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Swiss crematorium swamped by coronavirus deaths, tries to enable peaceful goodbyes
Over 30 dead in Italy's week-long storms
Survivor Giuseppe Giordano (C) reacts outside the morgue in Casteldaccia. Six Italian regions remain on high alert for storms. (AFP)
AFP Sunday 04 November 2018
Floods killed 12 people on the island of Sicily, including nine members of a single family, pushing Italy's week-long storm toll beyond 30, rescuers said Sunday.
After a river burst its banks, the bodies of the family including children aged one, three and 15 were discovered in the town of Casteldaccia in the Palerno region.
Their house was near a small river which had burst its banks, rescue services said. The other victims' ages ranged from 32 to 65. Three family members managed to escape, one by climbing a tree, the Agi news agency reported.
This picture taken on November 4, 2018 shows the flooded house where nine people of the same family died after a small river burst its banks in Casteldaccia near Palermo on the southern Italian island of Sicily. Rescue services said the bodies of the family, including children aged one, three and 15, were found in their house and a man was found separately in his car while two other people are missing, they said, as Italy grapples with fierce storms which have already claimed at least 20 lives this week.
"I lost everything, I have nothing left, just my daughter," one of the survivors, 35-year-old Giuseppe Giordano, told journalists.
His wife, two other children, his parents, brother, and sister all died, he said.
After flying over Casteldaccia on Sunday, Sicilian prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio described scenes of "total disaster".
Officials have opened an investigation to determine whether houses built near the river had complied with safety norms.
In a separate incident in Sicily, a 44-year-old man was found dead in his car near Vicari, also in the Palermo region.
He had been trying to reach a service station, where he was the manager, to help a colleague trapped there. A 20-year-old passenger in the car with him is still missing.
People pass on November 4, 2018 by damages on a flooded road near a house where nine people of the same family died after a small river burst its banks in Casteldaccia near Palermo on the southern Italian island of Sicily. Rescue services said the bodies of the family, including children aged one, three and 15, were found in their house and a man was found separately in his car while two other people are missing, they said, as Italy grapples with fierce storms which have already claimed at least 20 lives this week.
Violent winds and strong rain had killed at least 20 other people this week around Italy, especially in the northern parts and around Venice.
Two were reported killed on Friday, including a 62-year-old Germany tourist struck by lightning in Sardinia.
Six regions remain on high alert for storms.
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Pushing the envelope with his signature style, DJ Livitup blurs the lines between house, nu disco, hip-hop, and Latin into a refreshing departure from anything else you've heard. Livitup built his reputation in his hometown of Miami playing renowned venues Oceans Ten, Mokai, FDR, and Wall. After 10 years behind the decks, not only does he continue to dominate the South Beach circuit, but his audience stretches from coast to coast and around the globe. Livitup boasts an impressive list of nightclubs across North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. His uncompromising focus and approach, paired with his musical prowess, make him a leader of his craft. Always sure to get the crowd hype and the club packed, DJ Livitup brings the sound that keeps any party going strong.


How Can I Practice Essentialism?
Do you ever feel like you have too much? It can be an embarrassingly unique problem in our land of plenty in the United States, and yet so many of us live in a spirit of excess. This is a notion efficiently demonstrated by the fact that while the size of the average American home has nearly tripled over the last 50 years, there remains enough offsite rentable self-storage space for every adult and child in the US to have their very own 7.3 square feet.
Similarly, how many times have you found yourself in a juggling act, trying to keep a hundred balls in the air with work, family, health and appearance, volunteer commitments, social engagements, and friends? All the while you know that at any moment the balls could all come crashing down to your feet; the feet, mind you, that have seen neither a pedicure nor the recommended 10,000 steps in a very, very long time.
If all of this makes you want to start paring down your life monk-style and start living more simply, you might be ready for a lesson in essentialism. In case you're not familiar with it, living with a spirit of essentialism means that you take a focused look on the most important and significant areas of your life, and allow the other stuff to fade away. In a nutshell, essentialism is doing less, but better. If you're interested in venturing down the essentialism road, we have a few ideas.
Tidy up, yes. There has been a lot of buzz over the last few years regarding paring down belongings to create more space and less clutter. The attention is deserved. Clean out, and clean out with a vengeance, not merely "getting rid of stuff you don't want," but choosing to keep only what is essential.
Slow down. Once in a while, pack up the family and head downtown or to a park, and just hang out. See what mood hits you, and follow it. Want to rent paddle boats? Great! Want to visit some shops you've never been in? Do it! Feel like playing Frisbee and lying back to enjoy the clouds? Even better. This practice will help you and the essential people in your life to get to know each other a little better, and appreciate each other more.
Get more bang for your buck. Your time and resources are limited, and whatever you choose to spend time doing should be worth it. With your health, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more turbo-loaded practice than massage. Your massage appointment can help improve your body, mind, and overall wellness in such a wide array of areas, all while giving you that quiet 60 or 90 minutes to collect your thoughts and quiet your soul. With your body and mind essentials taken care of, you'll be able to let other time- and money-consuming practices go.
Just say no. Really. If you politely decline to attend a few social gatherings or opportunities to volunteer or activities for you or your family, things will be just fine. In fact, they'll likely be much better, even. Most of what we spend our free time doing is not essential, and if you choose to create a little more space in your schedule to give you and your family time for enjoyable leisure activities, you'll find that your household is a more relaxed, happier environment.
Removing the excess items from your life and letting only the essentials remain is a life-long practice, and you may never get "there" or even close. But even baby steps in this direction can make a surprisingly large difference in how you feel. Start with a goal to clear your schedule of one unessential time commitment on a regular basis. Next, tackle the nonessential items in a few closets. And then, keep on going with your essentialism practice. We're guessing that doing these things will lead to more energy, less stress, and a healthy life-long habit of essentialism.


benchdonkees: I stripped down the BSA Tracker the other week. I took the frame, swinging arm and associated parts to the enamellers and sent the fork stanchions for re-chroming. I've since stripped the yokes and fork sliders of paint and fitted new seals and bearings.
I stripped down the BSA Tracker the other week. I took the frame, swinging arm and associated parts to the enamellers and sent the fork stanchions for re-chroming. I've since stripped the yokes and fork sliders of paint and fitted new seals and bearings.


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Congonhas airport, located in the south of São Paulo, can earn a bus terminal. The plan of the city government is that the Terminal Jardim Aeroporto, as should be called, stay just outside the airport.
The forecast for its completion is by the end of 2016, according to information from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
The bus terminal will have 13,000 m² and will serve the bus lane to pass along the 23 de Maio avenue.
According to São Paulo Transportation (SPTrans) number of lines that pass through the terminal and the amount of passengers that will be served still rely on studies to be conducted by the Municipal Transportation.
The city has also launched last week bidding documents for the procurement of the companies responsible for the construction of basic projects to 11 terminals, including Terminal Jardim Aeroporto.


