One of the most popular times of the year to go on a ski holiday is Half Term. Which means the kids are off school, you can enjoy some of the best ski conditions of the whole winter, and you can make a great saving with Skiworld.
All chalet holidays departing the 16th February 2019 will receive 1 additional day catering to the usual chalet service. This will include a cooked breakfast, afternoon tea and an evening meal of 3 or 4 courses (depending on the chalet grade).
Our catered chalets are the perfect choice for a relaxed, homely stay, and a February half term ski holiday can be a great way to keep the kids entertained. Cots, highchairs and a special high tea can be provided for children, and the chalets are often located a stone's throw away from the slopes, meaning it's easy to get the whole family out to enjoy the fun! Looking for a more flexible ski trip? No problem! Our self-catered ski apartments and large variety of ski hotels have something to offer everyone.
Note: All holidays subject to availability.
Skiing is the perfect choice for a family holiday. With many resorts having a combination of nursery slopes and black-runs to choose from, along with sleigh rides and toboggan chutes, skiing at half term offers something for all the family. More importantly, taking the kids away will guarantee to wear them out, leaving the parents free to lap up the après-ski and enjoy a sound night's sleep in our comfortable and stylish accommodation.
Where are the Best Resorts for a Half-Term Ski Holiday?
Val d'Isère is one of the most popular resorts in France and its global appeal means that the resort has developed plenty of family-friendly skiing for your break. Val d'Isère offers much more than just skiing during the February half term; with husky rides, swimming, rock climbing and health spas, there is something for everyone.
Les Deux Alpes is perfect for young or novice skiers with plenty of nursery and gentler slopes, as well as lifts every few hundred yards. If you and your family are new to skiing, this could be the perfect half term ski break!
One of our more lively resorts, St Anton in Austria offers some of the best half term skiing in Europe, plus sleigh rides, tobogganing and plenty of après-ski for grown-ups to enjoy during the February half term.
Whichever location you choose for your February 2020 half term ski break, don't miss out on the hottest deals for your snowy retreat! Book now and enjoy a ski holiday suitable for all the family!
The best way to save on Half Term is with our Ski-All-In deals, which give great discounts for booking everything you need for your holiday at one time. Prices below include travel, chalet accommodation with 6 days of catering, lift pass and silver level ski and boot hire. Learn more about all inclusive ski holidays here.
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If you'd prefer to ski in Europe over the half term break, why not take advantage of one of our fantastically cheap skiing trips? Skiworld are offering half-price places for children at a number of resorts in Europe during February 2020, including Val d'Isère, Les Deux Alpes and St Anton.
For the 2018/19 season, some of our chalet catering service is changing to 5 days a week, rather than 6 as previously. For half term holidays however, we are pleased to continue to offer 6 days of chalet catering across all our European chalets.
Taking a half term ski break in February is a great way to blow off steam at the start of the year, especially when you're halfway around the world! We still have availability for all chalets in the USA for February 2020... Give our reservations team a call now on 0330 102 8004.
Alternatively, choose to spend your half term skiing holiday in one of dozens of our family-friendly hotels to suit all budgets. Plus, so you don't blow all of your holiday savings at the beginning of the year, children aged 2-11 years can stay completely free at many of our hotels and condominiums in North America. These include Whistler, Jackson Hole and Vail.
What's so special about our USA and Canada half-term ski trips?
Jackson Hole has all the attributes of a Wild West town, as well as offering dog sledding, snowmobile tours of the famous Yellowstone National Park and sleigh rides through elk refuges.
If you prefer a self-catering option on your half term skiing break, we have a range of spacious apartments available in all our resorts in Europe and North America, which can accommodate from 2 to 18 people.
We also offer half-term skiing trips to Canada or the USA.


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The Stars boat is sinking quickly.
It's losing momentum, confidence, players and games. It's losing ground in the standings, too.
After a 4-1 loss last night to the last place (in the whole LEAGUE) Edmonton Oilers, the Stars have fallen to 5th in the Western Conference, just two points ahead of 8th place Calgary and three points ahead of the LA Kings.
Basically, the Stars need to pull it together, and fast.
Tonight they play the aforementioned Calgary Flames, a team that is 7-1-2 in its last 10 games and is looking to make a push towards the top of the standings to secure a playoff spot.
Meanwhile, the Stars are 2-7-1 in their last 10 games, and they'll play tonight's game without Brad Richards or Nicklas Grossman, two players who are proving their worth exponentially by not being in the lineup.
Is all hope lost? No, not yet. There's still plenty of time to get back on track and make the playoffs.
But in a race this tight, I'd rather not leave anything to chance.
So Stars, let's pull it together eh?
Last night I witnessed the Stars lay a beatdown on the Atlanta Thrashers 6-1 first hand.
I watched as the Stars asserted their dominance in every aspect of the game, out hitting, out hustling and out playing Atlanta as they cruised to victory.
It was a great game for several reasons. It was the first time Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen had faced the only other team he's ever known since being traded from Atlanta to Dallas midway through last season. Lehtonen had spent his entire career with the Thrashers, who drafted him with the second overall pick in the 2002 draft.
The win also helps Dallas keep pace with the two top teams in the Western Conference, Vancouver and Detroit.
With Vancouver winning on Friday night and Detroit winning on Saturday, the Stars needed a good showing to remain 5 points behind the Canucks and 3 behind the Red Wings. The got just that with two goals each from Trevor Daley and James Neal, with Jeff Woiwitka and Adam Burish also scoring goals.
Lehtonen showed nerves of steel as he repeatedly turned back shots from his former teammates, making the Thrashers front office second guess themselves time and time again.
At the end of the night, Atlanta was a city in sports ruins, with the Falcons getting it just as bad against the Packers.
Meanwhile in Dallas, we're all hoping that the Stars can get back to the promised land and bring this city its first championship since 1999, when the Stars won the Stanley Cup.


