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Interview with MANACLE
Giannis Tziligkakis
MANACLE is one of these bands that are up to the challenge no matter the cost. "Forged" in Canada, homeland of iconic ANVIL and more recent CAULDRON, the band has recently released it first full-length album. Mr. Inti (guitars) was kind enough to share a bit of his time with us and shed some light on the past, present and future of the band. Ejoy...
Greetings guys! Thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Would you like to start by introducing yourself to our readers?
Hey, thanks for asking the questions! My name is Inti, and I play guitar in Manacle!
How would you describe your music to someone that's not familiar with the band?
Fast and heavy guitars, high pitched singing, pounding bass and lots of toms! …Maybe I am describing an earache for some!
What's your main influences and your source of inspiration as a band?
Mostly Judas Priest, Queensryche and the general 80's power/speed genre, but definitely not limited to only that, or just metal music. Life in general draws a lot of inspiration for me, whatever happens, you can always write a song about it!
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Ιt's been five years since the very first MANACLE release. Did things turned out the way you expected when you started? What's the biggest challenge you've faced so far?
I don't think things ever turn out how you expect, but I'm not disappointed with where things are now. Biggest challenge so far? Finding a steady drummer! haha
Would you like to provide some insight on producing "No Fear To Persevere"?
It was the end of August 2016, definitely the hottest time of the year, especially in a smoggy Toronto. We scraped together enough money to book a weekend at the Lincoln County Social Club, a local studio recommended to us by our friend Jason Decay (CAULDRON), who had recorded there before. At the time, the line-up was myself, Kevin, Jake and Phil. John Dinsmore was the Engineer, who guided us through our first real studio experience quite casually, alongside being a genuine nice person, I'd say he did a great job capturing our live raw sound. Jason came down to the studio a few times and did some back-ups on the final track "Stand Tall", a song we almost omitted recording, if it weren't for his persuasion to record everything. We'd cap off every night at the dive bar conveniently tucked in the next block, called The Jem. Great place.
How did you end up working with Olof Wikstrand (ENFORCER)?
Naturally, through our friendship with Jason and CAULDRON we met the ENFORCER guys and Olof. Olof has a great ear for the sound of metal we are going for, and it really made sense to have him mix the album. I'd say he nailed it!
MANACLE – No Fear to Persevere…
If not mistaken, some of the material on "No Fear To Persevere" was also featured in past demos. How come and you didn't "officially" release this material earlier?
It was always the intention to release things sooner, but things always happen to get in the way here and there. Now that we have no more demos to grave rob, expect all new songs!
Many bands compose and pick up different material for their official releases, leaving the demo stuff behind. You have selected to include most of the songs from your demo era on your debut. Well this actually means that you really believed in your material right or wrong?
I'd argue that most of a bands demo material will end up on their first album typically. While a lot of the songs are older, the only people who knew the songs before were the locals who had seen us live and picked up the demos. And everyone else now getting into our songs gets the benefit of hearing the songs in their most refined stage (new recordings). In the end I'd say I believe in the material…but I always believe I can do better!
What about the re arrangement of the material from the primitive demo versions to the final album ones? Was it a difficult quest? Was any actual evolution of the songs themselves (for example on their structure) or have you just re recorded and produced them from scratch? Yes, there are people who have not heard the "Rehearsal Tape" or the "Live At Lee's Place" tapes or perhaps those that would search for differences and similarities, between the "Preview" demo and the debut. This question is for them.
It was mostly an evolution of playing the songs so many times and tweaking subtle changes. There were also aspects of having different musicians from the early demos to the currently material, different drummers play the same song differently, as well as bass players etc… so there was natural style changes in those aspects as well. Going forward I think the album is the law on the structures, but I am always into a little "breaking the law" now and then…
As for "Preview", it was merely just a preview of what was to come on the album, people took it as a serious demo when in fact it was just a few songs uploaded to bandcamp to promote the upcoming release, which was subsequently delayed many times. Sonically the only difference between "Preview" and the album is the mixing and master…a big difference however!
So can we say that the "Preview" demo was preparing the audience for what was about to follow on the debut release?
Speaking about the two tapes, can you remember the actual copies number of each one of them? I know you were distributing them by mail. Perhaps on your live shows also? All this tape distribution thing, was it a way to express in a better way, what MANACLE is all about – old school Steel – or what?
I got 150 copies pressed of the "Rehearsal Tape" plus some 30+ copies I hand dubbed before, it was really just to get us on the map, that we are a band, Manacle, and we're gonna try and do something, here's a shitty demo, check it out. "Live At Lee's" wasn't a real demo, it was something we put online and hand dubbed a few copies but not a real release, I thought it sounds kinda bad haha
By mail, shows, trades, records stores, trying to do it the old school way to an extent, but really it's just "school". D.I.Y. till death!
How do you work when it comes to songwriting? Are you into improvising/jamming or do you prefer to put more thought into your songs?
I usually have a few ideas to start, but like to jam them out and see where they can go from there. Once there are a few good ideas it starts to build into a song. I pair a lot of riffs with lyrics early on so they evolve together. I try to do as much homework as possible so I feel like I know what I am doing when I come to rehearse, but I'm always interested to see where something can end up.
A band from Canada signed on a Greek label. Who found who? And how is the co operation with No Remorse Records so far?
I believe we had both known of each other before hand, and ended up becoming acquainted when we did some trades. We kept in touch, we even met in person when I came in Greece and I sent them the rough tracks of the album for some feedback, they were very interested in working together and I thought they would be a good fit for us considering their catalogue has many bands in the similar vein to us. I can say I'm quite happy with things so far! Hopefully you'll see us playing in Greece sometime soon!
What's the main take away for MANACLE from making this album?
That we indeed have, no fear to persevere!
I have to comment on the length of "No Fear To Persevere". Don't you feel that 30 minutes is a bit short for a full-length album? Was there any material left out of this release on purpose?
A worse scenario would be an album that is too long. Originally there was a 7th song for the release but we scrapped it, ideally to rerecord a better version in the future.
Do you think CDs (and digital releases) have affected the quality of a record due to the maximum allowed capacity (eg. allow more fillers)?
For sure! Some albums just seem to drag on, especially the early 90's when CDs were new and popular and we have 15+ songs on a CD, but how many are not filler? I believe in the "full album experience" vs. "Singles/playlists".
Are there any plans for promoting "No Fear To Persevere"?
Current plans are an East Coast Canadian Tour in November, and Europe spring 2019! (promoters get in contact). Locally we are supporting BEWITCHER (Speed Metal from Portland) next month, and in the fall, CLOVEN HOOF.
When it comes to you as a listener do you think vinyl and older medium formats play such an important role in order to enjoy a record?
I personally don't think it matters what format you listen to an album on, you can still enjoy it the same. However it's much easier to get lost in the magic of playing a record or tape, and being committed to that entire side before, hearing the next, no skipping songs!
What's your take on the return to the traditional metal sound? Lately, more and more bands are forming up and release music that's pretty close to what metal used to be during the 80's. Do you think it's a trend, nostalgia or something deeper?
There is probably a good mix of all those things, but I think it's a good thing that heavy metal is on the rise again. Nostalgia is for the old ones, who can teach us the ways if we chose to listen, and we decide if it's a trend or something deeper…the more people involved in the scene, the deeper the meaning, and there's more ways to be involved than just playing in a band.
Are you still fans of BLACK DEATH?
