The 2017 running of the Critérium du Dauphiné has to easily be the best stage race I have seen this year and quite possibly the best finish since the 1989 Tour de France when Greg LeMond shocked the world and defeated Lauren Fignon by 8 seconds with a record-setting performance on the final day.
I watched this years Dauphiné and was pleased as punch to see Australian Richie Porte work hard to get the lead, extend the lead and then work to defend it on the final day of racing. When he faltered early and fell behind the leaders, it appeared that three-time Dauphiné (and three-time Tour de France) winner, Chris Froome looked stronger and would sneak past for the title.
With Froome looking safe ahead, Porte "the Tasmanian Devil" started grinding and clawing back the seconds on the final mountain top finish (Plateau de Solaison). The announcers were going back-and-forth about the time split because Froome, who trailed in the race by roughly a minute, was roughly a minute ahead on this final stage.
Fuglsang won the stage and was given a 10 second bonus as the stage winner. The countdown then started to see if Porte could finish inside of his lead over Fuglsang. Crossing the line and the end of the stage, it became obvious that the 10 second bonus would be the difference maker.
I am a big fan of tours that end on a real stage rather than a ceremonial ride (like the Tour de France does.) It is great to see the final day actually matter and certainly adds some serious drama to the finish.
PS. The Tour de France is coming July 1st and will run for three weeks. During that time, I will again be doing what I call the Tour de 1/10th (riding 1/10th of the 2,194 miles or more during the same time and comparing my times to the actual race.) It is corny, but it is fun and it gives me something to compete against in my daily rides.


Because they have no competition after they've been fired. Obviously I've never been in situation such as The Apprentice but imagine having 7/8 other people (in your team) that you've got to show you're better than whilst also trying to work with. It's must be a nightmare. That's when the gloves come off (except for Edna) and you just have to roll with the punches ( ).
Why is Edna even on the show? "I work in HR" ooh wow, what does that involve, filing away everyone's holiday request forms and booking the DJ for the Christmas party? Hardly business acumen is it, and it showed.
They lost because that magazine guy played the ridiculous "racial discrimination" card, typical miserable politically-correct left-wing sod lol. People were more interested in the guy's app which was much better (though admittedly not as popular abroad probably) as demonstrated by better downloads at the actual event.
Was obvious who was going to win; they always make it look as if one team will obviously win and the other team always does; and then when they read out the results the team that wins is always read out second lol, was soo obvious the girls were going to win when the first 3 hour figures or whatever favoured the boys; stupid BBC editing lol.
The boys' app was better in almost every way - "Ampi Apps" is a horrendous name. However, they didn't realise the meaning of the word "global". It would have been very easy for them to add some more foreign accents - French, Russian, German and hey presto, worldwide entertaining app. The whole racial stereotypes speech annoyed me so much, it's called humour ffs! There's a difference between derogatory stereotype and cultural identity - like wearing a cork hat or being associated with sheep. Not offensive.
I want him to make a reappearance in this series!
I still think Ed should been in it just for the answer"I dont fit the mould" when asked if he was taught at a top uk accountancy firm haha still makes me laugh!!!
lol, I wanted to punch him in the face the whole way through, glad he go fired.
I think Leon has been very unlucky these two weeks ending up in the boardroom. I'd say that despite that he is going to go all the way, I can see a final between Jim and Leon.
Is this the first time they have had an oriental asian contestant just I've never seen chinese people on the UK apprentice before?
Hmmm, dont know a few people have noticed it though. Im not a film critic or anything but i really did notice it.
I have to say though they have made the apprentice more entertaining, with all the *****ing and crazy characters.
Pfft I thought you was a dedicated watcher! Well he came up with a decent idea, but they lost and they all kind of blamed him for coming up with an idea that wasn't "global" when they knew they were aiming/selling to a global market. He ended up in the boardroom at the end but was lucky. He's going soon though!
Haha yeah he is a joke tbf loland yeah i hate her aswell as edna she is soo arrogant!!!
Im not sure who that is, I'm still getting used to the names .
Woman who done the ladies presentation yesterday!!
Edna's presentation was awful! I was cringing in my seat! I can't believe how anyone could think that that's ok! The boy's on the other hand was awesome. Shame the race card got pulled on them otherwise they definitely would have had it even though they had a less 'global' brand.
I like him there! Apart from the lip-biting bit.
Im so glad Leon didnt go he is hot!
Melody with her fake accent. Trying too hard to hide her freshie accent.


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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a ceremony to mark the island's National Day in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei on October 10, 2022. (AFP)
Taiwan president quits as party head after China threat bet fails to win votes
Published: 26 November ,2022: 07:00 PM GST Updated: 26 November ,2022: 07:08 PM GST
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Saturday after her strategy to frame local elections as showing defiance to China's rising bellicosity failed to pay off and win public support.
The elections for mayors, county chiefs and local councilors are ostensibly about domestic issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic and crime, and those elected will not have a direct say on China policy.
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But Tsai had recast the election as being more than a local vote, saying the world is watching how Taiwan defends its democracy amid military tensions with China, which claims the island as its territory.
The main opposition party the Kuomintang, or KMT, was leading or claimed victory in 13 of the 21 city mayor and county chief seats up for grabs, including the capital Taipei, compared to the DPP's five, broadly in line with expectations and similar to the results of the last local elections in 2018.
"The results failed our expectations. We humbly accept the results and accept the Taiwanese people's decision," Tsai told reporters at party headquarters as she quit as party head, which she also did after 2018's poor results.
"It's not like the DPP has never failed before," Tsai, who will continue serving as president until 2024, added. "We don't have time to feel sorry. We fell, but we will stand up again."
Tsai said she had rejected a resignation offer from Premier Su Tseng-chang, also a senior DPP member, adding she had asked him to stay in office to ensure her policies would be properly implemented.
The Cabinet said Su had agreed to stay due to the need for stability amid the "arduous" domestic and international situation.
China's response was muted, with the official Xinhua news agency simply noting Tsai's resignation "to take responsibility for the party's performance in Taiwan's local elections"
'Red' accusations
Both the DPP and KMT, which traditionally favors close ties with China though strongly denies being pro-Beijing, had concentrated their campaign efforts in wealthy and populous northern Taiwan, especially Taipei, whose mayor from the small Taiwan People's Party could not run again due to term limits.
The KMT has accused Tsai and the DPP of being overly confrontational with China, and of trying to besmirch the party for being "red" - a reference to the colors of the Chinese Communist Party.
It focused its campaign on criticizing the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially after a surge in cases this year.
KMT Chairman Eric Chu celebrated their victory, but said they would also protect Taiwan's freedoms.
"We will insist on defending the Republic of China and protecting democracy and freedom," he told reporters, using Taiwan's official name. "We will also work hard to keep regional peace."
China carried out war games near Taiwan in August to express anger at a visit to Taipei by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and its military activities have continued, though on a reduced scale.
The election took place a month after the 20th congress of China's Communist Party, where President Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term in office - a point Tsai repeatedly made on the campaign trail.
Focus will now turn to the 2024 presidential and parliament election, which Tsai and the DPP won by a landslide in 2020 on a pledge to stand up to China and defend Taiwan's freedoms.
Tsai is serving her second term in office and cannot stand again as president because of term limits.
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11. I didn't do it!
12. I hate that stuff!
16. I'm a wild and crazy bird!
25. Ohh, My allergies are killing me!
26. Play it again, Sam!
30. The Devil made me do it!
31. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
35. Welcome to my home!
39. You've got to be kidding!
42. I need a drink!
43. Let me out of here!
45. Polly wants a cracker!
47. Stop and smell the flowers!
48. Straighten up and fly right!
56. That is the question!
58. Who is the fairest of them all?
60. Ask what you can do for your country!
63. Let us thank him for our food!
64. I tawht I taw a puddy tat!
65. I did! I did tee a puddy tat!
66. Oh, what a beautiful morning!
67. Oh, what a beautiful day!
69. And a bottle of rum!
71. Are you looking at me?
73. Did you bring me a present?
74. Do you call this food?!
75. Do you love me?
76. Do you want a kiss?
83. Who made this mess?