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Billboard Magazine Recognizes Todd Oxford, Saxophone Artist
My good friend, Todd Oxford, has been featured in the April 4 issue of Billboard Magazine as Emerging Artist and Global Music Awards Gold Medal Winner.
As anyone who has heard Todd's work knows, he's such an incredibly talented musician and composer, that this is a drop in the bucket compared with the recognition he deserves as an artist.
There are many amazing musicians out there with unique gifts, but I can honestly say that Todd is one of the few I'd call a virtuoso. His musicianship is truly excellent, as a performer he's flawless and fascinating to hear live, and what's more, he's a really fun and creative individual.
If I were a Hollywood music supervisor, he'd compose many a soundtrack. His original work is moody, intricate, theatrical, and epic.
Todd's albums include Synaesthesia, Tango Magnetism, and Finesse. You can listen at www.ToddOxfordSaxophonist.com.
Todd has played on a number of my own songs, including The Haunting and The Mad, Mad March Hare, and Jason's Orisonata compositions, such as Journey to the Center of the Earth and Robin Hood.
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Todd Oxford is active internationally as a performer, recording artist, and educator appearing in Europe, Asia, Mexico, Canada, and throughout forty-six of the fifty United States in venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and CAMI Hall, Dallas's Meyerson Center, Georgia's Spivey Hall, and the Texas Ranger's Ballpark to perform the National Anthem for a crowd of 30,000. Other US venues include the University of Hawaii, California State University at Los Angeles, University of Ohio, University of Tennessee, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, University of Oklahoma, and the University of Northern Colorado. He has been featured as a guest artist with the United States Air Force Band of the West, Sacramento Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, San Antonio Symphony, Austin Symphony, Abilene Symphony, Garland Symphony, Irving Symphony, and the University of Texas at Austin Symphony. Most recent engagements include two consecutive New York Debuts, the first as a soloist and the second with the Elision Saxophone Quartet, European appearances at the 14th World Saxophone Congress, and a tour of Germany. Asian appearances include two tours of the People's Republic of China, a tour of Thailand, and a tour of Indonesia.
Formally educated at The University of Texas, Mr. Oxford received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2001. He launched a performance career with an invitation to join the internationally acclaimed Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet. In thirteen years as the quartet's baritone saxophonist, he presented concerts around the world in affiliation with Columbia Artists Management, Midwest Arts Alliance, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and C&C Arts Management. Concert tours included the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Honolulu, Lisbon, Bangkok, Halifax, and San Miguel de Allende. Additionally, the group performed on hundreds of university/college campuses, radio/television programs, orchestra pops series, and as featured artists with wind ensembles.
Todd Oxford's recordings and performances have been reviewed by publications to include the New York Concert Review, American Record Guide, Los Angeles Times, Saxophone Journal, Clarinet & Saxophone (United Kingdom), Clarinet & Saxophone (Australia), Amazon.com, Audiophile Audition, Austin American Statesman, and San Antonio Express News. He is a featured artist on a number of recordings from the Mark Record Label playing with ensembles such as The Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet, the TEX-SAX Saxophone Ensemble, the United States Air Force Band of the West, and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble. His CD's, Tango Magnetism, Finesse, and Live Through the Years, and Radiant Blues are available from the Equilibrium Label and distributed by Albany Music. A new album, Synaesthesia, will be released in early 2014. All recordings are available internationally via iTunes, amazon, and other major retailers.
Mr. Oxford's professional awards include two consecutive New York Debut Awards, nomination as a Texas State Artist (Texas Commission on the Arts), Dallas Concerto Competition First Prize, Coleman Chamber Music Competition Finalist, San Antonio Express News's Best of 2006 Classical Music, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and selection as an Outstanding Young Man of America. Todd Oxford is Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at the Texas State University School of Music. He performs exclusively on Todd Oxford "Signature Series" Saxophones.
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Initially, nothing about Buddies jumps out as remarkable. I never heard of the film, screenwriter/director Arthur J. Bressan Jr., or anyone involved. It feels like it was thrown together and pumped out in a matter of days, like a porn. At best, it's as if Ed Wood were aiming for Jean-Luc Godard; at worst, early John Waters doing an Afterschool Special.
Technically, it's messy. The camerawork is choppy, darting crudely from character to character. The script is amateur, preachy, and at times emotionally manipulative. Except for a few scenes, the acting is stiff and overdone, like a Fifties B-movie or a soap opera.
All that said, well … I'll borrow a term from a different and much later movement: it gets better. This film really got to me. For all its low budget shortcomings, Buddies packs an emotional whollop. Truth and heartfelt sincerity shine through, and they go a long way in making the sum here much greater than its parts.
The film follows David Bennett (David Schachter), a Manhattan guppy in what appears to be a happy but bland and maybe safe monogamous relationship, who volunteers to be a "buddy" for another gay man, Robert Willow (Geoff Edholm). Robert is dying in an AIDS ward. As a buddy, David is there to offer a helping hand or an open ear with the hope of ensuring that Robert doesn't feel forgotten (https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/18/buddies-remains-an-urgently-moving-study-of-life-and-death-in-the-aids-era/).
At first, their interactions are uncomfortable and perfunctory; this is usually how it goes when trying to connect with a total stranger. The two don't have all that much in common: David is quiet, cautious, and reserved; Robert is out, spirited, and definitely someone who has been around the block. Tinged with an outlying jealousy and perhaps a scintilla of superiority, David finds Robert to be too much: all his talk about sex and politics (not to mention his rage) turns him off. David isn't invested in this relationship, forced as it is.
The ice breaks when Robert tells David about the love of his life. Touched and maybe finally able to relate, David opens up and starts listening to what Robert tells him.
