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Die Luisenhöhe ist ein Berg in Haag am Hausruck in Oberösterreich. Mit einer Höhe von  ist er der Hausberg von Haag am Hausruck.

Lage
Die Luisenhöhe liegt an den Ausläufern des Hausrucks und erhebt sich auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Haag am Hausruck im Bezirk Grieskirchen. Am Westhang der Luisenhöhe entspringt die Pram.

Touristische Erschließung

Die Luisenhöhe ist ein beliebtes Wander- und Ausflugsziel. Mehrere Wanderwege führen von Haag auf den Berg. Es gibt weiters eine Bergbahn, eine Sommerrodelbahn, einen Waldhochseilpark, einen Naturerlebnispark, einen Aussichtsturm sowie das Gasthaus Waldschenke. Ein Teil der Infrastruktur ist nicht in Betrieb.

Bergbahn
1964 wurde ein Sessellift auf die Luisenhöhe errichtet, der 2012 abgebaut wurde. An dessen Stelle eröffnete 2015 die sogenannte Erlebnisbergbahn, eine Schienenseilbahn des Typs Wie-Li. Es handelt sich um eine Bahn mit 6-sitzigen geschlossenen Kabinen, die aufwärts von einem Seil gezogen werden und selbsttätig gebremst abwärts fahren. Die Bahn musste Anfangs 2020 Konkurs anmelden.

Sommerrodelbahn
Die 750 Meter lange Sommerrodelbahn wurde 2015 renoviert. Sie führt von der Bergstation der Bahn zur Talstation. Sie verfügt über Ein- und Zweisitzerrodeln. Die Anlage ist ebenfalls vom Konkurs der Bergbahn betroffen und steht seither still.

Aussichtsturm Luisenhöhe
Der 2005 erbaute, am Hausruckkamm situierte Aussichtsturm ist 32 Meter hoch und ist eine Holzkonstruktion. Von dort aus erstreckt sich der Rundblick über das Inn- und Hausruckviertel, den Böhmerwald und an klaren Tagen bis zum Ötscher, Dachsteinmassiv und Untersberg.

Weblinks
 luisenhoehe.at

Einzelnachweise

Hausruck und Kobernaußerwald
Berg in Oberösterreich
Berg in Europa
Haag am Hausruck
Orographie des Einzugsgebiets Innbach


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Il Preludio sinfonico in La maggiore è una composizione sinfonica di Giacomo Puccini.

Fu composto durante gli studi presso il conservatorio di Milano per l'esame finale dell'anno accademico 1881-1882, nella classe di composizione di Antonio Bazzini, e fu eseguito il 15 luglio 1882 presso lo stesso istituto musicale.

Della partitura autografa rimangono tre frammenti, due conservati presso il Museo Puccini di Celle di Pescaglia, uno presso l'Istituto Musicale "Luigi Boccherini" a Lucca, dove sono conservate anche tutte le parti orchestrali autografe tranne quelle di fagotti, arpa e contrabbassi. Questa partitura rappresenta una prima redazione del brano, di cui Puccini eliminò 30 battute.

In questa forma accorciata e definitiva il brano ci è stato tramandato, non senza alcuni errori, in una partitura manoscritta, probabilmente di mano del fratello Michele, ma firmata "Giacomo Puccini" (Milano, Conservatorio G. Verdi). Le parti orchestrali relative si trovano all'Istituto Boccherini.

Nel 1999 viene eseguito al Teatro alla Scala di Milano diretto da Riccardo Muti.

La musica
Il Preludio sinfonico di Puccini è una fantasia sinfonica priva di programma, in un unico movimento (Andante mosso). Nella versione finale consiste di 167 battute e dura all'incirca 9 minuti.

Struttura
Il materiale tematico si sviluppa per gran parte sull'idea esposta nelle due battute iniziali, di cui Puccini modifica gli intervalli e l'armonia in modo sostanziale fino a ricavarne due temi principali, il primo trattato cromaticamente, il secondo destinato ad essere sviluppato come tema cantabile all'inizio della sezione in 6/4 (batt. 50 - Animato).

Circa a metà della composizione (batt. 75), è esposta due volte una melodia appassionata dall'andamento ballabile (quasi un valzer in 6/4), resa esitante dai frequenti effetti di "ritenuto" e "allargando". Questa idea secondaria fa da spartiacque prima della ripresa a "tutta forza" del primo tema, affidato ai fiati, trombe comprese, e avvolto da vorticose figurazione a quartine di archi e flauti. Ripristinata la calma, una nuova idea secondaria (batt. 126 - poco più lento) prelude al ritorno del secondo tema (batt. 138) affidato ai primi violini e accompagnato dall'arpa, che sfocia in una coda (batt. 145) a lunghi accordi modulanti con figurazioni d'arpa, su cui il brano chiude in dissolvenza.

Fortuna critica
Quando il Preludio sinfonico pucciniano fu eseguito al saggio di fine anno non ottenne un particolare successo, diversamente dal Capriccio sinfonico dell'anno seguente. La critica rimproverò a Puccini soprattutto l'incertezza del disegno formale e l'assenza di idee fortemente sbalzate. Filippo Filippi scrisse sulla "Perseveranza" del 17 luglio 1882:

R.B. sulla "Gazzetta Musicale di Milano" del 16 luglio non fu meno severo:

Lo stesso giorno, Athos su "La Lombardia" scrive:

Riscoperto a partire dagli anni settanta e a lungo assegnato al 1876, confondendolo col Preludio a orchestra che Puccini aveva composto in quell'anno, il Preludio sinfonico è rapidamente entrato nei repertori sinfonici, sotto la direzione di maestri prestigiosi.

La critica tende oggi a guardare con maggior interesse sia agli echi wagneriani che alla struttura sciolta, quasi rapsodica del brano. Il riferimento al tema del cigno del Lohengrin a gruppi orchestrali invertiti (prima i legni soli, poi gli archi soli), ravvisato da Filippi, è del tutto evidente, così come il rimando all'accompagnamento della romanza di Wolfram in Tannhäuser nelle figure dell'arpa della coda e nella cadenza plagale conclusiva. D'altro canto, la melodia trasognata, divagante, felicemente malinconica del secondo tema non potrebbe essere ascritta ad altri che a Puccini.

Brani riutilizzati in altri lavori
Il primo tema, nella forma delle batt. 31 e sgg., fu riutilizzato nel terzettino "Ultima speme, tu sei svanita", nel secondo atto della prima versione di Edgar.
Il secondo tema, nella forma delle batt. 50 e sgg., fu riutilizzato nel cantabile concertato "Io la mano un dì macchiai", del secondo atto della prima versione di Edgar.
L'idea secondaria delle batt. 126 e sgg. fu riutilizzata nel dialogo tra Fidelia e le amiche "Voi? - Sì, a chieder di te passammo - Grazie... Or ben lieta son io!", nel quarto atto di Edgar.
Le battute in 6/4 presenti solo nel manoscritto autografo e in seguito tagliate diventarono l'ultimo episodio del coro d'introduzione de Le Villi (numero di partitura 13).