This year, we've got a set of pretty pastel gift tags and printable gift boxes inspired by our 2016 holiday collection in the shop. They look impressive, but trust us, they're super easy to make! These tiny boxes are perfect for stocking stuffers, candies, and/or photos of gifts you bought online and haven't gotten in the mail yet. We're planning to use these for jewelry and tiny bottles of cocktail bitters. We can't wait to hear how you all use them! Let us know in the comments.
Download our holiday printables PDF. You can open this in whatever program is most comfortable for you.
For the tags: Simply print on cardstock and cut out! If you have a large hole punch, now's the time to break it out. If not, scissors will do the trick. To attach to a package, punch a hole in the top and use you favorite ribbon or string to tie a loop.
For the boxes: Print the these pages double-sideded (so the template appears on the back of the sheet with the pattern). If your printer doesn't print double-sided, you can either take the file to a local printshop (like Staples or FedEx) or you can manually feed the paper back in to print the back side. Experiment first on cheap paper to find out how your printer feeds if you don't know already.
Cut the box out along the solid pink line.
Score along the dotted pink line. If you have a scoring tool, use that! If not, our DIY recommendation is as follows: place box on something soft (like a magazine or newspaper), line up a ruler with the dotted lines, then trace along the line with a butter knife.
Fold in the flaps and secure with tape.
Bonus round: bigger boxes! On 8.5" x 11" paper (which is the biggest size for most home printers), these boxes will fold up to about 2.25" cubes. If you'd like a larger box, take this PDF to a printshop and ask them to print on 11" x 17" cardstock.
Pack with gifts and pat yourself on the back for a wrapping job well done!
Low on ink colors in your printer? Check out our black-and-white gift tags from 2015 here and our black-and-white gift tags and wrapping paper from 2014 here.
Photos by © Katie Currid. Design and text by © Theresa Berens. All rights reserved.
Last year was our first Thanksgiving as a married couple in the same place, in our new home (this is Katie talking). So, I decided to take on Thanksgiving 100% by myself. I, naively, planned to cook a giant dinner 90% by my lonesome for around 20 people and hosted it in our tiny apartment, seating folks around our coffee table.
It took about a week of prepping and cooking, but the dinner went down without a hitch — no burnt dishes, no gluey mashed potatoes. Everything was good to go, until folks started to leave. See, my darling husband had a bit too much to drink with dinner and when he drinks, he gets generous. So, as our guests were leaving, he was handing them tupperware of leftovers left and right, and indadvertedly gave away all of the leftover turkey.
Now, I don't know about you, but leftovers are kind of the point of Thanksgiving, and basically the biggest reason that one would even decide to host it themselves. I had no idea that my husband gave all the remaining meat from the two turkeys that I had spent days thawing, brining and roasting, and when I woke up the next morning to fix myself my favorite post-Thanksgiving snack (a turkey sandwich on white bread with mustard, mayonnaise and cheese), I was baffled. Where was the turkey, and why was it not in my fridge? I had plenty of cranberry sauce and an unfortunate amount of creamed corn, but none of the showrunner — the turkey.
It's been a year and I still haven't let my husband live this down. Sure, that may be a bit unfair, but every party we host brings up flashbacks. Leftovers are important, guys, and they're almost the best part of Thanksgiving (after, you know, family and stuff).
But this year's going to be different. This year, we'll drink in moderation and I'm going to eye that turkey like a hawk to make sure that at least a week's worth of sandwiches make it in the fridge. This year, there will be baggies going home for people with leftovers in them, adorned with these adorable leftover labels that Theresa made, but none of those baggies will contain turkey. Call me selfish, but I've got two years worth of leftover turkey to make up for.
But you don't have to be like me — you can be far more generous and slap these pun-tastic stickers onto heaping boxes of cold turkey that you send home with your guests — preferably with the "cold turkey" label! Or, you can Gollum it all and just place our leftover labels on the stuff you keep for yourself. No judgment here — our tupperware holds a special place in our hearts for the amazing second meals it contains.
So, choose to share or hoard, but either way, download our Thanksgiving leftover labels here! We recommend getting some super cute bags, printing them on sticker paper and cutting them out! We used our handy-dandy 1" hole punch for the stickers, but a steady hand will work, too. And if you don't have sticker paper, regular paper and tape will work in a pinch. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!


I'm not entirely sure what animals, animal ai and mouseovers have to do with terrain. But our base was entirely level before the patch the entire base was leveled to 500.2. Our players spent an enormous amount of man hours doing this.
This was all chucked out the window why?
We would like to know if there is a plan to fix this and return the terrain to it's original levels prior to the patch.
If they leave this as is our base which I won't even list the time people put into it will require all walls to be ripped down (roughly 100 lime walls 50 corner posts and 20 or so log type walls) I guess maybe 400 baskets to be moved most of which will require 50 clicks per to xfer the items into another basket. oh yeah and a moderately large tribal land all needing to be leveled all over again.
It's not to late to roll back.
I had a feeling it'd be possible to miss a few objects when compressing all this data.
I seem to be having a terraforming problem myself. Tiles in my area that could be terraformed before the patch seems to have gone stuck and wont be changed. I did also notice that the level ground i had made has somehow changed hight (It hasnt gone uneven though but I did not have a lot of it yet.
Edit: I think it has to do with my totem, it kinda seems like the unchangable ground around has shifted.
Everything is good for me. Except being snow blind. Even got a bear today, although he was acting a bit crazy. (running circles in and out of the water like he wanted to come kill me, but he was afraid of getting wet).
Also, lower terrain seems to sometimes add terrain rather than lower it.
I have a wall a built around some of my homestead, that you are able to walk on. I had kind of leveld it but not made it perfect. The patch actually made most of the wall more level then it was before. But there are like 1 or 2 spots where it lowered it down some, maybe to make up for the leveling.


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Home Media Releases PALMER BENEFITS FROM DROUGHT SUPPORT FUNDING
PALMER BENEFITS FROM DROUGHT SUPPORT FUNDING
Member for Barker Tony Pasin has today officially opened the new Palmer Nature Play Space funded through the Morrison Government's Drought Communities Program.
Mr Pasin said eight eligible councils across Barker were eligible for $1 million dollars to undertake projects to deliver outcomes for communities in drought.
"While each of these councils are in various stages from planning to completion, I'm extremely proud that I can point to projects that are making a real, direct difference to residents experiencing drought in communities across Barker," Mr Pasin said.
"I'm seeing projects roll out that are increasing local employment, stimulating local economies, and improving services and amenities for our regions, like the new Collier Park Nature Play Space which improving amenities for the local community."
"While we can't make it rain, our Government is supporting our communities in drought. We're backing in our farmers, and we will always stand up and support our drought-affected communities," Mr Pasin said.
Mid Murray Council partnered with the Australian Government and the Palmer Collier Park Community Association to use part of its $1 million grant to develop the first substantial nature play space in the region.
Mid Murray Mayor, Dave Burgess, said the Council and Mid Murray community were grateful to the Federal Government and Mr Pasin for their support for community projects in these challenging times, including the Collier Park Nature Play Space.
"We greatly appreciate the assistance of the Federal Government through the Drought Communities Program and the Member for Barker, Tony Pasin, which have supported the delivery of projects such as this beautiful new play space, while also boosting economic opportunities and improved social and community connection for our district," Mr Burgess said.
"Our district has faced challenging times through drought, but creating spaces such as this helps to bring people together to connect, to talk and to continue to build resilience and strength within our community.
"I would also like to acknowledge the work of the local volunteers, whose vision and dedication was instrumental in developing the project".
The Drought Communities Program supports communities in the most drought-affected regions of Australia and builds on more than $7 billion of Liberal and Nationals Government drought support measures.
Funding is available to eligible councils for local infrastructure projects and other drought-relief activities. Project funding is intended to provide short-term support, including by boosting local employment and procurement, and addressing social and community needs.
For information on the Government's Drought Communities Program visit: https://regional.gov.au/regional/programs/drought-communities.aspx
Media Contact: Charlotte Edmunds 8531 2466

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Q: Trying to count # distinct values of a field based on value of a different field Looking for some help with my SQL query. I am trying to find a way to specify cases in which a customer purchases or sells at two different stores, but if they purchase at one store and sell at another, I don't care or want that to count.
I have tried this -
Select count(distinct store) OVER(Partition BY Customer)

but it doesn't like the distinct and causes an error. When I dont specify distinct, it will give me the count of all observations of that customer, instead of just the count of # of stores that they purchased from, or sold to.
Based on the data below, customer D is the type im looking to filter for.
My Raw Data:
Customer    Type        Qty     Store
A           Purchase    1       2
A           Purchase    2       2
A           Sale        3       1
B           Sale        24      1
B           Sale        12      1
C           Purchase    4       2
D           Sale        12      2
D           Purchase    4       2
D           Purchase    2       1
D           Purchase    2       1

Any ideas?

A: Don't you just want to GROUP?
Select Count(store) FROM Blah GROUP BY Customer, Store

Edit: Ah I see what you want - you want a count of store over customer, sorry misread it!

A: select customer
from your_table
group by customer, type
having count(distinct store) > 1

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Manchester City vs Newcastle match ended with 5-0 scoreline in English Premier League 2015.
Manchester City recorded their biggest Premier League victory of the season to overwhelm Newcastle and cut Chelsea's title lead to five points.
A thoroughly convincing win for Pellegrini's men, who close the gap on Chelsea and go into Tuesday's Champions League tie with Barcelona on a real high. Newcastle, meanwhile, will want to forget today as quickly as they can.
Easy for City, from the first whistle to the last. Aguero, Nasri, Dzeko and Silva (twice) were the scorers...and it could have been worse for Newcastle.
Full Time Score : Manchester City 5-0 Newcastle.
MNC—Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Mangala, Kolarov, Nasri, Fernandinho, Toure, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero.
NEW—Krul; Janmaat, Coloccini, Williamson, Haïdara; Sissoko, Anita, Colback; Pérez, Cissé, Gouffran.


