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Eurpoean Paralympic Championships
European Paralympic Success!
The World Para Swimming Allianz European Championships took place in our home pool of the National Aquatic Centre from 13th - 19th August. With an Irish team of 9 athletes consisting of Patrick Flanagan, Barry McClements, Jonathan McGrath, Sean O'Riordan along with our very own Ailbhe Kelly, James Scully, Nicole Turner and Ellen Keane, it was set to be an action packed Championships. There was excellent swims from all our Irish athletes, with numerous finals and personal best times throughout the week, cheered on by the huge support of the home crowd.
Our very own Ailbhe Kelly was one of the first Irish swimmers to start off in the 200m Individual Medley SM8, where she finished seventh in the final in her third Para Swimming European Championships since her debut in 2014. The 19 year old finalled in all four of her events with a seasons best in her favourite event the 100m backstroke S8 and personal best times in both the 400m Freestyle S8 finishing sixth overall and 100m Freestyle S8 in a time of 1.18.27.
At 25, James Scully is the oldest memeber of Team Ireland competing at the Championships and indeed one of the oldest and most valued members of the NAC Swim Club. With a truly impressive career since his International debut in 2010 at the Para Swimming World Championships, James was ready to set his home pool alight competing in the 50m, 100m and 200m Freestyle S5 events. In his best event, the 200m Freestyle, James swam his fastest time since competing at the Rio Paralympic Games finishing fifth in a time of 2.58.34. He finished his Championships with two more impressive swims in both the 50m and 100m freestyle.
Special Mention of course to our two Irish medalists, Nicole Turner and Ellen Keane. Nicole, the 16yr old NAC swimmer, won the Silver medal in the S6 50m Butterfly in a time of 36.75 just behind Great Britian's Eleanor Robinson. She surpased her Bronze medal finish in the same event in the 2016 IPC European Swimming Championships while finaling in her other five events.
Ellen, also one of our NAC swimmers, was able to successfully add to her Bronze medal from 2016 Rio Paralympic Games and two Bronze medals at the IPC World Championships in the fifth European Championships of her career to date. She secured a Bronze medal in the SM9 200m Individual Medley and Ireland's only Gold medal of the Championships in the SB8 100m Breaststroke, winning the final by over five seconds in a time of 1.23.29 on the final day of the competition. She was delighted to be presented with her medal by our own Head Coach and Paralympic High Performance Director Dave Malone.
Along with the athletes a special mention has to be given to all of the Team Staff and Coaches for Team Ireland from the Championships. In particular our own coaches Dave Malone, Hayley Burke and Niamh Buffini along with Team Manager Andrea Laughlin for their continued hard work and unconditional support to all the athletes.


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We have received very exciting news this week: BCS are the number one primary coders in the county. We have beaten all the other primary schools across Cheshire due to the apps we have been making and sharing in our Computing lessons over the past year. We proudly received our certificate yesterday! We are now about to embark on a nationwide Computational Thinking Challenge called 'The Bebras Challenge'. The top scorers will be invited to take part in a further round at Oxford University - fingers crossed we are as successful in our computational thinking as we have been in our coding.


The constant rise in research and the worldwide focus on health science research has managed to create ripples that will go far. The future of human health seems to be bright owing to the increased amount of information that is constantly being added to the existing pools. Biomedical physiology has done to open many new windows of research that are sure to go on for decades and pave new ways at each step. All this has increased the number of opportunities for upcoming researchers and students in the field of biomedical physiology. There is so much more to learn and explore and the future holds great promises for better health.
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
Live Jazz in the Seaport
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
Photograph courtesy of Kamakura
Japanese Elegance
Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Stuart Schreiber sits "where I go to talk to my mother," by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Truth: A Love Story
A scientist discovers his own family's secrets.
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Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
©2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
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A Harvard scholar presents the "untold origins of a modern masterpiece."
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall
by Christopher Reed
Photography by Stephen Sylvester and Yosi A.R-Pozeilov, Digital Imaging and Photography Group, Harvard College Libraries
The tour guide will tell you that more secular stained glass may be seen in Memorial Hall than in any other building in the world. No image of Christ gazes down from these 22 gorgeous windows. Instead, more or less life-size, here are such worthies as Dante and Chaucer, Charlemagne and Sir Thomas More, Pericles and Leonardo, and Hector parting from Andromache. Inscriptions in Latin evoke virtues desirable in the academy—Disciplina, Patientia, and Fortitudo. All this is meant to refer somehow to the young Harvard scholars-turned-soldiers who perished in the American Civil War fighting for the Union, to whom the building stands as a memorial. The figural windows went up from 1879 through 1904. The one shown here, Peace and Honor, done in 1900, shines with 18 others on freshmen at their meals in the part of the edifice now called Annenberg Hall.
A striding young man with spear and shield goes off to war, at left, and returns, a survivor, to give thanks. The allegorical figures Honor and Peace suggest Hera or Athena, familiar characters in a classical undergraduate education, according to art historian Virginia Raguin, writing in the Harvard Library Bulletin. The tableau is the work of Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904), who also created the largest, most complex window on site, in the south wall of the transept.
She joined many other leading stained-glass artists employing varied techniques to adorn these walls, among them John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, two who developed the new opalescent style of stained glass at which Whitman excelled. "The Peace and Honor window is one of the most successful opalescent designs of its time," Raguin writes. It is "legendary for its brilliance."
Traditional stained-glass windows use glass of clear, uniform colors—so-called pot metal colors—modeled with vitreous paint, which contains ground glass. Whitman used that and more or less milky glass of variegated colors and a pearly surface sheen, of varying thickness and texture, to achieve opalescent effects. She also layered several glass segments in a technique called plating, which gave her windows a sculptured look.
These are painterly windows, and indeed Whitman was a painter in oils. For more about her, see "Vita," January-February 2008, page 32. For more about Memorial Hall's stained glass, go to http://harvardmag.com/war-and-peace. For more about war, read a newspaper. For more about peace, be hopeful.

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Why startups love family offices
Nick Rucker
Earlier this month, Family Capital ran an article about how the booming startup sector in India is fueling the growth of family offices. Well, there appears to be growing relationship developing between family offices and startups in other parts of the world as well.
This is being led by an increasing number of startups seeking money from family offices before other sources like venture capital firms, and a growing willingness for family offices to finance them.
An interesting example of this relationship was discussed by Tyler Jacks, one of America's top cancer specialists, who has recently launched a startup called Dragonfly Therapeutics. Jacks told the high-tech publication Xeconomy that he secured finance for Dragonfly from family offices. Jacks added that family offices were quicker to commit than venture capital firms. VC firms typically insist on a series of funding rounds, and this can lead to tension and different incentives for different investors in a syndicate, said the article.
He added that family offices didn't place that sort of pressure on Dragonfly, and the startup could return to them for more support when needed. One of those family offices supporting Dragonfly is linked to Tim Disney, the great-nephew of Walt Disney, said the article.
Family Capital reckons this more informal approach from family offices when backing startups is endearing the sector more to family investment opportunities, and this will only increase as time goes on. On the other side of the deal, family offices are hungry for direct deals like backing startups more than ever, particularly in a low yield environment for most indirect investments.
Here's another deal in the last week of a family office backing a startup. Bunting Family Office, set up by the Bunting family who made their money from the sale of Noxell Corporation to Procter & Gamble in the late 1980s, recently backed a Baltimore-based startup called Pixelligent Technologies.
Despite the risks of backing startups, expect many more family offices providing finance – and very willing startups.


