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Master of Photography Edward Burtynsky at Photo London 2018
by Barry W Hughes on June 21, 2018
Computer programmes, apps, digital ways of distribution and social media are today an inherent part of contemporary art.
Approaches range from David Hockney's iPad paintings and drawings, which he has been doing since 2008, Amalia Ulman's Excellences & Perfections, from 2014, a fake Instagram account which documented the rise and fall of an aspiring L.A. actress, to the beautifully digitally rendered singing digger in Broomberg & Chanarin's The Bureaucracy of Angels, 2017. Many photographers have long exchanged the darkroom for the computer desk to edit their images. The increasing digitalization of the arts, including photography, is a fact, which is profoundly changing our ways of presenting and experiencing it, while challenging and expanding the boundaries and definitions of media, single artworks and art itself.
As with the introduction of any new technology, the benefit depends on its application. Two contrasting examples featured in this year's Master of Photography display at Photo London by Edward Burtynsky, who, as of late, celebrates the digital age too. The exhibition gathered rarely seen and new photographs from Burtynsky's ongoing project Anthropocene, a term which describes our present geological age, in which humans have a heavy influence on our planet's appearance and systems. It included mainly aerial shots of areas where this becomes palpable, for example, saw mills in Nigeria, opencast mining in Arizona and salt pans in India.
Burtynsky also presented his first augmented reality experience, AR #1, Scrap Engine and Rims, Agbogbloshie Recycling Yards, Accra, Ghana 2017, which can be accessed with the help of an app on a phone or a tablet. Visible to the naked eye is a low platform with the abbreviations for metals from the periodical system. On screen, however, we can see three different virtual reality scenarios from the recycling yard, which for example, includes a pile of old car wheels and other scrap metal. You can walk around the objects and see them from all sides, get closer and further away, and even enter them. The rusty parts were first digitally re-built in three dimensions and then covered with a photographic skin, applying the technology which is commonly used for computer games.
The piece plays with our senses, is immediate and ephemeral at the same time, and encourages further engagement. Moreover, it aptly supports the project's message. According to Burtynsky, the installation shall 'place the reality of industrial waste in immediate juxtaposition to the present space of Somerset House'.[1] In fact, it forms a snide comment on a whole range of political, ethical and environmental issues, revealing the Western world's unwillingness to deal with their own waste locally, alluding to the discrepancy between the actual and perceived availability of natural resources and brings to mind how easy it is to manipulate and instrumentalize knowledge and information in these matters.
The use of augmented reality seems less relevant in the case of Carrara Marble Quarries, Cava di Canalgrande #2, Carrara, Italy, 2016. The enormous photograph, measuring 6 by 3 metres, is itself stitched together from 122 50-megapixel files.[2] Trigger points in the image, like the red digger in the centre, cause the app to show 'film extensions' to the artwork. In the short video starting with the digger, the camera is slowly zooming out of the scene, revealing the great extent of the quarry, showing the heavy machinery moving, and adding sound to the spectacle. The intention of the extension remains unclear, however. The magnitude of the site, and, by implication, the extent of the human intervention into the landscape is better communicated by the monumental size of the mural, and the addition of motion and noises is little enlightening. The video does not seem to enrich, elevate or twist the information already contained in the photograph but feels like a gimmicky afterthought.
To the contrary, the 'film extensions' diminish the impact of Carrara Marble Quarries, Cava di Canalgrande #2. Burtynsky's works distinguish themselves by their classical, balanced compositions and carefully arranged colour schemes. Together with their large size, they convey the sublimeness and solemn sense of drama of Old Master paintings; at Photo London this was enhanced by spotlighting them in an otherwise dark space. Those qualities then stand in sharp contrast to their subjects, which record ecological crimes, overexploitation and irreversible damage to the planet – the photographs unveil their true power the moment we understand that the beautiful iridescent stream of colour in the river is in fact caused by oil spilling into the eco system. The search for the trigger point and the electronic device in front of the piece disturb the reading of the image and interrupts the symbiosis of form and content, which works so well for Burtynsky.
The Master of Photography display revealed that digital tools and virtual reality have not only entered the realm of photography but that they are here to stay, and proved that they can be employed in an innovative and fruitful manner. It also confirmed that just like with everything, sometimes, less is more.
All images © Edward Burtynsky
Katharina Guenther is a professional fine art researcher and author based in London. As an independent art historian M.A., she currently working on a PhD thesis on Francis Bacon which explores the artist's relationship to photography.
[1] Edward Burtynsky on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EdwardBurtynsky/photos/pcb.2022525628013309/2022525241346681/?type=3&theater. Seen 23 May 2018.
[2] Anny Shaw, 'Edward Burtynsky unveils preview of Anthropocene project at Photo London', in: The Art Newspaper, 17 May 2018: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/edward-burtynsky-unveils-preview-of-his-anthropocene-project-in-london Seen 23 May 2018.
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Our family was consumed with grief, and we decided we would wait awhile before getting a new dog.
The breeder Salishan Jack Russell Terriers had a litter of 5 puppies.
We went to just check out the puppies, and when the barn door opens a "jumbo" jack runs towards us and that was it. Lou chose us.
The breeder warned us before we left with our 3 pound Lou. Give him consistent training lots of exercise and socialization otherwise a JRT will run your life.
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Summary: . One Direction fans might want to sit down for this one. A new trailer for the upcoming World War II drama Dunkirk dropped on Wednesday, finally giving fans a glimpse at Harry Styles in his first feature-length role. The upcoming film from writer and ...
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The compelling story of one of the world's finest performing arts schools. Learn how it got started against the odds, and how it engages with young people from all backgrounds.
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'Doctor Who' Season 11 Spoilers: A Romance Between Yasmin and the Doctor?
Corey Plante
Doctor Who Season 11 might be moving towards a surprising romance for new companion Yasmin Khan, but it's not the one you might expect. may than pining for her former classmate Ryan, Yaz might have taken a romantic interest in the 13th Doctor instead.
In the first three Doctor Who episodes this season, Yasmin and Ryan reconnected as friends who went to grade school together, and they have decent chemistry. They're the easy couple to ship on Doctor Who these days. But in Sunday night's "Arachnids in the UK" — which also introduced us to Yaz's family — we got the first inkling that Yasmin's fascination with the Doctor as a brilliant alien might be developing into something more romantic.
In the episode's first scene with the Doctor and her new friends, during an awkward goodbye, Yaz is the first one to invite the Doctor to tea at her place. She does politely extend the invitation to Ryan and Graham as well, but even Ryan notes that they weren't invited at first. Ryan and Graham seem totally fine not going on any more life-threatening adventures here, but Yaz is the one that doesn't want to say goodbye to the Doctor.
Yaz adamantly tells her family that she's "just friends" with Ryan — and with the Doctor. BBC America
While at tea in the Khan apartment, Yaz suffers the usual questions from her family about her general lack of friends and whether or not she is dating Ryan. (Again, the easy ship.) Later, when the gang converges on the hotel in the center of the city where Yaz's mother Najia works, Yaz is again pestered about her romantic prospects — yet here it's about the Doctor.
"Sorry, but who are you?" Najia asks the Doctor. "How do you know my daughter? Why've I not met you before? Are you two seeing each other?"
Earlier in the episode, the Doctor diagnosed herself as "nervous" and "socially awkward," yet here her cool response is simple:
"I don't think so. Are we?"
Cue the dramatic pause.
"We're friends!" Yasmin says, visibly frustrated. "I owe the Doctor my life, quite a few times over."
Whether or not Doctor Who wants us to think this is an actual possibility, the show's writers definitely want it to be on our minds. It's just enough to tantalize Doctor Who fans into shipping Yasmin and the Doctor full-time.
Perhaps the strongest piece of evidence in support of the Yas-Doc ship comes at the very end of the episode when all three companions commit to more adventures aboard the TARDIS.
Graham doesn't want to stay home and grieve his dead wife Grace, and Ryan is sick of his dead-end job. Going on adventures through space and time give each of them an opportunity for more excitement. But Yasmin is the one that has the most dramatic commitment to staying aboard.
"I want more, more of the universe … more time with you," she says. "You're like the best person I've ever met."
That's not quite a romantic confession, but it is absolutely enough for some fans to think so.
One piece of evidence that goes against any fangirling or fanboying about the prospect of a romance between the Doctor and Yasmin is that in a September interview with The Times, 13th Doctor Jodie Whittaker specifically said, "We are a friendship group in this season."
There's every indication that at least for this current 10-episode season, the series might not go for any romance. This is a new Doctor with a new showrunner, so it's basically a soft reboot. We wouldn't be surprised if Chris Chibnall (the new showrunner) played it at least a little bit safe in this regard, titillating viewers with just enough hints without ever committing to relationships.
But who knows what might happen in Season 12 and beyond? For the time being, we definitely ship Yasmin and the Doctor.
Doctor Who airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. Eastern on BBC America.
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In 2009, the Saint-Gobain Foundation became involved in the construction of more than 90 homes in the townships in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, for a total amount of €470,000 spread across three years. The project was run by the international nonprofit Habitat for Humanity and supported by the South African government. The Saint-Gobain Construction Products Academy provided additional aid to train volunteers working directly on the worksite. In 2011, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Saint-Gobain, Pierre-André de Chalendar, planted a lemon tree to celebrate the first house built in Tsakhane, South Africa, thanks to a donation made by the Saint-Gobain Foundation to the nonprofit.


