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Posted on January 7, 2010 by Christine Walker
My friend Padi Selwyn (coauthor of Living Your Life Out Loud) plans on taking the Read to Write workshop I'm giving at Copperfield's Books. She's picking up the fiction trail after having followed a career path from journalism training to marketing professional. She says, "My biggest challenge is prying open my imagination after years of being in the non fiction groove."
Are you picturing a can opener to the head? A crowbar? I know how she feels. It's not a matter of having no ideas. They're in there somewhere. It's a matter of getting them out and knowing what to do with them.
Prompts & triggers
Books and articles on writing craft are full of prompts, our lives are full of triggers. In my writing group, we've often flipped open a novel, pointed at a passage, and used it as a story starter or free write. I have stacks of free writes. You probably do too.
Circumstances and characters to suggest compelling stories are everywhere—in photographs of familiar or unfamiliar people, events, and places; overheard conversations on a bus; the face of the grocery clerk. We can take the classes, devour the craft books, get published, and still we come up against it: What next?
Starting a story is fairly easy. Taking it somewhere worth our time to write and a reader's time to read is always a challenge. Here again, we do well to learn from masterful authors who craft a memorable tale inspired by a gesture, pairing of unlikely elements, or simple question: "What if?"
In her Selected Stories, Alice Munro talks about story seeds, how from "the girl in the costume dress bending over the kittens" she began Simon's Luck. Munro gives this gesture to the hostess of a party that the central character, Rose, attends, where she observes the moment. "'That's Tasha,' the hostess said. 'We can look at her kittens but we can't touch them, else she wouldn't feed them anymore.'" Rose observes the woman "crooning, talking to the mother cat with an intense devotion that Rose thought affected. The shawl around her shoulders was black, rimmed with jet beads. Some beads were crooked. Some were missing." Details, when noted by a character, have significance. Rose, we discover eventually, has her own fears of touching and being touched, of giving someone power over her by being touched by him or touching him, of giving and receiving love. She is the cat and the kitten.
Yann Martel
In Life of Pi, Yann Martel assembles zoo animals, shipwreck, lifeboat, and—bingo!—a talking tiger! Pi tells a fantastic story, unbelievable but for the details of his survival. "In my case, to protect myself from Richard Parker while I trained him, I made a shield with a turtle shell. I cut a notch on each side of the shell and connected them with a length of rope. The shield was heavier than I would have liked, but do soldiers ever get to choose their ordnance?"
When Italo Calvino wrote Baron in the Trees, I wonder if he asked, "What if a disobedient boy named Cosimo, dressed up in his tricorne hat and green tunic, climbs a tree and never comes down?" Or did he just start writing, as if reporting: "It was on 15 June 1767 that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, my brother, sat among us for the last time. And it might have been today, I remember it so clearly. We were in the diningroom of our house at Ombrosa, the windows framing the thick branches of the great holm oak in the park." We might doubt the narrator's memory, except that we get reliable details bit by bit—"a breeze was blowing from the sea" as Cosimo "pushed away his plateful of snails."
Lesson for writers
Asking "What if?" can start a story. Asking "What now? What next?" can unleash imagination for vivid writing.
Take your story for a walk
Let a dog teach you a few tricks. Our beloved black Lab, Sparky, who died last summer, took me on walks for twelve good years. He'd sniff the grass, pee, pull at the leash, stop, sniff, pee, pull. He'd gnaw fallen apples, try to chase cats, yanking me along with him. He'd be excited in the moment, eager for the next. At the dog park, he'd run free, sniffing furry behinds, chasing balls, and eagerly come running when time to leave. He'd pant at the gate—"What now? What next?"
If you feel you're forcing your idea, just take your story for a walk—literally and metaphorically. Stop and sniff. Look and listen. Touch and taste. What's there? What might be? Follow the trail. Build detail upon meaningful detail. If you think you know the destination, keep it in mind, but allow for detours and surprises. If you don't know the destination, look into the distance every now and then. Stop along the way, read a good book. Pay close attention. Accompany the author as he or she asks, "What if? What now? What next." Learn how his or her story becomes.
In future posts, I'll discuss techniques for making imaginative leaps. But it always comes back to feet on the ground, step, step, walk the story or let it walk you, detail by detail. And daily, also, let imagination run free.
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The Days of Abandonment: Back Story in Bed
Pain on page one
In Ferrante's second paragraph, she puts our protagonist in bed—a double bed—desolate. Most craft books warn beginning writers: don't start your story with a character in bed. However, so much has happened to this poor woman by the book's seventh sentence that she deserves a rest. She can't sleep, but only obsesses about her husband. She can't figure out why he's left. "I knew him well, I was aware the he was a man of quiet feelings, the house and our family rituals were indispensable to him.We talked about everything, we still liked to hug and kiss each other, sometimes he was so funny he could make me laugh until I cried." She's baffled: "It seemed to me impossible that he should truly want to leave." She's sympathetic: "When I recalled that he hadn't taken any of the things that were important to him, and had even neglected to say goodbye to the children, I felt certain it wasn't serious. He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living." Hmm. Does she really know him as well as she thinks she does? She sees him as a character, just as we do. She's a character too, after all, but by naming him as such, she (the protagonist guided by Ferrante) adds another layer of detachment to her crisis and moves closer to the reader. We feel her physically.
Transition to back story
Then in paragraph three, she confides: "After all, it had happened before: the time and the details came to mind as I tossed and turned in the bed." This is a masterful transition to back story for many reasons. Ferrante moves from the present to the past keeping the woman in place—in bed— for four pages. During this time the protagonist remembers what happened that other time her husband left, then muses over their relationship with a realtor, Gina, that they'd engaged to buy their house and her teenage daughter, Carla. With the back story, the protagonist can leave the bed in her mind and take us with her: she gives us a taste of Turin, the city to which they'd moved five years ago—metallic, green, yellow, red, leaves, stripped by the wind, foggy air, fresh sparkling breeze. She paints a picture of Mario (her husband is named on page three) with Carla, realizing "it wasn't the mother I had to worry about but the daughter." The girl has a "swaying body, restless eyes." Though this is still back story, it's sensuous, fully fleshed in our protagonist's mind as if in the present. We're told that the marital crisis of the past was resolved and that her husband "returned to being the man he had always been." By now we're not sure that is such a good recommendation, if, in fact, he was a man who, as she's revealed, broke off relations with her for no apparent reason only six months after they had been together, because "there had come upon him a sudden absence of sense," and then used that same excuse when he became infatuated with the the realtor and her daughter.
Transition to present story
The protagonist breaks her reverie, gets out of bed for a cup of chamomile tea. From her window, she sees the musician Carrano, her downstairs neighbor, "coming up the path,his head bowed, carrying over his shoulders the giant case…" He "disappeared beneath the trees in the little square." She goes back to bed, believing everything will return to normal. We're at the end of page six, all the major characters have been introduced, we have a sense of place and time, sensuous detail we can touch, taste, and see, full-bodied characters, an informative and vivid back story—just enough. We'd like to get in bed, too, and believe in normal, but we know that can't be—or why would this story exist? The tension is palpable. We're not sleeping tonight. We have to turn the page.
Create a "vivid, continuous dream"
Use sensory language to create scenes in the present, past and future. Bring your reader into the character's consciousness and create the vivid, continuous dream that John Gardner talks about in his artful book The Art of Fiction. He's not referring to a dream in the character's mind, though the character may be dreaming. He says that "fiction does its work by creating a dream in the reader's mind." The pull of place—in the above example the bed, a comfortable setting we all know and understand—and sensory language—casts a spell. Olga's husband's sudden "absence of sense" is replaced in our minds and its opposite heightened by familiar and vivid sensations. Even when she breaks her reverie, Olga's desire for camomile tea steeps the transition from back story to present story in sensory detail.
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Read to Write Workshops at Copperfield's Books
In 2011, I'll be teaching a nine-month fiction craft course again at Copperfield's Books in Sonoma County, California, beginning in March. The course structure and book list from the 2010 course appear below. The 2011 structure and lists will be the same with a few substitutions. I explore novel craft and close reading in this blog.
Registration for the class is not yet open, but I am taking names of interested participants. The classes will meet at Copperfield's Books Sebastopol and Petaluma locations. The course consists of nine two-hour sessions meeting once a month. The description below highlights content. If you have questions regarding whether it fits your goals and interests, contact me at chris (at) christinewalker (dot) net or through the contact link on my website.
