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The Chernomorets team of the Black Sea Fleet has won "A cup of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet" on ice hockey
In Sevastopol has come to the end an open hockey tournament on "A cup of the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet" among adult and children's ice-hockey teams. In superiority played teams from different regions of Russia and national teams of the fleet and districts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Fought for the Cup: adult ice-hockey teams, the owner of "A cup of the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet" - the national team of the BSF Chernomorets, national team of the Northern Fleet, the National team of the Southern Military District "Varangians", the National team of Kuban "Gentlemen of Kuban" and the national team of the city of Krasnodar "Legion". And also five children's teams: "Young Chornomorets" and "Bears" from Sevastopol, "the Southern Penguins" both "Joker" from Simferopol and Avangard from Yalta. By results of the held meetings among adult teams the victory on a tournament and "A cup of the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet" as well as in two last tournaments, was won by team of the Black Sea Fleet Chernomorets. The Legion team from Krasnodar and the national team of Kuban "Gentlemen of Kuban" became silver and bronze prize-winners of a tournament. Among the children's teams "Cup of the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet" the Bears team from Sevastopol has won, the Chernomorets team became the silver prize-winner, and bronze was won by the Southern Penguins team from Simferopol. A cup to hockey players and awards to prize-winners were personally presented by the commander of the Black Sea Fleet vice admiral Alexander Moiseyev. He has congratulated winners and has hoped that in further tournaments the team of the fleet will also take prizes.
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In 2012 Chuon Vuthy was one of the winners of the Future For Nature Award. He is working as Cambodia Programme Manager for Free the Bears. Illegal hunting and trading on bears is, unfortunately, still going on. Young bears will end up in a restaurant for bear paw soup of caged as a tourist attraction. Chuon Vuthy is strongly motivated to stop this.
When he was 18 years old he started working at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre. Having helped his family to take care for their cows and pigs since he was a young boy, he was curious to learn more about the wild animals that were being brought to the rescue centre after being confiscated from illegal hunters and traders. When Free the Bears started building the Cambodian Bear Sanctuary within the rescue centre to house growing numbers of bears, he was quickly singled out and employed to take care of the bears. An interview with Chuon can be found here.
"With all of these projects, I hope that we will be able to ensure that the Future For Nature Award has a long-term impact in protecting Sun bears. It has certainly meant a busy year for me and my team, but I believe that if we can educate people and prevent more bears from being hunted in the wild, then we will have certainly have made the best use of this prize".
'Since March 2012 when I visited the Netherlands to accept the Future For Nature Award, things have been moving incredibly fast. We now have 123 bears at our sanctuary today, so construction has been non-stop to build new areas for the rescued bears. Part of the Future For Nature Award prize-money has been used to develop new education facilities at the sanctuary so that we can help Cambodian people to understand why we have to protect these bears in the wild, and make sure they never support the illegal wildlife trade.


Tele2 now expects the margin on earnings to be in a 32 percent to 37 percent range at its Russian operations.
Telecom operator Tele2 has raised its 2010 forecast for core profitability from its Russian business after new operations in the region broke even earlier than expected, its Russian director said.
The Nordic and emerging-market operator now expects the margin on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in a 32 percent to 37 percent range at its Russian operations, up from the previous 27 percent to 32 percent, Dmitry Strashnov said in an interview on Tuesday.
"I think that revisions of EBITDA margin will be in the range of 5 percent up from what was planned at the end of 2009," he said, adding that the sales forecast would also be revised.
He said two new operations had broken even much earlier than had been expected.
"Two new regions we launched in the second half of last year saw positive EBITDA after nine months. It's our record," Strashnov said.
Most startups are now expected to reach break-even within 18 months from commercial launch instead of two years as had been previously forecast, Tele2 said in its earnings report on Wednesday.
The core loss on startups is now seen at 400 million to 600 million Swedish crowns ($54 million to $82 million) in 2010, compared with the previous forecast of 600 million to 800 million, Strashnov said.
Tele2 is Russia's fourth-largest mobile phone operator with 16.5 million subscribers, lagging MTS, MegaFon and VimpelCom. It expects to have 18 million users by the start of next year and between 19 million and 20 million by the end of 2011.
Strashnov said Tele2 was still interested in acquiring rivals in Russia, including assets of the Volga region operator SMARTS — currently the country's eighth-largest carrier, as well as in other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
He said the company was eager to expand in all of the 46 Russian regions where it is not yet present and would speed up network construction in the second half of 2010 to catch up with growing traffic due to an increasing subscriber base.
The company said on Wednesday that it had added 1.1 million Russian subscribers in the second quarter and reiterated its Russian capital expenditure guidance for 2010-11 of 20 billion rubles ($658 million).


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Partnering with the Global Girls Collaborative Project and Iron Way Films, Microsoft is making waves with the Big Dream Movement to help young women break barriers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, commonly referred to as STEM education.
Join director Kelly Cox and stars from Big Dream, as well as leaders from Microsoft, for a screening and discussion of the film on March 4! Register here.
Through workshops, discussions, and online resources, the Big Dream Movement and Microsoft are working to empower the lives of young women around the world.
A cornerstone of the program, Big Dream follows the lives of seven diverse young women, as they face obstacles to challenge the status quo and follow their dreams. The film aims to bring light to the issues facing young women in education, and to rid society of stereotypes surrounding women in STEM fields.
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Nagina is an Indian Hindi suspense thriller film directed by Ravindra Dave, released in 1951 under Pancholi Productions. The film stars Nutan and Nasir Khan in lead roles. Nutan's performance in it gained her greater recognition. The film became a commercial success. Nutan was aged 15 at the time of its release, and was thus not allowed to attend its premiere as it was certified "A": (restricted for adults) and she was underage.

Plot

When Shreenath's father is accused of murder, he disappears. Twenty years later, he is believed to be dead, and Shreenath attends the crime scene to find out what happened and possibly clear his father's name. There he meets Mukta, a young and beautiful woman, at a mysterious ancient mansion.

Cast

Nutan ... Mukta
Nasir Khan ...	Shreenath (as Nasir)
Bipin Gupta ... Raiji
Hiralalb...	Nihal
Mohana ...	Lily
Goldstein ... Goonga
Gope ... Dixit
Shyamlal ...	Shreenath's father (as Shamlal)
Michael ... Lilly's Father

Music
The soundtrack was composed by Shankar–Jaikishan. The film introduced singer C. H. Atma. Author Bradley Shope noted the soundtrack for its jazzy style. The soundtrack marked the first job by Goan music arranger Sebastian D'Souza, who replaced Sunny Castelino halfway through production. He was noted for his "dance-band arranging skills".

Release and reception

The film did well at the box office and, according to Box Office India, was among the ten highest-grossing Indian films of the year. Its success consolidated Nutan's position as a rising star. Nutan, accompanied by Shammi Kapoor, went to attend the premiere but could not enter the theatre to watch the film as she was underage. According to Amjad Parvez, the film is memorable for Nasir Khan's appearance. Author Ashok Raj noted Khan's work in this film alongside a popular actress as a highlight in his career. A 1964 issue of Film World magazine considered the film one of Nutan's most notable films. Author and film critic Dinesh Raheja considered the film an adults-only film and included it in his list of Nutan's "landmark films". According to The Tribune, Nutan was written off for her frail looks. According to author Jagdish Bhatia, in his book Celebrities: A Comprehensive Biographical Thesaurus of Important Men and Women in India, director Dave "took the cine world with storm" with this film, which, "under his supervision, very suspense subject treated so slickly well photographed".

