The Gog Blog Chicago's #1 online golf news source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. On the range at demo day, with a Titleist 915 Driver and the new Fujikura Speeder Shaft, the top shaft on multiple professional tours.
Outerwear in golf, it's forever changing and these days for the better.
The competition has never been greater to, not only get the golf business, but to get it right in terms of the product.
One of the leaders in the industry is Antigua, with it's headquarters located in Phoenix Arizona since 1976.
Several factors go into the designs of today's outerwear by the leading manufacturers. The spring of 2016 lines are out, and Antigua is among the companies that are ready to take their products to the next level. Which includes being named again this year, as the outerwear supplier for the 2017 LPGA Solheim Cup.
Click here to hear our interview with Pam Miller VP of Operations and Customer Service at Antigua.
Miller says that this year Antigua has brought in more Heather when it comes to new colors. They have backed off of very bright neon colors, that make others need sunglasses to look at you.
Antigua's design team has created materials that golfers need on the course, that also work when your round is over as well.
Miller says it starts at the top with an owner that is an avid golfer, and if the companies products don't for him, they work for golfers in general.
They need to fit comfortably, giving golfers the opportunity to swing the club without restriction. It needs to keep you warm on cold days, and with enough breathe-ability so golfers don't overheat during play when it's raining out.
Antigua gets feedback from touring professionals, including LPGA star Stacy Lewis about what's needed on tour.
For more on the spring product line and what's ahead with Antigua in 2016, visit Antigua.com. Look for Antigua in your local pro shop, or ask your professional to place your order through the local Antigua representative.
The Gog Blog Chicago's #1 Online Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. With news from the 2016 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando.
Foot relief. Yes everyone needs it, especially golfers after you walk 9 or more holes while out playing golf.
If you need relief before or after golf, or your playing golf more than 1 day in row and need your feet to recover quickly, the answer on how to do that has been found.
OOFOS, yes Oofos footwear, or better yet being called recovery footwear. Yes your tired or sore feet have earned this type of relief.
Why the name Oofus, well when you first slip them on, that's the reaction you will hear, Ooooofus.
Duncan Finigan in the OOFOS booth at the PGA show, with many of the styles of Oofos footwear.
While golfers might be first discovering Oofos, runners have known about them for a while.
Men and ladies these shoes are for you.
It, started with the OOriginal Sport design, then the OOaah Sport, the fully covered toe area is the OOcloog Satin. Need more, well there is the OOcloog Luxe and OOcloog Matte, the OOlala satin, and the ( you knew this was coming) OOlala, how about the OOlala Slide, or the OOriginal, and now the OOaah.
TO learn more about OOFOS recovery footwear, click here to hear our interview with Duncan Finigan.
What OOFOS is, it's Impact Absorption with 37% more shock absorption than traditional footwear foams currently being used in shoes today. Longer-lasting comfort, OOFOS lasts much longer than normal shoes, with a foam that does not breakdown quickly.
The OOFOS Technology is a closed cell-foam that makes the shoes waterproof, and they can be washed by hand or in the washing machine. Superior Arch support, that allows for pressure to be relieved in the joints of your ankles, knees, hips and lower back.
OOFOS allows for a natural motion, the way that nature intended them to move. The OOFOS material flex's with your feet on any surface that you are walking on.
For more information visit oofos.com the Spring of 2016 models are out, and you can learn more on social media on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Oopos today, better feeling feet right away and tomorrow.
The Gog Blog Chicago's No.1 online golf news source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter at GogBlogGuy. With BIG 3 Partner Len Ziehm at Demo Day 2016 PGA Merchandise Show.
Editors note: Sorry to not have posted yesterday from the PGA merchandise show, constant rain and wind knocked out the power for several house last night, and prevented us from posting our podcast review of the show until now.
BIG 3 partner Len Ziehm and I met outside the press room, to discuss our observations of the show and some of the travel places we have stopped at in our travels down South in Florida and surrounding states.
Here is our podcast recap of the show,with plenty of more stories to come right here in the days and weeks ahead.
Len and Rory at the 2016 PGA Merchandise Show podcast recap.
Look for more stories on Lenziehmongolf.com as well.
The Gog Blog returns over the weekend, from the Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor Florida, home of the Copperhead Golf Course. RS.
The Gog Blog Chicago's #1 online golf news source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. At the 2016 PGA Merchandise show.
Day 1 was the demo day at the Orange County Golf Center, it was an outdoor event on a sunny and 82 degree day. Day 2 was IN the Orange County Convention Center, while it was raining outside all day long.
The PGA of America tells us that over 42,000 people are attending the show this year. Up again over last year,one number suggested an 8% increase in attendance and participation.
The equipment companies are here, except for one notable exception, Nike. Are people missing them, it doesn't appear that they are, since there is so much else going on.
PGA or America President Derek Sprague and CEO Pete Bevacqua held court with selected media and took questions for over 30 minutes on a variety of topics. Everything from Growth of the Game, holding future events at courses owned by Donald Trump. What it could be like if Trump, a golf course owner is elected president of the United States.
The topic of the Ryder Cup came up, the PGA Championship being moved to August at Baltusrol and being played two weeks behind another major championship.
One item that was unveiled at the session was the new PGA Centennial book by Billy Dettlaff. John Steinbreder was the editor. There is a forward by Jack Nicklaus, and a afterword by Annika Sorenstam.
All PGA members are being sent a copy of the book, and it's recommended reading if you can get your hands on a copy. Stay clicked in for more details on thoughts from the leadership of the PGA of America.
It was fun to start catching up with all the exhibits on the convention floor, and there will be a lot more of that posted here tomorrow.
The Gog Blog Chicago's #1 online golf news source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy with Annika Sorenstam at Demo Day at the 2016 PGA Show.
The 2016 PGA Show is underway, and demo day at the Orange County Golf Center is in the books.
It was nice of former World #1 and World Golf Hall of Famer, Annika Sorenstam to stop by and say hello while she was visiting friends at the Callaway section of the big circular driving range where demo day is held.
Soremstam looks like she could go back out on the LPGA Tour and start winning again right now.
