilistic prognostications regarding Morrissey and Springsteen the other morning while commuting to work.
I often bounce between E Street Radio and the '70s station on Sirius and had the latter dialed up as Gilbert O'Sullivan was singing Alone Again (Naturally). I couldn't help but hear the morose lyric and imagine Morrissey covering the song.
Given the sensitive inclinations of many of the singer/songwriters of the decade, several other hits of the '70s popped into my head.
I believe that Ravi should be allowed to dangle without restrictions and I have no doubt that Bruce would indeed triumph should he and Morrissey enter Thunderdome.
And, here are four songs from the '70s that I think might be ideal for Morrissey to cover…
Gilbert O'Sullivan – Alone Again (Naturally)
Pretty grim stuff, Mr. O'Sullivan – a groom left at the altar, two dead parents, and suicidal thoughts.
God only knows how I interpreted this song as a child. I imagine that I was too entranced by the nursery rhyme-like melody to ponder Gilbert's existential angst.
Michael Murphey – Wildfire
from Blue Sky – Night Thunder (1975)
I wasn't listening to music in 1975 aside from what I'd hear on the radio in the car, but I do remember hearing Wildfire. How could I not?
Before the first chorus, a young girl is dead and "the pony she called Wildfire" is lost in a blizzard.
Oh, the carnage.
Michael Johnson – Bluer Than Blue
from The Very Best Of Michael Johnson: Bluer Than Blue (1978-1995) (1999)
To paraphrase Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel, how much more blue could Michael Johnson be?
The answer is none. None more blue.
Henry Gross – Shannon
from Release (1976)
And then there is ex-Sha Na Na member Henry Gross and his elegy about the death of Beach Boy Carl Wilson's Irish setter Shannon.
So, to recap, we have four songs with a jilted, suicidal groom, a pair of dead parents, a dead girl, a pony lost in a blizzard, a disheartening break-up, and a dead dog that drove Casey Kasem to distraction.
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Jim Croce And Model Plane Dogfights In Basement Skies
This morning, I headed out to run errands and, as often is the case, Paloma had left the station tuned to the adult alternative station. One of the DJs hosts a flashback show on Saturday mornings, so I left it on to see if the year being highlighted hooked me.
Jim Croce's Operator was playing.
The song by the late singer took me back to childhood – small memories both good and bad, and one that I'd truly forgotten.
Jim Croce died in a post-concert plane crash on September 20, 1973 as he was finally achieving widespread fame and success. I wasn't even in grade school, yet Bad, Bad Leroy Brown had been one of the first singles I owned and I recall his songs on the radio, especially in the wake of his death.
As Operator played, my mind conjured up the memory of a cold, dark winter morning not long after Croce's death. It was my birthday, but, early that morning, my father received a phone call with the news that a co-worker and one of his closest friends – like Croce, named Jim – had been killed in a car accident.
I remember accompanying my father on several occasions to visit his friend's widow and how empty the house seemed, how it seemed provide no shelter from the howl of the wind during those December days, and how there seemed to be no light, nothing but shadows in black and white.
Then, my mind remembered the model planes, something of which I had not thought in twenty-five years or more and something so vague in my immediate recollection I briefly considered that the memory was not real at all.
But it was.
I couldn't pick the face of my father's friend from a line-up of people I have barely known, but the model planes came into clearer focus as Jim Croce sang on the radio.
The planes – scale-replicas of World War II aircraft -had been given to my father by his friend's widow and were hung by wires from the ceiling of the basement where my brother and I played as children.
Of course, we were children and the planes – hanging just beyond our reach, frozen in imaginary dogfights near the laundry room – were irresistible to us and, as often happens when children lay their hands on fragile items, the results were predictably disastrous.
The planes were subjected to small-scale carnage no less damaging than their real-life counterparts might have experienced over the skies of Europe decades earlier.
No lives were lost and all my brother and I received was some relatively minor punishment. To us, at that age, they were just mere toys and their destruction was was just another day's work as kids. We didn't – and couldn't – understand that their value was far greater than the other items that had met their demise at our small hands.
Operator ended and the DJ began to babble about weather and traffic and such. Soon, he was touting the opening of a local pizza joint as though having some commerce-inspired fit of Tourettes Syndrome sans the profanity.
Someone has something for sale – something his listeners need to buy.
All I could think as I opted for the iPod and searched for another Jim Croce song was that not everything is for sale, not everything can be bought, and not everything lost is always lost for good.
Listening to Jim Croce is like the sweater that I pull out often as the weather gets colder (the one for which Paloma would happily host a retirement party should I remove it from heavy rotation). Here are four songs from the late, great singer…
Jim Croce – You Don't Mess Around With Jim
from Bad Bad Leroy Brown: The Definitive Collection
I remember my dad quoting the advice given in You Don't Mess Around With Jim, so I might have heard the song when it became Croce's first hit in late summer of '72. It's a rollicking number much in the vein of Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, which would be an even bigger hit the following spring.
At one record store where I worked, five or six of us had a bookie named Stick Daddy.
I never met Stick Daddy, but Jim Croce probably did.
Jim Croce – Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
Even though Bad, Bad Leroy Brown was such an important song in my childhood and even though the guy did some wonderful upbeat stuff, when I think of Jim Croce, I think of the more somber songs.
(which, given the circumstances of his death, is not surprising)
There's too much humor in the songs of Jim Croce, though, to think he was some melancholic singer/songwriter. Maybe I think of the more somber songs because of the brilliance of tracks like Operator.
Jim Croce – Time In A Bottle
Inspired by the birth of his son (and future musician) A.J., Time In A Bottle became a posthumous number one hit for Croce in late '73 when his death gave the song an added measure of poignancy.
I've heard the song so many times that, when I hear it, I don't always hear it. But, truly listening to it again, it's undeniably lovely.
Jim Croce – I Got A Name
I Got A Name was the title track from the album that Croce had just completed before his death and would be one of three hits – with I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song and Workin' At The Car Wash Blues – from the record.
There's just something about I Got A Name that I've always loved. The melody is engaging, the vibe is determined, and, in an economical three minutes and change, the song never fails to leave me feeling that everything is going to work out.
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Leeds United transfer rumours: Midfielder stance offers boost, Mujica twist, Ambrosius hint
The very latest Leeds United transfer round-up as reported Whites target Erick Pulgar looks to 'wind down' the time with his current club Fiorentina amid rumours.
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Stephan Ambrosius of Hamburg. (Image: Getty Images)
