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Q: understanding makeatletter with minted / minipage / colorboxes I found this cool posting for allowing you to include a minted or lstlisting environment inside of a call to a macro:
https://github.com/gpoore/minted/issues/54#issuecomment-58233667
The code
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\foo}{%
  \begingroup
  \let\do\@makeother\dospecials
  \catcode`\{=1
  \catcode`\}=2
  \endlinechar`\^^J
  \foo@i}
\newcommand{\foo@i}[1]{%
  \endgroup\scantokens{#1\noexpand}%
  \expandafter\foo@cleanup}
\def\foo@cleanup#1^^J{#1 }
%http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71049/allow-macro-to-end-without-new-line
\makeatother

I understand that I can use saveboxes, but I do not want to.  Substitution \foo for \question, I am trying to implement the equivalent of
\newcommand{\question}[1]{
     \noindent\fcolorbox{black}{gray!11}{
         \begin{minipage}[t]{0.97\textwidth}
             \vspace*{1ex}
             #1
             \vspace*{1ex}
         \end{minipage}
     }
 }

The problem is after hours of digging around the web, I can't get a clear picture on how this would work.  I've tried to make new environments, play with tcolorbox, a bunch of different things.  I thought I was making progress when I used \minipage{...} in the first part before \foo@i, and then \endminipage before the \endgroup, and quickly realized that this was not doing what I thought it was.  The same goes for \tcolorbox and \endtcolorbox in the same locations.
So basically, is it possible to begin something like a minipage or (t/f)colorbox and wrap it around this?  I cannot put something like \tcolorbox[colors etc]{\foo@i}} as the last line (right after \endlinechar), or really any other variant.  At this point, endlessly permuting where these commands go is fruitless and I feel I need to be doing something differently.
Thank you for any pointers, e.g. a hacky way to get { and } in.  I tried to use the catcodes but I think I'm missing the bigger picture.
The idea would be to use the macro in a situation like this:
\question{
\paragraph*{5: A question from my prof}
Consider some stuff about things i want you to solve:
\begin{minted}{matlab}
  for i = 1:n
    x(i) = x(i) + 1;
  end
\end{minted}
Show that this is a thing that can be done yay.
}

A: This should do what you want. It takes the linked example, and adds in your \fcolorbox, minipage, etc.
The basic idea is that the macro argument needs to be captured in such a way that an absolute minimum of characters have special meanings (catcodes) so that almost all characters can appear literally, but also so that line endings are preserved (\endlinechar).  Then, after the argument is captured, the next macro uses \scantokens to retokenize everything (including preserved line endings) so that it behaves normally where it is actually used.
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\question}{%
  \begingroup
  \let\do\@makeother\dospecials
  \catcode`\{=1
  \catcode`\}=2
  \endlinechar`\^^J
  \question@i}
\newcommand{\question@i}[1]{%
  \endgroup
  \noindent\fcolorbox{black}{gray!11}{%
    \begin{minipage}[t]{0.97\textwidth}%
    \vspace*{1ex}%
    \scantokens{#1\noexpand}\par%
    \vspace*{1ex}%
    \end{minipage}%
  }%
  \expandafter\question@cleanup}
\def\question@cleanup#1^^J{#1 }
\makeatother

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Streptomyces lohii is a bacterium species from the genus of Streptomyces.

See also
 List of Streptomyces species

References

Further reading

lohii
Bacteria described in 2015

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Currently, many universities require students to enroll in at least one multicultural class as part of their bachelor's degree requirement. The purpose of the study is to understand students' multicultural attitude, knowledge, and skills. In the study, the researcher developed and validated the Multicultural Student Competency Questionnaire (MSCQ). The instrument is based on Sue's and colleagues (1992) Multiple Dimension of Cultural Competence model. 3-form planned missing design was employed in the data collection of the validation study. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the MSCQ and evaluate the relationship between the three main constructs: attitudes, knowledge, and skills. Results from the study revealed students' awareness and knowledge of their own culture exceed their awareness and knowledge of biases and others' cultures. In the skills dimension, students scored relatively higher on the verbal and nonverbal helping styles compared to advocacy skills. The MSCQ provided a good measure for measuring undergraduate students' multicultural competency. Future research direction includes using moral education lens in the teaching of multicultural core classes and understanding various factors that effect students' multicultural skills.


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Q: Sorting objects from an array by two values in descending order I'm dealing with the iTunes API and pulling songs from albums. I'm trying to sort songs in by their track number and according to what disc they belong to but seem to be running into a few issues. For one the order of the discs is in reverse order. Second, its not sorting tracks how they should at all. As a first pass this is how I'm trying to sort things:
return a.discNumber - b.discNumber && a.trackNumber - b.trackNumber;

What needs to fixed in order to get this to work?

iTunesSearch();

function iTunesSearch(callback) {
    $.getJSON('http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Speakerboxxx/The Love Below&entity=song&callback=?', function(data) {
        var results = data["results"],
            tracks = results.filter(function(entry) {
                return entry.collectionExplicitness == "explicit"
            }),
            sortedTracks = tracks.sort(function(a,b) {
                return a.discNumber - b.discNumber && a.trackNumber - b.trackNumber;
            });

        for (var i = 0; i < sortedTracks.length; i++) {
            var discNo    = "" + sortedTracks[i]["discNumber"] + "	",
                trackNo   = "" + sortedTracks[i]["trackNumber"] + "	",
                trackName = "" + sortedTracks[i]["trackName"] + "	",
                $tr = "
" + discNo + trackNo + trackName + "
";

            $("table").append($tr);
        }
        console.log(tracks);
    });
}

            Disc Number
            Track Number
            Track Name

A: You will want to use
return a.discNumber - b.discNumber || a.trackNumber - b.trackNumber;

for your comparison function, so that it does compare the track numbers only when the disc numbers are equal (not the other way round). Then, to sort something descending, just swap a and b:
return a.discNumber - b.discNumber || b.trackNumber - a.trackNumber;

(to get ascending discs, but descending track numbers per disc)

A: Your comparison only checks the track number if the disc numbers are already different. Not what you want.
Try:
return (a.discNumber - b.discNumber) || (a.trackNumber - b.trackNumber);

iTunesSearch();

function iTunesSearch(callback) {
    $.getJSON('http://itunes.apple.com/search?term=Speakerboxxx/The Love Below&entity=song&callback=?', function(data) {
        var results = data["results"],
            tracks = results.filter(function(entry) {
                return entry.collectionExplicitness == "explicit"
            }),
            sortedTracks = tracks.sort(function(a,b) {
                return a.discNumber - b.discNumber || a.trackNumber - b.trackNumber;
            });

        for (var i = 0; i < sortedTracks.length; i++) {
            var discNo    = "" + sortedTracks[i]["discNumber"] + "	",
                trackNo   = "" + sortedTracks[i]["trackNumber"] + "	",
                trackName = "" + sortedTracks[i]["trackName"] + "	",
                $tr = "
" + discNo + trackNo + trackName + "
";

