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'The after school learning club'
One of Britain's leading afterschool clubs continue to pioneer the way for other educational establishments, putting learning at the forefront of their childcare.
Raising Explorers, set up in 2012, is an Ofsted registered afterschool learning club with more than 120 pupils currently attending, aged between five and 15.
Setting the benchmark for other clubs, Raising Explorers is an industry leader with a team of dedicated teaching staff on hand to provide care for your child once the school day is over.
Ensuring their minds are kept stimulated, tuition is available for all pupils in core subjects such as Maths, English and Science, whilst lessons in religious studies, such as: Arabic Tajweed, Arabic Language and Islamic studies are also available from qualified and experienced teachers.
In their last three visits from the governing body for places of education in England – Ofsted – the club has performed admirably and was praised for meeting the needs of children's development and wellbeing.
As the country's first 'learning afterschool club' to be officially partnered to a University, following an agreement with Bradford University earlier this year, there has never been a better time for your child to receive that extra bit of educational support along with excellent childcare.
It was the University who actually approached Raising Explorers to set up the affiliation after hearing of the fantastic progress made since setting up less than two years ago.
The partnership has allowed Bradford's top afterschool club to provide high quality teaching to 50 GCSE students with the aim of improving their grades by at least one level.
Tuition is available across a wide range of subjects, with homework and reading support provided for all Key Stages in a forward-thinking, interactive environment. Parents may also request specific individual subject support to ensure their child's learning is tailored to their desire.
Nine classrooms are able to cater for your child's every need, with an IT Suite and games room also included at the premises in the Carlisle Business Centre.
Children are constantly encouraged to build up their own confidence and play as a team with a wide range of themed activities, and extra-curricular lessons in arts and crafts, woodwork and much more giving them the opportunity to learn new skills. The students are taught to have good manners and etiquettes so they grow to be well grounded in every way.
Contact the club today and give your child the chance to excel in their education as they become the latest in the line of Raising Explorers.
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According to a study published online in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine there is an excellent predictor of whether or not your teens will binge drink and/or drink to the point of drunkenness. Hear me out. You will never believe what this predictor is.
This study by Holly Shakya, PhD. and colleagues, found that teens with friends whose mothers were authoritative (warm, loving, and limit-setting) were less likely to drink to excess than those with mothers who were neglectful. The same beneficial results were found for marijuana and cigarette use.
The authors of the study concluded by stressing the importance of an adolescent's friendship network. I am concluding by saying let's hear it for the mothers who are loving and looking out for the teens. Thank you for taking care of your kids and our kids.


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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Africa Business Initiative (ABI) and Investec Asset Management (IAM) today released a report outlining the ways that U.S.-Africa engagement has the potential to grow and deepen. The report, "Africa and the United States: A defining relationship of the 21st Century," addresses the impact of issues such as regional integration and the youth bulge, and underscores the significance of international investors partnering locally and understanding the different dynamics driving each market.
Through interviews with business leaders who have a track record of investing on the continent and policy experts, the report offers analysis of various economies across the African continent, and takes an in-depth look at several government and private sector programs intended to improve Africa as an investment destination.
The report was unveiled at a Presidential Plenary hosted by the ABI, which featured discussions with Head of the Government Abdelilah Benkirane from The Kingdom of Morocco, President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique, and President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana.
An interactive version of the report is available online here.
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Elektronová litografie (angl. electron-beam lithography, e-beam lithography, EBL) je postup, při kterém je svazek elektronů emitován tak, aby vytvořil vzory (obrazy) na ploše pokryté tenkou vrstvou elektronového rezistu (expozice) a následně jsou selektivně odstraněny (rozpuštěny) buď exponované nebo neexponované oblasti rezistu (vyvolání rezistu).

Účelem tohoto postupu je vytvořit v rezistu velmi malé struktury, které pak mohou být přeneseny do materiálu podložky. Elektronová litografie byla vyvinuta pro potřeby výroby integrovaných obvodů (zejména výroba masek pro jednotlivé technologické operace). Používá se rovněž pro vytváření struktur v oblasti nanotechnologie.

Elektronový litograf
Zařízení umožňující zápis elektronovým svazkem nazýváme elektronový litograf. Podle tvaru svazku existují litografy s Gaussovským svazkem nebo s tvarovaným svazkem. Svazek je možné vychylovat buďto v pravidelném rastru podobně jako v rastrovacích mikroskopech (rastrový zápis) nebo na libovolnou pozici vychylovacího pole (vektorový zápis).

Základní částí elektronového litografu je kovová trubka neboli tubus (na obrázku válcová část vpravo nahoře), který je podobný jako u řádkovacího elektronového mikroskopu: zdroj elektronů a urychlovací systém (elektronová tryska), clona (pro nastavení proudu ve svazku případně pro tvarování svazku), elektronově optická soustava a systém vychylování svazku. Do pracovní komory (na obrázku vpravo dole) se umísťuje rámeček s uchyceným vzorkem. Vzhledem k omezenému rozsahu vychylování svazku je další důležitou součástí přesný litografický stolek pro posuv substrátu (viz wafer), jehož pozice je odměřována pomocí laserové interferometrie.

Elektronový litograf (podobně jako ostatní zařízení pracující se svazkem elektronů: mikroskop, svářečka) je ultravakuové zařízení. Tohoto stupně vakua se dosahuje pomocí několika typů vývěv (rotační, turbomolekulární, iontové).
Při zavážení vzorku do  vakuové pracovní komory dojde ke zhoršení vakua v této komoře; pro urychlení výměny (resp. obnovení pracovního tlaku) se používá vakuová propust.

Technologické procesy

Expozice rezistu
Elektronový rezist je makromolekulární látka citlivá na elektromagnetické záření. Působením energie v elektronovém svazku dochází buď k síťovacím procesům (negativní rezisty) nebo k degradačním procesům (pozitivní rezisty). Tyto procesy vedou k lokální změně molekulové hmotnosti rezistu (velikosti molekul). Velikost molekul úzce souvisí s rychlostí rozpouštění rezistu v dané vývojce. Typickým představitelem pozitivního rezistu je PMMA (prakticky dobře známé plexisklo).

