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SNK Minis coming soon
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Started 8 years ago by onmode-ky
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Atariboy
It does sound significantly better than buttons.
When I get a Vita, I don't think it will change my mind on the bulk of the LS30 games. But I'll definitely be giving TNK III a go on it.
Posted 6 years ago #
Been three months now since the last game was released. I have a feeling that's it at least as far as PSP Minis are concerned. I suppose we can't complain when G1M2/SNK seemingly outlasted pretty much every other Minis publisher out there while perhaps being the most prolific one as well.
Hopefully they pop up elsewhere and continue to bring us arcade classics in our homes. Vanguard, Bump 'n' Jump, and Lock 'n' Chase all have been receiving regular play since release and many of the other's have been enjoyed as well. So I'm very grateful for what we've had the opportunity to download over the past two and a half years.
It has been a good run.
JeremyR
I'm grateful (and amazed) just getting Vanguard, which was a favorite since I was a kid. Some other interesting games, too, like Ozma Wars and Marvin's Maze.
I thought that some of the audio in Vanguard would keep that one away forever (Especially when Vanguard 2 appeared in SNK Arcade Classics 0 without the original). Was sure nice to get the arcade version of that at home and fully intact.
One made it into the 2600 version, so I figured Queen didn't care (heck, there's a whole video game series based on one of their albums and using names and places from their albums), but probably a good thing Gene Roddenberry never got wind of the other.
onmode-ky
If the SNK Minis really are over, then it's kind of odd that they released everything that was in SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 0 except one, and then released a few things that weren't in that. Then again, maybe they had planned to release that remaining title at some later date but eventually changed their minds, based on Minis sales declining. Or maybe they simply never believed that particular game would sell (perhaps it sucks?).
I wonder what happened to Safari Rally. Not that I was dying to play it, mind you, but still, it was announced.
I suppose they might not be done. But after semi regular updates all year, it seems strange now that we're in the midst of the Christmas shopping season to not have some new Minis releasing for people to consider spending their gift cards on after purchasing points with or points cards that they may receive as gifts.
Posting from my 360 so it isn't handy to go check, but didn't Taito release a B&W game just like Safari Rally? Seems like some of us speculated that SNK might've decided at the last minute that it wasn't actually clear to release.
I got a feeling from what Onmode pointed out that they had more stuff lined up. I doubt they just had that one game left on the table when they apparently decided to pull the plug.
If SNK or G1M2 reads this, think retail console compilation. ;)
I found the post you were talking about, I think. Not sure what it means as far as current ownership; I think it would be unlikely for Taito to have any ownership stake in a game that still says only another company's name on screen. Taito has published other firms' games in arcades (and on consoles), but I don't think ownership was ever part of such things.
By the way, Atariboy, do you know if the recent Midway collection's rendition of Sinistar uses 49 directions on the analog stick? I recently attempted in vain to defeat the Sinistar even once on my Awecade cabinet but was hampered by the 8-way stick.
This rendition has more than the 8 directions of movement that many earlier ports and emulations of it had. So it should be much more pleasing to you to play.
If you have any way to record gameplay and upload it to YouTube, you should if you purchase this. Everybody showing this release off on there has no clue how to play Sinistar when they get to it. They just randomly fly around shooting things until Sinistar is finished forming and then they die. They have no clue that your mission is to mine bombs from the asteroids so you can destroy Sinistar.
I have Midway Arcade Treasures Extended Play on the way for the PSP at the moment. I believe it's my first UMD game in several years. I resisted buying it five years ago or so since it seemed superfluous with the console efforts, but I decided I couldn't resist checking it out finally.
I think the two Capcom collections might be next on my list (Which I also skipped since I purchased the Xbox releases with a few extra games). Was there ever a bundle with both of them available for a cheap price?
I don't have a YouTube account, nor any way to record gameplay. :(
I'm pretty sure I've killed the Sinistar at least once on my Awecade machine, years ago, but I didn't even come close during my recent attempts. I think he had, like, 5 pieces left in my best run. Kept missing out on ore pieces. Robotron, though, I may have set myself a new high score (still dismal by real players' standards, though).
As far as I know, there was never a Capcom bundle, but as I never considered myself in the market for the PSP Capcom retro collections (had the PS2 releases), I never actively looked into them.
I don't think there was a bundle, but they've been on sale for $4.99 each. I got Reloaded
Digital or was that a sale on the UMD versions somewhere?
Since my interest in them is due to being on a handheld and since the PSP 3000's d-pad should be up to the task, I'd rather not download them. Downloads of material that is also available on UMD for me has been restricted to games I wanted to play on my PSP Go hooked up to my HDTV with my PSP upscaler and my old PS3 SixAxis controller.
So my downloads have mostly been limited to the more modern 3D games (I hate the PSP's analog nub) and my actual UMD purchases have been games that would play well with a d-pad like classic compilations.
The only exceptions someday I think will be when I buy a Vita. I want to download the Activision 2600 collection even though I own the UMD release (I love those games and a download on a Vita will be nice and convenient) and Gran Turismo PSP (No desire to play on my Go on my TV when I have all the console versions available and no desire to play on a PSP with that awful analog nub...but it seems perfect for a Vita game with a proper analog stick).
Wish I could download Outrun Coast 2 Coast when I get a Vita someday. That's the UMD game that first showed me how awful the PSP's analog nub was so I'd love to be able to enjoy it on the Vita with proper controls finally when I'm in the mood for some handheld Outrun fun. But Sega never made it available and now they don't even have a valid Ferrari license.
Sniper D. Luffy
still dreaming of Last blade on my Vita one of those days...or the possibility of NGPC games...those sprites are some of the best for a handheld...nostalgia kicking me badly again... :P
It was digital, dunno when it was, I think this summer? Relatively recently at least.
In what I believe is G-Mode's (Edit - I got G1M2 mixed up with G-Mode, so my speculation is likely meaningless where these SNK classics are concerned) first Virtual Console release, Burgertime by Data East is now available on the Nintendo Wii.
