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The Oral History of Mexican Summer
by Chris Chafin
Just a few of Mexican Summer's Greatest Hits
Over the past five years, Mexican Summer has introduced (or helped to introduce) bands like Best Coast, Washed Out and Kurt Vile. This weekend, to celebrate their five-year anniversary, they're throwing a two-day concert at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, with Spiritualized, Ariel Pink, Lansing-Dreiden, and No Joy all scheduled to play.
That's a pretty heavy list of big-name bands, and it's been an extremely successful five year run. On the occasion of the label's five-year anniversary, we talked to bands and label insiders to get a picture of how Mexican Summer got to where it is. We heard tale of fistfights in Sweden, beers in California, and why Ariel Pink only put out one single through the label.
See also: Meet Mexican Summer's Jess Rotter, Whose Art You've Probably Already Enjoyed
In 2008, Kemado Records decided to launch a small project–a record club. Their plan was to put out limited releases of bands who didn't fit into the Kemado roster, which was, at that point, mostly hard rock bands like The Sword.
JEFF KAYE (Marketing Director for Kemado, and later Mexican Summer): It was very limiting at Kemado, the types of bands that you could work with. When we started to sign things like Marissa Nadler and Dungen, we started to notice that it didn't necessarily fit into that mold.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON (head of A&R for Kemado, later Mexican Summer): We wanted to do a label that would be a lot looser and freewheeling than what we were doing with Kemado, which was more of a traditional way of putting out records.
JESS ROTTER (head of Publicity for Mexican Summer): When we went into it, it was like Kemado was doing its own thing, and we wanted to do something a little bit more intimate. A little bit more tightly curated, that we had a handle on.
JEFF KAYE: The idea was that to create this exclusive club that people who enjoyed music and listened to vinyl could be a part of. You pay a monthly fee and get a vinyl or two every month. It was inspired by the Sub Pop Singles Club. We thought it would be a piece of cake. We'd charge different amounts, we'd give premium items, people will sign up, it will be easy to take care of.
The records that first month were an Ariel Pink 7″, a Dungen 12″, and a Nachtmystium EP. It was pretty all over the map, and I think our tastes were pretty all over the map, as well. To have the opportunity to do that was awesome for us.
ARIEL PINK: They had initially contacted me because they wanted to start the vinyl portion of their label. At the time, they were still Kemado. It was the initial, inaugural release.
[Agreeing to do a release through the label] was sort of a weird situation. It was sort of a misunderstanding between my manager and me and the lawyer that we had at the time. It was brokered .. . with our consent, but just sort of like . . . the goal at the time was to get us signed to a label, and we didn't see that as really a label. There was too much resting on our heads. We didn't know whether they would be successful or not.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: The Ariel Pink single [I Can't Hear My Eyes/Evolution's A Lie], when he did that, he wasn't what he is now. He's kind of the godfather of a certain sound. When we did that first single with him, he was not that yet. But that's one I'm so proud of. I had been a huge fan of his for years.
ARIEL PINK: Keith at the label was very, very encouraging and he was very interested in signing us, and that eventually led to an offer. But we went with 4AD [for subsequent releases]. I've always held them in high esteem. They seem to have done well for themselves.
Soon after starting, the concept of a record club becomes difficult to manage.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: It was totally a nightmare. We gave up on that pretty quickly. In hindsight, if we had just been putting out a single every month, or every other month, it would have been real easy. But we were putting out like literally three records every month. They were varying formats: LPs, 12″, 7″… just figuring out the price points was a total logistical train wreck.
JEFF KAYE: Who has a six-month subscription? Who has a three-month subscription? Who was getting what bonus item? It just became a pain in the butt.
JESS ROTTER: When the Washed Out EP [2010's Life of Leisure] came out, it was like everything changed overnight. People really started paying attention, and the subscriptions idea went out of hand a little bit. It got larger than life really fast.
JEFF KAYE: I think Washed Out was the first one where we were like, whoa, this might be more than a single pressing. Last I heard it was at 9 pressings.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: I came across his stuff online and reached out to him pretty immediately after I came across it. That's a lot of what A&R can be. It's just finding stuff online and connecting with people.
I also had a trip planned to go out to Georgia to visit my sister. So, I tagged a little bit extra onto the trip to go meet him, and I think that kind of sealed it. It happened over the course of like two weeks.
While Washed Out's EP was taking off, the label was preparing to release another record, by an unknown band called Best Coast.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: The Best Coast thing was crazy. That was a really strange way to come to a project. My buddy Jake Hurn was their manager at the time (though he's not anymore), and I had known him for years. He brought the project to me. They had interest from a lot of other places.
JEFF KAYE: Even before we put it out, it was obvious that that record was going to be a big record. I don't necessarily think it defined Mexican Summer, but I do think that they fit very neatly into what we were trying to do: very song-oriented pop music.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: Initially, I declined. Not because I wasn't into the tunes, but it was more that our schedule was so insane that I had no idea how we could make it work. Then we talked more about it, and they had done a lot of work on their own, and the record was done.
We decided that we were going to try to do it, and [Hurn] was like, 'Well, you're going to have to talk to Beth.' It all seemed like it was hinging on this phone call, whether we would click or not.
BETHANY COSENTINO (Best Coast): Our old manager had me taking a million calls before Crazy For You came out, and I remember sitting in my bed talking to all these label people on the phone, and I was just like so bored. They all wanted to talk super industry business stuff with me, and at the time I just had no idea what anything in the music industry consisted of so I was just like waiting to talk to someone who I could have an interesting conversation with.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: This is what I do. All day long. I bullshit with artists. I'm a musician, too. That's second nature to me. I went into that as myself. I'm not a businessman, that's not what I do. So I just went into it and told her I loved the record and we just talked. Whatever's casual.
Clockwise from top L: Black Moth Super Rainbow; Kurt Vile, God Is Saying This To You; Tamaryn, Tender New Signs; Mood Rings, VPI Harmony
BETHANY COSENTINO: I remember talking to Keith on the phone for like an hour and we just had this rad conversation and he was so nice, and did not have a snotty vibe like some record label executive people can sometimes have. I just remember thinking that I wanted to sign with a label that had an awesome guy like Keith working for them.
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KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: After that phone call, I figured I should meet them, if this was really going to happen. And to see them play live, also. So, they were on tour in Europe. We also had Dungen in the studio in Sweden, making their new record, in Stockholm. So I figured that if I went to Stockholm I could get in the studio with Dungen and see Best Coast play this club there. So I went and hung out with them there, and saw them play that night, and it was great.
BETHANY COSENTINO: We were all hanging out backstage, and just getting to know each other, and all the sudden this insane fan like ran at the backstage door, kicked it open and tried to punch me in the face. We were all freaking out and Keith got up and just like told the dude to back the fuck off and took care of business so quickly it was crazy. I was like whoa, this guy rules.