I didn't quite care for where Bressan ultimately took David. Still, he (Bressan, not David) is an astute observer of human nature. He touches on attitudes that tend to prevail when one person in a relationship is, shall we say, in a better position than the other, and he demonstrates how judgment can rear its ugly head. I like that Robert is unapologetic, which redeems him in the end.
Buddies is a film that takes on significance once you consider its historical perspective. It was the first American feature film to address the burgeoning AIDS crisis, back when it was called a "gay disease" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_J._Bressan_Jr.). It deals with AIDS head on, and it did so during Reagan's first term. If it feels slapped together, there's a reason for it — Bressan, a fairly prominent porn director, was dying when he made it. His sense of urgency is palpable.
This screening, a brand new digital restoration, was the first one we attended at Reeling. It is a fitting choice because Buddies was the same festival's opener the year it was released (http://reelingfilmfestival.org/2018/films/buddies/).
With Damon Hairston, Joyce Korn, Billy Lux, David Rose, Libby Saines, Susan Schneider, Tracy Vivat
Production: Film and Video Workshop
Distribution: New Line Cinema, Vinegar Syndrome
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Posted in 1985, 20th century, American, B-, drama, gay, lgbt, September 2018, USA	Tagged Afterschool Special, AIDS, Arthur J. Bressan Jr., Billy Lux, Damon Hairston, David Rose, David Schachter, Ed Wood, Film and Video Workshop, Geoff Edholm, jean-luc godard, John Waters, Joyce Korn, Libby Saines, manhattan, New Line Cinema, Reeling International Film Festival, Ronald Reagan, Susan Schneider, Tracy Vivat, Vinegar Syndrome	Leave a comment
Link posted on September 19, 2018 October 2, 2018 by moviebloke
"The topic of today's video is being yourself."
"Growing up can be a little bit scary and weird."
— Kayla Day
Eighth grade was the worst year of my life — I hated everything about it: my shitty peers, my changing body, the high school application process. I never looked back once I got out.
It's probably no big shock then that my favorite movie taking on the horrors and inequities of middle school is Todd Solondz's darkly hilarious and biting — yet somehow sympathetic — Welcome to the Dollhouse. Dawn Wiener is a hero of sorts to me (really). With Eighth Grade, writer / director Bo Burnham traverses the same treacherous terrain — he even starts down a similar, cynical path as Solondz. He swiftly takes it somewhere else, though, allowing Eighth Grade to tell its own story.
Young teenager Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), who's finishing her final week of eighth grade, leads a double life. She posts self-recorded inspirational videos on YouTube, encouraging viewers to do things like be themselves, choose confidence, and put themselves out there to improve their lot in life.
Sadly, she's nothing like her YouTube persona at school. Kayla is struggling to fit in, discouraged by the classmates she cyberstalks, some of whom she even approaches in person. She has no friends. No one notices her. She wins a "superlative" award — one of those dubious "most whatever" designations voted by peers — for being the quietest girl student. Aiden (Luke Prael), the guy she's crushing on, wins "best eyes;" her low mumbled "Nice job" doesn't even register when he walks past her desk to collect his prize (although she eventually gets his attention when she lies about having nude pics on her phone and giving good blowjobs, but that's another point).
Fair or not, Kayla takes out her anxiety and frustration on her hapless single dad, Mark (Josh Hamilton). He doesn't quite know how to deal with it.
WARNING: Potential spoilers ahead!
After she manages to recover from an anxiety attack at a disastrous pool party, Kayla is paired with Olivia (Emily Robinson), a big sisterly high school senior, to shadow for a day. They hit it off, which Kayla didn't see coming — nor did I. Olivia invites Kayla out with her friends. Kayla's sixth grade self emerges to push her toward a light she suddenly sees at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
There's a lot to like about Eighth Grade, which easily could've been another teen movie — comedy or drama — that dredges up everything awful about being a teenager just for the sake of revisiting how awful it can be. Burnham nails the multiple forms that adolescent cruelty takes, but he doesn't stop there. Instead, he takes his film to a positive place. His tone is never condescending. He doesn't make light of Kayla's dilemmas — clearly, they're matters of life or death to her. He makes them important to us.
It's a joy watching Kayla figure out that things really do get better — even in the face of a jarringly confusing incident involving one of Olivia's friends (Daniel Zolghadri). Fisher is perfect in her role, zits and all. She shines especially with the little details — her expressions, her awkward movements, and all her likes, ums, and you-knows. She recalls Dawn Wiener without all the cartoonish flourishes.
It sounds hokey, but you really do want to applaud when Kayla finally gets it, like when she tears into two classmates, mean girls Kennedy (Catherine Oliviere) and Steph (Nora Mullins), in one totally brilliant scene. Or when she accepts an invitation to hang out with dorky Gabe (Jake Ryan, who amusingly happens to have the same name as Molly Ringwald's crush in Sixteen Candles) after he strikes up a conversation with her in the pool — and actually follows up with her.
To a degree, Eighth Grade echoes Welcome to the Dollhouse, intentionally or not. One big thing that sets it apart is its rosy ending — it's hopeful. That's a very good thing. Gucci!
With Jake Ryan, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis, Gerald W. Jones, Missy Yager, Shacha Temirov, Greg Crowe, Thomas J O'Reilly, Frank Deal, J. Tucker Smith, Tiffany Grossfeld, David Shih, Trinity Goscinsky-Lynch, Natalie Carter, Kevin R. Free, Deborah Unger, Marguerite Stimpson
Production: A24
Distribution: A24
(Landmark Century) B
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The proposed legislation would place strategic safeguards against foreign influence by strengthening institutional vetting and applying strategic protections for Florida's education system, governmental entities and more. The legislation would also bolster Florida's law enforcement agencies to investigate and apply penalties for corporate espionage that benefits a foreign government.
