Kotka is a city and municipality of Finland.Kotka is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland at the mouth of Kymi River and it is part of the Kymenlaakso region in southern Finland. Start off your visit on the 18th (Tue): tour the pleasant surroundings at Santalahti Nature Trail, pause for some serene contemplation at Pyhtaa Church of Saint Henry, then get engrossed in the history at Langinkoski Imperial Fishing Lodge Museum, then take a stroll through Linden Esplanade, and finally contemplate the long history of Kotka Church.
George Town, Malaysia to Kotka is an approximately 20.5-hour flight. The time zone difference when traveling from George Town to Kotka is minus 5 hours. Traveling from George Town in December, expect Kotka to be cooler, temps between -1°C and -6°C. Cap off your sightseeing on the 18th (Tue) early enough to go by car to Tampere.
Start off your visit on the 19th (Wed): contemplate in the serene atmosphere at Tampere Cathedral, enjoy the sand and surf at Rauhaniemi Beach, then examine the collection at Vapriikin Museokeskus, and finally steep yourself in history at Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing.
Start your trip to Tampere by creating a personalized itinerary on Inspirock.
You can drive from Kotka to Tampere in 3 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus. In December, plan for daily highs up to 0°C, and evening lows to -6°C. Cap off your sightseeing on the 19th (Wed) early enough to catch the train to Turku.
On the 20th (Thu), contemplate the long history of Turku Cathedral, examine the collection at Luostarinmaki Handicrafts Museum, then enjoy the sand and surf at Ispoinen Beach and Sauna, and finally step into the grandiose world of Turku Castle. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the 21st (Fri): step off the mainland to explore Vepsa Island, then take an in-depth tour of Ett Hem Museum, and then delve into the distant past at Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova.
To see more things to do, ratings, and tourist information, you can read our Turku online sightseeing planner .
Traveling by train from Tampere to Turku takes 2 hours. Alternatively, you can drive; or do a combination of train and flight. In December, daily temperatures in Turku can reach 1°C, while at night they dip to -4°C. Finish your sightseeing early on the 21st (Fri) so you can travel to Levi.
Kick off your visit on the 22nd (Sat): fly down the slopes at Levi Ski Resort.
To find more things to do, photos, where to stay, and more tourist information, go to the Levi travel itinerary planner.
You can do a combination of flight and bus from Turku to Levi in 4.5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of train, flight, and bus; or drive. Prepare for slightly colder weather when traveling from Turku in December: high temperatures in Levi hover around -6°C and lows are around -15°C. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 22nd (Sat) so you can travel to Inari.
On the 23rd (Sun), take in the pleasant sights at Otsamo Fell, then see the interesting displays at Siida, and then pause for some serene contemplation at Pielpajarvi Wilderness Church.
To see photos, where to stay, other places to visit, and other tourist information, use the Inari online attractions planner .
Traveling by combination of bus, flight, and shuttle from Levi to Inari takes 2.5 hours. Alternatively, you can drive; or take a bus. In December, daytime highs in Inari are -7°C, while nighttime lows are -17°C. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 23rd (Sun) so you can travel to Helsinki.
Museum-lovers will get to explore Fortress of Suomenlinna and Kansallisgalleria. You'll discover tucked-away gems like Seurasaari Island and Open-Air Museum and Aurinkolahti Beach. There's still lots to do: take in the spiritual surroundings of Rock Church, learn more about the world around you at Natural History Museum (Luonnontieteellinen Museo), take a stroll through Katajanokka, and kick back and relax at Hietaranta Beach.
For where to stay, ratings, photos, and other tourist information, use the Helsinki trip planning app .
Do a combination of shuttle and flight from Inari to Helsinki in 4 hours. Alternatively, you can drive; or do a combination of bus and train. Traveling from Inari in December, expect nights in Helsinki to be warmer, around -3°C, while days are a bit warmer, around 3°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 27th (Thu) to allow time to travel back home.


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På vej til Paradis er en dokumentarfilm instrueret af Helminen efter manuskript af Helminen.

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Inge og Holger Thomasen har været gift i en menneskealder. Sammen har de rejst i hele verden og fået tre børn i tre verdensdele. Nu lever de i deres egen 'jungle' i Allerød i Nordsjælland, hvor de dyrker orkideer, kaffe og appelsiner, som de har bragt med hjem fra deres mange rejser. Men tiden nærmer sig, hvor de er nødt til at flytte. »På vej til Paradis« er en fortælling om at blive gammel med værdighed og visdom, om at holde sammen, om at samle ting, indtryk og erfaringer gennem et helt liv og om at videregive det, man har samlet. Filmen vandt prisen som Bedste Danske Dokumentar ved Odense Film Festival i 2007.

