We know you as a fantastic drummer and guitarist, what else do you play?
I also play piano (much less fantastically) but most of my time is spent playing hide and seek around the house.
As a drummer and a musician in general - do you find keeping time comes naturally to you?
You started touring when you were young and still in high school. How have things changed with technology; And how have things stayed the same?
It's changed so much! The internet didn't really exist yet. No one had cell phones. You had to look at an actual map to get places!
The shows are the same though - playing your songs, trying to make a connection with the people there to see you.
Can you tell us about your latest release of cover songs, aptly titled "Other People's Songs" on Polyvinyl Records?
Polyvinyl had the idea as a way to keep my solo project (Owen) active while I'm busy playing with other bands this year. Essentially I got to record a new album without having to write any songs. I enjoyed the process way more than I thought I would and am already thinking about which songs will go on the next one.
As far as personal style, what's the one piece of advice you could give to anyone in the world, regardless of budget?
Everybody looks good in Vans.
Your favorite Orient watch is the Voyager, what made you pick that one?
What is something you must have on tour, or it's a bust?
Beer. No, wait! ...yeah, beer.
You're currently playing some shows with your band American Football after not having played for well over a decade (right?), what has it been like reuniting like this?
It's been so fun. And weird. We weren't popular at all when we broke up, so it feels great to play these songs in front of a lot more people who are excited to hear them.
What is the most beautiful place you've ever traveled to?
Tokyo. Specifically, Shibuya. I'm attracted to its crowded chaos.
If there was a time and place - past, present, or future that you could go to - where and when would it be?
I think I'd enjoy being a drunk cowboy somewhere out west sometime in the late 1800's.
Mike Kinsella is a Chicago native and multi-instrumentalist musician currently in projects like American Football, Owen, Owls, and Their They're There. (And previously in many others!) You can follow him on Twitter here and Facebook here.


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Q: Testing update user using Devise and TestCase (Rails 4.1) I am trying to test, updating a User with devise strong params.
Strong params are set in the application controller:
devise_parameter_sanitizer.for(:account_update) do |u|
  u.permit(:email, :password, :password_confirmation, :current_password,
           :time_zone)
  end

The Registrations Controller update action is:
def update
  user_update_params = devise_parameter_sanitizer.sanitize(:account_update)
  ....
  @user = User.find(current_user.id)
  ....
  @user.update(user_update_params)
  ...
end

In my test I am passing update attributes:
def update_attributes
  {user: {email: 'bob@home.com',
  time_zone: 'Melbourne'}}
end

test 'Update' do
  patch(:update, update_attributes)
  assert_equal 'bob@home.com', assigns(:user).email
  assert_equal 'false', assigns(:user).use_weighted_rates
end

The problem is the Devise::ParameterSanitizer object @params reflects the @user  attributes, not the update_attributes:
@params=
  {"user"=>
    {"email"=>"john@home.com",
     "time_zone"=>"Sydney"}}

So the test assertions fail.
What am I doing wrong?

A: The problem was the user was not signed in. I was creating a user using:
get(:create) to create a user on the create action of the controller. I changed this is to sign_in create(:user) using a user factory and all good.

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SchoolLife is a multiplayer game that teaches empathy by having players walk in the shoes of a bullying victim and bystander, and engage in open-ended conversations. Below is an early prototype that we are using to test efficacy, in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For more information, see our coverage in New Scientist, NECN Business, and The Boston Herald.
We have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to expand SchoolLife, adding animation, artificial intelligence, and rich interactivity.


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Q: Working with django-pagedown I am following the instructions on the official Django-pagedown repo

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*pip install django-pagedown - installed without errors

*Add pagedown to your INSTALLED_APPS - error thrown is "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pagedown'
3.Collectstatic run smoothly.
When I check the modules currently in my virtual env using help('modules'), pagedown was not present, but in my global installation of python, it was present, so my question is, why can't my project work/use the present installed django-pagedown installation? what am I missing here?
python - 3.6.4
django version - (2, 0, 4, 'final', 0)
pip version - 10.0.1
os - windows

A: The package is actually installed in your computer, as you can see it presents in the global installation. Just because you didn't activate the virtual environment that you use.
Go to your project, activate the virtual environment (scripts\activate).
Make sure that you see the name of your virtualenv shown before the path like that (env_name)C:\Users\....
Then run pip install django-pagedown.

A: I figured out the problem and it was pip, somehow while running the command pip install django-pagedown in my IDE, (and running in my virtual env), it was installing pagedown globally and missing in my virtual env, so, I just changed IDEs and that's it. Thanks all for helping me out.

A: If the package is installed globally, and the virtualenv is setup such that it doesnt look into your global packages, then this issue can occur.
You need to either install the package using the pip command after activating the virtualenv or maybe run the project without the virtualenv ( in this case you will also need to have other dependencies to be installed globally)


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Here are some snazzy birthday facts about 14th of February 1991 that no one tells you about. Don't wait a minute longer and jump in using the content links below. Average read time of 10 minutes. Enjoy!
What day was my birthday Feb 14, 1991?
February 14, 1991 was a Thursday and it was the 45th day of the year 1991. It was the 7th Thursday of that year. The next time you can reuse your old 1991 calendar will be in 2019. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a lunisolar calendar.
There are 301 days left before your next birthday. You will be 29 years old when that day comes. There have been 10,291 days from the day you were born up to today. If you've been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth, then you have slept a total of 3,430 days or 9.39 years. You spent 33% of your life sleeping. Since night and day always follow each other, there were precisely 348 full moons after you were born up to this day. How many of them did you see? The next full moon that you can see will be on April 19 at 11:14:00 GMT – Friday.
Fun stat: Your first one billion seconds (1,000,000,000) will happen sometime on October 23, 2022.
If a dog named Daisy-Mae - a Giant Schnauzer breed, was born on the same date as you then it will be 167 dog years old today. A dog's first human year is equal to 15 dog years. Dogs age differently depending on breed and size. When you reach the age of 6 Daisy-Mae will be 45 dog years old. From that point forward a large-sized dog like Daisy-Mae will age 5-6 dog years for every human year.
World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
What does my birthday February 14, 1991 mean?
Your birthday numbers 2, 14, and 1991 reveal that your Life Path number is 9. It represents selflessness, forgiveness and creativity. You are the philanthropist, humanitarian, socially conscious, and are deeply concerned about the state of the world.
The following celebrities also have the same life path number: Jean Gascon, Colleen Moore, Park Sang-min, Débora Duarte, Matthew Ryan, Lynwood Slim, BarBara Luna, Clairette Oddera, Aaron Yan, Dena Dietrich.
What is the birthday horoscope for Feb 14, 1991?
The Western zodiac or sun sign of a person born on February 14 is Aquarius ♒ (The Water-bearer) – a fixed sign with Air as Western element. The ruling planet is Uranus – the planet of originality. According to the ancient art of Chinese astrology (or Eastern zodiac), Horse is the mythical animal and Metal is the Eastern element of a person born on February 14, 1991.
Fun fact: The birth flower for 14th February 1991 is Violet for modesty.
The number-one hit song in the U.S. at the day of your birth was Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams as compiled by Billboard Hot 100 (February 16, 1991). Ask your parents if they know this popular song.
How many babies were born on February 14, 1991?
Base on the data published by the United Nations Population Division, an estimated 137,064,554 babies were born throughout the world in the year 1991. The estimated number of babies born on 14th February 1991 is 375,519. That's equivalent to 261 babies every minute. Try to imagine if all of them are crying at the same time.
What is the popular baby name on 14 Feb 1991?
Here's a quick list of all the fun birthday facts about February 14, 1991. Celebrities, famous birthdays, historical events, and past life were excluded.
Try another birth date of someone you know or try the birthday of these celebrities: January 16, 1987 – Lauren McAvoy, English model; September 7, 1949 – Gloria Gaynor, American singer-songwriter and actress; October 6, 1922 – Teala Loring, American actress (d. 2007).


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"Kuschel Song" () is the debut single of German animated rabbit Schnuffel. Originally published by Jamba! as a ringtone, it was turned into a song by Sebastian Nussbaum and Andreas Marek-Wendorf. Released on 8 February 2008, "Kuschel Song" debuted at the top of the German Singles Chart, staying there for eight weeks, and was certified platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for 300,000 copies sold. After topping the Austrian Singles Chart and reaching number two in Switzerland, the song was released internationally. "Kuschel Song" was later included as the second track on Schnuffel's debut album, Ich hab' Dich lieb, released the same year.

