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Roddenberry's White Room: 02B3 To Debut At Comic-Con
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Two Rod Roddenberry films will debut at San Diego Comic-con next month, with the news that White Room: 02B3 will be screened as well as the fan documentary Trek Nation.
White Room:02B3, starring Brecklin Meyer, Tamlyn Tomita, David Blue and Rachel True, is the "story of six strangers who wake up in a white room to find out they are part of a bizarre experiment that could help change the face of humanity forever."
The debut of White Room: 02B3 at San Diego's Birth North Park Theater on July 12 is already sold out, but those attending the San Diego Film Festival in late September will be able to see it there.
"San Diego Comic-Con weekend is the perfect setting for Roddenberry Entertainment to bring our newest films to fans in an exciting cinematic environment," said White Room:02B3 executive producer and Roddenberry Entertainment COO Trevor Roth. "We're eager to personally engage with our fans and introduce them to two films that approach science fiction and explore the human condition in such unique ways."
"Beyond Comic-Con, the film will be showcased at San Diego Film Festival in September and will debut in its full 360-version in dome theaters across the country later this year. There will also be an app that enables fans to have the 360 dome experience from their own smart device."
Source: Roddenberry Entertainment Press Release
Topics: Roddenberry, White Room: 02B3
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Real Madrid 1-2 FC Sheriff summary: score, goals & highlights, Champions League 2021/22
By Jose C. Kemp	 Last updated Sep 28, 2021
UEFA Champions League debutants Sheriff Tiraspol beat 13-time champions Real Madrid in a thrilling meeting at the Santiago Bernabeu. With this victory, the Moldova team takes the lead of the group with 6 points, while Madrid are in second place with 3.
In a match that was the cliché between David and Goliath, it was David – according to history – who won as the visiting team opened the scoring. It was in the 25th minute that striker Jasur Jakhshibaev found himself after a superb ball from Cristiano to go home. The score would remain unchanged at the end of half-time.
In the second Madrid seemed to display a greater sense of urgency and with the introduction of Modric, Kroos and Rodrygo they started to turn threatening. After a period of constant pressure, Vinicius, who proved to be a threat all night long, appeared to crumble under minimal contact. The VAR was consulted by the referee but eventually play continued without allowing the goal. However, it wouldn't be long before Vinicius Junior – the protagonist never again causes a headache in the Sheriff's defense. This time, descend into the area in what appeared to be an unintentional blockage. Once again the VAR was only consulted this time on the penalty awarded. Karim Benzema was the man in charge of the responsibility and he handled it with ease, equalize the score on the spot.
In the second half, we entered what was becoming an increasingly tense affair. The faithful of Madrid wanted their team to advance, but in vain because the Moldovan team proved to be as disciplined as they were compact. So as if fate took matters into its own handsSheriff's Sebastian Thill was given a gem of a hit on a key, which he duly stole from the upper left corner from outside the area. 2-1 against Sheriff, Goliath defeated and history is written!
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Peru and Colombia: Community self-defense against megaminería
By Raúl Zibechi | 25 / July / 2014
When states act to facilitate the business of multinationals and leave communities unprotected, as with mining, those communities have no choice but to defend themselves by their own means–through self-defense organizations, mobilization of affected communities, or the creation of new ways to prevent dispossession.
Peru and Colombia are experiencing this situation today. Resistance to mining in the Andean region shows great vitality as in the opposition to the Conga gold mining project in northern Peru and in some regions of the Colombian Cauca. In both cases, local populations have managed to slow or reverse mining, always thanks to direct community action.
In Peru, Ollanta Humala's government approved a package of measures to facilitate foreign investment. Even the United Nations thinks it could affect the environment. A letter from the UN's Peruvian office to the chancellor stated "legitimate concern, on the part of the United Nations system, over the impact that the new economic measures might entail."[1]The package of measures approved on July 12 is questioned for "cuts to the functions of the Environmental Evaluation and Supervision Agency (Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental, OEFA), the specialized technical agency ascribed to the Ministry of Environment (Ministerio del Ambiente, MINAM)."[2]
The relaxation of the environmental control norms foreshadows the fact that the OEFA will only be able to issue sanctions in exceptional cases for three years. And whenever it does, it will have to appeal for corrective measures without imposing fines. If corrective measures are not met, the OEFA may impose fines, but only for 50% of current amounts. It is thought that this repression of environmental control "opens doors to the impunity of irresponsible industry."[3]
The latest report from the Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Peru (Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en el Perú) concludes: "This package of legislative reforms reminds us of the legislative decrees that led to the tragic events of Bagua,"[4]referring to the June 5, 2009, massacre in the Amazon in which over 100 people were killed.[5]The report adds that the "package, in order to improve and build investor confidence, openly removes Ministry of Environment powers over the creation of protected areas, the issue of land use systems, ecologically economic zones, ceilings and limits, and environmental quality standards."[6]And it concludes: "A government like this, that destroys what little there was in terms of environmental institutions, has no moral authority for becoming the host of the COP 20 event."
Indeed, the reduction of environmental legislation in order to attract investment is happening the same year Peru will host the UN Convention on Climate Change's Conference of the Parties (COP 20), in Lima, Dec. 1-23. Over 100 international civil society organizations involved in the COP 20 process sent a letter to the [Peruvian] government, stating that the measures to promote investment "constitute a serious setback for Peru in the environmental realm."[7]
In the face of the stable and ongoing advance of mining megaprojects, communities know they have no way to defend themselves other than activating old forms of self defense, something that has been happening in much of Latin America. In Peru, resistance to mining has a name: campesino patrols.
From campesino patrols to lagoon guardians
Campesino patrols emerged in the late 1970s in northern Peru, in response to the inability or unwillingness of the Peruvian state to curb the increase in cattle theft. They were groups of campesinos that roamed the community territory, doing collective surveillance by night. The campesino patrols reinvented collective ancestral practices. "At the beginning, the patrols captured thieves and turned them over to the police, but on seeing that this did not result in effective punishment, they began to organize their own justice system, managed collectively by the assembly."[8] For the patrols, justice consists in the educational character of punishment (which could be whipping) and reconciliation with the community.
Within a few years, the patrols spread throughout the north, gaining enormous status, because they brought cattle rustling under control and later stopped the entry of the Shining Path. The campesino patrols became a form of popular power with relative autonomy from the state. In addition to surveillance and justice, community members took over local development projects, inspiring a variety of political practices.
With the advance of neoliberalism and the mining industry's powerful entrance into campesino territories, the campesino patrols assumed responsibility for territorial defense and care of the commons – especially in Piura and Cajamarca against projects like Conga. They are not only slowing the projects down, but also driving new forms of struggle forward.
Rapahel Hoetmer notes that in "neighborhood consultations on mining in Ayabaca and Huancabamba in Piura, the patrols not only took care of security and order during the referendum. They also participated in the organization and prior consultation and background information."[9]They not only held protests, but installed gates in order to regulate access to communal land up and set up camps to guard lagoons. [These] began to be called "guardians of the lagoons," installed permanently, rotating over the Andean highlands since October 2012.
"The campesino patrols," Hoetmer continues, "are a regulatory and disciplinary institution of everyday life, with extraordinary influence in the northern part of the country, [a region] that has been criticized for its patriarchal and conservative character."[10] Women's participation is growing – with the creation of women's patrols – even becoming one of the principal protagonists in territorial defense.
Magdiel Carrión, a member of Ayabaca's campesino patrols, explains the different roles: "In the community, both men and women are part of the patrols. It's not obligatory for women; they will choose if they want to be part or not. However, that committees of women's patrols exist is obligatory. The only thing they don't do is the night service."[11] A patrol is formed in each village, whose members rotate. Local territorial organization is coordinated at the district and provincial level, as well as at the national scale.
The XI Congress of Cajamarca Campesino Patrols took place in January, with 2,045 delegates from 13 provinces. Among the approved agreements figure: a regional strike against the Conga megaproject, the rejection of the use of NGOs in community struggles, and an understanding "that the fight against Conga is of the community and not of any party."[12]Carrión explains that the fight against mining requires coordination with other political actors, but warns that "we cannot allow the struggles to be capitalized on by partisan interests. That's a big problem, for me, even bigger than most internal community problems."[13]
Over the years, the campesino patrols have gained in maturity, and are no longer divided into political bands as it was in the early years. Community is their principal referent. Defending territory is their objective. Now the "Lagoon Guardians," they work to become a national reference point for the defense of life, health and economic security based on community justice.
Indigenous Guard, defending territory
In some parts of northern Cauca in Colombia, [communities] have succeeded in driving the mining industry out, seizing the machinery, and filling in the tunnels, thanks to the communal decision executed under the protection of the Indigenous Guard. This is what happened in the Munchique Los Tigres reserve, near the town of Santander de Quilichao. On March 14, 2013, a "territorial control" minga (communal work) was set up to combat artisanal mining in the area. Hundreds of community members from Munchique and Canoas reserves – in the Andean foothills –ensured compliance with a collective decision, summarized in the slogan "No to mining."[14]
The problem is that multinationals and large machinery arrive behind artisanal mining. Contamination by cyanide and mercury appears in the rivers and streams, and communities become divided and sick, as the authorities say.
The March action was decided on Jan. 7 in a large community meeting. It came after long debates, because some people in the community had been digging tunnels and using machinery to extract gold. The community found the damage and gave the miners a two-month deadline for filling in the mining tunnels and selling the mills.
The story on the Tejido de Comunicación page of the Associations of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca speaks for itself: "More than 1,200 people, working in two commissions, climbed the hills, looking for holes in the orange earth from east to west." They found 20 tunnels of up to 300 feet in depth.
"The community took charge of filling in the tunnels that had not yet been filled. For the council, the balance of the minga is positive. This is not only in matters of monitoring the compliance of assembly decisions, but also because [the minga] seeks to raise awareness of the environmental and social problems that mining brings to the territory in the community."[15]
A year later, in April 2014, a similar action against the mining industry was taken by indigenous councils in Huellas, Toez, and López Adrento, also in northern Cauca. A collective statement notes that "before being Colombians, we are originally indigenous peoples and we have always maintained diverse forms of social control over uses and customs in territories in defense of autonomy, harmony, and equilibrium of our Uma Kiwe (Mother Earth).[16]
On that basis, they decided to "harmonize the territory by evicting the mining machinery affecting the territory and the community." Mining is just the advance party of the war: the ACIN believes that, since late 2013, the presence of mining machinery has increased in regional territories, leading to the presence of armed actors, both paramilitaries and drug traffickers and guerrillas. The three council statement ends with a call to leaders of afro-descended communities to join resistance to mining, with the objective of evicting the machinery and staff that conduct mining operations and produce contamination. "In particular, we call the Indigenous Guard to join the order that distinguishes us, and help guide the community it could accompany."[17]
Territorial defense has a long tradition in northern Cauca, and it corresponds to the Guard's enforcement of collective decisions. The Guard is under the authority of the council and the community, which establish rules and requirements for those who provide service to the guard. Authorities select people based on the proposals of each vereda (territorial division). Guard service lasts one or two years. It rotates, as all the community members must enlist.
The Indigenous Guard's structure is simple: each vereda chooses ten guards and one coordinator by assembly; then a back-up coordinator is chosen, and another for the entire region, always in agreement with council governors. There are about 3,500 guards for 18 councils in northern Cauca, basically made up of young people and women from 12 to 50 years old. Luis Alberto Mensa, guard coordinator in the region, explains that "training is the most important aspect, through workshops in which human rights and our law, native law, is discussed. We prioritize political formation over physical exercise."[18]
Everyone that becomes part of the Indigenous Guard must go through workshops in the habits and customs of the Nasa people. One of the key aspects is denominated "our own law," or community justice that directs Indigenous Guard activity. Participation in the guard is voluntary and unpaid. Most participants are young people supported by their neighbors, who collaborate to maintain family gardens for the duration of Guard service.
The Indigenous Guard are in charge of concentrating the population into predetermined sites when military confrontations or armed aggressions take place. Thanks to this mode of conflict-resistance – sticking to the land – Nasa communities have managed to avoid massive population displacement so common in war zones.
Its resistance strategies consist of encouraging food sovereignty, community gardens, and training processes such as permanent assemblies for reflection and decision-making and strengthening their own law and authorities. Peaceful resistance is another one of the Guard's distinguishing characteristics. Every six months the guards, in line with the worldview to which they ascribe, participate in community harmonization and cleansing rituals guided by traditional doctors (Thë Wala), as a kind of cleaning-out. Collective and individual problems are addressed.
In 2004, the Indigenous Guard received the National Peace Prize, awarded annually to a group of institutions, including the United Nations and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. It has become an important reference for other indigenous peoples of Colombia, as well as for grassroots sectors who see community self-defense as a response to vulnerability and state and paramilitary harassment.
Raúl Zibechi is international relations editor at the magazine Brecha in Montevideo, adviser to grassroots organizations and writer of the monthly Zibechi Report of the CIP Americas Program www.americas.org
Translation: Paige M Patchin
[1] RPP Noticias, 30 de junio de 2014 en http://www.rpp.com.pe/2014-06-30-onu-preocupada-por-paquete-de-medidas-economicas-en-el-peru-noticia_704367.html
[2] Servindi, 16 de julio de 2014 en http://servindi.org/actualidad/108824
[4] 14° Informe del Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en el Perú, Cooperacción/Grufides/Fedepaz, Lima, julio de 2014, p. 52. En http://www.cooperaccion.org.pe/
[5] "Masacre en la Amazonia", http://www.americas.org/es/archives/1629
[6] Idem. p. 53.
[7] Carta al gobierno peruano, 8 de junio en http://servindi.org/actualidad/108572
[8] Raphael Hoetmer, "Las rondas campesinas no son grupos terroristas", en Contrapunto N° 4, Montevideo, mayo de 2014, p. 83.
[10] Idem, p. 86.
[11] Contrapunto N° 4, mayo de 2014, p. 91.
[12] En Central Única Nacional de Rondas Campesinas del Perú, http://cunarcperu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=677:se-realizo-con-exito-el-xi-congreso-ordinario-de-rondas-campesinas&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=1
[13] Contrapunto, p. 93.
[14] En http://www.nasaacin.org/informativo-nasaacin/nuestra-palabra-kueta-susuza-2013/5496-munchique-los-tigres-contra-la-mineria-todos-somos-responsables
[16] En http://nasaacin.org/comunicados-2013/6822-caloto-%E2%80%93-cauca-acciones-de-control-territorial-en-los-cabildos-ind%C3%ADgenas-de-huellas,-toez-y-l%C3%B3pez-adentro
[18] "Autoprotección indígena contra la guerra" en http://www.americas.org/es/archives/774


