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Noreen nominated for literary award for UWT speech on Human architecture
May 8, 2017 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
BREAKING NEWS: Noreen has been nominated for a Chitter Radio Literary Award.
In an announcement this morning, CRLA director Guadalupe Tucán confirmed Noreen's nomination in the speech category for her address at a University of West Terrier forum this past Autumn.
The Mammalian Daily advice columnist and adjunct professor of Human Studies served as chair of the two-day October event, which discussed the effects of Human architecture on other Animals. Other participants included faculty members in the UWT Schools of Architecture, Medicine, and Economics and Social Science, as well as community architects and professionals working in the fields of physical and mental health.
Noreen's speech, which was entitled, "Doors, Screens, Walls, Halls: The Ins and Outs of Human Architecture," was exceptionally well-received at the event, according to university officials and forum participants.
This is Noreen's first CRLA nomination.
The Chitter Radio Literary Awards will be held on June 15, 2017.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Education, Noreen, Park Life, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: Chitter Radio Literary Award, Human architecture, Noreen, speech
Director Zebra peddles compassion and hope in WINK: PIFF Feature Film Review
October 15, 2016 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
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Directed by G.D. Zebra | 65 minutes | Premiere screening October 1 at the Park Cinema
It sounds cliché, but it was true: there wasn't a dry eye in the theatre on the night of October 1.
By the time the credits rolled at the premiere of G.D. Zebra's amazing new film, WINK, it seemed as though all Park Animals had found it in their hearts to embrace each other for the rest of time.
Of course, we knew it wouldn't last. And it didn't. But for one brief shining moment—all right, several, as the film was screened again on October 5—The Park seemed as Jor had meant it to be: open, free of prejudice, and dedicated to providing a peaceful, safe, and prosperous life to all its citizens.
Produced by Kevin Kodkod (of Black Cats Can't Jump fame), and narrated in parts by Willem Leopard, WINK takes us on the personal journey of a group of striped and spotted Animals who, after suffering a lifetime of prejudice, opt to have their visible differences removed.
One might expect Zebra to have made his mark on the film through his personal perspective, but what makes WINK so powerful is the fact that he steps back and lets the participants tell their own stories. And, in large part, it is the timeline itself that allows us to feel the full effect of those stories.
As we follow the group for a period of three years—before, during, and after their stripe and spot removal procedures—the participants cease to appear to us as a homogeneous group. Rather, we see them as individuals who have experienced similar but distinct reactions to their visible otherness. And in discussing those reactions, they open a window through which we see their suffering and hopes more clearly.
As they introduce us to their families, their friends, and their way of life, their "otherness" seems to disappear. By the time they've booked their procedures, we find ourselves wondering why they've done it. Unfortunately, that wonder doesn't last very long.
Indeed, we learn from the film's title that these Animals have no way of escaping their past experiences which inform their lives forever. The title comes from a statement made by participant Aadhya Leopard, who when asked how it felt to emerge as a solid-coloured Animal, said, "It's like a wink. It's like I'm saying I'm just like you, but we both know I'm not."
Participant Maximilian Appaloosa went even further. "What I discovered is that there is no such thing as an invisible minority. What your ancestors have suffered and the narrative you were raised on determines who you are and how you interact with others. And other Animals can sniff that out even if you look the same as they do. I discovered that all Animals have some kind of radar. It's not just Bats," he said.
The film, which lasts just over an hour, includes interviews with popular Park musician and anti-stripe-removalist ZEAL, anti-sortitionist and self-described "naturalist," director Douglas Cheetah, and SCENTIENT Beings composer and father of Reekabilly music Faramund Stinktier, who announced his transition to being a Zebra last year.
But the film isn't about the famous, or even about the striped and spotted Animals whose stories it tells. It is really about the rest of us, whose duty it is to confront our own otherness in order for all otherness to disappear.
The Park Cinema
Showtimes: 11:00; 1:00; 3:00; 5:00; 9:00
Filed Under: Breaking News, PIFF, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: otherness, PIFF, prejudice, WINK
Memes of Production seize the Jubilee—and the day
May 27, 2016 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
Spellbinding: Memes of Production play their hit song, "Carpe Diem" at Anixi Agrarian Jubilee
Can it be only a week ago that the Memes of Production took over the Anixi Agrarian Jubilee and made it their own?
How many of us thought the annual Spring event would wither and die without Eggie and the Pigs as the opening act, and the stars of the day— The Park's farmers— nowhere to be seen?
Yet, in stepped this group of musicians whose recordings, all told, number four. Yes, four, all of which the group, itself, recorded. Under most circumstances, these Animals would never be invited to such an important event.
But they stepped in, where other musicians refused to tread. And, for good reason, it must be said. Still, the Memes went to great pains to clarify their position: they were there simply as musicians, having been asked by the Jubilee's chief organizer Miriam Wapiti, to "save the day."
But the Memes did much more than that. As their signature song says, they seized the day. By interspersing covers of some of The Park's best—and least political— songs with riffs on their own, including "Sign of the Thymes: An Herbal Tick," the group managed to keep attendees enthralled and the Jubilee, well, jubilant.
Kudos to the Memes, whose success and ability did not go unnoticed, either by Park citizens or by its record companies. Rumour has it that Hoofer Records, who signed The Beasts of Burden well over a decade ago, has offered them their first recording contract.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Economy and Business, Park Life, Politics/Law/Crime, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: Anixi Agrarian Jubilee, Park music, politics, songs
TMD Exclusive: Millicent Hayberry and Gianfranco Colocolo in conversation
April 8, 2016 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
Millicent Hayberry opens tonight in Gianfranco Colocolo's Godwit at The Burrow Theatre
The Burrow Theatre is uncharacteristically bright this afternoon, as it will be every day and night that Millicent Hayberry is on stage here, playing an unwitting—and unwilling—detective in the highly-anticipated series of mysteries written by Gianfranco Colocolo.
The first play in the series, Godwit, opens tonight at 8:00 pm.
We caught up with both Hayberry and the author during rehearsals at The Park's Burrow Theatre.
TMD: Thank you for doing this. We know it's a busy time for you.
MH: We're delighted. We're just taking a bit of a break anyway.
GC: Well, Millicent is taking a break. I'm pacing.
TMD: That's funny. Are you nervous about the gala opening tonight?
GC: Not so much nervous as…well, nervous.
MH: You have nothing to be nervous about!
TMD: Do you have anything to be nervous about?
GC: I don't, really. I just don't take anything for granted. It's been a long haul and I can't wait to see the audience's reaction to my work.
TMD: This is your first play…well, set of plays, really. You did have your bestselling novel, Murder at the Fishbowl, made into a movie. But what was different about this process?
GC: Nothing but everything. Night and day. I've never written anything that was meant to be performed. Up until now, everything I've done was meant to be read. It's a much different perspective for a writer, to be thinking constantly of another person interpreting your work.
TMD: Did you have anyone in mind while you were writing?
GC: I didn't and I see now that that would have made it much easier…if I had. If I were to write another set of these plays, I think there's no doubt they'd be written with Millicent in mind, even if she declined.
MH: I can't imagine declining.
GC: Even so. Millicent is such a brilliant actress that she's made the part her own. Even when I read the play to myself now, I hear every word in her voice. It's quite remarkable.
MH: That is humbling, Gianfranco.
TMD: What is it about the mystery genre that attracts you? I want to ask both of you, but Gianfranco first.