Much of 2010 through 2011 was taken up by Best Coast.
JESS ROTTER: The whole time was insane. It was really insane. I had a real lesson in pop culture.
BETHANY COSENTINO: One time Jess and I were at a dinner at some sushi place in NY and we were sitting next to this couple who were on a disaster date. The girl was crying and the guy was like rubbing her back and telling her that her crying was turning him on. So many weird things happened, but Jess and I were just sitting there laughing out asses off, and I remember I was live tweeting it because it was just so absurd and hilarious.
JESS ROTTER: Betheny was one of the big tweet stars. Her twitter was like a reality show. So many people were like on the edge of their seat every 10 minutes to see what she was going to say. That was before Instagram, so people were like, whatever.
This disgusting couple was at the next table. Bethany was like live-tweeting this terrible sushi date. I think MTV chose it as the best tweet of 2011? You have to check that. In like 10 minutes I had like 500 more followers because everyone is obsessed with Best Coast. [In fact, MTV's Best Tweet of 2011 went Kanye West, who wrote "I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle."]
At the same time, the staff was also trying to run Kemado.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: We really had to make some decisions about what Kemado was going to be. Stylistically, they were kind of crossing streams. It was like, Marissa Nadler and the Soft Pack – those bands would also be at home on Mexican Summer. So it was like, where's the divide?
JEFF KAYE: At that point, Kemado was 6 people. Everybody worked on Mexican Summer all the time. The hardest part for me was starting to put out so much stuff, to where you lost track of what you were releasing. A little 7″ would pop up on the schedule and surprise you. Or it would come into the office, and you'd be like, 'Oh, I totally forgot we were putting this out.'
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: To be totally frank with you, I'm the only one here who's really into heavy metal. There's one guy here that's super into hard rock and riffs. Not only was the staff here not the right staff to be working heavy metal records – I'm the only one who could hold a conversation about that stuff, or is even interested – so it kind of wasn't fair to the artist or the staff here. There was a disconnect.
And also Mexican Summer had become the thing that was far more successful. We decided to stop signing bands to Kemado, and have it go catalog-only. It was actually a really easy decision. It just took a long time to get there. It was hard in way, because Kemado was how we started. But we just looked at Mexican Summer as an extension of Kemado.
ARIEL PINK: Our fees have gone up considerably. It means that they've done well for themselves, if they can afford us [to play the reunion festival].
By all accounts, Mexican Summer's success is down to the musical taste and tenacity of Abrahamsson, and the familial atmosphere the label fosters in its artists and staff.
TAMARYN: I think when you're a musician in the music business, you really don't expect people who work in the industry to do anything but turn you off from music. There's not really the best reputation for A&R people at labels. It unfortunately the case that a lot of time, even though you're supposed to be working together, ends up being an enemy of sorts.
What's so great about Keith, and all the guys at the label – Andres [Santo Domingo, the co-founder], and Tom [Clapp, co-founder] — they're all just really big music fans. They love music. In a way, the business side of it, I know they have it covered, but it's never been the main objective of the label. The label is almost like, they're curators or patrons of the arts. They're trying to bring what they consider to be high art, and the music that they love to people, and that is just something you don't see very often in the bigger indie labels.
BETHANY COSENTINO: I just always felt like Mexican Summer was more like a big group of my friends and less like my label. I mean obviously they did all the things a label does and should do- but when I would hang out with them at shows or SXSW or go to dinners or something, it always just felt like a big family and less like some business thing.
TAMARYN: When they signed us, we had met, but they'd never actually seen us play. They booked us for their Mexican Summer showcase at SXSW. They put us up in a hotel, and were super accommodating of us. Andreas got up at six in the morning to rent us a smoke machine, because at the time I was really into this kind of Sisters of Mercy, smoke machines on stage, white lights kind of thing. At SXSW you don't really get to ask for those extras, but they went out of their way to do it. I did not know who Andreas was, because I'd only met Keith. I knew he was affiliated, but I didn't know what he did. I thought it was an intern for the longest time. I was like, 'Oh, he's so sweet! He's helping carry my gear, and he went to get me a smoke machine!' We had brunch, and I was like, so what exactly do you do at the label? And he was like, well, when I was such-and-such age, I started Kemado… And I was like 'Oh.' That's a perfect example of what the energy of the label is like. The owner is so humble and so cool, you could think he's just some young kid working at the label.
JESS ROTTER: Keith and I have known each other for about five years. He's been one of the most important record heads in my life. He taught me about so many things. He has a really important eye and ear. He's a really great curator, and he's one of those people who really sticks to what he believes, and doesn't bend from that. Mexican Summer was Keith's eyes. And he did a really good job with that.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: I didn't have any idea what we'd be doing at first. The first three records could not have been more different. I was just kind of like, I want to put these records out! I love these bands. Fuck it, whatever. It doesn't matter.
We don't have an easy identity to articulate. I feel like a lot of the artists who work with us feel kind of cut from the same cloth. It may be something a little off, a little left-of-center, a little bit skewed and strange. We also do records that can be straighter – folk records, dreamy pop records. I hate the term 'psychodelic.' It's so broad and generic. I guess there is a common thread of that element that flows through a lot of the records we put out. We don't have one guiding thing like a lot of labels do. We've always tried to sidestep that a little bit.
JESS ROTTER: One of my favorite moments was party in the Pines in Big Sur. It felt like a moment when everything we'd dreamt of for the label, all of our hopes for the label were live and in color. The lineup was very Mexican Summer, the aesthetic was very Mexican Summer, the huge red pines around us looked like the vintage images we'd cull for fliers, the people there were just enough – only like 200. It started with an acoustic Kurt Vile show and ended with a metal Saviours show. Dungen was there, Ariel Pink was there. To me, it was perfect. When I look at the lineup for the two five year shows, I smile to myself, because he did a great job. The lineups are so great, and they're all so Mexican Summer. You can see Keith's heavy curating hand.
TAMARYN: I've always been of the school that whatever label you're on, of whatever size, you should always be a priority. If you sign to your favorite label of all time, but you're last on the totem poll, then what are you really getting out of that other than having a stamp on the back of your record? The real goal is to find a place that's like your home.
KEITH ABRAHAMSSON: Making it five years as a record label in this day and age is significant. When we started this thing, we had very low expectations. I hate saying that because we're not slackers. But we were like, we just want to put some records out that we love, and see what happens.
I feel totally blessed by all this. I know that's a weird thing to say, I'm not religious at all. But I just feel really lucky to have this job and be in this position. This is my dream job. I wanted to play music, and this is the next best thing.
Mexican Summer's five year anniversary festival, featuring Spiritualized, Ariel Pink, No Joy, and more, happens October 11 and 12 in Red Hook.
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La Serranita fue una cantante argentina del género folclórico.