Rick Scott: FTC Should Investigate Zoom's Ties to China
Scott's letter to the Federal Trade Commission follows the U.S. Department of Justice's recent announcement that a former Zoom executive had been charged for coordinating with the Communist Party of China to target U.S.-based dissidents and disrupt video meetings commemorating the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee urging them to immediately consider and pass his resolution condemning human rights violations in Communist China and urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move the 2022 Games out of China, where more than one million Uyghurs are being held in concentration camps while the people of Hong Kong are being arrested and denied the basic rights they were promised.
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Among a number of provisions, the directive requires DFS leverage the country-of-origin vendor survey that was issued in May, prior to entering into a new contract or approving vendor contract amendments.
Rick Scott Continues to Sound the Alarm on China
For weeks, Scott has been asking the Trump administration to keep travel restrictions in place on China, even after the pandemic. Scott pointed to human rights abuses as a major concern.
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Proceedings get underway with the International Santa 5k Run/Walk.
Registration at Santa's Grotto (Tourist Office) from 10am.
Run starts at 11am. Prizes for first male, female and best dressed. Prizes sponsored by ABP Cahir.


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MAL:COM the phone first appeared way back in Episode 28, where he was swiftly not worked into any ongoing storylines for a year. We had plans for him though, honest.
I coloured this one. In other news, we're looking for a colourist to join the team. Hit us up yo.
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Setting aside a few loosely defined origin stories, records indicate that the Idle Time heroes first teamed up in 2001 to save their friends and the community at large from shitty music. Empowered by the wild, wide open wonderland of the Internet, they moved a metric ton in CD-R burns within those first few years, like little prismatic shields against the commercial tyranny of mass-marketed radio pop.
Lots of things have changed over the last fifteen years, including how people listen to and discover new music. One thing that hasn't changed, however, is how passionate we all are about the music that affects us, and the songs we hold dear.
As our roster has changed and grown since '01, so has our stable of musical interests. To acknowledge that, and to celebrate our little anniversary, nine Idlers started working on a ranked list of our 150 favorite songs from our first fifteen years, 2001-2015. It was a glorious, argumentative pain-in-the-ass, but we did it. And it culminated in a celebratory bonfire this past April. Follow the link below to count down with us, from #150 to our favorite song from the Idle Time era.
The Ultimate Mixtape: 150 – 126
Few people have the endurance required for near eleven hours of tunes, so this massive mixtape has been broken down into seven separate countdown jams for your listening pleasure. Enjoy, and happy idling.
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The Top 20. The best of the best from the last fifteen years. No matter what you think of the picks, or project as a whole (I can't believe they picked that song by that band and not..! Where's this band? That artist? We get it. Believe me, we've already argued and complained enough for all of you.) …these favorite twenty tunes make for an unbelievably good mix. This countdown also showcases the power of live roulette. The presumptive number one pick, based on the preliminary ballots, succumbed to in-person enthusiasm and in-the-moment championing, finishing with the bronze medal. And the favorite tune? Hit play, and enjoy the ultimate Ultimate Mixtape.
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Ultimate Mixtape: 40 – 21
Nine Idlers contributed to the draft that created the list of 150 favorites, and five of the nine number one picks slot themselves in this installment! Most notably, that Trust song gave birth to the term "shooming," in which one Idler uses the automatic top-50 entry and a plethora of drunken exuberance to push a song that would have otherwise been relegated to spot #134 all the way up to #39. This jam also features the band that effectively "won" the list. Gorillaz have three tunes in The Ultimate Mixtape, and the first two debut in here in part six.
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At one point, we entertained the idea of rouletting the entire list of 150 songs, forgetting that the process employed to order the 400 all-time favorite albums of the Decades project took several months of card-shuffling in locales all over Northern California. None of us are very good at math, but after postulating some variables and discovering that 150 songs would take somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty hours to complete, we opted for a plan B. The bottom hundred tunes would be ranked by silent ballot, while the top 50 would be subjected to the live bonfire frivolity. With one exception: any song that was ranked number one by an individual on his or her list would automatically be bumped up into the roulette. Enter The Killers, making this mix installment the first to feature an Idler's favorite song. We also get the first taste of Ted Leo, one of the patron saints of The Institute.
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The next twenty tunes in The Ultimate Mixtape pay tribute to the enduring power of some back-in-the-day favorites. We're all a little bit guilty of best-thing-ever fever, but the fact that so many songs from the earliest years of consideration made it this deep into the mix is testament to the fact that, in some cases, that initial enthusiasm was not misplaced. And center stage for this tribute to the formative period of our collective are the Oxford Angels themselves. Do-no-wrong Radiohead remain in heavy rotation with releases from before, during, and after this fifteen-year window.
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Ultimate Mixtape: 100 – 81
A significant slice of the decade's chart-toppers and pop music mainstays populates mix number three. R. Kelly opens for Kanye who opens for Katy Perry opening for Britney Spears. And before the end of this 20-song installment, L.A.'s Chromatics, behind the mesmerizing vocals of Ruth Radelet, provide their encore performance on The Ultimate Mixtape.
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Ultimate Mixtape: 125 – 101
The second mix in the series is a geographic tour de force, opening in symphonic Castles and ending up on the fuzzy Beach. Tour the Mediterranean with stops in Mykonos and Italy, and be charmed by Swedish pop, Australian rock, and a Swedish troubadour by way of Australia. And somewhere in the middle is a four-piece from Jersey who, prior to their debut LP and the unavoidable Bon Jovi and Springsteen comparisons, likely hadn't set foot farther than the north Atlantic seaboard.
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Rather than act as responsible DJs, tracklisting these 150 songs in an intelligible, well-conceived playlist, we're letting the rankings dictate. Like an MTV Video Countdown or American Top 40, our favorite songs of the Idle Time era are being presented in inverse order, counting down to our number one.