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Design Challenge in Tog – we want to Jam it with you!
In the last weekend of March 2019, Tog will host to a dot on the Global Service Design map.
Cities all over the world will be jamming on a secret theme released Friday 29th March, and the Delicious Dublin Jam will be prototyping pick-me-ups to prickly problems right along with them.
This will be a 24+ hour make/build/prototype re/act & fix-a-thon session: we will brainstorm and pitch ideas, team up and build prototypes, then test them out.
At the end there will be demos, prizes and pizza!
The secret theme is released on Friday 29th of March by the global jam organisers.
We're as excited to find out about it as you are!
A creative group design-build-test session to improve the services we all use.
a way of translating your opinion/idea into a thing in the real world that you can test if it works or not.
This could be a website, a roleplay, a strip of cardboard with glitter and googly eyes glued on.
An attitude to buzz with others and step out your comfort zone is the most important thing.
If you have anything you like to use, such as special pens and paper, or things other people would like, maybe cookies or post-its, then do bring them along.
Also if you have special skills you'd like to volunteer, such as facilitating or mentoring, then please let us know!
Not at all, everyone has skills, energy and experience to bring.
There will be experienced facilitators around to work through the creative process with you.
Have fun, meet people, learn skills, make something, solve a problem, push yourself, work in a cool space, eat pizza, have fun.
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Agatha Awards announced
Malice Domestic has announced the nominees for the 2009 Agatha Awards (for traditional mysteries). Winners will be chosen by attendees at the Malice Domestic 21 convention (May 1-3), and will be announced Saturday, May 2. Click here for more information.
• Six Geese A-Slaying, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur Books)
• A Royal Pain, by Rhys Bowen (Penguin Group)
• The Cruelest Month, by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• Buckingham Palace Gardens, by Anne Perry (Random House)
• I Shall Not Want, by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur Books)
• Through a Glass, Deadly, by Sarah Atwell (Berkley Trade)
• The Diva Runs Out of Thyme, by Krista Davis (Penguin Group)
• Pushing Up Daisies, by Rosemary Harris (Minotaur Books)
• Death of a Cozy Writer, by G.M. Malliet (Midnight Ink)
• Paper, Scissors, Death, by Joanna Campbell Slan (Midnight Ink)
Best Non-fiction
• African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study, by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland & Co.)
• How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries, by Kathy Lynn Emerson (Perseverance Press)
• Anthony Boucher, A Bibliography, by Jeff Marks (McFarland & Co.)
• Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories, by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Metro Books)
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, by Kate Summerscale (Walker)
• "The Night Things Changed," by Dana Cameron (from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner; Ace)
• "Killing Time," by Jane Cleland (Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine, November 2008)
• "Dangerous Crossin," by Carla Coupe (from Chesapeake Crimes 3, edited by Donna Andrews and Marcia Talley; Wildside Press)
• "Skull and Cross Examination," by Toni L.P. Kelner (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], February 2008)
• "A Nice Old Guy," by Nancy Pickard (EQMM, August 2008)
Best Children's/Young Adult
• Into the Dark, by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins)
• A Thief in the Theater, by Sarah Masters Buckey (American Girl)
• The Crossroads, by Chris Grabenstein (Random House
Children's Books)
• The Great Circus Train Robbery, by Nancy Means Wright
(Hilliard and Harris)
Congratulations to all the Nominees!!!
Labels: Agatha Awards, Malice Domestic, mysteries
Ash Wednesday Mysteries
Yes, Ash Wednesday follows Mardi Gras, so no surprise that I have another list! I've taken a bit more leeway on these titles. Comments welcome.
Ash Wednesday by Ralph McInerny
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
The Apostate's Tale by Margaret Frazer
Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Guilt by John Lescroart
Labels: Ash Wednesday Mysteries, mystery
Mardi Gras Mysteries
Today is Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday. How could I not do a list? Mardi Gras/Carnivale, whatever you call it, it's the perfect time and place for Murder!
The Big Uneasy-Terror Strikes Mardi Gras by Murray C. Fincher
The Mardi Gras Murders by Bristow C. Manning
The Mardi Gras Murders by Ricardo S. Dubois
No Mardi Gras for the Dead by John Donaldson
Mardi Gras Mamo by Greg Herren
Mardi Gras Murders: A Novel by Phillip Scott
Death Visits Mardi Gras by J.J. Boortz
Mardi Gras Eyes by Phyllis Morris
The Mardi Gras Mystery by Carolyn Keene
Murder Comes to Mardi Gras by Laura Childs
Carnaval Capers by Jody Ford
Venetian Mask by Mickey Friedman
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly
Mardi Gras Madness: Tales of Terror and Mayhem in New Orleans Edited by Russell Davis and Martin Harry Greenberg
Labels: Big Easy, Carnivale, Mardi Gras Mysteries, mystery
Murder at the Academy Awards
Just a tip of the hat to last night's Academy Awards, the perfect place for Murder.
Murder at the Academy Awards by Joan Rivers and Jerilyn Farmer
Oscar Season by Mary McNamara
Murder at the Academy Awards by Joe Hyams
Best Murder on the Year by Jon P. Bloch
Best Actress by John Kane
Labels: academy awards, mystery, Oscar
Jack Webb, R.I.P.
The Rap Sheet brings us news today via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Blog that novelist John Alfred "Jack" Webb (not the same Jack Webb who brought us Dragnet) has died at age 92. January 13, 1916 - February 12, 2008. He also wrote as John Farr. During the 1950s and '60s, Webb wrote mysteries featuring the crime-solving pair of Father Joseph Shanley and Sammy Golden. Father Shanley was a Catholic priest in Southern California. Golden was a Jewish detective-sergeant working with what was apparently the Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide Division. Among Webb's titles: The Big Sin (1952), The Damned Lovely (1954), The Brass Halo (1957), and One for My Dame (1961). Jim Doherty wrote an article on Jack Webb for one of the early issues of Religious Mysteries of Mystery Readers Journal.
Labels: Bill Crider, FAther Shanley, Jack Webb, Mystery Readers Journal, The Rap Sheet
Laurie R. King: Fifteen Weeks of Bees
Laurie R. King alerted me (and her many fans) that it's been 15 years since The Beekeeper's Apprentice was published. This April, The Language of Bees will come out, the ninth in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. To celebrate the pair of bee-books, she's declaring it: Fifteen Weeks of Bees that started on February 1 and will end on May 22, 2009: the 150th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
The Laurie R. King web site will coordinate a wide range of special events, including:
• Free downloads of The Beekeeper's Apprentice from Picador Press
• A cooperative fundraiser with Heifer International (www.heifer.org) to benefit
Heifer's international beehive project
• Weekly posts from 109 year-old Mary Russell on her MySpace blog
• A limited-edition broadside—short story and woodcut—with Lavendier Press
• Special events for book groups and libraries: discussion packets, video chats,
and library-only contests, in celebration of National Library Week in April
• Laurie's reflections on writing The Language of Bees in her blog, Mutterings
• A blog tour—guest blogs by Laurie on a variety of Bees-related topics
• A new Mary Russell Language of Bees t-shirt
• Weekly contests and drawings including Youtube, Goodreads, Facebook, fan
fiction projects, and contributions to Laurie's next Russell and Holmes novel
• Mary Russell—Twittering!
• Related discussions on Laurie's Virtual Book Club
• Library events with Les Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) on
• And finally, an exciting new project called "Russellscape," on
the Laurie R. King website.
Have a look at everything, and BEE Smart. Read Laurie R. King's mysteries!
Labels: Fifteen Weeks of Bees, Laurie King, Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Nora Roberts opens a Romantic Inn
Thanks to The Rap Sheet for news on Nora Roberts new Literary-Lovers Inn.
Nora Roberts, best selling romance and suspense author, has opened the Inn BoonsBoro. She has named the rooms of her hotel after married detectives. Roberts says of the Nick and Nora room, "It's a comfortable room that blends sleek art deco and fussy Hollywood glamour," she says, "which strikes me as very Nick and Nora Charles." The room's smoky walls, chocolate ceiling, crystal light fixtures and mirrored night stands, she says, would ensure "they'd be very comfortable and happy here."
The Charleses are one of seven fictional couples who inspired the Inn's decor and romantic atmosphere. Read more. There's also a video of the Inn on the site. Roberts's husband owns the nearby Tattered Cover Bookshop, one room of which is devoted to Roberts' novels. Can't imagine they all fit in one room!
When I was in Ann Arbor a few years ago for a mystery symposium, I stayed at a small B&B that had different rooms dedicated to different mystery genre. I stayed in the Mystery Room, of course.
Labels: Inn BoonsBoro, Nick and Nora, Nora Roberts, The Rap Sheet
Charles Darwin 200 years
I was so involved with Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's Day this year on both of my Blogs (Mystery Fanfare and Dying for Chocolate) that I completely forgot to comment on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Luckily, BV Lawson has a great post "The Evolution of a Mystery" on her Blog "In Reference to Murder." Lawson highlights the date with a great list of scientists in mysteries with protagonists who are naturalists, zoologists, biologists, botanists or geologists. More to add to the TBR shelf!
Labels: Charles Darwin, In Reference to Murder
Valentine's Day Mysteries
Here's another holiday mystery list for one of my favorite holidays, Valentine's Day. Enjoy! Eat lots of chocolate!
Love Lies Bleeding by Susan Wittig Albert
The Broken Hearts Club by Ethan Black
Claws and Effect by Rita Mae Brown
How To Murder The Man Of Your Dreams by Dorothy Cannell
Red Roses for a Dead Trucker by Anna Ashwood Collins
A Catered Valentine's Day by Isis Crawford
Hard Feelings by Barbara D'Amato
A Catered Valentine's Day by Diane Mott Davidson
Love With The Proper Killer by Rose Deshaw
The Saint Valentine's Day Murders by Ruth Dudley Edwards
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
Happy Valentine's Day by Michelle Fitzpatrick
The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
St. Valentine's Night by Andrew M. Greeley
Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
Bleeding Hearts by Jane Haddam
The Valentine's Day Murder by Lee Harris
Deadly Valentine by Carolyn G. Hart
Sugar and Spite by G.A. McKevett
The Valentine Victim by Dougal McLeish
Valentine Murder by Leslie Meier
Love You to Death by Grant Michaels
Cat Playing Cupid by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
The Body in the Attic by Katherine Hall Page
A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Valentine by Tom Savage
Murder of a Pink Elephant by Denise Swanson
Daughter Of The Stars by Phyllis A. Whitney
Crimes of Passion with stories by Nancy Means, B.J. Daniels, Jonathan Harrington and Maggie Right Price
My Heart Cries Out for You by Bill Crider
Valentine's Day Is Killing Me edited by Leslie Esdaile, Mary Janice Davidson, Susanna Carr
Crimes of the Heart edited by Carolyn G. Hart
Valentine's Day: Women Against Men-Stories of Revenge edited by Alice Thomas Editor
Still have time to spare, take a look at my Chocolate Blog, Dying for Chocolate, for recipes, chocolate news and more. Chocolate is the gift of choice on Valentine's Day!
Labels: Chinese New Year Mysteries, chocolate, Valentine's Day
Leighton Gage in Berkeley
Join Mystery Readers International for an At Home in Berkeley for Leighton Gage, author of the Inspector Mario Silva Series crime novels based in Brazil. Gage is the author of Buried Strangers and Blood of the Wicked. Dying Gasp, the third book in the series will be published in January 2010. Read the interview conducted by Guy Savage on MostlyFiction.
When: February 18, 2009, 7 p.m.
Where: Janet Rudolph's home, Berkeley, CA
RSVP for directions
Labels: Blood of the Wicked, Buried Strangers, Leighton Gage, Mario Silva
Lisa Lutz and Ona Russell Mystery Readers At Home
