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Week 111: Lord's and Australia
December 12, 2018 Ben Geytenbeek
The notable feature at the start of the week was attending my first Darwin College Students Association General Meeting. I attended to ensure that the cricket club would get funding for next season, and the meeting needed a quorum of 70(!) students to approve motions including the budget. The meeting was run in a really formalised and structured manner, which kind of resembled a House of Commons debate, with motions and people speaking to or against a given motion. It began uncontroversially, with unanimous support for a few motions put forward by the Executive Committee for the general operation of business. But the meeting quickly devolved into a deep and somewhat divisive debate on whether the college should change the signs on the toilets from "male" and "female" to "cubicles and urinals" and "cubicles only". The discussion lasted almost 90 minutes, with a few outspoken individuals arguing instead that it should be "male/non-binary" and "female/non-binary" which kind of missed the point. I kept exchanging glances with Julia who agreed with me that the discussion was going nowhere. Then someone pointed out that the student committee didn't actually have the power to change the signs, and it needed to be brought up at the college level. Frustrated, it eventually made it to a vote, passing overwhelmingly, with only a few dissenters. After several hours of sitting and waiting, the budget for all the clubs and societies eventually passed.
The Wednesday before leaving to go to Australia, I had a special trip planned. I had arranged with someone that I knew through the Cambridge Real Tennis club to be an MCC member to visit Lord's Cricket Ground. Jacqueline decided to come along too, and we would go to a concert in the evening. So after a little work in the morning and the early morning tennis practice, we headed to the train station and boarded a train to London Liverpool Street. Everything was going fine until, at Stansted Mountfitchet, our train pulled to a halt and the driver came onto the PA and announced that he had lost power to the train, and there was likely a fault with the overhead wires. We waited for an hour without moving, the driver continuing to be apologetic as he waited for the maintenance crews to find the fault. But we were running out of time to get to Lord's. It eventually came to a point where we figured that there was no way we could get there in time, so we had to order an Uber to take us into town. Fortunately, we were near Stansted Airport, so it didn't take too long before one arrived.
Our driver was very nice and took us all the way to the cricket ground, but we were over 25 minutes late. I raced inside to get changed and met Joe, who had been hitting around with one of the other MCC members. Lord's Cricket Ground has a real tennis court in the building directly behind the main pavilion, and is set aside for use of MCC members. Consequentially, the off-court facilities were some of the nicest I've seen, with the option for an ice bath in the change room, and a television that would play coverage of the cricket outside in there as well. They had a nice lounge area with a real tennis themed carpet. We only managed to get one set in, and I found the court incredibly dimly lit, but played somewhat similarly to the court in Cambridge.
After the match, Joe took us in to see the Long Room at Lord's, one of the most famous rooms in the world of cricket, with fantastic views out onto the hallowed turf. We then walked around the ground having a look at the views, including out to the Nursery ground and looking up at the media centre. We went by the gift shop, before farewelling Joe and heading off towards Covent Garden for some Christmas shopping. Jacqueline went to find food, and I raced off to hit up some speciality shops in Seven Dials, before meeting Jacqueline at her restaurant.
After food, we walked across the Hungerford Bridges to the Southbank Centre. Jacqueline had booked tickets to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who were performing a series of modern classical music for string quartet and chamber orchestra. The notable feature of the performance was when fourteen trumpeters lined the choir stalls to play the intro and conclusion to one of the pieces. Day done, we headed back to Cambridge for my last night before heading home.
On Thursday evening, I headed out to Stansted for a week-and-a-bit long trip to Australia, namely for Josh and Raquel's wedding. Now that Emirates flies direct from Stansted, it makes it more convenient than flying from Heathrow. However, the one flight a day from Stansted only has a good connection with the one flight a day from Adelaide on the return leg. So I had opted to spend a day in Melbourne instead of a day in Dubai.
Consequently, I had a relatively quick layover in Dubai, where I grabbed some food and headed onwards. A few movies and a scratch of sleep later, I had landed in Melbourne. I could have taken the Skybus into the centre of Melbourne, but the Skybus is expensive, so I opted instead for an alternate route on the public busses. Rather than the extensive advertising and multiple bus stands at the front of the terminal, the public bus stop is a non descript bay at the far end of the new multi-storey car park. Nonetheless, I found it, and went to Broadmeadows where I caught a train to the centre of Melbourne. I changed trains and got out at Jolimont, were I immediately found a bakery to get some food for both breakfast and lunch, before wandering down to the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club. I had booked three hours of tennis in Melbourne, across both of their two real tennis courts, and I met their pro who showed me into their facilities. Over the next four hours, I played three matches, winning one, losing one and drawing one. I even got a few tips and pointers from one of their pros, who came on court with me to rally for a while. Melbourne does have a great facility and I hope to return in the near future.
Tennis over, I caught the train back to Broadmeadows and the bus to the airport. It was strangely quiet, but I found my flight across to Adelaide, where I met up with Mum who had come to pick me up, and we drove home and I was able to catch up with everyone once again.
Despite the jet lag, Mum, Dad and I headed out the next day to pick up Nana and head to the beach. It was one of the warmest days of my visit, well over thirty degrees, and I wanted to make the most of it. We drove down to Henley beach, with a car full of four of us and a dog. Dad took Nana for a walk along the Esplanade in her wheelchair, whereas Mum and I took the scooters and the dog. Initially, the dog was happy to pull me and the scooter along, but she eventually got tired and I had to push myself. We made it all the way to Grange before turning around and heading back to a cafe for some coffee with Nana. Afterwards, I went down onto the sand with the dog and played around in the water a bit, before heading back for the car and a long drive home. That evening, Dad took me around to the neighbours place to play around on the tractor and help him set up the neighbour's new cattle yards. They were portable yards, but we were setting them up in a permanent fashion. They were also the yards that Dad had modelled his own on, so the shapes and structures in the yard were strangely familiar. We finished and got it into a decent shape, but Dad would want to readjust them later on.
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The challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military, but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly independent French resistance groups known collectively as the maquis. The Allies' objective was to push the Germans out of France. The French objective, on the other hand, was a France free of all foreign armies, including the Allies. President Roosevelt refused to give full support to Charles de Gaulle, whom he mistrusted, and declined to supply the timing, location, and other key details of Operation Overlord to his Free French government. Eisenhower's hands were tied. He needed to involve the French, but without simultaneously involving them in operational planning.
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Great detail. As an academic study it's excellent.
This book may not be what you are looking for, but if you want solid, factual information with decent analysis regarding the workings and effectiveness (in some cases ineffectiveness) of the French Resistance fighters (guerillas) and Allied special forces (Jedburghs) then read this book. The author provides complete notation of sources on the Kindle version and the audio book is well read.
Interesting account with some fascinating insights. Although it also contains several basic factual errors and lazy assumptions (e.g. British Broadcasting Company'). It was also a great pity that the narrator could not pronounce German, French or Dutch, which is a rather unforgivable oversight on the part of the publisher.