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The Catholic Historical Review 88.4 (2002) 768-769
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Sancta Birgitta. Revelaciones, Book II. Edited by Carl-Gustaf Undhagen and Birger Bergh. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 2001. Pp. 128. SEK 152 paperback.)
The publication of this volume and of H. Aili's edition of Revelaciones, Book VIII, also in 2001, brings to completion the twelve-volume critical edition of the texts of Saint Birgitta begun some fifty years ago. The impact of this meticulous labor of love by a series of devoted scholars can be seen in the growing interest in this extraordinary seer in recent scholarship. Birgitta and her younger contemporary, Catherine of Siena, are the most remarkable examples of a female leadership role that sprang to life in the mid-twelfth century with the visions and predictions of Hildegard of Bingen and Elisabeth of Schönau and that remained strong through the later Middle Ages. Through their ability to channel divine messages for both individuals and institutions these prophetissae created a new public role for women as agents of reform and "trumpets of the mysteries of God," as Hildegard once put it.
Book II of the Revelaciones is among the shortest of the nine books that contain Birgitta's approximately 700 showings, having only thirty chapters. The messages in it are mostly speeches by Christ to his sponsa, though eight of the chapters contain addresses by Mary, and in one chapter it is John the Baptist who speaks. The content of the messages is typical of the Swedish seer—warnings and teachings about the proper conduct of the various states of life often presented in the form of exempla (Birgitta sometimes calls them similitudo or figura) which are subjected to detailed allegorical exegesis. In this book Birgitta is especially concerned about the proper way of life of the miles, the defender of the Church who is meant to follow the example of St. George (see chaps. VII-XIII). Another characteristic of Birgitta's visionary style appears in chapter XXI, where Mary tells Birgitta about specific details of the deposition of Christ's body from the cross in a way similar to the famous revelations given to the seer about the circumstances of the Nativity and Crucifixion.
Among the most interesting aspects of the revelations contained in Book II are those that deal with Birgitta's authority. In chapter X, for example, Christ [End Page 768] compares his spouse to Moses, who heard God speaking in the fiery bush. Birgitta is even accorded superiority: "Therefore," says the Lord, "it is written that Moses veiled his face because he spoke with God, but you ought not veil your face. I have opened spiritual eyes for you so that you may see spiritual things; I have opened ears that you may hear what is of the spirit" (X. 37-38). Nevertheless, the divine voice insists that Birgitta's gifts are not due to her own worth (see chap. XVI), and are not for herself, but only for the edification and salvation of others (chap. XV). Although in one place Christ says to her,"I speak to you as a man speaks to his wife" (chap. XXV.3), Birgitta's revelations guard against crude literalism by insisting that it is for pedagogical purposes only that spiritual things are set forth through corporeal examples (chap. XVIII.1-7), and that there are many ways in which divine predictions come true—spiritually and corporeally, sooner or later (chap. XXVIII). Here, as in the other books, Birgitta advances a more subtle view of prophetology than she is sometimes given credit for.
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Peñalén es un antiguo lugar que actualmente está dentro del término del municipio español de Funes, en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra. Está situado a medio camino entre Funes, al norte, y Milagro, al sur.

Geografía
Se corresponde con un espolón rocoso-arcilloso de 400  que deja un precipicio de unos 100 metros de altura, a cuyos pies se encuentra la confluencia entre el río Aragón y el río Arga.

Historia
Es famoso en la Historia de Navarra por ser el lugar del magnicidio del rey Sancho Garcés IV de Pamplona a manos de sus hermanos Ramón y Ermesinda, que lo empujó el 4 de junio de 1076 por dicho precipicio cuando estaban de cacería. Parece ser y todo apunta a que fue trasladado hacia un precipicio existente en esta localidad con diversos engaños. Fue despeñado en ese lugar en una conspiración en la que participaron tanto su hermano Ramón como miembros de la alta aristocracia navarra. Alfonso VI, primo de la víctima, aprovechó la situación de caos para apoderarse de parte de los territorios correspondientes a Álava, Vizcaya y La Rioja. Ante estos hechos, los «barones» pamploneses, excluyendo a sus hijos García y Sancho, consideró apropiado someterse al vasallaje del rey de Aragón Sancho Ramírez, efectuando así la unión de los dos reinos durante los 80 años siguientes hasta la vuelta de García Ramírez IV (1134-1150), nieto de Sancho Garcés IV.

En Peñalén existía (al menos en la fecha en que consta la primera documentación, 1084) un poblado cuya iglesia perteneció a la Abadía de Montearagón, al menos durante los casi dos siglos. Dicha abadía estuvo situada en la Fortaleza-monasterio de Montearagón, en las proximidades de Huesca. Según informa la Gran enciclopedia de Navarra, «desde 1331 comenzó a denominarse Villanueva. Contaba en 1366 con 5 fuegos, todos hidalgos. Se despobló a mediados del siglo XV.»

Con la nueva dinastía pamplonesa restaurada, la villa de Peñalén pasó en el siglo XII a gobernarse bajo el fuero de Calahorra. No queda ningún vestigio de la antigua Peñalén en la actualidad, pero siguiendo al historiador Altadill se puede deducir que estuvo bajo el precipicio llamado con su nombre, junto a la ribera del Arga, y que en aquellos tiempos era puerto fluvial que recibía tráfico desde Zaragoza y Tortosa.

En el siglo XIV lo que era Peñalén fue sustituido por Villafranca, parece que a resultas del traslado de la aldea a un lugar más seguro tras ser arrasada por una crecida del río o por epidemia de peste bubónica. Así lo confirma la crónica del Príncipe de Viana que identifica los dos topónimos. En el posterior devenir histórico sabemos que Villafranca se asoció a Marcilla para fortificarse en Peralta y resistir allí a la invasión de los reyes castellanos, que consiguieron en 1378 la rendición de Funes.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Localidades de Navarra
Funes (Navarra)

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Welcome to django-postman's documentation!
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This is an application for `Django <http://www.djangoproject.com>`_-powered websites.

Basically, the purpose is to allow authenticated users of a site to exchange private **messages**
within the site.  In this documentation, the word *user* is to be understood as an instance of a User,
in the django.contrib.auth context.

So it is mainly for a User-to-User exchange.
But it may be beneficial for a subscriber to receive inquiries from any visitor, ie even if non authenticated.
For instance, a subscriber as a service provider wants an ask-me-details form on a presentation page
to facilitate possible business contacts.
In this case, the visitor is presented a compose message form with an additional field to give
an email address for the reply. The email is obfuscated to the recipient.

What is a message ? Roughly a piece of text, about a subject, sent by a sender to a recipient.
Each user has access to a collection of messages, stored in folders:

    | **Inbox** for incoming messages
    | **Sent** for sent messages
    | **Archives** for archived messages
    | **Trash** for messages marked as deleted

In folders, messages can be presented in two modes:

* by **conversation**, for a compact view: the original message and its replies are grouped in a set
  to constitute one sole entry.
  The lastest message (based on the time) is the representative of the set.
* by **message**, for an expanded view: each message is considered by itself.