A video of a person dressed as Schnuffel "singing" the song was created for the track. At the beginning of 2009, Schnuffel received a nomination for the single of the year at the 2008 Echo Music Awards. Later, in 2013, "Kuschel Song" was chosen by the German TV show Die ultimative Chart Show as the most successful jingle of the new millennium. The album Winterwunderland features an acoustic version of the song as the 14th track.

Track listings

 German CD1
 "Kuschel Song" (single version) – 2:50
 "Kuschel Song" (karaoke version) – 2:50

 German CD2
 "Kuschel Song" (single version) – 2:50
 "Snuggle Song" (English version) – 2:50

 German maxi-CD single
 "Kuschel Song" (single version) – 2:50
 "Kuschel Song" (karaoke version) – 2:50
 "Kuschel Song" (international version) – 2:50
 "Kuschel Song" (enhanced videoclip) – 2:50

Dutch CD single
 "Snuffie Song" (Nederlandse versie) – 2:50
 "Snuffie Song" (version Francaise) – 2:50
 "Snuffie Song" (English version) – 2:50

Portuguese CD single
 "Canção do orelhinhas" (versão portuguesa) – 2:50
 "Canção do orelhinhas" (versão karaoke) – 2:50
 "Canção do orelhinhas" (versão internacional) – 2:50
 "Canção do orelhinhas" (enhanced videoclip) – 2:50

Australian CD single
 "Snuggle Song" – 2:50
 "Snuggle Song" (video) – 2:50

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

References

2008 debut singles
2008 songs
Columbia Records singles
Number-one singles in Austria
Number-one singles in Germany
Schnuffel songs
Sony BMG singles

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Laurence Aberhart has been at the forefront of New Zealand photography since the late 1970s, and is recognised as a major international figure. Like the paintings of McCahon - an artist with whom Aberhart is frequently paired - his photographs are a sustained meditation on time, place and cultural history. They are also virtuoso pieces of photographic craft.
Laurence was the inaugural "Artist in Residence" at Whanganui's Tylee Cottage in 1986 and these three fine examples of his work were taken four years prior. Discussions the artist had with representatives of the Ratana Church at Ratana - shortly after taking the photographs - had discouraged him from making prints and they have languished until now.