Even though the Wii isn't too far behind the PSP when it comes to commercially dying here, perhaps this represents their new direction for their classic coinop emulations for the next couple of years. Seems odd otherwise why they released 3 of the 4 early 80's releases that were on Data East Arcade Classics as PSP Minis yet the 4th is for the Wii. Not to mention the recent long period of inactivity here that we've been discussing.
Hopefully we get some of the SNK classics that could use a 2nd stick and/or 2 players on the VC. And some new stuff yet to be seen in the past 15 years of arcade rereleases thanks to the wonders of emulation would be nice to see. Many candidates left in the 80's arcade back catalogs of SNK and Data East. And perhaps they will license games from elsewhere (They hinted at that a while back).
Hope someone does Berzerk and Frenzy someday.
It's not even the arcade game and is just the NES version. And it's 100% G-Mode since they're the publisher and no emulation work from G1M2 is required. So it has nothing to do with G1M2 and the guesses I were making based off this release have absolutely no foundation here.
Hopefully they move on to a new platform soon. Not much else happening outside of them in recent years on consoles/handhelds where classic arcade gaming is concerned.
As I recall from AtariAge forum discussions, the BurgerTime port generally agreed on as being the best is the Intellivision's. I get the feeling that will never be re-released in any modern marketplace, though. I suppose there is a faint chance of it happening, in view of Activision games being on the Atari Flashback 2, Taito games being on AtGames' Atari Flashback 4, Capcom games being on AtGames' latest portable Genesis emulator, etc. But, G-Mode tying up with the Blue Sky Rangers seems to have a lower probability of occurrence.
Where would G1M2/SNK go, I wonder? Pre-Neo Geo games by SNK are too obscure for something as casual as iOS/Android. They would probably sell even worse there than they did as Minis.
Intellivision Products has licensed the Activision/Imagic library in the past so there's some precedence there for acquiring rights. Relicensing some rights in order to rerelease games they own that Mattel/INTV Productions programmed and released back in the day seems to have a bit of a chance in the future.
Three of their most iconic games on the Intellivision from any publisher were Mattel's own ports of Bump 'n' Jump, Lock 'n' Chase, and most of all, Burgertime (Which is often the game you'll see someone complain about missing from a collection). And they're nice arcade games, something there's not nearly enough of when Intellivision does an Intellivision collection. Much like Atari's unlicensed 2600 library of original console efforts, many of the Intellivision counterparts sucked 30 years ago and many of the nice games haven't aged well or require two players. So a few more arcade style games to go along with things like Thin Ice would be welcome.
And acquiring what they need from G-Mode for those three games would also allow them to release the unofficial Burgertime sequel called Diner as well. And their Dig Dug (INTV licensed the AtariSoft game and rereleased it in the late 80's) Easter Egg called 'Deadly Dogs', which was a hack of Mattel's standalone game TRON Deadly Discs that replaced the Tron characters with the hot dogs from Burgertime, would also be releasable as is after extracting it from Dig Dug if they licensed some rights from G-Mode (It certainly would stand no chance seeing the light of day as a Tron game).
And G-Mode is in the business of licensing their properties out with direct publishing seemingly more of a secondary function of the company. So I imagine they're more aware of the true value of their properties in such a deal than other companies might be that may tend to overvalue their IP. So those three properties might not be so out of reach.
Hopefully they do a Wii U collection and pull out all the stops someday and approach G-Mode (The gamepad is perfect for one). Or perhaps go the DLC route for licensed properties if that's what it takes to get classics from companies like Activision out there.
"Where would G1M2/SNK go, I wonder? Pre-Neo Geo games by SNK are too obscure for something as casual as iOS/Android. They would probably sell even worse there than they did as Minis."
Wish I had a idea but it does seem like there's no real avenue now with the death of PSP Minis to release standalone digital versions of more obscure classic arcade games. Microsoft and Sony really need to consider Virtual Console type services now that PSN Arcade and XBLA have outgrown classic rereleases for the most part. And I really don't see Wii U's own Virtual Console, if it even has an arcade section when it launches, as being the ideal marketplace for old arcade games aimed at classic gaming fans. So I don't see the Wii U being their savior.
It's ashame that Microsoft had just such a service but let it die when the developer went kaput. Game Room had so much potential and G1M2 could've made a perfect fit, but it just wasn't properly supported by Microsoft.
To fill the niche that SNK's departure in the Mini's category has left, I finally got around to buying a lot of Game Room content on the Xbox 360. I limited it to game's I figured I'd like and beyond the exception of three of my favorite Activision 2600 games and Thin Ice on the Intellivision, I just purchased game's I didn't already own in a previous collection or on a download service (Not to mention that I have the ability to play all the 2600 and Intellivision releases on real hardware).
Anyways, to get to the point, I wondered if anyone like Onmode has ever played Flak Attack, Finalizer, and Mega Zone. All are vertically scrolling arcade shooters and all are from Konami (As are the vast majority of my purchases here). I've been unusually disappointed so far by all three. Flak Attack kick's my butt way too soon, Finalizer isn't nearly as neat as it looked at first glance and really ramp's up in difficulty too quickly, and Mega Zone is rather plain but has a bit of early 80's charm that might draw me in eventually.
And Midway Arcade Origins is also helping fill my arcade need's. :)
Anyways, to get to the point, I wondered if anyone like Onmode has ever played Flak Attack, Finalizer, and Mega Zone.
I've, er, actually never even heard of any of them. D: Now I have to go find my scourge.
Also, I get the distinct feeling that you're . . . baiting me, with all those extra apostrophes. But I'm holding strong! So far.
Now I have to go find my scourge.
If it were anyone but you, I'd think they were kidding...
I've always tended to use those when I shouldn't. I've kicked a few bad habits in recent years though.
I honestly thought for several minutes that you were talking about scourges.
Last night, I looked up footage for those 3 games on YouTube. Flak Attack, which it seems was the Japanese name for MX5000, does look pretty difficult. Finalizer came off as tedious to me. Mega Zone does seem rather interesting, if primitive. If Flak Attack and Mega Zone came out in PS Home Arcade for the same price Time Pilot asks, I think I'd get them.
