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7 February 2012 · 17:14
In a previous job I didn't have a desk tidy but used an empty Uncle Joe's Mint Balls tin I'd inherited to store my biros and pe ncils instead. I can still picture the fire engine red tin complete with its portrait of a smiling top- hatted gent along with the legend Keep You All Aglow. I've never actually eaten one of these mints but if you asked me to list 5 things about Wigan these legendary sweets would be one of them because they've been manufactured there since 1898. (To continue with this nostalgia for a little while longer, my tin also contained the obligatory paper clips and drawing pins but also treasury tags. Can you still get these? Are they any use any more? And as I remember they almost exclusively came in green but occasionally they were available in other colours.)
So what other things/people do I associate with Wigan? Well I can't be the only person who's pondered this because Wigan central library has a history of Wigan exhibition entitled something like 'There's more to Wigan than Pies'. And very good it is too. The World Pie Eating Championships (I kid you not) are held in Harry's Bar on Wallgate apparently. Uncle Joe's gets a mention or two and there's plenty about Rugby League and some chap called Billy Boston. Although I was always more of a Motown boy myself Wigan is synonymous to me with Northern Soul and the all nighters at the famous Wigan Casino. Check out the film – it's all tight flares, feather cuts, tank tops and round collar shirts. And I mustn't forget Stuart Maconie (more of him later although I could see no reference to him in the exhibition) who these days could justifiably claim to be Wigan's most famous son. Of course, The Verve's Richard Ashcroft might disagree about this though.
At the time of my visit Wigan is the only English town with a Premier League football club, Wigan Athletic FC and a Super League Rugby League club (I'm probably displaying my southern ignorance in expressing it like that), Wigan Warriors. But I'm guessing most people associate the town with George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. Published in 1936 Orwell's book paints a hellish vision of a broken Britain and today it seems curiously relevant to our own distressed times. An Old Etonian prime minister, in a cabinet stuffed with public school boys, has embarked upon the most radical reduction of public spending in generations, making cuts that have prompted robust criticism of their pace and scale. North and south are pulling apart once more – not yet to the extent where Orwell could describe his journey as if "venturing among savages", but getting there.
If you arrive by train from the south you pitch out at Wigan North Western. (Wigan has 2 stations – Wallgate is just over the road.) The first thing you see is a sign telling you Wigan Pier is a quarter of a mile away and then you notice the dilapidated parade of shops across the road. It seems to be mostly taken up by a pawn shop but there's also room in the row for Totally Wicked's shop selling e-cigarettes and e-liquid. I dread to think what e-liquid is or does? But it does come in 30 different flavours and 6 different strengths.
I'm here first and foremost because I've never been before and to do a bit of walking round the town and the surrounding country. I'm also here to see Wigan play Chelsea. It's long long time since I've been to a Chelsea away game outside the capital indeed I might never have seen them play outside London since the Premiership began. It's a Saturday evening kick-off courtesy of ESPN and as the ground is filling up I'm reminded of one of the best examples of 'terrace' banter in recent years. Ashley Cole is one of those players who arouses disproportionate ire amongst opposing fans and as he plays left back he spends quite a lot of the game near these fans. (I can sorta see their point of view though – after last year's airgun escapade Coldplay's lyric from Lost: 'Every gun you ever held went off' couldn't be more appropriate.) Anyway the afore mentioned Stuart Maconie, Wigan fan, during a recent game a few years ago, is believed to have spent an entire half bellowing at Cole that he'd sold more books than him . The middle classes have truly taken over the workers' game. The dismal 1-1 draw (Chelsea were pedestrian and unimaginative) could have done with some livening up by witty instead of inane chants.