Once a fan, always a fan!
If there's anything you'd like to say, now is the time…
"Lock your doors and keep your parents out
And turn your music up loud!!"
Thank you so much for making this interview possible! I'll leave the closing remark to MANACLE.
Cheers to you Forgotten Scroll! Closing Remarks: Never give up!
Manacle
No Remorse Records
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The Bahamas is home to a number of spectacular golf courses that promise to provide an unforgettable experience for anyone fortunate enough to walk their fairways.
It's not surprising, really, given this archipelago, which comprises 700 islands, is an ecological oasis, boasting the kind of blue seas and ocean views that take your breath away.
If the Hero World Challenge at Albany caught your attention, then perhaps it's time you found out a little more about what The Bahamas has to offer.
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The Evolution of Boss Drops in RS
posted by Mason on 26th August 2014, at 4:59pm
A new boss slaying reward system has been released last week called Soul Reaper. Apparently Death has a new side gig – because you know, claiming the souls of all the dying creatures in RS wouldn't keep you busy enough. In honour of this I've decided to channel my irritation of Kree'arra's drop stubbornness and write an article about the evolution of drops, specifically boss drops, in game. You see, when you were a noob wondering the sewers and graveyards of the Misthalin Kingdom drops were easy to understand. You kill a scorpion, you get loot. Wait – scorpions don't drop loot… I never understood that. Anyways, you kill a zombie, you get loot. Most of the time it sucks (fishing bait? Wha…), but sometimes it doesn't (5 nature runes? Sweet!) and it goes like that for a while. Eventually Slayer training isn't cutting it anymore and you're ready for more challenge because the more of a challenge the better the chance at an awesome reward. It's time to start PvMing hardcore with bosses. Now don't get me wrong, in most cases it still follows the "Mostly Sucks but Sometimes Sweet!" formula (Thanks for the Arma Buckler, Kree…), but some bosses have neat and at least interesting drop mechanics.
Recently Jagex has really been changing things up from the typical kill boss -> get loot way of things and I think that's great. For example, rather than just dropping great armour, bosses drop materials to craft or smith that armour, which includes skills (and thus skillers) into the process. This makes those production skills more valuable and gives incentive to train them to high levels. Let's run down the evolution of drops in Runescape by going over the bosses that changed how we get their sw00t loot.
The Barrows Brothers – Released May 2005
The first iteration of a varied drop mechanic that I want to cover are the original bad boys of bossing, the Barrows Brothers. For many of us, this may have been the first encounter with a boss-type fight and it is still today a fantastic and fun system of shelling out the goods. For anyone who may have jumped over these guys in their combatting travels (and you're missing out, big time!), I'll break it down. Each of the 6 (7 really, but who's counting) brothers are contained in a burial mound and they each have some quirk to how they fight. You kill each brother to have a shot of getting their armour and weapon. Within one of these mounds houses a passage to an underground tunnel system that has to be navigated to a central chest, which is where the rewards for all the brothers is dispensed at the same time.
This system is great for many reasons. For starters, it adds an ending trek that summarizes the experience and gives you a large payout at the end rather than after each kill. The tunnel and the chest adds to the story and lore of the brothers and enriches the experience that having the armour just appear on the ground wouldn't do. It builds suspense and the delayed gratification makes it so much more fulfilling when you do get a good drop. Lumping the filler "junk" drops also doesn't make it seem so bad and makes every trip fill like it was a success.
This may be the oldest changed drop mechanic in Runescape, but it is perfected and still holds up so much so that I still go and make a few trips just for kicks every once in a while. Besides, some of the armour is still pretty decently priced and useful. For content that is almost 10 years old, that's impressive!
God Wars Dungeon – August 2007
No other bossing experience has changed how we play the game more than the GWD. It ushered in a new era of top weapons and armours that made other popular sets obsolete. I'm going to assume everyone has some knowledge of how the GWD works, but here's the basics. All 5 of the generals of the gods present in the previous God Wars are still fighting in a frozen chamber near Trollheim. The generals and their lesser bosses drop armour. The generals themselves also drop sword pieces and the prized hilt belonging to their God. Before battling a general players must kill 40 of that same god's monsters.
The Godswords were the first major instance of having to construct a drop, which requires 80 Smithing. Like I stated in my introduction there has long been some push from players to make PvMers and skillers interact and rely more on each other. While 80 Smithing isn't a difficult requirement, pure monster killers need help to get the best use of the top drops from the generals. While the armour gives instant gratification and a useable drop, getting the much rarer (and more expensive) hilt is useless to those who can't construct the sword. Of course, you could also just sell of the hilt… but that's not the point! The point is that Jagex tried to make two player types work together for the first time.
Corporeal Beast – September 2008
Corp is a hellish boss that really requires multiple players to take down. For their hard work, the teams have the chance at expensive sigils that can be attached to a spirit shield. The shield must first be anointed with holy elixir, which has a difficult level 90 Prayer requirement. Only then can the sigil be added to the shield with 85 Smithing. For all the hard work, players are rewarded with some of the best and most expensive shields in the game.
Tormented Demons – November 2008
At the end of While Guthix Sleeps we gain access to Tormented Demons. While it's arguable that these are really bosses per se, they served as such during the quest, so just go with me here, will ya? These demons drop two different drops that further required players to enhance the reward to make it useful and have more value. Demons drop 3 pieces of themselves that are needed to create the mythical Dragon Platebody, which requires 92 smithing. This higher skill requirement was a better use of skiller enhancement and actually acts as a motivator to level up the smithing skill. It also required a 1M gp hammer to create the plate, which introduced a money sink as well.
Secondly, TDs drop dragon limbs, which are used to create dragon crossbows. This requires an even stauncher 94 fletching to create. D Crossbows' value is further enhanced with the release of the Ascension Dungeon but more on that later.
Vorago – July 2013
Vorago isn't only an impressive boss with superior magic weapons as a reward for the brave souls that try to tag team him, but with him came powerful craftable armour. This power mage armour is created with high level Runecrafting from tectonic energy dropped by the boss. While the armour isn't particularly popular and is expensive considering what it is it is, this is the first time we saw a resource dropped on a regular basis from a boss that is used for production of armour. Think of Vorago as a craggy, cranky, and nearly instantly deadly ore rock.
Barrows: Rise of the Six – November 2013
The original Bad Boys of Bossing (sorry, I just wanted to use that again) are back and more powerful than ever in The Rise of the Six barrows expansion. Much like Vorago, the brothers are fought in difficult fights and drop an instant gratification drop of level 90 kiteshields as well as a resource – malevolent energy. This is used along with purchasable plates to create impressive power armour. Again, we see a money sink paired with a high levelled smithing requirement to get skillers involved in the process.
Ascension Legiones
To complete the trio of level 90 creatable armors, Jagex put out a range focused area called the Ascension Dungeon. This time Sirenic scales are used as the resource to craft mage armour. In theme, thread must be bought and high crafting is required to piece the scales together.
But most importantly, the dungeon is home to six Legiones that are needed to create a level 90 ascension crossbow. Within the dungeon are minions that drop keystones that grant access to the Legiones. You have once chance per key to get a decently rare drop called a signet. Only after many kills of each boss will you lucky enough to get all six signets. It is with these that you can then take a dragon crossbow and finally get the mighty ascension crossbow.
