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Dr Daniel Cook is Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of The Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee. Daniel has published widely on eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature and biography, including his first monograph, Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760–1830 (Palgrave, 2013). The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is out now.
Christopher Stampone »
Christopher Stampone is a postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University, where he is completing a book on the Bildungsroman in America and Britain during the Romantic period. He also serves as a Communications Fellow for the Keats–Shelley Association of America. His work has recently been published in Keats–Shelley Review, African American Review, Early American Literature and The Explicator.
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Teaching Romanticism XXII: Transatlantic Romanticism, part 3
Daniel Cook | Christopher Stampone
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As part of this ongoing series on Teaching Romanticism we will consider the ways in which we lecture on and discuss individual authors, whether during author-specific modules or broader period surveys. I thought it would be particularly useful to hear about which texts educators use and in what context, whether they place certain poems or prose works against those of other writers, or use contemporary or modern theoretical texts, or something else entirely. For this strand of blog posts I invite academics across the world to share their advice and tips on any aspect that interests them about teaching Romanticism. Many thanks to all of those who answered my call through NASSR-L, The BARS Review, and elsewhere (lightly edited samples are reproduced below with permission of the authors). Please do feel free to contact me with proposals for future subjects. We will be considering a range of writers, canonical and non-canonical alike, in the coming months. This issue was edited by Christopher Stampone.
Joel Pace (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire): Infinite Progression—Mirroring and Self Reflexivity in Black Atlantic Romanticism
Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out is the story of an African-American man who accompanies his European-American girlfriend on a trip to visit her family. Chris, an acclaimed photographer, brings his camera to her family home and photographs the family, their estate, servants, and fellow guests at a party. The moment he looks through the camera, he becomes an avatar for the film's audience. He views the party through the lens, just as we are viewing him through the interpretive lens of Peele's cinematography. Unlike the tradition of filming from the straight white male gaze, however, Peele subverts this convention by putting the audience in the place of a black man at a social gathering of East Coast bluebloods. "The camera simultaneously creates distance and closeness between Chris and his subjects," notes Lenika Cruz, "it's a way to both observe and to escape" ("In Get Out, the Eyes Have It"). Here, Peele switches the eyes by which audiences view social situations, drawing attention to the fact that Chris is less like a guest of the party and more like an event photographer. Like someone shooting a wedding, he has access to the most intimate moments among family, yet he's always kept at a distance; it's as if he's working for the family. This aspect and the family's black servants unmistakably introduce meta-textual conversations about both slavery and visual rhetoric.
The rhetoric of photography is rife with words and metaphors that are not without resonance in discussions of race in America: a photographer shoots people and – through a process of light striking the film that then must be kept in a dark room, submerged in water (simultaneously connoting the opposites of baptism and the "sunken place"), and hung – captures them in a picture. Peele, like Lauryn Hill in her hit song "Everything is Everything," seeks to "[d]evelop a negative into a positive picture" (Verse 2, Line 18), moving from black and white negative stereotypes into a commentary on race that brings the need for radical change into focus. I agree with Cruz's likening of Chris's use of his cell phone to disrupt the hypnotism of the other black characters to the way cell phone cameras have been used to raise awareness of police brutality by capturing instances through video footage shared and streamed across social media platforms. David Shih argues that the film shows the power of visual rhetoric to critique race beyond the limitations of a language already imbricated with white supremacy. This mode of discourse as form of resistance goes back to the earliest roots and routes of the Black Atlantic. Viewing clips from Get Out as a class as a way of introducing the topic of race in relation to (moving-) image culture can help draw more powerful parallels not only between Peele's techniques and those used by early abolitionists, such as Olaudah Equiano, but also between reader and author, viewer, and (moving) image.
Equiano's Interesting Narrative begins with acts of defiance. Upon opening the book, readers on the subscription list were greeted by a frontispiece of the
Frontispiece of the first edition, British Library Copy
author who—against the racist laws and codes that forbade a black person to look a white person in the eye—meets their gaze. Moreover, he is holding a book in his hand that is open to "Acts Chap. IV. V. 12." Readers of Equiano's book found themselves looking into a mirror of sorts: upon first opening the book, they encountered a picture of another person holding a book who is looking right back at them. By mirroring the reader, Equiano becomes an avatar for them, drawing attention simultaneously to the differences and similarities between the positions of reader and author. The text depicted in the engraving sends the reader to another book within a book—the Book of Acts in the New Testament, specifically the twelfth verse of the fourth chapter: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (KJV). The use of "we" brings Equiano and the reader together as equals. These moments when the book speaks to its readers, when the text mirrors our act of reading, are important for pedagogy. They are "teachable moments" that connect the Black Atlantic to Romanticism and directly connect us to each other and to these authors across oceans space and time as well as race, class, and gender.
Against laws that forbade slaves to learn to read and write stands Equiano's literacy, underscored not only by his holding open a bible, but also by his African name written in cursive below as well as the title-page's declaration of independence: "WRITTEN BY HIMSELF." Over half a century later, Whitman would publish an autobiography with a frontispiece that also challenged the reader. Just as Equiano's clothes mark him as a gentleman and force the reader to reconcile his status and "cultural hybridity" with any stereotypes of how an African would be dressed, the tilt of Whitman's hat, aperture of his shirt collar, sway of his contrapposto pose, and direct stare address the audience directly:
Whoever you are holding me now in hand,
Without one thing all will be useless,
I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
I am not what you supposed, but far different. (ll. 1-4)
These moments of direct address to the reader simultaneously call into relief the difference between reader's self and author's self as well as the reader's assumptions about both, thereby momentarily removing the alterity of otherness. A similar but much more subtle admonition is given to us by Wheatley when she makes the reader the understood subject of her decree: "Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, / May be refin'd, and join the'ngelic train" (ll. 8-9). This line reverses the power differential between an enslaved black woman and her audience of white readers by making them the loyal subjects of her imperative sentence. Here, Wheatley has knowledge of her readers' knowledge, for she bids them "remember" something they once knew and have apparently forgotten: "in every human breast God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom" ("Letter to Rev. Samson Occom" 226). Like Equiano, she reverses roles by not speaking to them as a slave who (according to the "Some" who believe "Their colour is a diabolic die" ["On Being Brought from Africa to America" l. 6]) has no soul, but rather an evangelist whose soul has been freed and saved and is proselytizing to do the same for the reader's. So, too, does Whitman "designedly drop" "the handkerchief of the Lord" "[b]earing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, / and say Whose?" (ll. 92-95). In these acts of mirroring, to see the divine in others requires readers to see it in themselves.
These teachable moments create wormholes across oceans of space and time in which we are brought face-to-face with the authors, authorial personas, and ourselves. Upon being opened, the formerly mute leaves of these books begin to speak to us in engravings, frontispieces, narratives, novels, and poetry, generating questions for class discussion: What message does the book convey to you and what's your response? How do we imagine these texts from separate traditions, nations, and times spoke to their audiences, and how do they speak to each other and to us? Our imaginative interpretations become, for instance, the west wind moving through Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem bringing his words to life: "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" (l. 70). Lauryn Hill answers with a video that features Manhattan rotating on a turntable with the Empire State Building as the spindle. The divine black DJ's hand is spinning records, lyrics, poetics, politricks, and seasons round and round in revolutions, while L-Boogie directly addresses us:
