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Ft. Lonesome's Bold, Colorful Western Suits Are a New Kind of Celebrity Status Symbol
The brand's founder, Kathie Sever, opens up about the recent rhinestone and pearl-snap explosion.
By Madison Vain
It's Yeehaw Week at Esquire, and we're exploring all the ways in which Western style and culture are coming to bear on what clothes we wear (and what music we listen to) now. We kicked off with a look at the "Yeehaw Agenda," and the deep history of the Black Western aesthetic. Then, we talked Western wear with mega-DJ Diplo. Now, we're chatting with the woman who runs the clothier that made his infamous VMA suit. Giddy up.
Perhaps you've noticed a trend in 2019, one in which ten-gallon hats and glinting gold chains have infiltrated the red carpet, your Instagram feed, and the ad campaigns of many a high end fashion house. Western silhouettes are here in a big way, and for many actors and musicians, there's one place to turn when the desire for a custom fit hits: Austin-based clothiers, Ft. Lonesome.
The shop opened its doors in 2012 and has worked with the likes of Jenny Lewis, Midland, and My Morning Jacket's Jim James—not to mention Matthew McConaughey and Richard Linklater—during its tenure. And along the way, Ft. Lonesome has become the premier purveyor for a chainstitched design, a perfect patch, or full-on custom suit.
Below, founder Kathie Sever takes us down her rhinestone-encrusted path to success.
Madison Vain: I feel like I should start by asking where your commitment to Western wear comes from.
Kathie Sever: I'm pretty sure the truest answer to that question is that I found it really fascinating. I went to art school from living on a ranch in Montana, and I found it really fascinating that Western wear was equally prominent and lauded in both worlds. [Laughs] To see alternatives embraced Western wear, from the perspective of a rockabilly-slash-rock-n-roll-slash-art-kid standpoint, and then diving straight into working on a ranch where there was just one bar in this tiny town and on Thursday nights everybody put on their pearl snaps and got dressed up and ironed their jeans…I just fell in love with the commonality.
A partnership that changed the Ft. Lonesome path came via Jenny Lewis. 'It was incredible to be integrated into the artistic narrative of a Jenny Lewis era,' says Sever.
Tim Mosenfelder
Ft. Lonesome is a mainstay in the music community now—Jim James, Nikki Lane, the Midland guys, and so many more love your designs—but how did it begin?
It actually started off in the early 2000s as a children's Western wear line. I've been selling clothing my whole life, but I was blissfully unaware what it looked like or meant to have a clothing line, and it seemed like a great idea after my daughter was born. I had this friend who was a very business-minded, driven entrepreneur who wanted to start a baby accessories line. So I was basically working for her for a little bit, but really, we were also just juggling very small children and trying to rebuild who we were going to be post-children.
Where were you working before you started this line?
I was a pastry chef, and [post-kids] I didn't want to go back to the restaurant world.
You love the incredibly hard jobs.
Oh my god. That was the hardest. Being a pastry chef was so fucking hard. [Laughs]
The Yeehaw boom has been surprising to Sever. 'I have always existed in this world where Western wear was cool,' she says, laughing.
Nina Westervelt
Was it successful?
We actually both did relatively well. She wanted everything domestically produced—then it was harder to do that—so we were all of the sudden taking trips out to L.A. to look for production. She was looking for representation. We were going to market in New York and I was just following along with whatever she was doing. But she was making bibs and flat mats and these simple oil cloth accessories, whereas I was stitching up these baby western shirts. And when it came time to scale, I hadn't established any sort of sustainable workflow of production. Everything started to fall apart for me. But I got a really good response for the line, so I got a lot of orders right off the bat, so I was able to fail rather resplendently in front of a lot of people. [Laughs]
Talk about baptism by fire.
I became really disenchanted with the fashion world in general. I very quickly saw that it was very hard to stay connected to the design aspect of a business. I was doing so much business and travel, and I didn't want to be away from my kids. And I was having a really hard time figuring out how to make a sustainable-feeling line. It was incredibly difficult to source materials that were being responsibly produced. But I had also made a lot of connections and I started to be known for doing Western wear. So, along the way, I started getting more and more adults asking for custom work. And that's what I transitioned into doing.
Your custom suits are incredibly ornate. Was it gratifying to have a bit of a bigger canvas to play with on these orders?
I was finally feeling like I was using my art school background a lot more. It felt like a nice marriage of what I studied in school and then this background that I come from, of building garments. And then throwing the Western wear thing in there was appropriate because it's the most illustrative form of clothing that we have.
Adults are obviously in a better position to appreciate a more detailed design.
Right. Kids barf of them, they shit on them, and they grown out of them. [Laughs] So it doesn't really make sense. Why would I not just go to the thrift store and grab stuff there [for children]?
Sever says musician Nikki Lane's look might've kicked off the entire trend: 'I love Nikki, and I think she's the reason that Western wear is huge right now and she doesn't get enough credit for it.'
It didn't take too long before some famous names started seeking out your designs.
We worked with Richard Linklater, Matt McConaughey, and Ethan Hawke. And, as far as music is concerned, our very first connection or client was Nikki Lane. I love Nikki, and I think she's the reason that Western wear is huge right now, and she doesn't get enough credit for it. I mean, she was making Western wear look incredibly relevant and fashion forward before Gucci picked it up and all the bigger lines started playing with Western wear. She's country, but she's also pretty fuckin' badass and rock-n-roll, in a very core way.