Here is a summary of features:

* A non-User (email is undisclosed) can write to a User and get a reply
  (can be disabled by configuration)
* Exchanges can be moderated (with auto-accept and auto-reject plug-ins)
* Optional recipient filter plug-ins
* Optional exchange filtering plug-ins (blacklists)
* Multi-recipient writing is possible (can be disabled by configuration)
  with min/max constraints
* Messages are managed by conversations
* Messages in folders are sortable by sender|recipient|subject|date
* 'Archives' folder in addition to classic Inbox, Sent and Trash folders
* A Quick-Reply form to only ask for a response text
* A cleanup management command to clear the old deleted messages

It has support for optional additional applications:

* Autocomplete recipient field (default is 'django-ajax-selects'),
  with multiple recipient management
* New message notification (default is `django-notification`_)
* Asynchronous mailer (default is `django-mailer`_)

.. _`django-notification`: http://github.com/jtauber/django-notification/
.. _`django-mailer`: http://github.com/jtauber/django-mailer/

Moderation
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As an option, messages may need to be validated by a moderator before to be visible
to the recipient.  Possible usages are:

* to control there is no unwanted words in the text fields.
* to make sure that no direct contact informations are exchanged when the site is an intermediary
  and delivers services based on subscription fees.

Messages are first created in a *pending* state. A moderator is in charge to change them to
a *rejected* or *accepted* state.  This operation can be done in two ways:

* By a person, through the Admin site. A specially simplified change view is provided,
  with one-click buttons to accept or reject the message.
* Automatically, through one or more auto-moderator functions.

Filters
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As options, custom filters can disallow messages, in two ways:

* **user filter**: a user is not in a state to act as a recipient
* **exchange filter**: criteria for a message between a specific sender
  and a specific recipient are not fulfilled

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Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   quickstart
   moderation
   notification
   views
   features
   tags-filters
   management
   api
   faq

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

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US cities in pursuit of viable futures: Taking on the sustainable development goals
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With political divisions on the rise and global cooperation imperiled, city officials worldwide are stepping up to lead, solving local problems while sharing solutions and innovations across borders. Making cities such as New York, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles inclusive, safe, and sustainable is vital to the future of the United States—and the globe. Driven by the need to act locally while thinking globally, a growing number of metro areas are adapting the sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a blueprint for progress.
On November 29, 2018, the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings and Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy co-hosted an event with city officials and development experts to explore the value proposition of the SDGs for U.S. cities. Experts explored how the 17 SDGs can help cities tackle local economic, political, and environmental challenges vital to the health and wellbeing of their residents. They debated how U.S. cities can lead and reach the global goals by 2030, as outlined in this blog post by Anthony Pipa.
New York City and Los Angeles are publicly promoting and implementing the SDGs, while cities such as Pittsburgh are leading on innovation and sustainability but have not yet connected their strategies to the SDGs. Panelists also explored how technology can help integrate the SDGs into city strategies and accelerate development gains.
Following the discussion, panelists took questions from the audience.
Amy Liu
Vice President and Director - Metropolitan Policy Program
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Ex-miner seeks compensation
Cigar Lake flood has lasting effects on father of five
Graham Andrews
The StarPhoenix
Almost eight months after water rushed through a tunnel deep in Cameco's Cigar Lake uranium mine, the nightmares continue for one of the three miners caught directly in the torrent.
He copes with post-traumatic stress disorder as he supports his family with a part-time landscaping job, but the other two men are on paid stress leaves from the mining jobs they still hold.
Michael Paquette wants to know why his livelihood was washed away 480 metres below ground.
Within days of the Oct. 22, 2006, flood, Paquette was laid off along with about 100 workers who were under contract at the site with Mudjatik Thyssen Mining (MTM). Water shut down the workplace for most of the MTM employees at Cigar Lake. The two other men, both veteran miners who were with Paquette at the flood's frontline, were transferred to another MTM job site.
Following the incident, Paquette, who had worked for the company for 19 months, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. His application for workers' compensation was denied.
By spring, he was tired of living off employment insurance and family allowance while he fought for compensation. Paquette, whose five children range in age from three weeks to five years, took a part-time seasonal job with a landscaping company in Saskatoon.
LOWER-PAYING JOB
The pay is significantly lower, and his hours are based on the number of workers available, the number of contracts and the weather.
When it's wet, Paquette doesn't work.
"I went from $30 an hour to $9 an hour," he said. "I had to take what I could find.
"It's a lousy job, but I've got to feed my kids."
According to a report from Cameco, the flood at the multibillion-dollar mine followed underground drilling and blasting at Cigar Lake that took place on Oct. 11. A "significantly larger span opening than was specified in the engineered mine plan was created and unanticipated geological structures were encountered," the report states. A drill larger than recommended in the original engineering plan was brought in to finish the job.
While the mine plan called for appropriate ground support to be installed within 72 hours of blasting, the report says "the specified ground support . . . was not applied in a timely manner."
While a modified ground support system was prepared on Oct. 19, the report says MTM employees noticed "potential indicators of a problem" on Oct. 22. A supervisor, who saw "evidence of ground movement over a large area," limited access to the area and ordered the drift filled with concrete.
"Shortly thereafter, a fall of ground occurred, accompanied by a large inflow of water," the report says.
One of two bulkhead doors 480 m below the surface failed to close properly, so water poured past the unsealed door. While two attempts to seal the door failed, three MTM employees, including Paquette, were told to put on breathing masks and sent in for a third attempt.
The other two miners did not want to speak to the media about the incident.
When the three men arrived at the bulkhead door, Paquette said the water level came to the top of his rubber boots. He said the three men spent 30 minutes finding breathing equipment in the floodwater.
"There were air tanks floating around," he said. "Some of the tanks were only half full, so we had to use those."
As Paquette sat on a large, motorized boom he used to pry open the bulkhead doors, the other two men tried to reach behind the doors to repair the torn seal and free any possible debris.
With the door open between 20 and 15 centimetres, Paquette said the water rushed into the tunnel, along with debris and lumber that had been trapped on the other side.
"Within a matter of seconds, the water was up to my lap," he said.
"It's like there was a devil on the other side of the door, saying, 'I'm coming to get you.' "
One of the men was sent back to dry ground, but was swept under the rushing water, which quickly flowed beyond the miners' escape route.
"He managed to roll himself against the wall," Paquette said. "That's the only way he saved himself."
FAST-FLOWING WATER
The force of the water broke one of two chains that anchored the boom to the bulkhead doors. The breathing equipment prevented Paquette from hearing his superior's commands, he said, and he hesitated.
He stood on the end of the boom as he watched the water rush by.
"If I would have fell, there would have been no hope for me," he said. "Think of the fastest-flowing river you've ever seen. That's how fast it was."
He climbed onto a set of pipes that lined the tunnel wall, he said, and was rescued by his co-workers, who formed a human chain.
Since that day, Paquette has lived with post-traumatic stress disorder.
"The hardest part was waking up with my kids every day. I had to pretend to be happy," he said. "But every day, I'm thinking, 'Cigar Lake, Cigar Lake. I almost died, I almost died.' "
When miner Cory Braaten was killed in a mining accident at Seabee gold mine 125 kilometres northeast of La Ronge earlier this month, it set off more panic for Paquette.
"The very first thing that came into my head was, 'It could have happened to me,' " he said.
While he has approached a lawyer about his case, Paquette said he's not looking for a huge settlement.
He received a thank-you letter from Cameco, but he'd like something that could help feed his family. Before the flood, he was making about $75,000 a year. He received $3,000 when he was laid off and his counselling is being paid for, but he believes he's entitled to compensation for suffering and the eight months he has been unable to work.
"I'm not looking to be a millionaire," he said. "Just give me what you owe me."
Sources confirmed that the other two men are on paid leave from work with MTM.
For Cameco's part, a spokesperson said compensation for employees would be the responsibility of the company that directly employs them.
"Generally, the way it works is that they would be dealing with their employer on that and Cameco would be dealing with the larger issues overall," Lyle Krahn said.
Counselling for trauma experienced while on the job is made available to any employee through either company's employee assistance program.
SOME MINERS REHIRED
Meanwhile, Thyssen Mining president Rene Scheepers, who confirmed the other two mine employees have been employed with MTM since the flood, said Paquette was one of many people laid off following the flood. Some of them have since been rehired.
If jobs become available, Scheepers said Paquette could be rehired if he is the best candidate for a job.
"It's a matter of whether we have work available for the guys or not," Scheepers said.
"He will be treated like anybody else. The selection criteria are level of experience and skills. Michael Paquette was less experienced, had less time on the mine than the other two, for example, and than other people.
"But as the workforce grows again, and the need, he will be looked at just like anybody else that's worked for us."
Given his experience in the mine, Paquette doesn't want to work underground again.
He just wants to be compensated for the past eight months.
"Cigar Lake's worth $12 billion," Paquette said. "What about me?"
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I will be speaking at the 2016 Pennsylvania Bigfoot Camping Adventure that takes place May 6-8, 2016, in Farmington, Pennsylvania. The event is hosted by ParaNexus consultant Eric Altman. The event will also have Stan Gordon and Steve Kulls as speakers as well. There will also be workshops, day and night hikes, and a lot of interesting stories and information exchanged for sure.
The world is my country & to do good, my religion.
That's great, Brian! You should post this on 1PC as well.
I hope it goes wonderfully well for you.
The fun part of research is that the search for answers often leads to more questions. Those questions can change one's perspective their initial query or lead them in an entirely new direction.
It will be great to be around a diversity of people to learn from and to teach. It will be an adventure and great experience for sure.