Last night several dedicated mystery readers weathered the storm (o.k., it was rain and hail, not snow, but this was California), to meet with two terrific mystery authors Ona Russell and Lisa Lutz. Ona regaled us with her personal history, as well as her interest in historical research. Edgar award nominated Lisa Lutz talked about humor, booksignings, and more personal reactions to fame and glory. The set up at Mystery Readers International At Homes consists of short intros by the authors followed by questions and dialogue. Ona Russell and Lisa Lutz had not met before, but they were soon engaged in dialogue over the book publishing business, why they write, reactions to their work, book signings and independent mystery stores.
Russell sets her history mysteries against different historical 'dilemmas' in 1920s America. The first in the series, O'Brien's desk, is set in Toledo, OH, and deals with corruption, sexual promiscuity and bigotry vs. the high ideals of Progressive reformers. The germ for this story was when Russell found a scrapbook of news stories and letters that her husband's mother had kept on her father. Judge O'Brien O'Donnell was caught between these two forces. The second in the series, The Natural Selection, involves the Scopes "monkey" trial. One point that Russell stressed at the At Home is how fiction can bring history alive. She certainly does that in her books. Her next book will be set in Los Angeles and deal with the stock market, and we all know how that ended up. The historical dilemmas she chose seem to mirror the contemporary period.
Lisa Lutz' books are not written in the traditional mystery genre mold--no dead body on the first page. They are more concerned with the people who try to solve mysteries. The Spellmans are a dysfunctional family of private investigators. The Spellman Files, The Curse of the Spellmans, and the new one coming next month, Revenge of the Spellmans, are filled with humor, as this family interacts with each other, as well as clients and crooks. At 28, Isabel Spellman, the protagonist, has not quite grown up, and her life has been filled with "romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism." Lutz reiterated that the books are not autobiographical despite the fact that her mother asks that question at every booksigning she attends. Lutz's books are filled with laugh out loud lines and situations. Humor is such a difficult thing to write. It can't be forced. It has to come from the characters and their circumstances. Lutz succeeds in transferring her humor to the printed page, no mean feat. A tip of the hat to the Edgar committee for including a humorous mystery among their nominees. After a long stint at screenwriting (read Lutz's Confessions of a Hollywood sellout on Salon) and several other odd jobs (we all know screenwriting is odd but so were some of the others), she's found her true calling, for now, as a novelist. The fact that they're mysteries is a bonus for readers. The Curse of the Spellmans, originally written as a screenplay, has been optioned, and luckily, for her, she isn't working on the script. She's delighted with the people who are, and more power to them. Lutz told us there will be four Spellman books. After that? Well, we'll see. A new series? A totally different type of book? Whatever she decides, I'm sure it will be unique! Lutz's booktour.
Labels: Lisa Lutz, Ona Russell
Abraham Lincoln, Mystery Writer
Abraham Lincoln's birthday is February 12, and even though we no longer celebrate his birth as an independent holiday, I thought I'd say a few words in today's Blog about him. Honest Abe is well known for many things, but for Mystery Fanfare, most important is the fact that Abraham Lincoln wrote a mystery. Lincoln was a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe, and Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was first published around the time that Lincoln was defending the Trailor Brothers in 1841. He based his story "The Trailor Murder Mystery" on this case. It wasn't uncommon then for lawyers to write true crime articles which were popular with the public--and not considered a breach of etiquette. What is unusual is that Lincoln chose to write fiction based on this case. "A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder" (the original title) first appeared on the front page of the Quincy Whig on April 15, 1846 and was described, as "A murder mystery by Abraham Lincoln." The story was reprinted as "The Trailor Murder Mystery" in 1952 in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Read the story.
Labels: Abraham Lincoln, mystery writer
Lisa Lutz, Ona Russell, Gillian Roberts (Judy Greber)
Just a reminder that there will be Three At Homes, intimate literary salons, in Berkeley, CA this month.
February 11: 7 p.m. Lisa Lutz, Gillian Roberts (Judy Greber), and Ona Russell.
February 18: 7 p.m. Leighton Gage
February 26: 3 p.m. Peter Robinson
Where? My house in Berkeley. RSVP for Directions.
Labels: Gillian Roberts, Lisa Lutz, Ona Russell
Reservoir Noir! Drowned Towns in Mysteries
I'm sitting here on a rainy day in Northern California thinking about drowned towns. We're entering a third year of drought, and even though it's raining now, I don't think it will make up for the deficit of so many dry years. A few years ago a reservoir nearby was so low that a small airplane was seen above the waterline. It turned out to be a small aircraft containing the pilot that had disappeared many years ago. Most of the Drowned Towns I've read about in mysteries were from intentional flooding or damming.
I'm fascinated by the number of mysteries that concern Drowned Towns. I knew about the Peter Robinson's In a Dry Season and Reginald Hill's On Beulah Height because I read them both fairly close together. Being a list maker I was thrilled to find the site Library Book Lists. The Listmaker at Book Lists defines the list as "Mysteries and other fiction with a featured element of intentional submerging, inundating, and flooding of towns, villages, cities, and other places as a consequence of building dams and reservoirs for water supply, hydroelectric power, irrigation, flood management, and job creation. "
The list is entitled Reservoir Noir, the term from Peter Robinson. Below are the titles, but click on Reservoir Noir for dates and synopses. As always, I welcome additional titles.
Drowning Day by Alan Dipper
Valley of the Deer by Eileen Dunlop (YA)
Christening Day Murder by Lee Harris
On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill
The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason
Walking the Shadows by Donald James
The Taking by James D. Landis
Emily Dickinson is Dead by Jane Langton
A Likeness in Stone by Julia Wallis Martin
Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb
The Dead of Summer by Michael Miano
One Foot in Eden: A Novel by Ron Rash
The Devil Went Down to Austin by Rick Riordan
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
Dragon Bones by Lisa See
Broken Jigsaw by Paul Somers
Drowned Hopes by Donald Westlake
Rahpsody in Blood by John Morgan Wilson
Under the Lake by Stuart Woods
You'll find Other Drowned Town Fiction on Library Book Lists, as well as Non-Fiction about Drowned Towns and a list of Real Drowned Towns.
Don't think I'll do an issue of Mystery Readers Journal on Drowned Towns, but it's a great theme!
Labels: Drowned Towns, mysteries, Mystery Readers Journal, reservoirs
MYSTERY: PBS announces new line-up
2009 Season of MASTERPIECE Mystery!
I always look forward to the new Mystery! series on PBS (U.S.), and this year brings an exciting new series.
Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh: May 10, 17, 31, is a
Kenneth Branagh stars as complex detective Kurt Wallander, based on the books by best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell. Branagh, a longtime fan of the novels, is a co-producing partner of the adaptations filmed in rarely seen locations in southern Sweden.
Euro Crime has a BBC interview of Kenneth Branagh and Henning Mankell about the series. For a review of the series, check out Material Witness. For a review of Who is Kurt Wallander? BBC4 Documentary, go to: It's a Crime (Or a Mystery...)
Six by Christie
Poirot: (2 episodes): June 21 and 28
Titles to come when they're finalized. This is especially exciting as David Suchet reprises his role as suave Hercule Poirot in two new episodes.
Suchet's varied roles have included financier Augustus Melmotte in Masterpiece's The Way We Live Now and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII. He was recently seen in the feature film The Bank Job.
Miss Marple (4 episodes) July 5, 12, 19, and 26
One of Agatha Christie's signature characters returns to the schedule, with Julia McKenzie taking over the role of spinster sleuth Miss Marple in three new episodes. McKenzie is familiar to Masterpiece fans for her recent performance in Cranford as Mrs. Forrester, the sprightly widow devoted to her cow.
Inspector Lewis, Series II: September 6, 13, 20, and 27
Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately, The English Patient), sidekick to Inspector Morse, is back in four new episodes. Now well outside Morse's shadow, Lewis has a younger sidekick of his own, the ambitious Hathaway (Laurence Fox, Gosford Park)
Hawaiian Mysteries
Rig ht about now, you're thinking, "I'd rather be in Hawaii." Well, Left Coast Crime, one of the premiere mystery conventions, will be held on the Big Island, March 7-12, 2009 at the Marriott Waikoloa, and it's not too late to register. Airfares are low, and the hotel rates are great! Guests of Honor: Barry Eisler and Rhys Bowen. Toastmaster: Lee Goldberg, Ghost of Honor: Earl Derr Biggers. Here's a list of other authors and fans registered. This will be an unconventional convention with panels, interviews, Luau, a performance of House without a Key (adapted by Hal Glatzer), Desserts to Die for, Awards Brunch, trips and tours and so much more.
I always like to read mysteries set in the place I'm going to visit, so to get ready for this trip I've consulted the LCC website for a great list of mysteries set in Hawaii. For another list and "all things Hawaiian," go to Hawaian Eye: Mark Troy on Crime Fiction.
Say Aloha to Murder!
Labels: Barry Eisler, Hawaii, Lee Goldberg, left coast crime, Mark Troy, mysteries, rhys bowen
Super Bowl Mysteries
What a great game! Twists and turns throughout, supporting characters, good setting, action. Mystery Readers Journal's final issue in 2009 will focus on Sports Mysteries. In preparation for this issue, and with a salute to yesterday's Super Bowl, I went in search of Super Bowl Mysteries. Additions welcome.
Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl by John Feinstein (2007)
Reviewed by Lesa Holstine at Lesa's Book Critiques, January 22, 2008
Murder at the Super Bowl by Fran Tarkenton and Herb Resnicow (1988)
Labels: Mystery Readers Journal, sports mysteries, Super Bowl mysteries
Val McDermid in Bay Area
Val McDermid, mystery author par excellence, will be in the San Francisco Bay Area in February. If you haven't heard Val speak before and you're in the area, you'll want to put at least one of these dates on your calendar. Val's latest book is A Darker Domain (HarperCollins), and it's fabulous! This is McDermid's 25th mystery, and it's her most autobiographical to date. To hear Val talk about the book, go here.
Update: Val McDermid, was the guest Blogger on Off the Page, Oline Codgill's Blog, at the Sun Sentinal, January 31.
February 18, 2009: San Francisco, CA, Books Inc., Opera Plaza — 7:00 PM
601 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94102
*Co-sponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library
February 19, 2009: San Mateo, CA, San Mateo Public Library, Belmont Branch, 7:00 PM
1110 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont, CA 94002
ADiscussion between Val McDermid and Laurie King
Books sold by M is for Mystery
February 20, 2009: Corte Madera, CA, Book Passage, 7:00 PM, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
Labels: Val McDermid
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Nicolas Cage already brought us the definitive cinematic incarnation of Marvel's Ghost Rider (but only because there haven't been many other attempts) and he'll finally get a chance to play Superman in Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, but he recently told JoBlo that he thinks his superhero movie days are mostly behind him. "I'm on to other things," he explained, but there's still a chance he'd return to the comic book world if the right role came along—specifically one that lets him play an unhinged maniac.
"I always thought I'd make a great Joker," Cage said, adding that he thought he'd also be a good villain in Marvel movie. He specifically names Doctor Doom, but he doesn't seem crazy about the idea because "you have to wear that mask." Going back to the Joker, Cage agrees that it "would be the perfect" role for him because he could "go even more off the rails" than he normally does. Unfortunately, he'd have to go up against Martin Scorsese's prequel Joker and Jared Leto's Suicide Squad Joker, so it seems unlikely that we'll be getting Nicolas Cage's Joker any time soon.