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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Joel Quenneville loves horse racing. As any real bettor does, he goes by all the past performances for each horse within the field earlier than making his wager.
He's no longer an professional.
"Beneath average," he said.
Perhaps Quenneville need to follow hockey. The wager he made on the Panthers a couple of years ago looks to be on the cusp of a substantial-time payoff.
Florida — a franchise that has made missing the playoffs an art plot, and not using a series wins since 1996 — is at the midpoint of this season, Year 2 of the Quenneville era, tied for essentially the most facets within the NHL. At 19-5-4, the Panthers are off to the handiest 28-game start in their history when it involves facets and a hit percentage.
And for the first time in a quarter-century, the Panthers may probably be a real contender for the Stanley Cup.
There are plenty of reasons why: Aleksander Barkov is playing just like the handiest within the game, goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky is back in top plot after a down year, and Aaron Ekblad and MacKenzie Weegar may probably be the cease defenseman duo within the league.
The largest reason, though, may probably be Quenneville, the mustachioed guy at the back of the bench. He preaches easy hockey, tricky hockey, team-first hockey. The Panthers are soaking up each be aware.
"Despite the fact that it's essentially the most complicated play on the ice, he's OK with it see you later as it works," Ekblad said. "So that's one of the vital issues I've learned. Clearly, there's a time and place to make a easy play. And there's a time and place to make the play that's going to assist us capture the game."
The Panthers have trailed at some level in 14 of their 19 victories; they were down 3-1 to Chicago on Monday night earlier than ripping off the game's final five goals for yet another comeback capture. They're 4-0-0 this season against the Blackhawks, who fired Quenneville — a three-time champion coach there — solely 15 games into the 2018-19 season.
Quenneville took some time determining what to achieve subsequent. He saw the younger core in Florida, the team that was being dash then by his longtime pal Dale Tallon, and determined that may probably be his subsequent cease. The Panthers have reaped the benefits ever since.
"In Chicago, I was lucky at that time to grab a team that was as talented and deep as they were," Quenneville said. "This team's a diminutive diversified in some ways, but at the same time, the trend, where we're at, it extra or much less rings a bell in my memory of those days. And I came right here with the thinking that it'd be a fun place to capture."
He obtained a title in his second year in Chicago. He may probably have a team real sufficient to capture another title in his second year in Florida.
The Panthers haven't had anything shut to a rough patch yet. They're 8-0-1 after a loss this season, have scored five or extra goals 10 times and given up five or extra solely twice. And they're the solely team so far with a a hit file this season against reigning Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay.
"All americans looks to be having fun on the ice," Barkov said. "And that's when everybody starts to witness you. Half of the season completed, we're in a real quandary."
Florida has stars on the ice, without interrogate. On the opposite hand it's Quenneville who's pushing all the correct buttons. He's cut down on practice time this season because of the compressed time table and the demands on players' our bodies, picking to achieve extra work within the video room instead. The cease result has been extra energizing legs, and Florida's 36 third-length goals entering Tuesday was tops within the NHL — a substantial part of all those comeback wins.
"It's no longer misplaced on me at all," Panthers general manager and aged hockey agent Invoice Zito told The Associated Press in an interview last month, when asked about the advantage that comes with having Quenneville as coach. "I lived in Chicago when he came in and made the dash and had a series of players play for him. So, that is a luxurious for me that would no longer mosey unappreciated."
Quenneville has nothing left to display. Handiest one coach in NHL history has obtained extra games, solely seven have obtained extra Stanley Cups and most of those were claimed a lifetime ago. He can be spending extra time watching horses, playing golf and tennis, skiing, having fun with existence with his family.
Instead, the 62-year-faded remains to be working, and not using a plans to cease quickly. That silver chalice, the one Florida has always chased and the one Quenneville has already hoisted three times, remains to be very mighty on his mind.
"Whenever you capture a Cup, you can't wait to achieve it again. And that's the factor," Quenneville said. "It's everything. That's why we achieve it. The strategy of making an attempt to capture the Cup is the handiest part of a hit a Cup. And that's what you stare forward to."
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Jedeme jedeme je třetí řadové album skupiny Olympic z roku 1971. Textaře a baskytaristu Pavla Chrastinu vystřídal ve většině textů Zdeněk Rytíř a na baskytaru Jan Hauser. Na desce najdeme i slavný hit Bon soir mademoiselle Paris.

Album vyšlo na LP ve stereo verzi. LP v mono verze bylo vydáno Gramofonovým klubem. Jedná se o poslední album skupiny, které bylo vydáno současně ve stereo i mono verzi.

Reedice alba byly vydány v roce 1992 (CD / Supraphon), v roce 2005 (remasterované CD / Supraphon) v rámci Zlaté edice Supraphonu spolu s deseti bonusy a v roce 2010 (CD / Supraphon) v rámci edice "Olympic Komplet".

Seznam skladeb

Strana A
 Pět cestujících (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 5:24
 Když jsem bejval tramp (Petr Janda/Eduard Krečmar) - 2:03
 Mr. Den a lady Noc (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:21
 Brouk (Petr Janda/Eduard Krečmar) - 4:07
 Danny (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 5:59

Strana B
 Elixír (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:12
 Bláznivej Kiki (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:31
 Bon soir mademoiselle Paris (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:45
 Strážce majáku (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:19
 Tobogán (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 5:34

Bonusy
Remasterovaná verze (CD / Supraphon 2005)

Jako bonusy byly použity nahrávky ze singlů a dosud nevydané rarity:

 Kufr (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 2:24
 Anděl (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:45
 Otázky (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 4:10
 Strejček Jonatán (Václav Zahradník/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:19
 Sluneční píseň (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:34
 Čarodějka (Jan Hauser/Eduard Krečmar) - 2:55
 Aeroplán (Petr Janda/Michael Prostějovský) - 2:53
 Inzerát (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 5:02
 Vánoce (Petr Janda/Michael Prostějovský) - 3:07
 Dynamit (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:08

Album bylo nahráno ve složení
 Petr Janda - sólová kytara, zpěv
 Miroslav Berka - piáno, varhany
 Ladislav Klein - doprovodná kytara, zpěv
 Jan Antonín Pacák - bicí, zpěv (8)
 Jan Hauser - baskytara, zpěv
hosté:
 Jiří Stivín - saxofon, flétna
 Orchestr Vladimíra Popelky (1, 3, 4, 6, 8)

Alba Olympicu
Alba z roku 1971
Alba Supraphonu
Alba v češtině


More than 6,000 home-bound senior citizens will receive Thanksgiving meals through a collaboration between the Ford Motor Co. Fund and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging.
Employees of the automaker, their families and other community members will assemble freshly prepared meals Wednesday. The meals will be delivered Thursday to homes.
A $50,000 donation from the Ford Motor Co. Fund to the Detroit Area Agency on Aging will pay for the food and also provide additional funding for daily meal service throughout the year.
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The Pinwide is a plastic pinhole for Micro Four Thirds cameras. The little injection-molded cap bayonets onto the camera like any other lens, only instead of focusing the image using glass, it has a precision-etched, circular pinhole at its center.
You could make your own, but at just $40 it's a deal even for DIY types. It looks like fun to use, too. The high-quality pinhole gives some fairly sharp images, and because it has an aperture of around ƒ96-ƒ128, everything from front to back in your image will be in focus.
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Sounds good, right? In fact, I convinced myself and just ordered one. I'll let you know how it works out.