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Eye On Immersive
At the Crossroads of Theatre and Reality
It's Alive: The Creation of The Creation — The EOI Review
I am deep in the bowels of a mausoleum, my eyes locked behind a blindfold and my gloved hands shoved deep inside something squishy and very wet. (Is it intestines? The chest cavity?) I strain to figure out what the noises in front of me might mean. (Is that ripping skin? Is that a bunsen burner turning on?) All I know for certain is that I am lost in the memories of the true creator of all of this, Mary Shelley. And I fear there is much more horror yet to come for it's alive.
Chanel Castaneda as Mary Shelley
It's Alive advertises itself as a "Frankenstein intimate immersive experience." That description is both accurate and a vast understatement for one of my favorite experiences this Halloween. It's Alive is far more than a Frankenstein story. It is the story of how Frankenstein came to be. It is the story of why Mary Shelley felt compelled to write about a mad scientist and his poor creation. Best of all, it is a fantastic immersive experience with so many characters and storylines that multiple viewings still won't catch everything.
It's Alive begins at the moment Mary Shelley learns of her husband's death from a boating accident. Because of plague fears at the time, Percy Shelley's body is cremated. All Mary Shelley receives to bury is Percy's heart which refused to burn. With that startling piece of emotional imagery in her hands, (more startling still because it's an actual historical fact,) Mary begins to mourn.
But it's far more than her husband she grieves for, and It's Alive delves into the full weight of both Mary and Percy's histories. Audiences break apart and weave together as they traverse the massive Mountain View Mausoleum, interacting with everyone involved in the creation of Frankenstein. Mary's sisters whisk individual members off to have a private scene in the darkness. A pair of the audience digs up body parts by a grave outside. A handful spies on Dr. Polidori professing his love to a married woman. For two hours, the show weaves its audience in and out of moments of these peoples' lives in a way that feels like a combination of ghost story and gothic ballet. By its completion, each audience member will understand exactly why Mary's tears fall so deeply at yet another moment of grief.
It's Alive Cast at the Mountain View Mausoleum
It's Alive works on every level possible. The writing (from John Armstrong and Devon Armstrong) perfectly combines the style of Shelley and Byron's poetry and Mary's novel. And yet, it remains very accessible for modern audiences thanks to director Devon Armstrong's very smart staging and choices for when to have characters directly interact with audiences. Moreover, a show like this requires exceptional choreographing of its audience so that each member gets a full experience with no wasted time. The first version of this show at the Heritage Center in Los Angeles did this well; this version has perfected that timing into an art form. I was brought through nearly every corner and floor of the mausoleum and never did I feel like I was waiting for anything or anyone.
Dr. Frankenstein (Robert Schaefer) summons you.
The cast of It's Alive also does a stellar job throughout, with every actor working in top form to bring these historical figures to life. Chanel Castañeda effortlessly shifts between the true happiness of Mary in love to the heart-wrenching grief of her loss and captures both perfectly. Jahnavi Alyssa's portrayal of Claire Clairemont displayed raw grief in such a visceral way it is spellbinding. The deeply sad story of Harriet Shelley (Percy's first wife) gets an equally (and wonderfully) sad evisceration from Rachel Levy. Alec Gaylord as Percy and James Fowler as Byron capture the egocentrism of those poets and their male-centric "free love" attitudes so well it made me angry at them. Lulu Royce's version of Fanny was the living embodiment of lost innocence and nearly impossible to watch. Even the one fictional character roaming this performance, Dr. Frankenstein himself, was horrifically presented by Robert Schaefer in a wonderfully dark, twisted persona that drags people off to do monstrous things.
Percy Shelley (Alec Gaylord)
It's Alive is the perfect example of great immersive theater. It brings a well-crafted and well-executed show to a wonderful location. It imbues the production with a talented cast that knows how to draw their audience ever deeper into their tale. One can hope that shows like these might even become a holiday tradition, for you could do no better for a Halloween night than fall into this exploration of the truth behind the fiction of Frankenstein. For as many of the characters here say, without these people and the life they gave Mary Shelley, the creation would never have been born.
It's Alive has four more shows this weekend, but only the Saturday at 9PM show has tickets remaining. Tickets are $60 and can be found here. Contact the organizers for any waiting list if you want to try another slot.
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Erik Blair	Downtown Repertory Theater, horror, immersive theatre, Live Experience, Los Angeles, Review	Leave a comment October 29, 2021 4 Minutes
Lovers Anonymous Proves to be Deeply Personal — The EOI Review
They are calling me again. I've found myself tasked with absolute control over two different women's lives. I get to decide what happens to their entire future existence in one instant. It's a weighty decision on my shoulders and right now, I only know one thing:
I don't see any good answer.
As the pandemic rolls on, immersive creators continue to experiment with new ways to deliver stories. Candle House Collective created an entire program for such experiments with their FireStarter Initiative. This initiative allows new creators to offer narratives through the CHC site that can give audiences something new and exciting to enjoy.
Recently, the FireStarter Initiative brought audiences the show Lovers Anonymous. This show centers around a strange little place call "Amet". There's even a wonderfully retro introduction video created by Amet's founder, Terence Abernathy. It explains Amet and that you are here because you are an American who has volunteered to help its society. But so many questions remain. Is Amet a city? A cult? A self-governing collective that somehow carved out part of Alaska?
Even stranger, check out the above image from that intro video. In Amet, "Love" is a sign of mental illness and that's where you come into play. Since Americans do not recognize love as dangerous, we are better suited to decide the fate of two women who have fallen in love. To make that decision, the audience member will get to speak to both of them individually and together.
Lovers Anonymous echoes many of Candle House Collective's previous audio-only immersive experiences. Candle House Collective specializes in over-the-phone immersive theatrical performances. They put audience members into slightly different realities with people who feel familiar and circumstances that feel terrifyingly unique. Lovers Anonymous thematically fits very well into that sort of show idea.
At the same time, the show also branches into its own territory in several ways. This experience uses multiple forms of technology beyond just audio. It includes audio, text, video calls and even PowerPoint presentations shared from various computers. Each type of technology matches the narrative moment where it appears perfectly. The emotional Lilli wants to see you as she chats while the cerebral Chantal prefers to organize her thoughts beforehand. I have seen literally dozens of various virtual remote shows in the last 16 months and I was still pleased and surprised by this show. Lovers Anonymous really understands how to use technology in a way most immersive shows fail to grasp.
What caught me the most off-guard, however, was how upset this show made me emotionally–in all the right ways. Because of the distancing aspect of technology, most virtual shows have a hard time creating truly deep emotional investment in their audience. It takes just the right combination of story, performance and understanding of how people interact over technology to bridge that gap. Lovers Anonymous reaches right through its technological lines and ripped my heart from my chest.
Its two main women felt entirely real. They each had desires and fears, wants and worries, and I understood it all. It made the decision I ultimately had to make one that hurt almost as much as decisions I have made in my own life. Two entirely fictional characters asked me to choose their future and it broke my heart to do so. Lovers Anonymous is that good a show.
Everything about Lovers Anonymous compels for me. Its design is impeccable. Its use of technology works superbly. Teagen Earley and LaKecia Harris bring such real life to their main women couple of Lilli and Chantal that I honestly wished they were real so I could keep talking to them for years to come. Marvin Bell brought a different but equally real energy as Chantal's father who had a real bone to pick with America for very good reasons. Sar Cohen and William Youmans brought the strangeness of Amet to life so quickly and efficiently that I also wished Amet was real because I would definitely want to visit and understand what the heck was really going on there. In fact, I hope the creators contemplate bringing that community back for another, different tale. I would love to learn more about the place that hates love.
Lovers Anonymous shows exactly how compelling immersive can be even across technology. It shows that with planning and a true understanding of how we access the modern world, even the technological barrier cannot stop real moments of interaction between characters and audience. The greatest compliment I can give is that I hope Lovers Anonymous returns once more so that other audience members can experience it.
Equally, I hope Candle House Collective continues to use its FireStarter Initiative to bring new creators and experiences to the world. If Lovers Anonymous is what that initiative can help create, I hope they keep starting fires for a long time to come.
Candle House Collective is busy working on their new shows. You can learn more about their company and join their mailing list here.
Erik Blair	Candle House Collective, immersive theatre, Live Experience, Remote Experience, Review	Leave a comment August 16, 2021 3 Minutes
Brassroots District Gets Genuinely Funky — The EOI Review
I stand backstage with the Brassroots District band, holding a 'band beer' given to me by their lead guitarist. Normally, I'd be thrilled to have that level of access to a musical group. I'm very uncomfortable thanks to the fight happening between the group's two lead singers. I may be experiencing a great funk band's last night together, here in the summer of 1973.
Brassroots District: Live in the Lot Summer '73 offers an unusual hybrid in the realm of live immersive productions. It's a combination of a real funk concert performed by the Brassroots District band and an interactive narrative about one crucial evening in the band's history during the summer of 1973.
Audience members become part of the band's crowd during a parking lot concert before Sly and the Family Stone do a gig. While the band performs, tensions between band members rise to the surface as a producer arrives with his offers of fame.
Brassroots District: Live in the Lot Summer '73 offers its audience an immersive experience accessible to almost anyone. Members engage with the story if they wish by interacting with band members, publicists, the producer, a choreographer and even groupies. They can even get a VIP ticket that includes access to the band's backstage. That backstage area offers more intimate discussion with the characters and unique scenes with actors and audience.
Conversely, an audience member can choose to just come and enjoy one hell of a good 1970's funk band concert. They can dress up in 1970's style and spend 90 minutes grooving to music that absolutely sounds like it should have come from that time frame.
Brassroots District: Live in the Lot Summer '73 is, quite simply, brilliant. The combination of fantastic music and engaging story works perfectly. During the performance I attended, I engaged with actors and band members throughout. I spotted other audience members doing the same. But I also watched in glee as a ton of individuals who clearly were alive the first time 1973 enjoyed a nostalgia trip. They danced and laughed while wearing outfits that might have been sitting in closets for 50 years. Their enjoyment proves the success of this show.
Brassroots District: Live in the Lot Summer '73 works on every level. From the music to the performances, this show creates a synthesis of joy and togetherness. It is the perfect counterpoint to the isolation of the last 16 months and a reminder that humanity is at its best when we come together in happiness and love. If that sounds like I've fallen under the old spell of peace, love and joy then great–blame the band. Brassroots District: Live in the Lot is the kind of show that will give anyone that good a time.
Brassroots District: Live in the Lot Summer '73 has three remaining shows this weekend (Sat at 4 and 7PM and Sun at 7PM.) Tickets are $55 for general admission and $197 for the VIP Backstage Experience for 2 (which from personal experience I highly recommend.) Tickets can be found here.
Erik Blair	Brassroots District, immersive theatre, Live Experience, Review	Leave a comment August 7, 2021 2 Minutes
Darkfield Radio Enters Your Ears and Invades Your Mind – EOI Review
I sit in a chair in my home with one thought running through my head: I am terrified. There are visitors here that I did not invite and I would love for them to be gone. But I can hear one of them talking to my roommate and the other one is whispering right in my ear and they have no intention of departing. Not while I'm still alive, anyway. Darkfield Radio has done it again.
Darkfield Radio was originally created in the UK as a collection of multi-sensory audio experiences in complete darkness. Now, creative directors and Darkfield founders Glen Neath and David Rosenberg have turned their audio narrative skills into a remote experience. Audience members download the Darkfield Radio app onto their phone, put on headphones or earbuds and the performances stream directly into their ears.
Darkfield Radio currently has three different tales that audiences can experience. Two of them ("Double" and "Visitors") are made for two audience members to experience in the same room at the same time. The final show, "Eternal," is designed for one person lying in their bed. Each of these tales brings a different type of horror to its audience and they are work very, very well.
Maybe the person across from you isn't themselves anymore…
"Double" begins as a discussion about the Capgras delusion, a real condition where a person believes someone close to them has been replaced by a dark, evil version. That delusion instantly becomes something to worry about given that you listen to this tale with someone you know (and presumably care about) sitting directly across from you. Have they been replaced? Are they worried that you have been? An incredible performance from Chris Brett Bailey only adds to the terror in the latter half of the narrative. He shifts the story in a subtle way and it is both thrilling and nerve-wracking at the same time.
"Eternal", the solo show, uses the novel Dracula as inspiration for an intimate show that is all the more terrifying because you experience it lying down. The binaural audio allows Lloyd Hutchinson to get really close to you as he creates a looping narrative that is compelling, dark and nerve-wracking. I had never had goose bumps from having someone just speak to me–until this show.
Nothing wrong with lying on your bed, right?
For me, the true star of these tales is the show "Visitors." Two audience members are asked to sit in a very specific way for this show. Then the horror begins as two visitors arrive who are different, unnerving and worst of all, persistant. Visitors is one of the most uncomfortable 20 minutes I have ever experienced and I mean that as a tremendous compliment. Sonya Seva and Greer Dale-Foulkes as the two visitors do an absolutely fantastic job in creating a tense, creepy atmosphere. They hit just the right balance between their calm demeanors and the absolute nightmare of what they want to do with you. Everything about this show works equally well. Glen Neath's script is perfectly vague, offering just enough information to allow your own mind to fill in the rest. Neath and David Rosenberg's direction shows they know exactly how to increase the tension throughout the tale. The binaural audio is so expertly created I literally thought something had happened in my home that only happened in my ears. It is so good I still think it might have been real.
Darkfield Radio is a fantastic set of audio horror experiences. Each one of their shows builds tension and psychological horror in different ways and they are all very good at what they want to do. Best of all, the experiences are all performed each night which allows audiences to spend an evening lost in Darkfield's world. Darkfied Radio offers audiences the perfect ratio of terror and discomfort for the modern age. Perhaps the best compliment I can give Darkfield Radio is this: I want them to make so many, many more of these so I can come back to their terrifying world again and again. Do yourself a favor and tune in to Darkfield Radio as quickly as you can. Just be ready to have a hard time sleeping after you do.
Darkfield Radio has ongoing performances of each of their three shows for various countries and timezones. Tickets for every country and timezone can be found here.
In the US, the shows run Tues, Thurs and Sat nights through April 29th, with two timeframes based on Eastern and Pacific timezones. Tickets run $7.50/partipant for each show.
Erik Blair	Darkfield Radio, immersive theatre, Remote Experience, Review	Leave a comment April 10, 2021 April 11, 2021 3 Minutes
'The Place You Once Forgot' Happily Helps You Remember – EOI Review
Through a Zoom screen, I talk to an entity whose name perfectly describes what we are both doing. We are building a narrative, piece by piece, centered on a penguin named Chester. Now, as I write this review, I am not certain why that is his name. But I chose the name myself and boy, did it make sense at the time. I guess that's what happens in The Place You Once Forgot.
Karlie Blair and Megan Combes, the visual stars of the show
The Place You Once Forgot first appeared as a live performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. Once the pandemic hit, it came back during the fall of 2020 as an online performance (which is when I got the chance to see it). This weekend the show ends a second online run. If you have not yet experienced this charming solo dive into your own imagination, you should grab a slot before it evaporates into the same ethereal realm where the show itself lives.
Consisting of 2 phone calls and 2 Zoom interactive scenes, The Place You Once Forgot works very simply. In fact, from both the structural and technical aspects, the show comes across as basic in its nature. But the simplicity of the design and technology work as great strengths for this show. You see, the production team at Ladybug & Leviathan want nothing to get in the way of the true focus of the show: you.
The Place You Once Forgot Remembers Your Story