Leeds United are back in action at the weekend, as they travel to League Two side Crawley Town in the third round of the FA Cup.
This gives Marcelo Bielsa the chance to hand some of his more senior first-team stars a much-needed rest, with the festive schedule now coming to an end.
With the aforementioned busy fixture list ending, the January transfer window is now open and Bielsa will be looking to add to the Whites' squad at some point over the month.
In light of this, we bring you the very latest round-up of Leeds-related transfer rumours and stories from today.
Pulgar 'winding down' time at Fiorentina
Leeds reportedly hold an interest in Fiorentina midfielder Erick Pulgar, and the latest news is that the 26-year-old is 'winding down his time' at the Serie A outfit.
That's according to La Nazione, who are reporting that the Whites' interest in Pulgar's team-mate Christian Kouame has cooled in recent days.
However, there is still talk about the Chile international and Bielsa's admiration of him, and there have been suggestions that the player "seems to be winding down" his time in Italy.
Also, Leeds' supposed contact with Pulgar's representatives is proving to be an "interesting" dilemma with the January window now open.
Leeds United under-23s can show Marcelo Bielsa they are ready for action with FA Cup run-out
Leeds United fans taunt Frank Lampard as pressure mounts on Chelsea boss in light of poor form
Mujica set for Leeds return
Leeds loanee Rafa Mujica is set to have his deal at Real Oviedo cancelled and return to Elland Road this month, according to a report from El Desmarque.
The article states that Oviedo are currently on the lookout for other targets and they need to let one of their current loanees leave the club, with Mujica looking like the most likely option.
The 22-year-old has played just five times for the Spanish side in all competitions and has scored two goals in the process.
The Spanish striker joined Bielsa's side back in 2019 from Barcelona's B team, but has spent most of his time out on loan so far.
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Ambrosius transfer hint
Reported Leeds target Stephan Ambrosius has insisted he is happy with Hamburg and sees his future with the German club.
Ambrosius was linked with a move to Elland Road in November, with his contract at the German second-tier side due to expire in the summer.
However, the 22-year-old central defender has now dropped a big hint over his future.
"My adviser is in close contact with the association. As a native of Hamburg, it's best to play for HSV," Ambrosius told BILD .
"My dream is to get promoted with HSV. Everyone in the club knows that we should remain humble and always give 100 percent. If we can do that, we will be so strong that nothing should be able to stop it."
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My Favorite Bit: Beth Cato talks about BREATH OF EARTH
1 Comment	/ Journal, My Favorite Bit / By Alyshondra Meacham
Beth Cato is joining us today with her novel Breath of Earth. Here's the publisher's description:
In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation—the Unified Pacific—in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her power—or that she is the only woman to possess such skills.
When assassins kill the wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose Earth's powers to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming the city into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off. . . .
Forced on the run, Ingrid makes some shocking discoveries about herself. Her powerful magic has grown even more fearsome . . . and she may be the fulcrum on which the balance of world power rests.
What's Beth's favorite bit?
BETH CATO
My new novel, Breath of Earth, is alt history steampunk fantasy set in 1906 San Francisco. I like to joke "Spoiler alert: there's a big earthquake," because the date and place (and the very cover) give away that plot point in a major way. That's fine by me. The earthquake happens, yes, but the circumstances are a bit more complicated than a mere tectonic shift.
My heroine, Ingrid Carmichael, is a geomancer. I drew on history, science, and mythology to create my own magic system and unique earthquake. I'm a research geek, so this was absolutely my favorite bit.
For me, earthquakes are personal. I'm a native Californian. One of my earliest memories is being three years old and in the bathtub when the devastating Coalinga earthquake occurred nearby. We practiced earthquake drills in schools. Family trips to the coast meant crossing the very visible ridged line of the infamous San Andreas Fault.
As part of my worldbuilding, I had to figure out how to cause earthquakes–and more importantly, how to stop them.
My version of 1906 features technology that is powered by crystals called kermanite that store the earth's energy like batteries. Geomancers like Ingrid are conduits. During an earthquake, geomancers don't simply feel the rumbling–they siphon the magic of the earth and actually stop tremblors. This isn't without risks. Earth energy causes a spike in body temperature that can kill them quickly unless they break direct contact with the ground or grab kermanite, which will pull the energy out of their bodies. Ingrid, being the heroine, is especially gifted–and cursed–by her incredible ability to hold and use energy.
Kermanite and geomancy are my fabrications, but when it came to the actual earthquake, I relied heavily on historical fact. There are tons of books on the subject, fiction and non, and movies as well. The data was overwhelming, really. I had to pick and choose what would reinforce my new version of history.
For example, Enrico Caruso is famous for singing in Carmen the night before the real disaster; in my world, there is a highly controversial performance of the opera Lincoln, which celebrates the president's Emancipation Proclamation as well as his late life work on behalf of Chinese refugees. That's because the Civil War ended early because of an alliance between the American Union and Imperial Japan–and in 1906, the two are still partnered in their efforts to dominate mainland Asia.
Plate tectonics–the genuine science–play a role in my novel, but there are also more fantastical elements. Mythologies around the world attribute earthquakes to entities like massive two-headed snakes or shifting turtles or a giant namazu (catfish) twitching in the sea. Ingrid's mentor is obsessed with researching semi-mythical geomantic Hidden Ones. Unlike everyday magical creatures like unicorns or pixies, these Hidden Ones are so extraordinary, so deific, that people question if they still exist at all. Hint: there might be something to the old stories.
For all the media ballyhoo about when the next "Big One" will happen, no one knows. There is something terrifying, something magical, about that. Breath of Earth gave me the chance to explore a subject that has fascinated me ever since I was a scared three-year-old asking, "What happened?"
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@BethCato on Twitter
Beth Cato hails from Hanford, California, but currently writes and bakes cookies in a lair west of Phoenix, Arizona. She shares the household with a hockey-loving husband, a numbers-obsessed son, and a cat the size of a canned ham.
She's the author of THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER (a 2015 Locus Award finalist for First Novel) and THE CLOCKWORK CROWN (an RT Reviewers' Choice Finalist) from Harper Voyager. Her novella WINGS OF SORROW AND BONE was a 2016 Nebula nominee. BREATH OF EARTH begins a new steampunk series set in an alternate history 1906 San Francisco.
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Oh, that sounds fascinating! Also, I love the cover.
I know the Wasatch Fault in Utah is overdue for a massive shift.


