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THE ROBIN. A Collection of choice songs.
Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials. London. - No date. Circa 1830. (3.4 x 2.4 inches). 32pp. Sewn into plain yellow paper wraps. Illustrated with ten wood engraved vignettes and decorative head piece on the first page, plus one leaf with four lines of music, for voice..... More
ANON. (Possibly J. W. L. Glaisher).
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEASTS.
W. S. Johnson, 60 St. Martin's Lane, Charring Cross. No date. Circa 1850. (4.7 x 4.2 inches). Two concertina sheets, each printed on one side with 6 hand coloured woodcuts of animals above the accompanying text in each section. Unbound as issued, in pale peach coloured paper wraps with the..... More
AUSTEN. JANE.
MANSFIELD PARK.
The Zodiac Press. London. 1975. 8vo. Fine copy bound in fine half blue calf. Spine with raised bands. The compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Plain white endpapers with a neat previous owners bookplate on the front paste down. Binding is unsigned but obviously from a...... More
BESANT. WALTER
St. KATHERINE'S BY THE TOWER. A Novel. In Three Volumes with Twelve Illustrations by Charles Green.
Chatto & Windus. London. 1891. FIRST EDITION. 3 Volumes. 8vo. (7.5 x 5 inches). Inscribed by the author on the half-title of volume I, "A. P. Watt with the Author's kindest wishes. 6th June 1891". 12 mono full page plates by Green, each with a tissue guard. Original dark green..... More
BETJEMAN. JOHN.
COLLECTED POEMS. Compiled and with an introduction by The Earl of Birkenhead.
John Murray. London. 1958. FIRST EDITION. Very good copy with previous owners name written neatly on front paste down endpaper. Publisher brown dustwrapper, lettered in white. A couple of tiny chips to top edge but overall a very good copy of this fantastic collection. More
BISHOP PERCY. ; CARADOC PRESS.
THE OLD BALLAD OF THE BOY AND THE MANTLE.
H. D. & H. G. Webb. Caradoc Press, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London. 1900. LIMITED EDITION. One of 300 copies on paper. 8vo. (6 x 4.7 inches). (2),18pp (2). The second book from the Caradoc Press. Ornamental designs and letters engraved by the Webbs. Printed in red and black but this..... More
BYRON. LORD George Gordon Noel.
THE WORKS. + DON JUAN.
John Murray. London. + For the Booksellers. London. 1827 and 1826. EIGHT VOLUMES. 8vo. (6.5 x 4.2 inches). Six volumes of The Works, dated 1827, and two volumes of Don Juan, dated 1826. All uniformly bound in attractive fine early leather bindings of full red straight grained morocco. Spines with..... More
CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates.
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. --- & ---THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE.
Macmillan & Co. London. 1984. TWO VOLUMES. FACSIMILE EDITIONS. 8vo, (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Both volumes Illustrated throughout, with forty and fifty line engravings respectively, by John Tenniel. First printings of these facsimile editions of the original first editions of 1866 and 1872. Bound in publishers delux leather bindings of..... More
ALICE`S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel.
Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, for the Riccardi Press, London. 1914. LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo.(9.3 x 6.6 inches). One of 1000 hand-numbered copies printed in the Riccardi Fount on handmade Riccardi Paper. Fine clean copy in a late twentieth century leather binding of Full dark green morocco..... More
CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN POSTER.
Printed by Maysigns, East Ham, London for W. H. Barlow-Wheeler. South Woodford. E18. 1959. One leaf. (14.5 x 10 inches). Bright blue silhouette image of Churchill, smoking cigar, printed on white background. No date or no artist named. Page just a little creased but overall a very good bright example..... More
THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Cassell & Co. ltd. London. 1948-54. FIRST EDITION. First impression. Six volumes. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with maps and plans, many folding. A bright, clean set, which has been finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather. The spines with raised bands, twin red labels, gilt. Spine compartments ruled and..... More
CRANKSHAW. EDWARD..
JOSEPH CONRAD. Some aspects of the art of the novel.
John Lane The Bodley Head. London.,1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife, Clare, on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books.April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge..... More
DISNEY. WALT.
ORIGINAL HAND PAINTED FILM ANIMATION CELL OF 'BASHFUL' FROM SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.
Walt Disney Enterprises. USA. 1937, 1937. ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED IMAGE ON CELLULOID. Image is 6.6 x 4.5 inches. Mounted glazed and framed to give a full size of 13.1 x 10.8 inches. A rare original hand-painted sheet of Celluloid from Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven..... More
DOYLE. ARTHUR CONAN.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Another adventure of Sherlock Holmes. - Longmans Colonial Library edition.
Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902, 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are..... More
DRAPER. WARWICK.
CHISWICK. With Illustrations and Maps.
Philip Allan & Co. London. 1923. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (10.3 x 6.7 inches). Fully illustrated with a colour frontispiece by Draper, who also drew the head and tail pieces, plus 144 mono illustrations and 3 maps. Original fawn cloth spine with dark blue label, lettered and ruled in gilt..... More
DU MARSAIS, CESAR. C.; .
EXPOSITION DE LA DOCTRINE DE L'EGLISE GALLICANE, PAR RAPPORT AUX PRETENTIONS DE LA COUR DE ROME.
Chez Les Freres Kramer. Geneve.,1757. FIRST EDITION. Three volumes in one, each with half title and title page. viii,144.-iv,192.-iv,176.-36pp of Additions et corrections,Table des Matieres & Fautes a Corriger. Last 8 leaves affected by staining to the top of pages otherwise a very good clean copy in contemporary full calf..... More
DULAC. EDMUND. Illustrates.
STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Retold by Laurence Housman.
Hodder and Stoughton, London, for Boots pure drug company. circa 1923. c.1923. Early reprint edition. 4to.(10 x 7.9 inches). Twenty full colour tipped in plates by Dulac. Finely bound recent half dark brown morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and gilt, plus gilt lettering..... More
DURET. THEODORE.
MANET and the French Impressionists. Pisarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch.
Grant Richards; 1910. First UK edition. 4to. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 31 reproductions in half-tone, 2 etchings by Renoir and one each by Morisot and Manet, 2 wood engravings after Manet and one each after Degas and..... More
Four Victorian note books in lockable wooden box.
Daily Journal. - Visits & Addresses. - Cash accounts. - Personal expenses.
Np. Nd. Circa 1890. Four volumes. (7.4 x 4.1 inches). All contain lined paper. The address book has several names and addresses, mostly women and in Glasgow, and the Journal and accounts volumes have just a few pages with entries dated 1892. All four books are bound in full dark..... More
GILBERT. MARTIN.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Companion volumes IV. Parts 1, 2 & 3. Documents, January1917 - November 1922.
Heinemann. London. 1977, 1977. FIRST EDITION. 3 large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 6.3 inches). Publishers red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Fine bright copies in original dustwrappers which have sun fading to the lettering on the spines, as often found with these volumes, making the lettering barely readable, and..... More
GREENE. GRAHAM.
THE COMPLAISANT LOVER. A comedy.
Viking Press.New York. 1961. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY GREENE on the title page. Very good copy in decorative red paper covered boards with gold and black design. White cloth spine lettered in red. In original red and white dustwrapper with price still intact($3.00). Spine of wrapper is faded and..... More
HARDY. THOMAS.
HUMAN SHOWS FAR FANTASIES. Songs, and trifles.
MacMillan and Co, Limited. London. 1926. Early reprint of the 1925 First edition. 8vo. (6.8 x 4.9 inches). Finely bound in early full brown Morocco. Raised bands to the spine, each with gilt piping. Gilt lettering, ruling and floral decorations to spine. Elaborate gilt flower and rule border on both..... More
HERBERT. The Honorable WILLIAM.;
HELGA. A Poem. In seven cantos.
John Murray. London.,1815. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(8.5 x 5.6 inches). Lovely clean, wide margined copy in contemporary full red straight grained morocco. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and corners of boards, within a triple ruled border. Centre ruled panel in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Blue coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine..... More
HESBURGH. THEODORE M.; .