Let me tell ya that
What will be will be
After winter must come spring.
Change it comes eventually. (Verse 3, l. 11, and Hook)
Cruz, Lenika. "In Get Out, the Eyes Have It." The Atlantic. 3 March 2017 <theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/03/in-get-out-the-eyes-have-it/518370/>.
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself, ed. and introd. Robert J. Allison. 3rd edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016. Print.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard UP, 1993. Print.
Hill, Lauryn. "Everything is Everything" By Johari Newton and Lauryn Hill. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Ruffhouse, 1998. CD.
Peele, Jordan. Get Out. Blumhouse Productions and QC Entertainment, 2017. Film.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ode to the West Wind," in Transatlantic Romanticism, ed. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig Woodyard. Boston: Pearson/Longman, 2006.
Shih, David. Personal Conversation. 14 April 2017.
The Holy Bible, King James Version. Cambridge Edition: 1769. Print.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, in Transatlantic Romanticism, ed. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig Woodyard. Boston: Pearson/Longman, 2006.
Wheatley, Phillis. "On Being Brought From Africa to America" and "Letter to Rev. Samson Occom" in Transatlantic Romanticism, ed. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig Woodyard. Boston: Pearson/Longman, 2006. Print.
Folsom, Ed. "Appearing in Print: Illustrations of the Self in Leaves of Grass. In The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, ed. Ezra Greenspan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995: 135-165. Print.
Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. Print.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, in Transatlantic Romanticism, ed. Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig Woodyard. Boston: Pearson/Longman, 2006. Print.
McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. Print.
Murphy, Mekado. "Jordan Peele Narrates a Scene from Get Out." The New York Times. 23 February 2017. <nytimes.com/2017/02/23/movies/jordan-peele-narrates-a-scene-from-get-out.html?_r=1> Online.
Pace, Joel. "Towards a Taxonomy of Transatlantic Romanticism(s)." Literature Compass 5.2 (2008): 228-91. Web.
Wood, Marcus. Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America: 1780-1865. London: Routledge, 2000. Print.
Christopher Stampone (Southern Methodist University): Crossing Oceans, Traversing Media: Transatlantic Romanticism and Digital Humanities
The penultimate chapter of William Wells Brown's Miralda (1860-61) depicts a fraught exchange between the bi-racial eponymous heroine and her white father, Henry Linwood, about his "belief of the inferiority of the negro race" (232). After Jerome, Miralda's black husband, exposes Henry's "false position" on slavery and racial inferiority, Miralda turns to her father and declares:
The breast that glows with indignation at the unmerited oppression of the forlorn, and helpless fellow-creature, that melts with sorrow at the hapless tale of woe, that spontaneously prompts the vindication of the violated rights of humanity, in whatever form or comparison, on under whatever plea or pretext they may have been invaded—that breast is the hallowed abode of all the best affections of our fallen nature, and requires no argument to show that feelings thus radiated and diffused, like the genial rays of the sun, when once conveyed or concentrated, become if possible, infinitely more fervent and powerful in their influence. (233)
Exuding a sentimentalism that justifies the novel's subtitle as a Romance of American Slavery, Miralda's statement aligns abolitionists of all races with the highest forms of (human) nature—"the genial rays of the sun"—while also implying through such imagery that abolitionists are representations of Christ, like genial rays of the Son. Yet as many students—and scholars—reading the novel for the first time note, Miralda's speech seems quite odd: the tone and content do not seem to match Miralda's situation. Why would Miralda, who escapes slavery by fleeing to Europe, speak to her father, a slave holder, in such a rarefied way? The answer is that Brown did not write the speech; David Paul Brown did for his eulogy of William Wilberforce, an English politician and a leader of the abolitionist movement in Great Britain (5). William Wells Brown's maneuver aligns Miralda with the British statesmen, and suggests African Americans become the primary champions of the abolitionist cause in America—a notion that makes sense given the novel's serialized publication on the eve of the Civil War. Miralda's speech offers one of many instances in which the African-American novelist repurposed material from other authors to write his novel, and I have found digital humanities programs—especially a program called Visualeyes5—helpful when teaching students the complexities of Brown's transatlantic work.
Visualeyes5 is an interactive map that allows users to track an individual's life and works. In the case of William Wells Brown, the program also enables students to review from whom—and how—Brown repurposed material. The map I am currently using to teach Brown's works looks like this:
I intentionally structured the map so that, at first glance, it overwhelms the eye; students have the opportunity to see how vast Brown's borrowings are. After overcoming their initial shock, students approach the map either as a timeline of Brown's life, in orange on the map, or some of his borrowings, in blue. Clicking on a name—Thaddeus Stevens, for instance—brings the student to the congressman's birthplace and supplies pertinent information about both his life and how his text appears in Brown's work:
The program even allows creators to embed links to original documents, so students can read Stevens's remarks in their original context. Visualeyes5's digital ecosystem helps reveal the complex network of cacophonous voices that Brown united when writing Miralda and his many other works.
In addition to asking students to explore Brown's borrowings using Visualeyes5, I grant them a stake in the learning process by requesting they locate and add information not found on my map. This approach invites students to become experts of Brown's work: they find material from which Brown borrowed, understand it in its original context, and then show and explain how Brown reconceived the material for his own work using the digital map. Updating the map to include new materials is as simple as updating the Microsoft Excel sheet from which the program populates its material. Geoffrey Sanborn has conceived of Brown's writing as a kind of funhouse in which the African-American author entertains readers by reworking others' materials in a kind of literary juggling act. Visualeyes5 allows students to see that juggling act, and to get a sense of what that juggling must have felt like. Visualeyes5 brings Brown—and teaching literature—into the twenty first century.
Brown, William Wells. Miralda; or, the Beautiful Quadroon. A Romance of American Slavery, Founded on Fact. Ed. Christopher Mulvey. University of Virginia. Rotunda. Marlborough Adam Mathew Publications, 2003. Web.
Brown, David Paul. Eulogium Upon Wilberforce; with a Brief Incidental Review of the Subject of Colonization. Philadelphia: T.K. Collins & Co., 1834. Print.
Sanborn, Geoffrey. Plagiarama! William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Print.
Coleman, Dawn. Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel. Columbus: U of Ohio State, 2013. Print.
duCille, Ann. "Where in the World is William Wells Brown? Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the DNA of African-American History." American Literary History 12.3 (2000): 443-62. Web. JStor. 13 Mar. 2013.
Greenspan, Ezra. William Wells Brown: An African-American Life. New York: Norton, 2014. Print.
Guldi, Jo, and David Armitage. The History Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Print.
Levine, Robert, ed. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. Print.
Stepo, Robert B. From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative. Urbana: U of Illinois, 1979. Print.
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Nagaland bow out of U-17 championship
GUWAHATI:
Nagaland U-17 girls only managed a 1-1 draw in the last league match against Punjab of the ongoing Hero Junior U-17 Women Football Championship 2022 to end their campaign in the tournament.
Nagaland team came from behind to snatch a draw against Punjab at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium Practice Ground, Guwahati on Sunday. In a must win match for both teams, Punjab broke the dead-lock through Palak, who scored in 39th minute. The second half saw Nagaland getting back in the match by scoring the equalizer in the 49th minute through Nirmala Rai. However, both teams failed to find the winning goal and the match ended in a draw and both teams collected a point each which was unfortunately not enough for either side to progress.
It was a remarkable journey for the young girls who played their first national tournament. Coach Ropfu Meyase talking about his experience as a coach for the tournament said it was a great exposure for the kids but emphasized on the need to encourage more girls to play more football in future so that better results can be expected.In the tournament, Nagaland won 2-1 against Ladakh, lost against 0-7 to Kerela and drew the last match.
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Mawlai go top after 2-0 win against Langsning


