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MAK Branch Geymüllerschlössel
View of the drawing-room
View of the drawing room
James Turrell, the other horizon, Skyspace
exterior view, 1998, Garden Geymüllerschlössel
interior view, 1998
Garden Geymüllerschlössel
Hubert Schmalix, Der Vater weist dem Kind den Weg (The fathter shows the way to his child)
1996, Concrete sculpture on a conrete base, GK 167/1997
Past and Present in Dialog
THE GEYMÜLLERSCHLÖSSEL IS CURRENTLY CLOSED
AND WILL REOPEN IN MAY 2022.
At the Geymüllerschlössel, a jewel of Biedermeier architecture in Vienna's Pötzleinsdorf neighborhood, the MAK shows furniture from the Empire and Biedermeier periods, old Viennese clocks from the collection of Franz Sobek, and interventions by contemporary artists and designers.
The Geymüllerschlössel in Pötzleinsdorf, a neighborhood in Vienna's suburban outskirts, was put up after 1808 as a "summer building" for the Viennese merchant and banker Johann Jakob Geymüller (1760–1834). Today, it is one of the few places in Austria offering an authentically original look at the diversity of Biedermeier decorative art.
Furnished with original furniture from the first half of the 19th century, the Geymüllerschlössel joins its park, in which contemporary artistic stances are presented, to form an ensemble in which nature and art, as well as historical and contemporary artistic stances, enter into dialog with one another: in 1997, Hubert Schmalix' sculpture Der Vater weist dem Kind den Weg [The Father Shows the Way to His Child] (1996) was set up in the Geymüllerschlössel's park, and autumn 2004 saw the permanent addition of the skyspace work The other Horizon (1998/2004) by American artist James Turrell.
In keeping with the MAK's programmatic emphasis on putting historical artistic heritage in dialog with contemporary artistic movements, from 2012 till 2015 the MAK DESIGN SALON opened up the the villa to present-day design and made space for intertemporal juxtapositions. The intent was to have internationally renowned designers deal here with the transformative era of the early 19th century and the building in its role as a museum location in order to shed light on both stylistic and societal ties to the present day.
In its architectural language, the building itself exhibits a mix of Gothic, Indian, and Arabian stylistic elements that is quite common in buildings from the early 19th century, above all summer residencies. To this day, the name of the architect remains unknown. The estate was purchased in 1888 by textile industrialist Isidor Mautner, who mortgaged it to the Austrian National bank in 1929. When Nazi-controlled Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the heirs of Isidor Mautner (who had passed away in 1930), being Jewish, lost all citizenship rights and were forced to flee persecution by the Nazi regime. The mortgage on the Geymüllerschlössel was transferred to Germany's Reichsbank, which seized the building as compensation for the outstanding debt in 1944.
After the end of World War II, ownership passed to the Austrian National Bank, which in turn sold the Geymüllerschlössel to the Republic of Austria in 1948. The funds for this purchase were supplied by Franz Sobek, who in return received the lifelong right to live in the villa and supervised the building's renovation over the years that followed. In 1965, the Republic of Austria bought Sobek out of his rights to the property, and the Geymüllerschlössel was incorporated into the MAK as a museum branch.
Together with the building, Dr. Franz Sobek's important collection of 160 old-Viennese clocks dating from the period between 1760 and the second half of the 19th century also came into the possession of the MAK, as did furniture made between 1800 and 1840. Complimented by Empire and Biedermeier furniture from the MAK Collection, these clocks number among the most important points of interest at the Geymüllerschlössel.
Renovations carried out during the late 1980s returned the façade and parts of the paintwork on the building's interior to their original states. Thanks to this and to the subsequent rearrangement of the clocks and furniture among the various rooms, today's visitors still receive an impression of a wealthy bourgeois summer residence done in the Empire and Biedermeier styles. Careful attention in the refurbishment was given to the textile decorations of the building as well as to the furniture's upholstery, thanks to which the Geymüllerschlössel is now the only remaining place in Austria that affords an authentic insight into the diversity of ways in which textiles were employed in Biedermeier interior decorating.
The checkered history of this Biedermeier jewel will be commemorated in May 2021 through the inauguration of a documentation room containing a comprehensive collection of texts and images. To create this, in the course of a year-long research project, experts exhaustively examined primary sources in the MAK archive as well as in all relevant archives in Vienna and Lower Austria and in the family archives of the former owners.
2021: Gestural ceramic sculptures are the focus of the MAK exhibition, presenting Erwin Wurm's sculptural series Dissolution (2018–2020) in a museum context for the first time. Performative gestures determine these anthropomorphic sculptures, whose forms oscillate between the ephemeral and the physical.
THE GEYMÜLLERSCHLÖSSEL IS CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN IN MAY 2022.
May until December, Saturday & Sunday, 11a.m.–6 p.m.
Admission: € 6
Free admission for children and teens under 19
Free admission with MAK Annual Ticket
Free entry to the park and to James Turrell's skyspace
Pötzleinsdorferstraße 102, 1180 Vienna
Tram line 41 Schottentor to Pötzleinsdorf, then bus line 41A to Khevenhüllerstraße (one stop)
Parking lot, There is no wheelchair access to the building at this time.
Permanent Installation at the MAK Branch Geymüllerschlössels
James Turrell: Skyspace The other Horizon
(CON)TEMPORARY FASHION SHOWCASE
iCal Sat, 07.05.2022–Sun, 04.12.2022
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MAK Dialogues: THE HISTORY OF THE GEYMÜLLERSCHLÖSSEL
Curator Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel in conversation with historian Marie-Theres Arnbom and art historian Christian Witt-Dörring
Virtual Tour Geymüllerschlössel


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The car finished in 85th position – sandwiched between a Porsche 911 GT3 and a Cayman – from a total field of almost 200 entries, well ahead of similar level machinery such as the Renault Clio RS and Toyota 86.
Its best lap time of 9min 44.720 seconds is not representative of where it stands against rival hot hatches such as the Volkswagen Golf R Clubsport that holds the record for the fastest front-drive car around the circuit, as the VLN race combines both the Nordschleife and the Grand Prix circuit.
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Şehzade Bayezid (; 1527 – 25 September 1561) was an Ottoman prince as the son of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and Hurrem Sultan. After the execution of Şehzade Mustafa, the heir apparent to the Ottoman throne, in 1553, Bayezid became the popular heir among the army. Throughout the 1550s, when Suleiman was already in his sixties, a protracted competition for the throne between Bayezid and his brother Selim became evident. Bayezid had fallen into disfavour with his father, who was angered by Bayezid's disobedience stemming from around the same years, as opposed to Selim, who would eventually succeed as Selim II. After being defeated in a battle near Konya in 1559 by Selim and Sokullu Mehmet Pasha with the help of the Sultan's army, Bayezid fled to the neighbouring Safavid Empire, where he was lavishly received by Tahmasp I. However, in 1561, on the continuous insistence of the Sultan throughout his son's exile and after several large payments, Tahmasp allowed Bayezid to be executed by agents of his own father.