Build literary community
I designed this course as a way for writers and readers to build literary community while supporting their local, independent bookstore. Nine lively sessions reveal and stimulate creative process, teach useful tools and techniques, and animate intentions. If writers and trusted readers form enduring relationships during the course— all the better! Buy local, read global.
Please respond to the blog with your own discoveries and craft lessons.
READ TO WRITE BOOKS WORKSHOP
A course in fiction craft and close reading
We are all experts and all learners. Let's go deeper into fiction and have a good time while we…
• Enhance writing skills and literary enjoyment through close reading of masterful books
• Share literary discoveries with fellow writers and readers
• Investigate and learn craft techniques and methods to further writing and reading goals
• Enjoy a creative, low-risk workshop environment
Writing is a solitary act with a communal spirit among writers and readers. To become accomplished, writers benefit by studying authors who've honed the craft techniques and nuances of fine fiction. In this course, we'll examine masterful writing, incubate the lessons, and use expanded knowledge to read more closely and write more skillfully.
In my two-year MFA program, the promise was fulfilled: "Read one hundred books. Write one." In this nine-month course, a shorter book list will step participants through crucial concerns of long-form writing.
Writers wanting to move their projects to the next level—whether to draft, revise, cohere, or polish—will be shown tools and methods to do so. The course will help bring fullness to works in progress—novels, story collections, narrative nonfiction, memoir. Fellow writers and book lovers will inspire and encourage one another.
What makes fine fiction? How or why did that author do that? We delve in with authors who enrich our writing and reading journeys. Participants are asked to focus on a book from each month's list and be prepared to share discoveries. I demonstrate visual, hands-on techniques and tools that I use when writing and suggest optional hands-on homework activities for participants wanting to further enhance their writing craft or literature appreciation.
Each session combines book and craft discussion with voluntary reading aloud of passages from annotations and writing projects and voluntary sharing of homework activities. The course structure prompts participants to write outside of class, as suits their project goals and craft concerns, but class time is not devoted to free writes or personal writing. The workshop is not designed as a critique group, but participants may request thoughtful comments and questions on the passages that they read aloud.
The nine sessions cover craft concerns based on reading selections.
Note: For first session, please prepare by reading any of the Session 1 selections from the book list below. Also, please bring first and last paragraphs from favorite books for investigation. If you'd like to share first sentences from your own writing or initial sentences (story seeds) that inspired a project, even if they've been discarded or altered in revision, please bring those.
(This is the 2010 Schedule)
1. Gatekeepers & Story Seeds ~ March
Examine first and last sentences that successfully set up, complete, and resonate within the story. What do those first words promise? In what ways do last words glance back or look beyond? How do words and images germinate a story?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Put a first sentence on parade and identify what instrument of story delivery each word plays.
2. Voice, Style & POV ~ April
Listen to and learn from your narrator or narrators. Who tells the story and how? What does distinctive voice have to do with style?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Write a scene two or more ways using different points of view and/or voice, or bring passages from books with contrasting points of view and voice.
3. Character ~ May
Care about your characters. How do writers make invented people come alive on the page? How much do you need to know about a character as a reader or as a writer?
Hands-on homework suggestion : Create characters scrapbooks and other prompts to inform character development.
4. Place ~ June
Ground the story. How do writers establish a felt sense of inhabited place? Can you picture where your characters live? Does place serve as character?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Map a story's environment and/or architecture.
5. Tension ~ July
Entice readers to turn the page. What is tension? How does it relate to plot? How, when and where do masterful writers weave it in and make it pay off for readers?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Graph a story's high and low tension points.
6. Time & Consciousness ~ August
Expand and compress time, pick up or slow down the pace. How does a book that engages readers for only several hours give them the experience of time, whether the story spans a day or decades?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Track the baton relay of time and consciousness in a story.
7. Love & Other Emotions ~ September
Get second-hand emotions to first base. What's love got to do with it? Explore the purposes and limits of the popular writer's maxim: "Show, don't tell."
Hands-on homework suggestion: Create a graphic storyboard of a love scene or emotional passage.
8. Image & the Senses ~ October
Make the fabulous real and the real felt. How do writers paint vivid impressions with words to enliven narrative and awaken readers' senses?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Find or create images that encapsulate aspects of a story.
9. Theme & Gestalt ~ November
Draw it all together. How does an author integrate big ideas and intentions into his or her story without overpowering it?
Hands-on homework suggestion: Continue a deep engagement in literature.
Suggested book list
Focus on one book or portions of a book each month. As the workshops progress, participants may suggest books for the list that illuminate topics scheduled for discussion. With an annotative approach, rather than a book report approach, we'll explore and contrast specific craft concerns within several books. Our individual literary investigations cross-pollinate for hybrid thinking among the group. The nine sessions cover these reading selections:
March ~ Gatekeepers & Story Seeds
"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills."
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen; The Quiet American, Graham Greene; Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee; The Awakening, Kate Chopin; Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner; Selected Stories, Alice Munro
April ~ Voice, Style & POV
"Richard Parker, can you believe what happened to us? Tell me it's a bad dream. Tell me it's not real."
Life of Pi, Yann Martel; Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes; Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; Vanity Fair, William Thackeray; Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan; The Middleman and Other Stories, Baharati Murkherjee; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; Bell Canto, Ann Patchett
May ~ Character
"Cosimo climbed up to the fork of a big branch where he could settle comfortably and sat himself own there, his legs dangling, his arms crossed with hands tucked under his elbows, his head buried in his shoulders, his tricorne hat tilted over his forehead."
Our Ancestors:Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino; The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Richard Yates; How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto; The Country Life, Rachel Cusk; To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
June ~ Place
"For the Lighthouse has become almost invisible, had melted away into a blue haze, and the effort of looking at it and the effort of thinking of him landing there, which both seemed to be one and the same effort, had stretched her body and mind to the utmost."
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf; Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson; Of the Farm & Pigeon Feathers, John Updike; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; Dubliners, James Joyce.
July ~ Tension
"He has never been seen in the company of a girl on the factory premises, nor anywhere in the immediate neighborhood. Nothing like that on your own doorstep is the rule he has."
Felicia's Journey, William Trevor; The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
August ~ Time & Consciousness
"Though sometimes in my brain I go back to that afternoon, to relive it, sail up there again toward the acoustic panels, the basketball hoops, and the old oak clock, the careful harmonies set loose from our voices so pure and exact and light we wondered later, packing up to leave, how high and fast and far they had gone."
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore; Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron; Larry's Party, Carol Shields; A Country Life, Rachel Cusk; Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf; Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
September ~ Love & Other Emotions
"This sound seemed to enter him, pierce him down his length so that his whole body opened up and he was able to step out of himself and kiss her freely."
Atonement, Ian McEwan; Jasmine, Baharati Mukherjee; Selected Stories, Alice Munro; Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov; A Passage to India, E.M Forster; Bell Canto, Ann Patchett; The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
October ~ Image & the Senses
"I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M Coetzee; A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor; Life of Pi, Yann Martel; Invisible Cities and Our Ancestors: Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino; Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
November ~ Theme & Gestalt
"One is constantly wondering what sort of lives other people lead, and how they take things."
Middlemarch, George Eliot; Passage to India, E.M. Forster; Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton; Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M Coetzee; The Human Stain, Philip Roth; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