You are the centerpiece of this experience. You and that soft, sweet place in your creative mind that you many of us have forgotten, especially at the tail end of the lost year 2020. Everything about this show focuses on you. Terence Leclere's phone calls bring your attention on yourself and how you feel, readying you for what is to come. The Story (played in sweet, calm tones by Karlie Blair) leads you to creating a story that could have come directly from you as 8 or 10 years old. Megan Combes as The Key charmingly coaxes you into drawing to your best ability. In my case, such drawing is inevitably terrible–and yet with Megan, I was relaxed enough to get out of my own critical mind.
It is that last sentence that makes this show work for me beautifully. As adults, we have the tendency to be ever so critical of ourselves. This was wrong. That could have been better. What were we thinking? For just a few minutes, The Place You Once Forgot breaks through that noise. By having three individuals legitimately care about you, the world quiets. We can think and imagine and draw and relax. By letting us be ourselves, The Place You Once Forgot brings us right back to that place and helps us remember it still exists. In the chaos of the world, such a reminder is worth its weight in charm and joy.
The Place You Once Forgot has two more nights of performances on April 9 and April 10. Tickets run $27 and can be found here.
Erik Blair	immersive theatre, Ladybug & Leviathan, Los Angeles, Remote Experience, Review	Leave a comment April 9, 2021 April 10, 2021 2 Minutes
'Rio Records' Flows Through Space and Time – EOI Review
I may be sitting in front of my computer in the real world, but in my mind I am lost in a story that flows through space and time and centers on a medicinal recipe turned into a massive corporation fortune. Rio Records is definitely a trip to be on…
… and yours will be entirely different.
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In our current crisis era, those of us who love and/or create immersive entertainment have lost one of the great elements of the art. We can't physically experience things. We can't find ourselves in unique locations or strange circumstances in the same way as before. Multiple companies have attempted to recreate that sense of 'being somewhere' with greater or lesser success. Based on my journey through 13Exp's newest creation, Rio Records accomplishes what few shows I've seen recently have done. It transports me to somewhere else.
On a purely technical level, the show works as many other remote interactive and immersive shows do. Audience members use the internet in two ways during the 80-minute show, through a custom-built interactive opening site and through a later Zoom call. Cell phones can also be part of the experience. Both live and pre-recorded elements add to the narrative each audience member enjoys.
On the design side, the show represents the work of over 70 artists that creates a tapestry focusing on the past, present and future of the LA River. Over 700+ minutes of content has been created, allowing a show that has multiple different story paths that weave in and out of each other. It's a design that hopes audiences will return more than once to the experience as each trip they can follow an entirely different path through the show. Rio Records also adds a civic-minded element through raising both awareness and funds to help revitalize the LA River in the near future.
In the experience, however, Rio Records explodes beyond its setup. It becomes something far, far more interesting.
My particular journey focused on an indigenous medical recipe stolen from a housekeeper by her employer. That employer then turned that recipe into a fortune, none of which was shared with the person it was stolen from or her family. I was treated to multiple forms of entertainment including comic books, live phone calls, hacked messages, recorded video and live streaming moments. The variation and approach of the artists towards the subject matter excited me and occasionally moved me emotionally.
The show allows each audience member to choose their path forward multiple times during the show, with each choice leading to a different outcome in terms of both art and narrative. For some audience members, this sheer open nature may be intimidating or confusing. But I chose to follow the request of the LA River (yes, she is an actual character in the show) and let the experience flow over me. Whenever I had the chance to make a choice, I made it instinctively and let the story build in its own time. By letting myself simply enjoy each moment as it came, I quickly lost my sense of being in my own home and watching through a computer screen. Instead, I found myself in an almost heightened state, relishing each element for its own sake and as it added to the story. I highly recommend other audience members approaching the show in the same manner.
Unfortunately, the show does not succeed on all fronts. In its final segment, audience members join a Zoom call that happens narratively in the future. I understand the goal of this segment, which is to suggest both challenges and potential solutions for the LA River as we move through the 21st century. The execution of this goal feels problematic. First, the audience is asked for their input in choosing appropriate solutions for the river. We get too little time and information about those solutions to give that input. Second, brief snippets of narrative conflict (such as someone who might have a conflict of interest) feel like they should be able to be explored but cannot be because the show is nearly over. This end segment feels rushed and tacked onto the experience in order to recognize the real importance of the LA River to Los Angeles as a whole. While the idea may be noble, this segment could easily have been an entire show on its own and probably would work far better as one. Instead it drags down the beautiful flow of the rest of the show into a strange, confusing end.
Rio Records is a show that I sincerely hope people turn out to experience in its final weekend. Beautiful and elegant in so many ways, Rio Records offers a respite from shows that lock us behind our screens. If you let it wash over you, the show can float you into a story you choose from moment to moment. It can connect you to the incredible work of current artists and to stories based on the history of one of Los Angeles' important elements. I recommend this experience as something different and strange and absolutely worth your evening.
Rio Records has four more performances through this Sunday, February 7. Tickets run from $25-40 and can be found here.
Erik Blair	13 EXP, immersive theatre, Los Angeles, Remote Experience, Review	Leave a comment February 5, 2021 April 9, 2021 4 Minutes
Shot To The Heart: Spectacular Disaster Company's Temp Cupid
I am stalking a man and a woman as they enter a bedroom during a friends' party. They start talking to each other, allowing me to sneak past the woman and focus on the man as I raise my bow and arrow. She says something cute and I fire an arrow of attraction right into the man's chest. He reacts instantly, touching her hand as he tells her how funny she is.
I smile, too. I'm just doing my job.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be Cupid? To be in charge of helping individual humans find love and human connection in its many forms and possibilities? If you have, then Spectacular Disaster Factory's newest immersive creation Temp Cupid might be the experience for you. Temp Cupid places audience members in the role of being exactly what the title suggests: temp workers taking on the role of cupids for the night. It's a highly interactive experience where each cupid uses a bow and arrow to make targets either like or dislikeother people around them in an effort to give each target some type of love before the night is over. It's a production that combines aspects of improvisation and gaming to allow audiences to determine the outcome of each character's relationships.
Cassie (Ashley Busenlener) is about to get struck by a Temp Cupid's arrow
It's a rather fun idea for a show. Participants are given a bow and arrow each and instructions that no character at the party they are entering can see or hear them. When participants shoot arrows at characters, they can increase or decrease how that character feels about another character by up to three steps (in each direction.) Finally, each Cupid is tasked with helping a specific character (including a cute dossier that gives a quick rundown on each one's wants/likes.) The new Cupids are then unleashed upon the party, free to shoot (or not shoot) anyone at any time. They can talk to each other, team up with other cupids to create a specific goal or wreak havoc by sabotaging what other cupids are trying to do. Once they're done impacting the characters however they want, a finale plays out where the outcome of those actions gets shown to the Cupids. It's a fairly solid concept.
This is the type of experience that works well for audience members who are new to immersive shows as it does not demand much from participants other than understanding how the arrows work on the characters. That's all a Cupid really can do to control anything within the show, since they cannot interact with anyone in any other way. For newer audience members, making the interaction simple and game-like can make this a really fun way of entering the immersive space.
Lonely Hearts Cassie (Ashley Busenlener) and Tracy (Casey Dean) find a match thanks to their Temp Cupids
For those who enjoy watching improvised interactions and are interested in seeing how changing someone's like/dislike level will impact those interactions, this show also offers great potential fun. During my experience, I chose to partner up with other Cupids to make sure a specific couple 'liked' each other as much as possible. That decision meant that I followed that couple through most of the experience. Having the chance to be a fly on the wall and watching their relationship blossom in front of me was highly entertaining—as was fighting off the sudden attempt by other cupids to sabotage the relationship I'd spent time putting together. Just as the couple was becoming invested in each other, I became invested in holding them together against all the other Cupids.
It's not a surprise that the interaction between characters is my favorite aspect of the show. The actors involved in the production are solid across the board. Casey Dean's portrayal of Tracy is almost unbearably cute, even when responding to arrows that make her dislike someone. Orion Schwalm's Jack is goofy and sincere, with just enough quirkiness to make him really believable and real when someone suddenly begins to like him. Tricia Fukuhara's depiction of Audrey is almost heartbreaking in itsawkwardness. During my experience, there was a moment where an arrow derailed a friendship she was trying very hard to make happen. Her reaction to the emotional change was so painful it made me immediately shoot her with the arrow necessary to change that back. Ashley Busenlener has the emotional range to go very dark, as evidenced by a sudden change in emotions towards another character during my trip that became the most serious moment of the night. She played that moment exactly correctly. Kristofer Buxton's eagerness as Clark is as amusing as his coldness when persuaded to dislike someone. He turns perfectly on or off, as the cupids demand. The best performance for me is Lena Valentine. She gives her character Jo a wonderful maturity that runs through whatever emotional alterations come from the arrows. Even when arrows give her rapid emotional shifts, she somehow makes each transition both natural and truly engaging. More than once, I stopped paying attention to the 'game' of shooting others just to watch a scene she was part of as it played out. She's truly compelling. The greatest positive of this production is the exceptional choices in casting and their ability to handle their characters while being impacted with constant relationship changes in real time.
Audrey (Tricia Fukuhara,) Jo (Lena Valentine) and Jack (Orion Schwalm) exchange words and cookies in the kitchen
There are other aspects of the show that are less effective for me. The setup for the experience feels overly complicated and far too long. Each character has a specific color. Attraction is coded red and repulsion coded black. So each time a Cupid wants to alter a character's feelings toward a second character, they have to find the arrow with that second character's color code and then remember to use red or black, depending on their choice. It's a setup that takes fifteen minutes to explain and, at least during my experience, still had audience members asking for clarification. While a production likes this clearly needs to have the 'rules of the game' laid out, I think this long an onboarding seems to work against the premise of having fun playing a cupid. It comes across as a lot of effort and learning before you can actually go have fun. If the Spectacular Disaster Factory chooses to remount this show again, perhaps they can find a way to streamline the rules into something that can be explained in 5 minutes. I think that would help make it even more of a good show for entry-level immersive audiences.
From Left: Casey Dean, Orion Schwalm, Tricia Fukuhara, Ashley Busenlener, Lena Valentine, and Kristofer Buxton
The show also feels too long. During my stint as a cupid, I noticed several players who got either bored with the premise or simply got tired of shooting arrows and were sitting down for the last 10 minutes of the experience. This may be a case of too many players per experience slot. Or perhaps the show is simply too long. Once again, if the show is remounted I think some effort at fine-tuning this could generate an even stronger experience. Showing the impact of arrows in mid-scenes as well as at the finale might help audience members stay more connected, for instance.
Overall, Temp Cupid is a fine show, with a lot of potential for audiences to have fun. For those who enjoy seeing their actions have impact on actors, this experience offers immediate gratification as each arrow generates an immediate response. And for those looking for a show that's light and entertaining and designed simply for some fun, this is that kind of show. The flaws that exist are mostly ones that simply slow down the experience or aren't holding everyone's attention as strongly as one would like—all of which could easily be overcome in a remount. Honestly, I do hope they bring this show back again. Cupids may be most common during Valentine's Day, but Temp Cupids are needed all year long.
Temp Cupid closed it's initial run on February 16th, 2020. Make sure to follow Spectacular Disaster Factory on Instagram, Facebook, and at their website for remounts and new experiences throughout the year.
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Erik Blair	immersive theatre, Review, Spectacular Disaster Factory	2 Comments February 17, 2020 February 17, 2020 6 Minutes
The Autumn Experiment's On With the Show: A First Love Letter to Classic Halloween
I'm waiting on a street corner, watching two men in kitschy pumpkin-sack masks gallop towards me. They wear shirts that say "10" and "31," respectively, and grip my arms tightly as we walk down the street towards our destination. I gather that we're trick-or-treating together, but none of the houses we pass seems just "right." That is, of course, until we reach the last one. The one with the fog gently billowing out the front drive. I see a small figure kneeling on the ground and I squint to make it out, just as I realize my guides have vanished and I'm now here alone. The figure is a child, her long dark hair over her face, a dress so white it seems to glow. She's drawing something on a sheet of paper on the ground. I take a breath and crouch down in front of her. "My name's Mischief, what's yours?" I answer her and she opens her mouth in a dramatic, overdrawn cackle. It unnerves me. She stops as abruptly as she started, and continues to draw, humming to herself. "Halloween is coming," she mumbles, her eyes dark and hollow, and I open my mouth to speak just as a set of gentle, firm hands grip me from behind and hoist me back to my feet.
Tom Blunt and Galen Adair as 10 and 31
Witches. Three of them, their faces hidden from view, they take turns whirling me to face them. One of them dabs at my wrist with a wick soaked in perfume oil. It smells damp and sweet, like Fall. She asks me if I know about "Spook Shows," the old take on haunted houses that challenged guests to only the bravest of guests. But it was a lie, in a sense. Nothing really scary ever happened at spook shows. They were all just a gimmick to get people to have fun. Another witch gently touches my face with a gloved hand and turns me towards her, putting a cup of warm liquid in my hand: apple cider. It's perfect.
She tells me that even though they weren't truly frightening, Spook Shows were eventually outlawed due to a series of unfortunate accidents. It wasn't until year later that a young man with fond memories of the Spook Shows of his youth decided to recreate the festive scares. He called it The Autumn Experiment. But then he met a man who claimed he wanted to invest in the idea and…well…something went very wrong.
Stepy Kamei, Jocelyn Gajeway, and Sarah Uplinger as the Witches
The witches all begin to chant in unison, closing in on me. Something about immersive theatre's latest and greatest, monsters coming to life, participants being carried off into the darkness. The chanting dies out as there's a tug at my sleeve. I look down to see the Mischief again, her eyes now wide black pools. I lean down to her and she hands me a drawing. It's The Halloween Cowboy, drawn in the loving way only a child could, but he looks very sad.
She thrusts the page into my hand. "We weren't supposed to meet this way," she says. She tells me he, whoever he is, just wanted to make things like they were, to bring back something people loved. But it's ruined now. Broken. Now she doesn't know what happens next. No one does.
Lillith Barriel as Mischief
She tilts her head back and lets out that braying laugh again, cracking the misty air. All at once she stops and shoots her arm out towards the street I arrived from, one long finger extended. "Warn them. Warn your friends. Halloween is coming. HALLOWEEN IS COMING!" She shrieks and I swim my way back out to the street through the growing fog.
I inhale the cool air once back on the pavement, that damp, sweet smell still lingering on my skin. If Halloween is coming, I think, glancing back over my shoulder, I'll be the first to say hello.
Halloween 2019 came, and went, but Halloween is never over for The Autumn Experiment. The above was a recap of the first full Autumn Experiment experience, On With The Show. The show combined classic whimsy with a heavy dollop of the macabre, enough to make the overall essence of the performance ripe with nostalgia for October nights gone by. The Autumn Experiment hopes to bring back that warm and fuzzy and yes, a bit scary, feeling of Halloween's past, one story at a time, and it's a welcome addition to an immersive theatre landscape that can sometimes rely too often on a heavy dramatic hand.
The Autumn Experiment is the collaborative effort of Drew Rausch and Jocelyn Gajeway. Find the Autumn Experiment on Instagram and visit their website at www.theautumnexperiment.com to sign up for newsletter updates so this year round celebration of Halloween doesn't pass you by.
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Cristen Brinkerhoff	immersive theatre, Recap, The Autumn Experiment	Leave a comment January 28, 2020 January 28, 2020 3 Minutes