            $("table").append($tr);
        }
        console.log(tracks);
    });
}

            Disc Number
            Track Number
            Track Name


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Devs: We really need co-op to be online.
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A short guide to some of the harder achievements in Droid Assault.
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Are security apps really effective for smartphones?
Security Apps? Does it really work?
Almost everyone has an efficient antivirus program installed on their desktop or laptop computer. But with ever-growing threats of nasty malware, how important is it to secure your smartphone or tablet with a security app? Do you really need an antivirus on your smartphone?
If you are an avid tech news follower, you must have heard that Android malware is on the rise and there has been an alarming increase of 472% from May of this year.
Global Threat Center presented an infographic that has raised eyebrows all over the world. But does that mean that you need to rush yourself into buying an antivirus package for your smartphone? Well, the answer is a bit complicated. There is a lot of controversy surrounding security apps, almost as much as malware itself.
So, to be honest you probably do need some sort of security app on your smartphone to keep the malware at bay. But the security option you choose, totally depends on the kind of device you own. Let us explore some options.
Most android app stores, including Google Play Store, are not very efficient in screening all the apps. Sometimes, a few apps tend to slip in, which contain android specific malware. One of the most malicious threat that has been popping up regularly in the past few months is Ransomware. This is why it is vital to keep your phone protected, in case you download a malicious app.
Android system is one of the most targeted in smartphone operating systems. But fortunately, there are many android antivirus and anti-malware apps in the market now. Choose an app that has been designed by a reputed developer with plenty of positive reviews on the app store.
Some popular ones to choose from are AVL, BullGuard, ESET, Qihoo 360 etc. All these apps are carefully designed to protect your sensitive data and have to pass over 3,000 tests that consist of real world malware, in order to get high ratings.
These security apps don't drain the phone's battery and performance and do not trigger unnecessary alarms. Few apps like ESET's Security Audit and Qihoo 360's Privacy Protection offer other useful features that cover more than your basic security needs.
Another way to ensure the safety of your smartphone is to install an app that provides a firewall, like DroidWall. But be vary, that most of the firewall apps require you to root your device, which means potentially exposing it to even further danger.
Even though firewalls add a separate layer of protection, they are not very relevant in the Android operating system domain.
Lastly, it is very important to guard yourself from malvertising in order to protect your Android phone. Use adblockers, like Adblock Browser, to stop unnecessary ads from popping up.
According to the creators of iOS operating system, no security app is required on it. Apple keeps a strict check on all apps that are loaded on its app store. This is why you are less likely to download malware containing apps. Apple doesn't even allow anti-virus apps to be a part of the app store because they are just not required according to the company.
However, iPhone users are still at a risk from malvertising. Use Adblock browser to keep you safe from unwanted ads and pop-up windows. Just browse carefully and you should be pretty safe from majority of the malware threats for iOS.
But if you jailbreak your iPhone, it is another story. You are more prone to downloading nasty malware filled apps. But looking for a good jailbreak antivirus solution is a difficult task, because most of the popular security apps don't offer a full version for iOS, putting you in a very tight spot.
As discussed above, malware threats are dependent on the kind of operating system your smartphone has. So, choose a security app that gels with it. But with the increasing cases of smartphone malware, it is a good idea to use at least some kind of security app.
Have you installed a security app in your smartphone? If not, will you look for an antivirus app after reading this article? Let us know which apps you prefer according to the platform of your smartphone and whether you think security apps are really effective in keeping the malware away.
Author: Andrea Bell
Tagged on: Android, Android Apps, Security Apps
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Let's take a close look at the recruitment process. As more and more candidates are passively looking for the right opportunities, they are evaluating every move an employer makes. They are evaluating the company, the recruiters, and the leadership within an organization. They are researching the organizations and they are talking to their peers and co-workers. Quite simply, their voice and opinion matters!
Let's take a close look at the recruitment process. As more and more candidates are passively looking for the right opportunities, they are evaluating every move an employer makes. They are evaluating the company, the recruiters, and the leadership within an organization. They are researching the organizations and they are talking to their peers and co-workers. Quite simply, their voice and opinion matters! In the Internet driven world, things go viral quicker than ever before, and a bad experience can potentially damage your brand and future hires for your company.
Employers need to think about every step in the process when working with candidates. Recruiters are the first people that candidates talk to when they interface with a company. As we all know all too well as Human Resource professionals, first impressions go a long way. If you are going to attract the right candidates, you better have the best recruiters to represent your company and your brand. A run -of -the -mill paper pusher will not help you get the key hires you are looking to make in 2015.
Recruiters will need to be articulate. They will need to be good communicators and understand the mission, vision and goals of the organization. They need to be excellent listeners. Recruiters that can match the goals of the candidate with the duties of the job will ultimately lead to the success of the organization. All too often recruiters are interested in filling the role and the candidate experience is lost. When the candidates needs and wants are not met and they feel pressured into a role, then they will be disgruntled with their experience.
Managers have to be cognizant of the candidate experience also. Timeliness and good interviewing skills are imperative. The candidate's time is valuable and they will be frustrated and share their poor experiences with others if they are good or bad. The last thing you want is someone from senior leadership representing your organization poorly.
When I think about candidate experience, I always think about the on boarding experience. Organisations always think about the hiring, but how they bring them on board is often forgotten. Not having the 30, 60, 90 day plan for your employee looks poor. Training individuals and making sure they understand your product is so important. More times than we would like to admit we rush employees into positions without having a desk space or a laptop. If that were you, what would your impression be?
Taking this all into consideration, this is why candidate experience is so important to employers. You should want to hire the best and retain the best. In 2015, I predict that retaining employees will be a challenge as consumer confidence is up and people who haven't looked for jobs in years will now be vulnerable and willing to listen to opportunities.
So, what is it going to be? Are you going to take a close look at your candidate experience this year? What are you going to do differentiate yourself from other companies that are trying to attract the same talent? The strong will win and the mediocre will lose. This is a war and to compete, you have to be at the top of your game!


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Felicja Wągrowska (ur. 1907, data śmierci nieznana) – polska działaczka radiowa.

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Boy with 'wispy beard' sought over exposure
A FEMALE jogger was the victim of a teenage flasher in woodland in Guildford on Tuesday (May 31).
Officers are keen to identify a male suspect who indecently touched the victim and exposed himself during the incident, which took place off Parkway shortly after 7pm.
He is described as white, aged between 16 and 18-years-old, around 5ft 4ins tall, of an average build, with short, bowl cut style, light brown hair.
He had a short, wispy beard and was wearing a white T-shirt.
Detective Inspector Andy Haslam said: "I would urge anyone who believes they saw this teenager or who thinks they may know who is responsible from the description given to contact officers immediately.
This is a serious incident and we are doing all we can to identify the perpetrator."
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Alternatively, information can be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously and free of charge by calling 0800 555 111.