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La Serranita fue una exquisita intérprete y culta mensajera del folclore argentino. Fue una de las pioneras en ese género en el país, imponiendo su dulce voz en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. En aquellos años las canciones nativas estaban teniendo auge a través del dúo Acosta-Villafañe, de La Serranita, de Patrocinio Díaz, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Amanda Ledesma, Martha de los Ríos, Remberto Narváez, La Negra Tucumana y Nelly Omar.

Se distinguió por el cuidadoso fervor que ponía en la elección de su repertorio, y fue, además, una cancionista que paseía ideas muy firmes y claras acerca de lo que era la más pura expresión del folclore nacional. Estilos, zambas, cantos indígenas, bailecitos conservaban a través de sus creaciones esa frescura y esa ingenuidad que fueron las fieles expresiones de su origen.

El reconocimiento popular de La Serranita queda a la vista en el certamen "Miss Radio 1934", en el que los oyentes emitían su voto para elegir a quien consideraban la mujer más destacada. En 8 de diciembre de ese año fue tapa de la famosa Revista Sintonía.

Realizó decenas de presentaciones en famosas emisoras de la época como LR4 Radio Splendid . Para 1939 se integró al personal de LR3 Radio Belgrano, junto con Agustín Irusta, la orquesta típica de Roberto Zerrillo, la de Tinelli, el cantor Vicente Falivene, la cancionista Dorita Aguirre y el cantor Sánchez.

Las auras populares porteñas estuvieron representadas inicialmente por Julio De Caro, Francisco Lomuto, Osvaldo Fresedo, Ricardo Tanturi; las cancionistas Mercedes Carné, La Serranita, Adhelma Falcón y Fanny Loy.

Según comentó la Revista Caras y Caretas (1934): "La Serranita,  con el criterio adecuado de un espíritu culto y refinado, un espíritu culto y refinado, no deforma las canciones para satisfacer los gustos de un público sumido".

Hizo numerosas giras por el extranjero como en México y España.

Era considerada como de las pocas intérpretes de motivos folclóricos que sabe sentir las canciones que divulgó ante el micrófono.

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Children's book cover design showcases the glory of illustration, while the title is usually secondary and less adventurous, with legibility and simplicity being a primary concern. I have created title styles for many ongoing series, including my favorite little mouse, Brian Jaques' intrepid Martin. In long-running series the style may become almost a font, with a need for strong consistency. Other books are one-of-a-kind and invite a wide variety of explorations. This collection shows finished book covers as well as some of the process and individual titles as stand alone typography.
There are many animals in this kingdom, and many ways to be furry: cuddly, scary, friendly, cute.
Children's books are timeless. To hold a child in your lap while you read aloud and turn the pages of a book is sweet respite from the ever-present electronic device. Custom typography, hand lettering or calligraphy is not lost on children — it captures their attention. I once got a project to design a cover because the author, as a child, had fallen in love with the title treatment of one of his favorite books. He read my name on the jacket flap, and years later, with his adult opus complete, he tracked me down to create the title typography for his new book. That made my day. Now, if only I could do something as perfectly imperfect as this little wind-up book…..


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Easeful death
Most people in the Western world favour assisted suicide. The law should reflect their will
LeadersJul 19th 2014 edition
AFTER suffering a stroke on a business trip Tony Nicklinson, a former rugby player and skydiver, developed locked-in syndrome, an incurable condition that leaves a patient aware but unable to move or talk. Nicklinson learned to communicate by blinking his eyes and thus was able to describe his terrible suffering. Imprisoned in his corporeal cell with no chance of escape, he wanted to die. But since Britain does not permit assisted suicide, his "living nightmare" continued.
Death is a fearful thing, but it is the pain of life that leaves many ill people in despair. Like Nicklinson, some people would like to die peacefully, at a time of their choosing and with the assistance of a doctor. Their desire for a humane end should not offend liberal societies, which rest on the principle of self-determination, so long as one's actions do not harm others. This newspaper supports making assisted suicide legal. So, according to polls, do more than two-thirds of Americans and western Europeans.
You might then wonder why more governments do not guarantee the right to an easeful death. Only a handful of countries allow certain individuals to take their own lives with a doctor's help. A few others are passing laws, or—contemplating them (see article), as Britain's is. A bill in its House of Lords has a few more restrictions than The Economist would want. But that is no reason to oppose it. Liberal or not, politicians should move slowly when it comes to complex moral issues, which, whatever your views, this certainly is.
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The arguments against assisted suicide are strongly held. Many people object on moral or religious grounds, while some doctors say that it conflicts with their oath to "do no harm". Opponents add that vulnerable people may feel pressure to spare their carers the burden—or, worse, may be bullied into choosing suicide. And there is a broader argument that allowing assisted suicide in some cases will create a slippery slope, with ever more people being allowed (or forced) to take their own lives, even for trivial reasons.
But the arguments in favour are more compelling. In a pluralistic society, the views of one religion should not be imposed on everybody. Those with a genuine moral objection to assisted suicide need not participate. What a doctor sees as harm a patient may see as relief; and anyway it is no longer standard for medical students to take the Hippocratic oath. The hardest argument concerns vulnerable people: they may indeed feel pressure, but that is simply a reason to set up a robust system of counselling and psychiatric assessment, requiring the agreement of several doctors that a patient is in their right mind and proceeding voluntarily.
It is also true that as some countries relax their restrictions on assisted suicide, the practice will become more common and there will probably be pressure for other restrictions to be removed. But there is nothing unusual in this. Moral absolutes are rare. When faced with dilemmas societies draw boundaries and carve out exceptions. In even the seemingly clearest of cases, such as the prohibition on killing, exceptions are made for things like war and self-defence. Assisted suicide is no different and each society's boundaries will no doubt differ and evolve, as they already have. The Netherlands and Belgium legalised assisted suicide in 2001 and 2002, but only the latter has approved the practice for terminally ill children.
There is much to be said for the breadth of the Swiss model, which allows assisted suicide in most cases. But on such an emotive and contentious issue politicians should reflect society, not lead it. Taboos are created by the people of a country; when they lift them, change goes more smoothly. Most in the West now seem ready to end the one on assisted suicide for the terminally ill. They should be allowed to work out how much further they want to go. Gradualism, therefore, is warranted.
The bill in the House of Lords would make assisted suicide legal in Britain for the first time, but require an individual wanting to die to be assessed by two doctors and be judged to have less than six months to live. He then would have to administer the lethal drugs himself. The current proposal would not have helped Nicklinson, whose death was not imminent. (After being denied the right to die by Britain's high court in 2012, he refused food and finally succumbed to pneumonia.) But it would still give several thousand Britons a year the chance to escape the sort of pain that Nicklinson suffered from, and would gradually increase public support for further liberalisation. We hope that it passes.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Easeful death"


