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Swim Team (Geelong)
Demonstrating the power of inclusion to transcend disability, Director Lara Stolman's triumphant film profiles members of the Jersey Hammerheads, a competitive swim team made up of a diverse group of teens on the autism spectrum, based in the state with the highest rate of autism in the USA. Through training and competition, star athletes Mikey, Robbie and Kelvin gain self-confidence and social skills that serve them both in and out of the pool.
"Eye-opening, thoughtful, inspiring..."
- Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
"...an exceptional documentary on what it means to come together for a common goal under extraordinary circumstances."
- Anne-Katrin Titze, Eye For Film
"Swim Team is a probing, honest, and uplifting look at the challenges that young autistic people and their families face as they "age out" of services after high school. It's also a beautifully filmed and sensitively paced portrait of a group of autistic people of color who give their all to take their team to the state finals for a chance to swim at the Special Olympics. You will not soon forget these wonderful young swimmers, or the struggles of their parents as they refuse to allow their kids' potential to be limited by society's low expectations for their future."
- Steve Silberman, Author "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity"
Q&A panel
Chloe Hayden, "Princess Aspien", is a nineteen year old girl from country Victoria, diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 13.
After struggling through her childhood and early teenage years by not feeling included in society, feeling outcast and unable to connect to anyone, she suffered intense bullying through school, which ended up with her spending some time in hospital.
As an eighteen year old, Chloe came to the realisation that she wasn't the only child who has felt like this, and that there was thousands of other children out there who had gone through the same things she was, simply because there was no one who understood.
And that's how Princess Aspien was born.
Chloe took charge of the situation, and now spends her life advocating for children on the spectrum through interactive, fun videos and blog posts, which tackle the harder pressed details of living with Autism, while keeping it fun, encouraging and entertaining for a younger audience, and educational for their parents.
An ambassador for Yellow Ladybugs, Aspergers Victoria and Treehouse Geelong, she dedicates her life to being a role model, advocate and encourager to children and adults alike on the Autism spectrum, and helping their families to see through and get a greater understanding."
Rachael Parker is the founder of Ocean Mind and a Youth Worker with over 10 years' experience working with children and young people experiencing complex issues affecting their lives. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Youth Work), Certificate IV in Alcohol and other Drugs, Mental Health First Aid and Surf Coaching.
Rachael is passionate about using the outdoor environments to create positive experiences and opportunities for young people to grow and prosper. Since discovering surfing in 2015, she's combined her passion for the ocean and working with young people to create Ocean Mind. She loves nothing more than sharing her love of the ocean with young people and teaching them to find the stoke in the surf
Carlie Hageman is a qualified social worker specialising in art therapy who has supported many schools and families including those with young people with ADHD, Autism and Aspergers. She is not currently practicing as she focuses on being a mama to two beautiful boys, managing her rogue vegetable garden and chasing after 2 dogs and 5 chooks. She also travels the country speaking and sharing her knowledge and experiences of Mother Natures gifts - Essential Oils.
Her time as a social worker was so rewarding but she soon became disillusioned with the systems she was forced to work within and was increasingly frustrated by the way these families were being supported and the modalities (or lack there of) that they could access through traditional funding methods. She wanted to share more alternative ways to improve health.
Carlie decided not to return to social work after having her first child and her passion for helping others has now shifted to sharing the profound benefits of essential oils for everyone but in particular families dealing with ASD. She loves watching people respond to and feel empowered by these essential oils and supporting anyone who is looking for another a natural and affordable tool for their kit to support their young people with their emotions, vocabulary, sleep, social connections, digestion etc.
Through thought-provoking events that inspire action, and using the power of film to illuminate the issues of our time, Suburban Sandcastles is a movement for people seeking to live with their minds opened by wonder, not closed by belief. Join us at The Potato Shed in Drysdale, between Geelong and Ocean Grove, for a nourishing meal, fresh juice, wholefood snacks, beer and wine, all available for purchase before the film. Connect with our community and explore what's on offer from our wellness and lifestyle exhibitors. There's also great prizes in our raffle thanks to our exhibitors and generous local businesses.
6pm doors open, nourishing food and drink available, local exhibitors
7pm film commences
8.30pm Q&A panel followed by prize raffle
9.00pm event concludes
RISE Documentary (Bayside Melbourne)
Swim Team (Bayside Melbourne)


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Coronas Beer On Special Assignment
WPP's Cavalry is back in the beer business after picking up a new assignment for Corona. The former MillerCoors agency will handle a new low-calorie, low-carbohydrate line extension called Corona Premier that will be positioned to take on hot-selling Michelob Ultra.
A spokesman for Corona-owner Constellation Brands confirmed Cavalry's selection in an email. The line extension will be tested in a handful of unidentified markets next year. "Consumers are craving lower calorie, lower carb options, and Corona Premier will allow us to extend our offering and better meet these consumers' needs," the spokesman said. "We're leveraging the equity of the Corona brand to explore this opportunity through several small tests next year." Constellation has not revealed marketing plans.
Calvary's win means Constellation continues to spread Corona work around to multiple agencies.
Corona Extra is handled by Cramer-Krasselt and Ogilvy has Corona Light. Hispanic advertising is handled by The Community, which has also won some general market assignments.
Constellation announced the line extension last week at meeting in New York City for institutional investors. Corona Premier will take all the qualities that "consumers tell us they like about Mich Ultra" which are "full strength alcohol, low carbs, low calories, and not too much taste," Constellation's beer division chief, Paul Hetterich, said at the meeting, according to a report by Beer Business Daily. But the marketer will be careful to do "a lot of measuring on cannibalization," he said, checking how it impacts Corona Light and Extra, Beer Business Daily reported.
Michelob Ultra, which is owned by Anheuser Busch InBev, is one of the fastest-growing brands in beer. U.S. sales surged nearly 24% in the 52-weeks ending on Sept. 4 to $1.3 billion, according to IRI, which does not include bar sales. MillerCoors earlier this year had considered launching its own Mich Ultra competitor called Goldwing, but the brewer recently put the brakes on the new brand, saying it wanted to focus on Coors Light and Miller Lite.
Chicago-based Cavalry lost the MillerCoors business in August of 2015, three years after WPP established the shop to service Coors brands and several newer MillerCoors brands including Redd's and Smith & Forge. Coors is now handled by 72andSunny, while Mekanism handles Redd's, Smith & Forge and Henry's Hard Soda.
Cavalry's other clients include R.J. Reynolds, Tyson Foods and the American Freedom Foundation.
Ogilvy & Mather Chicago is popping beer caps after being named to head up advertising for Corona Light and Modelo Especial beginning in January.
Corona Light and Modelo Especial are part of the Chicago-based Constellation Beer Brands portfolio, and are among the most popular imported beer brands in the U.S. Advertising for the brands was previously led by San Francisco-based Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
The announcement Friday is a big win for Ogilvy & Mather Chicago, made even more special because the agency hasn't headed up creative for a beer brand in years.
"We love beer," said Lee Newman, president of Ogilvy & Mather Chicago. "In some ways, beer is agency juice. There is just an energy around that category creatively that makes us really excited."
Corona Light is the top imported light beer brand and No. 5 among all imported beers, while fast-growing Modelo Especial has become the No. 2 imported beer in the U.S., according to IRI, a Chicago-based market research firm. Michael McGrew, a spokesman for Constellation Beer Brands, said there was room to grow both brands, but saw a huge opportunity for Modelo Especial, which has been marketed mostly to Hispanic consumers.
"We see tremendous upside potential for Modelo Especial, particularly with the general market," McGrew said. "We're trying to be aggressive in realizing the full potential of this brand."
Corona Light spent about $7 million and Modelo Especial nearly $22 million on measured media in the U.S. last year, according to Kantar Media. Ad spending was up more than 60 percent for both brands through the first six months of 2014.
While he would not disclose advertising plans for either brand, Newman said Corona Light is well-positioned in the light beer category as an "upgrade" to domestic beers. The Modelo brand offers even greater untapped potential, he said.
"On the Modelo side, the growth has been incredible and still feels like a sleeping giant, because it's just a brand that is dripping with authenticity," Newman said. "It's an exciting opportunity."
Constellation Beer Brands is the No. 3 beer company in the U.S., with six of the top 20 imported brands, including top-selling Corona Extra. Other brands include Negra Modelo, Pacifico, Tsingtao and Victoria.
Advertising for Corona Extra is handled by Chicago-based independent agency Cramer-Krasselt.
Ogilvy & Mather Chicago has been doing some project work recently for MillerCoors, creating the Miller Lite campaign "The Beer That Changed Everything." But it has been a long time since the agency took the lead on a beer brand, according to Newman.
"It's been quite some time since we've had a full-fledged assignment like this," said Newman, who joined Ogilvy & Mather Chicago in 2012. "It certainly was way before my time here."
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Bob's Burgers Season 6 Premiered on September 27th, 2015.
Bob finds an exercise bike in the back alley and is using it to help get in shape, the kids help by encouraging him, in their own ways. After finding a huge clump of hair in the shower, and having his family confirm that his bald spot is still the same size, Bob discovers he is losing his mustache.
After Bob suggests shaving it off, to Linda's horror, Linda tells the kids the story of how she and Bob met. Linda credits Bob's mustache as the reason she fell for him. Gene and Louise then suggest that if Bob hadn't had a mustache that he and Linda wouldn't have ended up together. Tina, insists however, that they were meant for each other. Gene then tells his story of what would have happened if Bob had no mustache on the night he and Linda met.
In Gene's story Bob's lip gets cut by Linda's engagement ring, and he ends up at the hospital. At the hospital, officer Bosco commandeers Bob and puts him into a coma. When Bob wakes up, he is officer Robostache and remembers nothing of his former life. As Robostache, Bob is a nitpicky cop. He runs into Linda again. Now that he has a mustache, Linda finds Bob attractive and the two of them go out for coffee.
When Bob and Linda Kiss, Bob's mustache shocks her. Wanting to continue her romance with Bob, Linda goes with him to the police station in hopes of turning down the voltage on the mustache. Officer Bosco reveals that doing so would cause Bob's brain to explode. Then reveals that Robostache was specifically created to drive out the people of the town so that Mr. Fischoder can build his dream Wonder Wharfopolis, an amusement park the size of a town.
When Bob tries to arrest Bosco he discovers is unable due to secret directive number four. Bosco then reveals he is Mr. Fischoder and Bob declares that he is under arrest. The two then get into an epic battle, Bob's mustache against Mr. Fischoder's robotic eye. Bob is defeated, his mustache falls off and his brain explodes. His dying wish is for Linda to keep his mustache, which she puts on her pet cactus.
In Louise's story, Bob tries to grow a mustache after being turned down by Linda at the bar. After trying everything he can think of Bob's last hope is a wish from the robotic fortune teller at Wonder Wharf. Unfortunately for Bob it's out of order and he's forced to ask Teddy, who is repairing it, to grant his wish. Bob gets his mustache and his date with Linda. However while they're out on the date Bob's body hair starts growing out of control until he becomes a hair covered freak.
Linda tries to help by shaving Bob, but the hair grows back almost immediately. Bob joins the freak show at Wonder Wharf resigning himself to life as a freak. Linda joins a convent because she thinks it will be like the sister act. She gets kicked out and ends up in Jail.
Tina's story ends up being the most horrific, mainly because it's the most realistic. After several false starts as a result of trying to force Bob and Linda together, Tina realizes that if Bob and Linda didn't get together, Linda would have married Hugo. Because Hugo is happy he pursues his dream and opens Hugo's Hotdogs.They have three children, who look similar to the Belcher kids, but lack the personality that make them interesting.
Bob, who had his heart broken by Linda is a health inspector. Bob and Ron come to investigate a disturbing rumour that Hugo makes his hotdogs with actual wiener dogs. Linda realizes she should have been with Bob, but Bob doesn't take the hint and they remain separated. Hugo confesses that the rumour is true and the restaurant is shut down.
In the end Bob realizes that the exercise bike has been squeezing his private parts, causing testicular failure after Gene tries the bike. Bob then decides to give up using the exercise bike, so that his mustache can return to its former glory.


