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How to use Instagram to keep an incumbent on its heels
23 Jul How to use Instagram to keep an incumbent on its heels
Posted at 12:05h in Blog by Khe Hy
There's an exhibit of a porcelain urinal at the Tate Modern that sends many people into a Kerfuffle. "I could do that," they argue and for further emphasis they add that there was nothing preventing them from creating Warhol's Campbell Soup Cans. Incensed, they grab the closest salt shaker at the table and declare "I should put this in a museum and become a millionaire!"
Pray to the porcelain gods
I used to be one of those haters. It took me a while to realize that while I could submit a urinal to a museum – I didn't. And that's really all that matters. Whether it's art or entrepreneurship an unbirthed idea has no value.
You had me at Instagram
So imagine what this person would say about the Instagram account @Houseofhighlights. As goes the name, this four year old account (started by then-19 year old Omar Raja) posts daily sports highlights.
The highlights are mostly VCR-quality videos of your standard NBA fare: ankle breaking crossover dribbles, posterizing dunks with a sprinkle of the other major sports and user submitted videos (like a lion playing tug-of-war with some humans). And while the captions ooze with witty cultural references du jour, I could see someone pointing to a porcelain urinal saying "C'mon, man!"
But that would be grossly misguided. House of Highlights has as many followers (10 million) as the main ESPN Instagram account – yup, the media company that practically invented the sports highlight.
It's Millennial Sportscenter. In fact, it's even better. Spend some time on the account and you'll see LeBron James wish Odell Beckham Jr. a Happy Thanksgiving, while behind the scenes, NBA stars lobby Raja to feature their dunks on the account.
It's incredible that a college kid with an iPhone can out-ESPN, ESPN. House of Highlights is a fascinating case study on the dwindling power of gatekeepers and the intersection of passion and business. And a beautiful reminder that every one of us is a creator.
Start with a personal pain point
Raja was a die hard Miami Heat fan, dating back to the early days of the Dwayne Wade era. On J.J. Reddick's podcast, he describes how he cut his teeth as a teen creating YouTube videos simulating basketball plays on the video game NBA2k since he didn't have the basketball rights.
In 2014 when Miami failed to re-sign LeBron, a nostalgic Raja scoured the Internet for video clips from the team's epic run. Not just the dunks, but the "funny interaction between two players on the court during a timeout, or an athlete making a funny face into the camera" – the type of moments you'd share on a group text with your friends. Fast Company's Cale Weissman described each clip as "convivial moments – funny, relatable" and a reminder that athletes are human too.
A secret Instagram growth playbook?
Fast forward to today and the metrics for House of Highlights would make any media company salivate. Crowdtangle, the social media analytics firm reports that the account gets over 600 mm video views per month and higher engagement than the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kim Kardashian.
For the rest of us mere mortals trying to grow a following, you'd be disappointed to learn Raja's secret sauce is actually pretty straightforward. For starters, he never spammed his Instagram feed with a bazillion hashtags. The secret to creating your own luck: consistency. For four straight years, he's posted ten clips a day manning the account almost exclusively by himself. He uses a simple litmus test: would I want to see this video in my feed? It sounds basic, but think about what Instagram would look like if more people adopted that metric.
But let's assume that consistency is table stakes. What makes House of Highlights special is the encyclopedic sports memory and his ability to empathize with his followers. On Recode's Too Embarrassed to Ask podcast Raja described how he covered LeBron's signing with the LA Lakers:
[You start with LeBron in a Lakers jersey. Then Kobe and LeBron.] Then you do different reactions. Cleveland's going to have a reaction to it. [So are LA fans.] Different people in the Western Conference. I'm tying to put myself in their shoes and make videos that try to represent what they're reacting to.
In the world of blogging and social media, it's tempting to go for the high-volume-overwhelm-the-reader-approach (I 👀 you Soundcloud rap). And while that may have worked in the early days, readers are now too discerning, and frankly, have too many options to stick around for noise. But that leads to a tremendous opening for those with an empathetic and authentic voice.
An Instagram business?
Jay Z rapped "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business man" in Kanye's Diamonds from Sierra Leone Remix. And three years into House of Highlights' nascent history, Bar Stool Sports an up-and-comer to ESPN (and part of Turner Broadcasting) acquired the account (and Raja) for an undisclosed amount. A win for all of us out there trying to create businesses centered around our passions.
Passion + business = bliss (Not so fast)
But hold your horses. With traction comes responsibility, and House of Highlights followers now expect Raja to break news. It doesn't get bigger than LeBron announcing he was joining the Lakers. Two minutes later Raja had put up the first post, no small feat considering that James' timing took most my surprise. Raja described to Recode's Kurt Wagner that the grind of maintaining the account (and the lack of a day off in four years):
I post in movie theaters, lunches, dinners. If I'm going to be in a movie theater at eight o'clock, then it's tough. I've literally cut up clips in a movie before. So I [usually] have the computer where I'm actively cutting [clips]. Then there's a TV where you can watch like four games on one TV, and I have another TV [for more games]. So it's like six games at once.
Lauren Imparato left Wall Street to follow her passion and create the wellness brand ReTox. On the Rad Awakenings podcast, she warns that "And once you turn your passion into your career, your passion is no longer your passion in the same way again, it is now a totally different beast, it may or may not be ever the same again."
The illustrator (and a totally different kind of Instagram sensation) Mari Andrew put it even more succinctly:
I've hit the career jackpot but it's still very much work (and most of it pretty boring). People in creative professions haven't magically evolved past the concept of labor, nor should that be an aspiration, I don't think
A post shared by Mari Andrew (@bymariandrew) on Jul 23, 2018 at 5:27am PDT
Just start
I'm in awe of the fact that we live in a world where everyone can create beautiful things. The bulky infrastructure of editing video and audio has been abstracted away on our phones. All we need is the creative momentum to get started. And maybe – just maybe – passion can get you across the finish line.
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On shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked—but how? Courting danger in the opium dens and brothels of the waterfront, certain that The Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem and Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark and terrible mystery.
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The Peachgrowers Almanac is a dazzling debut. Tongue-in-cheek and inventive, comic and horrifying, it illuminates the dark heart of Victorian hypocrisy and selfishness, yet at the same time is engaging, very funny and utterly unputdownable.
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Monty and Ada are old friends. They worked together on the frontline in Belgium where Monty was a nurse and Ada drove ambulances – like the devil. And now, Bleakly Hall Hydropathic has brought them together again.
Monty has just arrived to look after the gouty residents – there to take the Hall's curative waters via nozzle, douche and jet – and Ada is the maid and driver. For all those at Bleakly, the end of the Great War has brought changes. Not all of them good.
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Q: App crashing instead of showing toast of empty EditText If user enters nothing and click on the ok button, the app should show a toast of enter something. But when I start app and click on the ok button without entering, the app crashes showing this error:
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656): Process: com.example.mybalancesheet, PID: 1656
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method for android:onClick
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(AppCompatViewInflater.java:293)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4438)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:18422)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(AppCompatViewInflater.java:288)
09-30 05:06:59.099: E/AndroidRuntime(1656):     ... 11 more

The more confusing thing is that I have a clear all button which resets everything to beginning. Now if I click on the button at this time without entering anything then it shows toast.
I am not able to understand why. First time click on input in EditText:

After click in clear all:

One more thing, if I try to enter something after clear all,  then again the app crashes when click on ok button.
Code:
package com.example.mybalancesheet;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
TextView tv,tv1;
EditText ed;
String str;
Button bt,btNew;
int amount;

static int c;
String prefs="myPrefs";
String Salaryflag="mySalary";
SharedPreferences sp;
Cursor curs;
String err="";
int saly;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        ed=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.edEnteredSal);
        tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvSal);
        tv1=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textVProm);
        bt=(Button)findViewById(R.id.buttOk);
        btNew=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button2);
         sp=getSharedPreferences(prefs,Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        c=sp.getInt(Salaryflag, 0);
         str=Integer.toString(c);

        tv.setText(str);