Comm Eye Health Vol. 31 No. 101 2018 pp 5-6. Published online 19 May 2018.
Senior Lecturer: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Retinoblastoma is a rare disease. Saving the lives of the children affected requires early detection, good referral systems and expert care by a multidisciplinary team. Setting up a national and joined-up service is an essential first step.
Because retinoblastoma is rare, it is sensible to gather those people with the expertise to manage children with retinoblastoma (and the resources and equipment to do so) in one or more designated national centres. In large countries, with high birth rates, several centres must be designated. All retinoblastoma centres in a country need to work together as part of a national service with standard management protocols. The national service must be audited on a regular basis and the data shared at national meetings where all centres that see and treat children with retinoblastoma are represented.
A study in the year 2000 reviewed the presentation and management of retinoblastoma at Kenyatta National Hospital (the largest referral hospital in Kenya). It showed that there were significant gaps in the management of patients presenting with retinoblastoma. This led to poor outcomes for patients, many of whom were dying. In an attempt to bridge some of these gaps, a retinoblastoma working group was formed involving ophthalmologists, paediatric oncologists, radiation oncologists and pathologists. Due to limited funding and competing job demands, this working group had limited success.
In 2007, the group was contacted by Daisy's Eye Cancer fund (now known as World Eye Cancer Hope) who, together with a retinoblastoma expert from the Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, reignited the determination to improve the management of patients with retinoblastoma in Kenya. With their financial support and expertise, the first Kenya National Retinoblastoma meeting was held in 2008 and participants from all over Kenya attended, including ophthalmologists, paediatric oncologists, radio-oncologists, pathologists, ophthalmic clinical officers, nurses, parents of children with retinoblastoma, retinoblastoma survivors and a child-life specialist (see panel overleaf).
To address these issues, the group set four broad objectives (with attendant activities).
Establish sources and funding for the chemotherapeutic agents.
Organise fund raising events like marathons/ walks.
Construct accommodation facilities for families of children undergoing long term treatment, especially those from remote areas.
Four committees were set up, one for each objective, and given tasks to be accomplished each year. A steering committee was formed to coordinate annual meetings and oversee the activities of each committee.
The Kenya National Retinoblastoma Strategy (KNRbS) was launched and included everyone who attended the first meeting. An annual KNRbS meeting was held for the next six years, during which achievements of the previous year would be reviewed and new tasks set out.
Establishment of a fund to enable each family affected by retinoblastoma to enrol in the National Health Insurance Fund which covers almost all aspects of retinoblastoma treatment, as well as other diseases.
The development of national services in the UK occurred because of concerns that uncommon children's conditions with a risk of mortality were being treated in units that were under-equipped to treat them.
It is advisable to have two centres in the UK in case one centre is unable to treat the condition, say due to lack of staff or closure due to infection for example.
A true multi-disciplinary team evolves over time. Core medical staff members should include ophthalmologists, paediatric oncologists and histopathologists. Ideally there should be two of each so that leave is covered and colleagues can give advice when difficult situations arise either informally or at multi-disciplinary meetings.
Additional support staff are needed. In the UK, support staff include Clinical Nurse Specialists in oncology and ophthalmology, orthoptists to monitor vision in children, psychologists and a representative from the retinoblastoma patient support group in the UK (Childhood Eye Cancer Trust: CHECT). Figure 1.
Every support staff member has an important role to fulfil. The representative from CHECT is important as the parents feel that there is someone to speak to who is not a member of the hospital. Parents are likely to become distressed and this will affect the child and other members of the family. Counselling either by a psychologist or a member of staff (who has an understanding of the trauma that the family is undergoing) is of great benefit.
We hold multidisciplinary meetings with all staff members at least once a month to discuss patients who have had enucleations and treatment.
Retinoblastoma treatment is a stressful and potentially traumatic experience for children, who have to cope with the challenges of hospitalisation, illness, and disability. Child life specialists (known as play therapists or play specialists in some countries) work closely with children and families in these situations, offering emotional support practical tools and advice to help them cope better.
Child life specialists help to explain medical jargon to parents and children, and prepare them for procedures, usually through play.
In the Figure 2, a child is practising the use of a mask in preparation for surgery. She overcame her initial apprehension by first putting the mask on a simple cloth doll (a pattern that can be easily sewn by people in the local community for very little money).
The father also demonstrates one of the four key comfort positions (back to chest), which gives solid comfort to the child during this procedure. See http://bit.ly/comfortpositions. These techniques reduce stress and can save costs: if a child is calm, and the parent knows what to do, a procedure can be completed by just one medical professional, rather than two or more.


Why have humans advanced more in the last 150 years than in the previous 10,000 years?
Best Answer: It's not that we've advanced more in the last 150 years. It's that it took us 10,000 years to learn our lessons.
Just as it takes us 10-12 years of compulsory schooling to then be able to talk, spell, read and write to a decent degree, use the remote control, catch the public transports, talk and think like an adult etc.
Then all of a sudden, you're able to pick up things faster e.g. how to drive a car, install your own apps on iphones without technical support, understand and balance your personal finances, fill out your taxes etc etc.
But there is still a whole lot you do not know and have to take extra learning on - which some of us never do - e.g. fly a plane, do heart surgery, design a house, learn another language, write a book, learn to exercise, learn to eat sensibly, be kind, be open-minded, be a better parent (getting to do it right second time round through your grandchildren), do rocket science etc etc.
For all we know, we're still in the embryonic stage. 150 years from now, someone might ask why have humans advanced more in the last 5 years than the previous 10,150 years?
Unleashing and releasing the creative energy of African Americans. Despite violent abuse and poverty their vitality makes them straighten to pressure as they resist being cowed, and their music has reached all of humanity. Hitler feared Jazz and Swing because it expresses this Vitality and Exuberance in Freedom on a level more profound than words.
The reason is called the Carbonaro Effect. You've never heard of the Carbonaro Effect? Well, it's also the name of a hidden camera magic TV show. And you're on it right now. Hello I'm Michael Carbonaro. I'm a magician, and you're on my show, The Carbonaro Effect.
Alien technology culminating in the 1932 coronation of Adolf Hitler in the Vriltempelhof in Muenschen. Leni Riefenstahl filmed Adolf Hitler being crowned King of the Earth by a twelve year old princess of Oettingen, niece of Maria Orsic whose mother Sabina was the natural daughter of Count Morris Esterhazy. A delegation of aliens from Aldabaran were present in the parts of the footage never televised in the Third Reich. After Hitler's defeat he was retired to Argentina by Truman in exchange for Von Braun and Debus.
We have become weaker but wiser.
Advancement is exponential (look it up).
It takes a lot of little advancements for really big ones to happen.
The "invention" of the hand ax happened 5 million years ago. It would be another four million years before anyone thought to put a handle on it.
50 thousand years ago we evolved a large echo chamber in the back of our throat that allowed us to make a host of differentiated sounds. This lead to speech, language, communication and the ability to learn more form our elders than any previous hominid. Later the Greeks ( or Hellenes) came up with the alphabet and that lead to PRACTICAL recording of information and civilization in the Med exploded.
Baby steps leading to faster and faster accomplishments.
In June 2016, Elon Musk was asked whether he thinks humans live in a computer simulation, to which he answered: "The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following: 40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. That's where we were. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. And soon we'll have virtual reality, we'll have augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable."
Humans advance with each revolution. The agricultural revolution was huge, and so were the ones 150 years ago the industrial and scientific revolutions. These finally created the free time needed to progress, not to mention machines capable of more than any one human. Finally food became reliable, death was not expected young, and the vast majority of the worlds time was no longer spent in the fields.
What's one pivotal event in the Civil War?


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Q: How to access variable values while using host vars in for loop in ansible? How to access variable value while dealing with group vars.
Ansible 2.5
{% for ----%}
{% set floop = loop %}
{% for host in groups['web{{floop.index}}']%}
            --- block of code ---
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

inventory file:
[web1]
host1
host2

[web2]
host3
host4

It is giving me the below error.
AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'web{{loop.index}}'

Could anyone please suggest how to use index value here.