We're passionate about documentaries at Republica. A passion that sets us above run-of-the-mill video companies as we adapt the values of documentary story telling to the commercial market. But we still take time to persue our first love to keep that flame alive.
This year we've already started production of our first full-length feature documentary called Radio Land. We're following the exploits of a bunch of volunteers running an amazing community radio station called Radio Winchcome. Despite the fact that no-one gets paid, the presenters, engineers and managers all pull together to keep the station running 24/7! Its the perfect example of real community spirit in a small Cotswold town.
We're shooting throughout the summer of 2018 and aim to have the film finished sometime in the autumn for release in the new year.
Check out the links below and follow our progress on Social Media!
Radio Land follows a dedicated group of volunteers who run a community radio station called Radio Winchcombe.
Serving a small Cotswold town, the station runs 24/7 despite a complete lack of financial resources, depending solely on sheer passion and love for the community.
Our services are flexible and designed around your requirements and budget so that you get the maximum benefit. We first discuss with you the audience you want to reach and the story you want to tell. In addition to shooting in full HD with the most up-to-date equipment, we can also help with the technical apsects of distribution, setting up video players, hosting and broadcast services.


After Zoe and Max's last attempt to conceive fails tragically, their marriage breaks apart. When Zoe falls in love again and considers having a family, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used. But who do they really belong to? An honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences when love and desire collide with science and the law.
Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to have a baby, and finally it looks as though her dream is about to come true - she is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events takes away her baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When Vanessa, a guidance counsellor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, Vanessa and Zoe's relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe's surprise, blossoms into love.
When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family again, she remembers that she and Max still have frozen embryos they never used. Max, meanwhile, has found peace at the bottom of a bottle, until he is redeemed by an evangelical church where the pastor has vowed to fight the 'homosexual agenda' that threatens traditional family values. This mission becomes personal for Max when Zoe and her partner want permission to raise his unborn child.
Sing You Home is an honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences of love and desire colliding with science and the law.
Songs specially composed for this book by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber, and performed by Ellen Wilber, are available to listen to and download.


Home Top Stories Sarah Geronimo, pinakita ang dance moves tatak Popstar Royalty!
Indeed, Sarah Geronimo has come a long way in her career, from being a young dreamer, to becoming one of the biggest and brightest Filipino stars of this generation!
For 16 years, the Popstar Royalty has proven time and time again that her talent is of world-class caliber, and her local and international awards are proof.
Aside from her numerous recognition, Sarah has also pursued various aspects of her career. When it comes to acting, she has starred in several films that became blockbuster hits.
In music, the Popstar Royalty has released hit songs that became all-time favorites, as well as albums that went multi-platinum.
Not to mention, Sarah has headlined concerts, not only in the Philippines, but also in different countries all over the globe!
The Popstar Royalty's powerful singing voice never fails to leave her audiences in awe, and her energy-filled dance moves also add more wow factor to her all-out performances.
Just take a look at how Sarah G grooved in this video, showing how a Popstar Royalty slays the dance floor!
Dance moves tatak Sarah Geronimo!
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Q: Statistics on number of questions asked daily/weekly It would be interesting to know how many questions are asked every day, understand how this number behaves over time and versus the number of visitors/users.
For example: is the "rate" of questions linear in the number of visitors? Polynomial? Maybe it has stronger relation to the number of subscribed users and not to visitors. You know, some stats fun.
I think that exposing several simple numbers will allow the community to calculate these graphs and stats, and give back to the StackOverflow family of sites by pointing out interesting statistical insights.

A: The StackOverflow data is publicly available.  This gives you the ability to roll your own stats. Here is a post that gives you a whole bunch of info.

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That's what Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland called Barack Obama today. Ugh. But actually I say the story here is the dog that didn't bark. One of several wrong predictions I made this week was that the GOP convention would be marred by an endless series of racially-tinged comments from delegates and/or marginal right-wing hangers-on. But that hasn't happened. Passing through a food court area today I did hear a loudmouthed guy noisily holding court on the subject of "Barack Hussein Obama," but that's the worst I've encountered. I've even been checking out the buttons and shirts on sale by vendors, and they're all very appropriate--no racist Obama dolls, not even any nasty anti-Hillary shirts or buttons (that I've seen). There's a sanitized feeling that makes me think the convention planners were highly attuned to the possibility for trouble and took measures to prevent it.
And the boots pictured above, by the way, belong to an African-American guy I met on Monday night. Although when someone handed me a copy of a magazine called Black Republican earlier this week, it brought to mind that great moment from the movie Airplane when the stewardess' selection of reading materials includes a tiny pamphlet entitled "Famous Jewish Sports Heroes."
P.S. More or less unrelated, a great sight on the street this evening: A man in a dark suit and black cowboy hat walking into the Xcel Center alongside a dude with a yarmulke and a flashing Bluetooth device in his ear. Mazal Tov, cowboy!