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Q: Cypher query: finding path with alternating relationships i have following graph
(1)-[A]->(2)-[B]->(3)-[A]->(4)-[B]->(5)-[A]->(6)-[B]->(7)-[A]->(8)

How do i specify a Cypher query that finds a path between (1) and (8) such that they are connected by alternating a and b relationships?
I have a playable version here: http://console.neo4j.org/?id=84b3mz
A query like this gives me the path, however i need to start specifying conditions on the collection p
START s=node(1)
MATCH p=s-[r*]->e
WHERE e.name="8"
RETURN p

A better way would be something like
MATCH p=s-([:A]->()-[:B])*->e

is something like that possible in Cypher?

A: So, you can do [r:A|B*], but that doesn't enforce that they must alternate. If you must enforce that, you can do it in an ALL:
MATCH p=(s)-[:A|B*]->(e)
WHERE s.name="1"
WITH p, range(0,length(p)-1) AS idx // create a list of indexes to go through
WHERE ALL (i IN idx
  WHERE CASE i % 2 = 0
          WHEN TRUE THEN type(rels(p)[i])= "A" // even indexes are "A"
          ELSE type(rels(p)[i])= "B" // odd indexes are "B"
        END )
RETURN p,idx

The caveat here is that this isn't going to be super performant if you end up with a lot of paths from the first match. It's going to have to scan through all of them, verifying that they are in the right order.

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The work of Dutch artist Sidney Waerts is inevitably characterized by a feeling of discomfort: his paintings and sculptures show the moment when beauty loses its raison d'être, and presents its darkest side. Behind his figurative images lies a disturbing analysis of our times.
SIT demonstrates artificial characters, human beings and animals that remind us of the banality of everyday life, of our obsession with appearance, look and materialism. These characters are the victims of our visual and fast society, the technology of the visible – where human vanity stands in the way of a truly ethical life.
By using black and white, Sidney creates sober and melancholic images, as if man – while endlessly believing in progression – has lost something on the way.
But on the other hand he displays a maximum of effects: the fabrics, textures and costumes look sensual and seductive, the settings are theatrical and grotesque. This ambiguity – between the temptation of beauty and our constant urge to abuse her – is the driving force behind Sidney's work.


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French police arrest Jeannie Longo's husband in investigation into online EPO purchases
Couple's homes searched in dawn raid, L'Equipe says development may harm Longo's London 2012 hopes...
Wed, Feb 08, 2012 15:43
French police this morning arrested Patrice Ciprelli, the husband and coach of former world and Olympic cyclist Jeannie Longo, on suspicion of having bought doping products including EPO over the internet.
L'Equipe reports that a dozen officers from an arm of the French police responsible for environmental and public health raided the couple's apartment at Alpe d'Huez at 6.10am this morning. Longo herself was interviewed by police but not detained.
A separate police search was reportedly conducted at a chalet owned by the couple in Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux in the Isère department.
The newspaper reports that police operation relates to an enquiry launched in September last year following revelations by American former pro cyclist Joe Papp that he had sold Ciprelli EPO sourced from China.
According to L'Equipe, police are investigating five alleged purchases of EPO by Ciprelli during 2010 and 2011, and have gathered evidence including two invoices of €500 each that identify a bank account in his name.
The newspaper adds that the UCI and its legal department have been following developments in the case since last September.
In October last year, Ciprelli successfully appealed a ban imposed on him earlier in the year by the French cycling federation (FFC) for allegedly buying doping products including EPO via the internet.
Longo herself was cleared last November of charges relating to three missed out-of-competition drugs tests under the 'whereabouts' programme operated by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Three missed tests would usually result in an automatic ban, but the 53-year-old was cleared because the FFC had not formally told her that she was a member of the testing pool as required by new rules introduced in April 2010, prior to the third 'missed' test in June last year.
Subsequent to that decision, L'Equipe reported that lawyers for Longo had filed a criminal complaint against France's anti-doping authority, the AFLD, as a result of the effect on her image of press reports of the allegations against her.
After her acquittal, Longo, who has won 59 French and 13 world titles on the road and track plus Olympic road race gold at Atlanta in 1996, expressed her determination to compete at London 2012, although as L'Equipe says, today's developments could irreparably damage her hopes of being selected.
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Strange Frontier est le deuxième album studio solo de Roger Taylor, batteur de Queen, sorti en 1984.