Organico
ottavino, 2 flauti, 2 oboi, corno inglese, 2 clarinetti, 2 fagotti,
4 corni, 2 trombe, 3 tromboni, oficleide,
timpani, grancassa, piatti
arpa
archi

Incisioni
Riccardo Chailly, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester, Berlino, 1983 - Decca Records
Riccardo Muti, Orchestra filarmonica della Scala, Milano, 1987 - Sony

Bibliografia
 Dieter Schickling, Giacomo Puccini - Catalogue of the Works, Bärenreiter 2003, pp. 83-85 - ISBN 3-7618-1582-4
Michael Elphinstone, Le prime musiche sinfoniche di Puccini: quanto ne sappiamo, in Quaderni pucciniani 3, 1992, Istituto di studi pucciniani, Milano 1992.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Partitura manoscritta in formato pdf su www.puccini.it

File audio

Preludio sinfonico
Preludio sinfonico (Puccini)
Preludi

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'Wonderful angel': Neenah man's organ donation saves three lives
By Aisha Morales; Nick Viviani |
Posted: Tue 9:44 AM, Dec 31, 2019
NEENAH, Wis. (WBAY) - A young Neenah man is being remembered as a hero in death for giving three other people a chance to live.
Kobi Bernhardt (Source: WBAY)
Jacob Bernhardt, who also went by Kobi, passed away the day after Christmas due to complications from pneumonia.
Unknown to his family, Kobi had become an organ donor.
"It was about the simple things for him. He didn't need fancy toys, he was very entertained with the very simple things," says Tom Bernhardt, Kobi's dad.
Kobi Bernhardt's sweet smile touched many lives. He had Down syndrome and autism and inspired happiness in many people he met.
"It's hard for me because I wanted that one more time to hug him," says Rachel Bernhardt, Kobi's mom. "He had so much love. I'm going to miss that hug from him. The day he was born, I said, God thank you so much wonderful angel I have. I'm going to miss that love from him, and his was always unconditional."
Tom and Rachel Bernhardt say there's no way to describe how it feels to lose a child--especially one as special as Kobi.
They say they received a moment of peace when they learned Kobi's organs saved three lives.
"It was tough because Christmas was his favorite time of year," says Tom. "He looked forward to it as early as July, so we'd watch Rudolph in summer. So it was really tough, going through this, during that time."
Kobi loved his family, camping and working with dad. He also inspired others to find the happiness in each day.
"People with disabilities have certain abilities that they've been brought onto this earth and people should embrace that," says Rachel. "And I think that also they should see that these children and adults with Down syndrome, that they can also be a life saver."
A GoFundMe account was set up in memory of Kobi. CLICK HERE to visit the page.
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Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.
Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!", a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed on Cairo's central Tahrir Square. It was the largest demonstration since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
While the main protests were peaceful, four people were shot dead in the Nile valley towns of Assiut and Beni Suef, south of Cairo, and the Health Ministry said nearly 200 were injured in clashes in several provincial towns.
A military source said as many as 14 million people in this nation of 84 million took part in Sunday's demonstrations in temperatures of 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit). There was no independent way of verifying that estimate, which seemed implausibly high, but the armed forces used helicopters to monitor the crowds.
The Brotherhood's national headquarters in a Cairo suburb came under attack from militants hurling petrol bombs and rocks and firing shotguns. Flames gushed from an upper floor of the building, which did not have police protection.
Organisers called on demonstrators to continue to occupy central squares in every city until Mursi quits and to blockade peacefully the only functioning house of parliament. The Tahrir crowd roared with approval as an army helicopter hovering overhead dropped Egyptian flags on the protesters.
The military source said the move was intended to encourage patriotism and was not a gesture of political support.
Many demonstrators bellowed their anger at the Brotherhood, which they accuse of hijacking Egypt's revolution and using electoral victories to monopolise power and impose Islamic law.
A Reuters journalist said hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters also marched through the Mediterranean port of Alexandria, Egypt's second city, and a military source reported protests in at least 20 towns around the country.
The leader of the second biggest Islamist party, Younis Makhyoun of the Salafist Nour party, urged Mursi to make concessions to avert bloodshed and presented himself in an interview with Reuters as a potential mediator.
Tens of thousands of Mursi supporters congregated outside a Cairo mosque not far from the main presidential palace, where a much bigger anti-Mursi sit-in swelled from Sunday evening.
Chief-of-staff and Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was following the situation from a special operations room, the military source said.
In Cairo, marchers stopped to shake hands and take pictures with soldiers guarding key buildings. At least six high-ranking police officers took to the Tahrir Square podium in support of the demonstrators, a Reuters witness said.
Religious authorities have warned of "civil war". The army insists it will respect the "will of the people", though the two sides have opposing views of what that means. To the Brotherhood, it means the result of elections. To the opposition, it means the demands of popular protests.


When launching a new product or service, it may seem very limiting to narrow your market, but it will work in your favor. If your target is too broad, it will be difficult and costly to develop effective promotional messages or reach your more active end users.
Targeting a specific market does not mean that you are excluding people who do not fit your criteria. Instead, target marketing allows you to focus your marketing dollars and brand message on a specific pool of prospective clients that are more likely to buy from you. Think of the brand Huggies, which sells a line of disposable children's diapers. The people most likely to purchase from Huggies probably have or care for young children. For this reason, it would make more sense to market this product to new families as opposed to single Millennials. Relevance of the product to the consumer is just one of the reasons why target marketing is both an affordable and effective way to reach prospective clients and generate more revenue.
In this issue of Promotional Consultant Today, we share three steps developed by Jill Johnson, president and founder of Johnson Consulting Services, to help you establish effective target markets for sales results.
1. Clarify Your Market Segments. The first step is to start identifying patterns in the attitudes, desires, concerns, and decision-making criteria of your prospective consumers. By understanding these characteristics, you can tailor your marketing approaches to reach your target audience and influence their purchasing decisions.
A common step in identifying these patterns is to assess the demographics of your consumers base. There are many demographic variables that can be identified and measured in a consumer market, such as age, gender, income and marital status. Business consumers can consider aspects such as number of employees, revenue, or years in operation. Knowing where your consumers live or work is another method of evaluating your target market.
Understanding your consumers' intentions, buying motivations and interests also provides powerful opportunities to develop messages designed to trigger a buying response.
2. Mine Your Data. The critical step to developing your target markets is to quantify your market size. You can do this by data mining. Data mining involves analytically reviewing your internal consumer and comparing this to external market information. Look for patterns and relationships to help understand your consumers' buying patterns, which present opportunities to influence them at each stage of their buying decision-making cycle.
Start by reviewing your internal consumers data. Prepare historical summaries reflecting several years of data. Most people only look at one year of data—this is not sufficient to help you determine whether your market has achieved its maximum potential or whether it is declining. What types of consumer profiles can you create about the end users that buy from you? When do they buy? Who is most profitable to you? Start evaluating how effectively your marketing approaches reach them and match their purchasing decision approach. Then, conduct a detailed review of the available external data. Assess how your current consumer profile aligns with the real market opportunity. Do the demographics show a potential for long-term growth? Does the data show anything else that might impact your sales?
3. Tie Your Target Market To Your Promotional Activities. Your promotional activities must be consumer-oriented and align with how, why and when the consumer buys. Where do they look for information to solve their problems or meet their needs? Who or what influences your buyer? It is not only about the product. You will need different marketing messages for those who are at the awareness stage, which consists of gathering information, then those who are ready to make a final purchase.
Help your prospective consumers understand how you will help them solve a problem or meet a need by using your target market insight to customize your promotional messages. Tie your promotions to their decision-making cycle and move them through their purchasing decision-making stages.
Source: Jill J. Johnson is the president and founder of Johnson Consulting Services, a speaker, an award-winning management consultant, and author of the Compounding Your Confidence.
Johnson helps her clients make critical business decisions and develop market-based strategic plans for turnarounds or growth. Her consulting work has impacted more than $4 billion worth of decisions. She has a proven track record of dealing with complex business issues and getting results.