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Celebrate 4/20 With These 10 Weed Themed Films & TV Shows
Film 04.20.20 at 6:00 am
By Remezcla Estaff
Lead Photo: Courtesy of the filmmakers.
Courtesy of the filmmakers.
Stoner comedies are a genre unto itself. But don't let yourself be fooled into thinking weed has only inspired broad laugh fests about lazy protagonists who'd rather stay home smoking. Contemporary film and television have broadened what kinds of stories for and about stoners can be told. That's why we're bringing you a sampling of the great work from U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans daring to tell new weed infused stories amid a changing world where legalization and criminalization continue to dominate local and global politics alike.
We've updated our list from a few years back of all things weed-related, and added a number of Latin American films as well as a number of classic TV and web shows that, as of late, have taken to telling stories about all things marijuana. From laugh out loud Chicano comedies to gritty Brazilian dramas and everything in between, the list below should serve as your very own 420-watch list.
Now sit down, light a joint and stream away.
Director: Lou Adler
Available to stream on Netflix.
Cheech and Chong's very first movie finds them playing — what else? — two stoner friends who unknowingly smuggle a van made entirely out of marijuana from Mexico to Los Angeles. What follows is mayhem. It includes nuns, a bunch of puns, some questionable fashion choices, Tom Skerritt playing a Vietnam War vet named Strawberry and an overly zealous sergeant on their hunt played by Stacy Keach. A stoner classic it would be the first of many Cheech and Chong collaborations over the years.
Synopsis By: Manuel Betancourt
Genre Comedy
Writer Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin
Producer Lou Adler, Lou Lombardo
Run Time 86
Half Baked
Director: Tamra Davis
Available to stream on Starz.
The premise of this early Dave Chappelle film is simple enough: three friends sell weed to bail out another friend after he is imprisoned for killing a police horse with junk food. This is your gateway film to all pot films. It's just good entertainment. It's also incredibly diverse. Chapelle stars alongside Guillermo Diaz and Jim Breuer, while Tommy Chong himself makes an appearance. It's also that rare stoner film directed by a woman, Tamra Davis. Tie-dye, happy faces and eyes in need of Visine drops will turn your frown upside down. Guaranteed.
Synopsis By: Pili Valdés
Writer Dave Chappelle, Neal Brennan
Producer Robert Simonds
Misión no oficial
Director: Denny Brechner, Alfonso Guerrero, Marcos Hecht
What originated as a hidden camera bit in Uruguay turned into a full-blown feature mockumentary about a fake Uruguayan Chamber of Legal Marijuana that travels to the United States to find 50 tons of cannabis to supply the country. Set mostly in the U.S. and treading a fine line between what's real and what's fiction, this Borat-esque film actually stars Uruguay's very real president at the time Jose Mujica.
Writer Denny Brechner, Alfonso Guerrero, Marcos Hecht
Temporada de patos
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Available to rent on Amazon.
When their high strung mother goes out for the day leaving Flama and his buddy Moko with some pesos for pizza and Cokes in their high-rise housing complex it has all the makings of the perfect Sunday for a couple of tweens. Settling down in front of the Xbox with sodas and a big bowl of chips the day could not be more perfect that is until the electricity goes out. By the time their next door neighbor Rita comes over to bake a cake (and accidentally makes it with marijuana) this Mexican coming of age tale shows itself to be a tender and quirky take on the genre.
Synopsis By: Maria-Christina Villaseñor
Writer Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch
Producer Jaime Bernardo Ramos, Frida Torresblanco, Christian Valdelièvre
Kenke
Director: Enrique Pérez Him
Available to rent on Google Play.
Josué is a young and successful businessman, son of a conservative — read classist — mother. Kenny is Josué's cousin, a teenager who seems to be going through a rebellious phase that mainly consists of smoking a ton of weed. When Josué is appointed by the family as Kenny's guide, responsible for steering him off the evil path of ganja, the situation becomes tricky, because secretly Josué also happens to be a big fan of the green stuff. With a simple, handheld camera and unpretentious cinematography, Kenke tells a story about first love, family dynamics, and a hypocritical society that suffers from double moral standards and other vices.
Synopsis By: Camila Rodriguez
Country Panama
Writer Enrique Pérez Him
Producer Ana María Suárez, Isabella Gálvez
Pájaros de verano
Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
Available to stream on HBO.
Set in Colombia in the 1970s, right when the demand for marijuana is set to explode, Ciro Guerra's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent ditches the black and white aesthetic of his previous film for the colorful world of the Guajira desert. Yet again, though, he's set his sights (alongside co-director and producer Cristina Gallego) on a story about the way Colombian history intersects with its indigenous population. Birds of Passage follows an Wayuu indigenous family who takes a leading role in the budding new drug trade, and discovers the perks of wealth and power, but with a violent and tragic downside.
Genre Drama
Writer Jacques Toulemonde Vidal, Maria Camila Arias
Producer Cristina Gallego
Pico de neblina
Courtesy of HBO Latino
The series is set in a fictional modern-day São Paulo where marijuana has been legalized. The story follows 29-year-old Biriba (Luis Navarro), a drug dealer who decides to give up his criminal life and enter the legal drug sales industry. Unfortunately for Biriba, going straight is more difficult than he could have imagined. This brave new world of dealing means he has a whole new set of rules to follow, forcing him to reexamine everything he knew as a lowly dealer. To make matters worse, his new career isn't sitting well with people from his past who desperately want to put him out of business. The series explores the gray area between what is criminal and what is legal, diving into the social and economic consequences drug trafficking can have on not only a person, but their country as well.
High & Mighty
'High & Mighy.' Courtesy of Urbanworld
The concept of web series High & Mighty is right in its title. Without knowing why (mystery is key to this show), protagonist Chelo (suddenly finds that getting drunk or stoned makes him mighty: it gives him super powers. That his superpowers (strength, speed, even flight) are tied to different controlled substances is not good news for Chelo. You see, the young, perhaps too-laid-back Angeleno is trying to get his life back together. His well-adjusted girlfriend is tired of his drunken and stoner hijinks.
That 70's Show
Did you hate your high school years? So do the kids in this show. Set in Wisconsin in the 70s, the show follows six friends in high school who come together in a basement to smoke and discuss the troubles of young life. The show features Wilmer Valderrama as foreign exchange student, Fez, who manages to get the girl. The girl in this case is Mila Kunis. Bonus: Tommy Chong plays an aging hippie. Also, the theme song is a classic.
What do you do when you're a suburban housewife and your bread winner husband dies suddenly? You become a pot dealer. Duh. Mary Louise Parker kills as a Nancy, an iced coffee slurping mother of two, who is doing the best she can. As the series unfolds we get some nice surprises like Demian Bichir in perfectly tailored suits, Guillermo Diaz as a muscle man with heart and Kate Del Castillo getting thrown into a pool.
Cheech Marin High & Mighty kenke Pajaros de verano Pico da Neblina Weed Weeds