Walking along the Leeds-Liverpool canal Orwell reported: "Terribly cold, frightful landscape of slagheaps and belching chimneys. A few rats running through the snow, very tame, presumably weak with hunger." The mill girls, scurrying to work in their clogs down the cobbled streets, sounded to him "like an army hurrying into battle". The next day I'm walking alongside a snowy Leeds-Liverpool canal. There are no rats I can see and none of the chimneys are belching. I stop just past The Orwell – a pub named in honour of the author that I'd visited the night before. I can't help wondering what the old Etonian would have made it. I can't help agreeing with Stuart Maconie (last mention I promise) about Wigan girls and sun bed tans. Without exception every young woman in the pub had dyed blonde hair, a tikka tinged deep tan and sounded like Victoria Wood. A visitor from out of space would be drawn irrevocably to the conclusion that the tanning process doesn't work on men or women over the age of 25. Strange.
The place I stop at is Trencherfield Mill. A very informative display board tells me that a cotton worker in 1910 was likely to say something like this: 'It's hot int' mill wi' lots o' noise. On a nice day we'll take lunch ont' towpath an' eat snaps from't snaps tins'. I'm able to read this just as the heavy driving rain is turning to sleet but am not any the wiser about what a 'snap' is. A break from both prompts a rainbow to try its luck. Today the rainbow is formed of seven shades of grey but heralds a pleasant change in the weather. I continue my walk along the canal towards Whelley and then Haigh Hall. I'm ridiculously pleased with myself in discovering this route with only my google maps android app. This smugness is helped by the sparkling beauty of the day when the rain stops. Everybody I encountered was pleasant and chatty. Willing to discuss the best route (following the canal or striking inland) or whether Roberto Martinez was really a first class football manager. (Nobody seemed to rate Chelsea's new boy manager Andre Villas-Boas!)
On leaving Haigh Hall I headed down towards the town following the River Douglas where I could. J B Priestley, in his English Journey, has this to say about Wigan: "Between Manchester and Bolton, the ugliness is so complete that it is almost exhilarating. It challenges you to live there. That is probably the secret of the Lancashire working folk." Come on Priestley, Wallace and Gromit live there mate. But I guess if there's anything worse than a Londoner commenting on Wigan it's a Yorkshireman. And this Londoner thought the place was well worth a visit and was glad he had made the journey – it's not everywhere you can get e-liquid and snaps.
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RockHounds' Puk ties career high with 13 K's
Missions' Lauer hurls seven one-hit innings on other side of duel
A.J. Puk recorded a 3.03 ERA with 53 strikeouts over six Texas League starts in August. (Joshua Tjiong/MiLB.com)
By Andrew Battifarano
Throughout August, A.J. Puk has felt everything come together on the mound for Double-A Midland. But Oakland's No. 2 prospect might have saved his best performance for last. Puk (2-5) matched a career high with 13 strikeouts, allowing two unearned runs on seven hits in six innings, but the RockHounds fell
Throughout August, A.J. Puk has felt everything come together on the mound for Double-A Midland. But Oakland's No. 2 prospect might have saved his best performance for last.
Puk (2-5) matched a career high with 13 strikeouts, allowing two unearned runs on seven hits in six innings, but the RockHounds fell to the Missions, 5-0. On the other side of the pitching duel, San Antonio's Eric Lauer carried a perfect-game bid into the sixth before allowing one hit and striking out nine in seven frames.
"He was throwing a no-hitter for almost six innings there," Puk said of the No. 8 Padres prospect. "I just try to go out there after seeing a pitcher do that well and he's throwing up zeros, and I want to go out there and match him and put up zeros too."
In five starts in July, the Midland southpaw amassed a 5.14 ERA and a 1.57 WHIP in 21 innings in his first full month in the Texas League. As he integrated a two-seam fastball more into his repertoire, Puk saw better results in August, sporting a 3.03 ERA with 53 strikeouts over 35 2/3 frames.
"I thought I had pretty good command of my fastball today," he said. "That helps a lot because that sets up all of my pitches. I felt that anytime, wherever I needed to put the ball, I was able to put it there."
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Despite allowing a two-out double by 10th-ranked Padres prospect Josh Naylor in the first inning, Puk recorded three punchouts in the opening stanza. The 2016 first-round pick added two more in the second before Nick Schulz reached on a throwing error by shortstop Jorge Mateo, Oakland's No. 4 prospect, before Stephen McGee singled to right. Unfazed, Puk weaved out of danger by fanning Javier Guerra for his sixth strikeout through two frames.