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Exclusive: Syrian Kurdish YPG expects negotiations with Damascus soon
By Rodi Said QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia believes talks with the government over the future of the northeast region will begin in days after a 'positive' reaction from Damascus.
By Rodi Said
QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia believes talks with the government over the future of the northeast region will begin in days after a "positive" reaction from Damascus.
Any deal between the YPG and President Bashar al-Assad's state could piece together the two biggest chunks of a nation splintered by eight years of conflict.
Dialogue attempts have revived in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from the Kurdish-led region.
"There are attempts to carry out negotiations ... the Syrian government stance was positive," the YPG commander Sipan Hemo told Reuters. "We believe they will start in the coming days."
In a voice recording sent from his representatives late on Wednesday, Hemo said U.S. moves to withdraw were over-hasty and could not happen while the battle against Islamic State militants still rages.
Syrian Kurdish leaders have sought Russian mediation for talks with Assad's state, hoping to safeguard their autonomous region when U.S. troops currently backing them pull out.
They fear an attack by neighbouring Turkey, which has threatened to crush the YPG.
On a recent visit, U.S. envoy James Jeffrey talked to him and other officials about both satisfying Turkey and protecting northern Syria, Hemo said.
U.S. arming of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which the YPG spearheads, has infuriated NATO ally Turkey. Ankara sees the Syrian Kurdish fighters as indistinguishable from the Kurdish PKK movement that has waged an insurgency inside Turkey.
The Kurdish-led authority that runs much of north and east Syria presented a road map for an agreement with Assad in recent meetings with his key ally Russia.
Hemo said there had been no direct talks with the state since, but Damascus had received the proposal, which focused on preserving Kurdish and minority rights, including education, as well as self-rule.
Kurdish forces and Damascus have mostly avoided combat during the war. Assad, who has vowed to recover the entire country, has long opposed Kurdish ambitions for a federal Syria.
Short-lived talks between the two sides last summer went nowhere.
Government officials were not immediately available for comment, but a minister last week expressed optimism.
"LONG WAR WITH DAESH"
Mixed messages from Washington have clouded Trump's abrupt announcement last month, which sparked concern among Western allies. The 2,000 American forces are still deployed in the SDF region, rich in oil, farmland and water - the biggest chunk of Syria outside state rule.
"Implementing this (U.S.) decision to withdraw practically is not possible in the near term," Hemo said.
SDF fighters are now battling Islamic State remnants in an enclave in eastern Syria, after seizing vast swathes of land from the jihadists with U.S. help.
"Daesh is headed towards demise. There are many sleeper cells and there will be a long war with Daesh in this region," Hemo said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
He said any safe zone in northeast Syria, which Trump mentioned on Twitter, should be under U.N. auspices. The SDF has welcomed the possibility but said any such zone must keep Turkey out.
"We want to be on good ties as neighbours, but the Turkish state does not accept this," Hemo said. "If Turkey attacks our region, we will respond appropriately."
Ankara has drawn on Syrian rebel proxies to help fight the YPG in the northwest before and has vowed to march further east.
Turkey's foreign minister said on Thursday his country has the capacity to create a safe zone in Syria but would not exclude other states that want to cooperate.
(Writing by Ellen Francis in Beirut; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)


