Disney and Universal each offer people who stay in their on-site hotels pre-paid dining plans for use at their resort restaurants. These dining plans provide convenience by taking care of your meal costs with a single purchase. They can provide value if you eat enough and make the right selections so that you end up paying less for your meals than if you'd ordered them individually in the park. But if you're not careful, you could find yourself paying for meals that you don't eat, and locked out of dining choices you'd wanted to try.
If you're not planning to stay at of one Walt Disney World's on-site hotels during your next trip to Disney World, well, Disney hopes that its dining plan might help convince you to change your mind. The Disney Dining Plan is available only to guests of Disney's hotels who book a vacation package through Disney.
The benefit of the Disney Dining Plan is to make a Disney World vacation more of an all-inclusive experience, one minus the hassle of paying for individual meals and snacks. It's up to you to decide if that's a better deal for your family than paying as you go in the parks. You must buy the dining plan for the entire length of your stay on-site, and it is priced as part of your overall vacation package, so the prices below are only a rough estimate. Keep in mind that Disney sometimes offers steep discounts, including free dining plans, on its vacation packages during the off season, usually for stays in the early fall.
Quick-Service Dining Plan, with two counter-service meals and one snack per person per night of your stay. Meals include an entree plus dessert at lunch and dinner. The 2016 price per day works out to about $44 for adults and $19 for children, ages 3-9, who must order from the kids' menu.
Regular Dining Plan, with one table service meal, one counter-service meal, and one snack per person per night. Meals include an entree plus dessert at lunch and dinner. The price is about $64 per day for adults and $23 for children.
Deluxe, Premium, or Platinum Dining Plan, with three meals (table service or counter-service) and two snacks per person per night. Table service meals include an entree as well as appetizer and dessert for lunch and dinner. Counter-service meals include an entree (including combo meals) and dessert at lunch and dinner. The price is about $115 a day for adults and $35 for children.
All meals include one, non-alcoholic beverage. You can add a wine option onto your plan for an additional charge. All packages also include one refillable drink mug per person, which can be refilled at your hotel's quick-serve restaurants, but not anywhere else on property. Not all menu options at all meals at all parks and hotel restaurants will be available for people using the Disney Dining Plan, though the vast majority are.
Do note that the Disney Dining Plan does not include tips at table service restaurants. (Please, don't stiff your server! Waiters and waitresses in the United States should get a gratuity equal to 15-20% of the pre-tax, non-discounted cost of a meal.) You also should know that certain "signature" restaurants will charge two meal credits, rather than just one, for your meal, which could leave you having to pay out-of-pocket for another meal at some point during your stay, unless you're willing to skip a meal for every signature restaurant meal you have.
If your intent with the Disney Dining Plan is to create an all-inclusive experience, don't forget that by staying at an on-site hotel, you won't be getting the free or pre-paid breakfast that you might at many off-site hotels. So if you want to avoid paying out-of-pocket for any meals during your Disney vacation, you'll need to go with the Deluxe or above dining plans, the only options that cover three meals per day. If you're curious, the Premium and Platinum dining plans offer the same benefits as the Deluxe dining plan. They are included in Disney's "Magic Your Way" Premium and Platinum vacation packages, respectively, and Disney slaps the fancier name on the included dining plans for those more expensive overall packages.
Finally, note that for those Deluxe Dining Plans, you're paying the same whether you eat two courses at a cheaper counter-service restaurant or three courses at a more expensive table service one. As you can probably guess, that encourages people on those plans to eat at as many table service restaurants as possible. That's the reason why advance reservations have become so hard to get at so many Disney table service restaurants. In the days before the Disney Dining Plan, it was rare to be shut out of a time at any Disney World restaurant if you called a few days in advance. For many locations now, it's just as rare to be able to get a time if you wait until a few days before your arrival to call.
So, should you do it? It's time to do some math. Let's look at that Quick Service Plan. Given that snacks cost around $5-6, you're looking at paying about $19 for each walk-up counter service meal you eat under the plan. Would you spend more or less than that, on average, without the plan? Walt Disney World provides up-to-date menus and prices for all of its restaurants, on its website and its app, so you can price what you might like to eat in advance. That will help you decide if a plan, or which one, is a good deal for you. For many visitors, the Disney Dining Plan doesn't really become a deal unless you're eating almost all your meals in higher-end restaurants... and using a higher-end dining plan to do it. As always, your mileage will vary. For some people, each version of the plan represent a good deal. For others, none do. It just depends on how much and what you prefer to eat.