The problem is the argument has one really obvious gaping hole in fact and in logic. The premise is so flawed that the left has amped up its verbal attacks on the President and his administration in the hope that you don't notice but they keep forgetting that those of us in places like Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin can actually read and decide for ourselves what's going on. The day when Democrats could just herd the sheep into the polling booth is gone. Union members, laborers and people from backwater towns all over the country have decided they will go ahead and think for themselves. This is truly scary to liberals everywhere. That's why they keep turning up the volume on the talking points because they are desperate for you to buy what they are selling. But buyer beware.
Let me pose just a couple questions so I can understand what's really going on.
If America is such a nasty racist hellhole that is run by old white Nazi's that are hoarding cash while using and abusing people of color then why are people of color doing everything they can to break into the country every single day? I mean seriously if America is the terrible unfair place where women and minorities are treated so poorly then why are 23 million people living here illegally by choice, with tens of thousands running across the border every month with the hope of living here? If the only way you can get ahead is to cash in on white privilege then why would anyone of color ever want to be here?
If you listen to the blathering class on CNN, NBC or CBS, you would have to conclude President Trump is running concentration camps for kids of color, is a practicing member of the Ku Klux Klan, is willing to let the world burst into flames from man made global warming, and anyone that thinks his efforts are working for the country are just as evil as he is. If you support his America First policies you are either evil or ignorant and likely both.
The truth the left is trying so hard to blast out of your heads is that things are going pretty well right now. Unemployment is at historical lows, GDP is on it's way to 4% or better, ISIS has been crushed, North Korea is talking about getting rid of nuclear weapons, optimism is soaring, businesses are returning billions of dollars, tax revenues are at record highs and the future looks bright.
What exactly is the left touting this year? Well, it appears they must want to dump the tax cuts, cut-off negotiations with Kim Jong Un and North Korea, open the border more than it already is, put massive regulations back in place, re-join the Paris Climate Accords and proclaim the Iran Nuclear deal was a good idea.
In order to accept the narrative being put forward by Democrats, liberals and the talking heads on the echo-chamber media you have to not believe what you see with your own eyes. I see people of color everyday. You know what I don't see? I don't see black and Hispanic people getting treated badly or getting abused. I don't see women having a war waged on them by this President or his administration or the people that voted for him. In order to buy into these ridiculous talking points you'd have to ignore the help wanted signs, the increasing wages, the absence of ISIS on the evening news, the emergence of Kim Jon Un on the world stage, The United States Embassy in Jerusalem, the World Cup coming to America, the optimism that is growing every day and your own eyes and ears.
The Democrats are apparently relying on cognitive dissonance for millions of Americans come November to win the midterms. What else could there possibly be? The millions of people running over the border make it clear America is the best place in the world to live, raise a family and pursue your dreams.
Of course those of us living in the forgotten places in America like Kalamazoo, Wausau and Wilkesboro have known that our whole lives.
lol. also america is set up for scum like hispanics and latinos to thrive as well as dumb people in general. your affirmative action has been your undoing.


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Linux Knowledge
Deepin 20.8 Comes with a Brand-New Deepin Home App
ByBobby Borisov
Deepin 20.8 is available for download powered by Linux kernel 5.15 LTS, bringing a new set of desktop features and improvements.
Deepin is a Debian-based distro well-known among Linux users who value a visually appealing desktop. Aimed at the average computer user, Deepin sets itself apart from all others with the in-house developed DDE, one of the best-looking Linux desktop environments.
The quest for the best possible user experience continues in the just-released Deepin 20.8. So let's have a look at what has changed.
What's New in Deepin 20.8
The highlight of this release is the addition of a brand new Deepin Home app. Its creation aims to shorten the distance between developers and end users as much as possible.
Deepin Home enables users to receive real-time community news, interact and communicate with others, participate in questionnaires, etc. To make it better for community users, the developers plan to implement a tracking system for requirements and bugs and special feedback channels for software and hardware.
Deepin Home App
Under the hood, the Linux kernel is upgraded to 5.15.77, with version 5.18 also available for installation. In addition, new driver packages are integrated for users with NVIDIA GPUs: nvidia-driver-510, nvidia-graphics-drivers-470, and nvidia-graphics-drivers-390.
But let's get back to desktop apps. Deepin 20.8 has paid particular attention to two main ones – App Store and File Manager.
The App Store has improved the speed with which Wine apps open after installation while optimizing the visual effect of the app update and management pages.
Furthermore, the app now supports copying and pasting comments on application details pages, providing users with a better downloading and using experience.
At the same time, the File Manager functionalities have been improved, making file management more "smart."
For example, you can now save files on a disc as image files, rename and format external devices straight from the right-click menu, and design screensavers with your favorite images.
Aside from those mentioned above, other apps have also been improved. Mail now supports exiting a search by pressing the ESC key and has enhanced the overall interaction of the Contacts module.
The display of the back and forward buttons in the Browser app has been improved, and support for scrolling up and down bookmarks when they exceed the display space has been added.
Of course, Deepin 20.8 also brings numerous improvements and bug fixes across the entire Deepin Desktop Environment. So you can refer to the official announcement for detailed information about all changes.
Be informed that Deepin 20.8 was a rather large download at 3.8 GB, and the direct download speed was underwhelming.
Additionally, if you're new to Deepin and will try it, especially if you're going to install it on a virtual machine, know that the Deepin installer requires you to have at least 64GB of disk space.
So, if you want to try it right now, the links to the installation ISO images are at the bottom of the official announcement.
Bobby Borisov
Bobby is an Editor-in-Chief at Linuxiac. He is a Linux professional with over 20 years of experience. With a strong focus on Linux and open-source software, Bobby has worked as a Linux System Administrator, Software Developer, and DevOps Engineer for small and large multinational companies.
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I wish they could allow you to disable the client side decoration on windows, as the title "bar" do vary in height depending on what objects are in the CSD and then applications can have completely different designs and suddenly your desktop looks like ms-windows with a million different window looks.
I'm sure that there are people who loves CSD, but I'm not one of those.
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Few ways to keep your partner flat on their back work better than a classic crossface from half guard.
Flattening your partner with a crossface can be one of the very best techniques for passing the guard, particularly half guard (and the variations that arise from passing half guard). Whenever you're passing the guard, one way to prevent good guard maintenance is to keep your partner flat on their back, and few things do this better than a classic crossface from half guard.
We'll take a look at several different variations and methods from a few different situations.
This situation provides an excellent example of two fundamentally different types of crossface, performed at different stages of the action.
In the early example, your partner has built their base up and is sitting up in half guard, with their underhook intact. It's a matter of time before they sweep you or take your back. Before this happens, you have one more means of flattening your partner.
If they're coming up on your right side, grab their lapel with your right hand, making sure your forearm ultimately controls their head. As you twist your grip to straighten your arm, you should find that you can turn your partner's head away from you. Lift your partner's neck up and turn them away, guiding them to the ground and flattening them.
The second technique here is the much more fundamental "face smash" technique, or simple crossface from half guard. In this situation, simply weave your left arm around your partner's neck, gripping their armpit with your left hand in order to apply leverage to your partner's jaw and face (if you want to be somewhat nasty). Alternatively, you can utilize choking shoulder pressure.
A much more traditional method of passing half guard involves keeping your hands clasped together (as opposed to gripping the armpit).
This can also work well for maintaining the crossface, especially if you're more accustomed to keeping the underhook during your half guard pass, and provided head and arm control feels best for you.
As you "tripod" up in their half guard to free your leg, take care to ensure that their head is constantly turned away from you. If they're unable to look in your direction, they're going to have a very tough time executing anything offensive whatsoever. Note that you can make their head turn away, but you can also grind your shoulder underneath their jawline, pinning their shoulders very effectively.
Another simple (but effective) application of the crossface can be during a knee cut guard pass.
While on the one hand, it's great if you can manage to control their inside arm, pulling up to finish the pass, it is often not possible to grab the arm (either it's no-gi and tougher to get the grip you want, or your partner is doing a good job of hiding their arm from you). They can still have the underhook, though, meaning that they might be able to get to your back here.
However, if you use a combination of flattening your partner by driving their shoulder flat, and the crossface, making them once again turn away from you, you can complete the pass in this manner.
What's more important for passing half guard?
Passing the guard is an amazingly complex thing, and yet it's a really simple thing at the same time.
On the one hand, seemingly infinitely complex guard types evolve over time, and new methods of spinning, controlling, and gripping are invented almost literally every day. This makes for a perplexing outside view of passing the guard. On the other hand, human physiology hasn't changed very much over the last 10,000 years. If you can turn your partner's head away from you, you can pass their guard, and that's not likely to be affected by a new type of guard.
Cracking the code of a new problem in BJJ always amounts to what the human body can and can't do, and much more fundamental rules of physics and anatomy. As always, let me know if these techniques work for you!
Great tutorial as always. I have learned so much from your tutorials and seminars over the years.