         ItemsDataBase xyx=new ItemsDataBase(this);
            xyx.open();
            int lola;
            lola=xyx.getSum();

            xyx.close();
            c=c-lola;
             str=Integer.toString(c);
            tv.setText(str);

    }
    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
         super.onResume();
         sp=getSharedPreferences(prefs,Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
            c=sp.getInt(Salaryflag, 0);
             str=Integer.toString(c);
             ItemsDataBase xyx=new ItemsDataBase(this);
                xyx.open();
                int lola;
                lola=xyx.getSum();

                xyx.close();
                c=c-lola;
                 str=Integer.toString(c);
                tv.setText(str);

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            Intent i=new Intent(MainActivity.this,SqlView.class);
            startActivity(i);

            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    public void salaryEntered(View v){

        String sal=ed.getText().toString();

    if(sal.contentEquals(" ")){
        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Put salary here: Don't leave it empty ", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }else{

         saly=Integer.parseInt(sal);
         sp=getSharedPreferences(prefs,Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
            Editor ed1=sp.edit();
            ed1.putInt(Salaryflag, saly);
            ed1.commit();
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Salary Saved", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
             c=sp.getInt(Salaryflag, 0);
             str=Integer.toString(c);

            tv.setText(str);
            ed.setText(" ");
            ed.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            tv1.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            bt.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    }

    }
    public void goTo(View v){
        Intent i=new Intent(this,EnteredData.class);
        startActivity(i);

    }
    public void clear(View v){

        boolean worked=false;
        try{

            ItemsDataBase xyx=new ItemsDataBase(this);
            xyx.open();
            xyx.delete();
            xyx.close();
             sp=getSharedPreferences(prefs,Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
             sp.edit().remove(Salaryflag).commit();
                tv.setText("0");

                worked=true;

        }catch(Exception e){
            worked=false;
             err=e.toString();

        }finally{
            if(worked==true){
                Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Data is deleted completely !", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }else if(worked==false){
                 Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Error: "+err,Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
            }

            btNew.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
            ed.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            tv1.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            bt.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

        }

    }
}

This error is shown when I click on empty edittext :
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741): Process: com.example.mybalancesheet, PID: 1741
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not execute method for android:onClick
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(AppCompatViewInflater.java:293)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4438)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:18422)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741): Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatViewInflater$DeclaredOnClickListener.onClick(AppCompatViewInflater.java:288)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     ... 11 more
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741): Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid int: ""
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.Integer.invalidInt(Integer.java:137)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:358)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:331)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     at com.example.mybalancesheet.MainActivity.salaryEntered(MainActivity.java:116)
09-30 05:10:37.069: E/AndroidRuntime(1741):     ... 14 more

My xml file :
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textVProm"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Enter ur Salary"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edEnteredSal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="number" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/buttOk"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:onClick="salaryEntered"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="OK" />
 <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvSal"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="34dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="0"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:layout_marginTop="23dp"
        android:onClick="goTo"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="New Entry" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_gravity="center"
           android:onClick="clear"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Clear All" />

</LinearLayout>

A: Your comparization or null checker is wrong. In your salaryEntered():
if(sal.contentEquals(" ")){

You should make use of
TextUtils.isEmpty()

instead. For example, if the EditText is empty, then you use your original condition, it will look like this:
"" == " "

-- which is FALSE, which will make it go to the else block and try to parse the null value by calling
saly=Integer.parseInt(sal);

that gives the error:
Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid int: ""

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Guillaume Evrard (Lieja, 1709 - Tilleur, 1793) era un escultor en el Principado de Lieja, actualmente en Bélgica.

Después de sus estudios en Roma de 1778 a 1744, fue «el escultor de los príncipes-obispos de Lieja» según Charles Seresia quien le dedicó una monografía.  Francisco-Carlos de Velbrück lo nombró como el primer escultor de edificios y decano de la Academia de pintura, escultura y de grabado que creó en 1775. La mayoría de sus obras son monumentales.

Obra
 El mausoleo de Carlos Nicolás de Oultremont en la capilla del Castillo de Oultremont de Warner-Dreye
 San Juan Nepomuceno y Gregorio Magno en la iglesia San Denis en Lieja
 Pared de madera decorada en la iglesia San Lamberto de Soumagne
 Prometeo encadenado, bronce en el museo Curtius en Lieja
 San Sestastià en la iglesia de Awenne, un núcleo de Saint-Hubert
 En el Cabinet des Estampes (Lieja) se encuentran muchos dibujos y bocetos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Escultores de Bélgica
Escultores del Barroco
Escultores del siglo XVIII
Valones del siglo XVIII
Principado de Lieja
Historia de Lieja
Nacidos en Lieja

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So we got the sad news that author Ursula Le Guin passed away at the age of 88.
Le Guin was the only woman and the last of the SF Lions, the authors considered the most monumental, seminal voices in modern SF whose name every fan knew, along with Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. A thoughtful professor married to a professor who supported her writing, a brilliant speaker and an advocate and inspiration for numerous writers, her impressive body of work from 1962 right up until her death made her an icon. Her major best-selling fiction works like The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, Lavinia, "The Word for World is Forrest," "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," and "Vaster than Empires and More Slow," are staples of school curriculum and winners of multiple awards, including five Hugos and six Nebulas. They explore remarkably what it means to be human. Her fantasy Earthsea trilogy, written for teens, has become a core text of epic fantasy and coming of age literature. The series won a World Fantasy Award, the prestigious Newberry Honor Award and the National Book Award for Children's Literature. It was the first of many works Le Guin would write for teens and children.
Le Guin became the leading name in a literary movement of women authors eventually dubbed Feminist SF, which helped open the way for so many women writers in the SFF field, even as she took some sexist heat for exploring such themes in some of her work. She used LGBTQ characters and non-white characters in some of her works and supported authors in both of those demographics in bigger roles in SFF. Beloved by fellow academics, she gently schooled those with misconceptions about SFF literature and dismissed with polished acerbity her own editors and others' claims that her works or others transcended SFF to be literature instead of simply were literature as SFF. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She was made a Grandmaster of Science Fiction in 2003. The U.S. Library of Congress designated her one of their Living Legends.
Le Guin also wrote non-fiction on writing, SFF literature and her own career, many of which have continued to inspire and influence many fiction writers. Her last publication in 2017 was the collection of non-fiction essays No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, a fitting one to end on perhaps. She represented for so many what was possible, with intelligence, curiosity and a wonderful command of the language. She was known all over the world.
There is a word in our language that, for me, best describes her: nonpareil — someone who has no equal. That was Ursula Le Guin, and we will miss her.
When people want to know what I want as gifts, usually I say books, so this was my most recent haul. Most of these are continuations of series I've been reading, but I also got three new works, including two from authors I haven't read before.
Going from left corner top clockwise, I got the final book in Linda Nagata's military technothriller SF trilogy — Red: Going Dark; the latest (Book #6) in Diana Rowland's zombie SF mystery thriller series White Trash Zombie: White Trash Zombie Unchained; Kat Howard's first novel in her new contemporary fantasy series An Unkindness of Magicians; Jim C. Hines' new venture in comic SF — Terminal Alliance; Karina Sumner-Smith's concluding volume in her post-apocalypse secondary world fantasy trilogy — The Towers Trilogy: Towers Fall; the second in N.K. Jemisin's acclaimed apocalyptic secondary world fantasy trilogy Broken Earth: The Obelisk Gate; Fonda Lee's new novel starting a secondary world, post-industrial fantasy crime series — Jade City; Ann Leckie continuing the world of her acclaimed SF Ancillary series in a spin-off Provenance; and Chuck Wendig continuing his contemporary fantasy series with Book #4 — Miriam Black: Thunderbird.
I'm looking forward to reading through them over the next few months. The cover art on all of them is really good and quite varied in approach. There wasn't really a theme to this year's haul selection, other than a "let's kill off some of the trilogies" approach and some "oh look, a new book in the series" selections. But I did end up with a fair amount of SF and contemporary-styled fantasy titles as a result. There is a whole other queue of titles that will be the gift selections for later and that are a fairly wide range. For the two new authors, Kat Howard and Fonda Lee, both of these novels have been much talked about in fandom and both sounded interesting to me. Once I've read them all, I'll let you know what I think of them. Feel free to share any works you got for the winter solstice/new year.
We Made It to 2018!
Hello Interwebs! Welcome new Open Window Followers! I applaud your optimism, given that it has been some time since I posted anything in my blog. A lot happened this fall, in the world and for me personally. Including my house springing four different mysterious leaks and entering renovation chaos, followed by family travel and family medical emergencies. So while I managed to natter a few times on other people's blogs and at SFFWorld.com, I was pretty much MIA by the end part of the year.
I do have plans for this year and for the blog, (don't I always.) There will be a "Woman in Film" feature shortly, though I'm giving it a new name that may or may not discourage the particular kinds of spam I've been getting lately for those posts. 🙂 There will be book info. There will be a links retrospective, because I did collect links on things and articles of interest to me throughout the season regarding publishing and whatnot. There will probably be…cross-referencing. It's a big, wide open year.
Like most Americans, 2017 became kind of a bizarre year for me, a mix of good and bad, unexpected luck, troublesome misfortune and wild roving anxiety. If you told me in 2016 that I'd have to worry about a nuclear war with little prison camp North Korea, I'd have thought you were way off-base, but here we are. Not everybody made it to 2018, sadly. Those of us who did are surrounded by looting pirates who own multiple yachts. The planet is freezing one slice in the Northeast while the rest of it faces record high temperatures and natural disasters as the wild swings of climate change progress and the Southern Hemisphere goes through a sizzling summer. But it's still here, people are still moving, stories are still being told, more of them then perhaps ever before.
So we'll see if we can make it to 2019. Thanks for stopping by sometimes. It keeps me from ranting on street corners. And Happy New Year!