THE HUMAN IMPERATIVE. A challenge for the year 2000. Preface by Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Yale University Press, New Haven & London.,1974, 1974. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. --- To Jane Engelhard, with all best wishes and prayers - Ever devotedly in Notre Dame Father Ted Hesburgh.--- A very good copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Housed in a blue cloth chemise and blue morocco..... More
KIPLING. RUDYARD.
Doubleday, Page and Company. New York. 1910, 1910. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (U. S). IN PUBLISHERS DELUX LEATHER BINDING. Precedes the first U.K separate edition by 4 years. Oblong 8vo. (4.4 x 6.4 inches). 8 double leaves, uncut at the top. Each double leaf has a red rule and dot border..... More


- My scepticism from afar re Taylor, Facey, and Hoskins was born out in the Grimsby game. Taylor played as though he was the scouse Beckenbauer but was woeful in his distribution and looked uncomfortable when he was pressed defensively, Hoskins ran up and own the pitch like a headless chicken and his distribution got worse and worse as the game continued, Facey has now made two costly defensive mistakes of a similar nature against Cheltenham and Grimsby at home both of which were easily avoidable.
- First half performance was OK against Grimsby but once Grimsby upped the ante we bottled it.
- Curle now needs to take a leaf out of Wilders book from the season before we won Div 2 when he brought in Ricky Holmes and Brendan Moloney et al and from a similar position to what Curles team are in at the moment use the January transfer window to get in a ball playing midfield player and some effective natural wingers.
I see Curle's current position as a work in progress, overall the quality of League One this season is mediocre and so there should be some scope for optimism for the Cobblers to reach the play offs.
My seat at the Grimsby game in the West Stand yet again reinforced my long held view that the stand is full of whingers in that an old guy in front of me never stopped moaning once Grimsby equalised in the first half, I cannot understand why posters on this site eulogise about the strength of support from the West Stand , in my view it is non existent.
Again where do you sit in West? Also Curle is the new Wilder?
Without sounding pedantic, was the emphasise on the loan not news of future East Stand development?
TBH it was early and I'd just woken up so I may have mis-heard. Seen nothing on social media since or heard anything else so who know?!
I sit in different parts of the West Stand, never the same seat, the only consistency is the whingeing not where I sit.
"Really good conversation with the Council..pleased with how that is progressing".
"Good discussion with the council about how we fix that in terms of linkage to the wider development and using all the land for the benefit of the football club"
"We can't do anything but work in the background"
"One of this big concerns for us is no-one comes in and separates the land from the football club"
"some of those discussions have been fallen a way, some of it has been a bit more property based...some of it has been just football club based and not property, there has to be a balance"
"We don't really want people to come in and just buy the football club and not worry about the East Stand"
Pretty much nothing new then!
Positive conversations with George....just as he said a few months ago. Work going on in the background....yeah no, you know.
Budget cuts or no budget cuts?? The budget needs addressing, and that will be done in this window or the next, but football first and finances second?
Doesn't want to split off the land from the club, seemingly puts paid to the idea of a fans based/community based takeover.....the success of the club shouldn't really be attached to what happens to the land around it, that's my opinion anyway, KT's seems to be that they are one, despite the club not actually owning nor controlling the land anyway!
I don't know what to make of it all...KT seemingly has sold most of his share in the football club to David, yet keeps his half share of the vehicle controlling the land. Perhaps he should have been asked why that has happened?
now it seems he has changed his stance?
Suggest you sort something out then.
Yes , but the KT consortium wouldn't have been interested in us if it wasn't for the land association .
No one realistically is going to be interested in a low level football club unless a knight in shining armour turns up from the West Stand that wins the Euro millions .
It's a worrying situation really because I think KT has lost a bit of interest all round .
Try around seats 134 to 160 , you have got Macclesfield Cobb, Random near you. Not too many moaners. You are unlucky ! Try the South End of West?
3) he made no mention of talks progressing with one specific person or group of prospective owners.
I think it is time our Council tell the electorate what their plans are for the discussions with KT.....over to George Candler !!!!
The land is already separated from the club.
CDNL control ,via the long lease, the large tract of land that originally was lined up for housing.
The club controlled land is the part I believe he is talking about and if I'm right all the lease issues will be about where on the athletics track does club part end and CDNL part start as this was the shift done by DC/CDNL did to max out the amount of potential houses on the total site. I think it will be commercial development when it does happen as the land remediation won't be the same.
If the lease issue was moving this boundary back to where it started from then the club still sits on a good parcel of land that could be used for its benefit or exploited for its detriment. Either way the club with the grassed areas all around the car park has a large amount of land compared to many similar level clubs.
I hope KC and KT are on the same page regarding budgets - it sounds like Curle wants to be pretty active when the window opens and I believe that budgets were a reason he fell out with the Carlisle chairman/board.
my guess would be the budget will be sorted in january unless there is a realistic chance of top 7. Crooks, VV, Taylor, Facey i would imagine could all be off loaded in Jan if we wanted too and don't hold out for unrealistic transfer values.
Haven't heard it but interested to know exactly what KT said regarding budget?
Who is going to want Taylor and Facey ?
He flip flopped a bit. Essentially said the squad is too expensive now and will need sorting either in January or next summer but that football decisions will come before financial decisions when looking at players in January.
My guess is that Curle has been given a budget to cover both January and summer and needs to make sure it balances so if we see a lot of players come in during January we wont see any more in the summer, unless the high earners, or several lower earners leave. I dont know who / how many are out of contract in the summer.
This is a redevelopment thread can we stick to the subject please.
Thanks, Unicobbler. It's going to be an interesting couple of transfer windows.
based on the fact they play for us when they are fit, unlike me the professionals in football see something in them, someone will on the assumption we don't want money for them.
Asset of Community Value status granted on Sixfields stadium but not the athletic track.
The Trust understand that building work on the (East) stand will only take place pending agreement on the development of other land around the stadium and with Northampton Borough Council set to be scrapped in 2020 in favour of a new unitary authority our concern is that wider planning considerations will now be shelved and that the re-development of the stand will not take place for at least another couple of years.
I'm glad this is done finally. So well done for persistence with the applications.
With regards to the paragraph highlighted it is not easy to fully understand what this all means for the football club vs the CDNL element.
In the DC times the land had gotten to the point of full plans for housing and much of the needed surveys being submitted to NBC planning as they were/are visible on the planning pages.
Curious to know what agreement other than planning permission would be needed?
The merged council will be a bumpy ride but functional departments such as planning should carry on business as usual.


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Why Michigan State may have the next Kirk Gibson in WR/CF Jase Bowen
Jase Bowen will play wide receiver in football and in the outfield in baseball at Michigan State — just like Kirk Gibson did his junior season.
Why Michigan State may have the next Kirk Gibson in WR/CF Jase Bowen Jase Bowen will play wide receiver in football and in the outfield in baseball at Michigan State — just like Kirk Gibson did his junior season. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2018/12/19/michigan-state-football-jase-bowen-kirk-gibson/2368413002/
Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press Published 5:58 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2018 | Updated 8:21 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2018
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio speaks to the media on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, in East Lansing. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press
Toledo Central Catholic's Jase Bowen(Photo: Amy E. Voigt Toledo Blade)
EAST LANSING — The comparison isn't perfect.
Jase Bowen, at 6 feet tall, is about three inches shorter than Kirk Gibson.
He's about 35 pounds lighter and doesn't have the same straight-line speed.
But Bowen is trying to do exactly what Gibson did at MSU. He will play wide receiver on the football team and in the outfield on the baseball team, just like Gibson did his junior year.
"Talking to people about how great Gibson was in both sports, I'm like, dang, I want to do what he did," Bowen said. "I want to be in his shoes and hopefully I can do it."
More on MSU: Mark Dantonio breaks down each player in 2019 class
Bowen, of Toledo Central Catholic, signed a national letter of intent on Wednesday, accepting a full-ride football scholarship to MSU. He will be a walkon center fielder for the baseball team.
