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Blues, Boogie Woogie & New Orleans Piano
Welcome-
Here you'll find information on "Ricky Nye Inc.", "Ricky Nye & The Paris Blues Band"
and my solo & duet outings- check out the CD catalog, and visit the schedule page
to find out where I'll be performing- thanks for stopping by and c'mon back!
p.s.- feel free to E-MAIL me- it's: rickynyepiano@gmail.com
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WEEK AT A GLANCE: JANUARY 12 - 19
FRI. 17 - Ricky @ MAURY'S TINY COVE
SAT. 18 - RICKY NYE INC. @ THE PIKE
SUN. 19 - RICKY NYE INC. @ COLLEGE HILL TOWN HALL
for more details click HERE...
it's an honor to be recognized as BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR in Cincinnati CityBeat's CEA AWARDS 2019 - thanks to all who voted and support what I do - it is greatly appreciated !
SPECTACULAR FRENCH TOUR (September 26 - October 11, 2019) -
MONT DORE, PARIS, LYON, NORMANDY & BURGUNDY - thanks to organizers SIMON BOYER, JEAN-PIERRE BERTRAND, JEAN LECHERE
& FABRICE EULRY and to fellow musicians BEN LEVIN; SIMON BOYER, THIBAUT CHOPIN, ANTHONY STELMASZACK (The Paris Blues Band); PASCAL FOUQUET; LLUIS COLOMA & FABRICE EULRY...also thanking SIMON, PASCAL & FABRICE and their families for the hospitality, plus transportation by car through the gorgeous French countryside...
what a refreshing treat !
THANK YOU as always ST. LOUIS for a significant time ! (July 18-21, 2019)
BB'S JAZZ BLUES & SOUPS
played a solo set followed by Chicago's mighty CASH BOX KINGS, followed by another solo set joined by legendary blues guitarist BILLY FLYNN which then folded into being invited, along with young blues mastermind MARQUISE KNOX for a rabble-rousing jamboree - thanks to manager JOHN MAY for being a fine instigator !
prestigious intimate concert venue where I performed first set solo, second set joined by heavyweights PAUL NIEHAUS IV (upright bass) &
DAN CONNER (drums) - thanks to MICHAEL HOLTZ for making it all possible
SQWIRES ANNEX
thanks to outstanding pianist and friend CHRISTOPHER PARRISH for saving me with this gig after a last minute cancellation - very pleasant brunch time on their grand piano
also, after Thursday and Saturday shows was able to visit two venues I hadn't visited before: THAXTON SPEAKEASY where I heard my friends and hosts during the stay, pianist CHASE GARRETT & vocalist EMILIE RICHARD, joined on some numbers by Christopher Parrish; and FRISCO BARROOM where I heard for the first time THE BOTTLESNAKES (ETHAN LEINWAND- piano & NICK PENCE- guitar)...plus heard amazing guitarist & vocalist MAT WILSON twice: on Friday night @ BB'S with Ethan Leinwand, and Saturday afternoon @ BLUES CITY DELI seeing for the first time Mat's group RUM DRUM RAMBLERS: Mat with RYAN KOENIG- mandolin, harmonica, vocals and bones, & upright bassist JOE GLYNN, both members of band led by renowned POKEY LAFARGE
lots o' love for my friends on and off the bandstand in STL -
see you again soon !
GETTIN' LOOSE!"
Anthony Stelmaszack (electric & acoustic guitars)
Simon "Shuffle" Boyer (drums)
Chris Douglas (upright bass)
Ricky Nye (upright piano, Hammond organ and voice)
thanks to Manley Fairchild @ Ultrasuede Studio and to Maurice Mattei for design
a tribute to such varied folk as Bob Wills, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Yancey,
Furry Lewis, Little Willie Littlefield, Big Joe Duskin & Lonnie Mack, plus a few original numbers
check out this interview with Ron Esposito courtesy of WVXU 91.7 FM and Lee Hay:
http://wvxu.org/post/new-cd-boogie-woogie-piano-player-ricky-nye#stream/0
it's a rockin' li'l record! available NOW on CD Baby, Shake It Records and Everybody's Records and at any of my shows
AND here's an excellent review by Mark Thompson @
BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE:
If you aren't familiar with the name Ricky Nye, it certainly isn't due to a lack of effort on his part. His smooth vocals and splendid keyboard efforts have been featured on fourteen previous recordings under his name in addition to cuts on several piano compilations. His latest has him backed by his Paris Blues band for the fourth time. Based in the Cincinnati, OH area, Nye has received numerous local blues awards, including CEA award, Blues Artist Of The Year, for two consecutive years. The band is comprised of Anthony Stelmaszack on guitar, Simon "Shuffle" Boyer on drums, and Chris Douglas, Nye's regular upright bass player.
The disc opens with a Furry Lewis tune, "I Will Turn Your Money Green". The band cruises along at a sprightly pace with Nye laying down a litany of woes until Stelmaszack tries to reverse his fortunes with some striking guitar picking. Nye's fingers give his piano a workout on Memphis Slim's "Miss Ida Bea," then he turns "San Antonio Rose" into a magnificent boogie-woogie romp. Dipping into the Nat King Cole songbook, the band sets a swinging pace on "For You My Love," with Stelmaszack once again creating a strong impression. He follows that up with a blazing solo on an instrumental take of the Chuck Berry classic, 'Memphis".
Highlights from the second half of the disc include the good-time instrumental, "Shaggy Rag," an original performed acoustically, and a showcase for Nye on the instrumental, "Shave 'Em Dry," composed by the legendary piano man, Jimmy Yancey. Nye's fingers roll across the keyboard, spinning out three minutes of piano magic. On another original, "I Miss Your Love," he switches over to the Hammond organ, giving the contemporary blues track a full, rich sound. Little Willie Littlefield's classic, "K.C. Lovin'," gets a rollicking treatment with plenty of piano and a fat guitar tone. "How Long Blues" from Leroy Carr is a standard that every blues pianist has to know how to play. Nye's version focuses on his vocals with Stelmaszack on acoustic guitar. The title, "Radiate Them 88's," tells you all need to know about rousing finale.
This is one of those discs that sneaks up on you, impressing track after track with lively performances and solid musical interplay that makes every song a delight. The players are quite comfortable working together, and with Ricky Nye setting the pace, the disc never wavers from generating an enthusiastic affirmation of the blues that will have you pushing the repeat button on your CD player. Well worth a listen!
my first holiday release, "RICKY NYE PLAYS HOLIDAY FAVORITES"
is available NOW ! @ Cincinnati, OH record shops
Everybody's Records & Shake It Records, at all shows, and
available WORLDWIDE @ CD Baby
a very cool variety of secular and spiritual holiday classics- solo piano,
duets with vocalist Bekah Williams and upright bassist Chris Douglas,
trio format with drummer Paul Ellis and quartet action with the addition
of tenor saxophonist Ray Heckman - HO HO HO !
a recording I made with old friends
Rob Lumbard & Nick Lloyd, entitled "BLUES IN A BOTTLE"
won BEST SELF-PRODUCED CD @ the
International Blues Challenge (IBC) 2016 in Memphis, TN
2 CD SET available now- debut release from vocalist DOTTIE WARNER- "A SERENADE IN BLUE/ THURSDAYS AT ARNOLD'S"- '20's, '30's & '40's jazz and blues- available @ CDBABY.COM- also available @ Arnold's Bar & Grill during business hours
CD available NOW!
Chris Douglas- upright bass
Paul Ellis- drums
Brian "Boss" Hogg- tenor sax
Sylvain Acher- guitar
Tom Moore- harmonica
Dan Dorff- percussion
recorded @ Ultrasuede Studio- Cincinnati, OH
engineered by Brian Niesz
mastered by Dave Davis
artwork by Maurice Mattei
currently available at all live shows, at Cincinnati, OH record shops Everybody's Records, Shake It Records and @ www.cdbaby.com
wonderful review by Rhys Williams @ Blues Blast Magazine-
read it HERE (February 26th, 2015 issue)
THANK YOU readers of CITYBEAT MAGAZINE for voting me
BEST LOCAL MUSICIAN 2014- very happy to be a part of
Cincinnati's rich musical scene!
very pleased to be VOTED BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR in
CITYBEAT MAGAZINE'S
CEA AWARDS 2014 !
so proud to have been inducted into the
INTERNATIONAL BOOGIE WOOGIE HALL OF FAME-
big thanks to Dr. Philip Leming & Dr. Robert Cody
for making the ARCHES BOOGIE PIANO STAGE
@ THE CINCY BLUES FEST possible!
"Best Local Musician" in their "Best Of Cincinnati" 2013 Awards-
in a town full of outstanding musicians, I take this as quite an honor!
THANK YOU READERS for voting me "BEST BLUES ARTIST"
in 2013 CEA AWARDS presented by CityBeat Magazine-
the awards show took place Sunday January 27th
@ The Madison Theater in Covington, KY- happy to play a short set
with CHRIS DOUGLAS (upright bass), to be joined by 46 LONG,
and to take part in the tribute to HERZOG STUDIOS-
CONGRATULATIONS to all nominees and winners-
proud to make music here in Greater Cincinnati!
SOLO RELEASE:
"THE THREE B'S: BLUES, BALLADS & BOOGIE WOOGIE"
LISTEN to a wonderful review by music historian
David Lewis, aired on NPR station WVXU 91.7 FM
exclusively available Cincinnati, OH record shops
Everybody's Records, Shake It Records, and all shows
"JUMP STEADY"- RICKY NYE & THE PARIS BLUES BAND
"HIGHLIGHTS from the 13th ANNUAL BLUES & BOOGIE
PIANO SUMMIT"
"TWISTIN' AT RAY'S" - FABRICE EULRY
(I co-produced this release, recorded in Cincinnati, OH)
these CDs are AVAILABLE NOW! @ CD Baby,
@ Cincinnati, OH record shops Everybody's Records
& Shake It Records, and all shows
THANK YOU! readers, voters and listeners for voting me
"Best Local Musician" in CityBeat Magazine's
"Best Of Cincinnati 2012" issue- I feel loved! :o)
happy to be voted in the "Best Local Musician" category of
CityBeat Magazine's "Best Of Cincinnati 2011" Readers Picks-
THANK YOU READERS!
I was honored to be voted "Blues Artist of the Year 2010"
by CityBeat Magazine at their CEA AWARDS held at the
Madison Theater in Covington, KY on Sunday, November 21st-
thank you for your support and to all that voted- you make a difference!
OTHER CD RELEASES:
RICKY NYE & THE PARIS BLUES BAND- follow-up to 2008's
"Ville du Bois" disc, recorded with the most outa-sight blues players
in Paris: Anthony Stelmaszack (guitar); Thibaut Chopin (upright bass/harmonica); Simon "Shuffle" Boyer (drums) and special guest Nico Duportal (guitar)- available NOW @ www.cdbaby.com
TWELFTH ANNUAL BLUES & BOOGIE PIANO SUMMIT
featuring BOB SEELEY (Detroit, MI), JULIAN PHILLIPS (U.K.), PATRICK SMET (Belgium) & RICKY NYE plus exciting rhythm section (Brian Aylor- drums; Buck Stevens- upright bass; and George Bedard- guitar)- available NOW @ www.cdbaby.com
ELEVENTH ANNUAL BLUES & BOOGIE PIANO SUMMIT
featuring LLUIS COLOMA (Barcelona, Spain), BARRELHOUSE CHUCK (Chicago, IL), LISA OTEY (Tucson, AZ) & RICKY NYE plus outstanding rhythm section (Brian Aylor- drums; Steve Perakis- upright bass; and George Bedard- guitar)- available NOW @ www.cdbaby.com
all the above titles are NOW also available as DIGITAL DOWNLOADS!
PIANO KILLERS
All instrumental recording of Ricky Nye with Fabrice Eulry (Paris) & Renaud Patigny (Brussels)- solos, duet and trio compositions all performed on one piano- recorded in Paris- available NOW @ www.cdbaby.com
VILLE DU BOIS
A disc recorded with the most outa-sight blues players in Paris is available NOW @ CD BABY
***PRICES SLASHED on ALL BOOGIE SUMMIT CDs-
#3 through #13- NOW only $9.97 @ CD BABY!!!***
CDs also available at all live shows and in Cincinnati @ Everybody's Records & Shake It Records
"QUICK 'N' DIRTY" & "Highlights from the THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTH & TENTH BLUES & BOOGIE PIANO SUMMITS" ("PIANO IS FUN!" & Highlights from the SECOND SUMMIT are currently out of print, but a few copies remain at some of the shops listed below...) are available worldwide through www.cdbaby.com, and if you're in Cincinnati, they are available NOW @ Shake It Records, Everybody's Records, Mole's and Joseph Beth Booksellers (check out the CD reviews of the Second Summit & Third Summit from the Cincinnati Enquirer)...
***PRICES SLASHED on Boogie Summits #3 through #13 NOW only $9.97 @ CD BABY!!!***
and here's a review of "Quick 'N' Dirty" from CityBeat Magazine (12-24-03):
The title of Ricky Nye and the Swingin' Mudbugs' sophomore release (the follow-up to 1998's Piano is Fun!) is a play on the recording philosophy behind the album. Nye likes to record in as few takes as possible, and Quick was done with little overdubbing or other fixes (just like Fun!). But if you've seen Nye's trio perform live, you know that the local prince of boogie-woogie-styled piano probably doesn't require many "do-overs." There are certainly no holes in Quick 'N' Dirty. The energy and spontaneity exhibited makes listeners feel like they are dancing the night away in some sweaty bayou speakeasy. That intimacy translates superbly as Nye and Mudbugs Tony Franklin (drums) and Nick Lloyd (upright bass) rip effortlessly through a plethora of blues stylings on songs written by a variety of composers (save "Oh Yes," the sole Nye original). From the down-low blues of Muddy Waters' "What Is That She Got?" and the more up-tempo R&B of "Grits Ain't Groceries" (made famous by Little Milton) to the yearning, soulful balladry of "Please Send Me Someone To Love" and Nye's trademark barrelhouse rolls on "Downtown Boogie" and "Dixie Lullaby," you can take Quick 'N' Dirty as a musical history lesson or, more appropriately, as a joyous escapade through the repertoire of one of Cincinnati's most talented musicians. Nye obviously has the deepest respect for the New Orleans-spawned art form, but he doesn't treat the material too preciously, raucously banging out the tunes with skill and grace, but also with a genuine sense of glee, something that permeates from nearly every note. Between quality releases like Quick 'N' Dirty, Nye's organization of regular blues and boogie piano summits, featuring like-minded artists from around the world, and steady European touring, his place as one of the preeminent masters of the style is secure. -- MIKE BREEN
("QUICK 'N' DIRTY" also made CityBeat's TopTwenty Local Releases of 2003)
Pick up a copy of BEKAH WILLIAMS excellent debut CD @
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bekahwilliams Produced by Ricky & Bekah, featuring The Swingin' Mudbugs with special guests (Dave Haley & Sonny Moorman on guitars, and local tenor sax icon Ray Heckman), and recorded by Erwin Musper @ his Bamboo Room Studio- it's a mighty fine songbook...get yours today!
A TRIBUTE to BIG JOE DUSKIN (1921-2007) by Ricky Nye
I first met Big Joe Duskin in '82, before I ever started to mess around with boogie woogie- that didn't matter to Joe, he just knew I played piano, and that made us friends. Through the time I've known him he has always been very supportive of me, and of so many musicians. His playing and singing was loved by blues enthusiasts and fellow piano players all over the world- I can't tell you how many times, upon encountering the European leaders in blues & boogie in my travels, their first words to me were "how's Big Joe?"
I treasure the times we played together, the many phone calls, running errands and especially meaningful were the times visiting Joe during his last year, when he was bedridden- I'd come in, turn on his keyboard and go at it, and Joe would lay in bed and sing his head off, improvising blues I'd never heard from him before.
Because I loved Joe, it was inevitable that aspects of his style made their way into my playing- his album "Cincinnati Stomp" was a template for me to study boogie woogie, and I learned the title track to perform as homage to him. When he played a blues, he was on "Joe time"- the lazy tremolos, the space in his playing all added up to me. The message in his style also came as words of advice he gave one day- he said "Rick, take it from an old pro: don't work so hard! Take your time, talk to the people- they like that." I knew exactly what he was talking about, but I said "Joe, you have a commanding presence, a big booming voice, you're a great storyteller...I'm just a little white guy- what am I supposed to do? If I start talking away, they'd just tell me to shut up & play!" And he laughed, which is something I really miss- his chuckling, and the sound of his laughter will always resound in my mind.
Big Joe's love of food is legendary- it mattered as much to him how you were fed at a gig as any other aspect of the show. If I called to relate tales of my travels, he'd always ask "how'd they feed you?" After Joe played a prestigious concert at Music Hall in Cincinnati, I called to see how things went- he said "Rick, it was so nice- they had fried chicken, mashed potatoes, peas..."-nothing was said of the performance! Once when visiting Joe in the hospital, he asked if I would go downstairs to the Burger King and get him a cheeseburger & french fries. When I asked if didn't they have him on a particular diet, he said "hell with them- I'm going home tomorrow". So I indulged him, and you would have thought he was eating the finest meal of his life...food was a big pleasure for Big Joe.
His compromised health in the last years of his life did nothing to dampen his hope and spirit. Joe's performance at his 84th birthday party was a perfect example of the transference of love from his fans right back at them- it was the last time he was truly on fire, playing and singing until he had nothing left to give. To see him hold court at the Arches Stage at the annual Cincy Blues Fest was always beautiful- his appreciation for the other pianists and their appreciation for him always resulted in a truly inspired and joyous set.
I feel truly blessed to have had Joe as a friend and inspiration to me. Years ago, after he was in the hospital on a regular basis, I wondered when the day would come that Joe would leave this earth, and that day arrived- May 6th, 2007. Yet his spirit is alive and strong, in myself and every other musician he's played with and encouraged. Whenever I play, especially now, I offer it up for him...
God bless Big Joe Duskin.
R.I.P. H-BOMB FERGUSON (1929-2006)
Historical information about H-Bomb Ferguson can be found @ www.cdbaby.com/cd/hbombf
Video footage & photo montage from documentary filmmaker
John Parker
LOCAL MUSIC ACHIEVEMENTS AWARDS:
CEA AWARDS (sponsored by CityBeat Magazine)-
BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR: 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2013, 2014 & 2019
NOMINEE in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017 & 2018
CITYBEAT MAGAZINE "Best Of Cincinnati" Readers Poll Awards-
BEST LOCAL MUSICIAN: 2012, 2013 & 2014
CAMMY AWARDS- formerly sponsored by The Cincinnati Enquirer:
BEST BLUES BAND (Ricky Nye & The Red Hots) - 2001
BEST SOLO ACT- 2001
BEST BLUES/R&B INSTRUMENTALIST- 2002