This Friday is the Carleton Film Society's first meeting! September 16, that's today. Circle the date on your calendar, then circle it twice. The first meeting will be an introduction of sorts. We will be introducing ourselves, what the Film Society is and does, what Ottawa offers for the movie lover in all of us and finally you'll get a chance to introduce yourself to us.
The meeting will be at 6pm in room 400 of St Patricks building.
Like any CUSA sanctioned group there is a membership fee, in our case amounts to 10 dollars.
With that 10 dollar membership you will get into all meetings and events that we put on for the entire year. As a special added bonus, you will receive a 1 dollar discount on every movie rental at the Invisible Cinema (Lisgar and Bank), the coolest movie rental place in Ottawa, where you'll find any and every film there.
If you just want to try the group out it's a 2 dollar entry fee for a single meeting.
This Friday we will be screening Badlands from the director Terrence Malick. It's a classic American crime drama starring Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen in what they have both described as the highlight of their long careers. It's also based on the same true events as Natural Born Killers, so if you're a fan (or not) of that film come and appreciate a very different take on the story.


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What Does The Game is Afoot Mean?
Home » Phrase and Idiom Dictionary » What Does The Game is Afoot Mean?
People usually say this when something exciting is happening.
This expression comes from the English playwright William Shakespeare. In his play King Henry IV, circa 1597, he first used the phrase.
This expression became more popular in the 1900s after the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used it in a popular story about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!
The literal meaning is about hunting. The game means the animal or animals that people are hunting and afoot means running or on the move.
This example shows two women discussing something exciting that is happening in their workplace.
Bella: Hannah, I need your help.
Bella: Robert pulled a prank on me, so I am about to pull a prank on him. I need you to help me with it.
Bella: So I hid a small speaker in the office you two share, and I'm going to make it play weird, creepy noises.
Bella: Like children laughing. And when he asks you if you hear it, I want you to say that you don't hear anything.
Hannah: I guess I could do that.
Bella: Okay, I'm pushing play now. Go back to your office and pretend to hear nothing. The game is afoot!
The following example shows two college students whispering to each other in class, and their professor, who is giving a lecture.
Professor: Today's lecture is not really a lecture at all. Rather it is an activity.
Hanh: This should be interesting.
Professor: I want to give you a sense for the real life stress of being a doctor during a catastrophic event, so I've hired actors to pretend to be patients. Your job is to try to decide who to treat, and in what order, through working together. I will be observing all of you and giving you a grade based on your performance. The person with the highest score won't need to write the final essay for the class, so this is also a competition.
Zhongyi: Oh my goodness! I really want to win, but this sounds difficult.
Professor: And, like in real life, you often aren't prepared. So this activity starts now! Actors, you may enter! Students, start your work. The game is afoot!
The excerpt uses the expression to mean that a new season of a TV show has started.
The second example uses the expression to say that the election process has begun.
The phrase the game is afoot means it's happening and people usually say this only when something thrilling is occurring.