Was there one partnership or design that you felt like, maybe not literally, but all of the phones were ringing off the hook because of a design you launched?
The Jenny Lewis weed suite that we did several years ago. That was the first thing that we did where we started to see people doing Halloween costumes of the suit. It was incredible to be integrated into the artistic narrative of a Jenny Lewis era. She really adopts a look for any given tour or record. So she wore it and wore it and wore it and people started to associate it with her at that time. It can be such a powerful partnership when you're working with someone who appreciates garments in that way.
A recent collection that has everyone at Ft. Lonesome feeling a little extra proud was the custom suit designed for Diplo for the 2019 VMA awards. 'We really felt like that was our best work to date,' says Sever.
Jeff Kravitz
What's been the most recent creation you made where you just felt like, "Shit, we nailed that, I want a million photographs of that on the website?"
It would be hard to not say the suit that we did for Diplo for the VMAs. On a really nerdy, chainstitch-level, the design, the color, the amount of tiny details in there and the execution of the embroidery—as well as integrating all of the rhinestones and the hand tie-dyed fabric—I mean...yeah. We really felt like that was our best work to date. That was the third suit that we had done for Diplo, and so we felt like we really knew his shape, so to speak.
Western wear is having a huge moment this year. I think having a mega-producer like Diplo key in on the style is a pretty big indicator of how far it's spread.
I swear that I am not trying to cultivate some sort of naïveté, but to me it's been surprising to hear people say, "Why would he do that?" Because I have always existed in this world where Western wear was cool. [Laughs] But to be honest, it all freaks me out a little bit, because what I feel like I see, and what I feel like we all see, are these trends that you see come in and go out. And you realize that our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and we're perpetually looking for stimulation and something new, and so, to be totally frank, I am a little nervous about how Western wear is popular right now. I keep having moments where I'll come into work and I'll say, "Is this it, you guys? Has the look now jumped the shark?"
It's not the high-profile clients who satisfy Sever and co. most, however. 'Working with celebrities is so fun, but it's so much more fun to work with more of what I would consider the trickle-down effect,' she says.
I think it's just getting started.
I hope so. Because working with celebrities is so fun, but it's so much more fun to work with more of what I would consider the trickle-down effect of Jenny Lewis wearing a custom-embroidered suit. You know, women who are getting married who want to build something really fun, or men who are getting married who want to wear something more Gram Parsons-inspired. It's been amazing to have such a broad array of people interested in getting these suits made right now.
Madison Vain Madison Vain is a writer and editor living in New York, covering music, books, TV, and movies; prior to Esquire, she worked at Entertainment Weekly and Sports Illustrated.
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FDR Offers Relief and Reform
The Second New Deal
Effects of the New Deal
The Role of Government Expands
What were the three goals of the First New Deal?
Relief. recovery, and reform.
In what two ways did Americans benefit from the New Deal by 1934?
Millions were put to work and millions more received direct aid to provide relief.
What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the New Deal?
Traveled to places FDR could not; advised FDR; served as an inspiration to millions of Americans, and wrote to thousands of citizens.
What did the New Deal create, economically?
The foundation for sustained and stable growth.
What was the AAA and what was its purpose?
The Agricultural Adjustment Act. It sought to end overproduction and raise crop prices.
What was seen as FDR's biggest mistake of his presidency?
The Court-Packing Bill
What was Francis Perkins' role in The New Deal?
First female cabinet member, Secretary of Labor, Leading role in Social Security Act.
What is a welfare state?
A government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of children, the poor, the sick, disabled and unemployed.
What was the TVA and how did it attract industries?
Tennessee Valley Authority. Cheap electrical power generated by the dams.
What were two goals of the new wave of programs launched by FDR in the Second New Deal?
Long-term recovery and more direct relief to workers and farmers.
What was the Black Cabinet?
African American leaders that were unofficial advisors to FDR.
What debate from the New Deal era divides liberals and conservatives to this day?
The role of the federal government in society.
What did FDR say was the most important piece of legislation ever and why?
The National Recovery Administration (NRA); It developed codes of fair competition to govern whole industries.
What did the Wagner Act do?
Created the National Labor Relations Board which protected workers from unfair business practices and the right to form unions.
Why did FDR not back an anti lynching law?
Because southern Democrats would block his New Deal legislation.
What principle about the federal government's responsibility did the New Deal establish?
That the federal government was responsible fo the welfare of all Americans.
Why did Huey Long object to the New Deal?
He wanted higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
Where does the funds for the social security system come from?
Directly from workers paychecks.
What was the Indian New Deal?
A program that gave Native Americans economic assistance and greater control over their own affairs.
What was one way that Americans sought to guard against the growing power of the President as seen under FDR?
The 22 Amendment which limits the president to no more than two terms in office.