GC: Well, as I told Yannis Tavros on his show a few days ago, I've found that you can tell the truth, the honest truth, in the mystery genre and you don't get the kind of backlash from it that you do elsewhere.
TMD: Do you know why that is? Do you have a theory?
GC: I think there's a long history of it, but I don't really know why. I don't know why some ideas are accepted in one form, but not in another. You'd think that would apply to all fiction, but I've found that it doesn't. You can throw off a line that would be stinging in another genre, but you get nods of approval for it in mystery.
TMD: So you can get away with a lot in the genre, then?
GC: Oh, I don't think you're getting away with anything! I think you'd better be right if you're going to do it. But if you are, I think your audience will allow you to, is what I'm saying.
TMD: What do you think, Millicent?
MH: I agree with Gianfranco. Of course, this isn't the first time I've heard him say it, so I may just be getting won over. But I do think there's something to that. The truth is the least accepted thing anywhere. We gloss over it, we deny it, on a constant basis. I think there are perhaps two places where the truth wins out: here in mystery and in comedy.
TMD: You are most famous for your rôle in the autobiographical one-Chipmunk play, Mixed Nuts. Wouldn't you say that autobiography is another area of truth-telling?
MH: You would think so, wouldn't you? But you wouldn't believe how much backlash writers get for their autobiographical material. There is a lot of arguing about the truth that goes on. Of course, we all have a different truth, so that's probably the reason.
TMD: Was there a lot of backlash about Mixed Nuts?
MH: By the time I got involved with it, there wasn't. But Imogen [Aardeekhoorn] experienced a great deal of it. Even I was surprised at that.
TMD: Millicent, I opened this interview by saying that The Burrow Theatre seemed uncharacteristically bright this afternoon. Am I correct in saying that?
MH: You are, indeed. I brought the very talented Constantine Lampris with me for that purpose. He did the lighting for Mixed Nuts at the [Park] Repertory Theatre. Constantine knows me so well. He knows I don't see very well in the dark. He lights the stage so that I don't fall or trip, but it doesn't get in the way of the play or the audience. I don't think I could perform live without him.
TMD: I just have one more question. What are you hoping for with this production? What would you consider a win? Gianfranco?
GC: Well, I suppose a win for me would be for the critics to say it was a well-written set of plays. But once it's been lifted off the page and put on stage, I think a win is really for the cast. A play isn't much without the cast. At least these aren't. They're meant to be dynamic, not static. So, I guess, a win in my view would be the audience's appreciation of Millicent's work, as well as that of the other talented actors here.
TMD: Millicent?
MH: I have to throw that right back at Gianfranco and say that a win for me would be appreciation of his words. But beyond that, if the audience comes away with a feeling of satisfaction, that they've been entertained and enjoyed themselves and if they'd like to do it again soon, I think that's the biggest win we could have.
TMD: Thank you both for your time this afternoon. Break a tail tonight!
MH: My pleasure.
GC: Mine, as well.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Park Life, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: actors, Burrow Theatre, mystery, play
Searching for the Spitman: Noon Nuttiness Review
October 3, 2015 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
Searching for the Spitman: A Journey Through Foam, Froth, and Fun
Directed by Ernesto Santiago Camello | 23 minutes | Final screening October 5 at the Park Cinema
We're all familiar with our friend Stan the Spitman's signature phrase, "Spitballs from Heaven!" Yet how much do we know about the Spitman, himself?[pullquote]I tell my clients it's an old family recipe, but it's not. I made it up on the fly and it worked…because the fly stuck to the wall.—Estanislao Gonzalo de Llama, aka Stan the Spitman[/pullquote]
Not a lot, as it turns out. But writer and director Ernesto Santiago Camello has set out to change all that in this alarmingly candid short film about one of The Park's funniest citizens engaged in one of the world's oldest professions: spitmaking.
Estanislao "Stan" Gonzalo de Llama is a second generation SpitMeister, a master of the art of spitmaking.
"It's an honourable profession," he says with a wry smile, "that makes products used for dishonourable purposes."
That wasn't always so, as Camello demonstrates in his short look back at the history of spitmaking. But, these days, Stan estimates that about ninety per cent of his products go toward humiliating other Animals.
"It's a fact of life in the profession," he says. "But it doesn't keep me up at night."
Camello follows Stan through his day, from rising long before dawn to set a pot on the fire, to the arduous task of mixing, boiling, and stirring the ingredients.
"I tell my clients it's an old family recipe, but it's not. I made it up on the fly and it worked…because the fly stuck to the wall," he jokes.
The film is full of lines like that—jokes that wouldn't even be funny if they came out of another Animal's mouth. But Stan gets away with it, largely because he is an honourable Animal. Last year, for instance, when Milton Struts, then head of the Park Finance Office, found himself covered in spitballs at the PIFF Awards ceremony, Stan secretly sent him a gift certificate for a full "do" at The Pluming Room.
"I don't even know for sure that it was my spit they were using, but I know how it would feel and I didn't think he deserved that. I'm not sure any Animal does," he says in one of his more thoughtful moments in the film.
In another of those moments, Stan lets slip that if he hadn't been pressured into joining the family business, he probably would have become a comedian or even a musician. And just so you don't dwell on the poignancy of that admission, he quickly offers up another:
"No matter what, I'd have made my way back to spit[making]. It's in my DNA," he laughs.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Park Life, PIFF, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: Noon Nuttiness, PIFF, Stan the Spitman
PIFF preview: Herman Stoat: Mon Chemin Compliqué
September 29, 2015 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
All PIFF documentaries are good. Some, of course, are better than others. Then, there are those that are spectacular.
And, that adjective is more than appropriate for the much-anticipated Herman Stoat: Mon Chemin Compliqué.
Conceived and produced by Pussyfoot Productions, this film about the life and work of the renowned dancer, choreographer, and founder and artistic director of the eponymous dance company has been in the making for more than four years. Yet, it received its official title only last year, after Stoat and his company's assistant choreographer Gustav Hermelin created the dance, Le Chemin Compliqué, for the 2014 Celebration of the Winter Solstice.
"That was how we knew we were done," Stoat said in a PRANCE magazine interview last month. "Somehow, with that dance and that title, we'd come full circle."
Stoat knows a lot about circles, having danced professionally for years before founding the Herman Stoat Dance Company. And while he's achieved a level of artistic success that was previously unknown in The Park, that success, which includes being named Choreographer of the Decade by PRANCE Magazine, has come at a cost.
"You might say that I survived success," Stoat jokes in an early scene in the film. "But you might also say that I didn't."
Even Stoat fans who watched the choreographer's reality series three years ago on Vertebrate Vision TV will be surprised at the physical, mental, and emotional pain this film uncovers and how complicated a road Stoat has travelled.
A Park refugee, both Stoat's parents died at the hands of Humans.
"They were in their prime but, unfortunately, so were their coats," he says matter-of-factly.
Left to his own devices, the young Stoat found his way to The Park, where he was taken in by a family and raised, as he says, "with love and care." But there were problems in the household, jealousies among the family's natural offspring, and expectations he could not meet.
"Early on, I discovered my natural talent for dancing and it saved me. I could go off on my own, explore my ideas, and set my moves to music," he says.
It was during that time that he discovered the effect his moves had on others, as well.
"It was almost hypnotic, the effect. I noticed crowds gathering and they were mesmerized by my dancing. Suddenly, I found I couldn't stop and they didn't want me to, either."
Stoat danced himself into Park history, but there came a time when he did have to stop for a while, after the anguish of his early years caught up with him.
"I'd packed it all away and suddenly, after I won a few awards, it all came tumbling out. I needed some time alone and even contemplated retirement," he says.