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VICTOR PERAINO'S KINGDOM COME: NEW LP JOURNEY IN TIME
Victor Peraino and the new Kingdom Come extend to you a cosmic greeting...
A native of Detroit (the "Motor City"), Victor's initiation into the music scene was as a drummer for the UP, a sister band of the legendary MC5, both managed by John Sinclair. The gigs at Detroit's Grande Ballroom were happening and the UP played an important part of that scene as support for such acts as The Stooges, Cream, Amboy Dukes, Janis Joplin, and Soft Machine.
The UP Gary Rasmussen,Victor Peraino, Frank Bach, Bob Rasmussen
Victor made his departure from the UP and traveled to England in the 70s. As fate would have it, he met Arthur Brown..
Live Performance: Motor City Music Factory 2013
Victor began touring with Arthur across Europe. Their stage performances and theatrics, in addition to their musical collaborations with such artists as Genesis, Eno, Bob Calvert, Hawkwind, and Edgar Broughton, are now considered legendary. This era of the psychedelic/progressive scene is regarded by many as its Stellar Age.
In the 70's they recorded on Polydor Records in England. Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come "Journey" was critically acclaimed as a landmark, in the music industry the first recording to feature a drum machine.
BUY THE CD HERE
Victor played keyboards. mellotron. moog synthesizer, vcs3, theremin & vocals on this ground-breaking album. He also worked with such notable artists as Queen, Manfred Mann, Dave Edmunds, Brian Eno, Daevid Allen of Gong, Hawkwind and The Edgar Broughton Band.
Victor Peraino and Arthur Brown
After Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come disintegrated following the release of the wonderful "Journey",Album US keyboard player Victor Peraino retained the name, releasing No Man's Land in '75 under the name Victor Peraino's Kingdom Come, reissued by Black Widow in 2010.
After years, Victor and Arthur decided to collaborate again, resurrecting the project Kingdom Come. In this new musical adventure and CD "Journey In Time" reproduce in a new guise, some of the best songs included in "No Man's Land" (Demon of Love, Sun Sets Sail, Empires of Steel).
They take up the theme of the wonderful "Time Captives" from "Journey" turning it into a cross-section sidereal enriched by the magnificence of space keyboards, revitalize ina progressive key two old classics like "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "I Put a Spell On You "...
but they also offer some brand new compositions (We Only Come to Help You, Future, the title track, Walk with Angels) deploying an odyssey of lovely sounds, underpinned by the omnipresent as ever presence of Mellotron, Moog, VCS3, in an uninterrupted flow of emotions.
Jeff Faust Guitar
Skid Marx Bass
Jim Pryor Drums
Victor Peraino Keyboards/Vocals
Diversion Production LLC
Labels: Arthur Brown, Fire, Journey in Time, NEW RELEASE, THE UP, VICTOR PERAINO
The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Frank Bach, guitarist Bob Rasmussen, bassist Gary Rasmussen, and drummer Victor Peraino. The band was closely related to the MC5, as both bands' members lived in White Panther Party founder John Sinclair's commune. In May 1968, Sinclair moved the commune to Ann Arbor, Michigan and both bands followed. The Up served as the opening act for the MC5 during a September 1968 show at the University of Michigan's Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor.
This show was attended by Elektra Records president Jac Holzman; Holzman was impressed with both the MC5 and The Stooges (who were the concert's second act) and offered both bands contracts. The Up did not get signed to Elektra and unlike the MC5 and The Stooges, the band never received a major record label contract.
The Up continued to play gigs at the Grande Ballroom and other local venues. In 1969, the MC5 ended their association with John Sinclair and the White Panther Party; The Up took the place of the MC5 as the main musical outlet of the party's propaganda. The Up disbanded in 1973 and faded further into obscurity.
In 1975, the band's bassist Gary Rasmussen later joined Sonic's Rendezvous Band, a Detroit rock scene supergroup featuring former members of the MC5, The Stooges, The Up and The Rationals. In 1995, a retrospective album titled Killer Up! was released containing all of The Up's song recordings.
The album contains all of the band's singles, songs from a recording session at Head Sound Studios in Ypsilanti, Michigan and several live tracks recorded at the Agora Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio in 1972. John Sinclair states in the album's liner notes that, "It's common to name the MC5 and the Stooges among the forefathers of what they call punk rock, but it was their associates in a third band, the Up, who could more accurately be identified as the real precursors of punk."
Labels: BOB RASMUSSEN, FRANK BACH, GARY RASMUSSEN, THE UP, VICTOR PERAINO