Problem: It's never been more comfortable to spend your evening in, but this has really cut into the once hot going out spot, the movie theater.
Solution: Appeal to millennials anti-social tendencies and showcase how at the theater you can be socially anti-social.
A digital screen inside elevators allows riders to get a sneak peak of upcoming movies while ignoring fellow humans.


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Category Archives: Western Music
I've caught the Bieber Fever
Posted by cecimignon in Western Movies, Western Music and tagged with 3d, Bieber Fever, Dr. Bieber, Jaden Smith, JB, Justin Bieber, Justin Drew Bieber, Never Say Never, Scooter Braun, Usher April 26, 2011
I watched Justin Bieber's 3D documentary/concert movie – Never Say Never – with my sister on the first day of Easter vacation over a week ago and I really liked it. I wasn't the biggest fan before watching the movie, I just listened to Justin's songs whenever my sister played the My Worlds 2.0 album and found the songs catchy, but I wasn't a belieber – if you know what I mean. I respected his work and talent though and was excited to actually get to see how he got to kick off his career.
But the movie was so much more than I expected. It blew me away!
First I want to say the 3D effects were really impressive and suited this kind of movie perfectly, as it made it feel like you really was there at the concert with the other screaming fan girls xD (lol) Great ^^b (And the purple glasses also looks super cool ;D) The second thing I want to say is that I really was taken back how much this kid has fought for his dream – I didn't know he started to play instruments when he was only two years old or that he did all the promotion himself to get the radio stations to play his songs, because he was too young in their eyes (wow!) and I didn't know he was raised by divorced parents and a teenage mom :O That was actually the most unexpected (haha) ^o^ It's just amazing to see how much Justin loves music and how much he appreciate everything: people's support, his fans, his family, the people who helped him get signed and get him a recording contract (Usher, Scooter Braun and many others) and the ability to do what he loves the most – perform music.
I was surprised to see how much he (over)works too! 89 concerts in a row – that's just crazy! (I think some time ago Berryz Koubou celebrated their 100th concert performance, and they have been a group for 7 years now. Justin Bieber performed 89 concerts over a single year, alone O_O). The poor kid also lost his voice at some point in the movie and wasn't allowed to talk for two days! :O It touched my heart to discover how much it bothered Justin to cancel a concert because of his voice problem, he really doesn't want to disappoint his fans. Ever! (As he wrote to his fans on his Twitter). It's nice to find an artist who cares so much for his fans, makes me want to support him ^^
I have really changed my opinion of him. Before I just liked his music – now I like him as a person as well. I feel stupid for not realizing this before now. I'm so slow ^^; (haha) I'm also sad I didn't get to see him perform when he held a concert here in Denmark on April the 1st :( I know the tickets were sold out anyway, but still ;_; (sigh) Too bad. Now I'm just really excited for his next move. I know his voice is changing rapidly and his new songs probably will be very different from his previous (cute) pop songs. But I'm sure he will pull it off great as always. (Seriously, I haven't been disappointed with any song he has released yet!)
I really don't understand why this boy has so many haters. I guess they don't like him because he's so popular. It's the same thing that happened when Twilight got huge. When something get that popular, some people just want to dislike it just because they don't like the fan-hype. Really stupid actually. I mean there's a reason for those things get that popular right? Well, I just think Justin Bieber deserves the attention as he is amazingly talented (he really is) and got to be known because of this talent, not a name or an acting career etc.
The last thing I want to say is: I love Justin's humor. Listened to his new song Dr. Bieber yesterday and find the lyrics hilarious: "Yeah you females know of me – Time to realize I'm a beast" He's a beast spreading the "disease" xD "Catch that virus in the night – I know it's uncurable, it's durable, but it's alright" When you get the fever it's not going away! But "You'll never regret this". This song totally makes fun of the Bieber Fever phenomenon and the lyrics are so true in a way it just makes the song even more hilarious xD Would love to see a music video for this, maybe like the video Snoop Dog did for fun with his song Oh! Sookie :P Doesn't need to be a "official" video, just one for fun ^^ Would be really funny to watch! But anyway – I look forward to see more of Bieber this year :D
Edward Furlong ♥
Posted by cecimignon in Western Music and tagged with Ed Furlong, Eddie Furlong, Edward Furlong, fandom, Furlong, Hold On Tight, I Will Be Waiting (Cupid Mix), I'll Be Waiting, japan, Valentine Medley October 14, 2010
Gosh I've fangirled about this guy resently xD
I've been so crazy about Edward Furlong that I actually bought his album and a single released only in Japan~ :O
I know – I'm crazy xD But I did say fangirling *ω*
I bought his album "Hold On Tight" and the very rare single "I'll Be Waiting (Cupid Mix)" (seriously, I think I got the very last left on the internet! xD)
The single is one of those old-fashioned 3-inch CDs, really small and cute actually~ The snap-pack cover is really pretty, I like the fact that they included a little valentine letter from Eddie<3 ^^
The pictures included in the booklet to "Hold On Tight" are really goofy, but cute at the same time ^ω^ But the pictures with him in the leather jacket are pretty cool ;D
Now the songs! ^o^
01. Right For Me
Nice starter track, I really like the mood of the song ^^
02. I Don't Know What I'd Do
This track is pretty cool :3 I like when he sings 'Cause I'm in love with you baby… But I don't know how to say it to you~ But on the other side it's a little comical that he keeps singing I wanna talk to you baby, I wanna walk with you baby and so on. I don't know, it just sound a little funny xD Eddie sounds cute when he sings Yeah~ with his hoarse teenage voice <3
03. Give Your Heart To Me
This song has a more rock feel to it ^^ You could say it's the bad boy song on the album ;D Lol I think it's cool ^^
A love ballad :) I think it's the song where you hear Furlong's voice most clearly. I don't know why, but this song really touches my heart xD The lyrics are really nice… Sigh - I just love Edward Furlong so much <3
05. I'll Be Waiting
This song is really catchy~ I'll be waiting to lead you through the dark, I'll be waiting to find it in your heart~ Oh yeah! There even exists a "cupid" version, which you can listen to if you scroll farther down the page ^^
06. Hold On Tight (Special Album Version)
The title track! :D I think this song's the best on the whole album. It's just genius ^O^ The single release of this song actually beat Whitney Houston's major hit "I Will Always Love You" on the number one spot on the glorious Oricon chart in Japan, whoa! This say a lot about the power of Japanese girl fandom! Lol~
07. People Are Strange
This is a cover of The Doors' People Are Strange, and I think it reminds me very much of the cover Echo and the Bunnymen did in The Lost Boys soundtrack from 1987. It's a pretty cool song, but not as interesting as the other songs on this album ^ ^
08. It's Christmas Time
There has been thought of anything to this album, even a Christmas song! To all of you who love or can't wait for Christmas to come, this must be perfect xD As for a Christmas song, this song isn't all that christmassy. I enjoy listening to this even though there still are about two months left to December ;)
Download Hold On Tight (If you liked what you heard, please download his wonderful album!)
I really like Eddie's album, even though I'm completely aware of that his singing skills aren't the best. I still think the songs are incredibly catchy, as I've found myself listening to the album nonstop ever since I found and bought it. It's like the songs grow better and better the more times I listen to them. At first, I thought something like: Oh, these songs are really goofy, but I'll give them a listen anyway. Now I'm like: It's rediculous how much I love these songs! xD
If I should make a list over my favorite songs from the album it would look like this:
Give Your Heart To Me
When The Sun Goes Down
Right For Me
I Don't Know What I'd Do
It's Christmas Time
The title song "Hold On Tight" are just great. Love it so much! \(¯ ω ¯)/ LOL XD
Here are the songs from the special single release of I'll Be Waiting
01 I'll Be Waiting (Cupid Mix)
I feels like you hear Eddie's voice more clearly in this version than the normal version. It's also longer, as it has the really nice opening chorus added in the beginning of the song. Overall I really enjoy this version <3
02 Hold On Tight ~ I Don't Know What I'd Do ~ Right For Me ~ Give Your Heart To Me (Everyday's Valentine Medley)
This medley is long (but aren't all medleys like that?) I think the beginning with Hold On Tight are so awesome, and generally this medley is nice if you want to listen to all his love songs together ^o^
03 I'll Be Waiting (Instrumental Version)
Now YOU can sing I'll Be Waiting~ ;D
Download I'll Be Waiting (Cupid Mix)
I'm really happy I bought this single. It's a really nice version of his song I'll Be Waiting and the medley and the instrumental are some nice extras ^^ It's also amazing to see how much work the Japanese put into a little single release like this. It's incredible! I love Japanese fan-service (it's with no doubt about it the best fan-service in the world!) :D
Now I only need to buy Edward Furlong's photobook, then I truly can call myself an obsessed fan – LOL! xD
¨¨¨¨¨¨~Oh Jolly Season!~¨¨¨¨¨¨
Posted by cecimignon in Western Movies, Western Music and tagged with christmas, family fun edition, home alone, kristen stewart, macaulay culkin, new moon, robert pattinson, soundtrack, taylor lautner, xmas December 3, 2009
My mailbox was a happy place when I got home from school today, because my little "before Christmas" order had arrived ^o^ Wohoo! Look!
My order contained:
New Moon – The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack
HOME ALONe – Family Fun Edition DVD
HOME ALONe – Christmas Album
I just had to own the New Moon soundtrack myself after having watched the masterpiece of a movie. The music is great and there is a lot of variation in the genres ^^ About the other stuff, well it's Christmas! XD I'm a sucker for Macaulay Culkin's cute face and adorable acting. I've been watching the HOME ALONe movies every Christmas all my life, as long as I remember! :D
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It's the best Christmas movies ever made! (Except movie 3 and 4 – for God's sake – skip those!)
I look forward to all the neat special features on this DVD release, especially the commentary by Chris Columbus and Macaulay<3 That's going to be fun! And then there are the 15 deleted scenes and alternative takes :O That's something huh?
The HOME ALONe music is really something special in my opinion. Every time I hear John Williams' "Somewhere in My Memory" it's like being in another dimension, a Christmas dimension where everything is warm and safe. It's amazing… Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but I just love the score and music so much XD The song "All Alone on Christmas" by Darlene Love is one of my favorite songs from the movies, it's so happy and exhilarating. But actually I like every song and music score composed for this movie :D <3<3<3
Now to the New Moon soundtrack
New Moon Soundtrack Cover
I have looked forward to listen to this album for two weeks now, so you can imagine what a relief it was for me to put it in my Cd-player this afternoon! ^O^ The first number "Meet Me on the Equinox" by Death Cab for Cutie is really nice, and I have already listened to this many times before buying this soundtrack. The other songs, on the other hand, I haven't heard really, other than when they played in the movie itself. I love the tracks: Rosyln by Bon Iver & St. Vincent, Satellite Heart by Anya Marina, Possibility by Lykke Li (from one of my neighbors – Sweden! cool ^^) and Slow Life by Grizzly Bear and No Sound But the Wind by Editors<3
Besides this soundtrack, there is the New Moon Score, which I have listened to on the net. The score is actually much much better than I expected, because at the time I watched the movie I didn't really have time to notice the beautiful composed music in the background XD The first track "New Moon" is fantastic, I love the mysterious sound to it and the sad tone as well. It's composed by Alexandre Desplat (sounds French doesn't it? ^^) and there's a piano version of the track "New Moon" on the soundtrack as well ^o^ Wonderful, wonderful :3 I also love the tracks: Dreamcatcher, Edward Leaves, Almost a Kiss, Break Up, To Volterra, You Are Alive and Marry Me, Bella. XD *Sigh*
I can't wait till Monday, where I'm going to watch New Moon again! Wee~ ^o^ I know… I'm a crazy fan (O3o)/ (<– look! a crazy smiley XD) Haha
Here's some extra pictures from HOME ALONe – now I had them already ^^
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My subject matter is nature, whether it is a traditional landscape, animal, or insect. I use both film and digital photography to capture nature, movement, and life. I strive to explore new opportunities, bringing together all the elements of nature, naturally.
Photography for me is a way to capture natural life. Before taking a photograph, I try to get to know the elements that create the image by studying the light, colors, shapes, and textures to create an image that evokes feelings and a personal connection for the viewer.
As I fulfill my own curiosity to explore, create, and develop, I will be constantly adding new images to my site. It is my hope to create images that inspire others to get out and enjoy nature for themselves. There's nothing quite like seeing a beautiful landscape with your own eyes, to make you appreciate the real world.