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Inside Look: Touring the OC oil spill area
By Christina Gonzalez
Touring the OC oil spill area
Aboard one of the Coast Guards Fast Response Cutters, we make our way along the San Pedro Channel, to check out the oil platform Elly.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - Aboard one of the Coast Guard's Fast Response Cutters, FOX 11's Christina Gonzalez made her way along the San Pedro Channel to check out the oil platform Elly.
The ruptured pipeline that released tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Orange County Coast starts out at this oil rig. Connected to another rig called Ellen, the pair is commonly known as the twins, which now stand eerily silent. They have been shut down, pending several investigations into the leak that was first reported Friday.
Gonzalez has spent quite a bit of time underwater at the rigs. A popular spot for Scuba Divers, the cross beams that support the large structures are usually covered with layers upon layers of starfish and coral. Scallops the size of dinner plates can be found at deeper depths and a family of sea lions usually greets divers or tries to steal fish from the boats usually fishing near them.
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But today, no pinnipeds or fishing vessels were seen; there didn't seem to be any signs of oil, which seems to have moved south. The actual split on the line that is blamed for the spill is miles from of our location, about 5.5 miles off the coast between Seal Beach and Newport Beach Harbor.
What we do see, on our way to and from the rigs, are tankers. Enormous anchored vessels waiting to be allowed into Long Beach Harbor. Investigators are looking at the possibility that the anchor from one of those ships may have snagged, pulled and ripped open the line, causing the spill. It's entirely possible -- those anchors can weigh over ten tons and are attached to long lines of thick steel chain. But operators of vessels know they can't anchor around the line. It's clearly marked, along with other features, on navigation maps. Satellite imagery from the days before the slick was detected may help investigators.
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There is the possibility that a ship could have anchored somewhere else and its anchor shifted, or moved, with a strong change of current. Since the depth of the broken pipe sits at a little less than a hundred feet, there is also the possibility that a smaller vessel could have done part of the damage, a while back, with erosion making the damage worse, and currents expanding the movement of the line breakage.
Exact details on the cause and damage are not known. Sea lions, for example, are not as susceptible to oil as birds, at least not their coats. But their systems can't process contaminated fish, or globs of ingested oil tar. It will be a while before people can dive in the reefs off Huntington or Laguna, where oil has been detected. Those remain closed, as is fishing in a large swath off the coast. The damage, at least for now, is not as tangible as it is scary. As many as 144,000 gallons of crude oil spilled.
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Mio actually posted an apology on the blog for not posting in Fer-EBER.
And then she posts about being exhausted over lunch time.
I wonder if Io threatened to black her eye again if she didn't start posting.
I wouldn't doubt that in the least!
Io: Dammit, sister...I already have to carry you in matches, at least you can post on the blog!
Well wait now, we have no idea how Mio is in the ring, though from what I hear, she's pretty good.
But the last bit was hilarious.
Now I'M really wondering where their parents are.
In one of their recent blogs, they had a family dinner out. Io, Mio and older sister. No parents.
As for the rest, they talked about sushi, Io likes Tom and Jerry, Batman shirts and snarks on things again.
It could be...but the fact that they never mention any other relative would be strange anyway. I mean, dead parents and no grandparents, no uncles/aunts or cousins ?
I thought we'd solved this mystery?
That can SO be used for things.
And now I'm off to laugh.
Is Ohata doing an Ohka tribute in that? I wonder if she wore that in their tag match?
The funniest thing about this pic to me is that Misaki is damn near swimming in that gear! It's so HUGE on her!
whose blog is that from? I want to read the story behind it. Mio is mocking the pose Misaki did in the LADY'S RING #0 issue. And is that Matsumoto doing Io's fingers and tongue gimmick?
I was about to say... All three are doing funny tributes. Misaki is Ohka, Mio is Misaki, and Hiroyo is Io, complete with tongue sticking out. As for blog, it wasn't from a blog, but Arisa Nakajima's new website, at http://l16.chip.jp/arinko333. It was taken during the photoshoot for the Jr. All Star show coming up.
Been WAY too long since we had an update on these two.
There's apparently an independent show these two are going to be a part of, the women's match I believe, is GAMI and Mio Shirai v. Toshie Uematsu and Io Shirai.
Mio should thank her lucky stars Halloween isn't more popular in Japan.
One of the girls overdid it in practice and was surprised by how much pain they were in the next day.
And of course, photos of Silver.
Io's wondering what color to dye her hair again.
Apparently it's "Super Stalwarts Toukon Group - Kazushi Presents"
It's a Kaz Miyamoto produced show on 11/17 at Shin-kiba.
Lucky, on their blog does it have to be in Japanese or does it support English?
The SPTS commented on their blog that viewership was pretty down. Which makes Io pretty down. Which means there's no snarky goodness for us to laugh at.
How's about we all go flood their blog again and earn another (@_@) from Mio?
It supports english. It just won't post URLs.
Ok. Then we should all go visit the site then comment like crazy.
and we should all post in intentionally bad engrish.
"Mio an Io are cho sekkushi!!!!"


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Q: asp.net form submition into oracle database I am beginer in asp.net. I have created a form. When i submit that form i need to insert the form field values into a table in oracle database schema. I am using Visual Studio 2012 Express. I have already added my database schema to database explorer. Now I need a code to get data from form and insert into table.
Default.aspx code:
    <%@ Page Title="Home Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true"
    CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Demo._Default" %>

<asp:Content runat="server" ID="FeaturedContent" ContentPlaceHolderID="FeaturedContent">
            </asp:Content>
<asp:Content runat="server" ID="BodyContent" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">

            Activity Type

                <asp:DropDownList ID="ActivityTypeDropDown" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ActivityTypeDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged" >
                    <asp:ListItem Text="--Select" Value="" />
                    <asp:ListItem>Ticket</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Non-Ticket</asp:ListItem>
                </asp:DropDownList>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="ActivityTypeDropDown" ErrorMessage="Please select Activity Type">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

                <asp:Label ID="TktnoLable" runat="server" Text="Ticket NO"></asp:Label>

                <asp:TextBox ID="TicketNoTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator8" runat="server" ControlToValidate="TicketNoTextBox" ErrorMessage="Please enter the ticket number">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

            Ticket Category

                <asp:DropDownList ID="TicketCategoryTextBox" runat="server">
                    <asp:ListItem>--Select--</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Adhoc</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Batch Run</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Bug Fix</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>CR</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Enhancement</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Issue</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Others</asp:ListItem>
                </asp:DropDownList>

            Ticket Description

                <asp:TextBox ID="TicketDescriptionTextBox" TextMode="MultiLine" runat="server" Width="200px"></asp:TextBox>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator9" runat="server" ControlToValidate="TicketDescriptionTextBox" ErrorMessage="Please provide ticket description">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

            Activity Description

                <asp:TextBox ID="activityDescriptionTextBox" TextMode="MultiLine" runat="server" Width="200px"></asp:TextBox>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator10" runat="server" ControlToValidate="activityDescriptionTextBox" ErrorMessage="Please provide activity description">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

            Module

                <asp:TextBox ID="ModuleTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

            Priority

                <asp:DropDownList ID="PriorityDropDown" runat="server">
                    <asp:ListItem Text="--Select--" Value="" />
                    <asp:ListItem>High</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Medium</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Low</asp:ListItem>
                </asp:DropDownList>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator4" runat="server" ControlToValidate="PriorityDropDown" ErrorMessage="Please select priority">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

            Resource

                <asp:DropDownList ID="ResourceDropDown" runat="server">
                    <asp:ListItem text="--Select--" Value="" />
                    <asp:ListItem>Apporva</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Arun</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Harshal</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Kiran</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Nitin</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Vagmita</asp:ListItem>
                </asp:DropDownList>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator5" runat="server" ControlToValidate="ResourceDropDown" ErrorMessage="Please Select a resource">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

            Creation Date

                <asp:TextBox ID="CreationDateTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator6" runat="server" ControlToValidate="CreationDateTextBox" ErrorMessage="Please provide creation date">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
                <asp:CompareValidator ID="creationdatevalidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="CreationDateTextBox" ErrorMessage="Please enter valid creation date" Operator="DataTypeCheck" Type="Date">*</asp:CompareValidator>

            Assignment Date

                <asp:TextBox ID="AssignmentDateTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                <asp:CompareValidator ID="assignmentdatevalidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="AssignmentDateTextBox" ErrorMessage="please enter valid assignment date" Operator="DataTypeCheck" Type="Date">*</asp:CompareValidator>

            Status

                <asp:DropDownList ID="StatusDropDown" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="StatusDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged">
                    <asp:ListItem Text="--select--" Value="" />
                    <asp:ListItem>WIP</asp:ListItem>
                    <asp:ListItem>Completed</asp:ListItem>
                </asp:DropDownList>
                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator7" runat="server" ControlToValidate="StatusDropDown" ErrorMessage="Please select status">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

                <asp:Label ID="CompletionDateLable" runat="server" Text="Completion Date"></asp:Label>

                <asp:TextBox ID="CompletionDateTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                <asp:CompareValidator ID="completiondatevalidator" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Please enter valid completion date" Operator="DataTypeCheck" Type="Date" ControlToValidate="CompletionDateTextBox">*</asp:CompareValidator>