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Fortissimo boards Berlinale Generation animation 'Deep Sea'
By Michael Rosser2023-01-18T16:32:00+00:00
Source: Beijing October Media Co, Ltd
'Deep Sea'
Amsterdam-based sales outfit Fortissimo Films has secured international rights to Tian Xiaopeng's Deep Sea, which is set to receive its international premiere at the Berlinale.
The Chinese 3D animated feature marks the second feature by Tian, whose debut Monkey King: Hero Is Back became the highest-grossing animated film ever in China when it took $138m in 2015. The current record holder is 2019 animation Ne Zha, whose producer, Yi Qiao, is the producer of Deep Sea.
The film tells the story of Shenxiu, a girl who has felt a deep sadness since being abandoned by her mother. While on a family cruise, she falls into the sea and breaks into the Deep Sea restaurant where she meets inventive underwater chef Nanhe and embarks on a journey between dreams and reality. The cast includes Wang Tingwen and Su Xin.
Director Tian and his team developed a CG technique based on particles, creating 3D images from abstract Chinese ink painting, which is used throughout the film. It is produced by Yi's animation studio October Media and Beijing-based Enlight Pictures.
Deep Sea will be released in China on January 22, securing a coveted date during Chinese New Year, and was today revealed to have been selected for the Generation KPlus competition at the Berlinale, where it will receive its international premiere in February.
Clement Magar, general manager of Fortissimo Films, said it would launch sales at the European Film Market (EFM), which runs alongside the festival from February 16-22.
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Home News Starfield: 'something unique', players 'will go crazy'
Starfield: 'something unique', players 'will go crazy'
The design director of Bethesda believes that Starfield will give a big slap to the players, like what he could feel with the last Spider-Man on PlayStation.
A Bethesda developer has no shortage of superlatives for reveal the quality expected by the future software Xbox exclusive, Starfield. One of the most anticipated games of the year, if not other years, is slowly being revealed with concepts and declarations, and the hype is mounting while waiting for the release of this RPG set for November 11, 2022 on PC and Xbox Series.
Bethesda's new franchise will make gamers 'lose their minds', now says Emil Pagliarulo, design director at the Xbox-owned studio. Already present in the credits of Morrowind, another crazy game of its time, the man has the double role of head of design and writing for Starfield. A project that he considers to be the beginning of a new great adventure.
To say that we are going to create the first new studio franchise in twenty years is one thing. Getting it done is another. It's been amazing to watch Starfield grow into this amazing game, bit by bit, and discover SO much new stuff. There comes a time, when you're working on a game, where everything is a mess, especially at the beginning, because that's the reality of video game development. But when you get to the point where the systems start to come online, things start to work, and you see it all bring to life the vision you had at the start of the adventure… When it first happened on Starfield, there was a moment of, "Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's…really something unique. Players will absolutely love it." (Editor's note: this is the official translation of the blog, but it could rather be translated as: "The players are going to go crazy") Now we just need to finish it!
In its final design phase, the game is now in a vast tweaking and balancing step especially on quests and main storyline to make sure everything works.
Our studio's unofficial slogan is "Great games are played, not made." That means we have to experience Starfield as the player would, through every stage of development. We're brutally honest with ourselves about what's fun and what's not, what works and what doesn't, and we do everything we can to ensure players get the experience they expect and deserve.
Finally, the design director gives some inspiration for Starfield and the studio's upcoming games, and reveals having received a slap on the Spider-Man of Insomniac or Cyberpunk.
Create an open and gigantic environment like Night City? It's not an easy thing. It is very impressive.
As long as Starfield isn't inspired by CDPR's disastrous launch of the game, no problem.
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GRAMMY NOMINEE MICKEY GUYTON ENDS INCREDIBLE YEAR WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCE ON NBC'S TODAY
Photo credit: Phylicia J.L. Munn
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22 DECEMBER 2020 (TORONTO, ON) – GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Mickey Guyton recently performed a special version of "O Holy Night" on NBC's TODAY, watch HERE. The song is part Carols Covered, an exclusive-to-Apple Music collection of familiar Christmas and holiday songs with a distinctive twist, delivered by some of 2020's standout artists. Fans can listen to the track HERE.
2020 has been an incredible year for the singer/songwriter including her historic GRAMMY nomination as the first Black female solo artist to earn a nomination in a country category (Best Country Solo Performance) for her powerful song "Black Like Me." "Black Like Me" was named one of the Top 10 songs of 2020 by Billboard, The Associated Press, Rolling Stone and NPR noting, "the best pure singer in Nashville since Carrie Underwood…her song started many necessary conversations and will be remembered as a milestone in the genre's evolution."
Mickey previously performed "Black Like Me" during her NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (watch HERE), as well as, NBC's TODAY (watch HERE). She also spoke with CBS This Morning regarding the song's impact, watch HERE. "Black Like Me" is featured on Mickey's acclaimed EP Bridges which includes five additional tracks all co-written by Mickey and was just named by Billboard, Slate, The Tennessean and Sounds Like Nashville as one of the Best Albums of 2020.
Earlier this year, Mickey also made history as the first solo Black female country artist to perform on the ACM Awards, watch HERE. Accompanied by labelmate Keith Urban, Mickey performed "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" which was hailed as one of the best performances of the night with Rolling Stone noting, "Guyton knocked it out of the park demonstrating that she's got a world-class set of pipes as well as something important to say."
To view a special video highlighting Mickey's historic accomplishments, click HERE.
Mickey was just announced as a performer for the upcoming Rose Parade New Year Celebration presented by Honda. The special will air on ABC, Hallmark Channel, KTLA, NBC, RFD-TV and Univision at 8am PT on January 1, 2021. Additional performers and celebrity guests include Tori Kelly, Matt Leinart, Sheryl Crow, Emeril Lagasse and more.
About Mickey Guyton
Mickey Guyton was born in Arlington, Texas and began singing in church at a young age. She was drawn to a variety of artists with big voices including Dolly Parton, Cece Winans, Whitney Houston and LeAnn Rimes. After signing to Capitol Records Nashville, Mickey's first appearance was an all-star concert at the White House captured by PBS. In 2015 she released her self-titled EP featuring her debut single "Better Than You Left Me." The following year she was nominated for her first Academy of Country Music Award for New Female Vocalist. Mickey returned to the ACM Awards in 2019 performing "I'm Standing With You" from the BREAKTHROUGH movie soundtrack alongside Chrissy Metz, Carrie Underwood, Lauren Alaina and Maddie & Tae. This last year, Mickey performed her first solo ACM Awards performance of "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?" with labelmate Keith Urban's accompaniment on piano. The performance, which HITS called "…a Whitney Houston/Beyoncé power-vocal rendition of the glass-ceiling reckoning…" was named one of the best performances of the night. Mickey released her EP, Bridges, on September 11, which includes "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?", hailed by Variety as "country music's song of the year", as well as, "Black Like Me," a song Mickey co-wrote in March 2019 at a cross-genre writing camp. Due to demand, "Black Like Me" was released in June and was named one of the Top 5 songs of 2020 by NPR, Rolling Stone and The Associated Press as well as a Top 10 song of 2020 by Billboard. Mickey recently made history as the first Black female solo artist to earn a GRAMMY nomination in a country category (Best Country Solo Performance) for "Black Like Me." Mickey and her music have been featured recently by The New York Times, CBS This Morning, NPR, Today, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, The Washington Post, Paste, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, American Songwriter and Pollstar.
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NOTE: This page was updated on 9/10/18 to reflect hearings rescheduled due to inclement weather.
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (Commission) are soliciting public input on a draft amendment to address several potential changes to the management of the commercial summer flounder fishery, as well as modifications to the fishery management plan (FMP) goals and objectives for summer flounder. Ten public hearings will be held between September 10 and September 27. Written comments will be accepted through October 12, 2018.
Requalifying criteria for federal commercial moratorium permits to address latent effort in the fishery: The amendment includes options to reduce the number of eligible commercial federal moratorium permits by implementing requalifying criteria for existing permits.
Modifying commercial quota allocation: The amendment proposes several options for revising the current commercial allocation to the states, which has been in place since 1993 and is based on average landings from 1980-1989.
Adding commercial landings flexibility as a framework issue in the Council's FMP: This action does not consider implementing landings flexibility policies at this time but considers allowing the Council to implement landings flexibility through a future framework action instead of an amendment. The Commission's adaptive management process already allows for landings flexibility.
Revising the FMP objectives for summer flounder: This amendment proposes revisions to the current FMP objectives for summer flounder management to provide more meaningful and up-to-date guidance to managers.
Additional information about the amendment and the management alternatives being considered can be found on the Council's website at www.mafmc.org/actions/summer-flounder-amendment and on the Commission's website at http://www.asmfc.org/about-us/public-input. This information includes three documents: (1) the Public Hearing Document, which includes all proposed management changes and was developed to solicit public comment; (2) the Commission's Draft Amendment; and (3) the Council's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Both the Commission's Draft Amendment and the Council's DEIS are required under their respective regulatory processes.
Note that this hearing schedule was updated 9/10/18 to reflect hearings rescheduled due to inclement weather.
Please include "Summer Flounder Commercial Issues Amendment Comments" in the subject line if using email or on the outside of the envelope if submitting written comments by mail. All comments, regardless of submission method, will be compiled into a single document for review and consideration by both the Council and Commission. Please do not send separate comments to the Council and Commission.
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Q: Passing a form value to a JavaScript Function I have read through lots of postings here and around the net, and I even have books covering this subjective, but I just can't get it to work. I just can't get the Function to pick up the value of the "RadioDrink" variable. I have tried all sorts of combinations Using DOM methods like below and here using a collection (this) and (form) with no luck.
Any help would be appreciated.
function ValDrink(form){
if (form.RadioDrink.value == "soup")
    {
    alert("Its soup OK!");
    return true; // OK
     }