"Christine is a natural teacher with such a clear and gentle manner."
—Gillian Parker, PhD, Philosophy Professor, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
"Christine is extremely talented and is a true educator."
—Denise Rosendahl, Director, Life Learning Center, Santa Rosa, California
"Christine really knows how to bring out the creative soul in each student. She has the magic touch to get the women motivated in a completely different way than any other class they would take."
—Karen Whissen, Director, Sonoma County Library Literacy Program, County Jails, Santa Rosa, California
"Without your help these past weeks, my stories would be in a folder in a suitcase, and maybe I'd work on them or maybe I'd procrastinate and not do anything at all. You guided me to a much improved manuscript, one that I feel confident to submit."
—Sally Dawson, writer, Greer's Ferry, Arkansas
"Your curriculum and presentation were great and I feel inspired."
"One gem I pulled from your class on Saturday is to believe in my work. That you care and are passionate about what you do and wish to share is evident."
"I loved your workshop. I walked away from it, for the first time feeling like a writer."
—Workshop participants, Inkling to Ink and Beyond, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
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Entering the story of "The Days of Abandonment," author Elena Ferrante drops us right into the protagonist's pain, and does so with a detachment that sets up the woman's emotional state. "One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me. He did it while we were clearing the table; the children were quarreling as usual in the next room, the dog was dreaming, growling beside the radiator."
Masterful control of narrative
Let's examine this first sentence from the hand of an author who is in complete control of her narrative and kind to her readers, even though she is about to take us into the depths of the narrator's despair. With calm clarity, Ferrante places us in time in this domestic drama: "One April afternoon, right after lunch…" Nothing could be more ordinary. The repeated "after" propels us forward. This is a story about what's coming next. We can't hold onto the past any more than the narrator can, though she tries in vain to do so. She gives us the reason for what will be the narrator's unraveling: "my husband announced that he wanted to leave me." Already we sense narrator's out-of-body response to the news: "He did it while we were clearing the table"—as if the crisis were just another dish to wash. We learn later how much she has given up to be wife and mother and how little self-identity she still claimed, even before her husband abandoned her.
Punctuation plays a role. The semicolon separates her husband from the children and the dog, just as his leaving splits their family life. The children and dog remain in her care, though the children's "quarreling" anticipates it won't be easy to be the single parent and the dog's "growling" suggests he may play an role other than silent pet, and he does.
Point the way in the first sentence
When I read masterful opening sentences such as these, I wonder how they evolved. Did the author write them first? Did she know where she was going and how well they'd lead her there? Did she go back to the beginning with each draft, honing these sentences to direct the final manuscript? In the novels I've written, there are many attempts at first paragraphs which set up the same story from radically different entry points. Rewriting the first sentence helps me understand the story—a pointer showing where the story wants to go.
Drop details bit by bit
In Ferrante's first two sentences, the major characters are introduced, except for the "other woman" and the narrator's new love interest, both of whom will be mentioned by page five. But this novel is mainly about the dissolution of a family, the abandonment of a marriage covenant. Why does the dog appear here? Because he will play a major role in the narrator's descent into hell and her redemption. Do we need to know this as readers starting out? No. But novel writing is a bit like Hansel and Gretel's dropping of bread crumbs to mark the trail. Ferrante's crumbs keep us turning pages, yes, but also introduce bit by bit the ordinary and terribly extraordinary daily details of abandonment.
Make characters complex: Give flaws to protagonists, redeem antagonists
Read Ferrante's next two lines: "He told me that he was confused, that he was having terrible moments of cowardice. He talked for a long time about our fifteen years of marriage, about the children, and admitted that he had nothing to reproach us with, neither them nor me." Wouldn't it be so much easier for the abandoned wife if she could hate her husband with better reason than that he left her? How much simpler it would be if he was cruel to the children or beat her. How more likely we could hate him if he just walked out, didn't "talk for a long time" and reproached her unfairly. How much easier for us and for the narrator to despise a bully than a coward.
Use vivid detail, vivid metaphor
The first paragraph consists of six sentences. Here are the final two: "He was composed, as always, apart from an extravagant gesture of his right hand when he explained to me, with a childish frown, that soft voices, a sort of whispering, were uging him elsewhere. Then he assumed the blame for everything that was happening and closed the front door carefully behind him, leaving me turned to stone beside the sink."
How could we not read on? She's turned to stone and we don't even know her name. In fact, she's so lacking in her own personal sense of identity that we don't find out her name—Olga—until pages into the story, long after the name of the "other woman" is mentioned. But the "turned to stone" tells us that Olga isn't taking this calmly in the course of her day, as the narrative tone suggests.
Thread tension: create friction between opposites, against expectations
The tension established between what seems to be and the true depths of emotion keeps tension on the page. The dropping in, little by little, of information tucked among sensory language—"dog growling, radiator (the heat will be echoed later in Olga's August entrapment in the apartment), extravagant gesture of his right hand, childish frown, sort of whispering"—keeps us reading. We can see, hear, and feel the scene. The "turned to stone" anticipates how bad it will be for our protagonist, who is left not in a romantic upheaval—on the bed! under the train!—but "beside the sink." For this women, there are dishes to do, even though her marriage has fallen apart. Ferrante shows us well that when things go wrong it's harder to bear real life if there is no escaping from it.
In my next post, I'll examine how Ferrante masterfully brings in the necessary back story—never an easy task, always a pitfall for a writer.
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Writing is a solitary act with a communal spirit among writers and readers. As writers, we need to be close readers, not only to learn from the masters, but also to be the audience that we would like to have for our own books. In this blog, we'll examine good books to learn craft and technique, as well as to enrich our appreciation of writing. We'll ask, "What makes fine fiction? How or why did that author do that?"
We'll discover the lessons that masterful writing and wonderful books can teach us. Topics include: Gatekeepers (first & last sentences)& Story Seeds (inspirations, triggers, starting points); Voice, Style & Point of View; Character; Place; Tension; Time & Consciousness; Love & Other Emotions; Image & Senses; Theme & Gestalt; and more. Some of the material investigated comes from a course curriculum I designed for a workshop series at Copperfield's Books.
I hope you'll read to write and join the discussion when you have a discovery or question to share with this blog.
I've just read for the third time "The Days of Abandonment" by Elena Ferrante. From the first sentence to the last, this unassuming, raw domestic drama riveted me to care about Olga and her world as it broke around her and came together again. In the next posts, I'll examine what this book teaches.
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CBC HNIC Feed - stereo audio only?
I have noticed this in the past, a Hockey night in Canada broadcast with nothing, and I mean nothing in the center channel for 5 channel Dolby Digital. Tonight, a new low: no audio feed for the surround channels at all. That's in addition to the center channel having zilch. Has anyone else noticed this? The talking heads between periods get 5 channel audio, but the actual game, nothing but 2 channels.
Could this be just my feed/area, or are others noticing this as well.
The Leaf/Flyer game just started the third period and the feed is back to 2 channels only on the HD channel. I changed channels and immediately got 5 channel audio, back to the CBCHD channel and 2 channel audio.
I have no idea if it's just the west coast, or just Shaw or what, but it's not impressive.
jumpy27
It is most likely because the game is in Philadelphia. When the game is in Canada there is 5 channel sound.
Improperly encoded audio happens a fair bit on PBS and CBC because they always send out a DD5.1 signal, even when the original material only contains 2 channels. Most broadcasters send out DD2.0 or DD5.1/5.0. With the improperly encoded audio, you get the LF & RF channel and sometimes, if they really screw up you get no dialogue due to the missing center. See the following FAQ, item 1. Workarounds are also discussed in the FAQ.
http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=17870
57's Home Theatre (Latest equipment & photos)
Thanks for your response. Hopefully as HD gets more common broadcasts like this will become a thing of the past. My high end receiver couldn't even matrix 7.1 out of the signal. At least with standard def programing you can still get 7.1.
It could if you sent the audio to the AVR via the analogue audio connection (this could be parallel to your existing connection and could be chosen by the AVR) or set the STB to PCM as outlined in the FAQ. If, however, the center channel track was removed by the broadcaster by mistake, then the dialogue may still be missing, even though you matrix the audio, in which case you could CC the programme, also as outlined in the FAQ.