Background
Bayezid was born in 1527 in Constantinople (Istanbul) during the reign of his father, Suleiman the Magnificent. His mother was Hurrem, an Orthodox priest's daughter from present-day Ukraine who was the sultan's concubine at that time. At the time of his birth, Bayezid had three elder full-brothers, Mehmed (born 1521), and Selim (born 1524) and Abdüllah (born 1525) and an elder full-sister Mihrimah Sultan (born 1522). He also had one elder half-brother Mustafa (born 1515) and later one younger full-brother, Cihangir (born 1531). In 1533 or 1534, breaking a two-century-old tradition, his father freed and legally wed his mother.

As a court rule, şehzades were appointed to govern a province in order to gain administrative experience. Bayezid became the governor of Kütahya. However, during his father's 12th campaign to Nakhchivan (part of modern Azerbaijan) in 1553, he was assigned to rule in Constantinople (the capital of the Ottoman Empire) in the absence of his father. During the campaign, Şehzade Mustafa, Suleiman's eldest son and the popular heir to the throne, was executed upon the sultan's order.

The news of Mustafa's execution caused unrest in all parts of the empire, and an impostor claiming to be the executed Mustafa rebelled against Suleiman in Rumelia. One source reports that although the rebellion was subdued by a vizier, Suleiman suspected that his son Bayezid was deliberately slow to react.

However, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul from 1554 to 1562, describes the events quite differently in one of his famous letters to fellow scholar Nicholas Michault. In his letter, Busbecq describes the rise of the impostor as part of a conspiracy by Bayezid (referred to as "Bajazet" in the letter) to seize the Sultanate in order to avoid being killed by his brother Selim upon Selim's promotion to Sultan.

Competition for the Throne
Suleiman had five sons who lived to reach adulthood. His second son, Mehmed, had died of smallpox in 1543. After the execution of Mustafa (Suleiman's eldest who had been the most potential heir to the throne) and the death of Cihangir (the youngest brother who suffered from extremely poor health) in 1553, only two princes were left to be the potential claimant to throne: Bayezid and Selim (the future Selim II). Bayezid was the governor of Kütahya and Selim was the governor of Manisa, two cities at almost equal distance from Istanbul, the capital. (Distance from the capital was important for the prince who reaches the capital had the chance of being the next sultan after his father's death)

Suleiman was in his 60s, and the competition between the two brothers over the throne was evident. Suleiman scolded his sons and decided to change their places of duty. Bayezid was assigned to rule Amasya and Selim to Konya, both provinces being further from Constantinople but still equidistant. Selim was quick to obey and promptly moved to Konya, but to the dismay of his father, Bayezid obeyed only after much hesitation. Angered, Suleiman accused Bayezid of being a rebel and supported his elder son Selim against Bayezid. Selim, in collaboration with Sokollu Mehmet Pasha (the future grand vizier) and with additional help from his father's army, defeated his brother in a civil war at Konya in May 1559.

Refuge in the Safavid Empire

Bayezid returned to Amasya and escaped to the Safavid Empire with his sons and a small army. According to journalist and historian researcher Murat Bardakçı, Sokullu Mehmet Pasha sent an army after Bayezid, which was defeated by Bayezid's forces. In the autumn of 1559, he reached the Safavid town of Yerevan, where he was received with great respect by its governor. Some time later, he reached Tabriz, where he was welcomed by Shah Tahmasp I. Although Tahmasp I initially wholeheartedly and lavishly welcomed Bayezid, including giving magnificent parties in his honour, he later jailed him on the request of Sultan Suleiman. Both Suleiman and Selim sent envoys to Persia to persuade the shah to execute Bayezid. For the coming one and half year in fact, embassies would continue to travel between Istanbul and Qazvin. On 16 July, what would be the last of the Ottoman embassies would arrive, whose formal task, like the previous embassies, was to try to return Bayezid to Istanbul. As stated by Prof. Colin P. Mitchell, this included Hüsrev Pasha (the governor of Van), Sinan Pasha, Ali Aqa Chavush Bashi, and a retinue of two hundred officials. In the letter that was given with the embassy, Suleiman also declared his readiness to reconfirm the Treaty of Amasya (1555) and to begin a new era of Ottoman–Safavid relations. Suleiman, throughout the embassies, also gave Tahmasp numerous gifts. He also agreed with Tahmasp's demand to pay him for handing Bayezid over (400,000 gold coins were given). Finally, on 25 September 1561, Bayezid and his four sons were handed over by Tahmasp and executed in the environs of the Safavid capital Qazvin by the Ottoman executioner, Ali Aqa Chavush Bashi, through the way of garrotting. They were laid to rest in Sivas.

Family
Bayezid had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters. Harem's records indicate that they were all half-siblings, with the exception of Şehzade Osman and Şehzade Mahmud. However, none of his concubines are known by name.

Sons
All of Bayezid's sons still alive in 1561 were executed with their father by order of their grandfather, Suleiman the Magnificent.

Bayezid had at least seven sons:
 Şehzade Orhan (1543, Kütahya - 25 September 1561,  Qazvin). Described as "surprisingly beautiful", he was instructed by Abdhurrahman El-Gubari and Lala Çandarlızade Halil Bey. He was governor of Çorum between 1558 and 1559.
 Şehzade Osman (1545, Kütahya - between 1553 and 1560). Governor of Karahişâr-ı Şarkî and Canik.
 Şehzade Abdüllah (1548, Kütahya, - 25 September 1561, Qazvin).
 Şehzade Mahmud (1552, Kütahya, - 25 September 1561, Qazvin). Governor of Canik.
 Şehzade Mehmed (1558, Amasya - 25 September 1561, Qazvin).
 Şehzade Murad (? - before 1561).
 Şehzade Fülan (1561, Amasya - October 1561, Bursa). Still a baby, he was executed by order of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Daughters
Bayezid had at least four daughters:
 Mihrümah Sultan (Kütahya, 1547 - Lûristân, 1602). She married Damat Müzaffer Pasha (died 1593), governor of Baghdad, Şehr-i Zor, Kıbrıs, Lûristân. She had two sons and a daughter: Sultanzade Mehmed Bey, Sultanzade Murad Bey and Hatice Hanımsultan.
 Hatice Sultan (Kütahya, 1550 - after 1558).
 Ayşe Sultan (Kütahya, 1553 - Tokat, 1572). She married Eretnaoglu Koca Ali Pasha in 1568 and had a son, Sultanzade Mehmed Bey.
 Hanzade Sultan (Kütahya, 1556 - ?).

In popular culture
In the 2011–2014 TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl he is portrayed by Aras Bulut İynemli.