Boil the sweet potatoes in salted water for 15 mins or until soft.
Mix the ras el hanout with seasoning, then sprinkle all over the chicken.
Heat 1 tbsp oil in large frying pan, then brown the chicken for 3 mins on each side until golden.
Lift the chicken out of the pan.
Add the onion and garlic and cook for 5 mins until softened.
Add the stock, honey, lemon juice and olives, return the chicken to the pan, then simmer for 10 mins until the sauce is syrupy and the chicken cooked.
Mash the potatoes with 1 tbsp oil and season.
Thickly slice each chicken breast and stir the coriander through the sauce. Serve the chicken and sauce over mash.


It is with great sadness that I have to inform you of the death of Doug Sibley. Doug served on 249 from 1959 until 1962 as ground equipment NCO.
He managed to attend our reunions until 2010 when he be came to ill to travel. Our Condolences to his wife Margaret and his family and friends. May he rest in peace.
Doug's funeral will take place at Downs Crematorium Brighton at 13.00 hrs on Thursday 28th April.
It will be 46 years in February since 249 (Gold Coast) Squadron, the Royal Airforce's Premier Squadron, was disbanded.
at the military chapel at Lister House Southgate Ripon HG4 1PG (For directions please contact me(Lyn) on lynrogers62@gmail.com or call 01609 88361501609 883615).
I am very very sad to tell you dad passed away peacefully last Sunday 9th (Remembrance Sunday). Perhaps you could let anyone know that you know knew dad. Dad's health had been deteriorating over the last few months but he declined very quickly in the last few days. Steve and I were actually on holiday in Antigua celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary so I wasn't there which was really distressing for me but the staff were wonderful and I kept in touch with them during the last few days.
Our Sincere Condolences go out to Lyn and her family on their Loss.
Hillbrae Kennels are primarily an animal rescue centre near Telford in Shropshire. They specialise in taking in lost and abandoned dogs as well as other animals. They try as hard as they can to re-home all of their strays, some can wait up to nine years for a new home and others may live out their lives in the kennels. Hillbrae has a non-destruct policy, which means they will not put down any animal unless it is absolutely unavoidable through accident or illness, often running up large vets' bills for surgery and health care. They have one of the lowest put-down rates in the country.
All the local authorities contact Hillbrae when they find strays and one day recently, a dog, a Staffordshire terrier, was found in Bridgnorth. Each animal found is given a unique code and in this case, it was B (for Bridgnorth) 249. That means it was the 249th such lost animal recovered. When he arrived at Hillbrae, he had to be given a proper name, like all the animals they take in. When my daughter Helen, who works there saw the number 249, she immediately thought of the RAF squadron and Flg Off Percy Burton of that squadron, who lost his life in a fight over Hailsham in September 1940. She said to her colleagues that he must be given the name Percy in honour of that pilot. They were curious to know why she had suggested the name but when she explained, they whole-heartedly agreed with her. So, Bridgnorth stray number 249 is the proud owner of his new name.
All he needs now is his own flying suit and goggles!
Our Thanks to David Calvert for this excellent article.
It is with regret that I have to announce the death of one of our Distinguished members. Bob served with 249 during the defence of Malta. He passed away on 31st July 2013.
Our Sympathies and Condolences go out to his family and friends.
This year 249 Squadron is being represented in Cardiff on 6th Nov., by Terrance (Perce) Blakeney.
there are five fields around the country.
If you wish to take part at one of these ceremonies, please contact your local British Legion Branch.


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Q: Send mail without blocking 'execution' I'm using Zend_Mail in a Zend Framework application to send an e-mail with the contents of a web-based contact form.
The mailing itself works fine ( im using a Google Apps account ) but it can take fairly long to process ( ranging from a few seconds to nearly a minute ).
My controler action would normally redirect the visitor after sending the mail, so I thought I might be able to redirect the visitor prior to calling $mail->send() and let the script continue in the 'background':
So I tried the following:
$mailView = clone $this->view;
$mailView->assign('name', $form->getValue('name'));
$mailView->assign('email', $form->getValue('email'));
$mailView->assign('message', $form->getValue('message'));
$mailContent = $mailView->render('mailContact.phtml');
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->addTo('recipient@domain.com');
$mail->setSubject('Web Contact');
$mail->setBodyHtml($mailContent, 'UTF-8');
$this->_flashMessenger->addMessage('Thank you for your message!');
$this->_redirector->setExit(false)->gotoUrl('/about/contact');
$mail->send();

where $this->_redirector is an instance of *Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector*
This doesn't seem to make a difference, the script is still blocked while the mail is sent after which the redirection occurs.
Perhaps I should write a Controller Plugin, would using a postDispatch() hook allow me to send the mail after the visitor has been redirected?
Suggestions are welcome!

A: Since PHP does not support multi-threaded programming, the only thing that comes to mind is to execute different program that handles the mail send.
If you have control over your host, you can use exec() in a non-blocking fashion.
Check this thread - http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10351142 for how to do it

A: I would like to suggest to use cron jobs , its relatively easy , stable , and simply fits you
here some links  about ZF + cronjobs :

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*How do you store your scripts for cron jobs in Zend Framework?

*http://www.god-object.com/2010/03/26/bootstrap-zend-framework-for-use-in-cronjobs/

*http://jazzslider.org/2010/01/12/cron-tasks-in-zend-framework-apps

*Create cronjob with Zend Framework >>

After some research and a lot procrastination I came to the simple conclusion that a ZF-ized cron script should contain all the functionality of you zend framework app - without all the view stuff. I accomplished this by creating a new cronjobfoo.php file in my application directory. Then I took the bare minimum from: -my front controller (index.php) -my bootstrap.php
I took out all the view stuff and
  focused on keeping the environment
  setup, db setup, autoloader, &
  registry setup. I had to take a little
  time to correct the document root
  variable and remove some of the OO
  functionality copied from my
  bootstrap.
After that I just coded away.. in my
  case it was compiling and emailing out
  nightly reports. It was great to use
  Zend_Mail. When I was confident that
  my script was working the way I
  wanted, I just added it my crontab.

Goodluck !

A: Why don't you try this:

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*Load the view

*Call an Ajax Script
from within the view that will load
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sending the email.

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Henry Webb has achieved four A* grades at A Level. Henry is from Lathom and attended Bolton School Boys' Division where he studied Electronics, Physics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics, achieving A*s in all four subjects. Henry also received an A grade at AS Level in Further Mathematics (Additional).
Henry is one of the Bolton School Boys' Division high-flyers: three other students came away with at least three A* grades and five students will go on to study at Oxford or Cambridge.
This year the school celebrated some of the best A Level results in a decade. 52.4% of papers were marked at A*-A and almost four out of five (79.5%) were graded at A*-B. The percentage of students with facilitating grades of ABB or better, which allow access to the top universities, also improved, up to 60% from 55% last year.


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Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet est une compagnie de ballet britannique. Ses infrastructures se trouvent au Royal Opera House à Covent Garden, dans la ville de Londres en Angleterre.