Now you're going to have to fill me in. Just what is a scourge? Some strange reference to someone that plays Konami published arcade games or overuses apostrophes in situations they're not appropriate to use according to English grammar punctuation rules?
Beyond tending towards being long winded with my reponses since brevity was never my strong suit, I think I'm above average where forumgoers are concerned when it comes to following English language laws. And hopefully I'm correcting more mistakes over time than I'm introducing to my writing now that I'm several years past earning my MBA. I'd hate to be regressing in this area.
Correct apostrophe use was never one of my best points though. English class when it came down to things like diagraming a sentence and such during grade school was probably my most disliked area. Contractions are no problem nor is using it to change something into a plural if it's not a word but is instead something like a designation or acronym (PSP's would be far more commonly seen than PSPs, for an example). But correctly using it to mark a possessive case and when it should be applied at the end of a word are certainly weak areas. Not to mention sticking it in at points where it just doesn't belong.
It would be better around here if we didn't have a 60 minute edit rule so my window to catch mistakes and correct them was wider. :)
A scourge is that thing that flagellants used to punish themselves with, sort of like a short whip with several different thongs. Slightly less painful than playing through Samurai Beatdown
Beyond tending towards being long winded with my reponses
I'm a card-carrying member of the same club.
I think I'm above average where forumgoers are concerned when it comes to following English language laws.
Oh, I certainly don't dispute that, which was why the apostrophe thing struck me as odd, almost as if were an all-too-obvious intentional lure for unsuspecting grammar cops. :)
Not to mention sticking it in at points where it just doesn't belong.
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Perhaps one day there may be signs of hope we get some good Neo geo pocket games on a handheld, total retro bliss...
Wonder what G1M2 are up to these days.
Probably just uncredited contract work on other firms' games. I'm not aware of any emulation-based releases of late that might be all-G1M2 work (not counting the NeoGeo X, which, well, I'd be surprised if that were theirs).
I wonder if SNK Playmore ever considered moving from Minis to PlayStation Mobile. Granted, doing so would render their releases unplayable on the PS3, which was a major part of the draw for Minis developers.
Come to think of it, what has SNK Playmore done lately? Their press releases for the past 5 months solely encompass releasing Metal Slug games on iOS/Android. Did they give up on everything else?


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Hi Lee:
I just completed browsing through my 1920 print copy of Andrew B. Booth's "Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands" (State of Louisiana, New Orleans, 1920) and did not find Steven DeGruy listed even though there are several men surnamed DeGruy presented in Booth, including some variations in the spelling of the surname.
"Esteban" is the Spanish version of the name "Steven" but the only DeGruy with the initial "E" I could find was E. V. (aka Eugene) DeGruy who was a member of the Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Infantry. Eugene (or E. V.) died in the hospital at Corinth, Mississippi on May 7, 1862.
I next searched the National Park Service's online Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the surname "DeGruy" and "Confederate" and "Louisiana". Still no "Steven" but there is a CMSR for a Private G. V. DeGruy who was enrolled in LeGardeur's Orleans Guard Battery. This name does not appear in Booth's "Records" but may represent someone who joined the battery in the fall of 1863. LeGardeur�s Orleans Guard Battery is the unit referred to as "Beauregard's Battery from New Orleans" in the document you transcribed.
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I would think the next steps in identifying this Louisiana soldier would be (1) to examine the CMSR for Private G. V. DeGruy of LeGardeur's Orleans Guard Battery, and (2) to check the 1860 Federal census for Orleans Parish. Keep in mind that, while the good folks in Columbia, South Carolina regarded him as a "full blooded Spaniard, quite intelligent, refined, and a gentleman", that doesn't tell us that he was "just off the boat" from Spain. Spain owned and governed Louisiana for 40 years prior to returning the colony to France in 1803. Napoleon turned around and promptly sold it to the United States. When title was transferred to the United States, Spanish administrators were still in charge of the colony. Spanish is as much part of the heritage of Louisiana as French even though the French often loathe to admit it!
One of my wife's family members was in LeGardeur's battery at Charleston and I have written a biographical sketch of him which incorporates an outline of the history of the Orleans Guard Battery.
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Online reviews about your appliance repair business are highly visible in search results and can be the difference between whether someone picks up the phone to call you or not. Here are some tips on how to help you monitor your online reputation.
By claiming your business listings on major websites such as Google Maps, Yelp, Bing Places, Yellow Pages, etc., you will be able to respond quickly to any customer reviews and also correct incorrect or missing information about your business.
Probably the most prominent place customers will leave you a review is on your business listing for Google Maps. Claiming this listing is done through Google My Business. It's vital that you claim and monitor your reviews here as Google Maps come up first whenever someone is searching for local services—including appliance repair.
Keep all the usernames, passwords and URLs to your listings in a spreadsheet, so you can access this information quickly when you need it.
Although not a review website, you should also set up a Facebook page and monitor any reviews you receive there as well.
Now that you have your listings claimed, you need to routinely monitor these websites and listings for any new reviews. For your Google My Business listing on Google Maps, you will get an email alert in your Gmail account any time someone leaves a new review about your business. So if your main email account is not a Gmail account, you need to make sure you log into it periodically for review notifications and other messages from Google about your listing.
You want to make sure your listing is not only complete and filled out with the correct information, but that past customers have good things to say about the quality of your service.
Try to encourage your customers to leave a review, especially if you know they are happy with your service. This might be something as simple as a follow up phone call, or email to a past customer. Ask them how their appliance is working and if everything seems good, then ask them to leave you a review. You can even copy a paste a link to your Google Maps listing to make it easier for them to leave a review there. If you do not have their email address, as them for it! Then send them the link to your Google Listing. You want to make it as easy as possible for the customer to leave you a review.
If you do not have the time to claim your local listings, Profit Partner Solutions offers this service for you. For more information, visit Local Search on Demand on the PPS website.


Sam Shinazzi brings his thoughtful songwriting to life with this contemplative video for his clip Bones. Nice work Brett Knight.
