The Feature Story was one of my favorite projects. I really enjoyed the process that included all of the different types of mediums. The audio section was fun for me because I am currently in the class Audio 2. It was fun using the skills that I learned in that class and transferring them over to New Communication Technologies. I think the interviews came out pretty good. I used the Rode shotgun mic on my camera. Then I edited the audio on Adobe Audition. I think out of everything on the project. The audio came out clean and full after I put on some effects on it to improve the quality of the audio information. I think the interviews were well structured. In addition I had really great responses from the people I interviewed. They gave me full articulate responses that really tied into my topic quite well. I wish I could have interviewed them for my video project as well.
Video is the thing that I do the best. In this project I didn't use my full potential. I didn't read the rubric and forgot about the B-roll. In addition I could have found better people to interview. Because of these reasons I am not super proud of my final product but I also know I can be overly critical on my own work. The main thing with videos is having enough time to get them done at a high quality. Coming off of a very busy week I had to rush the shoot and edit. This is one thing you really shouldn't do when it comes to video production. That being said this project was a fun one. I enjoyed telling the same story through different mediums. It really made you think about what information and content should appear in each.
I feel that our meme presentation went very well. We had several great things that went into the presentation. The first being the meme it's self. We chose the Roll Safe meme because we felt it was one that was easy to replicate and the narrative of the meme wasn't too complicated and was easy to explain. I personally make multiple meme's a day and post them on my meme page so this project was especially fun for me. I have personally used the Roll Safe meme many times and probably will many more in the future. It was fun to dive into the research behind what makes a meme spread and why they reach and connect with such a giant audience. Twitter is one thing that really elevates the spread of memes. Retweeting and sharing are so instrumental to the growth of a meme. Platforms that don't include this feature are at a disadvantage to ones that do. Instagram for instance doesn't have a sharing feature. Because of this it is not an ideal outlet for meme pages. Twitter on the other hand has pages for only one meme format and through retweets these pages can explode very quickly. The pages on Instagram have to be varied and constantly posting different material.
In this class I have learned many things. About the ever-changing landscape of modern media and communication. As our technologies change so do the dynamics of communication through them. The many to many dynamic that the internet has provided us is for the most part still being studied and understood. This class put us in several situations within this topic to understand the dynamic and changing relationships.
We learned about how cell phones have created new solutions and problems. We read articles and reviewed the effects of social media and how it is constantly evolving our interaction abilities. We studied how fast the changes are coming to the landscape and how each change alters the communication between two people. The article reviews helped me to really read in depth and understand the material. I enjoyed the group work that we had in the class and all of the presentations. It was nice to collaborate and bounce ideas off of one another rather than just doing it alone.
I really enjoyed the content we studied and it is going to directly into my career. I actually run my own meme page and it has gotten quite big so it was really fun for me to study the history of meme's and what makes them spread. This was probably my favorite thing that we did in this class. I also like the studies we did on all the discussions we had that were video related. The industry is ever changing and it was a lot of fun for me to discuss these changes in class. In conclusion, I really enjoyed this class and would recommend it to anyone in my major.
My paper's topic is one that really speaks to me. My career is going to be predominantly filmmaking. This paper is going to dive into how the industry is changing and becoming more saturated. Social media and video creation is something that really interests me and I know I will be able to write plenty of content on the subject. At the moment I am focusing on working ahead so that I don't feel the effects of the long paper on the last week when everything else is due. I am running into several difficulties with my sources. There are not as many scholarly journals on YouTube filmmaking as I had hoped. While this is an obstacle I'm sure I can overcome it is frustrating me at the moment. And other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram haven't had specific videographers long enough to have a scholarly journal written about them. The marketing potential of social media is unparalleled therefor the need for video content is much higher. If I can find another article that touches on this a little bit more it could really help my paper. This next week will be a big week for working on the paper. My goal is to have my first draft done by Friday.
While starting this research paper, I am committed to finding a good topic. I think that there is a lot of information and content for some subjects while others lack. I want to try to find sources on my topic before I commit to it so that I can get an idea on how saturated the research market is for that topic. My first thoughts went to the gaming world. Fortnite and modern communication through games seemed like a topic that I could get early momentum on. Then I factored in the fact that it takes a few years for a scholarly article to get written, so I knew there would be no information on the topic for another few years still. I think Snapchat might be interesting to study or Instagram. An idea that I can really get into though is the ADHD gained from regular cell phone use. There is also the angle that it is making us less socially conscious. I like this because I almost feel that I need breaks from my phone because I am so connected to it. I am always responding to some new notification or alert that my phone has sent me and the result is that I am never without it and never go long without checking it. Another topic that I might be interested in is the new age of filmmaking and how because cameras are much easier to acquire so the market has flooded and therefor the format has changed. Many traditional filmmakers have gone to YouTube or Vimeo because of the ease of connection and the instant revenue off of traffic to a video.
I Just finished my feature story. I learned there is a couple of logistic problems that you run into when scheduling interviews. The camera work and editing is a strong point for me so that wasn't that difficult. It was difficult to take pictures for the project. I felt as if I was being too redundant. I learned that you wan to have a very solid list of questions that are good for leading conversation. I did one interview that I cut because while I had solid questions they did not facilitate conversation the responses were brief and I forgot to prep them to repeat the question in the answer. After that interview however I worked out the kinks and think it turned out pretty well.
I think this week's articles all touch on an idea that is very important when it comes to the internet and social media. That idea is that these tools can be a steroid or a drug. If they are used as tools then they hold unbelievable potential. A potential to connect people from miles away and build knowledge with the ease of sharing information. This being said they can also be used in the wrong way. There is plenty of research in the articles to support this. So, the question isn't using the internet and social media but what are you using it for? This is the distinction between the two. Many people use social media to launch their career and some even make their entire living on social media. Google does not make us stupid, it gives us the opportunity to be lazy.
The internet is a very public sphere. To connect with almost anyone we want seems to cost us personal information. Without this information you can not be found. To most people it is in their control. If you don't want someone to know where you live, don't post it online. There are exceptions to this however. In the case of the lady and her dog that pooped on the subway. Her privacy was invaded by people when the video of her was viral and she gained a level of notoriety. This is interesting because growing up with the internet we were taught not to put anything up that we didn't want people to see. Now it seems that it is almost out of our hands. The rule now is don't do anything you don't want people to see. Was it wrong of her to not pick up after her dog? Yes, but if she had known the backlash that she would face, she would have done anything to clean up that floor. Being in the google generation our information is not as private as we think. I know just from placing at state in wrestling anyone can find out my height, weight, high school and college from one google search. This is information that I never consented to being posted and while it seems like innocent information to give out the idea that I was never consulted by Track Wrestling is concerning to me. It is interesting to me that the article explores the idea that in todays age a lack of privacy is the only way to restrict free speech. I'm not sure if I agree with this or not but it is defiantly an interesting idea.
This story touches on not only the connection of people through technology but also the class system that wealth can create. When Ivanna lost her phone, she responded like anyone would, she tried to find it and when she couldn't she reluctantly purchased a new one. Sasha, the girl who found Ivanna's phone acted in a way that I myself would not have had I been in her situation. The connection between Ivanna and Sasha was something that couldn't have happened 20 years ago. While this connection is interesting and a little uneasy for Ivanna. The story was much more invested in the class structure and how it was a replicable device for Ivanna, but for someone of a lower socio economical background like Sasha it was a phone she had no other way of owning. There is an obvious resentment toward Ivanna from Sasha. In an age where more can be shared online. The culture of wealth and appearance of wealth is a quite interesting trend on social media. I have seen a huge effort from my generation and even millennials to appear rich and successful on social media. The formula is as simple as that of a music video. Let's get a lot of money and expensive cars to show the viewers how amazing we are and how much wealth and power we have. The same thing is happening more and more on social media.