Darcy has shared her review of the Liquid Plumr Foaming Pipe Snake product.
I had 2 drains that were draining really slowly in the same bathroom, the sink and the tub.
First I pulled the drain stoppers and removed the hair, but even with this both still drained slowly.
I finally got tired of the standing water in my sink and bath tub so I went to the store and bought one bottle of Liquid Plumr Foaming Pipe Snake. It's a very easy product to fined in your local chain stores like Meijer, Krogers...etc. Plus, it is way cheaper then calling a plumber at $40 to $90 and hour, to clear out your drain.
By the time I got home all the water had finally drained out of sink and tub. Because it is some pretty strong stuff I was very careful not to get it on my hands or clothing.
I read the instructions and poured 1/2 of the bottle in the sink and the rest in the tub drain. I poured it very slowly, like the directions said, into the drains. You definitely don't want this stuff splashing back up into you face or on your skin so follow the directions carefully.
There are actually two liquids in this product, and when you pour it into your drain the two liquids combine and make a foam that the product says dissolves the stuff blocking your drain.
When I told my husband about it though, he cautioned me to be careful with Liquid Plumr products in the future. He said that some water PVC pipes don't do well with them.
I didn't know that at the time, but now I know to always check to make sure that my plumbing is compatible with the product I use. Fortunately, the Foaming Pipe Snake product says it is safe for PVC and plastic pipes, so I didn't harm anything with it!
If I have another clogged drain I will definitely get this again, since it worked so well.
Thanks Darcy for your review of Liquid Plumr's Foaming Pipe Snake product.
Liquid Plumr has a few different products, all designed to do something slightly different. After receiving your review I did a bit more research about these drain cleaners and found that they recommend using this product for "slow running drains" and "dirty pipe walls." It sounds like it did a good job for you, for your bathroom drains.
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Mary CHAM training and achieving with Pinnacle Martial Arts Academy In Marrickville & Chester Hill Sydney.
Mary Cham has received her 2nd Dan Blackbelt. The certificate is issued from Kukkiwon, which is the World Taekwondo Head Quarters in Korea.
Pinnacle Martial Arts only issues Kukkiwon Blackbelt which is the most prestigious and recognised certificate all over the world.
Mary has been with Pinnacle Martial Arts since it opened in Chester Hill. She first came to Pinnacle as a red belt with a drive to be a true black belt at the highest level which we can honestly say she is. We are very proud of Mary for not only achieving her goal of reaching her 2nd Dan Blackbelt, but also for her achievements in all aspects of Taekwondo, winning multiple tournaments at local, school, state and national levels, only to miss out on international representation due to injury's.
Mary's Taekwondo, Self Defence and Martial Arts skills and techniques are admired not only by her club members and coaches, but also by other competitors and coaches. We are very proud to have Mary to be part of the Pinnacle family and are very grateful for all the work they have put in to help Mary achieve so much in this sport. Thank you to all the coaches and families at Pinnacle Chester Hill and Marrickville for making this sport so much fun for our kids and in turn teaching them the important aspects of self defence & life skills.
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Le bagad Karaez est un ensemble de musique bretonne, un bagad, originaire de la ville de Carhaix dans le Finistère, en France. L'ensemble comporte aussi un bagad école, le Bagadig Karaez. Il est le premier bagad créé en Bretagne avec la Kevrenn Brest Sant Mark, avec des musiciens recrutés par Polig Montjarret parmi le personnel ferroviaire.

Historique

Kevrenn Paotred An Hent-Houarn

Après-Guerre, Polig Montjarret commence à travailler au renouveau de la musique bretonne en popularisant la forme du bagad, inspiré des pipe bands écossais, mais aussi en collectant des airs traditionnels. Il s'installe à Carhaix en , la position centrale de la ville en Bretagne permettant de faciliter ce travail de collecte d'airs, et commence à y fréquenter le cercle celtique local. Celui-ci est fréquenté par de nombreux cheminots de la région, la ville étant à l'époque au centre du Réseau Breton. Monjarret leur propose alors de créer ce qui allait devenir le premier bagad, et contacte Dorig Le Voyer avec qui il travaille au sein de la  pour qu'il leur fournisse en priorité des instruments. Il prend le nom de Kevrenn Paotred An Hent-Houarn (ce qui signifie « les gars du chemin de fer » en français). Les premières répétitions ont lieu dès le début de l'année 1948 dans des wagons désaffectés, et leur premier défilé a lieu en juin 1948 lors de la fête de la Tour d'Auvergne à Carhaix.

La création du bagad entraine la création d'autres groupes similaires dans la même région, et Rostrenen puis Quimperlé se dotent toutes deux d'un bagad. La Kevrenn des Cheminots de Carhaix remportent en 1949 le premier championnat des bagadoù de Bretagne face à Kevrenn Rostren de Rostrenen. Touché par la crise du réseau ferroviaire breton en 1968, le bagad se voit contraint d'arrêter ses activités par manque d'effectifs.

Renaissance
En 1993, soutenus par la fédération départementale Bodadeg ar Sonerion Penn ar Bed (BAS 29) et la municipalité de Carhaix, des sonneurs du Centre-Bretagne redonnent vie au bagad, dont Guy Plusquellec, talabarder élève du célèbre Per Guillou.

En 2004, il accède en  lors de Bagadañs à Carhaix. Après deux titres consécutifs de champion de  catégorie, il accède en 2007 à la . En novembre, il fête ses 60 ans, conjointement avec le cercle celtique de Carhaix, en présentant notamment à l'espace Glenmor la création «  » (en breton : « 60 ans déjà ! Et ce n'est pas fini ! »).

En 2011, le bagad termine premier au concours de Quimper et remporte le titre de champion de Bretagne des bagadoù de  ce qui lui permet d'atteindre la .

Ouverture

En 2008, une partie du bagad joue pour le Zebramix lors du festival des Vieilles Charrues. DJ Zebra fera appel à eux pour d'autres occasions : Élysée Montmartre (Paris) en 2008, Festival Panoramas (Morlaix) en 2009, Repas des Laboureurs (Vieilles Charrues) en 2010, Festival Fnac Indétendances (Paris) en 2010, concert au stade de la route de Lorient (Rennes) en 2011 avec le Bagad de Cesson-Sévigné, Festival des Vieilles Charrues 2011. Il enregistre en 2012 à Carhaix 13 morceaux d'un album fait en commun avec DJ Zebra. L'année suivante, le temps de la promotion de l'album, qui remporte notamment le grand prix du disque du Télégramme, le bagad s'autorise une année sabbatique en dehors des concours.

En 2014, le bagad devient vice-champion de Bretagne de , à 0,01 point de Beuzeg. Il évolue donc en première catégorie en 2015.

Fonctionnement

Structure
Le bagad Karaez est organisé sous la forme d'une association loi de 1901, créée en 1993, et compte plus de 100 adhérents à la rentrée 2012. Le groupe fait par ailleurs partie de la BAS 29, la section du Finistère de la Bodadeg ar Sonerion.

Le groupe principal
Le Bagad Karaez comporte une quarantaine de musiciens répartis en quatre pupitres, chacun réunissant les joueurs d'un même instrument (cornemuse, bombarde, caisses claires et percussions). Leur costume rappelle celui des cheminots de Carhaix, notamment par sa couleur bleue. En 2014, le bagad reçoit de nouveaux gilets de couleur noire avec une nouvelle coupe et des broderies.