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Just off Corfu, Russian Visions of Utopia (+slide show)
Photo by Andrei Asadov
Four hundred aspiring architects and artists camped on the Greek island of Vidos, just off Corfu, this autumn, creating whimsical architectural visions inspired by the environment. The result was a spectacular showcase of monuments made from natural materials. Some of the work seemed to be inspired by the Constructivists of the 1920s. These creations competed with a breathtaking work environment on the tiny island of Vidos; it was the first time the GORODA Architecture Festival left Russia since its inception in 2005.
GORODA, which aims to find a balance between modern architecture and the environment, has been held twice a year since 2005. The festival brings architects, designers and other creative artists to an unusual location and allows them to transform the site. GORODA, which has its roots in the same kind of back to nature utopia as the , began at the Sukhanovo Architects' House of Leisure on the former estate of the Volkonsky princes, an architectural monument constructed in the 18 and 19th centuries. In the winter of 2007, the organizers decided to hold the festival in the Russian North, outside the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. That decision, which was prompted by a desire to use snow as a building material, started the tradition of a nomadic festival.
The theme of the most recent festival was "City of the Sun," borrowed from a philosophical work by Tommaso Campanella, which explores the idea of utopia. The 400 participants were asked to offer their architectural visions of Europe's philosophical and theological movements from ancient times to the present day. The highly competitive festival, which was judged by acclaimed architects, became a whirl of chainsaws in search of an emblematic monument. The nearest stores were on Corfu, and participants had to bring their own tools. Festival attendees also heard lectures in astronomy, talks by famous Russian architects, and watched films on architecture.
By the end of the festival, a path cut through a dense forest on the island, leading to an abandoned fortress and then on to a square. All around the square were architectural installations on different levels. On both sides of the square were two labyrinths, Tao Labyrinth (from the BRM team) leading to the highest level of "non-doing", and the Labyrinth of Reason ("Slaksy" team), symbolizing the conflict of opposites. The Philosophical Library (Asadov & Partners architectural studio) was floating comfortably on the water, not far from the shore, yet it could only be reached by boat. A wooden box titled "Uroboros," impressed the jurors with its intricately interweaving parts. Ivan Ovchinnikov's "Bridge to Nowhere" hovered high above ground, and Duduka Lighthouse, built by "Gagayagaya," rose at the very edge of the square, offering a breathtaking view.