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Q: Get data horizontal in SQL I have this query:
SELECT X, COUNT(*) AS TotalCount
FROM Table GROUP BY X, Y
ORDER BY X asc

It's returning:
X | Count
__________
A | 10
A | 11
A |  1
B |  2
B |  5
B |  6

I'm trying to make it like this, if anyone could help me, thanks
X | Count1 | Count2 | Count3
A |  10    |   11   |  1
B |  2     |   6    |  5

A: You would typically do this with conditional aggregation. Assuming that you want to order the columbs by y, you would also use window functions:
select x,
    max(case when rn = 1 then totalcount end) count1,
    max(case when rn = 2 then totalcount end) count2,
    max(case when rn = 3 then totalcount end) count3
from (
    select x, count(*) as totalcount,
        row_number() over(partition by x order by y) rn
    from mytable
    group by x, y
) t
order by x

A: You can pivot using conditional aggregation:
select x,
       sum(case when y = @val1 then 1 else 0 end),
       sum(case when y = @val2 then 1 else 0 end),
       sum(case when y = @val3 then 1 else 0 end)
from t
group by x;

It is unclear what the specific values are that go into each column.

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Let's Disrupt the Wireline Pressure Testing Practices, Shall We?
G. D. Garcia (Schlumberger) | H. Dumond (Schlumberger) | V. Mishra (Schlumberger) | L. Chen (Schlumberger) | R. Hayden (Schlumberger) | C. Babin (Schlumberger)
7.1.6 Field Development Optimization and Planning, 3 Production and Well Operations, 7.2.3 Decision-making Processes, 5.6 Formation Evaluation & Management, 5.6.7 Formation test analysis (e.g., wireline, LWD), 5 Reservoir Desciption & Dynamics, 7.2 Risk Management and Decision-Making, 7.1 Asset and Portfolio Management, 7 Management and Information, 7.2.1 Risk, Uncertainty and Risk Assessment
A concept platform integrating the precise movement of a linear or azimuthal actuator, such as in instrumented wireline intervention tools (IWIT), with fast pressure measurement is presented. This device is intended to accurately move a measurement probe or sampling assembly either in the longitudinal or azimuthal direction in the wellbore to significantly improve data quality and operational efficiency.
Precise movement control enables acquiring data at exact intervals to eliminate errors induced by cable stretching, overpulls, or variable cable creep. Monte Carlo simulations of this concept using current IWIT capabilities suggest significant reduction of the pressure gradient uncertainty over common wireline protocols. The operational procedure includes correlation using standard wireline gamma ray logs, anchoring of the platform at the top of the interval to be tested and performing the distributed survey using a combination of tractors and linear actuators for every probe displacement. Removing cable movement significantly reduces an important source of error in distributed pressure measurements. These acquisition errors induce interpretation uncertainties like position of contacts and connectivity between flow units. These have profound impacts in exploration and appraisal decisions and field development plans.
This concept platform would enable reducing the time spent on pressure surveys if similar accuracy to current standard practices is acceptable. Because the remaining source of error is mostly due to gauge accuracy, results show that fewer stations are necessary to replicate standard wireline results. Where accuracy is important, as with distributed pressure measurements to quantify reserves using gradient intersection to define fluid contacts or determine compositional gradients, the proposed approach is shown to significantly reduce gradient error using the same number of stations. We use synthetic data sets built from previous work to show the impact of the error reduction in the position of the fluid contact.
IWITs currently used in cased hole employ active anchoring to perform intervention tasks. The controlled downhole force available for these operations goes up to 80,000 lbf while the anchoring force could be up to 150,000 lbf. In the proposed concept platform, this pulling force could be instrumental where there is high risk of differential sticking. By anchoring the upper part of the platform in overlying impermeable intervals, the probe could be lowered into the permeable interval to conduct the pressure survey without exposing the full length of the platform to the pressure differential forces for significant risk mitigation. The high pulling capacity of the anchoring module can be used to apply up/down force on the probe in case of differential sticking without applying high tensions to the wireline cable.
The proposed architecture for the concept platform innovatively combines several operational concepts used today as separate entities in wireline operations. Their integration, however, generates important efficiency gains, reduces the risk in stationary measurements and operations, improves accuracy, and enables the implementation of unprecedent distributed pressure measurements with azimuthal rotational capabilities using wireline. Azimuthal movements can be used to align the measurement probe away from breakouts, drilling induced fractures, debris or geological features like vugs or fractures that may compromise the sealing ability of the probe.
Akue, M., Delaval, F., De Crevoisier, L., Hermes, A., Tchieji, Y., Sarian, S., Bozzolan, P., Reid, M., Andrew, M., Bahmudov, K., 2014, Openhole Tractor and High-Tension Conveyance Package Reduces HSE Risk and Saves 3 Days of Rig Time for Formation Fluid Sampling in a Highly Deviated Well, Paper IADC/SPE-170565-MS, Presented at IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 25-27 August.
Al-Amer, A.A., Al-Dossary, B.A., Al-Furadian, Y.A., Hashem, M.K., 2005, Tractoring – A New Era in Horizontal Logging for Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia, Paper SPE-93260 presented at the 14th SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, Manama, Bahrain, 12-15 March.
Al-Saeedi, I., Alward, W.M, Ali, F., Sarili, M., Shrivastava, C., 2015, The Utilization of Borehole Images for Sampling Optimization in Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoirs of South Iraq, Paper Presented at Third EAGE Workshop on Iraq, Unlocking the Potential of the Giant Oil Fields of Southern Iraq, Dubai, UAE, 16-18 November.
Billingham, M., El-Toukhy, A.M., Hashem, M.K., Hassaan, M., Lorente, M., Sheiretov, T., Loth, M., 2011, Conveyance—Down and Out in the Field, Schlumberger Oilfield Review Summer 2011, 23, No. 2.
Bolt, H., 2015, Wireline Logging Depth Quality Improvement: Methodology Review and Elastic-Stretch Correction, PETROPHYSICS, VOL.57, NO. 3, June, Page 294–310.
Bolt, H., Loermans, T., Theys, P., 2015, New Options for Wireline Logging Depth Data Quality Improvement, Paper Presented at SPWLA 56th Annual Logging Symposium, Long Beach, California, USA, 18-22 July.
Bowers, M., Schnacke, A., Hermance, W., 2017, The Impact of Depth and Pressure Measurement Errors of Pressure Gradients, PETROPHYSICS, VOL.58, NO. 4, August, Page 376–396.
Brooks, A.G., Wilson, H., Jamieson, A.L., McRobbie, D.P., and Holehouse, S.G., 2005, Quantification of Depth Accuracy, Paper SPE-95611 Presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, USA, 9-12 October.
Collins, C., Proett, M., Ugueto, G., 2007, An Integrated Approach to Reservoir Connectivity and Fluid Contact Estimates by Applying Statistical Analysis Methods to Pressure Gradients, Paper Presented at SPWLA 48th Annual Logging Symposium, Austin, Texas, USA, 3-6 June.
Dubost, F.X.Carnegie, A.J.Mullins O.C., O'Keefe, M., Betancourt, S., Zuo, J.Y., Eriksen, K.O., 2007, Integration of In-Situ Fluid Measurements for Pressure Gradients Calculations, Paper SPE-108494 presented at the International Oil Conference and Exhibition, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico, 27-30 June.
Dumont, H., Gisolf, A., Hows, M., Dong, C., Chen, H.Barbosa, B.E., Emanuel, V., Pfeiffer, T., Mishra, V.K., Ayan, C., 2014, Reducing OOIP Uncertainty in HPHT Environments with Improved Accuracy Formation Pressure Measurements, Paper Presented at SPWLA 55th Annual Logging Symposium, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 18-22 May.
Fitzgerald, P., 2008, Wireline "Creep", Paper SPE-118027 Presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 3-6 November.
Fitzgerald, P., Pedersen, B., 2007, A Technique for Improving the Accuracy of Wireline Depth Measurements, Paper SPE-110318 Presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Anaheim, California, USA, 11-14 November.
Kabir, C.S.Pop, J.J., 2007. How Reliable is Fluid Gradient in Gas/Condensate Reservoirs?, Paper SPE-99386 Revised Manuscript, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, June.
Pineda, W., Bergeron, J., 2017, Understanding Wireline Depth Control in Wells with High Cable Tension and Best Practices to Account for Wireline Stretch while Performing Stationary Measurements, Paper Presented at SPWLA 58th Annual Logging Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, 17-20 June.
Romero, P., Lofts, J., Lovera, O., Georgi, D., 2011, A New Generation of Core-Sampling Options from Deepwater Environments. Experiences from Brazil, Paper Presented at SPWLA 52th Annual Logging Symposium, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 14-18 May.
Schlumberger, 2014, ReSOLVE Service's Universal Shifting Tool Opens 10 Sliding Sleeves in Two Runs. Case Study
Stenvold, T., Eiken, O., Zumberge, M.A., Sasagawa, G.S.Nooner, S.L., 2006, High-Precision Relative Depth and Subsidence Mapping from Seafloor Water Pressure Measurements, Paper SPE-97752 SPE Journal, September.
Wilson, H., Lofts, J. C., Page G. C., Brooks A.G., Walder, D., 2004, Depth Control: Reconciliation of LWD and Wireline Depths, Standard Practice and an Alternative Simple but Effective Method, Paper SPE-89899 Presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA, 26-29 September.


ISIS Takes Ramadi – Now Controls Several of Iraq's Most Important Cities!
So, when exactly are we supposed to start worrying about ISIS's progress in Iraq and Syria? Do we wait until they have complete control of those nations and are moving on to "bigger and better" things – like Yemen, Libya, and parts unknown?
News broke on Friday that ISIS fighters had taken over the main government compound in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, which means that they've now taken almost complete control of the largest city in Iraq's Anbar province.
With the fall of Ramadi, ISIS now controls several of Iraq's most important cities – Fallujah, Tikrit, Ramadi and Mosul.
Islamic State militants have seized the main government building in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's largest province.
Fighting continued into Friday and by 14:00 (11:00 GMT) the black flag of IS was seen flying over the complex.
Islamic State wants to send a clear message to the central government in Baghdad that, having seized control of Ramadi, they are now the de facto rulers of Anbar province.
And, after several false starts, they have succeeded in taking control of the city centre and the main government complex. This is an extraordinary victory that will give IS the momentum to control the whole of Anbar.
With the fall of Ramadi, ISIS has stretched their control to its largest extent to date. To make matters worse, all of the gains once made by the Allied invasion of Iraq have now been lost.
I wonder if this is what President Obama meant when he told us that he was going to "change" everything?


Software validation explained in an easy to understand, visual format.
Use to inform yourself on the validation of software.
Step through at your own pace from the convenience of your desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile.
The information is divided into a range of modules so that you can focus on those modules of particular interest to you.
• "Agile" software development and testing.
– The "principles" which act as the basis for agile. Agile versus process based development models such as "waterfall". The "Scrum" as a based for agile implementation. Implementing the necessary agile structures and meetings. Product backlog, Sprint planning, the daily Scrum, the Sprint review, Sprint retrospective meetings explained.
– The objectives of extreme programming. Activities associated with extreme programming. The "rules" of XP. Environments where the implementation of XP is appropriate.


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Hassan Hassanein (1916 – 2 January 1957) was an Egyptian professional golfer.

Hassanein was born in Cairo. He began his golf career as a caddy. He is considered Egypt's greatest professional golfer and played internationally. He died in Cairo at the age of 40 when a kerosene cook stove exploded.

Tournament wins
this list is probably incomplete
1946 Desert Open
1947 Desert Open
1948 Desert Open
1949 Desert Open, Egyptian Open, Italian Open
1950 Desert Open, Egyptian Open
1951 Desert Open, Egyptian Open, Egyptian Match Play Championship, French Open
1952 Desert Open, Egyptian Open
1953 Desert Open
1954 Desert Open
1956 Desert Open

Results in major championships

Note: Hassanein only played in The Open Championship.

"T" = tied

Team appearances
World Cup (representing Egypt): 1955, 1956

External links
Profile

Egyptian male golfers
Sportspeople from Cairo
1916 births
1957 deaths


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#include "tensorflow/core/kernels/uniform_quant_ops/tensor_utils.h"

namespace tensorflow {

using tensorflow::errors::InvalidArgument;

Status QuantizationAxisAndShapeValid(const TensorShape& data_shape,
                                     const TensorShape& scales_shape,
                                     const TensorShape& zero_points_shape,
                                     int quantization_axis) {
  if (!scales_shape.IsSameSize(zero_points_shape)) {
    return InvalidArgument(
        "scales and zero_points shape must be same, but given scales shape ",
        scales_shape.DebugString(), " and zero_points shape ",
        zero_points_shape.DebugString());
  }
  if (quantization_axis < -1 || quantization_axis >= data_shape.dims()) {
    return InvalidArgument(
        "quantization_axis must be -1 or in range [0, input.rank), but given ",
        quantization_axis);
  }

  if (quantization_axis == -1) {
    if (scales_shape.dims() != 0) {
      return InvalidArgument(
          "If quantization_axis is -1, scales and zero_points must be scalar "
          "tensors, but given scales shape ",
          scales_shape.DebugString(), " and zero_points shape ",
          zero_points_shape.DebugString());
    }
  } else {
    if (!(scales_shape.dims() == 1 &&
          scales_shape.dim_size(0) == data_shape.dim_size(quantization_axis))) {
      return InvalidArgument(
          "If quantization_axis is not -1, scales and zero_points must be a "
          "tensor of rank 1 and the size must be equal to the "
          "input.dim_size(quantization_axis), but given quantization_axis ",
          quantization_axis, ", scales shape ", scales_shape.DebugString(),
          " and zero_points shape ", zero_points_shape.DebugString());
    }
  }
  return OkStatus();
}

TensorShape TransposedShape(const TensorShape& in_shape,
                            const gtl::ArraySlice<int32_t> perm) {
  TensorShape out_shape = in_shape;
  for (int i = 0; i < out_shape.dims(); ++i) {
    out_shape.set_dim(i, in_shape.dim_size(perm[i]));
  }
  return out_shape;
}