Poetry@Red Tree will end your summer in style by featuring poet Joanna Lilley on Sept. 4 at 7 p.m.
Sep. 5, 2017 1:30 a.m.
Poetry@Red Tree will end your summer in style by featuring poet Joanna Lilley on Monday Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. An open mic will happen for the second half of the evening at Red Tree Specialty Coffee at 2546 Rosewall Cr. in Tin Town in Courtenay.
Joanna Lilley is the author of the poetry collection, If There Were Roads (Turnstone Press), and the poetry collection, The Fleece Era (Brick Books), which was nominated for the Fred Cogswell Award for excellence. Lilley is also the author of the short story collection, The Birthday Books (Hagios Press).
Lilley has been published and given readings all across Canada as well as in the U.S England and Scotland. In Canada, her work has appeared in journals including The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Grain, The Fiddlehead and The Antigonish Review.
Her awards include first prize in the Vancouver International Writers' Festival Poetry Contest, joint first prize in the Baked Poetry Contest, first prize in the Authors on Eighth Creative Non-Fiction Contest, first prize in the Lothian Life Poetry Competition and first prize in the Worldwise Regional Creative Writing Competition.
Lilley has received four Advanced Artist Awards from the Government of Yukon to support her work, as well as a grant from the Emerging Northern Writers and Artists Fund, support from the Cultural Industries Training Fund and two Touring Artist Fund awards.
She is a graduate of the MLitt in Creative Writing at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, and has a postgraduate certificate from the Humber School for Writers. Born in the UK, she emigrated to Canada in 2006 and settled in Whitehorse, Yukon. Find Joanna online at joannalilley.com.
Recent featured poets at Poetry@Red Tree have included Matt Rader, bill bissett, Cornelia Hoogland and John Donlan . Upcoming featured poets include Leyla Josephine from Glasgow in November and Ed Varney and friends reading from T.S Eliot's Four Quartets in October.
You will be able to enjoy the poetry along with a hot or cold drink and a treat. Bring a poem (or three), a friend (or two), or just come along on an artist's date with yourself and meet those folks like you, that like to be stirred by words and the music they make.
Arrive at around 6:45 p.m. to sign up for the open mic.


Thoughtful, earnest folk music is never really in style and never really out of style — like blue jeans, but with more heartache and sweet potatoes.
So it goes with Jake Xerxes Fussell. There's not a lot of pomp & circumstance here, but there doesn't need to be.
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Alberto Del Rio no-shows AAA Heroes Inmortales on Sunday night
By Dave Meltzer | @davemeltzerWON | Oct 3, 2016 9:39 am
Alberto El Patron no-showed last night's AAA Heroes Inmortales show at Arena Monterrey, where he was scheduled to team with Psycho Clown and face Dr. Wagner Jr. & Pagano.
Alberto was considered the big draw at one of AAA's biggest shows of the year, and the claim was that as late as the morning of the show he was in contact with the promotion and said he would be there. When the word got out that he was not going to be there, there were expectations that he'd make a surprise appearance on the TNA Bound for Glory PPV, since it's well known TNA has been recruiting him hard. But that didn't happen either.
The main event was changed to a three-way with Psycho vs. Wagner vs. Pagano.
AAA's press release, translated into English and with paragraph breaks added, read:
"Lucha Libre AAA WorldWide announced that for reasons outside the company's control, Alberto "El Patron" was not present for Heroes Inmortales X, which took place today. This, despite having confirmed his presence in advance and even this morning."
"We regret the lack of commitment of Alberto, as he disrespected the Mexican public that has supported him throughout his career, to turn him into one of the leading figures of Lucha Libre in Mexico, and internationally. For Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, it is important to offer the bet shows of international quality, in addition to strengthening Lucha Libre, which is an important part of our culture."
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42nd Street reigns as the world's entertainment capital in the first two decades of the 20th century, presenting legitimate plays in the theaters between Broadway and 8th Avenue.
The Depression ushers in the Burlesque era as Broadway theater producers face the threat of bankruptcy and the general public craves affordable entertainment. Burlesque gives way to motion pictures and the Broadway theater district is established several blocks north.
All of Times Square begins to suffer from the increasing corruption of prostitution and gambling. First-run movies are gradually replaced by "art" films and second-run movies, and eventually, grindhouse films. By the early 70s, 42nd Street is saturated with adult uses and street crime.
City and State officials formally join together to create the 42nd Street Development Project and establish a 13-acre renewal site stretching two city blocks along 42nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. The plan describes the block's theaters as "irreplaceable architectural and historical assets" that should be restored and adapted for cultural and entertainment uses.
The New 42nd Street is officially announced as the independent, nonprofit organization charged with long-term oversight of the renovation and ongoing operation of seven historic theaters between 7th and 8th Avenues. Within a year, the Board votes to launch the street's renewal with the renovation of the Victory as the city's first nonprofit theater programmed for the city's youth.
The New 42nd Street signs a 99-year master lease with the City and State, taking on long-term responsibility for the Liberty, Victory, Selwyn, Apollo, Times Square, Lyric and Empire theaters.
Walt Disney Company signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the City and State containing essential lease terms for the New Amsterdam Theatre.
Livent Inc. to combine the Apollo and Lyric Theaters to form a new Broadway musical theater.
December 11: Gala Opening and Dedication of The New Victory Theater—New York's first theater for kids and families.
All remaining adult uses on 42nd Street are closed. The New 42nd Street votes to convert the Selwyn offices and adjacent infill property into the New 42nd Street Studios, fulfilling the requirement for two nonprofit organizations on the properties under its jurisdiction. Tishman announces its plans for "E Walk, " an 860-room hotel and a 200,000 square-foot entertainment and retail center including a movie complex, and Forest City Ratner signs the master lease for the Empire and Harris Theaters.
Forest City Ratner begins renovations and re-construction of the Harris, Liberty and Empire theaters to build an AMC multi-screen movie complex and a Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, Tishman begins construction on "E Walk," and Roundabout Theatre Company signs a Memorandum of Understanding for the Selwyn Theater.
May 18: Disney opens the New Amsterdam Theatre with the premiere of Alan Menken and Tim Rice's King David oratorio, followed by Elton John and Time Rice's The Lion King in October.
December 26: Livent Inc. opens the Ford Center for the Performing Arts with the New York premiere of Ragtime.
December 30: The Selwyn office building collapses, destroying the historic facade that was to have been incorporated into the New 42nd Street Studios building. The New 42nd Street announces plans to redesign and maintain the projected construction schedule.
Forest City Ratner moves the Empire theater 170 feet from the center of 42nd Street to the corner at Eighth Avenue to be used as the main entrance to the AMC movie theater complex.
SFX Entertainment Inc. purchases Livent Inc. and becomes the operator of The Ford Center for the Performing Arts. Tishman's "E Walk" officially opens.
The AMC Empire 25 movie complex and the Hilton Times Square open as part of the Forest City Ratner complex.
June 21: Opening celebration of the New 42nd Street® Studios, a ten-story facility containing rehearsal studios, offices and a 199-seat theater called The Duke on 42nd Street.
July 27: Roundabout Theatre Company opens the 750-seat American Airlines Theatre with the revival of The Man Who Came To Dinner.
The Ford Center for the Performing Arts is renamed the Hilton Theatre.
Forest City Ratner leases The Liberty Theater to the restaurant chain Famous Dave's.
The Hilton Theatre is renamed the Foxwoods Theatre.
Ambassador Theatre Group purchases the Foxwoods Theatre and renames the venue the Lyric Theatre, currently home to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened on April 22, 2018.