Le bagad est dirigé musicalement par un penn soner, Yann Péron, anciennement penn soner du bagad de Lann-Bihoué. En 2014, il évolue en deuxième catégorie du championnat national des bagadoù et termine , ce qui lui permet d'accéder à la première catégorie.

Le bagadig et la formation
Il présente une école pour les plus jeunes ainsi qu'un bagadig évoluant en  depuis 2009.

Productions artistiques

Répertoires et créations

Prestations et collaborations

En 2001, pour les 10 ans du festival des Vieilles Charrues, il réalise le concert de clôture avec Gilles Servat.

Entre 2008 et 2011, le bagad se produit régulièrement aux côtés du DJ Zebra : les sets comprennent des medleys avec des reprises allant de la Marche Impériale de Star Wars à Sunday Bloody Sunday de U2 en passant par du Gorillaz, du Daft Punk et du Noir Désir.

En Suisse, le bagad participe au Mondial 2003 à Yverdon-les-Bains et en 2016, il joue sur la scène du Dôme au festival Paléo à Nyon.

Sources

Références

Bibliographie

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

 Carhaix
 Polig Monjarret,  Bagad
 Zebra & Bagad Karaez

Liens externes

 Site de Zebra avec le bagad

Karaez
Kreiz-Breizh
Carhaix-Plouguer


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Pinnawala Central College (Sinhala: පින්නවල මධ්‍ය මහා විද්‍යාලය Pinnawala Madhya Mahā Vidyālaya) (Tamil: பின்னவல மத்திய மஹா கல்லூரி Pinnawala Maththiya Maha Kalloori) also known as the Pinnawala National School or Pinnawala Central is a public school near Pinnawala in Sri Lanka. The college is located approximately  from Rambukkana and approximately  from Kegalle.

The college is funded by the Ministry of Education, which appoints its principal, and falls within the Mawanella Education zone. The principal is the head of the administration of the college and is assisted by a vice principal. The college educates close to 2,800 students for their secondary education (Grade 6-13).The college hostels are administered by the warden under the supervision of the principal and assisted by a sub-warden.

History
Pinnawala Central College was established in 1882 as the 'Government Boys' School' on  of land with 45 students and 6 teachers in one building. There were no written records from 1882 to 1926. According to the written history, Mr. Brampisingo was the first principal, appointed for 1920-1926. In the beginning, there were only a few classes covered local syllabus for grade 1 to 5. In 1956, the school was upgraded to a mixed(co-educational) school. The school student population also got increased drastically from 1926 to 1958 and new buildings and staff were added to the school. A contribution was offered by philanthropist and late minister N. H. Keerthiratne and S. A. Lokubandara Bentota.

In 1963, the opportunity was obtained to follow the Advanced Level Examination in Arts stream and increased the classes from grades 1-12 and laid the path for more students to enroll at the school. Students were allowed to enter the Advanced Level in the science stream in 1964 and later in the commerce stream; it became a national school on 12 September 1995 with grades 6-13.

The school's own land was expanded to  hosting 45 buildings. Two double floor buildings were opened as male and female hostels on  of land.  The school offers a large rectangular playground, a library, an audio-visual unit laboratory, for G.C.E. O/L, Information Technology unit, Home Science unit, Agriculture unit, Aesthetic unit, Scout troop, Cadet unit, and Environmental unit.

Houses

The students are divided into four houses. These are led by House Captains, competing in all major games to win the inter-house games and house colors are awarded winners. The houses are:

Special Events
In 2017, a two-day training for Sepaktakraw was scheduled to be held at Pinnawala Central College grounds for the eight schools of the Kegalle District and Uva/Sabaragamuwa Provinces by invitation from the President of the newly formed Sri Lanka Schools Sepak Takraw Association, Wasantha Kumara. Players from Pinnawala Central College planned to compete at the sport's world championship in Thailand the same year.

Notable alumni

This is a list of notable alumni from Pinnawala Central College.

References

1882 establishments in Ceylon
Educational institutions established in 1882
National schools in Sri Lanka
Schools in Kegalle District


My post last week urging New York parents to say "yes" to the state standardized tests generated many comments, mostly from angry suburban parents. I thank all of you — after all, the primary purpose of New York School Talk is to elevate authentic voices in this ongoing conversation about how to improve the quality and equity of public schools. Your voices meet that mark and I'll use this space to reply to you.
Let's begin with something I think we can all agree on: New York State made a strategic and political error when it launched new state tests aligned with college/career ready standards at the same time as it started to link student outcomes to teacher evaluations. What Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called "the fierce urgency of now" (President Obama echoed this phrase to great effect) infuses many attempts at school reform. After all, the kid in that lousy school only gets to go to third grade once; he has no time to burn. But our representatives in Albany should have had a hunch that rolling out new tests and new evaluation systems simultaneously was foolhardy. This error in judgement was the impetus for anti-testing fervor which, while ebbing elsewhere, is still alive and well on Long Island and several other clusters in the state.
In this sense, the opt-out movement was a success: New York is in no danger of linking student outcomes on state tests to teacher evaluations any time soon, especially with the current Board of Regents and a newly-submissive governor.
Now to the comments. I've divided them into five buckets: the tests are too hard, the tests are too stressful; teachers get the data too late to use in differentiating instruction; the computer-based tests endanger student privacy; the test results promote a narrative of failure and opt-outers skew towards suburban white districts because they are altruistically motivated to protect inner-city kids. Let's look at each bucket.
Are the tests too hard?
Not according to NYS teachers. After Gov. Cuomo appointed a task force to revise the Common Core State Standards, with which the tests align, two committees of 130 teachers and parents reviewed all the standards, eventually recommending that the state revise 60 percent of the English language arts standards and 55 percent of the math standards. In fact, each test question was reviewed by twenty-two teachers. Click here for the standards and the changes, which include increasing the use of fiction in ELA, encouraging interactive lessons, and pushing some math standards to the following grade.
Are expectations higher than when we parents were in school? I think so. But the bar for success is higher too. For decades we've known that American public schools under-prepare students for college and careers and, this, after all, is why we raised standards.
Are the tests too stressful?
In other words, we've tested students for decades. Tests are based on content. Content has changed because the world has changed. Colleges and careers now place more emphasis on critical thinking skills, adaptability, collaboration, and problem-solving. Therefore, tests are different than they were when we were kids. And — let's be honest — much of the blowback is about NYS's short-lived attempt to quantify teacher effectiveness by tying 50% of teacher evaluations to student outcomes, a move that incited the ire of the teacher union. Too much too fast.
Do teachers get the scores too late?
Probably. But, then again, they always have. Here's an article from 2006 — well before Common Core-aligned tests were a twinkle in anyone's eye — that makes the same allegations of older tests and no one opted out. Now that tests are computerized, teachers, districts, and parents should get results far earlier than in the past.
Does the new digital format endanger student privacy and lend itself to "data-mining"?
It's a brave new world where Facebook ads on your child's (and your) page are based on demographics and previous searches. We all worry about this. That's why the Student Privacy Pledge has been endorsed by the National PTA, the National School Boards Association, the Council of Chief State Officers, and three hundred other signatories, who include ed-tech companies. For more information, see this Parents' Guide to Student Data Privacy.
Year after year, standardized test results have exposed glaring racial biases in our education system. Teachers and schools are no longer able to hide behind school averages in performance, and are now having to answer for the low academic performance of students of color and low-income students. Many parents are being told to boycott these tests when really we should be looking more closely at the results.
Standardized test scores are now broken down by student race and income. This allows everyone—including teachers, parents and policymakers—to see how inequitable our schools are. If you've heard of what's commonly called the "achievement gap"—the shocking difference in educational outcomes between white students and students of color—you probably have standardized tests to thank. With test results, we can no longer hide the underlying racial inequity in our schools, and we cannot and should not go back and pretend it doesn't exist.
That's why NYC parents don't opt out of tests. They need clear information on school quality in a city where all the schools are not fine. When I lived in NYC I was zoned to go to Martin Van Buren High School, already a lousy school, but my parents, who both worked in NYC public schools, were able to move us to Long Island. Forty years later the school is worse but, thanks to standardized tests, there's no hiding behind aggregated averages. In my day the school was overcrowded but now it's down to 500 kids because parents have the information they need to make different choices, even if they can't afford to move, as my family did, to a better district.
Can tests improve? Can we do more to protect student privacy? Can we get the results more quickly? Can we do more to reduce student stress? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. But without standardized tests we will once again be dupes of a system that values obscurity over transparency and renders underserved students invisible. I can't believe that any of you want that.
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Less than objective, agenda-driven and narrowly focused, but a superbly thorough treatment within those requirements.