}  // namespace tensorflow

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The Royal Forums > Royal Highlights > Royal Weddings > Weddings: Non-Reigning Houses & Nobility
Hugh Van Cutsem & Rose Astor June 4th, 2005
Location: T., Belgium
Prince William, Kate Middleton and Laura Parker-Bowles were amongst the illustrious guests at the Society Wedding of the Year, at Burford Parish Church, today, when Hugh Van Cutsem Junior and Rose Astor were united in Holy Matrimony
The bride's tiara is beautiful and impressive.
Prince William's girlfriend, Kate Middleton. She's pretty and very elegant IMO, a girl with good taste...
Laura Parker-Bowles
Thanks for all the photos . I agree about Kate, I als think the bride's tiara is beautiful!
cd_1
Location: London, United Kingdom
did she come as Prince William's official girl friend or was she friends with the bride and groom on her own?
Location: North Little Rock, United States
Originally Posted by cd_1
Prince William come with Kate to his friend's wedding they rumor as girlfriend someone says that! but both been friend for years they become dating at apartment in Scotland in St.Andrews University.
Sara Boyce
magnik
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Sorry but who is the bride? / I know only that she is from the Astor's family./
Although I can't see the wedding gown completely, it looks very beautiful. Thanks everyone for the photos.
Sat 4 Jun 2005 5:27pm (UK)
Wedding Role for William
By James Reinl, PA
Prince William was an usher today at the wedding of his friend, Hugh van Cutsem, and the daughter of a local landowner.
But neither the Prince of Wales nor Camilla watched the 30-year-old groom and Rose Astor, 25, exchange vows despite a long history with the van Cutsem family.
Among the society crowd were William's girlfriend Kate Middleton and an old flame Jessica 'Jecca' Craig, wearing a poncho and cowboy hat.
Advertising guru Maurice Saatchi, millionaire editor of The Ecologist magazine Zac Goldsmith and former royal nanny Tiggy Pettifer were among 400 guests.
Rose, the youngest daughter of David and Clare Astor, wore an ivory dress with matching veil and tiara to the one-hour ceremony at Burford Parish Church, near Oxford.
The groom, dressed in a traditional morning suit, escorted his bride through the drizzle under the protection of a white umbrella.
Charles and Camilla were not expected to attend the wedding after the groom's parents, Hugh and Emilie van Cutsem avoided their own own marriage blessing at Windsor Castle in April.
Charles had already boycotted the wedding of their eldest son, Edward, to the Duke of Westminster's daughter, Lady Tamara Grosvenor, in November last year after learning Camilla would be sitting rows behind him.
The two families have known each other for years with Emilie becoming very close to the young princes after the death of Diana.
Mr van Cutsem, a farmer, conservationist and pro-hunt campaigner from Hilborough, Norfolk, became Charles's closest confidante when they were students at Cambridge more than 30 years ago.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4647387
His Lordship
I love the fact these Van Cutsem boys are marrying women worth millions and in the case of Lady Tamara Grosvenor, billions.
They came, they saw inheritances, they conquered. The first time we have a male family to compare to the Cushing sisters, the Mitfords, and the Miller sisters.
The one who married in November to Lady Tamara received 10 m pounds to ensure the Duke of Westminster's daughter was kept in the lifestyle she was used too.
The British Astors descend from the American William Waldorf Astor who came to England, bought a castle and newspapers, was elevated to peerage with the title Viscount Astor of Hever for the castle he bought.
The reason he came to England is to get away from a family feud in which he insisted that since he was the oldest male heir to the Astor fortune his wife should be deemed THE Mrs. Astor in New York society. His aunt said no...not going to happen. To get back at his aunt, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, he tore down his brownstone, built the Astoria hotel and left for England......never to return.
That is why you have an English Branch of the Astor family......even though they are originally from Germany.
Location: Dallas, United States
Wow. KAte is so beautiful. I hope William marries her. She has natural style, beauty, and grace. ALot like Diana. ALthogh I am not saying that she is the new diana
*Under Construction*
EmpressRouge
Originally Posted by His Lordship
Nancy, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), daughter-in-law of William was the first woman to take a seat (and second to be elected to) in the House of Commons. Originally from Virginia, her first husband was the nephew of Robert Gould Shaw (famous Civil War general of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, played by Matthew Broderick in the movie Glory). She was one of the five famous Langhorne sisters who all led/married into semi-interesting lives. Actress Joyce Grenfell and interiot designer Nancy Lancaster were her nieces.
source: wikipedia and Five Sisters: the Langhornes of Virginia by James Fox
Real princesses always wear sleeves so why do we all go for strapless?
kelly9480
Location: Houston, United States
Rose is one of four children of a younger son of a younger son of Viscount Astor. While her family is comfortable. I seriously doubt Hugh's going to get much money out of the marriage.
I had the displeasure of meeting in person a couple of the Van Cutsem boys while on holiday in London visting relatives. They relish in their royal connections and flaunt it.
I was always taught never to air my connections, or for that matter family issues in public as they did. Thankfully I was only in their presence for about two hours.
Their mother was the one who divulged Tom Parker Bowles drug issues to the press. That is why Camilla never like them.
Can't say I blame as the term gold digger comes to mind.
If they flaunt their connections, and everything I've seen says they don't, it wouldn't make them any different than the rest of William and Harry's friends. Indeed, they're one of the quieter families, compared to the Palmer-Tomkinsons, Mountbattens, and Shands.
Their mother divulged Tom's drug problem to Charles, not the press. Besides, they aren't to blame for what their mother does. Camilla may have a problem with Emilie, but there's never been any indication that she has a real problem with Emilie's sons (she hinted they were the ones on drugs to protect Tom and get back at Emilie, not necessarily because she doesn't like the sons).
I don't think Hugh's marriage could be called gold-digging, because she's not likely to inherit much money. Edward married money, but they don't use the money anyhow. He refused to accept the gift of a house and pays full rate for a house they are renting.
How one appears to the press and media is one thing. How one really is in private is quite another. My family in England knows the Van Cutsems and many of the aristocratic families.
I would not post a lie and half-truth. I am only posting what I hear directly from those who know them personally, including myself.
The press relies on private sources, and given Emilie's reputation, one could safely assume the sources aren't necessarily keen on her, yet they still say generally nice things about the sons and the husband. Even if they are vile, horrid people, William and Harry still seem to like them. Either William has terrible taste in friends, and he very well might, or he doesn't see them as bad people. Either way, whatever they do rarely makes the press, so they must be smart enough to keep it quiet. Everyone has a bad side, and I'm sure being raised by a mother who seems to revel in royal connections has rubbed off on them, but I can't honestly think that anyone else raised in that situation would be much different.
Even if they flaunt like mad, it still wouldn't make Hugh (or Edward, if tales of his independence are to be believed) gold-diggers.
Garish display on their part. I also know that the, Tita, her nickname, the Duchess of Westminster, while publicly putting on a happy face, was not overly pleased with Tamara's choice of a husband.
I've always thought Edward was the flashiest of the brothers, but maybe Tamara's stubborn. If she is, the only thing her parents could publicly do is support her decision, and be there for her should it go wrong.
You seem like a really intelligent lady. It is nice to be able to converse with others who have well thought out opinions. I responded back to you on the Greek forum under the name thread.
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Chris Broussard joins Skip Bayless, Shannon Sharpe and Joy Taylor on Undisputed to discuss the 2018 Eastern Conference Finals between Boston and Cleveland. Broussard reveals how Boston's fight is the key to dominating this series. Will the Cavs turn the series around back in Cleveland?


A couple of weeks ago, I saw a good actor on Stephen Colbert. The interview did not go well. It seemed apparent that Stephen Colbert was unimpressed with him. More importantly, the actor left viewers with a poor impression.
In a perfect world, LSAT Prep students should be familiar with every single game ever issued on the LSAT, but that's not realistic for many test-takers. So, one needs to focus one's attention on the games most likely to matter, and develop the skill set to handle any type of game.


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Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430/1431 – 10 November 1495) was a Hohenzollern princess who became a Scandinavian queen by marriage under the Kalmar Union. She was Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from her marriage to King Christopher III in 1445 until Christopher died in 1448. As the wife of King Christian I, Dorothea was Queen of Denmark from their marriage in 1449 and Queen of Norway from 1450 until Christian's death in 1481. She was also Queen of Sweden during Christian's reign in that kingdom from 1457 to 1464. She served as interim regent during the interregnum in 1448, and as regent in the absence of her second spouse during his reign. She was the mother of two future kings of Denmark: John (r. 1481–1513) and Frederick I (r. 1523–1533).

Early life

Dorothea was born in 1430 or 1431 to John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg (1405–1465). She had two sisters: Barbara (1423–1481), who became Marchioness of Mantua, and Elisabeth (14??-1451), who became Duchess of Pomerania.
From about the age of eight, she lived in Bayreuth, where her father was ruler. In 1443, Christopher of Bavaria, the newly elected King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, inherited Oberpfalz close to Bayreuth, and a marriage was suggested between Christopher and Dorothea to secure her father's support for Christopher's power over his German domain. The engagement was proclaimed prior to the application of Papal dispensation for affinity in February 1445, which was approved 10 March.

Marriage to Christopher of Bavaria
On 12 September 1445, the wedding ceremony was conducted between Christopher and Dorothea in Copenhagen, followed by the coronation of Dorothea as queen. The King had financed it with a special tax in all three Kingdoms, and the occasion is described as one of the most elaborate in Nordic Medieval history. The festivities lasted for eight days and was attended by the Princes of Braunschweig, Hesse and Bavaria and envoys of the Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Order as well as the nobility of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Dorothea made her entrance in the city escorted by noblemen from all three Kingdoms dressed in gold riding on white horses, and crowned Queen of Denmark, Sweden and Norway by bishops from all three Kingdoms with the golden crown from the Vadstena Abbey. On 15 September, she was granted dowers in all three Kingdoms: Roskilde, Ringsted, Haraldsborg and Skioldenses in Denmark; Jämtland in Norway, and Örebro, Närke and Värmland in Sweden. Should she chose to live outside of Scandinavia as a widow, she would instead be given a fortune of 45,000 Rhine guilders, one third from each Kingdom.

