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With the recently enacted Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872), the Federal Family Educational Loan (FFEL) Program has been eliminated. Private lenders, such as your Co-op Credit Union, no longer have a role in originating or funding federal Stafford, PLUS or Consolidation loans.
As a result, effective July 1, 2010, we are no longer accepting new applications for student loans through the Federal Family Educational Loan Program.
Although our credit union will no longer be funding federal student loans, we would like to continue assisting you in whatever way we can. Talk with one of our service reps about other financial aids available.
Each year the Minnesota Credit Union Foundation Scholarship Council offers scholarships to Minnesota credit union members. To review the scholarship eligibility requirements, click here. All applications must be in by February 1st of the following year.
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Artisanal blend of mountain cheeses.
Pesto mayo, roasted tomatoes and arugula. Served with choice of side.
Arugula, aged cheddar and thick cut smoked bacon.
Pico de gallo and corn tortillas.
Mashed avocado, seedless cucumber, radish and capers.
Organic veggie burger and shredded cheddar.
Rolled in crushed sweet cereal.
Topped with seasonal berries in their juices.
With your choice of cream cheese, butter or jam.
Seasonal fruit and honey on the side.
Fresh herbs, artichoke hearts and lemon aioli.
Baby arugula and spicy tartar.
Grilled pineapple and cilantro vinaigrette.
Tomato, cheese, cabbage, corn and champagne vinaigrette.
Avocado, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, blue cheese, corn and tomatoes.
Red peppers, celery, basil, tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil.
Kittery croutons and house made Caesar dressing.
Cucumber, red onion, feta cheese with a touch of lemon.
Arugula, vine tomato and tartar on a griddled brioche roll.
Griddled brioche bun, avocado and smoked bacon.
Signature blend of beef on griddled brioche roll and french fries.
Poached lobster and beef patty on brioche roll, Canadian bacon and fried egg with french fries.
You can choose to make it a platter.
You can chose to make this a platter.
Grilled asparagus, soft egg, chilled sesame hollandaise, and nori powder.
Grilled or Pan-Seared with sweet potato, spinach, olives, and capers.
Sauteed mushrooms, spinach, corn and sauce of Verde.
Griddled hot dog bun and slaw.
Arugula, white wine and house made tartar.
Smoked bacon, avocado, lettuce and vine tomato.
Ciabatta, baby spinach, mushrooms and Swiss.
Signature blend of beef on a griddled brioche roll.
Poached lobster, Canadian bacon and fried egg.
Avocado salad and mustard sauce.
Kittery chips, celery stalks, and carrots.
Baby arugula, salad, and house chipotle tartar.
Served with confit tomatoes and grilled bread.
Made with ricotta cheese, fresh herbs and tomato in basil sauce.
Frisse, Roquefort, bacon lardons, croutons and warm vinaigrette.
Bleu cheese and spiced honey.
Fresh tuna, soy sauce, pico de gallo, black bean puree and guacamole.
Fresh thyme and oyster crackers.
Fennel, fingerling potatoes and horseradish dressing.
Old Bay seasoned chips with celery stalks.
White wine, garlic and parsley. Served with grilled bread.
Spicy tomato broth and fresh oregano. Served with grilled bread.
Leeks, carrots and celery. Served with grilled bread.
Tomato, cucumber, bleu cheese, cabbage, and champagne vinaigrette.
Grilled garlic bread and arugula.
Croutons, Parmesan cheese, and house-made Caesar dressing.
Hazelnuts, Parmesan cheese, and lemon vinaigrette.
Griddled brioche bun, coleslaw, and pickles. Served with choice of side.
Griddle brioche bun, coleslaw, and pickles. Served with choice of side.
Arugula, beefsteak tomato, tartar, and a grilled brioche bun. Served with choice of side.
Romaine, beefsteak tomatoes, and chipotle tartar sauce. Served with choice of side.
Grilled brioche bun, avocado, and smoked bacon. Served with choice of side.
Mozzarella, tomato, pesto, and olive tapenade. Served with choice of side.
Lettuce, tomato, red onion and pickle. Served with french fries or green salad.
Lemon tarragon mayo, griddled bun, coleslaw and pickle.
Goat cheese, roasted peppers and balsamic glaze. Served with french fries or green salad.
Poached lobster, beef, Canadian bacon, fried egg, and a brioche roll. Served with choice of side.
Sweet potato puree and sauteed spinach.
Crispy skin, grilled asparagus, soft egg, and chilled sesame hollandaise.
Grilled or pan-seared with olives and capers.
Sauteed mushrooms, spinach, corn, and salsa verde.
Roquefort sauce and mixed greens.
White wine, garlic, roasted tomatoes and fennel.
Champagne mustard and Parmesan fries.
Bacon and tomato lobster broth.
Brioche stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry and string beans.
Parmesan cheese and old bay seasoning.
Fried day boat cod. Served with choice of side.
5 oz. beef patty with 1 topping.
Served with choice of sauce, cheese, and a side.
Grilled or breaded. Served with choice of side.
On a griddled brioche bun. Served with choice of side.
Chocolate sauce and chocolate whipped cream.
Vanilla ice cream, fudge sauce, whipped cream and candied almonds.


The Lyric Theatre is excited to kick off our lunch & concert series, Feed the Soul, starting on Wednesday, March 14 at 11:30 am and continuing the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This series is made possible in part by the generous support of PNC Bank and LexArts, a proud Lyric sponsor.
Feed the Soul will feature buffet style food with delicious options varying each date, and guests will enjoy a live concert by the most talented local musicians. Each month we will switch things up with a new musician, offering an enjoyable and unique experience each time.
Please contact the Lyric Box Office at 859-280-2218 to purchase these packs or click here.


I will aim for the strongest YAKINIKU article.
・For all visitors to the world, I'd like to introduce the best yakiniku restaurant.
・I'd like to share information with my friends who have the same ambition to love Yakiniku.
・I'd like to raise the perfection degree to the extent that this article becomes an encyclopedia of Yakiniku.
・As a part of life work, I'm writing to write about yakiniku articles and I'd like to be helpful to tourists visiting Japan.
First of all, we will position that position as a categorie of gastronomic cuisines, "Yakiniku" to the extent that it is aligned with "Sukiyaki" in the food culture around the world.
And, I hope that tourists all over the world will register this site as smartphone favorites and play the role of Yakiniku bible.
I would like to produce goods of [Yakiniku Tribe] and to collaborate with famous brands.


SUB still moving healthly within a Short upwards trend channel.
"One day, Americans might wake up and realize they don't like big brother watching over their shoulder and having corporations track everything they do. And when that happens, Substratum will be there".
I think SUB's decentralized internet technology applies to other countries more than the U.S. (China for example), but I still appreciate this quote. Could SUB become internet 3.0? I would love to hear your comments. They have a very ambitious and world changing project.
Now to the chart. SUB is still moving within this upwards trend channel appropriately, but as I noted, any deviation from this channel in the next couple of days could be a sign of a downtrend. However, I also outlined where we have a "cup and handle" case as well as another Elliot Impulse Wave case. The 12hr BOLL bands, not on this chart, are starting to diverge once again, indicating a shift up or down. If we remain in this channel, then once again we should start moving toward the center as an appropriate correction from top to bottom and I have outlined some scenarios at which this could occur. We are still riding within our support line of .00076-77, but we need to see some more volume in the next few days. As usual, I will update when I see a change, especially a change in volume .
Bình luận: I do like the gradual build in volume from just several days ago of around 430 ETH on Binance, to 580, 635, 700 something yesterday and 966 at this very moment. Still need to see a jump to around 1500 ETH before I see this move to the top happening quickly, but momentum is building nicely regardless as we are still within the channel.
Bình luận: Volume at 1500 ETH right now. SUB is looking better and better.
Bình luận: Our large cup starting back on 2/19 to 3/13. Then we had a cup form with a correction of about 50% of previous cup until 3/20. Then another cup form about 50% correction of that until 3/27 and currently on our fourth cup or U-shaped pattern, which was only about 25% of that. In addition, .00095 is proving to be strong resistence. All said, we are still looking bullish especially if we can break through the .00095 resistence level on this fourth upswing and again, start moving toward the center of this channel.