This in my opinion is the best boss dropping mechanic in the game. It takes toiling and trials and true effort to get a truly powerful and expensive weapon like the ascension crossbow. The process works so well that players devote a lot of time and a lot of money into buying the keystones and the dragon crossbow in order to then flip the ascension crossbow for a (hopeful) profit. This in turn funds those who kill the lesser creatures and get the keystones and those who camp TDs for the dragon crossbow parts. It's a beautiful and tight system that, at least for now, functions as a true economy based around bossing.
Araxxor – July 2014
Our newest death bringer, Araxxor, and his mate, Araxxi, entered the picture and kind of turned things on its head as far as drops go. For instance, it's one of the few bosses that drop pets (Rise of the Six also does) and they are fairly popular at least for the moment. The actual 'meat and potato' drops are odd and more complicated to get. Before fighting the big spiders the player must navigate pathways that dictate the battle and what drops you have better odds of getting. This is the first boss that actually allows you to influence your drops in this way. In 4 waves you fight the boss till its death. Only then are you given your booty from Araxxi's thorax.
There are six total pieces to weapons that you can receive. A top, middle, and bottom leg piece is needed to construct any weapon of any kind. An eye, web, or fang is placed atop the completed leg in order to create a usable item. This, in my opinion, is a weak and dysfunctional system. Let me explain.
For starters, there are no unique instant gratification drops to Spidy. It offers only generic resources like herbs and ores, which are boring and not fulfilling at all. The three leg pieces are merely influenced by your path choices, but there are players who have several dozen kills without a needed leg piece. It shouldn't be that hard and if you are making it that hard, make the leg pieces tradable. You can literally sink millions in just a chance to get a piece you want. Think back to the Ascension Dungeon. Each Legiones doesn't drop each signet. You won't ever be stuck with several of one kind and if you are you know where to get the rest. You can't and shouldn't punish a player for something out of their control. At least at the time of writing this this hasn't been remedied, so please let me know if and when this changes.
So that covers boss drops over the years. Jagex's efforts to make bosses more entertaining and fun along with attempting to bring skills into the mindless slashing and looting has given us major improvements and greater synergy between players of different types. We also have a greater variety of bosses, from solo excursions to large team beat downs. I can only hope that we continue down this road of innovation and integration as we attempt to rely on each playing style more and more. Doing so will create a much more diverse and healthy economy and a downright more enjoyable experience for killers and skillers alike.
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After reading numerous articles and threads, the best choice of snails in a reef tank is still uknown to me so I thought I would get everyone's opinions. I currently only have stomatella snails in the tank but would like to get something which will take care of diatoms and various other thin algae films that develop on the glass. I have 12 Nerite snails coming from Premium Aquatics, but am certainly open to other suggestions.
Astreas and Ceirth are good choices. The big Mexican Turbos (I think) are good as well, but can be bulldozers and knock stuff over.
Hi Eric, I have cerith and nassarius snails (as well as some other that were hitchhikers). The cerith are always on the glass cleaning algae, while the large nassarius live in the sand and the small ones are either in the sand or on the glass. Together they seem to do a pretty good job.
I like the Nassarius snails because they bury in the sand and do a good job at keeping the upper layer stirred up. They cruise the glass usually after lights out. Plus, it's fun to watch them rise from the sand when you feed.
Cerith are good grazers and generally seem to stay on the glass, but sometime cruise the rocks as well.
Astreas spend alot of time on the rocks but cruise the glass too and they seem to have hearty appetites.
If the Mexican Turbos didn't knock stuff over so much, I would say there better than the astreas. They mow down hair algea (hit or miss) like there is no tomorrow.
Fighting conches are nice to as they bury in the sand also and stay on the sandbed and clean it. Never really seen them on the rocks or glass.
Crabs, hmmmmm, they like to kill things (other crabs and snails) but they are always picking away at the rocks. To the point where all the death and carnage is worth it, I don't know.
Tigertail Cucumbers are good to IMO. They don't come out during the day (atleast ours doesn't) but at night it is cruising the sand bed cleaning it up.
Bumble bee snails, waste of money IMO. They seem to die off faster than any of snail. They go all over, but i've spending the money, they gotta last.
These are just the ones that we have used and my thoughts on those.
Anyone have any experience with Nerites?
I will add that bumblebee snails are a waste. The die easily, the get covered in corraline and lose their "cool-looking" factor, and they are known to attack/kill other snails in the same tank.
Nassarius/Illynassaria sp.: good detritivores, eat dead stuff as well as uneaten food. The Illynassarias I have kept even eat some algae and diatom if they are hard up.
Stomatella: Mostly graze the rock, very rapid movers so they tend to survive crab assaults better than some others do. Good grazers, one of the best IMO. Reproduce well in the aquarium but population will stabilize with food available.
IPSF "Strombus" grazers: Got some of these from TOS and they are great. Tend to stick to cleaning the glass but are constantly working at it. Reproduce easily in the aquarium.
Inland Aquatics "Trocus" grazers: nocturnal, seem to need a lot of food or are just delicate. I only have 1 or 2 of an original 6 purchased last fall.
Colonistas: These are the tiny little "mini turbos" that Ron Shimek from RC raves about. They are great little snails, very hardy (they hitchike in on live rock) and they will reproduce readily. Mostly nocturnal rock grazers. Hard to find outside of other hobbyists and/or getting them in on your rock.
Mexican Turbos, Mexican Ceriths, California Red Foot Turbos, Bqaja Astreas or Turbans etc (any snail from Baja or California): Not a good long term solution. These guys typically dont last long b/c their home waters are quite cool...usually in the 60s or very low 70s, not 78 plus. The elevated heat seems to kill them all within 2-5 months IME. As noted above, they also eat a lot so you will need to supplement them if the mainstay of the algae goes away. Plus many of these critters have a super-strong foot and can pry even well-established frags off in their travels.
Carribean Astreas: these get big too (up to 3") and can become a problem like turbos however their growth is very slow in the aquarium so if you get small ones, they should be ok for a long time. Very active, day and night.
I dont have much experience with abalones except the California ones. These are giant coldwater snails so I would stay away. I dont know if the ones in the trade are the same species/source or if they are tropical. Anyone ever have one?
I used to have a great keyhole limpet that hh in on my live rock. I know that some folks have had them eat softies but this one seemed to behave. Died after a year or so for unknown reasons.
Bumble Bees: I have had three in my reef for years, as Eric said they are not really grazers but carnivores so likely that they are eating other snails in the tank. I have had them so long, I dont want to part with them.
Turbos: I'd follow Eric. Good algae eaters, I had to get a couple to finish off the last of some algae I had as the other's wouldn't do it ... but bulldozers and I moved them to another tank.
Astreas ... great with a barebottom, not always good at righting themselves with substrate. Bump stuff around when larger, but take a while to get there and IMO a bit less problematic than turbos.
Ceriths ... like them. As stated above.
Margaritas, Nerites ... never lasted very long for me.
Trochus, only had a few but they seem quite good too.
Stomatellas do seem to be eaten by Emeralds ... but along with IPSF's strombus grazers great little snails that reproduce well.
Nassarius, while neat I guess I'm not really in love with them. Do consume leftover food, but I have little doubt that wouldn't get eaten anyway [IMO].
Re: Emerald crabs ... Having had bubble algae problems, I found Emeralds to be darn useful in that regard. They're not really the greatest reef inhabitants, as they do seem to eat stomatellas and other small easy to catch creatures that we also want in our tank. I'm ready to be done with mine though I found them indispensible for a whille.
I read your posting about snails. I have various snails in my tank including cerite, margarite, turbo, nassarious, etc, Among them, I'd say the hardiest is the Mexican turbo. My aquarium once boiled to 120F with a heater problem. All my inverts died except the turbo snails and the redleg hermits. And the most aggresive of them all is the nassarious. I've witnessed my dwarf blue hermit crab being eating by them while they are in the process of switching shells (though I saved the poor little thing). So if you have little crustacians you don't want to loose, you better keep an eye on the nassarius.