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Joan Colby's poems "Black Stallion" and "Feud" appear in Midwestern Gothic Issue 4, out now.
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Localism in Hong Kong: Its origins, development and prospect
Yiu Chung WONG*
The paper firstly aims to analyse the changing political landscape after the Legislative Council election in September 201 7. Secondly, the social political context in which localism emerged is delineated. An analysis of the rise of the politics of democratization and identities in the post-Handover Hong Kong is provided. The policies of "One Country, Two Systems" (1 C2S), initiated by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to resolve the sovereignty issue of 1997 are discussed. It is argued that in the implementation of the 1 C2S since the Handover in 1997, the Chinese party/state has shifted from non-interventionism to pervasive integration, which violates its pledges of "fifty years unchanged". The Basic Law is arbitrarily interpreted to suit political expediency. Its Leninist absorption of Hong Kong into Chinese authoritarianism has directly triggered the rise of localism in the younger generation. The paper also explores the two theoretical discourses of the "independence" and "self-determination" narratives in contemporary Hong Kong and finally the prospect of the "independence" movement is examined.
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations
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WONG, Y. C. (2017). Localism in Hong Kong: Its origins, development and prospect. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations, 3(2), 617-655.
WONG, Yiu Chung. / Localism in Hong Kong : Its origins, development and prospect. In: Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations. 2017 ; Vol. 3, No. 2. pp. 617-655.
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Q: How to find OS Architecture using batch with only numberic output? I am running following command,
@echo off
cls
wmic os get osarchitecture > win.txt
for /f "skip=1" %%G IN (win.txt) do echo %%G
pause>nul

Actual output am getting is,
Echo is off

Expected output,
64

or
32

depends on user architecture..
in win.txt am getting output,
OSArchitecture
64-bit

But in cmd window it shows blank echo is off donno why ! please fix my code. i need only 64 or 32 in output.

A: I need only 64 or 32 in output.
Use the following batch file (GetBits.cmd):
@echo off
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
rem use findstr to strip blank lines
for /f "usebackq skip=1 tokens=*" %%i in (`wmic OS get OSArchitecture ^| findstr /r /v "^$"`) do (
  set "_bits=%%i"
  rem extract first 2 characters
  set "_bits=!_bits:~0,2!"
  echo !_bits!
  )
endlocal

Example output:
F:\test>GetBits.cmd
64

F:\test>

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A: Here's a 1 liner that works:
IF EXIST %windir%\syswow64 ( ECHO 64 ) ELSE ( ECHO 32 )

A: Use this:
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cls
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pause >nul