This course is an update in the application of molecular profiling for classification of lung cancer and identification of targets of therapy.
1. Understand the role of molecular profiling in the classification of lung cancer.
2. Update knowledge of molecular markers of lung cancers that can be used as targets of therapy.
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Baby Born With Rare 'Butterfly' Skin Condition
Doctors think baby Lane's blisters are the result of a genetic skin condition.
BySYDNEY LUPKIN
Doctors are 99 percent sure baby Lane has a rare skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa.
May 13, 2014— -- Brittany Weingart knew something was wrong with her son about a week after he was born when she found tiny blisters on his chin and mouth and couldn't explain them.
Baby Lane is now 6 months old, and doctors are almost certain he has a rare condition in which his body cannot properly make the protein that anchors skin in place, resulting in painful blisters on his skin.
"Up until about a week ago, I would have told you that he is the happiest baby," Weingart, 24, of Edinburgh, Indiana, told ABC News. "He still smiles and he's still happy most of the time, but now he fusses and whines. When you touch him, he flinches."
Epidermolysis bullosa, nicknamed the "butterfly" skin condition, occurs in 1 in 50,000 births.
As Lane gets older and becomes more mobile, he gets more blisters, which Weingart has learned she must pop and bandage before they can grow and spread, she said.
The condition is called epidermolysis bullosa, and it affects about 1 in 50,000 live births, though it can vary in severity, according to the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry. Nicknamed the "butterfly" skin condition because it makes the skin so fragile, epidermolysis bullosa has no known cure.
Read about other children and young adults with this epidermolysis bullosa.
Brittany Weingart puts mittens on her 6-month-old son to keep his hands from blistering.
Lane's case is so mild that only a genetic test will tell whether he has the condition for sure, but Medicaid has refused to pay for it, Weingart said.
At a loss, Weingart created a Facebook page to raise awareness about the condition, and share Lane's story. Through the page and other fundraising efforts, she said she's been able to afford the $3,000 test out-of-pocket.
The genetic test can take up to 12 weeks to process, but her family should have answers this summer.
"The diagnosis is important to us because it's scary knowing he has something but not know for sure what it is," Weingart said. "No, there is no cure or treatment, but a confirmation will give us peace of mind just knowing what exactly it is."
Read a young adult's take on having a rare disease.

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Iki (壱岐国 Iki no-kuni) is een voormalige provincie van Japan, gelegen in de huidige prefectuur Nagasaki. Het besloeg het volledige eiland Iki. De provincie is ook bekend als Ishu (壱州).

Geschiedenis
In de middeleeuwen was Iki ook bekend onder de namen Ichiki-no-kuni (一支国) en Itai-no-kuni (一大国). In de Kroniek van de Drie Rijken staat vermeld dat ongeveer drieduizend families het koninkrijk Itai stichten op het eiland Iki.

Externe links

  Kronieken van Wokou

Historische provincie van Japan
Geschiedenis van Kyushu
Prefectuur Nagasaki

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Женщина на китайском седане стала поворачивать налево, не уступив дорогу ТС, движущимся навстречу, и чуть не устроила ДТП. Водитель фольксвагена оказался шибко несдержан, отобрал у женщины мобильник и разбил об асфальт (видимо, во время маневра она разговаривала по мобиле). Оба неправы. Непонятно, зачем женщина открыла дверь, если видела, что на нее идет разгневанный мужик... The woman on the car swerved to the left, not giving way to the cars moving towards, and just did not work accident. The driver of Volkswagen was not restrained, seized women mobile phone and broke on the asphalt (perhaps during the maneuver, the woman was talking on a cell phone).


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Route 66 Tour
The Mother Road
Route 66 is often called The Mother Road," "The Main Street of America," or "The Will Rogers Highway," took in as much existing road as possible when it was commissioned in 1926. Originating in Chicago, it traveled west to LA often a lyrical phrase recited from the famous namesale song, ending eventually in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean. The full road trip spanned eight states, from Chicago, Illinois; through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona to the Golden State of California!
Coming to this mythical land became easier with the advent of U.S. Highway Route 66, the first direct route from the Dust Bowl region all the way to an area just south of California's Central Valley, the heart of California's rich agricultural bounty.
While many migrants came to California, the majority did not stay permanently since the Golden State didn't offer the better life they were seeking. At best, they could only find seasonal, low-paying agricultural jobs that required travel up and down the state following harvest seasons.
But some of what attracted people to California was real, it was here and it was found along Route 66 as they made their way across the state. The hardships faced by the dust bowlers doesn't tell the whole story of Route 66 and farming because it doesn't fully reflect the story of California agriculture. These are stories like the profound influence that California's citrus industry exerted on American agriculture and the thousands of acres of vineyards that thrived in southern California through the mid twentieth century.
California's portion of Route 66 extended from the Colorado River near Needles, to the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica, representing some 320 miles, and reflecting the diversity of California's agricultural industry along the way. For those who traveled along the "Mother Road," once they crossed the state line into California and made it past the desert, they were greeted by rolling green hills and green pastures, fruit orchards, wineries, livestock ranches, and dairies. All living landscapes that seemed to prove that everything they had heard about California was true.
Ironically, agriculture along Route 66 faced the same fate as most of the dust bowlers. In the 1940s, as society changed from being predominantly agricultural-industrial to an urban-technological society, urban displacement of agriculture became dominant in southern California as super highways and suburbs were built.
Here are some highlights of some important agricultural areas along Route 66 that helped create the mythology of the California Lifestyle, along with some places and events that you can visit today that reflect the region's agricultural heritage.
As old Route 66 made its way through the desert, crossing the Mojave River leaving Barstow and heading towards the high desert town of Victorville, travelers were welcomed by waving fields of alfalfa and corn, cattle ranches with high fields of grass, and the river winded through acres of farmland, fruit orchards, and poultry ranches.
Making its way through the Cajon Pass, the Old Route heads to San Bernardino, an area that was ideal for citrus growers. By the early 1900s, orange groves were spread across the San Bernardino Valley from the mountains to the coastal plains in the area known as the Inland Empire. However, the citrus groves are now gone from San Bernardino County due to urban development.
Fortunately, San Bernardino's citrus heritage is still recognized with the National Orange Show that has been held each spring at the National Orange Show Events Center since 1911. For two weeks in May, the San Bernardino show features exhibits, animals, a carnival, contests, and entertainment.
The city also plays host to the Route 66 Rendezvous each September that salutes the "Mother Road" and features cruises, a classic car show, and live bands. It also salutes the region's agricultural heritage by presenting the Steinbeck Awards during the event.
Continuing west through San Bernardino County, the route makes it way through the city of Rialto, once known for its lemon groves and orange-packing plants. In this section the old route ran through the foothills past miles of citrus groves.
Next, travelers come to the city of Fontana that was once home to small citrus, grape, poultry, and rabbit farms. During its heyday, travelers on the California portion of the route were rewarded with numerous orange juice stands that dotted old Route 66. Today, there is still one stand remaining at Bono's Italian Restaurant in Fontana, along old Route 66 (Foothill Boulevard at Sultana Avenue).
Travelers continuing on the Old Route west of Fontana towards Rancho Cucamonga were treated to views of vineyards and wineries that covered the foothills of the Cucamonga Valley. It was also home to orange and olive groves. Today, Rancho Cucamonga is one of the fastest growing suburbs in the area and the vineyards are nearly all gone.
But it was once wine country and up until the mid 1950s the Cucamonga wine region was considered California's largest grape-growing and wine-producing district. In 1995, the Cucamonga Valley was officially deemed an American Viticultural Area by growers who were seeking to give the historic winegrowing area some overdue recognition, and preserve the few remaining wineries.
There are still a few vineyards and wineries here including the Joseph Filippi Winery still in Rancho Cucamonga and the Galleano Winery in Mira Loma southeast of the Ontario International Airport.
The city also hosts the annual Grape Harvest Festival each October featuring concerts, carnival rides and contests including a homemade wine competition.
While in Rancho Cucamonga, you might want to check out the antique-curio store, Route 66 Memories, which is housed in a restored 100-year old farmhouse along historic Route 66 (Foothill Boulevard).
As old Route 66 (Foothill Boulevard) leaves Rancho Cucamonga, it travels through the San Gabriel Valley cities of Upland, Claremont, La Verne, San Dimas, Glendora, Azusa, Duarte, Monrovia, Arcadia, and Pasadena.
The San Gabriel Valley featured orange and lemon groves as far as the eye could see and was a very significant region to the southern California citrus industry. In fact, the first oranges and lemons were planted at the San Gabriel Mission in 1804 and a grower used the seeds from the Mission grove to plant the first commercial citrus grove in what is now downtown Los Angeles. Upland, La Verne, Glendora, and Azusa, were once home to the region's many citrus packing and shipping facilities.
In the mid-1950s, when Route 66 was replaced by high-speed freeways the San Gabriel Valley's orange groves were replaced by housing tracts.
If this short trip down the Old Route has inspired you to learn more about the region's agricultural heritage, you can get a good overview of southern California's citrus history at a current exhibit at the Pasadena Museum of History. The exhibit entitled, "Orange Blossom Time: The Citrus Heritage of Southern California," runs through January 2006. It examines the role citrus has played in the history and development of Southern California, especially the San Gabriel Valley. It features photographs, maps, periodicals, citrus grove and packinghouse equipment, and citrus crate labels. The labels exhibit changes monthly to focus on different regions in Southern California.
Route 66 has long been associated with agriculture and farming, due largely to John Steinbeck's famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which portrayed the westward migration of people fleeing the dust bowl and depression in the 1930s in search of a better life.
Steinbeck's fictional Joad family represented the thousands of farm families that left a barren land with the dream of starting over in the only life they had ever known: farming. For those who made farming their life, California represented the "promised land" that seemed to offer an abundance of work because its ideal climate provided a longer growing season and diversity of crops, all needing to be harvested.
That encompasses 3 time zones and 2448 miles, if you are counting. "At birth" only 800 miles of Route 66 was paved road. Most people travel from Chicago west, because most of the literature only goes that way. It was the consummate American vacation road to see the country. "Route 66" was a symbol of Americana, the classic drive with vintage roadside attractions, from unpretentious diners and motor courts to natural treasures and high rent districts. It traversed through the land of the Painted Desert, the Petrifi ed Forest, the Grand Canyon and the Mojave Desert. On its edge, wigwams, presidential homes, pueblos and old western towns. Route 66 was memorialized by John Steinbeck, Will Rogers, and songwriter Bobby Troup in his "(Get your kicks on) Route 66."
The 1960s "Route 66" television show starring Martin Milner and George Maharis, tempted Just a blink away from the "Historic Route 66" sign in Downtown LA, is a destination worth visiting- the Plaza and Olvera Street. A part of El Pueblo of Los Angeles Historic Monument, it is near the site where Los Pobladores founded the city in 1781. This oldest and most historic section of Los Angeles reflects its diverse ethnic heritage under three governments. The Visitors Center located in the old Sepulveda House can direct you to some of the 27 historic buildings including the Avila Adobe, Pelanconi House, Pico House, Italian Hall, Firehouse, Plaza Church, Merced Theatre and Masonic Hall. Route 66 picks up Santa Monica Boulevard through West Hollywood with more upscale trendy restaurants than diners, and passes through Beverly Hills with its manicured park space bordering neighborhoods of the rich and famous. If you look closely, all to take an adventurous drive and see the country….even if we didn't own a Corvette! In California, you can explore Route 66 by traveling through Needles, Barstow, Victorville, Cajon Summit, San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Azusa, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, West Los Angeles to Santa Monica. Route 66 was officially decommissioned in 1985, so maps and "Historic Route 66" signage will help point the way. The highway has been "re-routed" some, so you may choose to stay on the interstates or veer off to the original rustic highway.
The End of the trail in California
As it comes to its end, Route 66 moves through Pasadena along Colorado Boulevard, a street made famous by the annual New Year's Day Rose Parade. you see savvy shopping areas including Rodeo Drive on the left. Coming up, again as you work your way west on the boulevard, is Century City, where presidents often stay and movies are made. For a striking departure, look to your right in West LA to note the welcoming angel Moroni, on the Los Angeles Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Generous green lawns lead up to the temple that was dedicated in 1956, now second in size only to the Utah temple. Behind the landmark structure, you can find the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center. This genealogist's delight is open to the public at no charge. Although it eventually ended at Lincoln Boulevard, if there was a "finish line" to this famous drive, the Santa Monica Pier could provide it with the appropriate flair. The famed amusement pier is visible from the Route 66 marker in Palisades Park and worth the trip. Santa Monica Pier opened on California's Admission Day, September 9, 1909. Thousands of visitors celebrated by strolling onto the amazing wooden thoroughfare over the Pacific. The novel walk over crashing waves was seasoned by the sounds of band concerts. For the athletic types, one could "peer" at the swimming races.
By 1916, Charles Looff, who built Coney Island's first carousel, began construction on the landmark Hippodrome building alongside the municipal pier. His architectural fantasy pier housed a string of vintage merry-go-rounds, Wurlitzer organs and thrill rides. As the pier fl ourished, it also grew in size. In 1926, the year Route 66 began, an ornate La Monica Ballroom opened to host dancers and eventually to national radio and television broadcasts. Stormy weather and heavy use took its toll on the fun zones. The roller coaster was eliminated in 1930, but La Monica Ballroom survived another 33 years. The municipal pier continued its operation under by the city of Santa Monica, while the Looff Pleasure Pier suffered from a string of private ownerships until the city took it over in 1953. In 1973, the city mandated demolition. Today, because of the movement by locals to save the pier, visitors can take another ride back through time on a glorious carousel and revisit childhood dreams with their families. The carousel and hippodrome are protected as a National Historic Landmark. The pier is a perfect end to a journey along Route 66…music, Maestro…
Farmers Markets along Rt. 66
by Judy Gerber