Vyvolání rezistu
Podložka s exponovaným rezistem se vyvolá pomocí vhodné vývojky. U negativního rezistu se rozpustí neexponované oblasti. U pozitivního rezistu se rozpustí exponované oblasti. Výsledkem je rezistová šablona (maska) s otvory, přes které je možné opracovat vlastní podložku. Základními parametry pro technologii vyvolávání jsou citlivost a kontrast vývojky.

Opracování podložky
Pro opracování podložky lze použít různé technologie. Podmínkou je, aby vůči tomuto zpracování byla rezistová maska dostatečně odolná.

Použití elektronové litografie
 Příprava fotošablon (masek) pro projekční fotolitografii.
 Kusová výroba prototypů polovodičových součástek a integrovaných obvodů.
 Výzkum a vývoj v oblasti mikrostruktur a nanostruktur.
 Šablony pro nanoimprint litografii.

Odkazy

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Související články
 Fotolitografie
 Elektronový mikroskop, Rastrovací elektronový mikroskop
 Integrovaný obvod
 Fyzika kondenzovaného stavu

Externí odkazy

Technologie
Elektronika
Elektron

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Do you drink packaged water or access internet? Govt wants to know
The data will be collected on the main cereal consumed in the household, the main source of drinking water, access to internet and other issues that will help the government in providing the benefits of different schemes to the intended beneficiaries.
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New Delhi Updated on: January 16, 2020 8:45 IST
What cereals you eat? Do you drink packaged water? These are part of a series of questions to be asked by census officers to gather information from every household during the houselisting and housing census exercise scheduled from April 1 to September 30, Home Ministry officials said on Wednesday.
The data will be collected on the "main cereal consumed in the household", the "main source of drinking water" -- whether it is packaged or bottled, "access to internet" and "television" -- whether a household is using the free direct-to-home service by Doordarshan, cable or from any other source, among others, they said.
Data to help govt formulate beneficiary schemes
The data, the officials said, would help in providing the benefits of different government schemes to the intended beneficiaries.
The registrar general and census commissioner has issued a notification mentioning these questions in a form, to be digitally filled by the enumerators, they said.
According to rules, a person may be punished with a fine of up to Rs 1,000 for intentionally giving false answers to the questions or refusing to answer those, the officials said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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Lack of exclusive app, air ambulance major hurdles to organ donation
Coimbatore : There are lot of challenges with regard to organ donation, the major being the one related to transport, as Tamil Nadu does not have an exclusive app and air ambulance, says a senior official in Transtan (Transport authority of Tamil Nadu), the online portal for organ donation.
Despite all the challenges Tamil Nadu model remained successful because of transparent functioning of Transtan with the support of
Government and NGOs, member secretary Dr Kanthimathy said.
Transtan was constantly updating itself, including keeping track of all the laws related to organ donation. This was in consultation with the medical fraternity, making the entire process transparent, she said.
Kantimathy was responding during an interactive session with doctors, organised by local chapter of CII and Young Indians here recently.
CII Coimbatore healthcare panel convenor R V Ramani said a detailed statistical study was being undertaken by CII and Yi on the myths and misconceptions associated with organ donation. It was targeted at the urban population of Coimbatore where the 'Gift an Organ' initiative was active and the results were being analysed and a detailed report would be published in a few months, he said.
Some of the suggestions received during the interaction were that Transtan should remain the 'face of organ donation' to build the trust in people, more awareness on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister schemes to the poor and how they were getting benefitted, have a nodal officer and grief counsellor in all government hospitals.