Cross-border pipelines have a somewhat patchy history being often hostages of political or military conflicts, as was the case of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline during and after the first Gulf war. They are exposed to various political and economic risks. They may in turn generate conflicts and controversies as well, especially if attempts are made to renegotiate the terms of transit agreements.
The lack of an over-arching general legal framework and a multitude of regulatory instruments and regimes governing pipeline construction and operation is another factor which may affect the long-term sustainability of existing and future pipeline projects, particularly those involving more than two states along their course. The present transit regime established under the Energy Charter Treaty is inefficient in resolving transit disputes, as was demonstrated by the continuous wrangling between Ukraine and Russia over transit fees and the price of Russian gas supplied to Ukraine. Some recent attempts to strengthen this regime by adopting a new Transit Protocol to the ECT have so far been futile, particularly in view of the Russian decision to leave the Energy Charter Treaty altogether.
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JONI MITCHELL: THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
Richie Unterberger February 11, 2021
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Despite being regarded as one of her generation's greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell labored in relative obscurity for years before Reprise released her debut album, Songs to a Seagull (1968). Prior to that, she was writing and performing prolifically, while her songs were more famously covered by other artists (Judy Collins, Tom Rush). Rhino has just released the first of what we hope will be a series of archival volumes, The Early Years (1963-1967). Richie Unterberger speaks with Rhino's Patrick Milligan about the genesis of this project.
"I've written a couple of new songs since you wrote, and I think you'll like this one especially," says Joni Mitchell on a tape she made for her mother's birthday in 1965. Then she sings "Urge for Going," her first truly outstanding composition, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar. The performance is a bit more tremulous than the one that would land on a non-LP B-side seven years later. But it's obvious this is a singer-songwriter of enormous talent, about three years before her debut album would hit the stores.
"Urge for Going" wouldn't be on that debut LP. Nor would literally dozens of other songs she wrote and performed before Song to a Seagull finally made her music available on disc. Some have circulated on tapes of live shows and radio broadcasts, but few had heard most of them until Rhino's five-CD Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) box was released in late 2020. With nearly a hundred performances from folk clubs, radio and TV programs, and home tapes, it's an astonishing trove of material, all previously unreleased.
This is more than just another dive into the vault of a major artist's rarities, as welcome as those are. No other performer of Mitchell's stature wrote and performed such a rich and impressive wealth of music before making their vinyl debut. It fills in a missing, major chapter of her oeuvre, tracing her evolution from a ukulele-strumming traditional folkie to an innovator on the cusp of taking her place among the finest singer-songwriters of the late 1960s.
No other performer of Mitchell's stature wrote and performed such a rich and impressive wealth of music before making their vinyl debut.
It also allows us to follow her rapid growth as a vocalist and guitarist. Even on cuts taped just a few months apart, her rise in skill and confidence is striking as she refines the arrangements and delivery. And while most of the songs wouldn't find a place on her studio releases, there are earlier versions about a dozen songs that would surface on her first four albums, including six that would show up on her debut LP alone. You could construct something of an alternate Mitchell debut from these different versions, but the set's value runs far deeper than offering previews of well-known classics like "Both Sides Now," "Chelsea Morning," and "Night in the City."
Archives Vol. 1: The Beginnings
Archives Vol. 1 was co-produced for release by Mitchell with Rhino A&R director Patrick Milligan. Shortly after the box came out, I talked with Milligan about how the collection was conceived and assembled. As Joni's never dug into her past for official product before, what got this project off the ground?
Rhino's management, Milligan explains, was in discussion with Mitchell's longtime manager Elliot Roberts (who died in 2019) "on making a new deal to remaster Joni's catalog. I started looking at what we could do, and sort of looked at the standard way of adding bonus material to albums. I'm not sure that really fits Joni very well. I don't think she would like that. Her albums are such complete works, and completely thought out, that adding stuff to it is not the right approach…or would "make people buy [the] records again. I started thinking, maybe there's just a companion series to the records that's all this extra material. A lot of it came from Joni that was at her house. During a previous project, some of the Rhino people had talked her into getting these things out of her house and putting them in the Warner vault, having them transferred.
"A little before that, I guess, Joni had been contacted by Barry Bowman, who had that 1963 tape from Saskatoon"—nine songs from which lead off the set. "Elliot sent that to me, and when we met to talk about this idea of doing an archive series, I said, 'Well, look, because there's so much early stuff before the first album, maybe just start this off with a set that is all the early material.' He really liked that, and said, 'It's kind of like the Neil Young Archives thing, which is a great model, and we love that.' So he really ended up selling Joni on it."
The Barry Bowman tape, originally broadcast on Saskatoon's CFQC-AM, features Mitchell performing traditional folk songs like "House of the Rising Sun," "John Hardy," and "Nancy Whiskey," in a style not dissimilar from early Judy Collins. (In fact, Collins herself featured another tune from this tape, "Anathea," on her third album, which was recorded around the same time.) She accompanied herself not on guitar, but with a $36 four-string ukulele. As rudimentary as it is compared to the original material dominating the next four discs, it played a key role in fanning Mitchell's enthusiasm for a deeper dive.
"That early tape, she really liked a lot," Milligan elaborates. "I think it really kind of opened her ears to her early years, stuff that she'd kind of written off before. That got her kind of excited, and at one point, she said, 'I want this to be my next album.' That's why we put that out as a separate LP release, too."
Mitchell even sketched a self-portrait for the cover (also used as the art for disc one of the box), issued on vinyl as Early Joni 1963. Had that actually come out back in 1963, it would have been a highly respectable traditional folk album, as her high crystalline vocals and firm grasp of the style were well in evidence. But it wouldn't have stood out all that much from numerous other releases in the folk boom, including quite a few from other woman singers with a devout delivery and pristine upper register.
She accompanied herself not on guitar, but with a $36 four-string ukulele.
As a full box was assembled, "it over time built into this thing that she, as it came more into focus, got more excited about," says Milligan. "She was very involved and engaged in it, and really loved talking with Cameron [Crowe]," resulting in a lengthy Q&A featured in the 36-page booklet. Joni "seems to be really happy about the whole thing."
As for how the final batch was determined, "She listened to a lot of stuff and got back with comments. She's listened to every test pressing, every master. It's really nice, 'cause she'll call and say, 'Well, I listened to this. It's like, you know, yeah, this is pretty good! I wasn't a bad guitar player!'" he laughs.
"It was just getting a little bit overwhelming. I suggested, well, let me go through what you've already commented on, and sort of put something together to see if we can trim this down to something that works. I sent her that, she listened, and she liked it."
From Traditional Folk to First Compositions
After kicking off with the Barry Bowman tape, there's more traditional folk on disc one, with ten songs from a set at Toronto's Half Beat club in October 1964. Three others are from a home tape in February 1965, highlighted by her strong rendition of the Weavers' "Seven Daffodils," her best straight folk interpretation. Mitchell never abandoned outside material entirely, offering a decent cover of John Phillips's "Me and My Uncle" on a 1965 TV broadcast and an a cappella version of the traditional number "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow" at an October 1967 show at Ann Arbor's Canterbury House.
But it was as a composer, not an interpreter, that Mitchell would make her mark. The "Urge for Going" on the birthday tape for her mom makes that clear, though the other early efforts from that source are more derivative tail-end folk boom fodder, like the ramblin' road ode "Born to Take the Highway." When she taped a demo in Detroit on August 24, 1965 that she sent to Elektra Records chief Jac Holzman, everything was from her pen. None of the songs it featured would make her studio albums, though the pensive "Day After Day"—her first original composition—is one of the best on this set that wouldn't join her official catalog.
Since only the date and location of the Elektra demos are noted on the box, I asked Milligan if there was any back story to these. "I don't have a ton of details," he remarks. "I know that it's something that Joni recorded at home, and sent to Jac. I don't believe it was a solicited thing. This was just a tape Joni made and sent." She wasn't the only future star trying to get on Elektra with a simple demo at the time. In December 1965, Neil Young recorded a handful of solo acoustic tracks at Elektra in New York, including early versions of "Sugar Mountain" and "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing." Elektra passed on both artists, and it's not even clear how seriously the demos were evaluated, or if Holzman himself heard them.
The actual tape box of Mitchell's Elektra demo is reproduced on the cover of disc two in Archives Vol. 1, and lists eight songs, though only five are included in the set. (Three of these, however—"Urge for Going," "Born to Take the Highway," and "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow"—are represented elsewhere in the collection in different versions from the same era.)