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There are some questions on gender-neutral pronouns both here and on Writers.
In academia, there is currently a movement toward using the feminine pronoun at all times.
I wonder why that is. I came across several examples on papers I read, but the only one I can remember at the moment is a book: Seth Godin's Linchpin. While some might not be comfortable labeling it as part of academia, it suits my point perfectly. Every time he refers to a person, he uses the feminine pronoun.
User Senseful writes the following, potentially identifying affirmative action as the precursor for this trend.
I remember reading somewhere that it was recommended to use the opposite of what most people stereotype the profession as. So, for example, when talking about a chiropractor, you would use "her", and when talking about a secretary, you would use "his".
So, where do you think this trend comes from?
Usage Note: Using she as a generic or gender-neutral singular pronoun is more common than might be expected, given the continuing debate regarding the parallel use of he. In a 1989 article from the Los Angeles Times, for instance, writer Dan Sullivan notes, "What's wrong with reinventing the wheel? Every artist has to do so in her search for the medium that will best express her angle of vision." Alice Walker writes in 1991, "A person's work is her only signature."
I wouldn't call it a trend, if by that you mean "something that's growing noticeably and is likely to become common"; I've seen it only sporadically. Calling a movement--meaning, some people are doing it, without specifying how many — is probably more accurate.
Where it came from philosophically is clear: from a desire to challenge stereotypes. Perhaps more interesting is where is it going — will it catch on?
As for "should be frowned on" — that's an aesthetic/political judgement. I can't see a basis for rendering an academic answer to that.
While it might be excessive to read history as if every general use of "man" is overtly sexist, today's culture calls for alternatives.
For example, always use he/him/his in odd numbered chapters, and always use she/her/hers in even numbered chapters. This strategy does promote balance and has sometimes been used to good effect in textbooks, but it doesn't solve the real problem of distracting the reader.
Personally I find it very distracting, and also a bit silly.
I have found myself using 'one' when gender is unknown - it does sound very old-school, but that way no-one can get offended.
One is a pronoun in the English language. It is a gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun, meaning roughly "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, although it is sometimes used with first- or second-person reference. It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun. It is more or less equivalent to the French pronoun on, the German man, and the Spanish uno. It has the possessive form one's and the reflexive form oneself.
This use of "she" is virtually universal in American science writing now. The style in my youth was to reflect reality. Now it is to influence reality. Whether science should reflect values conflicting with observed facts (roughly, "truth") is an issue in itself. Also, there is the question of what actual effect is achieved, if any. The more forced the example, the more insincere and ironic the perceived tone. Given those caveats, the answer to the quiestion is that this is the modern style, certainly inspired by the feminist movement, and if a writer wishes to avoid suggestions of misogyny she should conform.
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Organisations thrive or fail depending on their ability to adapt to constant internal and external change. Market forces require them to continually learn how to meet their customers' needs and anticipate trends based on new technologies, changing customer behaviour, and economic and demographic variables. This often means changing, improving or updating products and services very quickly, a pressure that leads them to be inventive and co-create new products and services as a learning organisation.
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Research and practical experience have shown that 70:20:10 supports and reinforces formal learning interventions in a very different way. Performance support is suitable for this since it supports critical tasks with all the knowledge required to carry them out in accordance with the relevant standards.
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Depending on the question and context it is important to find the right relationship between formal learning interventions and supporting performance in social learning.
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TENANTS are being urged to speak up and seek help if they are living in substandard properties after the JEP was let inside a St Helier flat riddled with mould, slugs and worms.
Painter-decorator Christopher Lee has lived in the Kensington Place flat for four years. He is today due to vacate the two-bed property he shares with his dog, Scooby, after the Viscount's Department took control of the premises, which includes three flats, when his landlord was declared en désastre.
The 49-year-old said he had battled against mould, damp, rotting window sills, slugs and 'collapsing' scaffolding which, Mr Lee claims, had been left to rot outside.
Stewart Petrie, director of Environmental Health, said the property was a 'mess' and would not meet minimum standards.
Last year, laws were introduced to raise the minimum standards of dwellings after the Environmental Health Department reported continued complaints of dirty, unsafe and squalid properties being leased in Jersey's private rental market. Now, in an effort to identify all rental properties in the Island and ensure that they meet the minimum standards, a licensing scheme has been proposed.
If the new proposals are passed later this year, all landlords currently renting out properties to tenants would be required to obtain a licence, with their premises being subject to retrospective inspections by Environmental Health.
Mr Petrie added: 'If you have concerns, talk to us – don't live this way. Unless the property poses an imminent danger to health we are not going to do anything that will jeopardise the tenants' tenancy. We will work with the tenant before we talk to the landlord.'
Mr Lee claims he had tried to contact his landlord for 18 months about worsening damp and mould issues but had been unable to get hold of him.
He was issued with a three-month notice to leave the premises. That notice expired today and he is yet to sort out accommodation because he says he cannot find a place within his budget – he currently pays £800 a month – that allows animals.
Mr Lee said: 'I have been trying to get hold of the landlord for 18 months about the state of the property and to try to change my water from gas to electric. Gas is too expensive and I don't like it.
'It was alright then [when I moved in] but it's not until you start living there that you realise how bad it is. It's 27°C in here in the day and you just cannot air it because there is dead room in the middle with no ventilation. It's not good at all.
'I've found slugs in the kitchen in the back of the cupboards – and worms.
'The scaffolding has been up for about six years – before I was here – and it's rotting and boards are starting to fall down.'
By Jack Maguire
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Tourists flock to Digby for its fishing, whale watching, the Admiral Digby Museum, and the annual Scallop Days Festival. As well, the Wharf Rat Rally, an annual motorcycle festival, is a weekend of fun for those interested in riding. Fishermen and Soldiers Memorials give Digby a distinguished, historical appeal. Digby's rich history also offers tourists a plethora of attractions, and its scenery is one of a kind.
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First of all, Happy 4th of July to everyone here in the U.S. of A.! Hope everyone has a safe, fun-filled holiday – go catch some fireworks tonight wherever you are as we celebrate the nation's 239th birthday!
As the final touches are being applied to the Santos EP (and now I have just signed off on it), a look back to July, 2010… literally. A photo essay back to that time… before there was a Nights on Venus.
I took a little trip out to the Mandala Center just outside of the small town of Des Moines in northeastern New Mexico. And when I say small, it really is – the population was 161 in 2010. If you drive from the Panhandle of Texas up to Colorado, you know where this town is; it's just a place you drive though before you get to Raton and the interstate (25). For me it was a destination and a personal retreat for 5 days that summer.
On U.S. 287, the time-honored route through West Texas that every Texan going to Colorado knows because really, it's the only route. At Dumas, you have a choice: take U.S. 87 and you go through the corner of northeastern New Mexico, the more scenic route. It's high desert between Clayton and Raton; Des Moines and the Mandala Center is about halfway between.
"Hot – Des Moines, NM" … and yes it was.
The first thing about the summer of 2010 is that it was exceptionally hot. Normally, temperatures for this area, once you get up above 6,000 feet, are about 85-90 degrees F. (29-32 degrees C.) in July. Since I was staying somewhere that didn't have air-conditioning, I had planned for that and figured the nights at least would be cool. That summer the temps were hovering around the 100-degree mark. I was a little concerned 'cause I really don't do hot weather anymore. Not at all.
Essentially, Nights on Venus came into being during those 5 days at the Mandala Center.
There were other people staying at the Mandala Center, 8 of us all total, all there on our own personal retreats for various reasons and staying in the Wolf Lodge. The Mandala Center itself I feel is a very special place; it offers workshops, classes, and a place for personal retreats in a beautiful, remote setting and you can check it out here. It may resonate with you and I highly recommend it. For one thing, the stillness and the quiet here are just overwhelming. There really are no distractions. The stars at night and the Milky Way were as brilliant here as anywhere I've seen them, including Crestone (Colorado). And no TV, no cell phone reception (courtesy of my carrier… from Dalhart, TX to Walsenburg, CO, the "cone of silence" was in effect) or laptop – no wi-fi! All of which made for an environment perfectly suited to thinking about "what comes next".
Which turned out to be Nights on Venus… I settled on the name while I was there. "Nights From a Rooftop" (from the 1st album) was one of the songs from that first set of songs recorded in May. The title "Another Day in Paradox" originated here. That became title and the title track for the album 3 years later.
Obviously I took a lot of photographs while I was there… and left with some sense of direction.
The new 4-song EP, "Santos", is scheduled to be released on 7/8/15 at all the usual online outlets.
Well, mostly unplugged. I may have checked e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter a couple of times over the last 3 days on the laptop which is a far cry from business as usual these days and further aided by the fact that there was no cell phone coverage where we were (probably wouldn't have mattered if there had been, I've had a run of bad luck with cell phones lately). And it felt kind of… weird. Actually, it felt like the kind of high country trips I used to take in the 'old days', back in the 90's, long before the advent of instant (and constant) connectivity, Wi-Fi, Google, and Androids.
The idea for the weekend was to just truly get away, unwind… disconnect. Unplug. And South Park is still an ideal place to do that. It's always been one of my favorite areas in Colorado from the time I got stranded in the small town of Alma overnight during a whiteout in '92 and stayed at the hotel (and I use the term loosely) down the street.
Dropping down into Park County from Hoosier Pass… the town of Alma is in the center of the photo.
The road up to the trailhead… still plenty of snow in early June.
Blue Lake, looking west up Monte Cristo Gulch from the dam.
… and the south face of Quandary Peak (14,265′) at the trailhead.
Yours truly… watch out for the glare coming off my forehead.
Erin, hamming it up on the trail… more than a few snowfields to cross.
Mountain goats are known to be notorious photobombers….
Clouds are starting to build looking east… Mt. Silverheels is in the background; we're at about 11,800 feet here.
Late afternoon… pizza, beer and live music at the highest saloon in North America… the South Park Saloon. Will Nights on Venus be playing here anytime soon? Probably not, but we'll be on the bill for Alma's Festival In the Clouds in July, 2015.
We did stay at the Mountain Comfort Bed & Breakfast just outside of town on Highway 9; I highly recommend this bed and breakfast for your own vacation getaway or family reunion. Sandy and Ernie are the perfect hosts and see to it that you have everything you need. Rooms are cozy, comfortable, and rustic, the setting is quiet, peaceful, and beautiful, and the breakfasts were amazing. We will definitely be back!
And the storm brought with it, a tornado. We were driving east when Erin was looking out the back windows and said she thought there was a funnel cloud behind us; I said we were up too high… Well, apparently not. We found out the next day that a tornado had, in fact, touched down between Fairplay and Lake George. Yes, the weather can be unpredictable up here.
The single, "Summer Madness," from Nights on Venus is available as an MP3 digital download on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, and the NoV website.