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A.K.A. Theodor Osterkamp, Theodor "Theo" Osterkamp
Was Pilot Aviator Flying ace
From Germany Germany
Birth 15 April 1892, Düren
Death 2 January 1975, Baden-Baden (aged 82 years)
Theodor "Theo" Osterkamp (15 April 1892 – 2 January 1975) was a World War I and World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace. He achieved 32 victories in World War I. In World War II, he led Jagdgeschwader 51 through the Battle of Britain and claimed a further 6 victories, in the process becoming one of only a few men to score victories in both world wars.
Osterkamp flew as a naval pilot operating over the Western Front. On 14 August 1914, he joined the Marinefliegerkorps. He then flew with the 2. Marine-Fliegerabteilung in Flanders. During 1915–1916, he served as an air observer, and became the first German pilot to fly a land-based aircraft to England on a reconnaissance-mission. In March 1917, he joined the Kampffliegerschule (Combat pilot school) in Putzig and then joined the Marine-Jagdstaffel 1. On 15 October 1917, Leutnant Osterkamp took command over Marine-Jagdstaffel 2. He scored a total of 32 victories during the war, and was awarded the Prussian military order Pour le Mérite on 2 September 1918, and was the last individual to receive it.
Wedding of Theodor Osterkamp with Fel Gudrun Pagge in Eppendorf, Hamburg
Between the two World Wars, Osterkamp was involved in the formation of the new Luftwaffe, amongst other things by setting up Jagdfliegerschule 1. He also participated in the second, third and fourth FAI International Tourist Plane Contest Challenge 1930 (11th place), Challenge 1932 (12th place) and Challenge 1934 (5th place).
On 19 September 1939, Oberst Osterkamp was appointed Geschwaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51—51st Fighter Wing). During the Battle of France, he claimed four victories. During the Kanalkampf period of the Battle of Britain in July 1940, he claimed a further two victories, (a Bristol Blenheim on 1 June and a Spitfire on 13 July 1940) bringing his total to six. He was replaced as commander of JG 51 by Werner Mölders on 23 July. Promoted to Generalmajor, Osterkamp was awarded his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 22 August 1940. Following his replacement in JG 51, Osterkamp was appointed Jagdfliegerführer 2, the commander of fighter aircraft in Luftflotte 2.
On 1 August 1942, he was transferred to Luftgaustab z.b.V. Afrika. On 5 April 1943, he was appointed Jagdfliegerführer Sizilien and served until replaced on 15 July by Adolf Galland. He then served in a number of staff positions until being appointed Inspekteur der Luftwaffen-Bodenorganisation (Inspector of Luftwaffe ground organisation) in 1944. After criticism from High Command, he was dismissed from the service on 21 December 1944.
Post-war career
In 1960, he was appointed honorary chairman of the Gemeinschaft der Jagdflieger, the Association of Fighter Pilots.
Abzeichen für Marine-Flugzeugführer
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords
Baltic Cross
Pour le Mérite (2 September 1918)
Cross of Honor
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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 22 August 1940 as Generalmajor and Jagdfliegerführer of Luftflotte 2
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Scherzer 2007, p. 579.
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Hinckley Ladies Netball Club
England coach cuts the ribbon on new netball courts
"For the first time in our history the club can now proudly boast its own ground."
Mitch Irving
Olivia Murphy at Hinckley Ladies Netball Club
England team coach and ex-player and captain Olivia Murphy officially opened Hinckley Ladies Netball Club's new courts and facilities at Leicester Road Sports Club.
Since establishing in 1975, the club has operated from rented playing facilities in various locations across Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
England coach Olivia Murphy opens Hinckley Ladies Netball Club's new courts and facilities at Leicester Road Sports Club
Club spokeswoman Jessica Burke said: "Staying true to our roots in Hinckley and for the first time in our history the club can now proudly boast its own ground."
The club has worked tirelessly for this cause over the past two years to raise over £75,000 via local fundraising and grant funding from partners at Sport England, Sported, and Leicestershire & Rutland Sport's legacy fund.
Chairman Julia Waite emphasised the importance of these courts to the club and the community and thanked all who had helped.
Olivia Murphy who performed the official ribbon cutting also commented on the importance of clubs such as Hinckley Ladies. Players then took to the court to try out the new facilities and could not have been happier.
The club has grown to a membership of more than 100 players ranging in age from 11 to 60 years. The club competes with six senior teams and three junior teams in the Coventry and Warwickshire Netball league, and is actively involved in getting women back to the sport.
Contact communications secretary Jessica Burke at jeffica21@yahoo.co.uk for more information on joining the club.
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Home › Verified Voting Blog › The California College Vote Hack
Verified Voting Blog: The California College Vote Hack
» David Jefferson
I just read Doug Chapin's article on the vote rigging at Cal State San Marcos, and I would add several observations. Had this been a public election conducted via Internet voting, it would have been much more difficult to identify any problem or to capture the perpetrator, Matthew Weaver. Mr. Weaver was captured because he was voting from school-owned computers. This was networked voting but not really Internet voting. The IT staff was able to notice "unusual activity" on those computers, and via remote access they were able to "watch the user cast vote after vote". But in a public online election people would vote from their own private PCs, and through the Internet, not on a network controlled by the IT staff of election officials. There will likely be no "unusual activity" to notice in real time, and no possibility of "remote access" to allow them to monitor activity on a voter's computer. Note also that university IT staff were able to monitor him while he was voting, showing that they were able to completely violate voting privacy, something we cannot tolerate in a public election.
In the Cal State San Marcos election votes apparently had to be cast from computers on the university's own network, and not from just anywhere on the Internet. I infer this because it makes good security sense, and because I cannot think of any other reason Mr. Weaver would cast his phony votes from a university computer rather than from an anonymous place like a public library. If this is correct, it is a huge security advantage not possible in public elections, where the perpetrator could be anywhere in the world. Even if public officials somehow did notice an unusual voting pattern that made them suspicious after the fact that phony votes were cast, there would be no evidence to indicate who it was, and no police on the spot to pick him up red handed.
Even with the restriction to voting on university-managed computers Mr. Weaver could still have gotten away with his crime, but he made several mistakes. He cast hundreds of phony votes one by one, in person, while sitting at the keyboard of the computer. But if he had been a programmer and been a little smarter he would have used one of his captured passwords to log in as someone else, and then (as that person) he could have run a program to automate the casting of all of those phony votes, possibly even from other machines. He could have scheduled the script to run an hour later when he was long gone, and with a random delay between each cast vote so that detection of a suspicious pattern would be less likely. The scheme might still have been caught anyway, but there would have been no technical evidence implicating Mr. Weaver.
When he was arrested Mr. Weaver was caught with very suspicious hardware keylogging devices on his person that he had used to capture people's passwords. Again, if he had been a little smarter, he would have used one of his keylogging devices to capture the password of a system administrator, and then used that password to install keylogger software on other campus computers to capture the students' passwords. Then he would not have had any hardware keyloggers on him and would not have been tied to the crime that way. Or if he had been able to capture a root password he might have been able to use it to simply edit the database of recorded votes, and not bothered with actually casting any phony votes.
Finally, we have to note that even though Mr. Weaver was caught, there was apparently no way to know for certain (other than taking his word for it) exactly which votes were the phony ones he cast. They could not simply remove his votes from the count and let the election be certified based on the remaining votes. They had to cancel and re-run the entire election. Needless to say, this would not be an easy option in a public election, which can only be cancelled after the fact by a court after lawsuits and potential appeals. The legal process in such a case would likely be a protracted mess and permanently damage public confidence in elections (again).
In the many debates on the subject of Internet voting it is important not to allow anyone to use this Cal State San Marcos student election experience to argue that online public elections can be made safe because those who would cast phony votes will be caught. Mr. Weaver's actions were detected because he was voting from computers controlled by the university IT staff, and he was identified and caught because he was not even minimally technically skilled in the techniques that could have distanced him from the crime. In a high stakes public election we will not be so lucky.
This article was originally posted on July 17 2013 on the Election Law Blog.
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Auschwitz survivors alert of increasing anti-Semitism 75 years on
Modified date: January 27, 2020
Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp collected on Monday for ceremonies marking the 75 th anniversary of its liberty, going back to the location where they lost entire households, and signaling about the threatening development of anti-Semitism and hatred worldwide.
In all, some 200 survivors of the camp were anticipated, a variety of them senior Jews and non-Jews who have actually travelled from Israel, the United States, Australia, Peru, Russia, Slovenia and somewhere else.
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Numerous lost moms and dads and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi death camps, however were being joined by kids, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.
" We would like that the next generation to comprehend what we went through and it requires to never ever occur as soon as again," specified 91- year-old David Marks, his voice splitting. He lost 35 members of his extended and instant home after they all got here in Auschwitz from their town in Romania.
" A totalitarian does disappoint up from one day to the other," Marks specified, mentioning it takes place in "micro-steps".
" If we do not see it, one day you get up and it's far far too late," he consisted of.
Most of the 1.1 million people killed by the Nazi German forces at the camp were Jewish, nevertheless other Poles, Russians and Roma were put behind bars there. A few of the Polish survivors strolled with Polish President Andrzej Duda through the camp's gate on Monday using striped headscarfs that kept in mind the jail clothing they used more than 75 years back.
Auschwitz was freed by the Soviet army on January 27, 1945.
Auschwitz prisoner-of-war camp survivors and their families take part in the centerpiece to mark the 75 th anniversary of the liberty of the Auschwitz prisoner-of-war camp at the Auschwitz-Birkenau site on January 27, 2020, near Oswiecim, Poland [Sean Gallup/Getty Images]
World leaders collected in Jerusalem recently to mark the anniversary in what great deals of deemed a finishing observance. Amongst them were Russian President Vladimir Putin, United States Vice President Mike Pence, French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prince Charles.
Politics attacked that occasion, with Duda boycotting it in presentation after Putin declared that Poland contributed in triggering The 2nd world war. Duda had in fact desired a chance to speak prior to or after Putin to secure his nation's record in face of those incorrect claims, nevertheless he was not provided a speaking slot in Jerusalem.
Duda specified Monday that he felt that in Jerusalem "Polish participation in the famous battle versus the Nazis was disregarded".
" I want to stress that the Poles defended the liberty of the entire world and numerous Polish people fell in the fight for liberty in the war versus the Nazis," Duda stated. "Our fallen are etched in the record of Polish history and we keep in mind and honour them and anticipate others to do the really exact same."
Amongst those going to Monday's observances at Auschwitz, which depends on southern Poland, a location under German occupation throughout the war, were Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
Rivlin kept in mind the strong connection that Israel show Poland, which welcomed Jews for centuries. It ended up being house to Europe's biggest population of Jews – and in the future the centre of Germany's damage of that area.
" The terrific history of the Jews in Poland, the success of which the Jewish area has in fact gotten a kick out of throughout history, together with the tough celebrations that have actually occurred on this earth, connect the Jewish individuals and the State of Israel, inextricably, with Poland and the Polish people," Rivlin specified while standing together with Duda.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Holocaust survivor Renee Salt appear to participate in a plaque unveiling following London's sponsorship of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation [Aleksandra Szmigiel/Reuters]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan was helped through the camp by museum director Piotr Cywinski and saw a plaque that consists of the name of his city after it simply recently promised 300,000 pounds ($391,000) for the site's conservation.
Organisers of the occasion in Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau state memorial museum and the World Jewish Congress, have in fact tried to find to keep the spotlight on survivors.
" This relates to survivors. It's not about politics," Lauder stated Sunday as he went to the death camp with various of them.
Lauder warned that leaders require to do more to fight anti-Semitism, including by passing new laws to fight it.
On the eve of the ceremonies, survivors, numerous leaning on their kids and grandchildren for assistance, walked through the area where they had in fact been produced on animals cars and trucks, and suffered cravings and illness and came close to death.
They stated they existed to keep in mind, to share their histories with others and to make a gesture of defiance towards those who had actually sought their damage.
For some, it is likewise the burial ground for their grandparents and moms and dads, and they will be mentioning the kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead.
" I have no burial places to go to and I comprehend my moms and dads were killed here and burned. This is how I appreciate them," stated Yvonne Engelman, a 92- year-old Australian who was signed up with by 3 more generations now spread out around the world.
She remembered being generated from a ghetto in what was then Czechoslovakia by animals automobile, being removed of her clothing, shaved and put in a gas chamber. By some wonder, the gas chamber that day did not work, and she later on made it through servant labour and a death march.
A 96- year-old survivor, Jeanette Spiegel, was 20 when she was given Auschwitz, where she invested 9 months. Today she resides in New york city and hesitates of increasing anti-Semitic violence in the United States.
" I think they tease the Jews due to the truth that we are such a little minority and it is basic to tease us," she specified, resisting tears. "Young individuals require to comprehend that definitely nothing is for sure, that some dreadful things can take place and they need to be exceptionally conscious. Which, God forbid, what struck the Jewish individuals then need to never ever be duplicated."
In Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron paid his aspects at the city's Shoah Memorial and warned about increasing hate criminal offenses in France, which increased 27 percent in 2015.
" That anti-Semitism is returning is not the Jewish individuals's issue: It's all our issue – it's the nation's problem," Macron specified.
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The Russian Internet startup factory Fast Lane Ventures has released some interesting figures on venture investment of the Internet businesses in Russia. The company analyzed over 270 investments in Russian Internet companies based on the data and funds raised. Here are some results.
If in 2010 there were $1270 million raised, then last year the total amount of funding has almost doubled to $2197 million. Of this, seed funding has increased from $225 to $540 million, and the rest of the funding including IPO placements have increased from $1052 to $1660 million.
The number of funding rounds in 2010 was 59 but it has increased to 213 in 2011 (think about what it does to a blogger who has to cover them all, it is literally a post a day just for Russia).
At the same time according to Andrey Kulikov, the investment analyst at Fast Lane Ventures there are between 100 and 150 seed investments made for which financial information has not been dislosed.
The story was originally reported by RBC Daily.