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'Avatar' Sequels Upped to Three
Remember that terrible ripoff of Dances With Wolves with blue people and "unobtanium"? You know, the one was had, like, fifteen home video releases before it was finally given a 3D Blu-Ray? Well, James Cameron (the director) has just announced he's going to do three sequels instead of the previously reported two.
I'm sure this is all about telling the story and not at all about leeching as much money from this overhyped franchise as possible. Stay classy, Jimmy.
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A Bright and Bold Quirky Jewish Wedding at Woodberry Wetlands, London, UK
Here at STG HQ, we've just about come down from the high of our Smashing Summit and launching the VIB club – so normal service resumes once more in the form of this amazing, colorful and uplifting Jewish real wedding.
Ruth and Dan are both journalists, and they applied their creative skills to their wedding with aplomb! The day was an absolute visual feast, from the eco-friendly and foliage-heavy floristry, to the magically lit marquee and the bright, color-pop giant balloons. Just gorgeous!
Bride Ruth showed off her unique and stunning sense of style with her two-piece BHLDN ensemble, and looked a vision in it, pairing it with some killer heels from ASOS, before changing into her sensible-but-gorgeous Kurt Geiger bridal flats.
Even their chuppah has an adorable origin story, with the couple constructing it together with their best friends, who tied the knot the week before Ruth and Dan's wedding.
Both bride and groom made a speech (hooray) and the couple had a moving Reform Jewish ceremony, involving the whole family, and honoring Ruth's late grandfathers by using their tallit to cover the chuppah.
Jordanna Marston absolutely smashed the photography, with her expert eye for character and emotional moments, while the tear-jerking wedding trailer was provided by Olive Grove Films.
We'll leave you now with Ruth's incredibly eloquent write up – we know you'll all enjoy reading it and gazing at all the wedding pretty as much as we did!
Ruth, the bride: We met at a Halloween party in 2009 (our costumes are too embarrassing to share… let's just say it's a miracle we got talking). The two friends who brought each of us to that party were at our wedding, pleased as punch.
A haven in the city
We wanted to get married in London, where the majority of our friends and family live. We liked the idea of being near water, partly because of where we got engaged (on a boat on the Norfolk Broads), and partly because we love the mishmash of urban and rural – of wild and verdant spaces hidden within the city.
I saw the cafe at the newly opened Woodberry Wetlands come up on a friend's Instagram feed, and immediately contacted the London Wildlife Trust (which looks after the site) about weddings. Turns out they had recently decided to start doing a handful of private hire events a year, so we were lucky to get in there.
Woodberry Wetlands is a nature reserve set around a Thames Water-managed reservoir which provides water to the residents of London. There's loads of beautiful wildlife, a nature walk, community space and a cafà© in the original Coal House. We went to visit and loved the way the lush greenery and wide expanse of water looks set against the backdrop of typical London architecture – from residential tower blocks to the Shard (on a clear day).
They close off the whole site for private events, so we had it all to ourselves, which was such a luxury. We put up a marquee for the ceremony on one side of the water, and then had everyone walk around the water to a second marquee for dinner, before dancing in the Coal House. Later, we discovered that my maternal grandparents had married just 10 minutes away, which was a meaningful (and serendipitous!) discovery.
We really enjoyed visiting the Wetlands several times while planning the wedding, it's such a special haven in the middle of North London and we loved seeing the seasons change. We had every type of weather on the day (from boiling hot sunshine to sudden storms) but the wetlands looked spectacular throughout: a beautiful, vibrant backdrop.
A bright color scheme
We didn't use a wedding planner – we both worked together on all the details (occasionally driving ourselves mad, but mostly having fun.) We felt that we didn't want to do anything just because it's the done thing, so put some thought into each decision. This meant that lots of decisions felt very 'us' and very personal, and we hope made it feel intimate and unique for everyone else.
We wanted to maximise the greenery of the setting, so only used foliage and plants rather than flowers. We used bright oversized balloons to add some fun contrast. One decision that seemed to make a big visual impact was our watermelon kippot, which we sourced from Kippah King. Watermelons don't have a particular meaning for us, but we loved how playful, bright and fun the kippot looked. It was worth it because when we looked out over all our guests, the bright red and green kippot looked so fun.
The actual styling of the dinner marquee was relatively simple and lush, so that the setting was the main event. We incorporated an external brick wall into our marquee, and used it as a backdrop for the speeches, framed by bright balloons and big plants.
Very special invitations
We were going to be quite low key about our invitations… and then we had an idea to ask our very favourite artist, a street artist called Malarko, if he would ever consider creating something for us.
We already own about five of his prints – and have admired his work on London streets near where we live (and where we lived when we met), as well as on visits to Barcelona.
We were thrilled when he said yes – he did an amazing fun vista of us on a boat on the reservoir, with the Wetlands in the background (with added bats – we met on Halloween…).
Looking like myself on a very good day
I did my own hair – it's short and curly and as all curly-haired women know: it's complicated. I used my usual hairdresser, got it cut about a week before the wedding, and stuck to my usual regime of various curly-products (DevaCurl coconut cream is my favourite). Thankfully it worked out.
For makeup, I was recommended to use Lauren Oakey who was brilliant. I wanted to look like myself, on a very good day. I didn't want to cover my natural freckles or go OTT. She understood that very well, and was a delight to have around in the morning. With her guidance, I tried about 18 different hot pink/pink red lipsticks, and went with a Bobbi Brown art stick, which I kept in my pocket for many re-applications.
A dress with personality
At first, I thought I wanted an evening / fun red carpet-type dress, but when I went shopping I couldn't find anything that felt right. My best friend (and maid of honor), Georgia, lives in New York and when I went to visit her, we had a hilarious week trying on classic wedding dresses that all looked awful on me. We also had a lot of fun in department stores trying on amazing sequinned eveningwear that was way too expensive or (I felt) too mad to marry in.
Finally, we went to BHLDN (with a recommendation from an American friend) which is a wedding-only shop connected to Anthropologie. We spotted a fully sequinned cropped top with little roses scattered across it — I think it was intended for bridesmaids. I paired it with a sweeping, high-waisted bridal skirt and instantly felt like we'd hit the jackpot: comfortable, but still smart; playful and non-traditional, but still 'bridal', a bit of color and detail with the top, but not completely out there.
A fresh foliage hairpiece
Because I have short hair, I didn't think I had many options for hair accessories, but Sophie at Geo Fleur, our florists (though we had no flowers, only greenery), made me a beautiful hairpiece, decorated with patterned foliage that matched the plants we used on the day. It made me feel even more 'bridal'.
Quirky show-stealing shoes
My skirt was mid-shin length at the front, so I knew the shoes would be on show. I went a bit mad trying every type of shiny shoe I could find (I believe metallic shoes are basically a neutral), and ended up trying to decide on the wedding day itself between shiny hot pink and iridescent pale pink versions of the exact same shoe (I found them on ASOS). Both looked good, but I ended up in the paler ones on the day, having canvassed everyone in the room on the morning of the wedding.
They were very *very* high, but had an ankle strap which helped. They weren't the easiest to dance in, but I just went for it and somehow didn't feel the agony until after dinner. At that point, I changed into my wedding trainers – a pair of Kurt Geiger lace up pumps adorned with gold foil, silver, baubles, and red lips on the back of each pair. They were so mad, very me, and so comfortable. They gave me a whole new lease of life for the dancing.
The handsome groom
Dan is a writer and wrote a whole piece about his quest to find something unusual for the wedding that was special and marked him out as the groom, but wasn't too OTT. We ended up seeing this beautiful green Paul Smith suit in Selfridges (we were both very hungover; it was the day after my brother's wedding, but we trusted our instincts nevertheless). The color is amazing, so vivid and fun. It seemed really appropriate surrounded by all the greenery from the venue, and (unintentionally) complemented the floral details on my top.
His shoes – a lovely pair of burgundy Dr Martens – we owe to our photographer Jordanna Marston, who drove us to the Dr Martens factory shop when we went to visit her to talk through our plans. An absolute steal at £25!
His tie was made by an amazing tie-maker called Ian Scott Kettle, who makes gorgeous and unusual bespoke ties for cheaper than most of the ones you'll find in, say, Selfridges. Dan spent a fun hour or so in Ian's studio choosing all the fabrics with him.
Maids of honor displaying their own style
I had two maids of honor, Miri and Georgia, who chose their own outfits. They both have amazing style and I just wanted them to look and feel like themselves.
We also had a whole crew of friends helping us on the day – our 'Woodberry Wedsquad'. They all looked dapper/gorgeous, and we gave them watermelon badges/clips to match the kippot and mark them out as 'inner circle'.
A chuppah made with love
We liked the idea of having a silver birch chuppah, and one of my maids of honor, Miri, and her husband, Will, (who are very hands-on makers/designers in their professional lives) said they would help us to make it ourselves. We had a fab weekend with them at their home in Bristol – they got married the week before us and so on this weekend the boys got chuppah building for our wedding, and the girls made lots of personalised plant pots out of tin cans and fabric for Miri and Will's wedding.
The chuppah was very simple – birch poles, white fabric, and the florist added bunches of green foliage to tie it in with the surroundings.
The day before the wedding, the four of us were up ladders making it in situ – perhaps not the typical day-before activity, but great fun and really satisfying to have done it ourselves. Finally we hung my late grandfathers' tallit from the canopy as a special way of honoring them.
A moving Jewish ceremony