            Remarks

                <asp:TextBox ID="RemarksTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

            Efforts

                <asp:TextBox ID="EffortsTextBox" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

                <asp:ValidationSummary ID="ValidationSummary1" runat="server" />

                <input id="SubmitButton" type="submit" value="Submit" /><asp:Button ID="ResetButton" runat="server" OnClick="ResetButton_Click" Text="Reset" />
                <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server"></asp:Label>

</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" runat="server" contentplaceholderid="HeadContent">

</asp:Content>

Default.aspx.cs code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Oracle.DataAccess;
using Oracle.DataAccess.Client;

namespace Demo
{
    public partial class _Default : Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var Activity_type = "";
            var Ticket_no = "";
            var tkt_category = "";
            var tkt_desc = "";
            var Act_desc = "";
            var module = "";
            var priority = "";
            var resource = "";
            var creation_date = "";
            var Assigned_date = "";
            var status = "";
            var completed_date = "";
            var remarks = "";
            var Efforts = "";
            if (IsPostBack)
            {
                Activity_type = Request.Form["ActivityTypeDropDown"];
                Ticket_no = Request.Form["TicketNoTextBox"];
                tkt_category = Request.Form["TicketCategoryTextBox"];
                tkt_desc = Request.Form["TicketDescriptionTextBox"];
                Act_desc = Request.Form["activityDescriptionTextBox"];
                module = Request.Form["ModuleTextBox"];
                priority = Request.Form["PriorityDropDown"];
                resource = Request.Form["ResourceDropDown"];
                resource = Request.Form["ResourceDropDown"];
                creation_date = Request.Form["CreationDateTextBox"];
                Assigned_date = Request.Form["AssignmentDateTextBox"];
                status = Request.Form["StatusDropDown"];
                completed_date = Request.Form["CompletionDateTextBox"];
                remarks = Request.Form["RemarksTextBox"];
                Efforts = Request.Form["EffortsTextBox"];

            }
        }
        protected void ActivityTypeDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (ActivityTypeDropDown.SelectedValue == "Ticket")
            {
                TktnoLable.Visible = true;
                TicketNoTextBox.Visible = true;
            }
            else
            {
                TktnoLable.Visible = false;
                TicketNoTextBox.Visible = false;
            }
        }

        protected void ResetButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ClearInputs(Page.Controls);
        }
        void ClearInputs(ControlCollection ctrls)
        {
            foreach (Control ctrl in ctrls)
            {
                if (ctrl is TextBox)
                    ((TextBox)ctrl).Text = string.Empty;
                ClearInputs(ctrl.Controls);
            }
        }

        protected void StatusDropDown_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (StatusDropDown.SelectedValue == "Completed")
            {
                CompletionDateLable.Visible = true;
                CompletionDateTextBox.Visible = true;
            }
            else
            {
                CompletionDateLable.Visible = false;
                CompletionDateTextBox.Visible = false;
            }
        }
    }
}

Please help me to complete the form action.

A: Here is simple method to insert data, you can modify it to your needs
 public void InsertToOracle(string value)
        {
            string oradb = "Data Source=ORCL;User Id=user;Password=password;";

            using (OracleConnection conn = new OracleConnection(oradb))
            {
                conn.Open();
                OracleCommand cmd = new OracleCommand();
                cmd.Connection = conn;
                cmd.CommandText = "Insert into Table1(ColumnName) VALUES(@ParameterName)";
                cmd.Parameters.Add(new OracleParameter("@ParameterName", value));
                var rowsUpdated = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

            }
        }

In addition in asp.net web forms no needs to use  Request.Form
instead of
tkt_category = Request.Form["TicketCategoryTextBox"];

use
tkt_category = TicketCategoryTextBox.Text;

instead of
Activity_type = Request.Form["ActivityTypeDropDown"];

use
Activity_type = ActivityTypeDropDown.SelectedValue;