"You can see the last song on there is just a question mark, 'cause it was untitled," adds Milligan. "We had that listed as 'Untitled.' And it occurred to me, we can't do that. This is Joni's set, she can title the song. So she listened to it and said oh yeah, it's 'Like the Lonely Swallow'"—one of numerous songs on the box that hadn't previously circulated in any form.
The exclusion of a few Elektra demos does lead to the question of whether much other material exists that didn't make the cut. "Her repertoire was pretty consistent at the time, so from one show to the next, she was doing a lot of the same songs," Milligan observes. "I didn't want to repeat them too many times. Even as it is, there's several versions of [some] songs."
So Patrick alternated radio, home, and live performances "so it wasn't a bunch of one thing. And to sort of keep the significant things in, like the 'Urge for Going' tape [to] her mom. Then her doing 'Both Sides Now' on Folklore," in March 1967 on a Philadelphia radio show, "where at the end Gene Shay asks her, 'When did you write that?' She goes, 'Oh, about three days ago.' Those performances really seemed historically significant. And they're beautiful performances, too."
Emergence as Major Singer-Songwriter
If there's a juncture where Mitchell emerges as not just a promising talent but a significant one, it's found in the half-dozen songs from November 1966 at Philadelphia's small Second Fret club, where she often played in her early career. Alongside "Urge for Going" and relatively callow early compositions like "Brandy Eyes" and "What's the Story Mr. Blue" are "Night in the City," which would be a highlight of her first album, and "The Circle Game," held back for her third LP, 1970's Ladies of the Canyon. Also drawn from that show, the superbly bittersweet "Eastern Rain" rates as the best song on the entire box that wouldn't find a place on her studio releases, though Fairport Convention did an excellent version (with Sandy Denny on lead vocals) on their second album.
Just four months later, her craft was accelerating at a yet higher pace. On the March 12, 1967 Folklore radio program, she reports having written a dozen new songs since she was "here last." In her introduction to "Both Sides Now," she exclaims, "I'm really glad that somebody requested that. Because that's a very new song, and I've been driving everybody crazy by playing it twice and three times a night." Compare her November 1966 and March 1967 arrangements of "Eastern Rain," and there's a palpable rise in the dexterous sophistication of the guitar work and assured polish of her vocals, though the song remains the same.
"That's one of the things that was really exciting about this set, is that you see that development," agrees Milligan. "It's real interesting too, just from disc to disc, that each one is another chapter in the story. That first disc is all her in Canada doing folk songs. By the second disc, she's in Detroit writing her own songs. The whole first part of this first disc and through the Jac Holzman [demos], she's playing standard tuning, and then you start hearing her using her own. All of that stuff unfolds as you go. I think that's true of her performing too. You hear her confidence build, and her rapport with the audience—the funny stories that she tells while she's tuning, and all that."
If there's a juncture where Mitchell emerges as not just a promising talent but a significant one, it's found in the half-dozen songs from November 1966 at Philadelphia's small Second Fret club, where she often played in her early career.
None are more interesting and amusing than the one preceding "Cactus Tree," where she asserts, "I haven't, I don't think, really been influenced by Mr. Dylan. I could never quite understand a lot of things about him." After seeing Don't Look Back, she adds, "It all made sense…I found out that Eric Andersen is Dylan's sense of humor." Blatantly Dylan-esque David Blue, on the other hand, "is sort of his philosophical grouchy side. So if you put David Blue and Eric Andersen together, if you've known them for a while, suddenly there's this person on the screen…it's just like a tennis match between Eric and David," she giggles.
By 1967, Mitchell was gaining some renown in the music business as a songwriter, if not yet as a recording artist. "Urge for Going" was covered by Tom Rush, and then for a country hit by George Hamilton IV. Fellow Canadians Buffy Sainte-Marie and Ian & Sylvia did "The Circle Game." Most famously, Judy Collins put "Both Sides Now" on her 1967 album Wildflowers, though it wasn't until a year later that became a Top Ten hit. Why did it take so long for Mitchell to land a recording deal of her own?
"I haven't, I don't think, really been influenced by Mr. Dylan. I could never quite understand a lot of things about him."
In part this was because she wanted far more artistic control over her product than most newly signed musicians, even to the extent of designing her own album covers. In part it might have been because, unlike almost every other singer-songwriter to emerge from the folk circuit, Mitchell didn't move from acoustic accompaniment to electric rock. In fact, she wouldn't do so on record until after she had a few albums under her belt in the early '70s. "In some ways, maybe a lot of people didn't stop to realize Joni's songwriting," feels Patrick Milligan. "Which is odd, since she was having hits [via covers of her compositions by others] before she was signed. But I think to some extent it's like, 'Eh, this is a crowded market that's on its way out.' That was a bit of what was going on."
As Tom Rush told me in an interview nearly twenty years ago, "I took some of her stuff to Jac [Holzman], and he said she sounded too much like Judy Collins, which in fact she probably did. But so what?! C'mon, Jac! Listen to the songs! I thought the songwriting was so strong that it didn't matter. Then I tried to get Judy to do some of her stuff, and Judy wasn't biting either until 'Both Sides Now.'"
Archives Oddities
From a selfish twenty-first century perspective, that peculiar lag might have made this archival box more interesting. For Mitchell had more time to write and perform, filling her sets with quite a few songs that would have been lost to time had not some tapes been running. Among the surfeit of material were some intriguing oddities, like "Dr. Junk," which uses a bona fide Bo Diddley beat (and generated one of the most obscure Joni covers when the Ian Campbell Group did it on a 1968 UK album). "Songs to Aging Children Come" has a plain folk backing, though the version on her second LP would use extensive multi-track vocals. On a May 1967 recording simply referred to as sourced from "Michael's birthday tape," an instrumental improvisation hints at jazzier directions with her wordless scat vocals and fetching, unpredictably shifting melody.
Most unexpected of all is a May 1967 radio performance of Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain," before Young had released it on disc. "This is a great song," she tells the host. "The only thing was that I didn't agree with the philosophy" of "I'm washed up at twenty." But as she hastens to add, "Even if you don't believe that, it's a great song." Mitchell's own "The Circle Game," she clarifies, "is exactly the opposite."
In Milligan's view, "Dr. Junk," "Free Darling," and "some things like that are kind of more playful, just lighthearted, and not serious songs. 'Free Darling' is sort of almost swirly psychedelic-y. So they're very of their time too, which makes them kind of interesting. I think she sort of considered those throwaway things." Along the same lines, she puts a Coke jingle into "Ballerina Valerie," and "Gift of the Magi" is introduced as a "Christmas carol, and it's too late in the year to record it…kind of a Christmas operetta."
According to Milligan, "When she ended up talking to Cameron, those are things he brought up. He said, 'Wow, these songs are great. They're gems.' Her second conversation with him, she said, 'You know, you're my best editor. Because all these things that I was thinking about not using, you said are gems.' Cameron said, 'Well, I might have overused the word gems.' And she said, 'No you don't.'"
As interesting as all of these leftovers are to hear, they're definitely not, with a couple of exceptions like "Eastern Rain" and "Urge for Going," on par with what she'd soon select for her official albums. And as enjoyable and accomplished as some of these rarely heard compositions are, they sometimes sound similar to, and not as distinct as, the ones that did pass muster. Milligan has some insights as to why some of this work never found its way onto record, and why even some of the classics didn't make her first one or two LPs.
"It's interesting that so many of the songs that did end up on later albums go all the way through Blue," he points out, though just one from Blue ("Little Green") is heard on the box. "You think about her first album and all these great songs that she had, and songs that were already hits, 'Urge for Going' and 'Both Sides Now.' [But] she had an idea for the first album of what she wanted that to be. Kind of like every record she's made, there's sort of a concept to it, and each side [of the LP]. There's demos of her basically laying out that record, so it was a very sort of determined thing.
"So to her it was like, 'I have these big songs, but they don't fit the record. So I'm not using them'—that's me saying that, that's not her saying that. That's kind of what it feels like when you see that first record. It's like wow, you would have expected immediately 'Urge for Going,' 'Circle Game,' and 'Both Sides Now' would have been on that."
Continues Patrick, "To some extent obviously any songwriter, you're constantly writing. So you have new material, and you tend to be more interested in that. With Joni—not just on this set, but through the arc of her entire career—she's constantly moving from one thing to the next. It's maybe just she loses interest in that stuff. There were things that she did revisit; 'Little Green' ended up on Blue" in 1971. By her second album, 1969's Clouds, "She did come back to at least 'Both Sides Now,' 'I Don't Know Where I Stand, and things like that. I think again, those just sort of fit those albums at the time, and that's why they ended up where they did."
"I think some of that has to do with, if the song has a place, and it fits the narrative of what she's doing, then she'll use it. The albums, they're conceived as fully self-contained works that sort of tell a story and narrative. You hear that a lot, I think, in the shows. How she strings songs together, to sort of go from one to the next, and tell a story on how they're interrelated. That's always been kind of an approach for her."
Future Joni Mitchell Archives Volumes?