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Passport delays in UK mount in face of cuts
(CNS): An increased demand and cuts in resources appear to be behind the mounting delays at the UK passport office. Although Cayman has not yet fully repatriated its passport services to the UK, as that happens local passport applications here and in other overseas territories could also be impacted by issues in theUK. The UK's Home Secretary Theresa May has insisted the government is doing all it can to deal with the backlog of more than 30,000 passport applications which have not been dealt with within the normal three-week deadline. However, the coalition government is facing allegations of not taking control of the situation.
According to the plethora of reports coming from the UK about the issue, as the country moves into the holiday season the HM Passport Office (HMPO) was increasing the number of examiners and call handlers by another 200 on top of the 900 existing staff re-assigned to deal with the highest level of applications for 12 years. New offices are also being opened in Liverpool next week to help tackle the backlog.
The Passport Agency is currently dealing with about 465,000 renewals and first-time passport requests, and 150,000 passports are being sent out each week.
The UK's opposition Labour party has said that the problem is not just down to increases in application but a reduction of resources. But David Cameron, the British prime minister, said longer opening hours had been introduced at passport offices, which were now operating seven days a week.
"The Home Office has been on this from the very start, but it all begins with 300,000 extra people applying for passports compared with the previous time last year," he said.
Labour says the number of staff at the Identity and Passport Service has fallen by 600 since the coalition came to power in 2010.
Passport Office chief executive Paul Pugh, who will be questioned next week by MPs on the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said there had been "exceptional" summer demand but that extra staff had been brought in to handle applications.
"We are operating seven days a week and our couriers are delivering passports within 24 hours of being produced," Pugh said. "We have issued almost three million passports for UK customers in 2014, including over one million issued in the eight weeks since the start of April."
In the past, overseas applications were handled by embassy and consulate officials in seven regional processing centres around the world under the direction of the Foreign Office. But between December 2012 and March this year, responsibility for the application, handling, printing and delivery of overseas passport applications was transferred to the Passport Office in the UK.
Category: World News
And here I was thinking that the British have everything under control…
That's the UK for you…sometimes I wish we didn't have to deal with these yoekels.
What is a "yoekel"?
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Hands-On: Magic Leap's Create App Is a Powerful Way to Invent Your Own Reality Nearly Anywhere
8/17 11:09 AM
Since getting our hands on the Magic Leap One last week, we've been methodically delving into each feature and reporting our findings step-by-step. Earlier this week, we took a look at the Screens app (a video viewer) and the Helio app (an AR web browser). This time around, we'll be digging into the Create app, the experience that allows you to fill the real world with objects that transform the nature of your local reality.
Part of the reason we started with the Screens and Helio app is because those are easily the most accessible apps offered on this device in terms of tools the average user might immediately find useful. Watching videos and browsing the web dominates a huge portion of our time, so it's important to get those basics right, and Magic Leap did.
But now things get a bit trickier, as the idea of spending extended time in virtual worlds, whether they're in VR or AR, is still a concept foreign to most consumers.
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Although most are now familiar with small portholes into AR immersion afforded by Snapchat and mobile apps via ARKit and ARCore, the Magic Leap One's Create app hopes to act as the next step up, allowing users to spend time in AR interacting with persistent virtual objects that respond to your real world environment. For most, that behavioral change would indeed be a major "leap" regarding digital content interactions, so Magic Leap has a major challenge ahead of it. Is the Create app capable of meeting that challenge? Let's find out.
Before you can begin, you'll be required to scan your real world environment to establish the WorldMesh upon which the Create app's virtual elements will function. Depending on the environment, this can either be a quick and somewhat fun process, or a relatively tricky and slightly lengthy endeavor. In this case, I decided that I wanted to move from the perfect conditions of a well-lit, controlled space, and try the Magic Leap One in the wild: a New York City cafe.
The IR projector flashes between the lenses and waveguides on the Magic Leap One. Image by Bryan Crow/Next Reality
The lenses housing the waveguides on the Magic Leap One are slightly shaded (much like movie theater 3D glasses), so my decision to try this at night, in a dimly lit cafe wasn't optimal. Additionally, half of the cafe was filled with windows, another no-no when it comes to creating the WorldMesh map. But that's exactly what I wanted — less than optimal conditions. Nevertheless, I'm happy to report that, despite some areas that simply couldn't be mapped because of darkness, windows, etc., the mapping process was mostly a success.
Part of the mapping process includes establishing points all around you that are confirmed when you successfully look at and maintain a gaze toward a particular target. This aspect of the mapping process kind of turns it into a game, which makes the process feel far less tedious than it might without that game-like aspect. But even in a well-lit room, I have yet to experience a mapping session that doesn't return several areas that haven't been successfully mapped and require additional mapping attempts.
Once your WorldMesh is established, you can begin the process of creating your AR world. Like most of the apps on the Magic Leap One, you start the Create app by selecting it from the main, circular menu area, after which you're presented with a slightly less modern, rectangular menu full of the options that allow you begin populating your world with virtual objects.
The left side of the menu is where the content options are presented, giving you a choice between brushes (a painting tool in the tradition of Tilt Brush, but far less powerful), stickers (place persistent virtual stickers anyone in your mapped environment), blocks (think Lego in AR), gadgets (an array of surprisingly interactive devices, including flashlights), characters (easily the best part of Create, offering living dinosaurs, turtles, and knights), and worlds (tiny trees, foliage, and nature nooks you can place anywhere).
In the case of blocks, some can be fitted together and attached to gadgets to create brand new contraptions, as Magic Leap creative director Jeremy Vanhoozer recently showed off on Twitter.
On the right side we have our controls, which gives us the option to grab objects, freeze animated elements, clone (copy) elements, erase a particular element (which disappear with a satisfying "poof" of magic dust), or clear all elements from the space.
In deeper level of the menu, there's also the option to turn WorldMesh visibility on or off (which can be helpful when you're trying to determine why certain elements are behaving in certain ways), scan a new WorldMesh, turn music and overall sounds on or off, and save or load previous environments.
The style of the virtual objects are pretty uniformly simple and whimsical. Clearly, the goal here was to help end users and developers understand how fun creating AR environments can be rather than to present anything too profound or serious. Although the Magic Leap One isn't recommended for children, I think most children would really enjoy experiencing the Create environment.
That said, I think in the near future we'll likely see other Create environments that are more intense as the ecosystem matures. Imagine an Alien: Covenant set of options that allow you to place fallen alien ships, otherworldly plant life, facehuggers and, of course, a few xenomorphs running around, all while the sinister music from the Alien franchise is pumped all around you via spatial audio. I can't wait!
At present, the Create experience is a lot more tame, allowing you to do things like place two knights on a table, who immediately recognize each other and begin fighting. My favorite part of the Create experience is watching the characters — from a flying turtle, to a dinosaur, to a flying saucer — recognize and account for both virtual objects and real world structures that you've mapped.
However, I did find a few shortcomings. Unlike in VR, where you can walk right up to a virtual character and examine its skin in great detail as you walk around it, in Create, you're kept at about a one foot distance. So if you move closer to try to look at something in greater detail, the virtual object gets clipped off or your face simply moves through the character or object.
With the Magic Leap One, the FoV limitations keep you in a visual box of sorts, reducing the sense of immersion that you'd experience in VR.
This reminds me to mention, as others have, the field of view (FoV) limitations (40 degrees horizontal, 30 degrees vertical, and 50 degrees diagonal). It's a hinderance that can only be ignored with practice.
For example, the spatial audio in some VR experiences will sometimes lead you to snap your head around to look at something happening behind you. As you snap your head around, the virtual environment experience is unbroken and consistent. Because of this visual consistency, your physical reactions to immersive content become a natural habit, and you really begin to lose yourself in VR.
But with the Magic Leap One, the FoV limitations keep you in a visual box of sorts, reducing the sense of immersion that you'd experience in VR. Similarly, the impact of the impressive occlusion on the Magic Leap One is hobbled by the limited FoV. Despite those shortcomings, the Magic Leap One's spatial audio is still a helpful element in making the limited FoV AR experience "seem" more immersive.
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The haptic feedback-enabled controller is also a powerful tool, but its tracking was sometimes a bit unwieldy, at times requiring several attempts to establish a proper grip on a virtual object or accurately direct the controller's pointer at a menu item. Not perfect, but still pretty solid most of the time.
There's another question this session helped me to answer: Does the Magic Leap One have a creepy factor for the mainstream public (like Google Glass)? While using the Magic Leap One in a cafe setting, dodging flying turtles, crouching to look at tiny trees, and turning to follow the path of flying saucers, I was struck by the fact that customers didn't seem bothered or overly curious about this person interacting with a virtual world they couldn't see.
To be fair, New Yorkers are notoriously nonplussed by strange events. And the fact that many mainstream consumers don't even know what the Magic Leap One is yet could mean that some thought I was simply engaging in performance art while wearing ski goggles. (Yes, that kind of stuff happens in New York City.)
But once the public is more familiar with the Magic Leap One, and more users and developers start wearing it to events and parties, some privacy concerns may begin to arise (you can record anything you're seeing while using the device). But Google Glass "looked" like a device primarily meant to snap photos of people in public, while, to the untrained eye, I think the Magic Leap One looks more like an overall assistive device rather than a piece of surveillance tech.
In that respect, the Magic Leap One may very well have an easier time being accepted by the public than Star Trek Borg-like Google Glass look.
Aside from entertainment experiences (gaming, movie promotions, etc.), I'm not sure what other utilities the Create app will provide. But for now, if we're just talking about entertainment, this app comes close (with some important limitations) to achieving the goal many have discussed of moving the immersive experiences available in VR to a functional AR version that lives in tandem with the real world.
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Biografia
Giornalista professionista, dal 1991 lavora per 10 anni nei quotidiani Finegil del Gruppo L'Espresso. Esperto di rete, tecnologia e innovazione, fu nel 1999 tra i fondatori di Kataweb.
Diviene per un biennio direttore del mensile Wired Italia (2013-2015).