Fondée en 1931 par Ninette de Valois, The Royal Ballet est la plus grande des quatre compagnies de ballet internationales du Royaume-Uni. Le nom original de la compagnie était Vic-Wells Ballet, puis Sadler's Wells Ballet, du nom du théâtre où elle a été créée, le Sadler's Wells Theatre. Après avoir déménagé au Royal Opera House en 1946, la compagnie obtient une charte royale en 1956, se faisant par la même occasion rebaptiser The Royal Ballet. Reconnue internationalement comme le ballet national du Royaume-Uni, The Royal Ballet est l'une des compagnies de ballet prééminentes dans le monde au cours du . Aujourd'hui encore, la compagnie est reconnue pour ses valeurs artistiques et créatives.

L'entreprise emploie une centaine de danseurs, basés dans les installations construites à cet effet au sein du Royal Opera House. L'école officielle de la compagnie est la Royal Ballet School, couplée au Birmingham Royal Ballet, dont la gestion demeure indépendante.

La Prima ballerina assoluta du Royal Ballet est Margot Fonteyn.

Histoire

The Royal Ballet a été fondé par la danseuse irlandaise Ninette de Valois. En 1926, elle crée une école de danse pour filles à Londres sous de nom de l'Académie de l'art chorégraphique. Elle souhaite monter une école et une troupe où sera mis en valeur le répertoire classique, et entame pour ce faire une collaboration avec le célèbre producteur de théâtre Lilian Baylis, alors propriétaire de l'Old-Vic theatre et du Sadler's Wells theatre. En 1925, Baylis est désigné par Ninette de Valois pour créer des ballets destinés à ces deux théâtres. Avec la rénovation du Sadler's Wells theatre en 1931, de Valois déplace son école de danse dans les locaux du théâtre, et prend alors le nom Sadler's Wells Ballet School. Une compagnie de ballet est également créée, sous le nom Vic-Wells Ballet. Ce sont ces deux entités qui donneront plus tard naissance au Royal Ballet, au Birmingham Royal Ballet, et à la Royal Ballet School.

Avant de retourner au Royaume-Uni, Ninette de Valois était une danseuse des Ballets russes, la célèbre et influente compagnie de ballet, dissoute en 1929 après la mort de son fondateur Serge Diaghilev. Aussi, à l'ouverture du Vic-Wells Ballet, elle invite de nombreux anciens danseurs des Ballets russes à rejoindre sa troupe, notamment Alicia Markova et Anton Dolin, en tant que danseurs "principaux", et Tamara Karsavina, comme conseillère artistique. Elle emploie également le compositeur Constant Lambert, premier directeur de musique et chef d'orchestre, qui laissa une empreinte artistique et musicale considérable dans l'histoire de la compagnie.

Après des débuts encourageants, il est décidé que Lilian Baylis se concentrerait sur des pièces dramatiques à l'Old-Vic theatre. La compagnie continue de danser au Sadler's Wells theatre, et en 1939, elle est renommée Sadler's Wells Ballet. La société continue d'utiliser ce nom pendant de nombreuses années, même après la relocalisation à la Royal Opera House en 1946. Fermée depuis de nombreuses années, la Royal Opera House avait précédemment été utilisée comme salle de danse, puis de stockage pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Sous la direction de David Webster, la troupe est invitée à devenir la compagnie résidente du théâtre. Au terme des travaux de rénovation, la troupe met en scène le premier spectacle abrité par la Royal Opera House, La Belle au Bois dormant.

Après le déménagement de la troupe à la Royal Opera House, l'école de ballet déménage en 1947 à Baron's Court, Kensington.

Une seconde compagnie de ballet est par la suite formée pour poursuivre les ballets au Sadler's Wells theatre, le Sadler Wells Theatre Ballet, sous la direction de John Field, choisi par Ninette de Valois. La compagnie se produit au Sadler Wells theatre jusqu'en 1955, date où elle rejoint la troupe principale à Covent Garden, en tant que troupe "itinérante". Un an plus tard, une charte royale est accordée aux deux troupes professionnelles. Les trois entités sont alors renommées "Royal Ballet" pour la compagnie principale, "Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet" pour la troupe de tournée, et "Royal Ballet School" pour l'école de danse.

Personnalités notables

Danseurs

Danseurs invités

Chorégraphes
Frederick Ashton
David Bintley
John Cranko
Robert Helpmann
Kenneth MacMillan
Wayne McGregor
Christopher Wheeldon

Directeurs artistiques
1931-1963 : Ninette de Valois
1963-1970 : Frederick Ashton
1970-1977 : Kenneth MacMillan
1970-1971 : John Field (co-directeur)
1977-1986 : Norman Morrice
1986-2001 : Anthony Dowell
2001-2002 : Ross Stretton
2002–2012 : Monica Mason
2012- : Kevin O'Hare

Notes et références

Compagnie de danse classique
Danse au Royaume-Uni
Organisme fondé en 1931
Culture à Londres