Fortunately for Park dance lovers, Stoat finally returned to the stage refreshed and ready to take on new challenges, including teaching, working with artists in other genres, and calling for more diversity of species in dance. And, he reveals in the film, there is even more to come.
"There are days when I wake up and I think, 'I've only just begun,' " he says with joy.
Herman Stoat: Mon Chemin Compliqué will screen at the Park Cinema on Friday, October 2 at 2:00 p.m. and on Sunday, October 4 at 4:00 p.m.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Park Life, PIFF, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: dance company, dancing, Herman Stoat, My Complicated Road
Two rival Park chefs engage in war of words over award-winning artist's work
Tribute gone wrong: "A Change of Hugh" by award-winning artist Hugh Biri has sparked a war of words between rival Park chefs
It was meant to be a tribute, but something went terribly wrong.
When award-winning artist Hugh Danlami Biri decided he wanted to add his voice to the cause of equality for striped and spotted Park Animals, he thought it best to use his considerable artistic talents to do so.
Enter his latest masterpiece, or as some are calling it, his "miss-terpiece" entitled, "A Change of Hugh."
Biri's tribute—a 76 cm x 51 cm painting in custom watercolours—was meant to highlight the professional similarities of two great (and striped) Park chefs, Tab Tricolore and Mikko Tiikeri, by differentiating them by coat colour.
"They have hair of similar colour and I was trying to pose the question, 'What if we changed their colour? Would they be any less great in their kitchens? Would their restaurants be any less spectacular?' Obviously, not," Biri said in an interview on TMDTV.
"I thought we could then apply that logic to stripes and spots. Would they cook any better if their coats were of a solid colour? You see, when you say it out loud, it's ridiculous," he said.
Unfortunately, Biri's logic was lost on the subjects of the painting, both of whom were quite disturbed by the change of hue.
"I wish they'd come to me right away and said, 'We don't like it.' But they didn't. They went after each other and, for that, I am very sorry," said Biri.
Indeed, each chef blamed the other for what both agreed was a travesty.
First, Tab Tricolore accused Mikko Tiikeri of tinkering with the painting and darkening Tricolore's hair, making him look ridiculous and effectively blackening his reputation. In response, Tiikeri claimed he had video evidence that Tricolore had removed the original painting from the Park Museum of Contemporary Art (PMoCA), where it is currently hanging, and replaced it with the darker one.
Biri says that would be next to impossible.
"It was difficult enough for me to do and, with all due respect, Tab Tricolore does not have the training to do that kind of work. I spent two months developing the colours and it took even longer to apply them," he said.
Biri, who won the first Maple Tree Television (MTTV) Merging Artist Award* in 2012, has worked for years with a number of well-known Park artists developing watercolours. He says that success in the field takes time, patience, know-how, "and a little bit of luck."
In the meantime, the two chefs, who had previously been on good terms, are not speaking to each other, nor to Biri.
"It's a sad, sad situation and I don't know what to do about it," Biri says.
*Merging artists are artists who work in only one field of the arts and who collaborate with one or more other artists who work in another, distinct field.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Park Life, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: artists, chef, painting, Tab Tricolore, watercolours
Barkettes' songs to be translated into different Animal languages
February 15, 2015 By Paislynn Pangolin, TMD Arts Critic
Thisbe and the Barkettes have embarked on a new project: the translation of some of their biggest hits into a number of different Animal languages.[pullquote]We sincerely hope that other musicians and artists will follow suit and allow us all to enjoy the wonderful creativity of Park Animals. — Thisbe and the Barkettes[/pullquote]
In a statement released yesterday by their manager Hilde Blaft, the group explained their reasons for making the historic decision:
"After much reflection and in the service of interspecial harmony, Thisbe and the Barkettes have decided to release some of our most beloved songs in a number of different Animal languages.
Recent events in The Park have highlighted tensions that have grown among the different species that live in The Park. We feel that, as much as possible, we all need to bridge those gaps that have developed. To this end, we have engaged the services of several renowned translators to enable members of other species to enjoy our music. We sincerely hope that other musicians and artists will follow suit and allow us all to enjoy the wonderful creativity of Park Animals."
The group did not give any specific date for the release of the music, nor the names of the songs that will be translated. But the gossip site headsNtales reported last week that the group has talked to a number of Feline and Avian translators and had signed a contract with RODOlphin Translation, the firm that works closely with the University of West Terrier.
headsNtales also reported that the Barkettes intended to donate a percentage of the proceeds from the sales of the translated works to a charity. The gossip site did not name the charity.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Economy and Business, Gossip and Rumour, Park Life, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: harmony, interspecial communication, translation
Park Museum poaches PMoCA curator
Dorika Pumi has been appointed head curator of the Park Museum's art gallery
One of the most prolific and adventurous curators the Park Museum of Contemporary Art (PMoCA) has ever employed has been poached by the Park Museum.
In a controversial move that some say bodes well for its future, the soon-to-be-opened Park Museum confirmed in a press release yesterday that Dorika Pumi will assume the position of head curator when the Park Museum opens in January.
In an announcement on the Museum's web site, the Board of Governors called Pumi's appointment, "one of many milestones along the road to the realization" of the Museum. The press release also included praise for her work.
"We are honoured that she has accepted our offer and we look forward to nurturing a long and fruitful relationship with her," it concluded.
Pumi, who is best known for her 2013 art installation How Much Was That Doggie in the Window? was also responsible for the Museum's K-NONical Kismet exhibit and the controversial but well-received series of sketches entitled, Better To Be Lost Than Loved.
Read the Park Museum's press release here.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Park Life, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture Tagged With: art, museum
The Dog Paddle: Noon Nuttiness opener cracks us up: review
Manwel Kelb, left, and Eamon Madra star in The Dog Paddle as rival swimmers forced to compete together as paddlers after a mixup occurs in the qualifier for the "big race."
The Dog Paddle
Starring Manwel Kelb, Eamon Madra and Vicente Perro. Directed by Sofia Koira. First screening: October 2; repeat screening October 4 at the Park Cinema. 72 minutes.
The Dog Paddle, which stars two of The Park's best known Canine comedic actors (Kelb and Madra) as well as newcomer Vicente Perro, hinges on a familiar Park issue: two rival Canine swimmers are vying for the opportunity to compete in the first-ever Dog paddle event of the Interspecial Summer Games. After the qualifying final is cancelled due to a vicious storm, the athletes are told that both their names have been entered in the "big race." What Kelb and Madra's characters realize too late is that the big race they've been entered in is a different kind of Dog paddle race: one that involves two Dogs, two paddles, and a canoe.
The reaction of the two characters to the news that they must cooperate with each other rather than compete (and do so in a canoe) nets us some priceless physical comedy — the sort that both actors are famous for.
But it's what happens next that elevates The Dog Paddle to comedic art: the film slows down just long enough to allow us to see both Dogs in a different light. In this case, it's the twilight before the big race, when they finally decide they'd better talk strategy if they're going to have any chance at all of winning.
In the hands of another director, this scene might have turned the film into a tragicomedy. But in the hands of the skilled and savvy Sofia Koira, who is quite a hoot herself, the poignancy becomes so off-balance that it rights the canoe and steers the rest of the film to its conclusion, which I won't spoil for you here.
Who would have thought that a send-up of the Canine Athletic Association's bid to reinstate the Dog paddle as a competitive swimming stroke could be so funny? Certainly not this critic, but the surprise was well worth the humility with which I will be forced to live for some time.
Filed Under: Breaking News, Park Life, The Arts, Entertainment, and Culture