In addition it was good to see club designer Roger Cleveland at the Callaway area, and it seems like the new wedge line he created (profiled here with our story from Cog Hill) has been a success. Callaway might have some more news here at the show.
Wilson Staff Golf GM Tim Clarke has plenty to be smiling about these days.
Tim Clarke the GM of Wilson Golf has seen a nice rise in sales in his products, as Wilson continues to make it's comeback as a major player in the golf equipment industry.
A new Wilson club line along with it's DUO ball, has been a success. More on Wilson both from the show, and after I return to Chicago.
Look for Wilson products in more of your local retail golf stores, their name is making a comeback in the area of visibility as well.
This is one shaft golfers need to get their hands on, a Fujikura Speeder Shaft.
Are you shopping for that new driver, do have one that needs a little more pop, try putting in a new shaft.
Yes it's true, nobody wants to get the "Shaft" in life, or on the golf course, but if you want to post some lower scores, put a shaft in your club the touring pro's are using in big numbers, the Fujikura Golf Shaft, one of their most popular shafts is the Speeder. You can't go wrong, don't be afraid to insist on Fujikura shafts in your new clubs, especially the driver and fairway woods. More on Fujikura as show week goes on.
BIG 3 partners Rory Spears (L) and Len Ziehm (R) working the grounds at demo day. Big 3 partner Tim Cronin is in Iowa doing research for the John Deere Classic, and monitoring news on the home front.
The BIG 3 partners reunited in Florida where the Ziehm machine has set up shop for the winter.
Don't forget to follow Len on his site as well at Lenziehmongolf.com. He just posted a travel piece on Lake Wales here in Florida, and will have plenty more in the weeks ahead on Florida Golf.
Len and I will put together a podcast on the PGA show, and recap our thoughts over the next 2 days, and that will be posted here.
The Zero Friction group of Oakbrook has a new line of gloves out, to expand their product line, NBC Analyst and major champion Johnny Miller will be in their booth to talk about the new gloves including the one he is endorsing.Stay clicked in, photos coming in the next 48 hours.
Plenty of features and plenty of news coming in the next few days, Titleist has released several new products here at the show, and we'll have more from FootJoy on the new and improved DNA Golf Shoes, one of the most comfortable golf shoes on the market.
Stay clicked in, it's going to be a great week. #Thinkgolf2016 RS.
The Gog Blog Chicago's #1 Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy.
It's the day that golfers wait for all winter long, and that's opening day of golf season. Even more exciting than baseball's because it's a chance for you to get back on track for a better year.
A chance to hit the shot you will remember the rest of your life, to win the match our tournament you have always to win, or to win it again. It's a chance to play that course or take the golf trip you have always wanted to.
Yesterday I started my 2016 golf season at a course I didn't expect to be the opening day course last week. Pinehurst #8 was supposed to be that course, it wasn't. Instead Santee National Golf Club was, in the town of Santee South Carolina.
Before teeing off on Sunday, I had only played one round of golf in South Carolina. Now there has been two and both have been great courses. A few years back I played Pete Dye's Kiawah Island's Ocean Course, outstanding. Yesterday I found that Santee National is a pretty good golf course as well. I didn't know anything about the design work of Porter Gibson, but now I'll have to find out more. Gibson did a great job at Santee, making a challenging fun for all levels golf course. I'll have more on Santee after playing another course Lake Merion today, coming up this week.
The PGA Show starts tomorrow with the demo day, and then 3 days in the convention center.
The golf industry will descend on Orlando this week and hopefully walk away with the enthusiasm that will make 2016 a great year for golf.
I'll be posting all week from the show and what the news is, I hope you will stay clicked in.
Congrats to Jason Dufner who won his fourth PGA Tour Tournament in a playoff, it seems like Dufner the former PGA Champion is starting to pull his game back together.
Santee to Orlando, the next leg of the 2016 golf season begins road trip, all day today.
The Gog Blog Chicago's #1 Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy in McWethy's Tavern at Mistwood Golf Club in Romeoville.
When you plan opening day for the 2016 golf season at the famed Pinehurst Resort, your expecting some sunshine and cool weather being January. But nothing like what Pinehurst was hit with as part of the big storm that has gridlocked the east coast.
No Pinehurst didn't get buried with 15 inches of snow, but they got a couple inches and enough ice to fill all the drinks in the summer season ahead.
My route from Kentucky into Tennessee and then North Carolina was buried in deep snow, and included too much mountain driving. So I called an end-run and headed right into my current destination which is Santee South Carolina, about 55 miles Northwest from Charleston.
After barely getting out of my unplowed lot at the Marriott in Southern Kentucky, I headed down into Tennessee and through Knoxville.
By now it had warmed up from 20 to 29, and roads were clear and driving speed was back up to 65. Then it was down through Chattanooga, past all the signs that were encouraging me to see Ruby Falls and Rock City. Rt.75 south then takes you down to Atlanta. I knew from there I would head east and into South Carolina.
This driveway is talked about much more in April.
A quick glance at the map then made me realize, I would be going through a town that I had never been in before.
Missing out on Pinehurst was sure a negative, but how about turning that into a positive. After passing the Bobby Jones Expressway, I turned off on Washington Road, past all the fast food joints and chain businesses and found one of the great wonders in golf. That is Augusta National Golf Club, the home of the Masters Tournament. I got my BIG 3 Partner Tim Cronin on the phone, and received some good information from Tim on some recent Augusta National History.
The front gate was open on Magnolia Lane, so they must have known I was coming.
Yes it was January and the Masters Tournament was some 2 1/2 months away, defending champion Jordan Spieth was not even here yet for a practice round. Being it was only 40 degrees out, and earlier in the morning there was snow on the grounds of the Augusta National Golf Club, golf was not the item of the day.
Of course I didn't have a tee time, a masters badge or even an invite from a member inviting me in for lunch.
If you have your badge come Masters week, you enter here to head out onto the course, to view the golf.
But in the end, it didn't matter. I was here and it was Augusta National, home of the Masters Tournament.
As I drove around the golf course, you can see some of the work going on outside the club, as ANGC is moving a nearby street, to arrange the parking situation a little better come tournament week.
I enjoyed snapping a few pictures of the famed city of Augusta Water Tower on the corner of the club, and checking out the various gates into the club. In spite of the fact you can't see any of the holes, catching a glimpse of the clubhouse, Magnolia Lane, the new hospitality building, and a new building in the practice area, that was enough to get one excited about golf.