A: To ensure that each host group is looped over separately, you could use the following code (or something similar to it). The if statement is there to ensure you are only looping over group that are named web<number>:
{% for group in groups %}
{% if group | regex_search('^web\d+') %}
{% for host in groups[group] %}
--- block of code ---
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}

This was my original answer. Leaving it here in case it helps someone else.
Use a parent host group instead. Depending on your specific use case, this is probably a better and safer approach anyway.
Inventory:
[web1]
host1
host2

[web2]
host3
host4

[web:children]
web1
web2

Loop:
{% for host in groups['web'] %}
--- block of code ---
{% endfor %}

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Quartz was launched by Atlantic Media in 2012 as a digital-only business news outlet optimized for mobile devices. Since then, it has grown to attract close to 17 million monthly unique visitors and has pushed mobile news delivery forward in interesting ways, most recently with an iPhone app that mimics a text-messaging interface.
In our report we get an overview of the team's strategy from Executive Editor and Vice President of Product Zach Seward, Special Projects Editor Lauren Brown and Editor for New Initiatives Xana Antunes.


Things weren't looking so hot for Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown for a minute there. After leaving rehab early, refusing to work with a sober coach, and then going MIA in California, the reality personality had his family seriously worried. Now, however, he's reentered rehab — and reconnected with his family, too. According to a new Radar Online report, the star is mending fences with his parents and siblings and working on those relationships in addition to addressing his addiction.


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iPSC Technology Spurs Promising Gains in SMA Research
by Maureen Newman
In News, Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is among the many motor neuron diseases that have no cure. One reason for the lack of cures is the inexistence of reliable in vitro disease models to be used as platforms for research and development of new drugs. This is partially attributed to the difficulty in obtaining human neural cells.
A study from University of Milan in Italy, "Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Models of Spinal Muscular Atrophy," published in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, reviewed one way to mitigate the lack of primary human neural cells for drug discovery. Lead author Dr. Emanuele Frattini and principal investigator Dr. Stefania Corti explained how induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can be differentiated reproducibly into neurons and other neuronal subtype cells in the laboratory, but also noted that iPSCs may provide more benefits than hESCs. "Overall, iPSCs appear to have the potential to revolutionize the approach to the study and the treatment of human diseases," the authors wrote.
Spinal muscular atrophy, which arises from deletions or mutations in the gene encoding survival of motor neuron 1 (SMN1), is the subject of numerous pre-clinical studies involving mice, as the mouse genome is relatively easy to manipulate. Knocking out SMN1 provides an animal model with similar molecular and pathological characteristics of human SMA, but there are still important physiologic and anatomic differences that decrease the validity of the model.
Hence, research has been focused on generating a more reliable model of SMA that involves human cells. iPSCs are used to avoid the lack of primary neuronal cells, as they can be generated from adult human fibroblasts taken from SMA patients and differentiated into neuronal cells to model disease. This was first achieved by a group of researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with The Waisman Center in 2009. "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from a Spinal Muscular Atrophy Patient," published in Nature, laid the groundwork to derive deficient motor neurons from an SMA patient's skin fibroblasts. "As such, it represents a promising resource to study disease mechanisms, screen new drug compounds, and develop new therapies," wrote lead author Dr. Allison D. Ebert and principal investigator Dr. Clive N. Svendsen.
Key findings leading from studies with iPSC-derived SMA-diseased cells involve ways to rescue motor neurons from death. It seems that blocking Fas ligand-mediated apoptosis and altering astrocyte behavior may reduce SMA motor neuron apoptosis. On the treatment front, it has been shown that affecting CD36 may influence valproic acid non-responsiveness in SMA motor neurons and that treating SMA iPSCs with oligonucleotides yields motor neurons adequate for transplantation.
Although many gains have been made using iPSC-derived SMA motor neurons, a long road remains ahead. Scientists continue to work through pre-clinical models and drug discovery tests, but these must be validated in clinical trials before they can be applied to humans with SMA.
Tagged Dr. Allison Ebert, Dr. Clive Svendsen, Dr. Emanuele Frattini, Dr. Stefania Corti, iPSCs, motor neuron, SMN1.
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As an ex-IBMer from the days before Powerpoint I admit that was somewhat funny. When the Datamaster 23 was introduced, to give you an idea how out of date I am, I ran benchmarks between it and the 5100 that it replaced. The 5100 was almost twice as fast.
Ha! The longer I work in a mega-corporation, the more obvious the disconnect between executive management and where the real work gets done. In fact, a growing, implicit part of our job is planning how to accommodate for the seemingly whimsical changes that could be demanded by execs. The amount of effort we expend for that accommodation is significant and, I hasten to say, mostly wasted.
I used to work for a IBM - investment bank jv. Spot on.


It's that back to old school feeling all over again. You are going to prepare for an exam and you make your personalized study plan to have a smoother review in the process. But there are some changes and you are in school anymore. You are in the real world of business and it's time to apply project management when you are arming yourself for a PMP® certification exam.
How to prepare for the PMP® exam in the project management way is easier since you already have the basic knowledge of the field. This article will cover just that.
Preparing a study plan that is almost similar to a project plan isn't that complicated as one thinks. Just like starting out a project, your study plan should have the timeframe, mission, and daily or weekly goals to help you keep on track while preparing for your PMP® exam.
How to prepare for PMP® exam should be a breeze. And with building your study plan with the applications of a project plan organizes your goals and a list of terminologies and other data that you will encounter in the PMP® credential exam.
So what are the specific details to include in your study or review plan? It's still up to you, but this article will give you the most important components that should be present in your plan so that you won't end up pulling your hair preparing for the PMP® exam.
The following components below will help you how to prepare for the PMP® exam using project management-based approaches. You don't need to include all you have encountered during your project management days—infusing some elements on your study plan will help you study better and prepare with less hassle for your PMP® exam.
Preparing for the PMP® exam means you have to be motivated enough to determine what will drive you to get that certification.
Ask yourself how this certification will affect your overall welfare; your job, your life, even your financial status. When you have a clear goal in mind, this is where you will fully understand what PMP® certification really means to you.
PMP® exams take time and you have to think about the same thing for your test review as well. Devote your time and free your calendar to build your own daily study schedule so you are well-prepared for the exam. Don't forget to prepare your study materials as well. Ensure that you find a quiet spot to study with zero distractions.
Create a goal in mind. Say, how many pages are you planning to review today? Don't just study non-stop—take a break once in a while so you can approach your review again with a fresh mind.
This will help you monitor your goals that you have fulfilled from your daily goals. If you devote 3 or 3 hours studying the PMBoK® Guide, you will be able to finish one chapter for a week. This will give also give you more chance to test yourself with the practice PMP® exams.
Keep track of your progress by jotting it down or create a graph to represent how far you have come. It is up to you at this point, provided you update them show there are changes present.
Find a place where you are comfortable and won't get distracted by noise or people. A coffee shop is a good place to study, but if you are easily distracted by people, then this is not an ideal place to review. Assess yourself and your preference in terms of environment and atmosphere.
Preparing for a PMP® exam should have zero distraction; this means no TV show marathons while studying or sneak chat with a friend on Facebook or Skype. Put your whole focus for preparing for the PMP® exam—the chat and Game of Thrones binge watching can wait.
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1/12/2015 · When I try to adopt the AP, it just eventually goes to "Disconnected". At one point it was also going to "failed". I went on it and did "syswrapper.sh restore …... From either location (alerts or ap device list), you should have a button that says "Adopt". Adopt the new AP and go back to the SSH shell. Adopt the new AP and go back to the SSH shell. Send the command again, this should allow the AP to see that it has been adopted.
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller in an Debian LXC Container I wanted to avoid adding MongoDB and a bunch of Java to existing VMs, so installing Ubiquiti UniFi Controller in an Debian …... 20/03/2014 · You adopt an AP by dragging and dropping it on the deployment area map. From there things become really simple, especially with repeated use of the UniFi controller.
Solved: I have a brand new installation of UniFi and a brand new AP (regular) in my office. The AP is discovered in UniFi, but when I go to adopt it The AP is discovered in UniFi, but when I go to adopt it... As far as I can tell and with working with my unifi with controller version 1.2.3 and the unifi on firmware 2.3.x I can adopt. I know this is reverse of your scenario but if firmware's and controllers were linked I would have experienced the same issues somewhere along the road.
As far as I can tell and with working with my unifi with controller version 1.2.3 and the unifi on firmware 2.3.x I can adopt. I know this is reverse of your scenario but if firmware's and controllers were linked I would have experienced the same issues somewhere along the road.... To make things a little bit more complicated, we didn't use the default VLAN 1, but set VLAN 10 to be untagged to carry UniFi AP management traffic. It shall be fairly easy for readers to change management VLAN from VLAN 10 back to use default VLAN 1. In the end, a UAP can be plugged into any of these switches to provide wireless connectivity.
I have struggled with trying to get my Unifi AC Pro controller software to be easily accessible. I am not quite sure my AP is optimized after configuring, despite VLANs working.
I guess I would try setting up the Ubiquiti router, then connecting the Ubiquiti AP (after a reset) and your Macbook. That would take out of the equation problems with your switch or current configuration. If you can get that working, then add the switch to the mix.
As far as I can tell and with working with my unifi with controller version 1.2.3 and the unifi on firmware 2.3.x I can adopt. I know this is reverse of your scenario but if firmware's and controllers were linked I would have experienced the same issues somewhere along the road.