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Heimir Hallgrímsson (* 10. června 1967 Vestmannaeyjar) je islandský fotbalista a trenér, vzděláním stomatolog. Na pozici obránce hrál nejvyšší islandskou soutěž za Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja, později v klubu působil jako trenér mužských a ženských týmů. V roce 2011 byl jmenován asistentem švédského trenéra islandské fotbalové reprezentace Larse Lagerbäcka, od roku 2013 tvořili Heimir a Lagerbäck dvojici hlavních trenérů a podařilo se jim dovést islandskou reprezentaci do čtvrtfinále mistrovství Evropy ve fotbale 2016. Po odchodu Lagerbäcka k norské reprezentaci vedl národní tým sám, nadále však příležitostně provozoval zubařskou praxi v rodném Vestmanneyjaru. Trénoval svůj tým na mistrovství světa ve fotbale 2018, což byla historicky první účast Islanďanů v závěrečné fázi světového šampionátu. Po mistrovství odstoupil a nahradil ho Švéd Erik Hamrén.

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" Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain! "
This post is dedicated to @iconic88 who believes in the same positive outlook in life, as I do.
Life's good because we choose to make it so.
I thank him for inviting me to post at his blog. I also thank him for dancing with all of us, be it in the sunshine or the rain, in twitterverse.
I also give thanks to Blair, @flipbooks, who brought this video to my attention.
Any day I'm vertical is a good day... that's what I always say.And I give thanks for my health.
If you ask me How are you'?, I'll answer 'Great!' because, in saying so, I make it so. And I give thanks I can choose my attitude.
When Life brings fog, I hug my sweater around me & give thanks for the cool shroud of mystery that makes the familiar seem different and intriguing.
Life's events and experiences are like the weather - they come & go, no matter what my preference.
So, what the heck?! I might as well decide to enjoy them.