We first saw each other during a 'tisch-ish' ceremony that we decided to have with some of our closest family and friends. He was standing in the middle of a circle of all of those special people, and I walked up with my parents and tapped him on the shoulder. He looked insanely dashing (as ever). We loved having some time together before the madness began!
We decided to follow a traditional reform Jewish ceremony, led by Rabbi Michael Hilton, who has known my family for over 10 years. Rachel Weston is an amazing chazan/traditional singer and she sang the sheva brachot in a traditional style, which was stunningly beautiful. She also learned a Spanish song (Dan's mum is from Argentina, his dad from Spain) which she sang with our band (She' Koyokh) for our entrances. The song was Te Regalo Una Rosa (I give you a rose), and then she went into Erev Shel Shoshanim, which means evening of roses – both tunes we love, and both are very romantic, and of course combined our Jewish/Spanish-speaking heritages.
We split the circling so that we did 3.5 loops each, we all drank from the cup of wine (both sets of parents, bride and groom), we both said the traditional vows, and exchanged the rings that we'd made a few months earlier (we melted down Dan's grandmother's bracelet to make each other's rings, with Made By Ore in Walthamstow).
We added a couple of elements – Ruth's mother read the traditional blessing at the end – we wanted to make sure our parents all spoke at some point during the day. Dan's dad – who is a poet from Barcelona – read out a poem that he had written especially for the occasion in his native Spanish. Everyone had a translation in the booklets we had made.
As soon as Dan smashed the glass, everyone yelled Mazel Tov and we started some raucous Jewish circle dancing to some live Klezmer music – a real release of happy energy and a highlight for us.
A low-key first dance
For the arrival, we had "Te regalo una rosa".
Circling "Erev Shel Shoshanim".
Then we danced to klezmer.
We initially didn't really want a first dance – we didn't love the idea of everyone standing around watching us dance awkwardly! But our "solution" was simply to have a fairly low-key first dance, so it wasn't announced, it just sort of… happened. For the song itself, we asked our DJ – Max, from the incredible Wedding Smashers – to do a live mix on the night of Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding, seamlessly mixed into Otis by Kanye West and Jay Z. So we had some slow-ish dancing for a bit, quickly dropping into the upbeat party tunes.
As for the choice of song, 'Try a Little Tenderness' is a favourite of ours, not least because it features in my favourite film of all time, The Commitments. From the minute the Kanye/Jay Z beat dropped, the dancing was non-stop.
Foliage and oversized balloons
We wanted to keep the floristry side of things as simple as possible. After all, we were getting married in a wild outdoor space, in late May, when all the beautiful plants, trees and flowers were in full bloom. It seemed unnecessary to bring in loads of flowers of our own. We got married in an open-sided marquee on one side of the reservoir, and then had the reception in a transparent marquee on the other side.
To decorate these, we hired plants in pots from Sophie at Geo Fleur. This was more cost effective (and environmentally friendly!) than buying flowers. The brief we gave her was to keep it simple, which she did to beautiful effect by using understated, textured greenery – typical indoor house-plants like asparagus fern and pilea, in a mixture of pots that she had. These were dotted around the marquee as well as being clustered along the long communal tables where we had dinner. I decided against a bouquet, but wore a hair piece that Sophie made from foliage, fittonia and asparagus fern. It echoed Dan's button hole and the foliage she had used in the marquees.
We wanted to add some fun color and asked Sophie to provide lots of oversized helium balloons. The hot weather on the day meant that they didn't all do exactly what we'd planned, but the clusters of hot pink, orange and yellow balloons still looked fabulous in the corners of our marquee, especially against the brick wall that became a backdrop for our speeches. We went to town on the strings of fairy lights that lined the roof of the transparent marquee. As dusk fell they looked amazing.
Our fabulous photographer…
Jordanna Marston was amazing. We spoke to a few photographers but particularly loved her vibe – very relaxed and down to earth (and funny, too). We love how her pictures bring out bright colors and the celebratory nature of a good wedding.
She has an eye for characters and drama and we felt we could rely on her to capture the day. She did not disappoint – we love how she captured all our guests as well as getting some lovely portraits that make the most of the crazy/amazing setting of the Wetlands (not to mention the weather).
…and videographer
We had an excellent videographer, Sam Gordon of Olive Grove Films, who had recently moved back to the UK from the US and is breaking into the British wedding video industry (he's a very experienced filmmaker). He was very careful to document the day without getting in the way and made us a brilliant film that we can't stop watching!
A cheese tower
Instead of cake, we had a huge tower of amazing cheeses from Wilde's Cheese, who are based in Tottenham. We had an awesome day with Keith and Philip at their dairy choosing our cheeses. We had the big base cheese washed in Redemption Big Chief IPA which was one of the beers we had at the bar.
Vegetarian catering
The catering was fully vegetarian (we're both veggies) by the brilliant (down-to-earth, experienced and charming) Skye at Honey and Thyme catering. She's local to us in Walthamstow and came round to cook us a sample meal, which was insanely good. We had family-style sharing plates of all sorts of sumptuous mains, including nods to our favourite tapas dishes, and an homage to my mum's legendary baked cheesecake.
Everyone raved about the food – even those dedicated carnivores who were originally making jibes about the lack of meat on offer.
Keeping the dance floor full
For the "disco" we used the awesome Wedding Smashers. They're "alternative wedding DJs" but they weren't too cool for school at all. Their musical knowledge is unparalleled – from chart pop to UK garage to Scandinavian death metal, if that's your thing – but they totally took our lead in terms of the vibe. Max read the room so brilliantly, and kept the dance floor full from start to finish. (As Jordanna's pictures show so brilliantly)
Playing music as guests arrived, and then also for the Jewish dancing that directly followed the ceremony, we were lucky enough to have the amazing klezmer band She' Koyokh. At our behest, they even kindly learnt an old Spanish pop song for us, which they played as we walked down the aisle. Accompanying them during the ceremony was Rachel Weston, a Yiddish singer with a beautiful soprano voice (who did a great job of singing in Spanish, as well as Hebrew!). Rachel then sang with She' Koyokh during our Israeli dancing that followed the ceremony.
Preparing for all eventualities
We didn't really have favors, apart from our kippot (watermelon style, hand-knitted, from Kippah King) and we made booklets for all our guests, explaining who the 'main players' were, and what the traditions of the ceremony meant, as well as including a map of the wetlands and even a spotter's guide to the wildlife people might see on the day. We really enjoyed writing it and hope it meant everyone knew what was going on.
When prepping for the unusual forecasts (it was a heat-wave… but we all know what comes after a heat-wave, and sure enough… there were storms) we bought brightly colored fans to give out, as well as cheap umbrellas, and finally blankets for the evening. All of them were needed: classic British wedding.
Moving speeches
We had lots of speeches – my brother was a funny, warm, delightful MC throughout. My dad kicked off proceedings with a charming welcome speech; Dan's mum brought the house down with her Jewish/Argentine mother shtick; Georgia (maid of honour) did an incredible speech, imploring everyone to bring their A-game as wedding guests; Lionel (one of Dan's best friends) had people in tears with his thoughtful and beautifully composed words.
Then it was just down to me to say my piece, and Dan to say his. As we're both journalists, we felt a lot of pressure to express ourselves in the way we wanted. I was nervous about speaking beforehand, and cried every time I practised in the week before the wedding. But on the day I was on such a high, just so very happy. It had been such an amazing day that by the time it came to standing up there I was without any nerves – I could have gone on and on! I would encourage every bride/groom to make a speech – it's not often you get the chance to tell everyone you love what they mean to you. Dan's speech was fantastic – very funny as well as incredibly touching and emotional.
Fancy dress area
As mentioned, my maid of honor got married the week before us (we dubbed the whole month 'wed-fest') and they had a fab fancy dress area at their wedding. When we helped them pack up from their big day they encouraged us to hold onto the fancy dress, and Will set up a special area in the corner of the marquee, with a backdrop and a polaroid camera. It was worth it as we got some awesome group shots with all their amazing props, hats and wigs.
Advice to couples currently planning their wedding
Use your friends! We couldn't have got through the last days before the wedding and the day itself without the amazing support (and manual/physical labour) of our closest friends. They schlepped, they built things, they had difficult conversations with suppliers, they turned up early, stayed late, and four of them even went back to our venue with epic hangovers the next morning to collect our stuff, while we were swanning off on our honeymoon.
We made a big list of things we needed people to take care of, from handing out booklets to keeping our wedding certificate safe to picking up bagels for midnight (yum!) and assigned each task to someone. We realised that people like to feel involved and useful, and it makes a big difference to you – you have enough on your plate! A
lso, as good as your communications/relationship with the venue or your suppliers may be, there are always things that don't quite happen as you'd intended them to on the day – in these cases, it's amazing if one of your friends can leap to the rescue before you've even noticed, so you can just relax and enjoy the day.
Ruth & Dan's little white book
Photography – Jordanna Marston
DJ – Wedding Smashers
Videography – Olive Grove Films
Venue – Woodberry Wetlands
Bride's dress – BHLDN
Bride's shoes – Asos and Kurt Geiger
Groom's attire – Paul Smith, Dr Martens, Ian Scott Kettle
Hair – DevaCurl
Makeup – Lauren Oakey and Bobbi Brown
Flowers – Geo Fleur
Caterer – Honey and Thyme
Cheese – Wilde's Cheese
Chazan – Rachel Weston
Band – She' Koyokh
Stationery – Malarko
Kippot – Kippah King
Rings – Made By Ore and Tamara Gomez
Filed Under: Jewish DIY Weddings, Outdoor, Real Jewish Weddings Tagged With: ASOS, BHLDN wedding, Jordanna Marston photography, Kurt Geiger shoes, Multicoloured, Olive Grove Films, Paul Smith, The Wedding Smashers DJ, UK, Woodberry Wetlands
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Twimight was an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client let users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.