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The Death And Funeral Of Patrick Brontë
This week I visited the 'Patrick Brontë: In Sickness And In Health' exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. As always, it's well worth a visit, and it was good to see lots of people in attendance even on a midweek day.
The section on Patrick is contained in the exhibition room at the side of the shop, and here you'll find a fascinating range of items, including Anne Brontë's bloodstained handkerchief and Patrick's own medical books, complete with his own notes and additions. In those days when healthcare was little understood and often little available to the ordinary families of villages like Haworth, the village priest was often expected to be able to dispense medical advice. This was a task that Patrick took very seriously, and of course it was largely thanks to his efforts that reservoirs were built near Haworth and sanitation was improved, saving thousands of lives in the years that followed.
Anne Bronte's handkerchief at the exhibition
It was a particularly fitting time to visit, because this week marked the anniversary of the death of the Reverend Patrick Brontë.
Patrick died in the mid afternoon of 7th June 1861, aged 84. He had served as parish priest of Haworth for over 41 years, and his venerable age was both a blessing and a curse. He had achieved a huge amount, rising from very humble beginnings to Cambridge University and then a life of service to the church, and he'd also published a novel and poetry collections. Of course, he also had to witness the death of his wife and all six of his children.
Being curate of Haworth wasn't an easy task at these tumultuous times (just ask his predecessor Reverend Redhead who had to quit the post after his parishioners tried to bury him alive), but through his unwavering commitment and genuine goodness, Patrick won the village over. Perhaps the greatest mark of the respect that he was held in can be found in the fulsome report of his death and funeral contained in the Bradford Observer of Thursday, 13th June 1861. He was loved by his children, and by his parishioners, and without his guidance would we have any of the Brontë novels we love today? I leave you with the Bradford Observer's report:
"The last link connecting the Brontë family with the living has snapt asunder. The father of Currer, Acton, and Ellis Bell died at the Parsonage of Haworth, on Friday last, at the age of 83. He went down to the grave in the ripeness of years, and as the last of his race, his gifted children having all died before their father. Mrs. Gaskell, in her "Life of Charlotte Brontë'," has given a sketch of the life of Mr. Brontë, from which, and other sources, we give a few particulars, reserving for another opportunity some interesting particulars respecting the Brontë family, kindly to be supplied by an intimate friend of the deceased. The Rev. Patrick Brontë was born in the parish of Ahellerergh, County Down, Ireland, on the 17th March, 1777. His father was a farmer, and had a large family, remarkable for physical strength and personal beauty. Patrick Brontë gave early tokens of extraordinary quickness and intelligence. He had also his full share of ambition; and of his strong sense and forethought there is a proof in the fact that, knowing that his father could afford him no pecuniary aid, and that he must depend upon his own exertions, he opened a public school, at the early age of sixteen: and this mode of living he continued to follow for five or six years. He then became a tutor in the family of the Rev. Mr. Tighe, rector of Drumgooland parish. Thence he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was entered in July 1802, being at the time five-and-twenty years of age. After nearly four years' residence, he obtained his B.A. degree, and was ordained to a curacy in Essex; from Essex he removed about the beginning of this century to Hartshead cum Clifton, near Cleckheaton. Whilst incumbent of this place he married Miss Maria Branwell, a native of Penzance, who was reputed a woman of an excellent disposition and cultivated mind. At Hartshead two of his children, Maria and Elizabeth were born, after which Mr. Brontë removed to Thornton, near Bradford, where Charlotte, Patrick Branwell, Emily June, and Anne were born. On the 29th February, 1820, he removed to Haworth, where he remained until his death. He was ever on kind and friendly terms with each denominational body; but from individuals in the village the family stood aloof, unless some direct service was required from the first. He was, however, faithful in visiting the sick, and all who sent for him, and diligent in attendance at the schools. He was of a strong passionate nature, which, however, he compressed down with resolute stoicism. He was universally esteemed by the people among whom he lived, and his demise is deeply lamented.
The Rev. Mr. Nicholls, the husband of the late Charlotte Brontë, better known as Currer Bell, was with the deceased in his last hours. He did not speak after six o'clock on Friday morning, and died between two and three o'clock that afternoon. The vacant living is in the gift of the Rev. Dr. Barnet, Vicar of Bradford. Mr. Brontë was, like his more celebrated children, addicted to literary pursuits. At least four works of his were published, viz., "Cottage Poems," printed by P. K. Holden, Halifax, 1811; "The Rural Minstrel," published in 1813, same printer; "The Maid of Killarney, or Albion and Flora," printed by T. Inkersley, Bradford, 1818; and " The Cottage in a wood, or the Art of becoming Rich and Happy," same printer as the last, published in 1818. His compositions have some characteristics in common with those of his children, and at times display deep observation and vigorous power of expression. It is said that, when correcting the proofs of a sermon published in 1824, in the office of Mr. Inkersley, Bradford, he was assisted in his labors by a little daughter about eight years old, probably Charlotte, who learned thus early to manage proofs.
Yesterday, the remains of the venerable man were consigned to the tomb. By the authority of the Secretary of State, the grave of Charlotte Brontë was again opened, and the coffin of the father was placed beside that of the daughter. The old town of Haworth was full of mourners. The shops were closed, and business was entirely suspended. The old graveyard was crowded with a sorrowful stricken concourse. The Rev. A. Nicholls was the chief mourner. The Rev, Dr. Barnet, vicar of Bradford, and the Rev. Dr. Cartman, vicar of Skipton, preceded the coffin, which was borne from the parsonage to the church, and thence to the grave, by six clergymen resident in the immediate district, and close friends of the deceased – namely, the Rev. Joseph Grant, incumbent of Oxenhope; the Rev. Joseph Mitchell, incumbent of Cullingworth; the Rev. J. Taylor incumbent of Newsome; the Rev. William Fawcett, incumbent of Morton; the Rev. John Smith, incumbent of Oakworth; and the Rev. W. G. Mayne, incumbent of St. John's, Keighley. The sublime and touching burial service of the Church of England was read, amidst the audible sobs of the surrounding crowd, by the Vicar of Bradford. The Rev. A. Nicholls appeared to be deeply affected, and was supported from the grave to the parsonage by the Vicar of Skipton. The day of mourning and woe will be long remembered in Haworth and the surrounding district."
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Q: ListView returns null when calling getChildAt method I'm trying to do a to-do list where when I add a new element on the listView the file where the data is stored automatically saves the changes.
The problem appears when I call the method listView.getChildAt(i) because it returns null.
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Kevin Spacey resurrects Frank Underwood in another one of his Christmas videos
The actor reprises his role as House Of Cards character Frank Underwood and says: "I've made some changes in my life."
Tuesday 24 December 2019 19:50, UK
Kevin Spacey does another odd Xmas video
Kevin Spacey has released another cryptic Christmas video in which he urges people to "do the unexpected" and "kill them with kindness".
The 60-year-old actor, who has faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct over the last two years, posted a minute-long video to his YouTube channel on Christmas Eve.
Appearing to reprise his role as House Of Cards character Frank Underwood, Spacey says in the video titled "KTWK": "You didn't really think I was going to miss the opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas, did you?
"It's been a pretty good year and I'm grateful to have my health back.
"In light of that, I've made some changes in my life and I'd like to invite you to join me."
Wearing a festive jumper and tending to a fire, Spacey continues in his character's South Carolina accent: "As we walk into 2020, I want to cast my vote for more good in this world.
"Oh yes, I know what you're thinking: 'Can he be serious?'
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"I'm dead serious and it's not that hard, trust me.
"The next time someone does something you don't like, you can go on the attack.
"But you can also hold your fire and do the unexpected - you can kill them with kindness."
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It is the second year in a row that Spacey has appeared in a Christmas Eve video as his Underwood character.
Last year, he claimed "soon enough you will know the full truth" in the midst of sexual assault allegations.
The two-time Oscar-winner was a major Hollywood star before he was accused of inappropriate behaviour in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in October 2017.
Earlier this year prosecutors in the US dropped a case accusing the actor of groping a teenager at a bar in 2016, which he denied.
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Spacey was artistic director at London's The Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015.
The theatre later found 20 people claimed they had been subjected to inappropriate behaviour from the actor.
Spacey was sacked from Netflix show House Of Cards - with his character killed off - and Sir Ridley Scott erased him from his completed film All The Money In The World, recasting Christopher Plummer in the role with re-shoots costing millions.