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Gillespie scores 24 points, No. 8 Florida State women win
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Kiah Gillespie has made clutch shots in late-game situations. She did it again and again Thursday night.
Gillespie scored 18 of her season-high 24 points in the second half as No. 8 Florida State remained undefeated by rallying to take a 78-68 victory over No. 19 Michigan State. The senior forward was 6 of 10 from the floor and 10 of 12 from the free-throw line in the second half.
Florida State (8-0) leaned on its seniors once again. Gillespie, who also had 12 rebounds, led the way, followed by senior guards Nicki Ekhomu (15 points, five assists) and Nausia Woolfolk (11 points, 11 rebounds).
"They coached themselves," Florida State coach Sue Semrau said. "They're veterans now. Down the stretch they hit free throws."
Florida State won the game at the free-throw line, making 19 of 21 attempts in the final 10 minutes — and made a season-high 30 of 36 free-throw attempts on the night. The Seminoles rallied by outscoring Michigan State 29-16 in the final period.
Nia Clouden scored 22 points and had eight assists, while Shay Colley added 11 points for the Spartans (6-2), who made 11 three-pointers.
Michigan State forced 20 turnovers and capitalized with 22 points but the intensity that had been there for three periods was missing late.
"Our first three quarters were as good as you can play," Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant said. "I thought our pressure defense was really solid for us. But we just went cold again in one quarter. We got to get people to step up and get upset about that and make a couple plays for us."
Florida State turned it over 20 times but just three of those came in the final period, including a pair with the Seminoles well in front. What changed?
"We just picked up our energy and intensity," said Valencia Myers, who had 12 points and was 6 of 6 at the free-throw line. "We figured out ways to handle their full-court pressure and their half-court pressure."
Florida State again finished well. The Seminoles came into the game shooting 56.4% in the fourth period of games, and on Thursday they shot 5 of 10 from the floor and 19 of 21 from the line.
Nausia Woolfolk had 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Seminoles.
This is the first time since 1992 that the Seminoles have put together two straight nonconference wins over Top 25 teams.
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Florida State is 11-2 in the Big Ten / ACC Challenge. The Seminoles have won eight straight games in the challenge.
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Florida State: The Seminoles won the rebounding battle 43-30 and rallied in the second half after going nearly six minutes in the second period without a point.
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Impact testing has become firmly established in materials and components testing for plastics and composites. The characteristics determined are part of basic material characterization, which is found in Contents of CAMPUS and the standard for single-point data.
Materials testing in the plastics industry often involves instrumented multi-axial puncture tests as described in the international standard ISO 6603-2 and in ASTM D3763. While in Europe, the typical fall height is one meter, which means an impact velocity of 4.4 m/s, many international specifications in the automotive industry stipulate slower speeds of 2.2 m/s, which require relatively large drop weights, as well as higher speeds of 6.6 m/s, which require a greater fall height or acceleration of the drop weight tester. Additional test types, such as instrumented Charpy, Izod, or impact tensile tests are also useful in materials development.
Composites testing often involves pre-damaging prepared test plates. The compression test that follows is called a Compression After Impact (CAI) test and is described in many national and international standards.
When examining components, the mechanical characteristics of complete assemblies or systems are tested. Familiar examples include the testing of safety gear, such as helmets, protectors, or bullet-proof vests. Often, the engineer of a component wants to validate the design in its used condition. Drop weight testers are suitable for characterizing these properties using a wide range of deformation speeds and temperatures.
ZwickRoell has been delivering quality testing systems for impact testing for years. Its product line includes pendulum impact testers for metals and plastics, drop weight testers with an energy range of only a few joules to 100,000 joules, as well as high-speed testing machines.
Amsler HIT230F – The small impact tester for puncture tests and CAI tests With a maximum impact velocity of 4.4 m/s and drop weights between 2 and 23 kg, this impact tester is optimal for puncture tests to ISO 6603-2 and CAI pre-damaging to a variety of standards. It is particularly outstanding because the test area is easily accessible, test series can be performed rapidly, and tempered test plates can be inserted directly. When it comes to efficiency and ergonomics, this impact tester can't be beat.
Amsler HIT600F – The universal impact tester for materials testing Testing at low impact speeds of 2.2 m/s requires a large drop weight. If tests are performed at 6.6 m/s, acceleration is required. This drop weight tester covers both requirements, making it the perfect testing instrument for the requirements of many specification standards in the automotive industry. Just like the HIT230F, the HIT600F's feeding and safety concept is optimized for ergonomic use and safety. Simply insert pretempered test plates that are then hit in less than 5 seconds, making a temperature chamber unnecessary for many puncture tests. This impact tester can also perform CAI, Charpy, and Izod tests.
Amsler HIT1100F – One instrument for both materials and components testing Components testing can often be a challenge for an impact tester. The impact surface of the component is often not at an exact right angle to the direction of impact, which means the guides must be massive Some components must even be fixed in special grips. To facilitate this, the impact tester is equipped with a T-slot plate for easy arrangement of the tooling. If the test is performed at high or low temperatures, the entire test setup must be housed in a temperature chamber. The Amsler HIT1100F is ideal for this type of testing and, thanks to tooling designed for this purpose, can be used for a wide variety of standardized tests in materials testing.
Amsler HIT2000F – One instrument for both materials and components testing This impact tester is similar to the Amsler HIT1100F but has a greater impact height and higher impact energy.


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"This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the night" mentioned in paragraph 1, as Raymond carver begins, he introduces a jealous, unsatisfied, judgmental narrator that describes his wife 's friend by dehumanizing the man with labels that uphold his flaw.The narrator in "Cathedral" faces a line of tension because he enters a pathway that opens the short story with a viewpoint that cannot go past Roberts disability. Even though, his misunderstanding of the people and the relationships presented to him in this story which clearly shows his tragic flaw: while Robert is physically blind, it is the narrator who cannot clearly see the world around him. Although, Raymond Carver directs the story through a self-centered, superficial, and egotistical narrator that pretty clear metaphorly, lacks sense of knowledge shows internal blindness and hardships in life, carver argues that intimate relationships can make dissatisfaction in life tolerable and meaningful containing religion.


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Lakers' Russell Westbrook comes off bench against Timberwolves
Emma BowmanOctober 29, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS — Los Angeles Lakers guard Russell Westbrook came off the bench in Friday night's 111-102 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski the team will continue to use him in a reserve role for the foreseeable future becomes.
Westbrook missed Wednesday's LA loss to the Denver Nuggets due to a sore left hamstring muscle but was upgraded to a likely Friday morning. He entered with 7 minutes and 28 seconds left in the first quarter, subs for Troy Brown Jr.
Westbrook had 18 points in 33 minutes but only shot 6 of 17 from the field. He added eight rebounds and three assists and had five turnovers.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham brought Westbrook off the bench in LA's preseason finals and said the role allowed the former league MVP to get his hands on the ball more often on offense, which ignited the Lakers' attack.
Coming off the bench broke Westbrook's streak of 1,007 consecutive starts, which was the third-longest active streak in the league behind Chris Paul and LeBron James, according to research by ESPN Stats & Information Research.
The Lakers trained on the shootaround with a starting five unit of James, Anthony Davis, Patrick Beverley, Lonnie Walker IV and center Damian Jones. Wolves have one of the biggest frontlines in the league in Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert.
Despite the practice, Davis was demoted from questionable to out.
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A foggy morning with temperatures in the low 40s greeted horses for the first day of pre-season training at Remington Park on Tuesday. The 2019 American Quarter Horse Season at Remington Park will begin on March 8.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—FEBRUARY 5, 2019—The morning after horses were allowed to enter and be stabled in Remington Park barns, pre-season training started. Nearly 200 horses went to the track in cool and foggy conditions with Wave Topper posting the first official workout of the session.
Jockey Ruben Castro was up as Wave Topper handled 200 yards in 11.72 seconds over a fast track, according to Remington Park clocker Vicky Grothaus. The Oklahoma-bred 3-year-old filly by Wave Carver, from the Mr Jess Perry mare Jess A Topper, worked at 10am for trainer Pedro Martinez. Wave Topper is expected to attempt her second career win during the upcoming season.
Morning training will continue Wednesday, just ahead of the initial training race session of the pre-season. The first of eight training races will begin Wednesday at 11am. The events are utilized by many trainers in order to make their new horses eligible for pari-mutuel action racing. Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission stewards oversee the training races, all contested at 250 yards.
The 2019 Remington Park Quarter Horse Season begins on Friday, March 8 and continues for 50 dates, through Saturday, June 1.
Remington Park is always open for casino gaming. Simulcast horse racing is offered daily. Admission, parking and valet parking are always free at Remington Park. Guests must be 18 or older in order to wager on horse racing or to enter the casino.
Tracked by more than 148,000 fans on Facebook and more than 9,800 Twitter followers, Remington Park has provided more than $210 Million to the State of Oklahoma general education fund since the opening of the casino in 2005. Remington Park is located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, Remington Park is in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District. For more information, reservations and group bookings please call 405-424-1000, 866-456-9880 or visit visit remingtonpark.com.