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Kentucky freshman guard Malik Monk announced Tuesday he is entering the NBA Draft and plans to hire an agent.
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PLEDGE: Goldheist has committed her song Dust to raise funds for drought.
THE OPENING weekend of Tamworth Country Music Festival hosts a huge number of fantastic events.
Here at The Leader, we've made the difficult pick of acts not to miss that little bit easier with five of our must-see events.
If you can't wait the whole day to see the finalists play in Toyota Park, there's a taste of the talent just shy of an hour out of Tamworth in picturesque Nundle.
Tamworth local Lizzie Steadman and fellow finalist Logan Hoswell are playing at The DAG Sheepstation's Live on the Deck Saturday at 10am.
The Toyota Star Maker Grand Final is on Sunday at Toyota Park at 7pm.
Rockers Hurricane Fall have been incredibly busy this year touring and recording new material.
But, the local band will return to their usual stomping ground for Tamworth Country Music Festival to show off their stuff at Tamworth Shoppingworld Festival Stage Saturday at 10:15am.
The Tamworth Hall of Fame Concert is an absolute must-see in the country music capital.
See Hands of Fame recipients, Broadcasters' Hall of Fame recipients and the Eric Watson Library Award recipient all under one roof. Hosted by Frank Ifield with entertainment by Peter Simpson, Patti Morgan and Peter Coad it's bound to be big. Catch it at the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame Saturday at 10:30am.
Watch bands battle it out for the elusive Coca Cola title at Tamworth Town Hall Saturday at 1:30pm.
Former Armidale student Hester Fraser returns to the Northern Tablelands for a show at The Post Office Hotel Saturday at 5pm. An altruist through-and-through, Goldheist dedicated her song Dust to drought charities last year.
Discuss "The Leader's top picks for day two at Tamworth Country Music Festival"


Intro The Sunrise Walk for Hospice is all about teamwork and embracing the competitive spirit; the day consists of a 5km fun walk, with lots of fun and festivities.
Now in its 10th year the Sunrise Walk is a flagship event for Totara Hospice and involves over 2,000 families, schools and corporate organisations – even the family dog is invited! It is a leisurely 5km walk through the stunning Auckland Botanic Gardens. Providing a chance for our supporters – to help Hospice Step by Step – remembering and honouring someone special they love. Along the track we have fun activities for everyone to get involved in, and all are encouraged to dress up in rainbow colours and there is a gala area and sausage sizzle at the end for all to enjoy. All the funds raised at the Sunrise Walk are helping to make every day a better day for those living with life limiting illnesses - We look forward to seeing many of you there!