Cet album a eu plus de succès que le précédent. Il comprend deux reprises (de Bruce Springsteen et Bob Dylan). Bien que Taylor, une fois encore, joue de tous les instruments (batterie, guitare, basse et clavier) et chante toutes les chansons, plusieurs autres personnes sont intervenues sur l'album  : le producteur David Richards (au synthétiseur et au piano), Rick Parfitt des Status Quo (à la guitare rythmique sur It's an Illusion) ainsi que John Deacon (à la basse sur It's an Illusion et au mixage) et Freddie Mercury (aux claviers et dans les chœurs).

Titres de l'album
Toutes les chansons ont été écrites et composées par Roger Taylor sauf mention contraire.
 Strange Frontier - 4:16
 Beautiful Dreams - 4:23
 Man on Fire - 4:05
 Racing in the Street (Bruce Springsteen) - 4:28
 Masters of War (Bob Dylan) - 3:51
 Killing Time - 4:58
 Abandonfire (Taylor/ David Richards) - 4:12
 Young Love - 3:22
 It's an Illusion (Taylor/ Rick Parfitt) - 4:03
 I Cry for You (Taylor/ David Richards) - 4:16

Classements

Album

Singles
Man On Fire

Strange Frontier

Crédits
 Roger Taylor : chant, batterie, claviers, guitare basse, guitares
 David Richards : claviers
 Freddie Mercury : Chœurs sur Killing Time
 Rick Parfitt : guitare sur It's an Illusion
 John Deacon : guitare basse sur It's an Illusion
 Brian May : guitare rythmique

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Pochette et informations par allmusic

Album de Roger Taylor
Album musical sorti en 1984
Album enregistré au Mountain Studios
Album produit par Reinhold Mack
Album publié par Parlophone
Album publié par Capitol Records


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Sensibility and practicality define the 2015 Subaru Impreza. This 4 door, 5 passenger sedan still has fewer than 30,000 miles! Smooth gearshifts are achieved thanks to the 2 liter 4 cylinder engine, and for added security, dynamic Stability Control supplements the drivetrain. It's equipped with tons of terrific amenities, but it won't break your budget. Such as remote keyless entry, a rear window wiper, a trip computer, an outside temperature display, front bucket seats, power door mirrors, cruise control, and much more. Audio features include a CD player with MP3 capability, steering wheel mounted audio controls, and 4 speakers, providing excellent sound throughout the cabin. Subaru also prioritized safety and security with features such as: dual front impact airbags with occupant sensing airbag, front side impact airbags, traction control, brake assist, a security system, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. Sophisticated all wheel drive technology maintains a firm grip on the road. We pride ourselves in the quality that we offer on all of our vehicles. Please don't hesitate to give us a call.


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Q: How to join similar elements of array with PHP We are running a PHP code on a huge list (array with 5 millions elements).
The list format is as follows below (it looks "weird" at first look but this is the best format so far we came out in order to optimize the speed of the code down below)
$array = array(

    array(1 => true,3 => true),
    array(2 => true,4 => true,6 => true),
    array(3 => true,5 => true),
    array(5 => true),
    array(4 => true,8 => true,10 => true),
    array(200 => true,300 => true)

);

We want to combine similar elements from the array above and get to this result:
$final_array = array(

    array(1,3,5),
    array(2,4,6,8,10),
    array(200,300)

);

Instead of using array(1,3) we decided to use array(1 => true,3 => true) because using keys instead of values (to store information) makes the code below runs faster and it outputs $final_array as above.
foreach ($array as $key1 => $value1) {

    foreach ($array as $key2 => $value2) {

        if ($key1 != $key2) {

            foreach ($array[$key1] as $key3 => $value3) {

                if (isset($array[$key2][$key3])) {

                    $array[$key2] = $array[$key2] + $array[$key1];

                    unset($array[$key1]);

                    break 2;

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

However this code above is still very slow. Could you find a better way to aggregate similar elements to each other on a faster code?

A: How about using array_intersect_key instead of third loop?
$array = array(
    array(1 => true,3 => true),
    array(2 => true,4 => true,6 => true),
    array(3 => true,5 => true),
    array(5 => true),
    array(4 => true,8 => true,10 => true),
    array(200 => true,300 => true)

);
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
    foreach ($array as $key2 => $value2) {
        if ($key !== $key2 && !empty(array_intersect_key($value, $value2))) {
            $array[$key] = $value2 + $value;
            unset($array[$key2]);
        }
    }
}

print_r($array);

Working example
Edit #1:
For better performance try this variant:
$array = array(
    array(1 => true,3 => true),
    array(2 => true,4 => true,6 => true),
    array(3 => true,5 => true),
    array(5 => true),
    array(4 => true,8 => true,10 => true),
    array(200 => true,300 => true)

);
$count = count($array);
for ($i = 0; $i < $count - 1; ++$i) {
    for ($j = $i + 1; $j < $count; ++$j) {
        if (!empty(array_intersect_key($array[$i], $array[$j]))) {
            $array[$j] = $array[$i] + $array[$j];
            unset($array[$i]);
            continue 2;
        }
    }
}

Working example #2

A: $arr = array('Hello','World!','Beautiful','Day!');
echo join(" ",$arr);