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The first draft of the rest of your life
March 06, 2018 / John Stepper
The subject of the email was "Need your help." Since it was sent by a strong, confident friend who had never asked for help before, I was worried. It turned out it wasn't a crisis, but she was stuck on something. "I'm in big trouble…do you have time?" So we scheduled a call.
The problem? She had committed to submitting a paper for publication, and she couldn't get started. Though she has a lot to say on the subject, she had struggled for weeks to make any progress and now the deadline was looming. Her anxiety was evident.
I thought of the many bits of advice I had benefitted from and might share, and then I discarded all of it.
"Open up your laptop," I said. "Let's start right now."
At first we just talked about the topic, and after a few minutes a theme emerged. We exchanged ideas for a phrase or sentence that might capture it until we came up with a headline that felt good to her. "Great," I said. "Write that down."
We moved on to headings. What were the main points she was trying to make? She talked about a wide range of ideas, including some resources she found helpful. It was scattered at first. She was still overwhelmed. I listened, and reflected back whatever major points I heard. When one made sense to her, she wrote it down. Then we came up with another. "That reminds me!" she said, erupting with ideas now. She began recalling related things she had written and read and thought about before.
Soon there was less talking and more typing. Her energy had shifted from nervous to excited, and she was still writing as we hung up. A few weeks after our call, she sent me a note that she had finished it. It wasn't perfect, she told me, and she would do it differently next time, but she was glad for the chance to learn and get better.
Since our call, I've been thinking of how my friend's experience is a metaphor for how many of us live our lives. We struggle to think through what we want our life to be like. We may have ideas but it can be hard to put them into a coherent picture. And we may feel time is running out.
Waiting doesn't help. The only way out is through. Maybe you start with writing a letter from your future self, or describe your perfect month, or do whatever exercise would help you capture the first draft of an intentional life. It may not be exactly right, but that step attunes your attention and opens you up to next steps and new possibilities.
As the poet Mary Oliver asked:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Voice your intention. Pick up your journal or laptop and begin writing. Clip pictures from magazines and craft a vision board. Call a friend if you need to. Let's start right now.
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More Than A Hut
December 10, 2014 / John Stepper
Thomas Lukoma
I used to think of Thomas Lukoma as just a guy at work. Smart, nice, helpful. But just a regular guy. Then recently our paths intertwined, and I came to understand that Thomas is anything but ordinary. Over the last few years, he's found an inspiring personal mission and he's doing something about it.
The story of how Thomas discovered that mission holds lessons for me and for anyone who wants something more out of work and life.
An example of purposeful discovery
Thomas would be the first to tell you that he's had a lot of interests but wasn't always clear on where he was heading. He's busy with a big family, a technology job that he likes and is good at, serving as a deacon at his church, and mentoring young men. He also writes occasionally at komasworld.com on a wide range of topics - "musings on design, technology, and leadership."
Thomas felt that it could all add up to more, but he wasn't sure what it was. In a post several years ago, he described how when examining our own lives we typically can't see the whole story and all the possibilities. As a result, carefully plotting our future path is impossible.
"The only way to combat this bias towards ignorance is to understand upfront that getting the whole picture about the future and how your goals will progress is impossible, so never assume that you have it. Instead, focus on getting a healthy set of perspectives – even some that contradict each other – and then take action with an open mind."
So Thomas continued trying new things and kept an open mind. He began reading the work of people like Seth Godin and Fred Wilson, experimenting with building Wordpress sites, and working with his sister to support her new business. He continued writing as a way to capture what he learned and also to share it with others. As he was learning, he was beginning to see how he might combine his interests into something meaningful for him.
"I'm discovering my purpose," he said. "You have to be doing things in order to discover it."
Thomas had another interest in his life: Africa. He grew up in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, and still has connections there. It always bothered him that what most people see of Africa - strife, starving children, and safaris - did not capture all the wonder and promise he knows is there.
His work with his sister showed him that he could use his different skills to help someone trying to do or be something more, to amplify their intentions and extend their reach. His emergent purpose (and new blog tagline) became "Help regular people do great things." He formed a small business, More Than A Hut, to help anyone build their tribes and, ultimately, to show that there's more to Africa and Africans than we may think.
What Thomas gets by working out loud
In many ways, Thomas was already applying the five elements of working out loud. Yet he admitted a tendency to putting others first and neglecting his own mission. Two things changed that.
First, he generously volunteered to help me improve my site and build my own tribe. He gave my personal blog a complete makeover, created workoutloud.com, and now we're collaborating on a wider range of things.
Then, our work together brought him into contact with other people working out loud around the world, and it motivated him to join a working out loud circle. That gave him the structure and peer support he needed to develop new habits, enabling him to work more systematically towards his own goals while continuing to help others.
Since then, More Than A Hut has gotten additional referrals and some new business. More importantly, each step Thomas takes builds his learning, connections, and confidence. Each step makes every day more enjoyable while increasing his access to yet more possibilities, bringing him closer to helping himself and other regular people do great things.
December 10, 2014 / John Stepper/
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Welcome to Secret Clubhouse, a co-working space in Williamsburg.
Since opening in September of 2012, we've become a home to start-up companies like Hype Machine, Brooklyn Computer Club, and Ooh La La Records, as well as a number of entrepreneurs and freelancers. We have 35 dedicated desks in total.
As an active member of the north Brooklyn tech scene, we host events for meet-ups like NBBC and Designers & Geeks. Tenants can attend these events and use the lounge for their own events, meetings or projects.
We do things a little bit differently here at Secret Clubhouse. We've got vintage computers, analog synths, weird art, parlor games, pool table, booze. What's not to love? With the fully stocked kitchen and 24/7 access (among other things), you probably won't need to leave.
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Q: How to create a string that includes a quoted string that includes a quoted string in Java? I would like to put a string with options into Weka. Inside the options string is weka tokenizer string and inside the tokenizer string the delimiter option string. I am getting the error message "No value given for -delimiters option." How can I format the string?
Here is my code:
String[] options = weka.core.Utils.splitOptions("weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.StringToWordVector "
            + "-R first-last -W 1000 -prune-rate -1.0 -N 0 -stemmer weka.core.stemmers.NullStemmer "
            + "-stopwords-handler weka.core.stopwords.Null -M 1 -tokenizer "
            + "\"weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer -max 5 -min 1 -delimiters \" \\r\\n\\t.,;:\\\'\\\"()?!\"");

StringToWordVector remove = new StringToWordVector();

This question did not solve my problem.

A: The error message you are getting says it cannot find any value after the -delimeters option.  The reason for this is that Weka is detecting that the string is immediately ending with a double quote after the -delimeter query parameter.  The root cause of this is a rogue quote mark which is appearing before the weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer term which belongs to the -tokenizer query parameter:
String[] options = weka.core.Utils.splitOptions("weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.StringToWordVector "
        + "-R first-last -W 1000 -prune-rate -1.0 -N 0 -stemmer weka.core.stemmers.NullStemmer "
        + "-stopwords-handler weka.core.stopwords.Null -M 1 -tokenizer "
        + "\"weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer -max 5 -min 1 -delimiters \" \\r\\n\\t.,;:\\\'\\\"()?!\"");
           ^ rogue quotation mark.  Bad.

Change the string to the following and all should be fine:
String[] options =
    weka.core.Utils.splitOptions(
        "weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.StringToWordVector "
      + "-R first-last -W 1000 -prune-rate -1.0 -N 0 "
      + "-stemmer weka.core.stemmers.NullStemmer "
      + "-stopwords-handler weka.core.stopwords.Null -M 1 "
      + "-tokenizer weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer -max 5 -min 1 "
      + "-delimiters \" \\r\\n\\t.,;:\\\'\\\"()?!\"");

A: The content of the string you are passing to splitOptions is:
weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.StringToWordVector -R first-last -W 1000 -prune-rate -1.0 -N 0 -stemmer weka.core.stemmers.NullStemmer -stopwords-handler weka.core.stopwords.Null -M 1 -tokenizer "weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer -max 5 -min 1 -delimiters " \\r\\n\\t.,;:\\\'\\"()?!"

I'm not sure what the argument to -tokenizer should be, but the string being passed to it has a -delimiters flag w/o any value, which is consistent w/ the error you reported.
Perhaps you meant to be passing this for -tokenizer:
"weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer -max 5 -min 1 -delimiters \" \\r\\n\\t.,;:\\\'\\"()?!\""

where the argument for -delimiters is a string.

A: Maybe escaping quotes with \
String[] options = weka.core.Utils.splitOptions("\"weka.filters.unsupervised.attribute.StringToWordVector\"" + "\"-R first-last -W 1000 -prune-rate -1.0 -N 0 -stemmer weka.core.stemmers.NullStemmer\""+ "\"-stopwords-handler weka.core.stopwords.Null -M 1 -tokenizer\""+ "\"weka.core.tokenizers.NGramTokenizer -max 5 -min 1 -delimiters \" \\r\\n\\t.,;:\\\'\\\"()?!\"");