We pride ourselves on the genre variety that we bring to a project like this, and it doesn't surprise us when, as in most cases, the more uniquely personal favorites tend to filter down to the bottom of the list. The result, this first twenty-five-track mix, is probably the most schizophrenic of the lot, bouncing back and forth from one outlier to another. Richard David James, as The Tuss and Aphex Twin, makes two appearances in this first jam.
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Justifications for Idleness
Fifteen Years of Idle Time: The Bonfire
Last month, on a characteristically can't-make-up-its-mind Saturday, with spring sunshine jockeying with wind and fog, we assembled on Ocean Beach to celebrate fifteen years of Idle Time nonsense. The original three hadn't been in the same place since a fantasy baseball draft in 2014, and our core four likely hadn't been together since those traumatizing rock 'n roll roulette sessions in the back room of Ink way back in 2012.
LDG: "This is what you look like. Beach surgeons in an outdoor operating room. Or crazy people."
This was also the first ever in-person assemblage of both the O.G. Idle Timers and the next-generation of enthusiastic souls, plus friends and wayward, woebegone blog contributors. It's never easy to get perfect attendance (heretofore impossible, really), and the Doodle calendaring went on for weeks. But, for this particular get-together, having us all together was essential. We were finally going to do it. After three failed attempts dating back to 2009, Idle Time's Ultimate Mixtape was so close to realization. And we were going to stay on that goddam beach until we had ranked the whole fucking thing.
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Fifteen Years of Idle Time: The Swedish Obsession
Looking back over the fifteen-year history of our silly little collective has involved much more than spinning old CD-R mixes, reading photocopied zines, and digging up photos of RF in a skirt. But of course I've done all of those things too.
The infamous "Young Folks" mock cover, November '06. RF on the left.
It has also involved opening backup folders in subfolders in mis-labeled directories on flashdrives and SD cards hiding in dusty cardboard boxes all over Northern California. I'm not the most organized of archivists, but I do maintain that everything is somewhere, provided I have the patience to look for it. In this case, I didn't find what I was initially looking for (a spreadsheet with the first iteration of our Ultimate Mixtape), but I did uncover some random word documents with transcribed content from our old Google group.
One particular narrative (that I composed as a radio play for some reason) is especially interesting. It recounts the car ride in which WH, RF, and I realized that we had slowly come under the spell of Swedish pop music. And it snowballed from there. The accuracy of the transcript is debatable, but it certainly sounds like one of our car ride conversations.
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Jesus didn't invent the printing press.
He never even wrote a book.
Jesus was content to let people with imperfect memories tell his story to other people with imperfect memories.
If 2,000 years ago I'd had a message for the world, I would have written it down and then asked my friends to carve all the letters of the alphabet onto little blocks of wood and attach those wooden letters to the bottom plate of a wine press so they could start stamping out copies of my message.
But it would be fourteen hundred years before Gutenberg would have that idea.
Why? Why would God wait fourteen hundred years when all the necessary pieces were readily available at the time?
The obvious answer is that Jesus didn't have a message for the world.
If you reduce Jesus to just a philosopher or a teacher telling us how to live our lives, then you've entirely missed the point of his coming. His advice about life wasn't much different than that of Hinduism or Buddhism. "Be nice to each other. Live in peace. Love God." And both of those religions were established long before Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
He came for another reason.
Humans were being held captive and they cried out to God.
God responded with a plan to rescue them.
In essence, God told them to make the sign of the cross – in blood – on the doorways of their homes. If they believed God and did as he asked, they would have life instead of death. And the next morning they would walk through those doorways into freedom, having been rescued from slavery by God himself.
Did these people realize they were making the sign of the cross in blood?
Am I bringing a perspective to this story that wasn't available at that time?
Certainly. That possibility exists. It would be disingenuous of me to deny it.
Even though it wasn't logical to slap lamb's blood on the tops and sides of doorframes, these descendants of Abraham did it anyway. Faith is not logical. Faith is a choice.
Pharaoh immediately freed the slaves.
When they cried out to him, God rescued the descendants of his partner and gave them symbols to remember forever: a spattering of blood above the head and at the left and right hand of the doorway and a meal that included bread without yeast. Faithful descendants of Abraham continue to hold that feast to this day, even though it has been more than 3,000 years.
I mentioned earlier that Jesus didn't have a message for the world. He didn't come to bring insightful words of inspiration.
He came for another reason. He came to die.
Jesus came to make the sign of the cross in blood – his own blood – but just before he laid down his life, he celebrated the Passover with his friends.
He came to build us a bridge back to God.
Do you remember the previous chapter when I told you how Jesus compared his credentials to those of Satan in the 10th chapter of John?
1. We are the sheep.
2. The sheep pen is the earth.
3. Coming into the sheep pen "through the door" refers to coming here as a human being – an authorized agent of planet earth – through the process of natural childbirth.
In that same story Jesus goes on to speak of a second door; the door by which the sheep can escape the sheep pen.
Three thousand years ago God rescued of a group of people held captive in ancient Egypt. For his rescue to succeed, bread without yeast had to be broken and a spattering of blood had to be painted on the doorframe of each house above the head and at the left and right hand.
(Why was it important that the bread be made without yeast?


I have been using a Lumia 920 phone for almost 3 years now, and love it, in spite of a few quirks. I have been anxiously awaiting news of a Windows 10 phone.
On the heels of releasing Windows 10 operating system back in July, Microsoft did announce the Microsoft Lumia 950/950XL Windows 10 phones. Both phones will come with a 20-megapixel camera. The 950 will have a 5.2" screen size, and the 950XL will be 5.7". AT&T has already announced that will carry the phone.
However, availability of these phones are still up in the air.
News is slowly coming out that Microsoft may release a new Windows Phone next year that may be marketed as a Surface Phone, rather than a Lumia. Attachments could include a pen and a mini-attachable keyboard.
Read more at the Latin Post.
I am not a happy camper with both Bank of America (BOA) and Microsoft.