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It's safe to say that Róisín Murphy's given the odd record company exec a sleepless night or two. The woman who got her start in the music industry as the public half of Moloko after propositioning future co-producer Mark Brydon with the immortal line "Do you like my tight sweater?" has confessed in the past to feeling alienated by its mechanics: after leaving EMI post the release of 2007's Overpowered, she then appeared only sporadically during the next five years.
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Broadway Chapter is a 5-story wood-framed multifamily housing complex in Fort Worth, Texas, located on two acres at the corner of Hemphill Street and West Broadway Avenue. Design specialist and executive Shanna Noelle Khan worked with Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC), to create a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, including 15 one-bedroom lofts boasting 20-foot ceilings. Indoor amenities include a state-of-the-art fitness center with Peloton bicycles and a yoga area, a resident lounge with a coffee bar, and a lush library space. Ms. Khan applied purposeful, value-conscious interior design services to diverse elements of the layout, fit, finish, components, and materials to enhance the project's rooms and common spaces and acted as a principal equity investor. Outdoor recreational amenities include a landscaped courtyard and sun deck with an infinity-edged swimming pool, in-pool loungers, grilling stations, dining areas, fire pit and terrace seating.
Additional resident amenities include secure bike storage and a five-story parking garage, accessible from Grainger Street and connected to the west side of the building. The site offers wireless connectivity at speeds of up to 1GB with coverage to include all common areas, including the lobby, lounge and outdoor recreation areas.
Broadway Chapter, located at 401 Hemphill Street, is ideally positioned in Fort Worth's Near Southside district, a mixed-use, walkable urban neighborhood located less than one mile from the city's downtown. The Near Southside serves as Fort Worth's design district, boasting more than 70 creative firms, and the city's medical district where the area's largest hospitals are located including Cook Children's Medical Center, Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center, Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth and John Peter Smith Hospital. Near Southside residents also enjoy some of the city's most celebrated restaurants, along with a vibrant arts and cultural scene as recently acknowledged by the Texas Commission on the Arts when the area was awarded the prestigious cultural district status in 2020.
CRG worked in partnership with Near Southside, Inc.'s ArtSouth community art program to identify an artist to create a 5,000-square-foot mural covering the southern façade of the parking garage, visible from W. Peter Smith Street. Through its community-led selection process, ArtSouth commissioned North Texas artist Eric 'Drigo' Rodriguez to install an original work, Cosmic Journey, created specifically for Broadway Chapter. The mural will be officially unveiled in June.
Art by the Community, for the Community, from the Community
CRG recently completed a parking garage project in Fort Worth utilizing a local artist to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art to enhance the facade and engage the community.
Our team worked with a community. organization to participate in locating local artists and then operated as a jury to choose an artist who best reflected the community aspirations and our cultural commitment and personality. We involved the direct community as judges and voices and interviewed 85 artists.
We have already identified a few local Dallas artists in addition to our contact list from the Fort Worth project to review options for this project. The process took about five months and our team is available to bring this differentiator to the Fair Park First Parking Garage if there is interest.
Residential: 220,000 SF
Parking Garage: 93,000 SF
Architect: Lamar Johnson Collaborative
Interior Design Consultant: Shanna Khan


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Russian prison officials designate Putin oppositionist Navalny a 'terrorist'
Aleksei Navalny (Evgeny Feldman/Novaya Gazeta/Wikimedia Commons)
October 12, 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission.
Imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny says prison officials in Russia have declared him a person "who espouses an extremist and terrorist ideology," but officially no longer regard him as an escape risk.
Navalny wrote on Instagram on October 11 that the prison commission voted for the new designation unanimously. As a result, he will now have to wear prison trousers with a green stripe down the leg.
Navalny, an anti-corruption lawyer, said that the terrorist designation is normally reserved for "Muslims, nationalists, and soccer fanatics."
The same commission canceled the designation of the 45-year-old Navalny as an escape threat, which he has had since his arrest in Moscow in January. Navalny and his lawyers had complained that the flight-risk designation amounted to torture because it meant that guards had to wake him every hour each night to check on him.
"This is good news," Navalny wrote. "The checks on 'extremists' and 'terrorists' are not as exhausting as for 'flight risks'…. No one checks them."
"I was afraid that I would be obligated to kiss [President Vladimir] Putin's portrait or to memorize quotations from [former President Dmitry] Medvedev, but this hasn't happened," he quipped. "Just over my bunk there is a little sign saying I am a terrorist."
Navalny did not say why officials decided to designate him as a terrorist, but earlier this year his Anti-Corruption Foundation and his network of regional offices were designated "extremist organizations" by the Russian Justice Ministry.
The change in his status has not been officially confirmed.
Navalny was arrested in Moscow in January after returning from Germany, where he underwent medical treatment for a near-fatal nerve-agent poisoning that he suffered in Russia in August. He and his supporters say the poisoning was carried out by Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives at the behest Putin in retribution for Navalny's political activities.
In February, Navalny was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for purported parole violations during his time in Germany in connection with an earlier conviction he dismissed as politically motivated.
Also on October 11, Navalny congratulated Dmitry Muratov, editor in chief of Russia's independent Novaya gazeta newspaper, on his "well-deserved" Nobel Peace Prize.
"From all my soul I congratulate Dmitry Muratov and Novaya gazeta on winning the Nobel Peace Prize," a message posted on Navalny's Twitter account said.
Muratov and investigative journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines won the prestigious award last week "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression."
Some of Navalny's allies and supporters had criticized the Nobel Committee's choice, saying the opposition leader would have been a more deserving winner.
After winning the prize, Muratov said he would have given it to Navalny and dedicated the award to the paper's six journalists who have been killed in connection with their work.


Nancy Pochis Bank is a Chicago based visual artist. Nancy's specialties include watercolor, oil painting and chalk art murals. In addition to her work in arts education, Nancy completes several commissioned portraits and murals each year, and her artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues throughout the United States.