======================here is my code.======================

<title>Test</title>

  <form method="post" id="Drinks" name="Drinks" onsubmit="return ValDrink()">
    <input type="radio" checked name="RadioDrink" value="Tea">Tea

    <input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" value="Coffee">Coffee

    <input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" value="Soup">Soup

    <input type="checkbox" name="CheckMilk" value="Yes">Milk
    <input type="checkbox" name="CheckSugar" value="Yes">Sugar

    <input type="submit" name="OKButton" value="Vend">
  </form>

A: You should check for each value in the radio group & use it instead. Something like :
function getCheckedRadio(radio_group) {
    for (var i = 0; i < radio_group.length; i++) {
        var button = radio_group[i];
        if (button.checked) {
            return button;
        }
    }
    return undefined;
}

Call it to get selected value. So In your case :
getCheckedRadio(document.forms.Drinks.RadioDrink);

A: This will give the value of "Soup" checkbox:
document.forms["Drinks"]["RadioDrink"][0].checked

A: you need to do this in a different way. first of all your DOM is showing undefined value. you can add different ids to the radio buttons. you can do it like below

<title>Test</title>

<form method="post" id="Drinks" name="Drinks" onsubmit="return ValDrink()">
<input type="radio" checked name="RadioDrink" value="Tea">Tea

<input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" value="Coffee">Coffee

<input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" id="Rsoup" value="Soup">Soup

<input type="checkbox" name="CheckMilk" value="Yes">Milk
<input type="checkbox" name="CheckSugar" value="Yes">Sugar

<input type="submit" name="OKButton" value="Vend">
</form>

A: The problem is that this:
document.forms.Drinks.RadioDrink

returns an array-like reference to all three inputs with that name, it doesn't return a reference to the currently selected one. So you can't just test the value property.
The easiest to explain way to achieve what you want to do is to give the radio buttons unique ids:
<input type="radio" checked name="RadioDrink" id="RadioDrinkTea" value="Tea">Tea

<input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" id="RadioDrinkCoffee" value="Coffee">Coffee

<input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" id="RadioDrinkSoup" value="Soup">Soup

And then directly select the one you want to test:
if (document.getElementById("RadioDrinkSoup").checked) {
    alert("It's soup OK!");
    return true; // soup
} else {
    alert("OK");
    return false; // not soup
}

A: Try your coding like below... it will help you.....

<title>Test</title>

<form method="post" id="Drinks" name="Drinks" onsubmit="return ValDrink()">
<input type="radio" checked name="RadioDrink" value="Tea">Tea

<input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" value="Coffee">Coffee

<input type="radio" name="RadioDrink" value="Soup">Soup

<input type="checkbox" name="CheckMilk" value="Yes">Milk
<input type="checkbox" name="CheckSugar" value="Yes">Sugar

<input type="submit" name="OKButton" value="Vend">
</form>

A: Not a right way to get radios value. Use the following function, also can check this question
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            alert("Its soup OK!"); // soup
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Austin Film Festival 2019: "The Obituary of Tunde Johnson" Film Review
by Jackie Ruth@jackie_april_3 October 28, 2019 January 23, 2020
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"The Obituary of Tunde Johnson" was chosen as this year's opening night film at Austin Film Festival. It played to a packed Paramount Theatre on Thursday, October 24, with writer Stanley Kalu, director Ali LeRoi and producer Zachary Green in attendance.
L-R: Senior Film Program Director Casey Baron, director Ali LeRoi, writer Stanley Kalu and producer Zachary Green | Photo credit: Jack Plunkett/AFF
The film stars Steven Silver ("13 Reasons Why") as the titular Tunde Johnson. Tunde is a 17-year-old in Los Angeles, whose parents are from Nigeria. He is also gay, though only his best friend Marley (Nicola Peltz) and his secret boyfriend Soren (Spencer Neville) know that. Tunde and Soren have a pact to come out to their parents on the same night, and it's during Tunde's drive to Soren's birthday party that night that he is pulled over and shot by a cop, dying on the street.
And then he wakes up, panicked and in pain. In a narrative structure we've seen before, from "Groundhog Day" to "Happy Death Day," Tunde is forced to relive the same day over and over. But as a drama about an unarmed black teen being killed by the police over and over again, this is much more emotionally charged than those comedies.
In "The Obituary of Tunde Johnson," Kalu and LeRoi have crafted a narrative that will draw you in and not let go. As you watch Tunde relive the day he dies for the first time, you're sure of what to expect: It will all happen again. But that's not quite true; Tunde's death at the hands of one or many police officers comes differently every time. It shocks Tunde and the audience because we know what the outcome will be, but not the method or timing in which it's delivered.
We see him killed over and over, but sometimes we see the gore and sometimes we're seeing it through a live social media stream or a security camera. There is nothing to comfort you. No matter how removed you are from it, Tunde's death is horrifying and undeserved. The very last death that we see him suffer is the longest and hardest to watch, extending the impact that the film and its visuals will have on you.
But, shockingly, the movie has plenty of comedic dialogue. In a movie filled with heartbreak and tragedy, it's nice that there are moments when you can just laugh. Many of them come from Tunde's interactions with his parents (Sammi Rotibi and Tembi Locke) and, surprisingly, Soren's dad Alfred (David James Elliott). You see, Alfred is a pundit on a conservative cable news channel, which is part of why Soren isn't comfortable coming out to him — and why you tense up when Tunde meets Alfred and they begin to have a genuine conversation.
Additionally, the relationships presented in the film feel lived-in. Tunde and Soren have some really lovely moments together at times when they can be intimate and be themselves around each other. And, while I could never understand how Marley and Tunde are best friends, his relationship with her has its special moments too.
L-R: Director Ali LeRoi, writer Stanley Kalu and producer Zachary Green on the AFF red carpet | Photo credit: Jackie Ruth
One of the most striking things about "The Obituary of Tunde Johnson" is the way it reveals information little by little. It begins with the first couple of sentences of Tunde's obituary, and you only see small pieces of his day the first time. But with each day more unfolds, in terms of character development and the obituary that begins it, feeding the audience bits and pieces about Tunde and his life before we must watch him die yet again. As LeRoi put it during the Q&A, "It's a movie about a life, not a death."
Another insight given during the Q&A session: There's a through line in the movie relating to "The 400 Blows." Of all the films you might connect this one to, a 1959 black-and-white, French New Wave drama is probably not on the list. But once you see that connection, it's profound.
If you are able to stomach the subject matter of this film, I highly suggest that you see it. And if you feel in any way distanced from similar stories in the news (for example, if you're white like I am), this is a must-see. It doesn't solve any problems but it presents a story unlike any other recently, telling the story of a young, gay black boy who is educated and wealthy — and still cannot be saved. This film is unforgettable.
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After studies of aeronautical engineer, Jacques Blin worked in this branch during several years as draftsman. Attracted by the decorative arts, he approached the ceramic, then he devoted himself to it completely from 1948-1949. He undertook the structures of the profession during more than twenty years, as president of the Union of Ceramists and Studios of France and as vice-president of the International Academy of the Ceramic in Geneva.


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Grant Catalino is an American lacrosse player from Webster, New York.  He is an attackman for the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse.  He played college lacrosse for the University of Maryland Terrapins.

Catalino grew up in Webster, a suburb of Rochester, where he was a team captain for the Webster Schroeder High School Warriors for two years.  In his senior year, the Democrat and Chronicle made him the first-ever All-Greater Rochester Player of the Year for boys' lacrosse.