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We will step through a clean WordPress installation and configuration. We will then step through each section of the WordPress Admin Dashboard to illustrate the following: (1) theme selection & installation, (2) media uploading, (3) plugin selection & installation. (4) install several popular WordPress plugins, (5) create a custom menu, (6) set up a few widgets, (7) create a blog post/page, (8) walk through the elements of a post (9) discuss categories, tags and urls (10) discuss different user types and (11) making backups.


Steve Sear, Delta's President – International and E.V.P. of Global Sales, spoke with Delta News Hub one year into the approval of the airline's joint venture with Korean Air.
The partnership is a significant milestone towards the expanded joint venture between Delta, Air France, KLM and Virgin Atlantic.
Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo are promising customers more choice and reach.
The new warehouse doubles the airlines' existing cargo footprint. Investment in technology and automation will provide customers with higher levels of service and faster handling times.
Delta and its joint venture partners have made travel more seamless for customers checking in at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The airlines were sponsors of the Latin GRAMMY® Acoustic Sessions event at The Novo in Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 19.
Delta and Aeromexico joined to celebrate the Road to the Latin GRAMMYs as sponsors of the Latin GRAMMY Acoustic Sessions.


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Victoria becomes first Australian state to ban controversial gas mining
Victoria will become the first Australian state to ban fracking, the controversial method of extracting coal seam gas, the state government said in a statement on Tuesday.
Premier Daniel Andrews said the environmental risks posed by the practice, whereby liquids are blasted into rocks to force existing fissures open and enable the extraction of coal seam gas, exceeded any benefits derived from it.
"Our farmers produce some of the world's cleanest and freshest food. We won't put that at risk with fracking," Andrews said.
"This is the first ban of its kind anywhere in our nation. And it just speaks volumes to the dangers, the uncertainty and the anxiety within the Victorian community about fracking -- we just don't think those risks are worth taking," he added.
Fracking has been found to contaminate nearby water supplies, pollute the air and even cause earth tremors, according to seismologists in the United States.
A Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the issue in 2015 received more than 1,600 submissions, most of them opposing the practice.
"There has been a great deal of community concern and anxiety about onshore unconventional gas -- this decision gets the balance right," Minister for Resources, Wade Noonan, said on Tuesday.
"We have carefully considered the Parliamentary Inquiry's key findings and recommendations, consulted widely and made our decision on the best available evidence."
Included in the legislation that will permanently ban fracking in Victoria is the proposed extension of a moratorium on conventional gas mining to 2020, a proposal the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) said would cost Victoria jobs.
"If new exploration and extraction is not allowed, there will be an exodus of investment and jobs from Victoria," AWU Victorian secretary Ben Davis told the ABC.
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Peter, Bjorn & John's new album 'Living Thing' is set for release March 31st. I haven't heard the whole thing yet, only heard 'Nothing to Worry About' and 'Lay it Down' from the video Chris posted last month but I like what I've heard so far! Here is artwork for the new album, plus the tracklisting and MP3 for 'Nothing to Worry About'. Soo much new music coming out right now, I'm loving it!


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Amtrak collision investigation could take months
Investigators studying the collision of an Amtrak train and a freight train on the city's South Side that injured dozens of people, some seriously, will try to determine how both trains ended up on the same track at the same time, federal officials said.
Most of the 187 passengers on board the "Pere Marquette" train walked away unhurt after Friday's impact, which catapulted people from their seats. Four people had to be pulled from the front of the train, where the engine was located, authorities said.
The accident sent 71 people to a dozen hospitals, most of them in stable or good condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Three people were expected to be hospitalized overnight, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt said.
"We're here to find out what happened so we can keep it from happening again," Sumwalt said Friday evening.
A team of nine NTSB investigators would conduct interviews with crew members, passengers, dispatchers and supervisors in an investigation that could take months, he said. Officials also awaited information from an event recorder, a device similar to the black boxes on airliners.
The damage to the passenger train was mostly to its engine, where some of the five Amtrak workers aboard were, authorities said. The train's three double-decker passenger cars remained upright.
No one was in the portion of the Norfolk Southern freight train that was struck, and the two workers aboard were not hurt.
Amtrak passengers, many of them carrying winter coats and luggage, streamed off the train with the help of rescue workers. Some held the hands of children; others were taken away on stretchers and backboards.
Coert Vanderhill, 60, of Holland, Mich., said the train was approaching the station at 15 to 20 mph when the engine "just ran right up the tail end" of the freight train.
"Everybody just hit the seat in front of them," he said.
University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman John Easton said none of the 13 patients the hospital initially received had injuries that appeared to be life-threatening.
Cook County's Stroger Hospital cared for an additional 25 patients, all with minor injuries, spokesman Sean Howard said. At Advocate Christ Medical Center, spokeswoman Deb Song said six of the 10 patients were to be treated and released, and the rest were in fair or stable condition.
The Amtrak train was en route from Grand Rapids, Mich., to Chicago. The freight train was traveling from Elizabeth, N.J., to Chicago.
Norfolk Southern spokesman Rudy Husband said he had no details about what caused the accident or what the freight train was carrying.
Amtrak spokesman Derrick James said it was unclear which train was in the wrong place. He said Amtrak shares the track with the track's owner, Norfolk Southern.