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Reading writers like Mathias Enard and Tomasi di Lampedusa is not only greatly entertaining but also cajoles me to read only the best books. Both writers wear their massive erudition lightly. Gilbert Highet, the Scottish-American classicist used the terrific phrase (to which I aspire, true to autodidactic form): "a well-stocked head and a better stocked library".
I started this year with the intent of reading widely, dipping into the ocean of contemporary literature. For every Mathias Enard, I abandoned another dozen frightful books, none of which wasted my time but served to further teach me what to avoid. My literary taste remains omnivorous but I shall default to the late D. G. Myers advice: "Read no book before it is ten years old (in order not to be influenced by the buzz". I shall of course occasionally, whimsically ignore that advice in the hope of discovering more writers like Mathias Enard and Rachel Cusk. Very, very occasionally the hyperbole is justified.
The best books are inexhaustible and capable of transforming, for a time, how we perceive the world. My reading life is ruled by serendipity, one book leading to another. Enard, for instance, prompts me to reread Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Edward Said and Claudio Magris, also to explore the work of Isabelle Eberhardt, Ernst Bloch, Georg Trakl, Sadegh Hedayat, Faris al-Shidyaq and Leopold Weiss.
For the time being though I'm taking a detour, one I take regularly, back to older books, to the hymns of Homer via Peter McDonald, and to a recent edition of Gilbert Highet's The Classical Tradition: Greek & Roman Influences on Western Literature. This might then be a gateway to Werner Jaeger's Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, translated also by Gilbert Highet.
I'm much more familiar with Iliad than The Odyssey. As a teenager, with the help of a magnifying glass and Liddell and Scott's ancient Greek lexicon, I learnt to write the first line of Iliad in Greek from memory, a silly party trick.
Robert Fagles' verse translation of Odyssey succeeds at turning the poem into fathomable vernacular, though there are times when one feels he must have strayed reasonably far from the nuances of the original Greek. On balance I probably prefer the prose translation of E. V. Rieu, revised by D. C. H. Rieu, philistine though that might appear. I intend to read George Chapman's Homer sometime soon. Fagles' Odyssey has been a fine companion though and despite knowing the story am still not immune to the heightening tension as it progresses toward the slaughter of the suitors.
This summer I plan a second attempt at Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, joining Richard and Francis for the 1130 pages—or 1770 with From the Posthumous Papers edition—translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike. I am hoping this more modern translation keeps my interest longer than that of Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.
As a side project I'm slowly collecting and reading a series of little books on modern European literary figures, published in the fifties by Bowes and Bowes of Cambridge. The first four I have are on Sartre, Kleist, Jacques Riviere and Valery. They caught my eye when watching the video of Duncan Fallowell's library. They look wonderful and may number fifty or so in number.
Other reading plans, always subjects to whimsy, include dipping into Anita Brookner's oeuvre, exploring whether William Gerhardie's work still stands up, undoubtedly more Schmidt and Redonnet, and more ancient Greeks.