It's zucchini time! I've gotten quite a few zucchini my weekly CSA boxes lately. In an attempt to find a new, delicious way to eat my zucchini and Asian eggplant, I did some kitchen experimentation. There are just a few ingredients in these zucchini and eggplant "fries."
Here are a few simple instructions.
#1: Mix up these 3 ingredients in a bowl.
#2: Cut up the zucchini and eggplant into fry-size pieces. When I make this again, I'll cut mine into thinner strips so they cook faster. Take a moment to press out any excess water from your veggies. This will help them cook faster as well.
#3: Coat each piece with a thin layer of the mayo mixture.
#4: Bake at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes (flip them half-way through the cooking time).
Bake until they reach your desired crispiness and then let them cool for a few minutes.
These look delicious. can't wait to try this...and surprise my 14 year olds!
:) I hope they turn out well, Carol!!!


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From: Wayne Muromoto <muro-hi@aloha.com>
Subject: Re: O Sensei
I'd suggest for those looking for anecdotes about Ueshiba, to look at past issues of Aikido Journal. They've probably got a ton of them (unabased and unasked-for plug for AJ :- ] ) as they do a lot of interviews with Ueshiba's direct disciples. There's also a couple in my own current issue #4 of Furyu that Takashi Nonaka of the Ki Society related to me. I'd say the stories heard directly from his disciples are the ones most believable, as the further you get from the source, the bigger the fish.
One anecdote:
The previous head of my jujutsu school, Hayashi sensei, was sitting in a public bath soaking himself when this old geezer stepped into the tub. Hayashi sensei had just finished a budo demonstration that also featured Ueshiba of Aikido but it took him a few seconds to realize that the old guy was the same Ueshiba. To him, he looked like any other ordinary old man, or "tada no ojiisan."
It wasn't meant as a slight, but a simple observation, I think, and one that offers respect but a sort of human-ness to Ueshiba. In spite of it all, he's human, after all, which in a way lends further greatness to him as a flawed human being than as a near-perfect god. If he was human like all of us but reached such greatness in Aikido, we too can aspire to it. But then we're getting involved in beliefs and dogma bordering on religion, huh?
From: Paul Fox-Hughes <p.fox-hughes@BOM.GOV.AU>
Subject: Re: grey areas
Geoff Saulnier wrote (a while ago):
>Penultimate question: how do you attack someone who has no perceptible >openings (to your level of skill in perceiving these)? I guess you don't...
Reminds me of an article in the latest Aikido Journal. Shioda Sensei once told this story to the AJ correspondent - and I hope I've remembered it more or less correctly. A friend of Shioda, a martial artist, wanted to meet O Sensei, and was introduced. The friend bowed formally, but O Sensei sat perfectly still. This situation persisted for a couple of seconds, then the friend exclaimed something like "I cannot defeat this man", then bowed very deeply again. This time O Sensei bowed in response. The friend got up and walked away, and Shioda ran after him to find out what had been going on. The friend said that he'd intended to attack O Sensei as he bowed, to test his mettle as a martial artist, but that O Sensei had left him no opening by refusing to bow. When Shioda spoke to O Sensei about the incident, O Sensei said something like "The first time, he didn't bow properly, so I didn't bow, but the second was a sincere bow, so I responded."
From: Christopher Watson <watson@ifu.net>
Subject: Re: Classic Hombu instruction (WAS Aikikai and others)
In reference to who taught what to whom at the Hombu:
I was but a lad when O Sensei died, and have never been to Hombu. However, it is my understanding, through speaking with Suenaka Sensei, who studied extensively with both O Sensei and Tohei Sensei, that O Sensei's instruction, as has been noted in previous posts, was indeed esoteric. He was more likely to explain the mechanics/dynamics of a technique by saying something like "Unite with the Aiki O'Kami" rather than "Make sure you stay relaxed and move shizentai." Thus, students with specific questions about execution of this technique or that were left to either ask a senior, or just get what they could from observation. Similarly, the seniors were left to rely largely on observation.
This situation brings to mind the parable of the four blind men feeling an elephant for the first time. You've heard it -- one feels the trunk and says it's like a snake, another feels a leg and says it's like a tree, and so on. Everyone comes away with a part of the truth, but not the whole truth, flavored by individual perception, experience and agenda. Hence, the varying styles of Aikido present today.
Parenthetically, it is because of this that Tohei Sensei's contribution to Aikido, regardless of your personal opinion of him (the now infamous AJ article), cannot be underestimated or discounted. As shihan-bucho under O Sensei, he in large part codified and distilled the Founder's teachings into a form the less-enlightened could comprehend.
I'm reminded of a story Suenaka Sensei loves to tell. Once, at Hombu, O Sensei explained a particular technique by saying one needed to "See the Universe," or words to that effect. He then called Suenaka onto the mat to take ukemi, and promptly rattled his brains with a hard throw. "You see?", O Sensei asked the class.
"I see, O Sensei," Suenaka replied. "I see the Universe -- I see stars!"


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Q: Change the index position to 0 match with condition in swift I have an array like
[openingTimes(id: 389A2E43-65C3-4555-8878-D63E1D9BE664, day: "Sunday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"), openingTimes(id: 50041432-5709-4F9D-BCF0-935504741037, day: "Monday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"), openingTimes(id: 5A7F2A66-DABD-470D-9C5B-3E4EA0BA38F6, day: "Tuesday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"),openingTimes(id: 9D977AE4-BC50-4D3E-9E36-6A3118A54F77, day: "Wednesday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"), openingTimes(id: 343E3918-14A3-411A-A43F-EBF1D6F13B58, day: "Thursday", workingHours: "1PM-5PM 8PM-12PM"), openingTimes(id: B658E07B-BBC8-4802-8C0A-DA79A0871BF8, day: "Friday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"), openingTimes(id: 29A15DC2-E0A1-46DA-A022-CF6102B239F4, day: "Saturday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM")]

I need to change the index position to 0 when the day match with current day? How can we achieve this?
currently i am using below function taking current day
func getTodayWeekDay()-> String{
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE"
    let weekDay = dateFormatter.string(from: Date())
    return weekDay
}

A: You can find the first index where day is equal to today's weekday, get the sequence from that index, remove that subrange and insert the contents of the subsequence at the startIndex. Note that it is Swift convention to name your structures starting with a lowercase letter:

extension Date {
    static var weekDay: String { Date().weekDay }
    var weekDay: String { Formatter.weekDay.string(from: self) }
}

extension Formatter {
    static let weekDay: DateFormatter = {
        let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
        dateFormatter.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")
        dateFormatter.dateFormat = "cccc"
        return dateFormatter
    }()
}

struct OpeningTimes {
    let id: String
    let day: String
    let workingHours: String
}

var openingTimes: [OpeningTimes] = [
    .init(id: "389A2E43-65C3-4555-8878-D63E1D9BE664", day: "Sunday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"),
    .init(id: "50041432-5709-4F9D-BCF0-935504741037", day: "Monday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"),
    .init(id: "5A7F2A66-DABD-470D-9C5B-3E4EA0BA38F6", day: "Tuesday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"),
    .init(id: "9D977AE4-BC50-4D3E-9E36-6A3118A54F77", day: "Wednesday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"),
    .init(id: "343E3918-14A3-411A-A43F-EBF1D6F13B58", day: "Thursday", workingHours: "1PM-5PM 8PM-12PM"),
    .init(id: "B658E07B-BBC8-4802-8C0A-DA79A0871BF8", day: "Friday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"),
    .init(id: "29A15DC2-E0A1-46DA-A022-CF6102B239F4", day: "Saturday", workingHours: "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM")
]

if let index = openingTimes.firstIndex(where: {$0.day == Date.weekDay}) {
    let subsequence = openingTimes[index...]
    openingTimes.removeSubrange(index...)
    openingTimes.insert(contentsOf: subsequence, at: 0)
}

openingTimes //  {id "29A15DC2-E0A1-46DA-A022-CF6102B239F4", day "Saturday", workingHours "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"}, {id "389A2E43-65C3-4555-8878-D63E1D9BE664", day "Sunday", workingHours "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"}, {id "50041432-5709-4F9D-BCF0-935504741037", day "Monday", workingHours "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"}, {id "5A7F2A66-DABD-470D-9C5B-3E4EA0BA38F6", day "Tuesday", workingHours "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"}, {id "9D977AE4-BC50-4D3E-9E36-6A3118A54F77", day "Wednesday", workingHours "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"}, {id "343E3918-14A3-411A-A43F-EBF1D6F13B58", day "Thursday", workingHours "1PM-5PM 8PM-12PM"}, {id "B658E07B-BBC8-4802-8C0A-DA79A0871BF8", day "Friday", workingHours "11AM-4PM 8PM-11PM"}]