Besides having an awesome name, Sam Shinazzi has been kicking around for a while charming folk with his alternative rock and personal, engaging storytelling. If you want proof check out his latest album Forever and For Now, to put it simply it's brilliant. He's a humble guy, so it makes sense that the video for Bones follows suit.
Somewhere in Sydney, hidden deep beneath aspiring rappers spitting rhymes about their ex's and every local DJ's latest chill house mix, Sam Shinazzi picks up his acoustic guitar. Now I'm not saying these fine musicians aren't creating something special for the future of our music industry, but I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate what feels like the underrated sound of the moment; classic Australian alt-rock.


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Section 1. That the plat of S.S.P. Addition, a subdivision in Jackson County, Missouri, a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, is hereby approved.
Section 2. That the plat granting and reserving unto Kansas City an easement and license or right to locate, construct, operate and maintain facilities including, but not limited to, water, gas, sewerage, telephone, cable TV, surface drainage, underground conduits, pad mounted transformers, service pedestals, any and all of them upon, over, under and along the strips of land outlined and designated on the plat by the words utility easement or U/E be and the same are hereby accepted and where other easements are outlined and designated on the plat for a particular purpose, be and the same are hereby accepted for the purpose as therein set out.
Section 3. That the City Clerk is hereby directed to record copies of this ordinance, together with the documents described herein and all other relevant documents, when the plat has been released for recording, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jackson County, Missouri.
Section 4. That the Council finds that the City Plan Commission has duly endorsed its approval of this Ordinance hereon.


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Meet the Board | Eve de Castro-Robinson
Posted by sounzdigital | Dec 13, 2019 | Management and Governance, News | 0
In our Meet the Board series we invite you to sit down and learn more about each SOUNZ board member. Today we introduce Board member and Deputy Chair | Toihau Tuarua Eve de Castro-Robinson.
Give a brief introduction about yourself.
A tall, intense, leftwing, bipolar, Scorpio, 60-something creative, sound-botherer and retired composition lecturer, with a strong and abiding interest in making, and supporting, music in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
What do you do outside of your work at SOUNZ?
I decided to concentrate solely on freelance work from early 2020, so took early retirement as Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Auckland where I taught for 25 years, was director of the contemporary music ensemble The Karlheinz Company and co-ordinator of Composition workshops, visitors and events.
I was always proportional, and the three-day week suited my freelance work on creative projects, from music for orchestra, voice/s, ensemble, and solo instruments including choreographed microscores and theatrical works as well as recordings. I've released five solo CDs (Atoll, Rattle) and have always curated and organised concerts and events, co-forming groups such as CadeNZa, and hear|say.
What is one of your earliest musical memories?
I was a pre-teen girl, and Dad brought home a record of African drumming – I remember the fire was burning in the grate, and his palpable excitement at the driving music, exhorting me to listen. I was rather an introverted child, but with intense feelings, and have never forgotten the impact of this electric atmosphere. Dad, who died in 2016, was an oblique influence on my music through the decades, frequently a step ahead of me with quirky thoughts and references.
What do you think makes the music of Aotearoa New Zealand unique?
The diverse individuals, groups and institutions who make up the scene, and the unusually deep camaraderie amongst us. This eases a two-way flow between musicians, genres, and approaches, as can be evidenced at Audio Foundation improv nights, Nelson Composers' Workshops, and APRA Silver Scrolls award ceremonies, for example, where a range from classical trained musos to jazzers and grunge noisers can all rub musical shoulders. I love the way I can bowl up to anyone in our music world for a direct kōrero.
Provide a brief overview of your personal journey with music.
A shy and intense child who loved music, from hymns, musicals like My Fair Lady (I hid myself away to conduct along to Ascot Gavotte on my brand new LP), to classical and pop stuff Mum played on the piano and marching back to class to Colonel Bogey at intermediate. There was trudging dutifully to piano lessons (eventually getting ATCL, at 20, on the third try), and gradually morphing into a quietly rebellious teenager learning drumkit and going to classical and rock gigs with equal fervour, from Menuhin to Roxy Music, Grappelli to the Stones; then a breakthrough into contemporary classical when maverick piano teacher Peter Crowe gave me Lilburn, and suggested I "go up the hill" to hear what The Karlheinz Company was doing at the university". Went up the hill, heard Stockhausen, Varèse, Whitehead, Lockwood, and never came down, but still working on how to make sense of my own compositional journey, which started more or less by chance and has lurched along in search of itself ever since.
Why is music important to New Zealand culture?
Music is embedded in the culture, whether we like it or not. Thinking of a random selection of musics I've heard this week – supermarket muzak, distant cheers of Tongan rugby league supporters, students strutting their sonic stuff, and a visiting child banging on the piano, all contribute to the soundscape, and are grist to the mill for my personal, as well as teaching work, since I don't tend to discriminate. In terms of the importance within the wider culture, especially in early education and cultural institutions, anyone with the opportunity or means to should encourage any form of music-making. From the womb onward, the opportunity to hear, then make, a range of vocal, instrumental or found sounds, should be available to everyone, with no prejudicial exclusivity or talk of 'tone-deafness' that I remember from my childhood. Music belongs to everyone.
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July 1966 U.S. Navy Ship U.S.S. Ernest G. Small (DD-838 & DDR-838) Destroyer Photograph Slide
United States America American U.S. Navy Ship Destroyer Sailor Military Vietnam War U.S.S. Ernest G. Small DD-838 DDR-838 Photo Photograph Slide History Historic
The picture shows a view of this July 1966 U.S. Navy Ship U.S.S. Ernest G. Small (DD-838 & DDR-838) Destroyer Photograph Slide. This color slide was found in a photo slide box labeled ''VIETNAM''. The ship may have been in Vietnam at the time, but we do not know for sure. The slide is dated ''JULY 1966''.