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October 25, 2021 – Throughout the month of October, we've interviewed previous winners of our Short Screenplay Competition to discuss screenwriting, the film industry and more! This week, we're talking with Todd Bird – winner of the 2020 competition. In case you missed them – check out our interviews with Caitlin Stow and Jeffrey Field.
Todd Bird, 46, is based in Louisville, Kentucky.
"By day, I work as a Director of Operations at a pharmaceutical distribution company. I began writing screen plays about 8 years ago with no formal training. I had a story and thought it would be a great movie, so I went online, printed off 3 screenplays and studied them (the first one was The Kids are Alright by Lisa Cholodenko). I used them as a guide and just started writing and used contests as my way of figuring out what i was doing right and wrong and haven't stopped yet. In my spare time, if I am not writing, I'm probably playing tennis or travelling with my husband Casey. My favorite place in the whole world is Grand Canaria in the Canary Islands."
Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
Q: You won DCFF's screenplay competition in 2021 with Gus. What inspired that story? How did you approach writing it?
A: Gus was inspired by an elderly neighbor who lost his partner several years ago. As a gay man, he has no children so his partner and his cat were essentially his life. And given his age, even his social support is limited as so many gay men of his generation were taken by the AIDS epidemic. I found almost no examples of elderly LGBT people who experience extreme loneliness in writing or film and wanted to represent this forgotten demographic. Given the subject matter, it was important for me to write the story in such a way that sound (or the lack thereof) played a huge role in expressing just how lonely a person could get. But I also wanted to add a bit of joy and levity through the dog's life.
Q: What do you feel is the most challenging part about getting a screenplay where you want it to be?
A: Opinions. I don't have a network of writers or even artists around me to I rely heavily on connections made over the internet and via writing contests. But just like any creative venture, everyone's opinion is different, so it's hard to gauge when you've got it just right.
Q: Have you found it difficult to get your work out there and read?
A: Outside of contests, yes. Especially living in the Midwest, it's quite a challenge and takes lots of emails and follow ups. Persistence is a truly a virtue.
Q: Do you feel that the film industry embraces new writing talent?
A: If the idea is good, then yes. Strong writing often speaks for itself. Getting into the right hands is the harder part, but once you do, people generally embrace great ideas.
Q: What's one value or philosophy related to screenwriting that you hold dear?
A: Knowing who your characters are and staying true to them. Too many times I've had people tell me that a character was unlikeable or didn't make sense, but I know my characters better than anyone. If they aren't "getting" my character, it's my job to write them better so they do. I'm not going to fundamentally change who the person is.
Q: In one sentence, what's one tip you would give to any screenwriter?
A: Every idea can be a good idea if you give it time and air.
Q: What are some recent pieces of creative work that have inspired you?
A: I was very inspired by the film Supernova. It's one of those films that tackles loss in the LGBT community that isn't AIDS related or some tragic murder. I've been addicted to the music from Dear Evan Hansen for some time now. It's very dark subject material along with soaring music are a great juxtaposition.
Q: What future goals have you set for yourself related to writing or filmmaking?
A: I currently have two full length screenplays in the works that need some tweaking and I would like to have them in good shape by the end of this year. Most importantly, I'm working to get Gus actually filmed sometime in 2022.
Q: What new creative projects of yours can we look forward to?
A: The thing I am most excited about is a stage play I've started working on called "Dan in the Basement." The idea for it arose from an unusual source – a client meeting at my "day job" when one of the participants said they were going to ask their IT guy to work on something for them. They couldn't remember his name and said they just call him "Dan in the Basement". I jotted it down and immediately started writing that night.
Favorite Movie(s):Pan's Labyrinth, Brokeback Mountain
Favorite Screenplay(s): Secrets and Lies
Favorite Book(s): My First Five Husbands by Rue McClanahan
Favorite Music to Write to: Anything by Tori Amos or Chris Isaak
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ARDENWOOD HISTORIC FARM Ardenwood farm is a working farm that dates back to the time of the Patterson Ranch, a 19th-century estate with a mansion and Victorian Gardens. Today, the farm still practices farming techniques from the 1870s. Unless otherwise noted, programs are free with regular admission.
ONGOING PROGRAMS --
"Blacksmithing," Thursday, Friday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Watch a blacksmith turn iron into useful tools.
"Horse-Drawn Train," Thursday, Friday and Sunday. A 20-minute ride departs from Ardenwood Station and Deer Park.
"Animal Feeding," Thursday-Sunday, 3-4 p.m. Help slop the hogs, check the henhouse for eggs and bring hay to the livestock.
"Victorian Flower Arranging," Thursday, 10:15-11:30 a.m. Watch as Ardenwood docents create floral works of art for display in the Patterson House. "Potato Harvesting," ongoing. Learn the spectacular history of this New World native as you dig with your spade and help find the spuds.
"Toddler Time," ongoing. Tuesdays, 11-11:30 a.m. Bring the tiny tots out for an exciting morning at the farm. Meet and learn all about a new animal friend through stories, chores and fun.
"Horse-Drawn Train Rides," ongoing. Thursday, Friday and Sunday, 10:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Meet Jigs or Tucker the Belgian Draft horses that pull Ardenwood's train. Check the daily schedule and meet the train at Ardenwood Station or Deer Park.
"Country Kitchen Cookin'," ongoing. Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Enjoy the flavor of the past with treats cooked on Ardenwood's wood burning stove. Sample food grown on the farm and discover the history of your favorite oldtime snacks.
"Animal Feeding," ongoing. Thursday-Sunday, 3 p.m. Feed the pigs, check for eggs and bring hay to the livestock.
$1-$5; free children under age 4. Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 34600 Ardenwood Blvd., Fremont. (510) 796-0199, (510) 796-0663, www.ebparks.org.<
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"Monthly Craft Night," ongoing. 4-5 p.m. Last Friday of every month. Each month features a different themed craft.
Riverview Middle School, 205 Pacifica Ave., Pittsburg. (925) 458-9597.<
BLACKHAWK MUSEUM ongoing.
AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM -- The museum's permanent exhibition of internationally renowned automobiles dated from 1897 to the 1980s. The cars are displayed as works of art with room to walk completely around each car to admire the workmanship. On long-term loan from the Smithsonian Institution is a Long Steam Tricycle; an 1893-94 Duryea, the first Duryea built by the Duryea brothers; and a 1948 Tucker, number 39 of the 51 Tuckers built, which is a Model 48 "Torpedo'' four-door sedan. "International Automotive Treasures," ongoing. An ever-changing exhibit featuring over 90 automobiles.
"A Journey on Common Ground," ongoing. An exhibit of moving photographs, video and art objects from around the world exploring the causes of disability and the efforts of the Wheelchair Foundation to provide a wheelchair for every person in need who cannot afford one. Free Public Tours, Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. Docent-led guided tours of the museum's exhibitions.
$5-$8; free for children ages 6 and under. Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 3700 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Danville. (925) 736-2280, (925) 736-2277, www.blackhawkmuseum.org.<
BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP ongoing. An interactive place where children, and adults, can learn how a stuffed animal is made, then choose an animal pattern from the offering of bears, elephants, dogs and rabbits; stuff the chosen animal; dress it; and create a birth certificate. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
$10-$25; clothing and accessories extra. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Broadway Plaza, 1248 Broadway, Walnut Creek. (925) 946-4697, www.buildabear.com.<
CHABOT SPACE AND SCIENCE CENTER State-of-the-art facility unifying science education activities around astronomy. Enjoy interactive exhibits, hands-on activities, indoor stargazing, outdoor telescope viewing and films.
ASK JEEVES PLANETARIUM -- Ongoing. The planetarium features one of the most advanced star projectors in the world. A daily planetarium show is included with general admission. Call for current show schedule.