"It's just a matter of executing pitches and getting ahead of hitters," Puk said. "It's about keeping them on the defense, and then you can do what you want with them. ... Everything was kind of just clicking. I've been like that through the month of August. I was able to get ahead of those hitters and all my pitches felt good from the start. That helps a lot."
The 22-year-old pitched a clean third before working out of trouble in the fourth when Schulz bounced into an inning-ending double play.
After Puk collected two more strikeouts in the fifth, the Missions struck for two runs to pull ahead. Fourth-ranked Padres prospect Fernando Tatis Jr. ripped a single and reached second on a fielding error by left fielder Jordan Tarsovich. Auston Bousfield drove in the first run with another knock to left, eventually scoring on the play when Tarsovich mishandled the line drive.
The University of Florida product avoided further damage, retiring four of the last five batters he faced.
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"That's a big thing that I've been working on this whole year, it's keeping my emotions in check," Puk said. "Being able to slow the game down, I think I've done that a lot and that's really come together. I'm really happy with my mental approach and how I bring it to the games."
Puk began the year with Class A Advanced Stockton, where he posted a 4-5 record with a 3.69 ERA and 1.10 WHIP over 14 outings -- 11 starts -- in the hitter-friendly California League. Across the two levels this year, the Iowa native has amassed a 4.12 ERA and the third-most strikeouts in the Minor Leagues at 179.
Reflecting on the year, Puk is pleased with the progress he's made.
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"I think in [Stockton], I had a pitching coach in [Steve Connelly], he worked with me a lot, and got me ready for Double-A," Puk said. "And the pitching coach here, [Don Schulze], he's done great. I've been really working on the two-seam with him and get a little run-and-sink on the ball and get some early contact."
Meanwhile, Lauer kept the RockHounds out of the hit column until there were two outs in the sixth and Sean Murphy dunked a single into right. The southpaw didn't allow any other baserunners while finishing off his longest start since July 2.
T.J. Weir entered in the eighth and scattered three hits over two scoreless frames to preserve San Antonio's 12th shutout of the year.
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After the Chocolate Cake that can be made in a microwave, I have a simple and quick au gratin made with Potato. While the chocolate cake seem quite lengthy and you might argue that a college kid may not be able to handle so many ingredients, I do agree. I simply thought about the MW part and didn't check out the ingredient list to be so long.
So I will just say that yesterday's recipe is for microwave method, and may not be so suitable for a college kid to have all those ingredients handy, the process is quite simple still. To make up for that, I have the simplest recipe today, a single serve Potato Au Gratin.
Gratin originated in French Cuisine and is prepared in a shallow dish with the ingredients layered and topped with browned crust, grated cheese etc. I kept up with the technique and method, though one might say this may not be the actual method of making an au gratin.
Still I would simply say to make something so delicious, single serve, when the mood strikes, nothing can become simpler than this. And if you want your kid digging out of your hand, I say you try this! I made it for Konda and she just couldn't stop herself drooling over the taste. I tasted it too and I couldn't get beyond the tasting part as nothing was left out.
The entire cooking from start to end takes about 6 -7 mins, with MW potato taking about 4 mins and the entire cooking time is about 3 mins. So you have a delicious lip smacking au gratin in less than 10 mins.
I have a full blown Vegetable Au Gratin, again in MW method, guess I had decided au gratin works out best in MW mood of cooking. Today's recipe is so much so easier to make and you can actually ignore the bread crumbs if you want.
MW slashed potato for 4 mins. Soak in water and peel the outer skin.
Remove and add the sliced potatoes, all purpose flour, salt and rest of the milk, saving a tablespoon of milk for the final cooking.
MW for a minute. remove and mix well. Add grated cheese, bread crumbs if you are adding and a tbsp of milk, sprinkle pepper on top and MW again for a minute.
Take precaution before digging in, as the potato will be very hot.
You can make it without bread crumbs as well.
Total cooking time is only about 2 – 3 mins, depending on your MW.
You could sprinkle red chili flakes as well if you want.
What a simple and delicious potato gratin recipe. Never thought it can get this easy.
Real quick Valli ! A must try recipe which looks good and of course will taste even better.
A quick dish, prefect for single serving.. cant say no to this gratin.