This year it won't take until April to get really excited about the Masters for me, I feel like I've been there already. Now as I look out the window here in Santee, onto Santee National Golf Club, golf carts are driving by with golfers in them, and I'm ready to go tee it up right now. One look at Augusta National can do that to you, even if it's from the outside.
What I expected in beautiful Pinehurst..by Rory Spears Golfersongolf.com The Gog Blog's Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy, just not down I-75 today in Kentucky and Tennessee.
What I would have got, had I actually made it there. While Pinehurst is not as bad as Kentucky or Tennessee, and it will be back to full golf real soon, but tomorrow won't be opening day for me on #8.
Jack Bickart is Executive VP of Sales, Jack and his team can set up your next visit to Pinehurst for all the great golf, spa, food & beverage that you need. You can find more information at Pinehurst.com.
So I finally get Bickart to take a break from working the phones, and the ice and a little snow show up to spoil our day on the course. So Pinehurst 8 will have to wait until another day.
The Gog Blog is taking a detour instead, via Georgia and into South Carolina, where the golf season opener has been pushed back until Sunday in Santee. By Monday I'll have a recap on Santee and the great golf there. The fact that it's expected to be in the low 60's and not snowing or raining, makes it a great place already.
From there it's down to Orlando and the PGA Show that starts at Demo day on Tuesday.
If your watching the weather that is sweeping up and own the east coast, doesn't it just want to make you book a trip to somewhere warm and start the golf season right now.
The Gog Blog Chicago's # 1 Online golf news source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. Standing on Top of Pete Dye's Volcano Bunkers on the Dye Course at French Lick Resort.
Apparently one Web.com stop in Illinois wasn't enough for 2016, and then there was two, within a six week period in the summer ahead.
Panther Creek Country Club in Springfield will be the host of the Land of Lincoln Charity Championship, it will be played from July 11-17. This is the first year of a five-year deal, and the purse is $550,000.
Panther Creek was designed by former U.S. Open Champion Hale Irwin, and was the previous home of the LPGA's State Farm Classic from 2007 through 2011.
There is no answer yet to if the dates will stay the same in 2017, when the John Deere Classic likely returns to the same week. (In 2016 the John Deere Classic will be played during the Olympic games in August).
The HalfwayHouse in Elmhurst is your place for simulator golf, stop and play over 90 courses from around the world, enjoy great food and beverage while you play as a single, with friends or in a league. Today is the Friday Gamble, on Pebble Beach #7. Halfway House Indoor Golf is located at 555 S. York Rd. in Elmhurst. Call 331-642-8050 or Halfwayhousegolf.com for more information, book your tee time for today.
The Birmingham-base Bruno Event Team will manage the championship.
The launch for sales and sponsorship is already underway, there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to get involved in these area's.
The Web.com gives it's players a chance to earn one of the 50 PGA Tour Cards that are up for grabs. 25 cards are earned by the top money winners for the season, with the other 25 earned in the season ending four-event Web.com Tour finals.
The Tinley Park Golf Expo Feb. 12-14 see Tinleyparkgolfexpo.com for more details, and on Feb. 6th, the annual open house at the Links & Tee's Golf Dome in Addison, hosted by Steve Kashul of the Golf Scene TV program. Addisonparks.org for more details.
For more information on the championship please visit the championships website at lincolnlandcharitychampionship.com or go to Web.com or PGATOUR.com.
The Gog Blog Chicago's # 1 Online Golf News Source by Rory Spears, Editor and Director of Content. Follow Rory on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter @GogBlogGuy. On the road again !
That time of year is here, where the Gog Blog hits the road, and begins the journey south towards Orlando and the annual PGA of America merchandise show.
Your's truly along with BIG 3 partner Len Ziehm will have all the news from Orlando all next week, while Tim Cronin Illinoisgolfer.net will hold down the fort in Chicago.
Len will have news and updates on his site Lenziehmongolf.com as well.
The Pete Dye statue welcomes everyone to the Pete Dye Course at the French Lick Resort, our first stop of the trip. Remember Frenchlickresort.com when making your golf getaway plans in 2016. Play the Donald Ross Course too.
While some of the details of our first golf road trip are still coming together, the French Lick Resort in Southern Indiana is our first stop. Coming off hosting a successful 2015 Sr.PGA Championship, the team at FLR is working hard to bring another big golf championship to the resort.
Have you started making your golf plans for 2016, have your ordered those new clubs yet ?
Well next week in Orlando, I should have more about what's new on the market equipment wise, and how both all you guys and gals can look a little more stylish on the course as well. Looking good and playing good, the theme for 2016.
Not heading anywhere south and warm yet, until you do check out the Halfway House for the best in Chicago area simulator golf. 555 S. York Road in Elmhurst Call 331-642-8050, to reserve that tee time. Next to HB Jones, today is Thirsty Thursdays half-price beer All day and All night.
The French Lick Resort not only has great golf, but fine restaurants, a spa and a casino, win your green fee's in the casino and tee it up on house money, you can't beat that.
Don't forget, Frenchlickresort.com when you make your next plans for a golf getaway.
Whether you stay in the West Baden Hotel or the French Lick Resort hotel you can't go wrong.
The Gog Blog will continue on from French Lick Resort and head to Historic Pinehurst in North Carolina, where I expect to open the 2016 on the Pinehurst #8 Tom Fazio design. If the weather doesn't push us south of border into Santee South Carolina. That Mother Nature person is threatening to ruin our Saturday Pinehurst plans, but we will see.
McQ's Sports Dome on Rt. 53 in Bolingbrook is your all-purpose dome. The golf is great, lessons, short game area and more, play the horse in the OTB and get that golf paid for with house money, the sports bar will hop tonight for the Blackhawks game in Tampa. Visit Mcqsdome.com for more information. McQ's is part of McWethy-Mistwood Golf.
With that it's time to load the trunk and hit the road, and if your not going to join the Gog Blog by heading south during the Chicago winter, make sure you hit the golf domes around town, or get that first round in on over 90 courses that you can play on the simulator at the Halfway House in Elmhurst.
The PGA Show starts next Tuesday with the demo day at the Orange County Golf Center, with the show moving into the Orlando Convention Center after that for three days.
I hope you will stay clicked in over the next two weeks, as the Gog Blog brings you what news at the golf resorts and in the industry. An exciting time of the year for golfers, are you ready. RS.