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È l'allenatore più vincente nella storia del basket liceale statunitense: vanta infatti 1.333 vittorie. Si è ritirato nel 2005.

Dal 1958 al 1973 ha allenato la I.M. Terrell High School di Fort Worth in Texas; successivamente ha guidato la Paul Laurence Dunbar High School fino al 2005.

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Membri del Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

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Happy Memorial Day! For your holiday viewing pleasure, I bring you this video. Which is amazing. And I'm really really upset that I'm not BFFs with them so that I could have been a part of it.
I'm already married, but if she didn't say yes I would have tracked Isaac down and married him myself.
this is the cutest thing I have ever seen !
I cried, and cried, and cried, and laughed, and cried. Fantabulous.
That was my emotional trajectory too!
good job Isaac 🙂 awesome!!!
This was just awesome. Period.
OMG! Darling. Absolutely effing DARLING!
How do we get ourselves invited to the wedding!!!?


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In my teaching, I seek to encourage original understanding of the core concepts, frameworks, models and tools in the fields of strategic and international management.
I strive towards an interactive learning culture, using cases, games, and technology as aids.
My goal has been to help the students appreciate how various tools can be applied quite flexibly to gain an informed and intuitive understanding of any business context, and to make effective decisions for problem solving and strategic growth.
I prefer to build a cross-cultural and comparative overview of the concepts and of their applications, and seek to use illustrations from the corporate experiences in the US, Europe, Japan, and other nations to get across a meta-physical view of strategic decision-making. I use cases and videos of firms from different regions and different historical periods to convey the dynamic nature of concepts, and the need to prudently apply these concepts for transnational effectiveness.
I inculcate the competencies for application to practical domains, such as tourist attraction spots and community service organizations, besides the top management teams of the corporations, non-profit organizations, and small service enterprises. I have sought to give my students an opportunity to work on projects with real world feeling, involving outreach activities in the university and in the city, and involving international collaborations with student teams in overseas universities through Internet interactions. I include a capstone project in my courses for student team-based consulting to the Small Business Clients in the region.
"I just never took the time to thank you for the help you gave us in getting this class project. I was very impressed with the research these students completed for us. Of course, I felt they went above & beyond by giving us that huge folder of additional research information. We also took great interest in the research the India students did as well."
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Q: Issue with command link on visual force pages We currently have a left nav bar on all our visual force pages. We are using a command link on the left nav bar which on clicking should render a visual force page. Initially the command link was not sending parameters and so i had to create a nested form and use the rerender attribute. This work to pass the parameters but now i am getting an error message which is below:

The page you submitted was invalid for your session. Please click Save
  again to confirm your change.

Could you please let us know what scenarios would this error message come?
 I am having a visual force component which has the below code snippet. The vf component gets a reference of the page controller as a parameter and on clicking the command link invokes a method on the page controller. I am getting the above error message. Any body has built left navbars with command links using visual force component ?
<apex:repeat value="{!listMenuItemData}" var="menu">

                    <apex:outputPanel layout="block" rendered="{!IF(menu.menuItemState=='C',true,false)}">
                        <li class="subNavSection completed">
                             <apex:form id="repeatFrm1" >
                                 <apex:commandLink action="{!executeButtonClick}" styleClass="button nextButton primary" reRender="repeatFrm1">
                                    <apex:param name="param1" assignTo="{!eventCode}" value="LeftNavClicked" />
                                    <apex:param name="param2" assignTo="{!leftNavPage}" value="{!menu.screen}" />
                                </apex:commandLink>
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A: Posted actual answer from comments :
I was missing the name attribute on the param tag and it was throwing me weird results. So bottom line is that i used one form and parameter name to resolve the issue.


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Q: Jira like autocomplete for textarea I want to implement Jira like auto complete behavior for one of my pet project.
Check following screenshot.