For all Archives Vol. 1's size and scope, there are some unreleased tapes known to exist that aren't represented. She occasionally performed in a duo with her first husband, Chuck Mitchell, in the mid-1960s. Probably between a year or two before her debut album, she recorded demos of "Night in the City" and "The Circle Game" that were produced by Corky Siegel and Jim Schwall of the Siegel-Schwall Band, an electric blues group similar in style to the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. "The Circle Game" had a squeaky trumpet fanfare and no guitar presence of note. "Night in the City" was yet weirder, with violin, cello, mandolin, and a chorus whose beats fell someplace between polka and square dance call.
As to why these left-field detours aren't on the box, says Milligan, "We had some of it, but she didn't want to use it. The Chuck stuff I've heard for the most part is them doing their own songs. It seems they don't really do a lot of duets. She wasn't interested in using any of Chuck's, and the Siegel-Schwall stuff, she didn't really care for. It seems to me that the idea for doing those was just to kind of make song demos, to put them in a context that people could hear those fully arranged songs. Her first few albums didn't have that approach with that kind of instrumentation. That's just kind of not how she envisioned herself."
There's such a wealth of music on Archives Vol. 1 that it's unlikely many fans will notice omissions, let alone complain about them. Yet the use of "volume one" in the title—as well as the enthusiastic reception for archival series like the Neil Young Archives and Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series—naturally stokes our curiosity as to how much more might be on the way.
Just in 1969, for instance, it's known that Mitchell's concerts on February 1 at Carnegie Hall and February 14 at UC Berkeley were recorded for a possible live album. It was even reported as being ready for release in the May 17, 1969 issue of Rolling Stone, but never came out, though some between-song rap was used on the sampler The 1969 Warner/Reprise Record Show.
On the studio front, session sheets confirm that there are outtakes of at least three songs recorded for, but not appearing on, her debut album. Live versions of all them ("Conversation," "Go Tell the Drummer Man," and "Come to the Sunshine") do appear on Archives Vol. 1, all from her October 27, 1967 performance at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor.
Could, say, a second Archives volume feature unreleased material from 1968-1970, when she issued her first three albums? It's premature for anyone to say, though as Milligan notes, "Joni herself says, 'I didn't really leave a lot of stuff behind.' I think when she's doing records, she thinks of them as fully realized things. So I don't think she really does leave a lot behind. I don't know how open to studio stuff she's going to be, 'cause those records are pretty perfectly realized works in their own."
Whatever the plans for a Mitchell archive series, this first volume leaves us with plenty to enjoy and discuss in the meantime. Had she recorded nothing else, it would stand as a notable body of work, even if there's a gap in quality between the highlights and the songs that were almost wholly lost to time. Fortunately, she did record a lot more in the years to come, at times deviating almost unrecognizably from her folk origins, yet almost always rooted in the directions she forged in these first five years.
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Keke Palmer's 11 Tattoos & Their Meanings
Lauren Keyana Palmer popularly known as Keke Palmer is an American Actress, Singer, Songwriter, and a Famous Television Personality. Apart from her acting and singing skills, she is also known for her eye-catching tattoos, here is the list of her tattoos along with the hidden meaning behind those tattoos:
1. "Lauren" on Wrist
Keke got her first name, "Lauren" along with a small crown tattooed on her right wrist. The inked crown along with her name is to keep reminding herself that she is a queen.
2. Writing under her left boob
Keke has writing near her ribcage, under her left boob which says, "don't cast thy pearls before swine". The phrase is a famous quote from "Sermon on the Moun" that Jesus gave in Matthew chapters 5-7. The writing means that- you should never throw or offer precious and valuable things towards those who would not appreciate them.
3. Small writing on her right forearm
Keke has writing tattooed on her right forearm done in very small and delicate letters. She got this tattoo inked in September 2016.
4. Two Hearts behind her ear
In the year March 2012, Keke got a pair of interlocking hearts inked permanently behind her ear.
5. "Perception" Tattoo
#MUSCLE #thismaximlife
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There is a tattoo on her right thigh which says, "Perception", there is also a line inked through the letters.
6. "God is Love" Tattoo
While in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Carnival Parade in February 2014, Keke got "God is Love" inked on her left wrist.
7. Writing on her bicep
She has a quote tattooed on her inner arm, which is a saying by a popular Greek Philosopher Aristotle, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." When asked about this tattoo, Keke shared her reason for getting this inked saying that, when she was small she used to visit a website called thinkexist.com at the time when she used to feel happy or stressed and get a quote related to her emotional state. One day she came across the quote, "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.", She simply liked it and decided to get it tattooed on her skin.
8. Anchor on her ankle
Keke and best friend, Taylor Parks got the anchor tattoo done in March 2012.
9. Writing on her lower back
Definitely posted up in a public bathroom tryna catch a moment for my newest tattoo. Hahaha! #fwm "Renaissance Woman"1.a woman who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field.
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To represent her multiple talents (acting, dancing, singing, and television hosting), Keke got a tattoo on her lower back in February 2016 which says, "Renaissance Woman". She shared a picture of her tattoo along with the definition of the phrase "a woman who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field."
10. Sunflower and a Butterfly on her body
Keke Palmar – Butterfly on Flower Tattoo (Before)
Keke Palmar – Butterfly on Flower Tattoo (After)
This tattoo is a cover up to the older version of the similar tattoo which was a butterfly on a sunflower. Keke got it covered with the extended version of the older ink. It was an 8-hour endurance of pain when Keke got this tattoo done on her body. It covers most part of her body. This tattoo is the result of her trip to Budapest which left such an impression over her life that she decided to get inked in the form of an expanded sunflower and a butterfly. She had accepted the fact that this tattoo has been the most painful one ever. She had stripped down to her fans thus revealing her major tattoo which runs from her upper torso down to her hips.
11. Pyramids + "Queen of Kush"
The Kingdom of Kush, an ancient African Nubian Kingdome situated at the junction of the rivers Blue Nile, White Nile, and River Atbara. The kingdom controlled the Egypt entirely; however, the best part was it had a history of female rulers. This is what appealed to Keke! Amanirenas was one of the famous Queens of Kush, who was able to communicate a peace treaty for Kushites, so as an inspiration from this female ruler, and a tribute to her ancestors, Keke got this tattoo inked on the back of her neck in June 2016.
Keke said this in an interview with Hot 97:
I'm just trying to learn more about myself and learn about the history outside of America, my American history. I want to learn more about my ancestors over in Africa. I don't want to always think about slavery as the only thing that happened to black folks. We actually have another history that we don't really hear that much about where we were kings and queens. I want to hear more about that.
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How do you deal with criticism when someone taunts you for mistakes or criticizes your actions, habits or thoughts?
I think they all work and have enough potential to shut the mouth of critics.
Accept it: When you are not ready for a long fight. You decided to remain silent or just said, "yes, I have or I did." with full confidence.
Justify it: When you think it is needed to justify your actions and thoughts. You have logics to prove yourself right.
Deny it: Simply with the thought of being always right. "I do not need your concern." "Let me decide my next move." "That's not your business." etc.
But one thing that matters a lot in every situation is your 'Attitude'. It is a powerful tool to strengthen your all weaknesses.
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THE tragic death of student Tom Jones brought the city together and it will always remember him.
The 18-year-old's body was sadly discovered in the River Severn on September 28 following a major search after the University of Worcester student went missing just over a week before.
Friend Harley Hetherington helped co-ordinate an army of volunteer searchers who scoured the city and beyond in the days after Tom's disappearance, in the early hours of September 19.
The teenager, from Bromsgrove, had only moved to Worcester days before he went missing following a night out, but the city quickly adopted him as one of their own.
After the discovery of his body, tributes covered Sabrina Bridge and were piled high either side of the River Severn bank before a candlelit vigil saw hundreds come out to say goodbye.
In a particularly poignant moment, everyone turned on their phone torches as Oasis' Wonderwall – a favourite of Tom's – was played.
Speaking at the vigil, the teenager's dad, Ian Jones, said: "We are absolutely overwhelmed.
David Green, university vice chancellor, said the vigil was the "most extraordinary demonstration of love and solidarity for a young man who was clearly outstanding".
The Facebook group set up by Harley to help find his lifelong friend, Find Jonah, was changed to Remember Jonah with friends and family able to share their memories.
A petition called for the Sabrina Bridge to be renamed 'Jonah Bridge' – an idea which was considered by local authorities.
However, the county council then announced a different lasting memorial to the student would be incorporated into refurbishment works around the bridge, rather than renaming it.
Speaking following the inquest on Tuesday, West Mercia Detective Inspector Tony Garner, who led the missing person investigation, said: "Tom's death has affected the community and all of the officers involved in the case deeply.
Coroner Geraint Williams could not contain his emotions and cried during the inquest, as he looked at a photo of Tom.