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Updates from the Rangers on Wednesday
7PM: David Quinn met with the media on Wednesday and said (NYR):
On Brady Skjei, "I thought it was probably Brady's best game so far. Obviously a game we are counting on heavily, had a strong second half last year. With a little bit different look for our D-corps this year, he will be in a better position to hit the ground running and have the season we expect him to have. I like the direction his camp is going."
On Skjei building off last year, "for sure, people lose sight of the fact that he was still 24-25 years old, he cares so much that he doesn't want to let people down. He signed his contract, a well deserved contract and he put a lot of undo pressure on himself. He didn't want to let himself, his teammates, the organization, the fans down, there is a lot of self-induced pressure. He's such a great person and want to please people that I think that was part of the burden that he carried."
On Joe Morrow, "Obviously a guy that we brought here because we think might might be able to use some depth on the blue line, he's a smart player. He can skate, has a lot of skill. I think he's looking for the consistency that will allow him to play more consistently in the league and his camp has reflected that."
On where the centers have shaken out, "it depends what day you ask me, when you deal with youth you deal with inconsistency. If you'd asked me yesterday I might have the centers in one order and then another order a different day. That is the challenge that we face. How other guys are playing and how Strome looked in the middle and things of that nature, there is a lot that goes into the decision making process. We'd like these guys to be able to play center and wing and as a forward a lot of guys have that ability, the question is how well they can do it."
On Lias Andersson, "he's had some good moments, some bad moments not unlike other guys. We have a week to go here where I'd love for someone to raise their hand and separate themselves and say that it's 'my job' and we have a bunch of guys in that situation."
On the practice groups today, "that was based on the players who played last night, who might play tomorrow. You could jump to a lot of conclusions but don't do that because it's not the case."
On Ryan Strome, "he's smart, responsible, gives us some experience. Probably thought he had his best game of camp last night, I don't think it was just because he played center, last night had more of an NHL feel to it where the previous two exhibition games he was in may have been some deflation before the game started because of the makeup of the rosters. Thought he had a better night last night."
On the goalie plan for the last two games, "probably full games but I'm going to talk to Benny and Gorts and Chris after and get more specific."
On DeAngelo, "he will play tomorrow."
On the next two games, "I doubt either lineup will look more like a full lineup. Probably last night's game was the closest we will come to any semblance of a full lineup."
What are you looking for with DeAngelo, "looking for him to pick up off of last year. He had a good second half, did a lot of the things he's going to need to do to be the player we know he is capable of being at this level. His puck skills speak for themselves, the defending piece of it, the gap, the stick, defending with his feet and stick. The thing about defending is that there are different ways to defend, if you go into the corner you need to measure up the size advantage or disadvantage. You have to win battles with quickness, good stick, good feet, body positioning and those are the things that, for someone Tony's size, he is going to have to do more often than not. Closing quickly, taking away time and space, having a good stick and feet, having good gaps. If he does that, with his puck skills, he's going to be a well rounded player."
2:20PM: The Rangers have announced that Phil Di Giuseppe, Adam Huska and Tarmo Reunanen have all been sent to Hartford.
Matthew Robertson has been sent back to Edmonton of the WHL.
Danny O'Regan is on waivers today and if he clears will likely be sent to Hartford.
The Rangers have 19 forwards remaining in camp, 10 defensemen and three goalies.
At Rangers practice on Wednesday, they featured two groups (Mercogliano):
Group A featured:
Brendan Lemieux, Lias Andersson, Jesper Fast
Greg McKegg, Boo Nieves, Vitali Kravtsov
Micheal Haley, Steven Fogarty, Vinni Lettieri
Brendan Smith, Ryan Lindgren
Tarmo Reunanen, Joe Morrow
Matthew Robertson
Igor Shesterkin
Adam Huska
Yegor Rykov is listed as injured.
Group B featured:
Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad, Pavel Buchnevich
Chris Kreider, Ryan Strome, Kaapo Kakko
Vlad Namestnikov, Brett Howden, Filip Chytil
Brady Skjei, Jacob Trouba
Marc Staal, Tony DeAngelo
Libor Hajek, Adam Fox
Alex Georgiev
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Q: Silverlight binding using stringformat to display blank for 0 Is it possible to somehow make 0 values appear blank using the StringFormat property, or is it acheivable by writing a custom converter?
The value is of double type.
Input is 0, output should be "". But when input is other than 0 then output should equal input.
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A: To sum up comments, you can specify StringFormat as {0:#} which will replace 0 with empty string:
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Netanyahu Paves the Way for a New Era of Tyranny
by Jonathan Cook / November 24th, 2015
With dismaying predictability, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost no time in exploiting the massacre in Paris. As he has done many times before, he claimed Europe's trauma was just a taste of the suffering Israelis have long known.
Discounting decades of a brutal Israeli occupation as the cause of the recent wave of Palestinian attacks, he said: "It is the terrorists who are to blame for terrorism, not the territories, not the settlements and not any other thing."
Rather than criticising the occupation, he added, the world should learn from Israel's "aggressive policy" how to defeat its enemies. Last week, he unveiled the latest measure, outlawing the northern wing of the Islamic Movement, a popular party among Israel's Palestinian citizens, one in five of the population.
Netanyahu and his ministers justified the decision by conflating the Islamic Movement with Hamas and ISIL. But while its leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, rejects the idea of a Jewish state, the movement operates entirely within Israeli law. Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency opposed Netanyahu's move, admitting that it had failed to find any evidence linking the movement to violence.
Salah's organisation refuses to participate in the Israeli parliament, and instead directs much of its efforts at religious instruction and good works, including health clinics, nurseries and sports clubs, to the poorest communities in Israel.
That has made it hugely popular. A recent survey found 57 per cent of Israel's 1.6 million Palestinian citizens believe the movement represents them. A third of Israel's Palestinian Christians support it too. And it has 10,000 paid-up members, who now risk imprisonment.
So why do it? There are several benefits for Netanyahu and the Israeli right in equating all Islamic activism with terrorism.
Not least, international pressure to negotiate an end to the occupation is likely to lift. He can now recast Israel's conflict with the Palestinians from a national conflict into a religious – and existential – one. If France is getting tough against ISIL, why should Netanyahu be expected to sit down with his own extremists?
It also helps him domestically. He needs an implacable foe to justify to Israelis why they need an authoritarian government like his.