All items marked with runat=server are ready to use as a object variable

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"Every historic photo site I look for is like going on a treasure hunt, I never know what I will find." Jens Pepper im Gespäch mit dem amerikanischen Landschaftsfotografen Paul Horsted.
von Pepper | Dez 18, 2015
Grand Canyon at Indian Garden
Jens Pepper: It is almost exactly 25 years ago that we met in Berlin, shortly after the wall came down and only months before the German reunification took place. At that time I think you were at the beginning of your career as a photographer, doing portraits of politicians from South Dakota, the state you are still living in, in the USA. You also were doing lots of natural photos of the Black Hills, the Badlands and other beautiful and exciting sites in your State. At what point of your life did you decide to become a photographer?
Paul Horsted: That visit to Berlin was early in my career but not quite in the beginning. I began taking photographs while in high school (10th grade, at about age 16 in the year 1977). My father had been in the Army in 1955 (before I was born), and he was stationed in Germany. While he was there, he bought a Voightländer 35mm camera which he used for many years. Twenty years later, I was able to use it to take sports photos when I joined the staff of the school yearbook and newspaper. I lived in a small town called Brandon, in eastern South Dakota. There was also a small weekly newspaper there. I met the editor of this paper on the sidelines of a basketball game, and he asked me if I would be interested in taking photos for the town newspaper (in addition to my work for the school yearbook and newspaper). I was excited to get a job, and began taking all the sports photos. Eventually I also took news and feature photos for the town newspaper, and within 2 years, I also got assignments from the big-city newspaper nearby, in Sioux Falls, while I was still in high school. I had become a professional photographer without really planning to do so. All I knew was that I enjoyed taking photos, developing them in the darkroom, and seeing them published in the local newspapers with my name under them.
At that time I thought I might be a "photojournalist" for life, but later realized there were many other types of photography, and some of these (wildlife, landscape, wedding, advertising, etc.) were important at different times in my career as I adapted to freelancing and making a living on my own as a photographer. However my time in the newspaper business taught me a lot about shooting in many different situations and settings, and in working quickly, a habit I still retain.
Jens Pepper: So this is really learning from scratch. This sounds wonderful. For how long did you work for the newspapers? The one in Sioux Falls was called the Argus Leader I think?
Paul Horsted: Yes, I learned photography from real-world experience as a newspaper photographer, not from going to a photography school, though I did take some workshops as well. I learned from more experienced photographers who worked at the Brandon Valley newspaper, and later at the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls. I also learned from my own mistakes as I would usually develop my film the same day I shot it, and could see where I did something not right.
I worked at the Brandon Valley Reporter newspaper (a weekly paper) for 3 years, from 1977 until 1979, the year I graduated from high school. I got my first assignment for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader (a daily newspaper) around 1978 while still in high school. After high school I started at university, and continued to do freelance and sports photography for the Argus Leader. I quit university a year later and started working at the Argus Leader, a few hours a week and eventually full-time when another photographer left the newspaper. I was there as a full-time photographer for about 2 years, and part-time for about 2 years before that. So I had a total of about 6 years of newspaper photography experience, including my earliest work at the weekly newspaper.
After a few years at the Argus Leader, I found myself getting tired or nearly "burned out" on working as a daily newspaper photographer. I enjoyed much of it, and gained experience shooting pictures every day of the week, but was tired of covering car accidents, house fires, drownings, and other disasters where I now feel we were intruding on people who were at their most vulnerable time. I once took a photo through the window of an ambulance! I can't believe it now but there was some pressure to produce images no matter what the situation. I decided it was time to go back to college, at South Dakota State University in Brookings. I actually sold my camera equipment and took a year off from photography. But then someone on the university campus heard I was there, and asked me to be a photo editor for the college yearbook. It was a paying job, which helped with my college expenses and gave me entrance into every corner of the university with my new camera. From there I met other photographers, which ultimately led to the next part of my career in the South Dakota Tourism Department.
Jens Pepper: Did you know for yourself at this time of ongoing university studies in Brookings, that a life in photography would be what was laying ahead of you? Or had you been unsure about the direction of your future work life? Were there other professions that would have been of interest for you?
Paul Horsted: I was not sure I would stay in photography when I went back to university at Brookings. It sounds ignorant now, but I though newspaper photography or photojournalism was the only kind of photography I wanted to do. Getting tired of newspaper work meant I might look for a different career, or at least take a break from photography. At the university I did not study for a major at first, I did not "declare" a major as we say because I was not sure what I wanted to do. But I started general classes, and explored some other interests. I learned how to fly an airplane (though I do not have a pilot license now), took scuba diving, and studied the German language (which I had studied in high school as well), explored horticulture, writing, and social sciences courses. I finally graduated with a degree in Psychology and a minor in German, but I didn't really think any of those would be my career path. By the time I left university I had an opportunity as a photographer at the South Dakota Tourism Department which I followed.
Jens Pepper: How did it start with the South Dakota Tourism Department and what were your tasks there?
Paul Horsted: While I was at the university, I learned about a summer internship program at the South Dakota Department of Tourism, for writers and photographers. I applied for the internship and worked there for 2 summers. It was a great time to learn. We traveled to festivals, landmarks, and other tourism destinations in South Dakota to take photos. My work was published in tourism publicity, maps, posters, and brochures. I learned about shooting color slide film (previously I had used mostly black-and-white film) and how to control exposure and light more precisely. I also began to understand there were other types of photography I might like beyond photojournalism, such as landscape, wildlife, and historic subjects. One of my favorite jobs was to help put together multi-media slide shows of my photography and that of the other photographers on our staff. Back in those days, using 35mm slide projectors, we could program 3 or even 6 or 9 projectors that would be set up in the back of a room for a large audience and then present a fast-paced slide program about our beautiful state. I still enjoy doing this kind of live presentation with my work today but of course use a laptop and Apple's Keynote software to present my work. It is better today I think…the bulbs in those slide projectors always seemed to burn out at the wrong time!
Jens Pepper: Weren't you also in charge of making official portraits of politicians, like the Governor of South Dakota or Tom Daschle, who at that time was in the U.S. House of Representatives for your State?
Paul Horsted: No, I wasn't really in charge of that type of photography, and I did not consider myself a portrait photographer. I did photograph our Governor George S. Mickelson when he met with people coming to the State capitol for various causes, or when the State Legislature was in session (every January). I also occasionally covered meetings and other events where Governor Mickelson met dignitaries such as our President (the first George Bush) or other officials, but it was not a regular part of my job.
Jens Pepper: Was it at this time at the Tourism Department, that you fell in love with what might become your life time passion: landscape and nature photography?
Paul Horsted: Yes, at the Tourism Department I learned about landscape and nature photography and that experience helped me as I started my freelance career in 1990 (when I also married Camille Riner and left Pierre, SD to join her in Wisconsin before we moved to Michigan). I also took some wildlife photographs in our parks. But my photojournalism background helped me a lot, as we also took photographs at festivals and other events where people were doing interesting things such as hiking, biking, skiing, snowmobiling, etc. and even farm and ranch and other "South Dakota jobs" activities.
Jens Pepper: Were you familiar with the work of photographers like Ansel Adams or Paul Strand at that time?
Paul Horsted: I did not have a formal photography education so unfortunately I did not recognize some of the "masters" until I started reading on my own later. I was so young, I was busy just learning from the more advanced photographers around me at the newspapers I worked for…they were my mentors. When I first started working in newspaper photography, and as I began doing some landscape work with the Tourism Department, I was impressed by photographers working for National Geographic, LIFE magazine, or other big publications, and aspired to that type of work (long ago I did have photos published by the New York Times, USA Today, and other papers, and a few times in LIFE and National Geographic publications. Then I found out it didn't pay very well!) These days I'm more inspired by many lesser-known photographers who worked in the 1860's-early 1900s under very difficult conditions in remote locations (at today's National Parks here), with glass-plate negatives and lots of heavy equipment and long shutter speeds. Amazing to me is the quality of the images they produced under those conditions, and their landscape compositions which can have great depth as they were often using stereoscopic cameras and wanted to emphasize foreground to background.
Jens Pepper: How did you plan your freelance career? Did you have a clear vision of it?