I have searched hard for any existing plugin that could able to deliver it but couldn't find anyone.
I have tried following things (JsFiddle Link):

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*Add textarea and input(hidden initially) field elements.

*Bind a keyPress event on textarea

*Capture @ key and showing input field enabled with jQuery#autocomplete plugin with list of users

HTML:
<div class='span12'>
    <textarea id='comments' class='span12'></textarea>
    <input id='users' class='span12 hide' />
</div>

Script:
$(function() {
    var users = [
        "Ram",
        "Ramesh",
        "Rakesh",
        "Rahul",
        "Abhi",
        "Karan"
    ];
    $('#comments').on('keypress', function(e){
      if(e.keyCode === 64) {
        $( "#users" ).removeClass('hide');
        $( "#users" ).autocomplete({
          source: users
        });
      }
    });
});

My questions are:

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*How can we trigger @text to show auto-complete list with text as selected?

*After selecting the user, how we can insert that user name in the textarea?

A: Following are the three JavaScript plugins I found which serves the purpose I am looking for:

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*jQuery-textcomplete.js

*At.js

*triggeredAutocomplete.js

A: A great implementation with a UI just like this is jquery.mentionsInput.
It works with arrays of objects to auto-suggest as well as content fetched via AJAX requests. It requires jQuery and underscore.js and supports MSIE 8 and better.
Of particular note is it that exports links to usernames using a simple Markdown style markup, storing internal ID's alongside the @username mention. This means you can easily parse the text to do things like trigger events based on who is mentioned and means you can display real, human readable names in text but still correlate them with unique user ID's internally.
Any Markdown library can convert it to plain text if you need to just store or display the result as plain text.


We rarely see BTS in the wild, as their global fame means they can't exactly nip out to the shops without being mobbed.
But upon their latest trip to the US, the boys embarked on a mini promo tour – and it's made our day.
Jin, V, RM, J-Hope and Jimin were papped as they arrived at the SiriusXM studios ahead of their interview on The Morning Mash Up, and even while dressed casually, they were still slaying their looks.
V's look was the most eye-catching, as he teamed his bright blue hair with a yellow jumper and a Chanel bag, and the colour seemed to brighten his mood as he was pictured waving at the cameras.
Jin looked super stylish in an oversized white jumper, while Jimin rocked designer chic in a Chanel bomber jacket, offset against his pink hair.
J-Hope also sported Chanel and wore a denim jacket and jeans, while carrying a green bag, while group leader RM wore a pink hoodie and beige trousers.
And when the group reunited inside, we saw that Suga sported a black and white striped jumper and ripped jeans, while Jungkook wore a baggy jumper over tracksuit bottoms.
BTS were at the radio station to promote the release of their new album Map Of The Soul: Persona and its lead single Boy With Luv, which features Halsey.
The group leader also joked about the band's fame, admitting that they're still not used to being worldwide stars.
RM added that his favourite artists at the minute are Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X, before the band burst into a rendition of Shallow by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.
While in the US, BTS will be performing Boy With Luv on Saturday Night Live, which is being presented by Emma Stone.
Map Of The Soul: Persona is already breaking records after racking up 3 million pre-orders – with all seven songs entering the iTunes top 10 earlier today.
But new music could already be on its way, judging by this ARMY theory.
You can read our review of Map Of The Soul: Persona here.
MORE: Is a B-side to BTS's Map Of The Soul: Persona on the way?