Nel 2015 è stato l'ultimo giornalista a intervistare Gianroberto Casaleggio prima della sua scomparsa. Nel novembre dello stesso 2015 è nominato condirettore del quotidiano La Stampa con direttore Maurizio Molinari, e da luglio 2016 è il direttore generale della divisione digitale del Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso.

Dal 2014 al 2018 ha fatto parte della commissione parlamentare per la stesura di una Carta dei diritti di Internet.

Con la nascita del gruppo editoriale GEDI assume la carica di direttore digitale della nuova società Gedi Digital.

Con GediDigital e 42º Parallelo tra 2017 e 2018 coproduce, tra gli altri, i docufilm: "Es17, Dio non manderà nessuno a salvarci" sulla storia del capo della paranza dei bambini di Napoli Emanuele Sibillo, di Conchita Sannino e Diana Ligorio, da un'idea di Roberto Saviano; "Nove giorni al Cairo", di Carlo Bonini e Giuliano Foschini, sul rapimento, la tortura e l'uccisione di Giulio Regeni; "Un unico destino - Tre padri e il naufragio che ha cambiato la nostra storia" di Fabrizio Gatti, andati in onda sulle reti Sky e Rai.

Nel dicembre 2018 passa alla Hearst Corporation come direttore digitale per i Paesi dell'Europa occidentale.

Dal marzo 2021 è direttore di Esquire Italia.

Da luglio del 2021 assume anche la carica di direttore responsabile di Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan.

Pubblicazioni
 Prima di Venezia, Achab, 1997 (co-autore)
 Eretici digitali, Apogeo, 2009 - coautore Vittorio Zambardino (versione digitalizzata)
 Attacco ai pirati. L'affondamento di Hacking Team: tutti i segreti del datagate italiano, 2015 (co-autore)
 Il Design al tempo di internet e delle stampanti 3D. In Il libro dell'anno 2015, Treccani, Istituto Enciclopedia Italiana
 Statosauri - Guida alla democrazia nell'era delle piattaforme, 2021

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5 Key Takeaways From The Jan. 6 Committee's Massive Final Report
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 19: An image of the noose that was erected on the day of the January 6th Insurrection is displayed on a screen as the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Unit... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 19: An image of the noose that was erected on the day of the January 6th Insurrection is displayed on a screen as the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol conducts its final hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack On the United States Capitol has spent over a year conducting more than 1,000 interviews, reviewed more than 140,000 documents day of the attack. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) MORE LESS
By Josh Kovensky and John Light
December 23, 2022 6:00 a.m.
After more than a year and a half of investigating, and just weeks before Republicans take control of the House, it's finally here: The January 6 Select Committee's final report.
Much of the committee's understanding of the insurrection, including its most dramatic discoveries about Trump's behavior that day, was unveiled in a series of hearings. But the report helps deepen our understanding of key episodes in Trump's election-theft effort.
Here are five aspects of the report that stood out to us. For more, check out our breaking-news liveblog from Thursday night, when the report was released.
Fresh Evidence The Fake Electors Scheme Came From The Top
As the Trump campaign barreled past all barriers in its quest to reverse the election result, it began to look towards Mike Pence as the "arbiter" who could deliver it from defeat.
The idea that Biden electors in states Trump lost could be replaced with fake, "alternate" electors that would vote for Trump had been kicking around the White House for weeks, but it was given legal heft by various Trumpworld attorneys, including Ken Chesebro and John Eastman, who drafted memos to put the scheme in motion.
Per the report, Eastman and Trump spoke over the phone for 23 minutes on Dec. 23, 2020 — the same day that the right-wing attorney drafted a memo outlining the theory.
Footnotes to the report say that Eastman also spoke with Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn the same day, and also had lengthy calls with Chesebro.
The National GOP Was Neck-Deep In The Fake Electors Scheme
The report shows just how deeply involved the national Republican Party was in Trump's scheme to slot in fake electors.
In one sense, the party's involvement was obvious from the start: proposed electors tend to be state party officials, lobbyists, and others who have influence within the party.
But the report provides new details which tie the scheme to national party leadership.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, for example, personally gave Trump an update on the fake elector effort on the evening of Dec. 14, the day that the slates all voted.
Her involvement was previewed on Monday, when the committee released the executive summary, which stated that Trump "solicited the RNC's assistance with the scheme. McDaniel agreed to provide that assistance."
The full report goes further. McDaniel's message purportedly said that "President Trump's electors voted" both in "states that he won" and also in six "contested states." It's a funny formulation — both a cop to Trump's ego and a partial admission that the effort was all a sham.
Trump's executive assistant replied to McDaniel 101 minutes later, the report says. "It's in front of him!" she wrote.
A Trump Aide Allegedly Had A Wild-Even-For-The-Trump-Team Plan To Throw Out Votes Due To 'Socialism'
Vince Haley, deputy assistant to the president for policy, planning, and speechwriting, appears to have laid out the Trumpian view of reversing the election result in the starkest terms.
"Imagine if every red state legislature slated zero electors. It would reveal that we are a red country," Haley suggested, per the committee. "To do this we would have to jack this to the nth degree as a battle of tribes."
The panel found that Haley went further, arguing flatly that Trump didn't really need "election fraud" as an argument to appoint Trump, and not Biden, electors.
Rather, all they needed was the argument that doing so would prevent socialism, Haley posited.
"[I]ndependent of the fraud — or really along with that argument — Harrisburg [Pennsylvania], Madison [Wisconsin], and Lansing [Michigan] do not have to sit idly by and submit themselves to rule by Beijing and Paris," the panel cites Haley as saying less than a week after the election.
Channeling both the political movement and also the technology of the early 20th century, Haley also proposed that "radio hosts" go out and "rally the grassroots to apply pressure to the weak kneed legislators in those states."
"Yes!" replied Johnny McEntee, the White House director of personnel, according to the committee. "Let's find the contact info for all these people now."
Haley then sent McEntee names and phone numbers of state legislators in swing states, the report says. The names were "…for POTUS to invite them down for a WH meeting," he purportedly explained.
Trump later called several of the legislators.
New Evidence Team Trump Knew Rudy Giuliani And Sidney Powell's Claims Were Bunk
One new tidbit in the report comes to us from Hope Hicks.
The day after Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani held their infamous RNC press conference (the one at which Giuliani had his unfortunate hair dye incident), the White House held a call with Powell to discuss some of her theories, the report says. Powell repeated her ideas about how Dominion voting machines were under the sway of dead Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
Hicks recalled to the committee that, while Powell was speaking, Trump muted his speakerphone and laughed at Powell. "This does sound crazy, doesn't it?" he remarked to the room.
But, the committee points out, he quickly threw himself into boosting that same conspiracy theory.