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The Food Lab: The Science of No-Knead Dough
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Published: June 17, 2011 Last Updated: October 30, 2019
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Better No-Knead Bread
I'm telling you right off the bat here, that as far as personal innovation goes in this article, there's not all that much. All I'm doing here is taking someone else's brilliant idea and breaking it down for you a bit, offering a few suggestions and other applications.
That said, I've never seen what I consider to be a really satisfactory explanation of the science behind the No-Knead Bread recipe,* so I'm gonna try and fill that hole here. And what cool science it is.
*Addendum: In a completely inexcusable bout of absentmindedness, I completely forgot to mention the excellent chapter on No-Knead bread in Aki and Alex of Ideas In Food's book. Those guys have got science to spare, and if you haven't read it yet, it's worth more than a thumb through!
In 2006, Mark Bittman introduced the world to a recipe from Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery, which had a whole bunch of home cooks opening up their Dutch ovens and exclaiming oh my goodness—I can't believe I just did that! It certainly had me thinking that.
The No-Knead Bread recipe became an instant hit, and, I'd be willing to wager, started off an entire generation of home bakers on an entirely new journey.
Here's how the recipe works: combine flour, yeast, and salt in a bowl. Add water and stir with a spoon. Allow to sit overnight. Shape into loaf and allow to rise. Bake in a preheated Dutch oven.
What emerges from the Dutch oven is a crisp, crackly, deeply colored loaf of bread with a crust that snaps and pops as it cools. Slice into the bread and you see the open, airy, wildly bubbly crumb of the best artisanal bakeries with a tender, chewy texture. Nearly perfect bread, in other words.
Now, there are those (including myself) who'd criticize the flavor. The original recipe was under-seasoned (as Lahey himself has even admitted), and with its short, warm fermentation period, it doesn't develop the rich, complex, malty flavors of a truly great loaf. But these are minor quibbles in what is otherwise a completely revolutionary recipe.
Even more interesting to me than that it works is how it works, because by understanding the how, we can then modify the recipe to fit many different baking situations, even improving its flavor.
But before we get there, let's take a quick look at the awesome science behind this equally awesome recipe.
Going Dutch
While the no-knead part of the no-knead dough recipe certainly has some cool action going on, at least for home bread bakers (and we'll get to it soon), the real important innovation here is baking the bread in a Dutch oven, and it works in two ways: by increasing the radiant energy heating the bread, and by increasing the humidity of the baking environment. For those of you who don't know what a Dutch oven is, it's a thick-gauge, large pot with a heavy, relatively tight fitting lid. Want to read about our favorites? Here's our review of the best Dutch ovens on the market.
Le Creuset 5 1/2–Quart Dutch Oven Review: The Best Cast Iron Dutch Ovens $339.95 from Amazon
You see, a ball of dough isn't the homogeneous blob that it appears to be. It's in fact a very complex network of bubbles of carbon dioxide gas both large and small produced as living yeast consume sugars. These bubbles are separated separated by thin, stretchy, flexible sheets of gluten (that's the network of proteins that provide structure to good bread).
How does a ball of raw dough go from being small and dense to large, light, and airy? Through a phenomenon known as oven spring.
When that dough first enters a hot oven, both the carbon dioxide gas inside those bubbles as well as some of the water vapor trapped in them begin to expand due to the increase in heat. This expansion causes the stretchy bubbles to inflate—for a little while. Eventually, the proteins in that make up the gluten will coagulate and set, preventing the dough from expanding any more. The trick to airy bread is to get those bubbles to increase in size as rapidly as possible, giving them plenty of volume before the proteins have time to set.
This is accomplished by transferring as much energy as possible as fast as possible to the dough. And that's where the Dutch oven comes in.
Most folks tend to get inordinately obsessed with temperatures. I can get my oven up to 600°F, or the floor of that wood fired pizza oven gets to 800°F! In reality, it's not temperature that matters, but energy, and the transfer thereof. Indeed, if temperature were the only thing that mattered when it comes to how fast something gets cooked, then we'd be able to stick our hand into a 212°F pot of boiling water just as easily as we could reach into a 212°F oven, and we know that that's not the case, right?
What I'm getting at is this. Place your Dutch oven inside a 500°F oven and give it an hour or so to heat up. Now, the air inside that Dutch oven is going to be at or around 500°F. There's no way for it to get hotter, because unless you are providing some sort of external energy source, there's no way for an object to get hotter than its surroundings. Basic thermodynamics here.
However, place something inside that 500°F Dutch oven, and you'll transfer energy to it far faster than you would if you placed that same something on the shelf of your full-sized oven. Why? One word: radiation.
See, the thick cast iron (or stainless steel, or ceramic, or whatever your Dutch oven is made of) sides of a Dutch oven can hold onto a massive amount of heat energy, and that energy is constantly being emitted in the form of electro-magnetic radiation.* The walls of your regular oven do the exact same thing. However, because a Dutch oven is so much smaller, and because radiant energy decays over distance, objects inside the small, enclosed space of a Dutch oven absorb much more energy through radiation than an object sitting in the center of a large oven.
*Mostly in the infrared range
Think of it this way: you are the loaf of bread, and the walls of the oven is a circle of kids in storm trooper costumes, ready to barrage you with a hailstorm of foam missiles shot at low velocity out of Nerf-N-Strike Alpha Trooper guns. In a normal oven, these storm troopers are pretty far away—say, 100 feet. They'll shoot at you with all they've got, but only a relatively small number of their darts will actually make contact. You get mildly annoyed.
Now take that same scenario, but change their striking distance to a mere 10 feet. Same number of kids with guns (that is, same temperature), but this time, many many more of them are actually gonna be able to hit you. You get screaming mad, blowing up just like a balloon. All make sense now?
On top of all that, there's another factor involved: humidity.
Professional bakers often use steam-injected ovens in order to increase the humidity of the baking environment. This is because moist air transfers heat much more efficiently than dry air, once again increasing the rate of transfer of energy between the oven and the loaf of bread. Moisture also causes starches on the surface of the dough to gelatinize, a key step in producing the microscopic bubbles and bumps that add crunch and texture to your bread, like this:
Pretty, right?
So that covers the baking method, and truth be told, it's a method that works no matter how you make your original dough. Now we can look at the actual "no-knead" part of the no-knead bread recipe.
Feeling Kneady
When you first hear it, it sounds impossible. From experience, I know that in order to produce great bread, I need to knead the dough until it forms a significant amount of gluten, right?
Well let's take a look at the dough on a microscopic level and see what's really going on.
Flour is composed mainly of two things: starch, and proteins. Of these proteins, two of them glutenin and gliadin are the most important. They're the guys who get together to form gluten.
In their normal state, the long, kinky proteins (no, not in that way) are tangled up with themselves, like a knotted fishing line. Your goal is to untangle the proteins, tie them together into a longer line, then use those lines to weave a net, which can be used to trap carbon dioxide produced by yeast. This is what kneading accomplishes.
By gently rubbing the proteins against each other, you stretch them out and cause them to line up and cross-link. With enough kneading, you eventually form them into sheets of gluten.
So how does the no-knead bread recipe, which, appropriately, has no kneading involved produce the same effect? With the help of enzymes. Flour naturally contains enzymes that break down long proteins into shorter ones in a process called autolysis (auto meaning "self" and lysis meaning "break down"). Bakers have known about this process for years, and many incorporate an autolysis step into their recipes, mixing together flour and water and allowing it to rest before adding the remaining ingredients and kneading (salt can inhibit the action of autolysis).
By breaking down the proteins into shorter pieces in this way, they become much easier to untangle and re-align, greatly increasing the efficiency of kneading.
The No-Knead Bread recipe simply takes this concept to the extreme. By mixing together your ingredients and letting them sit around at room temperature for a long, long time (at least 12 hours, and up to 24—remember, there's salt in the dough which inhibits autolysis, so you need to compensate for this), the proteins are broken down so much, that even the tiniest of mechanical actions can cause them to align and link up.
Huh? But I thought this was no knead dough, not "tiniest amount of kneading" dough.
Yes, indeed it is, and truth be told, there is some kneading going on, but it's not being done by you, nor any other human or even by a member of the kingdom Animalia, for that matter. It's the yeast..
Let's take a quick look through a time lapse series of photos of the dough as it sits overnight.
0 Hours: dough is still lumpy. Gluten formation is minimal.
4 Hours: Enzymatic action has broken down some proteins, causing the dough to slacken and spread.
8 Hours: Yeast has produced quite a bit of carbon dioxide. As these bubbles slowly grow, their stretching causes proteins around their edges to align with each other.
12 Hours: Slowly but surely, the bubbles moving through the dough, effectively forming the same gluten that would be formed by manual labor.
16 Hours: The yeast have completed their task, both leavening and kneading the dough for you. Thanks guys!
What you're left with is a slack, easy-to-work dough that stretches beautifully, and bakes up with excellent gluten structure and massive bubble formation. Since no-knead doughs require a large amount of hydration (usually water has to make up at least 70% of the weight of the flour, as opposed to, say, white bread which is closer to 60% or a baguette, which is more like 65%), they can be a little challenging for first time bakers to work with. They stretch easily, practically pouring out of their rising vessel.
My advice is to use plenty of flour, and practice, practice, practice!
Problems and Applications
The main complaint I had with the original No-Knead Dough recipe is not the technique or texture of the final product—it's the flavor. First off, it's way undersalted (which, again, Lahey admitted after the original recipe ran), presumably to keep the salt from inhibiting autolysis too much. I've made no-knead bread with up to 2% salt with no problem, so I can only chalk it up to a misprint or an error. My normal rate is 1 1/2% salt.
But worse than that is the background flavor of the bread itself.
Yeast produces different byproducts depending on the temperature it ferments at. So dough formed with a warm ferment ends up with a sour, yeasty off-flavor, as opposed to the richer, maltier aromas you get from bread fermented at cooler temperatures. As I've shown before, giving lean doughs like this a stay in the fridge for three to five days can massively increase its flavor and its performance. Same goes for the no-knead bread.
After allowing it to rise at room temperature overnight, I'll stick mine directly into the refrigerator for three days. There's another advantage built into this as well: cold dough is much easier to handle. Gluten gets stiffer as it cools, which means that refrigerated dough will be much simpler to shape into a ball or a long loaf, or whatever shape you wish to bake it in.
After shaping, cover is with a bowl or a flour-coated kitchen towel and let it rise at room temperature for a couple of hours to take the chill off it and leaven for the final time before slashing it with a sharp knife (this allows it to expand faster in the Dutch oven, and makes it look pretty), and baking.
How do you know your bread is done when you bake it? Same way you know your meat is done: with a thermometer. As bread bakes, water is both evaporated and bound into the structure of the crumb. This occurs pretty much in correlation with the internal temperature of your bread. Once it reaches around 209 to 210°F, not much else is going to happen except for a bit of burning, so yank it out and let it rest.
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If you want to make your life even easier, get yourself a good gram scale to allow you to easily calculate ingredients without having to dirty up measuring spoons, cups, or bowls. Using a scale and a metal bowl, you can make bread and end up with only a single bowl to wash!
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Here's the basic method I use:
To 100 parts flour, add 1.5 parts salt and 1 part instant yeast. Whisk those together. Add 70 parts water, and stir to combine. Cover, then let rise overnight. Transfer to the fridge, let ferment for three days, then turn dough out on to a well-floured surface. Shape dough, sprinkle with flour, and cover with a floured cloth. Let it rise for at least two hours and up to 4 at room temperature. Slah, then bake in a preheated 450°F Dutch Oven for 15 minutes with the lid on. Remove the lid, and continue baking until it hits around 209°F, 30 minutes or so. Let it cool.
The greatest part about no-knead dough is that you aren't limited to one type of bread. The same method can work for rustic loaves, boules, baguettes, and yes, even pizza dough.
I made this pizza here using the exact same dough that I used to bake the bread above. See how nicely it browns after its three day cold ferment?
I tried baking pizzas using a sort of modified version of the Dutch oven technique (I preheated a Dutch oven upside-down in a hot oven, lifted the base off, placed the pizza directly on the overturned lid, then covered it with the base again), but it wasn't nearly as successful as the already pretty great (if I do say so myself) skillet-broiler method, so I stuck with that.
Check out this awesome hole structure in the crust:
Now if that ain't one beautiful pie, I don't know what is.
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Q: MSIL - how opcode conv.ovf.u8.un work? Why msil program:
.assembly Test {}
.method private hidebysig static void  Main(string[] args) cil managed
{
  .entrypoint
  // Code size       21 (0x15)
  .maxstack  2
  .locals init ([0] int32 a,
           [1] int32 b)
  IL_0000:  nop
  IL_0001:  ldc.i4.m1
  IL_0002:  stloc.0
  IL_0003:  ldloc.0
  IL_0005:  conv.ovf.u8.un
  IL_0006:  stloc.1
  IL_0007:  ldloc.1
  IL_0008:  call       void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(uint64)
  IL_000d:  nop
  IL_000e:  call       valuetype [mscorlib]System.ConsoleKeyInfo [mscorlib]System.Console::ReadKey()
  IL_0013:  pop
  IL_0014:  ret
} // end of method Program::Main