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Reality Bites.
They Call It "Democracy" – But They're Lying.
Worse Crimes.
Old Prejudices In New Packages.
The Magic Of Monarchy
Two Kings, One Country.
A Song Of Iron And Blood.
Elegy For A Queen.
The Languages Of Sovereignty And Democracy.
A King's Grasp.
The Bad Guys Are Winning.
The Ukrainian "People's Storm" Lays Waste Putin's ...
The Weight Of History.
Imagining Away The Opposition.
The Queen Is Dead.
Left To Rot.
Sounds of Silence.
Artemis's Sacred Satellite.
The Woman With The Red Umbrella - A Short Story.
The Man In The Black Hat.
Worst Case Scenario? Mike Bartlett's teleplay, King Charles III, teases out the consequences of a constitutional monarch who makes the mistake of attempting to defend the rights of his subjects.
WHILE MANY OF US pretended that Queen Elizabeth II would, somehow, live forever, others among us knew better. One of those who knew these days of mourning – and celebration – would come, and gave thought to what they might portend, was the British playwright, Mike Bartlett. His thoughts turned to the man who would succeed the Queen, and the times into which the reign of Charles III would be launched, and he wrote a play. Like all wordsmiths, Mr Bartlett understood that if one truly wishes to tell the truth, then one had best write fiction.
Bartlett's play – later turned into a BBC 2 television drama starring the late Tim Pigott-Smith – was called, simply, King Charles III. Described by The Daily Telegraph critic, Jasper Rees, as "pure televisual gelignite", the BBC 2 adaptation places before royalists and republicans the two most dangerous questions that have always lain, unasked and unanswered, at the heart of constitutional monarchy.
The First: Is there any act of Parliament so injurious to the common good that no monarch, in good conscience, could be expected to give it the royal assent?
The Second: What is likely to unfold if the royal assent is withheld from such an act?
The legislation Bartlett invents for the purposes of his dramatic thought experiment seeks to restrict the freedom of the press. For centuries, this tradition has protected the people from those who would oppress them. Bartlett's fictitious Charles, aware that the bill has passed through both Houses of Parliament, knows that he now constitutes the sole remaining barrier to the destruction of a fundamental freedom.
According to the Nineteenth Century constitutional writer, Walter Bagehot, there are three crucial rights available to a British constitutional monarch. These are: The right to be consulted. The right to encourage. The right to warn. Having swiftly exhausted all three, the fictional Charles must decide upon his next move.
The real King Charles III will soon face a series of equally portentous choices.
The government of the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is committed to passing legislation inimical to the survival of British civil liberties. She has filled the upper echelons of her Cabinet with individuals who are well to the right of most Tory MPs. The 80-seat majority bequeathed to her by Boris Johnson is almost certainly large enough to withstand any last-minute pangs of Conservative Party conscience. Only if the King withholds his royal assent, will the ancient rights of "freeborn Englishmen" be preserved.
Having pledged to both houses of the British Parliament that he will follow the example of his mother on matters constitutional, the smart money would have to be on the real King Charles III behaving very differently from the fictional King Charles III.
In the months ahead, the British Isles look set to be rocked by civil discord and state-sanctioned violence. In the looming contest, the British people may win, or, the British state may win. Either way, the British Crown will certainly lose.
If the British people are trampled beneath the boots of the Police. If their most inspiring leaders, like the trade union leader Mick Lynch, are imprisoned. And if, throughout it all, their king maintains a constitutionally-sanctioned silence. Then, whatever system of government emerges from the crisis, its head-of-state won't wear a crown.
A bloody, bold and resolute monarch, however, might fare better than even the fertile imagination of Mike Bartlett has compassed.
A recent survey of British voters aged 18-34-years-old indicated that around 60 percent of them believe their country should be ruled by a strong leader with the power to make decisions for the good of the country – without being constrained by Parliament.
Is it stretching too long a bow to suggest that Bartlett has perceived in the personality of the real Charles precisely the character traits that make his fictional King Charles so compelling? Having waited 70 years to exercise sovereignty, will he really be content to follow dutifully in his mother's outsized footsteps?
The multiple crises which loom ahead of the United Kingdom are of sufficient severity to cause it to come apart at its historic seams. The corrupt system that threw up Liz Truss may no longer be capable of saving it.
If a man's reach should exceed his grasp, then, surely, so should a king's. Or what's a kingdom for?
This essay was originally published in The Otago Daily Times and The Greymouth Star of Friday, 16 September 2022.
Labels: Constitutional Monarchy, democracy, King Charles III, Liz Truss, Mike Bartlett, Walter Bagehot
It's going to be interesting, but civil liberties such as freedom of speech are already disappearing under a Tory government. People are being arrested for holding up a sheet of blank paper. Someone was arrested and taken away in handcuffs for heckling Prince Edward. Believe me, soon if it isn't happening already, the right will be taking away freedom of speech all over the developed world.
An interesting thought experiment though and even more interesting one would be – would Charles be in favour or against laws restricting freedom of speech. I've noticed that here, and various other places on the Internet, free speech advocates seem to have less adherence to it in practice than in theory.
The Barron said...
The second of the trilogy in the masterful BBC series, based on the books of Michael Dobbs, the House of Cards was To Play the King. Broadcasted in 1993, it could not have foreseen three decades before the premise is tested. However, despite the initials "F.U." being frequently directed towards her, Liz Truss is no Francis Urquhart and Charles is considerably older than the character Dodds speculated on.
My objection to our ties with the monarchy are institutional, structural and constitutional, I have a reluctance to reduce the debate to the personalities that are born into roles. That said, Chris has put forward a scenario, and I will give a brief response.
The first thing to note is that prior to assuming the monarchy, the Prince of Wales had commented on humanitarian concerns related to the British Government sending refugees and other migrants to Rwanda. Since then, both he and Liz Truss have been anointed into their respective roles. Truss has stated clearly her support of the policy, and there is every expectation that legislation will eventually be presented for Royal assent.
The Monarch may give advice to his Prime Minister. That may happen, but there is no requirement for the PM to heed the advice, or report on that advice. It would be improper for the Palace to publicly comment. That is likely where things will go, and end. There could be potential for the King to request that the legislation is show to be nationally and internationally legally compliant. I would guess he could consult his Privy Council on this, but it is unlikely he would do anything not on the advice of his Prime Minister.
To complicate things further, Rwanda is a member of the Commonwealth, despite never having been under British authority. It is also part of the group in discussion of the establishment of the East African Federation. As most of those nations are Commonwealth, it is probably the hope of the Head of the Commonwealth that what would be a considerable nation by size and population, would consider Commonwealth membership. The Rwanda government is in support of the British Government proposal, and would be very off put by the inheriting Head of the Commonwealth interfering with bilateral relations.
Similar examples can probably be played out on the scenario Chris provides, and any others. The idea of the Sovereign protecting the people from the Tory establishment..."you may think that, but..."
David George said...
Chris: "Liz Truss, is committed to passing legislation inimical to the survival of British civil liberties"
Really? What is she planning on doing that fits that description?
I think the Monarch still has the power to dissolve parliament and call for fresh elections though I'm not sure what circumstances would warrant that.
DS said...
Under no circumstances can the monarch withhold assent. End of story.
And that is the way it should be. If you had a monarch refusing assent to Liz Truss, you would see a monarch refusing assent to Jeremy Corbyn. Britain would cease to be a democracy - whereas currently the voters can remove Liz Truss (or anyone else) at the next election.
What you literally describe with that reference to "a strong figure not beholden to Parliament" is a "Dictator."
Great post Chris. I was concerned about Liz Truss - just another of the Conservatives with no political insight or actual human values. Same coloured hair as Boris, different shape, sex but same old historical superciliousness. They don't know about real life and humanity having had their lives air-brushed to take away any frown lines of coping with it.
But Charles in his living has been in the thick of humanity, that of the Royals and their advisors, and found his mission - 'the answer lies in the soil' and backed by Camilla who seems attuned to the task. Will the good sense of Arthur Fallowfield arise to take on the various aspects of British life pictured by cartoonist Giles? He covered much of the British character with wit and wisdom.
Charles111 60th Birthday image in his red uniform overhung with gold braid etc topped by a slight, and seemingly sardonic smile, looks enigmatic. His experience and wisdom gained from attacks from press barons amongst others, may have given him some cause to study and use Sun Tzu tactics. Just as there have been doubts about the existence of Sun Tzu himself, the tactics written have been of value, so though there is uncertainty about Charleslll, his experience and intelligence will, we hope, lead to proof of his mastery over conflict and disorder in the polity.
In New Zealand there has been plenty of debate that a significant block of the media has been bought off by the Government. Laws to curb free press aren't necessary when the price is right.
A more interesting comparison would be from "To Play the King" the sequel the UK house of cards. Where Charles doesn't block legislation however he does address the public about his displeasure of how the country is being run.
Great post Chris. I was concerned about Liz Truss - just another of the Conservatives with no political insight or actual human values.
There has been a lot of complaint from conservatives about Boris's "conservatives". They are seen as "National" under John key
The Brexiteers had one job -'Taking back control' turned out to mean runaway levels of immigration.
https://edwest.substack.com/p/the-brexiteers-had-one-job
Charles's saving grace is his concern for the environment. Truss is in favour of all sorts of things which are inimical to the environment. That's a possible area of conflict – but let's face it, whatever power the crown has all the Queen had was simply used for their own benefit like any other politician. It might be a little cruel to separate ourselves from the monarchy now given how long Charles has had to wait for the job, but I think a clean cut would be preferable. At the moment unfortunately not possible, as monarchists are a rather loud minority.
DS in the unlikely event of something seriously bad enough to initiate royal suspension of parliament, presumably, it would go back to the people. Perhaps it's not that "Britain would cease to be a democracy" but has a system that ultimately strengthens democracy? Perhaps having a non political, symbolic sovereign that could, in extremis, withhold consent has real value.
mikesh said...
As I understand it, British legislation not only needs the assent of the king but also has to be passed by the House of Lords. In the past I think the Lords have largely contented themselves with rubber stamping legislation passed to them from the House of Commons, but if the king made known his displeasure at a particular piece of legislation, could that legislation come to grief in the House of Lords without setting a precedent inimical to constitutional niceties.
Another great essay from Paul Kingsnorth up on UnHerd.
"For all these reasons, a monarchy in the Machine age will always be in the crosshairs. What, after all, is the point of a monarch in the modern world? There is really only one: to represent a country and its history; to be a living embodiment of the spirit of a people. As such, the throne represents to its critics more than some putative offence against "democracy": it stands for something whose very existence is increasingly contentious in its meaning, form and direction: the nation itself."
"Frédéric Bastiat: "When misguided public opinion honours what is despicable and despises what is honourable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."
Or, if we prefer, we can take our guidance from Leonard Cohen, a more contemporary prophet — guidance which, I think, comes complete with the only hope worth having:
"I've seen the nations rise and fall,
I've heard their stories, heard them all,
But love's the only engine of survival."
https://unherd.com/2022/09/the-queen-leaves-behind-a-wasteland/
GS: "civil liberties such as freedom of speech are already disappearing "
So now you care about free speech.
Tom Slater: "The chutzpah is almost impressive. Here they are accusing free-speechers of hypocrisy, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, they only ever defend speech they agree with. They act as if they have been vindicated, even though the arrest of those republicans actually vindicates what us 'free-speech warriors' have been saying to intolerant leftists for years. Namely, that if you carry on demanding censorship it will eventually catch up with you.
Even now, they're too pigheaded to see it. Or perhaps, deep down, they know that when it comes to the state clamping down on dissenters today, toytown leftists like them are rarely the targets."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/13/so-now-you-care-about-free-speech/
" "The chutzpah is almost impressive. Here they are accusing free-speechers of hypocrisy, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Meanwhile, they only ever defend speech they agree with. "
I've always cared about free speech at least as much as you. It's just that I draw the line in different places. That quote above fits the hard right to a T. It's not the left it's arresting people for holding up blank pieces of paper. In case you missed it it's a Tory government in the UK. It's not the left that's closing down newspapers in Eastern Europe. It is not the left that's making journalists disappear into prisons in Russia.
And you on the other hand WOULD probably censor things you don't like, because I do remember you right wingers getting upset at Muslim preachers for instance. And you personally of course are in favour of forced speech, which is mildly amusing given opposing that is how your hero Jordan Peterson got his reputation. Except of course he lied about it but that's typical.
And you people are remarkably shy about how you would handle censorship, because let's face it every government does this, and of course there are civil penalties for speech as well.
I would say for instance that Alex Jones should have been told that his lies were causing actual physical and mental harm to the people he was lying about, and he should prove them to be true, shut up, all be fined/jailed. And it shouldn't have to be the parents who were suffering the harm that should have to do this.
I'd love to know how you would handle that sort of thing.
Also love to know how you would react to me being censored on your favourite right wing website, simply for saying that I thought someone was a bit of a coward because he hit his wife.
Incidentally, if I'm going to be clicking on pictures that contain cars it might be nice to have pictures that weren't so bloody blurry and tiny that I couldn't see if they had cars in them or not. :)