A new Devil May Cry 5 trailer has been released during The Game Awards 2018.
The new trailer showcases some fantastic new action. Not only does it feature a bunch of new gameplay, but that gameplay also involves each of the game's main three protagonists.
Devil May Cry 5 is slated for release March 8, 2019, on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.


Residents of Ironwood typically share this enthusiastic love for where they live. Ironwood is nestled into a cove protected by the Rimrocks to the north and to the east. To the west the rims of Phipps Park create a jagged skyscape while the views to the south and west offer sweeping views of the Beartooth mountains, the Pryor Mountains and even the Bighorns of Wyoming are visible from Ironwood. The homesites in Ironwood are oversized ensuring open view sheds of the surrounding vistas. Our community enjoys ample parkland and walking paths. Over one hundred families call Ironwood home. Come join us.
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Married very happily for the past twenty-one years, Wes and April Elder both enjoyed food a bit more than their bodies could process. April, not a chef by any means, didn't discover her knack for the kitchen until 2013 when the couple peaked at their weight. This blog is maintained by April, and is their story of weight loss, detox, struggle and all meant to help inspire you.
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Good Choices: At the Core of Character Building
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We've all heard the words character building. Many of us have some idea of what makes up character. But if you surveyed 20 people, you would get 20 different answers about what makes up character. So, what are these elements and how to we "build" them?
The dictionary defines character as "the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual." Sounds fine, but it is very general. What mental or moral qualities? Are they different for every individual? Parents, teachers, after-school programs and the like are all dealing with these questions.
In a practical sense, we judge a person's character by the actions he or she takes in a given set of circumstances. For example, a person who looks down and finds a $20 bill and looks around to find who dropped it is said to have "good character." Why? How about a person who spends some time counseling a friend away from drug or alcohol abuse? Good character, right? How about parents who treat their children with love and care? No question. How about kids who help their parents and even their teachers? Same deal.
These are all examples of good character. You could probably come up with thousands of examples.
But what is the common denominator of these aspects of character? Making the right, or reasonably right, choices in a given situation. The person finding the lost $20 bill made the choice to try and find the rightful owner. Children helping their parents by cleaning up the house or doing some laundry have made a choice to do so.
So by this view we could define good character as having a tendency to make good and moral choices.
This leads us straight back to character and HOW to build it. This means all one really needs to do is teach children HOW to make good choices. And wouldn't you know it, that's the title of our booklet, How to Make Good Choices, and our Good Choices Program.
With the years of experience now documented on this program, it is actually pretty easy to teach children the basics of how to make their OWN good choices in life.
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The chapters of these booklets are the real building blocks of character and how to make moral choices leading to the "the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual" that the dictionary says make up character. Now we have a list of those qualities and guess what, they are not hard to grasp or do. In fact, walking the walk of good character is easy.
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President Michael D Higgins delivered an inspirational tribute to the transformative power of culture when he visited the University of Ulster's Magee campus today.
The President's lecture was the centrepiece of a day-long series of engagements in the city.
He was welcomed to the campus by the Provost, Professor Deirdre Heenan, and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Richard Barnett.
It was the President's first visit to the University and to the Magee campus.
Taking as his theme "The transformational power of culture",the President told his audience, which included members of the North West's artistic community,cultural leaders, civic dignitaries and academics:"Next year, this Maiden City will be transformedtoDerry~LondonderryCity of Culture.
"Ilook forward to the sights and sounds of what will no doubt be a wonderful chapter in the history of this great city.
The President praised Professor John Hume's role and vision as an architect of the Northern Ireland peace process, saying that his contribution was evidence of the positive change that could occur through creative thinking.
Concluding, the President told his listeners: " I am full of hope for a great future for this island and this city.
"As President and as a poet, your words of enlightenment and your vision of the transformational nature of culture are especially welcomehereat this campus which is home to so much of the University of Ulster's artistic drive,and here inthiscitywhich proudlywears the mantle of UK City of Culture in 2013.
The choir of St Patrick's primary school, Pennyburn,sang for the President, who took the time to speak to the childrenand be photographed with them. The choir performed under the direction of Ursula Cullen, their musical director.