write output: -1?
conv.ovf.u8.un - convert unsigned to an unsigned int64 (on the stack as int64)
and throw an exception on overflow.
So -1 (int32) treated as unsigned is 4294967295 (uint32) and it treated as uint64 is 18446744073709551615.
Ecma documentation says: http://postimg.org/image/4326dsysx/
So again -1 (int32) in binary is
111111111111111111111111111111111.
After conversion by zero extending it is
000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111111111
and it is again 18446744073709551615.

A: I just tested it and on my system it did not print -1 but 18446744073709551615.
Could you provide more information about your system (platform, .NET / CLR version) or just try to build the executable again with ilasm?

A: I updated whole system, rebooted and now it's working correct. It is very interesting because before that I have problem with other opcodes e.g. conv.ovf.u8 and now everything is okey.
Thank for tips!


But as I, some months later, tried to switch to my hal-0_5_12-SUSE_CODE11 branch, there was no such branch. To be exact: there was neither this branch nor any of the upstream branches. I couldn't find any information on the web how to solve this problem. Everything I tried didn't work. When I cloned the new repo from the upstream repo, all branches where available.
I don't know if there is an other, more standard, way to do this. I couldn't find anything else and at least it solved the problem for me.


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NHS uses Snapchat to attract new recruits during National Apprenticeship Week
The NHS, the UK's largest employer, is turning to Snapchat for a social media campaign aimed at attracting apprentices to the health service during the Government's 10th National Apprenticeship Week.
The Snapchat campaign – which is a first for the Health Education England's Health Careers service which is running the campaign – is part of a wider #NHyeS campaign to position the NHS in England as a major employer of apprentices and, with more than 150 different roles on offer, highlight the range of options available to young people.
HEE is targeting job centres with Snapchat Geofilters to highlight some of the more diverse roles available within the NHS including apprenticeships in gardening, painting and decorating, pathology and social media.
A new filter, with a visual cue to each of the roles available, will be used for each of the five days of National Apprenticeship Week (6-10 March) and each will be live at more than 20 job centres in ten cities across the country.
The campaign comes as research from HEE has revealed misconceptions about apprenticeships still prevail amongst school and college pupils:
86% of those young people in education believe apprenticeships are only for those looking to pursue a trade such as plumbing and engineering.
37% of 14-18 year olds believe existing apprenticeships are geared more towards boys than girls and a further 59% said they believe all apprenticeships are badly paid.
49% of young people said they didn't believe apprenticeships were available in the jobs or careers they are interested in, demonstrating a significant lack of awareness of the variation of apprenticeships available in the NHS and beyond.
Some 1,500 14-18 year olds in secondary or tertiary education, 18-45 year olds not in education or training (NEETs) and 25–45 year olds looking to change careers were surveyed.
Kirk Lower, HEE's National Lead for Apprenticeships said: "Using our Snapchat Geofilters in and around job centres allows us to target a younger demographic, who we know are actively looking for work.
"As well as very specifically pinpointing our audience at a time when they are job-hunting, we are doing it in a creative way that will hopefully appeal to that younger demographic. One of the challenges we have is making people aware of the opportunities for apprenticeships in the NHS and the diverse range of more than 150 different roles on offer."
The NHS in England has committed to creating 100,000 apprenticeships – almost seven times the current number – across the country by 2020. There were nearly 20,000 apprenticeships recruited into training position in 2015/16.
The ten cities targeted in HEE's first Snapchat Geofilter campaign will be: London, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Newcastle and Sunderland.
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Its name is Milestii Mici and it is the biggest cellar of the world which has around 2 million of wine bottles highly appreciated. Also known as "The Golden Collection", 70% of the production is red wine.
Milestii Mici, is a town dedicated to wine production and it is located 20 km far from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.
The winery has complex underground galleries that are spread over a total of 250 km of which about 50 km are used.
In August 2005, Milestii Mici won the Guiness Records award as the largest wine collection in the world. Its wines are exported to several countries as Sweden, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, United States and Japan.
For visitors, there is the opportunity of booking a tour on which you will be able to choose the date, time and language and after that, there is the chance of select and taste different "Milestii Mici wines".