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Maud and Miska Petersham History
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Maud Fuller Petersham (1890 – 1971) and Miska Petersham (1888 – 1960) were American writers and illustrators who helped set the direction for illustrated children's books as known today.
The Petershams worked closely with such pioneering children's book editors as Louise Seaman Bechtel and May Massee, and with such innovative printers as Charles Stringer and William Glaser. They worked as a seamless partnership for more than five decades. Both prolific and versatile, they produced illustrations for more than 120 trade and textbooks, anthologies, and picture books. Of the 50 books they both wrote and illustrated, many were recognized with important awards or critical acclaim. They are known for technical excellence, exuberant color, and the introduction of international folk and modernist themes.
Maud Fuller was born August 5, 1890 in Kingston, New York to a family with deep Yankee roots. Her mother was from the Sisson family, generations of Rhode Island Quakers. Her father descended from the physician on the Mayflower. He was a Baptist minister who moved his family several times. The third of four daughters, Maud was graduated from Vassar College in 1912, and later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. While working at the International Art Service (IAS), a graphic design firm in New York City, she met her future husband, Miska Petersham.
Miska was born Petrezselyem Mihaly in Torokszentmiklos, Hungary, on September 20, 1888, the son of a carpenter and blacksmith. Miska studied at the Royal National School for Applied Arts in Budapest. He completed his studies in 1911 and moved first to London and within six months traveled steerage and came to New York through Ellis Island in 1912. He quickly found work at the International Art Service, a graphic arts studio with modernist European style founded by Arthur Wiener.
Maud and Miska met across the drawing board of the IAS studios, and married three years later in 1917. They moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. They obtained their first children's book work through Miska's Hungarian friend Willy Pogany, an established illustrator, and in a few years they had steady illustration commissions and were championed and encouraged by May Massee at Doubleday. By 1923 they were established and able to buy land and build a house in Woodstock, New York, on the edge of the thriving Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony. Among the books they illustrated during this period were A Child's Own Book of Verse (Books I and II), Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, Margery Clark's The Poppyseed Cakes and Johanna Spyri's Heidi. The first book they both wrote and illustrated was Miki, about their son, published in 1929. Maud later was to say, "At first we illustrated books written by others, but often we found no place in the text that lent itself to illustration, so we decided to plan a book of our own with both pictures and text."
The Petershams' work was recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Four of their books were selected for inclusion in the highly competitive AIGA exhibitions in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The titles so honored were Nursery Friends from France, Children of the Mountain Eagle, Tales Told in Holland and Get-A-Way and Háry János. After the American Library Association established the annual Caldecott Medal for children's picture books in 1937, the Petershams were one of the runners-up for An American ABC in 1942 and they won the 1946 Medal. Today they may be known best as creators of that winning work, The Rooster Crows (Macmillan, 1945), a collection of American songs, rhymes, and games.
The Petershams had two children, Miki, and Elizabeth Petersham.
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Q: How to get pixelcolor for given frame from mp4 files? - Without libs I want to get the pixel color for a frame from a mp4-file.
My code structure:

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*I load the file in bytes

*I read the header file to get important information

*I make a data struct for the mdat container

My question is now: How is the data about the shown image stored in a mp4-file?
I found this spec-information, but I can't figure out, how to read the needed data.
I don't want to use any libaries or packages.
I hope you can help me.
(Every hint can help)

A: You don't. mp4 is just a container format. The video is compressed using a codec. The spec you pointed to will tell you how to locate a coded frame, Once you parse the mp4 file, you will need to decode the frame to read the pixel values. While it is of course 'possible' to write all this yourself, It would require tens or hundreds, of thousands of lines of code. And that is after you have studied and understood the full specification. If the video is h.264 for example, the specification is over 750 pages. And that is assume you already understand  concepts around integer inverse discreet cosine transformation, subpixel motion estimation/vectors, deblocking, content adaptive binary arithmetic coding, just to name a few things.
TLDR use a library

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Most Creative Stand Award at the 2008 Design Indaba
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Most Creative Stand
The stand of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism Creative Industries Strategy (DEDT Creative Industries) was selected as the Most Creative Stand at this year's Design Indaba Expo held at the Cape Town Convention Centre from February 23 to 26, 2008.
The award was initiated by the Cape Town Partnership as part of its Creative Cape Town programme – a social, economic and spatial programme that uses culture for urban regeneration in the Central City, building an inclusive civic identity and vibrant economy, in conjunction with the Design Indaba.
This year visitors to the Design Indaba enjoyed watching a virtual walking tour of Creative Cape Town at the Cape Town Partnership stand. Creative Cape Town has indentified more than 800 creative industries in the Central City alone – making Cape Town a leading centre for design, innovation and creativity in Africa.
The winning stand was designed by award-winning playwright Brett Bailey. It started out each day as one big white canvas. Performing and visual artists then filled the space with art, animation, photography, crafts and designs while interacting with the public, showcasing creativity in Cape Town and the Western Cape. At the end of the exhibition the space was filled with colour, crafts, photos and live animation, much to the delight of the audience.
Six finalists were chosen by the members of the public visiting the Design Indaba Expo over the past four days. A panel of judges selected the winning stand.
According to the judges, the Department's stand was a clear winner in terms of being the most unique, interactive and innovative stand. "It showed the process of design and creativity as it evolves into final products – instead of focusing on the final product alone," said Andrew Boraine, chief executive of the Cape Town Partnership, and one of the judges.
The Most Creative Stand Award Trophy was made by artist Daan Samuels from the Cape Craft and Design Institute. Samuels was one of the finalists for the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa award at the 2008 Design Indaba.
The runners-up were the stands of Fly on the Wall Productions – a film making collective from Observatory (second place) and craft design company Design Afrika from Woodstock (third place).
Cathy Cronje's name was drawn from the group of names who voted for the winning stand. She has won herself a night out to enjoy Creative Cape Town in Long Street, including a sleepover in the Daddy Long Legs Hotel, dinner and clubbing at Café Royale in Long Street and a Walking Trends Tour with Cherryflava along with twenty of her friends.


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Oakhanger Angling Club was formed in the 1960s and was originally based in Oakhanger.Over the years it has grown to its present size and can now boast four first class ponds/lakes catering for all types of angling, for all types of members. Kingsley Pond is a mixed fishery for all ability including juniors. Bakers Pond (Mill Lane) likewise, and has a good head of fish. Shortheath Common is more of a specimen lake with some very good examples of various species and Rookery Reservoir is mainly a carp water, but does hold a large population of roach and perch, and good pike fishing in the winter months. Please check the venue rules before fishing commences. Also on the ticket is a stretch of the River Wey at Mill Lane where a good bag of Dace/Roach/Chub and Trout can be caught.
Regular work parties are held on our waters to keep the waters up to the condition you all enjoy. Please support these when you can, members are notified via the website, and emails. If you do not have these facilities, please let us know that you may be interested in helping and we will put you on our reminder list.
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Q: How can I extract a string between  tags usings C#? Say I have a string such as below:
"Unneeded text Needed Text More unneeded text"

How can I extract only the "Needed Text"? I'm guessing Regex is likely the simplest way but Regex still looks like hieroglyphics to me.

A: Have a look at the HTML Agility Pack or AngleSharp

A: Use HTMLAgilityPack and save yourself a headache. Something like this ought to do it:
HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml("html...");

var innerText = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("strong").Select(x => x.InnerText).SingleOrDefault();

A: Regex regex = new Regex("(.*)");
  var v = regex.Match("Unneeded text Needed Text More unneeded text");
  string s = v.Groups[1].ToString();

A: Given your example, a simple Split would do it, e.g.
var innerText = text.Split('>')[1].Split('<')[0];

A: You don't need regex for that.
You can use String.SubString and String.Split methods like;
string s = "Unneeded text Needed Text More unneeded text";
Console.WriteLine(s.Substring(s.IndexOf("") + "".Length, s.IndexOf("") - s.IndexOf("") - "".Length));

Output will be;
Needed Text

Here a DEMO.