"Astronaut," ongoing. What does it take to be part of the exploration of space? Experience a rocket launch from inside the body of an astronaut. Explore the amazing worlds of inner and outer space, from floating around the International Space Station to maneuvering through microscopic regions of the human body. Narrated by Ewan McGregor. 25 min.
"Space NOW!", ongoing. Each week, this real-time ride through constellations, stars, and planets will reflect current happenings in our sky. Space NOW! will also tie in activities going on throughout the center. This is Chabot's first daytime guided tour of the universe.
"Sonic Vision," ongoing. Friday-Saturday, 9:15 p.m. This show uses the latest digital technology to illuminate the planetarium with colorful computer-generated imagery set to today's popular music, including Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Moby and more.
"Dawn of the Space Age," ongoing. Starting with the launch of Sputnik, this show covers important Russian space history as well as the American Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programs. Be transported to the International Space Station, the X-prize winning private space ship and on to future Mars exploration.
"Two Small Pieces of glass," ongoing. Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy, this show examines the history of the telescope, beginning 400 years ago, with Galileo's discoveries.
"Tales Of The Maya Skies," ongoing. A full-dome planetarium show that explores the cosmology of the ancient Maya, along with their culture and their contributions to astronomy.Ongoing.
"Beyond Blastoff," ongoing. Get a glimpse into the life of an astronaut and experience the mixture of exhilaration, adventure, and confinement that is living and working in space.
"Chabot Observatories: A View to the Stars," ongoing. This new permanent exhibit honors the 123-year history of Chabot and its telescopes. The observatory is one of the oldest public observatories in the United States. The exhibit covers the three different sites of the observatory over its history as well as how its historic telescopes continue to be operated today. Included are informative graphic panels, multimedia kiosks, interactive computer programs, hands-on stations, and historic artifacts.
"Dinner, Movie and the Universe," ongoing. Every Friday and Saturday evening. Enjoy a bistro-style dinner, then cozy up for a film in the 70-foot MegaDome theater and end the evening with a telescope viewing. Call to purchase general admission tickets and to make dinner reservations. (510) 336-7373.
"Tales of the Maya Skies," ongoing. A companion exhibit for the planetarium show which features the scientific achievements and cosmology of the Maya. All content is bilingual in English and Spanish.
"Bill Nye's climate lab," ongoing. Features Emmy-award-winning Bill Nye the Climate Guy as commander of the Clean Energy Space Station, and invites visitors on an urgent mission to thwart climate change.
"Destination Universe," ongoing. Take a journey from our Sun to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
"One giant leap: a moon odyssey," ongoing. For all astronaut wannabees -take a simulated Moon-walk, try on a space helmet, climb into a Mercury capsule and land a lunar module in this hands-on exhibit that explores the legends and science fiction about the Moon.
"Valentine's day love missions," Feb. 12 through Feb. 13, 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Celebrate with your valentine on a simulated space mission to the Red Planet. The package includes an all access pass to Chabot, savory treats, fizzy Martian beverages, and a souvenir of your trip. $85 per couple.
TIEN MEGADOME SCIENCE THEATER -- Ongoing. A 70-foot dome-screen auditorium. Show times subject to change. Call for current show schedule. Price with paid general admission is $6-$7. Theater only: $7-$8. (510) 336-7373, www.ticketweb.com.
"Dinosaurs Alive," ongoing. A global adventure of science and discovery, featuring the earliest dinosaurs of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous, "reincarnated" life-sized for the giant screen. Audiences will journey with some of the world's preeminent paleontologists as they uncover evidence that the descendents of dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us. From the exotic, trackless expanses and sand dunes of Mongolia's Gobi Desert to the dramatic sandstone buttes of New Mexico, the film will follow American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) paleontologists as they explore some of the greatest dinosaur finds in history.
"Mysteries of Egypt," ongoing. Experience the magic and majesty of Egypt as never before. Soar over the great pyramids of Giza, cross the Valley of the Kings, and descend into the shadowy chambers of the sacred tomb of King Tutankhamen. Suitable for families.
Center Admission: $14.95; $10.95 children 3-12; free children under 3; $3 discount for seniors and students. Telescope viewing only: free. Wednesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Also open on Tuesdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m. after June 29. 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland. (510) 336-7300, www.chabotspace.org.<
CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND A fairy tale theme park featuring more than 30 colorful fantasy sets. Designed especially for children ages 10 and under, there are gentle rides, a train, the "Peter Rabbit Village,'' puppet shows, story-telling and lots of slides and animals. Admission price includes unlimited rides, special shows, guest entertainers and puppet shows.
OLD WEST JUNCTION -- Children's Fairyland's newest attraction is a Wild West-themed town sized just for children, with a livery stable, bank, jail and a water tower slide.
PUPPET SHOWS -- Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. All shows are at the Open Storybook Theatre. Free with regular Fairyland admission.
ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER -- Activities on Saturday and Sunday, noon to 3 p.m.
ANIMAL OF THE DAY -- Saturday and Sunday, 1-1:20 p.m. at the Humpty Dumpty Wall. Learn about one of Fairyland's animal friends."Animal of the Day!" ongoing. Saturdays and Sundays, 1-1:20 p.m. Come up close and learn about Fairyland's creatures.
"Arts and Crafts," ongoing. Noon-3 p.m. Event features arts and crafts projects for children and their families. $6.
$6; free for children under age 1; $2 for a Magic Key. No adult admitted without a child and no child admitted without an adult. Summer (June through Labor Day): Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fall and Spring: Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Winter: Friday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CLOSED DEC. 25-JAN. 4. 699 Bellevue Ave., Oakland. (510) 452-2259, www.fairyland.org.<
CRAB COVE VISITOR CENTER At Crab Cove, you can see live underwater creatures and go into the San Francisco Bay from land. You can also travel back in time to Alameda's part. The goal is to increase understanding of the environmental importance of San Francisco Bay and the ocean ecosystem. Crab Cove's Indoor Aquarium and Exhibit Lab is one of the largest indoor aquariums in the East Bay."Sea Siblings," ongoing. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Explore the natural world and take part in a theme related craft. Designed for the 3-5 year old learner. Registration is required.
$4. (888) 327-2757.
"Catch of the Day," ongoing. Sundays, 2-3 p.m. Drop by to find out more about the Bay and its wildlife through guided exploration and hands-on fun.
"Sea Squirts," ongoing. 10-11:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Discover the wonders of nature with your little one. Registration is required. $6-$8.
Free unless otherwise noted; parking fee may be charged. 1252 McKay Ave., Alameda. (510) 521-6887, www.ebparks.org.<
DUNSMUIR HOUSE AND GARDENS HISTORIC ESTATE ongoing. Nestled in the Oakland hills, the 50-acre Dunsmuir House and Gardens estate includes the 37-room Neoclassical Revival Dunsmuir Mansion, built by coal and lumber baron Alexander Dunsmuir for his bride. Restored outbuildings set amid landscaped gardens surround the mansion.
ESTATE GROUNDS -- Ongoing. Self-Guided Grounds Tours are available yearround. The 50 acres of gardens and grounds at the mansion are open to the public for walking Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Booklets and maps of the grounds are available at the Dinkelspiel House. Free.
GUIDED TOURS -- Docent-led tours are available on the first Sunday of each month at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. (except for July) and Wednesdays at 11 a.m. $5 adults, $4 seniors and juniors (11-16), children 11 and under free.
Dunsmuir House and Gardens, 2960 Peralta Oaks Court, Oakland. (510) 615-5555, www.dunsmuir.org.<
FOREST HOME FARMS ongoing. The 16-acre former farm of the Boone family is now a municipal historic park in San Ramon. It is located at the base of the East Bay Hills and is divided into two parts by Oak Creek. The Boone House is a 22-room Dutch colonial that has been remodeled several times since it was built in 1900. Also on the property are a barn built in the period from 1850 to 1860; the Victorian-style David Glass House, dating from the late 1860s to early 1870s; a storage structure for farm equipment and automobiles; and a walnut processing plant.