"I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Knowing that his end was near, Jesus prayed. He prayed for those closest to him, his disciples. He prayed for those who have yet to come to faith because of their witness.
Throughout his life, he had shared the union with His Father through frequent prayer away and witnessed through His deeds of healing, forgiveness and empowerment. The good news of Jesus had spread and soon his disciples must take on the preaching and the witness that will make us all one.
Heaven knows, we are still not one. So take courage as the disciples did, draw close to God in prayer but then act to build unity among all people through word and deed.
As the Easter season ends, has Jesus become more close, more alive, through my prayer and reflection? How do I witness to the risen Jesus in my everyday life?
Life-giving Jesus, pour the graces of Easter deep into our hearts. Send your Holy Spirit deep into our hearts so that your Easter gifts give us strength and hope all our days. Amen.


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December 12, 2019 Dan Seeger Film
Now Playing — Dark Waters
I have no information about the development process of the new muckraking film Dark Waters, but I know just enough about Mark Ruffalo's social media presence to hatch a theory that begins with the actor reading Nathaniel Rich's article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare"and puffing up, Hulk-like, as he imagined using his Marvel-built clout to fill movies screens with this tale of environmental activism in opposition to loathsome corporate malfeasance. Surely the time is right for a new Erin Brockovich.
In the film, Ruffalo plays Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer who specializes in defending polluters trying to elide regulations laid out by the EPA. When a farmer named Wilbur Tennant (Bill Camp), from Robert's West Virginia hometown, shows up looking for assistance, Robert's initial reluctant turns into a welling responsibility to seek justice. The animals on Wilbur's farm are beset by illness, and he blames a nearby DuPont plant. Robert seeks information from the company, first to assure Wilbur the company can't be the culprit. Soon, though, Robert becomes convinced some of the products and byproducts coming out of the plant are spreading cancerous poisons. Worse yet, evidence emerges that DuPont knows about the dangers and is actively engaged in hiding the truth.
As Dark Waters focuses on the long discovery process behind the case, it's impressively engaging. In part because of the occasional slyly unorthodox visual slipped in by director Todd Haynes, working on the most conventional film of his career, the scenes that are most mired in exposition designed for maximum educational impact are also the strongest. The film is as locked into the cause as Robert (and Ruffalo), and the energy of that engagement shows. The more the screenplay (co-credited to Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan) layers in obvious attempts at heightened drama, the more strained it becomes. Aside from Robert and Wilbur, the other characters are so loosely drawn that they careen between world views, depending on the fleeting needs of the script. Poor Anne Hathaway, as Robert's wife, is burdened with playing about five different characters with no connective personality in sight.
Dark Waters is flawed. It also feels valuable. Agenda filmmaking is difficult to pull off, hopelessly prone to becoming a leaden procession of arguments, like a high school debate competition. By treating his unruly sensibility and a more straightforward approach as if they're so similar that they overlap without causing a riffle of discomfort, Haynes elides the sullen self-satisfaction that so often sinks this kind of film.
Tagged 2019 movies, new movie review, todd haynes
Playing Catch-Up — The Souvenir; Atlantics; Long Shot
This Week's Model — Phoebe Bridgers (featuring Fiona Apple and Matt Berninger), "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night"