Professional counsellors often lack the marketing skills and knowledge to promote their work effectively. In this series of five articles, I offer advice to counsellors on promoting their work, attracting new clients and working with the media.
These articles were published in BACP's international journals and online. As a result of their popularity, I was invited to give a series of related presentations at events across the UK. The presentations explored the importance of marketing and media skills further. They also gave additional practical advice to counsellors on how to promote their work. Recordings of the presentations were later used as training materials on BACP's online training platform.
Many counsellors in academia feel that their work is not valued at a senior level, and that it falls victim to a long-standing tension between the academic aspects of university life and issues concerning student wellbeing. In a climate of financial stress, this attitude is dangerous and, with the threat of outsourcing looming large, it has never been more important for services to successfully promote the many benefits of in-house counselling.
There are many similarities between working with the press and with radio outlets, and a few important differences. Appearing on a radio programme can be logistically challenging – you may not be given a lot of notice and you will probably have to travel to a studio either to pre-record your interview or as a live guest. If you are able to work within these constrictions though, radio has great potential as a uniquely direct and emotive medium.
To keep thing manageable, set a radius around the location of your practice and focus your promotion efforts within this area. Get in touch with business groups, networking event organisers and social clubs in your chosen area and offer to visit or give a talk about what you do. Avoid spreading yourself too thinly by assessing opportunities as you identify them and concentrating on those that are most likely to help you achieve your aims.
Get together with a handful of local counsellors and organise a charity event or open day, perhaps to coincide with an awareness day like World Mental Health Day. You'll benefit from the synergy of a group of like-minded professionals by drawing a bigger crowd, cross-promoting and perhaps getting local media coverage. Operating as a team will also make the event easier to organise by spreading the workload.
By the time you've secured an initial meeting with a potential new customer much of the hard work has already been done. Your contact has probably already decided that they want to employ a counsellor. You now need to capitalise on the hard work you've done so far and make sure they choose you over another provider by making a professional business case for your service.