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Garbrandt v. Dillashaw – UFC 217 (Credit- 411Mania)
The one fight UFC fans have been waiting for is finally happening. Cody "No Love" Garbrandt and T.J. Dillashaw will square off under the bright lights of New York City at UFC 217 on November 4th. Dillashaw (14-3) will be looking to become a two-time UFC Bantamweight champion against the current champion Garbrandt (11-0). It appears that Cody's campaigning has paid off. The fight was confirmed on "UFC Tonight" on Fox Sports 1.
UFC's return to Madison Square Garden has the match that will sell tickets faster than the already announced Middleweight Title fight between Michael Bisping and Georges St-Pierre.
For months, the idea of this match taking place was enticing to many. They almost made everyone's dreams come true before. The two were supposed to square off at UFC 213 in Las Vegas, but Garbrandt withdrew due to a back injury. After months of back talk, especially on Twitter, the fight was back on.
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This will be Cody's first defense of the title since beating Dominick Cruz for it via unanimous decision at UFC 207 in December.
The two fighters have a rivalry that stems from their affiliation with Team Alpha Male. Dillashaw no longer associates himself with the group. One of the fastest-rising stars in UFC today, Garbrandt has seemingly replaced Dillashaw as the future of the group. During their time as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 25, these warriors went at it any chance they got. Now that the leashes will be off, we can expect quite a show from two of the best, who also happen to have bitter feelings towards one another.
Johny Hendricks v. Paulo Borrachinha is another fight that was confirmed for MSG a few days ago. Other fights confirmed for UFC 217, thanks to the broadcast, are:
Curtis "Razor" Blaydes (7-1) v. Aleksei Oleinik (52-10-1)
Corey Anderson (9-2) v. Doylestown's Patrick Cummins (10-4)
Gadzhimurad Antigulov (20-4) v. Ion "The Hulk" Cutelaba (13-1(1))
Ricardo Ramos (10-1) v. Aiemann Zahabi (7-0)
Not a bad undercard at all from what I can see.
Tickets for UFC 217 are not on sale yet. While the initial rumored date was September 6th, the post on the UFC Instagram page says September 15th. Regardless, tickets will be available on Ticketmaster and the Garden box office. "No Love" is here to convince you to buy a ticket, if for some reason you were having second thoughts:
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Huawei mate 20 pro charger specs
As charging time becomes more and more important for us, companies keep enhancing their smartphone's charging technology as a response to our needs. And the perfect formula, is to make it charge quickly, but drains slowly. It's a very complicated equation and if you're a tech person, definitely you'll know that.
And in this article we're going to talk about Huawei mate 20 pro charger specs, and why this charger is the most powerful charger available in the market now. And because the Huawei mate 20 Pro was the best android phones of the last year, it also comes with one of the fastest volt chargers as a big steak to feed its powerful processing units.
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While this supercharge from Huawei comes with the common standard input at 100-224v~50/60Hz, the output is where things get interesting. One of the most defining things in Huawei mate 20 pro charger specs, is their flexibility toward the device connected to it. It supports different rates and voltage, which allows you to use it different devices.
So, if it's connected to none supercharge technology devices, the Huawei SuperCharger uses its artificial intelligence to feed the phone respecting its technical values like watt- volts- and Amps. And if it's connected to Huawei phone that supports Supercharge, it will provide it the maximum power possible to take it from 0% to 100% in the shortest period of time possible.
Output: 5V/2A 9V/2A 10V/4A Max depending on the connected device.
Input is standard – 100-240V~50/60Hz.
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We've done quick test to this charger, and show you how it performs comparatively to some other powerful chargers in the market. And how much time this device takes to charge the 4200 mAh capacity battery. So, the Huawei May 20 pro has 4200 capacity battery and we have the supercharger with 40 watt charging, so, let's see how much time it takes to charge
We made the test on Huawei mate 20 pro, which supports supercharging and the results are as follows: in 10 minutes it got 25%.
And from 10 to 45minutes it got around 90%, which is really impressive charging time and for 100% naturally took around 65 minutes. That's one hour and five minutes, to charge the 4200 Amp capacity battery. The 40 watt charger from Huawei Is really impressive charger.
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Today, City Destinations Alliance (CityDNA) and TOPOSOPHY released a ground-breaking report on the role of Place Making and Marketing Organisations (PMMOs) in shaping the future of European cities. As we navigate an increasingly complex world, the report argues that PMMOs have a crucial role to play in helping cities transition towards holistic place making and marketing, with a focus on people rather than place.
The report outlines eight areas of action for PMMOs to address in order to support citizens and attract diverse groups of people who can bring value to the city. These include attracting people who create value, articulating constructive place narratives, activating places and spaces, supporting community engagement, enhancing citizens' wellbeing, balancing the needs of residents and visitors, understanding how people really behave, and transitioning towards new forms of partnership.