Queen Dorothea left for Sweden with the King in January 1446, where they visited Vadstena Abbey and her dower Örebro. During this visit, she met her future antagonist Charles, Lord High Constable of Sweden. According to the chronicle Karlskrönikan, their meeting was a good one during which presented her and her ladies-in-waiting with many gifts. The couple returned to Denmark in September.
The marriage between Dorothea and Christopher was politically favorable: her father governed Christopher's German domain and was a loyal supporter and adviser. It did not result in any offspring, however, and according to Ericus Olai, the marriage was in fact not sexually active.

In January 1448, King Christopher died childless, which resulted in a succession crisis that immediately broke the Kalmar Union of the three Kingdoms. Queen dowager Dorothea, being the only royal in Denmark, was proclaimed interim regent of Denmark until a new monarch could be elected. In Sweden, however, the Lord High Constable was elected as King Charles VIII, who was soon elected king of Norway as well. In September, Christian of Oldenburg was elected monarch as Christian I of Denmark and the queen dowager turned over the power to him upon his election.

Marriage to Christian I of Denmark
Queen Dorothea was given a proposal from king Casimir IV of Poland and Albert VI, Archduke of Austria, but she chose to remain in Denmark and marry the newly elected king, Christian I of Denmark. The wedding ceremony was conducted 26 October 1449, followed by the coronation of Christian and herself as king and queen of Denmark. She renounced her existing dower lands in Denmark and Norway, which were replaced with Kalundborg and Samsø in Denmark, and Romerike in Norway, but refused to renounce her Swedish dower lands. The election of Charles as king in Sweden and Norway deprived her of her dower lands in these kingdoms, and her as well as Christian's ambition was to have Christian crowned in Sweden and Norway as well, and thereby reunite the shattered Kalmar Union.

Christian was crowned in Norway as well in 1450. The task to win back Sweden was more difficult, and Dorothea upheld as several years long campaign recruiting followers among the Swedish clerics and nobility, to which she stated that their elected king Charles VIII, as her former Lord Constable and subject, was to be regarded as an usurper and a traitor who had broken his vow by depriving her, his former queen, of her dower lands in Sweden. In 1455, she also appealed to the Pope. In February 1457 her campaign was crowned with success when the rebellion of Archbishop Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna deposed Charles VIII, who fled to Germany, and in July 1457, Christian was elected king of Sweden, thereby again uniting the union of the three Nordic kingdoms. Dorothea made an official entry in Stockholm in December, and her Swedish dower lands was returned to her: in May 1458, further more, the Swedish council approved her and Christian's wish that their sons be secured the succession to the Swedish throne, a position they had already been secured in Denmark and Norway. The king and queen returned to Denmark in July.

In 1460, Christian bought the Duchy of Schleswig and Holstein, which placed him in debt, forced him to raise taxes and destroyed his support in Sweden, who again elected Charles VIII as king in 1464. The loss of Sweden was reportedly a blow to queen Dorothea, who started a lifelong campaign to have her spouse (and later her son) again elected king of Sweden, to restore the Kalmar Union of the three Kingdoms and to retrieve her Swedish dower lands.
The loss of her personal dower lands enabled her to personally pursue the Swedish cause in court, and she sued Charles VIII before the Pope in Rome for depriving her of her dower lands. When Charles VIII was succeeded as the regent of Sweden by Sten Sture the Elder, she pursued her case against him.
In 1475, she traveled to Italy and visited her sister Barbara in Mantua, and Pope Sixtus IV in Rome, and formally applied to have Sten Sture excommunicated. By use of an excommunication, the Swedish regent would be unable to govern and the Swedish kingdom would be economically and politically ruined, which would result in the fall of the Swedish regent and the election of the Danish king as king of Sweden, which was a policy she withheld and worked for her last twenty years. Following her visit to Rome in May 1475, Sixtus IV subsequently issued a bull to King Christian permitting the establishment of a university in Denmark. As a result, the University of Copenhagen was inaugurated in 1479.

In Denmark, queen Dorothea was granted the Slotsloven, which gave her the right to command all the castles in Denmark, and she served as regent whenever  the king was absent. Her personal wealth also gave her influence. When king Christian acquired Holstein and Schleswig in 1460 and was unable to pay, she loaned him the amount necessary to buy these domains and incorporate them into Denmark. By 1470, she had de facto seized control over Holstein and Schleswig: when Christian was unable to pay back the loan she had given him to buy the domains, she took over the rule of Holstein (1479) and Schleswig (1480) herself and ruled them as her own fiefs. After the death of her father in 1464, she battled her uncle Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg, over the inheritance.

Queen Dorothea has been described as efficient and ambitious, haughty and frugal.

Queen Dowager
Christian I died on 21 May 1481 and was succeeded by her son John, King of Denmark. As queen dowager, she preferred to reside at Kalundborg Castle. She remained politically active during the reign of her son until her death. She granted the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein to her younger son Frederick, but it caused a conflict with her elder son and ended in the division of the Duchy between her sons.

Dorothea continued with her ambition to reunite the Kalmar Union of the Nordic Kingdoms, now by her having her son elected king of Sweden rather than her spouse, by means of ousting the Swedish regent through an excommunication officially for the theft of her Swedish dower lands. In January 1482, she stated this plan for her son the king, and in 1488, she made a second trip to her sister Barbara in Mantua, meeting the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III in Innsbrück on the way, and visited Pope Innocent VIII in Rome, where she again pressed the matter of an excommunication of the Swedish regent and place the kingdom of Sweden under Interdict. It was with great difficulty that the Swedish envoy in Rome, Hemming Gadh, managed to prevent this. The queen dowager continued this process until her death: the matter was not resolved until three years after her death, when her son, the year prior elected king of Sweden, stated that he did not wish to pursue the matter further. Though she died two years before her son was elected king of Sweden, her work is regarded to have contributed to this outcome.

Dorothea died on 25 November 1495, and is interred next to her second spouse in Roskilde Cathedral.