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The Best 1940s Era Entertainers for Hire in Rohnert Park, CA
79 1940s Era Entertainers serving Rohnert Park, CA
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"A Bit Hit at My Father's 90th Birthday Party!" – Carol C., reviewing San Francisco 1940s Era Entertainer Noam Eisen - Pianist, Singer, Entertainer. More reviews
Miles McKenzie
Sebastopol, CA
8 miles from Rohnert Park
Jasmin G. said "My organization hired Miles for a fundraiser. We had a tight space to work with and he was very accommodating. The music he played was great and it matched…"
Diablo Rhythm Wranglers
Country Band / 1940s Era Entertainment
38 miles from Rohnert Park
Brian W. said "The Diablo Rhythm Wranglers are playing authentic Western, Western Swing, and Cowboy music, and doing it right. Go see them if you have the chance."
The Apollo Trio
Moriah N. said "The gentlemen are very good with communication and showed up early. Skill level is professional. Great choice."
Nova Jazz
Faris M. said "Daniel was hired as a solo saxophonist for my recent wedding ceremony and cocktail hour. He was so professional and played my song selections so beautifully.…"
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Reconsidering Pablo Neruda in Light of 'The Poet's Calling'
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When Pablo Neruda was expelled from France in 1952, he wrote this to his beloved countrymen in Chile: "The future of humanity may be endangered in the hands of a few evil men, but it does not belong to them. The future of man is ours, because we are the embodiment of hope." There was a time when I would have believed this to be most true of Pablo Neruda, but after reading Mark Eisner's recently released biography, Neruda: The Poet's Calling, it's hard to associate Neruda with hope. In addition to spending the better part of 600 pages placing Neruda in an interesting global and historical context, Eisner lays bare troubling, if timely, revelations and paradoxes about Neruda.
The first involves a woman of color referred to as "Josie Bliss." There's no evidence that Bliss actually existed; Eisner explains that she was likely an invented figment of Neruda's imagination, an exoticized Burmese woman who is also the subject of one of his cult classic poems, "Widower's Tango," in which he describes her "perceived threat, desire and barbarity" cycling throughout the poem. Neruda wrote, in part:
I would give this giant sea wind for your brusque breath
…to hear you urinate, in the darkness, in the back of the house,
as if spilling a thin, tremulous, silvery, persistent honey,
how many times would I give up this chorus of shadows that I possess,
and the noise of useless swords that is heard in my heart.
It seems harmless enough at first read, but Eisner applies his critical eye in the biography, writing that with the line about urine, "He almost elevates her corporal excreta to the divine. Yet there is a dark undertone: the woman in the poem is like a wild animal."
I had to stop reading for a bit, give myself a moment, before I continued. A little context: I was on the subway immersed in this biography of Neruda, who I thought was a man of substance, courage, and romance. I had in my possession at the time no less than four collections of poems by Neruda, one of which was The Essential Neruda, edited by Mark Eisner and published in April 2004, the centennial of Neruda's birthday. The Neruda I loved and cared about was the Neruda who made Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair sound like it emerged from longing and not from anything that he might do. But this Neruda, who would make up exoticized women to turn into fetishes as part of his creative schtick, made my heart sink into my stomach.
Once I read on, I found that Chapter 8 ends with an assertion that though Neruda was actively promoting social equality and justice while composing his memoirs in the 1960s, "his dehumanization of nonwhite women certainly undercuts his moral authority when he writes about the 'downtrodden.'"
These contradictions surprised and drained me, but they were not as bad as what Eisner reveals about Neruda's time in Sri Lanka. During it, Neruda writes to multiple women, blaming each for inflicting psychic pain on him. When a beautiful woman who is part of the lowest caste in Sri Lanka comes to clean the bottom of his waterless toilet, she also catches Neruda's eye. He likens her to "a shy jungle animal."
After this woman quietly and literally cleans up Neruda's shit, he calls after her and she doesn't respond. So one morning, he writes, "I decided to go all the way. I got a strong grip on her wrist and stared into her eyes. There was no language I could talk with her. She let me lead her, without a smile, and she was soon naked on my bed. Her skinny waist, her full hips, the brimming cups of her breasts, made her like one of the millennial sculptures from southern India. The encounter was of a man with a statue. Her eyes stayed open the whole time impassible. She was right to despise me. The experience was not repeated."
So much for the sentimental poet with an everyman sensibility I thought I knew.
Eisner follows this passage with, "In his and others' writings, there is no evidence that Neruda ever committed another assault of this nature, but here he describes his exercise of power and privilege with little shame." (There is also a footnote that for some reason also makes my blood boil, clarifying that as "appalling as the rest of the passage is, Neruda was at least not wrong on a purely factual basis to compare the figure of this woman to South Indian statuary.")
When I spoke to Eisner, I tried to put aside my subjective reading of his comprehensive and well-done biography, which took 15 years to complete, and focus on his framing of Neruda as a complex activist-poet whose humanity is on full display. But in fact, I was not able to retain anything after that moment in the book, roughly around page 177. I read enough to know: In a season marked by the slowing but ever-emerging revelations of the #MeToo movement, my love affair with Neruda had come to an abrupt end. I learned, too, that in addition to having more complex political views and saying more fascinating, interesting things publicly, he was also a deadbeat dad in addition to being a rapist and philanderer (he cheated on the love of his life with her niece).
In the course of an unexpectedly emotional conversation with Eisner, whom I interviewed many years ago ahead of the publication of The Essential Neruda, I asked him pointedly about his thoughts on the implications of Neruda in light of these incidents. "My role was to put it out there, not to analyze," he answered. "A lot of people have said, 'This guy is an asshole and I don't know if I want to read him anymore.' I think regardless of where you land with Neruda, he was incredibly influential as a human being, and played such a historic role that included so many political events, and he's so important for understanding social and artistic movements."
That is as far as Eisner would go—that one of poetry's most beloved sons is also part of an ongoing dialogue about "separating the art from the artist" and, in this case, isolating the rapist from the good, inspirational work he has done in the world.
As for me, I've pulled down the books of his I've collected and skimmed the poems that I used to love. When I went to read one of the Twenty Love Poems, "I like it when you're quiet," I felt bile rise in my throat. There are more than enough poets and writers in the world who have done and are doing great work who don't describe women like me as jungle animals (even when it was "socially acceptable"), and I hope there are some left who wouldn't feel so entitled or brazen that they would write without shame about rape.
But I did not arrive at Neruda to be triggered. So it was no love lost for me to toss his books in a recycling bag for those who might decide that these revelations are not deal breakers or, worse yet, don't know this side of Neruda at all.
On Motherhood, Rumaan Alam, and Sheila Heti
In both Rumaan Alam's second novel, That Kind of Mother, and Sheila Heti's third, Motherhood, the functions and symbols associated with mothering—along with the ambivalence that can come with it—are conveyed with an authenticity that feels akin to reading nonfiction.
Because Alam's work delves into racial complexities and blended family dynamics that accompany transracial adoption, he has a bit less wiggle room or freedom to roam than Heti, whose writing gives the impression of a woman loosed, set free from her inhibitions about contemplating (more so than anything, really, actively avoiding) becoming a mother as she nears 40.
I read That Kind of Mother slowly, to savor it. I enjoyed Alam's Rich and Pretty, recommended by a friend who shares my taste in books, but in That Kind of Mother, I saw the honing of a craft. There's not much work for Alam to do in this arena, but for me, the matter of motherhood hits close to home—I am an adult orphan; my mother died six years ago. Even when she was alive, we had a bit of a challenging relationship; her mental illness required that I nurtured her more than I was nurtured. And this role reversal, which began when I was a young girl, alongside the general angst that women writers are almost conditioned to cultivate, fearing that I might not have the creative energy or time to write if I had children (more on that when we get to Heti) set up a pretty adversarial relationship between me and motherhood as a concept.
I like motherhood–outside of the toxic and damaging Mammy figure–as an idea. I love motherhood for other people. But I have never been able to shake having lunch with a Pulitzer Prize-winning author in Berkeley before leaving the Bay Area and asking her what she thought about having a child. "It is," she said, "a ball and chain. You will be shackled for life."
Alam's book shows that not everyone feels this way–that for some, having a child is the best way to begin a family, to write one kind of story of self and to continually revise it as you go along. The main character, Rebecca, is a white woman poet, married to a busy, irritable Christopher. Their life is perfectly fine. At the start of the novel, they have one son, Jacob, who is cared for by their black nanny, Priscilla. Priscilla dies in childbirth, and Rebecca adopts her child, Andrew, despite the fact that Priscilla's daughter, Cheryl, is living and has a respectable job as a nurse.
Rebecca decides, pretty much without consulting Cheryl, that she'll adopt Andrew. This is not the kind of thing that would be without societal friction—the gaze of others, the discomfort of seeing mismatched skin between parents and child as if it were some kind of personal imposition—in 2018, let alone in 1985. "Let strangers think her ovaries had failed her; she didn't want the baby who would one day be a boy hear his mother discussing him as she might new drapes, an exotic ingredient, fashionable sunglasses: as a thing so lovely that you ad to wonder about its acquisition," Alam writes. "His story could not be easily summarized but Rebecca didn't want to say even that."
Rebecca is fascinating, irritating, and important. She epitomizes a very particular kind of white woman in our culture; one who is unnervingly earnest, who wants only recognition for trying to understand, even if she has no intention of believing, the lived experiences of the people she claims to want to understand and help. She does not know what she doesn't know—like how to care for Andrew's black skin, which she tells his sister is "just skin," even though Cheryl rightly pushes back on that well-meaning dismissal. Rebecca believes that the power of her imagination and good will should be enough to triumph over the real world forces of racism that will alter the course of her sons' lives differently.
As readers, we know this is why she doesn't answer Andrew's question, "Why are we a family?" as he grows older—because it is more complex a question than she would like it to be. She is trying to solve a problem in society that is beyond her powers, a problem that needs a lexicon she doesn't have. Instead of admitting this, she lands on something that is not a lie, but not fully honest, either. That Kind of Mother is a novel that is also a way of helping contemporary readers with our current silences and fraught dialogues.
In Motherhood, Heti confesses with hilarious, quirky detail, that she basically wants to be anything in the world but a mother. The book is full of wit. I'm a person who dog-ears galleys for quoting, and I found something quotable on nearly every page. Using a faux system of divination in the tradition of I Ching, Heti voices the angst of women everywhere who worry that motherhood will become their central identity at the expense of everything else—though in some ways, women don't really get to choose. Some of it cuts close to the bone, but I liked the sting and found it kind of delicious.
A woman must have children because she must be occupied…There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children.
Something about this seems true, but also like she would prefer it to be true. It was, again, hard for me to know, since, like most women readers in particular, I have my own subjective view of motherhood, the lens through which I think about such things. I found this quote most resonant:
The most womanly problem is not giving oneself enough space or time, or not being allowed it. We squeeze ourselves into the moments we allow, or the moments that have been allowed us. We do not stretch out in time, languidly, but allot ourselves the smallest parcels of time in which to exist, miserly. We let everyone crowd us…Having a child solves the impulse to give oneself nothing. It makes that impulse into a virtue. To feed oneself last in self-abnegation, to fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved—that is entirely feminine. To be virtuously miserly towards oneself in exchange for being loved—having children gets you there fast.
Whether one agrees or not with Heti's assertions or follows her arguments with herself, Motherhood is the most refreshing novel I've read in a long time on this topic. It's made bittersweet by the fact that in the end, she reveals that she actually just wants what many of us want, which is the approval of her mother. She is still her mother's daughter, awaiting word that even writing these truths is okay. She probably won't have a child of her own to look for her approval.
Two Epic Love Stories for Black History Month, and Every Other Month Too
This year, after 40 years, I finally learned how Black History Month came to be. It emerged out of the efforts of a former slave named Richard Robert Wright Sr. He thought that February 1, the day Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, should be commemorated across the nation; a year after he died, in 1948, President Harry S. Truman made it so. That set the stage for what would later become Black History Week, which would later extend to the full month. I mention this because books about about blackness tend to publish in February. Black stories, somehow, are elevated more this month. But they are resonant all year round.
I read Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God every year. This year, I found another book I will likely read again and again, Tayari Jones's An American Marriage. Aside from the fact that both books were penned by black women authors from the South, they also unearth the realities that complicate black heterosexual relationships in ways that are unique and hard to describe with grace or insight. Both are epic love stories that are at once timely and classic. Like Black History Month, and perhaps black history, so much of the story of our people is framed by slavery and struggle. Love is the only respite or solution, and, of course, even that is fraught, weighted by shackles.
Hurston and Jones offer us a little bit of humor and light, descriptions that give us back some air—sounds and beauty to remind us that not all darkness leads to despair. (And because there is such a dearth of diversity in publishing, I have to be clear that I'm not saying that I think Jones is the new Hurston. But it also happens that Valentine's Day falls in the midst of Black History Month, so there is some synchronicity here that gives me an excuse to write about their unique brilliance and the way it overlaps.)