"It's funny," Ryan Bowen, his father, said. "People say, 'Ah, maybe he'll be the next Kirk Gibson.' Oh my gosh, those are some pretty big shoes to fill."
He laughed: "But it's good to be associated with. That's kinda cool. It would be nice to do what he did."
Actually, Bowen is trying to do something harder than what Gibson did at MSU.
Gibson went out for the MSU baseball team only for one season, and he did it after he had become a college football star.
But Bowen will try to do it from the start.
"I couldn't imagine giving up one sport for a long time," Jase said. "I want to play as long as I can. For the Michigan State coaches to allow me to do it says a lot about their character and how they feel about me and my family."
This is new territory of MSU coach Mark Dantonio. He has had guys play football and run track, but he's never had somebody try to play baseball.
"We'll make it work," Dantonio said. "Not sure how, but we'll make it work."
Now, here comes the crazy part.
Bowen isn't the only baseball player in this MSU class. Adam Berghorst, a defensive end from Zeeland East, also plans to play football and baseball. But Berghorst is a pitcher.
"They've got to be able to keep their grades up, which both those guys are outstanding students," Dantonio said. "As long as they're getting on the field, we'll make it happen."
You gotta give Dantonio credit for thinking outside the box and for being willing to try this.
Not every football coach would agree to this.
But it's the reason why MSU is getting Bowen.
Michigan State football 2019 recruiting class: Meet the commits
Belleville receiver Julian Barnett on Sept. 28, 2018. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Maverick Hansen, right, during Farmington Hills Harrison practice August 23, 2018. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
Spencer Brown, Walled Lake Western offensive lineman. Brandon Folsom
Belleville offensive lineman Devontae Dobbs. Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press
Michael Fletcher, after committing to Michigan State on June 29, 2018 at Carman-Ainsworth in Flint. Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press
Tate Hallock (right) hopes to play with his older brother Tanner at MSU in 2019. Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press
Damon Kaylor, OT, Huntington, Ind. Special to the Free Press
Chippewa Valley linebacker Marcel Lewis. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
West Bloomfield receiver Tre Mosley. Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press
Mentor (Ohio) offensive lineman Nick Samac Mentor High School
Bolingbrook (Ill.) running back Anthony Williams Jr. Anthony Williams Jr.
Youngstown (Ohio) Cardinal Mooney linebacker Luke Fulton The (Youngstown) Vindicator
Toledo Central Catholic's Jase Bowen Amy E. Voigt Toledo Blade
Zeeland East defensive lineman Adam Berghorst Chuck Berghorst Special to DFP
As a sophomore, Bowen committed to play baseball at Notre Dame but then started to attract the attention of football coaches.
Ohio State was interested in Bowen for football until he mentioned his desire to play baseball, and the Buckeyes never offered him a football scholarship.
"Coach Dantonio was one of the coaches who was really for it," Ryan said. "Some of the coaches wouldn't let you do it."
MSU baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. is benefiting the most, getting a star baseball player without having to give up a scholarship.
"He was really connected with Boss," Ryan said. "It was the best fit for him. We understand, he's going to be busier than heck, playing both, but he's got what it takes. He's very determined. He has goals and he isn't a big social, party guy. He's focused on what he wants."
More: Michigan State football recruiting: Early signing day live updates
How will it work?
That's the tricky party.
Up for a challenge
Bowen will skip fall ball with the baseball team to concentrate on football. During the spring, if the baseball team is having a game, he will go there.
This idea would drive most football coaches nuts — they like having control.
But Dantonio is willing to concede some control to get a talented athlete who played all over the field.
"Played multiple positions, receiver, running back, kick and punt returner, quarterback in the wildcat formation," Dantonio said. "Did it all there. Very athletic. Again, was an earlier committed guy. Extremely excited about him being a Spartan."
Bowen loves challenges.
When he was 9 years old and started playing travel baseball, he could have joined a local travel team in Toledo. It would have been far easier. But he joined the Motor City Hit Dogs, based in Oakland County, one of the elite programs in the entire nation. That gave him a taste of high-intensity, high-pressure competition at an early age, traveling around the country and playing the best of the best.
When he picked a high school, he could have stayed in the public school, but he decided to go to Central Catholic, a state powerhouse.
"He wanted to challenge himself," Ryan said. " It's kinda cool, that a kid took that initiative. It would have been easy for him to stay at the public school. Everyone knew him. It would have been easy for him, but he didn't want to do that."
Belleville offensive lineman Devontae Dobbs signs with Michigan State football. He's the lone 5-star recruit in the Spartans' 2019 class. Detroit Free Press
Now, he's going to try do so something even harder.
Playing two sports.
"He's an incredible person who is driven to succeed, driven to out-work everyone," Central Catholic baseball coach Jeff Mielcarek said. "If anybody can make this work, Jase is one who can make it work."
The other side of the equation is the academics.
But Bowen is an outstanding student. He has a 4.8 grade-point average because of honors and advanced placement classes.
"School is important to me," Bowen said. "My dad says, 'If you are going to do something, you are going to do it right and to the best of your abilities.'"
In many ways, trying to balance football and baseball is nothing new to Bowen. He has been balancing those two sports his entire life.
"But he knows, when he goes to Michigan Sate, most of his time is going to be spent on the football side," Ryan Bowen said. "It should be, they are the ones giving him the scholarship. The busiest time will be the spring."
More: How football taught ex-Tiger Kirk Gibson to attack life's curveballs
Feeling a draft?
There is one last twist to this story.
Many expect Bowen to get drafted this summer. What would he do then? Would he sign and give up college? Or would he try to do both somehow?
"I don't really worry about it," Jase said.
Ironically, Gibson faced a similar situation. The Tigers were the only MLB team that agreed to let him play football his senior season at MSU after drafting him.
"That would be a dream come true," Jase said, "if I got drafted and was still able to play football."
Hmm. He sounds just like Gibson.
Contact Jeff Seidel: jseidel@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @seideljeff. To read his recent columns, go to freep.com/sports/jeff-seidel/.

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Folk songs for lunch: Esprit Orchestra & Krisztina Szabó in the RBA
Jenna Simeonov Oct 4, 2017
Before their 35th anniversary season starts on October 15, the Esprit Orchestra gave a taste of what they do best as part of the Canadian Opera Company's Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.
Esprit is Canada's only full-sized orchestra dedicated to performing new and existing work by Canadian composers, and presenting Canadian premieres of leading international composers of our time. Their lunchtime programme was a Canadian-international mix, featuring a chamber-sized group of players from the full Orchestra. Percussionist Ryan Scott gave us Orion Constellation Theory, written by Canada's Andrew Staniland in 2014 for snare and electronics. Staniland has a knack for incorporating novel sounds and fun in his music; the very cool effect was that of an amplified snare drum, or an invisible orchestra which achieved a surprising blend of recorded and live sounds. Alexina Louie's From the Eastern Gate, written for solo harp in 1985, has traveled well through three decades. Harpist Sanya Eng's performance was refreshing and airy, a great foil to the aggressive snare sounds.
The condensed Esprit Orchestra brought to the stage mezzo-soprano - and fellow Canadian/contemporary music champ - Krisztina Szabó, for Luciano Berio's Folk Songs (1964). The song cycle is a bit of a misnomer, since two of the "folk songs" are written by Berio himself, and two more are by "Dean of Balladeers" John Jacob Niles. But false advertising aside, the songs still manage to pull that folk-song nostalgia out of an audience. Berio's settings are brittle, fragmented orchestrations of familiar tunes, impossible to place in a specific time or place.
Members of the Esprit Orchestra conducted by Alex Pauk and Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano, in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Photo by Kevin Lloyd.
Szabó took a cue from folk-song performance practice, keeping things simple and all about storytelling. She found ease in her role among Berio's varied sound worlds, and let her listeners settle in to what's familiar in these songs: the tunes. The light-filled, close-up environment of the Amphitheatre is unnerving for many artists, but Szabó is a performer who relishes the chance to step into her audience's personal space. With direct eye contact and no qualms about making aggressive sounds, hearing Szabó in a setting like this is the best kind of artistic challenge.