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Hi everyone, its been a while since I have posted. MAB has been a huge support to me and I'm sure to a huge amount of you out there. I literally take every word (and you know he's never short on them) he says to heart and I can't thank him enough. So here's what is happening in my life that is so exciting that I can barely contain myself. Next week a 19 year old Indie artist is traveling from Maine to Buffalo, NY (where I live) to record her first EP. 2 of the songs are mine and the other two are Ed Bentley's and John Rose's songs, two other songwriters from Buffalo, NY. The artist's name is Miranda Mastera. I'll have her Reverbnation page listed below. After the recording session she'll be performing at the famed Sportsmans Tavern, which is the "Bluebird Cafe of the north". From there, she'll be headed to Nashville.
What did MAB have to do with this? Let me tell you in my own words. So many of us songwriters are pitching to the majors. And the chances of getting any one to listen, let alone cut our songs are.......nil and none. We are getting beat up from the constant rejections and sometimes, its hard to go on. MAB told me to find a young Indie artist who would be interested in my songs. Find someone like "Liz Rose found Taylor Swift". Who wouldn't want to be someone's "Liz Rose"?? So I not only found Miranda, but I found another Indie artist (I can't say her name yet) who is cutting my song "TRY" very soon. Miranda is cutting "Just Go" and "I've Got a New Song" next week.
Will I make any money with these cuts? Doubtful. But OMG, you can't put a value on what is happening right now. THIS is success. THIS is what is going to keep me going. And THIS is what erased all the negative energy I ever got from every rejection, every bad critique, every nay sayer.
Way to go Donna! A big congrats to you... and MAB for his knowledgeable guidance.
She dynamite, Donna. Congratulations to you and here's hoping for even more success for you both.
Glad to hear of your good news. I'm hoping this becomes a big break for you to "climb the pyramid" because of recognition of your writing talent. It's also good to know Marc was able to play a part in bringing all this together. Wishing you success and happiness.
Congratulations Donna. So far all I've been able to find are singer/writers with their own song supply, so they are going to do their own songs. Understandable I guess. I get a lot of praise but few takers.
I tried that link but so far have not being able to get it to open.
New artists are not easy to find. I spend a couple hours a day searching and contacting. I find a lot on Twitter, Reverbnation and googling "Indie artists". Even though the artist is also a "songwriter", I still contact them. Many times all they did was co-write and have very little skill as a songwriter, but want to have "songwriter" on their resume. These artists are always looking for a good song. My point is: don't give up. Keep looking.
That is GREAT DONNA and congratulations. By the way, Ed Bentley and the two writers from Buffalo are ALSO people I work with. LOL! I think one of those songs are mine as well.
The deal is we are in a "DO IT YOURSELF WORLD" and everyone gets too consumed by trying to find the majors, work their way in, and trying to climb Mt. Everest when actually there are TONS of other ways to make your way in places like this. You are DOING it! Very proud of you.
I'll always be waiting on that smooch. Thanks for the shout out.
Well done Donna (and MAB for steering!).
I hope you don't mind, but I have posted this on a couple of other places I work with people and passed it along. It is important as I believe people have to be PROACTIVE when it comes to their own music. I really appreciate your mentioning me, but this is really not about me. It is about YOU and taking control of your own career without waiting on a publisher or some intermediary to make things happen for you. Very proud of that. I wish more people would do that as you have. People need to hear about VICTORIES in this day and age of constant doom and gloom related to music.
Let me know if that is not okay and I can take down anything I post anywhere.
Just listened to Miranda! She's great. Wish you much more success Donna.
It's amazing how successful someone can be when they actually listen to and follow through on good advice. So many hear us preaching that over and over but never do anything about it. The difference with you Donna is you followed through and by doing so you've already beaten 99.8% of you competition.
Good luck and most importantly, have a lot of fun Donna!
That is what I have always liked about your site. You give out REAL PRACTICAL APPLICATION advice in what you do, and feature here. And there are many success stories from it. Was glad to see this one. But yes, they have to follow through on it.
I always love and use your example of 5000 people a year paying for what you do. That is absolutely the best advice someone can get.
Thanks for letting us be around.
Go for it MAB. I appreciate it and it is my honor to help.
I just noticed this thread and like everyone else here, it's great to see someone's passion getting noticed, appreciated and RECORDED! MAB gives solid advice and there was a payoff for following it.
Congratulations to you. I hope Miranda is the next Miranda.
I'd like to give an update to my "Miranda" experience. She and her mother drove all the way from Maine to Buffalo to record my two songs. Now keep in mind, she's 18 years old. Not a kid. We get to the studio and I felt like I had a pie thrown in my face. Not only could she not hold a key if her life depended on it, she didn't know any of the songs! Two hours into the recording session, the producer called a halt, sat her down and said "We can't continue because you haven't done your homework". I realized then that this was clearly a mom forcing her own dreams upon a daughter who just wasn't ready. The producer then said he'd can make anyone sound good by using auto tune. That made me realize that Miranda's previous recorded songs in Nashville were auto tuned up the yin yang. I told her mom to get her daughter the voice lessons she needs if she wanted to continue on this path because unless she could perform in public, she didn't have a prayer to succeed. The lesson I learned: to more thoroughly vet young artists to make sure they are worthy of not only my time, but my reputation and my songs. It took me a couple months to process this lesson, but its one I won't forget too soon. They returned to Maine, and I never heard from them again.
Sorry to hear about the Miranda experience. But good news about your song "Try". Mia did a great job on it. I wish you much success with it Donna.
Sorry about the disappointment and glad about the success. Many out there singing and writing hoping to "make" it but don't have the talent to do so. Dreaming the impossible dream.
Sorry to hear about your Miranda experience. I believe that people are basically born with or without pitch and/or rhythm. If she can't hear pitch, no amount of voice lessons will help. It reminds me of a guy who comes to an open mic here. He has the perfect country voice - sounds like a baritone Nashville star. But he is virtually tone deaf and is totally disappointing once he gets past the first note. I say this just so you don't get sucked in again by Mom when she makes another run to Buffalo after a few fruitless voice lessons. (BTW- there is nothing wrong with voice lessons for improving other aspects of singing - just not tone deafness).
Hi Everett, its got to make us wonder how much auto tune is used on other singers. I believe Miranda has the chops. She just needs lots of experience and practice. But, she'll have to earn her way just like everyone else.....but not on my time.
As for my new cut "TRY"...Mia Kylie Ditta had 350,000 hits on the song in 24 hours!! (no typo!) Absolutely amazing!
Hi Colin, I believe Miranda has the chops. But for her to come to Buffalo to record, was about 5+ years too soon. I sincerely hope she's learned some valuable lessons and will pursue this dream, if it is her dream (and not mom's). As for her coming back to Buffalo.....that's NOT going to happen.
I thought she sounded pretty good too. I guess in skilled hands, autotune can work wonders. I tried using Melodyne (which I believe is one of the best autotune tools out there) until the free trial ran out. It did a really nice job, but I always felt it kind of sucked the warmth and heart out of my voice. Since warmth and heart are pretty much all I can aspire to, that was a bit of a problem. Maybe a "real" producer could make even me sound good.
Love the song, Donna and wish you great success with Mia.
It's been my personal experience with Melodyne that auto-tune can make something that is almost fine...sound more almost fine. But I didn't know that you could take truly bad vocals and make them sound good. Apparently it has progressed more than I realized.
Mia has a very good voice and an array of techniques. Hope that she works out better.
Donna, sorry I have not known what has been going on with you and the "search for the decent singer." Your experiences are pretty normal. There are a few things we have to understand in this era and I want to give a bit of the "other side" of things I always talk about.
As most of you know, I am among the biggest "FIND YOUR OWN SINGERS, BUILD YOUR OWN WORLD, CREATE YOUR OWN NICHE" people there is. I believe that if you are a writer, you can no longer wait for the "perfect pitch opportunity" with labels, producers, and publishers, or wait till the industry finds you. You have to go out and find people, BEFORE they are signed, to be vehicles for your songs. In my own experiences, I'm lucky that many come to me. And I am surrounded by them in a town that brings hundreds of thousands of them a year into town. Want to find singers in Nashville? Pick up a handful of rocks and throw them. You'll hit one.
But this is also true ALL OVER THE WORLD. There are an estimated 30-50 MILLION people out there who are trying to be singers writers, etc. I have been to some of the smallest hamlets and towns in the country and there are artists, wanna be's, people EVERYWHERE. Sit on an airplane and tell someone you are a singer (happened to me two weeks ago) and everyone around you tells you about their "son, daughter, friend. ,niece, nephew, grandchild, parent, cousin) who is a "great singer and just HAVE TO BE ON THE RADIO!"
And there are about one BILLION songs uploaded a month on the Internet .So there is really no problem finding singers for songs.
Online, like everything is trickier, because everyone is on there and you don't have a chance to vet them or find out much about them. That is why I prefer to STAY LOCAL. So you can be around these people. But I digress.
So having people that do this is a no brainer. But that is also the MAIN PROBLEM. And like all problems, it took a long time to get here.
Over 20 years ago in Nashville, those of us who were artists, writers, producers, etc. trying to find the next big thing, found record labels no longer asking about how "good someone was" they wanted to know "How good they looked in a pair of Wranglers." That was the advent of video into music, MTV, VH1, CMT, all became primary movers and shakers of public opinion in music. So they needed to look good.
And of course, this is nothing new. In the 50's, when Elvis hit, there were hundreds of Tab Hunter's, Frankie Avalon's, Tommy Sands, etc. anyone that wore those ducktails and could make their lip sneer were given record deals.
In the 60's, anybody with a "Beatles Haircut" could hold a guitar, dress in the same suits, and shake their heads, got record deals. The "Bugs", the Animals, The....whatever... all were on the scene with their screaming girls.
You can follow that throughout music, the psychodelic era, the disco era, the heavy metal era... hey, the entertainment business is ONE BIG FOLLOW THE LEADER business. Might as well get used to it. You just want to be the one that everyone else follows!
Then, in the modern era, along with the "Free music era" we have become the "everyone can do it" era. Everyone can put their songs and videos on FACEBOOK AND YOU TUBE, and their parents and friends love them and "LIKE THEM" online.
What they have forgotten is TALENT and DEVELOPMENT.
Donna, you ran into a singer that had to be auto tuned? Almost EVERYONE has to be Auto tuned. I remember engineers telling me once about working with Faith Hill. They had to tune and punch EVERY NOTE that she sang. Of course, she got better with time, and is a pretty good singer now. Taylor Swift got slammed as a "TERRIBLE SINGER" mostly because of one awards show performance where she was singing with her biggest hero, STEVIE NICKS. Well wouldn't YOU get pretty nervous with your hero, who was one of the biggest influences on your life and music? But she did need a lot of work. She was a tremendous writer but always weaker in the vocals. She's gotten past it. And doing pretty well.
But there are many, like your singer, that don't have the chops and never will, but can get by with auto tune and other effects. For a while. Pretty soon, people bore with that and they tune out. As you are seeing Donna, the thing to do is FIND MORE SINGERS. Which you are doing. Good for you.
It is stuff we have to get used to. Younger singers don't have the maturity, or have not developed their skills, and most of them ARE GOING TO BE GONE SOON So we have to spread it around.
If you want your songs OUT THERE, you are going to have to FIND YOUR OWN SINGERS. And some of those are going to be DUDS! just happens. Hopefully that will lead to others that rise above the rest. That is who you are looking for.
Every writer and publisher in Nashville work with DOZENS that don't work out. But you have to be careful how fast you dismiss them. Because sometimes you might just be on the wrong side of the equation. Never cut your nose off to spite your face.
One day you might be approached at a party with a young girl and her mother and people telling you :this is the girl you need to work with." And you might get a little bit in a snit and say "she is too young to work with." You might end up regretting that.
Because that was me. And the Daughter that was brought over to me at an ASCAP party was TAYLOR SWIFT.
You just never know. Stay at it and stay out there.
Keep in mind that this is an opportunity for you beyond this kid and her Mom... make sure you stay positive and connect with all the people involved, the players, studio staff, etc. and everyone else involved. Any of them may be an important connection for you or them (it's always gotta be a two way thing). Experiencing a failure regardless of the circumstances is STILL an opportunity for something good to happen later.
WOW , DONNA I AM SORRY YOU HAD GET THIS "SLAP IN THE FACE"


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