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As many as 100 deer likely to be harvested in planned Eagle Creek deer hunt
The city's Indy Parks and Recreation department has called for another round of hunts at Eagle Creek Park to begin soon after the new year.
As many as 100 deer likely to be harvested in planned Eagle Creek deer hunt The city's Indy Parks and Recreation department has called for another round of hunts at Eagle Creek Park to begin soon after the new year. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2018/12/20/another-deer-hunt-planned-eagle-creek-park-2019/2338590002/
Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star Published 6:00 a.m. ET Dec. 20, 2018 | Updated 10:18 a.m. ET Dec. 20, 2018
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A deer stands at the edge of the woods at Eagle Creek Park Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013.(Photo: Rob Gobel / IndyStar)Buy Photo
There are still too many deer at Eagle Creek Park, according to wildlife experts. The solution: a hunt to curtail their numbers.
The city's Indy Parks and Recreation department has called for another round of hunts at the park on Indianapolis' northwestside, which is likely to begin soon after the new year. This will be the fourth hunt since 2014, and as many as 100 deer are likely to be harvested.
More than 500 deer have already been harvested during the three previous hunts. But wildlife experts say the numbers are still too high — as much as 10 times what they should be — with the deer destroying habitat for other animals and devastating the parks' plant life.
"Our goal is to heal and have a balanced ecosystem, because when you have overpopulation like we have, everything is just off," said Brittany Davis, park manager at Eagle Creek. "We're seeing a lot of improvement from the previous hunts, but we're not there yet, and we need to do it again."
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That claim is raising some questions and concerns among residents and park-goers.
Past hunts have drawn their fair share of opposition, including a lawsuit to stop the first deer cull as well as a vetoed ordinance that would have required City County Council approval for the hunts. This planned reduction has residents asking if another hunt is absolutely necessary.
"It's hard to hear there is an overabundance when we don't see them," said Lisa Bailey, a nearby resident who runs and bikes in the park. "We all want the herd to be healthy, but show me the numbers that there are too many."
Deer devastate the park
An exact population count is nearly impossible, according to Davis, as deer can roam in and out of the park. That said, the park staff look for other signs to indicate if there are too many deer: browsing and grazing of plants, health of the deer, diversity of plant species, etc.
Another hunt is planned at Eagle Creek Park to curtail the overabundance of deer, according to wildlife experts. Evidence of their high populations can be seen in what experts call the browse line, or the visible line around the park about 7 feet high. Deer have eaten almost all plant life within reach under that line. (Photo: Indy Parks and Recreation)
When the park did its first hunt during the 2014-15 winter season, there was a clear "browse line" around the park where any plant life under seven feet had been eaten. In fact, the deer were eating plants that normally repel deer because of their taste or smell, because that is all that was available, Davis said.
"If you see a deer eating grass at 3 p.m., that's a red flag," she told IndyStar. "That's not good, but we were seeing a lot of that."
Eagle Creek had very little plant diversity and it could not plant any new trees or flowers for pollinators. Deer were being seen at times and in places unusual for deer, and many of the deer had visible rib cages from not having enough food.
The deer were so emaciated that only 5,174 pounds of venison were donated from 249 deer harvested during the first hunt. During the next hunt two years later, more meat — nearly 8,200 pounds — was harvested from fewer dear — 173.
Another hunt is planned at Eagle Creek Park to curtail the overabundance of deer, according to wildlife experts. Evidence of their high populations can be seen in the visible rib cages of deer in the park as there is not enough nutritional foliage and food for the deer population. (Photo: Indy Parks and Recreation)
"So we're seeing species we haven't had in some time bounce back or new species that we've never seen in the park start to grow," Davis said. "And the deer are looking so much healthier."
The park actually found three species of orchids last year and plans to host its first wildflower weekend in 2019.
Controversy over the cull
Despite those improvements, deer are still wreaking havoc, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has done a report after the last two hunts. In each report, the federal agency has recommended that the park still host another hunt to reduce the numbers.
As with the last two hunts, the 2019 reduction would be carried out by USDA wildlife biologists, who also are trained sharpshooters. They will be able to select which deer should and shouldn't be harvested, and then will collect data on those that they do harvest. The city pays $90,000 for a three-year contract with USDA to do the hunts.
A buck stands at the edge of the woods at Eagle Creek Park Wednesday October 23, 2013. (Photo: Rob Goebel/The Star)
The park's permit for the deer hunt is awaiting approval from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, which they expect and hope to hear back from soon. The hunt would take place in the evening once the park is closed with the help of night vision technology.
Nearby resident Rebecca Bahn said she is happy that trained biologists will do the reduction, but isn't convinced that there should be a hunt at all. The avid park-goer also wishes she could have weighed in on the process.
"I don't like that the decision is already made," said Bahn, who has been running in Eagle Creek for more than 20 years. "Where is the opportunity for the public to give their input."
Meetings about past hunts have drawn more than 100 residents, but they similarly did not have the opportunity to voice their opinions before the decision was made. One lawsuit attempted to stop the cull in 2014, but was ultimately overruled by the judge.
The City-County Council also voted 19-9 for an ordinance in Dec. 2014 that would have required council approval for hunting deer on city property. Then-Mayor Greg Ballard vetoed the ordinance, however, leaving the decision in the hands of wildlife experts.
Another hunt is planned at Eagle Creek Park to curtail the overabundance of deer, according to wildlife experts. Evidence of their high populations can be seen in the low plant diversity and young plants that frequently are overeaten by the deer. The success of previous hunts are starting to become visible, experts say, as plants are growing taller. (Photo: Indy Parks and Recreation)
Davis said she believes it is important to educate the public and listen to their thoughts, but agrees experts are best suited to make these decisions.
"This is what we feel is best for the park," she said. "Our job as land stewards of public land is to come up with our expert opinion on what is best for the park's long term sustainability."
Last hunt?
Bahn said she knew the deer population was high several years ago, but she wonders if other options were considered and thinks there should be a greater attempt at a population estimate before having another reduction.
"I understand there is devastation to foliage," she told IndyStar, "but how can you know how many to remove if you don't know how many there are?"
Davis said they hope to harvest between 15 and 20 deer per square mile, which is what DNR suggests is the right number to ensure a healthy deer population and habitat recovery. That would mean about 100 deer across the park's 5.2 square miles.
The hunters harvested 48 deer per square mile in the first hunt, 33 in the second and 23 per square mile in 2018. Other methods such as sterilization or relocation have been considered, according to Davis, but they are either not permitted in Indiana or would not be successful with the park's open borders.
All of the deer meat from this year's hunt will be donated to Gleaners Food Bank. More than 17,500 pounds of venison have been donated to Gleaners since the hunts began in 2014.
If the hunters are able to reach that desirable range this reduction, Davis hopes they might be able to hang up their night vision goggles for some time.
"We're not going to have to do this every single year; we're just trying to get to a sustainable population," she said. "There's sort of a sweet spot we need to hit, and I'm hoping this year might be it."
Call IndyStar reporter Sarah Bowman at 317-444-6129 or email at sarah.bowman@indystar.com. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook: @IndyStarSarah. Connect with IndyStar's environmental reporters: Join The Scrub on Facebook.
IndyStar's environmental reporting project is made possible through the generous support of the nonprofit Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
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Grab a Tour Guide and GO to The Museum at Eldridge Street
Chinatown is my family's go-to spot when we are at a loss as to what to do on any given Sunday. We hop on the Q – hop off at Canal – and explore and eat and explore some more. Which is why I can say with confidence that I have walked by the Eldridge Street Synagogue a bazillion times. But did my eyes cast a gaze or did I ever once consider the storied history of this landmark building that has been standing guard on Eldridge street for over 131 years!??? Nope. I cavalierly strolled on by, probably on the hunt for some kitschy store or a dim sum spot. Criminal really and a good life lesson to kick up the awareness factor whenever possible.
Now, thanks to the remarkable tour guide at this treasure of a museum and building, I am in the know and better for the experience. The building's remarkable exterior and interior are concomitant with its rich, telling, and inspirational history. You need to grab your grab group and go on a tour too, but here are some highlights of what you will learn.
How's this for a combination of factors to land this building on the block? The idea for the synagogue was conceived and implemented by Eastern European Jews. They hired German Christian architects (hence the Moorish revival, gothic roman design) and an Irish builder! Talk about the American Melting Pot! This diverse set of achievers erected this shrine to the Jewish religion in 10 months with the price tag of $90,000. To quote a line from the musical Hamilton "Immigrants – they get the job done."
This beautiful statement building with its generous and soaring spaces was plopped right smack amongst a cavalcade of tenement buildings with families jam-packed into teensy tiny and none to sanitary spaces. (Visit the Tenement Museum while you are in the area – make a day of it – end with a meal in Chinatown). The synagogue went on to be a thriving place of worship and community with attendant colorful cultural stories that your tour guide will happily regale to you on your visit.
Things took a hard turn in 1924. The immigration restrictions that were laid down as law decimated the congregation. This forced the synagogue to shutter the upstairs area of worship and restrict the practice of worship to the basement. Those doors remained shuttered for 48 years!
The doors might still be shuttered or worse crumbled and GONE all together were it not for an NYU Professor writing a book on synagogues who cracked open the upstairs space in the name of research. Phew. He is more of a visionary than me and was able to look past the soot and the layers of pigeon excrement and see what must have been a remarkable space. Twenty years, 20 million dollars and a cast of thousands later, we now have what our tour guide declared is the most beautiful building on the lower east side and the grandest synagogue in all of the world. It is beautiful. Such a gift to take some time in this busy season called the holidays to sit quietly and appreciate it.
The upstairs space is no longer open to worship, but the basement area does still serve this purpose. The museum is open every day but Saturday – tours are given on the hour! I really hope you get our tour guide Bradley Shaw. His passion for this building comes through in every story and anecdote that he shares along the way. He brought the building to life for me and I will not pass by it blindly ever again. It is a treasure and it is a treasured experience to visit it. Grab Your Group and GO!
The Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street; New York, NY 10002
Hours: Sunday – Thursday: 10 am to 5 pm, Friday: 10 am to 3 pm, Saturday: Closed
Admission: Adults: $14, Students and Seniors: $10, Children 5-17: $8, Children under 5: Free
For more information, visit the official website here.
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Ryska superligan i ishockey 1998/1999 var den tredje säsongen av RSL, den då högsta serien av ishockey i Ryssland. 22 lag deltog i ligan och Metallurg Magnitogorsk vann mästerskapet.