The only regret: that the concert programme didn't treat us to translations of the multi-lingual songs. (A close runner-up for printed translations: Szabó's expressive eyebrows.)
The COC's Free Concert Series continues all season long with lunch-hour concerts for all audiences. CLick here to look at the full series line-up.
James Robinson's Elixir of Love: "I think it's one of the best comedies." AAM's King Arthur: a missed Brexit
Cool concerts: Esprit Orchestra's 2016/17 season
In review: Bluebeard's Castle/ Erwartung
Krisztina Szabó
Esprit Orchestra


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PanARMENIAN.Net - Acting Minister of Emergency Situations Davit Tonoyan will be appointed the Defense Minister, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told reporters on Friday, May 11.
Pashinyan is currently in the process of the formation of a new government after protests led by himself ousted former prime minister Serzh Sargsyan.
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Around The Corners : Where is "Silver Spring"?
"Me too! Which part are you from?"
Silver Spring sign on Georgia Avenue... in actual Silver Spring.
That excerpt above is from a conversation I had with someone last year at college. It highlights an issue that has always annoyed me: The vagueness of "Silver Spring".
Silver Spring is not an incorporated city. It raises no taxes. It has no police department. It has no municipal services. It is just a Census Designated Place (CDP). While Silver Spring may be one of the most urbanized areas in the DC region, it shares it's name with numerous suburban and rural communities in eastern Montgomery County. In most people's minds, a farm in Colesville and a 17 story high rise on Ripley Street are both in "Silver Spring". In my opinion, this level of misidentification is a travesty.
The postal service is primarily to blame for this mistaken identity. They are the ones who asign the zip codes that people all too commonly use to determine location. In Prince Georges County, Hyattsville suffers from the same postal service inflicted damage that Silver Spring does. Areas miles away from the real Hyattsville (like Landover) are frequently identified as Hyattsville, and it has hurt the city's image greatly over the years. Silver Spring has not been as negatively affected over the by the mistaken identity, but news networks will frequently identify crime in places like Aspen Hill, Wheaton, and Burtonsville as occurring in Silver Spring. But misplaced crime locations are not the reason I dislike the Silver Spring misnomer.
The blame for the ambiguous "Silver Spring" can not all be laid at the feet of the postal service. I place the blame on everyone who doesn't actually live in Silver Spring, because it is they who intentionally perpetuate the misnomer. My gripe with the consistent misidentification of Silver Spring is this: The lack of pride people have in their individual communities. I find that a lot of individuality and community spirit gets wasted when people from a diverse geographic area solely identify with the larger area.
Many of the Zip Codes on this map are called "Silver Spring" but the original Silver Spring is on the bottom left. I had to tilt the image because the area is so broad. North is the top right corner.
For an example of a place that was previously lumped in with Silver Spring, which has now found some community pride, take a look at Long Branch. The community roughly centered on the intersection of Flower Avenue and Piney Branch Road is considered Silver Spring or Takoma Park by most, but the people that live there have developed pride in it's unique identity, and it has started to be recognized for the place it is: Long Branch. The community has several events and programs devoted to celebrating it's local flavor and vibe, such as the Long Branch Block Party and Flower Theater Project. I think all communities in "Silver Spring" should have events like this to celebrate what makes each one different.
The Flower Theater is a historic building that is unique to Long Branch. Buildings like this should help each east county community establish a unique identity, just as the Silver Theater and Discovery Building have done for Silver Spring. Photo by Chip Py.
Places all over east county have events that bring together their own specific community, but they only occur a few times a year, and they are not enough to "break from the mold" and foster a consistent community identity. In Prince George's County, there are dozens of small municipalities (especially on the Route 1 corridor) that have their own community feel and pride. Someone from Riverdale Park doesn't say "I'm from Bladensburg" just as someone from Mount Rainier wouldn't say "I'm from Hyattsville" (I have high school friends from all these places, and they always identify with their own communities, not the most well known ones nearby). This is because all of these communities; although small and very close together, have successfully fostered a sense of community pride to the point where their residents almost always identify as being from there, and not from some well known regional destination miles away like Silver Spring.
Original Silver Spring; which is the area most people refer to as "Downtown Silver Spring", is a great place (Downtown Silver Spring is actually the brand name of the development along Ellsworth Drive, the name has since been adapted to cover all of original Silver Spring to avoid confusion with the rest of the communities who claim to be "Silver Spring"). Because it is such a great place, many people latch on to it and inaccurately identify with it because they feel that there own communities are not as good. This only serves to make their actual communities even less known and to make Silver Spring more homogeneous.
Below is a map of what I view as real Silver Spring, and anything outside of it is a completely different place as far as I'm concerned. I guess you could call this an "originalist" interpretation of Silver Spring, but I think it is the most accurate. Most of the land inside the boundaries I drew was owned by the Blair family as part of their Silver Spring Estate, which affirms it's legitimacy as real Silver Spring (shoutout to Jerry McCoy for teaching me this stuff through his book).
If you live in Four Corners, Long Branch, Forest Glen, Montgomery Hills, Wheaton, White Oak, Olney, Hillandale, Kemp Mill, Glenmont, Aspen Hill, Colesville, Cloverly, Fairland, Briggs Cheney, or Burtonsville... say so. There's no need to call someplace 10 miles away your home when it's not. If your worried about people "not knowing where that is" maybe your saying the name will cause them to look it up, thus increasing the recognition of your community. If your concerned about the negative image of your community from crime, tell people your from there. Meeting a nice non-criminal from a place like White Oak, Wheaton, or Briggs Cheney will cause the person your speaking with to reconsider their preconceived notions of that area.
Just for fun, if we are going to call everything within a 10 mile radius of Acorn Park "Silver Spring" (Acorn Park is where the mica flecked spring was), then the following communities and places are also in "Silver Spring": Muirkirk, Glenn Dale, Mitchellville, Landover, Suitland, Anacostia, Barry Farms, Del Rey, National Airport, Bailey's Crossroads, Seven Corners, Falls Church, Tysons, Corner, McLean, Potomac, and Rockville... just to name a few. Also; going by the same standard, the White House, Capitol, and all of Northeast and Northwest D.C. are in "Silver Spring".
If you live more than a mile from this spot, you probably don't live in Silver Spring.
I encourage everyone reading this who lives in eastern Montgomery County to think of a way you can make your own community better by fostering a unique identity for it. If you live in Four Corners, embrace it and make it the best place it can be. We already have some great community events, but lets have even more. Same goes for Wheaton, Fairland, Long Branch or any other community. It's fine to take pride in Silver Spring proper, but don't ignore the area you actually live in. The best way to make each community great is to get involved, and have some pride.
I've been meaning to write a post about this for a while. As someone who spent several years growing up in downtown Silver Spring, and then in what you call "not Silver Spring," I subscribe to the notion of "Big Silver Spring," that you can have the name refer to a large geographic area and still be proud of your particular corner of it.
The "power" of Silver Spring as a place comes from its bigness, and taking away "Silver Spring" from people who live outside of one person's personal definition of Silver Spring diminishes it. It's because it serves as a regional draw for such a large area (including many areas that don't have big draws of their own) that Silver Spring is one of the region's biggest activity centers.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a problem in search of a solution. Embrace Big Silver Spring, because it won't go away, and my experience is that people who live outside of Little Silver Spring will get confused or offended if you try to tell them where you think they actually live.
I must respectfully disagree with you. The "Big Silver Spring" is a result of the Postal Service (lazily) assigning zip codes to areas that were not as established at the time as they are now. This resulted in the beginning of the Sliver Spring misnomer. As my post alluded to, The same thing happened to Hyattsville in Prince George's County.
My grandparents house in New Carrollton was assigned a Hyattsville zip code before the community incorporated in 1966. New Carrollton has never and will never be part of Hyattsville, and it was built as a completely separate place a century after the City of Hyattsville was. Hyattsville is a nice place, but my grandparents never claimed to live there, because they lived in New Carrollton.