The US nuclear deal with Iran removed his chief bogeyman. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority is helping maintain order in the West Bank. And Hamas is licking its wounds in Gaza. Now he has an internal enemy, the Islamic Movement, that the argument goes must be fought ruthlessly from within.
Salah's group fits the bill well. It has been an obstacle to two key planks of the Israeli right's agenda.
First, it has frustrated the government's efforts to drive tens of thousands of Bedouin from their ancestral villages into hugely deprived townships. The Islamic Movement has helped to organise and strengthen these communities.
And second, Salah has taken on the fight at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, as Jewish settler groups have used their government connections to gain ever greater purchase on the holy esplanade.
Salah's cry of "Al Aqsa is in danger" has rallied huge numbers of supporters – Palestinians with the advantage of Israeli citizenship – to get involved at the mosque, at a time when all other Palestinian players, including the PA, have been excluded from Jerusalem.
Netanyahu characterises that opposition to his Jerusalem policies as a terror-like "incitement", saying it has triggered the current Palestinian unrest.
Outlawing the Islamic Movement looks set to be the first step down a path to greater political repression.
Last year the Netanyahu government passed a law raising the electoral threshold too high for any of Israel's Palestinian political parties to pass it and so win seats in the parliament.
Against the odds, the disparate factions created a Joint List, which is now the third largest party in the chamber. In response, Netanyahu used the election campaign to fearmonger, warning that Palestinian citizens were coming out to vote "in droves".
The crackdown on the Islamic Movement paves the way to justifying a ban on members of the Joint List. The Balad faction, in particular, has skated close to illegality by arguing that Israel cannot be both Jewish and democratic.
Its demand that Israel choose democracy – becoming a "state of all its citizens" – has outraged the right and led to repeated efforts to ban it. That now seems likelier than ever.
If Balad is outlawed too, the Joint List will collapse and the Palestinian parties will be forced out of the Israeli political arena.
The Shin Bet opposed outlawing Salah's movement because it feared the move would radicalise the Palestinian minority. Denied either a parliamentary or extra-parliamentary platform, some would drift towards violence.
That is already a danger. Last week six Palestinian citizens were charged with trying to join ISIL in Syria, so far a tiny but discernible trend.
Netanyahu's world view has always depended on a bloody, winner-takes-all clash of civilisations between West and East. He will continue offering vociferous advice on tackling terrorism to European leaders. They would do well to ignore him.
Jonathan Cook, based in Nazareth, Israel is a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books). Read other articles by Jonathan, or visit Jonathan's website.
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With candidates looking to distinguish themselves in a crowded Democratic primary, Booker may have done just that and secured himself valuable campaign cash to fuel his presidential campaign. (Photo: Ben Chouake)
Cory Booker's Foreign Policy Echoes His Biggest Donors
Either Booker is echoing his biggest donors or he is coincidentally out of step with the Democratic Party and aligned with NORPAC, which just happens to be based in his home state of New Jersey
Eli Clifton
July 2, 2019 by The Lobe Log
In last Wednesday's Democratic debate, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) stood apart from the other candidates on the stage by declining to commit to return to the Iran nuclear deal. Videos viewed by LobeLog show that Booker's unusual position is shared by NORPAC, a pro-Israel PAC aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). As Booker's biggest donor, NORPAC contributed $185,871 to Booker's campaign committee in 2018, a cycle in which Booker wasn't even up for election.
During the first Democratic debate, the candidates were asked whether they would commit to returning to the nuclear deal. Every candidate on the stage except Booker raised their hand.
When questioned, Booker said:
We need to renegotiate and get back into a deal, but I'm not going to have a primary platform to say unilaterally I'm going to rejoin that deal… I am going to do the best I can to secure this country and that region and make sure that if I have an opportunity to leverage a better deal I'm going to do it.
That language closely parrots Trump's claims that he can use the leverage of abrogating the Iran deal to negotiate a better deal with Iran. Under the guidance of Iran hawks like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, this strategy has brought the United States 10 minutes away from a war with Iran and no closer to a better deal.
But Booker's language didn't just echo Trump. He also echoed NORPAC, a group that normally puts out very little documentation on their positions, talking points, and agenda.
A training video published on YouTube in May 2019, showed NORPAC leadership preparing members for a "NORPAC Mission" to Washington, in which the group's members meet with members of Congress to advance the group's agenda.
Ben Chouake, NORPAC's biggest donor in the 2018 cycle, gave introductory remarks on what the mission should convey to members of Congress regarding Iran. He emphasized the volatile situation in the Gulf and offered a litany of the ways that he sees Iran posing a threat to the United States, Israel, and their allies in the Gulf. Chouake rolled out the talking points that Iran is an "existential threat to all our allies in the area" and "an 800-pound gorilla in the room which is causing all kinds of problems."
But Chouake made clear that NORPAC only wants to highlight the alleged dangers posed by Iran, not be held accountable for advocating for war.
"The last thing we want is to be accused of facilitating the initiation of a war," said Chouake. "We don't want a war but we want to tell our leaders this is a very, very big problem and one way or another you have to address it."
Laurie Baumel, co-chair of the 2019 Mission, went on to add, "…[T]o just reenter the JCPOA as many in Congress have suggested does not seem to be a winning formula to me and I think we can certainly tell [members of Congress] about that."
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Indeed, Booker's comments were not identical to Baumel's, but the meaning was the same. NORPAC and Booker oppose upholding the commitments made by the Obama administration and the P5+1 via the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a deal that Booker actually ended up supporting in 2016.
Either Booker is echoing his biggest donors or he is coincidentally out of step with the Democratic Party and aligned with NORPAC, which just happens to be based in his home state of New Jersey.
With candidates looking to distinguish themselves in a crowded Democratic primary, Booker may have done just that and secured himself valuable campaign cash to fuel his presidential campaign. But Democratic voters aren't with him on Iran. A May 2019 J Street poll found that 72 percent of Democratic voters support reentering the JCPOA while only 18 percent oppose reentering.
Booker is clearly the candidate catering to that 18 percent.
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Eli Clifton reports on money in politics and US foreign policy. He previously reported for the American Independent New Network, ThinkProgress, and Inter Press Service.