So, what's their definition of "soon"?
You have to go to the Windows Phone App store to find that in "early March 2015" they will stop supporting this app on the Windows Phone platform!
I utilize the electronic check deposit feature of their phone l the time.
Their suggestion that I do my mobile checking through the browser is a farce, since their web site does not provide the capability of electronic check deposit.
Why am I upset with Microsoft? Because it appears that BOA is waling away from the Windows Phone platform, and I'm not hearing anything from Microsoft on this situation. If BOA walks, whose next? And what does that say about the future of the Windows Phone platform?
Microsoft announced today (Oct 30, 2014) that the next release of Windows will be called Windows 10. Their main goal is to have a single, common operating system that runs on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smart phones. Windows 10 will be in various stages of internal and beta testing thru 2015, with an anticipated general release date sometime in the second half of 2015.
If you want to get a running commentary, with photos, of today's release, click here.
Newer style "apps" will work in more traditional windows, with ability to minimize, move or click X to close as expected. It will not feel like two different worlds which Windows 8 feels like.
It will have the ability to have multiple "desktops" with different apps and windows running in each desktop (nice way to separate work and home) and the ability to flip through the desktops.
The "charm" bar is still on the right side of the screen like in Windows 8.
There will be a "Touch UI" tool to allow operation similar to Windows 8 for those who like that.. and will also be good for two-in-ones (laptop/tablets) to still operate like a touch tablet. They call the new tool "Continuum" that will help users switch between touch and keyboard modes for the two-in-one convertible devices.
They'll be releasing the Technical "Preview" version soon. The Windows Insider program opens tomorrow http://preview.windows.com – there's a video there now showing a few of the new features.
The actual Windows 10 operating system is expected to ship in 2015 "mid to later in the year" as they will still be previewing new consumer aspects and new "universal apps" in April.
Windows 10 is also the next version of the phone operating system.. will run the same operating system family on all devices from 4″ to 80″. However phone version does not have a 'desktop'.
I've used Roboform on my main desktop for years to store and manage my logins and passwords to web sites. So, when I purchased my Windows 8 Phone (Lumia 920) back in November 2012, I was disappointed (to say the least) when I discovered that Roboform did not have an app for my phone.
Lo and behold, after waiting for more than a year, Roboform finally released version 1.0 of their Windows 8 Phone app. I will let you read all the complaints and criticisms from people about this first release.
Go to the Windows Store on your phone, and search for Roboform and download the app.
Next, login using your Roboform login name and password. The settings page is pretty sparse, and I did not change them from the default.
For my first attempt, I decided to see if I could access my Twitter web page, which I hardly do. Type in the Twitter URL, and it then takes me to the mobile version of their login page.
Look down at the bottom of the screen, and when I press the left icon (highlighted by the arrow), it displays for me the two Twitter login accounts that I have previously saved in Roboform from my desktop.
Windows Phone 8 – Phone Home Please!
More than once you've misplaced your phone, and it was right under your nose the whole time. With my Windows Phone 8 I can now use the WindowsPhone web site to locate my phone. It displays a map of it's current location. And it gives me the ability to send out a really annoying beep to help me locate it if it's close by, or lock or erase it if it has been stolen.
Go to the WindowsPhone web site, and login using your Microsoft Live account.
Near the top right hand side of the screen, locate your name.
Hover over the Windows Phone drop down box, and click on Find My Phone.
You will then be displayed a screen with a map of where your phone is currently located, and options top Ring, Lock or Erase.
Go ahead and click on the Ring link – ANNOYING, but oh so helpful.
Microsoft announced today on their SkyDrive blog site that Live Mesh will be officially retired on February 13, 2013.
SkyDrive continues to be enhanced with apps for Windows, Windows Phone, Android, iPhone, iPad and Xbox 360, and is deeply integrated with Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT.


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Home Football SEC previews and predictions: Week 6
SEC previews and predictions: Week 6
By Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief
Last week's record: 6-1 (85.7%)
Season record: 40-5 (88.9%)
Once again, inscrutable Auburn proved to be the Predictions Dept.'s downfall in Week 5, as the Tigers baffled the Gamecocks and made the only black mark on our scoresheet. This week, Georgia and Tennessee, LSU and Florida and Auburn and Arkansas headline the SEC's offerings in a critical week for division title races.
FLORIDA at LOUISIANA STATE
Losing QB Jeff Brantley against Alabama doesn't help Florida one bit heading into this game with LSU. The Tigers welcomed QB Jordan Jefferson back last week, but the question remains whether Jefferson will be a help to LSU or a distraction. One thing is for sure: Florida has no chance if Jeff Driskel plays quarterback in this game the way he played in relief of Brantley against Alabama last week. Florida will give LSU a good game, but expect the Tigers to pull away late as the Gators start making mistakes.
LSU 30
VANDERBILT at ALABAMA
See our extended preview!
GEORGIA at TENNESSEE
The Volunteers are still very much in the SEC East race, but lose this game and the bath gets a lot more difficult. The same advice goes for Georgia, as well. The Bulldogs have no room for error and Mark Richt's job might depend on this game and others like it on the 2011 schedule. This game has produced some memorable moments in recent years, but this year all it's likely to do is provide a study in two collapsed former conference superpowers.
KENTUCKY at SOUTH CAROLINA
Kentucky comes into this game in shambles thanks to a 2-3 start fueled by a quarterback position that simply isn't working out. South Carolina fell at home to Auburn last week, likely ending any chance the Gamecocks thought they might have had for the national championship. Connor Shaw will start at quarterback for South Carolina; as for Kentucky, it doesn't seem to matter. The Wildcats are playing with all the boundless enthusiasm of a narcoleptic.