At Maryland, where he majored in personal finance, he was a three-time All-American. He finished his college career with 119 goals (good for seventh all-time at Maryland) and 66 assists for 185 points (good for tenth all-time).

He was drafted 21st overall by the Denver Outlaws in the 2011 MLL Collegiate Draft, but he was quickly traded to his hometown Rochester Rattlers.  He made his pro debut for the Rattlers after the Terrapins' season ended in the NCAA championship game.  In his second professional game, he tied an MLL record by scoring nine goals in one game, a Rattlers loss to the Hamilton Nationals.

He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2011 NLL Entry Draft by his hometown Rochester Knighthawks.

Catalino is now retired from pro lacrosse and coaches at the Aquinas institute for the boys varsity team. Catalino led the team to the sectional finals in 2015 where his Aquinas team lost to the upstate New York powerhouse Penn Yan mustangs.

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Metadata and Electronic Document Management for Electronic Commerce
Version of 12 August 2008
This item on "Electronic Publishing" is one of a segment on"Metadata and Electronic Document Management for Electronic Commerce" first presented for the Australian National University course "Information Technology in Electronic Commerce" (COMP3410/COMP6341).
This document is intended to provide both for live group presentation and accompanying lecture notes for individual use. The Slides and these notes are provided in the one HTML document, using HTML Slidy.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has been publishing for thirty years in support of its mission and objects.
To advance professional excellence in information technology.
Principal Object
To promote the development of Australian information and communications technology resources.
Secondary Objects
To advance professional excellence in information and communications technology.
To further the study, science and application of information and communications technology. ...
"The ACS", Australian Computer Society, 2003, URL: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=show&conID=aboutacs
How and why might the ACS do scholarly publishing online?
Petition from Public Library of Science
We believe that the permanent, archival record of scientific research and ideas should neither be owned nor controlled by publishers, but should belong to the public, and should be made freely available.
We support the establishment of international online public libraries of science that contain the complete text of all published scientific articles in searchable and interlinked formats.
From: "Open Letter", Public Library of Science, Patrick O. Brown and Michael Eisen, 2001, URL: http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html.
The issue of how free and open access to scholarly research should be, came up with a 2001 petition from the Public Library of Science. An Advocacy Group made up of 11 people from US based and one from UK academic institutions proposed the establishment of international online public libraries of science with the complete text of all published scientific articles
The group claimed 26,144 researchers from 170 countries signed the open letter urging publishers to allowing research reports from their journals to be publicly available. The web site for the group is maintained by Patrick O. Brown, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Michael Eisen of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California at Berkeley.
There was no subsequent boycotting of traditional publishers. But there has been a gradual change in the way research publishing is done. An interesting issue is the position of information technology researchers on the issue, given their role in creating the technology used for electronic publishing.
E-Publishing at ACS
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) publishes:
Newsletters,
General interest magazine in conjunction with a commercial publisher,
Academic journal, and
Some editions of some publications are made available free on-line in PDF or web format. However, there was no overall digital library. The ACS took several years considering publishing strategies, including e-publishing.
Digital Library Federation Encourages Use of Open Archives Initiative The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is supporting the development of a small number of Internet gateways through which users will access distributed digital library holdings as if they were part of a single uniform collection. The gateways will be built using the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. DLF gateways will contribute to a practical evaluation of the OAI's harvesting technique and its application within libraries to encourage digital collection managers to expose metadata and build services.
From: Open Archives Initiative, URL: http://www.openarchives.org/, 2001
Activities such as the Open Archives Initiative are attempting to construct a virtual library of material using distributed document archives and shared metadata.
Organisations now considering electronic publications strategies can use an integrated approach using newer XML tools to create and maintain content. The ACS had a tradition of providing the content of its journal free for non-profit use. This was extended into an electronic edition in a format suitable for direct citation and annotation with metadata in a format suitable for harvesting by specialised virtual library tools as well as traditional web search engines. The content was made available for education.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a professional society that publishes research journals and magazines in computer science. It also organizes a wide variety of conferences, many of which publish proceedings. ACM is typical of the publishers that have moved rapidly into electronic publication of conventional journals. In 1993, the ACM decided that its future publication process would be a computer system that creates a database of journal articles, conference proceedings, magazines and newsletters, all marked up in SGML. Subsequently, ACM also decided to convert large numbers of its older journals and build a digital library covering its publications from 1985. The digital library will eventually extend back to ACM's foundation in 1948.
From: "Preservation of Scientific Serials: Three Current Examples", WILLIAM Y. ARMS, The Journal of Electronic Publishing December, 1999, Volume 5, Issue 2 ISSN 1080-2711, http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/arms.html