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He said that BJP often talks about Ram Rajya but in reality the path of socialism is the path of Ram Rajya. He said, 'The path of socialism is the way of Ramrajya, the day when socialism is fully implemented, Ramrajya will start from that day.'
It is noteworthy that the former Chief Minister had carried forward the tenth phase of Samajwadi Vijay Yatra on Sunday after offering darshan at the newly built temple of Lord Parashuram in Lucknow.
Keshav Prasad Maurya's taunt on Akhilesh Yadav, nothing left for SP in 2022
Targeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the SP president said, 'The person against whom cases were registered in all serious sections, BJP made him the Chief Minister. Many BJP leaders who are elderly, who were strengthening the party by shedding blood and sweat for many years, they say many times that we were shedding blood, don't know where they came from, made them sit on us. Gone.'
On the question of Yogi Adityanath contesting the upcoming assembly elections, Yadav said that when he will go among the public, he will be asked why all the promises, including providing employment and doubling farmers' income, were not fulfilled.
Akhilesh promises, if voted to power, will give 300 units of domestic electricity free, will waive irrigation bills
He sarcastically said, 'Everyone must know that when the son is not able to pass in the examination, sometimes parents and uncles also go to get some copying, our Baba Chief Minister has failed. Now no one can get them passed and those who are coming to get them passed will also not be able to pass them.
On a question asked about the possibility of himself contesting the assembly elections, Yadav said that he will contest the assembly elections from where his party asks.
Referring to the news of China allegedly changing the names of some villages in Arunachal Pradesh, the SP president said, "The neighboring country has learned something from our Chief Minister, he changed the names of the villages." Our Chief Minister does this work, but China also learned from him.
'BJP fighting elections in alliance with government agencies': Akhilesh Yadav on SP MLC raid
Referring to the appointment of senior IAS officer Durga Shankar Mishra as the chief secretary of the state, Yadav said, "Our baba chief minister was sleeping like that suddenly his chief secretary has changed, not realizing it."
Referring to his promise to provide 300 units of free electricity to domestic consumers if the government is formed, he said that the BJP has been affected the most by this. He said that the promise of providing 300 units of domestic electricity free of cost has been made because during the tenure of the previous SP government, many projects for setting up power plants were started, which the present BJP government could not fulfill. He said that those schemes will be fulfilled when the SP government is formed again and all domestic consumers will get 300 units of electricity free of cost.
On this occasion, former BSP MP Rakesh Pandey from Ambedkar Nagar, BJP's sitting MLA from Bahraich Madhuri Verma, former Legislative Council member Kanti Singh, former MLA from Pratapgarh Brijesh Mishra and National President of Vishal Janata Party Birbal Singh Kashyap with their supporters in SP. joined.
It is worth mentioning that Yadav, who comes from Kurmi community, has taken the initiative to create a caste equation by including Madhuri Verma in the party. Madhuri's husband former MLA Dilip Verma has already joined the SP. Madhuri has also been a member of the Legislative Council and this family has influence in Bahraich district. Yadav also got former MLC Kanti Singh of Kurmi fraternity accepted the membership of SP. BJP's state president Swatantra Dev Singh is also from the Kurmi community and the SP has also entrusted the leadership of its state organization to Naresh Uttam Patel of this community. Apart from this, former MP Rakesh Pandey, who left the BSP and joined the SP, is considered to have influence in Ambedkar Nagar and Ayodhya district. Rakesh Pandey's son Ritesh Pandey is a Bahujan Samaj Party MP from Ambedkarnagar and is also the BSP's party leader in the Lok Sabha.
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The musical genre called fado emerged, probably from Afro, Arabic, Brazilian and European sources, in the steep alleyways of the Mouraria and Alfama districts of Lisbon in the 19th century. During the 20th it became Portugal's national music.
The Hummel (i.e. bumblebee) is a simple zither-like string instrument with resonating drone strings, which was widely-used until it fell out of favour in the 19th century such as other drone instruments alike. In America only it evolved into the mountain dulcimer and got popular again thanks to the folk revival [22]. Ulrich's book tells the story of the hummel, describes the style of playing and documents 44 historical instruments with all detailled measurements. His main points are to prove that the hummel has its origins in Europe and not in West Asia, as literature usually claims, and maybe trigger a renaissance for the instrument, following on the heels of hurdy gurdy and pipes.
Wilfried Ulrich, The Story of the Hummel. Museumsdorf Cloppenburg, 2011, pp181, €22,00.
Pioneers of English Folk Guitar presents 10 classic songs from the folk revival era, starting with Richard Thompson's [39] motorcycle hymn "1952 Vincent Black Lightning". Tuning is in CGDGBE, you have to learn to play with a thumb pick, and maintain a steady bass line. Next is Davey Graham's [38] instrumental "Anji", of which Ralph McTell once said: The hard part of this was that there were two beats to every bass note instead of the one that most of us were able to play. Furthermore, there are traditional songs - "Black Waterside" (Gordon Giltrap), "Canadee-i-o" (Nic Jones), "The Whale Catchers" (Martin Carthy) [45] - as well as original music by John Renbourn, John Martyn, Nick Drake (see left), Jake Thackray and the late Bert Jansch [46]. The pieces were arranged in staff notes and tabs from the original recordings. The lyrics are included as well as a (very short) artist biography.
Adrian Hopkins (ed), Pioneers of English Folk Guitar - 10 Acoustic Guitar Songs from the Heroes of British Folk. Wise Publications, 2011, ISBN 978-1-78038-199-2, pp72, €21,90.
Glaswegian Tom Richardson, who is the guitar player with the Phamie Gow Band [31] and once played with Scottish group Brolum [20], has published a second volume of self- composed tunes in the Celtic vein, probably suitable for any melody instrument - not necessarily, even less so for the guitar. 63 tunes are featured in 5 chapters: 4/4 tunes such as the rollicking "Cowboy Ceilidh," the frenetic "Reel for Bartok" inspired by Bartok's piano pieces, or the fluttering "Flight of the Butterfly". There is a jig, "America," based on the Leonard Bernstein tune from "Westside Story," "Galloping Home" with changing time signatures between 9/8 and 12/8, and some pipe tunes such as "Gordon and Fred", dedicated to his favourite pipers Gordon Duncan [25] and Fred Morrison [41]. The tunes are transcribed in standard notation, with guitar chords added.
Tom Richardson, Jigs, Reels and Fancy Feels Volume 2 - A Collection of 63 New and Exciting Tunes for Fiddle or Accordion. Spartan Press, 2011, ISBN 979-0-57998-120-6, pp39, £11,50.
Andrew Gordon formerly wrote a tutorial for intermediate to advanced players. This now is a small but exhaustive tutorial to introduce beginners to rhythmic and solo guitar techniques for blues music, i.e. teaching chracteristic riffs (short melodic or rhythmic phrases) that make up blues guitar playing. He introduces 100 such ideas in 5 sections to build up a vocabulary, namely basic blues riffs, R&B, Boogie, Rock and Gospel influenced phrases. Eventually, two blues songs are made up from some of the riffs, a swing song and a straight one, to create an improvised blues solo to be used as a template. Included is an audio CD featuring each example with the guitar part playing along with the rhythm section as well as the rhythm section alone (piano, bass and drums) to play along with. Also an optional MIDI file disk is available with further benefits such as changing tempi and keys.
Andrew D. Gordon, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Guitar. A.D.G. Productions ADG145, 2011, ISBN 1-934163-40-6, pp66, US-$21.95 (incl. CD).
Forever Young! Bob Dylan got 70! Celebrations everywhere, e.g. on the D-Day Tribute at Denmark's Tønder Festival [46]. Not one minute of these 2 hours was boring, his Œuvre is copious and varied enough. This is also shown in these 100 hits from the early 1960s (Blowin' in the Wind) until the recent past (Beyond Here Lies Nothin'), a compact package of melody line arrangements, complete lyrics and guitar chords. The songs are arranged in successive chapters: from "New Kid On The Block" in the Greenwich Village folk scene to "Songs of Social Conscience", "Plugged In", "Back to Basics", ... The hard-wearing PVC cover is made to carry it around for a long time and use it intensely - at least until his Bobness' 100th birthday!
The Gig Book: Bob Dylan - Perfect for guitarists, keyboard players and all other musicians. Wise Publications, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84938-071-3, pp304, €22.99.
Se eu soubesse que morrendo
Tu me havias de chorar uma lágrima
Por uma lágrima tua que alegria me dixaria matar
If I thought that when I died,
you would have to cry one tear
For one of your tears how happy I would be to die
During the period of the Estado Novo 1933-1974, fado and folk music were appropriated by the Salazar regime. Hence a boom in rock and pop music during the 1980s, and fado was partly suffering from the negative image it had gained.
Richard Elliott, Fado and the Place of Longing - Loss, Memory and the City. Ashgate, 2010, ISBN 978-0- 7546-6795-7, pp176, £60.00.
During the 1990s, novo fado was emerging and gaining popularity at home and abroad. Musicians were able to adapt the form to contemporary tastes and market it to a new audience. Wim Wenders's film "Lisbon Story" in 1994 was featuring the popular band Madredeus[26] with their musical mix of fado, chanson and psychedelic music.
Though veteran fadista Carlos Zel declared that fado can only be sung once has reached thirty years of age - at 30, we have finally experienced much happiness, sadness, life and death; we have witnessed births, burials, loved and been unloved in turn -, the new fado was centred on a group of mostly young singers from the post-revolutionary generation.
Many having practised other musical styles such as pop, rock or jazz: Joana Amendoeira,[45] Cristina Branco[41] (many songs set to music by guitarrista Custódio Castelo),[46] Katia Guerreiro,[22] Mariza,[38] Misia,[32] Ana Moura,[42] and Dulce Pontes[43] are at the forefront of a star system promoted by the contemporary world music network. (Note that the most successful fado artists these days are female, just as female guitarists are not to be expected.)
Only fado managed to become marketable as world music to non-Portuguese audiences, contrary to the light and uptempo pimba music, the dominant form of music in many village festivals, featuring electronic beats and keyboards mixed with rural textures such as the accordion or brass instruments.
One main lyrical theme is the city of Lisbon itself, celebrating the sights and sounds of the Portuguese capital, the alleyways, its inhabitants and the River Tejo. Furthermore, fado places a strong emphasis on the bedrock of hurt and loss, often referring to absent people.
Amor, ciúme, cinzas e lume, dor e pecado
Tudo isto existe, tudo iste é triste, tudo isto é fado
Love, jealousy, ashes and fire, sorrow and sin,
All of this exists, all of this is sad, all of this is fado
There is the magical saudade, claimed by the Portuguese as a proudly cherished speciality. Rodney Gallop explains it as:
In a word saudade is yearning: yearning for something so indefinite as to be indefinable: an unrestrained indulgence in yearning. It is a blend of German Sehnsucht, French nostalgie, and something else besides. It couples the vague longing of the Celt for the unattainable with a Latin sense of reality which induces realization that it is indeed unattainable, and with the resultant discouragement and resignation.
There has been not that much written in English about fado. Richard Elliott's scholarly work in the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series[36][40] which previously published Vernon's "History of the Portuguese Fado" in the late 1990s, presents his research carried out on fado music and explores and discusses the above mentioned issues - origins, categorization, place, paths and trajectories.