Later, while Giulani barnstormed the country with overheated claims about the Biden campaign corralling the dead to defeat Trump in a corpse-ridden voter fraud scheme, the insiders in the Trump admin were snickering.
Eric Herschmann, a White House attorney, and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows laughed at Rudy's claims of ten thousand or more "supposed dead people voting in GA," with both deadpanning that it "is not accurate."
Meadows commented that his son had identified, via obituaries, 12 voters who died pre-election but had ballots tabulated, leading Herschmann to suggest, seemingly in jest, that the younger Meadows help Giuliani identify the other ten thousand.
That same claim about ten thousand dead Georgia voters is the one Eastman included by incorporation in a federal lawsuit, after he himself also admitted that the claim was inaccurate.
Herschmann and Meadows may have been in on the joke, so to speak; unlike Eastman, however, they didn't stake a potential perjury claim on it.
No Mention, Yet, Of Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas
Politico's Kyle Cheney notes that Ginni Thomas does not appear to be in the report. Neither, for that matter, does Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
You might recall that Ginni Thomas texted copiously with Meadows in the weeks after the election. She also tried to whip up support among state lawmakers for Trump's bogus election fraud claims. And while these efforts may have simply been zealous activism, Trump's lawyers mused privately about Clarence Thomas's orientation toward their cause in a way that led to speculation they had a source close to the justice himself.
"I understand that there is a heated fight underway" within the Supreme Court, Eastman wrote in one December email.
Chesebro wrote in another message that he believed Thomas would be the most likely to "issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt."
"I think I agree with this," Eastman replied to Chesebro.
Ginni Thomas ultimately testified before the panel in September. But she apparently didn't make the cut for the final report and, so far, transcripts of or notes on her testimony have not been released. Whether that's because she had nothing to add, or for some other reason, remains unclear. It's also possible that we'll get additional materials from the committee over the next few days.
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John Light (@LightTweeting) is TPM's managing editor, based in New York. He previously worked as a producer for Bill Moyers and WNYC and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Reuters and Grist.
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A Year on the High Plateau / Many Wars Ago
by Marco Noli May 10, 2016
Un Anno sull'Altipiano, translated as A Year on the High Plateau, is a book written by Italian soldier, politician and writer Emilio Lussu. The story is strictly related to Lussu's experience of trench warfare as he himself fought as a complementary officer of the Sassari Infantry Brigate on the Asiago Plateau in 1916, against the Austrian troops.
Emilio Lussu, whose political activism during the 20s was spent on the defense of democracy, then physically attacked and arrested during the fascism era, had to publish his novel in Paris in 1938 to narrate the atrocities that he experienced.
During his experience, Emilio Lussu fought bravely for the whole war though he raised strong critics against military commands. On WWI, Italy had almost 700.000 deads: military generals who couldn't realize their mistakes badly led their troops due to lack of preparation of merely arrogance, or even were too ruthless and too determined to scarify thousands of lives to conquer a bit of territory.
This inadequacy, brought rebellions an mutinies along the soldiers who started to recognize their generals as their own enemy, thought any try was fiercely repressed.
The vanity of rhetoric patriotism, ridiculous battles, tragic or even grotesque episodes are narrated the soldier's feeling, the mistakes and inhumanity of war.
Even if Lussu's works was usually red and questioned thought his political tendencies and experience, it is the personal level that better tells how his opinions about war changed. By the moral and philosophical point of view, Lussu's books tell a story of regrets, having been previously an interventista (favourable to entering the war) and a revolutionary (in Giustizia e Libertà); his works soberly describe what war, in its cruellest moments, was like for him: repulsive and disappointed. The novel, is now considered on the of the most important contributions of Italian literature regarding wars.
A movie based on the book, was released in 1970 and directed by Francesco Rosi, named Uomini Contro / Many Wars Ago. Stylistically, the movie follows the current of politicized post-realism, of whom he was one one the central figures.
The movie, overtly pacifist, reminds of Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory for the argument, settings and thematics showing the instill of war. Sadly, as soon as the movie was released, the director was denounced with the accuse of vilification of the army (but later absolved), leading to a national case where political parties used the movie rhetorically for their own propaganda. The movie was at the time then boycotted, but succeeded in becoming a classic of antimilitarism and influencing the public opinion about the results of World War I. Rediscovered and in 2015, the movies was screened at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in honor of Francesco Rosi, deceased a few weeks before, finally received its deserved credits.
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Did you know that May is National Photo Month? For most of us, taking pics of the kids is a basic parental instinct. Whether it's because your daughter just nailed a tricky move on the quarter pipe or because your preschooler made a funny face when falling over, these are memories you'll cherish!
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1. Visit the Inner Harbor! There is a lot to do between the National Aquarium, touring the USS Constellation, and taking a Water Taxi ride.
2. Go to an Orioles game, especially for their great promotions! Every Sunday home game gives the opportunity for kids ages 4 to 14 to run the bases.
3. Visit Fort McHenry and learn about the history of our National Anthem.
4. Go to Larriland Farms in Woodbine to pick your own fruits and vegetables. They have everything from cherries and raspberries to rhubarb and pumpkins.
5. Visit a local brewery — there are so many downtown! Diamondback Brewing is known for their travels around the north to bring new flavors into Baltimore. Sagamore Distillery, located in Port Covington, has an engaging tour focused on learning about the history of their Rye Whiskey.
Finally, for the first time since 1954, Guinness Brewing is coming to America and setting up shop just outside of Baltimore City in Halethorpe. Their test taproom is open now, but the brewery will be fully open in August 2018 with new and exciting Guinness brews.
6. Go to an event at Power Plant Live! They have family fun days and concerts multiple nights a week.
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McFly has been confirmed to perform at the Magic Sparkle Gala in London.
On December 3, a host of artists will celebrate the festive season in style at Magic 105.4's first ever Magic Sparkle Gala, at London's IndigO2.
You can join some of Magic 105.4's favourite artists for a Christmas extravaganza packed full of music and entertainment. Taking to the stage will be the UK's most successful jazz artist of all time, Jamie Cullum, plus British pop chart-toppers McFly, Brit Award winner Gabrielle and theOvertones.
Further acts are set to join the bill with announcements to be made in the coming weeks. For further information on the special night of music, visit magic.co.uk.