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The School of Education, led by a committee of teacher candidates, offered a Professional Development Workshop on April 12.
The event was so successful that attendees requested another workshop be scheduled for the fall. Congratulations and thank you to all organizers and presenters.


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At the end of last year, almost everyone I spoke with was exhausted. Feeling tired and overworked, people, myself included, were looking forward to a break. And what a lovely time it was. Just after Christmas, family arrived from the UK and it was a treat to show them around Perth and the South West. I relished in their delight of the landscape, food, wine and amenity at some of our favourite places. As beach lovers, they spent many hours in the sun at Woodman Point, Bather's and Scarborough beaches. They really enjoyed their day at Rottnest and four days in Dunsborough too. Never having visited a vineyard before, they soon got the hang of wine tasting, and the quote of the holiday would have to have been, 'After tasting these beautiful wines the offerings on the top shelf at [supermarket] ASDA will just not cut it!'
Speaking to people since I've been back at work, many experienced the same thing over summer. After showing off Perth's coming of age projects, friends and colleagues have agreed that they too now have a greater appreciation of how lucky we are to live where we do.
It has been a busy first week back as we shape the events program, research agenda and strategic and risk planning sessions.
In early February, Kate Lamont will chair the first meeting of the Board for 2019. The agenda is large with Directors considering the research agenda for the year and a proposal for our next major project. She will also welcome newly appointed Directors – Meath Hammond from BHP and Crown Perth's Andrew Hill, who replace Stephanie Buckland and John Nicolaou, who stood down at the end of last year due to work commitments.
Also in February, Kate will host a series of forums with members to shape the 2019-22 Strategic Plan. If you haven't already registered, please do so.
Over the past few weeks I have met with a number of Directors to conduct one on one interviews. As they have reflected on the performance of the current Strategic Plan, it is the quality of research, the independence of thinking and an apolitical approach that are intrinsic to our reputation and need to be entrenched as part of the next plan.
The Committee for Perth is renowned for the quality of the evidence base it produces. This year, we will add to our vast knowledge base in the areas of Perth's reputation, positioning and capability as well as cost of living and gender equality.
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Consilience: Photographers Operating at the Intersection of Art and Science
Posted on January 16, 2012	by Liz Sales
Consilience
Photographers Operating at the Intersection of Art and Science
In many ways, art and science are likely bedfellows. Both support a culture of experimentation that is inspired by curiosity, while attracting individuals interested in generating fresh ideas and forging new paths. Consequently, there is a discoverable history of unifying practices, practitioners, and organizations dedicated to artists and scientists dating back to the Lunar Society.The word 'consilience' was first used by William Whewellin 1840 in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences to describe the coincidence of one class of facts with another. More recently, E. O. Wilson has made of us the term to describe the linking together of ideas from different disciplines into more comprehensive theories. In his 1998 publication Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Wilson argues that methods employed in integrating the sciences could also be used to promote understanding and communication among the sciences, the arts, and the humanities, thereby fostering a better understanding of ourselves and our world.
Photography has a singular place in this unfolding history. Invented by means of a scientific process that changed the nature of visual representation and thus, art making, our medium has been a natural means of blending the two disciplines since its advent. Moreover, photographers who have bridged this gap include such iconic figures as Eadweard Muybridge, Margaret Bourke-White, and Berenice Abbott.
In recent decades, new scientific developments have radically changed the manner in which we, as human beings, understand ourselves, down to our three-billion-letter sequence of DNA. Contemporary science permeates our culture in ways that are difficult for artists to ignore. And many artists have mined emerging concepts in neuroscience, nanotechnology, and astrophysics for their own practices. Likewise, the most revolutionary developments in science are often dependent upon the arts. Scientists have moved beyond human sensory perception, from subatomic particles that cannot be seen to alternate dimensions that cannot be visited. Art provides scientists with imagery and analogy and sometimes with a much-needed space in which to explore unanswerable questions and illogical ideas.
Consilience: Photographers Operating at the Intersection of Art and Science, currently on display in the International Center of Photography Library's window, is a selection of 12 twenty-first century publications that celebrates the creative work of photographers operating at the intersection of art and science, including: Brandon Ballengée, Jim Bell, Mark Dion, Felice Frankel, Joan Fontcuberta, Clifford Ross, A. A. Ruiz, Madeline Schwartzman, David Maisel and Catherine Wagner, James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, Adam Bartos, Michael Burton, Peter Campus, Robert Canali, Linda Connor, Olafur Eliasson, Vincent Fournier, Stan Gaz, Sharon Harper, Ian Harrison, Tim Hawkinson, Susann Hertrich, Golan Levin, Jason Lazarus, Charles Lindsay, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Phillip Scott Andrews, Greg Stimac, Neilson Tam, Ei Wada, Danielle Wilde, and Clemems Winkler. The photo book provides a comprehensive and accessible venue to explore these photographers' unique practices.
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Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, Embryonic Landscapes
Edited by Eulàlia Bosch. Images by Ariel Ruiz i Altaba. Text by Christian Ruiz i Altaba, Dolors Altaba-Artal, Elena Alvarez, Antonio Garcia-Bellido, John Berger, Kate Breakey, Eulàlia Bosch, Joan Fontcuberta, Cécile Guilbert, Tamara Gurbis, Tracy Handel, Carter Hodgkin, David Kimelman, Víctor Molina, Lennart Philipson, Alain Prochiantz, Deborah Treisman, Jessica Treisman, Jon Weider, Lawrence Weschler, Lewis Wolpert, Xavier Rubert de Ventós, and William Vollmann.
Ariel Ruiz i Altaba is a photographer, molecular biologist, and biochemist. In Embryonic Landscapes, Altaba presents fifteen years of work, in which he combines his solid scientific knowledge with his aesthetic sensibility to capture the external forms of developing embryos and molecular patterns of gene expression in different species that share common developmental mechanisms with man.
Embryonic Landscapes also includes original essays by scientists, philosophers, and artists, including Ariel Ruiz i Altaba's friend and past collaborator, Joan Fontcuberta. These texts address such topics as the quintessence of photography, the relationship between man and nature, and the similarities and differences between art and science.
Brandon Ballengèe, Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians
Edited by Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope. Images by Brandon Ballengée. Text by Brandon Ballengée; Kerry M. Kriger, PhD; Clare Lilley; Lucy R. Lippard; Miranda Pope; Stanley K. Sessions; and Nicola Triscott.
Malamp presents eco-artist and activist Brandon Ballengée's artistic, scientific, and ecological investigation into mutant amphibians around the world since 1996. The publication of this monograph coincided with The Case of the Deviant Toad, an exhibition at the Royal Institution, and offers the results of Ballengée's research as the artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2006 and 2007, commissioned by Arts Catalyst in England.
Ballengée collects the bodies of mutant amphibians and brings them back to his studio, where he exposes them to a chemical procedure he refers to as clear and stain. He soaks the frogs in a series of chemicals that adhere to different tissues, making them transparent and revealing bizarre bone structures. Alongside these images and Ballengée's tenderly rendered technical illustrations aretexts on Ballengée's practice from artistic, scientific, and ecological perspectives, including an essay by art critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard; Clare Lilley, Head Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Nicola Triscott, Director of the Arts Catalyst; Dr. Stanley K. Sessions, Professor of Biology, Hartwick College; and Dr. Kerry Kriger, Director of Save the Frogs.
Jim Bell, Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet
Images by Jim Bell and NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Text by Bill Nye and Jim Bell.
Jim Bell, NASA geoscientist and lifelong photographer, led the Spirit and Opportunity mobile robot missions to photograph the surface of Mars. Over 150,000 photographs were captured, often at 100 megabytes, on this mission and then sent back across millions of miles of space. Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet is a photographic survey of the surface of Mars, featuring 150 of these images. The work oddly resembles the photographs of Yosemite Valley captured by Jim Bell's hero, Ansel Adams and with millions of viewers, these images of Mars are becoming as much a part of our visual lexicon.
Daylight Magazine: Issue 9—Cosmos
Edited by Michael Itkoff and Taj Forer. Images by Adam Bartos, Robert Canali, Linda Connor, Vincent Fournier, Stan Gaz, Sharon Harper, Jason Lazarus, Charles Lindsay, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Phillip Scott Andrews, Greg Stimac, and Neilson Tam.
Daylight Magazine, edited by ICP-Bard alumnus Michael Itkoff, is dedicated to publishing in-depth photographic essays in collaboration with established and emerging artists, scholars, and journalists. This issue of Daylight features work by photographers, each of whom are interested in in astronomical issues.
Mark Dion, Polar Bear: (Ursus Maritimus)
Images by Mark Dion.
Mark Dion is well known for integrating scientific presentations into his artistic practice. He has spent his career playing with the formula by which knowledge is produced through cultural institutions to reveal how scientific specimens and cultural objects are used to amplify dominant historical narratives.