In the ACT an incredibly large and difficult bushfire fire started on the 8th January 1983 in the Gudgenby area. The cause of the fire is unknown, with poor visibility on the morning of 9 January contributing to the delayed detection of the fire. Most of the fire's damage occurred in the first 24 hours and sadly, when the fire was located it had burnt 400 hectares and was spreading rapidly.
As the fire crossed dense bush and rugged terrain, it was incredibly difficult for fire fighters to access. This resulted in the fire continuing and causing additional suppression problems when the weather conditions again worsened. Despite the best efforts of firefighters and volunteers, the fire continued to burn for 22 days in rugged terrain before being contained on 30 January.
Although the fire burnt 360 square kilometers - there was no loss of human life or substantial economic loss so it is not regarded as a "disaster fire".


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Home › American Entertainment › Streaming › Paramount Plus › Paramount+ Subscribers Skyrocket in Q1: See the Numbers
Paramount+ Subscribers Skyrocket in Q1: See the Numbers
by Leanne Stahulak May 3, 2022
written by Leanne Stahulak May 3, 2022 9:54 am
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Just one year after its launch, Paramount+ boasts 39.6 million subscribers, a total that increased by about 21% from 2022's Q1 alone.
According to Variety, Paramount+ gained 6.8 million subscribers for Q1. When combined with Showtime, Paramount's only other subscribed streaming service, that equals more than 62 million combined subscribers so far this year.
At the end of 2021, in Q4, the two streaming services boasted only 56 million. And Paramount+ accounted for 80% of the new subscribers. Showtime, meanwhile, lost customers as "other DTC services subscribers declined, primarily due to timing of new programming."
"Domestically, Paramount+ saw strong engagement and consumption from a variety of content, including 'Halo,' '1883,' 'Star Trek Picard,' live events, and the NFL," Paramount Global said in a statement. "Internationally, 'Acapulco Shore' was a top acquisition and engagement driver for the service."
All of these programs debuted in the last four months or so, accounting for the rise in subscribers.
The Paramount parent company also saw gains in Pluto TV, its free, ad-supported, video-on-demand platform. In Q1, PlutoTV's monthly active users (MAUs) increased to 68 million. That's a 6% increase from 2021's Q4 and a 26% increase from Q3.
Paramount reports that streaming revenue increased by 82% in Q1 while subscriber revenue increased by 95%. This "reflects paid subscriber growth on Paramount+," per the company. With ad sales increasing by 59%, this reportedly reflects "growth from Pluto TV and Paramount+ driven by increased pricing and impressions on both services."
And yet, profits overall fell for Paramount Global this quarter.
Paramount President and CEO Talks Plans for Future
While profits fell, Paramount still made headway with its streaming services. To reflect that progress, the company decided that its global streaming subscriber goal would increase from 65-75 million by the end of 2024 to more than 100 million. That's a little less than three years to increase subscribers by more than 61%.
But Paramount president and CEO Bob Bakish remains optimistic. "The first quarter once again demonstrated the power and potential of Paramount's unique assets and the company's continued momentum," Bakish said in a statement.
"Our differentiated playbook – including a broad content line up, a streaming business model that spans ad-supported and subscription, and a global portfolio that links streaming with theatrical and television – drove strength across our entire ecosystem," he continued.
"Including DTC revenue growth of 82% and 6.8 million Paramount+ subscriber additions. Our strategy is working and our execution is strong," Bakish concluded. "As we remain focused on delivering a great experience for consumers and a compelling financial model to our shareholders."
Keep an eye out for more updates on Paramount+ and its progress this year.