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Bride of the Century The Taeyang Corporation is the largest conglomerate in South Korea. The family that runs Taeyang has been under a curse for 100 years. The curse began when the first bride of the family's first son died. Under this situation, a love like fairy tale occurs while conspiracies run rampant.
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In the aftermath of the global financial crises, the Johannes Kepler University founded the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) in 2009. At the ICAE, economic developement is understood as a result of the complex interaction between a set of different influencing factors and therefore, a strong emphazise is given to interdisciplinary approaches, conceptual openness and theoretical diversity.
On our website you can find information on about our team, current research projects, publications & ICAE Working Paper Series, news & events and media coverage.
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A review of Tell Me How It Ends can be found here.
Please come by to sign up for the Book Club and get your free copy. Items will be limited to the first ten people.
The Book Club is held in Gabert Library's Makerspace and NHC Library's Group Study Room. Snacks will be provided as well as stimulating conversation!
A film clip of the movie can be found here.
Come watch the movie with us and find out about the woman who created Frankenstein, had a tumultuous marriage to poet Percy Shelley, and was the daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft.
The film will be shown at Gabert Library's Makerspace and NHC Library's Group Study Room. As Halloween treats, we'll provide the snacks!
A review of In Search of Mary Shelley can be found here.
Please come by and sign up for the Book Club and get your free copy. Items will be limited to the first ten people.
The Book Club is held in Gabert Library's Makerspace and NHC Library's Group Study Room. Snacks will be provided as well as scintillating conversation!
Send us your favorite book & film suggestions!
Come on by and increase your chances of getting that summer, part time, or full time job! One of the Career Development Advisors will be giving quick but detailed and helpful feedback about creative impressive resumes. Be at the North Hudson Library's group study room – N303D – on Tuesday, April 24th from 9:30-12:noon … and get that job!
The North Hudson Campus Library is holding a reading raffle. To enter, just read a book of your choice starting March 1st through April 12th and then submit a short description. Find an entry form here or at the NHC Library and return it to the raffle box.
Prizes will include movie tickets, gift certificates, books, and more. Winners will be selected at the raffle on Tuesday, April 17th at 12:noon during a celebration in the NHC Student Lounge. All current students and staff may enter the raffle.
The Library has a second title for this Spring's April Book Clubs – Everything I Never Told You by author Celeste Ng. Pick up your copy at either campus while supplies last. And then meet fellow readers at our Book Clubs and let's talk!
See how the New York Times reviewed it here.
From the author herself, helpful discussion ideas here.
Food will be served at each of the Book Club gatherings. Come and ENJOY!