Stillman Development International announces they will transform The Times Square Theater into a multi-floor retail space.


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Matt Damon and The Bourne Paternity
"My dad knew that there was nothing more important in the world than to laugh with the people that you love."
When Matt Damon stood on the stage of Saturday Night Live without a movie to promote, he told a particularly affecting story of shared laughter with his late father, and how he's now paying it forward with his own family. (Yes, we're talking about SNL again, because this is the kind of "Dad Christmas" we can get behind.)
Damon, whose father passed away just before Christmas last year, explained how the holiday is now a mixed bag, the best of times and the worst of times in ugly sweaters. We get it.
This holiday season is a series of firsts, from new additions to fresh losses, and so many milestones between. There are dads with new jobs, old ghosts, potential and promise, melancholy and memories.
There are kids and dads sharing laughter, and those who wish they could.
Christmas is a wonderful time for many, some of whom will still be feeling the sting of aired grievances, and others who will know the warmth of love around them. Turns out, Santa has a lot in his bag.
All we can say is that we're going to make Christmas as merry as we can make it, and we hope you and yours have a Very Merry Tuesday, too.
SUMMIT PEEKS
Earlier today, we announced Round 2 of our 2019 Speakers! For us, it's the gift that keeps on giving, a compendium of old friends and new-to-us stars who share our passion to build fatherhood as a lifestyle that can fit every man. Welcome aboard.
Congratulations also to Mike Cruse, winner of our first Suite Upgrade giveaway at the Westin Riverwalk! We'll have another drawing in mid-January, so perhaps you too will get the chance to come to San Antonio and SPREAD OUT.
Family holidays and traditions are what you make them. Who you make them with is pretty important, too.
Is your math anxiety affecting your kids?
There's always a play that can be made, and LeBron James knows it.
"The unfortunate reality is that it's still too common for children to receive presents that are wrapped up in pervasive gender stereotypes."
"Has protective parenting gone too far? Several high-profile news stories, along with increasing rates of childhood obesity, anxiety and depression, have sparked a movement encouraging parents to allow their children greater freedom."
"As a parent and a teacher, I've seen concerns addressed in a productive, successful way, and I've seen them handled in a way that made everything worse."
Teddy Roosevelt famously said "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Possibly because he had six kids.
Charles Barkley and the late Lin Wang, role models.
The holidays can add to our parenting pressure(s), but they shouldn't. In theory.
PORCHLIGHT POSTS
"Let's be outraged by something that actually matters for a change. There's plenty to choose from." — I'm Offended at Your Offense at the Offended, Jeremy Barnes
"My brother was a teenager. He must know what was good. He had an insight into these things that I knew nothing about. He wouldn't lie to me." — Why I Love Every Star Wars Film, Tristan Radu
"I get overcome with crippling guilt every time I do decide to indulge in some 'me time.'" — Earning "Me Time" Without Guilt, Michael Kwan
"You can imagine how children reacted. Some didn't mind, thought it was fun. Some were scared. Some needed to talk about it." — Earthquake Hastens Toddler Son's First Man-to-Man Talk, Michael Jenks
"It didn't take much more than a couple of minutes, but there we were, represented on screen. "I had those Jordans when I was a kid!" "They're speaking Spanish!" The film is full of moments that had us tearing up." — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Review, Fan Dads
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Our Top9 composite came out great. A perfect topper for an exceptional year.
Do you receive the Dad 2.0 Summit Newsletter? You should! In it we share all kinds of information and news about the Dad 2.0 Summit. Add it to your inbox! It's the perfect way to start planning your trip to San Antonio.
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Originally published at www.dad2summit.com on December 21, 2018.
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show
he Chelsea Flower Show has been held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London every year since 1913, apart from gaps during the two World Wars. Once Britain's largest flower show (it has now been overtaken by RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show), it is still the most prestigious.
Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4SR, UK
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is organised by the Royal Horticultural Society which was founded in 1804.
In 1927 there was a campaign to get the RHS to ban foreign exhibits from RHS Chelsea to reduce competition with British firms. The RHS refused saying, 'horticulture knows nothing of nationality.'
In 1932 the rain at the Show was so severe that a summer house display fell to pieces. One very wet year an exhibitor named it 'The Chelsea Shower Flow'.
The Great Pavilion is roughly 11,775 square metres or 2.90 acres, enough room to park 500 London buses.
Of the firms that exhibited at the first Show in 1913, three can still be seen at the Show today: McBean's Orchids, Blackmore & Langdon and Kelways Plants.
A cap of 157,000 was placed on the number of visitors to the showground in 1988.
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About & Prices, Oban Phoenix Cinema
CINEMA HISTORY
A small town on the beautiful West Coast of Scotland, Oban has always had a love of cinema.
At the turn of the 21st century 'The Highland Theatre' was situated at the top of George Street, and had served the town well for many decades. However, in 2010 it sadly closed its doors for the last time, and the people of Oban were suddenly confronted with having to drive for 100 miles to reach the nearest cinema!
A small group of dedicated local individuals worked hard to remedy this situation, and community support was huge. The idea arose to collectively buy the old cinema building, which, with the help of generous donations from local and interested parties, was managed, and work began to raise funds to get the cinema open as a community enterprise.
In August 2012 Oban Phoenix Cinema opened its doors as a fully independent community-owned cinema, and a registered charity. Since then we have not only managed to stay open but to thrive, and today we screen an eclectic mix of film including but not limited to arthouse, big blockbuster movies and live streamed theatre.
Standard £10.70 £11.70
Highschool & University
Use student option if in school
Family Ticket
2 Adult & 2 Children or 1 Adult & 3 Children
£28.00 N/A
CEA Cardholder+Companion
VIP Seats are only available in Screen 1. Located at the back of the screen, offering the best view of the film.
We are open 30-45 minutes before the first advertised film of the day.
The Box Office is open after 12pm most days.
Wednesday-Sunday.
Monday-Tuesday.
(this includes our Box Office)
CINEMA ACCESS
Wheelchair access from the street with a portable ramp. Give us a call or email us to book your tickets.
cinema@obanphoenix.com
SUBTITLED SCREENINGS
Each Wednesday all of our screenings will have subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing (HOH) audiences. These screenings are labelled on all programme materials as well as on our website next to the showtime. (some screenings may not have the required HOH file for subtitles)
Headphones are available at the Box Office - ask a member of staff for a pair. These headphones work with most films and provide a running commentary of the film and what actions are taking place in the film. This allows blind and partially sighted cinema goers to enjoy the film with their loved ones.
We are located at: 140 George Street, PA34 5NX.
Email cinema@obanphoenix.com
Follow us on Facebook for updates.
Currently there is no parking allocated for the cinema. We recommend that you use the paid parking car parks near the Corran Halls, which is about a 5 minute walk from Oban Phoenix Cinema, if all other on-street parking is taken.
Please find our Terms & Conditions here.
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Cranbrook to extend a warmer welcome
The south-west entrance to Cranbrook will be spruced up in the spring, using a $50,000 Columbia Basin Trust grant.
The City of Cranbrook's entrance at Elizabeth Lake is poised to undergo significant improvements in the coming months, thanks to a grant of $50,000 from Columbia Basin Trust.
In December, Mayor Wayne Stetski told the Townsman the area was in need of a change, and he was hearing from travellers that signage needed to be looked at.
The CBT grant will go toward Phase 1 of the project, which includes site preparation and road/parking lot work, a new Cranbrook sign, construction of an information panel kiosk and a vehicle charging station. Work is expected to continue on Phase 1 with completion in late spring 2013.