I wake up at 11:45 pm, 1:20, 2:55, and 3:39 a.m. Each time as I read the numbers, I beg for the clock to race to 5 a.m.
I am here again, traveling along the same flat road, watching the tall green maples and oaks turn to scrubby, smaller bush and pine. What is it about my primordial need to return to the ocean – the Atlantic Ocean – every year?
As I breathe in the hot humid New Jersey air, a mixture of dirt, gas, grass, asphalt and salt water, I wonder if it's just a childhood memory that needs to be rewritten and retold yearly. After all, as a child . . .
I'm going to make a confession right here, in cyber space, where all can read and perhaps laugh at me, or maybe, worse, feel a bit sorry for me.
I have never raced over a speed bump.
My son-in-law (Sil) offers to pick me up in front of my hotel in Boston at 7:15 a.m. to drive me to his law office 8 minutes away. He promises that I can then drive his new Lexus hybrid to the suburbs 40 minutes west, where his wife (my daughter) and kiddies live.
He texts me 10 minutes before he arrives so I'll have time to hop on the hotel's busy elevator and meet him outside the lobby doors. I wear my black jogging pants and a long-sleeved yellow sweatshirt, so bright it can burn eyes, like looking at the sun too long. I don't want him to miss me.
I'm thinking he wants to see how well his mother-in-law handles his precious car.
But Sil is staring intently at a man walking by, in his 50s, professional-looking, suited for business. "Hello Judge," Sil shouts out, friendly-like.
Poor Sil's face loses color – he never knows what to expect from me.
The Judge smiles, shakes Sil's hand, and departs.
Happy Birthday to my Wonderful, Karmic, Generous and Kind Son-in-Law!
Back when I was still living in New England and my boy was a senior in college, we decided on a road trip. I had high hopes of mother/son time, but the drive began in silence.
As I maneuvered in the harsh steady rain, my 21-year-old breathed slowly and steadily, sound asleep as the car whipped through the Connecticut highway puddles. We were on our way to Delaware, a 7-hour drive in good weather, to visit my father, Sean's grandfather. I had been amazed when Sean offered to lose a weekend at college, one of the last few remaining ones before he graduated in a month. When I picked him up from his Boston campus at 10 a.m., the rain began to plop plop plop. Sean had always been a sucker for the rhythmic motion of a rainstorm. It put him to sleep when he was a child, and here he was, no longer a boy, sandpaper fuzz on his face because he'd been up all night finishing a paper, head tilted sideways in a posture of child-like vulnerability, mouth open, eyes closed to dreams I'd never know.
Every week I'd call Sean when he was in school, conversation difficult because the background noise was always deafening. I could just see those randy young men skidding down the fraternity house hallways like half grown pups, drinking, laughing, shouting at the top of their throats just because they could. Sean must do that to, but at home, he was always just quiet. When he offered to drive with me to Pop Pop's, my first thought was "ah ha! I'll have him all to myself. Now he'll talk!" But instead, he was snoring, and I was holding myself as stiff as a board, hovered over the steering wheel like an old woman protecting a treasure, trying to see at least four feet in front of me as we raced 60 miles per hour in the messy storm.
An hour later, the rain lightened up, and as if on signal, Sean yawned and stretched and looked out the window. "Oh, this isn't too bad," he said, and I would have strangled him except my two hands were clenched on either side of the wheel.
"What have we got here?" Sean asked as he turned to the back seat and inspected the cooler I had wisely brought along. Not only had I stocked it with casseroles and a cake for my dad, but also sandwiches and drinks for our lunch on the drive down. "Wow Mom, you're awesome," he said as he brought out a ham and Swiss cheese sub and two diet cokes.
"Hmmmmm," I replied a little more lightheartedly. I surfed through the radio stations, trying to find some music that we both would like.
"Wait, I have a better idea," he said, and he reached in his backpack and pulled out his portable CD collection. Oh no, I moaned to myself. With my luck, it would be rap or some avant-garde music that I'd absolutely hate. I never could determine Sean's music taste. One minute he listened to Beethoven, the next minute to Eminem. The music began. Classic Beatles – the HELP CD. I looked at him sharply.
"You listen to this at college?" I asked as we laughed with the last note.
"Yeah, and it will help you out. I didn't want you driving down here by yourself. And it gives us time to talk. We never have time to just talk, you know? I'm too busy with school, you're busy with your work and writing and stuff. I'm worried. What if I don't find a job? What if I have to come home? I'll die….
He went on and on. And on. I listened to the Beatles, listened to my son talk like he was 8 again, and felt renewed as a mom, renewed as a friend to my growing up son. The sun suddenly burst through the clouds, and my eyes got a little wet.
"Just need my sunglasses," I lied. And then I listened some more.


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Le Sanctuaire des singes de Drabo Gbo est une forêt aménagée sur une superficie de 14 hectares par Peter Neuenschwander, ancien directeur de International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, propriétaire et responsable de la réhabilitation de ce site depuis 2007.

Histoire
Le sanctuaire a été fondé en 1995. Ce sanctuaire est situé dans le village Drabo Gbo, dans la commune d'Abomey-Calavi au Bénin et

Collections
On y trouve une flore et une faune diversifiées dont entre autres:
des singes à ventre rouge (Cercopithecus erythrogaster ) habitués à la présence humaine. C'est l'espèce de primates la plus menacée du Bénin ;
des espèces de plantes médicinales pour la médecine traditionnelle africaine ;
une diversité de poissons en aquariums.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 « Sanctuaire des Singes, Drabo Gbo, IITA-Benin », in Peter Neuenschwander, Deni Bown, Georges C. Hèdégbètan, Aristide Adomou, « Long-term conservation and rehabilitation of threatened rain forest patches under different human population pressures in West Africa », Nature Conservation, , 2015, ,  (contient la liste des espèces présentes dans le sanctuaire)
  Peter Neuenschwander, Aristide C. Adomou, « Reconstituting a rainforest patch in southern Benin for the protection of threatened plants », in Nature Conservation, , 2017, ,

Atlantique
Parc ou jardin public au Bénin
Espace pour la vie
Musée au Bénin
Patrimoine immatériel nécessitant une sauvegarde urgente


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Церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы — православный храм в селе Аликово в Чувашии. Относится к Чебоксарской епархии Русской православной церкви.

Настоятель — отец Виктор.