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You Might THINK You're Hungry, But Are You?
July 29, 2016 / sarah@sarahmorannutrition.com
Eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're full sounds simple, but that doesn't mean it's always easy. In fact, for many of us, it can be hard to tell when we're physically hungry and when there's something else driving us to eat. Emotional hunger and food cravings can make us eat, sometimes without us even realizing it. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to figure out if you're really hungry or not.
July 29, 2016 / sarah@sarahmorannutrition.com/
Healthy Eating Strategies
how to know if you're hungry, hunger, hunger cues, mindful eating


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Churchill, by Roy Jenkins
Posted on June 13, 2019 by aidanjmcquade
Summary: Churchill – both a hero and a villain
In Brexit Britain one's attitude towards Churchill is something of a faux-patriotic touchstone. Recently shadow chancellor John McDonnell caused frothing indignation amongst the perpetually offended right-wing of British society when in response to a silly question, "Churchill: hero or villain?" he responded, "Villain," citing Churchill's behaviour, when Home Secretary, towards striking miners in Tonypandy.
Of course, one of the reasons that Churchill attracts so much biographical attention is that he is a complex figure.
Considerable portions of Churchill's career, most notably his resistance to Nazism, are the epitome of heroism. At a human level he was also very funny and impressively magnanimous. For example, he formed a close friendship with Smuts, who he had fought against, and been imprisoned by, in South Africa. Jenkins also suggests, probably correctly, that Michael Collins would have become an enduring friend if he had lived, and one can only regret the consequences to Anglo-Irish relations that he did not.
But other aspects of Churchill's character and leadership are markedly less attractive. For example his deep grained racism and his unreconstructed imperialism are manifestations of the very worst aspects of British history and society.
That these positive and negative elements resided in Churchill simultaneously, for example catastrophically worsening the Bengal Famine in 1943 while playing a central role in formulating strategy against Hitler, makes him an altogether more interesting and problematic personality than either his acolytes or his detractors might prefer.
Roy Jenkins' biography of Churchill goes a considerable way towards exploring this complexity across the course of Churchill's career from youthful imperial war-junkie, to young Conservative MP, to Leftish Liberal cabinet minister, to rancidly bigotted opponent of Indian independence, to prophetic voice against the rise of Hitlerism, to heroic war leader and after. Jenkins also details Churchill's parallel career as a voluminous writer, a career that ultimately brought him a, somewhat controversial, Nobel Prize for Literature.
There are omissions – there is no discussion of the Bengal Famine – the gravest stain on Churchill's record, dwarfing even his civilian bombing policy against Germany, his startlingly naïve fawning towards Stalin, and his complicity in the betrayal of Poland to Soviet tyranny, all issues which Jenkins discusses in some detail,
It is very much a political biography focusing on Westminster and Whitehall machinations, and the deliberations of high summitry amongst the "Great Powers." So it would probably benefit a reader to have some extant knowledge of events in the wider world as they affected ordinary human beings, particularly the struggle for Indian independence, the course of the Second World War, and the Suez crisis.
The book is enriched by Jenkins' insider knowledge: his early parliamentary career overlapped with that of Churchill; and before rising to the presidency of the European Commission Jenkins was also British Chancellor and Home Secretary, two posts Churchill also held.
Nicholas Soames, currently a Tory MP, tells the story of how, as an eight year old he once intruded on Churchill with the question, "Grandpapa, is it true you are the greatest man in the world?"
"Yes," said Churchill. "Now bugger off."
Ultimately Jenkins shares this conclusion, that Churchill was the greatest human being ever to hold the office of British Prime Minister. It is perhaps an easier assertion for a Briton to make than for any citizen of a nation that suffered the bloody consequences of his racism to accept. But Jenkins certainly provides a rich portrait of this compelling personality, one who did so much to shape the Twentieth Century, particularly in relation to the triumph of European democracy.
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Fun Boy Three est un groupe de pop britannique issu du ska et aux tendances new wave. Il est composé de trois anciens membres des Specials : Terry Hall, Lynval Golding et Neville Staple. Actif entre 1981 et 1983, Fun Boy Three fut un habitué des charts britanniques avec deux albums et huit singles classés.

1981 : naissance de Fun Boy Three

L'année 1981 a vu la mouvance du ska se terminer aussi vite qu'elle avait commencée. Le label 2 Tone, fondé par Jerry Dammers (le clavier des Specials), commence à prendre l'eau et la plupart des groupes signés quittent le label, se séparent ou évoluent.

C'est dans ce contexte difficile que les Specials sortent leur dernier single en , Ghost town, un immense succès et certainement l'un de leurs meilleurs titres. Il atteint la première place des charts britanniques au moment où  bouleversent le pays. Lassés de la mauvaise ambiance qui règne au sein du groupe, étouffés par l'emprise autoritaire de Jerry Dammers sur la direction musicale, les Specials explosent. Seuls deux membres poursuivront l'aventure jusqu'en 1984 : le clavier Jerry Dammers et le batteur John Bradbury.

De leur côté, les chanteurs Terry Hall et Neville Staple fondent Fun Boy Three avec le guitariste Lynval Golding. Leur nom est une référence ironique à leur morosité après leur départ des Specials. Ils sortent leur premier titre dès  : , qui fustige Ronald Reagan et Margaret Thatcher. Ce single est un grand succès et atteint le Top 20.

1982 : l'année de tous les succès

Fun Boy Three commence l'écriture de son premier album lorsque Terry Hall découvre, dans le magazine Face, trois jeunes filles qui tentent de percer dans la musique avec leur groupe Bananarama.

Il leur propose alors de les aider à lancer leur carrière en échange d'une collaboration : chaque groupe obtiendra un single en duo avec l'autre. Le premier fruit de ce travail apparaît en  :  est le deuxième single de Fun Boy Three et permet aux trois filles de Bananarama de se faire connaître comme choristes. Le titre est un grand succès puisqu'il se classe dans le Top 5. L'ascenseur sera renvoyé en , lorsque ce sera au tour des Fun Boy Three de jouer les choristes pour ce qui deviendra le premier tube de Bananarama : , également entré dans le Top 5.