Talking Rugby Union have linked London Irish's Alex Lewington with a move to reigning European champions Saracens.
The speedster, who represented the England Saxons in South Africa in 2016, is tipped to be on the radar of Eddie Jones for England selection after an electric start to the season despite the Exiles shortcomings.
Sarries have reportedly shown their hand and expressed an interest in the 26-year-old flyer, who is tops the clean-breaks stats in the English top tier.
Lewington only featured in 10 games last season due to injury but still was able to cross the whitewash 10 times to contribute to London Irish's instant promotion back to the Aviva Premiership.
The 26-year-old, who started his career at Leicester Tigers, is understood to be on Saracens shopping list ahead of the 2018/19 season.
It's rumoured that he'll be signed as a replacement for veteran winger Chris Wyles, whose contract is reportedly up at the end of the season.


Freedom phones: On the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, Yahel Ben-David and Barath Raghavan have designed Rangzen, a smartphone app to support dissenters and protect identities.
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Where vision meets know-how: Take a look into mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang's XLab, where researchers investigate the emerging field of metamaterials.
EECS Ph.D. student Yahel Ben-David and alum Barath Raghavan lead the De Novo Group, a research team developing the Rangzen smartphone app, designed to support dissenters and protect identities.
Take a look into mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang's XLab, where Zhang and his more than 30 postdocs, Ph.D. students and visiting scientists investigate the emerging field of metamaterials.
Berkeley engineers are building better bodies, one part at a time.
EECS professor Alexei Efros seeks to bring large volumes of inaccessible visual data on the Internet to the public by filtering the information into more easily digestible nuggets.
11/1/2014 - Globalized markets and leapfrog technologies, including mobile telecommunications, now offer opportunities to eradicate the root causes of global poverty.
11/1/2014 - A new Ph.D. specialty in development engineering teaches students how to build, scale and evaluate technologies designed to combat extreme poverty and other complex international issues.
11/1/2014 - BioE alum Connor Landgraf has transformed the classic stethoscope into a tool with the potential to save lives and eliminate billions of dollars a year in unnecessary spending.


Me? I'm a superstar and Smokey agrees!
Today, I went to see our new vet Heather and also said hello to Auntie Francis while I was there. Heather said that my ear had healed far better than she expected and I don't have to back again - RESULT!!!
You are a lucky bun, I have to see Auntie Frances again for a checkup and do not like the car ride to Harrogate.
I have my reputation to consider, so obviously, I behaved appropriately.
You look really good. I'm glad you got such good news! Well done.
That is good news indeed! Stay healthy!


There are so many "why's" when it comes to why I became a documentary family photographer. What started me down the professional picture taking road was my daughter's birth, but the draw to the family documentary/photojournalist genre reaches much further back in my life. Back before I knew and loved my husband, and before 2 tiny people who became my world came into existence. It goes back to the day that we celebrated my grandmother's life. The day of her funeral, or should I say the evening following her funeral. I have a very vivid and happy memory of my entire mother's side of the family sitting around looking through old photo albums, and hearing all of the stories that my mother and aunts could remember from their childhood. Like many families, there's usually one or two strained relationships and tension when it comes to extended family(and sometimes immediate family), but it was a beautiful thing to have everyone sitting in the same room, setting aside their issues, and just simply sharing in these memories of my grandmother and grandfather together. My grandfather who I never met, and learned so much about that evening. Pictures that I had never seen before, stories that I had never heard. Those photos were the one thing that I saw bring everyone together. Smiling, crying, laughing and for a moment putting aside any differences. It showed me exactly how powerful memories are, and just how important a single photograph can be in allowing our loved ones to be remembered once again.
Sidenote: How gorgeous were my grandmother and grandfather?
Why do I avoid the posed portraits? Why do I choose to capture the real life moments that a family shares? This is why. I want my photos to mean something. I want there to be a true connection to the exact moment, with the exact people who are in them. There are beautiful photos out there from family sessions with a sun setting behind them, every hair in place and coordinating outfits. The only thing is that aside from what everyone looked like in that picture, there's no other true reminder of who they were, what they were into, or what their entire world looked like.
The photos I now take for the families I work with aren't about just a beautiful photo to me, although I strive to create them with every click of my shutter, as I do for my own family. But more importantly, I want the photographs that I create to say what was happening in that very moment without a single word spoken. To show the emotion, attitude, love, fear, frustration and even exhaustion that may occur in life. I want them to ooze with personality to the point where you can almost hear the laughter or the sound of their voice. I want them to be looked back on as true, real life memories where they just so happened to have a photographer in the room taking pictures.
Our lives are fleeting. It is so cliche, to the point that the phrase used to annoy me, but I now catch myself saying it all the time. Especially after having my children.
It all goes by so incredibly fast. It is ever changing, unpredictable, always moving, and it doesn't slow down for anyone. But the click of my shutter is the one place where my life and the window of life for those who invite me to photograph them can be held onto and looked back on for as many years as they remain in their possession.
parts of our lives that we want to look back on in the future.
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Jeff Foxworthy Net Worth
Jeff Foxworthy is a popular personality known for his radio shows, television and movie appearances. He has appeared in shows like 'the Jeff Foxworthy show' and 'are you smarter than a 5th grader?' He is also recognizable from the 'American Bible challenge,' in which he is the host. Here is a quick synopsis of how much is the net worth of Jeff Foxworthy in 2019.
Jeff was born on September 6th, 1958 as Jeff Marshall Foxworthy. His hometown is Atlanta, Georgia and his father is Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy and mother, Carole Linda Foxworthy. He loves hunting as a sport, and when he was very young, he would hunt at their farm. He was brought up in Georgia for almost his entire life where he was nurtured in Catholicism. This is depicted even today as he is a preacher. He first went to school at Hapeville high school and lent went on to graduate at Georgia Institute of technology.
Jeff Foxworthy is married to Pamela Gregg from 1985 and with whom they have two daughters, Julianne and Jordan Foxworthy. He is a man of God and values his family which is why he prefers to spend time with them at their home.
Career, Awards, & Nominations
His first job came after he graduated where he worked for IBM as a maintenance officer for computers and he worked here for five years. Afterward, he ventured into the entertainment business where he began playing the role of a stand-up comedian. He enjoyed great success as in 1984 he was crowned the winner of 'great southeastern laugh-off' which was held by comedy club in Atlanta. It was after this success that he started hosting radio shows the most notable one being 'the Foxworthy countdown' that its continuity lasted for over a decade until the late 2000's.
Jeff is also an author with four books written to his name. They are 'words you thought you knew the meaning of,' 'redneck dictionary,' 'redneck dictionary II,' 'redneck dictionary III' and rednecks in college. Also, he has written child books and also an autobiography 'No shirt, No shoes…No problem!'
Jeff has also featured in movies where he has had a role in voice. The Smurfs and the Aviators are some of the animated movies. To add to his decorated career, he has recorded and released five comedy short films with DreamWorks records and also released a hit song 'Redneck 12 days of Christmas' which is popular around the globe. They have so far been certified platinum.
He has won the Academy of Country Music Awards Gene Weed Special Achievement Award and People's Choice Awards for Favorite Actor in a New TV Series. He had also won American Comedy Awards for Funniest Male Stand-up Comic in 1990. He has also been nominated two times for the Daytime Emmy award, five times for the Grammy Awards and one time for the Cable Ace Awards.
Jeff Foxworthy net worth is estimated to be around more than $120 million. He has realized this fortune through his comedy films and tour throughout the world. He also makes millions from the sale of his albums and his voice career. He made over $3 million in sales for each of his comedy albums, and in shows which he acted, he was paid up to $150,000 per episode in salaries. This also contributed so much to his wealth.
He is regarded as the wealthiest and successful comedian in the whole world. He is an American who is proud of his culture and holds high value for religion and family. He is also one of the funniest stand-up comedians.