Paul Horsted: I had met Camille Riner while I was working for the Tourism Department in the late 1980s, and by 1990 we had decided to marry. We agreed I would leave my job, start my own business, and follow Camille wherever she could find a teaching job after finishing her Master's Degree. We knew one of us would need a steady paycheck! We ended up spending 8 wonderful years in Michigan, where Camille taught in the art department at Southwestern Michigan College. (She is a printmaker and graphic designer, and does all the layout/design for the books we now publish.)
I found over time that my freelance career had to adapt with the changing photography landscape and economics. Initially I thought I would do magazine and other freelance publication work. This seemed the most interesting and with the most opportunity at first. But in time I realized it simply did not pay very well, at least not enough to make a living strictly from this type of work (others might disagree, but I think all agree pay is very low in editorial work.) I learned that the exact same photo, when used for advertising, might pay 10 times or more what it would if used nearby on the editorial side of the magazine. So I began shooting "stock photography" and advertising these images in national catalogs. The phone would ring, someone would want to license my photo of Mt. Rushmore with a man hanging off Abe Lincoln's nose for a corporate report or magazine report, we'd negotiate the price, I'd send them a color slide, and wait for the check. It wasn't always that simple of course, but it could be very profitable…I once licensed a single photo for more than US$5000. and made more than that from several images having repeat sales over time. Those days of the pre-internet 1990s are gone! Eventually stock photography moved from print catalogs, to CD's, then to the internet, when a glut of millions of images reduced stock photography prices to a commodity. But around this earlier time, I also landed a couple of small book deals, shooting a guide book on South Dakota and another about Custer State Park in the Black Hills. This probably helped with a later decision to produce our own books.
I should add that as a freelancer, I shot a few portraits (but never considered myself a portrait photographer), local advertising jobs, and even some weddings. My photojournalism background fit well with an emerging "candid wedding photography" movement. I didn't really like shooting weddings, I found it very stressful, but it was paying the bills at times and the clients were happy with my work. (I even got a repeat client from a woman who asked me to shoot her second wedding after she divorced the first husband!)
I think it sounds like my focus was on money rather than art, but I wanted to stay in business of course. I did spend a lot of time learning about good business practices in photography and was never afraid to say "no" to a job where I would lose money or make very little, or to enforce my copyrights as the creator of the work. It always amazed me that many photographers would let their clients (a magazine for example) tell them how much they would pay, rather than the other way around. Editorial photography is the only industry I know of where the customer set the price (or tried to). I think my ability to say "no" is partly why I'm still in business after 25 years.
Back to the Michigan years, eventually Camille was ready to leave teaching to pursue her art, and my freelance career was stable enough that we decided to move to Custer, South Dakota, in the Black Hills (where Camille had lived in an earlier time, and a place I also knew well). It's a beautiful mountain area and we live in a small town. We sort of fell into book publishing, which was the best move of my career as it turned out.
So no, I didn't have a clear vision of my freelance career, I had to adapt along the way to changing conditions and am still trying to do so!
Jens Pepper: This clearly sounds like an adventuresome career and you seem to be very happy with it, which is great. You are right, magazines and newspapers mostly offer dumping prices to free lance photographers and authors these times. It is not different in Germany. Only about two years ago the head of the photo department of a daily newspaper in Berlin told me, that they pay for an ORDERED title page picture of a politician something less than 100 euro. That simply is ridiculous. Also the big publishing houses lowered the amount of money they would pay to a freelancer per day massively. A friend of mine quit doing this kind of job a few years ago when the price for a day doing photo journalism went down from 600 to 300 or less for a freelancer. On the first view you might say: wow 300 euros. But you do not know how many days a month you will get jobs. And you have to buy all your camera and computer equipment yourself from your income. So, I understand all your decisions very well.
Your first book was one for the South Dakota Tourism Department then? When did the idea come up to produce books from photo to design together with Camille? Actually to found a publishing business? What was it about?
Paul Horsted: The first books I contributed photos for were AFTER I left the Tourism Department and began freelancing. I worked with a publisher for a book on South Dakota (a guide book) and a book on Custer State Park. I used some images I had taken on my own while freelancing, and some I made specifically for these books.
The first book we produced ourselves (in 2002) was the one called "Exploring with Custer: The 1874 Black Hills Expedition". General George Custer (who is best known for being defeated and killed by the Sioux at the Little Big Horn Battle in 1876) had explored the Black Hills in 1874 (2 years earlier). He had a photographer with him, William Henry Illingworth, who took the very first photos of this area on glass-plate negatives. Some of these places are only one kilometer from my home. I got interested in this photographer and in looking for the places where he had set his camera. This was my introduction to "re-photography", trying to re-create a historic photo in the modern world, to see what had changed, what had remained the same, and learn about history. I started doing this kind of work in 1999.
This 1874 Expedition discovered gold in the Black Hills, leading to the gold rush, Deadwood and its characters, and a lot of history that followed. So it is a primary event in the history of the Black Hills, and we thought it was a very important idea for a new book.
I worked with an outstanding writer who became my co-author, Ernest Grafe. Ernie was interested in mapping the trail of this Expedition, and in editing diaries and newspaper stories from those who were with Custer in 1874. This would give us a first-hand story of their exploration, in their own words. Eventually we decided to work together. Ernie did most of the text and while I took the photographs. We approached a publisher who did historical books, but they weren't very interested in a couple guys like us who did not work for a university or have other official credentials. I had a photographer friend who had published his own book and had a good experience, and since desktop publishing was just becoming possible, and because Camille (and Ernie) had design experience, we decided to try to do it ourselves. The entire project took about 3 years. We didn't know if we would be able to sell books or if they would remain stacked in my garage. But we believed in what we were doing, and got some good publicity while working on it. There was a lot of interest in this subject and we sold out of our first press run of 4000 books in about 8 weeks. After 15 years this book still sells very well with nearly 30,000 copies in print. We will probably update it in the next couple of years.
The success and sales of that book helped me have the confidence (and the financing) to produce the next book project, and then build on that to do the others. Camille continued to design them for us, and they are beautiful books. Sometimes "self-published" has a bad meaning, but in all honesty I believe our books look as good as any "coffee-table books" out there. I started doing slide programs for bus tours, conventions, historical groups, schools and anyone interested in the history of our area. I've done hundreds of these presentations now and often am paid to do it. I enjoy sharing my work this way very much.
Our second book was "The Black Hills Yesterday & Today", which again used "re-photography" of 100-year-old photos to show the gold rush and development of the Black Hills area. It is a large coffee-table book and has also sold very well for many years. We did another small book about landscapes and wildlife of our area called "Custer State Park". Then we did another book on the 1874 Custer Expedition, which followed the rest of their trail (about 1000 kilometers) to and from the Black Hills (our first book had only covered a few hundred kilometers within the Black Hills area). Most recently, I worked for 2 years with "re-photography" in Yellowstone National Park. "Yellowstone Yesterday & Today" was published in late 2012 and is now sold in gift shops and visitor centers at this National Park about 6 hours from where we live. I am now working on "Our National Parks Yesterday & Today", featuring 25 National Parks across the United States. This is a multi-year project, which I hope to publish in late 2017. It takes a lot of travel and a lot of time to find the exact location of these historic photos from 100 or 145 years ago. Sometimes I am hiking 15 kilometers or more to reach a place where someone took a photo in 1880. But I really like it a lot.
So re-photography has now become my passion. Every historic photo site I look for is like going on a treasure hunt, I never know what I will find. I still like doing "my own" landscape and other photography, but there is such a glut of this kind of work available now in every corner of the internet, much of it quite outstanding, that it's difficult to do something original and make a living from it, in my experience. I do love history, and re-photography is a way I've found to connect to these past times and places. Publishing books has been a way to "add value" to the photographs and make them available to a wider audience than I could with print sales only.
Our books seem to take at least 3 years, and maybe now 5 years for the current National Parks book project, to complete. I try not to worry too much about the long timelines, I want to do them right as I hope they'll be around for 10 or 20 years. Or maybe 100 years? Although I believe digital files can survive that long, I'm glad to have these images printed in a book.
Jens Pepper: How do you get the old photos? Do find them in libraries? Or do you buy them at flea markets, galleries and auctions? If so, are you also a collector of old photography?
Paul Horsted: Originally, for our first two books about the Black Hills area ("Exploring with Custer" and "The Black Hills Yesterday & Today") I started scanning photos I found in local museums around the Black Hills. I began this process early in the "digital age" before museums had started scanning their collections, so I was able to help some of these museums by digitizing their historic photos (and also get permission to use them for our books.