Marcelo Dominguez: acoustic & electric guitars. Martin Balik: bass & accordion. All songs written by Marcelo Dominguez except (1) by Martin Balik & (7) by Erik Satie. Recorded & mixed at CzechPibe Music. Brooklyn, NY, 2015. Special thanks to Andrea, Lara & our families.


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Report: NWSL set for three teams expansion
Reviewing The Citadel's last three basketball games
Posted on January 16, 2009 by Sandlapper Spike
Boring title for a post, but it's the best I can do. When the temperature drops below 25 degrees, I get less imaginative…
The Citadel is now 8-9 overall, 3-3 in the Southern Conference, after last night's thank-God-and-Zach Urbanus-we-won 74-69 OT throwdown with the less than mighty Purple Paladins. Furman came into the game ranked 341st in the RPI, ahead of only Alcorn State and Southern. (Maybe there should be a SoCon-SWAC challenge next December.) However, for a half The Citadel played like the team that hadn't won a Division I game all season. Furman changed defenses and forced the confused Bulldogs to commit 11 turnovers in the first half. The Citadel finally figured out things early in the second half (and the shorthanded Paladins wore down a bit). However, not being able to stand prosperity, The Citadel somehow blew a seven-point lead in the final four minutes. Credit to Furman's players for not giving up; credit to The Citadel's players for recovering to take control in overtime.
The stats bear out that turnovers were the sole reason Furman was really even in the game. The Citadel isn't going to win many games when it commits 15+ turnovers (17 last night), especially when it forces less than 10 from its opponent (Furman only had 9). The Bulldogs outshot the Paladins, outrebounded them (by 13) and did a good job both getting to the foul line and making the shots when they got there. The pace of play was about where The Citadel wanted it to be, perhaps a little fast, but not overly so. Speaking of pace…
My concern with the team as it continues on this long stretch of hoops (the upcoming game against Wofford will be The Citadel's fifth in ten days; it starts another five-in-ten run on Thursday) is that the possession rate per game has increased to a level higher than where it best suits the Bulldogs. Before the Davidson game, here were the possession totals for The Citadel's games against D-1 competition: 72, 54, 70, 55, 53, 60, 57, 63, 70, 70, 56. Two of the three 70-possession games came against Michigan State and South Carolina; the other was the road win at Charleston Southern, and included a lot of late-game free throw shooting. The 72-possession game came against VCU. In other words, in games where The Citadel could control the pace of play, 60 possessions was about where it wanted to be.
Against Davidson, in front of a large crowd, and with an aggressive opponent (and with way too many fouls being called, on both teams), The Citadel wound up with 84 possessions. That may have been understandable, but when I watched the Chattanooga game two days later, I felt the Bulldogs weren't patient enough on offense and played the game the way Chattanooga wanted to play it. Ultimately, it resulted in a tough loss, and it bugged me a little because, honestly, I think The Citadel should have won the game. That was a missed opportunity.
That missed opportunity made the Furman game that much more important. Furman may be really bad, but The Citadel can't count on any victories, especially conference road victories, and I was afraid the Bulldogs had blown it by playing such a poor first half. Winning it means the Bulldogs won't be as likely to press, as a loss would have resulted in a three-game losing streak and all the old doubts and fears and "here we go again" talk. Now, The Citadel has a .500 record in league play heading into Saturday night's game at Wofford.
Wofford has had an interesting season thus far. It is currently 112th in the RPI despite a 6-7 overall record. The Terriers lost at Dayton by three in their season opener (Dayton is currently 15-2), and then got shelled by still-undefeated Clemson. Wofford then won a holiday tournament hosted by Air Force, beat UNC-Asheville, lost its conference opener at home to Appalachian State, waxed a non-D1 team, and then totally blew a chance at a BCS scalp, losing on a last-second OT shot to Georgia, 74-73 (the conference as a whole would have really liked that one). In the month of January the Terriers have lost at Navy (which is now 13-4 and a serious contender in the Patriot League) and at South Carolina, won two league road games (including a win at Chattanooga), and on Thursday night lost a tough game at home to the College of Charleston, 65-63. Wofford is 2-2 in SoCon play, with the two losses at home and the two wins on the road.
This should be a slow-paced game, since Wofford is eleventh in the conference in total possessions, both in league play and overall. The Citadel is tenth overall, but fifth in league play (as per my point above). The Terriers do not shoot the ball particularly well, but are one of the nation's better defensive rebounding teams. They also foul a lot.
Wofford has also had some injury problems. Junior Salters was averaging 17.2 points per game through the Georgia game, but hasn't played since. Corey Godzinski has a broken hand and is out for four weeks. The Terriers do have Noah Dahlman, a 6'6″ sophomore forward averaging 16.8 points per game, who despite all the injuries is still coming off the bench. Tim Johnson is a 6'5″ junior forward avering 9.9 points per game who went for 21 against the CofC. Dahlman and Johnson combine to average over 17 rebounds per game.
Side note for all you gambling types: following up on a brief blurb in Jeff Hartsell's Bulldog Bites, in games involving The Citadel in which the "over-under" has been available for betting, the "over" is now 8-1. Last night's OT foiled the under-wanters and resulted in another victory for the over-hopers.
Another road win in league play would be a nice way to close out this five-pack of games and would set the Bulldogs up nicely for the next five-pack. I would say that it will be a hot time in Spartanburg on Saturday night, except that it's going to be really, really cold…
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It all started with Martin, the founder of VIITA Watches. Since childhood he was an enthusiastic sportsman. At the age of 23 Martin finally tried his hand at professional sports.
As a decathlete with the ambition to get the most out of his training, he quickly slipped into overtraining. He promptly got the bill for it: chronic muscle hardening. Martin had to give up his sports career as a result.
From fever measurement to HRV analysis
Martin had to struggle with this serious sporting setback for a long time, because sport was everything to him. By chance Martin met the renowned sports scientist and former Olympic base manager Bernhard Schimpl. "Why can't physical performance be measured as easily as weight or fever," was Martin's question to him. Bernhard's answer was surprising: "Overtraining, stress and regeneration are measurable!
The idea was born
"This technology will revolutionize the sport," was Martin's first thought. He wanted to make HRV measurements accessible to the general public. But not in the same form and size as before. It should be portable, easy to use and understandable for everyone. Martin started to develop the prototypes.
The first devices were still quite clumsy, the evaluation via Bluetooth and a notebook already worked perfectly. Fortunately, at that time, Bluetooth-capable smartphones became more and more common, which were supposed to take over the display and calculation of the measurement results. So finally the appropriate app could be developed.
Only two years later, this invention was revolutionized by a handy, small Vital Monitor belt. It was ready for series production. The Vitalmonitor V1 conquered the market and was also awarded the Innovation Prize this year.
Already at this time Martin was toying with the idea of integrating the technology and know-how of the Vital Monitor into a watch. His vision: to develop a way to determine vital parameters such as stress or regeneration status without the need to take a measurement.
Martin wanted to make HRV measurement possible on the wrist as well. With the technology of the time, however, this was not possible.
The setback at "2 minutes 2 millions"
In the following year the setback. Encouraged by the previous successes, the young team decided to face the investors in the TV show "2 Minutes 2 Millions" (the Austrian version of "Shark Tank"). The investors did not recognize the potential. So Martin and his team went home without investment, but with the urge for something better.
The motivation was greater than ever before!
Martin and his team did not let the previous setbacks get them down. On the contrary: the motivation to further develop their product was greater than ever. In addition, the technology required for a Smartwatch was already mature at that time.
Indiegogo - a complete success
The idea of a Smartwatch, which helps to avoid overtraining and measure stress, immediately convinced more than 1400 people worldwide on Indiegogo. Through constant exchange and feedback from our customers, we were able to consider their wishes and integrate them even before the final design was completed.
Based on millions of already existing measurement data and years of experience, vital signs, stress, regeneration could now be made available on the wrist and revolutionized the market for HRV measurements.
VIITA TITAN HRV - The evolution
During the first customer satisfaction survey after delivery of the VIITA Actives, we realized that the high-quality material in combination with a Smartwatch was one of the most important reasons for buying it. Stainless steel and sapphire crystal - a good combination. But to grow even further in the premium segment, higher quality materials were necessary: titanium, ceramics and sapphire crystal. With this combination and the high-quality design we were able to convince all along the line and win over 600.000€ in the crowdfunding campaign.
State Award for Marketing
The campaign for our VIITA Titan HRV was convincing not only economically but also creatively. The special prize in the "Young Business" category was presented to us in the Vienna "Sofia Halls" by Dr. Matthias Tschürf, Head of Section at the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business Location.
Our last customer satisfaction survey made us aware that the topic of "personal data" is playing an increasingly important role. Although we back up the data several times, fully comply with all strict requirements of the basic data protection regulation and naturally do not pass on any data to any third parties, our customers would like to have the option of ensuring that no data leaves their smartphone. We have taken the feedback to heart and are currently developing "The first premium Smartwatch that works without the cloud".