The photo slide measure 2'' x 2''. The slide image appears to be in excellent condition with a few small spots as pictured. The cardboard frame does have some wear. Below here, for reference, is some Historic information about the U.S.S. Ernest G. Small:
U.S.S. Ernest G. Small (DD-838)
Career (UnitedÊStates)
Name: U.S.S. Ernest G. Small (DD-838)
Namesake: Ernest G. Small
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down: 30 January 1945
Launched: 14 June 1945
Commissioned: 21 August 1945
Reclassified: DDR-838, 18 July 1952
Struck: 13 November 1970
Honors and awards: 4 battle stars (Korea)
Fate: Transferred to Republic of China, 13 April 1971
Career (Republic of China)
Name: ROCS Fu Yang (DD-7)
Acquired: 13 April 1971
Reclassified: DDG-907
Decommissioned: December 1999
Fate: Sunk as a target, 8 October 2003
Class & type: Gearing class destroyer
Displacement: 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full
Length: 390 feet 6 inch (119.02 m)
Beam: 40 feet 10 inch (12.45 m)
Draft: 14 feet 4 inch (4.37 m)
Propulsion: Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range: 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 336
Armament: 6 - 5''/38 caliber guns, 12 - 40 mm AA guns, 11 - 20 mm AA guns, 10 - 21'' (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 depth charge projectors, 2 depth charge tracks
The U.S.S. Ernest G. Small (DD/DDR-838) was a Gearing class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral Ernest G. Small (1888Ð1944). Ernest G. Small was launched on 14 June 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs E.ÊG. Small; and commissioned on 21 August 1945 with Commander T.ÊD. McGrath, USN, in command.
Service history 1945 - 1949
After completing her shakedown cruise in Guantanamo Bay, she sailed in company with PowerÊ(DD-839) on 11 January 1946 en route to Gibraltar whence she proceeded to Naples. She began a series of peacetime Mediterranean patrols in company with Power and ProvidenceÊ(CL-82) until 7 March. She continued in this mission independently until 7 August when she returned to the States.
Following a period of yard availability she reported to Commander, Submarines Atlantic Fleet, and operated out of New London, Connecticut, until 14 December when she was laid up for repairs at Boston, Massachusetts. On 3 April 1947 while anchored off Block Island she grounded in a violent wind and rain storm, but, refloated with aid from two tugs, she returned to Boston where repairs were made.
USS Ernest G. Small sailed on 12 June for Norfolk, Virginia, and engaged in type exercises in the Virginia Capes Operating Area. On 6 August she stood out for the Caribbean, calling at Guantanamo and Trinidad before rendezvousing with Task Force 84 (TFÊ84) which proceeded to Rio de Janeiro where on 7 September the flagship U.S.S. Missouri (BB-63) embarked U.S. President Harry S. Truman and his family for the trip to the States. Ernest G. Small steamed on escort station during the voyage.
From 9 February to 10 April 1948 she cruised in the Caribbean and on 7 June began a midshipman cruise to the Mediterranean, calling at Lisbon, Genoa, Casablanca, and returning to Norfolk on 21 July. Her third tour in the Mediterranean was made between 30 August 1948 and 23 January 1949. For the remainder of 1949 she operated in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic coast.
Korea, 1950 - 1951
From January to May 1950 she cruised in the Mediterranean and around northern Europe. With the outbreak of war in Korea, she was sent to join the 7th Fleet, and on 29 June she transited the Panama Canal en route to action. She sailed with carrier forces, fired shore bombardments, patrolled off Taiwan, and participated in the landings at Inchon in September, and at Wonsan in October. In December she helped evacuate the Tenth Army Corps from Hungnam and Inchon.
Following a brief overhaul at San Diego, California, in the first half of 1951, she began her second Korean tour as escort for the aircraft carrier RendovaÊ(CVE-114). She participated in the naval bombardment of Hungnam and was so occupied on 7 October when she struck a mine which seriously damaged her bow, killed 9 and wounded 18. Four days later heavy seas broke the bow off and she was fitted with a stubby replacement which enabled her to reach Long Beach, arriving on 18 December 1951. She was decommissioned on 15 January 1952 and the bow of the unfinished Seymour D. OwensÊ(DD-767) was grafted to her hull. She also underwent conversion to a radar picket ship at this time.
Ernest G. Small was reclassified DDR-838 on 18 July 1952, and recommissioned on 2 December 1952. She followed training exercises off the California coast with her first peacetime tour of the Far East which lasted from 11 July 1953 through 29 January 1954. Attached to Task Force 77, she was a unit of the blockade and escort force for the Taiwan area.
A period of overhaul ensued and on 10 August 1954 she departed with Destroyer Squadron 13 (DesRon-13) for the Taiwan Patrol and later assumed defensive position to control part of the 7th Fleet air coverage during the Tachen Islands evacuation in February 1955. Early in March she returned to Long Beach whence she operated with Task Group 7.3 (TGÊ7.3) in ''Operation Wigwam'', the testing of an underwater atomic bomb off the west coast (2 - 20 May). She deployed with the 7th Fleet for the remainder of the year.
From 1 November 1956 through 28 April 1957 she again toured the Pacific, and included Kodiak, Singapore, and Brisbane in her itinerary. The remainder of that year was occupied with task force operations and intertype training exercises off the west coast.
Ernest G. Small began another western Pacific tour in January 1958 as a unit of Destroyer Division 132 (DesDiv-132) and was deployed in various operations, highlighted by participation in the SEATO exercise ''Ocean Link''.
In March 1959 she was assigned while on her annual Pacific cruise to the operational control of the United States Air Force to aid in the ''Discoverer'' earth satellite program. Until July 1959 she was engaged in competitive exercises and nose cone recoveries. The second half of the year was designated for a period of overhaul and local operations. Again, she deployed to the western Pacific on 17 May 1960 with Destroyer Division 131. Her duty was principally to screen and picket U.S.S. Ticonderoga (CVA-14) and U.S.S. Coral Sea (CVA-43). She arrived back at Long Beach on 16 November and on 29 December entered San Francisco Naval Shipyard for Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM).
ROCS Fu Yang (DD-7)
Ernest G. Small was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 November 1970 and transferred to the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 13 April 1971. She served in the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Fu Yang (DD-7). The ship was decommissioned by Taiwan in December 1999 and sunk as a target on 8 October 2003.
Ernest G. Small received four battle stars for Korean War service.