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Not the fucking help
Opening Reception: 08.03.2019, 18:00-21:00
Blank Space presents its newest group exhibition Not the fucking help, an international group exhibition which focuses on art and design from countries typically relegated to the service industry, to show that these countries offer more than cheap labor, massages, and kebabs.
The year is 2018, and immigrants make up nearly ⅓ of Oslo's population. You'd think it would be less controversial to ask for representational programming in Norwegian exhibitions (outside of those who have been hired to clean the toilets and fix the walls in the gallery).
Welcome to an exhibition highlighting designers from countries whose primary reputation in the Norwegian eye is still relegated to construction, babysitting, massages, beauty salons, food industry, and textile work. We highlight work from Poland, Ukraine, Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan, Somalia, India, and Vietnam - but open our walls to anyone who feels misrepresented and even a little bit angry about being told, yet again, to be grateful to live in a land where we cannot use our cultivated skills, but should instead get a job at "I don't know, a sushi place or something".
These artists' only crime is being born in a country with a hard work ethic, and their passion burns as bright as anyone's. In an attempt to fight the public opinion of the usefulness (or uselessness) of immigrants, we shine as bright of a light as we can on the amazing design that comes from these countries. These artists are owed an actual opportunity in Norway - though not because they deserve any charity, but because they are fucking worth it.
We round off the exhibition with a series of discussions about immigration politics from the individual, corporate, and government level.
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Home > About > News > Albright Matching Challenge Raises Nearly $60,000 For Ambler Arboretum
Albright Matching Challenge Raises Nearly $60,000 For Ambler Arboretum
In early 2018, Temple University Ambler Alumnus and longtime campus and Ambler Arboretum supporter Philip Albright issued a challenge.
If faculty, students, staff and friends of the campus could raise $25,000 for the Ambler Arboretum by the end of the year, he'd match it dollar for dollar.
"My primary goal with the challenge was to bring greater attention to the Arboretum; to get people involved and invested in its future," said Albright, founding and current Chair of the Ambler Arboretum Advisory Committee and a former chair of the Ambler Campus Board of Visitors. "The Arboretum is very valuable teaching tool, a unique resource with so much to offer and so much potential."
Challenge met and surpassed by nearly $5,000!
Thanks to the response from donors invested in the future of the Ambler Arboretum, Temple Ambler reached Albright's goal in half the time. By the end of June, nearly $30,000 had been raised prompting Albright to donate a further $5,000. The challenge has now provided almost $60,000 to support Arboretum operations and programming.
"The response was immediate, enduring and well beyond our expectations! I think this challenge really got people excited about supporting the Arboretum — Phil's commitment to the campus inspired others to do the same," said Kathy Salisbury, Director of the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University. "We are very grateful for the decades of support Phil and his wife Barbara have given to the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University and the Ambler Campus."
Salisbury said the funding will help support general operations and community programming around the Ambler Arboretum.
"With this funding, we hope to focus on further developing and implementing excellent programming in addition to supporting the upkeep of the gardens," she said. "We hope to expand our monthly programs, engaging with schools to visit the Arboretum for classes, educational lectures on sustainable gardening and horticulture and more. Our goal is to create a cohesive and meaningful educational experience for visitors."
Over the decades since Albright first set foot on Temple University Ambler in 1986 to study Landscape Design, he and his wife Barbara have involved themselves in countless community organizations and charities, selflessly giving their time to brighten the lives of others and enhance the community in general.
"When other people see that there are individuals willing to do what they can to support the campus — and when they see the results of their efforts — hopefully it inspires them into action as well," said Albright. "I'm very pleased with how the challenge went and how many people we willing to lend their support."
The Albrights have generously contributed to the momentum that Temple Ambler has been experiencing throughout 2018, said Dr. Vicki Lewis McGarvery, Vice Provost for University College. It's up to the campus community to follow their lead, she said.
"Phil and Barbara have been champions of Temple Ambler for decades and we can't thank them enough for their support, generosity and Phil's leadership roles on our Board of Visitors and Ambler Arboretum Advisory Committee," she said. "The hard work of the Ambler faculty and staff and the incredible talents of our students has been noticed, as has the increased level of giving to support the campus. We look forward to keeping that momentum going!"


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More bad news, as a bike rider was killed crossing a street in Santa Ana.
According to the Orange County Register, the victim, who has not been publicly identified, was struck around 6:07 pm at the intersection of 17th and La Bonita Streets. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The New Santa Ana website reports he was north on La Bonita when he was hit by a pick-up; no word on which direction the truck was going.
The driver remained at the scene, and cited darkness as the reason he did not see the victim until it was too late. He was not suspected of being under the influence.
However, according to Google Maps, that address doesn't exist, although it appears to be the intersection of La Bonita and Westminster Ave, which becomes 17th east of the Santa Ana River.
Assuming that is the correct location, a satellite view shows an uncontrolled six lane street on Westminster, with a 45 mph speed limit and the sort of wide lanes that too often encourage speeding. There is a stop sign on La Bonita at Westminster.
There's no word on whether the victim had lights or reflectors on his bike. But there are street lights at the intersection, so the rider should have been visible if they were working. So the question becomes why the driver didn't see the victim before it was too late.
Anyone with information is urged to call Investigator Bao of the Santa Ana Police Department at 714/245-8214.
This is the eight bicycling collision in Southern California already this year, and second in Orange County. It's also the fifth in Santa Ana in just the last two years.
Update: The Register has identified the victim as 77-year old Huntington Beach resident Thuc Van Nguyen.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for Thuc Van Nguyen and his loved ones.
Thanks to Ed Ryder for the heads-up.


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Softball Hogs stun No. 2 Vols
FAYETTEVILLE � The No. 25 University of Arkansas softball team knocked off the No. 2 Tennessee Volunteers, 2-1, on Friday at Lee Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn.
Kimmy Beasley pitched a complete game and gave up one run on four hits for her eighth win of the season. The Foreman native struck out four batters and walked two.
The win for the Razorbacks broke a 19-game winning streak for the No. 2 Volunteers. This was also the ninth win over a ranked opponent for the Hogs this season.
�I am so proud of our team,� head coach Mike Larabee said. �Kimmy Beasley settled down and pitched a great ballgame. Two years ago we came here and got humiliated, I am so proud of how far this program has come in two years.�
Arkansas (31-17, 9-10) was led by Jayme Gee and Jennifer Rambo, who both notched RBIs during the game. Rambo finished the game 2-for-3 after hitting .700 last weekend against No. 17 Kentucky. Sierra Bronkey also had a single in the game to lead off the fifth inning.
�Sierra Bronkey, Jennifer Rambo and Jayme Gee came up huge,� Larabee said. �We kept putting the ball in play and it manufactured runs.�
Devon Wallace finished the game 1 for 3 and drew an intentional walk. Her 65th walk of the season puts her one walk behind the SEC single-season record of 66. Wallace also grabbed a line-drive out of the air in the bottom of the sixth inning to kill a Tennessee rally.
�How about Devon Wallace?� Larabee said. �She had four quality at-bats tonight. She also played an excellent first base, which she has all season.�


This is what he told; we cut somewhere a few words and phrases. We cut also long periods regarding "science" items in order to balance the interview and have the same focused on comic books and Neal Adams career. Anyway you can find the complete interview at the following links in our You Tube page. In the video you will be able to understand how Neal Adams is also a great performer and entertainer.
You are saying I am The Beatles of the comics? That's good. I am The Beatles of comics. All four.
Well, me and Ringo, we are like that (he links his fingers).
I read a few interview of yours and I re-read a few comic books of yours before coming here. I did my homeworks and I feel that the "red line" that pass across your life is "passion". First passion is the one you have for comic books.
Actually I did it even in the beginning. I did Superman Vs Mohamed Ali, I did most of the Deadman stories I drew, I did the Ben Casey stories when I was a teenager and I did advertising comics. I wrote advertising comic books and advertising material. I am actually very experienced in writing.
Did they at DC at that time just asked you to draw?
Although I worked in advertising for years, advertising isn't as regular as comics, as job. You can do an advertising job and don't have another one for two or three weeks. What is good about comic books is that they fill in the time; there was always job on my desk so if I did advertising which paid me maybe four or five times much money… so what happened was that when I finished an advertising job I would have picked a comic book job so I would have a continued income… I was raising a family, I had five kids, I have grandchildren now.
And so, in a time when artist were paid so poorly they had to scratch for living and do other works I did well. I've been done well all my life. Since I was in High School because I was never an artist in the sense that I would sacrifice for art. I was practical.
You said that after a few years you arrived at DC you were able to choose the jobs..
Well, was interesting that Stan Lee was asking what I wanted to do and he said I can do anything. Obviously you have artist that were working on different titles and he said "No, no, you can do any book you want" and I said "Wooo… why you are saying that Stan" and it seems a kind of brutal but he said "Well, to be perfectly honest Deadman is the only (DC, drawn by Adams at that time – ndr) book at Marvel that we read" (-Neal Adams was drawing the title). Pretty much he was going to let me do anything… and he turned up very well for Marvel we have to say because after those 10 books (X-Men nn.56 to 65 -ndr) we created the legend of the X-Men that is going on to today.
You told me that you loved comics at the beginning of your career because you liked storytelling. What about now?
Yes, I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories in interviews, I love to tell stories in classrooms, I love to tell stories in conversations, and I love to tell stories on paper. I think that that's what mankind is. I mean one of the thing that I find interesting is that so few people like to study History, and History has great stories… in fact if you would study filmmaking outside of the dramatic family-friend oriented movies or television shows or the super-hero genre you have historical novels, stories and television shows and movies… Alexander the Great, all these stories that make up the bulk of our literature so it's not just me that likes to tell stories. We all like to tell stories and to view stories. Frank Millers's 300 is a retelling of famous story… All artists like to tell stories and the sad thing is that now until the comic book we have been kept very much away from telling stories. The idea of painting a painting and putting on canvas, putting a frame on and putting on somebody's wall to me is a total waste of an artist time and effort. I mean, we were meant to communicate so we have gone through this process historically painting on walls of caves to tell a story to doing frescos and tile pictures that tell stories in our own homes to painting on walls and telling stories in Egypt or Mesopotamia, wherever… Telling stories was in fact what you were reading. What you were reading is somebody images are words, somebody images are pictures; essentially you are reading a comic book. It's a strip.
You read a little pictogram and than you see the pictures of the man and his wife and whatever… essentially is not a series of drawing, it's a series of storytelling. He wasn't until the dark ages, until we went into this crushing religious oppression for a thousand years that we essentially destroyed the storytelling. Well, in ancient Greece, in Rome, stories would be on vases… and so we were storytelling people until the dark ages and when art came out of that time. Suddenly it turned to wall decorations; rich people were paying people to make wall decorations and make statues for the religious and paint ceilings and that is all that artists were able to do… We not only went into a dark ages of culture, we went through a dark ages of art. And all those things you see into Museum are the very small attempts to bring art back to the only path whatever available. That was not what artists should be doing and really was an awful time. I try to imagine myself living in Rembrandt's time where turning somebody's face away from the front of the painting could loose me the commission and in fact even when I try to faces to the front what was I doing? Painting somebody face. Biiig deal. Really, really big deal.
So we are now living in the true Renaissance. This is the true Renaissance, not that. That is the birthing of art again but this is the Renaissance.
Well, what were they doing? It's like, look at the Mona Lisa… I understand how somebody tries to make something out of the Mona Lisa but it is a boring piece of crap. Who gives a crap? I mean, no, I don't see a smile on that face I am sorry… We try to make something out of it but is only crap. I am not the kind of person that is usually impressed by crap. I don't know why.
If you teach the lessons than the lessons hold. I mean, if the lessons are good they work for all time.
That's why your 70's comic books are still used as "books" in comic book schools.
Well, and that's why they have been reprinted and they are keeping reprinting all the time. And they are raising the price. It is printed and printed again because it is a lasting document. And you have to understand that I started learning my lessons at a very young age and I was pretty much a sponge to learn from other people. You know, people have ego and everyone has ego and my ego in some way was terrible and wanted to express himself. But when I ran into information and views that were different than mine I was nothing but a spunch. My ego just went out of the windows. And all I was interested was earring other people opinions and views and how to do things and I just wanted to find out why people did things. For me it was a fu**ing wonderful life of learning and finding things out. And it happens also now. I've had a meeting with my family and we are discussing what we gonna do in the next convention and I learned more than what I was able to express because they had observation that I have not seen so now I'm learning from them. I don't have a big ego, really.
You feel yourself more responsible in what you do and say now since your "icon" status?
No. Screw. Couldn't care less. My responsibility is to myself. And to the work that I do. And I assume that anybody who is an artist has the same responsibility. We all share that sense of trying to impress people with the works that we do and hoping that people will be effected by it because that's why we do it. Once that happens than you move to something else. Well, I did Batman Odyssey and a lot of people criticize it but in the end I was very very happy. When it happens I ask them if they just read what has been told in internet and I ask if they read the 13rd chapter. How could you have a negative view without reading the last chapter. You understand what I mean?
In comic books I attempt to do new things all the time. I told that I was going to write a book that has 12 chapters (than became 13); you are not gonna know what the book is until you read all 12 chapters. It is not a series of stories. It is like Ulysses. They said I don't understand the first book… It was a book in 13 chapters. That's the way it will be looked at in the future because will get the heads together and they they will find the 13rd chapter and they will say Oh My God I have to go back to the first chapter because all the stuff was there to get to the thirteen chapter… We talked about hydrogen power, we talked about a person approach to life and death. All these things and major, major issues and all you were doing it was reading a comic book. Well there is a moment you have to wake up.
The point is that his moral background was based on the concept that he would sacrifice everything not to destroy his own and that was the plan of this creature that was to take the greatest good on earth which at that time was The Spectre, corrupt him and then destroy the world through corruption. To me that was a kind of comic book worth reading. That's a moral lesson and I think in many ways that the end lesson of values is what I do with Batman. You know Batman at the 13rd issue seems to kill the character but he doesn't. He actually gives him some new life and Robin who doubted him at a certain point… and Batman said "show biz, kid, just show biz…." and of course he said "I told you; I will never kill anybody. Do you think that if I give you my word I am gonna go back on it? Never. So he went through this whole process to come to the same place. Good story, good idea. I liked that.