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Q: reading large csv files in Python I would like to read in large csv type of files with the read_csv method and specifying the chunksize to something reasonable (say 1,000,000) in order not to get into memory issue on my Mac (total of 8GB installed only).
So far I would do like, and, in order to limit the resulting DataFrame to something reasonable, I would select say 1 out of 100 users (using the modulo 100 approach)
import pandas as pd
iter_csv = pd.read_csv('data/datafile.tsv',delimiter='\t',encoding='utf-8', chunksize= 500000)
df = pd.concat([chunk[chunk['UserID'] % 100 == 1] for chunk in iter_csv])

so far so good.
What I really would like to do is to be able to browse thru the various "chunks" as DataFrames by simply passing the number of the chunk.
How could I do this
Support would be greatly appreciated
Peter


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Exchange>Stage
Kung fu show packs a punch
ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY
Immortal Chi is a show produced by an international team and caters to the global market.
When Erick Villeneuve was invited by the China Arts and Entertainment Group to direct a multimedia show about Chinese kung fu, the experienced Canadian director behind projects including the APEC Summit's Cultural Gala in Vancouver felt excited yet challenged.
"I have never learned kung fu and the ancient culture has been presented to world audiences in various forms, especially kung fu movies. How can I break all the conventions and make the audiences connect with the show?" he says.
"I am also thrilled about the project because I am always interested in modernizing classical things."
He started his research by visiting kung fu masters and teachers in China, observing their practices and learning the martial art form's philosophy.
He was also interested in tai chi, an ancient Chinese martial art that focuses on the use of qi-an inner energy or life force.
"The kung fu masters spend their whole lives to pursue the balance of qi and energy, which is something untouchable but essential in Chinese kung fu culture," Villeneuve says.
The idea finally became the story of the multimedia show, Immortal Chi-The Ultimate Quest for Balance, which will run in Beijing from Dec 13-15.
The show revolves around the story of master Ma Qi, who practices kung fu for 15 years but loses his balance. To regain his balance, he reviews his past decade of kung fu practice and meets himself at different periods of development in his dreams, which enables him to meditate and achieve a higher level.
Villeneuve contrasts the fast movements of Chinese kung fu and the slow movements of tai chi in the show against striking lighting, stage settings and music.
He also sets the story in modern times rather than in ancient China because he wants the show to connect with audiences.
"I want to build a connection between the audience and the show, so various ways to make the audience emotional and touched will be used," the director says, comparing the fierce percussion accompaniment to a drop of water in a bowl.
Zhu Ziyi, vice-president of the China Arts and Entertainment Group, says Immortal Chi is a show for the international market.
"We want a Chinese story to be told by a foreign production team, which will be better understood by international audiences," Zhu says.
"China has many good cultural stories, such as the show we did before, Shaolin Warrior, which received good feedback. However, many good stories cannot be well accepted by foreign audiences because the stories aren't told in the right way."
He cited the Kung Fu Panda movie franchise. "Kung fu and the panda are both from China but we didn't tell a good story to make the international market accept it."
But Westerners took those elements and presented them in a way that became an international hit.
After the Beijing shows, Immortal Chi-The Ultimate Quest for Balance will tour China. It will stage more than 50 shows around Europe next April.
In 2005, Villeneuve directed the show Era: Intersection of Time, which has been performed in Shanghai for eight years and grossed more than 400 million yuan ($66 million). Villeneuve and his team present acrobatics using cutting-edge multimedia theater technologies to create stunning visual effects.
"I know that Riverdance is very popular in China," the director says.
"The Irish tap dancing culture is very well presented to foreign audiences. We want to create the same effect with our show because the cultural elements, such as acrobatics and kung fu, are exclusive to China."
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Recording David Gilmour's 'On An Island'
Andy Jackson
By Paul White
Photo: Polly Samson
David Gilmour's chart-topping solo album was recorded on his own Astoria houseboat, a floating slice of studio heaven. Engineer Andy Jackson describes the making of the album.
On An Island, David Gilmour's third solo album in around 30 years, was one of the most high-profile releases of the year, yet it was recorded and mixed mainly on David's Thames-based houseboat studio, the Astoria, which has little more space than some of the home studios I've visited. Admittedly it is kitted out with Pro Tools and a lovely Neve analogue mixing console, and it has an enviable microphone collection, but a lot of what ended up on the final album started out as David's self-engineered demos. These were made in his home, before subsequently being sifted and reworked with the help of his friend and neighbour Phil Manzanera, who Gilmour has known since before Phil joined Roxy Music. Of course any project of this size needs a safe pair of hands in the engineering seat, and that task fell to Andy Jackson, who's worked with David Gilmour and Pink Floyd for well over two decades. Indeed, this interview had to be postponed for a week or so when Andy was called upon to step in and mix a couple of Gilmour's live tour dates.
"I started in 1976 when I got a job at Utopia Studios," says Andy, "which came about after writing lots and lots of letters. One of the engineers there was James Guthrie, and I kind of paired off with him — we tended to work together all the time with me as his second. When he left I moved up, and when the movie for The Wall album came along, he needed more bodies and asked if I could help with that, which I did. That film turned into the Final Cut album, and after that I never escaped — I did a solo album with Roger, a solo album with David and it just rolled on and on. James moved to the States so I became the engineering branch that did everything here. That was 1981, and here I am 25 years later still doing it!"
Bringing Things Together
A lot of the album's songs started life as bits and pieces David had been working on over the years, and he enlisted the help of Phil Manzanera in a production role to help him go through his ideas and see which ones fitted together. It was at this stage that Andy first heard the ideas. "It was all on hard drives as Pro Tools Sessions, as David has a Pro Tools setup at home, and as a musician/engineer, he's good. He also had a couple of really nice mics, Mastering Lab mic amps and EAR compressors, which we'd marked up with Chinagraph, so what we got in was pretty good. He'd started off with over 100 different ideas, where an idea could be as simple as just a few bars of chords or it could be an almost complete song. This was quite familiar to me as Floyd albums also tended to start life like that. He'd worked with Phil Manzanera to whittle it down and to see which bits might work together, moving it more towards finished songs.
"The indulgent part of the project was that we went into Abbey Road Studio One with a band and screened it off to one third of its size with a curtain. We used a six-piece rhythm section just to knock some of the ideas about really. Then we did another session in Studio Two, which was more of a rock band. The first session was more of a jazz band with Jools Holland on piano, Chris Stainton — Nick France on drums. It also included Bob Close, who had been with Floyd in the old days, when they were still the Abdabs or whatever they were called. He's a good jazz guitarist so we cut a few tracks like that. This was all recorded simultaneously to Pro Tools and analogue. We all liked the idea of doing everything analogue but I thought that it just wouldn't happen — Pro Tools is like being a kid in a sweet shop and you're just not going to not do that stuff! You move things, copy things, tighten things up and all the other things we can do, and what I didn't want was for us to record on analogue, copy it into Pro Tools for editing, then copy it back to analogue again! So I was fairly insistent that we recorded to both at the same time, which was a bit tricky, but we're fairly body-heavy and we had the people, so that's what we did.