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Xiaomi is becoming one of the most popular and affordable brands in the Asian Market, especially in India and China. Fun Fact: Xiaomi is also known as 'China's Apple'.
The most truthful answer to this question is that it is one of the few brands that has to offer a lot at an affordable rate. For sure you will not get a flagship like performance from budget phones but their performance and features combined are much better than other popular manufacturers in the market.
When you probably search for Xiaomi smartphones you will find several prefixes like Redmi, Redmi Note, and Mi. It becomes even more confusing when come to know that Redmi Note 5 and Redmi 5 are different smartphones with different specifications.
Redmi Series: This is the cheapest series offered by Xiaomi which is packed with mid-range processors and pretty good specs as compared to Samsung, Sony, LG, HTC etc.
Redmi Note Series: As you will infer from the Galaxy Note series from Samsung. This goes same for Redmi Note series. It simply means bigger screen and slightly more powerful processor.
Mi Series: This is the flagship series by Xiaomi. It means the smartphones in this series are rocking the best chipsets and features while costing much lesser that general flagship price.
So now you know about all the line-ups by Xiaomi. So now let's dive right into the list where we have mentioned the best Xiaomi smartphones which includes phones from all line-ups.
Released in April 2018, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is one of the best smartphone ever made by Xiaomi. It is almost a bezel-less smartphone with 81.9% screen to body ratio. It packs the 2018 flagship processor SnapDragon 845 coupled with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
The back of this smartphones kind of replaces the infamous iPhone X as it has vertically aligned dual camera setup. The rear cameras are of 12MP with one having 4-axis OIS and other 2X Optical Zoom. The selfie camera is a normal 5MP camera.
Now, let's talk about the most interesting things about this smartphone. This phone has a Gorilla Glass 5 on the front like normal flagships but the back of the smartphone is made from ceramic. Ceramic if you don't know is harder than glass so there will be almost no scratching from regular use but ceramic is also brittle so you have to take care not to drop your phone often.
Also, if you love frequent android updates then you will be surprised to know that when the developer version of latest Android P arrived, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is one of the chosen smartphones to get this update.
This is yet another popular smartphone in the budget segment which was launched in February 2018 along with the Redmi Note 5 with the newest 18:9 resolution which we will discuss later in this article.
It packs the powerful mid-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor with whooping 4/6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. Despite being in the budget segment it rocks features like Bluetooth 5.0 and a large 4000mAh battery. On a normal day usage, it will easily last you up to a day.
It has a similar looking rear camera setup with 12MP + 5MP cameras capable of recording at 1080p. The front camera is 20MP and can take awesome selfies. There is no type-c yet, you have to use the traditional micro-USB for now.
As mentioned earlier it was launched along with the Pro version. It is powered by the SnapDragon 625 processor coupled with 3/4 GB RAM and 32/64GB of storage.
A similar 4000mAh battery is provided but the battery life will be a little less than Redmi Note 5 Pro as it is rocking an older chipset. It has Bluetooth 4.2 (Not 5.0) and a single 12MP rear camera on the back. The front camera is of 5MP which is capable enough to take decent selfies.
You can consider Redmi Note 5 Pro as an upgrade over Redmi Note 5 if you have few bucks to spend.
Xiaomi Mi 6 is the flagship smartphone from Xiaomi last year. It is still holding pretty good in the market due to the fact that it is less than half the price of the premium flagship devices while maintaining the quality of the smartphone.
It is packed with powerful SnapDragon 835 coupled with 6GB of RAM and 64/128GB storage option. Similar to Mi Mix 2S it has ceramic back and glass on the front. It has 3350mAh battery with USB Type-C charging connector and Quick Charge 3.0 support.
It has a dual camera setup on the back with a 12MP Wide-angle camera having OIS and 12MP telephoto lens for portrait mode. The rims of both cameras are made from 18-karat gold. Awesome right! The front camera is 8MP which can take some amazing shots at any time.
You might be wondering that another flagship from Xiaomi. Probably not?
If may seems confusing but this is not a flagship device. I personally think that this device was included in Mi line-up due to the fact that it is powered by Google AndroidOne which ensures the fastest updates while maintaining the stock looks on the device.
Mi A1 is powered by SnapDragon 625 processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. It has a dual camera setup similar to iPhone 8 Plus. There are two 12MP cameras with one being wide-angle and the other being telephoto. The front camera is regular 5MP.
The battery size is 3080mAh probably due to the smaller footprint of the device. It is rocking Type-C port, however, there is no QuickCharge support.
Redmi 5A is one of the lowest-budget phones from Xiaomi. It is packed with SnapDragon 425 processor coupled with 2/3 GB of RAM and 16/32GB of storage. It has a 3000mAh battery which can hold up great as the device has not very powerful processor and HD display.
The rear of the phone holds a 13MP camera and on the front, you get a 5MP camera. The device sports 720p HD display with 296PPI density. In short, this is the best smartphone for those who are just getting started with the android devices.
Again an amazing battery beast from Xiaomi. Talking about that later, this device is powered by Qualcomm SnapDragon 625 coupled with 4GB of RAM and 32/64GB of storage.
This device may look similar to another Xiaomi smartphones in this range but don't be fooled. It packs a massive 5300mAh battery and can last more than a day even with heavy users. Geeks like me surely love this!
It has Quick Charge 3.0 charging support with something called Parallel Charging to make the charging process a lot faster. Apart from that, it has a 12MP rear camera with 4K video recording support and the front camera is 5MP for decent photos.
So that was all on the best smartphones by Xiaomi. They keep launching awesome phones very frequently. So, we will try to keep up with their pace but in case we forgot to mention any of your favorite devices by Xiaomi then do let us know in the comment section below.
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Major accidents at Rio Tinto's Rössing uranium mine in Namibia and BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam in Australia have removed 8% of the global uranium supply. In the last 30 days, spot price of uranium has increase 10% to $38.75.
Brades Resource Corp (TSX-V:BRA) has partnered with Fission 3.0 to drill the Clearwater West property in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin – the world's largest source of high-grade uranium.
Fission 3.0 is the project operator, and it shares the same technical team as Fission Uranium. This team has discovered two major deposits in four years, using a proprietary model for finding uranium through airborne radiometrics, radon gas surveys and geophysics.
"Our main corporate focus is the joint venture with Fission 3.0," confirm Brades' CEO Peter Wilson, "Clearwater West is adjacent to Fission Uranium's PLS property, and only 15 kilometers away from the shallow high grade deposit. Fission 3.0 has the same management team as Fission Uranium, and they are applying similar exploration techniques on our J.V. property."
Brades recently announced the commencement of the winter exploration program on the Clearwater West property. The program involves ground geophysics and 10 proposed drill holes costing about $1.04 million.
Fission 3.0's team is headed by legendary uranium explorer Ross McElroy who led the technical team that made the discovery at Waterbury Lake, SK and at Patterson Lake South (PLS).
Wilson states that McElroy and his team have already identified the drill targets. The objective of the on-going geophysical work is to focus the drill program. Fission 3.0 can pull a drill rig from its inventory on short notice.
"One of Brades' advantages is that we are not required to make property payments," states Wilson, "This maximises the amount of money that we can put into the ground. In terms of protecting shareholder value, it's a big plus. Some of our neighbours are severely financially stressed by the obligation of these property payments."
The PLS deposit contains an estimated 80 million pounds of 'indicated' uranium and about 25 million pounds of 'inferred'. More than 50% of the resource sits in a high-grade zone that can be mined at low cost.
Fission Uranium buy-out rumours involving Rio Tinto and Teck Resources are growing. Dundee Capital Markets analyst David Talbot called the Fission most recent resource numbers 'truly phenomenal'.
"If Fission does get transacted, the market will then focus on the strongest joint ventures," stated Wilson, "We have also picked up 24,000 hectares of additional properties which are adjacent or nearby to Fission 3.0's other projects in the basin."
There is a clean division of labour between Brades and the Fission 3.0 technical team. Brades handles the financing and Fission 3.0 designs and executes the exploration program.
"It is a good partnership because both teams are doing exactly what they are trained to do," stated Wilson, "The upcoming drill program is a massive milestone for Brades. At some point in the near future I anticipate that there is going to be a wrap up of assets in the Athabasca Basin, especially with properties close to the PLS deposit."
Wilson believes that uranium prices will continue to trend upward. According to the World Nuclear Association there are currently 435 nuclear reactors connected into national grids, 67 under construction, 164 on order and 317 proposed.
"Exploration at Clearwater West has progressed rapidly," stated Fission 3.0 Chief Geologist Ross McElroy, "Surveys and ground prospecting, during Fall 2014 have helped us identify and prioritize a number of high priority targets close to the border with PLS and, just 330 meters away, Fission Uranium intersected near-surface anomalous radioactivity. We've now reached the stage at which drill testing these high profile targets is the logical next step."
Fission 3.0 owns 9.9% of Brades and it increased its position on Brades' last financing.
"You don't need to be a geologist to see the similarities between our property the PLS discovery," stated Wilson, "The collective understanding is that there are more big discoveries still to be achieved in this basin."
Brades is currently trading at .06 with a market cap of $2.8 million.