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Exhibition Of "RETRO FUTUR" At Maison&Objet 2022
At each edition, Maison&Objet* names a Designer of the Year, celebrating the work of the most outstanding talents in the international design and decoration scene. Having been unable to present his installation after receiving the accolade in September 2020, Franklin Azzi will now take centre stage at the March 2022 edition with "RETRO FUTUR", an immersive exploration of his creative process.
Working out of his Parisian agency, which was created in 2006, Azzi develops a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on a potpourri of perspectives and disciplines. By relentlessly sparking a dialogue between architecture, interior design, design and modern art, and with the backing of his dedicated endowment fund, he hones a talent for design and creation that embraces all scales and spaces.
From the kind of urban microarchitecture embodied by the Eiffel Kiosque and its prefabricated structure, to towers in Dubai and Paris, and not forgetting the refurbishment of existing structures such as the Alstom warehouses in Nantes, his work is underpinned by a quest for sustainability tailored to meet users' needs. Turning his back on formal style, Azzi develops architecture that is both minimalist in its aesthetic and maximalist in its multi-faceted functionality and environmental quality, resolutely advocating a return to 'common sense'. He walks firmly in the footsteps of philosopher and urban planner Paul Virilio, the exploratory thinker and creator of whom he was once a student.
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"RETRO FUTUR"
RETRO FUTUR is an artistic installation that explores the creative processes of the future using tools from the past, echoing the way in which Franklin Azzi approaches his work as an architect.
The immersive RETRO FUTUR installation stages the architect's day-to-day activities via a digital, modular and pared-back table in black lacquered metal: it diffuses, across a series of screens, a selection of basic and traditional tools specific to the trade (set square, rotring pen, tracing paper, light table, etc.) as well as the various items required each day when developing a project: architectural models, materials, sketches, etc.
Static and moving images appear in succession, showcasing the manual techniques the architect employs in conjunction with his latest creations.
Strapping made from strips of upcycled industrial felt separates the object from the rest of the lounge. As Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was keen to convey, felt is an outstanding natural material that can help retain heat, a source of energy that served as a veritable creative driver for the German artist's work.
The space itself is entirely upholstered with felt, including the ceiling, creating an acoustic bubble that fosters concentration. The slatted curtain, meanwhile, invites visitors to enter and exit the installation at will. The durable and natural felt, which is manufactured in France by Le Feutre, imbues the space with an intimate, calming vibe.
The installation resolutely embraces the retro futurism* trend that is sweeping through the creative arts (design, architecture, cinema, literature, fashion, etc.), and is one of the sources of inspiration underpinning the agency's overall approach. It is characterised by a fusion of imagery that sees progress and science-fiction pictured in the past with a view to seeing all futuristic aspects of the present become retro-futuristic over time.
Azzi's architecture is never intentionally decorative, echoing the iconic film Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982), whose central theme revolves around the issues surrounding identity, ultimately becoming a metaphysical quest and challenging the very notion of humanity.
The tote bag Franklin Azzi has designed for Maison&Objet 2022 shines a light on his multi-faceted approach and his project-style methodology. Alongside his historical analyses, his scrutiny of materials and his examination of the original matrix, the architect draws inspiration from iconographic accumulation. This almost compulsive creative process sees all senses and subjects being freely explored, allowing him to break out of the mould and better grasp the challenges of the here and now.
Having grown up as part of the "sampling" generation fed on a multidisciplinary diet of references, Franklin Azzi has learned to digest, assemble and reassemble over and again to adapt to each context. Relentlessly reinventing his approach, the architect continually seeks to fuse his influences. The chosen design pays tribute to some of his preferred sources of inspiration, including military functionalism which can be seen in certain objects and furnishings he has been collecting for years and that never leave his side. His chromatic and typological research resulted in the choice of a timeless symbol, the target, which sits against a background of the M&O trade fair's iconic Pantone 485 C red.
His take on the tote bag delivers a simple, effective and universal manifesto rooted in playful and incisive design.
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Realogy exec: 3 ways the pandemic changed real estate for good
Realogy expansion brands released a new 27-page oral history of the pandemic and how it has altered the industry
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Realogy expansion brands released a new 27-page oral history of the pandemic and how it has altered the industry.
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From the early days of the pandemic and through the housing market explosion, the real estate industry has been moving fast, leaving little time for reflection.
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But a new undertaking from Realogy's expansion brands portfolio — which encompasses ERA Real Estate and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate — attempted to catalog what's taken place over the past year and the lessons learned.
"We really wanted to capture what had taken place over the past several months in the hopes that — and this is exactly what happened — some best practices would emerge that we would be able to share within the Realogy expansion brands, and with the industry as a whole," Sherry Chris, the CEO of Realogy expansion brands, told Inman.
Chris and the team at Realogy decided who better to tell the story than those who lived it? The result is a 27-page oral history, with interviews and insight from more than a dozen broker-owners under the Realogy flag, titled, Real Estate in the Time of COVID.
Chris, in compiling the report with her team, said she's pulled away three key insights, the first of which is that the COVID-19 pandemic helped the industry abandon its fear of technology.
"In our industry, many agents are not technologically proficient and really relied on that referral business and face-to-face contact for the end consumer," Chris said. "What COVID forced us all to do is utilize technology in a more efficient way."
Sometimes it was even the most simple technology — like using Zoom for meetings or Facetime to show a house.
"We used those tools that were right around us," Chris said. "We picked them up and used them in an effective way."
Another insight she pulled from the project was that it forced the industry to recognize the importance of the people part of the business, whether that was through agents creating deep relations with the end consumer, or with each other.
Agents also realize that the importance of getting involved with consumers at an early stage and helping them not just through a transaction, but guiding them through "a very important decision that's going to change the next phase of their lives," Chris said.
That ethos extends outside the relationship between the customer and the agent to the relationship between the agent and the broker as well.
Thai Hung Nguyen | Photo credit: ERA Real Estate
"Just as agents connected with their sphere, we and our agents increased our outreach to each other," Thai Hung Nguyen, the broker-owner of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Premier, said in the report. "We anticipate maintaining these higher levels of engagement going forward because there is heightened awareness that greater participation and engagement makes everyone better."
The third thing that Chris pulled from the exercise is that it's clear things aren't going back to the way they were before the pandemic.
"I don't think we're going to go back to our old ways," Chris said. "I believe that we will take these best practices and truly help make our jobs easier and make real estate a better experience for the consumer."
The oral history project also gives some insight into a future trend of which the industry should take note. Despite the high level of sales in 2020, not everyone who wanted to move in 2020 was able to move, Chris said, which foretells a lot more demand in 2021.
The broker-owners did provide some insight into the types of buyers they were seeing flood into their home markets in 2020. That includes a lot of people looking for more space, a lot of families moving from California and a lot more interest in smaller cities.
"People are realizing that if they can work from home, they can live better on their salary in a place like Colorado Springs than in larger metropolitan areas," Cathi Sullivan, the broker-owner of ERA Shields Real Estate in Colorado Springs, Colorado said. "Most of the activity we saw was from outsiders coming in, particularly from Denver, Coastal California and Texas."
The report will be available for the entire industry and follows a theme that's persisted since the early days of the pandemic. Yes, competition is still high, but the industry was much more sharing and collaborative in 2020. Companies like Keller Williams and Compass sought to make learning materials free and for the industry.
On a local level real estate agents and brokerages that usually competed for clients worked together to better their communities.
"One of the things that I found personally was that the industry did band together particularly in local communities where agents and brokers were giving back to the front-line workers and really doing what our industry should be doing," Chris said. "We should be at the forefront of creating deeper relationships within individual communities."
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Topics: Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate | Realogy | Sherry Chris
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