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Vasilis Kostas
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Vasilis Kostas is an acclaimed laouto player from Ioannina in Epirus, Greece. He is a member of Global Messengers, the group launched by Grammy Award-winning pianist and UNESCO Artist for Peace, Danilo Perez. Vasilis has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Panama Jazz Festival and WOMEX. He has shared the stage with renowned artists such Simon Shaheen, Tigran Hamasyan, Antonio Serrano and Christos Zotos, to name a few.
His innovative approach on the laouto is based on adapting Petroloukas Halkias's clarinet lines and instrumental philosophy, as well as finding ways to combine jazz improvisation tools with the traditional elements of his musical roots. Vasilis has appeared as a soloist with the Berklee World Strings Orchestra conducted by Eugene Friesen, and has traveled to Europe and Latin America to present his work on the laouto.
Vasilis graduated with a master's degree from the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston, where he studied on a full scholarship after he received his diploma from the Berklee College of Music's undergraduate program. In addition, he has a diploma from Philippos Nakas Conservatory, and a degree in Philosophy and Pedagogy from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vasilis is currently based in Boston, where he teaches music. He travels frequently throughout the United States and overseas to present his projects and work through the laouto.
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Take The Lead (New Line Cinema, Tiara Blu Films) opens nationwide on April 7, and will most certainly be a box-office hit –whether or not it receives the critical that acclaim it deserves. It is not everyday that a studio can go further with a formulaic film – and this film does so partly in that it is based on a true story, but more so because there are so many outstanding performances.
Antonio Banderas stars as "Pierre Dulaine," the real-life Manhattan ballroom dance teacher and competition dancer who after visiting an inner city New York high school, convinces a beleaguered Principal Alfre Woodard (played by Augustine James) to let him teach ballroom dance to a diverse group of troubled students serving detention.
Principal Woodard and the other faculty tell the humble and well-mannered Dulaine that he is wasting his time in trying to teach these kids dance. He convince staff and parents that dance will teach kids self-respect through discipline and the responsibility that comes with teamwork, dedication and practice.
Dulaine is initially ridiculed by the students. His last attempt to win them over is a tango demonstration with Morgan (played by Katya Virshilas), a more affluent teen from Dulaine's Manhattan dance studio. The boys are won over by the beautiful of the woman, and the girls of her elegant execution of her dance.
When Morgan rebuts the compliments with a condescending tone, an upcoming dance competition with a $5,000 prize becomes all the motivation the kids need to take their dancing seriously.
In the process, the lives of these "hopeless kids" are transformed, and despite the odds against them, they begin to look forward to a different future than has been expected of them.
The kids soon grow tired of Gershwin and Cole Porter, and using their digital technology, blend in their hip hop beat over the tempo of the tango, merengue. salsa, foxtrot, and waltz. It may make some traditional ballroom dancers and sportdance enthusiasts wince a little, but the film does hold together the passion and beauty of classical dance and that it is alive and well in the 21st century.
It the story sounds cliché, and at times it may seem to be a teen "win" formula. But, it really does go much deeper. The preview screening was a full house, and there were nothing but smiles and clapping.
The film highlights the lives of a diverse group of teens, and centers on Rock (Rob Brown) and LaRhette (Yaya DaCosta). The two are promising youth who both lost older brothers in gang wars, on opposite sides. They are lost and bitter and are paired for dancing because of debt that Brown has to Dulaine.
Filipino American Dante Basco plays "Ramos," a hard-edged youth who is not easily swayed by Dulaine and his bourgeoisie dance. His questions lead Dulaine to illustrate how dancing and teamwork are relevant to their lives.
Basco's seemingly minimal role grows in importance as he gets caught in a love triangle with "Sasha" (Jenna Dewan) and "Danjou" (Elijah Kelley). Dulaine tells the two boys they must share Sasha as a dance partner. The sparks fly as the three produce tension but also the highlight dance sequence of the film.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Basco started out break-dancing at the age of 8 with his three brothers. He was inspired by watching John Travolta in "Grease" and "Saturday Night Fever," and was in one of the top dance groups in San Francisco, opening for acts like Ice T and performing during half-time shows for the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland As.
Basco's family moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1980s. He won the role of "Rufio" in film, Hook, a Steven Spielberg movie starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. He also appeared in Biker Boyz, Naked Brown Men, Extreme Days, But I'm a Cheerleader, The Debut, Faking' Da Funk, Rave and Riot.
Basco also enjoys poetry and hosts and open mic show called, "Da Poetry Lounge," at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Dante has often appeared on HBO's "Def Poetry Jam." He and his brothers hope to make a hip-hop/rap album soon.