Added value
In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open-source  Twitter client, Twimight allowed communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight was also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode", which users could enable or disable at will. When the disaster mode was enabled and the cellular network was down, Twimight used peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstance. Enabling the disaster mode enabled on the phone's Bluetooth transceiver and connected the user to other nearby phones. This created a mobile ad hoc network or MANET, which could be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure had failed.

History
Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis at ETH Zurich in the spring of 2011.

References

External links
The Twimight development website

Free mobile software
Mobile social software
Free and open-source Android software
Android (operating system) software
Twitter services and applications
2013 software
Wireless networking
Microblogging software
Geosocial networking


The world is obsessed with telling stories. In nearly every aspect of life stories are being told and heard. Television, books, art, social media, dance, plays, and performances. All of these elements of life are telling a story. We try to escape our own reality by living through someone else's even if they are fictional plot lines.
I love to story tell by creating my own stories and retelling familiar ones. I do most of my original story telling through art on a canvas all through my emotions, use of color, and then portray my message through these elements. I also retell stories by my music. Vivaldi is my all time favorite composer. I am in love with his style of compositions. With my instruments I retell something that someone else has already written, within this I add my own interpretation of what I think the author originally intended the notes to be played. Or change it a little bit by using different dynamics and note variations. It doesn't matter what instrument I use. It could be violin, or even my voice.
Whether you want to believe it, YOU TOO are a story teller. How you live your life is a reflection of your compositions. You have the power to make it a best seller or have it barely be read. However, so the unexpected is always listening to your stories you are telling. Your stories are compiled upon how you do the mundane in life and most importantly how you walk the pages of life.
If your life was a reality TV show would others want to watch it because of the monotony or how you told your adventurous stories.