Polar Bear: (Ursus Maritimus) presents playful, carefully labeled photographs of stuffed polar bears within dioramas mimicking their natural habitat in Natural History museums, including der Eisbär at the Hessiches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany; the Isbjàrnen at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden; and l'Ours Blanc at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France.
Felice Frankel, No Small Matter
Images by Felice Frankel. Text by Felice Frankel and George Whitesides.
Felice C. Frankelis has received awards and grants for her scientific photography from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Frankelis spent over twenty years photographing objects too small for conventional microscopes. For her book No Small Matter, she collaborated with Harvard chemist George Whitesides in order to offer explanations at the nanoscale.
Joan Fontcuberta, Joan Fontcuberta: Landscapes Without Memory
Images by Joan Fontcuberta. Text by Geoffrey Batchen.
Joan Fontcuberta is well known for exploring the intersections between art, technology, and science, as they relate to truth and fiction. For Landscapes without Memory, Fontcuberta employed computer software designed for military use to rendering photo-realistic models based on information scanned from two-dimensional sources to create two series, "Landscapes of Landscapes" and "Bodyscapes". For these series Fontcuberta asked the software to interpret masterworks, of artist such as Turner, Cézanne, Dalí, and close-up images of his body, as landscapes, transforming them into mountains, forests, and clouds.
Christina Labey, Lunar Mission: human space flight studies
Images by Christina Labey
Christina Labey, a former ICP education staff member, is an MFA candidate at Parsons, The New School University; the Curatorial and Publications Director of Conveyor Arts; and the Founder and Executive Editor of Conveyor Magazine.
Lunar Mission: human space flight studies is one in her three-part series of photographic zines, each of which is comprised of light sheets of newsprint that are reminiscent of educational pamphlets for astronomy enthusiasts. The zine presents appropriated lunar images, naturally interspersed with Labey's own stellar black and white photographs, shot here on earth. Together these images underscore the camera's ability to obscure the familiar and illustrate the unimaginable.
David Maisel: Library of Dust
Images David Maisel. Text by Geoff Manaugh, Terry Toedtemeier, and Michael S. Roth.
Artist David Maisel uses photography to explore the tension between science and mysticism, or as he has described it, between "the verifiable and the unknowable." Library of Dust includes Maisel's large format images of copper canisters containing the unclaimed cremated remains of former psychicatric patients of the Oregon State hospital. In each image Maisel has captured the bizarre chemical reactions that took place as theses canisters colorfully corroded, unnoticed, in the basement of the institution after exposure to repeated instances of flooding.
Clifford Ross, Wave Music
Images by Clifford Ross. Text by Clifford Ross, Arthur C. Danto, and A. M. Homes.
Clifford Ross—inventor, technician, and photographer—designed and constructed the R1, his sixty-pound, six-foot tall, handcrafted, 9×18-inch camera, made from new and recycled parts dating back to the 1940s. MIT Media Lab Director, Michael Hawlry, pronounced an image Ross captured with this camera "the most technically perfect photograph ever made." Many of Ross's images are seascapes reminiscent of both Romantic painting and nineteenth-century photographic tinkering. Clifford's trilogy, Hurricanes, Horizons, and Grain make up the publication Wave Music.
Madeline Schwartzman, See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception
Images by participating artists. Text by Madeline Schwartzman.
See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception is Madeline Schwartzman's survey of artists and designers examining the relationship between the senses and technology. The book explores the work of both upcoming and established artists who have mined emerging technologies and concepts out of such cutting-edge fields as neuroscience, nanotechnology, and computer engineering, for their own practices. Artists who incorporate lens-based media include James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, Michael Burton, Peter Campus, Olafur Eliasson, Ian Harrison, Tim Hawkinson, Rebbeca Horn, Susann Hertrich, Golan Levin, Ei Wada, Danielle Wilde, and Clemens Winkler.
Catherine Wagner: Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, the Arctic Circle, and the History of Science
Images by Catherine Wagner. Text by Catherine Wagner and David Bonetti.
Catherine Wagner is a photographer known for her depictions of research laboratories, scientific equipment and experimental specimens. In 1997, the ICP exhibited Art & Science: Investigating Matter, a selection of Wagner's images of subjects and objects of laboratory science.
Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, the Arctic Circle, and the History of Science is Wagner's three-part photographic interpretation of Mary Shelley's dark tale from a contemporary perspective.
Ballengée, Brandon, Nicola Triscott, and Miranda Pope. Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians. London, UK: Arts Catalyst, 2010. Print.
Bell, Jim. Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet. New York: Dutton, 2006. Print.
Daylight Magazine 9: Cosmos. (2011). Print.
Dion, Mark. Polar Bear: (Ursus Maritimus). Köln, Germany: Walther Konig, 2003. Print.
Frankel, Felice, and G M. Whitesides. No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Print.
Fontcuberta, Joan, and Geoffrey Batchen. Joan Fontcuberta: Landscapes Without Memory. New York: Aperture, 2005. Print.
Ross, Clifford, Arthur C. Danto, and A M. Homes. Wave Music. New York: Aperture, 2005. Print.
Ruiz, i A. A., and Eulalia Bosch. Embryonic Landscapes. Barcelona, Spain: ACTAR, 2001. Print.
Schwartzman, Madeline. See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing, 2011. Print.
Labey, Christina. Lunar Mission: Human Space Flight Studies. Hoboken, NJ: Conveyor Arts, 2011. Print.
Maisel, David, Geoff Manaugh, Terry Toedtemeier, and Michael S. Roth. Library of Dust. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2008. Print.
Wagner, Catherine, and David Bonetti. Trilogy: Reflections on Frankenstein, the Arctic Circle, and the History of Science. San Francisco, CA: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2004. Print.
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In a battle of unbeaten fighters Kaisheng Fu (6-0, 1) will take on the heavy handed Yongqiang Yang (7-0, 6) for the WBO China Zone Light Welterweight title. The 30 year old Fu has won his last 2 bouts by very close decision and is rather lucky to still have a 100% winning record. The same cannot be said of Yang, who has only faced limited foes, but has typically blasted them out, including Indonesian journeyman Geisler AP who was stopped inside a round back in April.
Another WBO China Zone title bout takes place at Welterweight and will see Abulimiti Tuersunniyazi (4-1-1, 3) take on the unbeaten Youli Dong (9-0-1, 6). The 26 year old Tuersunniyazi has had mixed success recently, going 1-1-1 in his last 3 bouts and has yet to really shine. Dong on the other hand is unbeaten in 10, and has won his last 9, with 6 straight stoppages. It's worth noting that whilst Dong's record ticks the right boxes on paper, his competition is paper thin and he has only really fought novices.
Another notable bout will see 22 year old Filipino prospect Adam Diu Abdulhamid (11-4, 4) take on former world title challenger Ik Yang (19-2-0-1, 14). For the Filipino the bout is a huge step up, and he comes into the bout having lost 2 of his last 4, including an opening round blow out in Russia and a decision defeat in Thailand. Yang has lost his last 2, losing to Cesar Rene Cuenca and Leonardo Zappavigna, and his career looks like it's falling apart, though he will know this is a chance to get a much needed win, and another loss will likely be the end for the "Wild man". This is a must win for both fighters, and could be a very entertaining contest, despite no title being on the line.
In the US fight fans will be able to see unbeaten Kazakh novice Yedil Kozhamberdiyev (1-0, 1) fight in his first 6 rounder. The Kazakh fighter will be up against 22 year old American Blake LaCaze (3-4-1, 1), who has had mixed results, and shouldn't prove to be any sort of a threat for Kozhamberdiyev.
February 24th-Title action in the Philippines!
In the Philippines this coming Saturday fight fans will see a number of title bouts on an interesting looking show.
The main event of the card will see the touted Randy Braga (19-2-1, 5) take on journeyman Landy Cris Leon (10-14-4, 4). Braga will be looking to defend his GAB Featherweight title for the second time and will be hoping to bounce back from a 2016 loss to OPBF champion Ryo Takenaka, who beat Braga by 12 round decision in October. For Leon the bout sees him returning to the ring following a loss of his own, an 8 round decision loss to Sho Nakazawa. It's hard to imagine Braga losing here, but will want to rebuild his confidence given the wide loss to Takenaka.
In other title bouts we'll see Juan Miguel Elorde (22-1, 11) defending the WBO Asia Pacific Super Bantamweight title,for the second time, and his brother and Juan Martin Elorde (21-1-1, 8) defending his WBO Oriental Lightweight title. Sadly at the time of writing neither of the Elorde's have had their opponents announced, and it's likely that both will be facing soft touches.
One bout that has been fully announced will see Wilbert Berondo (10-2, 4) take on veteran Albert Alcoy (14-23-7, 4). Although a mismatch on paper Berondo has lost his last two bouts, including a 6th round KO loss to the sensational Hinata Maruta in a bout for a WBC Youth title. Alcoy comes into this bout on an 11 fight win-less streak but has upset the likes of Roli Gasca and Renan Trongco in the past, suggesting he can be a banana skin with enough notice.
As well as the show in the Philippines there will also be a card in China. This show is pretty easy to over-look but the main event is worth noting as it will see Peng Qu (11-1-1, 7) battle against Sajjad Mehrabi (14-1-2, 1). Peng has shown some genuine promise in the past and will be looking to build on his growing reputation here whist Iranian Mehrabi will be looking to bounce back from his sole defeat, a 2016 loss to Thomas Mashali in a bout for a UBO title.