A: How about using a simple regular expression like:
(?<=).+?(?=<)


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I wanted to share my experience from challenging myself to run once a day, regardless of the distance or speed, for 30 consistent days.
Running has and always will be, one of my dearest companions. I found it during high school, in the midst of a horrible heart break, when a friend asked me to join cross country. I had only been a dancer before this so I thought I had stamina already, let's just kick it up a notch.
I literally could not finish the first mile!
I stopped, dramatically threw myself on the ground, and told everyone I couldn't. They nodded and said "okay" and continued to run. They clearly knew I was fine, which I was, but it also taught me to keep going when my mind was screaming at me I was too weak. This is when I knew I found something I could continue to grow from for a lifetime.
Since then, little by little, I've continuously added more mileage to my strolls.
I've ran the New York City Marathon twice, in 2015 and 2016 with 8 half marathons behind those. After the 2016 marathon I swore running off and devoted my life to workouts I had never known. Weight lifting, circuits, you name it, I tried. I tell you this, because here I am again, after experiencing other workouts galore, feeling the need to come back to my roots and just run.
Before the 30 days, my journey entries (I do a small one every night) are a little sad. Lacking enthusiasm and consistently writing how about tired I am.
However, looking back, I started running at the beginning of August and the tune has changed quite a lot.
I don't know what running specifically does for me, but it seems to be the only activity that when done consistently, opens new doors for growth. I'm not saying all of these moments in my life are specifically connected to running but I have noticed a pattern between my level of satisfaction with life increasing, the more consistently I run.
You don't always need to know your "why" when you start a run. I often times find it during. Whether it's finally figuring out the perfect comeback I couldn't say in the moment or to simply declutter the chatter in my head, at the end of a run I have not once ever felt "well what was the point of that?". Though there is always one theme I always acknowledge before I set- off. Every time I begin a run, my goal is to always "enjoy". The sights, the sounds, the fact that I'm purging nasty toxins built up, I make a concerted effort to enjoy every part.
2. Take the freaking pressure off of yourself. YOU are the one deciding the fate of this journey. Not your friend who can run a 7 minute mile or has just completed her 8th triathlon. You shouldn't compare your journey to others in life but definitely do not do it while running. This is YOUR time.
3. Smile. I'm serious. Even if you're in pain every step, smiling is your body's most natural anesthesia.
4. Don't let anyone else dictate your path. Not your speed, distance, calories burned, etc. just go.
5. Relax your jaw, loosen the tension in your shoulders. Posture is seriously so important– I'm learning this NOW after so many injuries. Just do it.
6. Force yourself to run SLOWER. Don't get me wrong, there's a time and a place for speed, but listen to what's telling you to go faster. Is it your ego? That voice that is looking at the girls tread next to you competing? If so, slow that treadmill down and start to listen to YOUR voice. The one that started this run to clear your head and have a healthy sweat. Aren't you doing both, regardless if you "beat" this girl or not? Focus on that.
7. Stretch afterward. Pardon my language, but f*ck stretching beforehand. I mean, it's fine but so many studies have shown there is no benefit to stretching cold muscles. If anything, best practice, you run at least half a mile– warm up, stretch, do your long run, cold down, stretch again. I skip that beginning portion if it's a long steady run, then save the stretching for afterwards. Think about all of those muscle fibers you just tore (in a good way) and if you don't stretch them out afterwards, they heal together short and thick. By stretching, you elongate your muscles and allow them to heal in a much less inflamed manner.
8. Choose a mantra to repeat throughout your jog; my word is "smooth". It'll help you keep the big picture in sight.
9. If your thoughts get too heavy, sing jingle bells. I'm serious. It's what all of the greats do, I hear.
Those are all my tips. Take them with a grain of salt and remember I'm just some chick giving you unsolicited advice that has a running hobby.
Thanks for reading, and, yes, the 30 days of run is still going strong, making it now… 83ish days!
My girl…you are my inspiration.


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The King John School is one of four schools that constitute Zenith, which operates in South East Essex. At Zenith Multi Academy Trust, all staff are encouraged to develop their knowledge, skills, understanding, and attitudes to enhance their professional work, regardless of role or experience. We work towards 'a culture of excellence', where all staff have the opportunity to continue to improve and sharpen their knowledge and practice.
We are a "Good" school (Ofsted, 2021), embarking on the next phase of its exciting journey which see us forging the way to becoming Outstanding and beyond to be the leading edge school, both locally and nationally in all key performance indicators.
The King John School is a large, comprehensive, that employs over 250 members of staff and has a wide range of employment opportunities, from premises staff and technicians to finance, corporate, and educational support staff as well as teachers and leaders. Every member of staff employed by The King John School, are a key part of our community and has an impact on the students who study here. All members of our community are expected to uphold our core values of Positivity, Resilience, Integrity, Dignity, and Equality, in every part of school and wider life.
Our people are key to our organisation. All members of our community are committed to promoting a passion for lifelong learning and maintain high expectations of themselves and others. Through the school and Zenith Multi Academy Trust, you will gain new learning opportunities that foster excellence, encourage teamwork, promote our core values and enhance our ability to improve life chance for our students to succeed.
A root and branch professional development programme that is targeted to your stage, role, and career aspirations.
A robust on boarding approach that supports all new staff to settle into their role, get to know our school, and forge good relationships with other employee.
A comprehensive induction programme that ensures staff have the knowledge of the schools systems and procedures that support them in their role.
A wide range of staff benefits including Benenden Healthcare membership, access to Bike2Work scheme, on site staff counselling and supervisions programme, eye sight tests, on-site free medical health checks and On-site flu jab clinics
Access to a range of wellbeing activities, hosted in the school, including free gym access, sporting teams, and language classes.
If you share our commitment to securing transformational change and sustainable school improvement, and would like to be part of our vision to provide excellence in education, we would like to hear from you. Explore our vacancies page to find the opportunity that's right for you.
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Section 185 of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 provides that if it is detected in a breath analyzer test that the driver of a motor vehicle has in his blood alcohol exceeding 30 mg per 100 ml. of blood, he shall be punished for the first offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 6 months or with fine which may extend to 2000 rupees, or with both; and for a second or subsequent offence, if committed within the 3 year of commission of previous similar offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years or with fine which may extend to 3000 rupees or with both.
Impairs motoring skill and muscle coordination for maintaining vehicle control.
Affects one's alertness and awareness.
Slows down the reaction time.
What to do, when you're drunk?
Use public transport to go home if you are drunk.
Ask a non-drinking person to drive you back home.
"The only safe option is not to drink if you plan to drive."


Yes, I literally found it in the street and took home with me. I was coming back after taking my daughter to school, and the cup was standing at the side of the pavement. I had to come closer, and then to take it my hands to see better.
I think it is quite beautiful, even though it has some small damage at the bottom. It has a marking at the bottom saying Epiag Czechoslovakia and I think it is vintage. Sadly, it is not hand painted, but you cannot demand too much from something that you found, right?
I am still thinking of what can be done with it. Maybe I will fill it with dry flowers and put on my dresser. I could also use it to make a candle.
What do you think? What would you do with it? (please please do not give the most obvious answer - "would leave it there" or "would thrash it"... this is so cruel... but if this is your opinion, by all means say so).
Nice find! I love the design on the inside. I would probably use it as a holder for my favorite earrings so I can see the design, but a candle holder would be good too.
What a great find! I love the candle idea. It's so pretty!