With inspiring case studies from cities around the world, the report presents a high-level guide for Destination Marketing Organisations (DMOs) on how to move forward and leverage their most compelling qualities and assets to attract investment, growth, and new residents and visitors.
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The problem differs in terms of stiffness, discomfort and loss of mobility. The huge toe is made use of every time we stroll, bend down, climb up and also even stand still.
The problem is easier to deal with in its onset. Footwears with a big toe box ought to be worn, since they place much less pressure on the toes. This is a procedure which includes removing the bony lumps, checking and also cleaning the joint as well as releasing the soft cells. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
An usual issue which affects the huge toe is called hallux rigidus or stiff big toe. Your large toes bear a great deal of stress as you stroll.
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High high heeled, pointed toe shoes are not the primary cause of the issue, however such shoes can speed up the condition.
High high heeled, aimed toe footwears are not the primary cause of the issue, however such footwear can accelerate the problem.Sometimes, the very first 2 toes will cross over, making it difficult to walk.
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Douyu, China's Twitch backed by Tencent, files for a $500M U.S. IPO
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Douyu, a Chinese live streaming service focused on video games, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as it prepares to raise up to $500 million on the NYSE less than a year after its archrival floated on the same stock market.
Wuhan-based Douyu, whose name translates as "fighting fish", is the second Twitch-like service backed by Tencent to go public in the United States. Its direct competitor Huya, who has a similarly fierce name "tiger's teeth" and also counts Tencent as a major investor, raised $180 million from its NYSE listing last May.
It's not surprising for Tencent to hedge its bets in esports streaming, given the giant relies heavily on video games to make money. For example, Tencent can use some of its portfolio companies' ad slots to get the word out about its new releases. Indeed, Douyu's filing shows it received a hefty 27.48 million yuan ($4.09 million) in advertising fees from Tencent last year.
As Douyu warns in its prospectus, its alliance with Tencent can be tenuous.
"Tencent may devote resources or attention to the other companies it has an interest in, including our direct or indirect competitors. As a result, we may not fully realize the benefits we expect from the strategic cooperation with Tencent. Failure to realize the intended benefits from the strategic cooperation with Tencent, or potential restrictions on our collaboration with other parties, could materially and adversely affect our business and results of operations."
But there are nuances in the giant's ties to China's top two live streaming services that could mean more affinity between Tencent and Douyu. The social media and gaming behemoth is currently Douyu's largest shareholder with a 40.1 percent stake owned through its wholly-owned subsidiary Nectarine. Over at Huya, Tencent is the second-largest stakeholder behind YY, the pioneer in China's live streaming sector that had spun off Huya.
When it comes to the financial terms, the rivaling pair is in a head-on race. In 2018, Douyu doubled its net revenues to $531.5 million. Huya held an edge as it earned $678.3 million in the same period, also doubling the amount from a year ago.
Huya may have learned a few things about monetizing live streaming from 14-year-old YY as it managed to pull in more revenues despite owning a smaller user base. Douyu claimed 153.5 million monthly active users in the fourth quarter compared to 134.4 million in the year-earlier period. Huya clocked in 116.6 million MAUs in the fourth quarter, up from 86.7 million a year ago.
How the two make money also diverge slightly. In the fourth quarter, 86 percent of Douyu's revenues originated from virtual items that users tipped to their favorite streaming hosts, with the remaining earnings derived from advertising and more. By contrast, Huya relied almost exclusively on live streaming gifts, which made up 95.3 percent of total revenues.
Screenshot of a Douyu live streaming session
As Douyu grows its coffers to spend on content as well as technologies following the impending IPO, competition in China's live streaming landscape is set to heat up. Just earlier this month, Huya raised $327 million in a secondary offering to invest in content and R&D. Like many other businesses anchored in content, Huya and Douyu depend tremendously on quality creators to keep users loyal. Both have offered sizable checks to live streaming hosts, promising to grow the internet celebrities into bigger stars.
And they've extended the battlefield outside China as emerging media forms, most exemplified by short video services Douyin (TikTok's China version) and Kuaishou, threaten to steal people's eyeball time away. Both bite-size video apps now enjoy a much bigger user base than their live streaming counterparts.
"We intend to further explore overseas markets to expand our user base through both organic expansion and selective investments," noted Douyu in its IPO filing.
In a similar move, Huya's overseas expansion is also well underway. "In addition to our vigorous domestic growth, we have successfully leveraged our unique business model to enter new overseas markets. We believe we are delivering long-term value through strategic investments in overseas markets in 2019 and beyond," said Huya chief executive Rongjie Dong in the company's Q4 earnings report.
China's YY eyes overseas live streaming with $1.45B Bigo buyout