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Gender, Sex and Family among Mexican Immigrants in New York City
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A review of Intimate Negotiations: The Political Economy of Gender, Sex and Family among Mexican Immigrants in New York City, by Debra J. Pelto.
Debra Pelto's dissertation adds to existing research on the sexual health of Latino immigrants in the U.S. Going beyond the rhetoric of risk and the focus on disease status, Pelto proposes a view of intimate spaces of connection, where gender, family, personal history, and the immigration journey intersect. At these intersections, the negotiations of daily life occur, and the author provides a critical description of how such negotiations impact both male and female immigrants. In doing so, the author conveys the complexities of renegotiating gender, sex and family in a new migratory space.
In Chapter 1, the author outlines the aim, problem and methods of the dissertation. Situating her research at the intersections of globalization, migration, sexuality and demography, she seeks to map sexual communication and negotiation among heterosexual immigrant couples. She is particularly interested in how discussions of family planning, sex, child rearing, and jobs outside the home occur in the midst of resettlement. The author here introduces the notion that both personal history and cultural socialization affect the way in which Mexicans resettling in New York City engage in such negotiations.
Pelto describes in Chapter 2 patterns of sexual and gender socialization among the men and women in her study population. The author begins by making historical and symbolic connections between her participants and pre-colonial experience. After tracing the pre-Hispanic cosmological beliefs of native Mexicans, in which the gendered and complementary hierarchy of the supernatural world shapes the acceptable and expected behaviors of males and females in the human world, Pelto turns to the changes effected by the advent of the Catholic Church's teachings in post-colonial Mexico and more recent tensions around sex education. Against this backdrop, she presents specific case histories of gendered socialization from her interviewees. A salient finding in this chapter is the persistence of silence about sex and sexuality, which have especially limited women's access to information and their ability to fully exercise their rights to health and well-being. Such silence "may be an indirect method of communication, or may indicate that it is not permitted to speak about a sexual matter, that a discourse about a particular topic such as desire is being silenced, or that it is a particularly frightening or repressed topic (such as abuse)." One of Pelto's informants describes how she had "neither [been] told about sex, nor permitted to ask about it, and she was spoken with harshly if she asked about it. Her sister, who became pregnant as a young adolescent, was beaten in her parents' efforts to find a male whom they could make responsible for the expected baby" (p. 54).
In Chapter 3, Pelto presents the ways in which migratory resettlement provides opportunities to question, but also in some cases reinforce, existing norms of gender and sexuality. The author finds that, among her interviewees in New York City, there remains a strong need to reinforce the gender roles established in the place of origin. Especially in rural Southern Puebla, the home region of most of the participants, education, dress, greeting styles and workplaces all clearly establish the differences between men and women; the author finds that some of these remain firm markers of femininity and masculinity in the space of resettlement. Even so, the author argues that in some cases these markers are becoming more fluid for migrants in urban spaces, who, "through their agency, strategize and attempt to find new combinations, new ways to organize their intimate and family lives and seek fulfillment." As one example, Pelto describes in detail how some mothers of young children "who might like but are prevented from taking full-time jobs, take part-time classes to begin to build their English and other skills so that, once they are able to seek paid work, they will be more employable." Other women creatively drew on networks of friendship and compadrazgo: "one woman who does not have a full-time job picks up the children of two other women as well as her own when school lets out for the day, caring for them for the next three hours until their mothers arrives." Moreover, potentially different opportunities await men who are "open to adjust[ing] some patterns in their own families;" they "can have a different type of relationship with their wives and with their children" (p.138). Pelto also describes how the practical realities of a transnational life place sexual relationships in a liminal state, presenting both potentialities for the radical renegotiation of the terms of the relationship as well as of the staunch entrenchment of existing boundaries. Issues of fear and jealousy sometimes result in increased restrictions on the development of women's lives outside of the domestic sphere and limit their interactions with unfamiliar urban spaces to those directly related to their children.
Chapter 4 analyzes the perceptions of family size that influence family planning ideologies, and also negotiations between intimate partners about contraception and conception. Pelto contends that, in New York City migrant communities, there is a continuation of ideas about the reduction of family size that were already increasingly present in Mexico. She proposes four trends that motivate and sustain desires for a smaller family: after experiencing or witnessing severe poverty among large families, her participants perceive a need to be able to give each child more in the way of material resources; the challenges of living in small urban spaces, where this population is usually forced to share a bedroom between children and parents, and apartments are usually shared with other families; the importance of preparing children for the future by providing education and avenues to do better than their parents; and what Pelto calls recuperative parenting, increased parental investment in each child, including the commitment to provide an emotionally richer, more attentive childhood experience than that experienced by the parents. Pelto views the practice of recuperative parenting as deliberate, "…as not only an individual response to a certain cluster of childhood traumas, and an exercise of personal agency in the context of patriarchal (operating on both macroeconomic and local familial levels) structures that as children they often experienced as brutal, but also as a response on what may be a widespread level to suffering that seems to have been experienced, to varying degrees among many of the families of origin, throughout much of the south of Puebla" (p. 159).
Pelto turns to detailed histories and scripts of negotiations surrounding family planning decisions in Chapter 5. Some couples in her sample expressly decide to delay childbearing immediately after marriage, in contrast to the expected course of the relationship in their country of origin. Furthermore, family planning is achieved through the knowledge and use of "modern" contraceptive technologies which may not be as prevalent in Mexico. This delay in having children is also tied to the migrant experience. Because the move from Mexico to the US is a financially strategic decision for women and their families, women's work outside the home in New York City becomes more acceptable, even desirable for both the family of origin, who may benefit from remittances, and for migrant husbands. Interestingly, the use of medical methods to modify fertility, including abortion, are not perceived to be counter to expressing an active Catholic faith.
Pelto's final chapter analyzes the context in which migrants' intimate negotiations take place–the fraught policy landscape surrounding their sexualities and reproduction, and the structural violence that together form the backdrop of these couples' lives. Low wages, lack of access to health care, discrimination, and fear of deportation are also powerful drivers for changing perceptions and social mores in the process of migration resettlement. The author notes that, at the beginning of the migration process, her interviewees view New York City as a place of temporary relocation. The emotional and social transition to longer-term resettlement weighs differently on the interviewees' negotiations.