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How Much CR is Enough? Or - What's Lost in (Rodent) Translation?
All, It has been thought that CR lifespan benefits are likely to linearly increase with degree of CR, up to very severe CR, based on rodent data like the famous Weindruch study [2], data from which is highlighted on the CR Society home page, and reproduced in this graph: As you can see, compared with ad-lib fed mice, 25% CR provided some benefits. But severe CR, where mice ate 55% or even 65% less food than the AL group, lived much longer than the 25% restricted group. And note that this benefit was seen across the board. No sign of early mortality in the severely restricted mice - the survival curves for the 55% & 65% CR mice are completely to the right of the 25% CR mice survival curve, which in turn is completely right of the AL mice survival curve. From this it looks like the more CR the better. But the recent NIA/Wisconsin monkey data doesn't look so cut and dried. In fact, one plausible interpretation of the NIA monkey results (as we've discussed elsewhere, e.g. here), is that if eating a healthy diet, restricting calories beyond that required to avoid obesity doesn't provide additional longevity benefits. So how much CR is required to garner the benefits? Perhaps this new rodent study [1] sheds some light on the topic, as far as rodent studies can be extrapolated to humans (more on that below). What they did was restrict the calories of a common strain of rats (F344 - all male) in two groups - 10% and 40% restriction relative to AL-fed controls. Then they let them all live out their natural lifespan to see how longevity and causes of death compared between the 3 groups (AL, CR25, CR40). Here are the two important graphs and the most important table from the paper, illustrating the main lifespan results, image originally from this analysis of the study on crvitality.com, red annotations are mine. As you can see from the survival curves and Table 1, both the CR10 and CR40 groups had mean longevity that was significantly longer than the AL group, but they did not significantly differ from each other, at 796 days for AL, 918 days for CR10 and 947 days for CR40. One way to look at this result is that on average, restricting enough to avoid obesity (i.e. CR10), resulted in a 15% increase in mean lifespan. Bumping it up to severe restriction (CR40) bought the rats an additional (non-significant) 4% of mean lifespan relative to obesity-avoiding 10% CR (15% vs. 19% increased lifespan, respectively). That seems like a pretty modest (if any - given its non-significance) lifespan gain for a lot more severe restriction. On the other hand, the longest lived 10% of the CR40 rats did indeed significantly outlive the CR10 rats, as can be seen from both the graph on the left above, and from the longevity table. Quantitatively, the longest lived 10% of the CR10 rats enjoyed a 37% longer life than the average AL rat, while the longest lived 10% of the CR40 rats enjoyed a 54% longer life than the average AL rat, a gain of 17% in lifespan from CR10 to CR40. That sounds pretty good, as long as you are one of the lucky, few longest-lived CR40 rats. From the survival graph, it looks like it was only the top ~20% of CR40 rats that enjoyed any longevity benefits relative to the CR10 rats, and it looks like this was almost (but perhaps not quite) fully counterbalanced by the bottom 20% of the CR40 rats dying before the CR10 rats (see red annotations on graph above for places where CR40 had an advantage and a disadvantage for lifespan relative to CR10). The Gompertz graph on the right above shows that rate of aging in the CR40 group appeared to be slowed relative to the other two groups, which didn't appear to differ from each other. In short, if you're lucky (and the rat data in [1] translates to humans - see below), this data suggests that going for severe CR might gain you an extra ~14 years relative to obesity avoiding mild CR. But if you're unlucky, severe CR might kill you off early by almost an equivalent amount. If you are average (mean or median), you can expect to do about the same in terms of lifespan with either mild CR (i.e. enough to avoid obesity) or severe CR. But wait a minute - one thing Michael always cautions about is the need to make sure the animal husbandry in a study is good, and the strain being used isn't one of those f**cked up ones that dies early, or is particularly fragile and therefore not a good candidate for CR research. From [3] (and from memory), it is apparent that the F344 strain of rats is one that is commonly used in CR research. Below is the mortality curves for F344 rats fed AL or 40% CR diets from [3]. The mortality curve for the AL-M (ad lib fed male) group looks about the same in [3] as in study we've been looking at [1], with median lifespan around 800 days and max around 1000 days. But if anything the 40% CR group of F344 (male) rats looks better in [1] than in [3] below - where (eyeballing it) the median lifespan looks to be around 900 days (vs. nearly 1000 in [1]) and max is around 1150 days (vs. 1400 in [1]). Note also that unlike in the mortality curves above from [1], the mortality curve for the 40% CR rats from [3] spends time below the AL curve from around 400 to 600 days (see red annotations below), representing early mortality in the CR rats, likely due to the stress of severe CR. So it doesn't look like there was any problem with strain or husbandry in [1] that might invalidate its results. In fact, based on the results of [3], it would seem that [1] may be overestimating the (max) longevity upside of severe CR, and underestimating the early mortality risk of severe CR, making severe CR in [1] seem like a better deal relative to a milder, obesity-avoiding level of CR that it actually may be. Unfortunately 10% CR wasn't tested in [3] - only AL and CR40. The author's of [1] seemed surprised by the modest benefits of severe CR40 relative to mild, obesity-avoiding CR10, saying: The data from this study clearly demonstrate that a 10% restriction of food significantly increases the lifespan of male F344 rats and, surprisingly, that the increase in lifespan is comparable to what was observed for rats that were restricted 40%. These data were surprising because of the general view that increasing the level of DR up to 40% would result in a continuous increase in lifespan, as reported by Weindruch et al.[2] for female C3B10RF1 mice in which a significant increase (over 20%) in the mean survival occurred between approximately 25% and 55% DR. ... These data in combination with the data from Duffy et al.,[4] which reported that feeding rats 10% and 25% DR was as effective as 40% DR in reducing the early mortality of male Sprague–Dawley rats, demonstrate that the lifespan of certain strains of rats and mice does not increase linearly up to 40% DR. Most of the extension of lifespan appears to be achieved by levels of DR much lower than 40% DR. But what about translatability of such rodent data to humans? - a topic currently under discussion over on this thread, where just last night Michael said: So how good a model of human aging is the natural aging of these critters? Not very good it seems to me, if this study is typical of rodent causes of death (which I think it is), based on this table from the full text: As you can see from the table above, like most rodents, a clear majority died from various forms of cancer, with leukemia being by far the most common single cause. As we all know (and which is graphically illustrated here) cardiovascular disease in its various forms is the #1 killer of humans (at least in the US and other developed nations) - cancer only accounts for 23% of human death. Further, leukemia is only the 6th most common cancer killer in people, accounts for only 5% of all cancer deaths and only ~1% of all causes of death in the US. Based on this cause-of-death mismatch, these leukemia-prone rats, and cancer-prone rodents in general, don't seem like a very good model of the "diseases of aging" that kill people. As a corollary, the fact that CR40 significantly reduced leukemia deaths relative to CR10 in [1] seems unlikely to "move the bar" for human longevity, even if these results would translate directly to people. So the takeaway message from this one seems to be that even CR rodent results, which have always been the best data we have to support large additional lifespan benefits of 'serious' CR relative to simply avoiding obesity, may be open to question both in terms of the magnitude of the benefit, and their translatability to humans. Michael, if I'm missing something I'm sure I'll hear from you. --Dean ------- [1] Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2015 Dec 22. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12982. [Epub ahead of print] Significant life extension by ten percent dietary restriction. Richardson A(1,)(2), Austad SN(3), Ikeno Y(4), Unnikrishnan A(1), McCarter RJ(5). Free full text: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12982/epdf Although it is well documented that dietary restriction (DR) increases the life span of rodents and other animals, this increase is observed at relatively high levels of DR, in which rodents are typically fed 40% less than that consumed by rodents fed ad libitum. It is generally assumed that lower levels of DR will have a lesser impact on life span; however, there are very little published data on the effect of low levels of DR on life span. In this study, we show that 10% DR increased life span to almost the same extent as 40% DR. While both 10% and 40% DR resulted in similar changes in non-neoplastic lesions, 10% DR had no significant effect on the incidence of neoplasia (except for pituitary adenoma), and 40% DR resulted in a significant reduction (40%) in neoplasia. These data clearly demonstrate that the life span of F344 rats does not increase linearly with the level of DR; rather, even a low level of DR can substantially affect life span. This rodent study has important translational implications because it suggests that a modest reduction in calories might have significant health benefits for humans. PMID: 26695614 --------- [2] Weindruch R, et al. (1986). "The retardation of aging in mice by dietary restriction: longevity, cancer, immunity and lifetime energy intake." Journal of Nutrition, April, 116(4), pages 641-54. --------- [3] J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 1999 Nov;54(11):B492-501. Growth curves and survival characteristics of the animals used in the Biomarkers of Aging Program. Turturro A(1), Witt WW, Lewis S, Hass BS, Lipman RD, Hart RW. PMID: 10619312 The collaborative Interagency Agreement between the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) was aimed at identifying and validating a panel of biomarkers of aging in rodents in order to rapidly test the efficacy and safety of interventions designed to slow aging. Another aim was to provide a basis for developing biomarkers of aging in humans, using the assumption that biomarkers that were useful across different genotypes and species were sensitive to fundamental processes that would extrapolate to humans. Caloric restriction (CR), the only intervention that consistently extends both mean and maximal life span in a variety of species, was used to provide a model with extended life span. C57BI/6NNia, DBA/2JNia, B6D2F1, and B6C3F1 mice and Brown Norway (BN/RijNia), Fischer (F344/NNia) and Fischer x Brown Norway hybrid (F344 x BN F1) rats were bred and maintained on study. NCTR generated data from over 60,000 individually housed animals of the seven different genotypes and both sexes, approximately half ad libitum (AL) fed, the remainder CR. Approximately half the animals were shipped to offsite NIA investigators internationally, with the majority of the remainder maintained at NCTR until they died. The collaboration supplied a choice of healthy, long-lived rodent models to investigators, while allowing for the development of some of the most definitive information on life span, food consumption, and growth characteristics in these genotypes under diverse feeding paradigms. ------------ [4] Duffy, P.H., J.E. Seng, S.M. Lewis, et al. 2001. The effects of different levels of dietary restriction on aging and survival in the Sprague–Dawley rat: implications for chronic studies. Aging Clin. Exp. Res. 13: 263–272.
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Правые () — фискально-консервативная  политическая партия в Эстонии.

История
Партия была сформирована в августе 2022 года в результате раскола в партии «Отечество».