First, An American Marriage. The old folks might say that Roy and Celestial are not exactly equally yoked, as Scripture puts it. Roy is a down-home country boy from Eloe, La. She is well-to-do from Atlanta. The way he puts it is that she's a "shooting star" woman, the kind he's always had a thing for. Celestial and Roy have a friend named Andre who is better friends with Celestial, which turns out to be as suspicious as it might sound. From the beginning, we get the sense that Roy has a chip on his shoulder about their marriage that was placed there by Celestial's family.
An argument between the two of them sends Roy out of their hotel room and into a situation that ends with his wrongful imprisonment. He goes to prison based on the oldest trope connected to black manhood in the South and in America: the rape of a white woman.
I don't want to give away the plot, the twists and the turns. But An American Marriage showcases Jones at the height of her narrative powers. The novel alternates between first-person narration from the perspective of Roy, Celestial, and Andre, except for when Roy and Celestial are engaged in an engrossing, detailed, and ultimately heartbreaking correspondence. We know from experience or because we read, or because we have heard our coupled and married friends bemoan the truth of this: a person, a love, a relationship can be a prison. The throbbing, broken heart of An American Marriage is the tension we feel between rooting for Celestial to be free and wondering if it is her obligation to experience the same wrongful incarceration as Roy. This is a letter from Celestial to Roy in prison, on what losing him has taught her about love:
Our house is simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again. Before I met you, I was not lonely, but now I'm so lonely I talk to the walls and sing to the ceiling.
I thought I was doing okay, that I wasn't in danger at all of being gutted by this book, and then I read that line and my eyes swelled with tears at the accuracy of what lost love feels like—singing to a bare ceiling as you miss your beloved.
It is the kind of breathlessness I only ever experience over black love as depicted in Their Eyes Were Watching God, which begins with a line that I love more than any other in literature: "Ships at a distance have every man's wish onboard." As someone who is perpetually crushing on someone, somewhere, this is how I always feel.
But this sets the stage for Hurston's epic, which is about how women call in our horizons for the sake of love—she does not decide or cast judgment on whether we should. Janie first marries a mean ol' man who ends up as Mayor Starks. No one really likes him, but he's respected. He makes her tie up her long luscious hair and beats her instead of loving on her. The difference between a woman like Janie and a woman like Celestial could be said to be the difference between that generation and ours. Janie sticks it out, she stays confined.
But thankfully, a cruel fate befalls him (one gets the sense that Hurston, as a writer, was just fed up with Joe Starks so she killed him off) and Janie ends up a wealthy widower in South Florida. After she burns the rags, a man half her age named Tea Cake courts her scandalously (They play checkers in her husband's store and the dead husband's body ain't even cold yet! They go fishing at night!) and he makes her "soul crawl out from its hiding place."
What the stories have in common is a bittersweet ending, which is probably the biggest challenge with black love, which is maybe what makes it particularly fraught. We can liberate ourselves from what we believe our love should look like, but for us, holding onto memory usually has baggage attached. Remembrance for us always has the death of something in it. And it requires us to work to cleanse memory of death and pain. Maybe that's why it's good we come back to this month every year after all, to find good things to remember, and to celebrate them.
More Than Just Statistics: On the Victims of Criminal Injustice
So often, black victims of the criminal justice system are fast moving statistics, hashtags, or headlines that fade in and out of view, instead of fully-formed humans we come to understand as failed by our many systems. A combination of new books—I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Rolling Stone contributor and New York Times bestselling author Matt Taibbi; Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Harvard University professor Danielle Allen; and Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith—works in ways overt and subtle to correct this damaging oversight. Individually, they own an aspect of the journey of one who has been killed: Taibbi writes an empathetic, journalistic overview; Allen writes with the intimacy of a loved one; and Smith transforms anticipated elegy into a defiant, lovely celebration.
In I Can't Breathe, Taibbi offers the closest thing to a comprehensive, mature look back at a single example of how these stories play out that I've read. It is a clear-sighted account of exactly how the criminal justice system renders invisible the bodies of black victims and their families, as told through the life and death of Eric Garner. Garner was killed by New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in July 2014, when Pantaleo placed Garner in a fatal chokehold for illegally selling loose cigarettes in Staten Island. The book is written in Taibbi's vivid, precise language, like a literary version of the HBO show The Night Of. No life or pattern is left unexamined in the mosaic of problems that led to the end of Garner's life, including the history of "Broken Windows" policing in New York, a pattern of unjustified and often fatal violence against black men throughout the city at the hands of police that crushes them in a bureaucratic criminal justice system. We know, because we live in America in the 21st century, that this is true for so many others.
Instead of simply being a symbol, Taibbi asserts that Garner "was a flesh-and-blood person—interesting, imperfect, funny, ambitious, and alive—who just happened to stumble into the thresher of America's reactionary racist insanity at exactly the wrong time. But his story—about how ethnic resentments can be manipulated politically to leave us vulnerable to the lawless violence of our own government—is not his alone. His bad luck has now become ours."
Danielle Allen's Cuz is a both a close and distant look at the life of her cousin, Michael, for whom she was a primary financial and emotional support. Michael was devoured by the prison industrial complex by the Three Strikes law right after its inception in California. He spent the entirety of his formative years incarcerated. He fell in love with an inmate, Bree, and that love led to his death at 29. Cuz draws us close to Michael—his heart, his brain, his pride. It is not human to be caged, her book reminds us on every page. But prison not only impacts the prisoner, but everyone around him. They can never leave, nor can those who love them.
I wondered what the value would be, honestly, in Allen's book. From a distance, learning the premise and her stature compared to her cousin's, and reading The New Yorker excerpt, I wasn't sure I trusted her as a narrator. In the end, I learned that her story is probably more common than not, just not unearthed as often—a concerned relative with more questions than answers.
There is, though, hope in the midst of this mostly bleak aggregation of black mourning. While the facts and statistics about police brutality and violence and black mortality and incarceration in America are all damning and depressing as hell, what is also true is that black people do not abide a perpetual mournfulness. This is why we hold homegoing services, better known to most as funerals. You can bury us, but, as Danez Smith's incredible poetry collection asserts, don't call us dead. Smith has written an incredible array of meditations on what it means to survive. There are homages to some of the lost: Rekia Boyd and Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice; addressing them with simple, rigorous, lovely lines like these in, "summer, somewhere": "we say our own names when we pray./we go out for sweets & come back." Or, "O, the imagination of a new reborn boy/but most of us settle on alive."
I do not want to cannibalize the gorgeous, whole, soaring loveliness that Smith has compiled here to well-deserved fanfare, on topics that certainly include a kind of healing resurrection for slain black people. The collection is also full of refreshing honesty and vulnerability about hooking up on dating apps and being HIV positive and the many betrayals of life that have nothing to do with other people, but can live right within the flesh, the bloodstream. What I loved most, though, about Smith's poems, as with Taibbi's book and Allen's, is that they did not let numbers tell tales. Instead, they give us flesh and blood, beating hearts you'll still be able to hear long after the books are closed. I can't say it will be easy reading, but I can promise it will be worthwhile.
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The Equality of Shame: On 'The Heart's Invisible Furies' by John Boyne
At this year's BookExpo, surrounded by stacks of galleys (most of which I tried to haul from the Jacob Javitz Center in Manhattan on two different train rides to the South Bronx in an effort to claim the world's nerdiest #FirstWorldProblems award) I was introduced to the Irish novelist John Boyne by a woman who saw me staring at the pink and red tome with a puzzled look on my face. It was a doozy of a galley, thick and intimidating. I wasn't sure I could stand to bring one more book home. Still, I find epic novels sexy. All I ever need is an enabler.
"You really need to pick that one up," she said, as if my internal voice had gone external. "It's the best book you'll read all year."
I'm a trained librarian, a proud bookworm who prefers Goodreads to all other social media, and a writer. Reader, I could not resist.
I was raised Catholic and my frame of reference for all things Ireland is the Catholic Church. I wanted to read Boyne, who has written 10 novels for adults and five for young readers (his international bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is his best-known work), due to a combination of my interest in this very long book as my chosen summer read, the perspective of an Irish writer on the old Catholic mores of Dublin and the country at large, and because I was intrigued by this stranger's passion.
Though The Heart's Invisible Furies is new to the U.S., it was published in the U.K. and elsewhere in 2016. Inspired by Ireland's Equal Rights Marriage Referendum, Boyne utilizes the story of Cyril Avery to represent how his country managed to change dramatically over a short span of time.
The book begins when Cyril's birth mother, Catherine Goggin, is cast out of her hometown of Goleen, Ireland, as a teenage mother in 1945. She is publicly shamed by the town priest for being pregnant so young, which provides the context for how conservative Ireland was in those days. Banished, she makes her way to Dublin where she befriends Sean MacIntyre, who takes pity on the young, visibly pregnant woman and invites her to live with him and his roommate, Jack Smoot. It doesn't take Goggin long to realize that the two men are secretly lovers, foreshadowing the way same-sex love is obscured then revealed to sometimes fatal consequences over the course of the novel.
Cyril is adopted by two well-to-do Irish citizens when he is young: an arrogant government worker, Charles, and his reluctantly renowned wife, Maude, a chain-smoking female chauvinist author. (To give you a sense of their personalities, they name Cyril after their beloved spaniel.) They incessantly remind him that he should call them his "adoptive parents," and think of his time in their home as more of an "eighteen-year tenancy" because he's not really family. They insist he call them by their first names instead of mother and father.
Cyril has a secret: He is in love with his best friend, Julian Woodbead. Cyril describes himself, and Julian, thus:
But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our future lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed on the buttocks after a drunken night out, leading each of us inevitably toward isolation and disaster.
Descriptive phrases such as this fill every page of this novel. It is difficult to find flaws in the writing, the characterization, or the plot. There are two major achievements in the book: With intricate narrative precision, The Heart's Invisible Furies cuts to the heart of what family is, how it is chosen, and how it endures. And it is charming and funny, even as it dives down from the precipice of endearing humor into the very specific ironies and cruelties of real life. When Cyril talks to Julian about sex, for example, his childlike reaction to sex is both hilarious and descriptive: "…he took great delight in describing in detail actions that to me seemed not just unpleasant and unsanitary, but possibly criminal."
If there is one thing that could strike a reader as implausible, it is that for large swaths of this nearly 600-page novel, Cyril is not even the slightest bit curious about the identity of his birth mother. Adopted children may experience this as ringing true, but I found this lack of interest odd, even for a wonderfully quirky protagonist and narrator. But we have a period of 60 years, up until 2015, for his life to unfold—and that it does, in a careful, exquisite way.
Over that span of time, Cyril is also understandably distracted by life: there are kidnappings; fatal beatings; harrowing nights of lust and sentimental triumphs; grimacing, lethal pimps and petite, lovely boys whose spirits are nearly crushed by the heft of sex trafficking. When he finds the love of his life again, more than halfway through the novel, he describes him in foreboding terms: "His cheeks were sunken, as were his eyes, and a dark oval of purple-red sent a hideous bruise along his chin and down his neckline. A line came in my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face."
Boyne writes of the shame others make of homosexuality, bound by the arbitrary rules of the Catholic Church, in a homophobic society that does not improve so much as transform from blatant institutionally accepted bias to individually expressed prejudice. He explores how shame is equally meted out against unwed teenage mothers like Goggin and closeted gay men like Cyril — the deep sadness, angst, and resilience that life's changes can require of us. His characters are cinematically rendered, with a deft, decadent wit that will make you laugh aloud at least once. Searing heartbreak; loneliness; a quest for internal and external redemption, solace, and contentment are all there in The Heart's Invisible Furies.
Cyril finds love, and after a number of sad departures from his old friends and lives, finds himself out in New York City, visiting with young men dying from AIDS when his misfortune strikes again. It sets him on a course back to Ireland where life continues—as it is wont to do—to surprise and open him up further to himself. On nearly every page there is some witticism that Boyne offers Cyril—usually in reaction to his sexuality or as others react and he informs them after they've embarrassed themselves that he is, indeed, "one of the queers." Mrs. Goggin returns to us as a force to be reckoned with in a tea room that Cyril visits over the years, and Boyne instills in us the hope, longing, and yearning of a little boy who wants to belong to someone.
The Heart's Invisible Furies is as much a multicultural epic of Ireland's social transformation as Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing is an exploration the intricate tentacles of slavery over time and into the modern era. Boyne's author bio suggested that of the many books Boyne has written this was his most ambitious. It is the most affecting, beautiful, and memorable novel I have read in some time, transporting me into worlds as dreadful as some are delightful. Turns out that lovely anonymous woman at BEA was 100 percent correct.