Today there are quite a few sources of good-quality scans online, which are sometimes available free of charge…the U.S. Library of Congress (which is our Copyright Office also) is excellent. Other web sites may have a low-resolution or watermarked scan available online in a searchable database. These low-resolution scans are often good enough to use for my "re-photography"…if I am able to find and re-photograph the scene, I will then contact the archive and pay for a high-resolution scan (and get permissions if needed from the archive.)
But I also watch eBay and other online auctions for material, especially now for my National Parks project. It is possible to buy 130-year-old stereo view images for a few euros, though sometimes they cost more. Many popular 1800s views of National Parks were published with thousands of copies so prices are low, but then there are also uncommon images which may cost more, and are interesting enough to me to pay perhaps 100 euros.
After I've visited a National Park and become familiar with its landscape, when I return home and watch eBay, I may see an antique photograph that I "know" will work well for re-photography, because I've been near that location already. These I try to purchase.
So yes, I am a collector now, I have a few hundred historic images of the Black Hills and a growing collection of National Parks historic photos, and additional digital copies acquired from many sources.
I am looking for the simplest, least expensive path to acquiring digital copies of significant historic photos for use in re-photography. Sometimes that means finding them already scanned online, and sometimes that means simply buying them on eBay and scanning them myself. The least efficient and most expensive method is looking around in antique shops or traveling to museums or archives around the country, so I don't do that very often. However, once in a while I'll hear of a good collection and go visit to see what is there if they don't have it digitized already.
Jens Pepper: If you use old photography in your books and lectures, do you have copyright problems once in a while? In Germany an artist, author or photographer has to be dead 70 years before there is free access to the created works.
Paul Horsted: It's a good question. As a photographer myself, who has had my work "stolen" a couple of times that I'm aware of, I try to never violate another photographer's copyright. In the United States, our Copyright Office states that any work created before 1923 is now in the public domain (no longer under copyright protection) and can be used by anyone who has acquired a copy. After 1923, the work or photo had to be re-registered after 28 years to continue the copyright, otherwise it falls into the public domain.
Because of our copyright law in the United States, I believe it is unlikely that most photographers who took a photo in (for example) 1930 re-registered their work in 1958. The Copyright Office says less than 15% of copyrights were renewed properly before 1961 (including quite a few movies, by the way.) If not renewed, the work is now in the public domain (meaning anyone can use it now.)
I use many old photographs from before 1923 (most are 1860s-1900), so these are free of copyright. I use a few postcard images which may date to the 1920s and 1930s…we can only guess the year from clues such as clothing on people or old cars in the photos. For these later images, if there is a photographer credited or other information, I try to find and contact descendants or heirs and obtain permission to use the images. It's sometimes a difficult process to find anyone who is interested or even knew about the images. I do my best, and publish a notice in our books inviting anyone with information about photographers to contact us to let us know. I've never had such an inquiry.
I have studied this confusing issue, but I am not an expert on it, and my comments should not be used as legal advice about copyright law in the United States! More information is in these links below, but be aware these laws differ between the United States and other places in the world. Let me give you two interesting links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_renewal , and this chart, which is extremely helpful for determining copyright status, in the United States: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart
What I try to do is credit the original photographer whenever his or her name is known (but sometimes there is no information about the photographer on these old photographs and stereo views). I truly admire what these early photographers did with their heavy, primitive equipment in very remote areas, and appreciate that they make my work and study of history now possible.
Jens Pepper: What cameras do you use for these projects?
Paul Horsted: Right now I'm using two Nikon D610 cameras (one is a backup in case of failure or damage to the other). Until these cameras I would upgrade my Nikons every 2 years or so as the technology has improved. We are close to a point now where I think the only improvements may be better low-light, low-noise images (but I'm willing to be surprised by other advances!) I'm very happy with what I get from these cameras, even with greatly enlarged prints. Because I am often walking great distances, I want my gear as light as possible, and I do not need "fast" heavy lenses for the work I'm doing. I'm shooting mostly with fairly compact 18-35mm and 24-85 Nikon lenses, but will switch to a 40mm Voightländer or 50mm Nikon prime lens if they "fit" the historic image focal length and I have them along. They are slightly sharper. Many early photographs seem to be taken in the range of 24mm-50mm. I carry a quite small, lightweight carbon fiber tripod, made by MeFoto. Also an essential piece of gear is a MacBook Air, which allows me to check my work for accuracy at the location. I try to keep my backpack under 30 pounds (14 kg.) which is sometimes hard to do with the amount of water I have to carry (in desert environments), food, batteries and other gear, and sometimes overnight camping equipment as well.
Jens Pepper: Are you also doing landscape photos in all those beautiful areas you are visiting that are not for these yesterday & today projects?
Paul Horsted: As I travel or hike, I may take a few other photos of landscape and wildlife (I've seen a few grizzly bears, only from my car window, for example), perhaps with my phone or the small camera I carry at all times (a Sony RX100 m3 which I really like) but I'll be honest: I don't think I can do much that hasn't been done in these National Parks many, many times already by thousands of other photographers. The repeat photography process however is more unusual. It takes a lot of effort and some expense to acquire the historic photos, get to the site hundreds of miles from my home by airplane, car and on foot, find the exact location, and do it well, and I'm proud of that effort and of doing something that has not "already been done" many times over.
When I'm out in these parks, I know my time is limited to the hours of daylight each day, and to the number of days I will be able to stay, and to my physical endurance. I feel the "clock is ticking" at all times, and I travel quickly to my next objective. Getting to some of these remote locations, and actually finding the site of the historic photo, and then placing the camera absolutely precisely where it was 100 years ago, all of this takes a lot of time. I try to maximize the number of re-photography shots I can do within these limitations. If I can do 2 or 3 shots in a day, I'm doing very well. Sometimes I get no shots done because of bad weather, or the light is very wrong, or I reach a site to find it is completely overgrown with trees and bushes and there is really no photo to be taken at the historic photo site (unless I want a closeup of leaves and branches!)
I try to enjoy the beauty that is all around me, and I will stop to admire a snake crossing my path or amazing waterfalls or geysers or 1000-meter cliffs below or above me! And maybe I will snap a photo or two for my personal album or to share on social media.
Jens Pepper: What will follow, when you finish your current project? Do you have a certain project in mind already? Or do you have a dream of something you would love to do?
Paul Horsted: I have at least another year of photography and work to do on the National Parks book project, and producing the book also will take additional time. But after that, I would like to do a book about South Dakota Yesterday & Today. It will be much simpler to complete, but I think will be interesting also. There are towns that no longer exist, and landmarks that have changed. In the old days often photographers would climb a water tower or a grain elevator to take a photo of these early towns (many towns here did not even exist until 1880 or 1890, unlike in your country!) Today, the water tower or grain elevators probably do not exist, so I am thinking of using a drone to re-photograph from the same height over these places today.
Otherwise I hope to keep speaking to groups and doing book signings as I have done in recent years. We have learned that it is not enough to publish a book, you must also publicize it to let people know its available, which is a lot of work and time as well. But I hope I'll be returning to many of these National Parks for lectures or book signings in the years to come.
I'll close by saying I feel very fortunate to be able to do this kind of work which I've come to love. I couldn't do it without my wife and designer Camille, and our daughter Anna Marie, now in 8th grade. I also often remind myself I couldn't do this without all the people who buy and read our books. I'm grateful to each reader for making it possible to follow my passion.
Das Gespräch entstand im November 2015 via Email.
Image Gallery: click to enlarge:
Arches National Park Garden of Eden
Castle Creek Valley Black Hills Custer Expedition 1874
Glacier National Park at Many Glacier
Harney Peak and Cathedral Spires in Black Hills
Homestead in Black Hills of South Dakota
Inspection of Mt. Rushmore at Abraham Lincoln
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial
Yellowstone Electric Peak
Yellowstone Lower Falls
Yosemite Vernal Falls and Liberty Cap
Paul Horsted
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Paul's current project:
paulhorsted.com/Our-National-Parks-Yesterday/
Samples of Paul's books:
tinyurl.com/InfoPaulsBooks
Dakota Photographic LLC & Golden Valley Press
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Q: Symfony2: How do I clear all of Symfony's (and all 3rd party plugins) cache in 1 command? so I've been testing Doctrine queries and other Symfony code and I have to run several commands just to clear Doctrine/Symfony caches. I was searching for the net and came across another command to clear Assetic assets/etc.
From what I've read
php app/console cache:clear