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2018년 June 25일 미분류
BLACKPINK Becomes First K-pop Female Act to Hit U.K. Singles Chart with 'Ddu-Du Ddu-Du'
K-pop girl group BLACKPINK has landed their latest song "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" on the U.K. Official Singles Chart of top 100 songs, becoming the first Korean girl band to do so.
The title track of the BLACKPINK EP "Square UP," released on June 15, charted 78th on the single chart as of last Friday (U.K. time), the official measure of the popularity of singles in the British record industry.
"Congratulations! BLACKPINK become the first K-pop girl group to enter the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart," the Official Charts said in its SNS account.
Previously, two K-pop male acts — rapper Psy and septet BTS — had their songs listed in the U.K. chart.
The BLACKPINK song, released after a one-year hiatus following the quartet's last single in 2017, took South Korean music charts by storm briefly after the release.
It also topped the iTunes album charts in 44 countries and achieved the weekly top place on Japan's Oricon Digital Album Chart.
Congratulations @ygofficialblink! Blackpink become the first K-pop girl group to enter the UK's Official Singles Chart https://t.co/Um0hvlKQYw pic.twitter.com/H83UuDrYiR
— Official Charts (@officialcharts) June 22, 2018
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Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, star of Broadway's Wicked and the original stage production of Rent, will tour North America, performing her brand new live show.
Garnering huge critical acclaim, Menzel reached superstardom on Broadway with her Tony Award-winning performance as Elphaba, the misunderstood green girl, in the blockbuster Wicked and in her Tony-nominated role as Maureen in the revolutionary Rent. This season, Menzel reprised her role on "Glee," FOX's smash hit television series, as Shelby Corcoran, Rachel's biological mother.
Amazing audiences with her captivating performances,Menzel has a diverse career on the stage, in film, television, and in music. She premiered Wicked in London's West End to rave reviews and received a Theatergoers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Menzel's talents garnered a Drama Desk Award nomination, as well as a Drama League Award nomination for her role in See What I Wanna See directed by Ted Sperling at The Public Theater. Menzel also appeared in ABC's television series "Private Practice."
Menzel's film credits include Disney's romantic fable, Enchanted where she appeared opposite Susan Sarandon, Patrick Dempsey and Amy Adams; Rent, in which she reprised her role as Maureen; and a co-starring role in Robert Towne's Ask the Dust, opposite Selma Hayek and Colin Farrell.