Партия получила единственное место в Рийгикогу в сентябре 2022 года, когда исключённый из «Отечества» депутат Сийм Валмар Кийслер присоединился к ней. По результатам парламентских выборов 2023 года партия стала внепарламентской, получив 2.3% голосов избирателей и не преодолев избирательный барьер.

Идеология
«Правые» — это правоцентристская партия. Их лидеры неоднократно заявляли о поддержке дальнейшего членства Эстонии в Европейском Союзе и его едином рынке. Кроме того, они заявляют, что выступают против «бюрократии», «популизма» и того, что они считают «левым поворотом» в эстонской политике. В своей программе они призывают к большей приватизации и конкуренции в сфере здравоохранения, а также к финансовой ответственности и снижению налогов в целом. Они поддерживают иммиграцию, заявляя, что «консервативная политика не состоит в отказе от иммиграции», но заявляя, что ею следует управлять «исходя из интересов экономики и безопасности Эстонии». Также они намерены ограничить «государственный сбор данных о частной жизни людей» и отменить минимальный размер оплаты труда.

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Политические партии, основанные в 2022 году
Политические партии Эстонии

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The City Lost and Found Film Series
Select Tuesday evenings beginning February 2015
6:00pm / Betts Auditorium / School of Architecture
The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities has partnered with the Princeton University Art Museum and the Program in Urban Studies to offer a film series that will address themes featured in the exhibition The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980. Each screening will be followed by a faculty-led discussion.
Feb 3 / PORTRAITS OF HARLEM
Cool World was the first commercial film venture to be shot on location in Harlem and one of director Shirley Clarke's few mainstream projects. Hampton Clayton plays Duke, a powerful street gang member who claims that he is motivated by the Black Muslim movement. His subsequent criminal activities are thus not merely for gain, but as a means to declare black supremacy over the white establishment. (The New York Times)
Cool World will screen with Diary of a Harlem Family (1968) a short film based on Gordon Parks' iconic photo essay of Harlem
Discussant:
Josh Guild, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies
Feb 17 / CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL
O som ao redor "Neighboring Sounds" (2013) in Portuguese with English subtitles
Now, not a lot officially happens in Neighboring Sounds, which doesn't so much give you a plot as offer a cross-section of the lives — and the sounds — in this neighborhood in Recife, Brazil. But rest assured, the movie isn't some sociological treatise hammering away at some obvious political point…It sucks you in by interweaving characters whose behavior – be it drugging a barking dog, arguing about firing a night watchman or simply mopping the floor – gradually reveals a larger pattern of meaning. Charged with an air of impending danger, the movie just keeps building. (NPR)
Discussants:
Pedro Meira Monteiro, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and Acting Director of the Program in Latin American Studies
Bruno Carvahlo, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Mar 3 / LIVING LOS SURES
Los Sures (1984) and Living Los Sures (2014)
Part omnibus film, part media archeology, part deep-map and city symphony, the project uses Los Sures, a brilliant work of cinema verite directed by Diego Echeverria in 1984, as a starting point for the investigations of more than thirty artists over the course of four years. Its a story of a longstanding Latino community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that is defeating displacement and surviving the growth machine. It restores a lost film, remixes local histories, reinvestigates Williamsburg's Southside today, and hopes to reunites a neighborhood around a sustainable future. (Uniondocs.org)
Johana Londoño, Princeton-Mellon Fellow
Christopher Allen, Filmmaker
Mar 24 / CHICAGO 1968
Medium Cool (1969)
It's 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. Medium Cool, his debut feature, plunges us into the moment. With its mix of fictional storytelling and documentary technique, this depiction of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced. (Criterion Collection)
Medium Cool will screen with The Battle of Michigan Avenue (1969) a film chronicling the events of August 28, 1968 in Chicago.
Paul Cronin, School of Visual Arts, Director, It's Real: The Making of 'Medium Cool'
Su Friedrich, Professor of Visual Arts, The Lewis Center for the Arts
Apr 7 / ENVIRONMENT & POLICY IN ARGENTINA
Los Inundados "Flooded Out" (1961) in Spanish with English subtitles
Argentine director Fernando Birri's first feature film uses the neo-realist trademarks of non-professional actors, on-location shooting, and a focus on the "common man" to tell the story of poor Santa Fe residents who are flooded from their homes. The film is not a tightly-constructed story, but rather a series of incidents as families cope with life after the flood, dealing with a government that pays them lip service, and opposition politicians who see an opportunity to score votes for themselves. A tale that's filled more with gentle irony than outrage, Los Inundados continued Birri's place in the vanguard of a new Latin American cinema. (University of Buffalo)
Vera Candiani, Associate Professor of History
Apr 21 / DRIVING LOS ANGELES
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972)
In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the "four ecologies" of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills, freeways). Noted for his seminal book of essays, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, published the year before, Banham had a love affair with the City of Angels and its bold typologies. An Englishman in L.A., Banham exudes an almost giddy enthusiasm for the energy of the highway and celebrates qualities of the city often derided by critics of architecture and urbanism. (Open Source Cities)
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles will be shown with The Great Wall of Los Angeles (1978) a film on the making of Judith Baca and the Social and Public Art Resource Center's iconic mural.
Jenny Price, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities of Lewis Center for the Arts and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Alison Isenberg, Professor of History, Co-Director, Program in Urban Studies, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities


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Activist / Convict / Medical Pathologist
The euthanasia advocate known as "Dr. Death"
Jack Kevorkian was the former medical pathologist known for his high-profile antics in support of voluntary euthanasia. A 1952 graduate of the University of Michigan medical school, Jack Kevorkian became known to colleagues as "Dr. Death" for his keen interest in dying patients. After a career in various hospitals in California and Michigan, he settled in Michigan in 1982, where he earned a living in part by publishing articles on euthanasia in European medical journals. Dr. Kevorkian became famous in the 1990s for his "death machine," a device he invented that allowed a user to self-inject an anesthetic and then a lethal dose of potassium chloride. (He called the machine a thanatron, after Thanatos, the figure of death in Greek mythology.) His initial "assisted suicides" led to a 1993 Michigan law that specifically prohibited him from continuing, a law he openly defied in an effort to force the issue into the courts. For most of the 1990s Kevorkian -- now widely known as "Dr. Death" -- was on TV talk shows, in the news and in and out of court (and jail) for his role in a number of deaths. In September of 1998 he videotaped the death of Thomas Youk; the tape was broadcast by CBS television's 60 Minutes in November, and Kevorkian ended up on trial again, charged with murder and the delivery of a controlled substance. (Having lost his licenses to practice medicine in California and Michigan, Kevorkian's use of potassium chloride was illegal.) He was convicted in April of 1999 and sentenced to 10-25 years in prison. Denied parole in 2005, Kevorkian, in failing health, was granted parole at the end of 2006 and released in 2007. Supporters argued that -- idiosyncrasies aside -- Jack Kevorkian was a hero who helped more than 130 terminally ill people end their own lives with dignity. Critics say he was a weirdo who exploited sick and disabled people for his own morbid experiments. Either way, he was credited with bringing the issue forward into public debate. After his release from prison he lived outside of Detroit until his death in 2011.
Jack Kevorkian had his first brush with professional controversy in 1958, when he lost his job for suggesting that medical experiments be performed on consenting death row inmates in lieu of execution… Jack Kevorkian moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s and reportedly made a feature film (based on Handel's Messiah), but the film was never distributed and the details are sketchy at best… He was of Armenian descent… Jack Kevorkian used to advertise himself as a "death consultant," and he dubbed his field "obitiatry"… He once said he first got the nickname "Dr. Death" in 1956, for his research in photographing the eyes of dying patients… Jack Kevorkian used carbon monoxide gas when he was unable to procure potassium chloride… Many of Kevorkian's clients passed away in his 1968 Volkswagen bus, which he had rigged for his equipment.
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The Kawartha Competition Team began in the 2017/2018 season. Our long-time coach, Denise Harris, wanted to create an slightly more competitive atmosphere for those skaters that had the hunger for it. The team began with a small group of skaters from the Woodville and Lindsay Clubs, but quickly expanded to include skaters from Cannington, Beaverton, Fenelon Falls, and other surrounding clubs. After two seasons of running the team, some of the younger Woodville skaters began showing interest. In the 2019/2020 season, we created the Senior Kawartha Competition Team, and the Junior Kawartha Competition Team. That season, our senior team had 14 members, and our junior team had 16. These skaters would come together on Friday nights at the Woodville arena to get some extra practice time in, push each other to improve their skills, help each other overcome mental barriers, and to have some fun!
The 2019/2020 season came with the greatest amount of successes to date. After the regular competition season had commenced, the Competition Team program was ecstatic to discover that 7 of it's senior skaters had qualified for the Provincial championships. Although the 2020 Provincials were ultimately cancelled due to COVID-19, it was an amazing accomplishment for our skaters.
The Junior Kawartha Competition Team consists of skaters from STAR 2 to STAR 4, and the Senior Kawartha Competition Team consists of skaters from STAR 5 to Gold. The Friday night program for each team is broken down into 20 minutes of off-ice practice, leading to an hour and a half of on ice skating.
If you have any questions about these teams, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're always open to welcoming new skaters and coaches that are looking for an extra push.
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Sussex @ Home (10-27 loss)
Finally the first game of the season was upon us, and for some of the freshers it was the first game of their lives! Unfortunately this did mean it took us a while to settle into the swing of things and with our 12 taking an early injury leaving her on the sideline for most of the first half we also had to compete with a shift in positions as well as a mix of experience. Sussex worked to their game-plan which was effective in the first half leading to a couple of tries on the far wings (one of which was a not so try but the less said about that the better) and a couple of good breaks. Their competency showed as by the end of the first 40 minutes they were 4 tries up (albeit with no conversions)
The second half was where we stepped up the mark and became the team we've trained to be. Sussex got an early break with a sole sprinter leading to a try under the posts and a conversion. However our defensive organisation and support finally got under way and they never managed a break after that. Some epic tackles were made all round blocking off every attack from every angle. Needless to say 'tweedle dum' and 'tweedle dee' (who should have been off due to injury) both came on in the second half to see the game out. Some bold streaks to make ground from the backs was followed up with strong forward phase play. One try was held up only for us to come back 5 minutes later in the same manner for one that counted. Our second try happened in very much the same way as we dominated the rucks and again forced our way over their line.
The game finished KCL 10 - Sussex 27 however by winning the second half we've already shown a lot of positives in our first game in a new league.
Notable Mentions:
Try scorers - Anna MacDonald & Harriet Orrell(C)
Forward of the match - Joëlle Nadeau
Back of the match - Hannah Branford
Dick of the day - Hannah Branford ("Not round her neck you bitch!" & "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!")
Congratulations on everyone for their first match for KCL Women's Rugby and congratulations to all those who played their first game ever. You've done yourselves proud :)


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r => r.Component(qc => QuantityMapping.Mapping()));

(where GeneralResourceType is a mapped Entity and Quantity is a ValueObject). But during the call of BuildSession() exception is thrown:
NHibernate.MappingException : An association from the table BookedResources refers to an unmapped class: {MyNamespace}.Quantity.
Seams like it tries to find ClassMapping for Quantity, while value part mapped as Component.