will only clear Symfony cache. it won't include Doctrine and perhaps more.
I know I can create a bash script to clear all my caches but this obviously means I know all the "clear cache" commands. I only found out about the Assetic clear cache/assets by accident. What about those I don't know?
So is there 1 "clear cache" command that can do it for me? This will have to include Symfony/Doctrine/Assetic/Twig and whatever plugins I have installed.
Thanks a lot

A: What you are looking for is highly dependent on the developer of the bundle that uses the cache. Not even doctrine, that comes with the standard version of symfony has its cache clear command integrated. But what you can do is extend the default symfony command with a listener that runs all the cache clear command you want like this:
<?php
namespace DefaultBundle\Event\Listener;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\CacheClearer\CacheClearerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;

class CacheClearListener implements CacheClearerInterface
{
    private $environment;

    /**
     * @return array
     */
    private static function getCommands()
    {
        return array(
            'php ./app/console doctrine:cache:clear-metadata --no-debug --flush',
            'php ./app/console doctrine:cache:clear-query --no-debug --flush',
            'php ./app/console doctrine:cache:clear-result --no-debug --flush'
        );
    }

    public function clear($cacheDir)
    {
        $output = new ConsoleOutput();
        $output->writeln('');
        $output->writeln('<info>Clearing Doctrine cache</info>');

        foreach (self::getCommands() as $command) {
            $command .= ' --env='.$this->environment;
            $success = $this->executeCommand($command, $output);

            if (!$success) {
                $output->writeln(sprintf('<info>An error occurs when running: %s!</info>', $command));
                exit(1);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param string        $command
     * @param ConsoleOutput $output
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    private function executeCommand($command, ConsoleOutput $output)
    {
        $p = new Process($command);
        $p->setTimeout(null);
        $p->run(
            function ($type, $data) use ($output) {
                $output->write($data, false, OutputInterface::OUTPUT_RAW);
            }
        );
        if (!$p->isSuccessful()) {
            return false;
        }
        $output->writeln('');

        return true;
    }

    /**
     * @param Kernel $kernel
     */
    public function setKernel(Kernel $kernel)
    {
        $this->environment = $kernel->getEnvironment();
    }
}

Register the listener like this:
<service id="cache_clear_listener" class="DefaultBundle\Event\Listener\CacheClearListener">
    <call method="setKernel">
        <argument type="service" id="kernel"/>
    </call>
    <tag name="kernel.cache_clearer"  priority="254" />
</service>

And that is all. Now all you need to do is keep adding your new cache clear command to the getCommands() method. In order to find this commands you can run something like
php app/console | grep cache

to see all available commands that contain the word "cache" in them
After your listener is set, every time you run php app/console cache:clear it will trigger all the command that you listed in the getCommands() method of your listener.
Hope this helps,
Alexandru


PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHEN PEDRICK From left, Jefferson County Trails Council members Bob Hunerdosse, Jami Kenly, Frank Broz and Stephen Pedrick unpack a bike maintenance station that they would install on the Fairfield Loop Trail.
Stephen Pedrick in his office at French-Reneker-Associates.
Stephen Pedrick, back row far right, with a group of volunteers working on the Fairfield Loop Trail.
Stephen Pedrick randomly drawing a prize-winning card turned in for the Jefferson County Trails Council's scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt was Pedrick's idea.
Stephen Pedrick inherited the gene for volunteering from his parents.
Stephen is the son of Jim and Gwen Pedrick, who taught their son at a young age what was expected of him.
Pedrick was born in Muscatine and moved to Douds when his father became the manager of the family furniture store, Pedrick Home Center. The family also owned the funeral home.
Pedrick said his dad was on numerous volunteer boards such as the Douds Community Club, Lions Club of Keosauqua, Masonic Lodge, and the United Methodist Church in Douds.
"My dad was at some sort of meeting two to three nights a week," Pedrick recalls.
Gwen is every bit as active, teaching Title I reading at Van Buren Elementary School in Douds. She is active on committees in the Methodist Church, a member of Tri-T and a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, a philanthropic teachers' organization.
After the furniture store closed, Jim became co-owner of Fesler Auto Mall. Having switched his place of employment to Fairfield, Jim joined Fairfield Rotary and the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. A few years later, his son Stephen would join that very board. Jim was also the first director of the Greater Fairfield Habitat for Humanity Restore.
Pedrick is a project manager at French-Reneker-Associates in Fairfield. Just like his parents have given back to the communities they served, Pedrick and his colleagues at the engineering firm have done the same.
The first major volunteering project Pedrick undertook was demolishing and rebuilding the Little League dugouts at the Douds ballfield, which he did to earn his Eagle Scout badge. He didn't do the work by himself, but rather designed the project and encouraged others to volunteer.
Pedrick graduated from Van Buren High School in 2005 before attending Iowa Wesleyan College. While there, he participated in the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity. At that time, the campus chapter piggy-backed on homebuilding projects conducted by Henry County Habitat for Humanity. The county chapter would build a home, and the campus chapter built a shed to go with it. The campus organization also took a spring break trip to Omaha where they built a new home and remodeled another.
Pedrick transferred to Iowa State University, where he obtained a degree in civil engineering. Pedrick was a member of a couple of engineering societies through he which he performed service projects, one of which was picking up trash along Highway 30.
He had an internship with French-Reneker-Associates in the summer of 2009 the year before he graduated. The firm offered him a job in Fairfield, which he gladly took the following year.
Pedrick's post at French-Reneker led to the volunteer position for which he is widely known – chairman of the Jefferson County Trails Council. Through his engineering job, Pedrick was in charge of observing construction of the final leg of the 16-mile Fairfield Loop Trail.
Pedrick was working under Kent Rice, a French-Reneker engineer who was also the founding chairman of the trails council in the late 1990s. By 2012, the trails council was in the throes of an identity crisis. Its members had spent the past 15 years planning and building the loop trail. Now that it was nearly done, what was the point of the council? Ultimately, the council voted to continue after the trail's completion, shifting its focus from trail construction to trail maintenance and promotion.
Once the Fairfield Loop Trail was complete, many of the members of the council stepped down, wanting to give the new board, with its new mission, a clean slate. This meant the departure of Ron Blair, who had been chair of the trails council for the majority of its existence. Pedrick was asked to join the board, which he did, becoming its co-chair. Within a year, the other co-chair moved away, leaving Pedrick alone at the helm.
"At that time in my life, I had been wanting to get more involved because I'd lived in Fairfield for two years without doing much outside of working and running a lot on the trails," Pedrick said.
An early project Pedrick and the other board members took on were twice-annual trail work days, where volunteers performed routine maintenance on the trails. Pedrick said those trail work days have tapered off in recent years because the club has struggled to fill its maintenance chair, one of seven cabinet positions.
The trails council's marquee event the past four years has been the scavenger hunt, which starts during Memorial Day weekend and ends during Fairfield First Fridays in July. Participants obtain a card with a map showing where 10 punches have been scattered throughout the loop trail. Readers are given a clue for each punch as well, which helps them pinpoint their location, since the punches are hidden.
Pedrick hatched the idea for the scavenger hunt after competing in an adventure race in Boone. In that race, participants had to locate a series of punches within 12 hours, and required them to run, bike and canoe.
The first year of Fairfield's scavenger hunt was 2015. Pedrick wrote the clues, as he has done every year except one. The response Pedrick received suggested the hunt was too easy, so he made it more challenging the next year.
Pedrick joined the board of the Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce in 2014, following in the footsteps of his father, who served on the board, and his grandfather, who was on Keosauqua's chamber board. Pedrick is board president this year.
A couple of the major tasks the board has undertaken in recent years include hiring two executive directors in two years: Detra Dettmann in 2016 and Darien Sloat in 2017. Pedrick said hiring a director is a lot of work for a volunteer board since it involves advertising the position, collecting resumes, and interviewing candidates.
Pedrick and his wife Afton, the children's librarian at Fairfield Public Library, are active members of the Young Professionals of Fairfield, a networking organization for 21-40 year olds. Its volunteer activities have included helping build homes through Greater Fairfield Habitat for Humanity, Carry On Bags, and manning the concession stand at Fairfield High School football games, among others.