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In my younger years, I took performance pressure's bait – hook, line and sinker. Then tried to control the landscape by joining my skinny High School locker-buddy on a diet that eventually landed us with eating disorders. Thankfully, Truth – with all its grace and hope and peace and joy – showed up and did what it does – gave life.
So, when I had kids, I determined to keep Overwhelmed at bay, since society seemed to have dialed up the intensity. For my mom in a world with only four channels on the television, phones connected to cords, and adding machines and electric typewriters the closest things to a personal computer – life's pressures and circumstances didn't seem to have the same death grip they have today.
Which is why I started saying (some days yelling out the car window)– This stuff is not the boss of you! Grades don't define you! That sport is just a sport not a gauge of your worth. And offer Truth-reminders of whose they/we are. Then Truth, like grace, does what it has done through the ages – overpowers and reframes life's stress, pressures and expectations with all their would's, could's & should's – and brings life.
Because, Life's Overwhelmed might be the new normal, but it's just Not the Boss of Us. Truth is, has been and always will be. So why not put it in its place and be overwhelmed by that!
Hope over the trappings of this world, … and so much more.
Not the Boss of Us involves stories (some funny, some hard) about calling out pressures, surrendering and remembering to be Overwhelmed by Truth. It's a start to the conversation, not the end of it. Because even though Overwhelmed is overwhelming, it's still worth contemplating – together. It doesn't get to steal from us or from people we love!
If nothing else – maybe we just need to say and hear Truth out loud: you're uniquely gifted, you belong, you're beautiful, you're seen, you're known, you're accepted, you're loved.
What's threatening to overwhelm you today?
Why not, together, let's call it out and re-frame it to good. THANKS for for walking the road with me.
Help spread the word by occasionally with your friends online and offline between August 1 – Sept. 5. Everything is provided (including a book, shareable quotes, testimonials, fun memes, a book trailer, …) – you don't have to create a thing – except share. And maybe write an honest review (eek! – that's a scary ask :) in September.
OR simply let your friends know.
Have already pre-ordered the book! I loved your prior 2 books- so many helpful take aways along with your humor is the best. I look forward to the arrival of Not the Boss of Us in my mailbox!
Thanks Lori! Really appreciate it – and so hope you enjoy and are encouraged by Not the Boss of Us.
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LED ZEPPELIN - 30th Anniversary Of Led Zeppelin's 1980 Chicago Stadium Shows Remembered In New Video
January 12, 2010, 12 years ago
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How to Play Humiliation
Lodge, David. Changing Places. New York: Penguin, 1979.
David Lodge's Changing Places doesn't have all that much Shakespeare in it, though it does have a Shakespearean feel to it. An American scholar trades posts with a British scholar to immensely humorous and occasionally slapstick antics.
The most memorable part of the novel to me is a game called "Humiliation" that one of the characters has invented.
The game is an interesting one—and I'd actually be interested in playing it.
But you should all read through all the rest of the excerpts from the book before you decide to play. The end may not be what you expect.
I'll let the book explain the rules, and then I'll trace the way the book uses the game. On page 96, we first learn about the game when Philip Swallow (the British professor teaching at the American institution) tries to teach it to a group of students:
The novel switches to epistolary mode in the middle; from Philip Swallow's perspective (on page 132), we get something about his attempt to introduce the game to his new American colleagues:
Mrs. Zapp is the nearly-filing-for-divorce wife of the American professor who has traded posts with Swallow. Her account of the game is found on pages 135-37:
Beware the game, then, lest you win by admitting not to have read a key work of the canon of literature—but lose by being denied tenure for having failed to do so!
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Book Note: Prince of Shadows: A Novel of Romeo and Juliet
Caine, Rachel. Prince of Shadows: A Novel of Romeo and Juliet. New York: NAL, 2015.
This is another novel I brought along with me on my trip to Vietnam, thinking to abandon it along the way to ease the weight of the return journey.
It was an interesting read, though It's not altogether my cup of tea.
The gimmick is that the story is told from Benvolio's point of view—and Benvolio is [insert drum roll] the Prince of Shadows, a Robin Hood-esque cat burglar who steals from the rich—or those Capulets needing to be brought down a notch or two—and gives to the poor—or keeps it for himself if he has some expensive plan afoot.
In the novel, Mercurio is gay; his paramour's death and his own forced marriage cause him to become reckless—or nearly insane. He does conjure up a curse on both their houses (i.e., Capulet's and Montegue's), and the Prince of Shadows needs to track down all the pieces of the curse in order to lift it.
In the meantime, Romeo is being as annoyingly foolhardy as usual—first about Rosaline (who is a Capulet, so his interest in her causes no end of a stir in the family) and then, when Rosaline has been sent off to the convent, in Juliet.
While that's going on, Benvolio is falling in love with Rosaline; since the novel is from his point of view, this becomes our main romance.
It was a compelling narrative, though it wasn't without its flaws. The interludes between chapters, for example, were fairly uneven. They usually consisted of letters from one character to another, but they sometimes deviate from that. Here's a sample that does--from the diary of Friar Lawrence.
Last Day in Hanoi
Jones, Keith. A Series of Lectures on Shakespeare. Vietnam National University—Hanoi. 7-10 March 2016.
I'm waiting in the hotel lobby for a ride to the airport so that I can spend another twenty-four cumulative hours in flight—this time, to return home.
I had a number of meetings and some wonderful meals with faculty and administrators, and I gave four two-hour lectures on Shakespeare to groups of forty to ninety students.
If you're keeping score, these were the titles of the lectures:
Elizabethan England and the Life and Works of William Shakespeare
A Dream in Hanoi: Shakespeare in Vietnam
Shakespeare: Globe to Globe and Back Again
What Happens in Hamlet when Hamlet Goes to Asia
The students were remarkably astute, and they were interested in Shakespeare and in what I had to say about him. They asked really interesting questions that showed they were thinking keenly about the material. I have yet to go through their answers to the questions I gave them (and to have them translated), but I think this was a remarkably productive beginning to what I hope will be longer-term field research.
I also heard reports of Shakespeare in Hanoi from some of the faculty. There was a Hamlet here not so very long ago--the faculty member reported that it was very good--and some of the students had gained familiarity with some Shakespeare in their Western Literature class. (The irony that I teach a Non-Western Literature class at my institution did not go unnoticed.)
And I also spotted a bit of Shakespeare here and there. For example, there was a blank book with a Shakespeare-related cover:
And there was a volume in a touristy shop for anyone who needed to brush up on Shakespeare quickly:
In the course of answering a question, I imagined a production of Romeo and Juliet as an example. "What if," I said, "the production was set in Hanoi during the war, and Romeo was an American and Juliet was Vietnamese?" The translator was immediately very interested in the idea—and that interest seemed to spread through the rest of the group. I know I would certainly like to see something like that coming out of the Vietnamese film industry!
My hope is that this is just the beginning. I would love to spend my next sabbatical in Hanoi at Vietnam National University, helping organize conferences, plan curriculum, teach Shakespeare, and even encourage productions of Shakespeare.
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King Lear in Margaret
Margaret. Dir. Kenneth Lonergan. Perf. Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Matthew Broderick, and Mark Ruffalo. 2011. DVD. Fox Searchlight, 2012.
Margaret is a film about a high school girl named Lisa who distracts a bus driver, contributing to an accident in which a women is killed. It uses King Lear and a possible reference to Macbeth to give greater roundness to some of its themes.
The film itself has some major flaws, but I greatly enjoyed seeing Matthew Broderick playing the English teacher—Ferris Bueller's on the other side of the attendance chart now, eh?
In the first clip below, I've put a brief scene introducing the idea of King Lear to the film, another short clip that I take to be related to Macbeth (be forewarned—it involves blood), and a poem by Gerard Manly Hopkins from which the film gets its name:
In case you need the text of Hopkins' poem with its marked sprung rhythm, here it is:
"Spring and Fall."
to a young child
Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
The implication of the poem's place in the film is that Lisa is not as concerned with the death of the woman hit by the bus or by vengeance on the bus driver; instead, she is concerned with her own death and with her own complicity in the woman's.
Later in the film, we are invited to consider possibly the darkest lines in King Lear: the speech Gloucester makes after he has been blinded and cast out of his own house. In the depths of his despair, he cries out, "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods: / They kill us for their sport." Here's how the teacher elicits responses from his students. (Note: the clip begins with the same brief Lear scene from above—I wanted them conveniently in one file).
The student makes a very valid point that Matthew Broderick is right to support. Broderick says, "That's a valid point. Just because Shakespeare has one of his characters say something, doesn't me he personally agrees with it." The other student also has a idea worth exploring—though I'm not sure it's articulated as clearly as it could be—but there the teacher becomes flummoxed because the point is distracting from the direction he wants the discussion to go.
At such points, I, too, often simply say, "Poor Tom's a-cold" and move on.
Hamlet in Kick-A—
Kick-A—. Dir. Matthew Vaughn. Perf. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, and Chloë Grace Moritz. 2010. DVD. Lions Gate, 2010.
With the last post, the question "But what about Shakespeare in the Superhero genre of movies?" arises. If Shakespeare is present in Action-Adventure (e.g., Last Action Hero) and Horror / Suspense (e.g., The Glass House), surely he must make an appearance in Superhero films.
The answer (apart from a brief reference that I remember in one of the Iron Men films—I know I made a note of it somewhere, but I can't find it right now) is a film whose title I'm reluctant to print in full on this generally family-friendly blog: Kick-A—.