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Here's how much the CEO's of game companies made in 2020 and Activision CEO doesn't top the list
By Pavan Gunagi
The compensation of Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been in the headlines several times in the last year. While he earns far more than the average person, a new analysis shows that he's in excellent company, with other gaming CEOs earning tens of millions of dollars every year.
Based on corporate records, Games One has prepared a list of video game executive pay in 2020, including salary, bonuses, stock, and other monetary incentives. According to the research, Bobby Kotick was not the highest-paid CEO in 2020; that honor went to Robert Antokol, CEO of Playtika, an Israeli company that creates free-to-play mobile games. Antokol earned $372 million in total remuneration in 2020, while Kotick earned $154.6 million.
Other gaming CEOs also made a lot of money that year, even though they were by far the highest earners. Andrew Wilson, the CEO of Electronic Arts, was paid $34.7 million in 2020, while Frank Gibeau, the CEO of Zynga, was paid $32 million. Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two (who recently revealed its plan to acquire Zynga), earned $18 million.
Others on the list include former GameStop CEO George Sherman, who received $7.6 million, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, who received $6.8 million, Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, who received $2.8 million, and Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, who received just under one million.
In 2020, the 42 gaming CEOs earned a total of $842 million. Notably, these are only CEOs of publicly traded firms that are required by law to declare their salary. Because privately held firms like Valve and Epic don't reveal these figures, there are undoubtedly a lot of equally well-paid CEOs who aren't included in this list.
A few corporations revealed their median employee salaries as a point of comparison. The highest pay gap was at Activision, which reported a median employee remuneration of $99,100, or roughly one dollar for every $1,560 that Kotick receives. The second-worst disparity was reported by GameStop, which reported a low, low median employee pay of $11,033, or one dollar for every $650 Sherman earned in 2020.
In recent years, the salary of gaming CEOs has been scrutinized. Following repeated criticism, Kotick's pay was reduced earlier this year, while he still earns $875,000 in salary before bonuses and other stock benefits. Last year, EA CEO Andrew Wilson's remuneration was also reduced.
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Parti Parikatha (Story of the Barren soil), is a Hindi novel written by Phanishwar Nath Renu. The story revolves around a motley group of characters in a remote village of North Eastern Bihar in the backdrop of Zamindari (landlordism) Abolition movement.