The 2019 Abu Dhabi Pro-Am Presented by Troon Golf is set to take place from 2nd – 7th February 2019 at the renowned Saadiyat Beach and Abu Dhabi Golf Clubs.
Competitors will play 54 holes with two rounds on the Gary Player-designed home of the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open, Saadiyat Beach Golf Club, and one round at the venue of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Abu Dhabi Golf Club.
Professionals will be competing for a total prize fund of €30,000* with a guaranteed €500 awarded to all Professionals, whilst amateurs will play for excellent overall prizes and daily longest drive and nearest the pin awards.
The Westin Abu Dhabi Golf Resort & Spa is the hospitality heart of the Abu Dhabi Golf Club – a 27 hole championship course, home to the PGA European Tour Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
Golf Escapes will look after all travel to the event for teams from the UK & Ireland.


Firelands Rails to Trails, Inc. – An all-volunteer, non-profit group dedicated to the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the North Coast Inland Trail in Huron County.
NEDC and Firelands Rails To Trails Inc put together a short video about the trail system here in Huron County. Please take a moment to watch and share!


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15-Minute Hamlet is a 1976 comedic abridgement of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, written by Tom Stoppard.

The play, an excerpt from Dogg's Hamlet, condenses the original Hamlet, including all the best-known scenes, into approximately 13 minutes of on-stage action. This is followed by another even more drastically reduced performance of the play from beginning to end, lasting 2 minutes, bringing the total running time up to 15 minutes.

References

Plays and musicals based on Hamlet
Plays by Tom Stoppard
Comedy-drama plays

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On both my iphone mail app and my Mail Bird application on my PC my comcast email will not send emails.
My password is correct, the ports are set to what comcast recommends (587or 465 /993) but still nothing works.
this has been going on for literal weeks on both apps.
Exactly what happens when you try to send an email? Are you getting any error message? Can you send normally using only a browser and the webmail interface?
in the MailBird appilcation, I get an error, which I am contact with the Mailbird team about, but it is more likely on comcast's end since all of my other addresses in both applications work.