"This is very exciting news," Stetski said in a recent release. "The grant will help create a very welcoming and informative western entrance to our city and is important for tourism, business and the Elizabeth Lake environment. It is great to see Columbia Basin Trust supporting our vision for a better Cranbrook."
The city struck a committee, called the Highway 3 Improvement Committee, which will look at ways to improve the highway's passage through the city. A proper welcome sign was identified as a priority early on. Stetski promised in December that one would be coming soon.
"There's going to be a spectacular welcome to Cranbrook sign there come spring," he said.
And with the announcement of CBT funding, it will indeed happen in the spring.
"The updated entrance will greet visitors to Cranbrook and encourage them to stop, learn about and experience the city and the Elizabeth Lake wetlands," said Jennifer Krotz, CBT Community Liaison. "This is a great example of the city working alongside community organizations in a collaborative way."
The Highway 3 Improvement Committee will continue their work in 2013, looking at the entire strip from Elizabeth Lake to the overpass at the north end of town. The intent is to make the area more welcoming to visitors, whether they plan to stop in the city for a few hours, stay for a few days, or for those just passing through. The committee will look at art, landscaping, zoning and signage.
Stetski said the idea came to him when a mother with a young child pointed out that there is little to draw in families and encourage them to spend more time in the city. She asked if there could be a park, or perhaps directions or signage to a nearby park directing motorists driving through the city.
"I very much appreciate the work that CBT staff, especially Jennifer Krotz, contributed to this important project," Stetski said.
The $50,000 in funding is a great start, but there are many more plans for the south-west entrance. The city will be applying for a CBT Environmental Initiatives grant in the future to assist in the completion of Phase 2, which includes landscaping, native plant gardens and picnic area.
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Lutétia offers 4-star accommodation in Paris' Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood. It features 2 restaurants, a bar and a fitness centre. Free Wi-Fi is available.
Each Lutétia room is equipped with an en suite bathroom, TV with satellite channels and a work desk. Room service is available 24/7.
Restaurant Paris serves contemporary French cuisine. Brasserie du Lutétia is a typical Parisian brasserie that serves seafood and regional dishes. Guests can also have a drink in the Lutétia Bar that has live piano music every evening.
Lutétia has a fitness centre, which is open 24 hours a day, and an adjoining massage room.
Lutétia is located between the Rennes (line 12) and Sèvres-Babylone (lines 10 and 12) Metro Stations. It is within walking distance of the Orsay Museum and Luxembourg Garden.
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Holiday Inn Paris Saint Germain des Prés
4.7/5Outstanding30 Reviews
Welcome to HOLIDAY INN Paris St Germain des Prés . Ideally situated in the heart of 'La Rive Gauche', and after a thorough refurbishment in 2009 , the hotel is only a few minutes from the business centre and railway station of Montparnasse , as well as the well-known 'Latin Quarter' of Paris. With the Place Saint Germain des Prés also very close, renowned meeting point with restaurants and bars ( les Deux Magots, le Café de Flore …), not forgetting the many boutiques on the Boulevard Saint Germain and the excellent shopping centre of 'Le Bon Marché' . The hotel is also very close to many tourist attractions : the Orsay and Louvre Museums, the Luxemburg Gardens, the Banks of the Seine river, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Pantheon …. All this gives us a prime address in the centre of Paris . Easy access from Orly and Charles de Gaulle airports (by RER train, bus or taxi ), the hotel is only 1 minute from the St Placide metro station (line n°4) . The hotel has 134 rooms of which 22 are Executive room and 12 are special rooms for families . 2 meeting rooms for seminars and conferences can welcome up to 70 persons.
Hotel Madison by MH Paris
Situated opposite Saint-Germain-des-Prés Church, Hotel Madison is located in the heart of Paris' Latin Quarter. It offers modern accommodation and an elegantly decorated bar.
The ensuite guestrooms at Hotel Madison are decorated in a contemporary style. Modern facilities include satellite TV, a minibar and free Wi-Fi access.
Every morning a continental breakfast is served in the authentic breakfast lounge. In the evenings, guests can relax with a drink at the stylish bar. Choose from a selection of wines, teas and fruit juices.
Hotel Madison's location makes it easy to access the principal tourist sights of Paris including the Louvre and Orsay museums and Notre Dame Cathedral.
Hotel Trianon Rive Gauche Paris
The hotel offers tastefully decorated rooms, right next to the Jardin du Luxembourg. It is located in the centre of Paris, just 1.5 km from Notre-Dame Cathedral.All of the rooms at the Best Western Trianon Rive Gauche have flat-screen TV with satellite channels and free Wi-Fi internet access. Private bathrooms have shower or bath, or both shower and bath.A buffet breakfast is served daily from 07:00 until 11:00.The hotel is 450 metres from Odeon Metro Station, which provides access to the Clignancourt flea market. Luxembourg RER Station is 450 metres away, providing access to Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Le Littre Hotel Paris
Hotel Le Littré is set in Paris, between St Germain des Pres and Montparnasse, 100 metres from Rue de Rennes shopping district. Set in a building originally built in the early 20th century, it offers modern and soundproofed rooms with panoramic views over the city.
The air-conditioned rooms and suites are equipped with Wi-Fi access, double glazed windows, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom. Some rooms have a separate living area and a balcony or terrace with views of the capital.
The hotel offers a daily buffet breakfast served in the chic dining area. Guests can enjoy a drink at the hotel's bar.
In addition to a 24-hour reception, Le Littré provides a laundry and dry cleaning service as well as business facilities. All rooms and suites are serviced by a lift. There is also a veranda and sauna.
Saint Placide Metro station and Montparnasse train station is 350 metres from Hotel Le Littré, providing easy access to Paris's many sites such as Saint Michel and Chatelet.
Hôtel d'Aubusson
Ideally located in the prime touristic area of 06. Saint Germain - Luxembourg, Hotel D'Aubusson promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. The hotel offers a wide range of amenities and perks to ensure you have a great time. Free Wi-Fi in all rooms, 24-hour room service, facilities for disabled guests, Wi-Fi in public areas, valet parking are on the list of things guests can enjoy. Television LCD/plasma screen, whirlpool bathtub, non smoking rooms, air conditioning, desk can be found in selected guestrooms. Access to the hotel's massage, garden will further enhance your satisfying stay. A welcoming atmosphere and excellent service are what you can expect during your stay at Hotel D'Aubusson.
Edouard 6 Montparnasse
Hotel Edouard VI Montparnasse is located in the Montparnasse district of Paris. It has air-conditioned rooms equipped with soundproofing, an LCD TV with satellite channels and free WiFi access.
Guests of the Edouard VI can enjoy a continental breakfast in the dining room, or in the comfort of your room with an extra cost.
The Edouard VI is located a short walk from Montparnasse-Bienvenüe Metro and train station.
Boulevard Saint Germain des Prés, the Luxembourg Garden, and the Montparnasse Tower are all within 1.5 km of the Edouard VI.
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Visiting the world-famous French capital, Paris, is on the bucket list of many travelers. Paris is full of historical and cultural buildings that represent the city's artistic and fashionable qualities. The main tourist attractions in Paris are scattered all over the city. The Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysées, and the Louvre are some of the most popular sites. The Eiffel Tower on the west bank of the river is also an attraction that tourists are sure not to miss. If you explore the south bank across from the Seine, you can not only see the classic buildings such as Notre Dame de Paris and Les Invalides, but also the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarters filled with famous publishing houses and the fragrant ambience of cafés. On the outskirts of Paris, visitors can also visit the Palace of Versailles, or head to Disneyland to spend a memorable afternoon.