AUBURN at ARKANSAS
Given that the Predictions Dept. has been wrong about almost every game Auburn has played this year, we'll go out on a limb again and predict a Tiger loss. Arkansas has plenty of weapons to get downfield on an Auburn secondary that is, quite frankly, only good when the opposing quarterback makes it look that way. The real question is whether the Razorback front can stop RB Michael Dyer and co. If they can't, Auburn could very well win this matchup.
Auburn 38
MISSISSIPPI STATE at ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM
Things have officially gone south for the Bulldogs, thanks in large part to an offense that can't seem to function properly. UAB, though, is still looking for its first win, and the Blazers rank at or below just about every major statistical category. If the Bulldogs somehow find a way to lose this one – don't laugh; MSU almost lost to Louisiana Tech earlier in the year – things could get ugly in Starkville.
Mississippi St. 27
UAB 14
IDLE: Ole Miss
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Q: Group by with sort on more than million rows I have a table with million+ rows. Each of them have a license no.
The query I have right now, does a group by on license no and sorts by count(Distinct(type)) and count(license_no) and date.
All the fields with joins - license_no or date are indexed.
But its taking me 5 seconds to return the results.
How do I speed up the performance. Ideally the results should not take more than a second.
Query:
SELECT `license_no`,
COUNT(DISTINCT(type)) AS gdid,
COUNT(id) AS cdid,
max(updated_on) as maxdate
FROM `mytable`
WHERE `license_no` >0
GROUP BY `license_no`
ORDER BY `gdid` DESC, `cdid` DESC, maxdate DESC LIMIT 12

Logic I want to implement:
I have a list of cars (million + records).
I want to find all unique cars (unique by license_no)
sorted by :

*

*license_no which has max count of different types

*license_no which has max total counts

*finally sort individual records by latest date.

A: The only way you are going to make this run fast is by pre-aggregating. You can do this using triggers on mytable. Your writes will be a little slower, but the query above will only need to scan a much smaller table.

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Immigrant entrepreneurs: the barriers they face and how to remove them
Shutterstock/song_about_summerImmigrants often do well in the business world. They are behind one in seven of all companies in the UK, where half of the fastest-growing businesses have a foreign-born founder.
Ping, read, reply, repeat: how to break bad email habits at work
Open all hours. MavoIt is an impressive feat that work email has managed to reign supreme as the most prolific and favoured communication tool in today's digital working world, despite the emergence of arguably more functional alternatives like Slack, Yammer and MS Teams.
Amazon and Tesco's checkout-free stores are a niche idea that won't save the high street
There have never been so many different ways to shop for groceries. The biggest chains offer customers a choice of vast superstores, smaller branches, and online options to buy from home.
Now some of the UK's best known supermarkets are experimenting with checkout-free stores. Following Amazon's lead (it launched in London in March 2021), Sainsbury's (Pick & Go) and Tesco (GetGo) have recently opened branches which offer a streamlined shopping experience.
Facebook: latest court case shows how Europe is clamping down on big tech
Facebook's approach to users' data has just been dealt a major blow from the European court of justice (ECJ). In an answer to a question from Germany's highest court, the ECJ's advocate general – whose opinion is not binding but is generally followed by the court – has made an essential clarification to Europe's data protection law to confirm that consumer associations can bring actions on behalf of individuals.
Government must back UK train travel or risk long-term retreat to cars
Jon Fitton/ShutterstockThere's no doubt that the UK's railways have been hit hard by the pandemic. Recent figures from the Office of Rail and Road show a huge drop in passenger numbers, from April 2020 to March 2021. Over that period numbers fell at some previously busy stations like London Waterloo, by 86%. While numbers at Stratford, in east London, (the UK's busiest station) fell by 67%.
Football: English fans want an independent regulator – here's how it could help save clubs from ruin
Bolton Wanderers celebrating promotion to League One in 2021. Shuttterstock/Jake KirkmanFootball clubs are not like other businesses. Their primary aim is not to make a profit, but to win matches.
Brazil now forecast to see double-digit inflation
12/02/2021 National Institute of Economic and Social Research UK
Headline inflation has increased markedly across both advanced and emerging market (EM) economies this year ending up much higher than we forecast six months ago. Consumer price inflation is expected to remain elevated until at least the second quarter of 2022 as ongoing supply chain disruptions, higher energy prices, and stronger-than-expected demand in countries such as the US provide additional impetus to already buoyant goods prices. Nowhere is this clearer than in Brazil, where annual inflation rose to 10.67 per cent in October, the highest rate since January 2016.
Germany: the three biggest issues facing Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Olaf Scholz is soon to be sworn in as the new chancellor of Germany after nearly two months of intense negotiations between the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and liberal Free Democrats (FDP).
Jack Dorsey's decision to quit Twitter is not a vote of confidence in future of social media
When Jack Dorsey made the sudden public announcement that he had quit as CEO of Twitter, it was only ever going to have happened in one place – Twitter itself.
Advertising in the pandemic: how companies used COVID as a marketing tool
Corporate outreach. Shutterstock/Kevin Chen ImagesAt the start of the pandemic, consumers were bombarded with a new and hastily constructed form of advertising. In those "uncertain times", customers were promised, they could rely on their favourite brands for help.


I wonder why the stars won't brink.
It's not a distance you don't even trust your mouth5 inches away.
Whoever now is knocking on your door, is what you truly hope to owe.
I'll fly like you. Here's a promise I'll fly like you.
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Surface Pro has become an iconic design now, and perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising to see more of an evolution in a new launch than the revolution we sometimes hope for. As the saying goes, if it's not broke, don't fix it, and there's a lot that's not broken on the Surface Pro design. Ever since moving to the 3:2 aspect ratio back with the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft has seen the other manufacturers imitate their design, with varying levels of success.
Surface Pro 6 keeps the unibody magnesium design relatively unchanged from the 2017 model, with the same rounded edges, and exactly the same exterior dimensions. Weight is almost identical as well, with the Core i5 model coming in at 770 grams, and the Core i7 slightly heavier at 784 grams to account for the fan.