The film is more of a self-reflexive parody than a straightforward Superhero film. Our protagonist is a high school kid who's really into comic books, and he wonders why no one has tried to be a Superhero in real life—so he gives it a try. Mayhem ensures.
The opening (which I've heavily edited . . . see the family-friendly blog reference above) puts our hero in a high school classroom where he is supposed to be studying—can you guess?—Hamlet.
Beyond two brief moments in the classroom—one mentioning Act II, scene ii (the fishmonger scene) and one including a reading of Ophelia's soliloquy in III.i—there's no direct reference to Hamlet, but the film is about those who could act and who stand by doing nothing compared to those who do something about injustice, even if it means their life is in jeopardy. And if that's not Hamlet, I don't know what is!
Shakespearean Horror—Or just Horrible Shakespeare?: The Glass House
The Glass House. Dir. Daniel Sackheim. Perf. Diane Lane, Leelee Sobieski, and Stellan Skarsgård. 2001. DVD. Sony Pictures, 2002.
Shakespeare makes his way into most genres. Most of the films in the horror or suspense genre that involve Shakespeare are either intentionally or unintentionally humorous. Theatre of Blood is one example (for which, q.v.).
The Glass House is somewhere in between. I think someone clever enough could write an article about this film equivalent what Eric S. Mallin's "'You Kilt My Foddah'; or Arnold, Prince of Denmark" (Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (1999): 127-51) did for Last Action Hero (for which, q.v.). There's Hamlet here, but in a way that undermines our expectations.
A teenage girl arrives home past her curfew to find the police in her house. She thinks she's in trouble, but she soon learns that her parents have died in a car crash. At the funeral, she meets this man:
He seems awfully nice and offers to help her in any way that he can. In the Shakespeare-aware viewer, this sets up the Hamlet analogue expectations nicely.
But our expectations are almost immediately thwarted. Some former neighbors of the family who are named Glass and who live in a house with lots of glass walls are their appointed guardians. And they're creepy. That's where the horror comes in—and it's also where Hamlet is brought to the fore.
I've mashed together some clips of the Hamlet material. The girl is studying the play in her high school class, and that makes her think of the possibility that her parents were murdered by her guardians (who are having enormous financial trouble and the kids have an enormous trust fund and blah blah blah).
The creepy guardian offers to help the girl with her homework, and he does, which seems really nice. But he plagiarizes—from Harold Bloom, of all people—and the girl (who has plagiarized before) gets in a lot of trouble. It turns out that the creepy guardian wasn't actually being nice; he was trying to get her caught for plagiarism.
And then there's a lot of horror / suspense stuff, mostly terrible, and the film ends.
It's not a great film, but I'm intrigued by the way it sets up our expectations for a Hamlet-style revenge tragedy and then fails to deliver (sort of—I won't give any spoilers).
The main lesson to take away is that plagiarism is always a bad idea. Always.
Kenneth Branagh Plays a Shakespeare-Quoting Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn. Dir.Simon Curtis. Perf. Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Judi Dench. 2011. DVD.
I should have expected to find Shakespeare scattered about in a film where Kenneth Branagh plays an actor / director . . . and where that actor / director is Laurence Olivier.
Indeed, the language of Shakespeare is peppered through the film. I've collated the major ones I spotted into a convenient clip for your benefit.
First, Marilyn was intent on using Stanislavsky's (or, technically, Lee Strasberg's) Method Acting Technique to play her role in the light comedy The Prince and the Showgirl. Later in the film (and in the filming), this will drive Olivier insane. Here, Branagh's Olivier makes light of it by saying, with the requisite Hamlet allusion,
We may seem a little strange and, uh, quaint to you at first, but I hope that in time, you may come to find your method in our madness.
He then launches immediately into "My very noble and approved good masters" from Othello.
His next also comes from Othello, and he utters it after a temperamental flight by Marilyn:
O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! (III.iii)
At the film's end, we get the final bit of Shakespeare this film has to offer, and it comes, not unexpectedly, from The Tempest:
You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. (IV.i)
These quotes don't add up to much more than icing on the cake, really—but they're such rich icing on such an interesting cake.
Bonus image for those who read this far and were hoping for an image of Kenneth Branagh looking like Laurence Olivier looking daggers at the camera:
Heights Gives us a Glimpse at Glenn Close's Lady Macbeth
Heights. Dir. Chris Terrio. Perf. Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, James Marsden, and Rufus Wainwright.
Heights is a complicated, engrossing, disturbing film about the deterioration of relationships—and the problematic role past relationships can play in those relationships.
Glenn Close (who has her own Shakespeare street cred) plays an actress / teacher (IMDb suggests at Juilliard) / diva named Diana whose husband is having an affair and whose daughter is about to be married to a man who, from the opening few scenes, we think is not to be trusted.
The very opening of the film shows us her character as she critiques the performance two students are giving of "What beast was't then / That made you break this enterprise to me?" Although we're meant to dislike this character from the start, she does make a good point about letting the language work for you:
We are also privy to a bit of how Diana / Glenn Close would play Lady Macbeth (though it's interrupted with divaesque tangents):
Diana also peppers her everyday conversation with a few Shakespeare quotes here and there:
For those of you keeping score, the play in question is actually 1 Henry VI (though the film suggests that there's just one Henry VI, and no one ever reads it). At least she gives us the memorable quote "Shakespeare's worst is still better than anyone else's best."
As a bonus for those who have read this far, there's a nifty Rime of the Ancient Mariner reference in the background conversation at a party:
The idea of a CGI albatross for a film version of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but I also like the idea of the animal rights people being on the producer's back like an albatross around the neck of the Ancient Mariner.
To tell you more would be to provide spoilers, but I will mention that the image of Diana as Lady Macbeth pops up at multiple significant places in the film—usually as a bit of an advertisement for the play.
Book Note: The Secret Life of William Shakespeare
Morgan, Jude. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014.
This is one of the books I brought with me to pass the time in the various airports I needed to go through to get to Vietnam. But the problem was that this novel made the time hang more heavy on my hands instead. That's one reason I stuck a "Free Book!" note to the cover and abandoned it in the Tokyo airport.
The writing isn't terrible—it's just uninspired. Will wants to obey his father's sanction agains hanging out with players, but he can't help himself.
Later, he wants to obey his vows of fidelity to Anne, and he does for quite a while. And then he can't help himself.
And Anne wants to trust her husband. And she does for a while. But then she can't help herself, and she runs off to London.
Sensing a trend?
The novel fills in the gaps in the biographical record, but not very imaginatively.
The plays are also downplayed somewhat. I'd like to have more of the creative side explored.
Here's a page that will give you a sample of the writing. On this page, Shakespeare is still back in Stratford, feeling guilty about going to a play.
All in all, you'd be better off with Grace Tiffany's biographical Shakespeare novel (for which, q.v.).
Click below to purchase the novel from amazon.com
The First Day in Hanoi
After too many hours of travel to count, I have arrived in Hanoi. The city is fabulous, the people are delightful, and the food is terrific.
I wandered around Hoàn Kiếm Lake today, soaking in the atmosphere and adjusting to the jet lag. I met an Australian couple and took their photo by the lake. They were amazed that I would travel so far to speak about Shakespeare.
I feel very much like the actor in A Dream in Hanoi who felt like catching up all of Hanoi in a net (for which, q.v.). In that clip, in fact, he's drawing the Turtle Tower in the lake that's just a stone's throw from my hotel.
An English teacher and her students asked if they could practice their English on me as I walked around the lake. When she heard that I was a Shakespeare scholar, she remembered having read Romeo and Juliet some time ago.
The students were interested in telling me the legend of Lê Lợi, the great hero of Vietnamese history. They told of his magic sword, his rallying the people, and his victories to establish independence, bringing Vietnam out of Chinese rule. You can read more of his story over on Wikipedia.
Just as I started to tell them about Henry V, they said they had to go.
The lectures will start on Monday. Perhaps I'll be able to work in some of the story of Lê Lợi somewhere!
Shakespeare Lectures in Vietnam
Last semester, I was invited by the Vietnam National University to come to Hanoi an lecture on Shakespeare. Thanks to a generous grant from the Faculty Development Committee of the University of Northwestern—St. Paul, I was able to accept the invitation. In fact, I leave tomorrow morning at two o'clock a.m.
During the lectures, I hope to engage in field research about Vietnamese perspectives on and reactions to Shakespeare. I have prepared a series of questionnaires to distribute after my lectures; I hope to learn much and to start to refine my ideas of Shakespeare around the globe.
One question I have for the students is "Tác giả nào anh chị coi là Shakepspeare của Việt Nam? Tại sao?" For those of us who, like me, don't speak vietnamese, that translates to "Who would you consider the Shakespeare of Vietnam to be and why?" I'm not sure what answers that will elicit (though I think The Tale of Kieu is likely to come up somewhere), and that's fascinating.
I'll also be eliciting responses from the Vietnamese students and faculty members on how they would retell certain plays—Hamlet, for example—in a Vietnamese setting. The image above is of a graphic novel of Hamlet in Vietnamese that I'll use to help convey the narrative.
This will be a whirlwind tour, but I'll try to find time to update you, my alert readers, about what I learn—and I anticipate that it will be a very great deal.
Bonus for those who have read this far: A blurb—in Vietnamese—about Shakespeare!
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With Hopes of Starting Over è l'EP di debutto della band The Starting Line, pubblicato il 25 giugno 2001 dalla Drive-Thru Records. Contiene quattro canzoni originali (due delle quali saranno inserite anche nel successivo Say It Like You Mean It) e una cover.