A pioneer of e-publishing for IT has been the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM collection was made available on-line in 1997 and the web interface allows the contents pages of the journals to be browsed and metadata searched. New content was created in SGML, then web, PDF and print versions generated for that. The online service is by paid subscription to members, non-members and institutions or sales per article. The service has proved popular and ACM is considering discontinuing some print titles.
ACM journals accept articles in a number of electronic formats using supplied templates. The PDF versions of documents generated are close in format to the print editions, but the HTML versions use a different format more suited to on-line viewing. Graphics are shown as small thumbnail versions, with links to high resolution versions.
E-publishing not easy
... the current track 1 production process:
1. The paper is received from EIC, and is logged into the system.
2. The paper is converted from whatever original format into SGML (requires intervention). For mathematics, ACM requires that minimum customization be inserted into LaTeX. ....
3. The SGML is copy edited (by the managing editors). ... email notification to the lead author to let them know to expect a galley in one week and that they will have 48 hours to respond to the galley. ...
From: "Minutes of the Publications Board Meeting", ACM, May 5, 2000, URL:http://www.acm.org/pubs/minutes_05-05-00.html">
E-publishing still problematic
Some of these issues were to do with limitations in electronic publishing software, which are still apparent today:
4. The reference section is created separately from the SGML file because it has to be citation-linked ....
5. ... Proof is sent to the author before any tweaking takes place. After feedback from the author, layout is tweaked ...
6. Problems in layout: tables with multiple columns which have different widths (the auto-table generator makes all columns of equal widths, so these must be tweaked by hand during composition).
7. Illustrations and figures are processed separately. If received figures are in TIF or EPS, they can be electronically processed and inserted during composition. Many times, the EPS file is non-standard ...
Given the rapid development in XML it was considered better for the ACS to wait until the technology was more widely available, rather than implement a SGML/PDF system which would then have to be replaced.
IEEE Xplore, the online delivery system for all the IEEE's journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards, is now bigger and better than ever, thanks to its latest release, launched in December. ...
Another enhancement is full-text HTML formats for issues of IEEE Spectrum and Proceeding of the IEEE going back to January 2002. PDF versions are still available, but articles presented in HTML are easier to navigate, Williams says.
From: " Upgrade Makes IEEE Xplore Easier to Explore", ERICA VONDERHEID, IEEE, 23 February 2004
The minutes of the ACM Publications Board show the considerable complexities and manual processing steps which had to be automated.
JRPIT PDF example
JRPIT is published in a relatively efficient PDF format (only 39 kbytes for a 10 page paper with one photo).
"The Future of Open Source Software", Bill Appelbe, JRPIT, Volume 35, No. 4, 2003, URL: http://www.acs.org.au/jrpit/JRPITVolumes/JRPIT35/JRPIT35.4.227.pdf
JRPIT PDF Detail
Zooming in to be able to read the text results in lines dropping off right hand side of the screen:
Detail from "The Future of Open Source Software", Bill Appelbe, JRPIT, Volume 35, No. 4, 2003, URL: http://www.acs.org.au/jrpit/JRPITVolumes/JRPIT35/JRPIT35.4.227.pdf
Using OpenOffice.org to Translate Documents
Template Translation to OpenOffice XML Format
instructions.ms_word TRANS-JOUR.DOC
Size (Kbytes)
Converted File
instructions.ms_word.sxw TRANS-JOUR.sxw
icontent.xml tjcontent.xml
An example of a document converted using OpenOffice.org, is "ICT Development in Australia - A Strategic Policy Review" prepared for the Australian Computer Society by Professor Houghton. The web adaption of the report was created from the MS-Word version. This was done by first importing the MS-Word document into OpenOffice.org and saving in HTML. The HTML was run through the "Tidy" utility to replace formatting commands throughout the document with styles. The table of contents was then manually re-linked to the document sections and ALT text placed on images.
Using OpenOffice.org to produce HTML has limitations. A better approach may be to use OpenOffice's internal XML format as an intermediate format. This retains more information about the original MS-Word document, than is present in a HTML translation.
As an example the Microsoft Word Style Files for ACM Journals and IEEE Transactions were converted to OpenOffice format:
OpenOffice files are stored as a directory of ZIP compressed files. The text of the word processing document is stored in a file labeled "content.xml" in the directory. Images and other binary files are stored in sub-directories.
WP Styles Translate to XML
<text:p text:style-name="Title">This Is the Title of the Paper</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="Primary Head">1. INTRODUCTION </text:p>
From: " Publishing Options for Academic Material", Tom Worthington, 2002: URL:http://www.tomw.net.au/2002/epo.html
XML Document Formats
Styles from the original style sheet are reflected in text styles in the translated XML documents.
A modified version of the Sun Microsystems developed Open Office format was adopted as an OASIS Standard on May 1, 2005. This "Open Document Format" (ODF) was adopted as an international standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006 in May 3, 2006.
Microsoft's Office Open XML format (OOXML) has similar features to ODF and is Draft International Standard 29500.
Both ODF and OOXML suffer from being derived from legacy word processing packages. A better alternative would be to use XHTML 2 and new CSS standards.
Progress on Publishing Systems
Arrow Discovery Service with metadata for scholars
ACS Digital Library
IFIP Digital Library
While the formats for publishing have been controversial, progress has been made on the metadata for publishing systems. The ACS has produced a Digital Library system which implements metadata for scholars via services such as the Arrow Discovery Service. A similar system is being implemented at the ANU for IFIP in 2008: IFIP Digital Library.
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Metadata and Electronic Document Management for Electronic Commerce by Tom Worthington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.