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A web exclusive story from Astronomy magazine
Behind the science of The Martian
Illustration by Astronomy: Chuck Braasch from a Aidan Monaghan photo
Self-proclaimed science geek Andy Weir never thought The Martian would be published. Now, the New York Times best-seller is about to put NASA's Red Planet plans in the limelight.
By Eric Betz
A small white sprinter van kicks up red dust as it slides across the "martian" sand toward a yurt-like astronaut habitat. Its path winds past the scorched remains of a Mars Ascent Vehicle built to launch crew to orbit. Above this fictional Mars-scape, a ceiling vaults some six stories tall, placing the cavernous soundstage among the largest in the world. Small blimps bolster legions of lights. Green screen sheets line the stadium-sized walls. Eventually, images of blue Mars sunsets and butterscotch evening skies captured by NASA's rovers will become a backdrop, along with shots of Wadi Rum, Jordan — a red desert stand-in for Mars.
But for now, it's more like a surreal sandbox here at the last day of filming on set at The Martian. And a group of young Hungarian men are stepping out of the van to start the long disassembly process. Their present task, removing laboratory equipment from the astronaut habitat, or Hab, is easy in comparison to the one to come — someone has to remove all 1,200 tons of this carefully color-matched Mars dirt.
For 12 weeks, this movie set, through suburbs and past Hungarian countryside homes on the outskirts of Budapest, has seen many of Hollywood's biggest stars and most celebrated filmmakers.
The scene is what every crazed Moon landing conspiracy theorist imagines Stanley Kubrick doing half a century earlier. Some of NASA's most senior scientists believe that when The Martian hits big screens October 2, the movie's obsessive adherence to science fact will be enough to make their nonfictional "Journey to Mars" real for millions of Americans. Because in contrast to the silver screen space agency of the same name, NASA's actual program is nowhere near ready for prime time.
If humanity is to put astronauts on Mars, NASA is going to need a surge in support to levels unseen in generations. That's an unlikely achievement for a Hollywood film, but The Martian is just one part of NASA's growing publicity machine.
Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
A love letter to science
In the film, Matt Damon plays Mark Watney, one of the first astronauts to walk on Mars. He's what Jim Irwin was to the actual Apollo program — an "also went." That is, until a mishap leaves Watney alone on the Red Planet with only his considerable wit and scientific ingenuity to survive while NASA mounts a heroic rescue attempt.
Author Andy Weir's book The Martian is a stroke of sci-fi genius. The novel does for space adventure fans what the soft core romance novel does for jilted lovers. It's a true love letter to science — space escapism at its best. But can filmmakers turn science-based fiction into a Hollywood hit? In February, I trekked halfway across the planet — at the invitation of Twentieth Century Fox — to find out.
In February, Astronomy editor Eric Betz got a behind-the-scenes tour of The Martian at Korda Studios in Budapest, Hungary.
To a large extent, The Martian's success or failure sits on the shoulders of one man. For decades, legendary director Ridley Scott has simultaneously been hailed as a cinematic genius and languished with some of Hollywood's biggest flops. But he gave film lovers Thelma and Louise, winner of six Academy Awards, as well as Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and the entire Alien universe.
Scott is known for epics with great attention to detail, and this movie lives up to that legacy. The rockets, modules, and space suits were built — and 3-D printed — with heavy guidance from NASA. The filmmakers even hired Rudi Schmidt, former project manager of the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, to test all the experiments done in the movie, including turning water into rocket fuel — which I'm told works, by the way.
"We want to make the film as much science fact as science fiction," says executive producer Mark Huffam (World War Z, Saving Private Ryan).
Mars czar meets Dark Side of the Moon
As I shuffle into a nearby soundstage, a crowd gathers behind a horde of cameras pointed at a section of the Hermes spacecraft — an ion-powered ship that ferries astronauts back and forth to Mars. One crew member calls out a countdown, and I realize most everyone but me has orange earplugs buried deep in their ear canals.
Arthur Max, veteran set designer and frequent Scott collaborator, supplies a pair shortly before an explosive blast rings out and the spacecraft's airlock erupts in flames.
Of all the characters on Scott's regular filmmaking crew, Max is the most captivating. He's a towering man with penetrating eyes and a face weather-lined from years of filming in desert climes and empty parking lots. He's a native New Yorker, but his accent betrays a career spent with Brits. Max's first big break came working stage lights at Woodstock in the summer of 1969. That landed him a gig designing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon shows. Then, 30 years ago, Scott asked him to help make a Coca-Cola commercial. They've since created some of Hollywood's greatest epics together.
Once the excitement clears from the airlock explosion, Max guides our small group of science writers around the rest of Hermes — or what hasn't been loaded into crates.
Astronauts use the flight deck to monitor all aspects of the Hermes spacecraft during their journey to Mars.
"The challenge of this film, really, for myself and those people who work with me in the art department, has been to generate what NASA does with billions of dollars of funding over several decades, with millions of dollars over several months," Max says.
For Max, that process began with trips to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he tore apart prototype space suits and astronaut habitats with Jim Green, head of NASA's planetary science program. Green, the space agency's one-time "Mars czar" and current overseer of robotic solar system exploration, also served as a consultant on The Martian. NASA checked off on every aspect of the set and script. And that came as a relief to Max.
He used real NASA blueprints of an ion-engined Mars crew carrier to make Hermes. Filmmakers turned a six-wheeled industrial crop sprayer into a massive Mars rover that looks like a beefed-up version of the one NASA's Desert RATS use to play space explorer on test missions in the Arizona desert. The filmmakers drove their rover in the studio and then flew it to Jordan, where they shot Damon romping across the desert.
"I love restrictions because you play off the constraints," Max says. "If you have no constraints, it's just a big white canvas. Where do you start? But if they give you rules and limits, it's easier, and so within that you find your aesthetic."
Buzz Lightyear gets sexy
Perusing The Martian's costume room feels like being let loose in the bowels of the Smithsonian. Space suits crusted and baked with red sand hang on coat racks next to astronaut exercise attire and hulking white extravehicular activity suits. The spaces in between are cluttered with more common clothes, giving the wardrobe a Space Age thrift store sort of feel. In the film's final days, helmets, gloves, and hats are pulled from shelves and neatly packed up into boxes in case they're ever needed again.
I'm told this is a common Hollywood practice. Nothing is discarded, lest someone makes a sequel, or six.
NASA still doesn't know exactly what a mission to Mars will look like. And that's given filmmakers plenty of room for interpretation. Janty Yates is a longtime member of director Ridley Scott's crew and an Academy Award winner for Gladiator. When she first started designing costumes for The Martian, she says she saw herself as a facilitator and not an inventor.
With help from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's space suit curator, Valerie Neal, she pulled together "Bibles" of all the potential Mars suits and settled on Z-2 — NASA's current prototype. Yates calls it the Buzz Lightyear, and it looks a lot like someone plopped a space helmet onto the Pillsbury doughboy. It's dorky. Scott rejected it outright. Instead, they took the minimum size possible for life support and ran with it.
"We basically invented this space suit, which is far more linear, far more elegant, and I think quite sexy," Yates says.
They added creases. They tightened it. And they made the suit more comfortable for actors to live in eight or 10 hours a day through background breaks and meals thanks to breathable fabrics and cooling suits. The suits had to be kept clean during human-made martian sandstorms with a decidedly more low-tech solution.
"We built these huge great catacomb clown trousers and clown tops that covered them because we were only budgetary allowed nine," she says. "Everybody was on pins and needles because of that disgusting set, which is stunning when we first saw it — 'Oh my God, we're on Mars.' But then it's 'Oh my God, it's in the atmosphere.' Now it's everywhere."
The helmets took customization to another level entirely. Glare and lack of lighting means that NASA shots of astronauts in space rarely show faces. That's not acceptable with actors, or as Yates calls it, "the money." But they still wanted them to look real.
The Hollywood helmets were assembled from hundreds of parts, both handmade and 3-D printed, from all over the world. The glass was polished to perfection to prevent glare. Then, those parts all had to slide together flawlessly.