It is my opinion that the "power" of Silver Spring does not come from its size, but from what is in "little" Silver Spring. When my friends say "let's go chill in Silver Spring" they are not talking about Wheaton, White Oak, or Burtonsville. They are talking about Ellsworth Drive, the Majestic, and Veterans Plaza; places in what I call the real Silver Spring. Tysons Corner is also a "powerful" community in the DC area, but if you go a mile down the road (VA 123), people identify with Vienna or McLean, not Tysons. It's relative small size (when compared to Big Silver Spring) has not served to diminish it's draw as a regional employment, entertainment, and retail destination.
I do not view "little" Silver Spring as my personal interpretation of it, I view it as history's interpretation of it. If you pick up Jerry McCoy's book Historic Silver Spring, the only pictures and info you will find will be of the area now known as downtown Silver Spring, and the adjacent residential neighborhood of Silver Spring Park (the farthest out location that is mentioned is Mrs. K's tollhouse). This is because any communities past downtown Silver Spring were always considered to be separate entities, and I think they still should be considered as such. I do not view my definition as "taking away" Silver Spring from anyone, since they only "have it" as result of a misnomer in a federal numbering system that has only existed since the 1960s, I'm not trying to tell people where they live; the Postal Service is, and I think they are the ones confusing people who live outside of "little Silver Spring"..
As for the Census boundaries, they are clearly more accurate than the Postal Service's, but they still include places that were never considered to be in Silver Spring (such as Oakview, which is much closer to the commercial districts of Hillandale and Adelphi than it is to downtown Silver Spring).
You may have noticed that I always identify myself as being from Four Corners during the intros at ACT meetings. I do not say that because of this blog, I say that because I identify with Four Corners much more so than I do with Silver Spring. When I run errands, I go to the Woodmoor Shopping Center. When I get groceries, I go to the Four Corners Safeway. The school I attended for 9 years (Saint B's, where my mom still works) is in Four Corners. My daily existence always involves the people, business, and institutions of Four Corners (but not while I'm away at college of course). As far as I'm concerned, Silver Spring is a cool place 2 miles away that I go on the weekends for entertainment, but It is not my home.
I respect and understand your opinion, Dan. I simply had to take this opportunity to further explain my reasoning and thought process. I did not mean to offend, so I'm sorry if it seemed that way. I like Silver Spring, but I stick to my "originalist" interpretation of it because I want my community to be viewed as the unique "sovereign" place that it is, and not just an area of some broader city.


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Three Strong Boys (Aemond Targaryan)
(Situation: This short story takes place seven years after An Eye For An Eye. Here, Aemond is at a feast with his family, including half-sister and bastard nephews, and he smugly toasts to the "Three Strong Boys" to the horror of everyone around him.)
Prince Aemond Targaryan stared at his father through his solitary eye, chewed on the inside of his cheek, and shook his head. King Viserys, sitting at the head of the feast table, devoured his goose breast hungrily as if he were famished rather than on his fourth course. Aemond could not understand it. Not so long ago, the King had been feverish and near death. How had he recovered to full health so quickly?
"To your good health, Your Grace," Ser Criston Cole, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, toasted. "It is magnificent to see you back to your old ways."
"Did you think I wouldn't go back to my old ways?" the King responded, wryly. "I enjoy good food and good wine too much."
No Itch?
Prince Aegon, eldest son to King Viserys, warning his brother of the war to come.
He slapped his paunch with his maimed hand, as courtesans, women, and children attending the feast raised their cups and cheered. Aemond tilted his head back and let the wine slide into his mouth. The sapphire jewel, in place of his eye, jilted and pushed against the inside of his eye socket, paining him. Aemond scowled. Seven years had passed since he had lost his eye and still the wound hurt.
The Prince looked at the King, laughing, and grinded his teeth. "I don't understand," he said, turning to his brother, Prince Aegon. "How is Father able to laugh and jape with his courtesans as if nothing hurts him? Do the stumps where his fingers used to be not itch him?" As my eye itches me.
"Stop brooding, Brother," Prince Aegon whispered. "If you do not smile and feign merriment, the court will suspect that you would rather Father had succumbed to fever."
If he had, I would be on course to getting justice for my eye. Aemond dared not say it, not even to his older brother, but he had been furious when Maester Gerardis had arrived from Dragonstone and saved the King's life by cutting off two of his fingers. Aemond had waited seven years to get justice on Lucerys for wounding him. So long as King Viserys lived, there was no chance of justice. "Brother, I assure you," Aemond responded. "I am thrilled that our father lives. To think what would befall the Seven Kingdoms if he were to die is almost unthinkable."
"Almost, indeed," Aegon said, his lips curling upwards.
Aemond smirked. It was good to know that his brother was still on the same page as him.
No Hunger For War
The King stood up and the floorboards groaned under his weight. "Pardon me for a while," he said. "His Grace has eaten too much and must partake in the ungraceful act of relieving himself, so he can have some more food later."
The lords and ladies laughed. "Thank you for phrasing it so gracefully, Your Grace," Queen Alicent said, devoid of humour. "We await your return."
King Viserys drained his flagon of ale, belched, chuckled and left the hall. Aemond scowled. His father acted like an indolent, fat fool and everyone loved him for it. How was Aemond cursed to have a father who preferred feasting and drinking to war?
Aemond had always thought that war and bloodshed was what people lived for. It was why he, and every other boy in the realm, had sword-practice every day. What was the point in spending hours in the damn mud and rain when no-one hungered for war at court?
"One-Eye"
"Aemond One-Eye we should call him," Lucerys whispered.
Aemond snapped his head. Jacaerys, Lucerys and Joffrey sniggered about what Lucerys had said, and Aemond's blood heated. "What did you call me?"
Two of his nephews ceased sniggering. "Nothing," Jacaerys lied.
"We weren't talking about you," Lucerys said.
Liar! "If you were mocking me for having one eye," Aemond said. "You'd do well to remember why because I haven't forgotten."
"Aye, because you took Vhagar," Princess Rhaenyra put in. She stood over her sons; her belly, swollen with child, protruded to squash itself in between the backrest of her son's chairs. "I seem to remember the King forbidding you to take that dragon, and my sons tried to uphold His Grace's decision. Or have you forgotten that part, Brother?"
Half-brother. But instead of reminding her that they did not share all the same blood, Aemond smiled and tapped his knife against the sapphire where his eye used to be. "It was worth losing an eye to have the largest and fiercest dragon in the world under my command," he said, as the jewel chinked. "Plus, I have proven that I can ride a dragon and fight with a sword as well as if I had two good eyes. It almost begs the question of why anyone needs two eyes when one will suffice."
"We could beat you in a swordfight now," Lucerys said. "We were half your height and strength back then. Not anymore, though!"
Three Strong Boys
Princess Rhaenyra, ready to fight for her crown.
Aemond widened his smile. Such was its width, he reckoned it was demonic. "Oh, you are right," he said, mockingly. Subsequently, he stood up and raised his goblet. "I would like to make a toast to my nephews. They have become three strong boys. It is such joy to see how strong they have become; for they are such strong boys."
Everyone at the feast fell silent. The air tautened, and all stared at Aemond. Just as he wanted. The sense of satisfaction warmed him more than the wine. Finally, he had been able to call out his sister's treason, and his nephews true heritage, in a way that no-one could argue with him about or punish him for.
As he sat back down, Aemond took note that Rhaenyra was glowering at him. If her eyes would have been swords, he would have been cut to pieces already. No doubt, she would have been assisted by her three bastards in lacerating him, as they had the same look on their faces; all of which looked bore striking, if varying, resemblances the late Ser Harwin Strong.
Sowing The Seeds Of War
"Brother," Aegon whispered. "If I didn't know you better, I would say you were trying to sow the seeds of war."
"Someone has to breed the animosity necessary for war," Aemond whispered back. "This damnable court has become too used to peace. The men have gone soft in the process. I aim to change that. Otherwise, how else will we ensure that justice prevails and that no bastards ever sit on the Iron Throne when Father dies?"