Two thousand years ago, Paris was a small fishing village on the Île de la Cité. Later, it benefited from its abundant geographical resources and gradually developed into a renowned European city on the Seine. In the course of development since the middle ages, Paris has always maintained the remnants of its history, and many ancient buildings and street layouts are still intact today. The Paris of today is not only a historical city full of heritage, but also a culinary capital and birthplace of art.
Paris residents of all backgrounds have brought colorful vitality to the city and made it the unique place it is today. Even if you don't know anything about the history and culture of Paris, you've surely head of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame de Paris, and other landmarks. In addition to the Eiffel Tower, most of Paris's important sights are on the right bank of the Seine. From the Arc de Triomphe in Place Charles de Gaulle, head east along the Champs-Elysées to see the Place de la Concorde, the Tuileries Garden, the Louvre, Notre-Dame de Paris and other classic travel destinations.
Paris is known for its culture and has about 200 museums of different artistic genres, historical periods, and themes. Famous museums in the city include the Orsay Museum which is famous for showcasing impressionism, as well as the Orangery Art Museum, Rodin Museum, and Picasso Museum. If you are a big fan of museums, it is recommended to purchase a Paris museum through ticket for easy access.
Montmartre has been part of the Paris for only just over one hundred years. It not only boasts the majestic landmark of the Sacré-Cœur, but also offers a panoramic view of the city. In addition, it's known to be the location where Amélie was filmed. Visitors may also be interested in checking out the painter-gathering the Place du Tertre, the Moulin Rouge, and the Wall of Love filled with romance. Paris embraces religion, art, beauty, and love.
When in Paris, trying French food is a must. Many of the top Michelin restaurants in Paris and a variety of French restaurants can be found on the streets. French dishes such as snails, foie gras, and steaks paired with mellow wines are classics and worth sampling. French desserts and coffee are not to be missed either. The European Heritage Day event began in 1984 in France and was originally initiated by Jacquelange, the then Minister of Culture of France. The 3rd Sunday in September is designated as Open Day for places of interest. This move became popular soon among European citizens who love culture and art, quickly arousing the people's enthusiasm. The 2017 European Heritage Day event was held on September 16th and 17th. At that time, Paris opened nearly 20,000 venues to tourists for free, including popular attractions such as the Louvre.
The city of Paris is in the center of the Paris basin and has a mild maritime climate with warm winters and cool summers. The average temperature in January is 3°C, the average temperature in July is 18°C, and the average annual temperature is 10°C. Rainfall is distributed evenly throughout the year with slightly more in summer and autumn. The average annual rainfall is 619 mm. Paris is divided into 20 districts. When taking the environment, transportation, and other factors into consideration, it is recommended to stay in the following areas: the downtown area (district 1), the Latin Quarter (districts 5, 6), near the Eiffel Tower (district 7), near the Champs-Elysees (district 8), or in districts 14 and 15 which are outside of the city center. As an international city, hotels in Paris are sure to meet the needs of every type of tourist.
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Q: Recommendation needed for drawer in react-native-navigation This is my first attempt in react-native project, Does react-native-navigation have drawer inbuild? If so please share the documentation link please? Am confused to use react-navigation or react-native-navigation.
My requirement is all about navigation, drawer, tabber for screens.
Note: I need a native navigation to attract the users.
I used react-native-router-flux which have not much documentation but have quite good answers for all the workarounds. Also its not maintained now. SO indeed to select a new one.

A: For your first question, I should say that I always use react-Navigation and I like it. To hightlight one of my reasons I should say that "Being a JS-based navigator allows React Navigation to integrate smoothly with any of the third-party libraries, while RNN may suffer from libraries that are tightly coupled with native platforms or need to be wrapped around the whole app." You can check this link:
https://blog.logrocket.com/react-navigation-vs-react-native-navigation-which-is-right-for-you-3d47c1cd1d63/
For the drawer, I highly recommended this one, because it give you any option that you want and it is working perfectly on both iOS and android for me, while others always make troubles for me in one of mentioned platforms.
https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase-KitchenSink
Also if you want other elements and tools with a good performance, check this link:
https://react-native-training.github.io/react-native-elements/docs/overview.html
I hope I could help you.

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Two years ago, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and two other officials pardoned Jeremy Giefer, who had served a short time in jail in the 1990s as a young man for having sex with a 14-year-old girlfriend whom he later married.
Blue Earth County prosecutors now say Giefer was sexually assaulting another young girl hundreds of times before and after he received his pardon.
The criminal charges filed against Giefer this month have drawn attention to the earlier pardon as Pawlenty weighs a possible run for president. Pawlenty spokesman Bruce Gordon defended the pardon Monday, noting the vote for it was unanimous.
The pardoned offense "involved sexual conduct between two people who became husband and wife, maintained a long-term marriage, had a family together," Gordon said. "The defendant completed his sentence many years before seeking the pardon, which his wife and others supported."
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and a veteran presidential campaign observer, said the circumstances of Giefer's pardon differ sharply from commutations granted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, another potential Republican candidate for president. Still, Sabato said Giefer's pardon could be used against Pawlenty if he becomes a serious candidate for president.
"Could it hurt him?" Sabato asked. "To some degree."
Giefer, of Vernon Center, was 19 in 1993 when he was charged with having sex with his underage girlfriend.
The charge was filed after a school worker noticed the girl was pregnant and began making inquiries.
Although the girl wanted the case dismissed, Giefer was convicted of sex with a minor and sentenced to 45 days in jail.
They married when he was 21 and she was 16. A judge at the time commended Giefer for staying with the girl and raising the child.
The couple's experience was chronicled on the TV show "American Journal" and Giefer did an interview from jail on a nationally syndicated show.
In a 1994 Star Tribune article, Giefer said he was being unfairly singled out for having sex with an underage girl when he chose to stay and support her and the child.
He later petitioned the state for a pardon. In 2008, Pawlenty, along with Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, a DFLer, and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson, decided to unanimously grant the pardon.
It was among 24 "pardons extraordinary" granted by the Pardon Board that year.
Such pardons can be granted only by a unanimous vote to people whose sentences were completed at least 10 years previously.
Assistant Blue Earth County Attorney Chris Rovney said Monday there was no indication during the pardoning process of ongoing criminality by Giefer.
"It disturbs me," he said.
But charges filed this month allege seven years of abuse by Giefer, now 36, of a girl who is now 17.
Giefer was charged with five counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, five counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of incest.
The girl told authorities that she had been sexually abused by Giefer more than 250 times since she was 9 years old, according to a criminal complaint.
Giefer has been released on $250,000 bail.
A pardon extraordinary directs courts "to issue an order setting aside the conviction, and the applicant is no longer required to report the conviction except in specific limited circumstances," according to the annual report of the Board of Pardons. "The conviction remains on the applicant's criminal record, but the fact of a pardon extraordinary is also recorded."
Pardons dogged Huckabee
Huckabee drew criticism over more than 1,000 commutations and pardons he issued during his decade as Arkansas governor. His record came under scrutiny after one person whose sentence Huckabee commuted later was suspected of killing four police officers in the Tacoma, Wash., area.
Giefer's pardon is unusual. Since Pawlenty took office in 2003, he has participated in two other pardons extraordinary: a woman who had sex with a male juvenile four years younger than she was, and another 19-year-old man convicted of having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. That couple later married. Ten other requests for pardons extraordinary were denied, as were seven requests to shorten the sentences of sex offenders through commutations.
As for Giefer's pardon, Sabato said, "You just never know for sure how something's going to play in a campaign. ... Would it be used against [Pawlenty] in a Republican primary? Sure, if he were a serious candidate.
"Any governor is taking a chance anytime they pardon anybody for anything."
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Is it worth paying a balance transfer fee?