BRANCH (KFSM)- As soon as you walk into the County Line Gym you see trophies and banners lining the walls. There's an expectation when you wear the Indians' uniform, you help continue the winning tradition.
"There's just an expectation at County Line," said senior Michael Lloyd. "You come here to play basketball. You just want to win, we just have a winning tradition."
Joe Brunson, who has been the County Line head coach for 15-years, agrees that the players are expected to play hard every game.
"They have a lot to live up for coming from county line there`s a rich tradition here it`s very important to the community that our basketball program is successful and we try to be as successful as we can."
The Indians have continued the legacy of success this season boasting 29 wins and were perfect in conference play. Their aggressive style of defense has helped them rack up convincing victories all season long.
"Every year every year defense is a really big part of what we do," said senior Michael Achterberg. "We really try, we really hustle on defense. We know our spots and where we are supposed to be."
Outrebounding their opponents is also something the Indians take pride in.. They almost have a thousand rebounds to date.
"I just think it shows our grit," said Lloyd. "We are all willing to work, we take pride in our defense that's just one thing we take pride in on this team is defense and rebounding."
County Line has made it to the state semifinals every year since 2013 and they have no plans of stopping anytime soon. They are hoping to add a state championship banner to their wall.
"We are not ready to stop here," said Brunson. "We would like to continue to have success in the regional tournament, and now that we have qualified for the state tournament we would like to go and put on a show."
County Line will face Mineral Springs at home Friday night at 5:30 p.m.