Aegon nodded. "You are creating a situation of no return," he said, matter-of-factly. "Rhaenyra will not forget this slight."
"Good. If it makes her declare war on us faster, the better."
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package org.nextcoin.news;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.LinkedList;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class News {
    public String mTitle;
    public String mExcerpt;
    public String mDate;
    public String mUrl;
    public int mId;

    public interface NewsReciever{
        public void onRecieve(LinkedList<News> list);
    }

    static public void requestNews(NewsReciever recieve){
        new Thread(new NewsRunnable(recieve)).start();
    }

    static class NewsRunnable implements Runnable {
        private NewsReciever mNewsReciever;
        public NewsRunnable(NewsReciever reciever){
            mNewsReciever = reciever;
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        public void run() {
            try {
                String httpUrl = "http://info.nxtcrypto.org/?wpapi=get_posts&dev=1";
                HttpURLConnection conn;
                conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(httpUrl).openConnection();
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                JSONArray jarray = jsonObj.getJSONArray("posts");
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                        news.mTitle = newsObj.getString("title");
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Get the developers at ArenaNet to really listen to the gamers so the best possible Guild Wars 2 can be created.
The Guild Wars Feedback Community has been designed to be THE definitive place for posting user feedback and suggestions for Guild Wars. There are many fundamental problems with current forums/wikis that make feedback difficult if not impossible, and the GWFC site was developed to alleviate all these issues.
The GWFC is not perfect quite yet, please understand that it's currently in beta. I hope that with some input from like minded individuals, this site can become a valuable resource for the developers at ArenaNet and folks who need a creative outlet.
If you're interested, please take a few moments of your time and visit the site. Create an account if you wish – everything is free, there is no spam, etc... there aren't even any advertisements on the site. Feel free to criticize (constructively or not), make suggestions of your own, or brow-beat me in any way you feel necessary. I've set up a topic for GWFC site feedback you can use, but feel free to write to me on my Wiki discussion page, or holler at me in-game (Broken Tree).
Using our remote authentication feature, you can connect your feedback community to an existing member database. Let's say you have customers who pay for subscriptions to an online service. You could connect your grupthink site to that database. This would allow your customers to skip registration and use their existing logins at your feedback community. Furthermore, your community could be restricted to only those active customers who are in good standing, preventing people from adding multiple accounts freely.
Create private groups for trusted members in you community, where you can discuss topics and allow users to report suspicious activity.
In most cases, it will be obvious when someone has tried to distort results. Grupthink gives you and your staff the ability to take immediate corrective action. Grupthink also allows you to investigate user attributes so you can confidently lock or remove abusive accounts, and even ban IP's.
Note: In cases where having a wide-open, public community is desirable, the threat of "point gaming" often doesn't outweigh the benefit of allowing fast, free registration and getting more minds involved. In fact, the larger the community, the harder it is to distort results. Abusive behavior will happen, but it doesn't have to rule your community management strategy.
As an administrator, you will have access to exclusive reports designed to help you mine the rich data in your database. Currently, you can export full voting and answer reports into your spreadsheet program to run detailed, custom analysis of community participation.
Most communities will require a small amount of moderation to prevent abuse (e.g., spamming and harassment). Typically, even for communities with thousands of members, a single moderator can accomplish these tasks in just a few hours of participation each week.
All content submissions on Grupthink (answers, topics, and comments) can be rated for quality (relevance, adult content, helpfulness, etc...). This system is completely separate from the answer voting mechanic, so it doesn't affect answers' positions. It is merely a way to encourage people to post the most helpful, creative, and compelling content, and hide abusive or irrelevant content.
Special distinction is given (little icons currently) to content that rates highly, and content that rates too lowly is automatically hidden. The tolerance by which either of those effects happen can be customized by the Grupthink administrators. Moderators can also use the quality scores to quickly respond to bad contributions.
In addition to that, we also reward people who get high ratings for their topics, answers, and comments. In fact those members who have highly ranked content will have a stronger affect on the quality score for a given item, once they rate it. Conversely, those whose content has been rated fairly low, overall, will have less "say". To be clear, though, the "weight" that each member carries does not apply to answer voting.
You can create custom classes (eg, "Master") to distinguish members that have only the permissions you give them.
For example, you could create a class called "Contributor" whose members can edit topics and answers, but cannot modify members or see the administrative panel.
In communities with open registration enabled, there is no sure-fire way to keep a specific individual from re-registering under a separate email address. However, if the problematic user comes back, posing as a constructive member in your community, you've done your job!
It is tempting to think that community members are more likely to become "mutinous" if they have a clearer means to communicate as a group. However, we believe that community members are most likely to become discontent when they feel like their voices aren't being heard.
Grupthink improves the communication channel between you and your members. By overcoming the typical chaos of online discussion, Grupthink will help the opinions of your members become clearer. Because of this, you will be more equipped than ever to respond to member feedback directly, "once and for all".
Furthermore, you and your members will be more able to distinguish between "vocal minorities" and "vocal majorities" based on reaction points.
Unregistered visitors will not be able to get past the login screen and self-registration is not allowed. As with public communties, you can invite thousands of users at a time via email, or through our single-click, "invite-via-URL" feature.
Unregistered visitors and search engines can view your community and all public topics. You can still create private groups and private topics within a public community.
Allow visitors and search engines to see public discussion in your community, but restrict membership to an existing database. If you have an existing member database, you can allow your customers to skip registration and use their existing logins at your feedback community, while disallowing visitor self-registration. You can create private groups and private topics within a public community.
Allow visitors ans search engines to see public discussion in your community, but restrict membership to an existing database. If you have an existing member database, you can allow your customers to skip registration and use their existing logins at your feedback community, while disallowing visitor self-registration.
Mass invitation by e-mail: Use our invitation tool import a list of email addresses and send our personalized invites to each recipient.
"Single Click" Invite: Provide a unique link to each invitee which, when clicked, will instantly create the user account and can optionally take them to the Grupthink topic of your choice.
Integrate with your existing community: Members of you existing community can use their existing logins and bypass registration altogether. Our remote authentication option allows you to sync a new Grupthink community with your existing community. Your existing community platform will always be authoritative in this case, and Grupthink will not store user passwords.
Grupthink is community-powered feedback, where your questions can become conversations. In it's most basic form, Grupthink can indeed be used as a survey tool. However, the capabilities of Grupthink go way beyond the limitations of surveys, because it is social. We believe that, although it is important to ask questions, some of the richest information can be found by listening to people talk to one another.
If you know, in advance, all or most of the potential answers to questions.
If you only need to see results for a single moment in time.
If you want to give your members a chance to interact with you and each other regarding their ideas and opinions.
When you have a questions for which you don't know all the potential answers or don't want to risk biasing the results with your preconceptions.
If you want a chance to address your members around a particular idea.
If you want to let your respondents rank their answers in order their importance, so you can see even richer results.
Why doesn't Grupthink use a simple "5-star" (or similar) voting system?
By letting people create their own ranked lists of answers, new social possibilities for sharing those lists exist (click here for an example).
The resolution of the voting data is much more rich. For example, you can make other comparisons when viewing reports such as "Among people who voted for an auction house, a level cap was almost always ranked below the option of being able to swim..."
Ranking an answer just a few places above or below in your ballot can have significant impacts on the overall results, especially in small groups, . With simpler voting systems this fidelity can be lost.
I like to think that, on occasion, I have have a good idea. And when it's concerning something I'm very passionate about (like Guild Wars) I tend to go all-out. When Guild Wars 2 was announced back in March of 2007, I was very excited! Here was an opportunity to get some of the features I've really been wanting to see in an MMO integrated into one of my favorite games!
The question was, how could I get the developers to actually pay attention to any of my ideas? In my naivety, I began posting them on "Guild Wars 2 Suggestion" topics on several forums of popular GW community sites, only to realize that, as more and more suggestions were posted, my posts became buried. I never got the feedback I desired (were any of my ideas even good?), and I could only assume that ArenaNet would have a slim chance of coming across them in all the drivel and flaming that accompanies forum topics.