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Catalan Curbed by Court
In the Spanish region of Catalunya, a court ruling over the language of instruction in schools may soon result in a a constitutional conflict. The autonomous region's educational system has generally required all subjects, except actual Spanish, to be taught in Catalan, which is not supported by many parents, especially those who have moved to the region from elsewhere in Spain.
However, after Spain's supreme court ruled last month that 25% of classes must be taught in Spanish, the Catalan Education Minister Josep González-Cambray sent a letter to more than 5,000 education principals across regions discouraging them from increasing the numbers of hours of education given in Spanish, saying that there should be "no change" in instruction, according to the news agency EFE.
"It is a serious attack on the foundation of the Catalan school perpetrated by a remote court and unaware of the reality of Catalan education centers," González-Cambray said at a press conference, adding that this was another reason for creating an independent Catalunya. The national government stayed calm, saying the Catalans should respect the courts. The leader of Spain's main opposition party, Pablo Casado, said that if they did not, the Senate should revoke Catalonia's right to set its own education policy.
Language of instruction at school has been politically sensitive in Spain for decades. In El País, Rosa Maria Villaró, of the labor union CC OO, criticized the use of language to stoke political division. "Language should never have been judicialized and politicized like this," she said. "This is not about language quotas but about powers over language policy." Her union defends the current model, which it views as "a guarantee of social cohesion."
At the same time, Spain's Socialist-led minority government garnered the support of regional parties to pass its budget last month in part by promising more children's television in Basque, and by agreeing to require streaming platforms based in Spain to offer at least 6% of their content in Spain's main minority languages, Basque, Catalan, and Gallego. Content dubbed into those languages counts, however subtitled programming does not. The Instituto Cervantes and the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL) have also agreed to collaborate in the promotion of Valencian language and culture, both in Spain and abroad through the network of Cervantes institutes.
Cervantes director Luis García Montero stressed the importance of this agreement and recalled that the role of the Cervantes Institute is to work for "Spanish culture and in Spanish," since "our mission is to promote all the languages of the country."
García Montero stressed that "respect for the mother tongue is the best way to respect identity."
The president of the AVL, Ramón Ferrer Navarro, pointed out that: "Valencians were lucky to have two languages."
The agreement will run for a period of four years and may be expressly extended at any time before its end for another four years.
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Q: Firefox multiple rowed textbox getting auotmatically filled in with some url like junk data We have an intranet php application developed for Firefox and it was running fine for almost 2 years. Now, for the last few days, the multiple-rowed textboxes are often getting filled in with some url like junk data. Sometimes, this happens only when you click on the textbox.
But when we ran the application in Google Chrome, we didn't face any problem. Is this anything to do with a firefox virus?
Please help.

A: This problem didn't go even we reinstalled the Firefox browser. Finally, we reformatted the system. Firefox is now working okay.


SysML Training Crash Course covers the concepts, requirements, tools, and techniques of Systems Modeling Language (SysML). SysML Training Crash Course teaches you how to effectively collect requirements to design the embedded software based on the system specifications using UML 2 and SysML.
SysML Training Crash Course helps you to make the appropriate architectural design of the system on the basis of your needs.
Such system architecture demonstrates a high level of agility to the embedded system software against changes as it provides a consistent traceability of the business rules captured in system functions and those of the usage choices (use cases) of the end-users toward the software implementation level.


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The number of foreign guests in October is nearly seven times higher than last year, with drastic relaxation of border measures
[NHK] In October, a total of 2.16 million foreigners stayed at hotels and inns in Japan, according to the Japan Tourism Agency's preliminary figures, nearly seven times as many as in the same month last year...
According to preliminary figures from the Japan Tourism Agency, a total of 2.16 million foreigners stayed at domestic hotels and inns in October, nearly seven times as many as in the same month last year.
According to the Japan Tourism Agency, a total of 44.26 million people stayed at domestic hotels and inns in October, an increase of 38% from the same month last year.
Of these, the total number of Japanese guests was 42.1 million, an increase of 32.5% from the same month last year, and an increase of 5.8% compared to the same month in 2019 before the spread of infection.
In addition, the total number of foreign guests was 2.16 million, a significant increase of nearly seven times from the same period last year.
In addition to the start of nationwide travel support in October, it is believed that the significant relaxation of border measures, such as the lifting of the ban on individual travel by foreigners and the exemption of obtaining visas for short-term stays, led to the increase.
Source: nhk
All business articles on 2022-11-30
More than 930,000 foreign visitors to Japan in November nearly doubled from the previous month
Restaurant chain sales in November increased for 12 consecutive months, but business conditions are severe
Foreign travelers last year, more than 15 times more than the previous year, about 12% before the spread of infection
Wild animals and plants Illegal trade surge Global crackdown Over 900 people arrested, etc.
More than 6,300 people died from corona in China in a week, totaling nearly 80,000 since early December
GDP grows by 1.9 percent: Germany's economy braces itself against the crisis
Gross domestic product: German economy grew by 1.9 percent in 2022
Soar again! The current state of the aviation industry aiming for a leap forward
C919 Year of the Rabbit made its first flight and clocked in Nanchang for a 100-hour verification flight take-off and landing has involved many places
China Cuisine Association: Spring Festival catering market picks up and achieves a "good start"
Tourist turnout supports the demand for gold jewelry sales
Stabilizing employment is the key to consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation
Banks refuse to open bank accounts for small businesses
"Retirees will not be certified to stop receiving pensions in January this year"? Don't believe it!
Duty-free shops on Hainan's outlying islands are booming during the Spring Festival
Popular part-time job: door-to-door pet feeding is popular, in addition to cats and dogs, there are also turtles and fish
Greens against FDP: It's about more than just the Autobahn
30 years of the EU internal market: big celebrations, nothing behind it
Consumption Observation: Consumption returned to hometown during Chinese New Year drive consumption enthusiasm in small towns super large cities
The housing market in first-tier cities saw zero transactions, and some provincial capitals welcomed the wave of housing purchases
The Spring Festival encounters a "labor shortage": there is a huge gap in grass-roots waiters, how to solve the problem?
The flow of people in shopping malls has doubled, and it is hard to find a house in scenic spots. Commercial real estate has ushered in a good start
Passenger flow of airports in many places rebounds rapidly during the Spring Festival: Capital Airport more than triples
New Economics Senator: A commitment to Hamburg's port
Slacking business: toys in the warehouse instead of in the children's room
Libyan Oil Corporation and Eni sign agreement to develop gas fields
Before talking to Pistorius: Rheinmetall boss calls for an increase in the Bundeswehr budget
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so some elephants go to the circus with Mathieu Daley Mathieu is an eager apprentice. The circus, which goes Mathieu and Calvin, is situated in Montreal. Calvin, who is an elephant, loves to travel, like any other elephant. Calvin and Mathieu are partners, Calvin can stand up on his two legs, when Mathieu is on Calvin heads, and they can many other things. It is nice too see someone who enjoys very much his job.