Nel novembre del 2005 si è venuto a sapere che in questo EP era prevista anche una sesta canzone, intitolata "Song for Her". Il brano era stato escluso dal CD per motivi sconosciuti, ed ora è possibile ascoltarlo solo tramite download.

Elenco delle tracce
Tutte le canzoni sono state scritte dai The Starting Line, tranne dove indicato diversamente.

 1. "Leaving" (The Starting Line) – 3:30
 2. "Saddest Girl Story" (The Starting Line) – 3:23
 3. "Three's a Charm" (The Starting Line) – 4:14
 4. "Greg's Last Day" (The Starting Line) – 2:42
 5. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" (Diane Warren, Albert Hammond) – 3:32

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 Kenny Vasoli – voce e basso
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Pitchfork é um website estadunidense que publica críticas, comentários e notícias sobre música e entrevistas a músicos. Foca-se na música independente, sobretudo música electrónica, pop, hip hop, indie rock, metal, r&b, folk, jazz, e música experimental, mas também cobre diversos outros gêneros e sub-gêneros musicais.

Gênero musical
Fundado por Ryan Schreiber em 1995, em Minneapolis, Minnesota, o site centra-se em resenhas e criticas sobre lançamentos musicais, mas os jornalistas da Pitchfork também fazem críticas sobre discos antigos e reedições.  O site tem publicado listas de "melhores álbuns" - como os melhores dos anos 60, 70, 80, 90, 00 e 10, assim como em todos os anos, desde 1999, publicam listas de melhores singles e álbuns do ano. A publicação é considerada de significativa influência no mundo da música independente,  apesar de também ser criticada pelos seus critérios de atribuição de notas, devoção a tendências e modas, e por focar-se em bandas e estilos de música obscuros, ou desconhecidos do grande público.

Desde 2008, a Pitchfork também possui um canal de TV online via streaming, o Pitchfork.tv.

Em 2009, o fundador Ryan Schreiber foi destacado pela revista Time como uma das pessoas mais importantes do ano.

Histórico
No final de 1995, Ryan Schreiber, então aluno do colegial, criou o site Pitchfork. Influenciado por fanzines locais e por uma estação de rádio universitária local, Schreiber, que não tinha experiência de escrita anterior, teve como objetivo fornecer à Internet um espaço regularmente atualizado sobre música independente. A princípio com o nome Turntable,  o site era mensalmente atualizado com entrevistas e comentários. Em maio de 1996, o site começou a publicar diariamente e foi rebatizado de "Pitchfork", uma referência à tatuagem de Tony Montana do filme Scarface, de 1983.

No início de 1999, Schreiber desvinculou a Pitchfork da sua base em Minneapolis e se mudou para Chicago, Illinois. Até então, o site havia se expandido sua publicação de conteúdo para quatro comentários de discos por dia, bem como entrevistas esporádicas, especiais e colunas. O site também começou a conquistar sua audiência em decorrência de sua extensa cobertura de música underground e seu estilo de escrita, livre das convenções do jornalismo impresso. Em outubro do mesmo ano, o site criou uma seção de notícias musicais diárias.

Influência

Publicidade e popularidade dos artistas
As opiniões publicadas na Pitchfork têm ganhado crescente relevância no meio cultural digital nos últimos anos. Alguns dos principais meios de comunicação veem o site como um medidor da cena musical independente, e citações positivas de suas resenhas são cada vez mais utilizadas nos comunicados de imprensa e afixadas em encartes de discos.

Algumas publicações  já acusaram a Pitchfork de desempenhar importante papel na popularização e valorização de mercado de bandas como Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go! Team, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids, e Titus Andronicus embora o verdadeiro impacto do site no desenvolvimento da popularidade desses artistas permaneça ainda sendo um assunto em debate.

Por outro lado, a Pitchfork também já foi vista como uma influência negativa para alguns artistas independentes. Como sugere um artigo do Washington Post de 2006, resenhas da Pitchfork podem ter influência significativa sobre a popularidade de um álbum, especialmente se ele só estivera anteriormente disponível para um público limitado ou lançado em uma gravadora independente. Por outro lado, um endosso da Pitchfork - que atribui notas de um décimo de um ponto de cada vez, até um máximo de 10 pontos - é muito valioso para um artista independente.

Exemplos do impacto da Pitchfork incluem:
 Arcade Fire está entre as bandas mais citadas por ter sido beneficiada por uma avaliação da Pitchfork. Em um artigo de 2005 do Chicago Tribune, um funcionário da Merge Records declarou: "Depois da resenha da Pitchfork, Funeral saiu de catálogo em cerca de uma semana porque tivemos muitos pedidos de compra disco."
 Bon Iver foi alçado ao status de banda pop e conquistou sucesso de crítica após a resenha de 2007 da Pitchfork para o disco For Emma, Forever Ago. Pitchfork foi a única publicação a ter incluído o álbum em sua lista de melhores do ano, enquanto mais de dezesseis publicações populares incluíram o re-lançamento do álbum em suas listas de 2008. No verão de 2011, a Pitchfork deu ao álbum homônimo de Bon Iver o selo "Best New Music", e, mais tarde, escolheu-o como o melhor álbum de 2011. A aclamação crítica da Pitchfork a Bon Iver é amplamente vista como o alavanca do artista para o sucesso mainstream comercial, que culminou no prêmio de Artista Revelação e Melhor Álbum de Música Alternativa do Grammy Awards de 2012. A revista Time nomeou Bon Iver como Personalidade do Ano em 2012, observando a resenha de 2007 da Pitchfork como a fonte de "credibilidade independente" que "levou a banda ao sucesso mainstream".
 Lee Sargent, membro da banda Clap Your Hands Say, discutiu o impacto da influência da Pitchfork em seu álbum, dizendo: "A questão sobre uma publicação como a Pitchfork é que eles podem decidir quando isso acontece. Você sabe o que eu quero dizer? Eles podem dizer, 'Nós vamos acelerar o processo de sucesso e isso vai acontecer... agora!' E isso foi um grande impacto para nós, porque perdemos o controle de tudo."

Críticas
Uma queixa comum sobre a Pitchfork é a de que a linha editorial do sítio sofre de uma visão estreita quanto à música independente, favorecendo o lo-fi e muitas vezes o indie rock obscuro e dando tratamento superficial para outros gêneros.  Alguns críticos têm sugerido que o site classifica álbuns de cenas musicais particulares ou certos artistas de forma mais favorável, a fim de reforçar a sua influência quando tal música se torna popular.

A maioria das críticas, no entanto, foca no estilo de resenhar álbuns do sítio. Os críticos argumentam que o site com frequência enfatiza a própria escrita do resenhista no lugar da música real que está sendo resenhada, às vezes nem mesmo resenhando o álbum e, em vez disso, criticando a integridade do artista.  A Pitchfork é também conhecida por dar nota "0.0", considerando o trabalho resenhado como totalmente sem valor. Um crítico escreveu que a nota "0.0" da Pitchfork para um álbum específico pode ser tida como não mais do que um "golpe de publicidade barata" para um site que "vive da controvérsia".

