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A number of systems of classification have been evolved for categorizing various types of soil. Some of these have been developed specifically in connection with ascertaining the suitability of soil for use in particular soil engineering projects. Some are rather preliminary in character while a few are relatively more exhaustive, although some degree of arbitrariness is necessarily inherent in each of the systems.
Soil types may be classified on the basis of their geological origin. The origin of a soil may refer either to its constituents or to the agencies responsible for its present status.
Over the geological cycle, soils are formed by disintegration and weathering of rocks. These are again formed by compaction and cementation by heat and pressure.
S. Bureau of Soils and Public Roads Administration (PRA) System of U.S.A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) System of Classification of U.S.A.
This system was originally developed by A. Cassagrande and adopted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers in 1942 as 'Airfield Classification'. It was later revised for universal use and redesignated as the "Unified Soil Classification" in 1957.
Familiarity with common soil types is necessary for an understanding of the fundamentals of soil behaviour. In this approach, soils are described by designation such as Boulders, Gravel, Sand, Silt, Clay, Rockflour, Peat, China Clay, Fill, Bentonite, Black Cotton soil, Boulder Clay, Caliche, Hardpan, Laterite, Loam, Loess, Marl, Moorum, Topsoil and Varved Clay.
A geotechnical engineer should be well versed with the nomenclature and terminology of different types of soils. The following list gives the names and salient features of different types of soil, arranged in alphabetical order.
Bentonite: It is a type of clay with a very high percentage of clay mineral – montmorillonite. It is a highly plastic clay, resulting from the decomposition of volcanic ash. It is highly water absorbent and has high shrinkage and swelling characteristics.
Black cotton soil: It is a residual soil containing a high percentage of the clay mineral – montmorillonite. It has very low bearing capacity and high swelling and shrinkage properties.
Boulders: Boulders are the rock fragments of large size, more than 300mm in size.
Calcareous soil: This type of soil contains a large quantity of calcium carbonate. Such soils effervesce when tested with weak hydrochloric acid.
Caliche: It is a type of soil which contains gravel, sand and silt. The particles are cemented by calcium carbonate.
Clay: It consists of microscopic and sub-microscopic particles derived from the chemical decomposition of rocks. It contains a large quantity of clay mineral. It can be made plastic by adjusting the water content. It exhibits considerable strength when dry. Clay is a fine-grained soil. It is a cohesive soil. The particle size is less than 0.002mm.
Organic clay contains finely divided organic matter and is usually dark grey or black in colour. It has a conspicuous odour. Organic clay is highly compressible and its strength is very high when dry.
Cobbles: Cobbles are large size particles in the range of 80mm to 300mm.
Diatomaceous earth: Diatoms are minute unicellular marine organisms. Diatomaceous earth is a fine, light grey, soft sedimentary deposit of the silicious remains of skeletons of diatoms.
Dispersive clays: These are special type of clays which defloculate in still water. Such soils erode if exposed to low-velocity water. Susceptibility to dispersion depends upon the cations in the soil pore water.
Dune sands: These are wind-transported soils. These are composed of relatively uniform particles of fine to medium sand.
Expansive clays: These are prone to large volume changes as the water content is changed. These soils contain the mineral montmorillonite.
Fills: All manmade deposits of soil and waste-materials are called fills. These are the soil embankments raised above the ground surface. Engineering properties of fills depend upon the type of soil, its water content and the degree of compaction.
Gravel: It is a type of coarse-grained soil. The particle size ranges from 4.75mm to 80mm. It is a cohesion-less material.
Hardpans: H8ardpans are the types of soil that offer great resistance to the penetration of drilling tools during soil exploration. The soils are designated hardpans regardless of their particle size. These are generally dense, well-graded, cohesive aggregates of mineral particles. Hardpans do not disintegrate when submerged in water.
Humus: It is a dark brown, organic amorphous earth of the topsoil. It consists of partly decomposed vegetal matter. It is not suitable for engineering works.
Kankar: It is an impure form of lime stone. It contains calcium carbonate mixed with some silicious material.
Laterites: Laterites are residual soils formed in tropical regions. Laterites are very soft when freshly cut but become hard after long exposure. Hardness is due to cementing action of iron oxide and aluminium oxide. These soils are also called lateritic soils.
Loam: It is a mixture of sand, silt and clay. The term is generally used in agronomy. The soil is well suited to tilling operations.
Loess: It is a windblown deposit of silt. It is generally of uniform gradation, with the particle size between 0.01 and 0.05 mm. It consists of quartz and feldspar particles, cemented with calcium carbonate or iron oxide. When wet, it becomes soft and compressible because cementing action is lost. A loess deposit has a loose structure with numerous root holes which produce vertical cleavage. The permeability in the vertical direction is generally much greater than that in the horizontal direction.
Marl: It is a stiff, marine calcareous clay of greenish colour.
Moorum: The word moorum is derived from a Tamil word, meaning powdered rock. It consists of small pieces ofdisintegrated rock or shale, with or without boulders.
Muck: It denotes a mixture of fine soil particles and highly decomposed organic matter. It is black in colour and of extremely soft consistency. It cannot be used for engineering works. The organic matter is in an advanced stage of decomposition.
Peat: It is a type of organic soil having fibrous aggregates of macroscopic and microscopic particles. It is formed from vegetal matter under conditions of excess moisture, such as in swamps. It is highly compressible and not suitable for foundations.
Sand: It is a coarse-grained soil, having particle size between 0.075 mm to 4.75 mm. The particles are visible to naked eye. The soil is cohesionless and pervious.
Silt: It is a fine-grained soil, having particle size between 0.002 mm and 0.075 mm. The particles are not visible to naked eyes. Inorganic silt consists of bulky, equidimensional grains of quartz. It has little or no plasticity, and is cohesionless. Organic silt contains an admixture of organic matter. It is a plastic soil and is cohesive.
Till: It is a type of soil formed by an unstratified deposit resulting from melting of a glacier. The deposit consists of particles of different sizes, ranging from boulders to clay. The soil is generally well-graded. It can be easily densified by compaction. Till is known as boulder-clay.
Top soils: Top soils are the surface soils that support plants. They contain a large quantity of organic matter and are not suitable for foundations.
Tuff: It is a fine-grained soil composed of very small particles ejected from volcanoes during its explosion and deposited by wind or water.
Tundra: It is a mat of peat and shrubby vegetation that covers clayey subsoil in arctic regions. The deeper layers are permanently frozen and are called permafrost. The surface deposit is the active layer which alternately freezes and thaws.
Varved clays: These are sedimentary deposits consisting of alternate thin layers of silt and clay. The thickness of each layer seldom exceeds 1 cm. These clays are the results of deposition in lakes during periods of alternately high and low waters.