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Q: Como devolver todos los elementos de una lista en el return de un método C# La lista que quiero devolver es una lista de objetos de la siguiente clase:
public class LightObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string lightType { get; set; }
    public string lightNumber { get; set; }
    public bool lightOn { get; set; }
    public long? lightHue { get; set; }
    public long lightBri { get; set; }
}

Quiero obtener todos los elementos de la siguiente lista:
LightObject[] lightsObjects = new LightObject[jsonTotalLights];

Esta lista se genera en este metodo:
public string GenerateLightsObjects()
    {
        // Obtención del JSON pidiendo la variable jsonlights al Lightipscript
        GameObject a = GameObject.Find("Main Camera");
        LightsIpScript b = a.GetComponent<LightsIpScript>();

        // Obtenemos el JSON
        jsonLights = b.jsonLights;

        // Obtenemos la CANTIDAD de elementos del JSON
        jsonTotalLights = b.jsonTotalOfLights;

        // Se almacena en un diccionario los objetos del JSON
        var dataDeserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, Light>>(jsonLights);

        // Almacenar el nombre de todas las bombillas
        ReadAndGetNameOfParentsFromJson(jsonLights);

        // Generar objetos de las luces
        LightObject[] lightsObjects = new LightObject[jsonTotalLights];
        for (int i = 0; i < jsonTotalLights; i++)
        {
            string bombillaActual = listOfParents[i];

            lightsObjects[i] = new LightObject() {
                lightType = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].Type,
                lightOn = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].State.On,
                lightNumber = bombillaActual,
                lightHue = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].State.Hue,
                lightBri = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].State.Bri
            };

        }

        // SACAR POR CONSOLA LA LISTA DE BOMBILLAS
        for (int i = 0; i < jsonTotalLights; i++)
        {
            Debug.Log("-- BOMBILLA: "+lightsObjects[i].lightNumber);
            Debug.Log("-- TIPO DE BOMBILLA: " + lightsObjects[i].lightType);
            Debug.Log("-- COLOR DE BOMBILLA: " + lightsObjects[i].lightHue);
            Debug.Log("-- BRILLO DE BOMBILLA: " + lightsObjects[i].lightBri);
            Debug.Log("-- ESTADO DE BOMBILLA: " + lightsObjects[i].lightOn);
            Debug.Log("valor de la I: "+i);
        }

        return jsonLights;
    }

Actualmente devuelve un string y el método está creado para devolver eso, pero he probado distintas modificaciones y no encuentro como devolver todos. He podido devolver sólo 1, pero necesito obtener toda la lista para usarla en otros métodos. Muchas gracias por la ayuda.

A: Debes colocar que tu metodo devuelva un array [] y devolver el mismo objeto que tu llenaste.
public LightObject[] GenerateLightsObjects()
{
    // Obtención del JSON pidiendo la variable jsonlights al Lightipscript
    GameObject a = GameObject.Find("Main Camera");
    LightsIpScript b = a.GetComponent<LightsIpScript>();

    // Obtenemos el JSON
    jsonLights = b.jsonLights;

    // Obtenemos la CANTIDAD de elementos del JSON
    jsonTotalLights = b.jsonTotalOfLights;

    // Se almacena en un diccionario los objetos del JSON
    var dataDeserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, Light>>(jsonLights);

    // Almacenar el nombre de todas las bombillas
    ReadAndGetNameOfParentsFromJson(jsonLights);

    // Generar objetos de las luces
    LightObject[] lightsObjects = new LightObject[jsonTotalLights];
    for (int i = 0; i < jsonTotalLights; i++)
    {
        string bombillaActual = listOfParents[i];

        lightsObjects[i] = new LightObject() {
            lightType = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].Type,
            lightOn = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].State.On,
            lightNumber = bombillaActual,
            lightHue = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].State.Hue,
            lightBri = dataDeserialized[bombillaActual].State.Bri
        };