See also

 Maila Anchal, also by Phanishwar Nath Renu.

References

Hindi-language novels
20th-century Indian novels
Culture of Mithila
Books on Mithila Region


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Home News Amid decline in opposition to gay marriage, High Court to hear challenges...
Amid decline in opposition to gay marriage, High Court to hear challenges to Section 377A
One challenge was filed by Roy Tan, an LGBTQ rights activist in September. The other two challenges were filed in 2018, one by disc jockey Johnson Ong Ming (aka DJ Big Kid) and the other by Bryan Choong, the former executive director of Oogachaga, an LGBTQ non-profit organisation
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Singapore—According to the results of a poll published by the Institute of Policy Studies last May, opposition to same-sex marriage has decreased from 74 percent in 2013 to 60 percent at present.
However, how this will factor in the hearings in the High Court on Wednesday, November 13, remains to be seen.
There are three separate challenges to Section 377A of the country's Penal Code, a throwback provision to colonial times that criminalizes sex between men which will be heard in court, with penalties such as jail time as long as two years. The provision does not apply to sexual acts between women.
Last year, India abolished a similar provision. This year, LGBTQ activists across Asia are looking to see if Singapore will follow suit, to see if reforms can be enacted in other areas as well, since countries such as Malaysia and Myanmar have similar laws.
Three activists have mounted these challenges. One challenge was filed by Roy Tan, an LGBTQ rights activist in September. He said that he looked forward with the expectancy that Section 377A would be finally repealed.
The other two challenges were filed in 2018, one by disc jockey Johnson Ong Ming (aka DJ Big Kid) and the other by Bryan Choong, the former executive director of Oogachaga, an LGBTQ non-profit organisation.
The Attorney-General is the defendant listed in the challenges.
Mr Ong told Reuters, "I think public opinion is pretty clear across religious and age segments that homosexuality should not be a criminal offence."
"I have full confidence in our judicial system and I am hopeful that the court will come to the right decision … and overturn Section 377A," he added.
The hearings are scheduled for November 13, 15, 18, 20, 21 and 22.
Legal challenges in the past have been unsuccessful, given the relatively conservative and multi-religious nature of Singaporean society.
According to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the country "is not that liberal on these matters".
But abolishing Section 377A of the Penal Code would be a landmark for Singapore and would most likely impact the rest of Asia.
The Reuters report also quotes the president of the LGBT+ advocacy Pelangi Campaign in Malaysia, Numan Afifi, as saying, "If the decision in Singapore goes our way, then it will boost our morale here in Malaysia."
And the executive director from the Yangon-based Equality Myanmar LGBT+ campaign group, Aung Myo Min has said that Myanmar and Singapore need to follow India's example in repealing the colonial-era law.
In Malaysia, individuals caught participating in gay sex could be jailed for up to 20 years, while in Myanmar, they could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
Last month, LGBT-rights activists in Singapore noted a victory with the amendment of the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.
Sayoni, an organization that aims to empower queer women in Asia, wrote, "In the amendments to the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, the new provisions will protect vulnerable groups in Singapore, including the LGBTQ community, as it will be an offense to knowingly urge violence, based on religious grounds, against a target group or person.
The Explanatory Statement unambiguously notes that target groups includes persons "who share a similar sexual orientation". This is, to our knowledge, the first time a law in Singapore explicitly extends protections to cover sexual orientation." /-TISG
Read related: Court challenges to 377A scheduled for November, even as amendments to Religious Harmony Act provide better protection for LGBTQ
Court challenges to 377A scheduled for November, even as amendments to Religious Harmony Act provide better protection for LGBTQ
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Images: See The 'Hidden Universe' in IMAX 3D
By SPACE.com Staff 2013-07-08T22:40:31Z
Hidden Universe 3D Poster
December Media/Film Victoria/Swinburne University of Technology/MacGillivray Freeman Films/ESO
The 3D production "Hidden Universe" will be released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe. The film is produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO.
Carina Nebula in 'Hidden Universe'
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The cosmic glow of the Carina Nebula as seen in a stunning 3D reconstruction in "Hidden Universe," released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO. The Carina Nebula contains two of the most massive and luminous stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The original image was taken by ESO's Very Large Telescope.
Mars in 'Hidden Universe'
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3D flyover of the Earth-like landscape of the Red Planet, as seen in "Hidden Universe," released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO. The original data were retrieved by the Mars Orbiter.
Helix Nebula in 'Hidden Universe'
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The Helix Nebula is 700 light-years away from Earth, but appears before audiences' eyes in reconstructed 3D in "Hidden Universe," released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO. The original image was taken by ESO's VISTA Telescope.
Interior of the Very Large Telescope in 'Hidden Universe'
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The interior of one of the Very Large Telescope enclosures, as seen in "Hidden Universe," released to IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO.
ALMA Antennas in 'Hidden Universe'
ALMA antennas as seen in the 3D production "Hidden Universe," released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO.
Filming 'Hidden Universe' in Chile
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Malcolm Ludgate, Director of Photography for "Hidden Universe," filming ALMA in Chile's arid Atacama Desert. "Hidden Universe" was released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO.
A Motion Sequence Filmed for 'Hidden Universe'
Lisa Germany/ESO
Malcolm Ludgate, Director of Photography for "Hidden Universe," filming a motion sequence in Chile's Atacama Desert. "Hidden Universe" was released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO.
Mars-Like Landscape of Chile's Atacama Desert
The Mars-like landscape of Chile's Atacama Desert offers clear skies that are perfect for astronomers to study the universe, as seen in "Hidden Universe," released in IMAX® theatres and giant-screen cinemas around the globe and produced by the Australian production company December Media in association with Film Victoria, Swinburne University of Technology, MacGillivray Freeman Films and ESO.
Astronomers just tracked the interstellar journey of one of life's building blocks through space
Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest neighbor, may host a 2nd alien planet. Meet Proxima c.
Giant 'Rubin's Galaxy' in stunning Hubble photo named for dark matter pioneer
Bright star Betelgeuse might be harboring a deep, dark secret


Today, the new Dutch government presented its detailed plan for the coming years and it includes making all new cars emission-free by 2030 – virtually banning petrol- and diesel-powered cars in favor of battery-powered vehicles.
The four coalition parties have been negotiating their plans since the election in March and now after over 200 days, they have finally released the plan they agreed upon.
While some local publications are reporting "all cars", we are told that it would be for "all new cars" as it is the case for the countries with similar bans under consideration.
The potential for the ban has been under consideration in the country since last year. The year 2025, like in Norway, has been mentioned, but they apparently decided for the less ambitious goal of 2030.
With less than two percent market share for electric vehicles, the Netherlands has a long way to go to achieve its goal. Though it is a relatively small market for cars with about only half a million passenger cars are sold every year in the country.
A comprehensive zero-emission mandate combined with several new electric cars coming to market soon could make the goal achievable.
Currently, Tesla dominates the electric car market in the country. Model S and Model X are respectively the first and second best-selling EVs in the country, followed by the more recently launched Hyundai Ioniq Electric, which will grow even more soon with a new fleet in Amsterdam, and the BMW i3 in the fourth place.
Tesla has now a fleet of over 8,000 cars in the country, which the electric automaker actually made its European headquarters. Its headquarters are in Amsterdam and the company operates a final assembly plant in Tilburg. The first Tesla Model 3 was recently spotted in Europe was near the factory.
The Model 3, along with the next-gen Nissan Leaf and EVs coming from European automakers, are likely to help the Netherlands toward its new 2030 target.
They join several other countries and governments with similar efforts in the work. France, the UK, and Scotland, all recently announced efforts to ban petrol and gas-powered cars in favor of electric vehicles. China and California are also said to be working toward the goal.


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Jewish Museum in Prague
Jewish Quarter (Josefov), Prague 1
April-October: Sunday-Friday (except Jewish holidays) 09:00-18:00
November-March: Sunday-Friday (except Jewish holidays) 09:00-16:30
Wheelchair access to Spanish Synagogue, Maisel Synagogue & Old Jewish Cemetery - more info
Jewish Museum in Prague,
Jewish Quarter (Josefov), Prague 1, Czech Republic
Metro station: Staromestska (line A)
Tram stop: Staromestska (trams 2,17,18)
-Jewish Quarter
-Spanish Synagogue
-White Horse Restaurant
-Café Mozart
-Potrefena Husa Platnerska Restaurant
-La Bodeguita del Medio Restaurant
The Jewish Museum in Prague is a collection of the most significant monuments in the Jewish Quarter (excluding the Old-New Synagogue, which is a separate entity).
It is the best preserved complex of historical Jewish monuments in Europe, and includes several synagogues, the Jewish Ceremonial Hall, the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the Robert Guttmann Gallery.
Visitors can gain entry to the Jewish Museum either by purchasing a self-guided ticket or by taking a Jewish Quarter Tour, which is guided and includes the Jewish Museum ticket in the price.
The Jewish Museum in Prague comprises:
Maisel Synagogue
Founded in 1592, Maisel Synagogue exhibits a cross-section of the history of the Jews in Bohemia from the early Jewish communities of the 10th century through to their emancipation in the 18th century.
Spanish Synagogue
The exhibition at the Spanish Synagogue follows on chronologically from Maisel Synagogue. It details the history of the Czech and Moravian Jews from the 18th century to the present day.
Pinkas Synagogue
Dating from 1535, the Pinkas Synagogue is the work of the Horowitz family. After the Second World War, the synagogue was turned into a Memorial to the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia murdered by the Nazis. On its walls are inscribed the names of the Jewish victims, their personal data, and the names of the communities to which they belonged. 80,000 names are inscribed.
Klausen Synagogue
Located at the entrance to the Old Jewish Cemetery, the Klausen Synagogue was the largest synagogue in the Jewish ghetto and the seat of the Prague Burial Society. It houses a permanent exhibition entitled 'Jewish Customs and Traditions'.
Jewish Ceremonial Hall
The Ceremonial Hall of the Prague Burial Society houses the second part of the exhibition 'Jewish Customs and Traditions'.
Old Jewish Cemetery
Founded in the 15th century, the Old Jewish Cemetery is among the oldest surviving Jewish burial grounds in the world, and is one of the most important historical monuments in the Jewish Quarter in Prague.
Robert Guttmann Gallery
The gallery, named after the Prague painter Robert Guttmann (1880-1942), presents temporary exhibitions focusing on Jewish life, the persecution of Bohemian and Moravian Jews during the Second World War, Jewish monuments in the Czech Republic, and the Jewish presence in contemporary visual art.
The Jewish Quarter Tour is a comprehensive and highly enlightening visit to the Jewish Museum. It is led by a professional guide who specialises in Jewish history, and includes admission to and a detailed tour of all the monuments.
Alternatively, our general Prague tours include an introduction to the Jewish Quarter in their itinerary:
-Prague City Tour & Boat Trip
-Prague Explorer Tour & Boat Trip.
0-5yrs free.
Jewish Museum in Prague - Prague Experience