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va ser un artista francès que va pertànyer al moviment de la Figuració narrativa, i després, va formar part del moviment Nouvelle figuration, considerat per molts historiadors de l'art el Pop Art francès.

Vida i estil
Rancillac va néixer el 1931 a París.

Els primers anys els va passar a Algeria amb la seva família però després va tornar a França

En la seva joventut va estudiar dibuix en el taller de Met Penninghen. Va exposar els seus dibuixos en una llibreria al Marroc durant el seu servei militar. Al tornar del servei militar exerceix de professor fins que el 1958 ho abandona.

Entre el 1958 i el 1959 va començar a estudiar serigrafia (tècnica que al cap de molts anys seria bastant important en el seu treball) al Taller 17 de Stanely William Hayter, estudis que van continuar fins a l'any 1962. Arran dels seus estudis també va col·laborar amb el taller París Arts, fundat per Jean-Jacques de Broutellers el 1955.

El 1961 va rebre el Premi de Pintura en la Bienal de París.

El 1964 va ser coorganitzador de l'exposició Mythologies Quotidiennes juntament amb Gérald Gassiot-Talabot. En aquesta exposició va néixer el moviment Figuració narrativa del qual Rancillac va ser un membre molt actiu. Aquell mateix any va començar a crear les seves obres que tenien retalls de personatges de The Walt Disney Company, imatges de revistes, anuncis, tires còmiques entre altres coses en escenes surrealistes. En aquesta època va rebre molta influència de Peter Saul.

El 1965 va dur a terme la seva primera exposició en solitari al centre Mathias Fels, el resultat de la qual van ser sarcasmes i insults.

El 1966 va abandonar el seu estil de còmic i va començar a simplificar i modificar fotografies de l'imaginari popular, seguint la corrent de la Nouvelle figuration (molt similar al pop art americà). Per fer-ho, projectava amb la imatge que volia representar sobre un suport, normalment lona, i pintava amb colors vius, sintètics i molt contrastats per crear siluetes molt marcades. Aquell mateix any va començar a plasmar en les seves obres esdeveniments i personatges clau, com la Guerra del Vietnam, Mao Tse-Tung o temes de debat, moltes vegades amb to de crítica , intercalant-los amb representacions de músics (de jazz majoritàriament) o escriptors.

El 1968 va participar en la producció de pòsters a l'Atelier Populaire, taller creada per estudiants amb el fi de crear pòsters de protesta i penjar-los per tot París, fet que va allunyar a Rancillac de les altes esferes de la compra d'art. Al participar en aquesta producció, la serigrafia va passar a ser molt important en la seva obra i va començar a experimentar en la impressió de serigrafies a sobre de plàstics, com el Plexiglas.

El 1969, inspirat pels successos de l'Atelier, es va ajuntar amb cinc artistes més (Michel Dronda, Alain Dufo, Bernard Frangin, Alexandre Goetz i Claude Virmard) i van començar a enganxar les seves obres per les parets i els panells publicitaris de tot París. El seu objectiu era evitar que els espectadors arribessin a les seves obres pels canals típics amb els quals s'accedeix a l'art, com museus i galeries.

En la seva última etapa vivia i treballava a Malakoff als Alts del Sena.

Obres
Algunes de les seves obres:

-Enfin Silhouette affinée jusqu'à la taille: Feta el 1966 és una pintura de vinil sobre lona. Aquesta obra és una juxtaposició de soldats americans torturant vietnamites i d'un anunci de roba femenina. Vol imitar la jerarquia inexistent en els diaris sobre la relació entre les notícies polítiques i els anuncis. Compara la pressió de la llenceria femenina amb la pressió feta pels americans sobre els vietnamites.

-Le diner des collectionneurs de têtes: Feta el 1966 és una pintura de vinil sobre fusta, amb tres pestanyes mòbils. L'escena d'aquesta obra està basada en una fotografia on hi havia un grup de col·leccionistes d'art africans en un sopar de luxe en un majestuós interior parisenc, posant amb mascares africanes sobre la cara. La fotografia es va extreure de la revista de famosos "Paris Match". Aquesta obra criticava la burgesia, i per fer-ho va afegir tres pestanyes mòbils amb els retrats de Frantz Fanon, Patrice Lumumba i Malcolm X, activistes en contra del colonialisme.

-Dr. Brand: Serigrafia realitzada el 1969. Aquesta obra és una de les moltes que Rancilac va penjar per París. Representa al doctor Christiaan Barnard, un cirurgià de renom sud-africà que va tenir molta repercussió a la premsa per dur a terme el primer trasplantament de cor el desembre de 1967. La foto en si va sortir d'una revista i l'artista la va transformar a l'estètica pop.

-Pilules Capsules Conciliabules: Feta el 1966, és una pintura de vinil sobre lona. Tracta el tema de la lluita dels drets de les dones en aquella època i més concretament la problemàtica de la legislació de la píndola anticonceptiva.

Referències

Pintors parisencs
Alumnes del Lycée Lakanal
Morts el 2021

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