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Sally Gabori (Kaiadilt people), Dibirdibi Country, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on linen. Purchased 2008 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser, AM, and Cathryn Mittelheuser, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation for the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery © Sally Gabori 2008. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney, 2013
My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Interview with Bruce McLean
Indigenous: Re-visions
Issue 33:2 | June 2013
An interview with BG Muhn on the art of North Korea
Yvonne Boag
Yvonne Boag interviews BG Muhn about his forthcoming book on the Passion, Propaganda and Paradox of North Korean Art to be published by Seoul Selections, and an exhibition at the American University Museum in Washington in 2016
Making Gaps: David Rosetzky's collaborators
Anna Zagala
David Rosetzky's collaborators in conversation
Some questions to Stephanie Rosenthal Artistic Director 20th Biennale of Sydney
Jenny Fraser: The cyberTribe odyssey
Djon Mundine OAM
Yinimala Gumana: It comes from the spirit of the land
Will Stubbs
On curating My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, opening at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on 1 June 2013.
Daniel Browning__My Country, I Still Call Australia Home surveys a broad sweep of contemporary art practice in black Australia. As we've seen with the National Indigenous Art Triennials and other exhibitions which attempt the same thing – to reconcile artmaking which is itself diverse, not to mention the backgrounds of the artists, and to represent tradition and innovation – there might be a need to see a common theme underlying the work. For you, what is that commonality?
Bruce McLean__Every artist and work in the show makes a statement about the place of the artist, both in terms of their country and their place in contemporary society. The exhibition is drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery's collection, so diverse media, views and regional styles have a presence, but all have something to offer in terms of the central themes and give people an idea of what is of most importance to the artists and/or their communities or families.
DB__The exhibition covers a vast geographical space, but also an intellectual and cultural space. Do you think there's a synchronicity between works such as Bindi Cole's emu-feathered universal statement of forgiveness, I Forgive You, and the collaborative topography Makarrki – King Alfred's Country by the Kaiadilt artists led by Sally Gabori?
BM__The exhibition is split into three separate but interrelated spaces and themes: My History, My Life, and My Country. Each of these could be an exhibition in itself, yet all have synergies and points of correlation. Bindi Cole's I Forgive You (2012) is accompanied by a video work, Seventy Times Seven, in which members of her community in Melbourne repeat the mantra "I forgive you". Taken together they are a moving exploration of the ideas and origins of hurt and the process of choosing to forgive.
The six-metre-long painting by senior Kaiadilt women, led by Sally Gabori, is a representation of an important part of their country that belonged to Sally's older brother, who was a great leader of the Kaiadilt before they were moved from Bentinck Island to Mornington, where Kaiadilt people have lived as a minority for the best part of 60 years. Since the late 1980s people have been returning to their island seasonally and today painting provides a major financial means of reconnecting with their country.
For me, both works are portraits of parts of a community, they both comment on government policies and a shared colonial past and both offer a sense of hope, through healing and self-reconciliation on the one hand, and an emotional return to country on the other.
Bindi Cole (Wathaurung people), I Forgive You, 2012, emu feathers on MDF board.
Purchased 2012 by the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation for the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery. © Bindi Cole 2012. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney, 2013
DB__If there is a signature work (or works) in this exhibition that makes a bold statement about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience, which one is it?
BM__There are so many works that make incredibly bold and brave statements about the experiences of artists and their communities, but it is hard to say that any make a definitive statement about an "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience", and the exhibition will hopefully reflect the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences.
But as a proud Murri man, two works really affect me – Vincent Serico's Carnarvon Collision (Big Map) (2006), which chronicles Jiman (Iman) contact history leading up to the massacres of Jiman and other Aboriginal people in central Queensland; and Vernon Ah Kee's Tall Man (2010) that records the day a tipping-point was reached on Palm Island following the findings of an inquest that the death of a young man in police custody had been the result of an accident.
DB__The idea of country as Aboriginal people understand it – of place, ownership and continuity over time – has been introduced to the vernacular. But how do you think the idea of country differs from the idea of the nation state, and are the two incompatible?
BM__My understanding of country in an Aboriginal sense does not differ markedly from the idea of a country in a Western sense. When I talk about my country, I don't refer to an ethereal and intangible connection to a place on the periphery of Australian consciousness, as seems to be the concept attached to the vernacular idea of Aboriginal country in a mainstream Australian view. For me the statement is political, and asserts a sense of ownership and belonging to a place with its own law, cosmology, customs, language and society.
This continent was home to hundreds of Aboriginal nations before European arrival and all of these nations still have claims to their country despite 1770, 1829, 1901 to the present. I have to believe that there is a good amount of compatibility and that a higher degree of Indigenous autonomy is achievable and compatible within the constructed nation state. There are a number of regional/remote areas that do have a reasonable level of self-governance, so there is some hope.
Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalanji/Waanyi/Yidinyji/GuuguYimithirr people), Tall Man, 2010, still, four-channel digital video installation from DVD. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
DB__The exhibition title conflates two ideas – My Country and I Still Call Australia Home. Both assert ideas of ownership, but there's a duality in that statement.
BM__Absolutely, the two parts of the title combine and strengthen the claims made in the exhibition. The dual statements also have a sense of dichotomy, in using two iconic Australian written works – Dorothea Mackellar's poem and Peter Allen's song – to present the ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people use those terms, have remixed those songs and relate to their country and society.
DB__Some artists complain that since its inception Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has been determinedly overlooking Aboriginal art, that the focus of exhibitions is almost too global. Whether you agree or not, does the exhibition promise a new kind of engagement with art being made here now by Aboriginal artists?
BM__Since GoMA opened there has been an intense and vibrant exhibition program, which has included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art exhibitions – including two Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Awards; a retrospective exhibition for Ron Hurley; Floating Life: Indigenous Fibre Art; Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands; plus Joe Rootsey and Namatjira to Now in the Queensland Art Gallery.
More recently a new direction has emerged which calls for greater prominence and interpretation of our collections, and My Country, I Still Call Australia Home is really driven by our collection strengths. Being between Directors, a long term direction for the Gallery is yet to emerge, but I believe, and will advocate, that the Gallery should show art that reflects contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences.
DB__Hetti Perkins argued in the last issue of Artlink Indigenous for a national centre of Indigenous art controlled by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Do you see any merit in the idea?
BM__I think most Aboriginal people who have worked in a mainstream public institution will see the merit in the idea – being able to work in an institution where our art is at the core and not the periphery and an environment where our ideas are central and not marginal. I believe art that speaks to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions and experiences belongs to world art and should be seen as widely as possible.
There should also be places where our art and artists can be seen in dialogue with the work of other Indigenous artists, and possibly artists from elsewhere who share the same concerns, in a space that consolidates and amplifies the voices and concerns of the artists.
The obvious drawbacks to having a separate institution for Indigenous art would be positioning our art outside wider contemporary art and curating ourselves and our artists into obscurity. I am an advocate for such a space if it is a place for interpretation and dialogue. If it's a space for "Indigenous art history", the National Gallery of Australia already has that covered with their new wing.
DB__How do you think the exhibition My Country, I Still Call Australia Home looks forward, aesthetically and politically?
BM__I believe that the contemporary artists presented in the exhibition are at the forefront of their approaches, be it in aesthetics, polemics, or otherwise. I hope that it allows viewers to appreciate the range of styles and media that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists use to express themselves, and the wide and diverse range of experiences from contemporary Black Australia.
Ken Thaiday Sr (Meriam Mir people), Symbol of the Torres Strait, 2003, plywood, synthetic polymer paint, feathers, black bamboo, plastic tubing, fishing line. Purchased 2004 with funds from Corrs Chambers Westgarth through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation for the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery
Bruce McLean is curator of Indigenous Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
Ken Thaiday Senior, Darnley Man
Exhibitions Manager at Cairns Regional Gallery Justin Bishop tells the rich story of how Ken Thaiday Sr. came to be a major Torres Strait Islander artist. In August 2013, Cairns Regional Gallery, in partnership with Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), will be presenting a survey exhibition of Ken Thaiday Sr.'s work.
Tracking Bluey Roberts
Troy-Anthony Baylis
Artist and curator Troy Anthony Baylis tracks the long art career of Bluey Roberts whose prolific work from carved emu eggs to paintings on ceramics and public artworks reclaims and subverts the notion of Australiana. Roberts' position is that Aboriginal artists create from history.
The (white) elephant in the room: Criticising Aboriginal art
Maurice O'Riordan
Does Aboriginal art exist in a critical vacuum?
Sculpture@Bathers
Nien Schwarz
Curators: Tony Jones, Joanna Robertson
Kidogo Arthouse and Bathers Beach Arts Precinct, Fremantle
Let's be polite
Editor Daniel Browning interviews artist Vernon Ah Kee who discusses the lack of criticism of Aboriginal art and the abundance of 'mass production' Aboriginal art emanating from remote communities seen by some as 'real Aboriginal art' but in the eyes of Ah Kee simply and uncritically playing into false romantic notions of the lives of Aboriginal people.
Foundations Edge: Artists and technology
Rainer Doecke
QUT Art Museum
16 March – 26 May 2013
tough(er) love: art from Eyre Peninsula
Eleanor Scicchitano
Curator: John Neylon
Flinders University Art Museum
28 February – 28 April 2013
Harry James Wedge (1957-2012)
Matt Poll
Assistant Curator of Indigenous Heritage Collections at the Macleay Museum Matt Poll writes a thoughtful, engaging and detailed account of the life and art of Harry Wedge, known as 'Big H' in his home community in Cowra. Poll says:" Harry's artistic career remained an enigma to those closest to him throughout his life. His work is an exemplary case of an Australian outsider art – though not in the conventional definition."
Maria Georgiou
Curator: Lisa Bryan-Brown
Hold Artspace, Brisbane
1–17 March 2013
In the Shadow of the Past, this World Knots Tight
Venn Gallery, Perth
Rekospective
Jirra Harvey
Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri curator and lecturer Jirra Harvey traces the career of self-taught graffiti and studio artist Reko Rennie. He uses a traditional Kamilaroi patterning in neon and in graffiti as a contemporary statement of sovereignity. Harvey says: "The subtext to such works is a running narrative on government practices that work to control and restrain Aboriginal communities and the subsequent rebellion of the people."
Ich Bin Ein Aratjara: 20 years later
Djon Mundine
Aboriginal super-curator Djon Mundine, who travelled to Europe in 1994 as touring curator with the significant exhibition Aratjara: art of the first Australians, looks back at the genesis and reception of that exhibition. He asks where is the political impetus evident in Aratjara today and where is the Aboriginal input into the development of national survey exhibitions.


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Just a little note to wish you and yours a Happy Easter today!
Each year, I try to do at least a little something needle-and-thread related in preparation for Easter.
In my family's traditions, Easter and Christmas are holidays that deserve concentrated effort when it comes to preparation, and I love it when embroidery can play a part in the celebrations.
One year, in anticipation of Easter, I embroidered this spring corner on a flour sack towel, to line an Easter basket. It was a very stress-free, easy project worked in simple, quick embroidery stitches.
The following year saw a slightly more involved project on the embroidery frame – this Agnus Dei project, which involved quite a bit of work and was finished just in the nick of time.
Last year, I dabbled with embroidery on various types of real eggs for Easter. Embroidery on eggs could develop into a fun side hobby – it's pretty addicting!
This year, for a little something different, I explored some other egg decorating approaches that didn't involve embroidery – pysanky (wax resist dyeing) and decoupage with Japanese washi paper, which reminds me very much of Japanese embroidery and textiles.
On that note, Happy Easter, folks! Hope it's a sunny, joyful day for you, wherever you are, whatever you're doing!
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Thank-you, Mary, and a Blessed Easter to you and your family!
Happy Easter, Mary. Thank you for the all the gorgeous work you show us. Greatings from Portugal.
Happy Easter to you too! He is risen!
Mary, You will get your Chicken Scratch Tea Cloth done, then you will have two things to show us next year like this year. I love your eggs. I might try the decoupage one with my granddaughter next year. This year we blew up water balloons to an egg shape. I got out my ort jar, and one thread at a time we dipped it into Mod Podge and wrapped it around the balloon, until the balloon was a mesh of orts. I let them dry several days then popped the balloon, pulled it out through a hole and there was an airy, light ort egg each one completely unique. My granddaughter is 7 but younger ages could do this. This Sunday of all Sundays I want to tell you how much I appreciate you. I've been reading your blog for years. I'm not quite sure when I started, but I know when you had a give-away there might be 25 names. You are the first blog I read in the morning. You start me out right. I am basically a shut-in. Yesterday was my birthday and my husband took me out for dinner. It was the first time I had left the house in over three weeks. I am confined to a wheelchair but we don't have money for a van or anything like that. I need my husband to transfer me to the car. So when I get to my computer after my quiet time in the morning I want to sit down with Mary and have a one sided chat which you do so well. You have taught me to have more fun with my embroidery. I used to take it so seriously. I have enough serious things in my life. I need fun. Maybe that goes back to when I was four and my mother handed me my first floss strung needle and my hoop with a kitty's head on it and then cautioned me over and over not to make a mistake because they were so hard to undo. You have taught me I can rip things out if they don't look the way I had imagined. Your stitch play always makes me laugh, as I wheel off to get the things I need to try it myself. I don't understand these embroiderers who only do backstitch and satin stitch. What I'm trying to say is….Mary if you weren't there to greet me in the morning, I think my day would go a lot differently. Oh and I'm from Kansas when you write about it, it always brings happy tears to my eyes. He Is Risen!
A blessed Easter to you! I remember all the work you put into drilling those eggs and stitching them. 🙂 And now you've stirred up my interest in chicken scratch again. It is a fun way to stitch.
A very happy blessed Easter to you and your family, I hope you enjoy the Easter hunt and get lots of Easter eggs. Thanks for the reminder of all your Easter embroidery projects like you I did enjoy last year the eggs embroidery. Thanks for sharing your Easter embroidery joys and enjoy the holiday and lets not forget that Jesus is the reason for the season. Have a good one.
Happy Easter, Mary, to you & yours! Thanks for making ours more joyful and colorful with all the beauty you bring into our world with all you wonderful projects!
Happy Easter, Mary. Those are beautiful eggs.
Happy Easter, Mary. The eggs are beautiful.
Thank you Mary and Happy Easter to you and yours !
Chrystus Zmartwychwstał ! Alleluja !
Easter blessings to you too. Rainy here in Iowa but that too will celebrate the newness of this day. Yours is the only blog that I read on a daily basis. Thanks for all that you share. I am mostly in the planning stages with your projects but each one you do inspires me.
And a wonderful Easter to you too Mary!