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Baseball Drama From Dan Fogelman & Rick Singer Set At Fox As Put Pilot
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger Re-Up Overall Deal With 20th Television
September 8, 2015 12:30pm
The Neighbors and Galavant creator Dan Fogelman has teamed with veteran comedy writer Rick Singer (American Dad!) for a drama project, which has landed at Fox with a put pilot commitment. It hails from 20th Century Fox TV, where Fogelman is under an overall deal. Based on an idea by Singer, the untitled project follows a young female pitcher who defies the odds to become the first woman to compete in professional baseball. In a drama pairing of two comedy writers, Singer will pen the script with Fogel
man. The two executive produce with Tony Bill and Helen Bartlett.
In his first development cycle under the rich four-year overall deal he signed with 20th TV in June, Fogelman already landed a pilot order at NBC for another hourlong project, a dramedy spec he wrote, with John Requa & Glenn Ficarra (Focus) set to direct.
Singer, who is a producer on TV Land's comedy series Younger, is repped by ICM Partners, Principato Young and Morris Yorn. Fogelman is with WME, Management 360 and Hansen Jacobsen.
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Fight at the Venta Nueba, Goya
For art fans and especially for experts in the field, it is very entertaining as well as educational, the comparison between the final canvases with their preparatory drawings, however, it is not always easy to find the sketch that served as preparation for a canvas since on many occasions the artists themselves eliminated these drawings or some even painted directly on the canvases without carrying out any preparation.
Fortunately for us, one of the greatest geniuses of neoclassical painting and precursor of modernism, Francisco de Goya not only preserved one but many of his preparatory sketches, so that it is very easy for us to trace the origins of some of his canvases and establish a comparison with the final work.
Francis de Goya y Lucientes (1746- 1828) is one of the great geniuses of Spanish painting, his fame crossed borders and meant a change in the pictorial conception of all of Europe. But in addition to reaping numerous successes in painting, Goya worked with other disciplines with the same success so that his engravings, lithographs, woodcuts or murals are just as well known and valued as his canvases. In this context we should point out how the artist also worked for theRoyal Tapestry Factoryin the last years of the 18th century, after his arrival in the Spanish capital
The work that we analyze here Riña en la Venta Nueba(thus written literally by the hand of the artist himself when the spelling rules were not yet well established) is precisely a cardboard for a tapestry, that is to say, a work on canvas that would serve as a script to weave a tapestry in the Royal Tapestry Factory with in order to adorn the Palacio del Pardo along with other well-known works by artists such as El Quitasol or El bebedor, all of them a reflection of the Spanish society of the time.
But perhaps the most interesting thing about the canvas we are analyzing here is that in the same Prado Museum in Madrid where this piece is exhibited, we can also find the preparatory drawing that gave rise to to its creation and that is known by the name of Riña en la Venta del Gallo.
The differences between the two canvases are insignificant and both represent a fight or discussion that took place in an inn on the outskirts of Madrid, specifically it seems that we are in the northern area, since in the background the peaks of the Sierra de Guadarrama can be seen, although the artist has not represented it with too much accuracy. In the first place, some young people -who seem to come from different provinces due to their outfits- argue heatedly until they come to blows. The cards that appear on the ground indicate that the fight must come due to some disagreement in the game.
In the final work, the bright colors of the canvas stand out above all, as well as the small and rapid brushstrokes that prelude the modernist style of the workgoyesca.
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Chinese Eulogy Bares Party Intrigue
By Jason Dean
April 15, 2010 12:03 pm ET
BEIJING—A published eulogy by China's premier for the reformist Communist Party chief whose death in 1989 led to pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square has prompted speculation about political maneuvering ahead of a looming transition of power in Beijing.
Premier Wen Jiabao's article memorializing Hu Yaobang, on the 21st anniversary of his death, ran across the top of page two in Thursday's People's Daily newspaper, the party's official mouthpiece. The article was striking because Mr. Hu is a sensitive figure in China: he was ousted from his post for perceived lenience toward demonstrations in 1986; after the protests that followed his death, Beijing responded with a brutal crackdown on student demonstrators.
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On the other hand, the wind also whipped the sea into huge breakers – the kind of conditions only a kite-surfer could love – making it a place for children to paddle and splash in, rather than swim. Our hotel, the Royal Decameron, operated a flag system, indicating when the sea was safe. It seemed to be red-for-danger most of the week, though I did get a couple of opportunities to push myself through the broiling white foam to the clear green water beyond the breakers.
A beach where you can't really swim sounds disappointing, but it wasn't. Just sitting and watching the waves, and the zip-wire effect as cross-currents ripped across the surface, was blissful, and there was always the possibility that a humpback whale might put in an appearance.


She learned knitting, crocheting and cross stitching at the home farm and has enjoyed needlework since her childhood.
She has cross stitched many large table-cloths and crocheted or knitted many ornamental mats and handkerchiefs, knitted jackets and shawls. Her cross-stitched tapestries still adorn her home.
Marija Horvat is a native of the environs of Ptuj. She has lived in Australia for decades and resides in Melbourne.


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Approximately 3 months ago, we translated our website into Spanish. Because our brand has a meaning in itself, we decided to translate the brand as well. The hope was that it would benefit our SEO.
We mark in both site maps the different versions of languages, and we place links on both websites that point to each other (in the footnote with an emerging language as seen in many websites).
We note that, even after 3 months, we have almost no traffic on the Spanish website. Our average .com ranking in Google is 6.6, while in .es it is 70. Clicks in search engines do not exist in .es, while in .com they are +1 million in the last 3 months.
Apart from the language, the website is the same. Meta tags have been translated too. There is no reason why English speakers have more interest in the content of our website.
So … we're starting to think that going for a new top-level domain was not that smart after all.
My question: would you recommend us go to www.footballtactics.com or is it .footballtactics.com instead? Will we benefit from our good .com ranking? The main thing that we would like to achieve is that people looking for "soccer tactics" find our website, so it is not about Spaniards looking for "soccer tactics" and that a Spanish version is presented (which also It's good, of course). but the other will drive more traffic).


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Bayfront Convention Center holds COVID-19 rapid testing clinic
by: Fontaine Glenn
A new record high in daily COVID-19 cases reported over the weekend is sparking more people to get tested.
On January 10th, one testing clinic at the Bayfront Convention Center brought hundreds of people to get tested.
Here is more on the testing clinic at the Bayfront Convention Center.
More than 900 cases were reported on Sunday January 9th, setting a new single day record.
At the testing clinic, a crowd waited in line to get rapid COVID tests as cases surge throughout the county sparking high demand for testing.
People line up for COVID-19 testing at the Bayfront Convention Center Monday
Hundreds of people lined the Bayfront Convention Center waiting to get their COVID-19 rapid test after cases surged in Erie County.
"This is an extremely extraordinary contagious disease. This variant without mask and close spaces after holidays, after people have been together, I think just exploded and I think we are seeing that," said Erin Mrenak, Interim Director for Erie County Department of Health.
For one Erie resident, he wasn't surprised to see the line of people.
"Well I wanted to get checked. I don't wanna with all that's going on it's better safe than sorry," said Doug White, Erie Resident.
With the high number of cases in the county, the health department is focusing on what the community needs which is testing.
TODAY Show anchor Savannah Guthrie tests positive for COVID-19
"LECOM had been doing these historically on their own with our mobile units, the contract we have with them, but just because of the huge increase so quickly in demand. We're here to help staff see the events so that people can get through the line quickly," said Mrenak.
Girard Resident Lynsay Hunter is getting retested in order for her husband to return to work after her whole family tested positive one week ago.
"Especially when you're pregnant it's one of the worst just having to sit and do nothing and feel like the world's falling apart," said Lynsay Hunter, Girard Resident.
As always, health department officials are advising everyone to get vaccinated and tested if you have any symptoms.
The next testing clinic will be on Wednesday January 12th at the Bayfront Convention Center from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Connor Barron (* 29. August 2002 in Kintore) ist ein schottischer Fußballspieler, der beim FC Aberdeen unter Vertrag steht.

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Connor Barron wurde im Jahr 2002 in Kintore etwa 18 km nordwestlich von Aberdeen in der gleichnamigen Region Aberdeenshire geboren. Im Jahr 2012 kam er in die Jugendakademie des FC Aberdeen und war Mannschaftskapitän der U18- und U20-Mannschaft. Ab September 2020 wurde Barron an den schottischen Viertligisten Brechin City verliehen, für den er in der Saison 2020/21 in 13 Ligaspielen ein Tor gegen Elgin City erzielte. Brechin stieg am Ende der Spielzeit in die Highland Football League ab. Im August 2021 folgte eine Leihe zum ambitionierten Viertligisten Kelty Hearts. Bei den "Hearts" gelang ihm bis in den Januar 2022 die gleiche Anzahl an Spielen und Toren wie zuvor in Brechin.