Abbey Road Studio One was used to track live band recordings of some of the songs on On An Island, but most of the resulting recordings were scrapped.Photo: Polly Samson
"This was forming the backbone of the album up until the time we broke for the summer holidays and everybody took away a CD of work in progress to listen to. Then David came back and said he didn't like it — he wanted to go back to his demos so we started again. In fact on 'Take A Breath', the drum track that we recorded survived, and we managed to pull some of Jools's playing and some of Chris Stainton playing off those sessions, then lined them up with the demos so we could use it. At that point we were still trying to keep as much as possible on analogue but then David brought in Chris Thomas to oversee the workflow — to wield the cattle prod and get it done.
"One of the things Chris felt is that a lot of the tempos were too slow. It's a fairly laid-back album anyway, completely overtly so, and David's never been apologetic about that. He said 'That's where my head's at, that's what I want to do.' But Chris still felt some of the tracks were too slow so we ended up, after a lot of experimentation, time-compressing some things using Serato Pitch 'n Time in Pro Tools, which is generally regarded as being the best-sounding time-manipulation plug-in out there. The time-compression was a very laborious process, but fortunately somebody else did it — listening to each part, deciding which algorithm worked best for which type of material! This was all done on a second Pro Tools rig in another room.
"There were a few things Serato didn't do so well, but we got round it. For example, it really messed up the kick drum — it added some kind of backwards echo — so we just took some of the uncompressed ones and replaced them manually, lining them up in the waveform display. That didn't take as long as you might think — maybe half an hour to an hour per song. It also enabled us to find a good loud one, a good quiet one, which suited Chris as he likes the kicks to be consistent and well behaved. It worked fine and it didn't end up sounding like a drum kit made of bits.
"It sounds like a lot of cutting and pasting but we did really try to keep some sense of performance. In fact some of the smaller songs, such as 'Walk Yourself Weary', are 90 percent David's demos. In some ways that gives it more of a relaxed feel than if he'd tried to replace some of the parts later.
"'Take A Breath' comprises two pieces that were originally very different — they were even at different tempos and I can't remember now whether we kept the tempo changes or used time-stretching to get them the same. But there's very little of the original that survived, whereas something like 'Smile' is almost entirely David's original demo. That's why I insisted we say the album was recorded by me and him because he did so much of the original recording. If it's good I get the credit and if it's bad he gets the blame!"
Grounding On Water
Having a recording studio on a boat must throw up a few unique technical issues, especially where grounding is concerned, and I wondered whether the Astoria was equipped with a copper anchor! "I've always thought we should just ground it straight into the river but no, we have gone to great lengths to optimise the electrics there, including fancy cable and the whole works. I do the same here in my mastering studio — it's all esoteric cable, exotic mains leads and a special braided grounding cable. No doubt I'll be shot down in flames about this, but when I changed the regular earth cable for the woven one it sounded better, even though the grounding was electrically fine before."
I was interested to hear this, as we've tried to do listening tests on cables in the past and we sometimes hear quite big differences, but the results are hard or impossible to replicate when you take the cables to a different studio. "Absolutely," agrees Jackson. "I've found exactly this when I go to James Guthrie's place in Northern California, being pretty adamant about how I want to do something because it works at home. Then we find it sounds totally different in his room so we have to come up with a different solution. That's really annoying because the subject of cables is such a minefield anyway! I've got to the point where I just call it voodoo and let somebody else worry about the physics behind it. I set myself up to be shot down in flames and then just ignore the people who are doing the shooting!
"What works works. For example, we have a couple of EQs racked up in the studio that came from a Decca broadcast console, which we call the 'better box', because even with no EQ applied, everything you pass through it sounds better. It may be because it has a couple of big, fat audio transformers in it adding a bit of second-harmonic distortion, and we like to hear second harmonic."
An Easy Person To Record
David Gilmour's voice and guitar are both very distinctive, but according to Andy, there's no mystery about how he records them. "Actually, it's very straightforward — voice — nice microphone, nice mic amp, nice compressor. There you go. For reverbs I tend to be old-school and use an EMT plate. I had a couple of plates and a Lexicon Hall — that was our palette. The vocal chain starts with that Sony tube mic with the heatsink on the side, the C800G, and it is the most fantastic microphone. We have a couple of those, one in the studio and one for David to use at home, which is another reason his demos sounded so good. That feeds an old Neumann V72 mic preamp and then EAR EQs and compressors like the ones I use here in my mastering system. I would compress his voice but only fairly gently with a tickle of 2:1, then maybe do that again on the mix. That's with the exception of the rock songs of course, which were completely mashed in a Fairchild! The thing is, David makes my life easy — stick him on the phone and he sounds great! He is not a difficult person to record — great technique and a great voice."
David Crosby (right) looks on...Photo: Polly Samson
During live Pink Floyd concerts, David Gilmour was renowned for using a lot of guitar effects and big amplifiers. I was curious to know what setup he used for recording. "Everyone asks what reverbs David uses, and the answer is none! He uses delays, and it's usually around 700 milliseconds or so. That's on his pedalboard, but apart from that there's probably only one or two different distortion boxes and maybe a compressor. It's not that complex — it's just finely tinkered with and he's got some nice guitars and good fingers. The amp was generally an old Fender Tweed Twin Reverb, with a little bit from his Hi-Watts occasionally. When he's recording at home, he just kind of sticks that Sony mic in a non-specific place in front of the speaker and I tried to replicate that in the studio, but it wasn't really working in our room. Chris wanted to stick an SM57 on it, maybe four inches from the grille cloth and a bit off-axis, but then I put a Coles 4040 ribbon mic next to it, dead in the middle of the cone, and we found that mixing that in behind the 57 really worked. What you hear is mainly the 57, but when you bring up the Coles, the sound just goes 'expensive'. Nearly all the guitar I recorded ended up being done like that — you just have to be really careful about the mic positions and make sure both are exactly the same distance from the speaker.
"Some of the guitars would be from David's home recording as he has a similar amp and effects setup at home. In fact on the guitar solo for 'On An Island' where there are two guitars, the first is a Les Paul and the second one a Strat. He recorded the Les Paul at home using the Sony mic and I recorded the Strat in the studio using the SM57 and the Coles ribbon, so if you want to hear how the two approaches compare, that's a good place to do it.