Interesting article over on Billboard this week about how Janet Jackson is starting her "Rock With U" tour, even with her label deal in jeopardy at Island Def Jam. It really brings up some interesting questions about how an artist like Janet positions herself in the music marketplace going forward, with the model changing almost daily.
…which is why the whole Discipline fiasco is so frustrating to me. This one jumped AHEAD of the curve in some respects, or at the very least, was running parallel to current trends. The synths on "Luv", the percolating beat that drives "Rock With U", and the futuristic, vocoder-ish "Feedback"…on paper it should be a winner, and yet it didn't connect.
In watching it all go down, I think there are two issues here. First off, I blame radio for not hopping on an obvious hit with "Feedback". When Discipline was released, the individual sales of "Feedback" sent the track racing back up the Hot 100, showing that there was some demand for this track in the marketplace. The song started to move back up some playlists a bit, but the scattered response to the track had already doomed any impact that the song would make on the charts. With one failure under her belt, the album had "flop" written all over it, and the second singles ("Rock With U" for pop, "Luv" for R&B) became non-starters.
Flash forward a couple of months later, and Janet made comments that reveal culprit number two. Janet talked about not knowing what was going on with her label, and that fans would probably not get a third single off the record. For a label releasing the first album of an established artist, it really seems like internal forces put the brakes on promotion a bit prematurely. Granted, Janet's not going to sell records like she did in the early 90s, but there's got to be some effort there. The record was her best-reviewed work in years, and (once again noting my bias) it definitely deserved a better promotion than it got. If anything, the promotion Janet got should make Kylie Minogue fans feel better about how her record was promoted. Not that I'm justifying it.
So how does Janet take a career that's clearly on the decline and at least minimize the damage, if not reverse it? First off, she needs to do everything under the sun to fill every seat at every show of this tour. You'll notice that she's playing more second-tier cities this time around (NYC JUST was added to the itinerary a week ago or so). That will show that she still has the fan base to support her career going forward. Next, when IDJ releases her from contractual obligations (and you KNOW they will), Janet needs to negotiate a contract where the label invests in the promotion first, and she gets paid on the results. Seriously…is the girl hurtin' for money? This has to be an "I give, you give" type of scenario. Plan B would be for her to attempt a Prince-like alternative for distributing new music, and finding ways to tie in releases, tours and merchandise into a self-perpetuating circle that will keep her fans happy long-term.
There. Problem solved. I'll just sit here now wait for her handlers to come pick me up in the limo. While I'm waiting, though…any other ideas for what Janet needs to do from here?
I don't understand why her label stopped promoting Discipline. I know they cite disappointing sales but look at Mariah's latest. It's also been disappointing sales wise but they're still releasing singles. I'm That Chick is now the 4th single in a short period of time since the album's original release as singles 2 & 3 failed to ignite further interest in her release.
I think what it comes down to is that Janet really needs a new record label not willing to give up on her so soon.
I think that Janet, unfortunately, is on a downward slope. All 4 U was a MASSIVE record, full of hits… she hasn't had one like it since. I hope she can pull and upswing with the next one; if she is allowed one.
Joe, I've got no idea. You would think that their first shot at a new artist would happen with guns blazing. Her boyfriend was in charge over there, wasn't he? It makes no sense.
Duane, I couldn't agree more, but I think she got a little too self-indulgent, which lead to that slide. She'll put out another record, but whether it's on a major or not remains to be seen.
I bet she gets another shot. She IS Janet Jackson after all!
I do put it down to the music too, though. I think Janet has not consistently given people what they want from her. I also think she has ignored valid criticism of her music. She should listen and learn! I firmly believe if Janet upped the artistry and did a song that was catchy but about something relevant to our lives (with a compelling video to match), everyone would sit up again.
Agreed, XO. I was just talking with a friend about this tonight, and we both thought she should come up with something more aligned with "Velvet Rope". Still pop, but with a bit more substance behind it. Besides, if Mimi can "recover", so can Janet.


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            element :wiki_content_textarea
            element :wiki_message_textbox
            element :save_changes_button
            element :create_page_button
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Q: Is there a GIS "Hello World" Equivalent? Is there the equivalent of the "Hello World" program for GIS applications?
I am looking to become more familiar with the development of GIS applications.  What are the popular (and free/low cost) tutorials and/or sample applications that would help someone get started?  Are there any books that you would consider essential for beginner GIS developers?

A: Perhaps these books from Pragmatic Programmers could help you:
Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools

(source: pragprog.com)
GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications

(source: pragprog.com)

A: Let's give it a try:
Polylines:
(   0, 100), ( 0,     0), (   0,  50), (  80,  50), (  80,   0), (  80, 100)
( 180, 100), ( 100, 100), ( 100,  50), ( 140,  50), ( 100,  50), ( 100,   0), ( 180,   0)
( 200, 100), ( 200,   0), ( 280,   0)
( 300, 100), ( 300,   0), ( 380,   0)
( 400,  50), ( 440, 100), ( 480,  50), ( 440,   0), ( 400,  50)
( 600, 100), ( 620,   0), ( 640,  50), ( 660,   0), ( 680, 100)
( 700,  50), ( 740, 100), ( 780,  50), ( 740,   0), ( 700,  50)
( 800,   0), ( 800, 100), ( 880,  75), ( 800,  50), ( 880,   0)
( 900, 100), ( 900,   0), ( 980,   0)
(1000,   0), (1000, 100), (1080,  50), (1000,   0)

A: If your company has ESRI software I'd recommend getting ArcMap, opening up the VBA editor and copying and pasting a few simple code samples from the help files.
If you don't have desktop software try out http://openlayers.org/ the open source equivalent of Google Maps. It has a nice API and samples.
I'd say the equivalent of "Hello World" in GIS is clicking on a map and popping up a message box with the latitude and longtitude of the click.

A: You could start with some basic desktop mapping software like uDig or Quantum GIS. And download some Shape files.
From there you might want to take a look at PostGIS. For web development start with MapServer and OpenLayers.
Would also be worth taking a look at the book Mapping Hacks.

A: Are you interesting in desktop based GIS development or web based?
ESRI is the leader in this space.  www.esri.com  poke around on their site.
The Resources section of the website has lots of information.  You can play around with the JavaScript API on the site and use data that they host to play with.  There are several getting started sections and walk throughs here.
http://resources.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm
Here is a link to the JavaScript API resource site
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/apis/javascript/arcgis/index.cfm?fa=home
You can download ArcExplorer and work with that.  I think it is customizable. You can view shapefiles and geodatabases with it.
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisexplorer/900/index.cfm?fa=home

A: Rectangular <-> geographic coordinate transformation
I feel like sooner or later every generalist GIS developer has to do project coordinates on their own, for whatever reason. Given a latitude, longitude pair and a bitmap image representing the surface of the Earth (or a part of it), locate the geographic coordinates in the image - or vice-versa, get the geographic coordinates for a particular pixel in the image. The Lambert cylindrical projection is probably the easiest place to start, since the math is comparatively simple and equal-area projections are all the rage these days, but the spherical Mercator projection is not much harder and still in common use, especially on the web.
After this you can go in many different directions - some projections involve more complex math, or you can keep using simpler mathematical models but complicate the shape of the Earth (It's an ellipsoid! No, it's a potato!), affine and perspective transformations, or all sorts of other great stuff. But ultimately, GIS is about coordinates, and you often have to make different coordinates talk to each other, so I think that's a good place to start.

A: ESRI Their tools are definitely not cheap, but they are widely used.  They do have good learning resources and tutorial materials, although many do assume you already have their products.

A: You should surely start with QuantumGis (QGIS). It's open source, relatively fast and simple to use. Download any shapefile from web, make sure you can interpret it yourself (for example shapefile with boundaries of European countries). Think what can you do with the data, or what you want to do. Then I suggest you take some basic Python (GDAL, Shapely, Fiona) tutorials and in the end conclude it with POSTGis and MapServer. I'm not saying you should learn it all in one day, one month or one year, take your time and make sure you understand everything. I'm suggesting the stuff like that cause that's how I started and it worked.

A: Try out http://code.google.com/p/tf-net/ (Topology Framework .NET) and browse through the introductory topics. Though it's .NET oriented, it may give you a glimpse into basic GIS tasks:

*

*Spatial predicates (based on the DE-9IM model)

*Overlay functions (intersection, difference, union, symmetric difference)

*Buffer

*Convex hull

*Area and distance functions

*Topological validity checking

*Coordinate systems manipulation (transformations)

*Topological graphs manipulation

*Generic geometry I/O support: WKT, WKB, GML, SHP
...

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This program covers the important topic of Gauss' Law with Planar Symmetry in Physics. We begin by discussing when Planar Symmetry can be applied to Gauss' Law problems to make them easier to solve. The entire lesson is taught by working example problems beginning with the easier ones and gradually progressing to harder problems. Emphasis is placed on giving students confidence in their skills by gradual repetition so that the skills learned in this section are committed to long term memory.