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How RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 Turned the Competition Into a Game
March 18, 2018 brian
I'm a huge fan of reality competition TV shows, particularly RuPaul's Drag Race. It's a creative, funny competition between some wild personalities that never fails to entertain. But the All Stars seasons have broken the competition in ways that turn the results from the best of the best to the winner of a game, and there's a big distinction between the two.
If you're unfamiliar with the show, here it is. A (flexible) dozen drag queens start. Through a series of challenges playing to the strengths of a well-rounded drag queen, they're eliminated one by one until three (sometimes four) remain. Each episode, after a challenge, a panel of judges helps Ru select the top queen (who gets a prize) and the bottom two, with the rest being safe from elimination. The bottom two perform a lip sync and Ru picks who stays and who goes home. In each stage of the competition, the panel of judges and RuPaul select the winners and the losers. This is standard RuPaul's Drag Race.
All Stars has been messed with from the start. The first season put every queen into a pair with a competitor. They both had to perform well to win challenges and it wasn't until late in the game when competitors were judged on their performance alone. All Stars season two course corrected by starting everyone out on their own, but it still changed the competition. Instead of Ru picking the winner and loser each week, Ru picked the two winners and three losers. The winners would lip sync for the right to choose who went home. The losers pleaded their case. In the end, Ru still picked the top all star, but it was from a selection whittled down by the competitors and not the judges.
Throughout this competition, Roxxxy Andrews was consistently, repeatedly in the bottom. She was almost always up for elimination. She was consistently saved by her friends in the top. None of them would send Roxxxy home. They, arguably, sent home more talented drag queens, because of their personal biases. When Alaska won All Stars season 2, it could be said that she won it with an asterisk because she didn't have to compete against the best; she just had to make sure none of the competitors sent her home.
But factors in season 3 of All Stars broke the competition in ways that fundamentally changed it from a competition to a game; no more a matter of being the best but playing better than the others. What follows will contain spoilers for All Stars season 3, which very recently ended! Do not keep reading if you are avoiding spoilers!
All Stars season 3 followed the same formula as season 2; winners pick who goes home. But it broke in three different ways. The first is that it offered an eliminated queen a way back into the competition. Every show does this, but it's a bigger mess when they were eliminated by someone else possibly still in the competition. There was a big segment where all of the (currently) eliminated queens met with the competitors still in it and they argued about who eliminated whom and why. In the end, they brought back Morgan McMichaels, the first eliminated queen.
This is a problem. Morgan didn't compete for most of the show. She had to sit out because she was eliminated. Being brought back when most of her competitors were already gone means she stood a greater chance of convincing the rest to keep her. Also, Morgan said from the start that she was going to eliminate her biggest competitors. Not the worst queens, the best. She's not alone in this, as everyone is free to choose who they want to eliminate for any reason, but it puts a huge spotlight on the problem with letting competitors eliminate each other. Sometimes the best go home in a moment of vulnerability because they're the best.
The second way in which the competition broke was that BenDelaCreme was allowed to eliminate herself. She was the obvious front runner, she won a lip sync late in the competition, and she sent herself home. Her reasons are inconsequential, but the result is that she was shaping the competition by having a strong presence at the start, and then she cut herself out, leaving everyone else to know that their victories are only viable in her absence. Ru consistently put Dela in the top two because she's the best. When she dropped out, it let everyone know, including Ru, that she had no competition. Anyone who wins season 3 All Stars has to know that if Dela hadn't quit, they probably wouldn't have won.
Finally, and the worst way in which the competition broke, is that the final two queens were chosen by the eliminated queens. Bebe, Kennedy, Shangela, and Trixie all had claims to victory, but the decision on which of those two would lip sync for the finale was put in the hands of the people they eliminated. Shockingly, they chose Kennedy and Trixie. This is shocking because, while a strong competitor and a great drag queen, Kennedy won the least number of challenges of all of the top four. Shangela, who won the most, was eliminated by the queens who were no longer a part of the competition. For whatever reason, they chose Kennedy. The finale was between someone who was top 2 twice but won no lip syncs, against someone who was top 2 once, won that lip sync, but spent most of the competition in the bottom.
Trixie Mattel is an all star. She deserves to be recognized as such. But her win was cheapened by the changes to the competition that turned it from a best-of-the-best to a best player of the game finale. In the end, this was not the Olympics of drag. It was the Catan of drag. It was a game that could be lost by the best player for simply not having the personal connections to assure victory. While Trixie was crowned, no one achieved a victory because the best player could've been in the competition but they were recognized too soon and eliminated by those who could see it, and the best player walked out. While I expect twists and surprises in these kinds of shows, I hope that the next season of All Stars sets out the rules fairly from the start and reduces the amount of input by the eliminated queens so that they have less influence in the finale. It's just not fair to anyone to call someone an all star if they're not competing on an even playing field.
A short while ago, I'd committed to ignoring games described as inspired by Dark Souls. I'd played some Dark Souls and didn't enjoy it much, played some Dark Souls inspired games like Lords of the Fallen and Bound by Flame and I didn't like any of them. But this isn't a consistent dislike. I really really enjoyed Salt & Sanctuary, but the qualities of Dark Souls that inhabited Hollow Knight turned me right off. And almost immediately after I'd decided that Dark Souls-like games were not for me, Humble Monthly gave me a copy of Dark Souls 3. I beat Dark Souls 3. I enjoyed Dark Souls 3.
I am ill equipped to describe what makes Dark Souls 3 so different from Dark Souls, and even less equipped to compare it to Dark Souls 2, but Dark Souls 3 hooked me fairly quick. I know how these games work and they're very unforgiving, particularly of my overly-aggressive playstyle. With the help of a build guide to direct my efforts on creating a character I would enjoy playing with, a simple melee sword-and-board fighter, I sliced and chopped my way through hordes of monsters. The variety in combat encounters and enemies ensured that even my simple character build was never boring. Maybe Salt & Sanctuary made me a more patient player, but I rarely felt like the fights were unfair, even when I was dying to bosses over and over. I'd eventually learn their patterns and weaknesses, and chop them to pieces with my sword. Where as I found Dark Souls to be a largely frustrating affair, Dark Souls 3 never felt frustrating; it was rewarding.
What isn't rewarding in the game is the storyline, or lack thereof. It starts with a cutscene explaining that the lords of cinder have left their graves and need to be returned to their thrones to rekindle the dying world. From there, there's more or less nothing much to offer until you reach the end, and you get a short cutscene for your efforts. Sure, you'll find other non-hostile people with some "quests" of their own, but there's no journal. No quest log. Often, I struggled to even remember their names. Most items have a sentence or two of flavor text but that's about it for worldbuilding. You could go end-to-end through this game and never learn a single thing about the lords of cinder that you're mercilessly hunting down and killing.
This is a bit of a shame because the world they've built, without the exposition, is really interesting in that it's not standard fantasy or grimdark. If anything, it's sorrowful. This is a dying world, roamed by undead things, desperate for purpose and meaning. I find myself wanting to go back to Dark Souls again for another try to see if I can fill in the blanks because I want to learn more. Even if I can't, if I can find in Dark Souls what I found in Dark Souls 3, that'll be enough. Dark Souls 3 is a challenging game that rewards persistence and learning without feeling cheap.
Reference: From Software. Dark Souls 3 [Namco Bandai, 2016]
Source: Purchased from Humble Bundle as part of a Humble Monthly bundle.
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Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts after theft by hackers
An alleged theft by hackers forced another online business serving bitcoin traders and investors to shut down on March 4, 2014. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - An alleged theft by hackers forced another online business serving bitcoin traders and investors to shut down on Tuesday.
Flexcoin, which billed itself as a bank for the virtual, crypto-currency, said someone attacked its systems and stole nearly US$600,000 (S$761,112) worth of bitcoin.
"On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. The attacker made off with 896 BTC," the company posted on its website.
"As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately." The company, which took deposits of bitcoin but was not regulated, insured or guaranteed like regular banks, said it would return bitcoins to verified customers who put them in its "cold storage." The company, located in Alberta, Canada, said it "will attempt to work with law enforcement to trace the source of the hack." The closure came just two weeks after the collapse of the Japan-based Mt.
Gox, which at one time was the world's largest bitcoin exchange.
Mt. Gox said unknown hackers exploited weaknesses in the computer coding and security that underlies bitcoin and stole some US$500 million in worth from it.
Also on Tuesday a small bitcoin exchange, Poloniex, reported a theft, according to statements on an unverified Twitter account and a posting on the widely used Bitcoin Forum.