"With that combination of mics, the guitar had a real bite to it and it's very different to what we have done before. On Division Bell, we used a U87 eight inches to a foot away, a bit off-axis, and the floor of the room on Astoria is carpeted. It's actually very small — around 14 feet square — and sounds fairly dead, so when we record vocals, I just make sure the mic isn't right in the middle of the room as that gives a little 'boing'. All the drums were done there apart from a couple of the really live-sounding ones, as were all the Division Bell drums, and it's good for that typical Pink Floyd drum sound — even though it is [Andy] Newmark on that album, it still sounds like Pink Floyd."
At one time David used a guitar fitted with EMG pickups to play live, but does he record using that too? "He has done, but mostly he's reverted to his old guitar. Division Bell was mostly his red Strat with the EMGs, but Phil Taylor, his guitar tech, thrust his old passive one into his hands and said 'Play that!' He plugged it in and it sounded great — it is a good one. I think he bought it new in 1971 or something, but he's swapped pickups and parts on it over the years and it does sound good. Of course, with those passive single-coil pickups, you have to face Mecca when recording to avoid hum problems! Usually we don't need to do any cleaning up afterwards, other than topping and tailing the various sections so they start and finish cleanly."
Jools Holland (right) contributes to the album.Photo: Polly Samson
The album also sees Gilmour playing lap steel, with what sounds like a ton of compression to make it sustain — but isn't. "Actually that guitar just sounds like that. It's a very old Gibson lap steel and it has an unbelievably hot pickup. He just plugs it into his rig and that's what comes out. I might occasionally compress some of the guitars on the album, but it was an 'icing on the cake' type of compression with just a couple of dBs here or there because it helped the focus. We have almost the opposite problem, because David plays so loud that when he stops playing everything squeals! When he's setting up, he turns up the levels so it's just about to go, so that he gets the sustain he needs without having to use lots of distortion. Certainly, on stage his amplifier is frighteningly loud, but it's remarkable — he's still got really good ears."
The Measured Approach
As you might expect, Andy is strongly of the opinion that making the right choices at the recording stage is the key to a successful mix. "It's got the point where I keep everything very simple, but then I suppose I've had 25 years of making the choices that have got me to that point. I know what's going to work in terms of what mics I put on things. I always think that if you simply take a microphone and record the world, it's a rather boxy and low middly place. You spend the rest of your life trying to get rid of that stuff. I tend to pull out a lot of low-mid, and with vocals it might be up to 500Hz. That's just automatic for me, then I'll add a little fairly dust. Ditto drums. The way I approach overheads is that I take the old-school Glyn Johns approach and use the overheads as kit mics rather than just cymbal mics.
"One of my favourite tools for recording is a tape measure! It sounds really anal but it's worth it. If you get the two drum overheads exactly the same distance from the snare, it sits bang in the middle of them with no phase problems, and in fact on this project, a lot was recorded for surround as well so I used four overheads set up as a square, all equidistant from the snare. The overheads were exactly a metre and a half from the snare, and I used Coles 4038 ribbon mics, which of course have a figure-of-eight pattern so you get a bit of the room in it, but it sounded good. I had to take out some low mid, but then most of the drum mics get the low mid taken out somewhere or another. I try to pay a lot of attention to what goes on at the bottom end really — the relationship between the kick and the bass. I don't know if I can put my finger on any magic technique, it's somehow just a sum of everything — of experience.
Robert Wyatt, founder of Soft Machine, another of the many famous guest musicians who contributed to the album.Photo: Polly Samson
"With bass guitars I often find myself pulling out stuff that seems unlikely at around 80 to 100 Hz, which is where all the action is. But you still get the whole sense of weight below it and it just cleans up the whole mix. Same with the kick — sometimes I'll be pulling out stuff in the high bass region and leaving the low stuff in.
"One nice thing about having a pet studio you can go and play in is that myself and Damon, who works there, can try things out without time pressures. There is a studio kit that's left set up there so one day we decided to try out absolutely everything we had to see what sounded the best on kick. I started off with all the things I'd normally choose but ended up liking none of them, which I found really interesting. Finally we tried a Neumann FET47 capacitor mic, and I've stuck with that ever since. It's not the instinctive first choice — most people think of D12s or D112s, but I really liked the result. I believe George Massenburg also likes to use a 47 FET on kicks, and it's fine. Once you stick the pad in it's absolutely happy. I also use a little Beyer M160 ribbon on the snare — there seems to be a phase coherence or something about a ribbon, and it's the same with the overheads. The Coles 4038s are not very bright so it seems odd to choose something that needs a lot of EQ, but once you add some top it sounds great — and somehow better than using a mic that has a naturally extended high end in the first place."
Andy Jackson in his mastering suite.Photo: Polly Samson
As well as manning the controls at the Astoria, Andy Jackson is also building a parallel career as a mastering engineer. "That was a strategic decision I made about four years ago. Aside from the commercial reason that mastering is more buoyant, it's also perhaps a reaction to the Floyd stuff where we'd spend a year on an album — they were enormous projects. With mastering, I really enjoy having a relationship with a record for just five or six hours and my experience in that area has been really positive. It's a time when people have finished the record and are happy!
"I have noticed that some of the stuff coming in now from home studios, where everything has been mixed in a DAW, has a different kind of 'not very well done' feel compared to what I used to get 20 years ago from analogue tape, and in some ways it is harder to deal with. There seems to be a particular kind of digital crunchiness. I don't know what the problem is, but if I play with digital limiters or other processes, they all seem to do it to some extent. I hope I'm not being a Luddite but I still have a degree of suspicion about things digital. It seems that the more you start processing a signal in the digital domain, the more it deteriorates, in a quite different way to analogue."
Mix & Mix Again
Despite his emphasis on traditional techniques, Andy is certainly not averse to using new technology where it helps. "Having recall has made such a difference to mixing. Even when we did [Pink Floyd's] Division Bell we didn't have a recallable mixing board, but there are so many times when you just need to go back and change something by a little bit that it's great to have it now. Of course all the home studio software has it as standard now, but working on an analogue board that doesn't have recall seems preposterous now. I'd be interested to try to do some serious mixing in the box, but I'd need to have first-class interfaces to do that. I'd also need a really good control surface.
David Gilmour rehearses with his touring band, featuring Phil Manzanera and Pink Floyd's Rick Wright, for live dates in support of the album.Photo: Polly Samson
"David's album was done on Pro Tools, but we used it as a tape machine where everything came out of 48 outputs and got mixed on the Neve analogue board. There was some submixing inside Pro Tools, but then if we'd been working on two analogue 24-tracks locked up, we would have had to bounce some things down to stay within the track count anyway. In that case it means you're doing the summing digitally rather than analogue, which means you can undo the bounce if you have to, which we did on occasions. We had to do a little processing with plug-ins within these submixes, for example, when we recorded the Crosby and Nash vocal parts for 'On An Island'.