With most credit cards charging representative APRs of around 18%, using them to borrow long-term is always a bad idea.
Instead, you should look to switch any lingering debt on to a card charging as little as 0% on balance transfers.
The good news is that Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest (both part of the same banking group) have this week laid down the gauntlet to rival Barclaycard, challenging its market-leading balance transfer card with a new 0% deal lasting 23 months.
That is the same length as the interest-free offer on the Barclaycard Platinum Credit Card with Extended Balance Transfer and allows successful applicants to avoid interest for almost two years.
The new RBS and NatWest cards also offer six months interest free on purchases, beating Barclaycard's three months at 0%.
As with most attention-grabbing offers, however, there is a catch. Anyone shifting debts onto the Barclaycard will pay a fee of at least 2.8% of the balance to be transferred, while those moving to the new RBS/NatWest card will pay a heftier fee of 3.5%.
If you needed to transfer £2,000, you would therefore pay £56 upfront with Barclaycard, or £70 with RBS/NatWest.
As with any balance transfer deal, interest charges kick in once the initial deal comes to an end if you haven't managed to clear your balance (in these instances, after 23 months).
The APR for Barclaycard, RBS and NatWest once the 0% balance transfer period is over is 17.9% (variable).
So is it worth paying a high fee to take out the longest balance transfer deals, or would you be better off with a shorter 0% deal or a low-rate card with no balance transfer fee?
We take a look at the alternative deals available so that you can choose the best card for your needs.
Are there credit cards offering 0% for a lower upfront charge?
While the cards described above offer the longest interest-free balance transfer deals on the market, that does not necessarily mean they are the best option in every case.
After all, if you can clear your debts in less than 23 months, why pay for the privilege of access to such a long 0% offer?
If you think you can pay off your balance within 22 months, for example, you could cut the fee you pay at the point of transfer to 2.6% by opting for the Barclaycard Platinum Credit Card with Balance Transfer.
And if you think you can clear your debts within 16 months, there is also the Barclaycard Platinum Balance Transfer Card with Low Fee.
It charges 1.5% of the debt to be switched across.
Alternatively, there are also the new RBS and NatWest cards that offer 13 months at 0% with a balance transfer fee of just 1%.
But beware: the cards have variable representative APRs of 17.9% (Barclaycard Platinum Credit Card with Balance Transfer), 18.9% (Barclaycard Platinum Balance Transfer Card with Low Fee) and 17.9% (RBS and NatWest).
It is therefore in your interests to clear the debt in full before these high rates kick in.
Are there any 0% cards with no balance transfer fees?
All the 0% balance transfer deals on the market at the moment come with an upfront charge of some kind.
However, there are some great low-rate cards that can slash the interest you pay on your debts without forcing you to pay a balance transfer fee.
The Sainsbury's Low Rate Credit Card, for example, is a good choice for anyone looking for a card charging a low rate of interest over the long term.
It has a representative APR of just 6.9% (variable) that applies to both balance transfers and purchases.
There are no balance transfer fees. However, you may be offered a higher representative APR of either 9.9% (variable) or 12.9% (variable) if your credit file is less than perfect.
Similar cards include the Barclaycard Platinum Simplicity, which charges a representative APR of 7.9% (variable) on both balance transfers and purchases, with no balance transfer fee.
Once again, it will suit those keen to avoid transferring their balances – and incurring fees – again and again to take advantage of 0% introductory offers.
Other advantages with this deal are that cardholders can manage their accounts online and make contactless payments for purchases up to £20.
To qualify, you cannot already have a credit card with Barclaycard and you must have a regular income of more than £20,000 a year.
So which is cheapest overall?
Whether or not it is worth paying a balance transfer fee to access a long-term interest-free deal will depend on the amount you owe and how long you are likely to need to pay it off.
Let's say you owe £1,000 and need three years to clear the debt.
With the Sainsbury's Low Rate Credit Card mentioned above, your total interest would be £45.06, meaning you would pay £29.02 per month for 36 months.
With the market-leading Barclaycard Platinum Credit Card with Extended Balance Transfer, you would pay interest of £32.09 (incurred after the 23-month 0% deal) plus a balance transfer fee of £28.
That's a total of £60.09, or £15.03 more than you would pay with the Sainsbury's card.
Taking three years to pay off debts of £2,000 or £5,000 would also cost less on the low-rate card, with savings of £26.08 available to those owing £2,000 and £75.15 to those with debts of £5,000.
Pay your debts off within the 23-month interest-free period offered by the Barclaycard card, though, and you could save £17.06 in interest on £1,000, £32.58 on £2,000 and £85.32 on £5,000.


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The Cutting Season and The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow book covers. Two Novels Published by HarperCollins Publishers
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I 'am excited to announce that this (killer) shot of mine is being used on the cover of the novel "The Cutting Season" by Attica Locke! Above is my picture which is available as a fine art photo or canvas by clicking on it you will be taken to my other website http://www.nolaPIC.com (scroll down to see the other book cover of the second book published by HarperCollins "The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow".
To purchase the book "The Cutting season" by Attica Locke, please click on the thumbnail to the left and you will be taken on Amazon. The novel is available as a hardcover book or in kindle format (digital).
"Release Date: September 18, 2012 – HarperCollins
In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across more than a century.
Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the past and the present coexist uneasily. The estate's owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist attraction, complete with full-dress re-enactments and carefully restored slave quarters. Outside the gates, a corporation with ambitious plans has been busy snapping up land from struggling families who have been growing sugar cane for generations, and now replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, her throat cut clean.
As the investigation gets under way, the list of suspects grows. But when fresh evidence comes to light and the sheriff's department zeros in on a person of interest, Caren has a bad feeling that the police are chasing the wrong leads. Putting herself at risk, she ventures into dangerous territory as she unearths startling new facts about a very old mystery—the long-ago disappearance of a former slave—that has unsettling ties to the current murder. In pursuit of the truth about Belle Vie's history and her own, Caren discovers secrets about both cases—ones that an increasingly desperate killer will stop at nothing to keep buried.
Taut, hauntingly resonant, and beautifully written, The Cutting Season is at once a thoughtful meditation on how America reckons its past with its future, and a high-octane page-turner that unfolds with tremendous skill and vision. With her rare gift for depicting human nature in all its complexities, Attica Locke demonstrates once again that she is "destined for literary stardom" (Dallas Morning News)."
This above is another image of mine ( taken on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans ) which I have recently licensed to HarperCollins Publishers for the book cover of the novel by Rita Leganski " The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow" – A lyrical debut novel set in historic New Orleans that follows a mute boy whose special gift reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore. Available on Amazon as a Paperback or kindle edition on February 26, 2013. The novel is available for Pre-orders now. To purchase the photo as a fine art print, please click it and you will be taken to my other website http://www/nolaPIC.com
A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski, "The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow" is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore, and exposes a murder that threatens the souls of those who love him.
Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. But he was listening, placing sound inside quiet and gaining his bearings. By the time he turns five, he can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that rage inside raindrops. He also hears the voice of his dead father, William Arrow, mysteriously murdered by a man known only as the Wanderer.
Exploring family relics, he opens doors to the past and finds the key to a web of secrets that both hold his family together, and threaten to tear them apart.
Set against the backdrop of 1950s New Orleans, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is a magical story about the lost art of listening and a wondrous little boy who brings healing to the souls of all who love him.
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Q: как добавить кодировку при отправки формы в php Когда приходит результаты формы на email - то это выглядит не четаемо, как это можно исправить? я уже вписал кодировку но почему то продолжает приходить с поломаным текстом.