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Anders Gustaf (Gösta) Bodman, född 5 augusti 1875 i Råneå församling, Norrbottens län, död 22 november 1960 i Stockholm, var en svensk polarforskare, professor i oorganisk kemi och mineralogi vid Chalmers 1914–1940.

Bodman kom som provinsialläkarson från Råneå i Norrbotten till Uppsala på 1890-talet för att studera fysik. Han värvades som medlem av den Första svenska Antarktisexpeditionen (1901–1903) under ledning av Otto Nordenskjöld och kapten Carl Anton Larsen. Ångbarken "Antarctic" lämnade Göteborg 16 oktober 1901. Under expeditionen ansvarade Bodman för de meteorologiska och magnetiska observationerna. Med på expeditionen var bland andra Samuel August Duse och fartygsläkaren Erik Ekelöf. Den 12 februari 1903 förliste Antarctic, strax efter att forskare och besättningsmän evakuerats till ett isflak. Expeditionsmedlemmarna tvingades uthärda ytterligare en övervintring på Antarktis. Den 8 november 1903 kom räddningen i form av ett argentinskt örlogsfartyg som sänts ut för att försöka hitta den svenska expeditionen.

Bodman disputerade för doktorsgrad 1906 på avhandlingen Om isomorfi mellan salter av vismut och de sällsynta jordmetallerna. Han blev efter hemkomsten lärare i Göteborg, först (från 1907) vid Samskolan, sedan från 1910 vid Chalmers, där han 1918 blev professor i oorganisk kemi och mineralogi. Han var också lärare i varukunskap vid Göteborgs handelsinstitut. Efter 35 år i Göteborg flyttade Gösta Bodman efter sin pensionering från Chalmers till Stockholm. Där inledde han en andra karriär på Tekniska museet i egenskap av arkivsamordnare och museiguide.

Utöver ett flertal vetenskapliga avhandlingar i kemi, meteorologi, petrografi och geologi utgav Bodman industrihistoriska arbeten, främst rörande Göteborgs utveckling som industristad.

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Our Birmingham personal injury attorneys encourage you to start a discussion with your family about the importance of safe driving as we head into the busy year-end holiday travel season.
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More than 21,000 people have died in traffic accidents thus far this year; that's about 90 people a day. Alabama traffic accidents killed 546 through the end of August, down slightly from 2011 but up from 2010. These numbers are expected to continue to increase as the economy improves. And the last three months of the year are historically the most dangerous on our roads.
The Alabama Department of Public Safety reports more than 123,000 crashes occur annually in the state. In 2009, more than 35,000 motorists were seriously injured and 848 were killed.
-Teen Drivers: Teens are traveling to and from school and after-school jobs. Many teens are taking driver's ed and earning their driver's licenses. Teens in their first two years of driving are at highest risk for an accident.
-Night Driving: With Daylight Savings Time coming to an end, many of us will be commuting home in the dark. This increasing the risk of bicycle and pedestrian accidents as well as all types of motor vehicle crashes, including those blamed on drowsy driving.
-Drunk Driving: Someone dies in an accident with a drunk driver every hour in the United States. Drunk drivers kill over 10,000 a year — accounting for fully one-third of all traffic fatalities reported nationwide. The football season will give way to the long trio of year-end holidays and both increase the risk of drunk driving crashes.
-Aggressive Driving: 69 shopping days left until Christmas. Stressed yet? The year-end holidays are a hectic time. Often the weather is not great. Often we are rushed. While we are all aware of the high-profile cases of road rage, what is far more common is for drivers to display milder aggressive driving tendencies behind the wheel. Speeding, tailgating, horn blasting, sudden lane changes, disobeying a traffic control device, not using a turn signal. These are behaviors most of us would have to admit to on some occasion and yet each increases our risk of being in an accident.
The Alabama Highway Patrol reminds motorists to obey the speed limit. One-third of all fatal crashes nationwide involve a speeding driver. Speeding reduces your reaction time and increases force of impact.
In Alabama, the interstate speed limit is 70 mph, which historically is the fastest it's been since 1964. The speed limit on most four-lane roads is 65 mph. The limit on state or country roads is 45-55 mph unless otherwise marked.
Talk to your family about the risks. Take them seriously through year's end. And do your part to avoid becoming a statistic.
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The Phillies are better because of two December moves by General Manager Matt Klentak.
First, he sent first baseman Carlos Santana and shortstop J.P. Crawford to the cost-cutting Mariners in exchange for All-Star shortstop Jean Segura plus relievers James Pazos and Juan Nicasio.
Then, Klentak signed free-agent outfielder Andrew McCutchen to a three-year, $50 million contract.
Segura should bring some pop at the top of the lineup. He's hitting a combined .308 over the past three seasons, averaging 179.3 hits, 33.3 doubles and 25 stolen bases during that span. Owed $60 million for the next three seasons, he's also a solid fielder.
Perhaps as important as adding Segura was subtracting Santana because it allows Rhys Hoskins to return to his natural position of first base after having to spend last year in left field. And Santana didn't field or hit as well as the Phillies needed him to after agreeing to a three-year, $60 million deal here.
McCutchen should help almost as much in the clubhouse as on the field. He's still a good player, but his numbers have dropped off considerably compared to his five All-Star seasons in Pittsburgh (2011-15). He can play all three outfield positions — winning a Gold Glove in '12 — and be a solid No. 6 hitter.
To me, $50 million seems a bit steep for a 32-year-old playing for his fourth team in three years, but I'll bet he's far more productive with the Phils than Santana.
But let's be honest — if the Phillies want to be relevant again and give the fans a reason to start attending games, Klentak must land outfielder Bryce Harper or infielder Manny Machado.
Even with his terrific all-around skills, Machado's October assertion that "I'm not the type of player that's going to be Johnny Hustle" might not go over big here, especially if either he or the team doesn't produce up to expectations. He wants to play shortstop though he's a better third baseman and the Phillies could move Segura to second base if that's a deal-breaker, but I wouldn't be upset if Machado heads to the Yankees or some other MLB destination.
I prefer Harper because of his blue-collar style of play and his familiarity with Philadelphia from nine or 10 games a year with the Nationals at Citizens Bank Park, as well as discussions with former Phillie Jayson Werth.
A six-time All-Star in seven seasons, Harper just turned 26. He had 34 home runs and 100 RBIs last year. He also led the majors with 130 walks, which fits with the Phils' patient approach at the plate.
Harper's agent, Scott Boras, told reporters Wednesday at the winter meetings in Las Vegas that the Phils are "certainly on Bryce Harper's list" of prospective teams.
It might take $400 million or more over 10 years to get it done, which would fit with owner John Middleton's willingness to be "a little bit stupid" with how much money the organization spends during the offseason.
The Phillies still need to bolster their starting rotation. Klentak doesn't typically spend big in free agency on arms, so they could secure a starter via trade if they decide to part with outfielder Nick Williams.
Plug Harper into the No. 3 batting position, which would really benefit Hoskins in the lineup, and let him handle one of the corner outfield spots.
Home attendance would jump from last year's average of 27,318 (17th out of 30 clubs) and a National League wild-card spot would seem to be a reasonable goal.
The Phillies would finally be back.