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Zachary LaVine (Renton, Washington, Estados Unidos; 10 de marzo de 1995) es un jugador profesional de baloncesto estadounidense que actualmente pertenece a la plantilla de los Chicago Bulls de la NBA. Con 1,96 metros de altura, juega en la posición de escolta.

LaVine desarrolló su carrera universitaria en los UCLA Bruins y fue elegido en la decimotercera posición global del Draft de la NBA de 2014 por los Minnesota Timberwolves. Allí jugó tres temporadas antes de ser traspasado a los Bulls en el verano de 2017.

Trayectoria

Instituto
LaVine asistió a la escuela secundaria Bothell High School en Bothell, Washington, donde jugó de base. En su último año, promedió 28.5 puntos, 3.4 rebotes, 2.5 asistencias y fue nombrado Jugador del Año de Washington Associated Press de 2013 y Washington Mr. Basketball. Sin embargo, solo recibió el reconocimiento nacional limitado.

Universidad

El 20 de junio de 2012, LaVine se comprometió verbalmente a asistir a UCLA y jugar para el entrenador Ben Howland para la temporada 2013. Howland fue despedido nueve meses después y LaVine consideró quedarse en el estado y asistir a la Universidad de Washington en su lugar. Sin embargo; finalmente decidió quedarse con la UCLA y su nuevo entrenador, Steve Alford; LaVine había heredado el afecto por la universidad de UCLA, de su padre, que era fan del baloncesto de los Bruins mientras crecía en las cercanías de San Bernardino, California.

Después de un fuerte inicio de la temporada 2013-14 como sexto hombre del equipo, ofreciendo una impresionante demostración de tiro exterior y mates explosivos, el base LaVine evocaba recuerdos de los comienzos en UCLA del exalumno Russell Westbrook. Los expertos del Draft de la NBA comenzaron a dar un rango alto a LaVine en sus proyecciones para el Draft de la NBA de 2014, si se declaraba elegible. El experto del draft Chad Ford de ESPN.com, lo señaló como la décima selección, mientras que NBADraft.net lo ubicó quinto. Durante la temporada, LaVine normalmente entró al partido con Bryce Alford, que por lo general manejaba el balón, mientras que el titular Kyle Anderson era el organizador principal del equipo. Durante un lapso de seis partidos desde el 26 de enero de 2014, tuvo que soportar una mala racha de tiro donde hizo solo 7 de 36 tiros de campo. Obtuvo un promedio de 9.4 puntos por partido durante la temporada, pero no alcanzó cifras dobles en 14 de los últimos 18 partidos. En los últimos cinco partidos, anotó apenas 11 puntos e hizo 0 de 8 en tiros de tres. A pesar de su crisis de final de temporada, fue incluido en el Mejor quinteto freshman de la Pacific-12 Conference.

El 16 de abril de 2014, anunció que renunciará a su elegibilidad universitaria restante y que ingresaría al draft de la NBA.

Estadísticas

NBA

Minnesota Timberwolves
LaVine fue seleccionado por los Minnesota Timberwolves en la decimotercera posición del Draft de la NBA de 2014. El 8 de julio de 2014, firmó su contrato rookie con los Wolves. Debutó como profesional el 30 de octubre de 2014 en un partido en el que su equipo derrotó 97-91 a los Detroit Pistons. Disputó 4:34 minutos y no pudo sumar ningún registro estadístico.

En el All-Star Weekend de 2015 fue incluido en el Team USA del Rising Stars Challenge. Al día siguiente se proclamó campeón del Concurso de Mates tras imponerse en la final a Victor Oladipo.

Chicago Bulls

El 22 de junio de 2017 fue traspasado junto con Kris Dunn y los derechos de Lauri Markkanen a los Chicago Bulls a cambio de Jimmy Butler y los derechos de Justin Patton. Debido a su lesión de rodilla no pudo debutar con la franquicia de Illinois hasta enero de 2018. Dos meses después los Bulls anunciaron que LaVine iba a ser baja para lo que restaba de temporada por una tendinitis en la rodilla izquierda. En su primera campaña en Chicago disputó un total de veinticuatro partidos (todos ellos como titular) en los que promedió 16,4 puntos por encuentro.

Durante el verano de 2018 llegó a un acuerdo con los Sacramento Kings por cuatro años y ochenta millones de dólares. Sin embargo, al ser agente libre restringido, los Bulls pudieron igualar la oferta y retener a LaVine. El 1 de marzo de 2019 ante Atlanta Hawks anota 47 puntos.

El 23 de noviembre de 2019 firmó la mejor actuación de su carrera al anotar 49 puntos con un trece de diecisiete en tiros de tres en la remontada de su equipo ante los Charlotte Hornets. Esos trece triples son la segunda mejor marca de la historia de la NBA en un partido, empatado con Stephen Curry y solamente por detrás de los catorce encestados por Klay Thompson un año antes, precisamente ante los Bulls.

Durante su cuarta temporada con los Bulls, el 10 de enero de 2021 ante Los Angeles Clippers anota 45 puntos. El 10 de febrero consigue 46 ante New Orleans Pelicans. El 23 de febrero, fue elegido por primera vez para disputar el All-Star Game que se celebró en Atlanta. El 9 de abril ante Atlanta Hawks consigue su mejor registro anotador con 50 puntos.

El 3 de febrero de 2022, se anunció su presencia como reserva en el All-Star Game de la NBA 2022, siendo la segunda participación de su carrera.

El 1 de julio de 2022 acuerda una extensión de contrato con los Bulls por 5 años y $215 millones. Durante su sexta temporada en Chicago, el 4 de diciembre de 2022 ante Sacramento Kings anota 41 puntos. El 30 de diciembre consigue 43 puntos ante Detroit Pistons. El 7 de enero de 2023 ante Philadelphia 76ers, anota 41 puntos, incluyendo 11 triples. El 1 de marzo consigue otros 41 puntos ante Detroit Pistons. El 5 de marzo consigue 42 puntos ante Indiana Pacers.

Selección nacional
En verano de 2021, fue parte de la selección absoluta estadounidense que participó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020, que ganó la medalla de oro.

Estadísticas de su carrera en la NBA

Temporada regular

Playoffs

Vida personal
Zach LaVine nació en Renton, Washington, de padres atletas. Su padre, Paul, jugó al fútbol americano profesional en la United States Football League (USFL) y en la National Football League (NFL) con los Seattle Seahawks. Su madre, CJ, era jugadora de softball.