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Guy making good first impression with Kings
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Kyle Guy is making a good first impression with the Sacramento Kings.
The former Virginia guard scored 14 points the Kings' 99-97 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday afternoon during the final day of the California Classic in Sacramento.
Guy hit four 3-pointers and grabbed four rebounds in 30 minutes of action for the Kings, who finished 1-2 in the California Classic, a four-team round-robin event that included the Kings, Warriors, Heat and Lakers.
Guy started all three California Classic games for Sacramento, averaging 12.3 points per game. The former Cavalier scored in double figures in all three games and hit nine 3-pointers.
Guy will look to build on his early success in Sacramento as the Kings head to Las Vegas for the NBA Summer League. Sacramento opens play on Saturday night at 11 p.m. Eastern against the Chinese national team. The game will be televised by NBATV.
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The Virginia men's basketball team will host in-state foe James Madison in a nonconference tilt this upcoming season. The Dukes, who announced their nonconference matchups for the season on Wednesday, will travel to John Paul Jones Arena on Sunday, Nov. 10. The Dukes, who are coached by Louis Rowe, went 14-19 last year.
The game will likely be the home opener for the Cavaliers, who open the season on Wednesday, Nov. 6 with an ACC road game at Syracuse. It will be the first of 20 conference games for the defending national champions during the 2019-20 season.
Virginia's other known nonconference games are against Columbia (Nov. 16) and Vermont (Nov. 19). The Cavaliers also will take on Massachusetts on Nov. 23 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament. UVa will take on either St. John's or Arizona State in the tournament on Nov. 24.
Virginia is expected to release its full 2019-20 schedule later this summer.
Cavaliers fall in FIBA play
Virginia basketball players Kody Stattmann and Francisco Caffaro both lost in the Round of 16 at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in Greece.
Stattmann scored nine points and pulled down four rebounds for Australia in its 91-74 loss to Lithuania, while Caffaro had four points, 15 rebounds, one steal and one block in Argentina's 77-57 loss to Puerto Rico.
In four World Cup games, Stattmann, a rising sophomore at Virginia, averaged 11.3 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocks for Australia. Stattman's best performance came in the tournament opener, when he scored 21 points and blocked four shots against Canada.
Caffaro nearly averaged a double-double for Argentina during its four World Cup games.
The rising redshirt freshman contributed 9.0 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game for Argentina, including a 17-point, five-rebound performance against Russia in the tourney opener.
Both teams will play in consolation games on Friday. Australia will face the Phillipines, while Argentina will take on New Zealand.
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Farming on Mars: NASA Ponders Food for mid-2030s Manned Mission
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By Clara Moskowitz for SPACE.com - May 10, 2013
Future astronauts may grow some of their meals inside greenhouses, such as this Martian growth chamber, where fruits and vegetables could be grown hydroponically, without soil. Credit: Pat Rawlings/NASA
The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers. To establish a sustainable settlement on Earth's solar system neighbor, space travelers will have to learn how to grow food on Mars — a job that could turn out to be one of the most vital, challenging and labor-intensive tasks at hand, experts say.
"One of the things that every gardener on the planet will know is producing food is hard — it is a non-trivial thing," Penelope Boston, director of the Cave and Karst Studies program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, said May 7 at the Humans 2 Mars Summit here at George Washington University. "Up until several hundred years ago it occupied most of us for most of the time."
Early Mars colonists may have to revert to this mode of life to ensure their own survival, she suggested.
Space settlers
NASA is actively engaged in researching how to farm on Mars and in space, as the agency is targeting its first manned Mars landing in the mid-2030s. And some NASA officials are wondering if that mission ought to be of long duration, rather than a short visit, given the difficulty of getting there and the possible benefits of an extended stay. "Sustained human presence — should that be our goal? I think that's a good discussion," Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, said here Monday, May 6.
Food container for use aboard the International Space Station. Food not only provides nutrition for astronauts, but also enhances the psychological well-being of the crew by establishing a familiar element in an unfamiliar and hostile environment. This image was released Feb. 20, 2013. Credit: NASA
Yet growing food on Mars presents several significant challenges. While research on the International Space Station suggests plants can grow in microgravity, scientists don't know how the reduced gravity on Mars might affect different Earth crops. Mars' surface receives about half the sunlight Earth does, and any pressurized greenhouse enclosure will further block the light reaching plants, so supplemental light will be needed. Supplying that light requires a significant amount of power.
"In terms of the systems engineering required, it's not an insignificant challenge," said D. Marshall Porterfield, Life and Physical Sciences division director at NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. NASA has been studying using LED lighting to give plants only the wavelengths of light they need to boost efficiency, he said.
Researchers are also studying whether plants can survive under lower pressures than on Earth, because the more pressure inside a greenhouse, the more massive that greenhouse must be to contain it.
"You don't have to inflate that greenhouse to Earth-normal pressure in order for plants to grow," said Robert Ferl, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research at the University of Florida. "Maintaining a full atmosphere of pressure is difficult on a planetary surface. You can take plants down to a tenth of an atmosphere and they'll still function."
Humans 2 Mars Summit, May 6-8, 2013, George Washington University. Credit: explore mars
However, then, the greenhouse must be sealed off from the crew's living quarters.
"Gardening in a pressure suit is going to be a real trick," said Taber MacCallum, chief executive officer of Paragon Space Development Corp.
Radiation danger
Martian farmers must also contend with the issue of radiation. Mars lacks Earth's thick protective atmosphere, so particles from space reach its surface that would be damaging to both people and plants. Thus, some kind of shielding or mitigation will be necessary.
"To maintain the infrastructure is the expensive part to grow plants, coupled with the need for redundancy if something fails," MacCallum said. In fact, so much mass must be launched from Earth to Mars to establish a Martian garden that if missions last less than 15 to 20 years, it might require less mass to simply send along food, he said.
Despite the challenges, though, scientists said farming on Mars will eventually be achieved.
"Every great migration in history happened because we took our agriculture with us," Ferl said. "When you learn to take your plants with you, you can not only go to visit, you can go there to stay and live."
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A grumpy-sounding bar named Angry Dwarf Saloon, which opened this past spring in Exposition Park, is about to get a makeover from a Dallas restaurant old-timer.
Prodigal son Peter Tarantino, who was involved in the Dallas restaurant scene in the '90s and early 2000s, is currently helping to manage Angry Dwarf. He has plans to transform it into a bar-restaurant called Record Lounge that will have upscale bar food and a vinyl records theme.
"I've been a vinyl collector since the 1970s, and vinyl is exploding now," he says. "There are a lot of organizations, like Vinyl Preservation Society of D/FW, that meet at different bars, and a bunch of people show up."
Tarantino spent the past year with family in Lubbock. "I was living with my brother Matthew and his family, and Patrick and his family lived two minutes away," he says. "It was refreshing and nice to be around family again."
Then he got a request from an old friend, Alberto Gutierrez, who'd opened the Angry Dwarf Saloon at 835 Exposition Ave., in the old Fallout Lounge space. The bar was a lifelong dream of Gutierrez's and his wife's, but right as it opened, he was diagnosed with cancer. With all that was happening, it went adrift, so he asked Tarantino to help out.
Tarantino, who last had a restaurant called Tarantino's in Deep Ellum in 2005, has catered off and on over the years and has a repertoire of popular favorites. Assuming he can get the kitchen in place, his menu will include a few items from his family's trademark Italian cuisine, buttressed by healthier dishes that Tarantino and his chef brother Patrick have developed.
"I'm going to go simple," Tarantino says. "The centerpiece will be my famous meatballs in a variety of options. And I am going to do a lot of healthy food, like healthy panini, salads, and fruit and cheese platters."
That includes a low-fat turkey meatball as well as vegetarian and vegan options. "My brother Patrick will help me develop those," he says. "We have our Sicilian heritage, but Patrick — who has a degree in gastronomy — has been on a vegan and vegetarian phase and is doing some interesting things."
Now recovering from surgery, Gutierrez is still involved with the place, but he is leaving the future up to Tarantino.
"The lounge is open at 4 pm every day with a fully stocked bar," Tarantino says. "Alberto did an incredible renovation. We're just waiting to hear back from the city on what we'll need to do, but we are planning for what we think will be the coolest lounge in Texas."
Peter's last local affiliation was with Ricardo Avila, who has since moved to Hawaii. Before Tarantino's in Deep Ellum, he owned Tarantino's in Exposition Park.
"I'm back in my old neighborhood," he says.