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II Обще́черномо́рский съезд (Второй съезд делега́тов Черномо́рского фло́та, Второй Черноморский флотский съезд) — проводившийся в Севастополе 16—28 февраля 1918 года съезд комитетов экипажей кораблей и береговых команд Черноморского флота России.

Ход работы и решения съезда
В работе съезда приняло участие 108 делегатов. Почетными членами съезда избрали В. И. Ленина, Л. Д. Троцкого, А. М. Колонтай, М. А. Спиридонову, Р. Люксембург и К. Либкнехта. Была послана приветственная телеграмма ВЦИК и СНК. В телеграмме говорилось: «…приветствует Центральный Исполнительный Комитет в лице Совета Народных Комиссаров, постановивших распустить Учредительное собрание, попытавшееся наложить лапу на народное завоевание…».

Съезд был созван для обсуждения вопроса о ходе мирных переговоров с Центральными державами, принятия отчёта Черноморского Центрофлота (ЧЦ), проведения выборов комиссара флота и нового состава ЧЦ.

Меньшевикам и украинским социалистам удалось добиться большинства на съезде, оттеснив большевиков в оппозицию. Председателем съезда был избран грек, юрист и украинский эсep С. С. Кнорус. 17 февраля 1918 года с докладом «О текущем моменте» выступил член Центрофлота большевик М. Н. Ермолин. С большой речью выступил также комиссар флота большевик В. В. Роменец.

В резолюции, предложенной Ю. П. Гавеном, принятой съездом 19 февраля 1918 года, было записано: «И Черноморский флотский съезд постановляет оказать действенную активную поддержку… Совету Народных Комиссаров… Обещает в новой фазе борьбы за достижения революции тесно сплотиться вокруг как своих избранных органов власти, так и Совета Народных Комиссаров… Шлёт проклятье изменникам Родины — изменникам и разным предателям из бывшей Центральной Рады». Все остальные резолюции съезда также носили просоветский характер.

По вопросу о Румынии, начавшей военные действия против советской власти, было дано разрешение на конфискацию всех судов и кораблей под румынским флагом. Было принято постановление о мерах для сохранения боеспособности флота. Одной из мер стал запрет дальнейших увольнений с флота личного состава.

В новый состав Центрофлота прошло большинство левых, правых и украинских эсеров, меньшевиков и анархистов, избравших С. С. Кноруса председателем Центрофлота, а левого эсера В. Б. Спиро, активного противника заключения мира между Советской Россией и Центральными державами, — комиссаром флота.