In this thorough ethnography, Pelto makes connections between personal history, globalization, social and cultural history, and gender roles. She places newly resettled Mexican immigrants in New York City as both a physical and a symbolic space, an arena where many embrace changes in their intimate relationships to achieve their migration goals. In the process of their movement from Mexico to New York, migrants contour their lives to adapt to the new environment, as well as actively reshaping the spaces around them.
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Department of Applied Health Science
Indiana University- Bloomington
luguerra@indiana.edu
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Columbia University 2012. 326 pp. Primary Advisor: Richard Parker.
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Copernicus Sentinel-5P reveals oil and gas ultra-emitters
An international team of scientists has mapped the global footprint of giant methane leaks from oil and gas operations for the first time, thanks to high-resolution data delivered by Copernicus Sentinel-5P. This analysis of the potent planet-warming gas – which revealed thousands of large plumes that spilled out from major oil and gas pipelines – could have a key role in the revitalised international drive to tackle the climate crisis.
Methane is less abundant in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but it is a more powerful heat-trapping gas. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is estimated to have contributed to 30-50% of current global temperature increases. As a result, scientists believe that addressing methane leaks from human activities could be key in efforts to address climate change – and at COP26 last year over 100 countries set out a bold new commitment to cut these emissions.
Sentinel-5P – the first mission of the European Union's Copernicus Programme dedicated to monitoring air pollution – is transforming scientist's understanding of emissions in the atmosphere. The satellite's TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) detects the unique fingerprints of gases across different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, delivering daily high-resolution global information on emissions.
From 2019 to 2020, the instrument revealed numerous individual incidences of unintended and deliberate giant methane leaks around the planet. As part of the research, scientists used this set of data to build a comprehensive global picture of emissions hotspots [1]. A method developed by ESA-backed data analytics firm Kayrros was used to generate daily information on methane plumes. An automated detection algorithm – which takes into account changes to meteorological conditions – was applied to the Copernicus data to identify large methane plumes, and further advanced analysis was used to determine leak duration. The resultant emissions were quantified using a mathematical modelling approach.
TROPOMI measurements over the sea have only been available since November 2021, so offshore areas were not included in the analysis. High-altitude regions and areas with cloud cover were also excluded due to high uncertainties in the data. The research suggests that a relatively small number of super-emitter sites are responsible for a disproportionally large share of emissions.
Copernicus Sentinel-5P detects a methane plume over the US
Some 1800 leaks were revealed during the two-year period; about two-thirds of these emissions were associated with oil and gas production or distribution networks. Super-emitter sites were found to release some 8 million tonnes of methane per year. This has an equivalent planet-warming potential of about 250 million tonnes of carbon dioxide [2] in the first 100 years after its release into the atmosphere, or 680 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years. Eliminating these emissions would prevent a global temperature increase of between 0.005°C and 0.002°C, the research suggests [1].
Through analysing the potential costs of mitigation strategies, the researchers reported that leaks at super-emitter sites can be cut relatively cheaply, if industry invests in prevention measures. These findings could help to inform future economical strategies to reduce the impact of oil and gas operations on climate change, as well as helping the international community keep to the Global Methane Pledge, which is a global initiative that aims to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030.
In future analyses, Copernicus Sentinel-5P data will be used in synergy with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery to improve understanding of the sources of large methane leaks. This approach is also expected to enhance resolutions of methane emission maps and improve the sensitivity threshold. Thomas Lauvaux, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE), says, "To our knowledge, this is the first worldwide study to estimate the amount of methane released into the atmosphere by maintenance operations and accidental releases. "National greenhouse gas emissions relies primarily on self-reporting, while atmospheric data offers a more rigorous approach to emissions accounting, more independent and more transparent."
Alexandre d'Aspremont, Chief Scientist at Kayrros, states, "Identifying methane ultra-emitters is the first step to removing them, which is in turn the fastest way to bend the climate curve. It is essential for tackling the climate crisis and informing commercial and industrial decisions. "Our artificial intelligence driven data analysis and algorithms help Copernicus deliver comprehensive monitoring of methane hotspots and detect emission events that escape aerial surveys and local monitoring stations. We look forward to supplying this analysis into the future and help countries and companies realize COP26 Net Zero pledges."
Claus Zehner, ESA's Mission Manager for Copernicus Sentinel-5P, adds, "This exciting research demonstrates the strong contributions of Copernicus Sentinel-5P to greenhouse gas and climate mitigation efforts both within Europe and globally. "Sentinel-5P satellite is a powerful space-based tool to support the monitoring of the implementation of the European Union's Methane Strategy as part of the European Green Deal."
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The European Commission leads and coordinates this programme, to improve the management of the environment, safeguarding lives every day. ESA is in charge of the space component, responsible for developing the family of Copernicus Sentinel satellites on behalf of the European Union and ensuring the flow of data for the Copernicus services, while the operations of the Copernicus Sentinels have been entrusted to ESA and EUMETSAT.
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[1] T. Lauvaux, et al., 2022, Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters, Science, 375, 6580, 557-561, DOI: 10.1126/science.abj4351
[2] F. Vogel, 2022, Chasing after methane's ultra-emitters, Science, 375, 6580, 490-491, DOI: 10.1126/science.abm1676
[3] European Commission, Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament, The Council, The European Economic And Social Committee And The Committee Of The Regions On An EU Strategy To Reduce Methane Emissions, Brussels, 14.10.2020 COM (2020) 663 final
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To sit down and hook yourself into Julia Kent's Temporal is a bit like how you'd imagine floating in one of those sensory deprivation tanks might feel. This strange and compelling album – Kent's sixth as a solo artist – is, as the best abstract, instrumental music should be, totally engrossing. The compositions are full of rich, lingering string arrangements hovering over drone-like rhythms, repetitive pieces that flow and ebb so seamlessly into one another that it's easy to lose track of time. The result is a full, 38-minute experience that hypnotises the listener, pushing all other sensory stimuli – colour, movement, people, the jingle of your phone – to the periphery.
Kent's true achievement as a composer is that she makes it all sound so effortless. Temporal is generally smooth and sonically pleasing, less spiky and discordant than 2015's Asperities, and is extremely intricately crafted. It possesses just the right amount of repetition, shifts in tone and instrumentation to keep its listener engaged and fascinated until its closing moments. It sounds simple, and yet there's so much going on – like the layers of plucked and sweeping cello strings, the patter of percussion and gorgeous piano trills on Floating City, or the electronic, needle-like hum bristling under the main melody in opener Last Hour Story. As if wanting to strip it all back for the closer, the last piece Crepuscolo revolves around one clean piano pattern – relatively free of effects – and it's the most heart-stoppingly beautiful track on the record. A stunningly controlled and moving work, for fans of ambient and instrumental music Temporal is a must-listen.