История
В Аликовской волости Ядринского уезда числилось 34 деревни. Проживало в них 7900 душ: 3917 мужеского, 3983 женского полу. В 1782 году на пожертвования прихожан открыли деревянную церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы. Количество приходских поселений было 18: Синерь, Тогачь, Азамат, Янгорас, Видесючь, Урмаево, Изванка, Илгышево, Ойкасы, Кораккасы, Таутово, Ходяково, Хирлеппоси, Торопкасы, Павлушкино, Яргунькино, Чердак, Хоравары. В приходе в то время считалось 1047 дворов, мужчин было 3007, женщин 2968.

Аликовская церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы была основана в августе 1744 года. Тогда это было деревянное здание в центре селения Аликово.
После открытия церкви императрица Елизавета Петровна даровала храму книгу «Полная триода и церковный устав», напечатанную в 1745 году, со следующей записью«Сия книга изготовлена типографией, а по приказу Преосвященного Дмитрия Епископа Нижегородского и Алатырского, Казанского отдана из духовной Его Преосвященства Консистории безденежно декабря 3 дня 1747 года Курмышского новокрещенского села Успенского, Аликова тож, к новостроенной у новокрещеннов церкви»
Дарованная книга не сохранилась, однако текст письма Елизаветы Петровны приведён в сборнике «Нижегородский губернский учетный архив», 1898 (хранится в Чувашском государственном историческом архиве).

В 1755 году для Аликовской церкви из Ядрина привезли 2 колокола весом по 10 пудов.

Из исторических документов известно, что служившие в 1774 году священники были убиты участниками крестьянского восстания Емельяна Пугачева.

А в 1782 году для прихожан Аликовского прихода было построено новое деревянное здание церкви. А в 1901 году на средства прихожан заново строится деревянное здание церкви. Церковь двухпрестольная: Успения Божьей Матери, Св. Иоанна Богослова.

В начале 1930 года в России начинают безжалостно закрывать храмы. В 1936 году во время сильного урагана вся верхняя часть церкви вместе с колоколами упала на землю. После ремонта в здании церкви открыли районный Дом культуры.

В 1991 году по настоянию прихожан села Аликово и окрестных селений в августе этого года церковные богослужения возобновились в молитвенном доме.

26 августа 2015 года была в присутствии прихожан митрополит Чувашский Варнава торжественно провёл утреннее богослужение в новом храме. Деревянное строение церкви украсило село, его строили всем миром. Посильную финансовую помощь оказывали сельские поселения, школы, различные организации, прихожане и простые жители, причем не только Аликовского района.

Церковно-приходская школа
Церковно-приходская школа села Аликово открыта в 1845 году («Краткий отчёт о состоянии церковно-приходских школ и школ грамоты Казанской губернии»). Эта школа раньше работала в селе Норусово, (ныне село Калинино Вурнарского района ЧР). В 1854 году данная школа перевозится в село Аликово и переименовывается в Церковно-приходское училище села Аликово Ядринского уезда Казанской губернии.

См. также
 Раскильдинская церковь Рождества Богородицы
 Православные храмы в Аликовском районе
 Православные храмы в Чебоксарско-Чувашской епархии

Примечания

Ссылки
 Православные отмечают Успение Пресвятой Богородицы
 Православные чуваши отмечают праздник Успения Богородицы
 Православные чуваши отмечают праздник Успения Богородицы
 Аликовская церковь Успения Пресвятой Богородицы
 Церковь Успения Божьей Матери