Free unless otherwise noted. Public tours available by appointment. 19953 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon. (925) 973-3281, www.ci.sanramon. ca.us/parks/boone.htm.<
HABITOT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM A museum especially for children ages 7 and under. Highlights include "WaterWorks,'' an area with some unusual water toys, an Infant Tree for babies, a garden especially for toddlers, a child-scale grocery store and cafe, and a costume shop and stage for junior thespians. The museum also features a toy lending library. "Waterworks." A water play gallery with rivers, a pumping station and a water table, designed to teach about water.
"Little Town Grocery and Cafe." Designed to create the ambience of shopping in a grocery store and eating in a restaurant.
"Infant-Toddler Garden." A picket fence gated indoor area, which includes a carrot patch with wooden carrots to be harvested, a pretend pond and a butterfly mobile to introduce youngsters to the concept of food, gardening and agriculture.
"Dramatic Arts Stage." Settings, backdrops and costumes coincide with seasonal events and holidays. Children can exercise their dramatic flair here.
"Wiggle Wall." The floor-to-ceiling "underground'' tunnels give children a worm's eye view of the world. The tunnels are laced with net covered openings and giant optic lenses.Ongoing.
$6-$7. Wednesday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Closed Sunday-Tuesday. 2065 Kittredge St., Berkeley. (510) 647-1111, www.habitot.org.<
HALL OF HEALTH ongoing. A community health-education museum and science center promoting wellness and individual responsibility for health. There are hands-on exhibits that teach about the workings of the human body, the value of a healthy diet and exercise, and the destructive effects of smoking and drug abuse. "Kids on the Block'' puppet shows, which use puppets from diverse cultures to teach about and promote acceptance of conditions such as cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, leukemia, blindness, arthritis and spina bifida, are available by request for community events and groups visiting the Hall on Saturdays. "This Is Your Heart!" ongoing. An interactive exhibit on heart health.
"Good Nutrition," ongoing. This exhibit includes models for making balanced meals and an Exercycle for calculating how calories are burned.
"Draw Your Own Insides," ongoing. Human-shaped chalkboards and models with removable organs allow visitors to explore the inside of their bodies.
"Your Cellular Self and Cancer Prevention," ongoing. An exhibit on understanding how cells become cancerous and how to detect and prevent cancer.
Suggested $3 donation; free for children under age 3. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 2230 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 549-1564, www.hallofhealth.org.<
HAYWARD SHORELINE INTERPRETIVE CENTER Perched on stilts above a salt marsh, the Center offers an introduction to the San Francisco Bay-Estuary. It features exhibits, programs and activities designed to inspire a sense of appreciation, respect and stewardship for the Bay, its inhabitants and the services they provide. The Habitat Room offers a preview of what may be seen outside. The 80-gallon Bay Tank contains some of the fish that live in the Bay's open waters, and the Channel Tank represents habitats formed by the maze of sloughs and creeks that snake through the marsh. The main room of the Center features rotating exhibits about area history, plants and wildlife. Part of the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District. "Exploring Nature," ongoing. An exhibit of Shawn Gould's illustrations featuring images of the natural world.Ongoing.
"Waterfowl of the Freshwater Marsh," ongoing. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Join an expert birder to go "behind the gates'' to areas of the marsh that are not open to the public.
"Weekend Weed Warriors," ongoing. 1-4 p.m. Help the shoreline to eliminate the non-native plants that threaten its diversity. Ages 12 and older. Registration required.
"Nature Detectives," ongoing. 11 a.m.-noon. An introduction and exploration of the world of Black-Crowned Night-Herons. Ages 3-5 and their caregivers. Registration required.
Free. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 4901 Breakwater Ave., Hayward. (510) 670-7270, www.hard.dst.ca.us/hayshore.html.<
"Shabbat Celebration for Young Children," ongoing. Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Join other families with young children to sharethis weekly Jewish holiday of joy and renewal.
1414 Walnut St., Berkeley. (510) 848-0237, www.jcceastbay.org/.<
JUNIOR CENTER OF ART AND SCIENCE ongoing. A center dedicated to encouraging children's active wonder and creative response through artistic and scientific exploration of their natural urban environment. The center's classes, workshops, exhibits and events integrate art and science. Three educational exhibits are mounted in the "Children's Gallery'' each year. A docent-led tour, demonstrations, hands-on activities and art projects are available to school groups throughout the year.
"Jake's Discovery Garden," ongoing. Jake's Discovery Garden is a new interactive studio exhibit designed for preschool-aged children and their adult caregivers that teaches young visitors about the natural environments found in their backyards, playgrounds and neighborhoods.Ongoing.
Free; programs and special exhibits have a fee. September through May: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June through August: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 558 Bellevue Ave., Oakland. (510) 839-5777, www.juniorcenter.org.<
LA PENA CULTURAL CENTER
"Los Amiguitos Saturday Morning Children's Show," Feb. 5, 10:30 a.m. Featuring Ira Levin. $4-$5.
"Los Amiguitos Saturday Morning Children's Show," Feb. 12, 10:30 a.m. Featuring Alphabet Rockers. $4-$5.
Free unless otherwise noted. 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 849-2568, www.lapena.org.<
LAKE CHABOT REGIONAL PARK ongoing. The 315-acre lake offers year-round recreation. Services include canoe and boat rental, horseshoe pits, hiking, bicycling, picnicking and seasonal tours aboard the Chabot Queen. For boat rentals, call (510) 247-2526.
Free unless noted otherwise; $5 parking; $2 per dog except guide/service dogs. Daily, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. 17930 Lake Chabot Road, Castro Valley. (510) 562-PARK, www.ebparks.org.<
LAWRENCE HALL OF SCIENCE "NanoZone," ongoing. Discover the science of the super-small: nanotechnology. Through hands-on activities and games, explore this microworld and the scientific discoveries made in this area.
"Forces That Shape the Bay," ongoing. A science park that shows and explains why the San Francisco Bay is the way it is, with information on water, erosion, plate tectonics and mountain building. You can ride earthquake simulators, set erosion in motion and look far out into the bay with a powerful telescope from 1,100 feet above sea level. The center of the exhibit is a waterfall that demonstrates how water flows from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Bay. Visitors can control where the water goes. There are also hands-on erosion tables, and a 40-foot-long, 6-foothigh, rock compression wall.
"Real Astronomy Experience," ongoing. A new exhibit-in-development allowing visitors to use the tools that real astronomers use. Aim a telescope at a virtual sky and operate a remote-controlled telescope to measure a planet.
"Biology Lab," ongoing. In the renovated Biology Lab visitors may hold and observe gentle animals. Saturday, Sunday and holidays, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
"The Idea Lab," ongoing. Experiment with some of the basics of math, science and technology through hands-on activities and demonstrations of magnets, spinning and flying, puzzles and nanotechnology.
"Math Around the World," ongoing. Play some of the world's most popular math games, such as Hex, Kalah, Game Sticks and Shongo Networks.
"Math Rules," ongoing. Use simple and colorful objects to complete interesting challenges in math through predicting, sorting, comparing, weighing and counting.
HOLT PLANETARIUM Ongoing. Shows on Saturdays and Sundays. Programs recommended for ages 6 and up unless otherwise noted. $2.50-$3 in addition to general admission.
$6-$12; free children ages 2 and under. Daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. University of California, Centennial Drive, Berkeley. (510) 642-5132, www.lawrencehallofscience.org.<
LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM This is the oldest and largest wildlife rehabilitation center in America, taking in 6,000 injured and orphaned animals yearly and returning 40 percent of them to the wild. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs using non-releasable wild animals to teach children and adults respect for the balance of nature. The museum includes a state-of-the art wildlife hospital which features a permanent exhibit, titled "Living with Nature,'' which houses 75 non-releasable wild animals in learning environments; a 5,000-square-foot Wildlife Hospital complete with treatment rooms, intensive care, quarantine and laboratory facilities; a 1-acre Nature Garden featuring the region's native landscaping and wildlife; and an "Especially For Children'' exhibit.
WILDLIFE HOSPITAL -- September-March: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The hospital is open daily including holidays to receive injured and orphaned animals. There is no charge for treatment of native wild animals and there are no public viewing areas in the hospital.Ongoing.
$5-$7; free children under age 2. June 16-Sept. 15: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun.; Sept. 16-June 15: noon.-5 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. 1931 First Ave., Walnut Creek. (925) 935-1978, www.wildlife-museum.org.<
MUSEUM OF CHILDREN'S ART A museum of art for and by children, with activities for children to participate in making their own art.
ART CAMPS -- Hands-on activities and engaging curriculum for children of different ages, led by professional artists and staff. $60 per day.
CLASSES -- A Sunday series of classes for children ages 8 to 12, led by Mocha artists. Sundays, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
OPEN STUDIOS -- Drop-in art play activities with new themes each week.
"Big Studio." Guided art projects for children age 6 and older with a Mocha artist. Tuesday through Friday, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. $5.
"Little Studio." A hands-on experience that lets young artists age 18 months to 5 years see, touch and manipulate a variety of media. Children can get messy. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $5.
"Family Weekend Studios." Drop-in art activities for the whole family. All ages welcome. Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. $5 per child.
FAMILY EXTRAVAGANZAS -- Special weekend workshops for the entire family.
"Sunday Workshops with Illustrators," Sundays, 1 p.m. See the artwork and meet the artists who create children's book illustrations. Free.Ongoing.
"Saturday Stories," ongoing. 1 p.m. For children ages 2-5. Free."Saturday Stories," ongoing. 1 p.m. For ages 2-5. Free.
Free gallery admission. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. 538 Ninth St., Oakland. (510) 465-8770, www.mocha.org.<
PIXIELAND AMUSEMENT PARK ongoing. This amusement park for children features pixie-sized rides such as a dragon roller coaster, swirling tea cups, a carousel, red baron airplanes, an antique car ride and a miniature train among other attractions sure to please the little ones. Classic carnival-style food and souvenirs round out the experience. Admission to the park is free; ride tickets are $1.25 each or 10 tickets for $10; Day wrist band for unlimited rides, $25. Specials and season passes are also available.
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POINT PINOLE REGIONAL SHORELINE ongoing. The 2,315-acre parkland bordering Pinole, Richmond and San Pablo offers views of Mount Tamalpais, the Marin shoreline and San Pablo Bay. There are trails through meadows and woods, and along the bluffs and beaches of San Pablo Bay. Visitors can hike, ride bikes or take the park's shuttle bus to reach the 1,250-foot fishing pier at Point Pinole.
$5 per vehicle; $4 per trailered vehicle; $2 per dog (guide/service dogs free). Daily, 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., unless otherwise posted. Giant Highway, Richmond. (510) 562-PARK, www.ebparks.org.<
PREWETT FAMILY WATERPARK ongoing. There are pools and water slides for all ages, from the Tad Pool for toddlers to Boulder cove for older swimmers. In addition to fun pools and slides there are fitness pools for lessons and exercise, lawns for relaxing, locker rooms, community room and kitchen. Lap lanes are open year round. Food and beverages are not permitted in the park. Picnic tables are available outside the park.
$4-$11. Sunday through Friday: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; closed Aug.23-27, 30-31. 4701 Lone Tree Way, Antioch. (925) 776-3070, www.ci.antioch.ca.us/CitySvcs/Prewett.<
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SHADOW CLIFFS REGIONAL RECREATION AREA ongoing. The 296-acre park includes an 80-acre lake and a four-flume waterslide, with picnic grounds and a swimming beach. Water slide fees and hours: (925) 829-6230.
$6 per vehicle; $2 per dog except guide and service dogs. May 1 through Labor Day: daily, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.; shortened hours for fall and winter. Stanley Boulevard, one mile from downtown, Pleasanton. (510) 562-PARK, www.ebparks.org.<
SULPHUR CREEK NATURE CENTER A wildlife rehabilitation and education facility where injured and orphaned local wild creatures are rehabilitated and released when possible. There is also a lending library of animals such as guinea pigs, rats, mice and more. The lending fee is $8 per week. "Toddler Time," ongoing. Learn about animals by listening to stories and exploring. Themes vary by month. Call for schedule. $7 per family.
"Day on the Green Animal Presentations," ongoing. Meet an assortment of wild and domestic animals. Wildlife volunteers will present a different animal each day from possums to snakes, tortoises to hawks. Saturday and Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
CHILDREN'S EVENTS -- Ongoing.
Free. Park: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Discovery Center: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Animal Lending Library: Saturday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: daily, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 1801 D St., Hayward. (510) 881-6747, www.haywardrec.org/sulphur_creek.html.<
USS HORNET MUSEUM Come aboard this World War II aircraft carrier that has been converted into a floating museum. The Hornet, launched in 1943, is 899 feet long and 27 stories high. During World War II she was never hit by an enemy strike or plane and holds the Navy record for number of enemy planes shot down in a week. In 1969 the Hornet recovered the Apollo 11 space capsule containing the first men to walk on the moon, and later recovered Apollo 12. In 1991 the Hornet was designated a National Historic Landmark and is now docked at the same pier she sailed from in 1944. Today, visitors can tour the massive ship, view World War II-era warplanes and experience a simulated aircraft launch from the carrier's deck. Exhibits are being added on an ongoing basis. Allow two to three hours for a visit. Wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to climb steep stairs or ladders. Dress in layers as the ship can be cold. Arrive no later than 2 p.m. to sign up for the engine room and other docent-led tours. Children under age 12 are not allowed in the Engine Room or the Combat Information Center. "Limited Access Day," ongoing. Due to ship maintenance, tours of the navigation bridge and the engine room are not available. Tuesdays.
"Flight Deck Fun," ongoing. A former Landing Signal Officer will show children how to bring in a fighter plane for a landing on the deck then let them try the signals themselves. Times vary. Free with regular Museum admission.
"Protestant Divine Services," ongoing. Hornet chaplain John Berger conducts church services aboard The Hornet in the Wardroom Lounge. Everyone is welcome and refreshments are served immediately following the service. Sundays, 11 a.m.Ongoing. Closed on New Year's Day.
"Family Day," ongoing. Discounted admission for families of four with a further discount for additional family members. Access to some of the areas may be limited due to ship maintenance. Every Tuesday. $20 for family of four; $5 for each additional family member.
"History Mystery After Hours Tour," ongoing. 7 p.m.-10 p.m. Explore the USS Hornet after hours and learn the history of this ship while it is illuminated in red lights used for "night ops." Also, hear stories about the ships' legendary haunts. Reservations required. (510) 521-8448 X282.
"Flashlight Tour," ongoing. 8:30 a.m. Receive a special tour of areas aboard the ship that have not yet been opened to the public or that have limited access during the day. $30-$35 per person.
$6-$14; free children age 4 and under with a paying adult. Daily, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Pier 3 (enter on Atlantic Avenue), Alameda Point, Alameda. (510) 521-8448, www.uss-hornet.org.<
WATERWORLD CALIFORNA ongoing. `
$19.95-$31.95 General Admission; Season pass: $39.99-$59.99. Park closes in October and reopens in May. 1950 Waterworld Parkway,, Concord. (925) 609-1364, www.waterworldcalifornia.com.<
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Composed: 1964 / 1965
Length: c. 10 minutes
Orchestration: alto flute, English horn, trumpet, trombone, timpani, tubular bells, vibraphone, xylophone, piano, harp, cymbalom, guitar, mandolin, viola, and cello
World premiere: March 26, 1965 at the University of California, Los Angeles, with musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the composer