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HeLP is planning to hold a free workshop in Weavers Square – learn how to create a lovely hanging basket or planter and take it home with you. Everything you might need will be available, with plants to buy.
Saturday 14th June at 11.0 – 2.0 pm.
The Tour de France will bring us lots of visitors – we'd like to decorate the village together and make it even more attractive this summer.
We will also be running our annual Front of House competition to coincide with the race; judging will take place on the race weekend – so get your tubs and baskets ready and see if you can win a prize!
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Consumer Privacy a Priority for SA Wireless Firms
Every one of South Africa's over 80 million active cellphone numbers is considered personal information. This is according to the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPI) and perhaps explains why South Africa's wireless application service providers (WASPs) take POPI compliance so seriously.
Although certain consumer protection sections of the Act dealing with the establishment of a national privacy regulator, for example, have yet to come into effect, the wireless companies that daily interact with millions of consumers' cellphone numbers (or MSISDNs, "Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Numbers") already operate according to a defined code that places a premium on consumer privacy.
Every WASP that provides mobile content and applications requested by the customers of South Africa's cellular network operators must abide by the enforceable Code of Conduct of the Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (WASPA). WASPA currently has in excess of 300 members.
"WASPA's Code has been continually-refined over the past 11 years to reflect a changing technological, regulatory and legislative landscape. It is today a powerful instrument that has placed consumer protection and consumer privacy at its centre long before legislation mandated corporate attention to these twin ideals," said Ilonka Badenhorst, WASP General Manager.
Examples where the WASPA Code of Conduct is directly based on POPI include the clauses relating to the rights of consumers in relation to direct marketing activities.
In addition to POPI, WASPA's Code of Conduct Committee has also ensured that the Code is aligned with the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (ECTA) and the Consumer Protection Act (CPA). This means that members who align their activities with the WASPA code will be in full compliance with the applicable legislation.
The most recent version of the WASPA Code of Conduct can be viewed at waspa.org.za/coc.
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Jerome Lenk performs the rarely played Pedal Sonata for Organ by Lou Harrison. Photo by Michael Melnyk.
The late Lou Silver Harrison (1917-2003) is one of America's most original and revered composers, born May 14th, 1917, in Portland, Oregon. The world celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth with concerts everywhere, featuring his music and that of composers he influenced. In the spring of 2017, Other Minds Festival 22 was devoted exclusively to some major highlights of Harrison's glittering, infectious output. Also featured were works for the centennial of Isang Yun (1917-1995) now revered as one of North and South Korea national treasures, but initially a political prisoner and polarizing figure and in the Cold War conflicts.
JUST 100: HOMAGE TO LOU HARRISON, was an ambitious undertaking, with over 100 musicians performing concerts at the acoustically sensual and sublime Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco, with whom we partnered for this magnificent project.
In celebration of the centennial of one of the godfathers of Other Minds, we presented the rarely-played Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra (1951) as a centerpiece of Other Minds Festival 22 February program. We were thrilled to have conductor Dennis Russell Davies, from Linz, Austria, to lead the performance. As Music Director of the Cabrillo Festival for over two decades, Maestro Davies became the world's foremost conductor of Harrison's music while living each summer in Aptos and staying with the composer and his partner, Bill Colvig. Completing this program were performances of Canticle No. 3 for percussion ensemble, Piano Sonata No. 3, and the Grand Duo for Violin and Piano with violinist Yumi Hwang-Williams and Maestro Davies at the keyboard.
Korean composer Isang Yun (1917-1995), Harrison's friend and colleague, whose career flourished in West Germany until his arrest, deportation, and internment by the South Korean government on charges of spying for the North, was remembered in three striking chamber pieces which marry a traditional Korean esthetic with contemporary European technique.
A second concert in May included La Koro Sutro ("The Heart Sutra," in Esperanto), for 100 choristers, organ, harp and gamelan, as well as the Suite for Violin and American Gamelan, co-composed with Richard Dee, and simply put, a solid gold musical masterpiece, as well as the intimate Suite for Cello and Harp, Threnody for harp solo, and the unique hands-free Pedal Sonata for Organ. The brilliant Maestra and Harrison specialist Nicole Paiement conducted. Both she and Davies have made numerous definitive recordings of Harrison's music over the years.
Click here to download a PDF copy of the Other Minds Festival 22 program.
Recorded live at the Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco on February 18, 2017, during Other Minds Festival 22 – Just 100: Homage to Lou Harrison. Conductor is Dennis Russell Davies; Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin; Maki Namekawa, piano; The Other Minds Ensemble.
Recorded live at the Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco on May 20, 2017, during Other Minds Festival 22 – Just 100: Homage to Lou Harrison. Conductor is Nicole Paiement; Shalini Vijayan, violin; The William Winant Percussion Group.
Recorded live, February 18, 2017 at the Other Minds Festival 22, Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the William Winant Percussion Group.
Recorded live, May 20, 2017 at the Other Minds Festival 22, Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. Emil Miland, cello and Meredith Clark, harp.
Recorded live, February 18, 2017 at the Other Minds Festival 22, Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. Maki Namekawa, piano.
Recorded live, May 20, 2017 at the Other Minds Festival 22, Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. Nicole Paiement conducts the William Winant Percussion Group and members of Resound, Sacred and Profane, and the Mission Dolores Choir.