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LEAD Girls of NC appoints new directors, Shonette Lewis named as LEAD facilitator
A prophecy and a passion for health
The Chronicle's Business of the Month: Counseling with a Purpose helps clients find their WHY that will lead to success and happiness
by WS Chronicle
By Busta Brown
Do you want to go into 2023 stress free? Here's a few tips from our Business of the Month. Avoid stressful triggers, express gratitude, and when the weather permits, go outside. Practice financial and spiritual self-care, and be kind and loving to your body.
I asked Nicole Moore-Geter, how can we identify our setbacks before they hold us back? "I find the best way to do that is to begin journaling, knowing how to and why you're journaling. That's the best way to track setbacks, moves, catch patterns, behaviors and thought processes. I'm an avid believer in journaling," said Nicole.
Nicole is the owner and CEO of Counseling with a Purpose in Winston-Salem. Some of the services she provides are virtual sessions, anger management, and therapy for ADHD and behavior issues, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, depression and others.
Counseling with a Purpose also provides services for conflict resolutions. So, I asked the mother of two a question that has so many couples conflicted. When a couple loses trust, intimacy, and becomes disconnected, is it possible to get the relationship back on track?
"What I would ask you is, how do you know when you have it? That's what's most important. Because being present and being with someone is very different. You can live a life being very committed to your partner and being as distant as possible without rocking the boat. And that's what I see with most relationships," Nicole explained. What causes someone to be distant from their significant other? "You can care and love someone deeply, but your painful past and learning experience cause you to subconsciously commit to being as distant as possible from this person. So even though you're closer to that person than anyone else, that doesn't mean you're emotionally connected to them, because you can't have true love and a connection without vulnerability," said Nicole.
"With people of color, vulnerability is so difficult because we come into this world endangered. So, we're taught to protect ourselves as we age and learn to have relationships."
Do we really know if we're connected with other people? "People should learn and be curious about that, and explore what that is before they get into a relationship," shared Nicole.
What I admire most about Nicole Moore-Geter is her transparency and passion to help people find their WHY. I truly believe when we learn our WHY, success and happiness will follow.
Another service Counseling with a Purpose provides is help with stress management. I find that one of the greatest stress triggers is fighting a painful past. I asked Nicole, how does someone get over their painful past? She was very transparent. And oftentimes, we're not ready for the truth. "I'm not big on giving tips. I'm big on truth and whatever is clinically factual. So, the first thing I focus on is the buy-in. Because if you're not ready for the process and to get through your past, then it's kind of futile. You're not going to move forward nor make progress. No matter what advice I give you, it won't be productive if you're not ready. So, you must be honest with yourself and know when you're ready. That's the first step. Make sure you know what change you want to see, and I can help get you there," said the wife of nine years.
Her husband, Christopher Geter, is her rock. "He coaches for Parkland High School and is very active in the community." He's also the COO of his wife's company. "Whenever I need him, he's always there for me. He's been extremely supportive and a big part of my success. He makes sure our clients have what they need, and makes sure the business runs smoothly," Nicole said while blushing. When speaking about Christopher, she showed all the signs of a woman in love. It was sweet.
Nicole also credits her father, Bud Hayes, for her success. "I was raised by my father. Although he was disabled, he was the epitome of resilience. He would never stop or say no. Until this day, I tell my children, no is just no for now. He showed me what hard work is, in a different fashion," she said warmly and softly.
Where did the vision for Counseling with a Purpose come from? After a bad accident in 2016, Nicole wanted to do something with her life that had purpose. "I began to notice that so many people had lots of barriers in the way of them getting the help and support they needed with mental health. And a lot of private practices were leaning away from accepting insurance. So, I was like wow! I really need to do something to help," she said. And she did! She decided to open her own practice, but couldn't come up with a name. "God spoke to me and said, 'Counseling with a Purpose.' So that was it. I went into my business head first," said an excited Nicole.
In 2018, Counseling with a Purpose was born. "I know where my help comes from. So, I did everything I needed to do to be obedient," shared Mrs. Moore-Geter. What sets her practice apart from the rest? "This is my calling and my transparency with my clients," said Nicole. She's extremely easy to talk to, very inspiring and comforting, which are very important attributes for someone in her profession.
Something else I admire about Nicole is how open and honest she was about her family's battle with mental health. "The Lord walked my family and I through it, and that's how I know what works. I have life-learned and painful experiences that I've overcome, which helps me with a point of reference when I engage with my clients. I tell my clients, I come into this process as a clinician, but also as a human. I'm cutting and pasting this thing just like you. I'm cutting and pasting COVID, expectations, relationships and marriage, just like you. The only difference is we have a different wealth of knowledge to pull from. And when they leave my office, they're going to know themselves better than I do," said a passionate Nicole. I'm sure that's what makes her amazing at what she does.
As I was looking through the Counseling with a Purpose website, something caught my eye. Brainspoting. So, I asked the certified Brainspoting therapist what it was. "It's more geared toward clients that deal with trauma. What I've learned about trauma, it's not what we've been through, it's how our brain experienced it. Which means you don't have a lot of control over that. Oftentimes we feel as though we haven't been through these traumatic events because our brain disassociates to protect us. Our brains may reencode how we experience space or time. Our brain does that to protect us. Your brain reencodes how you experienced time. So, at that point your brain is protecting you. And when that happens, there's gaps and memories that you won't be able to access with your thinking mind. So, what Brainspotting does, it gives you a calm environment to be able to access some of these memories and place narratives on them. There are impacts on how we engage with the world. Brainspotting helps us unlearn and relearn how past trauma impacts or affects your behaviors," shared Nicole.
Counseling with a Purpose also provides services for trauma focused CBT (an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers).
The practice added another amazing and well-qualified therapist to its roster, Calvin Manning, MS, NCC, LCMHC, LCAS. Manning is a licensed clinical health counselor and licensed clinical addiction specialist.
The Chronicle's Business of the Month is Counseling with a Purpose. For more information, call 336-682-5982, send them an email at info@nullcounselingwithapurpose.org, or visit http://counselingwithapurpose.org/.
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Postimpressionism
April 27, 2020 by Abdullah Sam
Postimpressionism. It is a term that encompasses the different pictorial styles that succeeded Impressionism in France between approximately 1880 and 1905 . It was coined by British critic Roger Fry in 1910 , on the occasion of the London exhibition of paintings by Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh . In addition to these three artists, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Seurat are also included in this current.
2 Postimpressionism
3 Features
1 Main features
4 Related artists
1 Individualities
1.1 Paul Cézanne
1.2 Paul Gauguin
1.3 Vincent van Gogh
1.4 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1.5 Isidro Nonell
5 Some pictorial works of Postmodernism
Impressionism was a pictorial movement that developed strongly in the second half of the 19th century and that broke the current academic, social and economic assumptions in art. At the time, it was a revolution and his works received strong criticism. Being rejected on official circuits, the group of Impressionist painters organized their own exhibitions and maintained a cohesion that lasted until, decades later, some of them achieved some recognition. From the disintegration of this movement Post-Impressionism was born partly as evolution and partly as rupture.
Impressionism was a rupture of the dominant concepts in painting and sculpture. If until then the rational study of the work, the composition over previous drawings and the clarity of the lines prevailed, the Impressionists left that ground to try to capture in their works the spontaneous impression, as it came to their senses. They did not care so much about the object they wanted to paint as the sensation received. The fleeting, ephemeral sensation, hardly noticeable and reproducible. Impressionist painters left the workshops and went outside. His models were the street, the building, the landscape, the person, the fact, but not in its static and permanent conception, but perceived in that almost unique moment.
The impressionist painter painted on site and finished the work quickly. He used loose, short and vigorous strokes. The objects and the space itself were not delimited with lines following the Renaissance canons but were formed on the retina of the observer from those imprecise lines. Impressionist painting discovered the changing value of light and its movement, using a rich color palette from which they excluded black because black, as they said, did not exist in nature.
It is said that Postimpressionism is not properly an artistic style with more or less defined and easily identifiable technical features. Rather, it is a somewhat imprecise term that serves to designate a group of artists who all they share is a somewhat ambiguous relationship with Impressionism. An ambiguous relationship because:
On the one hand, its technical resources are frequently inherited directly from Impressionism: loose brushstrokes, optical blending, complementary contrast, etc. Post-Impressionist themes were also similar to those characteristic of Impressionism.
On the other hand, the relationship of Postimpressionism with respect to reality is different from that of Impressionism, although sometimes they paint the same motifs. Post-Impressionists sought to broaden the expressive horizons of painting, without resigning themselves to passively capturing what was observed in reality (in contrast to the Impressionists, who were interested in capturing fleeting effects by reflecting them on the canvas as they were observed in Nature).
This term actually encompasses various personal styles, presenting them as an extension of Impressionism and at the same time as a rejection of the limitations of Impressionism. Post-Impressionists continued to use vivid colors, a compact application of paint, distinguishable brush strokes, and real-life themes, but they attempted to bring more emotion and expression to their painting. Although the post-impressionists based their work on the use of color experienced by the impressionists, they reacted against the desire to faithfully reflect nature and presented a more subjective view of the world. Georges Seurat, called neo-impressionist for his criteria closest to impressionism, invented a technique called pointillism , whose most prominent example is the paintingA summer Sunday at the Grande Jatte . Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh's work was characterized by an expressive use of color and greater formal freedom. Cézanne was interested in highlighting the material qualities of the painting, representing living beings and landscapes, volumes and relationships between surfaces, as in Pines and Rocks ( 1895 – 1898 , MOMA, New York ). His interest in geometric shapes and the prismatic light inherent in the perception of nature anticipated Cubism's experiments. Gauguin, in an attempt to achieve the communicative capacity of popular art, focused on representation based on flat and decorative surfaces, as seen in the work Calvary Breton (1889 , Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels ). Van Gogh, for his part, approached nature with vigorous colorful brushstrokes, evocative of the artist's internal emotions. His subjective experimentation, exemplified in Starry Night ( 1889 , New York MOMA)), preluded expressionism. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was strongly influenced by the linear compositions of Japanese engravings, and his work was characterized by intense contour engravings and flat colors. Other later artistic movements, such as cubism, expressionism, fauvism, surrealism, and futurism, presented some of the characteristics of impressionist painting: the expressive freedom of the artist and the emphasis on the abstract concept of art.
With post-impressionism, a new type of artist was created, the individual genius who lives on his art, the creative personality who shapes his psychology in the painting, thanks to his singular line, personal color, and the recovery of forms and structures. , but with a new reading. Color becomes representative and subjective, not objective. The color with which the soul of things is seen is represented. Reality is interpreted according to the personal vision of the creative genius. Painters flee Paris seeking the primitivism of artAlthough this city is still the center of world art. These new impressionists have a particular vision of their painting, which distances them from classical impressionism. Post-impressionism was both an extension of impressionism and a rejection of its limitations. Post-Impressionists continued to use vivid colors, a compact application of paint, distinguishable brush strokes, and real-life themes, but they attempted to bring more emotion and expression to their painting. Although they often exhibited together, it was not a cohesive movement. They work in distant geographical areas, van Gogh in Arles, Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence.
Interest in drawing and expressiveness of objects and human figures.
Reconciliation between volumetric effect and purely aesthetic taste.
Conception of the painting based on strictly geometric bodies.
Use of contrasting colors. Pure colors with great emotional charge.
All the artists grouped under the term post-impressionism knew and practiced impressionist postulates at some point.