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and Simon Konecki confirmed their split on Friday after an eight-year relationship and three-year marriage.
And the superstar singer, 30, reportedly plans to base herself in to be close to her mother and so her six-year-old son Angelo can have a British education.
The Tottenham-born singer, who has an estimated fortune of £145 million, flew into the UK three weeks ago to spend time with her mum, Penny Adkins.
Split: Adele, 30, confirmed her split with Simon Konecki on Friday after an eight-year relationship and three-year marriage and plans to be based in London
In their separation statement, the pair said they were 'committed' to raising their son together 'lovingly' and are believed to have split amicably.
Adele, who is thought to be recording a new album in New York, has been with Konecki, who is 14 years her senior, since October 2011.
Despite this, rumours about their rocky relationship have plagued the couple for years.
In 2014, it was claimed that Konecki had moved out of their London home and into his bachelor pad in Brighton.
Adele eventually responded to the reports on Twitter, writing: 'Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays & all the best for 2015!PS Simon & I are still very much together, don't believe what you read x.'
Rumours: Speculation about the pair's rocky relationship have plagued the couple for years.In June 2014 the couple were snapped having an argument outside London celebrity hotspot Chiltern Firehouse
Former couple: It was rumoured the couple had a rocky relationship, with Konecki moving out their London home in 2014
Gone separate ways: The couple were last seen together backstage at an Elton John concert in LA on January 25
However, the pair were photographed in June that year having an argument outside London celebrity hotspot Chiltern Firehouse.
And it was revealed the couple began preparing for their split months ago, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The singer and Konecki, an Eton-educated philanthropist, began separating their business affairs in February.
Legal documents show Adele, 30, signed over a £500,000 house in Los Angeles to Konecki, whose charity water business is based in the city.
A statement released by her PR team early yesterday announced that Adele and former investment banker Konecki, 44 – who she once described as her 'perfect man' – were no longer together.
Woes: It emerged the singer signed over a £500,000 house in Los Angeles to Konecki in months prior to the split
Relationship: It is understood that Adele is being comforted by her friends, including Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence
'Adele and her partner have separated,' the statement said.'They are committed to raising their son together lovingly. As always they ask for privacy. There will be no further comment.'
The Someone Like You star signed over the £500,000 property in the middle-class Van Nuys suburb, a half-hour drive from the couple's £10 million Beverly Hills mansion, two months ago.
Legal papers show the property changed hands under an 'intrafamily transfer', which gifted Konecki the house.
The property is the registered base of Mammoth Water Resources, a company owned by Konecki who also runs a charity called Drop4Drop.
Split: Sources insist the separation is 'unlikely' to turn nasty and both will want to focus on being good parents to their son
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During their marriage, they split their time between their gated Beverly Hills home, a £40 million property in Kensington, West London, and another home in Brighton.
The couple were last seen together backstage at an Elton John concert in LA on January 25.
Sources insist the separation is 'unlikely' to turn nasty.
'Simon's not like that.He's got his own money. His only concern now is that he and Adele remain the best parents they can be to Angelo,' one insider told The Mail on Sunday.
It is understood that Adele is being comforted by her friends, including Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence with whom she was spotted partying in a New York gay bar in March.
On the rocks: During their marriage, they split their time between Beverly Hills home, Kensington, West London, and another home in Brighton (pictured at the Grammy Awards in 2017)
Highly secretive about her romance with Konecki, Adele only confirmed the pair had married in 2016 when she referred to him as her 'husband' on stage at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
During a tearful Album of the Year acceptance speech, she said: 'My husband, my son, you're the only reason I do it.'
In a handful of interviews, Adele has gushed about her love for Konecki who she has credited with helping her recover from vocal cord surgery in 2011.
'He's wonderful and he's proud of me but he doesn't care about what I do or what other people think,' she once said.
'He looks after me.I don't think I would have gotten through the recovery for my surgery if it hadn't been for him.'
'Separate lives': And now it has been reported that Adele and Simon had been 'living separate lives for years' and 'accepted that something just isn't going to work' (pictured 2017)
More recently, the singer spoke of her longing to expand her family.
'My womb is starting to ache a little bit,' she said.'It's like, 'Baby, baby, baby. Need a baby.' I'm not pregnant. I won't get pregnant until the end of the tour.'
Konecki was previously married to stylist Clary Fisher. They have a nine-year-old daughter and split in 2010. He met Adele the following year, after reportedly being introduced by Ed Sheeran.
Social media erupted at the news of Adele's separation from her husband with many fans rejoicing that the split may inspire her to complete her fourth album – the singer's songs of heartbreak are a hallmark of her multi-million selling 19, 21 and 25 albums.
'Adele and her husband just separated.Music charts, get ready for the world's greatest breakup album ever… again! #Adele #divorce,' one fan wrote on Twitter.
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San Fermin Highlight Instrumental Beauty at Thalia Hall
Mary Grace Ritter | The Phoenix San Fermin brought its genre-mixing sound to Thalia Hall Friday Oct. 25.
Mary Grace Ritter | The Phoenix Indie rock band Bad Bad Hats opened for San Fermin at Thalia Hall on Friday, Oct. 25.
By Mary Grace Ritter
October 29, 2019 6:58 p.m. CT
With eight members filling the stage and hundreds of fans filling Thalia Hall, genre-mashing group San Fermin brought its lively mix of indie rock, folk and pop. The Brooklyn-based band put on a show characterized by gorgeous vocal harmonies, animated saxophone solos and good old-fashioned fun Oct. 25.
Indie rockers Bad Bad Hats opened the show with its chill tunes and Midwestern charm. The Minneapolis-based trio shared lighthearted anecdotes between songs adding context to tracks "Nothing Gets Me High" and "Midway."
On a fog-filled stage, San Fermin began its set with the opening and title track off its new album "The Cormorant I." Vocalists Karlie Bruce and Claire Wellin, who also played the violin, personalized the track with dramatic vocal runs.
This was the first of many moments that incorporated the member's personalities into the live show. As Ellis Ludwig-Leone, the lyricist, composer and keyboardist, previously said in an interview with The Phoenix, this is what differentiates the studio recordings from the live show.
Those changes shone in tracks "Saints" from "The Cormorant I" and "Parasites" off the 2015 album "Jackrabbit," both of which built into a full-on jam session. When there's eight musicians on stage letting loose, including Michael Hanf on percussion and Tyler McDiarmid on guitar, the playful intensity commands the room.
The band also played songs from the currently unreleased part two of "The Cormorant," including "Westward" and "Swampsong."
Saxophonist Stephen Chen frequently stepped to the front of the stage for a saxophone solo, but for the track "Sonsick" off the 2013 debut self-titled album he hopped off the stage. The crowd kindly split to make room for him. John Brandon on the trumpet joined him shortly after in the audience.
San Fermin's encore included a haunting minimalistic cover of Carley Rae Jepsen's pop love song "Run Away with Me." As if the rest of the show hadn't proved how beautifully Wellin and Bruce's voices meshed, this stripped cover solidified the dynamic.
The band closed with energetic track "Cairo" off the 2017 album "Belong," which gave singer Allen Tate a last chance to showcase his crisp vocals.
"The Cormorant I" is available to stream on all platforms.
Mary Grace Ritter
Mary Grace Ritter is the Arts & Entertainment Editor of The Phoenix. She's a senior studying photography and multimedia journalism. Her favorite phase of the moon is the waxing crescent and if she were a pasta she'd be bowtie pasta.
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ReOx Medical Services is a small independent company individually owned and operated. Our family values of integrity and our commitment to customer service ensure you are working with the best company in the industry.
ReOx employs factory trained and certified technicians. We test all equipment above and beyond manufacturer specifications. This is our commitment to you to ensure you receive the highest quality equipment repairs in the industry.
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Democratic Representative Albio Sires from the state of NJ, without any cosponsors, introduced bill H.R.543 on Jan 14, 2019.
Albio Sires was born on a 1951 in Bejucal.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 8) from Jan 2019 to Jan 2021 in the House 116th congress. He voted along party lines 93.1 percent of the time. During this period Albio Sires missed 3.33% of the votes, sponsored 1 bills , cosponsored 25 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 8) from Jan 2017 to Jan 2019 in the House 115th congress. He voted along party lines 95.06 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. During this period Albio Sires missed 4.79% of the votes, sponsored 14 bills , cosponsored 430 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 8) from Jan 2015 to Jan 2017 in the House 114th congress. He voted along party lines 93.71 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. During this period Albio Sires missed 6.34% of the votes, sponsored 10 bills , cosponsored 246 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 8) from Jan 2013 to Jan 2015 in the House 113th congress. He voted along party lines 93.5 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. During this period Albio Sires missed 7.05% of the votes, sponsored 12 bills , cosponsored 302 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 13) from Jan 2011 to Jan 2013 in the House 112th congress. He voted along party lines 92.72 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. During this period Albio Sires missed 4.17% of the votes, sponsored 9 bills , cosponsored 287 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 13) from Jan 2009 to Jan 2011 in the House 111th congress. He voted along party lines 97.71 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. During this period Albio Sires missed 4.84% of the votes, sponsored 19 bills , cosponsored 598 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 13) from Jan 2007 to Jan 2009 in the House 110th congress. He voted along party lines 97.46 percent of the time. He served on the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. During this period Albio Sires missed 3.36% of the votes, sponsored 16 bills , cosponsored 597 bills.
Served as Representative for NJ (district 13) from Nov 2006 to Jan 2007 in the House 109th congress. He voted along party lines 88.89 percent of the time. During this period Albio Sires missed 0% of the votes , cosponsored 1 bills.


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Q: Xamarin using cross platform 3D engine I am a iOS / Android developer who has started to look at Xamarin for Business apps.  As a hobby I make the odd 3D game and one thing thats always got me is having to write it for 2 platforms (Yes I do know about Unity, not my bag)
Xamarin seem to recommend Monogame for 3D work and I have a test project working on iOS / Android (woo hoo).
However, I read that it uses XNA which has according to my .net friends has been dead for years.  I also  read that MonoGame is moving away from it.
Does anyone know anything about this?  If I want to use Xamarin and be cross platform, what should I be using for 3D rendering?
Is it worth trying XNA?