    }

    // SACAR POR CONSOLA LA LISTA DE BOMBILLAS
    for (int i = 0; i < jsonTotalLights; i++)
    {
        Debug.Log("-- BOMBILLA: "+lightsObjects[i].lightNumber);
        Debug.Log("-- TIPO DE BOMBILLA: " + lightsObjects[i].lightType);
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"Several credit institutions have accepted to lend at rates below the deposit rate, which is a sign of unhealthy financial business that may bring risks to the banks," the State Bank of Vietnam said in a statement on Wednesday. It did not name any lenders.
The practice has come to light after the banking sector reported loans as of Nov. 30 were only 7.54 percent higher than at the end of 2012. That shows credit is expanding this year at well below the central bank's projection of 10-12 percent and the International Monetary Fund's forecast, given in August, of 12.4 percent.
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Vietnam has been counting on faster lending to help expand the Southeast Asian nation's economy this year at 5.4 percent, compared with 5.25 percent in 2012.
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Attachment Style Classification Questionnaire for latency age: Psychometrics properties of Argentine Sample
María Cristina Richaud
Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental (CIIPME) – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina.
Belén Mesurado
Universidad Austral, Argentina.
María Paula Minzi
attachment questionnaire
latency age
psychometric properties
factor structure
Richaud, M., Mesurado, B., & Minzi, M. (2019). Attachment Style Classification Questionnaire for latency age: Psychometrics properties of Argentine Sample. International Journal of Psychological Research, 12(2), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.4058
The purpose of this article was to perform a psychometric study of the Attachment Style Classification Questionnaire (ASCQ) in Spanish language. This paper included three studies. The objectives of study 1 were to analyze the discriminative power of items, to carry out an EFA to determine the structure of the questionnaire, and to calculate the internal consistency of factors. The objectives of study 2 were to test the questionnaire structure through a CFA, and to determine if the model obtained was invariant between sex and age. The objective of Study 3 was to study the convergent validity. The three studies were carried out with three different samples of 180, 200, and 425 Argentinian children, aged 9 to 12 years, respectively. The results confirm the three factor structure of the adapted questionnaire, showing good psychometric properties (satisfactory internal consistency and adequate validity).
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Today was a "me" day. I try to take these on a frequent basis, but have been rather lax about them as of late. I could really tell! Because it felt as though I needed it much like water or even my next breath today, and when I took it? It felt as though a heavy weight was lifted off of me.
Do you devote time or even a full day to "feeding" your soul? Your spirit? It's definitely a needful thing.
That, I believe is a form of Divine Love – an honoring of our Divine Self.
If you don't take such days, I highly recommend it!
Tomorrow is the New Moon. Why not set an intention for better self care?
Until next time, dear friend, may you be well and take time to honor your Self.
It's funny how self-care often becomes just one more thing on our to-do list, isn't it? I definitely "get it" because I often run into that challenge myself. But, if it was one of our loved ones we needed to take care of, we'd be right on top of it. Maybe "make a date" with yourself? And it doesn't have to take long or be something extravagant. Something as simple as a cup of tea (or your favorite beverage) while reading a good book for 15 minutes.


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Morocco has rolled back child labour for the youngest – now, COVID-19 looms
Since 1999, child labour has fallen by more than 90% in Morocco. The government has partnered with NGOs, the ILO, and other stakeholders to raise awareness, boost education (including non-formal types), and provide financial aid for families that keep their children in school. However, COVID-19 is threatening progress.
"Since I joined the national education system in 2000, I have seen school absences drop considerably. But COVID-19 could erase all the progress made."
– Mohamed Haydar, director of a rural primary school in Morocco
Read the full story on La Croix (in French)
As part of global efforts to mark the International Year, the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) recently launched the Initiative for the Fight against Child Labour by the Private Sector in Morocco (ILTESAM).
Child labour in Morocco
MAP16 project activities in Morocco
ILO child labour topic portal
Partnering for development
Fast facts:
Child domestic work is a hidden phenomenon that is difficult to tackle because of its links to social and cultural patterns.
200,000 7- to 17-year-olds are trapped in child labour in Morocco. Among these children, nearly 75% live in rural areas.
Morocco has ratified both ILO core conventions on child labour (on worst forms of child labour and minimum age requirements).
Hazardous child labour happens at an incidence rate of 1.6%, down from 2.3% in 2017, with support from the ILO in Morocco and its partners, including the United States Department of Labor (USDOL).
COVID-19 has increased pressure on vulnerable families. The ILO in Morocco is working closely with communities in targeted areas to improve awareness, reinforce capacities, and involve the private sector in the fight against child labour.
Throughout 2021, countries around the world are recognizing the UN International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
You can help by making an individual action pledge today.


The best tablets of 2016 are not just tablets but, in some cases, double as laptops.
For kids at least, tablets are as good as sedatives.
What are the hottest tablets this summer? Read on.
Tablets make great holiday gifts, and if you're in the market for one (or several), you'll find a number of Black Friday deals.
The Google Pixel C is the latest in a series of tablets that wish they were laptops.
The iPad Pro is the king of Apple's tablets. And planets.
The long-rumored iPad Pro was revealed last week at Apple's fall 2015 event. The 12.9-inch iOS device whose smart keyboard and stylus are a bit reminiscent of the Microsoft's Surface, and mark an important shift in Apple's tablet efforts. With a new moniker and increased footprint, the iPad Pro targets the professional creator and isn't a device strictly for consuming.
Apple fittingly choose an image of the king of all planets, Jupiter, to introduce its largest iPad yet. Which raises the question: if the iPad Pro is the gas giant, what planets are the other iOS devices?
Price-conscious parents looking to equip their kids with smartphones or tablets for the new school year are embracing Gazelle's new certified pre-used iPhone and iPad stores as an alternative to paying full price for a brand new device, the company says.
There are so many new apps for your iPhone, Android phone or tablets that it's just too hard to keep up. With hundreds of new apps released every day and millions in the Apple and Google stores, you aren't imagining things.
Tablets don't have to cost a fortune.
While tablets aren't going the way of the Zune or MiniDisc Walkman, they're losing popularity at a noticeable pace.
It's no surprise that America is letting its young use smartphones and tablets, but a new study reveals just how young is young.