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John Anthony Roche (18 May 1932 – 1988) was an English footballer who played as a forward. Born in Poplar, London, he played professionally for Millwall and Crystal Palace between 1957 and 1960, making a total of 61 Football League appearances.

Career
Roche began his career in non-league football with Margate before signing for Millwall in 1957. In May 1959, he signed for Crystal Palace then playing in the Football League Fourth Division. He made a goal-scoring debut on 3 September in a home 3–2 win against Oldham Athletic and went on to make 36 appearances that season, scoring 11 times. At the end of the 1959–60 season, he returned to Margate.

Personal life
Roche died in 1988, aged 53 or 54. His grandson Jamie Roche is also a footballer, in Sweden's top tier – born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Roche's son (who himself played semi-professionally).

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External links

Johnny Roche at holmesdale.net

1932 births
1988 deaths
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Der Hohe Schuß ist ein  hoher Berg südlich von Piesau im Thüringer Schiefergebirge. Der Rennsteig führt über den südlichen Teil des Hohen Schuß und tangiert hier, in Gipfellage, einen ehemaligen Schieferbruch.
Der Name ist aus der Jagd-Geschichte entlehnt.

Der Berg ist eine der höchsten Erhebungen im Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt.
Im September 2006 wurde von einer Laufgruppe aus dem Kreis ein Lauf für jedermann über 64 Kilometer vom tiefsten Punkt des Landkreises bei Niederkrossen bis hinauf zum Hohen Schuß ausgerichtet. Dabei waren 658 Höhenmeter zu überwinden, was für einen Landkreis im Mittelgebirge schon recht viel ist.

Der Hohe Schuß dacht nach Norden ab und zählt damit zum Nördlichen Hohen Schiefergebirge. Nördlich schließen sich der Rodeberg (761 m) und die Teufelskanzel (774 m), im Süden die Zigeunerebene (748 m) und im Südwesten, durch das Lange Tal vom Nachbarn Limberg getrennt, die Hammerschmiedsebene (696 m) an. Über den die Ausläufer verbindenden Grat verläuft der Rennsteig in Richtung Südwest - Nordost. Östlicher Nachbar, deutlich durch eine Scharte getrennt, ist der Rote Berg. Oberhalb der Hammerschmiedsebene befindet sich die Nahtstelle zum nordöstlichen Ausläufer des Pappenheimer Berges und zum Ernstthaler Steig, über den der Rennsteig nach Nordwest abknickt.

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Berg in Europa
Berg im Naturpark Thüringer Wald
Berg im Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt


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The Teams: Wilmington will be joined by several other NCAA Division III schools: Anderson University, Defiance College, Wittenberg University and St. Scholastica University. Host Cedarville along with the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Christian University, Miami University, Rio Grande University, Siena Heights University, Ursuline University, Walsh University, Wayne State University and Wright State University.
Who to Watch – Track Events: In the outdoor opener last weekend, Evan Whitaker nearly broke the Transylvania University stadium record with a 15:33.10 mark to win the 5,000-meter run. Adam Knaub finished in the top four of two sprints, taking third in the 100-meter dash (11.07 seconds) and fourth in the 200-meter dash (22.62 seconds). Aaron Koch earned a runner-up finish in 400-meter hurdles (59.24 seconds) while also placing sixth in the 110-meter hurdles.
Who to Watch – Field Events: Luke Richardson's mark of 21' 5 ¼" earned him a second-place finish in the long jump while Joe Shuga, Andrew Pacifico and Colin Meyers competed in the shot put, hammer throw and high jump respectively.
Up Next: Wilmington heads to Heidelberg University for an invitational next weekend.


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RED SOX: Rangers win in rout to take series
Sep. 4, 2011 Updated: July 28, 2017 2 a.m.
BOSTON -- This time, Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers put up the big numbers in a strange season series of blowout games against the Boston Red Sox.
Hamilton capped Texas' seven-run sixth inning with a bases-loaded triple and Matt Harrison had a solid start, carrying the Rangers to a 11-4 win over the Red Sox on Sunday.
Ian Kinsler homered, drove in three runs and made a stellar defensive play for the AL West-leading Rangers, who took two of three in a weekend series that continued the trend of lopsided scores between the teams.
"You've got two teams that are potent offensively," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "But, once again, it's about pitching. You go against teams like the Rangers, Red Sox and Yankees and you better bring your pitching -- or it can happen like it did today."
The Rangers took the season series 6-4, outscoring the Red Sox 51-15 in games they won. Boston had a 42-14 edge in its victories.
There wasn't a game decided by less than four runs between the teams, and six times the winning team posted double figures in runs.
"It seems like one of us is whooping each other's butts from one night to the next," Hamilton said. "No close games. They have a good offense and we have a good offense."
Boston went 4-5 on its nine-game homestand and fell to 1½ games behind AL East-leading New York, which beat Toronto 9-3 on Sunday.
Marco Scutaro had a two-run single for the Red Sox.
Harrison (11-9) allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings in his first start since he struggled in a loss to the Red Sox on Aug. 24. Texas opted to skip his previous turn in the rotation and the left-hander pitched two scoreless innings in relief against Tampa Bay on Wednesday.
The extra rest made him feel much stronger from the beginning.
"I felt good coming into this game," he said. "It's a tough place to pitch for one, and it's a good lineup. You have to be on top of your game."
Texas won 10-0 in the series opener on Friday, and the Red Sox rebounded with a 12-7 victory Saturday.
"When you get to the bullpen before you want to, both teams have such good offenses and you make a mistake and you spread it out," Boston manager Terry Francona said. "We haven't played that many close games. You get to the bullpen in the fourth or fifth and both teams have been able to spread those games out."
The Rangers broke it open in the sixth, chasing John Lackey (12-11) while building a 9-0 lead. Michael Young had a leadoff single and Adrian Beltre singled for his 2,000th career hit. David Murphy followed with a run-scoring single and Lackey walked Mike Napoli, the last batter he faced.
Felix Doubront relieved and Mitch Moreland snapped an 0-for-20 stretch with an RBI single before pinch-hitter Esteban German walked to force in a run. Kinsler added a sacrifice fly and Doubront reloaded the bases with a walk before Hamilton tripled into the triangle in center field.
It was another rout in the making.
"They've got a good lineup, man, they're tough," Lackey said. "They definitely worked me, got my pitch count up quite a bit there in the sixth inning. They got enough of hits to get me out of there, and it just didn't go real good after that."
Doubront was charged with three runs and retired just one batter. Matt Albers finally got out of the inning thanks to a nice running catch by right fielder Darnell McDonald with two runners on.
Kinsler and Napoli homered off Michael Bowden in the ninth. Napoli's drive landed high off a back wall in left-center.
Lackey, who had won seven of his last 10 starts, allowed six runs and eight hits, walked three and hit a batter. Like a few other times this season, he left the mound to a spattering of boos.
Napoli singled in a run in the second and Kinsler added a run-scoring triple in the third, a drive to right-center that barely sailed over Conor Jackson's outstretched glove just before he crashed into the wall at full speed. Lackey escaped further damage when he grabbed Elvis Andrus' hard liner back to the mound and doubled off Kinsler.
Jackson, who was holding his left arm and flexing his right knee, left with a bruised right knee an inning later and was replaced by McDonald.
Kinsler's splendid play likely saved a run in the fifth. He made a fully stretched dive to snag Jacoby Ellsbury's liner in shallow center with a runner on second. Ellsbury threw his helmet to the ground in disbelief.
NOTES: It was Kinsler's sixth homer against Boston this season, only the second Ranger to do it. Juan Gonzalez was the other in 1996. ... Francona kept OF Josh Reddick out Sunday and will "hopefully get him back in (Monday)." Reddick was hit by a pitch on the left hand in Saturday's win. ... Washington said he moved left-handed hitter Murphy up to sixth in the lineup to "try and not string too many lefties together if I can." He also planned to DH Beltre again on Monday with a day game at Tampa Bay. ... The Rangers open a three-game series against the Rays on Monday, with RHP Scott Feldman (1-0) facing tough righty James Shields (13-10), who leads the majors with 10 complete games. ... Boston travels to Toronto and opens a four-game series Monday afternoon against the Blue Jays, with Josh Beckett (12-5) scheduled to go against Henderson Alvarez (1-2). ... Murphy's second-inning triple extended his hitting streak to 10 games. ... It was 'Sign Day' at Fenway Park. Fans were encouraged to bring signs as part of a TV contest and there were many raised between innings.