The Pitchfork Review
Em 14 de dezembro de 2013,  a Pitchfork estreou, com a primeira edição, a The Pitchfork Review, uma revista impressa trimestral de largo material escrito de música e conteúdo com foco em design,  inspirada no The New Yorker.

Festivais de música

Intonation Music Festival
Em 16 e 17 de julho de 2005, a Pitchfork foi responsável pela curadoria do Intonation Music Festival,  atraindo cerca de 15.000 espectadores ao Chicago Union Park, que contou com apresentações de 26 bandas e artistas, incluindo Diplo, Broken Social Scene, The Decemberists, Death From Above 1979, Four Tet e Tortoise.

Pitchfork Music Festival
Em 29 e 30 de julho de 2006, a publicação organizou a primeira edição de seu próprio evento de música, Pitchfork Music Festival, no mesmo parque de Chicago. O evento atraiu mais de 18.000 pessoas por dia. Mais de 40 bandas e artistas se apresentaram no festival inaugural, incluindo Spoon, Yo La Tengo e, como headliners, os então recém-reunidos ícones da Tropicália, Os Mutantes.

Sítios subsidiários

Pitchfork.tv
Em 07 de abril de 2008, a Pitchfork Media lançou Pitchfork.tv, um canal audiovisual online com videoclipes, documentários e outras produções relacionadas a bandas de música independente. Ele apresenta bandas que são normalmente encontradas no site principal, Pitchfork.

Altered Zones
Em 7 de julho de 2010, a Pitchfork Media anunciou Altered Zones, um agregador de blogs dedicado à música undreground e "DIY music".  Altered Zones foi encerrado em 30 de novembro de 2011.

Nothing Major
Em 26 de dezembro de 2012, a Pitchfork Media lançou Nothing Major, um site que cobre as artes visuais, tais como belas artes e fotografia.  Nothing Major foi fechado em 16 de outubro de 2013.

The Dissolve
Em 10 de julho de 2013, a Pitchfork Media lançou The Dissolve, braço dedicado a resenhas, notícias, comentários e conteúdo especial sobre cinema.

Premiações da Pitchfork

"Pitchfork Album of the Year"

"Pitchfork Track of the Year"

Ligações externas

Sites de música
Revistas eletrônicas
Sites de multimídia
Revistas de música dos Estados Unidos


Emmerdale star Lesley Dunlop has revealed the incredibly positive response viewers have had to her character's brain tumour storyline.
The actress, who plays Brenda Walker in Emmerdale, was surprised at how many people the storyline had resonated with.
Lesley said: "There's been a lot of thanks from people to Emmerdale for doing this storyline in order to highlight that it's actually more common than we think.
But the actress admitted she felt a lot of responsibility to do the story justice. She said: "As an actress, first and foremost, to get it right – to physically get it right for people who've been through this, I think it's important.
"It was very emotionally draining and it drew on a lot of experiences of my own, of loss and of illness.


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Centre to set up South Asia's 1st tobacco testing lab in Guwahati
NEW DELHI , April 26, 2018 4:42 pm
The Central government has planned to set up south Asia's first tobacco testing laboratories in Guwahati besides Noida, Mumbai to test the contents of all tobacco products in the country.
The director of the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), Dr Ravi Mehrotra, and the new Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Dr Balram Bhargava, spoke about the need for laboratories — independent of private companies — to test what all and in what quantities ingredients go into tobacco products.
Speaking to the press at the launch of a report on smokeless tobacco on Wednesday, Dr Bhargava also floated the idea of tobacco cessation centres across the country with surgeons, psychiatrists, dentist on board.
Calling it a radical thought, he said these centres could be made mandatory and medical colleges without them could be de-recognised.
Bhargava added that he was taking his cue from the way drug resistant tuberculosis centres functioned across India.
Tobacco cessation support — the process of quitting tobacco — and tobacco testing laboratories are both part of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) that India is part of.
The global hub that published the report runs out of NICPR, Noida, where India's apex lab is being set up. It is already testing gutkha, khaini and zarda, said Mehrotra.
Khaini and zarda are two of the most popular forms of smokeless tobacco (SLT) in India.
The other two labs are being set up at the Central Drug Testing Laboratory (CDTL), Mumbai, and the Regional Drug Testing Laboratory (RDTL), Guwahati.
As work goes on, India will share its findings with neighbouring countries such as Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand; countries that are part of the WHO-FCTC.
The Conference of Parties of the FCTC, are mandated to have guidelines to test and measure contents and emission of tobacco products, and then adopt and implement legislation for such testing.
According to a report released by the WHO FCTC global smokeless tobacco hub on Tuesday, at the NICPR, the average implementation of this mandate, among the 179 Parties, was 50 percent.
Apart from the upcoming labs here, there is one in Singapore that tests cigarettes, in the Netherlands, in Atlanta, US — the US is not part of the FCTC — in Germany, Burkina Faso and in Japan.
So far, though, these labs, or WHO collaborating centres, remain mainly focus on technical training, testing compounds and emissions of smoking products, especially cigarettes. Testing, said the report, remains ad hoc, and not all SLT products being used in all the countries have been analysed.
The most toxic and carcinogenic compounds identified in tobacco are the tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNA), especially nicotine-derived nitrosamine ketone (NNK), N Nitrosonornicotine (NNN) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P). All three are present in varying quantities in gutkha, khaini, zarda, etc.
Nicotine can be anywhere between 19.6 to 21.3 milligrams in a gram of khaini, 13.8 to 65 milligrams in a gram of zarda, and 1.23 to 11.4 milligrams in a gram of gutkha.
The report points out there is a dearth of information about brand wide quantification of Group I carcinogens such as NNN and NNK. Without this data and and research, there are major gaps in understanding of the toxic effects of the ingredients of SLT products.
India embarks on world's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive, over 3 lakh people to be vaccinated on Saturday


Here is a limited song list from previous studio album releases and some extra ones I play at a lot at shows. Yes, there dozens of other songs I could post on here so I'm sorry if the lyrics to a song you were looking for aren't in this list. All lyrics copyright © Chris Bjerken, all rights reserved.
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In its latest report on Global Economic Prospects 2013, the World Bank has noted that Vietnamese people pay more attention to stability of the macro-economy, unlike other nationalities.
Four years after the onset of the global financial crisis, the worst appears to be over. However, global economy remains fragile, as high-income countries continue to suffer from volatility and slow growth, said the World Bank report.
A World Bank survey on 50,000 Vietnamese people showed that a large number ignored growth percentage but wanted stable prices and sufficient daily expenses. Up to 44 percent of people in the survey expressed greatest concern on inflation rather than jobs and income.
World Bank's lead economist, Deepak Mishra, said that earlier the Vietnamese government was focused on speeding up growth, but in recent years there is more concentration on stabilizing macro-economy and implementing fiscal and monetary policies to curb inflation prudently.
Growth is projected to increase by 6 percent by 2015 in Vietnam, which had slowed recently due to tough measures-- but will now benefit from stabilizing commodity prices.
However, economic experts from the World Bank warn of risks in the country's economy in 2013, including high inflation and low foreign currency reserves compared to other countries in the Southeast Asian region.
Pressure on loose fiscal and monetary policies may lead to re-occurrence of inflation, the WB warned.


I actually made the Odgen cami in this Minerva Crafts turtle print last year at The Sewing Weekeneder. Needless to say it did not get worn however I couldn't bring myself to get rid of it. This print however lends itself rather well to PJs! Having made some winter Carolyn Pajamas I knew that the pattern fit well and so whipped up the shorts version at Norwich Sewcials Sew Day a couple of weeks back.
The best bit? Pockets of course!
I'm in love with the Ogden as well and have made two of them. I was thinking about using it for PJ's too. Do you have a tutorial for the cross over straps?
These are absolutely stunning!! The patterns go so well together, and I love the fabric you used.


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Q: Regarding SPI modes I have doubt on SPI modes.
from online source i got this image

from this image, for modes 0 & 3 Sampling edge is Rising edge and Transmit edge is Falling edge.
Is this the same case for SPI master & Slave.
I mean if i have SPI flash & SPI master supporting both modes. Whether this sampling at Rising edge & transmitting at falling edge holds for Both SPI master & SPI flash also. or only for SPI flash and reverse for SPI master(sampling @ falling edge , Transmit @ Rising edge)..

A: SPI slaves do not control the CPOL and CPHA values, the master does. So the master has to use a mode that the slave(s) will accept. Usually, the slaves will be compatible enough that they will all work with one set of settings. But if not, the master can change mode to talk to a specific device.

A: Both the master and the slave have to be in the same SPI mode so for both sampling would be rising and transmit would be falling.