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A Woman of Thirty by Balzac
Balzac's flawed novel, A Woman of Thirty, is essentially a character study of a woman named Julie who makes incorrect choices, ruins her life and the consequences of those choices to her children. The plot starts off very well but then loses its focus, finally wandering into dodgy soap territory laced with coincidence. The story title implies that we will see Julie as a woman of thirty, and it's true, we do see Julie as an unhappy thirty-year-old, but the story spans over thirty years and continues until 1844 when Julie is about 50. Balzac draws a portrait of a miserable marriage–a marriage of unequal sensibilities. Julie is an intelligent, sensitive woman paired with a man of mediocre talents which are masked by his rank and wealth. The observations Balzac makes on this subject were worth a post of their own, and while A Woman of Thirty is flawed, it has moments of sheer Balzac brilliance.
The story opens in 1813, April, on "a morning which gave promise of one those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavement underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead." This perfect weather is a glorious backdrop for the spectacle about to take place at the Tuileries–a "magnificent review" of Napoleon's forces just before he sets out on "upon the disastrous campaign" which ended in Napoleon's defeat. Balzac specifically tells us which battles will be won and which battles will be lost, but all this is in the future as crowds, pumped up with patriotism, gather to watch the colourful "military manoeuvres."
In the crowd is a beautiful young girl named Julie who's excitedly dragging her father along to watch the spectacle. It's clear that she's there to see someone very specific–Colonel Victor D'Aiglemont. Julie cannot hide her emotions, and her father, guessing that his daughter is in love, warns her not to marry D'Aiglemont. Julie argues, and her father predicts only misery if Julie insists on marrying this man:
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections of their day-dreams and put their trust in him. They fall in love with this imaginary creature in the man of their choice; and then, when it is too late to escape from their fate, behold their first idol, the illusion made fair with their fancies, turns to an odious skeleton. Julie, I would rather you fall in love with an old man than with the colonel. Ah! If you could but see things from the standpoint of ten years hence, you would admit that my old experience was right. I know what Victor is, that gaiety of his is simply animal spirits–the gaiety of the barracks. He has no ability, and he is a spendthrift. He is one of those men whom Heaven created to eat and digest four meals a day, to sleep, to fall in love with the first woman that comes to hand, and to fight. He does not understand life. His kind heart, for he has a kind heart, will perhaps lead him to give his purse to a sufferer or a comrade; but he is careless, he has not the delicacy of heart which makes us slaves to a woman's happiness, he is ignorant, he is selfish. There are plenty of buts–
After this initial scene, each of the subsequent periodic glimpses into Julie's life reveal the consequences of the choices she made in the previous section. The opening sequence shows Napoleon's armies gathering, the final glories of the Napoleonic Empire just as it's about to fall. Interestingly, Balzac parallels this by placing Julie on the brink of her life–about to make a disastrous choice in falling for Victor. Fast forward a year. Julie's father is dead, Julie is married to Victor, and she's already thoroughly miserable….
The marriage between Victor and Julie stumbles along; she's bitterly unhappy and grows pale and ill, and he, complaining to his friends about his delicate wife, consoles himself with other women.
One of the interesting aspects of the story is Balzac's frank approach to marital sex. At one point Julie, left by Victor with an elderly aunt, writes a letter to a friend warning her of the miseries of marriage, and the old Marquise reads the letter. In the letter Julie warns her friend, Louisa, that after "a few days of marriage, [and] you will be what I am already–ugly, wretched, and old." A major complaint is sex with an oblique reference to "the last outburst of delicious merriment" right before Victor gets into the marital bed for the first time. After reading Julie's letter to Louisa, Victor's aunt, the worldly, elderly Marquise tells Julie:
"If a dish at table is not to our taste, there is no occasion to disgust others, with it, child."
The Marquise grasps that when it comes to sex with Victor, Julie finds "it impossible to share his pleasures." At one point, after winning back Victor's attentions, Julie manages to convince him that sex is no longer part of their relationship. Victor and Julie grow apart; he has affairs and he tells his friends that they would act as he does is they "had a pretty wife so fragile that for the past two years you might not so much as kiss her hand for fear of damaging her." We hear Victor's side of the matter in a speech with an interesting analogy as he confides to a friend:
Do not you encumber yourself with one of those fragile ornaments, only fit to put in a glass case, so brittle and so costly that you are always obliged to be careful of them. They tell me that you are afraid of snow or wet for that fine horse of yours; how often do you ride him? That is just my own case. It is true that my wife gives me no ground for jealousy, but my marriage is purely ornamental business; if you think that I am a married man, you are grossly mistaken. So there is some excuse for my unfaithfulness.
A Woman of Thirty is a study in character. We know that Victor is weak and not particularly intelligent. There's no substance underneath that flashy uniform. At first it's fairly easy to blame all of Julie's woes on her husband-after all she was warned about Victor by her father. But then Balzac raises the fascinating issue of sexual incompatibility. There's a hint that Victor's just a tad too brutish for Julie. Julie and Victor's incompatibility is underscored by her love for two other men; in the case of one man, this is not the sort of love that includes passion and sex. It's agape love–self-sacrifice, devotion and worship. Julie's passion for the second man brings dire consequences to her family. Some female characters in Balzac pour all their passion into religion, but that's an option that fails for Julie. She tries to find consolation in religion but cannot.
Balzac's novel isn't a general statement against marriage (Julie's friend Louisa does marry in spite of her friend's advice and is very happy), but it is a cautionary tale about the misery of marriage between two people of varying sensibilities. Julie possibly could have been happy if she'd married a different sort of man. Interestingly Victor seems to grow a little better with age while Julie's disappointments warp her relationship with her daughter and lead to tragedy.
The plot goes on for far too long and the woman of thirty becomes a bitterly, unhappy woman of fifty who struggles with lifelong disappointments and depression. The plot turns soapy at the end with an implausible coincidence involving pirates.
The idea behind the novel is excellent–Balzac creates a series of snapshots of a woman's unhappy life, and due to the timing of those snapshots the reader sees the direct cause and effect connection. Balzac's attack on unhappy marriage and sexual incompatibility must have caused tongues to wag in the salons of Paris. Julie complains that her husband "seeks me too often," and Balzac poses the question that perhaps Julie's "abhorrence of passion," is a result of her "girlish first love" latching on to the first object of her adoration before she knew "the forbidden but frenzied bliss for which some women will renounce all the laws of prudence and the principles of conduct upon which society is based." Of course, Julie does get to taste that "forbidden but frenzied bliss" only to pay for those moments of madness dearly later.
There are many marvelous passages here even though the plot falls off the deep end by the book's conclusion, and here's Julie speaking her mind to a Curé on the subject of marriage–specifically a loveless marriage in which she compares sex between husband and wife to sex between a prostitute and her customers:
You pour scorn on the miserable creatures who sell themselves for a few coins to any passer-by, though want and hunger absolve the brief union; while another union, horrible for quite other reasons, is tolerated, nay encouraged, by society, and a young and innocent girl is married to a man whom she has only met occasionally during the previous three months. She is sold for her whole lifetime. It is true that the price is high! If you allow her no compensation for her sorrows, you might at least respect her, but no, the most virtuous of women cannot escape calumny. This is our fate in its double aspect. Open prostitution and shame; secret prostitution and unhappiness. As for the poor, portionless girls, they may die or go mad, without a soul to pity them. Beauty and virtue are marketable in the bazaar where souls and bodies are bought and sold–in the den of selfishness which you call society.
It's a wonderful speech, and through Julie's voice we can hear Balzac loud and clear. But in this impassioned speech Julie seems to forget that her marriage to Victor was not arranged–in fact she insisted upon it against her father's wishes. She seems to be absolving herself of any personal responsibility now that she faces a life sentences for a decision she made as an inexperienced young girl. In spite of the book's flaws (it should have ended with Julie at thirty), it's interesting for its revolutionary view of the misery of married life and its frank approach to married sex.
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Tagged as 19th century French literature, Balzac, La Comédie Humaine, miserable marriages
18 responses to "A Woman of Thirty by Balzac"
What sounds good about this one is the complexity of the characters and their interactions. Too bad it ended as you describe. I wonder why Balzac concluded it that way. I know that you have read him extensively Guy, do any of his other works follow this pattern?
While I am a fan of Balzac, he wasn't the most disciplined of writers. Sometimes he seems to be carried away by his own enthusiasms.
It is a bit of a curate's egg kind of book – excellent in parts, too melodramatic in others. Great social commentary, though!
Now that's an interesting phrase: a curate's egg.. what does that mean?
This is a Victorian expression (I believe), and comes from a story or anecdote in which the curate, who is subordinate to the bishop and local landlord, is invited to dinner and is given a rotten egg. When he is asked how his egg was, he daren't tell them it was dreadful, so he says it was excellent in parts. But in this case, I didn't mean that it was dreadful, just that it's partly bad, but also has some redeeming features. I think it was a cartoon in Punch that was at the origin of the expression perhaps.
Amateur Reader (Tom)
"Balzac's flawed novel" – you can use that phrase a lot. But how few involve pirates!
True. It certainly took me by surprise.
I liked this a great deal and didn't find it all that flawed. Patchy, yes.
I can't remember melodrama. I read it in French, so I wonder.
There's no hiding the melodrama in this one. IMO it went on too long.
acommonreaderuk
This sounds marvellous, despite it's flaws. Perhaps a little polemical (the speech in which HdB puts his own words into the mouth of Julie), but as always with such writers, the qualities far exceed the faults.
I love you phrase, the "implausible coincidence involving pirates". Oh dear, perhaps HdB veered from his usual standards here.
There's something endearing about Balzac–even when he's not as his best.
I would investigate the Brazilian boyfriend character in Cousin Bette, or just about anything that goes on in A Harlot High and Low, before setting those "usual standards" in stone. Those pirates are not all that far off from Balzac's standard operating procedure.
I've yet to read A Harlot High and Low, but it's one I'm really looking forward to. I've read Cousin Bette a few times. It's one of my favourites. Talk about bite the hand that feeds you…
I noticed on my recent read of the NYRB collection that there was quite a variation in quality. My reaction to the last story in that collection (The Duchess of Langeais) was similar to your reaction with this one. I wonder if Balzac was writing these 'novellas' for a specific audience/publication which required more melodrama and surprise endings?
Well he did write potboilers in the beginning of his career under a range of other names, so I wondered if he was just slipping w/this one.
I really liked this one when I read it. Like Caroline, I don't remember melodrama. I do remember that Balzac, for once, was championing the cause of women.
That description of Victor by Julie's father sounds a lot like Sergent Troy in Far From the Madding Crowd.
Really interesting that you came to this one a few reviews after "Tony Hogan Stole My Ma…", another story of a woman undone by a series of poor choices but with the consequences playing out in a very different society.