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Enlaces externos

Baloncestistas de Washington
Baloncestistas de la NBA
Baloncestistas All-Star de la NBA
Baloncestistas de los UCLA Bruins
Baloncestistas de los Minnesota Timberwolves
Baloncestistas de los Chicago Bulls
Baloncestistas de la selección de Estados Unidos
Baloncestistas de Estados Unidos en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020


Essae Technologys Private limited (ETPL), incorporated in 1997, is part of the Eassae Group (Founded 1965) and is a leader in business automation products. The first bar coding company in India to be certified ISO 9001-2000, ETPL is dedicated to offer solutions in the field of automatic identification and provides state-of-the-art security solutions in the retail space on EM and RF platforms.
ETPL, with its Head Office in Bengaluru and with a network of sales and service nationwide was managing its data manually, which proved to be a major challenge. The business need was to upgrade HR from a manual to an automated system to benefit better process control, introduce new technologies, include online performance systems and to keep a check on data redundancy and have access to correct analysis of data.
Meeting ETPL's needs perfectly, Adrenalin proved to be their preferred choice. With Adrenalin, ETPL now has an easy and intelligent way of keeping track of their employees; their performance and their data, and has empowered their workforce with Adrenalins patented Zolog that makes self-service forms such as leave management and claims available at a click.


In order to use the Uber app to drive, you'll need to visit a medical centre to complete a fitness to drive assessment. If needed, please bring your eyeglasses and medical prescriptions to your appointment.
Uber has partnered with Jobfit to provide medical assessments at only $75 (inclusive of GST). Medical assessments are performed at the Uber Greenlight Hub five days a week Monday - Friday from 10am – 2pm.
To schedule an appointment outside the Jobfit Greenlight Hub open hours please call (08) 6332 5201 or email Perth.Reception@jobfit.com.au.
Linked here are the medical assessment instructions and medical assessment certificate.
Alternatively, most GPs should be able to complete the medical assessment, although prices may be considerably higher.
You can complete your medical assessment while you wait on your background check to get on the road sooner.


Jun 27, 2013 - The Indiana Pacers selected Solomon Hill in Round 1 with Pick 23 in the 2013 NBA Draft.
Jul 3, 2013 - Solomon Hill signed a multi-year contract with the Indiana Pacers.
Dec 29, 2013 - The Indiana Pacers assigned Solomon Hill to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the G League.
Jan 4, 2014 - The Indiana Pacers recalled Solomon Hill from the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the G League.
Oct 9, 2014 - The Indiana Pacers exercised their Team Option to extend the contract of Solomon Hill.
Jul 1, 2016 - Solomon Hill, previously with the Indiana Pacers, became a free agent.
Jul 7, 2016 - The Indiana Pacers renounced their free-agent exception rights to Solomon Hill.
Jul 21, 2016 - Solomon Hill signed a multi-year contract with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Dec 29, 2013 - The Indiana Pacers assigned Solomon Hill to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.
Jan 4, 2014 - The Indiana Pacers recalled Solomon Hill from the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.
The Pelicans are looking to add a '3-and-D" wing to help open up space on offense.


Sunday, November 11, 2018 Please join us for a Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony to be held at Veterans Park on Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 11 AM. This ceremony will remember the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice ending World War I and the beginnings of Veterans Day. Military Honors will be provided by the American Legion Post 39 in a 20 minute ceremony. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. Refreshments will be served. Veterans Park is located at 2438 Margaret Street.


W. Kamau Bell is an American stand-up comic and television host. Prominent within the San Francisco stand-up comedy scene, he is best known as the host of the former FXX television series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and as the host of the CNN original series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, for which he has received a 2017 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program.
W. Kamau Bell and Geraldine Porras accept an award at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmys.
RuPaul Charles and W. Kamau Bell present an award at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmys.
The team from United Shades of America With W. Kamau Bell accept an award at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmys.
W. Kamau Bell on the red carpet at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmys.
W. Kamau Bell and Melissa Bell at the 2017 Creative Arts Ball.
W. Kamau Bell and Melissa Bell on the red carpet at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmys.


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The Write Space: Michael Gerhard Martin
The Write Space is a monthly Q&A series from Creative Salem covering a local writer and a Salem space(s) he associates with writing. Questions? Contact susanna.baird@gmail.com.
Give us your best writerly bio.
Michael Gerhard Martin is a native of central Pennsylvania, though he has lived on the North Shore for 13 years. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and teaches writing at Babson College. His short story about bullying and school violence, Shit Weasel Is Late For Class, won the James Knudsen prize. His book, Easiest If I Had A Gun, was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize and the Iowa and John Simmons short fiction awards. His work has appeared in Bayou and The Ocean State Review, and on Salon.com, Reading Out Loud, and The Museum of Americana Lit Review. His story Smokes is forthcoming in Big Muddy, and he is hard at work on his second book. He is married to the poet and memoirist Ellen Goldstein. Easiest If I Had A Gun is published by Braddock Avenue Books.
Tell us about your Salem Write Space.
My Salem Write Space is Gulu-Gulu, though I sometimes take up a booth at Flying Saucer Pizza if it's too busy. I've written about Gulu-Gulu before, for Bayou Magazine — the babble of dozens of conversations, the punks and hippies and geeks and hipsters, the art on the walls, and the fertile eavesdropping that I find essential to my writing process. At home, I get wrapped up in myself, and my own world.
Writing fiction is a voyeuristic enterprise, and there is something about being out in a public place, where the staff leaves me alone unless I want something, where I feel welcome and known and anonymous at the same time — it flips the switch on the part of me that wants to steal from reality to create grotesque people involved in absurd conflicts, clawing for meaning in an indifferent world. They also make really good waffles.
Right now, I'm revising my novel in progress. It's based on a story from my first book, and it's about young lovers, kids graduating from high school in what one reviewer called "Trump country" — the post-industrial landscape of urban Appalachia. It's about surplus people — kids trying to find purpose in a landscape long deserted by opportunity, finding sex and drugs and liquor instead. It's about unemployment, parents, broken alcoholics, depression, and the desperate love of desperate people.
When I'm in Salem, not writing, I'm …
… usually at the cinema or the farmer's market, or eating at the Ugly Mug.
Excerpt from Michael's Made Just for Ewe!
Elsa waited at the door with a rolling cart of stock that smelled of Spanish moss and dried eucalyptus, reading a self-help book for small business owners. A Mexican girl in a security uniform, her sleek curls pulled close at the nape of her neck, paced slowly in front of the steel doors, looking bored. The book suggested Elsa think of a word that defined the mission of her business, a single word for what she was trying to bring to the world, one word that she could repeat to herself for inspiration.
She thought, "Failure." She had lost six thousand dollars on a rained-out craft show the week before, and their home equity line of credit was maxed. She was operating at a loss. And on blind faith; faith that the doors would open, faith that the people would come, faith that she would be able to retire someday. Faith that she would keep her home. Faith that she would die before she ran out of money.
Read the rest of Made Just for Ewe! at The Museum of Americana.
Learn more about Michael at www.michaelgerhardmartin.com.
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I'm a college opt out working with a Chicago based startup (@alvcoaching.com) doing sales development. In my spare time, I really love reading and I also do photography and videography. My passion for photography was brought out by my desire to capture the real essence of people. However; my heart beats for advocating on behalf of the underprivileged and misunderstood. My biggest dreams are to continue to invest in the local community and become a catalyst for change in the local culture. On a much lighter note, I really love pizza and coffee, but, not at the same time.