Individualities
Paul Cézanne ( 1839 – 1906 ) is one of the most prominent post-impressionist artists. He had an impressionist stage, but the most decisive part of his work is done at this stage. In his works he is concerned with the construction, the structure and the intellectual framework that he transmits, which leads him to be a precursor of the geometric forms of cubism and abstraction. To define his figures, he uses pure forms: the cone, the cylinder, the spheres, etc., but traced without a compass or ruler. The card players, great bathers, The Boy in the Red Vest, The Mountain of Santa Victoria, Still Life with Peaches, Bathers, are some of his works.
Paul Gauguin ( 1848 – 1906 ) is another of the great post-impressionist painters. Rediscover geometry and flat colors. His paintings have a very strong decorative sense. Fed up with Paris and the western civilization that imposes a certain vision of art, he moved to live first in Pont-Aven and then in Tahiti, in search of the lost paradise and the purity of the art of primitive cultures. For him, art is abstract by definition, so he uses unreal colors and lights. Among his works are: The beautiful Angele, The breasts of the red flowers, The yellow Christ, Vision after the sermon, And the gold of their bodies, Self-portrait with a palette, Food.
Vincent van Gogh ( 1853 – 1890 ) is probably the most individualistic genius of all post-impressionist painters. His vital drama is reflected in his paintings very vividly. His works are characterized by the chromatic explosion, the sensual outline of the thick and long brushstrokes, and the very bright, but also very dark colors. It has a long series of self-portraits and another of sunflowers.
Glass with sunflowers
Harvest of La Crau
Boats on the beach
Postman Joseph Roulin
Potato eaters
Vicent's chair
The sunflowers.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ( 1864 – 1901 ) is the pictorial chronicler of the society of his time, Bohemia and the underworld. The only post-impressionist who does not leave Paris . He is a great cartoonist who shapes what is specifically visible, reality, with the help of four strokes. He has many commissions for posters for shows and uses the poster as a mode of artistic expression, which brings him closer to modernism. Its arabesques and spot colors are characteristic.
Jane Abril with gloves
The hall of the street of the mills
Dance in the Red Mill
Van Gogh portrait
The dance dwells
Oscar Wildeportrait
Isidro Nonell
( 1873 – 1911 ) is a Spanish painter who does not have the height of greats, but does have a strong personality. Use a firm line and a non-naturalistic color. Gypsy fan, Bust of a woman, Woman with a shawl.
Post-impressionist artists Harry Lachman , Henri Rousseau and Georges Seurat were also considered .
Some pictorial works of Postmodernism
Vision after the sermon, Paul Gaugin, 1888 .
Card Players, Paul Cézanne, 1890 .
Venice, from the fully impressionistic Claude Monet , 1908 .
Road in Auvers after the rain, Vincent van Gogh, 1890 .
At the Moulin Rouge, Tolouse-Lautrec, 1892 – 1895 .
A summer Sunday by Georges Seurat
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Civil Libertarians Concerned About Undisclosed FBI Research into Tattoo Recognition Technology
Loaded on Oct. 31, 2018 by Derek Gilna published in Criminal Legal News November, 2018, page 34
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Tattoos, FBI, Police State-Surveillance. Location: United States of America.
by Derek Gilna
Yet another example of how the judicial and legislative branches are falling behind the curve in protecting American citizens from undisclosed forms of surveillance and classification was revealed in a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ("EFF") published in April 2018. In EFF's recent Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit, the organization found that the FBI is not only racing to develop facial recognition technology, but also is expanding its efforts into the area of "Tattoo Recognition," all without informing the public or government agencies that allegedly have oversight over such activities.
According to EFF, that project was initiated in 2015 when the National Institute for Standards & Technology ("NIST"), in collaboration with the FBI, started "promoting experiments using tattoo images gathered involuntarily from prison inmates and arrestees."
After collecting the data from that effort, the law enforcement community, without any notice to the public, contacted 19 outside tech organizations seeking a technology that could be used to mine the data. They also sought an image recognition app, suitable for use on mobile devices, in an attempt to classify "people of interest."
As with other government-funded research projects operating in gray areas, oversight was an afterthought. However, it soon became clear to EFF that the "NIST was targeting people who shared common beliefs, with a heavy emphasis on religious imagery." It also became evident that NIST had apparently bypassed various requirements designed to protect prisoners from being used as subjects of government research without their knowledge or consent.
NIST then slowed its previous timely responses to EFF FOIA requests, until finally forced to disclose its work after the FOIA lawsuit was filed. NIST then claimed that the purpose of its research was "not about the many complex law enforcement policies or approaches that may be related to images of tattoos," but merely a scientific exercise to determine whether tattoo recognition algorithms were achievable.
Although the FBI and other police agencies have in the past used a program called the TAG-IMAGE to identify people by their tattoos, this new program had the potential to be much more problematic. One of the clues was its stated goal to establish gang affiliations, "terrorist relevance, location, [and] symbols description/meaning," but also included religious images, raising profiling concerns.
Much of the material produced by the FBI was blacked out, including slides and information that would have shown what conclusion was drawn from the symbols studied. Not redacted was one of the agency's stated goals, "The Technology We Need: [a] web accessible user populated database with instant i2i matching" (i2i stands for 'image to image').
Although in many instances facial recognition technology can be used to identify criminal suspects or victims, it differs from tattoo recognition in the classification aspect.
Civil libertarians fear this technology will be used to focus on not only on criminals but also on lawful immigrants or practitioners of a particular religious faith.
There also are fears that like many technological applications used by law enforcement, the system can be prone to misinterpretation, leading to unlawful detentions and arrests, especially when many experts say the technology thus far has only been shown to be accurate 15 percent of the time.
Source: www.eff.org/deeplinks
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by Northern Breeze Nov 7, 201710:10 pm
Sri Lankan minorities are left in a cage…with the door wide open
Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948 without a struggle, enabling the Sinhala Buddhist rulers to pursue self-imposed restrictions with nationalistic policies to overcome their colony phobia; that restricted the freedom of the Tamil speaking minorities, left them to live in isolation for most of their life, like a bird with unclipped wings in a cage with the door wide open in the post colony. Then in the fifties the rulers failed to fuel the engine of growth of the nation by seeking new ventures, perhaps due to growing Indian domination in the region, instead kept the people in the dark like frogs in the well to continue with their subsistence farming. All through this period the leaders allowed corruption, nepotism, politicisation of public administration and law enforcement that drained the rural economy to create a rich urban life, causing the paradise island to slip from a united wealthy nation in 1954 to a poor divided country by 2014. In this period for three decades, the country faced a bloody civil war where many perished and as the going got tough many fled the country like disturbed birds, while the rest faced all the commotion, then a respectable Buddhist Monk guided the civil society with foreign intervention forced a change, that resulted in forming a unity government in 2015.
Today the unity government is afraid to dare its Sinhala Buddhists legislators to accept an all-inclusive, secular society, while the Tamil and Muslim legislators are not united and differ on re-merger of north and east provinces. Though the government's progress has been slow and steady to indicate that the country is heading in the correct direction despite all its problems of continuing corruption, slow economic progress and reluctance to face up to the human rights violations associated with tragedies of the three decades long civil-war, offers unique opportunity to all political parties and they were prepared to do so, actively taking part in what they consider to be the subject of greatest national interest. With all legislators agreeing to convert the legislature into a constitution assembly and the government was hoping to collect from these legislators the required two thirds votes within parliament for the passage of the new constitution; thereafter hope to tilt the balance in their favour at a referendum. While their opponents are against the new constitution are rallying the Buddhist clergy and the passionately racist to impress upon the Sinhala Buddhists, that this proposed new constitution would divide the country.
In achieving constitutional change the government has to obtain the consent of the Sinhala Buddhists who constitute the majority in the country and the Tamil speaking minorities, who wish to have guarantees made into law. In this context, the government find itself constrained to retain the formulations in the present constitution; these include the clause pertaining to the unitary state and to the clause giving to Buddhism the foremost place. What is more important is that the rights of the ethnic and religious minorities should be protected and their ability to share in decision making power should be justified and the constitutional reforms will not be reversed or undone at the discretion of any future Sinhala Buddhist leader simply because they hold majority in parliament. This makes it imperative that alternative methods to ensure power sharing, such as an upper house of parliament constituted as a chamber of all nationalities.
Earlier, the British Parliament did pass the Ceylon Independence Act in 1947, prior to that anticipating the truth that under a true democracy the majority Sinhala Buddhist would surface to prominence without much effort to dominate over the minorities, the British went out of the way to create the first constitution with necessary clauses to protect the minority communities acknowledging the multi ethnic composition in the country. In spite of all the protective clauses in the constitution, as predicted the majority Sinhala Buddhist began dominating the minorities ignoring their basic rights. All the while, the country was governed as a colony by British sovereign power from 1947 to 1972; when British gave independence, thought it fit to retain some unalterable provisions and over these years, the Supreme Court as well as the then highest court of the country propagated on a number of occasions that certain Articles of that Constitution were unalterable and understandably was not a satisfactory situation for a free nation.
So, at the 1970 General Elections, the United National Front (UNF) gave assurance in their election manifesto that if elected to power, would sit separately as a Constituent Assembly, which they did and the first homegrown constitution was promulgated after 25 years of independence. But they discriminated the minorities in the 1972 Constitution, which clearly states that Sri Lanka shall be a unitary state and this unitary nature is one of two unique features in the constitution; the other feature is the foremost place given to Buddhism and the same two features were copied into the 1978 Constitution. Today, no matter what is the nature of the state in the new constitution it has to build safeguards for the different ethnic groups; for there are a number of these ethnic groups in the country and the two unique features in the present constitution conceived to retain power by then rulers, has made life miserable to the rural poor. It has not given this larger majority of the population of both Sinhala and Tamil ethnicity anything worth to live on and have only left them in miserable poverty in the provinces that caused the insurgencies and the civil-war. Now, this utterly diseased prejudice has therefore got to be demystified at least for the sake of the rural poor in all provinces and given "the authority to take their own decisions" to break out of poverty they have been left with during all these 70 years since independence. The long felt need of the people is for a stronger democracy reaching the provinces, be it for the Sinhala Buddhists dominated South, Uva, North-Central provinces or the Tamil and Muslim people dominated North and East provinces; is to have the authority to take their own decisions for their own benefit; was not achieved by the 13th Amendment introduced in 1987 for greater devolution to the provinces, because that was ill conceived, never made clear to the people by then leaders nor was it ever properly implemented; instead successive leaders have only helped to erode the provincial system. Bitter Truth is this continuous neglect of rural areas, prompts the call for Federalism not just for Tamils, but also for the Sinhalese in the South; because 70 years of centralised power has failed to develop the rural areas of the country.
There is a positive engagement unparalleled in the nation's history to re-write the constitution, with the leaders of the Sinhala majority community willing to resolve the ethnic issue, as always without conceding to federalism and make country secular; while the Tamil speaking minorities, with only half living in the North and East provinces, where they suffered the most due to the civil-war of three decades and are today divided on re-merger of the two provinces. Time is ripe for all Tamil speaking legislators in the Constitution Assembly, irrespective of their political affiliations to form themselves into a bloc to complete the constitution making process; similar to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), a racial political organization made up of the black American members of the United States Congress, who fought for many years to protect the fundamentals of democracy with success. Because they worked as a close group together almost continually and their diversity made them stronger beyond their numbers in the congress. For only a conclave of all Tamil speaking legislators, similar to CBC could help to iron out their differences and act in harmony to advance the constitution making process to harvest a lasting solution for the benefit of all citizens, to push the ethnic issue into history.