Im Januar 2022 wurde der 19-Jährige vorzeitig von seiner Leihe zu den Kelty Hearts zurückgerufen. Die "Hearts" waren zu diesem Zeitpunkt souveräner Tabellenführer in der Liga. Im gleichen Monat verlängerte er seinen Vertrag in Aberdeen bis zum Sommer 2024. Am 15. Februar 2022 debütierte Barron für die erste Mannschaft der "Dons" in der Scottish Premiership gegen den FC St. Johnstone und zeigte eine beeindruckende Leistung.

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Connor Barron spielte im Jahr 2017 fünfmal in der schottischen U-16-Nationalmannschaft. Ab 2018 kam er zehnmal in der U17 zum Einsatz. 2022 debütierte er in der U21-Nationalmannschaft.

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Today we'll dive into a not-so-obvious Psalm that's one of those that you love at the beginning but you have no idea what to do with the middle and then "yay!" the ending is back to the fun stuff! Following the circle of lament, we'll learn to wrestle with that weighty stuff in the middle–that our lives are basically a vapor–here today, gone tomorrow. But, there's HOPE in holding the tension that we can actually build something that long outlasts us, as we make the most of our own "once upon a time until kingdom come".
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At Toftwood Infant and Junior Schools we value music as a subject. We aim to develop children's musical ability and their confidence to perform. Alongside this we aim to develop the children's appreciation of different music, including music from different countries, cultures and periods of history and a cross curricular approach is taken. All year groups in KS1 and EYFS combine discrete music lessons with the use of music in other subject areas. Music is also used day to day when attending assemblies, tidying up and lunchtime clubs. In the EYFS, the children have access to high quality music provision both indoors and outside. There is a clear progression in skills from EYFS through KS2 with the use of the Charanga Musical Schools Programme, enriched with units of instrument teaching, such as ocarina in Year 2 and Samba in Year 6. A success of last academic year was the use of music and dance visitors and workshops which enriched the learning across all year groups and improved outcomes. This will be built upon this year by organising a music enrichment week for the whole school to take part in. In 2019-20 we are excited to have the Music Hub provide whole class instrument teaching for all children in Year 4 (more details to come!).
June 2018 – Music Hub Award Winner
Mr Hardy was nominated for the Norfolk Music Hub in their innovation award category, reflecting on his enthusiasm and approach to the teaching of high quality music.
Mr Hardy, the Junior School music lead has been working with Miss Coombes, the Infant School music lead and they have used Music to draw the two schools closer together. Our first training as a combined staff group was a singing workshop which was an incredible success and great way to break the ice when bringing two lots of staff together. They applied for and received the Hub's bespoke project grant which we used to fund a series of steel pan workshops for Yr2 and Yr3 children to play alongside one another. Not only was this an amazing opportunity for some really top quality instrument tuition it helped with the younger children's transition to KS2. (It also added some much needed focus on Music from around the world.) After attending a Singing Playgrounds workshop Mr Hardy formed a singing group of Key Stage 2 children who have learned some of the songs and have visited the Infant School playground at lunchtime to teach these to the younger children
In terms of innovation, Mr Hardy has introduced making music with technology to each of the Year Groups – Yr3 using the fantastic 'Isle of Tune' online program, Year 4 using MadPad, Year 5 Scratch and Year 6 Garage Band which led to a group of Yr6 students running a lunchtime Garage Band club.
The amazing loan of Samba instruments from the Hub has enabled Mr Hardy to start teaching Yr 6 a term of Brazilian percussion (with a great deal of help from John Owen from Neatherd High School and by joining Norwich Samba to give himself a crash course in an area of music he had had no previous experience of) again trying to give children a more global idea of Music.
Mr Hardy has been playing and teaching ukulele for 16 years and has a very dedicated Ukulele Club who have recently performed at a concert organised by BTEC Music students from Neatherd High School.
Mr Hardy has also ensured equality of access for all students, regardless of physical difficulties and carried out some research into open tunings and spending an afternoon with a child and her uke a uke blu-tacked to a table and various plectrums and sticks to use as slides they were jamming together playing 'Three Little Birds'. She is now a stalwart member of Uke Club.
At the awards ceremony, Mr Hardy was one of 3 Norfolk Music-Coordinators shortlisted. In the speech, the judges recognised his engagement with the Music Hub over the last 2 Years, the work he has done with Miss Coombes to use music to bring the federation together, organising the steel pan workshops; the whole federation staff singing workshop; taking children from Juniors to do Playground Singing with the children at the Infants at lunchtime , the inclusion of music technology in each Year Group; the Yr6 Samba lessons; the ongoing Ukulele club and the efforts to be fully inclusive.
We are pleased to say Mr Hardy was chosen as the winner of the award for innovation in music co-ordinators 2018. Congratulations Mr Hardy!
Music – Autumn Term 2019
This term children took part in the 'Get Singing' event which was part of the national BBC Music Day. In Year 1 and 2 children used advice from a professional singer about how to relax their bodies and warm up their voices before singing as part of the event and sang with children from over 1000 schools across the country via a web event.
In Reception classes the children have enjoyed learning and singing nursery rhymes with a modern twist.
In Autumn 2 the children also experienced a live music event at the Junior School. This was arranged through the Norfolk Music Hub. Please see the update about this event on our Special Events Page.
Live music Autumn 2 2019
EYFS:
In the EYFS children have been practising the Christmas songs, 'We wish you a Merry Christmas', 'Santa Shark' and 'Jingle Bells'. The children all worked hard to remember the words and actions to the songs and looked great in their festive hats as they performed to Year 1 and Year 2 and their adults.
Key Stage 1 Performance:
Children in Key Stage 1 worked very hard to perfect and perform their 'Aladdin Trouble' Musical Pantomime in December. The panto shared the adventures of Aladdin, a princess, a magical lamp and a genie who could grant 3 wishes. The children did a great job remembering their lines, acting, dancing and singing some very catchy and intricate songs! Staff and families were very proud of the excellent performance. Well done to everyone involved!
Christmas Choir:
During the Autumn Term children from Year 1 and 2 were able to join a regular singing club and be part of our 'Christmas Choir'. The Choir were excited to learn several traditional songs and carols as well as some modern songs and took part in two special performances for the whole school and their grown ups.Songs included in the performances were: 'Jingle Bells, 'We Wish you a Merry Christmas', 'Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer' and 'Deck the Halls'. Well done everyone!
Music – Summer Term 2019
During the second half term children across the Federation took part in Arts Enrichment Week. The week allowed the children to experience lots of activities revolving around the arts. You can read all about this week on the Special Events section of the website.
On Thursday and Friday there was a greater focus on music and children from both the Infant and Junior school had the opportunity to look at and explore different types of musical instruments, including some the children hadn't encountered before! A string quartet also came into each school to perform and the children really enjoyed being part of this experience.