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I remember Genie, because everyone remembers Genie. At 7 years old, so many of the jokes and references went over my head, but Robin made them funny even when you didn't know what he was talking about. It wasn't until years later that I realized how revolutionary was his performance, forever changing the quality and creativity of voice acting, but I knew it was unlike anything my young eyes had ever seen. Not only was the comedy and the improv the best of the best, but the depth of feeling he brought to the Genie made him the most fully fleshed-out animated character of the time.
I remember Batty Koda, which was like a sweeter, sadder Genie. Robin built on the humor we'd come to expect after Aladdin and gave it a bigger message and simultaneously a smaller and more intimate performance. Ferngully is probably still the Robin Williams performance I quote the most. "Gravity works." "Only fools are positive." "Delicious and nutritious, tastes just like chicken." "Awesome use of the language, dude." "Red light! Another red light!" Not a week goes by where I don't quote Batty Koda.
I remember discovering Mork & Mindy reruns. I was the perfect age to appreciate Robin's crazy alien, who appealed to all of the weird parts of me in the same way that things like the Muppets did.
I remember discovering that his first film role was Popeye, a film that should never have worked and only succeeds because of him. It was my first realization that there were some roles that only Robin could or should play.
I remember Jumanji, and realizing that he could be funny without ever telling a joke.
I remember discovering his serious side and his immense acting talent. He made us all cry in Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society, scared the hell out of us in Insomnia and One Hour Photo, and impressed even up to the last film I saw him in, The Butler. But even more, I remember not being surprised to discover this side, because it fit totally naturally beside his comedy.
I remember the sheer brilliance of his improvisation. I don't think I've ever laughed harder than I did during his famous scarf improv on Inside the Actors Studio, and his episode of Whose Line is it Anyway? is one of the best. I'd never seen anyone make so much out of so little, or get so much joy from bringing joy to others.
I remember his return to animation, first with Robots and then with Happy Feet, and realizing how natural a fit it was for him. He could easily have starred in countless animated hits, but he was content to have a supporting role, bringing laughs without overshadowing the story.
I remember What Dreams May Come, where his sense of wonder helped us to believe in a gorgeous, painterly version of heaven and a horrifying vision of hell. His childlike imagination enabled him to really believe what he could only pretend to see, and in turn it helped us to believe.
I remember the last year of watching The Crazy Ones, where he shined in his return to the small screen despite material that sometimes couldn't keep up with his talents. He made the rest of the cast better, doing more to set up their moments than to play up his own. The show may not have made it big, but his generosity as an actor will stick in my head long after the show's been forgotten.
I remember how I didn't appreciate The Birdcage until I was much older, and then feeling like my eyes had been opened to a masterpiece. The "eclectic celebration of the dance" scene is one of the greatest moments ever captured on film, but what sticks with me more are the quiet moments in between the laughs. It's there in the way he interacts with his son, or the way he defends Albert. It's there when he lets his guard down and just for a moment gives a glimpse of the pain of how he's been treated for being gay, and when he calls himself a "middle aged fag" both in disgust at the term and pride for who he is. All because he asked director Mike Nichols for the less flashy part in the film, instead of the role everyone expected him to play.
But above all else I remember Hook, my favorite film and the only one I'm unable to write about. It's just too close, too personal, too meaningful for me to ever hope to find the words to express my feelings for it. I've tried over and over to write about it, either as a whole or just tiny fragments, but I've never been able to and I may never get to that point. And it all begins and ends with him. You see, he was Peter Pan. In a movie all about the power of belief, he was the one who made us believe. It's there in the moment he takes a spoon, dips it into an empty bowl, and mimes flinging food at Rufio, only for pudding to magically appear in midair, and his surprise and amazement mirrors our own. It's there when he drops the teddy bear and plummets towards the ground, only to regain his happy thought and look straight into the camera before flying away, and not only do we believe a man can fly but we believe that this man can fly. It's there when he crows, backlit in Spielberg's trademark style, not a man, not a boy, but an icon, larger than life but human and real. It's there, it's right there on the screen, in countless ways I could never express or describe, so deep in my heart that words cease to have meaning, and to even try would be an exercise in futility. But perhaps more than anything it's there when he returns back to his family, no longer a mythical hero but just a man and a father, a hero in more conventional ways, saying "To live would be an awfully big adventure."
I'm sure everyone has their own memories and moments of Robin Williams, and these are but a few of mine. There are countless other stand-up routines, film and TV roles that I haven't even touched, and everyone will have their own that mean something to them. Perhaps that's what set Robin apart from the rest. He could be bitingly, painfully funny, or he could be touching, heartbreaking and dramatic, but regardless he forged a connection with the audience in a way few others have. We all felt as if we knew him, like he was a friend we saw too rarely or an uncle who didn't visit often enough. It makes his sudden absence all the more painful, but it makes the memories and the moments that much sweeter.
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7 thoughts on "In Memoriam: Robin Williams"
The Animation Commendation on 08/12/2014 at 8:09 am said:
I loved him in 'Aladdin', 'Jumanji', the 'Night at the Museum' films, etc. I miss him!
lovepirate77 on 08/25/2014 at 10:57 am said:
I'm still heartbroken over this. He was so great in so many movies and shows. I think we'll be feeling this one for a long time.
The Animation Commendation on 08/25/2014 at 6:44 pm said:
My sentiments exactly!
vwonka on 08/13/2014 at 6:49 pm said:
"We all felt as if we knew him, like he was a friend we saw too rarely or an uncle who didn't visit often enough". Ah! This is, exactly, it! How many of us have grown up with his films? How many of us looked at him in any feature and felt safe and cared for, and hanging from every word he uttered?
We have lost a family member, because Robin became part of our family, somehow. The world is definitely a little darker now, as a part of our childhood vanishes with him. And if uncle Robin can't make it…!
Well said! It's exactly like losing a family member. So many people like to criticize those who are upset when a celebrity dies, but we truly form a personal connection with people like Robin, who bring us so much joy and laughter. The world is definitely a little darker now.
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Harold is missed. God bless his soul.
Wow.... That's terrible news. My condolences go out to the family, and may he rest in peace.
Man am I going to miss him.
Harold was an all around great guy, and the world is worse off with him gone.
Hope you are in a better place buddy, and I hope you can still read the forum from time to time. We will be thinking of you.
Got a link to his obituary?
If the Harold passed in his sleep then it's fantastic he went peacefully.
I missed him before he even passed, I was meaning to get back on RCM to say hey after a few years but I'm to late. Harold you were one of the most twisted and hilarious guys I've ever chatted with, you will be sorely missed my demented friend.
My sincerest condolences to his friends and family.
Very sorry to hear this. RIP Harold.
I didn't really know Harold but from what I read he was a really helpfull, knowledged and friendly guy.
All the best to his family and friends for this big loss.
PS : As you may know, my English is not good so I am sorry if I said something odd, I don't mean to do that.
Dang, RIP Harold. If you were half as fun in person as you were here on the forums I'm sure you brought joy everywhere you went.
Good bye Harold, gone too soon but never forgotten.
This is very sad, I'm very sorry, RIP.
Never too late for a heartfelt "RIP Harold"
And a warm internet hug for all the old fam still around.
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A few years ago I had a clever title for a blog that would be centered around war stories from photographers. I began asking around for stories. I asked a few photographers if they had any negative of inappropriate stories they could share. To my surprise I found 2 things. Either people weren't honest and really didn't have any to share or they weren't going to be truthful and tell stories that they deemed inappropriate. I disbanded the idea of the blog and let that go.
I am going to share my story from this past evening. I encountered a very rude, very inappropriate photographer, that caused a public scene and was acting very rudely during a performance I was hired to be at. I will not share the name of this photographer as I feel that it would be beneath me to do so. I will however describe the manner in which he conducted himself that warranted the staff to step in and say something to him.
At the beginning of the the show, during the reception, I observed an older gentle man setting up his cameras. He had two bodies mounted with a wider lens and one mounted with a 70-200mm f2.8. I assumed he was there for one of two reasons, to photograph a specific piece because he was related to someone or because one of the dance companies asked him to be present. At the start of the first piece I observed him sitting on the ground. While I had one camera set to capture a certain angle, wirelessly, I approached my friend whom was running the event. I asked who he was and what he was there for. I asked expecting to hear "media." Something along the lines of a dance publication, news paper, something. She responded with, "we don't know. He just showed up and said he photographs dance and sat down and began doing so." I found that to be odd as one had to pay a ticket price to get it. I was the primary that was there to capture the event for them. They had no idea who he was.
During the intermission he re-positioned himself at a different perspective in the venue. He was asked to kindly stop making photos, even more so when it was discovered he was there to do so for a "book" that he was working on. His goal was to not "sell the photos," rather solicit to the dance companies following the show that he was working on a "book" in the hopes they would agree to be a part of it.
Within a minute the older, not very pleasant looking gentle man made his way from the balcony and directed his focus on where I was standing, talking to a group of people. He approached in a very unpleasant manner and with a very unwelcoming tone said he would like to talk to me. I looked at him and said, "me?" His response, "yea, you," as if I was guilty for doing something. He motioned for me to step aside, essentially asking me to abruptly end my conversation with no notice and give him the attention he was demanding. I obliged out of kindness.
He introduced himself. I shook his hand. Following that he said, "I would like to give you a piece of professional advice." Now I was getting annoyed. Here I was face to face with someone who entered an event with the expectation that they could come and do as they please without asking permission and without knowing who I was, wanted to give me a piece of advice. If it is anything I have learned from watching television shows that rely heavily on drama it is this: If someone wants to "offer advice," they are about to insult you, correct you, or tell you they think they are better than you by explaining something to you that you other wise did not need to know or already knew. I was shocked that someone I didn't know felt the need to approach me, publicly, and express distain when they were in the wrong.
I responded with, "you want to give me advice?"
"Well yea, if you want."
I responded with, "before you piss me off, please walk away."
"That will only embarrass you," he said.
"You have approached me and accosted me in a public setting and I do not appreciate that. Please kindly walk away." Were the last words that I said to him. His behavior was ill timed, inappropriate, and confrontational. I do not like being put on the spot in such a tone, especially when I was rightfully there, doing my job.
He thought he was a bigger person by approaching me. What he was not aware of, what he did not know, was that the chair of the organization did not want to hear a single camera during the show. My inquiry as to who he was, was to merely ask if he was media, why he was sitting there, and to state my intent that if he was there shooting in that spot then I wanted to be situated in a more ideal location as well. I did not care to be next to him or near him, but to have a better location to capture the show more clearly. I was after all there to capture the performance for the organization.
Having realized that he was not going to get his way, win this round, he attempted to take his frustrations out of me. I was insulted. I was more insulted that he felt the need to act so unprofessionally and accuse me of being the one to have his right to make photos taken away. As one of the other staff members stated, "he didn't even ask if it was ok. He showed up and just started shooting." The moral of the story, the point that I want to convey is this: There is a place and time, a manner in which one can and should say something. There are professional manners that can be displayed. Picking and choosing the correct time exhibits your level of professionalism. Do not show up unannounced with the expectation that you have the right to do anything. Be courteous, respectful, polite, and you will see that things can be granted to you when you act in a more professional manner.