Disheartened, but not defeated, I decided that I (and many other creative minds) needed a place where they could post their ideas without them being buried... where other players could easily vote on them, and post suggestions of their own! Thus, I created a site called NikiWiki.
Unfortunately, either due to my requests for fansitedom going through the wrong channels, or a lack of understanding on ArenaNet's part (a history of that can be read here), NikiWiki never really took off. At around that time ArenaNet set up a "receptacle" for posting Guild Wars 2 suggestions here on the Guild Wars Wiki. But I saw this as only a tiny step up from posting in forums. How would ArenaNet be able to sort through all the "bad ideas" and find that ones that really matter to the players?
I continued my approach (very tactfully I might add) that ArenaNet use NikiWiki instead of their new wiki page, and even suggested that they at least implement something similar to NikiWiki... but my posts were ignored/removed. At that point, I had lost some of my drive. I kept maintaining NikiWiki for the folks who were happy using it, even moving it to a professional web hosting company when my little garage-based server died.
Then, by some freakish twist of fate, one of the owners of the web hosting company (Stephen) saw NikiWiki and contacted me. He had been developing a site called Grupthink to do exactly what I was trying to do with NikiWiki! In a nutshell, what Mediawiki does for categorizing documentation/information, Grupthink does for user feedback. With this new tool, I could really achieve my goal!
Though Grupthink was designed to meet a broader scope than just video game feedback, Stephen shared with me that his original inspiration was to develop a feedback community for Hitman. It was incredible meeting this kindred spirit, and my vigor was renewed. He kindly set up a Guild Wars Grupthink site for me at no cost, and now I'm trying to get the ball rolling at the Guild Wars Feedback Community.
I'm currently discussing the GWFC site with a group of Guild Wars Wiki users in the hopes that they'll see what an incredible tool this is for the task. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to post your thoughts on that discussion, or contact me here.
Just a big fan of Guild Wars. A big, freakin fan. More on me later... if you need to contact me in-game, my main character's name is Broken Tree.
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10-year-old's death to be addressed Tuesday night in Colleton County
by: Rebecca Collett
Posted: Apr 16, 2019 / 06:53 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2019 / 06:57 AM EDT
The death of 10-year-old RaNiya Wright will be discussed by the Colleton County School District Board Tuesday, but the conversation will be behind closed doors.
The board will hold its first regular board meeting since the fifth grader's death. Wright died following a classroom fight at Forest Hills Elementary. The incident is being discussed in executive session Tuesday, which is away from the view of the public.
Many in the community have been critical of the school board's handling of information following the fight, death, and subsequent investigation.
Scarce details have been released from the Colleton County Sheriff's Office or the Solicitor's office in the weeks since the fight. Wright died March 27 following a classroom fight on March 25.
"We are actively investigating this case every day. We are unable to speculate on a timeline of when the autopsy results will be received. We are analyzing and investigating every piece of evidence that pertains to this case. We are taking all steps necessary and as much time as necessary to perform a thorough investigation," a spokesperson for the Colleton County Sheriff's Office told News 2 Friday.
"The Colleton County Sheriff's Office investigation continues, and we are assisting in it. We have no further comment at this time," Erinn McGuire, spokesperson for the 14th Circuit Solicitor's Office, told News 2 last week.
The meeting is set for Tuesday at 6pm at the Colleton County High School Performing Arts Center.
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WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCBD) – A 31-year-old Walterboro man has been arrested on seven charges connected to the sexual exploitation of a minor.
According to a news release from the South Carolina Attorney General's Office, Paul Antione Johnson was arrested on July 11th after investigators found that he distributed and possessed multiple files of child pornography.
WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCBD) - Investigators with the Walterboro Police Department are seeking assistance in identifying suspect or suspects involved with an armed robbery.
According to the Walterboro Police Department Facebook post, on Monday, July 8th officers responded to Enmarket on Bells Highway regarding an armed robbery.
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COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) - Deputies with the Colleton County Sheriff's Office surprised a little girl last Friday with toys and trinkets.
The Colleton County Sheriff's Office found out about Kyra via Facebook and wanted to do something that would make her day. According to the Facebook post, her family continuously makes quite a few trips to MUSC on a weekly basis for treatments regarding her condition.


In 2016, M Bar C Construction unveiled a new division of the company, M Bar C Electric. With this division growing and the industry's constant changes, it is important to us to conduct training to improve our team members' skills and knowledge for a safer and more productive team.
From January 2-5, 2018, M Bar C Electric conducted annual rigorous training for their field crews and foremen. This training was important to prepare the employees for industry changes, improve their technical procedures, and improve their understanding of safety procedures on the field. With a high demand for highly trained electric crews, M Bar C Electric wants to ensure that we are delivering the best service by providing highly trained employees.
The focus of our foreman training was on four critical improvement points; safety, schedule and planning, time and costs, and quality control and manpower.
To ensure strong safety practices, foremen are to conduct weekly safety meetings, as well as, daily huddles. These weekly safety meetings are to identify overall job hazards and common hazards to be aware of on site. After the meetings have been conducted, each employee must sign-off the topic sheets, ensuring training has been completed and the information has been comprehended. These weekly meetings are important for employees to understand and be aware of the hazards that they will encounter on a daily basis. From these meetings, employees understand the risks they take when they do not follow safety protocol and the disciplinary actions that will follow.
Daily huddles focus on job-specific topics and site-specific hazards that may be encountered. These daily huddles help address any concerns the crew members may have and allow for everyone's voice to be heard. These daily meetings conducted by the foreman, allow the foreman to walk-though the day's tasks at the direct work area, providing their team with a strong understanding of the tasks, goals, and safety procedures necessary to complete the project.
Our number one goal throughout all divisions of M Bar C is to ensure everyone goes home safely. Therefore, we like to emphasize the importance of scheduling and planning. A large focus in this training is also the difference between busy work and productive work. An important factor in ensuring a safe and productive work environment is careful planning and staging of the work site. We train our foremen to recognize when and how to schedule and plan for timely and safe completion of each project. Being able to step back and see the whole process and assess the needs of the project to reach the goals and target dates are essential skills that we want our foremen to improve upon.
The major topics covered in our planning training include how to create a logistics plan, recognizing key components, and how to plan for them. We also go over workflow and the key components and how to make it more efficient. While this topic may seem intuitive, we believe that emphasizing and continuous training on efficient materials and equipment ordering procedures is very important in ensuring timely completion of the goals of the project. These organizational and planning skills are why our team is so sought after for projects all over Southern California.
Our employee's accuracy and efficiency provide our clients with quality products and reduce additional costs. To deliver the best product and cost to our clients, we train our employees on proper procedures for unit tracking, quantity input, and budget review. This way there will be very minimal room for error and projects will be completed efficiently.
Our employees take ownership and pride in their work. Through thorough quality control procedures, our team delivers the best product to our clients. We stress the importance of gathering a checklist and a quality control report. This ensures that nothing gets overlooked in the workflow. To eliminate time-wasting procedures, M Bar C Electric teaches the foremen to recognize the need for mock-ups and scheduling the appropriate amount of manpower for each job. Along with this training, we want our foremen to really understand their jobs to ensure the crews are working at 100% efficiency. As our leaders on the field, foremen are taught to recognize when steps can be eliminated or streamlined without sacrificing quality or safety.
Finally, we want our foremen to understand the pivotal role they play in the company and on the field. They are the key to organization and order on each site. We want them to understand that strong communication with their crew is crucial to the success of each project. They must coordinate and train their crews properly on efficient and safe methods for completing all tasks. Risk management skills are also strongly emphasized and presented to the foremen during this training session. Tools, such as scheduling, timecards, and pre-construction checklists are only some of the training provided to the foremen to mitigate risk and eliminate project delays.
Strong leaders give rise to strong teams. This training is a key part to our success as a company. Our goal is to build strong leaders to deliver the best services and products to our clients. We are so proud of the hard work and commitment to quality that our crews have shown in 2017 and we are looking forward to an even stronger 2018.