President Muhammadu Buhari was on Monday during his presidential campaign rally in Ogun State embarrassed by aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The supporters threw stones and sachet water at Buhari and other APC political heavyweights who attended the rally.
The shameful incident happened immediately after Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State handed over the microphone to Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the APC.
The governor had repeatedly stated that although he would work for the re-election of President Buhari, he would however work against the APC governorship candidate in the state.
While speaking in the rally, Amosun told his supporters to vote President Buhari, but vote against his party's governorship candidate, Dapo Abiodun.
Amosun anti-party activities came after the National leadership of the APC rejected his candidate, Adekunle Akinlade, as the party's governorship candidate in the state.
Akinlade is now the governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
"Come Saturday, let us go out to vote for President Buhari and on March 2, let us look elsewhere. I hope you understand me and get my message. And let it be known to you all, after the March 2 poll, we shall all become APC again,' Amosun said.
As the APC Chairman received the microphone to begin his speech, aggrieved party supporters started throwing stones at the podium to disrupt the programme.
Mr. Amosun had to beg the disruptive party members to stop their action.
"Please in the name of God, it is enough, don't disgrace me, God will not destroy your work, please don't destroy my work," the governor begged.
APC chieftains including Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Nation Leader of APC; his right hand man, Bisi Akande; Olusegun Osoba, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who were at the podium had to flee.
After the aggrieved supporters calm down, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo spoke about the agenda of the party for second term.
Osinbajo further called on party supporters to ensure that the party was returned at all levels.
But the APC supporters are clearly against the party's governorship candidate as they shouted 'No, No, No' and threw objects at President Buhari who raised the hand of the APC governorship candidate.