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Interview with Vince Mendoza and Fabien Prioville
Asia and Europe, street dance and contemporary dance: What emerged from this collaboration?
"Hilatas―The Light that Guides You," a work of performing arts presented in DANCE DANCE ASIA―Crossing the Movements in Tokyo 2018, an event that ran from March 23 to 25, 2018, was created in Bangkok from the end of December 2017 to mid-January 2018. DANCE DANCE ASIA (DDA) is a project that generates works of performing arts with a focus on street dance. Street dance has been drawing considerable attention over these few years as a new means of expression in the performing arts. The project got started in 2014 with the goal of promoting exchange among Asian artists and creating new culture. "Hilatas―The Light that Guides You" is a short performance choreographed and directed by Vince Mendoza from the Philippines. Premiered at DDA December 2016 in Tokyo, the work was presented once again in the following April in Hanoi and Manila. Fabien Prioville, a French dancer/choreographer who previously performed in the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, joined as an associate choreographer/director and dramaturg in 2018. The team will now present a long version of Hilatas. Three weeks after getting started with the creation, we interviewed Vince Mendoza and Fabien Prioville about their progress with the work, the message conveyed through the work, and the state of the dance arts in each country.
*The performance run has already ended.
Vince Mendoza (left) and Fabien Prioville
―What does the short version of Hilatas mean to you, Vince?
Vince: It's a highly significant work for me in the sense that I express in it my life and what's on my mind. It's also the first work I've directed that accounts for the possibility of overseas performances. We started from scratch and set aside three weeks for collaborative work in the Philippines, then spent two more weeks adding to the work in Japan.
I was satisfied with the finished work, but two weeks after the work was presented in Tokyo, reviewing the work, I was already starting to look for something more. In looking back over my past work, I find that I'm in the habit of trying to discover something new. The people around me are creating really great work, so, I want to climb higher in my development, and I want the dancers to become more skillful. I believe an important aspect of life is the aspiration to improve at all times.
―You received an offer to make a long version, then went through the process of creating that work. What was that like?
Vince: It was a major challenge, but I was incredibly grateful for the offer. And it was great to see the progress made by the dancers, who'd been working together since we worked on the short version. They've become more open-minded, which strengthens the work. The theme of the work is "roots," so it's important for them to be themselves, to move naturally.
Fabien also taught them to move naturally on stage. I'd only known them as dancers who performed on stage. But in this work, which involved Fabien, all the dancers were united in harmony on the stage. They're just enjoying being candid on stage and letting their real selves out, so we want the audience to share in the same state of mind, to be your natural self. It's common these days to copy what you see on the Internet, but I'd like to point out it's also important within society to be true to yourself. We hope we can share this feeling with the audience.
―How did you decide to collaborate with Fabien on the long version?
Vince: When I talked to Sachiko Nakanishi, the producer, she suggested working with European directors. So, I checked out Fabien's works and felt really excited!
―Fabien, it's also the first time you've worked with a street dance choreographer. You've been involved in a joint production for three weeks. What are the results so far?
Fabien: It's made a great impression on me. I've been interested in street dancing techniques and wanted to get involved. Virtuosity in dance is a major topic in Germany at the moment, as well as the issue of how it is used and contextualized. My background in ballet provided a virtuosic training in moving my body. So, I was curious to try a design based on my sense of creativity. I was also interested in working with street dancers and coming up with something by making the most of their physical skills, which is referred to as a "hyper body" along with my creativity.
So, I was thrilled when Sachiko offered me to join the project. But I was also a little anxious about how this was going to work. Collaborations aren't easy. They can generate confrontation. Above all, it's difficult to assign to each member an appropriate part and direct what they do without overdoing the direction. But, overall, after the three weeks, I'm satisfied with what we've done.
―What were your interactions with the dancers like?
Fabien: In general, street dancers have totally different approaches toward exercise and movement. I was really wondering how they would manage long rehearsals that require intense concentration. I was quite surprised to see their concentration throughout the process of understanding and executing their tasks. Already, in the first week, as I was mostly observing Vince directing the dancers, I saw that his requests were quite similar to my own. That gave me confidence that we'd work well together.
The time working together included many steps forward and many day to day changes. The dancers accepted the daily events that came up in the production process with an open mind. The work reflects these positives from the collaboration generated during this process. The work would have been very different without those positives.
Fabien says he's wanted to get involved in street dance.
―In this production, what was the most exciting or eye-opening moment for you in working with the street dancers?
Fabien: It was interesting for me to propose some ideas and then to see how the ideas were translated into their bodies and movements. It was kind of a surprise for me. If I direct one section or one portion of the piece, the dancers would interpret the directions in the way they saw fit. This process sometimes resulted in more than I'd expected. I was impressed by how they approach the tasks in a straightforward way.
I asked them to express themselves, rather than hiding behind movements. When that worked, they were surprised at the discoveries their own expression generated.
―Vince, how did you feel about having Fabien's ideas in your work as he gradually began introducing more of his own proposals in the production process?
Vince: At first, I was confused. Fabien told me that it's a healthy reaction to get confused with it, though [laughs].
Fabien: [laughs]
Vince: Fabien shared the piece with me in detail and asked questions I couldn't answer, or talked about something I was unfamiliar with. I tried to sort through my confusion and came to a place where I pondered much more deeply on my piece. Through this process, I realized my conception of the piece wasn't clear enough, or I wasn't clear about what message I want to convey.
Fabien: Before I got involved as an associate director and choreographer, my first task as dramaturg was to let Vince sharpen the concept. I'd say, What do you want to say through this work? or What feelings do you expect to invoke in the audience when they see the performance? Do you remember those questions, Vince?
Vince: Yes.
Fabien: He struggled with these questions for a few days, but from the moment production began, he changed his mindset and approach toward the work, which led almost instantaneously to some significant results. So, I thought, Wow! He worked to get a grip on the dialogue, and that effort led to dramatic progress in his part of the process of creating the work. I feel super happy with that.
Vince: Working with Fabien was also a great experience from the aspects of experimental contemporary dance and street dance. As a street dancer, I'm lucky to have had this opportunity to learn about so many differing viewpoints and ideas and to experience diverse ways of approaching and directing the work. As Fabien says, although we have much in common in terms of how we approach our work, to my eyes, what he's doing features more gems and more tools, things I don't have.
Fabien and Vince discuss their state of mind during the joint production.
―Contemporary dance and street dance have different audiences in Japan and Southeast Asia. In DDA, we're trying to offer works that encourage both audiences to mix and enjoy side by side. It might be difficult to achieve in the real world.