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Halfords continues to defy the cycle with 2008 profits up to £92.4m, as Londoners take to their bikes.
That's a 2.4% rise on the previous year - not a huge amount, but given the vicious trading conditions out there on the high street, it's a pretty good effort all the same.
Halfords branches in the London area will probably be doing a roaring trade today, too. A 48-hr Tube strike has produced an army of red-faced first-time cycle commuters in the capital, more used to sweating on the Underground than panting their way round the north circular dodging buses and 38-tonne trucks on their way to work. Half of them will probably be riding bikes which haven't seen the light of day for months or even years, so the demand for running repairs is likely to be high.
Halfords' market share is also up, although revenues at the 460-odd branch group fell slightly to £795m. Chief exec David Wild remains keen to keep a lid on expectations though, predicting a tough start to 2010 as a result of VAT rises and the prospect of peak unemployment.
There's no doubt that Halfords has done well nationally out of the booming popularity of biking in recent years, and particularly from being one of the main suppliers for the government-backed Cycle 2 Work incentive scheme. It now claims to sell a third of all bikes sold in the UK. But cycling has not been an unalloyed success for the firm – earlier this year it closed all its stand-alone BikeHut cycle shops after a disappointing performance.
Halfords also claims to be doing very-nicely-thank-you from the credit-crunch-inspired resurgence in the popularity of camping, and from its old stalwart of car parts sales for similar reasons.
The truth is that Halford's success – like that of most businesses – is probably down to a combination of good luck and good judgement. Luck in that it operates in a counter-cyclical market which naturally does well in a downturn. Judgement in that its management has been impressively fleet of foot, keeping sales on the boil by backing a succession of good earners and always keeping an eye on the next big thing. Hence it has done well out of sat-navs, bikes and now camping in recent years.
If it wants to make a killing today in the capital, it could do worse than arm its staff with oil cans, energy drinks and puncture repair kits and send them out to sit by the side of the road, so they can jump on the sweatiest cyclists.


We're joining forces with Sandi MacIver's Happy Stampers for our Happy Inkin' Thursday Blog Hop this week! We're planning to do this one Thursday each month and we're excited to have Sandi's group hopping with us for the first time! We're also doing something a little fun with the challenges. On our combined weeks, we will have a sketch challenge and a color challenge that we can choose to use individually or together!
I used both the sketch and the colors for my card share this week. I pulled out the Stampin' Up! Abstract Impressions stamp set from the upcoming 2018-19 Annual Catalog to create my project.
I started by inking the stem image from the Abstract Impressions photopolymer stamp set (available June 1) in Tranquil Tide ink, stamping it on scrap paper and then stamping it on a panel from the Tranquil Textures DSP (available June 1). Then I inked the flower images in Night of Navy ink, stamped them on scrap paper and then stamped them across the tops of the stems on the DSP panel.
I stamped the second set of stems and flowers from the Abstract Impressions stamp set in full strength Tranquil Tide and Night of Navy inks over the top of the stamped off images. I added the butterfly images in Crumb Cake and stamped off Tranquil Tide and Night of Navy inks above the flowers before adhering the stamped panel to a panel of Night of Navy card stock with SNAIL. I adhered the layered panel to a Tranquil Tide card base with Stampin' Dimensionals.
I inked half of the sentiment from the Abstract Impressions stamp set in Tranquil Tide ink and the other half in Night of Navy ink (using my Stamparatus [available June 1] to stamp the image and Post-It Note tape to cover the parts that I did not want inked) on a panel of Crumb Cake card stock. I cut the image out with a Stitched Shapes Framelits die and adhered it to a larger oval cut from Night of Navy card stock with a Layering Ovals Framelits Die and then to the card front with SNAIL.
I pulled a strand of Night of Navy Medium Baker's Twine into two parts and threaded one half through a True Gentleman Button. I tied a small bow and then adhered the button to the card front with a Glue Dot to finish it.
I stamped the flowers from the Abstract Impressions stamp set in the same manner described above on a panel of Crumb Cake card stock inside the card.
Interested in joining in our hop?? Join my team with me, Mary, Kristi, Jaimie, Sue or Karen if you're in the US and join Sandi's Team in Canada!
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Love it! So simply perfect. And it shows how wonderful this set is – don't you think? We both used it and yet our cards are so different! Really REALLY like how you've used it!
Amy, this is such a beautiful card. Love that you combined the two challenges and the stamps you used are perfect for it, too!
Great job incorporating the two challenges!! Love that stamp set !
Love how you used typically masculine colors to make a pretty, feminine card. Great way to combine the two challenges, too.
You showcased that stamp set perfectly! You have a wonderful "knack" for showing the versatility of stamps and making me think I need it!
Definitely a wonderful showcase of the stamp set! Those flowers are so fun!


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Disney In Turmoil – Creators Are Not Happy With Bob Chapek
on 10 August 2021 at 3:05 PM
Right, I've got some pretty hot news for you guys and it's to do with Disney, and specifically how creators within the company are not happy with Bob Chapek.
Alright, on to the details.
It seems as though creators inside of Disney are not pleased at all with the direction Bob Chapek is taking the company in.
Chapek is the new President of Disney – taking over from Bob Iger.
He's bringing in a lot of changes that are messing with the things that have been run at Disney for quite some time now.
The era of Bob Chapek has begun
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So, Disney has gone through what can only be described as an era of incredible prosperity and that all happened with Bob Iger at the helm.
He was someone who always put the creator first and did everything he could to remove as much red tape for them as possible.
He's also the man who oversaw the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and most recently 20th Century Fox.
Iger is, in many ways, the reason why Disney is where it is today – at the top of the food chain in Hollywood and pretty much the world.
And he did all of this by making sure his creators were happy and making the best (and most profitable) movies they could make.
Well, that's all starting to change with the era of Chapek.
Creators aren't happy with Bob Chapek at Disney
Credit: Disney
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OK, on with it. Here's what our source with very close ties to Disney had to say:
Disney as a company is doing very well. However, it's in turmoil as far as the creators are concerned. Creators who've had long standing relationships with Disney and the likes of Bob Iger are not happy at all with the direction Bob Chapek's taking the company.