Elliott puts a focus on new fado on one hand, and on the other on Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999),[46] the single most paradigmatic performer in modern Portuguese musical culture (Elliott) and the paradigm, the hinge and the epicentre of fado (Manuel Halpern).
Her biographical details resound with references to poverty, to the Mouraria, to singing on the streets while selling fruit, to being discovered in the fado houses and wooed into the world of professional performance and recording, and, ultimately, to living her life in a fog of saudade and permanent unhappiness which no amount of success or fame could shift.
Fado and the Place of Longing is essentially an academic textbook. For the general reader it is most interesting when Elliott gives specific examples from his comprehensive research. By and by,the book becomes a start for the uninitiated to explore the fado music of the last two decades and world music's crossover and fusion projects. His account ends with Lisbon's Deolinda,[43] who are fado despite playing music you can dance to and dressing in lively, happy, colourful clothes, and the suburban OqueStrada,[43] who is not fado but celebrates fado and its fadistas.
The Portuguese claim that saudade is an emotion only Portuguese people may feel, and the word is not translatable into the English language. The concept, however, is not alien to Englishmen, as Nick Cave proves (cited by Richard Elliott):
The love song is never simply happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love, without having within their lines an ache or sigh, are not love songs at all, but rather hate songs disguised as love songs, and are not to be trusted. These songs deny us our human-ness and our God-given right to be sad, and the airwaves are littered with them. The love song must resonate with the whispers of sorrow and the echoes of grief. The writer who refuses to explore the darker reaches of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, magic and joy of love, for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil, so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering.
As Nick Cave did, Nick Drake probably also understood the meaning of saudade. The English singer/songwriter had been born in 1948. He started playing guitar listening to Dylan, Renbourn and Jansch. By the age of 18 he had a repertoire of standard folk songs and some of his own fragile, melancholy yet never self-indulgent musical confessions.
Jason Creed, Nick Drake - The Pink Moon Files. Omnibus Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84938-658-6, pp230, £14.95
In 1969, Drake supported Fairport Convention at the Royal Festival Hall. Fairport bassist Ashley Hutchings reported to producer Joe Boyd who got impressed by the melodically unusual and sophisticated songs. Drake subsequently signed to Island Records. However, he did no more than a dozen gigs and recorded only 31 songs on three albums in four years. Upon completion of 1972's "Pink Moon", he withdrew to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire, where he died from an overdose of antidepressants in 1974. He was 26 years old.
Richard Thompson once wondered: People say that I'm quiet, but Nick's ridiculous. He's extremely talented, and if he wanted to be, he could be very successful. John Martyn explains:
He never felt comfortable in front of an audience. He just didn't like going on and playing. He primarily played for his own amusement. In those days 'Purple Haze' was in, and here he was singing all these gentle, breezing little ballads, and I can just imagine them swigging back the Carlsberg Special and totally giving him an awful hard time.
Since critics were indifferent and the record-buying public didn't care, his death passed largely unnoticed. However, it is not true that he only sold six copies because there are only that many people miserable enough to buy it. Drake's work has gradually inspired a small following, he has become a cult, his records revered, his life a subject of endless scrutiny and speculation. His record company always trusted that
Nick Drake is a great talent. His first two albums haven't sold a shit, but if we carry on releasing them, maybe a lot more people will get to hear Nick Drake's incredible songs and guitar playing. And maybe then they'll buy a lot of records and fulfil our faith in Nick's promise.
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They did their job (and sure nobody in the music biz today takes such chances). Nick Drake is still available on CD. A biography has been written, tribute concerts held, his songs recorded, e.g. U.S. pop band Freak Owls only recently did a cover of Nick's "Place to Be".[45] His music has been used in the film "Practical Magic", and Volkswagen used "Pink Moon" in a TV commercial. Within a month Drake had sold more records than he had in the previous 30 years.
Between 1994 and 2000 Jason Creed published 19 issues of the "Pink Moon" fanzine, devoted to the life and work of Nick Drake, featuring a collection of articles, interviews, reviews with some additional commentary. Maybe 200 pages of The Pink Moon Files is a bit too much about a man whose personal life is hardly known, so there is a lot of repetition here. It is rather meant for die-hard fans, and can only be an addition to the existing biography of Patrick Humphries or Peter Hogan's "Complete Guide to His Music".
I found most interesting the section on Drake's guitar technique, employing strange and complicated tunings. The late American guitar player Scott Appel did an analysis:
One of the most baffling, unconventional guitarists to emerge from his era. His first influences were his contemporaries: Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and, most importantly, John Martyn. His first focus, like those mentioned,was traditional blues, but he quickly began to transcend the form and its limitations. Within two years of having first picked up a guitar, he was composing his own songs. His earliest compositions were simple, plaintive songs in standard tuning. He would soon dismiss them as amateurish, and utilised conventional tunings rarely from that point on.
'Place to Be' is a good place to start. The basic changes are simply D E - F#m. Gradually, the tuning he employed became D A D G A F#, a D Major tuning with a suspended fourth. Actually all of the tunings he utilised were suspensions of some sort (stemming from D Modal), where he could use the odd voice as a passing tone or add it to a minor block creating a four or five voiced minor seven or nine.
Elsewhere, he would tune the sixth string up a full step-and-a-half, to a G, as on 'Fly' (D A D G D G capo 1). On 'Hanging on a Star' he would tune the sixth string down to a C, four ledger lines below the staff: C G C F C E.
Bruce Cardwell, Noteworthy. Seren, 2011, ISBN 978-1- 85411-540-9, pp144, £14.99
Nevertheless, it is good to spread the gospel. When Jason Creed first was visiting Nick's hometown in 1993 and was snooping around, he was stopped by the village constabulary. It turned out they'd never heard of Nick Drake. You did now! And though I've heard the name Nick Drake many a time, I can't recall having heard a song in my life. I'll do now!
England's neighbour Wales is often called the Land of Song.[39] Jazz clarinetist Wyn Lodwick recalls that American jazzmen once said to him, we know a lot of guys from England and Europe who play very well, but they don't swing. You guys from Wales you swing! Is it in the blood? Fiddler Angharad Jenkins (Calan), daughter of harpist Delyth Jenkins,[33] remembers
first hearing music live when Mum was playing in Aberjabber, and they used to come over to practice. But Mum reckons that I was the bump that she used to rest the harp on, so I was getting the vibrations direct even before I was born!
Aberystwyth resident Bruce Cardwell, who plays flute, pipes and a number of other instruments, envisions the birth of music at the dawn of time:
I have a quite definite and distinct vision, one that originated while living in the West of Ireland in 1977. The dogs became affected by the moon, and started to howl, their voices coming in and out, refrains and counter-melodies, harmonies almost. This was a performance, a social event, a ceremony. I lay listening to, half asleep, and had a picture of a group of hunter-gatherers round a fire one night, thousands of years before, hearing a similar sound and thinking, Why don't we try something like that...?
The sound of the voice is followed by manufacturing musical instruments, and, though living in the 21st century, he places an emphasis on acoustic instruments.
I recall being half amused and half irritated on being told that I was wasting my time learning to play all those different instruments - a keyboard synthesiser which could produce all of those sounds at the touch of a button. At that time it was my opinion that acoustic instruments produced an infinitely varied series of notes, depending on which other note came before, marginal inconsistencies in manual technique, environmental elements like temperature or humidity, and the ability of the player.
An acoustic note is an inconsistent vibration, unlike an electronically generated impulse. There seem to be issues involved for musicians regarding identity, and legitimacy, in selecting to play acoustic instruments. They have a presence, and an ambience, which does not emanate in the same way from the electrical imitators. There is a connection involved in playing an instrument which developed in the music, and for the music, which links the player in a time-honoured bond with material.
Whatever about the relevant values and motivations, the fact remains that in spite of the economic dominance of commercial marketing a great many people are deeply involved in playing and appreciating less mainstream music.
Reason enough for his book Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music, depicting part of the acoustic music scene in Wales. It is essentially a collection of splendid black & white photographs, the musicians shot in their natural habitat while playing. Cardwell was trying for images with life in them, even at the expense of ultimate technical perfection, and thus using no flashlights at all.
There is Welsh Music from A as brass band Aberystwyth Silver Band to W as clarinetist Wyn Lodwick. There's amateurs, and there's the professionals, such as singer/piper partners Julie Murphy and Ceri Rhys Matthews (Fernhill),[33] or harpist Robin Huw Bowen.[35] Besides the natives, there's the recent arrivals. Cass Meurig, who played with Pigyn Clust and Fernhill, hails actually from North Yorkshire, though she is now strongly identified with Welsh culture by playing the crwth, a 12th century predecessor of the fiddle.[41]
Some are more exotic and come from further afield, such as Selim Sheikh, a central figure in the Indian music scene in Wales, or Hubert Placide from Saint Lucia in the West Indies. It turns out that Wales is not always the tolerant Land of Song as the cliché suggests:
I grew up listening to music. In Saint Lucia music is just part of the community. Everybody plays, and very loud! I would wake up hearing music from three hundred yards away, at five o'clock in the morning ... nobody ever complains. I have had letters here in Cardiff, though, about too much music coming from my house. I call Cardiff the retirement home for musicians, because the music scene is quieter here!
The photographs are accompanied by interviews, Bruce questioning the artists, how they became involved with music, what does it mean to them, and what drew them to Wales. It's nice to browse through this beautiful book, and it is a fine introduction to the rich and varied Welsh music scene, since the Land of Song is still a blank area for most people beyond Offa's Dyke.
Let's finish off with Stephen Rees (Ar Log,[35] Crasdant[35]), at the time being artistic director of the traditional Welsh music orchestra Glerorfa, who provides the adequate closing words here:
I wanted to instil a sense of pride in the Welsh repertoire, as an equal of that from any of the other Celtic countries, and to foster a joy in the performing of it. Welsh music at the moment provides great scope for creativity, because it is not hidebound by a prescriptive weight of precedence or tradition.
Photo Credits: (1ff) Book Covers (from website/author/publishers); (9) Nick Drake, (10) Misia (unknown); (11) Robin Huw Bowen, (12) Cass Meurig, (13) Sharron Kraus (by Bruce Cardwell).