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August 83 was Born from the popular Houston cover band called Spare Parts. Inspired by artists like Sting, Toto, Pink Floyd, Sheryl Crow, Elton John Heart & Queen, their sound is a mix of Pop, Rock & Funk. Lead singer Linda Lambert's extraordinary vocal prowess lends heartfelt vocals to their melodic songs. Songwriter & Guitarist, Mike Lambert's songs are memorable & novel. Lambert's vocals are complimented by keyboardist Jeff Ball's sophisticated piano lines. Drummer, Dale Bankston and bassist Marco Yepez drive the band as a solid, hard hitting rhythm section and Dan Carpenter's soulful sax is a signature part of the August 83 sound. Their first original CD "Music From Bedrooms" has been described as "Pop for Grownups" ~ Joey Guerra Houston Chronicle
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The Gearbox: The Blackest Heart Doesn't Beat
by Alex White on Mar.25, 2010, under The Gearbox
Today, I'd like to write a brief note about villains for every aspiring writer out there.
I think a lot of The Gearheart's success is a function of the way it taps into old pulp formulas. Heroic characters rise to the challenge against a great menace. Gun battles, airplane chases and explosions ensue. The first chapters were created to be simplistic, easy to read snippets of fun. I hoped to draw the reader into a two-dimensional, comic book universe where they thought the decisions would be easy. People tell me they get that when they hear the story, and that makes me intensely happy.
However, as the reader progressed, I wanted decisions to become more difficult, the characters to be more developed and, most of all, I wanted to subvert your sense of ease. I had hoped to lull you into a happy place, only to shake you from your hammock when the time was right. Whether or not I succeeded is not for me to say. That's your job.
This is a really long way of saying, "I don't believe in the old pulp formulas."
In the old pulps, you have a hero and a villain. The hero is heroic. The villain is villainous. The lady character is confused and easily manipulated. Done. It's a pretty straightforward thing. Unless there is some great exception, you can expect a pulp to follow the standard arc with little to no deviation. That's why they were considered to be cheap, disposable fiction.
However, I don't believe this is the answer- especially not for antagonists. I believe there are no villains, only people. Every single person in the world, no matter how evil, has a reason for what they do. Each tiny interaction is the product of previous stimuli and years of built-up motivation. Granted, their choices may not always be the most noble, well thought-out or understandable. However, an antagonist should truly believe in their cause, whether it is love, the betterment of mankind, or simply themselves. Even Old Man Withers from Scooby Doo just wanted everyone to leave so he could sell the amusement park.
When you write that mustache-twisting, railroad-dynamiting nemesis, I believe you're doing your story a grave disservice. Likewise, if you write someone who is merely a victim of mental of sexual dysfunction (I'm looking at you, mid-90s thrillers!), then you have chosen a shortcut. People are more than a label or a list of psychobabble buzzwords.
All I'm saying is this: When you write your villain, you should do everything in your power to capture the essence of a person. Write an antagonist, not a villain. As a small corollary I would like to add that, just because a character or person is three-dimensional, that doesn't mean we have to like them.
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Sharah Blankenship
April 8th, 2010 on 12:31 pm
So this book was my first foray into Steampunk, aside from the anime movie Steamboy and some works by Hayao Miyazaki.
That being said, I really enjoyed the podcast, and I really enjoyed the characters depth and capacity to grow and change. I also appreciated the depth of Nicolas. I didn't like him, it would be hard to like someone that functionally demented, but the fact that he wasn't just a bad guy because he hated all humanity or desired to "rule the world" was nice. It is a difficult job to write a believable and human villian. It's far easier to write them as just "monsters".
Kudos to you and your lovely wife, this podcast has been interesting, well written and much appreciated. My husband, who doesn't fancy podcast novels all that much, is into it as well, which makes me happy.
Please do tell me that you guys will be continuing to write, and perhaps even continuing with this world?
Sharah
Richard A McCullough
September 2nd, 2010 on 8:44 am
Re: Antagonists I agree. I take it a step further and contend that the antagonist must illustrate a premise just as the protagonist illustrates a premise. And this interweaving of two apposing story lines is the material from which the writer derives the story that he winds up telling (accept we never "tell" but only "show").


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Appleseed: Kampf um die Freiheit () ist ein Zeichentrickfilm aus dem Jahr 1988, welcher in Zusammenarbeit des renommierten japanischen Manga-Zeichners Masamune Shirow mit dem Regisseur Kazuyoshi Katayama sowie den Art-Designern Hiroaki Ogura, Yumiko Horasawa und Takahiro Kishida entstand. Es zeichneten unter anderem die Studios Bandai Visual, Gainax, Movic und die Tohokushinsha Film Corporation verantwortlich. Die deutschsprachige Synchronisation übernahm das in Köln ansässige Unternehmen Splendid Synchron.

Die Basis für den Film stellte die gleichnamige Manga-Serie.

Die Filmpremiere fand am 21. April 1988 im japanischen Fernsehen statt. Die deutschsprachige Version wurde erstmals am 1. April 2002 von PolyGram (Universal Pictures) auf VHS-Videokassette veröffentlicht. Am 31. März 2005 folgte dann die Veröffentlichung durch Ascot Elite Home Entertainment, Panini Video und Splendid Film auf DVD.

Handlung
Appleseed spielt nach der Beendigung des 3. Weltkriegs. Die Welt war durch diesen Konflikt weitgehend in eine Trümmerwüste verwandelt und die Zahl der Menschen nahezu um die Hälfte reduziert worden. Um dieser nahezu endlosen Trostlosigkeit zu entkommen, entschied sich eine Gruppe, ihre zerstörte Stadt neu aufzubauen und gründete speziell dafür das General Management Control Office. Fortan bezeichneten die Einwohner diese als Olympus. Doch neben den Menschen gibt es nunmehr eine Subspezies, die sich Biodroiden nennen. Dies sind Wesen, die zur Hälfte Menschen und zur anderen Hälfte Roboter sind. Sie machen 80 Prozent der Bevölkerung aus. Sie Allein besitzen Zugang zum Verwaltungskomplex des neuen Stadtstaates. Eine Tatsache, die in vielen Menschen Angst und Zorn hervorruft. Das Koexistenz-Experiment Olympus, welches eigentlich dazu gedacht war, den menschlichen Traum vom Paradies Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen, steht damit kurz vor dem Scheitern.