Home Economics: 150 years of Canadian Hooked Rugs explores the evolution of hooked rugs, a uniquely Canadian folk art. For over 150 years, as long as Canada is old, the craft and commerce of rug hooking has been an intimate part of the lives of many Canadians. A form of personal artistic expression, reuse and recycling, as well as a means of earning a livelihood, hooked rugs are widely recognizable expressions of community and regional identity in Canada.
Home Economics focuses on the iconic images, stories and communities reflected in rug hooking traditions. Featuring 86 rugs, it draws on the rich material archives of the Textile Museum of Canada as well as public and private collections. The exhibition explores Canadian history through the development of rug hooking in Canada with a range of real-life narratives and anecdotes. While the exhibition includes many historic examples, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it also examines the active revival of rug hooking by contemporary national guilds and independent artists.
A virtually limitless range of image and design possibilities have emerged over the last 150 years, with artists and designers creating elaborately detailed hooked imagery that responds to local, lived experiences, past to present. Whether domestic scenes, decorative patterns, and regional landscapes documented historically, or content-driven artistic expression chronicling current social conditions and cultural change, rug design has always been part of a contemporary "popular" culture – in the sense of "of the people" – and a highly adaptable form. For example, in the decades following the 1960s, Florence Ryder (1935-2005) of the Standing Buffalo Reserve was part of a revival of distinct, geometric Sioux designs that took many forms. Creating a market for her unique blend of First Nations symbolism with predominantly east coast traditional craft, her sought-after hooked rugs are now housed in public and private collections across the country.
Home Economics spotlights 86 hooked rugs from the Textile Museum of Canada's rich archive of material culture as well as from public and private collections, exploring the creative and social dimensions of this unique Canadian expression and its evolution. For two centuries, the craft and commerce of rug hooking have been deeply entwined. It is a personal artistic form integrating practical techniques of reuse and recycling, while also offering a reliable means of earning a livelihood as highly recognizable form of community and regional material expression. Presented in conjunction with the Textile Museum of Canada's 40th anniversary and offered for circulation through 2016-2018, this exhibition highlights a core dimension of the Museum's unique collections, focusing on the stories and communities reflected in rug hooking traditions and the iconic images that pervade this folk expression.
Today, in an age when cycles of economic and cultural disparity endure, a new era of social enterprise and craft economy is a visible manifestation of efforts towards social, economic and cultural change, in particular advancing female participation in the workforce worldwide. The core work of the Textile Museum of Canada is with global materials of everyday life that offer centuries-old evidence of the same impulses at play – craft production that goes beyond aesthetic expression and traditional techniques, speaking to local economic conditions and struggles for personal connection, individual survival, and community development across time and space.
The hooked rugs that comprise Home Economics represent generations of social entrepreneurship, women's domestic and collective work, as well as community and rural development in Canada. Then, as now, craft consistently combined the ethic and philosophy of the handmade to support sustainable and inclusive growth. Spotlighting the tremendous variation in this Canadian folk art from coast to coast, Home Economics examines how memory, imagination and place infused this creative expression as well as the rugs' relationship to domestic production and cottage industries and insights relevant to women's organizations, social enterprise and community development in Canada today.
Documenting 150 years of creative experimentation and the evolution of historical tradition, Home Economics is emblematic of the Museum's approach to the thought leadership required of cultural institutions for 21st century impact and relevance. The TMC's artistic content is deeply engaged beyond our walls – always a means to explore a trajectory of contemporary issues and ideas affecting everyday lives, as well as the specificity of local experiences and identities in a global context.
Vignettes of rural life in Quebec by Georges-Edouard Tremblay, Pointe au PicF, Quebec in the 1930s.
Organized and circulated by the Textile Museum of Canada. Curated by Shauna McCabe, Natalia Nekrassova, Sarah Quinton and Roxane Shaughnessy. Home Economics is made possible through the lead support of the William R. and Shirley Beatty Charitable Foundation. The exhibition tour is supported by the Museum Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The full colour exhibition catalogue is made possible through the support of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum.


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'He executed her': GRPD looking for man accused of killing ex-girlfriend
by: Byron Tollefson
Anyone in an abusive relationship who needs help can call the national domestic violence helpline at 800.799.7233.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grand Rapids police are asking for your help finding the man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend last month.
For weeks now, police have been looking for 30-year-old Patrick Jones for the murder of Tamiqua Wright. But on Monday, they announced his name to the public because they need help from the community to bring him to justice.
"The reason we've released his image and his name at this point and time is because we need help finding him," Grand Rapids Police Department Chief Eric Winstrom told News 8 on Monday afternoon. "Somebody who's watching right now knows where this individual is, and we need to bring him to justice."
An undated photo of Tamiqua Wight courtesy family.
Winstrom said that around 1 a.m. on Oct. 11 in southeast Grand Rapids, Jones was in the car with Tamiqua Wright.
"They had a domestic relationship previously," Winstrom said.
"Long story short, he shot her," Winstrom said. "He executed her."
Family, friends remember mother shot and killed in Grand Rapids
Winstrom said after the fatal shooting, the car crashed at the intersection of Eastern Avenue and 44th Street SE. Jones ran off, and he hasn't been seen since.
Wright leaves behind five children. The youngest is a 7-month-old girl.
"It's absolutely heartbreaking that he would just in cold blood kill the mother of five children, including a 7-month-old," Winstrom said.
On Monday, Wright's cousin told News 8 the family remains devastated, and they want Jones off the street. She said Wright is the fourth family member they have lost to gun violence.
"I hope we're not to the point where we get numb to it," Winstrom said. "I hope that there's always outrage to that. Because one death to gun violence, you should be outraged over. The fact that this family has seen so much is just absolutely heart breaking."
Jones has been charged with open murder. According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, Jones has a long criminal record, including convictions for domestic violence, assault, home invasion and robbery.
An undated courtesy photo of Patrick Jones.
Jones is currently absconding on parole from the Michigan Department of Corrections in a separate incident, a release from GRPD said.
"He has a very violent background," Winstrom added. "He was on parole for home invasion as well as aggravated assault and felony larceny. He's a very dangerous person, and we consider him to be armed and dangerous at this time."
Community pays tribute as domestic violence homicides surge in Kent Co.
With another life lost to domestic violence in Michigan, Winstrom said it's a reminder to break the cycle as the issue continues to devastate our communities.
"Individuals like this, they have a history, they have a pattern of domestic violence," Winstrom said. "Breaking that cycle of violence is important to make sure things like this don't happen again."
Winstrom reiterated that help from the community can make the difference to bring justice for Wright.
"We've been doing interviews, we've used all the law enforcement resources that we've had, and we've come up empty," Winstrom said. "He's getting money from somewhere. He's getting shelter. He's getting food. Someone knows where he is. Someone's protecting him. Someone's sheltering this individual."
"It's difficult for more than one person to keep a secret," Winstrom added. "So we're quite sure there are numerous people that know right now where this killer is. And we would hope that someone does the right thing and wants to cooperate."
If you know anything about Wright's death, call the GRPD Detective Unit at 616.456.3380, the MDOC Absconder tip line at 844.362.8477 or Silent Observer at 616.774.2345.
— News 8's Michael Oszust contributed to this report.
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"Hip-Hop gets a little gangsta sometimes" | Birdmans Take On Lil Wayne Tour Bus Shooting
"We been in this game for some time," Birdman says. "But Hip Hop get gangsta sometime. You got to prepare for it when it come to you. If it come to you or come around you. This shit really gets violent sometimes. It's Hip Hop. We chose this life. We in this shit and we got to be ready for it."
Can we assume that him nor Young Thug (Rich Gang Artist) had anything to do with it? Either way in the month of April they both were accused of conspiring to kill former Cash Money artist Lil Wayne. Even though neither of them have been arrested on the assumption, it just seems a little funny.
Birdman has not only thrown drinks on Lil Wayne but now there has been a shooting towards his bus, maybe it's a message or did it come from different sources. However, when questioned during the radio interview from yesterday he said that the accusations of him trying to kill Wayne were the "craziest shit" he's ever heard.
He goes on to say that "I don't know what they saying and what the reality is to that but if something happened to my son…I need to find out what's poppin' if you're going to shoot a gun at my child," says Birdman. "I got a problem with that. If you gonna bust a gun at Lil Wayne I got a problem with that. I don't care who it is. We got a problem. Time will tell it all."
So maybe he had nothing to do with it?? Birdman during the interview seems to be very protective over his kid. Although they have had some falling out, I feel as though he might not of been the one shooting bullets towards Wayne; and for whoever it was, you got a problem with Rich Gang artist Birdman, but that's the least of your problems when it comes to how Young Money artist Lil Wayne may be taking it.


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