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The Battle of Oulart Hill
May 27, 2019 by Jim Doyle	Leave a comment
The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place on May 27, 1798 when a rebel gathering of between 4,000 and 5,000 massacre a detachment of 110 militia sent from Wexford town to stamp out the spreading rebellion in County Wexford.
When news of the long expected rising on May 23 of the Society of United Irishmen in the midlands reaches County Wexford, it is already in an unsettled condition due to fears brought by the recently instituted anti-insurgent disarmament campaign in the county. The measures used included pitchcapping, half-hanging, and house burnings to uncover rebel conspirators. The recent arrival in Wexford of the North Cork Militia, who are notorious for their brutality in the "pacification" of Ulster, terror raids by local yeomen and finally news of the massacres at Dunlavin Green, Carlow and Carnew, have the effect of drawing people together in large groups for security, especially at night.
One such group of one hundred or so gather on the evening of May 26 at The Harrow, near the parish of Boolavogue under the tutelage of Fr. John Murphy, when they encounter a patrol of about 20 yeomen on their way to the house of a suspected rebel. They burn the suspect's dwelling but, returning empty-handed, they encounter Fr. Murphy's band again. The patrol are pushing their way through when a skirmish begins in which they lose two of their number, the rest fleeing with news of the killings.
The reaction on both sides is rapid. Vengeful yeomanry patrols roam, burning and killing indiscriminately, while the rebels rouse the countryside and make several raids on manors and other houses holding arms, killing more loyalists and yeomen. News of the skirmish and raids has by now reached Wexford town and, on the morning of May 27, the bulk of its garrison, 110 of the North Cork militia under Colonel Foote, are ordered north to crush the nascent rebellion. They are joined en route by some 16 yeomen cavalry under Colonel Le Hunt. However, these yeomanry are of doubtful loyalty, many (including their sergeant) having joined the rebels that morning.
The militia reaches the village of Oulart at 2:00 PM on May 27. Finding a mass of "from four to five thousand combatants" occupying the high ground of Oulart hill, they rashly advance and pursue the rebels to the summit. The rebel leaders mistakenly believe a large body of yeoman cavalry is waiting to intercept their flight, so their forces desperately turn to face their enemy and kill the whole detachment in an instant, leaving only the commanding officer, Colonel Foote, and four other survivors to escape to their base at Wexford.
Foote reports that, contrary to his orders, the militia had advanced incautiously and were surrounded and overpowered by the overwhelming rebel numbers, mostly armed with pikes, and that "great numbers" of the rebels were killed.
Following the rebel victory, almost all of North Wexford joins the rebellion. Crown forces and loyalist civilians cede control of the countryside, withdrawing to towns such as Enniscorthy, Gorey and Wexford.
(Pictured: The Battle of Oulart Hill by Fr. Edward Foran OSA (1861-1938) who also designed the 1898 Monument in Oulart Village)
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Are you guys looking for updates about I Love That For You season 2? If yes, you've landed at the right place. In this post, we're gonna unveil everything you need to know about this beloved series! Read on…
I Love That For You Recap!
I Love That for You airs on the Showtime cable Channel. It stars Vanessa Bayer, Molly Shannon, Jenifer Lewis, Paul James, Ayden Mayeri, Matt Rogers, and Punam Patel with Johnno Wilson in a recurring role.
The story is inspired by Bayer's own story of overcoming childhood leukemia. Joanna Gold (Bayer) dreams of becoming a host at a home shopping channel.
Working to shed her life-long label as "that cancer girl," she moves away from her parents and starts a budding romance for the first time in her adult life. Joanna also forms a meaningful friendship with her idol, Jackie (Shannon), the charismatic star of the shopping channel.
This all happens against the backdrop of a highly competitive workplace where people play dirty to succeed. The CEO of the popular channel is Patricia (Lewis), the icy and enigmatic founder.
I Love That For You season 2: Will season 2 be renewed or cancelled?
As of August 12, 2022, I Love That for You has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season. However, will Showtime cancel or renew I Love That for You for season two? Going by the ratings of the previous season, we can anticipate that the show will probably receive the greenlight for season 2. However, there have been no official announcements whatsoever.
I Love That For You season 2 release date: When will season 2 release?
We'll cut right to the cast with the release date of the second edition of I Love That For You. As aforesaid, the show hasn't been renewed for a second season yet. Hence, there's no release date for season 2 of the series I Love That For You. However, if we receive any new information, we will let you guys know. Stay connected with us for more updates!
I Love That For You season 2 cast: Who's going to be featured in it?
We expect the return of almost all the cast members. For season 2, Vanessa Bayer as Joanna Gold, Molly Shannon as Jackie Stilton, and Jenifer Lewis as Patricia, CEO of SVN will return as the main leads of the show.
As it is stated earlier that Vanessa had done her character beautifully which will just touch the hearts of the audience, so is the work of the other casts.
The viewers will also see Matt Rogers as Darcy Leeds along with Paul James, Matt Malloy, Bess Armstrong, Punam Patel, Ayden Mayeri, Jason Schwartzman, and Johnno Wilson.
There could be many more secondary casts, whose presence will be introduced in the series itself. However, the makers haven't released an official statement yet.
I Love That For You season 2 plot: What to expect from the storyline further?
I Love That For You follows the career journey of cancer survivor Joanna Gold as she enters her dream job: a hosting position on a home shopping network. Unfortunately, Joanna gets the job by lying about her cancer – she tells her interviewers that she still has the disease and this gives them the incentive to hire her, despite her disastrous trial.
Despite the problematic nature of Joanna's actions, this series is very funny. And, this is largely thanks to the excellent script and accomplished performances of the cast, most notably Vanessa Bayer as Joanna Gold and Molly Shannon as Jackie Stilton, Joanna's shopping network idol.
As for the season 2 plot of the series I Love That For You, the makers are yet to make an official release. If any new information comes our way, we will update it here. Stay tuned!
I Love That For You season 2 trailer: Is the trailer or teaser out yet?
The trailer or teaser for the second season of I Love That For You isn't out yet. For the time being, you may watch the I Love That For You season 1 trailer down below.
How many episodes will there be in season 2 of I Love That For You?
I Love That For You season 1 had 8 episodes. Hence, if the makers decide to follow a similar pattern, season 2 will likely encompass 8 episodes as well.
I Love That For You episodes
No. Title  Directed by Written by Original air date
1 "GOTTAHAVEIT" Michael Showalter Vanessa Bayer & Jeremy Beiler May 1, 2022
2 "FAUX FLORALS" Michael Showalter Jeremy Beiler May 8, 2022
3 "#JOANNASTRONG" Andrew DeYoung Zora Bikangaga May 15, 2022
4 "IMPECCABLE SHE CASUALS" Andrew DeYoung Sudi Green May 22, 2022
5 "DADDY'S LIL' COOKIES" Desiree Akhavan Crystal Jenkins May 29, 2022
6 "CRYSTAL BUDDIEZ" Desiree Akhavan Ali Liebegott June 5, 2022
7 "POINT OF NO RETURNS" Heather Jack Albertina Rizzo June 12, 2022
8 "SHOP CANCER'S ASS" Heather Jack Vanessa Bayer, Jeremy Beiler & Jessi Klein June 19, 2022
I Love That For You ratings: Is the show worth watching?
I Love That For You season 1 secured a 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb. While on Rotten Tomatoes, the show secured 78% tomatometer ratings.
Where to watch I Love That For You?
You may watch the series I Love That For You on Paramount + and Showtime.
I Love That For You – FAQs
1. Is I Love That For You renewed?
No. I Love That For You isn't renewed, as of August 2022.
2. I Love That For You season finale release date?
The release date isn't known at the moment.
3. Is I Love That For You cancelled?
I Love That For You is neither renewed or cancelled, as of August 2022.
4. Is I Love That For You a true story?
Yes. I Love That For You is a true story.
5. I Love That For You Rotten Tomatoes ratings?
I Love That For You secured 78% tomatometer ratings.
Will there be a season 3 of I Love That For You?
As of August 2022, the second season of I Love That For You hasn't been renewed. Hence, there are no updates about I Love That For You season 3!
I Love That For You season 3 release date?
There's no release date for I Love That For You season 3 now.
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To start with the most straightforward, nerve blocks in my hands are used as diagnostic, not treatment tools. If, based upon your history and physical exam it is felt that nerve X may be contributing to your chronic headache symptoms, I would propose to block nerve X. After a few minutes, if your headache symptoms are either gone or significantly improved, it strongly suggests that this nerve is somehow injured and would benefit from surgical treatment. The local anesthetics used in nerve blocks only last a few hours. Therefore, it is fully expected that the headache symptoms will return after the block wears off. However, the results of the block help identify which nerve or nerves may be involved and give an approximation of the numbness that one might have permanently, if those nerves are removed. The numbness should not be permanent if the nerves are simply decompressed and then recover as expected.
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