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Fall 2022 Governors Island Residency
This week I'm starting a new residency on Governors Island, at the LMCC Arts Center on the island. It is my second time doing a residency there, and I am thrilled to be returning to Governors Island. I will be working with the volunteer plants on the island, making handmade paper and inks with foraged weeds, researching urban farming and foraging, and developing the next pamphlet, which is soon to come.
But most importantly, I want to invite you to walk with me on the island this fall. I will be on the island most weekends this fall, as well as Tuesday afternoons, and I want you to come take a walk with me. This will be an opportunity to have an intimate, one-on-one conversation about a very specific bit of land and its history, and to think about the future of the island and NY harbor. I will be walking with friends, strangers, and pamphlet subscribers, and I am looking forward to what will come about. I plan on making some kind of publications to commemorate the walks, but I mostly look forward to being outside in one of my favorite places.
Come visit me starting this weekend, September 24-25. Email me here to let me know that you are coming and we can make a date.
Paths to the Shore
Paths to the Shore on view January 14-March 26, 2022 at the Center for Book Arts
Paths to the Shore is a solo exhibition that explores the ways that history, infrastructure, and nature interact on the Brooklyn waterfront. This body of work includes a series of waterfront-focused pamphlets, video, and large-scale maps produced using letterpress, relief printing, and handmade paper. The resulting exhibition offers documentation of Brooklyn's marshland, landfills, industrial pollution, public housing projects, rezoned neighborhoods, public parks, and areas under threat in an era shaped by climate change.
I'll be giving a talk about the exhibition via zoom on Monday, January 31st at 6pm; info and registration link for that is here.
CBA is open Monday–Thursday from 11am–6pm and Friday & Saturday from 11am–5pm. Admission is free with a suggested donation.
All visitors are required to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination upon arrival and wear a mask covering their nose and mouth at all times while on-site.
More information: https://centerforbookarts.org/paths-to-the-shore-exhibition
Volunteer Urban Plants
Cities and nature are a pair of ideas that push and pull against each other, in a relationship that lasts over time. The unplanned parts of nature that thrive in urban environments-think pigeons, squirrels, weeds- are often viewed as nuisances, eyesores, pests, or invasive. Or they become almost invisible to us; we have trained ourselves to just not notice the plants that push up through the cracks in the pavement.
Weeds are defined by their context. Weeds grow where you would prefer other plants to grow, or where no plants are intended to be at all. A weed is a plant out of place, that place being defined by the humans cultivating the land. How and why and where we define a plant's proper place is part of a narrative we write that draws boundaries between nature and culture, between wildness and domestication, and weeds are the plants that blur these boundaries. People often expect landscapes to be moral, and the narratives we write about plants are how we decide what moral questions plants answer.
The plants we call weeds flourish in the company of humans. They've followed us around the earth, growing where we clear the forests, taking advantage of our transportation networks, enjoying the way we have disrupted settled ecosystems. Weeds benefit from disturbed land, empty lots, and neglected buildings, and they often grow back healthier after we cut them down. Weeds are patient, often waiting dormant for years until conditions are right. Weeds in urban areas are hardy enough to survive in harsh environments, and are often a main form of urban nature.
Some of the plants we call weeds in New York City are originally from elsewhere, carried here on purpose by people from elsewhere, or imported as a crop, or a commodity. Some of the plants we call weeds are native here; we sometimes use the word invasive to describe plants that have been here longer than we have. But some of the plants that live here came here accidentally, as a by-product of global trade, as stowaways. Ballast weeds is a term that describes these plants, especially ones that arrived as the waterfront in Brooklyn was industrializing in the nineteenth century. Ballast is one of the main ways humans have reconfigured the earth's biome, shuffling the earth's species at will. Ships ballast is extra weight carried below deck to provide stability. These days that is usually weight carried in the form of water; in the nineteenth century it would be whatever was at hand, including soil and rocks taken from one landscape, carried across an ocean to another. Erie Basin, the official terminus for the grain barges traveling through the Erie Canal, opened in 1864 on the southern edge of Red Hook, built by William Beard. Beard built this man-made extension of the harbor on landfill made up of ships ballast. Ships coming from Europe would dump their ballast in the harbor, then fill up with cargo and sail to their destination, literally transplanting one part of the earth to another, over and over again.
A few years ago there was an installation at Parsons School of Design, right across from a class that I was teaching, by the Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves. In the center of the room were small black bags filled with plants, all species classified as urban weeds. They were examples of plants that came to New York Harbor as seeds buried in amongst the ballast of shipping vessels, then dumped along the shoreline. Alves is interested in ballast flora as a living record of colonization, the transatlantic slave trade, and the economic foundations that the port of New York were built on. New Yorkers have been remaking the shoreline for hundreds of years, often by creating real estate where there was only water, through landfill, including ballast material. Ballast weeds are a remnant of that history.
Weeds in New York City offer a wide range of benefits, from helping to absorb excess rainfall, providing cooling in hot weather, to absorbing carbon, removing heavy metals from soil, and producing food and shelter for other species. Some of these benefits are especially important to communities vulnerable to climate change; green spaces can absorb water and slow down floodwaters. Volunteer trees like the Tree of Heaven provide shade in aging industrial places, and can help lower the temperature in the summer.
Invasiveness is a quality lots of urban plants have; people often think that only plants from other places are invasive, and use the words interchangeably. A plant that is invasive is one that spreads prolifically, and can dominate a plot of land. Native plants are understood to be the good kind of plants, and invasive ones, the ones from elsewhere, come in and take over and destroy a landscape. Xenophobia is trendy in gardening groups. In an urban landscape, it's all about what can survive in the cracks, what can grow in soil that has had chemicals dumped on it, what can take advantage of what is left. Sometimes that means native plants, sometimes that means plants from other places. Sometimes these plants are the only ones that can survive, and by growing there, they are improving the soil to the point that eventually something else can join them.
There's a block of Franklin Avenue near where I live that contains the remnants of what used to be a huge brewery complex. More recently part of it was used by a spice importer, and the entire block smelled like cumin, turmeric, and cinnamon. Most of the land is covered in weeds, a vast meadow of spontaneous volunteer plants taking up as much space as they can take from the buildings nearby. In the summertime I like to take that route home on my bike and as I coast downhill I can feel the temperature drop, the plants absorbing the heat radiating off concrete. That land was sold to a developer a while back; the spice factory closed and the block no longer smells of spices. But the weeds are still there for the moment and I plan on enjoying their benefits while I can.
If you'd like to see and learn more about weeds, take a look at the Virtual Bush Terminal Wildflower Walk made by my friend James Walsh.
On Walking
The first thing I usually do when researching a pamphlet is go for a walk.
Sometimes I'm not quite sure where to go or why I am there; sometimes I am a little uncomfortable because I don't know where I am exactly. Sometimes I'm just walking. I think part of the reason I started writing about neighborhoods was I wanted an excuse to explore different places, and spend time walking and biking in places, and being able to justify it as work.
(Is walking work though? Does everything have to be productive?Maybe I'm wrong about that, maybe walking is just walking.)
I like the pace of walking, slower than biking, much slower than in a car or bus or train. Slowing down time to the pace of a human. I like the unfolding of a path at eye level, the way the path changes as you move, the way your experience in a place gets layered on top of the noise in your head, the thoughts you sort through, the sound of your surroundings. I ruminate while walking, I sort out knots in my head while walking. I like that even in places I walk through on an almost daily basis, my perception of the landscape changes each time I walk through it.
Walking in green spaces is something many of us are doing more of this year; it might be the only good thing about our apocalyptic reality. Many people have been finding new routes or times of day when they like to walk, and exploring new parks they haven't been to before. Nerdy hobbies like birding are more popular where I live this year; people are spending more time paying attention to the details. Birding is about paying attention, usually while staying still, and listening. Walking is about paying attention in motion, slow motion. One leads to another quite naturally.
I walk to think, and to calm my brain, and to see what has changed and what is the same and because it is soothing. I write in my head before I type it out, and walking is part of the process. (So is running. So is biking. Writing is easier in motion).
In this way walking is like reading, like the lapses in time that reading creates, the landscape passing in time and space, the thoughts in your head passing in a parallel way. You can dip in and out back and forth between these two modes, being present in a landscape, being caught up in your thoughts. Time passes without you noticing, until the light begins to fade or the temperature dips and you realize it's time to go.
I'm working on a new pamphlet that I hope to have mostly wound up by the end of the year; it's on Canarsie, and the pier and the parks and the single-family mid-century housing and the marshes of Jamaica Bay and all of the shifts that have happened over the last three hundred years. So in doing that, I've been walking in Canarsie Park and the nearby pier. That's where these videos are from. I like to think about those layers when walking in a place, in the back and forth between the present and the past, between the nature and the culture.
Earlier this year I decided that the walks I have been doing for subscribers in person were going to have to be online due to the pandemic. (Are you tired of that phrase due to the pandemic? I am). This spring in New York City, it just didn't seen right to gather in person, even outdoors. Over the summer it seemed like outdoors was safer than we thought at first, and I think I could have done in-person walks at this point, but the problem that then occurred to me was that the places I wanted to walk in were relatively far from the beaten path, at the end of the subway line, and far from the neighborhoods where most people who would come to the walk live. Which meant taking transit, something that most people were/are nervous about. I didn't want to ask people to do something they were uncomfortable with to join me on something that's supposed to make us feel better.
Was that the right choice? At this point I think so, and in any case what I'm doing instead is creating a record of walks, which people can enjoy at a distance, and which can engage way more people in all likelihood than would be willing to come with me out to Canarsie on a November afternoon. More people can see what this place looks like. It was warm this Saturday and a beautiful day. While I was walking in Canarsie many others walked in the neighborhood parks and green spaces. Others walked to do errands and pick up groceries. My walks mirror all the other walks people are taking.
Does recording while walking change how I walk? I think it does, I think I am more present than usual, though I spend too much time paying attention to the camera more that the landscape, thinking about the recording of the landscape instead of losing myself in it. And I walk much, much slower than usual, trying not to bump the camera too much, looking around me for what is visual, what is interesting. It changes my experience of my walk, but it also makes it possible to bring it to others. Other people I pass on a walk notice me more, and register I am filming, sometimes veer away from me, sometimes nod.