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I was interested in reading your pseudo CV. There are a few of us techies around - I'm a programmer by daylight, though I promise not to talk IT stuff. Well not too much anyway.
It's also nice to have another short story writer around, especially of horror.
I see you've asked to join Private Roving. It's a great way to get the push to finish stories.
Word Wars in chat are another way of getting words on the page. Or just talking about your stories - it's amazing how enthusiasm helps motivate.
Hope to see you around the traps.


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An independent report issued today by former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Shift Chair John Ruggie recommends how FIFA -- the global governing body of football -- needs to manage the far-reaching human rights risks associated with its activities and relationships. Risks include the displacement of communities to make way for stadiums, risks to workers building tournament infrastructure or manufacturing FIFA-branded goods, and systemic challenges such as gender discrimination throughout association football.


Certified Copy is set in the picturesque surroundings of Tuscany. When a lady who owns an art gallery attends a lecture by renowned English writer James Miller on the value of original art compared to that of a copy we are lead to believe she immediately feels a connection with the speaker. When the pair meet up after his talk they decide to go on a trip around the city and into the countryside visiting some remarkable places.
As the plot develops the viewer finds himself questioning their relationship and if it's a blossoming new romance or if they've actually met before. Certified Copy is a charming provocative two-hander full of light-hearted reflections on marriage and sexual politics.


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Kissho Kan Agave will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in poor soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selection of a native North American species. It can be propagated by multiplication of the underground bulbs; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
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