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Everyday is a Hootenanny with Melanie!
The weather is getting warmer, and you know what that means – more parties!
Our darling friend and neighbor, Melanie threw the first hootenanny of the season. Don't you love that word, hootenanny? Me, too.
Melanie is good at it, too! With the cutest handmade signs and every type of chip and jello shot known to Western civilization, it was time to party! And party we did!


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"Looking forward to playing PUBG Mobile India": Ajjubhai (Total Gaming) excited for Battlegrounds Mobile India launch
To the delight of Indian PUBG Mobile fans, Krafton has finally announced the region-specific variant, Battlegrounds Mobile India. The move has rejuvenated a community that has been patiently waiting for some good news.
Apart from fans, professional players and influencers have also projected their joy regarding the announcement of PUBG Mobile's return to India.
Ajjubhai, who goes by the name of Total Gaming, is one of the biggest Indian gaming content creators. He was among the top live streamers on YouTube in 2020. He currently boasts a humongous subscriber count of 23.7 million subscribers.
In an exclusive statement to Sportskeeda Esports, Total Gaming shared his opinions about the return of PUBG Mobile in India.
Also read: "PUBG Mobile India comeback will boost the entire gaming community": Free Fire streamer Desi Gamers elated on Battlegrounds Mobile India announcement
Ajjubhai (Total Gaming) on the launch of Battlegrounds Mobile India
Total Gaming, India's leading gamer, said,
"I am extremely excited to hear about the relaunch of PUBG. I have heard a million times in the last year that PUBG is returning, but always got disappointed. I hope this time it's a genuine announcement and not yet another hype, otherwise it would be very disheartening. Having said that, I am here to welcome Battlegrounds Mobile India (PUBG) with open arms. Looking forward to playing it and creating some great content for my PUBG fans."
Developers have also released a teaser with a "Coming Soon" message. They've also revealed the official logo on the game's YouTube channel.
In the announcement, Krafton also stated that privacy and data security are their top priorities. They will be working with partners to ensure data protection and security at each stage.
The personal information of the players will be stored and processed on servers located in India and Singapore. Moreover, in the event of a transfer to another country or region, the company will be taking appropriate steps to ensure that player information receives the same level of protection as if it remained in India.
Users can follow the social media handles of Battlegrounds Mobile India to keep up with all the official announcements of the game:
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Also read: Professional PUBG Mobile players react to PUBG Mobile India's return (Battlegrounds Mobile India) – ft MortaL, Scout, Jonathan, Ghatak, and more
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Panda Bear / Person Pitch
Album: Person Pitch Collection: General
Artist: Panda Bear Added: Apr 2007
Label: Paw Tracks
A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-04-08 Pull Date: 2007-06-10 Charts: RPM/Electronica
Week Ending: Jun 10 Jun 3 May 27 May 20 May 13 May 6 Apr 29 Apr 22
Airplays: 2 5 1 4 2 5 6 9
1. Nov 09, 2017: moodswings
Ponytail 4. Jun 21, 2014: Monkey Business
2. Apr 29, 2016: A Vist From Drum
Im Not 5. Apr 17, 2014: Stringless Balloon
3. Feb 06, 2015: A Visit From Drum
Good Girl / Carrots 6. Jan 24, 2014: A Visit From Drum (3-hour edition)
Good Girl / Carrots
Scott Coomes
Reviewed 2007-04-09
(review for the Stanford Daily)
John Vanderslice once said, "Distortion... equals sex and violence, and if you don't have sex and violence in rock 'n' roll, then you're totally done for." Panda Bear's (Noah Lennox of Animal Collective) second full-length album, "Person Pitch," is one of the most distorted pop records to come out this year, with every vocal line swollen with reverb, ominous whale song noises roaring in the background and melodies that you wish would never stop echoing.
However, the brand of hedonism that Panda Bear sells with such sonic manipulations is, well, bereft of any sex or violence. Like Animal Collective, the music offers a visceral innocence of a sound somewhere between the Beach Boys and heavily processed campfire sing-alongs. Lennox, however, abandons the raw and primitive trappings of most of AC's catalogue, opting for a sound closer to the sparkly "Bat, You'll Fly," rather than the giddy warfare of "Hollinndagain." The distortion of "Person Pitch" isn't an act of violence against the listener or the songs; rather, the warped sound forms the core of a series of excellent pop songs that are fun to hear without the risk of losing your soul.
These are not "clean" songs distorted for the sake of experimentation (or "sex and violence"), like those on the recent Clap Your Hands Say Yeah release. The quiet and muffled chanting vocals in the mix of "Comfy in Nautica" is not meant to intimate some sort of distance between the listener and the "essence" of the song; rather, the distance is as much a part of the composition as the melody, and any attempt to "cleanly" replicate this song, or most others on "Person Pitch," would, contrary to Mr. Vanderslice, commit violence against the music. This album is an entirely different beast than Panda Bear's debut, "Young Prayer," and the minimalist campfire atmosphere has largely been lost somewhere in its reverb.
Handclaps and irregular strumming have mostly been replaced by lo-fi world beats, exacting samples and distant vocal threads. At the price of sacrificing the extreme intimacy of his solo debut, Lennox has created a record that smothers the listener with massive and spacious noise. "Good Girl" exemplifies this aesthetic chance, with the vocals smothered beneath waves of their own echoes and electronic samples, before transitioning into the aggressive and off-balance rumble of the piano loop in "Carrots."
This drastic departure actually shapes the fundamental way that the album functions. Rather than relying on the traditional tension/release dynamics of most pop music, Lennox crafts songs out of the mingling and flow between uncertain and familiar textures. At times, bits of '50s teenage pop and '60s psychedelia seem to arise like life preservers in the experimental wash, creating a fresh nostalgia that sweetly powers the whole affair. Although the sound rarely strays from its pop sensibilities, the music perhaps would best be approached more like ambient electronic music. If you pay attention to stuff like the interaction between instrumental layers, rather than waiting for songs to neatly develop and then politely resolve themselves, "Person Pitch" becomes a much more rewarding album.
This is not to say that the whole album is a series of Panda Bear's experimental fancies and random samples with a few crumbs of melody thrown in to keep our attention. The unapologetically happy "Bros" humbly towers over the album as the centerpiece track, surviving at full speed for 12:30 without tiring. '50s pop vocals, saturated in reverb, play freely on top of a repetitive jangly instrumental bed for most of the tune, just enough samples fluttering about to keep things interesting. The song then gracefully shifts into an extended coda reminiscent of Animal Collective's "Winter's Love" with waves of liquid vocals riding on top of the simple skeleton of two violently strummed acoustic guitar chords. Samples of hooting owls, crying babies, thunder and fireworks fill out the already burgeoning mix.
"Take Pills" unfolds in a similar, though less epic, vein. Starting with pensive, albeit sunny, harmonies that recall the Beach Boys, the song then transforms into some sort of poppy psychadelic parade march about not taking anti-depressants. "Good Girl/Carrots" fulfills a similar sort of patter, as Lennox morphs a furious bongo beat into a soulful '50s teenage pop melody (with samples of what sounds like someone munching carrots forming part of the percussion).
The remainder of "Person Pitch" feels a bit more subdued, with subtler transitions and gentler sonic manipulations. The aforementioned "Comfy in Nautica" starts the album with slow handclaps and chanting, with Lennox intoning some sort of anthem to innocent hedonism; requisite whale-song drones join in the harmonies. "I'm Not," which was originally released with "Comfy in Nautica" as a single, locks into a slow, ethereal groove, with a simple beat propelling the misty vocals.
The mysterious "Search For Delicious" resembles Animal Collective's "Must be a Treeman" and the ambient "Baleen Sample." Electronic seagull calls crackle underneath the bizarrely manipulated vocals, perhaps serving as an odd interlude between the smug, adolescent "Carrots" and the humble "Ponytail." "Ponytail" brings the album to a sober and satisfied conclusion. While the unassuming final track is a bit anticlimactic and disappointing on its own, it fits as a neat final statement to wrap up such a careening album.
Like much of "Person Pitch," "Ponytail" and "I'm Not" might have trouble surviving on their own as pop songs. These songs on their own would risk getting lost in their own distortion, and a few tracks, frankly, seem to spread a little too thin after a few minutes; within the context of the whole album, however, every piece fits a somehow logical niche.
Listen to "Person Pitch" the whole way through, preferably on headphones. Even if the repetition and elusive level of the melodies don't deliver instant gratification, the warm atmosphere keeps the music pleasant enough for repeated listens until the album makes sense. This is a comfortable album to get immersed in, and, if you don't find the bizarre samples and distorted vocals alienating, an awesome summer record at the same time. This is probably the happiest "headphone record" you will find anytime soon — music for withdrawing into the deep, dark, sunny, smiling part of your psyche that you always feared you had.
1. Comfy In Nautica 4. Im Not
2. Take Pills 5. Good Girl / Carrots
3. Bros 6. Search For Delicious
7. Ponytail


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Wonderful cover illustration from the January 1914 edition of Puck magazine. The artist was Will Hammel. Hammell was an American artist born in 1888. He shared an art studio with his wife Elizabeth. While his death in 1963 means that much of his work remains under copyright, these early works that were published prior to 1923 are in the public domain under American copyright law.
In this cover art illustration entitled Snow Bunting, we have a young woman all bundled up for a walk on a snowy day. Looking a bit like Mrs. Claus in her red coat with snow-white bunting, she appears to have charmed a small flock of birds who fly nearby. Her green and plaid skirt is even trimmed in the white fluffy bunting. I'm thinking the illustration is taken from what was originally a watercolor and pen and ink mixed media painting.
If you would like a larger version of this lovely lady in her winter finery, simply click on the image above.


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Q: How To Remove pre - Fill of UISlider I am having troubles with implementation if UISlider.
everything else is working fine except that when Slider thumb is at its minimum position it should not show minimum track image at all.
Screen shot of my iPad Simulator is as follows :-

in this picture, the thumb nob is at its minimum position but still it is showing "green minimum Track image" which it shouldn't
is there any way to come around this problem ?
code in my viewDidLoad method is :-
SLDR.continuous=NO;

[SLDR setMinimumTrackImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"U14.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:7 topCapHeight:0]forState:UIControlStateNormal];

[SLDR setMaximumTrackImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"U31.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0 topCapHeight:0] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

[SLDR setThumbImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"U9.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[SLDR setThumbImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"U9.png"] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

Please tell me what am i missing, Thanks in advance :)

A: The standard slider thumbImage sits on top of the slider so it covers min positions. Yours is above so the end is exposed. Try creating a new image, by flipping your max image horizontally. Then add a valueCahnged to the slider like this...
- (IBAction)sliderValueChanged:(id)sender{

if (SLDR.value == 0) {
    [SLDR setMinimumTrackImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"U31-flipped.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:5 topCapHeight:0]forState:UIControlStateNormal];
} else {
    [SLDR setMinimumTrackImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"U14.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:5 topCapHeight:0]forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}

Hope this helps!

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