Really, the big change on the design front is the new black color, which as you'd expect on an all-metal device like the Surface Pro, is an anodized finish. The new color option does look striking, especially with the Microsoft logo as a contrasting reflective finish. Microsoft will still be offering the platinum color they've been using since the Surface Pro 3. There's got to be a concern that the black finish won't be as durable, and any scratches will be immediately apparently, whereas with the platinum finish, scratches would be masked by the color of the metal underneath, but that how durable the finish is will require a longer evaluation.
Surface Pro keeps the same bezel sizes, and with the move to thinner and thinner display bezels, it does look a bit out of place compared to something like the Huawei MateBook X Pro, but since the Surface Pro can also be a tablet, it makes sense to keep some bezel in place as somewhere to hold the device when necessary.
Microsoft has been outfitting Surface with a fast and reliable Windows Hello camera since the Surface Pro 4 launched, and the latest model continues this. The sign-in process is simple, fast, and secure, and it's hard to say if it's better than the previous model since both work so quickly.
Being so small and light, Surface Pro is incredibly easy to travel with. The full-friction hinge mechanism lets you use the tablet in an infinite number of positions as well. If you are someone that often types in their lap while traveling though, convertible tablets are generally not as user-friendly as laptops, although it can be awkwardly done if needed.
Along with things that have not changed with this launch is the lineup of accessories for the Surface Pro. Every Surface Pro practically requires a keyboard, and Microsoft offers several to suit the customer's preferences.
The standard Type Cover costs $129.99, and comes in black. If you want a more premium experience, Microsoft also sells the Surface Pro Signature Type Cover which features an alcantara cover, and this model comes in platinum, cobalt blue, burgundy, and black for $159.99. At one point these prices seemed extravagant for a keyboard accessory however Microsoft seems conservative in regards to pricing compared to Apple and Google.
The typing experience on the Type Covers is solid, with good key feel, and the keys stretch to the edges of the cover. The glass trackpad is also excellent. The covers haven't changed much since they were introduced with the Surface Pro 4, and for good reason.
Microsoft also offers a Surface Pen option, and although the pen was once included in the purchase price, it's now a separate accessory, but that does give the option of different color pens. The pen was improved dramatically with the previous 2017 Surface Pro, offering more pressure sensitivity, as well as tilt support, and has kept the Surface tradition of replaceable tips as well. So for 2018, this accessory is also unchanged, but with the improvements last year, the inking experience on Surface Pro is already excellent.
Microsoft also offers a docking solution, which hooks up to the SurfaceConnect charging port, and provides two DisplayPort as well as Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 ports, and audio output. The downside to this dock is that the two DisplayPorts are fed from the same channel, so you are limited to a single UHD output at 60 Hz, and if you try to connect two UHD displays you'll end up stuck at a 30 Hz refresh rate.
Ironically, Microsoft also sells a SurfaceConnect to USB-C adapter. This seems to be their solution to people who would like USB-C, especially for docking, but it has the same limitations as the Surface Dock being only able to feed a single UHD display at 60 Hz. It is possible to connect a second display to the DisplayPort output on the Pro 6 itself, but that does get a bit messy as far as cabling is concerned. What would be preferable is to offer the USB-C right on the Pro 6 rather than sell a dongle.


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Robert Fabe
"Street Scene", 19x24 in, watercolor
"Net Mender", 18x10 in, watercolor
"Flower Vendor", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"Melon Vendor", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"Mexican Children", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"The Sisters", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"Mexican Boy", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"Young Girl", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"Harvesters", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
"Washing Day", print ed. 11/50, 13.5x11 in
(American, 1917 - 2004)
Robert Fabe was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1917, he grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began the study of painting with his father, a talented amateur. He took art courses at Withrow High School, in Cincinnati (1932-1936) in conjunction with the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Robert entered the Cincinnati Art Academy after graduation (four year scholarship) and studied with Herman Wessel, John E. Weis and Meyer Abel.
He received the "Out of Town" Scholarship to the Art Student's League in New York in 1939. He studied at the Art Student's League with Arnold Blanch, George Grosz and Raphael Soyer. He was mural assistant to Arnold Blanch in 1939.
Fabe returned to Cincinnati and opened a studio in 1940-1941. He entered into the Armed Services in Infantry and Combat Engineer's Division in 1941 and served in Europe for 2 1/2 years. He was discharged in 1945. He returned to Cincinnati in 1945 to paint and taught art at the Art Academy.
He did interior decorating and freelance work. Fabe joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Department of Design, Architecture and Art in 1958, where he retired as a professor of Fine Arts in 1987.
Solo Shows (Partial List)
Closson's Gallery 1945 (war drawings)
Loring Andrews Gallery 1947
Cincinnati Art Club 1956
Miami University 1961
Wilmington College 1963
Edgecliff College 1964
Xavier University 1966
Mt. St. Joseph College 1970
Ohio State Capital 1971
Laser Drawings at Cincinnati Museum May 1971
Mary Ran Gallery 1995, 1996
President Cincinnati Chapter McDowell Society
President Cincinnati Prefessional Artists
Who's Who in American Art
Who's Who in the Midwest
Cincinnati Art Museum
Dayton Art Institute
Butler Art Institute
Corporate Collections
Lipton Tea Co.
KDI Corp.
The Thrane Company
Crown-Zellerback Corp.
Otterbein Press
ZIV International
Young & Klein, Inc.
Pollak Steel Co.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Club
Cincinnati Public Schools
First National Bank of Cincinnati
Cook-Trane Service Agency
Plaza Bank & Trust, Kansas City, MO
Southern Ohio Bank
Highland Towers
Dayton area Shows
Ohio University Show
Ohioana Award 1982