"You get it, and you have to throw it against a wall 20 times a day and still expect it to work," says Michael Mooney, associate space suit costume designer.
Making Mars real
I get the sense that despite NASA's armada of real spacecraft across the solar system, Green enjoys working on this fake Mars mission too. The no-nonsense bureaucrat started at the space agency fresh out of grad school in 1980 and made his way up through the ranks, writing hundreds of scientific and technical articles along the way.
Green says he realized the Red Planet wasn't real for people after astronaut Stanley Love asked him to watch an online talk about traveling to Mars. At the end of the video, Love points to a Hubble image of that planet and says, "Let's go to Mars."
"It's like saying you're going to take a vacation on Earth," Green says. "It has mountains. It has valleys. It has an enormous diversity in its climate and its activity and seasons. It has polar caps. And then I realized: It's not real to him. That's what the book does, it makes it real by going there and saying, 'Here is what Mars is like.'"
Not long after that realization, Green met with NASA Johnson Space Center director and former astronaut Ellen Ochoa. The scientist told Ochoa she had to read The Martian. She did. And the book is now "required reading" at Johnson, home of NASA's human space exploration program. Ochoa even liked it so much that she invited the author out for lunch and a tour.
Eventually, she made her astronauts available to the cast and crew. Actress Jessica Chastain, who plays NASA Commander Melissa Lewis, spent days at Johnson shadowing real-life astronaut and chemist Tracy Caldwell Dyson.
From geek to supergeek
In an ironic twist for a man who concocts NASA heroics, Weir, a self-proclaimed science geek, is scared of flying. So he reluctantly refused when Scott invited him to Budapest. Instead, I interviewed Weir via Skype in his rather ordinary-looking home where his cat, Jojo, jumped onto his desk as we chatted.
Generous tax incentives and world-class facilities drew filmmakers to Budapest, Hungary, home of Buda Castle (shown here). While much of the movie was shot in soundstages, some of the city's incredible buildings also have cameos. For example, the national concert hall serves as a stand-in for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Weir says he only broke his no flying rule for the trip to Houston. And sitting at a cafeteria lunch with Ochoa, he heard the kind of stories that would make even a suddenly famous writer blush. NASA astronauts told him they love his book and called it "98 percent correct." He got the VIP treatment.
Instead of sitting in a cubicle working all day, Weir says he now gets to hang out with astronauts and celebrities. The son of a particle physicist, Weir worked for 25 years as a computer programmer, helping code everything from word processors to games like Warcraft II. He took three years off from programming in the late '90s to chase writing full time but failed to land a contract or even an agent. However, the evolution of the Web allowed him a creative outlet to post his comics and serials.
But Weir's life didn't start to change until late September 2012. That's when he posted The Martian on Amazon.com for the site's minimum price — 99 cents. For years, he'd been writing the book and posting it to his website, galactanet.com, one chapter at a time. He also sent the novel out to 3,000 email subscribers who gave the computer programmer eager feedback.
"It was cool because they egged me on, and then also they're all science-minded geeks like me, so it was awesome because they'd point out anything that was wrong," Weir says. "I called them beta readers."
But Weir says he never expected his book to be publishable. Then, when the story was done, that core fan group asked for a reader-friendly version, and he self-published it to Amazon without a second thought.
That's when things got crazy. The book quickly climbed through the top-seller ranks. An agent lured him in. The movie exclusivity rights sold to Twentieth Century Fox. And The Martian became a New York Times best-seller, where it's remained for 42 weeks and counting.
"It's like people are contacting me through the Internet telling me my dreams are starting to come true," Weir says. "I thought it might be a scam until they started sending checks."
It wasn't long before Weir was talking with writer and director Drew Goddard (World War Z, The Cabin in the Woods) as he crafted the screenplay. Damon agreed to star in the movie. Then, when Goddard dropped out to make the new Spider-Man spinoff, Scott signed on to direct.
The secret language of Ridley Scott
Back in Budapest, Damon enters a decidedly dingy VIP room wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt. His hair is ragged, grown out with extensions. "I think we're on [sol] 547," he says of his unkempt beard — a sol, or Mars day, is 39 minutes longer than an earthly one. "I'm living on Mars time."
The movie is part Apollo 13 and part Castaway — it's also hard not to conjure up Damon in Saving Private Ryan — but unlike those films, Damon's character has a well-developed sense of humor about the experience. And beyond the difficulties of a one-person dialogue, the actor says his biggest challenge was capturing the hilarious aspects of the book without making his character look glib or like he didn't care if he survived or not.
"Ridley and I talked from the beginning about how we wanted to preserve all that humor, but also not lose all the stakes," he says. "Especially when we got here and we saw the set that Arthur [Max] had built."
Last December, NASA launched The Martian's screenplay cover into space on board Orion, which could someday carry actual astronauts to Mars. The title page features Ridley Scott's hand-drawn sketch and an often quoted line from the movie.
The pair put considerable effort into keeping the true terror for the character. "Or else it's just a popcorn kind of whiz-bang he's-never-really-in-danger type of experience," Damon says.
This devotion is what defines a Ridley Scott epic — even the unsuccessful ones. But Scott needs his sci-fi return to be a hit. His latest attempt, Prometheus — an Alien prequel — got a chilly response from fans. However, on this stage outside Budapest, it's clear his fellow filmmakers don't see any need for Red Planet redemption.
It's late on the final day of filming, and a stunt double for Damon is mounted in a space suit as cameras shoot and reshoot the film's final action sequence, titled "The Final Rescue." It's easy to lose track of someone amid the chaos of a movie set. Not Scott. He barks out commands to the crew, forcing them to repeat scenes ad nauseam until he sees what he's looking for. No one gets upset by the lashings.
"It's a Ridley Scott movie whether it's ancient world, present day, or future," Max says. "He always wants there to be a logic driving the story and great attention to detail. Once you learn the secret language of Ridley Scott, you can do any period with him."
Martian manifest destiny
Green, the former Mars czar, says NASA employees love The Martian not only for its devotion to realism, but also for the heroics Mark Watney embodies. For many Americans, NASA post-Apollo is an $18 billion bureaucracy stuck in low Earth orbit. That's not how its employees see themselves.
"NASA does miracles all the time," Green says. "It's unbelievable what we do. I'm always in awe, and I've lived it for 35 years of my career. I keep getting surprised by how resourceful our people are."
"It's one of those things that make this agency special and important for the nation," he adds. "We've got to be thinking about colonizing the solar system. A single-planet species is not going to survive — the dinosaurs didn't. They didn't have a space program."
And increasingly, NASA is using pop culture to make a play for American heart — and purse — strings. Bert Ulrich is NASA's guy in Hollywood. If a filmmaker wants to use a NASA logo, they go through him. Ulrich says a flood of recent mainstream movies and documentaries have planted the space agency in a new golden age.
"I haven't seen this upswing in interest in sort of a cultural way before, and I've been with NASA for a very long time," he says.
That rockstardom for NASA science was on full display this summer as Green walked San Diego's Comic-Con International — the largest convention of its kind in the world. More than 2,000 people filled a hall for discussions with space agency scientists and The Martian filmmakers. Newly named astronaut Victor Glover speculated about the first humans to walk on Mars. And Space Launch System manager Todd May talked about what it will take to get there.
Green tells me all this effort is to reach what he calls "the Mars generation" — millennials who've never seen humans leave low Earth orbit. Instead, they were raised on a robust robotic exploration of the Red Planet.
And Green's work on The Martian has had very real implications for the nonfictional NASA Mars program. He asked Ochoa, his human spaceflight counterpart, to detail him a Johnson Space Center employee for one year. She assigned Rick Davis, a NASA veteran who formerly served as the primary communicator between Mission Control and the International Space Station. Davis was tasked with spearheading a list of places to put humans on Mars. That way, NASA can tell the public "here's what the real sites look like, and here's why we're looking at them," Green says.