Mayawati Das born 15 January 1956, commonly known as Mayawati or Kumari Mayawati (Miss Mayawati, is an Indian politician who spent four separate terms as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social change to improve the lives of the weakest strata of Indian society — the Bahujans or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and religious minorities.She was Chief Minister briefly in 1995 and again in 1997, then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012.
Mayawati's rise from humble beginnings has been called a "miracle of democracy" by P. V. Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India. In 1993 Kanshi Ram formed a coalition with the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1995. She was the first female Scheduled Caste/Schedule Chief Minister in India. In 1997 and in 2002 she was Chief Minister with outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the second time only for a year up to 26 August 2003 due to BJP withdrawing support.


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Q: Reverse HideBottomViewOnScrollBehavior and initialize to hide state android I have a CoordinatorLayout with a RecyclerView and a Fab button.
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent">

                <androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout
                    android:id="@+id/swipeChatRoomRecycler"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent">
                    <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
                        android:id="@+id/chatRoomRecycler"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="match_parent"
                        android:clipToPadding="true"
                        android:scrollbars="vertical" />
                </androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>

                <com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton
                    android:id="@+id/bottomScrollFab"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_gravity="bottom|end"
                    android:layout_margin="12dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/ic_arrow_down"
                    app:backgroundTint="@color/colorPrimaryLight"
                    app:layout_behavior="com.google.android.material.behavior.HideBottomViewOnScrollBehavior"
                    app:layout_anchor="@id/swipeChatRoomRecycler"
                    app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
                    app:fabSize="mini" />
            </androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

The recyclerView is set as below
viewManager = LinearLayoutManager(activity).apply {
            orientation = LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL
            stackFromEnd = false
            reverseLayout = true
        }

What i want to achieve is

*

*At the launch of the activity i want the bottomScrollFab to be invisible since the recycler is scrolled in the end as by default

*I want to achieve the exact reverse behaviour, meaning that i want the Fab to be shown when recycler is not onScroll and to be hidden when recycler is onScroll

How can i do those two things?