Pierre Boulez composed Éclat for 15 instruments with different reverberation times: from the longest sounding, the piano, to intermediates such as vibraphone, harp, cimbalom, etc., up to the mandolin. The listener can hear the fading of a chord, as one tone after another fades. Structurally these resonances are comprised of a harmonic framework – for example, if at the beginning, a piano chord is silently depressed and held by the third pedal, the chord is heard when you play one of the sounds of which it is composed; to its immediate "revival" when the staccato passage here reverberates the chord tones. As the other hand remains in a "hold pedal" legato line, once the pedal is lifted, the echoing overall sound is the chord in the background. The harmony is therefore never revealed directly, but results from complex interactions, by means of which it is revealed only subliminally.
Éclat, said Boulez, means first of all "splinter" or "fragment". However, it can also mean "explosion" and "reflections of light." These different meanings can be applied just as well to the form of the music as to its substance and poetic expression, and that is precisely what held such a great fascination for him; Éclat as the epitome of an experiment in listening, a positive aesthetic appeal. A bold spirit once compared the piece to the first stage of a rocket firing or to the beginning of a work that is still almost unwritten. The musical reality combines both approaches, the materialistic as well as the philosophical.
There is in fact an "explosion" in Éclat. For the most part, it is the piano that provides the impulse here; the other instruments work with the "material" it introduces, always with a resolute, "flashing," fragmentary gesture that gradually diffuses in dialogue. The instrumentation is mainly responsible for this tempering of the overall sound. Boulez divided the ensemble into two parts; first, there is the group of "soloists," whose instruments need a resonator to sound: piano, celesta, cimbalom, glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, harp, mandolin, and guitar.
Juxtaposed is the group of instruments which can easily sustain a note: alto flute, English horn, trumpet, trombone, viola, and cello. The result of this ingenious combination is a crystalline sound that rejects the extremes of high and low register. Éclat is also an attempt to focus on the essence of the sound itself, on its variety and ability to modulate, thus reflecting the "controlled freedom" also advocated by Boulez in other works of this period, which allows the conductor of this music considerable latitude. In several passages he alone determines the order, which means that the interpreters must react quickly in order to be able to contribute to the éclat of the performance. Boulez countered any accusations that this meant the abdication of the composer with a dialectical distinction: the free dimension assumes "a super-competence on the part of the composer."
The structure of Éclat seems clear: a glittering piano cadenza opens the sequence of sound events as the instruments play freely; this leads to a longer section in which excitement is generated by dynamically varied instrumental interactions and ends with a passage made up of a "wave" of trills. The fourth section consists of an exchange of ideas between the background instruments and the "soloists" initiated by a motif in the cello, which the other voices gradually take up and develop further. The piano again bursts into the midst of this stream of sound, thus causing another éclat, a discourse that ends happily, if you will: sparkling tutti at the close. The magic of harmony.
Featured performers in the Berliner Philharmoniker concert on November, 19, 2016:
Majella Stockhausen (as guest), Piano
Holger Groschopp (as guest), Timpani
Marie-Pierre Langlamet , Harp
Franz Schindlbeck , Xylophone
Simon Rössler , Vibraphone
Detlef Tewes (as guest) , Mandolin
Matthew Hunter, Guitar
Luigi Gaggero (as guest) , Cymbalom
Jan Schlichte , Tubular Bells
Emmanuel Pahud, Alto Flute
Dominik Wollenweber, English Horn
Gabor Tarkövi, Trumpet
Olaf Ott, Trombone
Bruno Delepelaire , Cello
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Explosion with Éclat
Éclat, said the composer Pierre Boulez, means first of all "splinter" or "fragment". However, it can also mean "explosion" and "reflections of light." These different meanings can be applied just as well to the form of the music as to its substance and poetic expression, and that is precisely what held such a great fascination for him. Éclat as the epitome of an experiment in listening, a positive aesthetic appeal. A bold spirit once compared the piece to the first stage of a rocket firing or to the beginning of a work that is still almost unwritten. The musical reality combines both approaches, the materialistic as well as the philosophical.
There is in fact an "explosion" in Éclat. For the most part, it is the piano that provides the impulse here; the other instruments work with the "material" it introduces, always with a resolute, "flashing", fragmentary gesture that gradually diffuses in dialogue. The instrumentation is mainly responsible for this tempering of the overall sound. Boulez divided the ensemble into two parts; first, there is the group of "soloists", whose instruments need a resonator to sound: piano, celesta, cimbalom, glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, harp, mandolin and guitar.
Juxtaposed is the group of instruments which can easily sustain a note: alto flute, English horn, trumpet, trombone, viola and cello. The result of this ingenious combination is a crystalline sound that rejects the extremes of high and low register. Éclat is also an attempt to focus on the essence of the sound itself, on its variety and ability to modulate, thus reflecting the "controlled freedom" also advocated by Boulez in other works of this period, which allows the conductor of this music considerable latitude. In several passages he alone determines the order, which means that the interpreters must react quickly in order to be able to contribute to the éclat of the performance. Boulez countered any accusations that this meant the abdication of the composer with a dialectical distinction: the free dimension quasi assumes "a super-competence on the part of the composer".
More About Éclat
It was in Los Angeles, in March 1965, that Éclat had its world premiere. Boulez wrote this piece to jointly mark his 40th birthday and the inauguration of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (later expanding the work into the still-incomplete Éclat/Multiples). Éclat also references Boulez's dual identities as composer and conductor, since the score incorporates aleatoric elements and gives the conductor control – equivalent to that of the composer at times – over when and how to cue certain events within the overall framework. This dichotomy between the serialist discipline of Boulez's ultra-precise, predetermined composition and the in-the-moment freedom of the "prepared accident" is characteristic of the dialectical tug-of-war in his musical thinking.
Another crucial dichotomy occurs regarding the issue of resonance, of the birth and death of each sound against a background of static, omnipresent silence. The disposition of Éclat's 15 instrumentalists separates into two overall groups according to the nature of their sound production: those Boulez conceives as, on the one hand, "resonating instruments" (defined by Jonathan Goldman as instruments "for which the musician relinquishes control over the sound once the note is attacked") and, on the other, as non-resonating instruments that can sustain and control pitches. The former comprise a nonet of piano, harp, celesta, (the "antique"-sounding) cimbalom, mandolin, guitar, and tuned percussion (glockenspiel, vibraphone, and tubular bells) and the latter a sextet of pairs of winds, brass, and strings (alto flute, English horn, trumpet, trombone, viola, and cello). On one level Boulez appropriates the old Baroque dualism of the soloist group versus the ripieno ensemble in concertante writing.
Boulez sketched out the following five-part general outline of events: after the opening cadenza for the piano, which plays a dominant role in Éclat, there is a first "development," a "static cycle" at the center of the work, a second development, and a final tutti section, which is an "instrumental cadence reprise." In his recent book Boulez, Music and Philosophy, Edward Campbell parses Éclat's dichotomies in terms of a "sensible opposition" between "striated or pulsed time" (the sextet) and "non-pulsed time," described as "occupying time without counting" (i.e., in the central static section, where there are "no conventional indications of duration, just pitch"). The work's title is deliberately multivalent: Boulez writes that he chose éclat on account of its rich connotations. It can signify not only "burst," but "fragment, explosion, reflections of light, transient reflections – all of these words have different meanings which pertain equally well to the musical form and to its poetic expression."
- Thomas May


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