In October, NASA will host the First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for human missions to Mars at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Texas. Green says it's very likely the places they choose will be where future Mark Watneys land and begin the next step in the evolution of humankind.
There will be no little green men. No robots with a taste for blood. But there will be the same NASA audacity that once took 12 Americans to the surface of the Moon and returned every last one of them safely.
"The solar system is ours. Let's take it," Green told me recently without a hint of hollowness. "And there's no question, the first place we should be going is Mars."
For now, we'll have to settle for watching the Red Planet through rose-colored 3-D glasses.
Eric Betz is an associate editor of Astronomy. He's on Twitter: @ericbetz.
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Billy Weatherman November 5, 2021
TRI-COUNTY SPEEDWAY 2021 SEASON ENDING FINALE
They say that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. But truth is, that light is either the pathway to freedom, or part of an oncoming train. But, once in awhile, when the stars line up just right, it can be both. A freight train to freedom that only destiny and fate can provide. Such is the case for Tri-County Speedway. A track that at one time labored through the darkness toward an uncertain future. But the Higgins family was the freight train on the track to deliver the freedom the speedway so needed for it's survival. And, they couldn't have come at a better time for us as well. Most of our followers know the love we have for Tri-County Speedway, and they know the stated reasons why. But for transparency's sake, we have been saving a little more clarity on our connection to the amazing fourth of a mile speedway. You see, destiny can be multi faceted with a depth that only fate can provide.
Me and Josh's first visit to the track was for a Whelen Southern Modified event. I was continuing a tradition from my generation's era, where we went to as many of the area's tracks as we could manage to enjoy the racing diversity the region's tracks had to offer. And we chose this race because I loved the Mods, but also because Josh wanted to see his first Super Truck race, and the track had one on the card that night. We left late because of my work schedule, and then as fate would have it, I also took a wrong turn that left us arriving even later than we would have. And little Josh (at the time), as you may expect, was not happy with his father as we arrived just in time for the Mods, but as the Super Trucks had just finished their race. And so, a promise was made, that we would return to the track together for some great future event. Of course I was at the time playing up the importance of the race we would return for, but I had no idea how important that future visit would be. When I speak of destiny and fate, it may be lost to some, but we have met them in ways that cannot be denied. And as it would turn out, me and Josh didn't return to the track together until this year, and it couldn't have been a more important and grand event for us. And as destiny would have it, it was after the track, and my family, had descended out of an uncertain darkness that could have been our very demise.
You see, the track was riding the Higgins family freight train that was rolling it out of the darkness, at the exact time that our family was rolling out of a darkness that almost took my son. And as the Higgins family was starting to bring the track back to prominence after rescuing it from near death, my family was rebuilding our life from a health issue that nearly costed my son his life which would have in turn been the death of me. No need to carry on about it now, but just to state that our first visit back, as fate would have it, could not have been at a better time. And sitting here now writing this article, it is astounding at the timing of it all. Tri-County was starting it's first full season back since it's reopening, and me and Josh were contemplating the start of Short Track Report. I had been covering races for a national short track racing coverage organization that was located in a different region that had different ideas on covering our region that I did, as I wanted to do much more than they would agree to. And in contemplating whether we should step out on our own, me and Josh had come back to Tri-County. It was a special night, where me and Josh saw what may be the best race we have ever seen. I've mentioned it before, but I can't state how great a battle it was. It included three wide racing for many laps, some controversy, culminating in an epic finish. It was an amazing race. It inspired us. Though there were many other things leading us in the direction to start Short Track Report, it was the catalyst that in contemplation decided it for us, and not long after, Short Track Report was born.
And during the year, the track has become so important to us, that we took the unconventional action for a race coverage entity, and named it our home track. Unconventional? Sure. But I can promise you here and now that in our five year plan, conventional is not what we are going for. There are certain things we must do as a short track racing coverage organization in order to provide the coverage short track racing fans in our area deserve. We strive to be different on many fronts, as will become more obvious as our five year plan unfolds. And we are not lost on the fact that we have to remind people from time to time, that starting well after the 2021 racing season had already began, at the end of this year, we will not have even made a full season yet. We have only just begun.
And so, as we should, we spent this year looking to where we could make the most impact. We looked for where our support is. Where our values could be most utilized. Where we could make a difference, and where our highlights should be. Where we needed to be to provide our region and the nation's short track racing fans the best our region has to offer. And we wanted to highlight the diversity of the central east coast racing region. That's brought us already to the best tour and tracks in our area, but as we have already demonstrated, we have many surprises in store, and a lot left to accomplish. And so know, that you will find us also with those like us, people who love short track racing. For when you do what you love, the sky's the limit, and great things are always on the horizon. An ever glowing bright light that guides us through the tunnel of great short track racing.
We were inspired to do what we do because despite the downturn in attendance at tracks all across this great nation from the top of the mountain that is NASCAR, all the way to your local short tracks that has led to many falling to the wayside, we see the resurgence of short track racing fueled by a new generation of race fan that has joined my generation at the track with the love that we share for the sport. And no more is that evident than here at Tri-County Speedway. Here you will find the seasoned veteran and the talented rookie who's future will be shaped by that competition. The racing developmental driver and the Blue Collar racer who knows that hard work can overcome all obstacles in this sport. The open hauler and the corporate transport, with a track that follows it's rules to an extent where teams have to meet in the middle, at least to the point that is possible. A track that loves the sport as we do to the point that we have not only become friend and acquaintances with the staff and teams, but have joined as a racing family. That is Tri-County Speedway today. And so we have also come to know the heart of the track, with an insight to their goals and aspirations. And so I can tell you now as the 2021 season for the Speedway has come to a close, that the future of the track, once walking through the tunnel of uncertainty, has stepped into the light of a grand future. The Higgins family, the track staff, and the competitors that compete here are all working for one goal. Growth that leads not only to great racing, but a show the whole family can enjoy.
This article will be a little different than the ones we have done on the track previous, as we want to focus on the amazing season the speedway enjoyed and was privy to instead of just a focus on one event, even as grand an event that it was, for this season was a groundbreaking one for Tri-County. It's the start of a new era, and we know you are going to be excited on all that will soon be released about the track's bright future. With the established local divisions, and the coming addition of the already popular Outlaw class to be released next year, to the exciting Tours and Series that will visit throughout the coming seasons, Tri-County is a growing staple of the central east coast region and beyond. And we look forward to following it's progress well into the future. Yes, short track racing is in the beginning of a great resurgence, due in no small part to tracks like Tri-County who love the sport as you and I do, and are not lost on the fact that it comes down to one word really – FAMILY.
The weather has the track racing the clock despite the early starting time for this packed event, and the track works diligently to stick to the schedule, and so after qualifying and a short break for the teams to prepare for competition, the pre-race ceremonies begin. The crowd is addressed, the invocation given, and I would like to thank the Speedway for allowing me the honor of singing the National Anthem, a first for me at any race track, and a moment I will always remember. A great field of racers are all lined up for the first event, so, Let's Go Racin'!
MESSER HEATING AND COOLING LEGENDS FEATURE