It's actually getting quite bad for them and there are grumblings from the likes of Pixar that they just want out of the House Of Mouse – but that's virtually impossible for them now.
There's a lot of in-fighting between Chapek and his team (who has the shareholders on their side – mostly) and the creators (people at Pixar, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios and now also 20th Century Fox).
It doesn't look like this rift will be fixed any time soon, and Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit has really caused a stir.
Let's unpack all of this
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So, there's a lot to unpack here.
First, one of the main takeaways has to be that the era of Bob Chapek has begun and it's begun badly.
At least, as far as creators are concerned.
I can't overstate this enough, it seems not many people are paying attention to the reign of Bob Chapek.
Chapek is clearly thinking merchandising first and content second TEXT:('content' – the most overused word of our time).
Creators at Disney have been put at the very back of the queue and that's evident for all to see.
Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit against Disney for the release of Black Widow on Disney Plus is evidence of that.
Chapek's Disney does not care about its creators and creatives.
I'm also pretty sure that this must be making Bob Iger absolutely insane.
Pixar is NOT in a good place at Disney now
Credit: Pixar
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Also, our source spoke of Pixar.
Pixar has easily been the studio inside of Disney that's been hit the worse by Chapek's new direction.
Their movies, which are huge money-spinners for Disney, have been released on Disney Plus for free!
That's insane to me since Pixar's films have made a ridiculous sum of money at the box office.
They are family films and are bound to make a bomb at the box office.
Why release them for free on Disney Plus? It's a clear slap in the face as far as I'm concerned.
Unfortunately, there's no way that Pixar will be able to free themselves of Disney.
They would be too expensive to acquire and I doubt Disney would ever want to let them go.
All of this is pure and utter madness to me.
It's insane to think that Disney's new President is just thinking about how much money Disney can make out of things such as Disney Plus, merch and the parks.
Those are his three main priorities moving forward and they are the wrong ones.
Chapek vs. Iger
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Iger was all about content.
He then ended up being the President of one of the world's most valuable companies.
Chapek is all about the product: merch, merchandising and streaming.
Will this result in Disney being at the top of the Hollywood food chain in ten years' time?
Only time will tell, but as it stands, if this complete disregard for creators (filmmakers, actors, film and television crew, writers, producers…) then I doubt Disney will be the powerhouse it was up until 2019.
What do you make of all of this? Let us know in the comments below.
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Quainton Windmill
A six-storey brick tower mill built 1830–32.
Mill History in brief
The building of the windmill started in 1830 to the order of Mr. James Anstiss. The bricks for the 65 foot tower were burnt in a kiln set up near the mill, the clay being dug from a depression about 100 yards to the north east. Two of the bricks are inscribed 'Ja Hunt 1830' and 'G&B 1830'. After a delay when the half-completed tower was thatched for the winter, machinery for 3 pairs of stones was installed by William Cooper of Aylesbury incorporating the latest ideas in millwrighting. The millers were James and Thomas Anstiss, Joseph Rose, Charles Burton and William Smith.
Early in the mill's life the first floor was raised and reorganised to allow a steam engine to be installed on the massive bed-stone on the ground floor, with its boiler in the open outside the north door. This engine enabled the mill to work regardless of the wind and was a common practice at the time. The drive was taken up the mill to engage the great spur wheel.
The mill only operated for about 50 years, and ceased working before 1891 since in the Census of that year both James and Thomas Anstiss described themselves as retired millers. The mill was left to become derelict. The engine and boiler were sold for scrap in 1914. At the same time one pair of stones was sold.
Society History
Quainton Windmill Society was formed in 1974 with the object of restoring the mill. The present owner, Mr. Colin Dancer, is Life President and he is a descendant of Mr. James Anstiss. In the first year temporary flooring was laid on all floors to allow safe access up the mill. The one remaining sail was removed as it endangered the structure. May 1975 saw the lowering of the cap, wind shaft and headframe to the ground to facilitate repairs. Work then continued renewing all floors, repairing windows, and rebuilding the gallery.
A new head frame, fantail assembly and a repaired cap were installed in 1987. The sails were fitted in 1992 and subsequently stone furniture was renewed allowing one pair of stones to mill grain to flour in February 1997.
Unfortunately, after only eight years, the sails had to be removed in the Autumn of 2000 as they had become badly rotted and weakened. At the same time a luffing gear casting became cracked needing the fantail to be removed as it could not turn into the wind. By June 2002 the luffing gear and fantail were back in place and the gallery decking was replaced.
In October 2004 the second set of sails had been constructed and hoisted into position and in April 2005 they were turned by the wind for the first time. In October 2006 the stone crane was installed allowing for safer and easier maintenance of the stones.
Milling of grain to produce flour resumed in May 2007 and continued for almost 5 years until April 2012. Milling ceased because control bars on two sails sheared preventing their shutters from operating. Replacement bars were manufactured (free of charge by ATG Training of Aylesbury) and fitted in July 2013. The Y-chain wheel was refurbished and put back into use at the same time.
The sails are turning again but the head frame is too weak to withstand the forces generated by milling. The Society is currently working towards obtaining a large grant to replace the head frame and undertake other restoration works.
In the past grants have been obtained from the Bucks County Council, English Heritage, New Horizons Trust and EB Buckinghamshire. The Friends of the Vale of Aylesbury, the CPRE, the Ernest Cook Trust, and many individuals have made donations. Help in kind has been received from numerous organisations. A number of village organisations have recently (2013) made generous donations from their fund raising activities.
The mill is open Sundays between 10 and 12.30 between March and October. Interested helpers and visitors are very welcome. Please contact us via Info@QuaintonWindmill.org or drop in any Sunday when we are open.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Thursday denied Argentina's request to extend deadlines to repay a $1.65 billion debt to U.S. hedge funds, leaving the nation few options and little time to meet a Monday deadline to make a required payment to the majority of its creditors.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa said Argentina's request was "not appropriate" because the requirement to pay U.S. hedge funds involved in the Manhattan litigation was only triggered if Argentina makes a payment to bondholders who exchanged their bonds for bonds of lesser value in the years after Argentina's economy collapsed in 2001.