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Meet The Team: Josán Perales, Eagle Rock's World Languages Instructional Specialist
Posted on October 5, 2016 October 5, 2016 by Eagle Rock
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October 5, 20161 CommentMeet The Team
It's true that Josán Perales — our team member in the spotlight this month — was born in Zaragosa, Spain, the child of parents of Spanish and Puerto Rican descent. However, Josan spent most of his formative years in New Mexico.
So when asked about his heritage, he quips that he's probably New Mexican. Or New Mexirican to encompass his American heritage. Or New Mexiricanol to also incorporate his Spanish birth.
Whatever his nationality, at points in his life, Josan has hung his hat in Spain, Britain, California, and, of course, New Mexico. Now he's our world languages instructional specialist and a Colorado resident. We asked this world citizen to tell us a little about his life and his thoughts about Eagle Rock School:
Eagle Rock: Where did you go to college and what was your major?
Josan Perales: I graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Ore., in 2002, earning my Bachelor of Arts and majoring in Spanish. I have also attended graduate school to study curriculum and instruction at both New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico.
ER: What did you do prior to coming to work for Eagle Rock?
JP: Over the past dozen years, I have taught many different classes — including Spanish as a foreign language, digital media arts, multicultural leadership, mentorship, and English as a Second Language — at both the middle and high school levels. Most recently I was a teacher and curriculum guide at a high school in Taos, N.M., which incorporated expeditionary learning into its curriculum. There I worked with many marginalized and underrepresented youth from Taos Pueblo, the Latino population, and others that were looking for an alternative to traditional schooling and a educational setting to call home.
ER: What attracted you to Eagle Rock School?
JP: Eagle Rock embodies many of my educational and personal philosophies of growth of self — physically, mentally, creatively and spiritually — in a community setting. Also, being a new father, I can't imagine a better setting for my son to grow up in. And then, of course, there's the beauty of our natural surroundings here in Estes Park.
ER: When you're not working, what do you like to do in your spare time?
JP: First and foremost, I love to spend time with my partner, Shawna, and son, Oliver. Whether it's hiking, playing musical instruments, coloring or cooking and eating together, family time is always fun. When I get some alone time, I like going on long walks and hikes to clear my head and meditate. In fact, my best ideas come on long walks. I also love to be creative through writing songs and poetry, sketching and playing a number of instruments.
ER: What reality TV should you be on and why would you win or be kicked off?
JP: I don't watch too much TV, so does life count? If so, I'm winning as of now. We all get kicked off of this show eventually. Hopefully I have a while to go.
ER: What's one thing not many people know about you?
JP: When I lived in England, I traveled to Germany to compete in the European Youth Bowling Championships. I bowled horribly because their lanes were too oily, but traveling by bus and staying in swanky hotels was amazing.
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