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$EmailSubject = 'Обратный вызов';
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$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Имя: ".$_POST["name"]."\n";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "Телефон: ".$_POST["phone"]."\n";
mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");
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js:
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                url: "callback.php",
                method: "POST",
                data: {
                    name: $("#callbackForm input[name='name']").val(),
                    phone: $("#callbackForm input[name='phone']").val()
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A: Проверьте кодировку в трех местах:
1) Кодировка отправителя (ваша форма). Установите ей в header кодировку utf-8. <head><meta charset="utf-8"></head>.
2) Форма отправки. В форме отправки так же сделайте кодировку ввода по умолчанию <form action="" method="post" accept-charset="UTF-8">
3) Кодировка приёмника. Ваш Callback.php. В файле укажите для php следующую информацию: mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
Убедитесь, так же, что в настройках Вашего Nginx (Apache) выставлена кодировка utf-8.
Ну и ко всему прочему, сохраняйте Ваши исполняемые файлы в формате UTF-8 without BOM

A: Надо в файле .htaccess написать:
AddDefaultCharset кодировка

Например:
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not clarity but the sense of shift (4).
And that is all this writing should be then.
moving to the clear (21-26).
Poems : The overlapping senses, caught and splayed into view on pages that work much like the white photo paper into which developers coaxed, fixed, photos or like the screens onto which slides, sometimes home-made films, were projected in the 60s and 70s and 80s.
Many say that Ondaatje's career as a writer is the story of a poet turned novelist. Maybe true. But, more and more I see it as a matter of making single, often overtly personal, still images projected unto the blank space of the page into moving pictures and personas with a different kind of metabolic mass. Ondaatje's career charts a complex morphology from still, caught visions of poetry into a motion in a different imaginative order. In this other space, sometimes called prose, or fiction, beings attain a kind of metabolic, imaginative mass that invests their movements with a momentum that comes to life between continents and historical eras. A motion in Ondaatje's work by which photo-poetic figures morph into fictive-filmic characters sets caught visions free. Images move among us in the world.
The 1979 poem, "Claude Glass," liberates such "caught visions" into the night surrounding a garden party in Ontario. Slides (or perhaps home movies) are being projected in an outdoor theatre made with a bed sheet. When the sheet falls from the branch, the images cast into the night, falling over contours and blending into the colors of whatever object or being happens into the path of their flight.
tacked across a horizontal branch.
caught by the machine as if creating rain.
Caught visions thusly freed, undergo a phase change (something akin to condensation wherein water vapor turns into liquid) into an alternate element. From this new element, maybe best called fictive-filmic images, Ondaatje comprises his work in "fiction": images of gunfighters and trumpet players, pathologists and photographers, leather dyers, tunnel diggers, farmers, bridge builders, clock repairers, poker players, searchers, dynamiters, lovers, actors, spies, nurses, soldiers, even writers, splay their motion out of the 19th Century, over the physical and existential textures of the 20th and into the 21st. The fictive-filmic images takes their place among us in the world, and vice versa; the photo-poetic image takes on a kind of mass which gives it a new force. This phase change in the literary imagination accounts for a unique kind of presence in motion, let's call it momentum, that accompanies our experience of Ondaatje's work.
After the wind frees the images from the blank space, the sheet, which collapses and dissolves into powder in "Claude Glass," Ondaatje's images move in a dimensional space attuned to projections of history doused in the metabolic chemistry of the author's imagination. In their new space, the images multiply, attain a rhythmic motion conjuring a deepened illusion of living energy, often of energy entrapped by (what's afraid to live in) the living.
In his 1987 In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje's imaginative chemistry falls upon the construction of "The Bloor Street Viaduct" in Toronto, completed "on October 18, 1918." Set in history, the work can no longer be strictly personal. Nonetheless, it's not strictly historical either. We're informed that the "bridge goes up in a dream" (26). In the scenes, Victor Coleman's "caught visions" proliferate: "There are over 4,000 photographs from various angles of the bridge in its time-lapse evolution." In a spray of images, Ondaatje paints the scene, "Men in a maze of wooden planks climb deep into the shattered light of blond wood. A man is an extension of hammer, drill, flame. Drill smoke in his hair. A cap falls into the valley, gloves are buried in stone dust." One image swoops even closer to Coleman's "blurred photograph . . . / an unclear stir" (RJ 62); it recapitulates the poetic action from "A Gate in His Head" almost verbatim. Upon completion, "During the political ceremonies a figure escaped by bicycle through the police barriers. . . in the photographs he is a blur of intent. . . the cyclist too on his flight claimed the bridge in that blurred movement, alone and illegal. Thunderous applause greeted him at the far end" (27).
When the photo-poetic area expands into the fictive-filmic volume of the new form, Ondaatje's "caught visions" are freed. The images "howl their colours" into a newly dimensional world of so-called prose and the poetic metabolism invades realism's claim to history. The result deepens the static, silent documentary potential of the photo-poetic. The fictive-filmic, a dimensional reel of movement, sound, texture and flux, blooms into being. The vision catcher turned image-mover understands that "before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting" (29). Soon, one of the workers stolen from history by the fictive-filmic imagination completes the transition from caught visions on a white sheet to moving images in dimensional space, translating Coleman's model of artistic practice into the new medium. The transition recaptures the risks, even the violent impact, borne by those who'd assign a kind of existential mass (accumulated out of dimensionals in the new space) to the velocity of imagined objects. The result was a poetic kind of momentum, a verbal flesh, and a filmic-fiction of motion images that seem to originate in the interior of the reader as much as they emanate from the text.
saw the shape fall towards him, in that second knowing his rope would not hold them both. He reached to catch the figure while his other hand grabbed the metal pipe edge above him to lessen the sudden jerk on the rope. The new weight ripped the arm that held the pipe out of its socket and he screamed, so whoever might have heard him up there would have thought the scream was from the falling figure. . . it was a black-garbed bird, a girl's white face. (31-32).
The new weight in the plot is the impact of the nun's falling body caught by Temelcoff as he hangs by a rope over the valley. The new weight in the writer's career is the play of caught vision liberated from its silent, static image against a blank screen. In an instant, Temelcoff, dare-devil, prepared himself to catch the momentum created as Ondaatje released Coleman's "blurred photograph of a gull . . .a stunning white bird" (40) from its poetic abstraction and, via the velocity of the writer's metabolism, propelled it and others into the "real . . .imagined" history of Toronto. It's as if a three-dimensional body had fallen out of a two-dimensional envelope mailed in 1973. The body fell for more than a decade through the space of a writer's accumulating repertoire and appeared in a plunge of photo-poetic velocity (the sense of shift) given fictional mass (pictures fly without target). The result is an instant's glimpse at a kind of phase change which gives Ondaatje's work its fictional momentum (mass x velocity = momentum). If one had any doubt about the nature of the transition, later in the novel, we learn the caught vision's name. After her photo-poetic plunge into filmic-fictive being, the ex-nun renamed herself Alice Gull.
And Patrick's response recasts the core of the lyric's claim to existence, the nano-structure of its potential to attain its filmic mass beyond a strictly poetic sense of shift: "Say it again" (135). The essence of lyric force, the key to its potential as fictive-filmic momentum: repetition. We have to want to hear it again, as in "one of these underground pools where we can sit still. Those moments, those few pages in a book we go back and forth over" (148).
The Chaos and Tumble of events. In the fragments we have of the pre-Socratic philosopher Anaxagoras, mostly quoted by Aristotle, Anaxagoras pits "Chaos" against Mind, in Greek, "Nous." The Greek word for Mind, "Nous," the counter to Chaos, comes via Latin to English spelled: n.o.u.s. Follow me. Nous in French means, "Us." So, by wildly specious methods, let's conclude it's about Chaos and Us. In Aristotle, Mind stood apart from Chaos, a kind of unmoved mover. But, as well as we know Us, Nous, Mind, is most certainly part of the chaos and vice versa.