The # 43 Legend of Joshua Horniman would start on the pole for this one. Despite an early challenge by both the # 40 of Tyler Wolf and the # 44 of Nicky Randolph, Horniman would gap his competition and take home the emotional victory.
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE FEATURE
Gary Willard in the # 54 started first alongside points leader # 27 James Powell for the start. Powell would get by early and would lead most of the race. But after a handful of cautions, including a hard crash involving # 00 Mitch West and # X Jacob Hayes, the race would end due to the time limit expiring. Polesitter Gary Willard would find himself in victory lane. # 27 James Powell would come home second, securing the 2021 Front Wheel Drive championship.
PATRIOT JERKY RENEGADE FEATURE
Well known local wheelman Gary Ledbetter in the # 28 started up front with the # 9 of Klint Townsend starting second. Ledbetter would lead in the early stages, but the # 83 of Charlie Neill would quickly take the top spot. The race was slowed due to an abundance of cautions, but in the end, Neill would grab the checkered. But due to an infraction in post-race inspection, the second place car of # 6 Ricky Dennie would take home the trophy. The # 73 of Kyle Boice finished 4th, ultimately wrapping up the 2021 Renegade championship.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENT, WE WERE MET WITH A RAIN DELAY THAT POSTPONED THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW UNTIL THE NEXT DAY ON SUNDAY
FOX PROPERTY MAINTENANCE STREET STOCK FEATURE
The # 56 of John Guker would start on pole for the Street Stock season finale with the # 03 of Kevin Eby starting alongside. Eby would grab the lead early, but Eby's party would be spoiled by the # 10 of Kevin Townsend early on. But with only a handful of laps to go, Townsend would get passed by the # 14 of Davey Smart. Smart would eventually cross the line first and simultaneously clinches the 2021 Street Stock championship.
HERITAGE FINANCE LIMITED LATE MODELS FEATURE
The Limited Late Model feature would be one for the ages. # 65 Josh Goble found himself on pole with fan favorite # 5 Toni Breidinger starting second. The opening laps would play out like the last lap of a race at Talladega. Two and three wide everywhere. Before long, the # 41 of young gun Joey Braun and the # 27 of Eugene Norton found themselves out front. After a fierce battle, the two would eventually get together and spin. As Braun's car was pretty much junk, Norton's was still capable of running up front. Norton would come all the way from the rear and would cross the line first. Zack Franks in the # 1 would finish thirteenth after an early crash, but would still walk away the 2021 Limited Late Model champion.
LATE MODEL STOCK FEATURE
Accomplished Late Model Stock driver Mitch Walker started first in the # 6 while Justin Carroll in the # 57 would start second. The race was relatively calm as Walker would fall to second immediately as Carroll walked away from the field. Carroll would lead all 75 laps en route to the Late Model Stock victory. The # 2 of Lee Faulk Racing And Development driver Braden Rogers would walk away from the finale as the 2021 Late Model Stock champion.
The track ends it's season with instead of a one night season ending show, a two day festival of speed. A Halloween bash if you will, including a track or treat on the first night. It turned into a two day event because of a race postponement halfway through due to weather. But, it was fitting really as the speedway ends it's season with two nights of great racing.
We saw Joshua Horniman get his first win of the season in the Legends division after being so close all year. Well deserved I might add as he and Daniel Wilk had a great points battle all season, to the point that they are the only division champion still left undecided as the points are still too close to call at this point. And we saw Gary Willard pull off an improbable victory as division champ James Powell and Blake Walker had trouble after both at one point seemed to have the victory in hand. We saw Ricky Dennie get awarded the win after the driver who crossed the line first failed post race tech, something we've seen all year as the track strives to achieve an even playing field. We saw Davey Smart again put on an amazing show in the Street Stocks as he's done all year, showing why he is the 2021 Street Stock champion. And we watched as Justin Carroll took yet another win on the season here at Tri-County, showing that he's got this place figured out, having great finishes every time the team showed up at the racey track, and we watched as Eugene Norton got his first Limited Late Model win of his career, and well deserved as he and his team worked hard all season. But especially in this race. He had put the car up front but immediately came under a challenge by Joey Braun, as the pair went side by side lap after lap until Braun got a little too eager after getting frustrated with Norton who he thought was not giving him enough room, and the two had contact that sent both spinning in front of the field. But Norton used it as motivation, and throughout the rest of the race, he moved through the competitive field, and at the end found himself back up front as he crossed the line for his first ever win in the division. A performance that earns Eugene Norton our Blue Collar Racer Of The Week. Congratulations go out from us to Norton and his team for an outstanding performance, as he would not be denied in this event.
And so as Tri-County Speedway's 2021 season comes to end, it was a little emotional for us as we rode back out of the tunnel to leave the Speedway. It's been an amazing year for us, due in great part to our decision to head out to the track earlier in the year. It set a tone for us for the remainder of the season that led us to chase a dream that we are actively in the process of fulfilling. And during the season, Tri-County has been a reminder to us that anything is possible when you are willing to put in the work and come to what you do with love. We've said it all year, that this is the combination that leads to greatness, and this track has been an example of that all year. They have truly inspired us and have become part of our extended family in the process. And at this time, we would like to thank the Higgins family and all the great professional staff here at the Speedway, for not only embracing us and our dream, but for all they do for short track racing in our region and beyond. Thank you to everyone at Tri-County Speedway, and all the great fans that came out and supported them and us as well throughout the season.
And finally, we'd like to congratulate the 2021 Tri-County Season Champions:
LEGENDS CHAMPION: (Too close to call. We will send a shout out to the winner as soon as they are determined.)
FWD CHAMPION: James Powell –
"Feels great, especially to outrun a car like that # 9 (Blake Walker). Even though I had bad luck, it was all worth it. Really glad I could get the first Championship in the Front Wheel Drive division since the track reopened…just so special to me and my team."
RENEGADE CHAMPION: Kyle Boice –
"It is awesome to be the Champion, but everyone that helps me are Champions as well. The guys that help me and my sponsors are the ones that have allowed me the honor of being Champion. We haven't won every race, but consistency paid off."
STREET STOCK CHAMPION: Davey Smart –
"Man it feels good. It's been a hard year, but I've had good help and a good car. Kickstand Fabrications built this thing, I mean it's just a pleasure to drive it, it drives itself, and I just want to thank all these guys who've helped me, and all my sponsors…it's just been a good year."
LIMITED LATE MODEL CHAMPION: Zack Franks –
"I tell you man, it's been great. This year's been tough with the tire situation that basically every track has had to deal with. Really glad it's over, but it feels great. It's been a long time since I've won a track Championship. Can't thank Jody Chandler and Leapfrog Landscaping enough. It if wouldn't have been for him, this wouldn't have been possible. Big thanks to him and everybody else that's helped me."
LATE MODEL STOCK CHAMPION: Braden Rogers –
"This season has been great to say the least. The team and I set a goal at the beginning of the year to win the track Championship, and being able to accomplish that, along with 5 wins and 2 poles, is great. I can't thank everyone at Lee Faulk Racing enough for their hard work, not only on the cars, but on me as a driver to help teach me each time we hit the track on how to be better. I can't say thank you enough to my parents and sponsors for their continued support all season long. We look forward to a good race at Florence in a couple of weeks, and a strong year next season on the CARS Tour."
And so in the end, we leave the track looking forward to next year at Tri-County Speedway, knowing it's going to be another great and exciting year, and we move to wind down the season with two live events left on the 2021 season for us. So until next week, See You At The Track!
Tags Blake Walker, Braden Rogers, Charlie Neill, Daniel Wilk, Davey Smart, Eugene Norton, Gary Ledbetter, Gary Willard, Jacob Hayes, James Powell, Jody Chandler, Joey Braun, John Guker, Josh Goble, Joshua Horniman, Justin Carroll, Kevin Eby, Kevin Townsend, Klint Townsend, Kyle Boice, Lee Faulk, Lee Faulk Racing And Development, Mitch Walker, Mitch West, Nicky Randolph, Ricky Dennie, Toni Breidinger, Tri-County, Tri-County Speedway, Tyler Wolf, Zack Franks
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Adams Run is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 421.