Der Film beginnt mit einem Alptraum von Karon Mausolos. Er betritt gerade seine Wohnung und ruft seine Frau Fleia. Verzweifelt durch den heftigen Kontrast zwischen der Welt außerhalb und dem von ihr als der goldene Käfig bezeichneten Olympus, begeht sie Suizid, indem sie sich vom Balkon der Wohnung stürzt. Karon gelingt es nicht, sie davon abzuhalten.

Deunan Knute und ihr Freund wie auch Kampfgenosse Buliarios Hecatonchires sind als Elitekrieger der SWAT-Einheit unterstellt. Einer ihrer Einsätze ist die Befreiung von Kindern, die in einer Schule von einer bewaffneten Truppe festgehalten werden. Ein vorheriger Versuch der gewöhnlichen Polizei, zu stürmen und zu verhaften, endete aufgrund unterlegener Waffen als Selbstmordkommando. Deunan und Buliarios bringen das Gebäude mithilfe der SWAT-Truppe leise unter Kontrolle. Der erste Gefangene wird auf dem Flur einer Toilette geschnappt. Die restliche Truppe wird beim Stürmen mit Kopfschüssen in einem kurzen Schusswechsel niedergeschossen. Doch der einzige Überlebende schafft es, sich der Handschellen zu entledigen und die Wachperson zu töten. Er hinterlässt eine Sprengfalle, welche beinahe Deunan und Buliarios das Leben gekostet hätte. Auf dem Weg nach draußen, wo er untertaucht, bringt er weitere SWAT-Mitglieder um. Schnell wird beiden klar, dass der Täter ein Biodroid (Cyborg genannt) sein musste. Auch wird ihnen klar, dass dieser das Massaker scheinbar vorausgesehen haben musste.

Der Entflohene sucht den Polizisten Calon in dessen Wohnung auf. Anstatt neue Mitglieder zu rekrutieren gab er ihm die Adresse eines Waffenhändlers um Landmates zu erwerben.

Von der SWAT wird der Entflohene mittlerweile als Terrorist namens A. J. Sebastian  identifiziert. Dabei kommt heraus, dass dieser sein rechtes Auge und das Ohr bei dem Versuch, in den gesicherten Komplex des Tartaros einzubrechen, in dem sich der Zentralcomputer GAIA befindet, verloren hatte. Damit wird klar, dass A. J. Sebastian ein Terrorist der Spitzenliga ist, der darauf aus ist die Welt zu verändern. Deunan Knute ist entschlossen Sebastian zu schnappen und sieht ihre Vorteile dies zu schaffen in einer Versetzung zur Untersuchungseinheit des SSPD.

Auch Premierministerin Athena und Nike erfahren nun, dass A. J. Sebastian wieder aufgetaucht ist und sich einen neuen Plan ausheckt um sein Ziel zu erreichen. Athena ist davon gar nicht begeistert und setzt die letzten Neuankömmlinge Olympus auf ihn an. Dies sind Briareos und Deunan, die demnach also erst vor kurzem aus der Außenwelt nach Olympus zur Zwangseinbürgerung geholt wurden. Sebastian hingegen hat sich nun mehr eine neue Truppe untergebener Menschen rekrutiert. Gemeinsam stehlen sie die Landmates und zerstören damit anschließend den Tartaros-Komplex weitgehend. Die Polizei wie auch das Militär reagiert sofort und greift die feindlichen Landmates an. Sebastian entkommt erneut. Mit einem Anruf bei der Presse gibt er sich als Anführer der "Human Liberation Front" zu erkennen und wettert gegen die Diktatur der Biuruiden und fordert diese auf die Regierungsgewalt abzugeben. Des Weiteren prangert er das Aufstellen von militärischen Waffen zur Unterdrückung in Krisenherden an.

Während des Angriffs hat Sebastian einige Datenträger und die vollständigen Akten von zwei Zielpersonen entwendet. Das Hauptziel für Karon ist Hitomi, die in der Außenwelt nach Überlebenden sucht in diese dann nach Olympus bringen soll. Sebastian selbst will die Multipete-Raketen in seine Gewalt bringen.

Das Militär Olympus feiert derweil seine neue Waffe, eine mobile Festung. Die Steuerung wie auch die Koordination mehrerer solcher Einheiten wird direkt vom Supercomputer GAIA übernommen. Karon und Sebastian einigen sich darauf die Überführung der Vorführeinheit unter allen Umständen zu vereiteln. Karon hat sich einen eigenen Landmate bauen lassen, der von den gewöhnlichen Spezifikationen abweicht. Buliarios und Deunan erhielten nach einem mehrtägigen Urlaub die Vorladung in den Zentralkomplex, wo sie erwartet werden.

Etwas später als erwartet treffen die beide im Regierungspalast ein. Sie werden von Athena erwartet. Es erfolgt entgegen dem § 38 der Olympianischen Freiheitscharta der strikte Befehl Sebastian zu töten. Eine Verhaftung wird von der Premierministerin als Sonderfall abgelehnt. Während der Ermittlungen werden mehrere Verdächtige befragt und inhaftiert.

Karon erfährt von den Ermittlungen seiner Kollegen und erkennt diese als seine Feinde. Das Versteck der beiden befindet sich in der Bar von Nereus, einem ehemaligen Undercover-Agenten der Polizei, der die beiden bespitzelt und versucht seine Informationen an Buliarios und Deunan zu verscherbeln. Kurz vor dem Anschlag versucht er ein letztes Mal die beiden zu kontaktieren. Karon und Sebastian haben dies mitbekommen und konnten sich ihm noch rechtzeitig entledigen. Dennoch wurden einige Nachrichten auf dem Anrufbeantworter von Buliarios und Deunan hinterlassen, welche die Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen.

Doch zu spät. Zur gleichen Zeit in der Nacht vom 30. Mai bricht Karon mit seinem Landmate auf um Hitomi zu entführen. Sie wohnt im gleichen Wohnblock wie Buliarios und Deunan. Beide werden von ihm über die Belüftung mit Schlafgas vorübergehend außer Gefecht gesetzt. So dachte er jedenfalls. Beide hatten sich auf einen solchen hinterhältigen Angriff mit Masken darauf vorbereitet und beobachten die Entführung Hitomis. Erst unten auf dem Parkplatz des Wohnblocks wird der Landmate hinterrücks gestellt. Mittlerweile reagiert auch die Polizei und greift mit Personal und Landmates ein. Im Trubel schafft es Karon sich abzusetzen. Buliarios und Deunan werden in Verdacht der Ausübung von Spionage verhaftet. Zur selben Zeit eroberte Sebastian die mobile Festung.

Sebastian hat Hitomi entführen lassen, da sie in ihrer DNA als einzige einen Overwrite-Schlüssel besitzt, der die Macht verleiht den Zentralcomputer GAIA nach seinem Willen zu beeinflussen. Es zeichnet sich unter den Vorwürfen ein Konflikt zwischen den Elitekriegern und Athena ab. Doch erst jetzt wird von Buliarios der Verdächtige Hinweis auf seinem Anrufbeantworter zur Sprache gebracht. In Anbetracht der Gefahr hatte Athena auch das außerhalb Olympus im Einsatz befindliche Militär zur Verteidigung zurückbeordert. Um einen Zugriff von außen an GAIA zu verhindern, lässt Athena alle Terminals sprengen. Nur der letzte bleibt als Lockmittel unter starker Bewachung.

Karon begibt sich mit einem Fahrzeug der Polizei in das Sperrgebiet. Im Laderaum hält er Hitomi fest. Buliarios beobachtet den Check-In, doch kommt ihn etwas verdächtig vor. Er nimmt mit seiner Kollegin die Verfolgung auf. Im Kugelhagel wird der Transporter attackiert. Karon schafft es sich rechtzeitig zu ducken. Nachdem der Wagen umkippte, begab sich Sebastian in den Landmate. Bei der Annäherung der Polizei-Landmates schoss Sebastian einen dieser nieder. Er schnappte sich Hitomi und setzte sie kurz vor dem Terminal ab. Selbst schaffte er es nicht näher heran, da sich eine weitere Welle Landmates den Weg versperrten. So forderte er Hitomi auf das Terminal zu betreten. Dies tat sie unabsichtlich dann auch. Als Folge dessen schaltete GAIA kurzzeitig sämtliche Systeme ab und startete mit Sebastian als neuer Administrator neu. Dieser richtet sogleich alle verfügbaren Waffen auf GAIA aus.