Ces deux titres obtiendront une certaine faveur en Amérique du Nord, en entrant dans le Top 50 des clubs américains.

Le premier album des Fun Boy Three sort en  : nommé aussi , il obtient un fort succès en atteignant le Top 10 et en restant dans le classement pendant vingt semaines.

L'album s'ouvre sur , une sorte de courte marche funèbre, comme pour rappeler la fin des Specials et la naissance des Fun Boy Three. Les rythmes tribaux et exotiques parsèment l'album, comme sur ,  et le single . Vient ensuite l'étrange  au faux-air de rap américain et , un texte parlé par Neville Staple sur une mélodie répétitive au piano. On trouve également trois titres enregistrés en compagnie de Bananarama : l'instrumental , le single  et  qui vient clore l'album en douceur. Pour être complet, il faut enfin citer , une amusante et imparable complainte qui aura droit à une sortie en single, et l'onctueux .

Le single , crédité au profit de Bananarama, sera intégré sur leur premier album sorti en 1983 : .

En , Fun Boy Three sort le dernier extrait de son premier album : , un titre décalé, entraînant et plein d'humour qui atteindra le Top 20. Le clip intégrait, à la fin, un karaoké avec la petite balle blanche et le groupe était rejoint par Bananarama et Madness.

En , le groupe sort le single , une reprise de George Gershwin datant des années 1930. Ce sera un nouveau succès à la clef en entrant dans le Top 20. Le groupe parviendra habilement à intégrer trois jeunes musiciennes, surfant ainsi sur l'image véhiculée par le trio Bananarama dans leurs précédents singles.

Enfin, Fun Boy Three fait une courte apparition dans le clip  de Madness, pendant lequel ils tentent (en vain) d'être pris en stop par la voiture de leurs collègues.

1983 : la consécration et la séparation

En , Fun Boy Three entame sa métamorphose musicale avec le single , abandonnant les rythmes africains pour des sonorités très anglaises. C'est un échec, le titre échouant à atteindre le Top 50.

On notera néanmoins l'apparition, dans le clip comme dans le studio, de la future batteuse de The Communards : June Miles-Kingston. David Byrne, producteur du nouvel album et leader des Talking Heads, fait également une apparition à la fin de la vidéo.

Le tir est vite rectifié. En , le single  aux accents de tango devient l'un de leurs plus grands tubes en atteignant le Top 10. Il est suivi par leur deuxième album, , qui restera (comme son prédécesseur) vingt semaines dans les classements, mais avec une place moindre puisqu'il n'ira pas plus loin que le Top 20.

Waiting . S'éloignant du caractère épuré et tribal du précédent, les textes se font plus sérieux et corrosifs tandis que la musique s'apparente désormais à de la pop teintée de new wave.

Ce nouvel opus s'ouvre sur l'instrumental , immédiatement suivi par le cynique  qui avait échoué dans les charts britanniques un mois plus tôt. Le piano et les cuivres ont remplacé les percussions exotiques, comme on peut l'entendre sur Going home ou We're having all the fun sur les supposés petits bonheurs dans la vie courante.  parle avec humour d'un trafic de drogue raté, tandis que  raconte la descente aux enfers d'un jeune couple naïf, faisant ainsi un subtil parallèle avec  qu'ils avaient sorti en 1980 avec les Specials. Puis vient le tour de , initialement écrite pour les filles du groupe Go Go's, et qui devient ici une magnifique reprise et l'un des meilleurs titres de Fun Boy Three. La suite se compose de  et , deux morceaux sur le stress et la morosité du quotidien. L'album se termine avec  où le narrateur raconte comment, alors qu'il avait douze ans, un professeur a tenté de le violer lors d'un voyage linguistique, et ce qu'il a ressenti.

Si Fun Boy Three, le précédent album, se montrait insouciant et épuré,  adopte un ton beaucoup plus grave et sévère où les textes ont une place beaucoup plus importante et sérieuse.

 sort en  et devient le titre le mieux classé du groupe dans le Top 10. Fun Boy Three s'engouffre ensuite dans une longue tournée américaine.

Le groupe se sépare ensuite : Terry Hall fonde un nouveau groupe, Colour Field, à la carrière similaire (deux albums et moins d'une dizaine de singles) entre 1984 et 1987, avec moins de succès toutefois. Neville Staple retournera auprès de Jerry Dammers dans son nouveau groupe 'The Special AKA' pour le titre Nelson Mandela en 1984, leur unique tube dans cette formation, qui disparaîtra d'ailleurs la même année après l'échec relatif de son album .

Discographie

Albums

Singles

Clips

1981 - The lunatics have taken over the asylum
1982 - T'ain't what you do...
1982 - Really saying something (Bananarama)
1982 - The telephone always rings
1982 - Summertime
1983 - The more I see
1983 - The tunnel of love
1983 - Our lips are sealed

Notes et références

Groupe musical britannique des années 1980
Groupe britannique de ska
Groupe anglais de new wave
Groupe musical formé en 1981
Groupe musical séparé en 1983
Artiste de Chrysalis Records
Trio musical britannique