Us & Chaos. No work ushers Us into confrontations with Chaos, which is to say, with Us, in a more complexly various and approachable array of photo-poetic and fictive-filmic vantages than Michael Ondaatje's work. Part "dance in the auditorium of enemies" (92) from Coming Through Slaughter, part "falling together of accomplices" (145) from In the Skin of a Lion (incidentally, both phrases describe live musical performances), the player and the listener labor together.
the anarchy, the unfolding of musical order, the growls and muttering, the fact that Fats Waller was talking to someone over your shoulder as well as to you. . . the notes fresh as creek washed clothes (Secular Love 119).
And, second. Possibly in redux of the bit about Waller above. In his 2007 novel, Divisadero, French / Gitane guitar player Rafael strums his guitar and listens and we're told that, "What was adjacent to music was music" (79).
So, one ventures that, at least for Ondaatje, the score in a "recognition of echoes" and the key to the traces left by "the power of coincidence," are musical phenomena. Music is the energy necessary to condense the vapor of photo-poetic stop-action into the fluid structure of fictive-filmic motion.
An emerging will to gentleness appears in Ondaatje's recent work. In The Cat's Table, Ondaatje signals the crux of the shift in the nature of his dimensional space ca. 2011 in his description of the rebellious leader of their trio: "There was a gentle democracy in Cassius. In retrospect, he was only against the power of Caesar" (40). There being, in Ondaatje's imagined reality, no possibility without anarchy, the new gentleness offers a way to survive the necessary anarchy. In his performance of lyric hemorrhage in Coming Through Slaughter, Buddy Bolden blows his throat—and his mind—out through the bell of his horn. In In the Skin of a Lion, when Patrick asks what she wants, Alice Gull, the falling nun turned revolutionary actress replies, "Nothing but thunder" (127). But she's killed when a bomb she—unknowingly, maybe—carries explodes. Her death ricochets. Thereafter, her lover Patrick leans away from the dangerous momentum of photo-poetic/fictive-filmic images: "Something alive, just one small gray bird on a branch, will break his heart" (165). In The English Patient, Kip arrives—out of a thunderstorm—equipped to diffuse bombs surrounding Alice Gull's daughter, Hana.
And was it a pleasure or a sadness, this life inside me? It was as if with its existence I was lacking something essential, like water. I put the tray down and climbed back onto Emily's high bed. I felt in that moment that I had been alone for years. I had existed too cautiously with my family, as though there had been shards of glass always around us. . . I knelt on that bed on my hands and knees and shook. Emily leaned forward and embraced me, in so soft a gesture I felt barely touched, an envelope of loose air between us. My hot tears that had come from my darkness rubbed on her cool upper arm.
'I don't know,' Whatever small props of necessary defense I'd surrounded myself with, which contained and protected me, and which had marked the outline of me, were no longer there.
Perhaps we talked then. I don't remember. I was conscious of the easy quietness around me, my breathing eventually at the same calm pace of her breathing.
I must have fallen asleep for a moment, and woke when Emily, not moving away from me, reached her other hand over her shoulder in a backstroke gesture for the cup of coffee. And soon I heard the quick swallows, my ear against her neck. Her other hand was still gripping mine as no one had ever done, convincing me of a security that probably did not exist. (114-15).
If we squint our eyes, Michael and his cousin Emily appear to swim, as if Emily—via backstroke technique—rescues her younger cousin from the fluid dangers of the narrative itself. From here we can easily recognize the echo from "Walking to Bellrock," "Two figures in deep water" (1).
By some such meandering means does Michael Ondaatje's photo-poetic impulse arrive at its full, fictive-filmic impact. There are hundreds of other bends in the river. But, in the foregoing twists and turns, we chart a series of key instances. As he wrote in The Cat's Table, each "must have been a hopeful or terrible moment, full of possibilities" (264). One guesses many were both. And, we await the brand of momentum, the color of musical flame, we'll encounter in the next version of dimensional space he'll deliver like "a gentle touch, then a deeper press, like some sort of signal" (TCT 265).
Ondaatje, Michael. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970.
——. Coming Through Slaughter. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976.
——. Divisadero. New York: Knopf, 2007.
——. In The Skin of a Lion. New York: Knopf, 1987.
——. Rat Jelly. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973.
——. Secular Love. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984.
——. The Cat's Table. New York: Knopf, 2011.
——. There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979.


Has Romney Sealed his Fate?
Who are the 47% he speaks of? Romney describes those who don't as those "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it".
Not everyone can say they have worked for the people, Obama can.
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Every so often in Outlook Express it is worth running a few "maintenance checks". The main one is to run a compact to remove any wasted space. When you delete an email in Outlook Express, it is only marked as deleted and not physically deleted. These emails which are marked as deleted are what creates the wasted space. When you run the compact in Outlook Express this wasted space is removed.
First have a look at how much space is "wasted space".
Open Outlook Express and select "Tools" -> "Options" -> and then select the "Maintenance" tab.
On the Maintenance tab you have the button "Clean Up Now...", click this.
Wasted space = the amount of disk space in the Total size of Files which is wasted space and will be cleaned up with a compact.
Unfortunately in the above screen shot both are 0 bytes, however, if your Wasted Space has a value it is advisable to click the compact button.
Depending on the amount of space being used this could take a few minutes, just leave it to run.
Once the compact has finished click "Close"


At one time there were six Premier League clubs interested in Marvin Plattenhardt, reports Bild, but now it's down to four.
Everton and Huddersfield Town have both dropped out having already filled their left-back positions, and the remaining clubs are Fulham, who are linked with several left-backs around Europe, Watford, Leicester City and Bournemouth.
For a while it's felt like Hertha Berlin have been trying to take advantage of Plattenhardt being called up for Germany's World Cup squad, and therefore cashing in, but given what resulted in Russia they haven't had any luck so far.
Hertha would welcome the money, and Plattenhardt's dream is apparently the Premier League.
The German club have been holding out for €25m, which seems a little overpriced and from the English-clubs-will-pay-anything school of thought.
It's unlikely Watford, Leicester or Bournemouth would meet such an amount and for a move to happen over the next week the price probably needs to drop.


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Dean Saunders to host upcoming Sportsman's Dinner
Book now to avoid disappointment...
Stevenage FC is pleased to announce that Dean Saunders will be the next Guest Speaker in our series of Sportsman's Dinners.
Currently working as a pundit with Talksport, Dean has enjoyed a hugely successful playing career that spanned 19 seasons, starting at Swansea City and ending at Bradford City.
Spells along the way at Liverpool, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United, Sheffield United, Benfica and Galatasaray mean Dean has a huge catalogue of experiences to draw upon.
Dean also won 75 caps playing for Wales, scoring 22 times, making him the nation's fifth highest goal scorer and capped player of all time.
More recently Dean has gained managerial experience with Wrexham, Doncaster Rovers, Wolves, Crawley and Chesterfield.
No punches will be pulled and with many never-heard-before stories to tell, it promises to be a special night in The Broadhall Suite.
The event will take place in The Broadhall Suite on Tuesday 19th December, with tables of 10 priced at £600 plus VAT, to include a superb three course Roast Turkey dinner expertly cooked in house by our resident Chef, Tony Start.
Supporting Dean on the evening will be Adger Brown, one of the funniest and most experienced comedians currently working the after dinner circuit.
Space in the Broadhall Suite is limited so please book early to avoid missing out.
Please call 01438 223223 or email me at clivea@stevenagefc.com to reserve your table.
Broadhall Suite