And of course this is all about walking alone. What about with others? Remember walking with others? How to do that? More soon.
Place of no shadows
I am (finally) finishing up a pamphlet mailing, ready to start the last one for the year. Lockdown delayed everything so I'm about a month and a half behind, but I'm trying not to think about that. This one came out nice, and is about this place:
Which I visited a lot this past summer. This place is Coney Island Creek; I hadn't been there before and this pamphlet was my reason to explore that southwestern end of Brooklyn. My usual route took me down the bike path on Ocean Parkway, straight through the area the city is now calling the Ocean Parkway Cluster, past women in smocks and old men smoking on the park benches that line the oldest bike route in the country. The Ocean Parkway Greenway is very flat, on the outwash plain of southern Brooklyn, running next to a wide speedway of a road, full of people revving their engines and drag racing on a Friday night. This road has endless stop lights that most cyclists blow through once they get a sense of how the traffic works, but on a busy day with lots of cross traffic it can be slow going.
Getting to Gravesend and the entrance to Calvert Vaux Park, the park I visited most, means biking down from Prospect Park and hanging a right onto Avenue T, through a Syrian Orthodox Jewish community with some very nice large single family houses, across McDonald Avenue into Gravesend, past Stillwell Avenue and onto 26th Avenue, through a neighborhood full identical two story brick houses with their white painted wrought iron gates. There's an Italian ice shop on the corner of Cropsey Avenue that's nice to stop at on the way home. Follow 26th ave to the end, where there's a new protected two way bike lane on the service road next to the Belt Parkway; after a left it's only a block to the entrance to Calvert Vaux.
Calvert Vaux is my favorite of the three parks that line the mouth of Coney Island Creek. It has several sports fields and beautiful waterfront views. All of them are underfunded and neglected; the trash doesn't get collected regularly enough and the weeds were out of control by August. But I like the sense that you're out on one of the far corners; I like the weeds taking over the place.
The sky is enormous here and you are far from Manhattan.
There's a marshy mudflat that is full of shore birds and there's a lot of good birdwatching to be had. The mouth of the creek is also where several boats have been sunk, and the birds like to use their rusting hulls as perch to look down from for a snack. My usual walk started near the shore opposite the dirt parking lot and went in a circle, parallel to the waterline, out to the end and back up around, facing the Verazzano Bridge in the distance, then back again. You can bushwhack your way through the weeds to the water. People fly drones. Loud barbecues happen on both sides of the shore. It's a great summertime park.
The park's named after the park architect Calvert Vaux, who was Frederick Law Omstead's collaborator on Central and Prospect Parks. He drowned here in Gravesend Bay in 1895. Some say mysteriously? The shoreline at that time was different; most of the park is constructed on landfilled soil and sand excavated for the construction of the Verazanno-Narrows Bridge nearby, so it hasn't been here for very long, only since the middle of the last century. How much longer will it be here?
It's strange now to think about this summer, now that it's dark early. We're entering a season that people are dreading, between the election and the rising virus tally. I have started carrying my heavy bike gloves with me when I leave the house in case the wind picks up and my hands start to freeze. I remember the feeling of riding back in in twilight, riding fast and enjoying the breeze on my back, and I'm not sure what happened between then and now.
The pamphlet is about this park, and the other two parks, and the creek and where is goes and when it got covered over, and beachfront property and what I think a beach is, and many other things at the same time. I think it turned out quite nice, thank you.
You can get a copy of the new pamphlet here; there's more to come about Coney Island Creek soon enough. In the meantime, I would like to collect maps from you. Where did you walk this summer? We've all been walking outside more than usual this year. What's your favorite route? What do you like about it? Would you send me a picture and a map? I've got an idea. You can send me them at sarah at sarah nicholls dot com. Thank you.
My plan for this year was pretty straightforward.
I was going to make three pamphlets, all three having something to do with maps.
These maps would be of the Brooklyn waterfront, present, past and future. I had made some large scale maps last summer, in a residency on Governor's Island through Works on Water.
I wanted to use the idea of storytelling through mapmaking to talk about the different layers in these maps. I also wanted to continue making these maps, finish the coastline, complete the circle.
I was going to walk along the waterfront with friends, and have events that brought readers to the places I wanted to write about.
I was going to have my act together and send out the spring issue in spring, the summer in summer, etc.
I mean, some good ideas, right? But we all know what happens with well-laid plans. The collapse of society-as-we-knew-it got in the way of getting things out on a schedule, of access to studios, of gathering together in a landscape.
But other things happened as well: people discovered a new love for the post office, of all things. People walked outside, and discovered parks and green spaces near them. People walked and biked and realized that roads could be used for something other than storing private cars and driving.
The city I had been living in was being replaced by a new version and parts of that process have been horrifying and parts are beautiful.
This spring I made my first virtual walk, a video that accompanies the "spring" 2020 informational pamphlet, The Morse Dry Dock Dial, with a map for those who would like to follow along. I realized that a video of a walk could bring more people into the landscapes I was interested in than a live event could, and that the readers who live elsewhere were able to participate in this version of the walk. I got excited.
This fall I am in residence at BRIC, and I started off working on the map of Sunset Park, the neighborhood I walked through in the spring, the neighborhood my mother's family is from.
These maps are bigger than I usually work, and try to show the past coastline, the future flood zones, the industrially polluted brownfields, the historical markers, the green spaces, the rezoned neighborhoods, the Moses-era highways, and the native pathways that make up the coastline. They are made up of paper, some machine-made, some handmade, from fiber that relates to the coastline, either by history (cotton, imported into Brooklyn warehouses from southern plantations; flax and hemp, grown by colonists) or by ecology (urban plants harvested from the landscape, processed into pulp). Did I mention I was going to learn how to make paper this year? I learned how to make paper this year, in a much more DIY way than originally planned. No studio access, no in-person classes, but I've made some paper.
Here is a picture of the Sunset Park Map:
Here is a picture of the Sunset Park Landscape:
Here's a link to the first virtual walk:
Plants, sweat, bikes, blah, blah, blah
I made another pamphlet. It's about weeds and people and how both travel around the world together. That's going to be the basic idea for all the pamphlets this year, in different ways. This first one is about Red Hook.
2. I took some people on a walk in the place the pamphlet was about. We had a perfect day and spotted tons of different species of weeds, and everyone listened patiently as I told them all about landfill and housing and nineteenth century industry. Thank you for coming along!
3. I am learning how to identify the plants that grow between the sidewalk cracks. Right now the weeds here in NYC are BONKERS. My favorite local news source has done multiple stories about spontaneous outcroppings of poison ivy near public thoroughfares. My personal favorite batch of weeds right now is by the Greenway in Red Hook; it's mostly taken over one of the lanes and gives shelter from the July sun to the assorted cats, pigeons, and people that live there.
4. My plan to spend the summer biking and taking pictures is going swimmingly.
5. I was a resident on Governor's Island for a month in June in one of the houses in Nolan Park, hosted by the artist collaborative Works on Water and the publishing platform Underwater NY, two organizations that both focus on art based on and with and around water (thanks guys it was great!) Governor's Island is one of my favorite places to be and see and it was a fabulous time. I worked on maps of the past, present, and possible future Brooklyn coastline. I will maybe make a separate post about them? I think I will continue on in this vein for while, as it stirred up some ideas.
The starting point was to think about a map made in the nineteenth century by Thoreau of the Concord River, and use the map form as a way of mapping historical sites, personal landmarks, and the physical landscape all at once. It grew a bit from there.
My laptop is making my lap sweat so I think I will end this here. Stay cool in whatever way suits you.
Dead Horse Bay
Across the street from Floyd Bennett Field are the remnants of an earlier piece of history, a bit of beach called Dead Horse Bay. Before there was an airport here, this piece of land was a separate island called Barren Island.
From the middle of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth, this was the remote area of town where New York City shipped its garbage, to be transformed through a process known as waste reduction. Factories on the island basically boiled animal carcasses and other organic materials down into grease, oils, and fertilizer, substances that could be reused. Dead Horse Bay refers to the dead animals brought here on barges to Jamaica Bay to be boiled down into new industrial products. An entire community lived out here, isolated from the rest of Brooklyn, working in the factories that dealt with the inevitable by-products of city living.
After the waste reduction factories were closed to appease communities living upwind, there was still a landfill on the island, a landfill which closed in the thirties when Robert Moses evicted the remaining inhabitants and bulldozed their homes. The topsoil cap on this landfill burst in the 1950's, and decades of trash started leaking into the sea.
Today scavengers flock to the beach to collect things; they find a small beach covered in old bottles, stockings, leather shoe soles, an engine or two, the occasional boat. You can hear the tinkling of glass as the water laps the shoreline.
There's a debate online about whether these people are removing history, taking archaeological items of interest from a National Park, or helping to clean a beach. Though it seems abandoned and neglected, this bit of land is technically under the auspices of the National Park Service, and it is technically illegal to take things from a National Park.
Not that anyone seems to be paying attention. And there are streams of people taking old glass bottles and carts of random finds.
Would you like to know more? Luckily, new pamphlets are here, just in time to answer all your lingering waste reduction questions. Many have gone in the mail already, and more are about to go out soon enough. I hope you enjoy them, I think they turned out quite nice. The first pamphlet of the year covers Floyd Bennett and Dead Horse Bay, and I hope will be a decent introduction to Jamaica Bay in general.
And more importantly, would you like to see these places for yourself? Next Sunday, May 21st I'm going to do a walking tour of Dead Horse Bay and Floyd Bennett Field. We'll look at some old airplanes and listen to the glass tinkle. Email me at sarah at sarah nicholls dot com to RSVP so I know that you're coming. We'll meet at the 2 train station on Flatbush to take the bus down Flatbush together at 11am. I hope you can make it.
The Last Mile is the Hardest Mile
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Everything is coated in ice, I haven't run regularly for weeks, there's always more snow in the forecast, and I have a serious issue with that groundhog.
And why haven't I been blogging? Too busy furiously setting type. And distributing. And setting. And distributing. Repeat. Repeat again.
The end is nigh. More soon.
Full Steam Ahead.
Bird printing is progressing apace. Job having really gets in the way of work. Fall is here for real.
Lynda Barry's Course Syllabus
I've been informed that I've been neglecting this blog. Fine, so it may be.
Next week I'll be teaching a letterpress again at Pratt, and so in honor of the new school year, go take a look here at Lynda Barry's Syllabus (and leave me be to finish my own…)
More of the same.
This is all I've been doing lately; how about you?


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import android.content.Context;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;

/**
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    public static void closeKeybord(EditText mEditText, Context mContext)
    {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
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