Die Polizei spürte die mobile Festung auf, welche sich bereits durch dir Stadt bewegt. Mit Waffenfeuer will man ihn davon abhalten Tartaros zu erreichen. Athena, Buliarios und Deunan machen sich auf GAIA wieder in ihre Kontrolle zu bringen. Doch ist das Gebäude unter autonomer Überwachung des Zentralcomputers und versucht jeden Eingriff mit Fallen zu verhindern. Buliarios wird von einem Laser angeschossen.

Athena und Deunan schaffen es schließlich, sich zu GAIA durchzukämpfen und das Sicherheitsschloss zu zerstören. GAIA schaltet daraufhin erneut ab. So verliert auch Sebastian die Kontrolle über die von ihm eroberte mobile Festung. Bei dem Versuch sich abzusetzen wird Sebastian von Landmates der Polizei durch einen Kopfschuss hingerichtet. Danach kehrt Ruhe in Olympus ein und das normale Leben nimmt wieder seinen Lauf.

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Friedman rests in peace again
By Eric Shierman
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With the defeat of the President's second cartoon character selected for the Federal Reserve Board, Milton Friedman, the father of the Monetary School of Economics, perhaps rests easier. Unfortunately, both Herman Cain and Stephen Moore were defeated under the pretext of the war of the sexes, rather than a war of economic ideas, but I'd like to believe the real motive was a bipartisan aversion to appointing political hacks to what should be a professionally independent institution that governs our monetary policy.
Like the Supreme Court before the failed nomination of Robert Bork, appointments to the Federal Reserve have largely been bereft of partisan politics, but there were some signs of change in the past decade. Quantitative Easing was to Fed policy what Griswald v. Connecticut was to constitutional jurisprudence. Since then, Republicans seemed to be becoming the inflation hawks and Democrats the inflation doves.
That alignment now seems as doubtful in the Trump era as the Republican Party's commitment to free market economics. Indeed, Stephen Moore himself serves as a primary example. In 2015, he pounded the table in outrage at the Fed's reluctance to raise interest rates, but he opposes FOMC tightening in 2019. That makes no sense unless the independent variable in his macro model is whether or not a Republican sits in the Oval Office.
To maintain an expectation among economic agents that inflation will remain negligible in the U.S. economy, we need a Fed that will raise rates when necessary, without taking politics into account. From Jerome Powell to Michelle Bowman, Trump's earlier picks have been of that caliber. Let's hope these recent two defeats will steer him back in the right direction.
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'Hill Street Blues' Cast Reminisce on Impact & Bedlam of Classic '80s Series
By David Weiner
"Let's be careful out there…" Those five words were a staple of HILL STREET BLUES, the classic '80s cop series that changed the way dramatic television was filmed and set the bar for small-screen characterization and episodic storytelling.
Despite having burned out on "cop shows" early on in the days following T.J. HOOKER, I watched every episode of HILL STREET BLUES when it first aired on TV. It was a consistent staple of my week, tuning in every Thursday night at 10 p.m. to watch the "roll call" and listen to Mike Post's oddly comforting piano-based theme song.
As I was in my early teens, HILL STREET BLUES represented the first "grown-up" show that I truly appreciated and became immersed with. It also engaged me as the first non-episodic series I watched that contained an extended throughline with its characters, a writing style that is mostly taken for granted today.
Back in my ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT days, when the complete series debuted on DVD, Shout! Factory connected me with two of the show's stars — Charles Haid and James B. Sikking – to talk about the series and the fan in me couldn't be more thrilled. They were happy to reminisce about their time on the program and its cultural impact.
"We changed television — the way it was done, the way the camera was moved, the way it was gritty," explained Sikking, who played pretentious, uptight S.W.A.T. leader Lt. Howard Hunter. "It was a show about not just policemen, but that the police experience was a human experience."
"The show had universal themes," added Haid, who played the contentious, loyal, often-complaining street cop Renko. "It was a miracle at the time, just the synergy of the right people at the right time at the right place, it created and started a whole [movement] in [the television] business, so it has its place in history and I'm proud to be a part of it."
Created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, the Emmy-winning HILL STREET BLUES ran on NBC for seven seasons between 1981-1987 and featured a large ensemble cast of characters inhabiting a Chicago police station in the worst part of town. From the street gangs, junkies and prostitutes to the beat cops, undercover detectives and administrators of Hill Street Station, the show's myriad storylines deftly balanced the crime, power-struggles and politics of the setting with the very human emotions that were affected by the ebb and flow of circumstance.
"If you look at the style of that show – play it forward to NYPD BLUE, play it forward to ER – it came from director Robert Altman, it came from Marty Scorsese, all of those guys. … it was about pace, form, making choices, breaking rules," recalled Haid, who went on to become an established director himself. "We had great love and affection for one another, we were very creative, it was often bedlam, and it was more serious than a heart attack, which was great."
Asked if he had fond memories from the set, Sikking replied with a laugh, "A truckload. I mean, it was so much fun. It changed my life, once the audience found it. … I think it represents a major part of my career. It changed my position in show business. I'm happy that it was as joyous and as much fun and well-received, because I know people who have a career based on something that they thought was terrible, and have tried to live down, and that's not my case; I wish every actor had the joy I had by having a HILL STREET in their life."
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La rue Fontaine-del-Saulx est une rue de Lille, dans le Nord, en France. Il s'agit de l'une des rues du quartier de Lille-Centre.

Nom

La rue prend en 1866 son nom de  « Fontaine del Saulx » (Fontaine des saules), source au pied d'un saule, lieu mythique où Lydéric, fondateur de la ville de Lille, aurait été recueilli  à sa naissance vers 620 au milieu du « Bois sans mercy » par un ermite et allaité par une biche.

Cette fontaine aurait été située approximativement à l'emplacement du Palais Rameau sur le cours du Fourchon, bras de la Deûle qui alimentait avant 1670 un moulin, le « moulin del Saulx ».

Le cours du Fourchon fut partiellement tari par la création du canal des Stations en 1565 puis par le creusement du canal Vauban en 1670, entrainant l'abandon de ce moulin.
Cette voie d'eau fut recouverte dans les années 1860 sur le territoire de l'ancienne zone d'inondation puis progressivement au cours des décennies suivantes entre la place de Lattre-de-Tassigny et la rue Solférino.

Description
La rue Fontaine del Saulx relie la rue Jacquemars Gielée à la rue de Bourgogne. La rue figure parmi les îlots regroupés pour l'information statistique (IRIS  - LILLE CENTRE 5) de Lille, tels que l'Insee les a établis en 1999.

Histoire
L'origine de la rue est un chemin qui longeait le bord du  «Blanc Ballot», petit secteur relativement à sec à l'intérieur de la zone inondable destinée à protéger la ville en cas de siège, située entre les remparts de Lille au nord et une digue longée par un fossé en eau, ponctuée par des redoutes aux angles. Comme l'ensemble de la zone d'inondation, le Blanc Ballot était situé dans la partie de la zone de servitude militaire de Lille sur le territoire de la commune de Wazemmes.
Le Blanc Ballot était parcouru au centre par un chemin transformé en rue vers 1845, actuelle rue Boucher-de-Perthes.
Le contour du Blanc Ballot qui comprenait également  l'actuel passage de la Fontaine del Saulx, était encore rural et non construit en 1830. Le contour devient une rue pavée en 1846, bordée de plusieurs maisons.
Ces  maisons ont disparu par la suite. Ce début d'urbanisation qui figure sur un plan de 1855 était l'extension du faubourg de la Barre qui demandait à cette époque sa constitution en commune distincte de Wazemmes. Cette séparation qui n'était pas souhaitée par les habitants du Blanc Ballot qui préféraient rester rattachés à Wazemmes, fut refusée par décision du Ministre de l'Intérieur du .