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Broken Hammer Games
The Nails That Break The Hammer
Projects & Development
All is Fair in Dust and Air
Dust n Air Characters
Dust n Air Lore
Dust n Air Art
Dust n Air Music
Dust n Air Progress
Dust n Air Q&A
The following are answered by the CEO of Broken Hammer Games
What is All is Fair in Dust and Air?
All is Fair in Dust and Air is a fan created Guns of Icarus Online (GOIO) Visual Novel (VN). It spawned out the competitive community of the GOIO forums and transitioned from a fan project to an actual game developer intent on releasing it. Development on it started in 2013 with the first four stories completed or in development before the end of that year.
The story consists of six main story arcs and one introduction (Neutral) story arc.
This will not be a Kinetic VN (Straight story with no choices). There will be choices that determine the story outcome. However we take the term "novel" in visual novel quite literally as we allow our stories to grow more than many other VNs.
After a crowd funding phase it will then go into digital distribution.
So you're doing a Kickstarter?
Yes we plan to run an IndieGoGo campaign prior our initial launch. The funding from this we hope to both fund the initial neutral arc but also get us started on funding the rest of the game.
Who knows, if it goes really above and beyond what we can dream, we could even potentially have the entire game funded from the start which would save us a lot of time and money in getting the rest of the game produced.
What game engine are you using?
We're using TyranoBuilder. It is a powerful development engine designed for VN production. It is available through Steam. Feel free to look into it.
Why didn't you use another engine like Ren'Py?
Basically it boiled down to the flexibility and abilities of each engine. Ren'Py is powerful but it is a much older engine. Tyrano is newer and just has great advantages for developing on.
As with most newer tools, they have advanced past the days when you'd have to be a master of a programming language to handle. With Tyrano, you don't need to invest a lot of time into coding, and you can test the game on the fly. Being able to share resources with an entire team to work on instead of just a few with knowledge, greatly benefits development time. Ren'Py can't do that.
Effectively this means the entire team is the programming department and QA at the same time. Debugging is made much more effective.
Ren'Py just simply can't match. To test on Ren'Py, you need to compile the entire game and launch from the beginning. If we ran into a bug, we might spend exponentially longer trying to fix and isolate it. Compiling and recompiling till it would be resolved. Which would cut into our development time.
Where will it be released and will it cost money?
Yes it will be up for sale.
Steam is the clear choice. It has the largest community in both gaming and VNs. However, rolling out on other platforms like Amazon, Apple Store, or even Android app stores is certainly on the table.
Apple? Android? Is this a cell phone VN?
Our first release will be for PC. The Tyrano engine can export to Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android so creating versions for release on other platforms is certainly possible. We haven't fully tested them all yet but, we certainly plan to. In fact we will likely seek to port to Mac as soon as possible as we know GOIO has plenty of Mac players.
Linux, currently there isn't an ability to export to it. This is something we certainly wouldn't mind doing and we'll try talking to the TyranoBuilder devs about doing.
As a small startup, it would be foolish of us to ignore other platforms if we can port onto them.
Alright, so how much will it be in price?
This is a complex answer as we have enough content in the initial introduction neutral arc alone to compete with full VNs from other developers. Most of the western visual novels never get beyond 10k in word counts and some of them want more than $20 for almost no content or very lackluster content! This just isn't right.
If we go by their standard, our neutral arc of about 30k word count, quickly could skyrocket to being beyond what people would see as a value. With our main story arcs averaging over 90k in word counts, this game could simply overprice itself.
However, we will not use their standards. It is our desire to roll out the game in increments. So each story will become paid content that will go to help fund the rest of the game. In other words, it's like a snowball rolling down a mountain. It picks up more snow as it goes.
Thus, we intend to keep prices lower to not only encourage growth, but also because by the time we have multiple stories completed, that "snowball" should be plenty large to not only fund continued development, but also future development.
Because of this, we do not wish to make the neutral arc a hurdle to entry. The price of the initial story will be lower. We currently would like that to be in the $5-$15 range. Story arcs will be higher as they include more content. But it is our hope to keep the prices within reason and competitive so you won't have to wait around for Steam Sales.
Is Muse getting a cut?
Muse has not requested any royalties at this time. In fact quite the opposite. They want us keep what we get.
While being fans of GOIO, we ourselves have wanted to bless them somehow, but currently proceeds will be going directly into development. So perhaps the biggest benefit towards Muse we will be offering is promoting GOIO in a way not many other game developers can.
It isn't every day that a game developer allows a fan group, turned developer, to use their IP. Croteam certainly made headlines when they opened Serious Sam for this. But that isn't an Indie developer like Muse.
How long will it take to beat the game?
Depends how fast you can read. The Neutral Arc clocks in close to 50,000 words. Once we open up to beta testing, we'll have a better idea from people of different reading speeds and levels.
That script in terms of pages comes in around 120-150 pages. It varies between word processors and we are editing as we go. You'd be surprised how the script has changed from it's original format just during the time it has been in active development.
We'd like the Neutral Arc to be from 2-5hrs but we know some people will read fast and have it done quicker. Others on the other hand, may read at a more leisurely pace and take longer.
Time for the rest of the game is unknown at this time. The major story arcs right now clock in anywhere from 300-450 pages each. In fact one of them is likely over that as we do have some with some lengthy branches and alternate endings.
Our hope is that you can enjoy them like a good novel and play as your schedule permits.
How many possible branches/endings will the story have?
There is a story for each nation in GOIO. So six in total. Most of the major branching occurs in them. However the Neutral Arc will have at least one major branch with endings which lead into the beginnings of the faction stories.
As far as endings in the faction stories. They will each have three different endings. However, some will have more due to alternate choices being presented that were not present in the Neutral Arc. These alternate choices being, new heroines that were not present in the neutral arc. They will get their own endings and be treated just as important as the main cast.
So when you look at 300-450 pages or more, keep in mind, some of that is in fact branching and endings. Kinetic visual novels without choices, don't have to worry about this as they are more like a straight novel with no branching. Thus their scripts can be smaller.
If you look into the scripts of some of the big games being produced by AAA devs, they'll often be well over 1000 pages, some cases even 10,000, just because of all the potential routing and branching.
Will the story be rather grand (i.e.: saving the world), or more small stuff and personal?
That is an excellent question. It is a common theme in western entertainment to always have a story being "grand" in it's scope and overall design. This unfortunately leads to some games running with every end point being a life or death dash to escape the always exploding plot device. The Old Republic in the Eternal Empire stories are a great example of this. Even movies and TV you'll always see the predictable exploding plot device along with the clock always stopping within the last few seconds.
In them it is perpetually always a "universe is at stake" situation.
Trouble is, that gets boring. Not that you can't have larger than life villains who desire to take over the world, but we do not see that as necessary for a good story. Nor is it necessary to always have a life or death mad dash from the exploding plot device.
"Saving the world," in our stories takes on a different meaning. The world is the world of the main protagonist, as well as the heroines. Saving their world happens but what that really entails varies. Each heroine has an important part to play in the world of GOIO, but not all parts are that of princesses or rulers. In fact, while many come from prominent backgrounds, they aren't all in positions of power that could single-handedly change the course of history. Some are in positions where their tiny actions could bring about great change. Thus by saving them, you would be saving a future world. But whether they'd be remembered for that is up for debate, as they are only a small part.
There is however, cross over between the story arcs. So we do address what happens if you choose one heroine over the other. How does the world of the other change or stay the same without your direct input? Does the world of GOIO really change at all either way? It's questions our writers often asked while writing the stories. They look for, and consider, as many potential plot holes as they can. Then consider how best to address them from some of the other stories.
When it comes to Muse's lore and how we work around that; Perhaps a better way to explain it is: Our stories are more "Legends" of GOIO.
We wanted to write this story for the GOIO world we love so dear, but at the same time, Muse has their own potential lore ideas and designs. Trying to get them in sync is possible but it could potentially limit either the GOIO universe or our own. We don't want to do that. We'd still be writing and rewriting stories if we did.
So the way we devised to resolve this is to create our storyline from a legend perspective. This gives us the flexibility to work in the lore without stepping on toes. As well as, Muse, the flexibility to accept stories or characters later, or reject them.
It isn't all that different from how Bioware treated Mass Effect when it eventually made certain things canon (the official looks of the hero/heroine). Which is similar to what they did with Knights of the Old Republic 2. You played the branching story, developed your own idea of how it should go, then Bioware decided what would be their canon later.
Will the player be aligned with a faction or just a mercenary?
Neither actually.
When we started to plan out the story, we looked at all the factions and possibilities and ultimately decided the best possible way to set the player into the world is by them being an independent. This would give you free choice over which faction you wanted to see. It also would mean you don't have hurdles to get over with some of the heroines who may be predisposed to see you as an enemy if you are of an opposing faction.
In some ways you are a mercenary but you aren't a pure fighter and you aren't completely beholden to money. You're a small timer. What concerns you most is stability of the trade routes and keeping your company alive, not slugging it out in air combat.
In some ways, this is in contrast to GOIO. However, we wanted to present a story from the standpoint of people just living in the world. A fighter would limit our story lines to just combat. We didn't want to make a Shepherd of the GOIO world when you are already that person as you play GOIO.
That isn't to say there won't be combat in the story, there will, we just want the player to feel more at home in the world.
Will there perhaps be references to real players, clans, or GOIO development?
Absolutely. There may be a few cameos or references to certain legendary GOIO players (Z**a), or even some easter eggs regarding clans.
TTR Studio, our original group name, was behind the Support Your Local Aerodrome community events. We worked with The Bully Boy's, Cake, and many other GOIO clans in developing the storyline and gametypes for the event. In fact, development of the stories for Aerodrome was often done between story development of this project. Some references or homages may carry over.
Much of the references will likely be hidden. We won't always come out and say it. There wouldn't be any fun otherwise. In fact you may just come across a character and not even realize who she is referenced to until later.
We'll also be looking into concept ideas from the community. Different ships, weapons, and just simply how airships work in general in GOIO.
Will there be a soundtrack and would we see crossover of it with GOIO's soundtrack?
Oh absolutely a soundtrack, in fact if you've seen our teaser trailer, that is cut audio direct from our score.
As far as cooperation with Muse, that is complicated.
In terms of permissions and right to use, we have an agreement for using the lore. Music would be something else entirely and it isn't really necessary for us. We have our own musicians and we're developing our own style for this world we're creating.
The style will be compatible with the GOIO world but as far as cooperation goes, that would have to be something discussed with Muse and the musicians involved.
Will we be seeing store items on the GOIO store, related to your game, that we can use on our ships?
Eventually we'd like to. This is where the crowdfunding part will come in.
Making special custom decals for backers is certainly doable. Flying into combat with one of the heroines on your balloon is not out of the question.
However, hats, clothing, and badges would require Muse for. This would be up for discussion with them and would be at their discretion. We don't have the size of team and people with Unity talent to make them ourselves.
So, how big is your team?
We currently have a core team of seven developers in four countries. Because of geography, most are technically, independent contractors. Broken Hammer Game's management is currently in California, with its' birthplace in Wyoming. We're very much an internet based company at this stage.
Such a small team and you're making something so big?
Because we're passionate about it. Our team wants to see these characters come to life. They have since the first day the original team met in Skype to discuss the project.
We won't say that there won't be hardships along the way, but we're committed to the journey and we believe our choices in things, like simply using TyranoBuilder, are choices that will best see this project to completion.
As we journey, we'll look to grow the team. Bringing on more, "hammer breakers" along the way, to join us in our dream.
Grow the team? I wanna help!
That's great to hear! Yes we are looking to grow it.
Games take time, talent, and money to produce. Even with TyranoBuilder, we need real people to helm the controls and handle a lot of different tasks.
If you want to become apart of the team in any facet, check out our employment page.
Do you need voice actors?
Because of the difficulty and overall time needed to manage a full vocal dub (given our cast and script sizes), it isn't feasible for us to actually do it as we develop the game right now. Especially if we have voice actors spread out across the world.
Vocal work is much more than just getting people to record. To do it now would negatively impact our development schedule. Current members would have to take time away from more pressing needs to manage the recordings. We'd almost have to bring someone on that their sole job would be to manage this.
However, it will likely appear as one of our funding goals and we have a promo trailer that will be voiced to show we definitely want to do it. Which will likely show the limits of remote voice recordings. Our apologies on some of the audio quality. We did a lot of takes to get it even that far.
A partial dub, if only to have simple phrases for certain cast members that would play when they would start speaking, is something we are considering.
The best example to give would be NPCs in "Sid Meiers Pirates!" which would give a stock vocal line on initial conversation regardless of the text to follow. It would often be in another language so you wouldn't really understand and it wouldn't cause problems with the script.
It's not really what we want, but it could potentially be a stopgap measure till we could do a full dub.
Of course, all of this is reliant on how well the game not only does, but also how well the crowd funding phase goes. So lets leave it at that for now.
Do you have a timetable for how long the full game will take to complete?
We're aiming within two to three years. Development will actually speed up over time because some of our stories do crossover. So assets developed for one can be used in another. This was a design choice we made with this in mind from very early in the story development.
Along with that and the flexibility of TyranoBuilder, we are optimistic.
So...will there be an adult patch?
No. Our agreement with Muse Games will not permit us to add "H" content.
However, even if we didn't have a written agreement with Muse, we wouldn't have adult content in this VN. While we realize many VNs only sell because of NSFW content, we don't want to sacrifice the quality of our characters or story. We also want it to be enjoyed by a wider audience and safe enough to be played on a lunch break if needed.
We will leave such content to fan art/fictions and their imaginations.
This doesn't mean this will be a PG story. The GOIO world is not a cheery place. It is rather brutal if you really consider it.
Our writers and artists did not want to compromise on this aspect.
Like how Muse did not want to turn GOIO into a super arcadey chibi character filled title to gain a publisher, we also don't want to dumb something down.
While we won't have adult content, there will be more adult themes. Mostly due to our target audience being older.
This is not a traditional high school VN. Our characters are adults and will be dealing with very adult issues. People will die and some will die rather painfully.
Romance scenes will exist and there may be some light fan service. However we will abide by our agreement with Muse in how far we take it.
For example, think of shows like Firefly, which are very dear to our team. Firefly was a great inspiration to many writers and artists but it was also more adult in themes and didn't dumb itself down.
We would be pushing into the, Mal kicking the villain into engine territory. If that is still too violent or not violent enough, our apologies.
Alright, when is the crowd funding starting?
It's here now: https://igg.me/at/brokenhammer/x/16780722
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