"I must admit that it quite surprised me that they recorded their parts one at a time when I'd set up assuming they'd sing together, perhaps with David adding a third part — a kind of Crosby Gils and Nash! That ended up coming up on the board as a stereo pair, but then I had to use a plug-in to EQ Crosby relative to Nash, just to tip him up a little brighter to match Nash. But the bulk of the EQ was done analogue afterwards."
The rest of the album was also recorded and mixed in fairly traditional fashion. "There are odd bits of Kurzweil and maybe the odd bit of synthetic Rhodes, but mainly it was old-school mic recordings plus using the EMT plate and things like that. It was mixed through the Neve analogue board and onto half-inch analogue tape. I think David looks back to some of the things we did in the '80s using AMS reverbs and things like that and says 'What were we thinking?' You can listen to the plate all this time later and it still doesn't sound old-fashioned.
"I did use a Lexicon 480 for the preset hall used on the orchestra and things like that — you'd think that when you record in Abbey Road Studio One the last thing you need is more reverb, but we did! On this album it felt like I needed to have a great deal of control so I could always get back to where we were, and the EMT plates plus the Lexicon were all we needed. But I'm a great fan of things like the TC System 6000 and we did use Altiverb on a few daft things, such as to get the effect of the fireworks in the opening section sounding as though they were outside [using the 'Forest by Lake' impulse response]. I think they originally came from a stock sound effects library. We had a flirtation with trying to record our own sound effects using Holophonics back in the '80s, but it's really hard to get anything that's any good."
Phil Manzanera: Co-Producing On An Island
Phil Manzanera and David Gilmour have known each other since the late 1960s, and their friendship progressed naturally into a production partnership. "I live close to David's house in Sussex," says Manzanera, "and I would regularly visit him and ask him whether he'd been recording. It turned out that he'd been doing stuff over a 10-year period, and had so much that he didn't know what to do with it. I suggested that I come round once a week and we'd go through these pieces together. Many were on Minidisc and recorded in his kitchen or living room. David began by selecting perhaps 150 pieces, enough for three albums. I picked some of these and took them to my studio. Together with my engineer, Jamie Johnson, I would try and develop these ideas. Sometimes we'd make loops, sometimes I'd take vocal lines from one song and stick them in another, just to create something different and weird. The next week I'd play David what I'd done and he'd give feedback.
"David and I spent most our time together at his home studio, where he has Pro Tools, a 12-channel mixer, a fantastic Sony microphone [the C800G], and a couple of good limiters, Urei I think. It's all very simple, but of high quality. David did all the engineering. It is a nice room with high ceilings, looking out over the countryside, and there are birds twittering around everywhere. The birds you hear all over the album were just picked up on the microphone in his home studio. What he recorded there has a feel that can't be recreated anywhere else. The songs 'Smile' and 'Where We Start' were almost entirely recorded by David at his home studio."
Work began in May 2004 and continued for six months at Gilmour's home studio and Manzanera's Gallery Studio, where he has a Euphonix desk and a Pro Tools setup, but works mainly in Logic. Even when sessions moved to the Astoria and Abbey Road, Manzanera still found time at the Gallery to concoct all manner of ambient atmospherics. "The rhythmic thing in the background on 'This Heaven' is a loop based on a sample from David's Minidisc," says Manzanera. "It was recorded in the kitchen with children shouting in the background and Polly [Samson, Gilmour's wife] talking, and so on. Once she and David had decided to call the album On An Island it really helped me with my conceptual thinking and with the making of little soundscapes.
Phil Manzanera co-produced On An Island.Photo: Polly Samson "For the opening track, 'Castellorizon' [the name of the Greek island to which the album title refers], I took samples from all over the album. I put them all in the same key, and messed around with them. 'Then I Close My Eyes' was originally just a jam of David and [pedal steel player] BJ Cole, so I took this guitar riff from the Minidisc and made a backwards loop out of it. I then made an ambient soundscape from the soundtrack of a video shot at Castellorizon, with David in a boat, playing the cümbüs. So there are waves lapping and him playing and a ferry going past, and I slowed down a double bass playing harmonics and created this musical collage that was grafted onto the front of that track.
"I also made up an ambient track for 'Red Sky At Night', with children's voices and other sounds, while 'Take A Breath' has underwater sounds and a bell, plus the sound of something being thrown in the water. I may also have some dolphin and whale sounds. I've always enjoyed doing things like that, and with Pro Tools and Logic it's become so much easier to do. Basically, the album ended up with sound effects all over the place. We had set up an additional Pro Tools studio in a tea house right by the river, close to the Astoria, where Polly, David, an engineer and myself would go to mess around, experimenting with soundscapes and other things. In the end we had too many of them, so some were taken off during the mix."
Chris Thomas joined to complete the project in the last quarter of 2005. "Chris is a hero of mine," remarks Manzanera, "and we felt that we needed a final push for the last three months. David felt that we needed some fresh energy, and I loved the idea of having Chris around. It did put David in a position where he had to very much fight his corner, with me being a referee, saying 'This is all very well, but it's David's album, it's his choice.'
"Basically a lot of the early stuff was very acoustic; we almost entered into English folk territory. This was very interesting, but I like things a little heavier, and was perhaps trying to push a side of David that he wasn't feeling so much at the time. When Chris said that the tracks were too slow, he articulated something I had been feeling as well. But it needed the two of us to push the speeding up through! We sped up pretty much all the tracks, except for maybe one, by two or three bpm. We're not talking huge amounts here, but there's slow, and there's too slow, and I don't like too slow. We did it in Pro Tools because we already had a lot of stuff recorded that we didn't want to re-record at that stage. Obviously we were very concerned about sound quality and we A/B'ed stuff all the time, but there didn't appear to be any difference at all.
"The other aspects that changed at the last stage was that the album was initially not only very acoustic, but also very orchestral. I didn't think it was a brilliant idea to have so much orchestra, so it was diluted in the end. And finally, David's electric guitar solos were all done in November, which was the last month of recording. He left the electric stuff to the last moment, and I wasn't sure he wasn't going to do it at all. So I was very pleased that we managed to get him back onto the electric guitar, and he put some great things on." Paul Tingen
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Originally, Golden Roosters were only available to mainland Chinese nominees, but in 2005, the awards opened up the acting categories to actors from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere in an effort to compete with Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards. Films in the past two years are eligible for the Golden Rooster awards since 2007.

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Awards categories
 Best Picture (最佳故事片)
 Best Director (最佳导演)
 Best Actor (最佳男主角)
 Best Actress (最佳女主角)
 Best Supporting Actor (最佳男配角)
 Best Supporting Actress (最佳女配角)
 Best Writing (最佳编剧)
 Best Directorial Debut (最佳导演处女作)
 Best Cinematographer (最佳摄影)
 Best Editor
 Best Sound
 Best Art Director
 Best Score
 Best TV Film
 Best Documentary
 Best Animation (最佳美术片)
 Lifetime Achievement Award (终身成就奖)

Award winners

References

Chinese film awards
Awards established in 1981
1981 establishments in China
Recurring events established in 1981
Annual events in China
Biennial events


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