L'environnement du Blanc Ballot est bouleversé par les travaux de démolition des fortifications et de la digue dans les années 1860 préparant l'urbanisation du territoire entre l'ancienne enceinte et Wazemmes à la suite de l'annexion par la ville de Lille des communes de Wazemmes, d'Esquermes, de Moulins et de Fives en 1858. Ce territoire est totalement aplani et il ne subsiste aucune trace de l'ancienne digue, des redoutes, ni du léger surplomb du Blanc Ballot à l'intérieur de la zone d'inondation.
La rue du Contour du Blanc Ballot est alors intégrée dans un réseau de nouvelles voies tracées après l'annexion de 1858.
Avec la rue de la Digue et la rue Boucher de Perthes, elle  est l'une des rares voies de la zone d'inondation et de l'ensemble de la partie sud du glacis des remparts dont l'origine est antérieure à l'agrandissement de 1858.

La rue et le passage Fontaine del Saulx au
La rue est longée en grande partie par des maisons d'habitations ayant remplacé autour de 1900 les constructions du milieu du  et par quelques immeubles résidentiels plus récents. C'est une voie assez calme sans commerce à proximité de l'hypercentre et des secteurs plus animés de la rue Masséna, de la rue Solférino et de Wazemmes.

Elle est reliée au passage Fontaine del Saulx qui faisait également partie du contour du Blanc Ballot. Contrairement à la rue élargie et régularisée dans les années 1860, le passage  a conservé son gabarit étroit d'origine. La partie de ce passage reliée à la rue Boucher de Perthes a été privatisée.

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Articles connexes
 Liste des rues de Lille
 Lille-Centre
 Lydéric et Phinaert
 Digue (Lille)

Lille-Centre
Fontaine del Saulx


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Kat Reinhert is an accomplished performer, songwriter, voice teacher, and educator. She is currently the Director of Contemporary Voice at University of Miami Frost School of Music, where she is faculty within the Music Media and Industry program which includes the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music minor and the Musicianship, Artistry Development and Entrepreneurship (M.A.D.E.) Major.
After completing her undergraduate degree at The Manhattan School of Music in Jazz/Commercial voice, Ms. Reinhert starting teaching in New York City through the non-profit organization Education Through Music (ETM). Through this program, she gained valuable teaching experience in K-12 general music settings. After leaving ETM and NYC to pursue a Masters Degree in Jazz Pedagogy from The University of Miami Frost School of Music, she returned to New York and began freelancing as a teaching artist and voice teacher in various schools in NYC including P.S.86 in the Bronx and The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Through these experiences, Kat discovered a passion for teaching, especially for pre-professional and professional level students. This led her to pursue a PhD in Music Education from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, specializing in popular music education in higher eduction settings. Her dissertation, completed in the spring of 2018, is a qualitative multiple case study on the development and implementation of the popular music programs at The University of Southern California (USC) and The University of Miami Frost School of Music (UM).
Throughout her career, Ms. Reinhert has held numerous adjunct professor at several universities. She is a frequent presenter at both national and international conferences including The Voice Foundation, The International Association for Music Education and The International Jazz Voice Conference and is currently the Vice President of the board for the Association for Popular Music Education.
Kat specializes in contemporary voice, songwriting, jazz, piano, and popular music pedagogy and curriculum. She is a sought-after pedagogue, clinician and consultant for students, practitioners and institutions involved in all aspects and levels of popular music education, contemporary voice and songwriting.


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    raise "must provide an identifier_value" if identifier_value.blank?

    # TODO: FakeableHer needs to make this faking a feature of `get`
    if faked?
      new(fake_instance_attributes(nil))
    else
      get("api/v1/identifier_types/#{identifier_type}/identifiers/#{identifier_value}/visitor")
    end
  end

  def self.fake_instance_attributes(_)
    {
      id: "fake_visitor_id",
      assignments: [
        TestTrack::Remote::Assignment.fake_instance_attributes(1),
        TestTrack::Remote::Assignment.fake_instance_attributes(2)
      ]
    }
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Capitalism Is Obsolete: The Only "New American Moment" He's Talking About Is How Profitable it Can Be Selling America Out To Putin's Criminal Capitalism Inc.
The Only "New American Moment" He's Talking About Is How Profitable it Can Be Selling America Out To Putin's Criminal Capitalism Inc.
Him and the GOP enablers that let him keep that smug grin on his face.
Steve Schmidt: President Donald Trump SOTU Speech Given From "Alternate Reality"
The 'state' of Donald Trump? He thinks it couldn't be better.


In Bicol, more local public officials, many on elective posts, are among drug surrenderees according to the last tally by the Philippine National Police. Some 351 public officials in the region, mostly barangay officials, suspected of being drug personalities have surrendered to authorities from July 1 to October 21.
More local public officials, many on elective posts, are among drug surrenderees according to the last tally by the Philippine National Police in Bicol.
Some 351 public officials in the region, mostly barangay officials, suspected of being drug personalities have surrendered to authorities from July 1 to October 21.
Bicol Regional Police director Chief Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe believes the count is expected to increase as the number of public officials will surrender as Operations Tokhang and Double Barrel by the PNP continue.
To the total count of 351 belong some 346 barangay officials and five city and municipal councilors.
Of the 346 village officials, 47 were barangay chairpersons, 202 councilmen, 76 watchmen, seven treasurers, seven secretaries, four chief watchmen, two staff members and one justice committee head.
Buenafe said of the five city and municipal councilors, two were from Albay and one each from Camarines Sur, Catanduanes and Masbate.
Aside from the 351 public officials, the PNP also have in their list 54 other alleged drug personalities who are in government service or are public servants.
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This multi-disciplinary seminar with attendees from computer science, philosophy, and psychology addressed typical problems that smart and intelligent systems in real-world scenarios have to deal with both from formal and empirical points of view. Such systems have to face, in particular, the problem of reasoning with uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, or inconsistent (in short, imperfect) information which often renders more classical, i.e., strict or deductive methods obsolete or fallacious. Reasoning with imperfect information plays a central role in practical deliberation and rational decision making. Models of human context-dependent reasoning that synthesise logical, philosophical and psychological aspects would be helpful for designing better systems. In psychology, an increasing interest in new formal methods for rational human reasoning under uncertainty can be observed, and on the other hand, philosophers and computer scientists have shown an increased attention to the experimental methods of psychology recently. In particular for computer scientists and AI researchers, it is becoming more and more interesting to see whether the systems they have been developing are materially adequate. A synthesis of rational reasoning with imperfect information that takes into account research done in artificial intelligence, but also in psychology and philosophy is needed for providing a clearer view of where we are and what are the pending issues both from computational resp. logical and cognitive viewpoints. This will help making intelligent systems more effective, and more helpful for their human users.
This seminar brought together researchers interested in rational and uncertain reasoning from a very broad scientific scope to present and discuss problems and approaches from different disciplines, consolidate common grounds, and initiate new interdisciplinary collaborations. The seminar took profit from the fact that computer scientists, philosophers, and psychologists have started quite recently to work in a common methodological paradigm with overlapping goals, converging interests, and largely shared research tools. The attendees identified challenges for new paradigms of rational reasoning, and discussed visions and foci for more interdisciplinary work.
Topics of group 1: Philosophers' and psychologists' view on human reasoning, and what computer scientists can contribute to that; axiomatic systems vs. psychological models -- how do they fit?
Groups 1 and 2 joined after the first session due to the closeness of the discussed topics. On Friday morning, the results of the working groups were presented, and a final, lively discussion in the plenary session closed the seminar.


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Dan & Dasha Faires originally of Arkansas, one of the most adorable and talented design couples coming out of New York. Dan is a sorely missed colleague of the Wellbuilt team and is blazing quite an impressive trail with his design business & rustic furniture collection "capsule furniture."
Dasha comes with a depth of experience in the fashion industry and has obviously rubbed off on her partner looking at the latest summer collection. Have a closer look into their small but but beautiful New York apartment over at HGTV. Photos by Brian Patrick Flynn.