I've always had a love for anything visual especially when it comes to the technology behind it. My love for technology lead to a science degree however I've always maintained my passion for the visual including film and television production. While studying for my degree I was exploring 3D graphics which at the time was in its infancy and ultimately lead to a job at Unitec teaching digital visualisation.
Unitec has given me a great opportunity to learn a plethora of software and visual techniques including 3D modelling, matte painting, rendering, compositing, editing, colour grading, lighting, and audio production, just to name a few. I've also built up and maintain a large amount of equipent needed for video production which I use in my classes and research projects. The students of my level 7 paper 'FilmCAD' each produce a short film where they get a crash course in film theory and are then required to script, storyboard, shoot, edit, as well as create 3D content for a 2-5 min short film. Most of these students enter the paper with no previous knowledge of film theory or movie making and many of whom produce some surprisingly good content. I've been teaching this paper since 1999 and have been the course coordinator since 2002 in that time the paper has produced well over 100 short films (see YouTube for examples ).
I've been involved in many visualisation projects including the Queens wharf design competition, Auckland city councils vision for the Wynard Quarter, and the governments proposal of a stadium on the water front, which I composited, edited, and recorded the audio for. For the last 4 years myself and two friends (Richard Thomas and Duncan Eastwood) have set up a small film studio in west Auckland (Sunset Studios). In the setting up of the studio I've done everything from designing the overall layout and sourcing of materials to accounting and marketing the business. Working with the many directors and crews on a regular basis has been a great learning experience. I often source equipment, give advice on the setup of equipment and describe techniques to get the look they are after. I've also been involved in many short films and music videos doing a variety of roles.
I have a Science Degree from Waikato University and have been lecturing for 12 years in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (and occasionally Architecture) in the fields of Geology, CAD, 3D visualisation and animation. In recent years I've obtained funding for research projects for 3d modelling of the Auckland isthmus, digitizing the complex form and Hollywood visual effects techniques. In the past I've been a Radio DJ, computer programmer, freelance camera operator, award winning 3D environmental artist, photographer, scientist, + more.
2011 – Last Flight (Short Film) VFX Supervisor, Colour Grading, DoP/Camera Operator (additional photography & studio).
2014 – Jump Jam 16 (Children's aerobic series) – All Production & Post production. Incl. DoP, VFX, 3D Modelling/rendering, Compositing, Editing, and colour grade.
2015 – Phoenix Audio (Promotional video) – All production & post production incl. Lighting, Camera, Directing, editing, graphics and colour grade.
Bogunovich, D., Popov, N., Williamson, P., and Egginton, Z. (2009). The Eco-Design Showcase. Queens Wharf Competition Entry.
Egginton, Z., Popov, N., and Orams, B.
Egginton, Z., Bardebes, W. (2012), Shifiting Perspectives, Art Exhibition, Snow White Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Egginton, Z., (2012), Hollywood Landscapes, Digital Landscape Architecture Conference, Bernburg & Dessau, Germany.
2006 – All's Fair in Love and War is Hell, Auckland Finalist, 48 hour Film Comp.
2011 – Under the Ice, Cornucopia3D 'Deep Blue Seas' Picture Contest, Winner (1st Place).
2011 – Faculty staff award: Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Unitec, NZ.
2007 – Visualisation of the Wynyard Quarter, Auckland City Council.
2010 – Invited guest speaker at Creative tech conference, Auckland.
2011 – New Zealand Cinematography Society, Associate Member.
2011 – 3D Scanner field trial for ESR's Auckland Forensic Service Centre.
2013 – 3D Modelling and visualisation, Northland Mussle Farm.
2013 – 3D Modelling and visualisation, Paihia Waterfront.
I am making a minute long animation flying over a stylized New Zealand, and am looking for somebody to help us using Vue. Are you available for freelance work?
Yes I'm available for freelance Jon, I've sent you an email.
We are on the look-out for someone to do some archviz work for a client. Can you please contact if interested – I can fill in the details.


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Q: mongo: multiple queries or not? I'm wondering the best way to query mongo db for many objects, where each one has an array of _id's that are attached to it. I want to grab the referenced objects as well. The objects' schemas looks like this:
var headlineSchema = new Schema({
    title : String,
    source : String,
    edits : Array       // list of edits, stored as an array of _id's
    ...
});

...and the one that's referenced, if needed:
var messageSchema = new Schema({
    message : String,
    user : String,
    headlineID : ObjectId   // also contains a ref. back to headline it's incl. in
    ...
});

One part of the problem (well, depending if I want to keep going this route) is that pushing the message id's is not working (edits remains an empty array [] afterwards) :
db.headline.update({_id : headlineid}, {$push: {edits : messageid} }, true);

When I do my query, I need to grab about 30 'headlines' at a time, and each one could contain references to up to 20 or 30 'messages'. My question is, what is the best way to fetch all of these things? I know mongo isn't a relational db, so what I'm intending is to first grab the headlines that I need, and then loop through all 30 of them to grab any attached messages.
db.headline.find({'date': {$gte: start, $lt: end} }, function (err, docs) {
    if(err) { console.log(err.message); }
    if(docs) {
        docs.forEach(function(doc){
            doc.edits.forEach(function(ed){
                db.messages.find({_id:ed}, function (err, msg) {
                    // save stuff
                });
            });
        });
    }
});

This just seems wrong, but I'm unsure how else to proceed. Should I even bother with keeping an array of attached messages? I'm not married to the way I've set up my schema, either. If there is a better way to track relationships between them, or a better query to achieve this, please let me know.
Thanks

A: Does each message belong to only one headline? If so, you can store the headline id as part of each message. Then for each headline, do:
db.messages.find({headline_id: current-headline-id-here})

A: You could try using the $in operator for selecting a list of ObjectIds
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries#AdvancedQueries-%24in


Large scale lighting installation for the Austrian Automobile Club (ÖAMTC) in their headquarters. The 15x4m art piece projects coloured light onto concrete and turns its appearance from bright yellow in slow fades towards a delightful and refreshing green which is visible to many passerby. The installation is realised via a custom built light-emitting diode (LED) projector with individually controllable high-power LEDs. A computer controlled DMX system exchanges different pre defined sequences that are reflected on the architectural structure.