A: For anyone coming along later, Xamarin as of Dec 2015 support the Urho3D engine with their UrhoSharp project which interfaces the C++ engine from C#.

A: Monogame is an open source implementation of the XNA API. It uses the same classes and namespace than XNA but it is a new implementation that is cross-platform.
It used to require the XNA framework for its content pipeline tool. But since version 3.3, Monogame provides its own tool so XNA is not required anymore.

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Q: MySQL - Extract all data without some field? I got a table (called users) with n column ( n= one billion columns) like this:
id, email,username,...,...,...,..col_n.
I want to show all data exclusion id, email with the only Select query.
i don't want to type all field what i want.
How can i do that?
For example:
Table users:
+--------+----------+------------+-----------+
| userid | username | password   | privilege |
+--------+----------+------------+-----------+
|      1 | user1    | password   |         1 |
|      2 | david    | goodboy    |         1 |
|      3 | admin    | mastermold |         5 |
|      4 | user4    | password4  |         1 |
|      5 | user5    | password5  |         2 |
|      6 | user6    | password6  |         1 |
|      7 | user7    | password7  |         1 |
+--------+----------+------------+-----------+

The result after run query like this:
+--------+----------+
| userid | username |
+--------+----------+
|      1 | user1    |
|      2 | david    |
|      3 | admin    |
|      4 | user4    |
|      5 | user5    |
|      6 | user6    |
|      7 | user7    |
+--------+----------+

My problem: my table have one billion fields and i have to use the only one select query.

A: One solution is the following. This may not be much efficient but you can try this.
Create a TEMPORARY TABLE and drop id and email from it and use it for query.
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temp_users SELECT * FROM users;
ALTER TABLE temp_users DROP id,email;
SELECT * FROM temp_users;


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using CharacterGen.Domain.Tables;
using NUnit.Framework;
using TreasureGen.Items;

namespace CharacterGen.Tests.Integration.Tables.Items.Powers
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class Level13PowerTests : PercentileTests
    {
        protected override string tableName
        {
            get { return string.Format(TableNameConstants.Formattable.Percentile.LevelXPower, 13); }
        }

        [TestCase(1, 19, PowerConstants.Mundane)]
        [TestCase(20, 73, PowerConstants.Minor)]
        [TestCase(74, 95, PowerConstants.Medium)]
        [TestCase(96, 100, PowerConstants.Major)]
        public override void Percentile(int lower, int upper, string content)
        {
            base.Percentile(lower, upper, content);
        }

        [Test]
        public override void TableIsComplete()
        {
            AssertTableIsComplete();
        }
    }
}

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Take your Elective placement one step further with a Medicine Elective abroad! These worthwhile placements are tailor-made for undergraduates studying towards a degree in Medicine. Challenge yourself, learn new skills and gain valuable medical experience in a developing country.
How does an Elective abroad differ from a placement in the UK?
As a medical student taking your Elective abroad, you will get to learn about the differences in healthcare practice between your host and home countries. You will also be exposed to techniques and illnesses that are less common in western hospitals and clinics. Due to a lack of funds, many patients are also in an advanced stage of their illness.
Furthermore, many placements will not have the up-to-date equipment you are used to. However, our local medical staff are highly dedicated and knowledgeable, and do their very best in the limited working conditions they have. You will have the opportunity to come up with innovative solutions to combat these obstacles.
Medicine Elective volunteers will work alongside local medical staff in a hospital or clinic, learning from them and assisting where necessary. You may find yourself helping to take patient histories, observing surgeries, undertaking basic procedures with supervision, and assisting with ward rounds and other medical tasks.
You can choose which department you'd like to work in if you have a particular specialism in mind, or rotate through the different departments to see a bit of everything. Possible departments include Oncology, Paediatrics, A&E and Surgery, to name a few. You can download our specialisms chart to see which specialisms are available in each of our destinations. Please note that we can't always guarantee that your preferred specialism will be available on your chosen dates.
Depending on the placement and country you choose, you may also have the opportunity to take part in extra activities such as attending workshops, outreach programmes and seminars with other medical students.
We provide extensive support to our Elective students, prior to departure and during your placement. Our staff can assist with the completion of your paperwork for university, and one of our Volunteer Advisors will be in regular contact to guide you through your trip preparations prior to your departure. You will be assigned a supervisor when in-country, who will be your mentor for the duration of your Elective placement. Local staff are also available 24/7 to provide support and answer any questions you might have.
Most universities have a set date by which time your Elective application paperwork needs to be completed. If your university needs information on the hospital or clinic in which you will be placed, or requires forms to be signed by your project supervisor, we recommend completing our application form at least one month before your deadline. This is because we can only provide the detailed information about your project once you have applied and been accepted onto an Elective placement with us.
If you are not an Elective student or would rather take part in our standard Medicine projects, please see our Medicine Projects page.
Argentina On this Medical Elective placement you will be based in a hospital, where you will benefit from the knowledge of experienced doctors who will be keen to help you.
Bolivia Some medical institutions in Bolivia have very basic facilities and limited staff. By choosing a Medicine Elective in Bolivia you will get to see first-hand how the medical institutions cope with this.
China If you wish to take your Medical Elective in China you will be working with exceptionally skilled local doctors. You will be assigned a supervising doctor who will have experience working with students.
Ghana You can choose to undertake your Medicine Elective in a number of different departments in a Ghanaian hospital. Local staff will work with you to develop a schedule to support your studies.
Jamaica On this Medical Elective placement you may see many cases of conditions you would not normally see in your home country. You can spend time in both the in-patient and out-patient departments.
Kenya Joining the Medical Elective placement in Kenya is an exciting way to see the inner workings of medical institutions in a rapidly developing country.
Mexico By taking your Medical Elective with us you will gain a great deal of valuable work experience in the field. Volunteers on this placement will be based in Guadalajara.
Mongolia Your Medicine Elective placement in Mongolia will be supported by professional local doctors and surgeons. You will be based in a central hospital in Ulaanbaatar.
Morocco By doing your Medicine Elective in Morocco you will be gaining valuable work experience whilst living in this vibrant North African country.
Nepal As part of this Medical Elective placement it is likely that you will work in a hospital with a lack of resources and facilities. You will be assigned a supervising doctor who will support your experience.
Peru Peru is a fascinating country and if you choose to take your Medicine Elective here you are sure to have an unforgettable and valuable experience.
Sri Lanka As we are experienced in coordinating placements for Medical Elective students you are certain to have a worthwhile time in a Sri Lankan hospital.
Tanzania If you are looking to make a real difference whilst undertaking your Medical Elective then a placement in Tanzania may be ideal. You will benefit from the guidance of trained local staff.
Togo The hospitals and clinics of Lomé offer a great environment in which to take a Medicine Elective placement. It is likely you will see a number of conditions rarely seen in your home country.
Vietnam Learn about medical practice in Vietnam and gain valuable work experience by observing local staff and assisting where necessary. You can choose from a range of different departments.


can I transfer money to an american bank for my daughter?
My daughter is vacationing in honolulu Oah Hawaii and I'd like to transfer money to the American Savings Bank there for her to get.
It's wonderful to see you here on TD Helps, Tanja. You've reached the TD Helps on U.S. side, if you are trying to connect with our friends up to the north in Canada, we'll be glad to steer you in the right direction to the get the information you need. We recommend you visit http://bit.ly/1E3HtZM to see what our Canadian friends had to say in regards to making transfers! You will also have the option to submit a new question on the Canadian TD Helps page. Hope this helps and have a great day!