A: Well up to now i have created a custom Behaviour which changes the alpha when the recycler is scrolled. It works pretty fine
class ReverseHideViewOnScrollBehaviour(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet): CoordinatorLayout.Behavior<View>(context, attributeSet) {

    override fun layoutDependsOn(parent: CoordinatorLayout, child: View, dependency: View): Boolean {
        return dependency is RecyclerView
    }

    override fun onDependentViewChanged(parent: CoordinatorLayout, child: View, dependency: View): Boolean {
        val yPercentage = getViewOffsetFromRecycler(parent, child)
        val diff = 100.0f - yPercentage
        child.alpha = 1 - diff
        return true
    }

    private fun getViewOffsetFromRecycler(parent: CoordinatorLayout, view: View): Float{
        var percentage = 100f
        val dependencies = parent.getDependencies(view)

        dependencies.forEach { dependency ->
            if (dependency is SwipeRefreshLayout) {
                val recycler = (dependency.findViewById<RecyclerView>(R.id.chatRoomRecycler))
                val offset: Int = recycler.computeVerticalScrollOffset()
                val extent: Int = recycler.computeVerticalScrollExtent()
                val range: Int = recycler.computeVerticalScrollRange()
                percentage = if (range - extent == 0) 100f else 100.0f * offset / (range - extent).toFloat()
            }
        }

        return percentage
    }
}

So the FloatinActionButton
<com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton
                    android:id="@+id/bottomScrollFab"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_gravity="bottom|end"
                    android:layout_margin="12dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/ic_arrow_down"
                    app:layout_behavior=".ui.views.ReverseHideViewOnScrollBehaviour"
                    app:layout_anchor="@id/swipeChatRoomRecycler"
                    app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
                    app:fabSize="mini" />


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The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that arise from the spinal cord and lead to the peripheral nerves that give movement and feeling to the shoulder, arm and hand. Injury to the brachial plexus, spinal cord, or peripheral nervous system can occur from trauma, viral illness, tumors, radiation, or during childbirth. These injuries can result in partial or complete paralysis of the arm and can be severe life-changing events. Beyond the loss of function of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand, individuals with brachial plexus injuries also deal with pain, depression and the emotional impact associated with injury.
At OrthoCarolina, our orthopedic surgeons recognize the importance of treating the entire patient and family, not just the affected limb. The understanding of the function and anatomy of the brachial plexus and the psychological impact it has on individuals has improved considerably in recent years and so have patient outcomes. Our multi-disciplinary clinic combines physiatrists, researchers, and occupational therapists with our surgical team to give the specialized care that you or your loved one require.
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The Summer of SAINt JHN! "Roses" #1 Most Added at Urban Radio – Top 10: Top 40 Radio & Billboard 100
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While the music industry is debating whether or not they are going to abandon the term "urban," SAINt JHN isn't waiting around to see where the cards fall. The most shazamed artist in the world just snagged the #1 spot on Most Added at Urban Radio with his summer smash "Roses." The song officially broke Top 10 on both Billboard Top 100 and Top 40 Radio the same week he casually climbed to #30 on Spotify 100.
The momentum is accelerating for the Brooklyn native, and he has claimed Summer 2020 as The Summer of SAINt JHN. Fresh off the back of a BET Award nomination for his penmanship on Beyonce's "Brown Skin Girl," and his collaboration with Future Hendrix on the "Roses" Remix, the successes couldn't have come at a better time for the breakout artist.
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Pavel Pop
the academy-trained graphic artist and painter
( 1. December 1948 )
The academy-trained graphic artist Pavel Pop was born on the 1st of December, 1948, in Stara Pazova (Serbia). Within his artistic work, he develops a concept that was named imaginative realism by the expert critique. He took a degree in graphics on The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 1975. He has been a member of the Association of the Artists of Vojvodina (ULUV) since 1977. As a student of remarkable artists Albin Brunovský and Vincent Hložník, he developed his artistic poetics that is dominant within the contemporary graphic art in Slovakia.
Pavel Pop fills his graphic sheet in intaglio printing (typically etching) with virtuoso drawing style of the great artists which he had mastered extraordinarily, and by means of which he creates timeless, oneirical visions placed in an excitingly, harmonically stirred up, unreal space of a picture.
Pop's graphic sheets have a modern, but also a traditionalist, which means, postmodern emphasis. On them, we recognize the stylistic features of mannerism, the elements of neo-surrealism, but it seems that it is actually all about a romanticizing conception, where imagination is, after all, most important. In addition, it is noticeable that the author is familiar with other artistic and historical movements. For example, on the graphic sheets with luxuriant form-formational lines, we notice the baroque verve and the renaissance tone on some faces.
The graphic art of Pavel Pop does not go far from the figural presentation. The dominant motive on his free graphic sheets is a female nude, or a female figure, typically presented in a fragmentary way. The presence of a woman on Pop's pictures we can observe from the point of the traditional symbolism. His contemporary female figures have a certain mythical, primordial, mysterious expression. So women, the central part of Pop's art, should be considered in the sense of the eternal feminine, in the sense of the feminine cosmic principle, towards which our longing for the transcendent is directed.
A woman is the symbol of the instinctive, irrational forces, and according to some thinkers, this is the reason why she is closer to the soul of the world and primordial forces of the universe. The female beauty on Pop's graphics develops on the primordial fertility of a woman, which means that the erotic content of Pop's graphic sheets should be considered in that primordial sense.
So, on the graphic sheets of Pavel Pop, what is typically created from the virtuoso restless line are the fragments of precisely defined, plastically modeled shapes of women, whose beauty fits the taste of the bygone times. This fact is the confirmation of the statement that Pavel Pop often goes back in the past in his artistic work, taking in the spirit of postmodern tendencies the citations from the history of art on the level of the content or expression, and innovationally adjusting them to his graphic compositions.
Pavel Pop brings innovations in the composition of his graphic sheets also. He explains the artistic narration of the same content and the same graphic kind individually, in squares and rectangles, which interrelate. This is actually about multiplying the possibilities of the simultaneous presentation of the several temporal and spatial levels of the action. The use of the basic geometrical shapes like the circle, the symbol of eternity and the sky, the triangle, the symbol of the sphere of the spirit, and the square, the symbol of the earth and nature, should be considered as the additional component of the hidden meanings and the allegorically-associative meanings of what is presented.
His virtuoso drawing style comes into play fully in his series of drawings with ink, inspired by and named after the graphics of Francisco de Goya- Desastres de la Guerra.
Goya's supernatural but above all humanistic, anti-war, artistic expressions as a subject and a challenge gained a new contemporary reinterpretation and remodeling in the spirit of Pop's poetics of imaginative realism on the 17 drawings.
Pop's extraordinary drawing capabilities enable him to fully present his inner world. The aestheticized restlessness of his graphic sheets always creates a harmonic beauty and mysterious harmony of the figural and non-figural, and the real and unreal.
The paintings of Pavel Pop seem to have been created as a consequence of the 20th century, the era of breaking atoms. Those are the pictures of a bang and dissolution, so they perfectly correspond to the spirit of the time in which they were created. Pavel Pop's big canvases are typically covered with neutral or cold colours in the background of a painting, where due to the use of intense, vivid colours in the middle of a painting, the whirlwind process of dissolution or birth is taking place. (Birth and dissolution in their essence and in their visual expression are very much alike). The paintings of Pavel Pop were created with a wide and dynamic movement of the brush, with numerous smooth tones of certain colours, and as far as classification is concerned they belong to the rich tradition of the abstract expressionism. Only few pictures are an exception, and those are the pictures on which the figure appears, or the examples from Pop's "classical" portrait art.
Pavel Pop, the graphic artist of a virtuoso drawing style, is also an extraordinary painter.
In his latest artistic work- during 2008, Pavel Pop has dedicated himself to the series of the drawings-portraits dedicated to the world's greatest artists and their most famous works.
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A Bay Area native who gravitated to hockey in middle school, Brigman gave up pucks for baseball in high school and has developed into one of college baseball's better middle infielders. An eligible sophomore, Brigman played on USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team last summer and shifted from second base to shortstop this year after teaming with 2015 Yankees first-rounder Kyle Holder on double plays last year. Brigman lacks Holder's defensive chops, and his fringy arm is better suited for second as a pro. He has a contact-oriented approach with a sound, repeatable swing, and he has put his above-average speed into play more on the bases this season. Brigman played some left field last summer for Team USA and some scouts envision him in a future utility role if his below-average power leaves him short of being an everyday second baseman.