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By the numbers: Wisconsin's add up pretty well
By: Matt Pommer	December 30, 2010 10:50 am
By Matt Pommer
New statistics offer a glimpse of why many think Wisconsin is among the nation's most livable states.
For openers Wisconsin is ranked the 12th healthiest state, based on 22 factors compiled by the United Health Foundation. We're the 10th lowest in percent of elderly citizens living in poverty, and the state is the eighth "smartest" based on 21 factors related to education.
Public perception often suggests that Wisconsin is a high-tax state. Here the numbers are especially interesting. The state was fairly high in the 1980s and rose to sixth highest in 1995. But the 2008 figures show Wisconsin is now 21st in state and local tax revenue.
Some would suggest that using 2008 data — the latest available — isn't fair because Wisconsin increased its income tax on the wealthy and corporations in 2009. Other states stayed the course, but they now face far greater budget gaps as 2011 begins.
Minnesota is facing a $6.3 billion structural deficit while the incoming Scott Walker administration puts the Badger State gap at $3.3 billion. Neighboring Illinois is on the edge of a fiscal crisis, being months behind in paying vendors who provided services to the state.
Payment of state and local taxes as a share of income in Wisconsin in fiscal year 2008 were 16.7 percent. That compares to a national average of 16.4 percent, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures in a report prepared by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.
One area where Wisconsin lags behind is federal spending, a reflection of the few military facilities in our state. Per capita federal spending in the last five fiscal years was $7,416, or $1,414 lower than the national average.
Wisconsin also lags behind in the percentage of households with income exceeding $200,000 annually. Nationally, 3.9 percent of households exceed that level but in Wisconsin the number is 2.4 percent, according to the Census Bureau.
Personal income per capita in Wisconsin is six percent lower than the national average, and Milwaukee is one of the country's poorest cities, the Council notes. Wisconsin ranks 2.2 percent less than the national average of those with college degrees. But it's tied for the third-lowest high school dropout rate in the nation.
The numbers provide a background for the upcoming state Capitol debate on spending and taxes for the 2011-13 state budget. Across America the word "taxes" has been demonized by politicians and the media.
Politicians and pundits will say Wisconsin can't be competitive in creating jobs if taxes aren't reduced. But the latest federal numbers show unemployment in the state is running more than two percent below the national average.
More than 40 years ago when Republican Warren Knowles was governor, the state slogan was "We like it here."
The statistics suggest the Knowles-era slogan may still be appropriate.
Matt Pommer worked as a reporter in Madison for 35 years. He comments on state political and policy issues.
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Read your recent article in 50 PLUS encouraging "coming home" for seniors. Many spend 6 months and one day in warmer climates with low or no state taxes and are able to avoid paying Wisconsin taxes. I think these part time residents should be held to paying 50% Wisconsin tax based on the amount of time they do spend here.


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August 18 / Jeremy Dizon / Comics
Recommended Reading: Lady Mechanika Review
If you've ever wanted to check out the world of steampunk, this comic is for you. It blends stunning artwork with very smart writing, along with a glimpse in the world of steampunk, villains, and an antagonist who is very much so the title of the comic. It reads as a detective comic as we follow our mechanical heroine through some unbelievable circumstances as she searches for the truth behind the emergence of another mechanical girl. If that sort of thing intrigues you, then you've come to the right place!
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March 17 / Jeremy Dizon / Industry
Fan Reactions: Wonder Woman's New Costume
Recently, DC Comics released a teaser image of David Finch's new Wonder Woman costume which will debut in Wonder Woman #41 in June. The new costume will be another attempt at updating Wonder Woman's look from the iconic "Linda Carter" costume that fans are familiar with and love. Ever since DC Comics went down the The New 52 journey in 2011, several characters have gotten a new look like Supergirl, Superman, Harley Quinn, and Batman. Personally, I supported the costume refresh because Jim Lee helmed a bunch of them, more specifically the Justice League, adding his hard lines and artistic style in droves.
Iconic Linda Carter
Jim Lee's Redesign
Justice League #3 Cover, art by Jim Lee and Scott Williams
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I rarely comment about comic book industry matters on my personal FB page, but I gotta say, shoulder pads, especially big bulky metal ones NEVER look good on women. Everything about them is unfeminine and lacks style. No grace to this approach at all.
And on a side note, I find the continued knee-jerk reaction to internet message board critics demands to keep female heroines covered from head to toe in fabric an overreaction. She's an Amazon Warrior, she's NOT in the *Taliban! unsure emoticon
Now, I'm a huge fan of J. Scott, like a little overly infatuated with him and his art. I do believe he does make some good points but at the end of the day, as long as Wonder Woman is still her badass self oozing Amazonian flair and the God of War tendencies, then I'll be a happy comic reader.
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Variant Hunters
The Webster Dictionary defines "variant" as
one that exhibits variation from a type or norm
And, it states that "variation" means
something that is similar to something else but different in some way
Star Wars #1 with art by John Cassaday
Star Wars #1 Variant cover by Skottie Young
As a comic book collector, variants aren't just an expensive single issue. It's a way to follow your favorite artist. From personal experience, anything J. Scott Campbell draws, I'm going to try to purchase it. I've followed him from his days drawing Danger Girl to penciling covers of various Marvel issues including The Superior Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man double-spread and some one shots like John Carter of Mars and Thor.
The Amazing Spider-Man #700
The Superior Spider-Man #1
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March 5 / Jeremy Dizon / Graphic Novels
The Benefits of a Trade
Nothing thrills me more than visiting my local comic shop every week and picking up the latest and greatest issue from the various titles on my pull list. It's like Christmas morning every time where a glimpse into the ongoing story is revealed. But sometimes with how some titles are published, the wait can be unbearable. Take for example Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. Image Comics releases this title every month, therefore, I have to wait a substantial amount of time to continue the ongoing epic. And sometimes it's tough to remember what happened in the previous issue. Yes, there's a section at the beginning of the issue to remind me of the major points but it's still consuming a chunk of the story every month.
With the advent of Netflix, binge watching became relevant. I, for one, fell into this statistic when my wife and I watched the entire 6 seasons of Lost within a week's time. Yeah, it was like being unable to put down an engrossing book but with an entire television series. There's just something satisfying to continue watching a tv show from start to finish, of course, with the hope to get all your questions answered. I'm not going to weigh in on what I thought of the ending of Lost or of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, for that matter, but you get the picture, right?
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Our NYAA Journey: Standard First Aid. day 1 of 2. 19/2/11.
Standard First Aid. day 1 of 2. 19/2/11.
Today, i went for the first day of a 2-day First Aid course.
I am taking it along with about 15 other fellow BOATers, as part of the BOAT programme.
It was conducted by Ms Li Lian, an instructor who had been a paramedic for many years, working 12-hour shifts daily on the front line, saving lives.
On weekdays, she attends classes after work. on weekends, she dedicates her time, from 9am-6pm, volunteering as an instructor for first aid.
Ms Li Lian taught us a lot of practical skills to be used on the scene of casualty, and shared much of her personal experience with us.
We would feel her passion for saving people as she spoke to us about how she was in an accident in her younger days, how each life matters, and even when there is not much hope left, or doctors declare it a bad case, as trained life-savers, we should still go all out into preserving the person's life.
Other than what was written in the notes given to us, she went further in depth into explaining the rational behind each and every single movement, and re-enacted it out herself, so we could have a better understanding of an actual incident happening, the risks of each movement, what should be done, and possible outcomes.
Much of her sharings would never have been spoken about by other trainers, even if they had first-hand experience. Many BOATers and i felt it was essential and puts us at a great advantage above other first-aid trained people.
This is especially so, as we would be taking on various physical challenges, inevitable risks, and unmediated danger in the course of our BOAT programme.
Today was a great learning experience, and tomorrow, we would be taking both a theory and a practical test.
At the end of this course, those who passed will be issued a card which certifies us as being trained in first-aid. It is valid for 3 years.
Standard First Aid. day 2 of 2. 20/2/11.