AAI05-Bridging The Gap From Treatment to A.A.
Lots of passion and years of in the trenches experience.
Three speakers sharing on the topic.
This was followed by eight (8) questions and comments from the floor - many from fellow Area and District Treatment Chairs.
Kevin-MB Canada-Area 80 Treatment Chair "What about the elderly?"


Music videos created by Dancefoundation.
Hardwell ft. Mitch Crown - Call Me A Spaceman (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) - Duration: 3 minutes, 11 seconds.
W&W - Invasion (ASOT 550 Anthem)(Official Music Video) - Duration: 3 minutes, 13 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ: Renvo - Breakout - Duration: 2 minutes, 57 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ: DiVasco - Heat - Duration: 3 minutes, 24 seconds.
Armin van Buuren presents Gaia - Status Excessu D (ASOT 500 Theme) [Official Music Video] - Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds.
Protected - Chris Grabiec and Christina Nicola - Out now - Duration: 3 minutes, 46 seconds.
DJ's United - Remember Love (Official Music Video) - Duration: 3 minutes, 55 seconds.
Josh Gabriel presents Winter Kills - My Friend (Official Music Video) [High Quality] - Duration: 3 minutes, 56 seconds.
Armin van Buuren - Full Focus (Official Music Video) [High Quality] - Duration: 3 minutes, 37 seconds.
Susana feat. Omnia & The Blizzard - Closer (Official Music Video) [High Quality] - Duration: 4 minutes, 7 seconds.
Videos of the Corsten's Countdown interactive 8 hour live broadcasts, produced by Dancefoundation.
Corsten's Countdown Summer Special - Live Broadcast Part 1 - Duration: 38 minutes.
Corsten's Countdown Summer Special - Live Broadcast Part 2 - Duration: 45 minutes.
Ferry Corsten WKNDR Episode 32: Corsten's Countdown New Year's Special - Duration: 4 minutes, 18 seconds.
Ferry Corsten WKNDR Episode 24: Corsten's Countdown 250 live from New York City - Duration: 3 minutes, 18 seconds.
The documentary 'A Year With Armin van Buuren' takes one year out of the roaring life of the Dutch DJ. Shot during an important year, the result is a unique documentary that offers a rare look inside the life and personality of the world famous DJ/producer.
The documentary gives the viewer a look inside Armin's life. From his parental house to the private jets. It brings you from empty hotel rooms to the heat of the moment, as 100,000 clubbers await their hero. From the preparations of his 'Mirage' world tour and the phone call that will tell him if he'll keep his number one DJ Mag Top 100 position. 'A Year With Armin van Buuren' is a documentary of an important time in the life of the DJ and reveals his perfectionism and huge passion for music.
'A Year With Armin van Buuren' is available for download on iTunes and for online viewing at Youtube.
Check the trailer at: Youtube.
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Trailer 'A Year With Armin van Buuren' - Premiere On Youtube Oct 6th 2012! - Duration: 108 seconds.
A Year With Armin van Buuren - The Documentary (FULL version) - Duration: 51 minutes.
All videos of the Markus Schulz - Do You Dream? Wordt Tour Documentary, produced by Dancefoundation.
After a 2-year production process, the start of summer 2010 saw Markus Schulz drop the curtain on his third artist album 'Do You Dream?' Equipped with 17 new productions, he took the critically acclaimed music on a world tour, personally introducing it to 100s of 1000s of clubbers around the globe. Through 18 countries, and over a 3-month period, the Dancefoundation team captured this journey. Our directive were simple: 'shoot everything, miss nothing'... and that's exactly what we did.
The outcome of that lens odyssey is 'Markus Schulz -- Do You Dream? -- The World Tour Documentary' and it takes you, the viewer inside Markus' professional life for the first time. Up close and at times personal, the camera captures his thoughts pre-gig in the ready-rooms, follows him through the anticipation of the backstage tunnels and up onto the stages of electronic dance music biggest, most celebrated events. Nature One, Sunrise, Dance Valley, Tomorrowland, Pleasure Island, Future Music -- they're all here, their crowd-generated electricity caught in HD. If you've been to one, you'll want to see them all! From Amnesia nights, filmed from the pulpit to tornado-hit festivals in Russia and two-gigs-in-a-day dashes across Australia, you're with him every step, jolt, rush and drumbeat of the way!
Markus' travelogue exploits on the DVD are naturally soundtracked by the incredible, extraordinary 'Do You Dream' album audio. You can see him roll out D.Y.D. floor-quakers, sometimes for the first time, and see the floor reaction. 'Not The Same', 'Away', '65.4hz', 'Dark Heart Waiting', Surreal', 'Alpha State', 'Unsaid' are all on there and the DVD also includes the full official videos for 'Dark Heart Waiting', 'Rain, 'Future Cities' and 'Do You Dream'.
Markus Schulz - Introduction, Miami (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 61 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Las Vegas (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 3 minutes, 22 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Los Angeles (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 3 minutes, 57 seconds.
Markus Schulz - London (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 110 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Kaunas (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 2 minutes, 12 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Ibiza (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 94 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Budapest (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Prague (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 2 minutes, 13 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Berlin & Kolobrzeg (Do You Dream? World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 3 minutes, 31 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Moscow (Do You Dream? The World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 3 minutes, 56 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Boom (Do You Dream? The World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 2 minutes, 17 seconds.
Markus Schulz - Sydney & Perth (Do You Dream? The World Tour Documentary DVD) - Duration: 4 minutes, 15 seconds.
A State of Trance 550: Invasion - Official Trailer - Duration: 82 seconds.
A State of Trance 550: Kiev video report - Duration: 2 minutes, 10 seconds.
A State of Trance 550 Moscow video report - Duration: 110 seconds.
A State of Trance 550 London Video Report - Duration: 2 minutes, 4 seconds.
A State of Trance 550: Los Angeles video report - Duration: 2 minutes, 20 seconds.
A State of Trance 550: Miami video report - Duration: 2 minutes, 25 seconds.
A State of Trance 550: Den Bosch video report - Duration: 2 minutes, 26 seconds.
Ørjan Nilsen - A State Of Trance 550 Video Report (Den Bosch) - Duration: 2 minutes, 23 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ is a unique collaboration between Armin van Buuren, Armada Music and car manufacturer SEAT, in search for new DJ talent in The Netherlands. Dutch bedroom DJ's have a chance of showing their skills and have their big breakthrough in the dance scene, with a DJ set at Electronic Family and a single release on the Armada Music label at stake.
Dutch talents were asked to create a 30 minute mix and record it on video, including a short presentation. After the first selection by the jury, 8 semi-finalist were choosen. The 9th candidate was added via a public wildcard voting. Early June, two contestants will be selected, based on the amount of votes and the results of an assignment. These two will win a DJ tour through The Netherlands and a single release.
Public voting is open now, and each voter has a chance of winning one of the 500 prizes, including a meet & greet with Armin van Buuren.
The ultimate battle will take place in July, when Armin and the audience will decide who will be named the winner of SEAT's Next DJ. The winner will have his/her first gig at Electronic Family, the biggest outdoor trance event in the world, taking place on July 30th in Amsterdam.
Dancefoundation handles the campaign web site and produces the multi media items.
SEAT Next DJ: Video report Coaching Sessie bij Armada Music - Duration: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ: AutoRAI video report - Duration: 2 minutes, 39 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ: Making of van de videocips - Duration: 3 minutes, 45 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ: Jury overleg - Duration: 2 minutes, 5 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ op Ibiza! - Duration: 2 minutes, 53 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ's op Ibiza - Extended report - Duration: 4 minutes, 14 seconds.
SEAT's Next DJ: The Final Battle! - Duration: 3 minutes, 10 seconds.