Adams Run has a post office with ZIP code 29426, which opened on August 15, 1843.

Christ Church
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In 1962 Christ Church merged with another church, St. Paul's in Meggett. The consolidated church was called ChristSt. Paul's Episcopal Church. The congregation is now an Anglican parish and worships in a new sanctuary across from the historic St. Paul's; the new sanctuary was completed in 2008.

Although regular Sunday services are no longer held in the Adams Run church, ChristSt. Paul's Church often opens the historic sanctuary for special occasions. Christ Church at Adams Run, as well as its grounds and graveyard, are maintained by Christ St.Paul's.

Notable Places
The Barnwell House, Grove Plantation, King Cemetery, Summit Plantation House, Wilkinson-Boineau House, and Willtown Bluff are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Demographics

2020 census

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

Sources

 U.S. Geological Survey. Best Practices National Structures Dataset. https://web.archive.org/web/20090825115836/http://bpgeo.cr.usgs.gov/. 30-Jul-2008.
 Adams Run, Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey.

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Review: Seems Like Old Times
For a certain generation – author Hugh Segal is 65 – Two Freedoms invokes a nostalgic era when Canada briefly strode on the world stage.
In 1955 the nation had uranium, and 118,000 men and women in uniform, and the world's fourth largest air force. And now? "When a Canadian surface vessel HMCS Athabaskan sailed to Haiti to position itself off the coast where Canadian forces, replete with medics, nurses, technicians and doctors were to be deployed to come to the aid of the local population, amphibious small vessels had to be borrowed from the Americans to get our own folks ashore," Segal writes.
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Hugh Segal, former senator, is a warm and thoughtful man, and Two Freedoms is a warm and thoughtful book. Segal laments Canada is not a big power or even a middle one. "There is nothing particularly venal or myopic about Canadian foreign policy goals or desired outcomes in the key regions of the world," he writes. "They are simply wildly unambitious and surprisingly narrow for a modern democracy like Canada."
"It is 2016," he says. "We need a radical reboot." The instinct of the Department of Foreign Affairs is to "go along to get along", Segal laments, and Ottawa thinks small: "We spend less than 1.5 percent of our GDP on defence and deployment capacity."
Yet the current tide is unmistakable and Two Freedoms swims against it. The U.K. is voting on whether to reject the European Union; the U.S. is weighing presidential candidates who propose to revoke trade treaties and cut NATO spending; the Canadian cabinet rates Indigenous land claims a more pressing challenge than military recruitment. We live in an age of nationalism, and everyone wants the right to be left alone.
This troubles Segal. He advocates a muscular Canadian foreign policy committed to combating freedom from fear and freedom from want. "The lessons of history are sadly and inevitably clear," warns Two Freedoms. "The collapse of freedom from want into a state of economic and social despair can produce huge, even cataclysmic consequences."
We embrace a "lazy, liberal optimism" of "sovereignty uber alles", Segal writes. "The freedoms that matter most and whose protection should be central to Canadian foreign policy are the freedom from fear and freedom from want. How these two freedoms are built, strengthened, attained and defended should form the true nucleus of a modern foreign policy mission worldwide."
Instead, cabinet since 2012 has sold fifty-two embassies and missions abroad, deciding they'd sooner spend the money on tax credits for children's fitness programs. Nobody seemed to mind.
By Holly Doan
Two Freedoms: Canada's Global Future, by Hugh Segal; Dundurn; 228 pages; ISBN 9781-4597-34456; $19.99
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Best iPhone and iPad apps
20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week
Astropolo, Pyramid Solitaire Saga, Ingress, Spruce, Nike Football, Sonic Jump Fever, Take, Capo Touch and more
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Astropolo is a space-themed iOS app for children.
It's time for our weekly roundup of the best new iPhone and iPad apps and games to have emerged on Apple's App Store.
As ever, prices are correct at the time of writing, but may have changed by the time you read this. (Free + IAP) means in-app purchases are used within the app.
Want more apps? Browse previous Best iPhone and iPad apps roundups on The Guardian. And if you're looking for Android apps instead, browse the archives of the weekly Best Android Apps roundups.
Astropolo (£1.99)
If you have children who are starting to show an interest in the world(s) above their heads, Astropolo is the perfect download. It's a space-themed collection of mini-games for 4-8 year-olds from developer Les Trois Elles, with lovely papercut graphics and easy-to-grasp controls.
Spruce (Free)
Spruce is an app released by the British Liver trust: its attempt to improve the liver health of binge-drinking Brits by helping them take three days off the sauce a week. You can use it to track your dry days and feel good about your resolve, while the charity will use the (anonymised) data to understand whether the app is working.
Nike Football (Free)
The World Cup may be over, but the war of football-related marketing between Nike, Adidas and other brands continues. Nike's latest product is a free iPhone app offering a mixture of product info, interviews with its roster of footballers, and features for group messaging including branded emoji and five-a-side arrangements.
Take Creative Vocal Recorder (Free)
This app comes from Propellerhead Software, which makes pro musicmaking software like Reason and ReBirth, but also playful loop creation app Figure. Take sits neatly alongside the other: an accessible way to "sing, hum, rap, strum" musical ideas as you go about your business.
Capo touch (£2.99)
More music here: an innovative app that you use with your iTunes song library when trying to learn how to play tracks: it slows them down and detects the chords being played, so you can play them too. Based on an existing Mac version that won an Apple design award, it works really well on smaller devices too.
Brain+ Brain Training (Free + IAP)
Brain training has been very popular on mobile devices from the days of Nintendo's Dr Kawashima DS games, through to Lumosity on modern smartphones and tablets. Brain+ is a new challenger for the latter, expanding to the UK after big success in its native Denmark. It's a collection of simple but fun exercises to stretch your grey cells.
LINE Webtoon (Free)
Line is the social networking app that's enormously popular in Japan and south east Asia, but which has ambitions to take on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in the west too. This is one of its spin-offs: an app for downloading and reading free digital comics (or "webtoons"). Given the background, they're Japanese in origin – although they're translated. The link above is for iPhone but here's the iPad version.
Polymo (£1.49)
Polymo is the latest iPhone app angling for a slot on your homescreen as a mobile photography aid. It lets you tag photos before taking them, for later organisation as well as automatically appending them as hashtags when shared to social networks. It's also a neat way to scroll through your pics by theme, if you keep up the tagging.
Dino Dog - A Digging Adventure with Dinosaurs (£1.99)
This children's app comes from publisher StoryToys: a mix of animation, education and light gameplay with a dinosaur theme. Kids have to help its Dino Dog and Bonnie the Bear characters dig for ancient bones, then clean them up and assemble them into full skeletons. It's colourful and fun, and the factual content is never dry.
Hook'd - Video Music Messaging (Free + IAP)
Finally: karaoke meets mobile messaging. With my singing skills, it's a cease-and-desist order waiting to happen. But if choosing a famous song – properly licensed, so it's the actual tracks – shooting a video of yourself singing it and then sending it to friends appeals, Hook'd is worth a look. A monthly subscription gets you access to all its songs.
Pyramid Solitaire Saga (Free + IAP)
Another Saga? Yes, this comes from Candy Crush maker King: its take on the pyramid form of card game Solitaire, as you match cards to clear the screen. The Egyptian theme is reflected in Scarabs that you have to catch by tapping on them, with plenty of layouts and score comparisons with Facebook friends.
Ingress (Free)
Until now, Google's location-based game Ingress has only been available for Android. It's an intriguing massively-multiplayer game that gets you to explore the real world around you in search of energy and objects in the game, with a storyline bubbling around it about scientists, spies and a battle between two factions. A very deep rabbit-hole of gameplay in the making.
Sonic Jump Fever (Free + IAP)
The original Sonic Jump game saw Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog travelling upwards at pace, rather than along: more Doodle Jump-y than his traditional platform adventures. This sequel looks better, throws in new world based on Sonic's console adventures, and adds social high-score tables to compare scores with friends.
Magic 2015 (Free + IAP)
This is the latest iPad instalment of deck-building card-battling game Magic, as you gather your deck and battle against AI opponents or real humans online. I'm not really qualified to sell you on its intricacies compared to previous versions, but I can say that if you're a newcomer, the tutorial is a good way in to its charms.
Watercolors (Free + IAP)
Described as a "mind-painting puzzle game" in its App Store listing, this is a breath of fresh air: a colour-based game that involves playing with blue, yellow and red paints on-screen, combining them where necessary across Moves, Time Trial and Challenges modes – the latter involving taking on your Game Center friends.
Transworld Endless Skater (Free + IAP)
Forget endless runner games: this is about endless skating as you work your way along jumping, spinning and grinding with your virtual skateboarder – including the option to play as some famous (to people who know their skateboarders, obv) names. It works well on the touchscreen too, which is a decent achievement for this genre.
Hercules: The Official Game (Free + IAP)
Once upon a time, mobile games based on movies were rubbish nine times out of 10. In 2014, thankfully, things are different: Hercules is the latest example of something that feels like a decent game in its own right, rather than marketing ballast. It's a beefy beat 'em up with excellent graphics, and well-done online features too.
Pick A Pet (Free + IAP)
This may be the heyday of the match-three puzzle game on mobile devices, even if some (Candy Crush) critics would argue it's more like a nadir. Still, the games keep coming: Pick a Pet looks good fun, as you match its obligatorily-cute characters by colour, rescuing pets for a collection that grows as you progress.
Blackwell 1: Legacy (£1.49)
As someone who grew up with point-and-click adventure games, something like Blackwell 1: Legacy is a welcome blast from the past: the tale of a woman named Rosa who discovers she can talk to ghosts, then sets off on a suitably-spooky quest. This first episode will be followed by four more, and the series is already shaping up marvellously.
Mighty Adventure (£0.69 + IAP)
Finally, a colourful platform/runner game with lots of character. Well, three characters, anyway, each of which has their own special power. Your job is to switch between them to make best use of each, while exploring the bright virtual world created by developer Pixel Trap.
Those are our picks, but what have you been enjoying on iOS this week? Post your recommendations (or feedback on these) in the comments section.
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Apple to Hold Preview Event At Second Apple Store in South Korea on February 24 [Update: Store Opening 2/26]
Friday February 19, 2021 1:55 am PST by Sami Fathi
Apple is set to open its second store in South Korea next week in the busy business hub of Yeouido, in Seoul, the company has announced (via the Yonhap News Agency).
Apple will hold a press preview for the new retail location in Yeouido, Seoul on February 24. The store itself is expected to open just a few days following the preview. Apple announced the store in November of last year but provided no further information on an opening, or preview. Apple's South Korean website has been teasing the store for a few months, saying it'll be a "space for everyone to blossom their ideas and creativity" (machine translation):
South Korea's second Apple Store is coming soon in the heart of vibrant, energetic Seoul. Apple Yeouido is designed as a space for everyone to blossom their ideas and creativity. We hope that you will be able to unleash your imagination in this place where you can explore all the possibilities, communicate freely with others, and receive the energy to create something that is not in the world.
The new store will mark the second Apple Store opening in South Korea, following the first store opening in January of 2018. Apple is expected to open more stores in the country with a third store being planned in Myeongdong, a popular tourist hotspot, and a fourth store in the city of Busan, according to Yonhap News Agency.
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Rian Gray
Apparently, support people (Genius Bar) were asking customers if they knew English when they brought in bricked mac books during the Big Sur update bug debacle.
Allegedly, the manager didn't speak Korean, hence the famous question. All the other PR nightmares aside, I still don't understand how Korea is still accepting anyone who's not fluent in the language while simultaneously serving a role that comes with responsibility. This isn't exactly the first time an international corporation embarrassed itself by not knowing how to speak Korean while operating in Korea.
edit: lots of typos.
Good to hear that Apple is finally opening up more stores in Korea. Apple's popularity in Korea is huge and the demand is high, yet there is only one store in the entire country.
Hopefully Apple catches up with the demand and accessibility for more people in Korea.
clive27
Could MacRumors not work with native speakers (instead of relying on machine translation) to get accurate quotes?
As a native Korean speaker (born there and lived until 18), I can confirm it's a quite accurate translation. But those Korean sentences from the Apple website itself are very tacky (including the font style). Something I would expect from Google translated websites or websites from the 2000s. It's almost like the Apple marketing dept wrote/design those in English and got those machine-translated.
LFC2020
Saw event and got excited for a second. ??♂?
orbital~debris
saying it'll be a "space for everyone to blossom their ideas and creativity" (machine translation):
apparatchik
Haha, Im anxiously waiting for an Apple event, but very much settled my faith on the June timeframe i.e the next wwdc: the next crop of AS Macs, everybody, or well, most people, have their mind on the new higher end MBPs, etc. But to me at least the current top of the line Mac Mini (Intel) will be replaced by an M1X, etc. And also waiting for the 3rd gen AirPods/2nd Gen AirPods Pro.
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