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If you are, or plan to be, sharing NVC in any way – running a practice group, facilitating trainings, teaching, taking NVC into schools, workplaces or organisations, offering NVC mentoring or coaching, we strongly recommend developing your skills in deep listening, facilitation, working in groups, group decision making, holding space in a group. There are numerous great books and online resources, as well as training. Here are some we recommend.
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On request Robin offers 'Creative Facilitation of NVC' training for NVC practitioners and anyone who is sharing NVC, based on her 'Dynamic Groups, Creative Learning' methodology.
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Robin Clayfield is an international teacher, facilitator and author who is passionate about making learning fun, creative, empowering and effective; about healthy groups, organisations and communities, their structures and governance and most importantly, their facilitation and group dynamics. She presents and consults all around the world to support global health, well-being and whole systems change through using Permaculture, Social Permaculture and 'Dynamic Groups' methodology. Robin is a Permaculture Pioneer and World Permaculture Elder who has lived at Crystal Waters Permaculture Eco-Village in SE Queensland, Australia since 1988. Her books and resources include 'You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too', 'The New Permaculture Principles Card Game', 'The Creative Community Governance and Decision Making Resource Kit' and the 'Creative Process Wild Cards'. She is also the co-author of 'The Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively' plus several resources and card games for teachers and facilitators.
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Three Master Signature members of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (PAPNM), Peggy Immel, Paul Murray, and Clive Tyler, will share some of their outdoor painting processes, answering questions such as: What attracts them to a scene? How do they evaluate the subject and form a plan for the painting? How do they then implement that plan in an environment with ever-changing light? What are the challenges of painting outdoors? What are some of their favorite painting stories?
This presentation will be held on Wednesday, February 27, from 5:30-6:30 PM. This talk will take place in the Taos Art Museum's Fechin Studio, amidst a Winter Invitational Exhibition of the Signature and Master Signature Members of PAPNM.
Peggy's educational background includes architectural studies at Arizona State University and classes at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, MA, and the Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, where she studied with Jack Pellew. In addition, she has taken individual workshops from Tony Van Hasselt, Jeanne Mackenzie, Laura Robb and Koo Schadler.
Her paintings have been included in national juried exhibitions and have received numerous awards including a Best of Show in 2013 in the MAA Spring Juried Exhibition held at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, TX, a Best of Show at the 2013 Plein Air Painters of New Mexico Annual Juried Exhibition, and a Best of Show Trustees' Award at the 2014 Millicent Rogers Museum Annual Miniature Exhibition in Taos, NM. Her most recent awards include an Award of Excellence for "Flower Dance" at the 2018 RMPAP Plein Air for the Park in Grand Teton National Park, WY, and a Best of Signature Members Award for "Furrows" at the 22nd Plein Air Artists Colorado National Juried Exhibition.
Peggy is a Master Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico as well as a Signature Member of Plein Air Artists Colorado, a Member of Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters and an Artist Member of Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. She also belongs to the Outdoor Painters Society, the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, Oil Painters of America, and the California Art Club.
Paul earned a BFA, University of New Mexico, with honors. Paul Murray has been included in national and international juried exhibitions. Recent awards he has received include.
• Pastel Journal Top 100: Honorable Mention, Landscape 2009, 2008, First Place, Landscape, 2007; Best of Show, Third Place, Landscape, Honorable Mention, Landscape, 2006. Honorable Mention, Landscape 2005, 2004, Three honorable mentions, 2002.
Clive studied Fine Art and Design and graduated with a BFA. Painting with integrity and seeking the truth in subject matter, his classical oil compositional painting style is unique for soft pastel. With strong composition and attention to light, values and color theory, paintings make an emotional connection. "I wish to share the outdoor experience that I have had with nature and my interpretation as an artist with a representational impressionist point of view. I am painting the experience, not a reproduction of the view."
He is a Master Member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, and is in the Permanent collection at the Booth Museum, Cartersville GA.
Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (PAPNM) is a professional association of artists dedicated to the business of preserving and promoting painting "en plein air" - in the open air or outdoors. In addition to advancing plein air painting in the tradition of New Mexico's renowned early and mid-20th century artists, PAPNM provides regular opportunities for members to paint together during frequent "paintouts" and hosts juried and open exhibitions of members' work.


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The shareholders of Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) are: ExxonMobil Canada (33.125%), Chevron Canada Resources (26.875%), Suncor (20%), Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation (8.5%), Murphy Oil (6.5%) and Equinor Canada Ltd. (5%).
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INTERNATIONAL - MTN Rwanda, the biggest telecoms operator in the East African nation, has signed a 50 billion franc ($56.20 million) loan with eight local banks, whose proceeds will be used to expand and modernise its network.
The loan, with a seven-year term, was provided by a syndicate of eight banks comprising Ecobank Rwanda, Cogebanque, BPR Atlas Mara, I&M Bank, Bank of Kigali, KCB Bank, Equity Bank and GT Trust Bank, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday.
Diatile Lily Zondo told Reuters that the company had no plans for an initial public offering, disputing a report by news agency Bloomberg earlier in the week.
Elsewhere in Africa, more specifically Nigeria, MTN met with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in an effort to end troubles in the country that have wiped off billions in value. The group announced that the deal would be taking place at the AfricaCom gathering, which brought together the telecoms industry's head honchos.


I'm often asked by business and HR leaders, as well as analytics and planning professionals, "What does it take to create truly meaningful workforce insight on an ongoing basis?" While there are many clichéd responses to such a question – "Start small", "Get some quick wins", "It's a journey" — there's much more to it. There's a reality that must be appreciated; a complexity that must be addressed.
Leaders, both inside and outside of HR, not only need to sponsor workforce planning and analytics efforts, they need to be involved in them. They are the principal customers, the decision-makers. As such, they need to clearly state their needs, own the research agenda, as well as take action on the insights produced.
It's not fair to ask a report writer or technologist to "tell the story" of what the data means. Trained researchers do this, and analysis and problem-solving needs to be their focus. Analytics is not a part-time job. It's a full-time job requiring specialised skills. In larger organisations, a team is often required.
A lot of analyses can be done, yet priorities need to be set. This is the research agenda. A lot of things must happen to produce relevant measures and enable appropriate analytics. Process and budget decisions are thus called for. A common language, multi-disciplinary alignment, and data dictionary are also essential. Executives own the process. Analysts facilitate it.
Not all internal customers and analytical projects should be weighted equally, as not all insight will be as easy to produce or have the same impact. Some projects will be more time-consuming, while others might not produce actionable insight given available data (or lack thereof). Listing projects clarifies what's being done as well as what could be done with additional resources.
Most research questions have an array of analytical techniques that can be applied to answer them. Choices have to be made, and skilled analysts understand the menu of statistical options. It's not a one analytical technique fits all.
What happens when executives want a question answered and the available data is simply inappropriate? Too many jump into analysis without calling this out. Find and/or create the data that's required to answer important business questions.
To collect appropriate data requires appropriate systems. Talent technologies are most often selected to improve processes, not generate actionable workforce insight. Use foresight and make it an "and" – improve processes and provide appropriate data.
Even with appropriate data and systems, specific analytical tools are required to do certain types of analyses. From data staging, visualisation, statistical analysis, modelling, scenario planning, data mining, machine learning, etc., appropriate tools need to be consciously selected.
Workforce insight is not free. It doesn't come with process-based technologies. It's a focused effort requiring people, processes, technologies, and governance. It's takes time and money. It's an investment, however, that can reap massive returns financially, culturally, and humanisticly. What is "ample" will depend largely on the needs and desires of internal customers, namely executives.
Analysts, processes, and data improve over time, as do leaders' abilities to prioritise and take action. It takes time. It takes a long-term view. It's not a quick fix. It requires the willingness and capacity to learn. Everyone involved must understand this and commit to the improvement journey.
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Al Adamsen is a globally recognized thought leader, advisor, and educator in the areas of Talent Strategy, Workforce Planning & Analytics, Talent Measurement, and Organizational Change. He's the Founder & Executive Director of the Talent Strategy Institute (TSI), a global association committed to expanding the production and use of meaningful workforce insight. In addition to his career pursuits, Al is also a long-standing trainer with the Positive Coaching Alliance, board member of the Character Combine, and honoured father of two outstanding young people.


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