Argentina's economy minister, Axel Kicillof, said Thursday that Argentina has taken steps to pay $832 million owed by Monday to creditors who participated in debt swaps in 2005 and 2010.
"Not paying while having the resources and forcing a voluntary default is something that is not contemplated in Argentine law," Kicillof said. "It would be a clear violation of the debt prospects."
If Argentina does not also pay the U.S. bondholders who refused to join the debt swaps, the ruling bars it from using the U.S. financial system to pay other bondholders.
Robert A. Cohen, a lawyer for the U.S. hedge funds, told Griesa in a letter Thursday that Kicillof's announcement was a "brazen step in violation of this court's orders and it warrants a swift and decisive response."
Cohen said the plaintiffs in the New York court case brought by the U.S. hedge funds against Argentina had contacted Bank of New York Mellon to remind it that it was not permitted to let Argentina forward money to bondholders who accepted the debt swaps. He said the plaintiffs acted after Kiciloff announced that $539 million of the $832 million payment had been deposited at the bank.
The judge scheduled a Friday morning hearing in the case.
Lawyers for Argentina had asked Griesa to delay an end-of-the-month deadline to make payments to U.S. hedge funds. Kicillof had said the payments could sink the nation's economy, forcing a default on $24 billion of debt, and trigger financial havoc around the world.
Lawyers for the holdout bondholders led by New York billionaire Paul Singer's NML Capital Ltd. have countered that Argentina was just trying to delay paying the $1.65 billion it owes.
Griesa also said in Thursday's order that the handling of any further payments due bondholders who had exchanged their bonds for lesser value will be handled as part of negotiations involving a special master he appointed this week.
The winners of the more than decade-long debt battle asked Griesa on Tuesday to deny Argentina's request for more negotiating time to avoid a default. The plaintiffs said Argentina must first show it's serious about paying the judgment and that Argentina will only try to evade court's orders with additional time.
Argentina President Cristina Fernandez has said she favors a process that would enable her government to resolve 100 percent of Argentina's debts — including holders of the last 7 percent of bonds that went into default in 2001 and are held by investors who weren't part of the winning case.


Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman texted his wife while he was on the run after narrowly avoiding capture in 2012, according to the latest damaging evidence presented at Guzman's U.S. trial.
Prosecutors showed jurors a series of text messages between Guzman and Emma Coronel Aispuro in which they fussed over their twin daughters and exchanged assurances as he fled a raid by Mexican authorities on a mansion in Baja. On the day of the raid, Guzman told his wife about the escape in one of several messages shown to jurors at the trial in federal court in Brooklyn.
The messages were recovered with the help of a technician who set up a secure messaging system for the Sinaloa cartel before becoming an FBI cooperator. The tech put the spyware on phones passed out to members of Guzman's inner circle at his direction, the FBI agent testified.
Guzman said in the messages that he needed a new set of clothes and some black dye for his mustache.
Also in evidence are loving texts that Guzman traded with a woman who was arrested in the raid in the resort town of Cabo San Lucas.
Guzman's wife was in the courtroom Wednesday, but had no visible reaction to portions of the messages as they were displayed on a large video screen and read aloud by an FBI agent.
The kingpin was a feared and admired crime boss in Mexico who was perhaps best known for escaping jail twice. He was recaptured and sent to the U.S. in 2017, where his lawyers say he's being framed. Guzman has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges.


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Parma Art Scene
by Kathryn Mabin
Artist: Magickally Morbid
Prama Artspace & Gallery, 5411 Pearl Rd, is having their Annual Spooktacular Show. They sure do love the spooky stuff at Prama. If you love dark, mysterious and spooky, you'll love this show. Opening night was Friday, October 28, 2022. Patrons came dressed in costumes, refreshments were served. and listened to the sounds of Sept Le Charme perform their latest Draculian dirges at 8 PM. Sept le Charme just released a new album of their dark poetry as lyrics titled, And on the 7th Day, the Goth God Created Sept le Charme. This exhibit will be available for you to peruse through November 20th.
Coming soon to Prama Artspace & Gallery - book signing. "Bobby's Shivery Shadows Book" by Thomas Tobie. Follow Prama on Facebook and Instagram for details on this exciting event.
Menlo Park Children's Art Show sponsored by Cleveland Photo Fest is coming to Prama, November 25th through December 18th.
While visiting Prama, stop at the many unique food and beverage establishments located on Ridge and Pearl Roads. Shop small, shop local and often. You won't be sorry you did.
Lynne Shayko, a member of Parma Area Fine Arts Council is one of the 50 Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists on exhibit at Beachwood Community Center, October 23rd through November 12th. The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists are a group of area portrait artists who meet to draw the portrait of whomever signed up to pose. No money is ever exchanged as the model poses for portraits. They are unique as they prefer to draw in front of the public, all the models come from the public, and the public is always welcome to draw with them.
Greenbrier Art League is a group of artists that meet every Tuesday at the Parma Heights Cassidy Theater, in the social room in the downstairs of the theater. It is free and open to all artists that would like to come and work on their projects from 10 am to 1pm. They do a little assignment each month and have a critic on the last Tuesday. Coffee and friendship is provided. If you are interested stop in and join them.
Sean Mabin owner/operator of Prama Artspace & Gallery has certainly been busy. He is one of several artists/photographers in the 4 Your Love show, October 14 to November 11 at 818 Studio in Tremont. Also in Tremont, his works appear in The Occult Show at Doubting Thomas Gallery, 856 Jefferson Ave., which opened October 20th. He also has two pieces in the Robert Thurmer People's Art Show at Galleries at CSU, 1307 Euclid Ave., which runs to November 26. Additionally, two of his photos were chosen to be a part of the Inteernational Photography Exchange Exhibition between Cleveland Photo Fest and Len's School of Photography in New South Wales (Sydney) Australia..
Kathryn Mabin
Board Secretary of Parma Area Fine Arts Council, Inc, or PAFAC, and Artist/Jewlery Designer, Owner Aire of Oppulence.
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