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Home Meditations Let's Start With the Right Diagnosis
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Let's Start With the Right Diagnosis
written by Martin LeFevre 2021/08/05
Every competent doctor knows that in order to treat a disease or malady, there has to be an accurate diagnosis. However 'thought leaders' aren't even beginning to give an accurate diagnosis, much less effective prescription for the human crisis.
All conscious people are aware of the growing human crisis, manifesting as the climate catastrophe and the Covid calamity, among numerous other global challenges.
But technology, the Internet and/or institutions — not humans ourselves — are seen as the problem. So one reads silly questions such as, "What if humanity's capacity to cooperate has been undone by the very technology we thought would bring us all together?"
Such questions flow from the false premise that "at the broadest level, human history is a story about cooperation." In this worldview, our purported gift of cooperation has allegedly led humankind to go "from the family to the village to the city, nation-state and global mega-corporation."
As if that's progress. The increasing complexity and population of the world doesn't attest to anything except an increasing sophistication of technology, allowing a growing number of humans to overrun the earth's carrying capacity in our discordant relationship with the earth.
As a species we humans have always been divided among ourselves as groups, and alienated from nature as a species. Tribalism is not just an atavistic orientation wrought by 21st century politics and the Internet, but a defining characteristic of human nature.
Therefore it's absurd to ask, "What if we've hit the limit of our capacity to get along?" Our vaunted cooperation has been based on tribalistic/nationalistic identification where groups are concerned, and the greed/profit motive where economics is concerned. The earth is defining the limits of such so-called human cooperation, as the Sixth Extinction and the intensifying climate crisis attest.
What about pre-history? Didn't humans live in harmony with the earth before the Agricultural Revolution? Due to primitive technology, a relatively harmonious relationship between humans and nature existed in indigenous times. The daily struggle of prehistoric peoples to survive, and the brevity of the human lifespan belie the fashion of romanticizing "indigenous wisdom" in prehistoric times.
Besides, even prehistoric human hunters, using only spears and atlatls, were able to drive the megafauna of North America to extinction. And despite the present fad of idealizing Neanderthals and other human species that briefly co-existed with 'fully modern humans,' they were all driven to extinction as well, whether through conflict or out-competing them for the same resources.
What little intermingling between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis that did occur does not deny the fact that the last holdouts of Neanderthals died out in caves around Gibraltar on the Iberian Peninsula.
So it's ridiculous to blame technology, including the Internet, for man's "sour and fragmented global polity." Blaming the Internet is like blaming the printing press when it was invented.
The caveat that "the internet didn't start the fire" but has greatly fostered it, and "undermined our greatest trick, doing good things together," is a woefully superficial diagnosis of the human crisis. The malady, and the right diagnosis, is much deeper and older.
Nearly everyone who uses the term 'human nature' sees humans as unchangeable as the orbit of the moon around the earth. But the moon's orbit is slowly drifting away from the earth, and human nature is rapidly making this beautiful planet uninhabitable.
It's true that psychologically, at our core, people have remained basically unchanged since fully modern humans emerged about 100,000 years ago with the Cognitive Revolution. The basic psychological sameness over eons is what most people mean, whether they realize it or not, when they glibly refer to human nature.
The Cognitive Revolution was an exaptation of a pre-existing but latent neural capacity in early Homo sapiens that spread very quickly though our species. That's because though it was a transmutation, it was culturally released.
If we were able to bring a baby from Africa, Europe or Asia a few hundred years after the Cognitive Revolution occurred into the present, that baby would be capable of what any average baby is today. But if we were to go back even a few hundred years before the Cognitive Revolution occurred, the human baby would not have the intellectual capacity of an average child born anywhere in the world today.
If we are to survive and thrive as a species now, rather than as a prematurely identified intelligent species, human nature has to change. That requires a conscious transmutation, beginning in the individual and small groups of people.
This will give rise, in our age, or in some future age if Homo sapiens survives, to an Insight Revolution. And that means that Homo sapiens sapiens (a doubly ironic nomenclature, since 'sapiens' means 'wise') will make the leap from living in terms of separation and alienation, thought and time, to a foundation of stillness, being, wholeness and timelessness.
The self is separation; and separation, not cooperation, is the core psychological trait of humans as we have been for tens of thousands of years.
The fragmentation of the human adaptive pattern of separativeness, mistakenly carried over to the psychological dimension since the beginning of man, has driven the earth to the limit of ecological viability. Consequently we are now facing, in the present age, the limits of man's separativeness and self-centeredness.
The psychological, emotional and spiritual challenge in the present age is greater than humans have ever faced. The jury is still out on whether enough of us are up to it.
Martin LeFevre
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But it wasn't until Dec. 19, 1972, he says, that he visited the Church of the Living God in Brooksville and had a conversion experience. "I wasn't in any church at that time," said Brown, a Florida native who was a math teacher at Hernando High School at that time. "One of my nieces invited me to attend during a week of prayer. I complied, and, boom, it happened. I received the Lord into my life as my personal savior and was baptized in the Holy Spirit. From that point, I've been living for him."
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After breaking her younger sister's violin, a Japanese woman travels to Italy – to Cremona, home of the Stradivarius on the Po River – to have it repaired. The premise is unlikely, but just as well for a very strange film: Sasaki Shoichiro's Kawa no Nagare wa Baiorin no Oto (translated roughly as The Flow of the River, the Sound of a Violin), released as an NHK television movie in 1981.
Strange, too, is Kawa no Nagare's protagonist, portrayed hypnotically by Nakao Sachiyo, who wanders through a series of poetic episodes as if in a state of pantheistic rapture – like a butoh dancer or someone on an acid trip. She is known as A-ko, "ko" being a diminutive attached to Japanese girls' names. It is an elision to parallel those found in the novels of Franz Kafka or Abe Kobo – as would be in keeping with the film's symbolic imagery and emphasis of in-between states.
Almost everything in Kawa no Nagare is centred tightly around an apparent Freudian tension between life and death motivations. For example, A-ko enters a friend's apartment to find a pistol on his desk. She picks it up, examines it, puts it down, and we never see it again for the rest of the film. In a wooded area, hunters pursue her, firing their guns. She runs, then crouches to the ground. When the hunters find her they are glad she is still alive, uninjured – they thought they had seen an animal. By chance, A-ko reaches the scene of a car accident not long after it has happened. Also by chance, she appears in a newspaper photo of the accident in which, we learn, another young woman has died. Later, in a city street, a man chases after her. She runs to get away, but it turns out he only wants to return her passport, which she dropped. They walk together for a while. A-ko encounters a violinist, and asks if she can touch his violin. He holds it out to her. In a state of what looks like ecstasy – even sexual ecstasy – she traces the shape of its head with her fingers. The violinist returns the instrument to a box. At a regular pace, A-ko encounters situations in which there is potential for the consummation of violence or sexual intercourse. Neither happens, and at the end of the film A-ko remarks only, "I wonder where I will go next?" In its emphasis on forward and backward motion and circularity, Kawa no Nagare is a depiction of the absurd – not in a pejorative or comedic sense, but as repetition and process: A-ko even draws a river map in which the water seems to circulate back to its source.
Notable, too, is the film's treatment of foreign travel. A-ko enters a world that is foreign in both nation and gender: she is in Italy, almost exclusively in the company of men. As would be expected in a travel documentary (of sorts), the host environment is strange or exotic – but so is its guest. A-ko's response to this new world is pantheistic and rapturous, in no way mundane. In strangeness, the host and the guest are equal, and perhaps for this reason receive one another with mutual respect: Kawa no Nagare emphasizes the trust, usually well placed, one puts in strangers when travelling in a foreign land – a statement echoed in some way by Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep – which is, to be sure, a very different kind of film.
In any event, Kawa no Nagare, despite perhaps being cheapened by the "made for TV" label, should be equally regarded among other strange and magical films such as The White Meadows (Rasoulof), Stalker (Tarkovsky), Death in the Country (Terayama), The Road (Omirbaev), or Three Days (Bartas). Such films downplay dialogue, favouring images and analogies as a source of meaning. This applies also to Kawa no Nagare, which can be enjoyed and understood even if one does not speak the languages of its script.