Sheep are rapidly becoming one of my favourite animals.
They are such loveable balls of fluff and have so much to give back: meat (we just butchered our 8 month old ram lamb), milk (not yet, but we're hoping that someday we'll get to milk one of the ewes) and wool.
First the sheep need to be shorn.
Not wanting to invest immediately in expensive shearing equipment, we opted for a cheaper method: kitchen scissors! Then the wool needs washing. (Sorry, we don't have any pictures of this step.) We give the fleeces three washes in hot soapy water to remove the lanolin (sheep grease). It is important to do this without agitation. Agitating wool when it is hot causes it to felt, rendering it useless. And then we rinse it, also in hot water.
After washing it goes on racks to dry, or in our case, on frost fencing elevated off the ground by 2×4's.
Once dry, the wool is skirted, which simply means that we remove any worthless bits of fiber, i.e. parts that have manure on them or sections that contain too much vegetable matter (hay).
At this point, the wool is ready for combing or carding. We didn't have any carding equipment, so we did our first fleece with hair combs – a very time-consuming project as it meant combing one end of a lock, flipping it around and combing the other end!
Now we have a drum carder which speeds the process up enormously! The wool is put through the carder a bit a time for the first pass.
To line the fibers up better and to remove more vegetable matter, we send the wool through the carder about three times on average.
When the bat is removed for the final time, it is torn into long strips and moved on to the spinning wheel.
Alternately, it can be removed from the drum in one long strip using a disk with a tiny hole in it. Our sheep's short staple length makes this impracticable this year, but perhaps it will work with the longer wool we hope to get next year.
At the spinning wheel, the rovings (long strips of wool) are drafted (drawn out into even thinner strands) and twisted before getting wound onto the bobbin.
Once two bobbins are filled, the strands are plied together by being sent through the spinning wheel again, with the wheel spinning backwards this time.
The wool is now ready to be used and turned into warm articles of clothing!
This entry was posted in Frazer Family Mini-Farm, Frazer Family News, Wool on January 22, 2018 by Elizabeth.


This is the website for Vicarage Park After School Club. We are here to provide top quality after school care to the children of Vicarage Park Primary School in Kendal.
Our guiding principles are to offer a fun and stimulating environment to all the children that attend the Club, while reinforcing the positive behaviours that are taught in school. The children are here to relax after their busy school day, but we promote interaction and play between age groups, so it's fantastic to see new friendships grow and develop.
Children attending the Club are provided with a healthy snack. They usually all sit at tables to eat together but on sunny warm days we can often be found outdoors enjoying a picnic style snack time. While always taking account of dietary needs and preferences, we also encourage children to try new foods and flavours.
Please browse through the site to get a sense of the kind of activities and care that we offer to all our children. All our policies are also available to download, and there is a link to our most recent Ofsted Inspection report.
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On Tuesday evening, Mayor David Narkewicz swore in Jody Kasper as the city's new Chief of Police. In accordance with the City Charter, Mayor Narkewicz's nomination was first submitted to the City Council for approval.
With the Council's endorsement, Kasper is now the first female in Northampton's history to hold the position. She has served as police officer for 17 years and has been the Captain of Operations in the Northampton Police Department since 2014.
In her acceptance speech, she acknowledged the current challenges of working in law enforcement both locally and nationally. However, Kasper went on to express hope for healing the rift between police and the public, stating, "It is also important that we move beyond the limiting role of law enforcers and instead embrace the broader concept of policing."
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Come join us for the Keep Worship Alive Series"When the Saints Go to Worship" which is designed to reassess what we do in worship.
Saturday, November 17, from 9:30 - 12 noon.
The Youth and Young Adult Ministry's Christmas Toy and School Supply Drive! Toys and school supplies will be collected the 1st Sunday of the month. Our next collection date: December 2.
The staff of the Renew Counseling Center will facilitate a Bereavement Support Group on Saturdays, November 17, December 1, Development 15, and December 29.


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UK meets the Brexit deadline and casts off into the unknown
The United Kingdom left the European Union's orbit on Thursday, turning its back on a tempestuous 48-year liaison with the European project for an uncertain post-Brexit future in its most significant geopolitical shift since the loss of empire.
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1 January 2021, at 8:14am
Reuters reports that the United Kingdom has left the European Union at 23:00 GMT on 31 December after the 11-month Brexit transition period that began on 31 January 2020.
For five years, the frenzied gyrations of the Brexit crisis dominated European affairs, haunted the sterling markets and tarnished the United Kingdom's reputation as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability.
After years of Brexit vitriol, one of the most significant events in European history since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union passed with little fanfare: The United Kingdom slipped away, serenaded by the silence of the COVID-19 crisis.
Supporters cast Brexit as the dawn of a newly independent "global Britain", but it has weakened the bonds that bind England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland into a $3 trillion economy.
"This is an amazing moment for this country," Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 56, said in his New Year's Eve message. "We have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it."
As EU leaders and citizens bade farewell, Johnson said there would be no bonfire of regulations to build a "bargain basement Dickensian Britain" and that the country would remain the "quintessential European civilization".
But Johnson, the face of the Brexit campaign, has been short on detail about what he wants to build with Britain's "independence" - or how to do it while borrowing record amounts to pay for the COVID-19 crisis.
The Brexit referendum and the fall-out
In the 23 June 2016, referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 52 percent, backed Brexit while 16.1 million, or 48 percent, backed staying in the bloc. Few have changed their minds since. England and Wales voted out but Scotland and Northern Ireland voted in.
The referendum showed a United Kingdom divided about much more than the European Union, and fuelled soul searching about everything from secession and immigration to capitalism, the legacy of empire and what it now means to be British.
Leaving was once the far-fetched dream of a motley crew of "eurosceptics" on the fringes of British politics: the UK joined in 1973 as "the sick man of Europe" and two decades ago British leaders were arguing about whether to join the euro. It never did.
But the turmoil of the euro zone crisis, attempts to integrate the EU further, fears about mass immigration and discontent with leaders in London helped Brexiteers win the referendum with a message of patriotic, if vague, hope.
"We see a global future for ourselves," said Johnson who won power in 2019 and, against the odds, clinched a Brexit divorce treaty and a trade deal, as well as the biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher, in the 2019 election.
Supporters see Brexit as an escape from a doomed Franco-German project that has stagnated while the United States and China surged ahead. Opponents say Brexit will weaken the West, further reduce Britain's global clout, make people poorer and lessen its cosmopolitanism.
When the Great Bell known as Big Ben tolled 11 through a scaffold, there were few outward displays of emotion in Britain as gatherings are banned under coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
Will the kingdom remain united?
After the United Kingdom leaves the Single Market or the Customs Union, there is almost certain to be some disruption at borders. More red tape means more cost for those importing and exporting goods across the EU-UK border.
After haggling over a trade deal for months, the British government published 70 pages of case studies just hours before its departure advising companies on what rules they would have to follow at the new UK-EU border.
The Port of Dover expects volumes to drop off in early January. The most worrisome period, it says, will be in mid- to late January when volumes pick up again.
Support for Scottish independence has risen, partly due to Brexit and partly due to COVID-19, threatening the 300-year-old political union between England and Scotland.
Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has said an independence referendum should take place in the earlier part of the devolved parliament's next term, which begins next year.
"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on," Sturgeon said.
Read more about this story on Reuters.
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Tzell Travel Group has announced the promotions of two senior level executives, Awilda Gonzalez and Karen Magee, to the roles of senior vice president of operations and engagement and vice president, partnerships and leisure service, respectively.
Awilda Gonzalez, a retired U.S. Army reservist, has been promoted to senior vice president of operations and engagement, where she oversees travel advisor relations and company culture.
Prior to joining Tzell Travel in 1997, Gonzalez began her travel industry career with American Airlines as a travel agent. She spent 20-plus years in a variety of leadership capacities, learning multiple aspects of the business, including understanding of the independent contractor model and Tzell's position within the marketplace. Gonzalez reports to Cindy Schlansky and Monty Swaney, co-presidents of Tzell Travel Group.
Additionally, Karen Magee has been promoted to vice president, partnerships and leisure service. She oversees Tzell's industry partnerships and leisure department. Her team focuses on developing Tzell advisors' luxury travel business through partnership initiatives, education and resource development. In her role, she is also responsible for facilitating and strengthening preferred supplier agreements and relationships within the Tzell network.
Karen will also report to Schlansky and Swaney. Prior to joining Tzell, Magee held a number of supplier relations management positions at other agencies, including Frosch and Ultramar Travel and Transport, as well as serving as a global sales director for The Doyle Collection. Beyond that, Magee serves on the board of a variety of luxury hotel brands and is also a past board member of Women in Travel and co-founded Young Travel Professionals.
Both Gonzalez and Magee are based at Tzell's headquarters in Manhattan at 1633 Broadway.