Fabien: From the merger of contemporary dance and street dance, we have categories called conceptual hip-hop and conceptual street dance in France where choreographers work conceptually with the body. I don't think there are any specific recipes for finding ways to make a merger like this work. Anyway, in Japan, contemporary dance and street dance are recognized, by convention, as two different dances. So, an attempt to fuse these two categories is in itself valuable. This project DDA shows a good example of the framing of this fusion, and the first step has had positive results. So, on performance days, I hope both types of audience will gather in one theater. The performance will offer something both types can enjoy, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it more than you expected.
Vince came up with some carefully conceived choreography. In the introduction, he offers a choreographed piece that street-dance fans would love to see. But at the same time, he alters that aspect slightly for the other target audience. That idea really impressed me. Of course, you can't satisfy everyone. Some people may be confused or dislike it, but that's not an issue.
In general, people aren't quite sure how to react when they come across something new. Even if you have no idea how to enjoy a performance, by persisting and trying to get in tune with it, you'll eventually come to have another perspective and come to enjoy it.
―I had a chance to see the rehearsal of long version of "Hilatas." In the scene in which B-boy Khenobu dances, the music was something B-boys wouldn't be likely to dance to. The dance was also choreographed using B-boy technique while introducing the style of contemporary dance. It was exciting.
Fabien: I hope the audience that watches the performance will feel the same way [laughs]. From the early stage of production, I've been talking to Vince about the challenge of choreographing street dance when you're trying to add a lyrical nuance. Still, I don't think it is impossible. B-boy performances typically involve a cycle of dancing, then taking breaks when they get tired. I talked to Vince and suggested changing that pattern. We came up with a longer sequence that lasts for five to seven minutes. We thought, by creating lyrical moments within the repeated cycle of fierce movement and stopping, we might uncover new movements and physical possibilities in B-boy dance.
―So, Khenobu was also happy with that scene?
Fabien: Yes, he's enjoying it. He never thought he could move this way before. Although it may have been confusing, it's good for him [laughs]. I think he definitely took something from that process. Whether he takes it further is his choice. He can't stop with this project, but he can decide to apply this experience to his art. In street dancing today, there seems to be a trend where dancers try to apply their styles to other forms of performance. There's no reason they shouldn't do that.
Fabien hopes fans of both contemporary dance and street dance will come to the theater.
―Vince, you were saying before that street dancers should have more opportunities to explore a world they don't know. On the other hand, sometimes I think DDA is trying to break a hole in street dance culture.
Vince: It's really good for street dancers to perform in wider forms like stage work and shows, but I still respect their culture. As with our work on DDA, if we try a new movement and find an outcome that inspires other dancers, we can call it progress. I've seen dancers making real progress through DDA.
Many street dancers have entered the field of the performing arts recently. That's also happening in the Philippines. I, myself, love the feeling of self-liberation the performing arts offer. Allen, one of our dancers, also experienced that feeling. After his experience with the performing arts, his dancing has shown something different from other dancers in the realm of dance battle.
―In Europe, contemporary hip-hop dancers are also active in dance battles. It looks like they interact well with street dancers.
Fabien: Yes, they blend differently in Europe, because dancers have much more access to diverse types of performing art presentations. Lots of theaters are interested in a mix of hip-hop and contemporary dance. As street dance gains recognition as an art form, contemporary artists, choreographers, and directors who incorporate hip-hop dancers into their work have grown more common.
―From the viewpoint of a creator, as you're doing now with DDA, how does working with artists from different background influence the production process?
Fabien: I talked about that with Vince. As you see, this time, the work's theme is to go back to your roots. We talked about how we can merge cultures from the diverse countries the dancers come from or how these cultures could be affecting street dance. The work reflects these ideas, although it may not be apparent if you watch it unfold on stage, since the theme was expressed subjectively.
We asked the dancers to present traditional dances, movements and music from their home countries. I was amazed to encounter traditional music from the Philippines and Indonesia and the fusion of ethnic dance and street dance into the work. The attempt to combine diverse elements influenced the work tremendously by generating an incredibly effective expressiveness the audience should feel.
Vince: I've found that even if a culture looks completely different from your own, if you go deeper into the culture, you'll find common ground. The technical staff for the last year's DDA told me that, as in the Philippines, you'll come across Jew's harps in Japan. It might be hard at first to find a link to other cultures, but after I actually meet people from different cultures and strike up friendships, I sometimes see them as mirrors, and I notice similarities between my culture and theirs.
Fabien: Vince and I regularly talk about that sort of thing. When people from diverse cultures gather, they can strengthen their expressive capabilities by accepting each other's differences.
The theme of "Hilatas―The Light that Guides You" is to return to one's roots.
―Lastly, do you have a message for the audience coming to see the Tokyo performance?
Vince: The opportunity to present "Hilatas" in Tokyo fills us with joyful expectation. The work is intended to continue resonating longer after you view the performance. I hope you'll enjoy this work and the other two works directed, respectively, by Hamdi Fabas and Koutei Sennin. The works will surely evoke something special―the conviction that you're actually living in the here and now. They may even change your life in some ways. So, I invite you to come to the theater. I want everyone to see the work.
Fabien: Vince has already said what I wanted to say, but I'd like to add that I'm incredibly excited to present the work we've been working on together. I'd be happy if you view the performance with an open mind. If you come across something new, I ask you simply to enjoy the experience and accept the surprise. I'm also hoping you'll learn something about the wider potential of dance by actually seeing this performance on the stage.
Don't try to define whether what you're seeing is street dance or contemporary dance. It may be both, it may be neither. There's no answer. Our goal isn't a perfect harmony of contemporary dance and street dance but creating interactive effects through collaboration. I'm confident you'll like it. I hope we can share the joy and excitement we experienced in the process of making it.
Interview: Norihiko Yoshioka, Director-General, The Japan Foundation, Bangkok
Photographer: Suradet Canda, Fellow
DDA official website: http://dancedanceasia.com/en/
Presentation schedule and details: http://dancedanceasia.com/en/schedule_pt/dda2018march/
Vince Mendoza (the Philippines)
Choreographer/Artistic Director
Mendoza is a dancer and choreographer. He is the Philippine representative for the UK B-Boy Championship's Popping division, and recently won the popping category at Hungary's 2016 Get Down contest, and the all-style category at Vietnam's Together Time. He also won first prize in SDK ASIA 2016 (Hong Kong) as a member of TEAM X. In 2010, 2012 and 2016, he competed the Juste Debout contest as one half of the dance unit Prince & Vince.
His work includes choreographing Lacoste and Diesel fashion shows, music videos and commercials. In 2015, he participated in DANCE DANCE ASIA in Tokyo as a member of the Philippine Allstars. He introduced his own choreography and directing work in "Hilatas" at DANCE DANCE ASIA in Tokyo 2016. He also presented this work in Hanoi and Manila in April 2017.
Fabien Prioville (France)
Associate Choreographer/Director and Dramaturg
After graduating from Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in France, Prioville worked with Édouard Lock and his company La La La Human Steps in Canada. La La La Human Steps was known for collaborating with rock musicians, including David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and others. In 1999, Prioville became a member of the Tanztheater, Wuppertal Pina Bausch. He has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer since 2006. In 2010, he founded Fabien Prioville Dance Company. He was in charge of the composition and direction of Theatrical group EN's "DOUBLE TOMORROW", which was performed in September 2017.
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