At the end of the week we held a family Open Morning and parents, carers and other family members were able to joint their children and participate in making musical instruments out of found materials. Each year group focused on creating a different type of musical instrument and children used their imaginations and got creative! Plenty of fun was had by everyone and children and grown ups alike were up for the challenge!
At the end of the week we had "The Arts Showcase" where children from each class got to show off their talents to the whole school. We had singers, dancers, comedians and even dinosaurs! It was a lot of fun and we were lucky enough to have a number of children from the Junior School come to perform for us as well!
Music Spring Term 2 2019
In Nursery the children have been exploring instruments, such as drums, cymbals, rain makers, rhythm sticks and the glockenspiel. They joined in and played their instruments in time to lots of songs and nursery rhymes. The children experimented with using the instrument by playing them slowly, quickly, quietly or loudly. They had a close look at the instruments and discussed how they made their sounds (vibrations) and what material they were made of.
Reception children have been enjoying exploring the musical instruments in the outside area, singing songs they know as well as making up their own. Some of the children worked as a group to try to make their own tunes and rhythms. Children have also had the opportunity to make instruments from other items found in the learning environment.
Year 1 have really enjoyed listening to different types of music on Charanga this term. They have listened and discussed music from a variety of genres including blues, jazz and big band. They have learnt how to sing the songs 'In the Groove' and 'Round and Round' and performed these as a class. They also used our new chime bars to play these songs and began to learn about musical notes.
Year 2 have also enjoyed learning to play on our new chime bars! This term their theme has been 'Zootime'. The children have enjoyed listening and singing to Reggae songs such as 'I Can See Clearly Now' and 'Kingston Town'.
Music in Spring 1 2019
During Spring 1 pupils across the Federation have been busy learning how to sign to the song 'The Greatest Day' by Take That as part of our This was to raise awareness for deaf health in school and part of the national Sign2Sing event. The event was a huge success and children from Toftwood Infant School and Toftwood Junior School shared participating in the main halls. The local newspaper also came to see our performances – please see the published article through the link below:
https://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/news/toftwood-infant-junior-school-greatest-day-take-that-sign-language-deaf-charity-signhealth-1-5883516
In Nursery and Reception classes children have had an exciting week learning about Chinese New Year and had a visit from Miss Helen who came into school to do a dance workshop. Children enjoyed listening to music, learning how to use a gong and boomwhackers and also had the opportunity to dance to Chinese music. Some of the children even became Chinese dragons for the dance!
Music Autumn Term 2019
This term began with children being introduced to the history of classical music starting with the Baroque period in Year 3, moving through the Classical and Romantic eras in Years 4 and 5 and arriving at the Modern period in Year 6. Children have listened to and reflected on music from a variety of composers from their chosen era both in music lessons and at other times when music can accompany their learning.
Children have continued to develop their singing and playing of glockenspiels and recorders, with Year 5 children learning more about reading stave notation while learning to play Christmas songs.
The Singing Club performed for the first time in public, braving the elements to go carol singing in Dereham (read more about this in the special events section).
Autumn 2 2019 – Community Carol Singing
This term children across the federation took part in the 'Get Singing' event which was part of the national BBC Music Day. In Year 1 and 2 children used advice from a professional singer about how to relax their bodies and warm up their voices before singing as part of the event and sang with children from over 1000 schools across the country via a web event.
The children also experienced a live music event at the Junior School. This was arranged through the Norfolk Music Hub. Please see the update about this event on our Special Events Page.
Ukulele Club are off to a flying start this school year, welcoming back seasoned stalwarts and saying hello to a new crop of players. Our experienced musicians (some in their fourth year of playing!) have been helping the newbies get to grips with those tricky first three chords that open the doors to music making.
Next half term our attention will be turning to Christmas songs (apologies to parents, we know it seems far too early!) so children will be ready to entertain at any festive gathering!
Once again, Mr Hardy would like to say a massive thankyou to our wonderful ex pupil Chloe Partridge for her continued help and support.
Ukelele club perform at livewire – June 2018
Toftwood Ukulele Club were invited to perform at Dereham Memorial Hall on Wednesday 27th June as part of the 'Live Wire' concert.
The event, organised by Year 10 BTEC Music students at Neatherd High School, was the Ukulele Club's first experience of playing on a real stage to a packed audience (quite a leap from playing in our own school assemblies) however everyone performed brilliantly and were cheered and applauded enthusiastically.
'It was really fun,' said Edward, 'we were nervous at first, but we managed to pull it off and it sounded really good.'
Evie added, 'We got more confident as it went on. It was fantastic to play in a concert and all of the acts were so good. When we were actually on stage it sounded amazing!'
Not only was this a fantastic opportunity to gain experience of performing in a wonderful venue, it also gave our pupils a chance to see the incredible musical talents of the high school students and see what they can aspire to in the future.
Thank you so much to all the parents and grandparents who supported the event and Mr Owen (Neatherd Head of Music) who helped make it all happen.
The children are still glowing with pride from their success and are looking forward to more chances to get on stage and shine.
Congratulations to all of the children who worked so hard and embraced the opportunity to perform in front of such a large audience, with such enthusiasm and such excitement. Thank you to Mr Hardy for all of his work in preparing the children for the concert and for encouraging and supporting them on the night. We are proud of all of you.
Ukelele club is offered free of charge to all children in the junior school currently and we are looking to possibly extend it to Year 2 at some point in the future.
Live Music Summer 2 2018
The junior school were treated to music through the ages on Tuesday 5thJune as the Live History of Music Show performed for us in the main hall. After a rendition of the Doctor Who theme song (so we could travel back in time!), the children listened to music by Vivaldi and Mozart and learned that the oldest recorded instrument was a flute/recorder-type instrument from the Ice Age. They were also treated to a segment of John Cage's 4'33'' – a song written to be totally silent – and movie soundtrack music from John Williams (Star Wars and Jaws). The performance ended with Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' – which the Year 3s couldn't help but join in with.
A Visit from the Dereham Brass Band members – March 2018
Spring 1 2020 – Sports Hall Athletics
D and T Autumn 2019
Mad Science, wicked weather workshops – Spring Term 1 2020
Amazing Art Display Autumn Term
KT2 class assemblyKT2 class assemblyTime: 10:20 am
Year 6 SATs session for ParentsYear 6 SATs session for ParentsTime: 2:30 pm - 3:10 pm
Open afternoon for the FederationOpen afternoon for the FederationTime: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Joint book fair after school in Junior's main hallJoint book fair after school in Junior's main hallTime: 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
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