Во время работы съезда в России произошли важные события, повлиявшие на его дальнейшую работу — в соответствии в условиями выдвинутого Советам ультиматума, 18 февраля 1918 года Германская армия перешла в наступление по всей линии Восточного фронта. 21 февраля в Севастополе были приняты воззвание СНК Социалистическое Отечество в опасности! и приказ Главковерха Н. В. Крыленко о всеобщей мобилизации. Эти события послужили поводом к началу в Крыму волны самого разнузданного террора, продолжавшегося в течение трёх ночей 21—24 февраля 1918 года, в ходе которого было убито до 700 человек.

Вспышка насилия стала предметом обсуждения и разбирательства на съезде — 26 (по другим данным 27) февраля 1918 года. С информацией о происходившем на улицах Севастополя в те ночи выступали очевидцы и прямые участники событий. При этом присутствовали делегаты съезда, представители Центрофлота, демократических организаций, партий и судовых комитетов. Историки Зарубины характеризуют выступления матросов как инфантильные. К примеру, Ю. П. Гавен в своих воспоминаниях писал: Моряки…, убедившись, что самосуды не укрепляют, а позорят революцию, чистосердечно признались, что они были введены в заблуждение. Врезалось в память выступление одного моряка, который со слезами на глазах, дрожащим голосом заявил:
— Мы виноваты, но клянусь честным словом моряка, что когда я бросал в море офицеров и спекулянтов, я думал, что делаю хорошее дело. И мои товарищи, которые принимали участие в расстрелах, думали, что они поступают, как честные революционеры. Судите нас всех — или никого не судите. Мы все одинаково виноваты.

Съезд вынес резолюцию, которую историки Зарубины называли запоздалой и циничной: 1) Заклеймить самым энергичным образом позорное выступление, бывшее в Севастополе в течение трёх кошмарных ночей.2) Немедленно создать комиссию из лиц собрания для установления степени виновности замешенных лиц и решить, как с ними быть… способствовать раскрытию гнусного дела, дабы этим показать пролетарию Западных государств, что Русские социалисты не палачи, подобно царским, имевшим место при кровавом Николае II.

Последствия работы съезда
Созданная комиссия по расследованию творившегося в Севастополе «гнусного дела» приступила к работе и уже ко 2 марта 1918 года предоставила список из 45 убитых во время «варфоломеевских ночей». О дальнейшей работе комиссии данные отсутствуют. Наказания никто не понёс, разве что сместили с должности председателя Центрофлота анархиста С. И. Романовского.

Революционный флот, ознакомившись в резолюцией съезда по поводу бессудных убийств, в своём большинстве осудило «контрреволюционные стихийные выступления». Но были и исключения. Команда линкора «Воля» вынесла резолюцию, что «виноватых в этих событиях не должно быть, а если их будут предавать суду, мы выступим в их защиту». Команда базы минной бригады напомнила, что «молодцы-балтийцы уничтожали подспорье царизма ещё в первые дни революции» и полностью оправдала бессудные убийства.

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 I Общечерноморский съезд
 Красный террор в Севастополе

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est un film muet américain réalisé par Allan Dwan et sorti en 1913.

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 J. Warren Kerrigan : le Père Bob
 Charlotte Burton : Madge Williams
 Jack Richardson : Benton
 Jessalyn Van Trump : Jessalyn
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 George Periolat : le père de Jessalyn

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Brief Encounter (1974)
mikestakeonthemovies	 August 29, 2017	 7 Comments
Let's begin by stating matter of factly that it's useless to attempt to compare this seventies version of Noel Coward's story to the now classic 1945 film version from David Lean that I was fortunate enough to see at the TCM festival last year in Hollywood on the big screen after being introduced by Illeana Douglas. That film version starred Cecilia Johnson and Trevor Howard as the pair of unlikely lovers. This outing features full on star power with Sophia Loren and Richard Burton taking the leads in the story of an ill-fated romance.
"The memory of you. The Loving of you. Time won't take that away."
Having just helmed The Hireling the previous year, director Alan Bridges moved onto this production from Carlo Ponti which makes the casting of Sophia Loren all the more obvious. For the uninitiated, Ponti was Sophia's husband from 1957 till his death in 2007. Brief Encounter was one of two films that Burton would make in the same year with Loren, the other being Vittorio De Sica's The Voyage. This film mainly belongs to Sophia who is clearly the main focus playing a mother of two in a stale marriage that has lost it's magic. When a chance meeting at a train station with Burton evolves into a second not so chance meeting where Burton is concerned, the pair slowly begin to fall in love thru one clandestine meeting after another.
It's a series of "brief encounters" as the pair meet over lunch hours outside their work and innocently get to know each other though both are fully aware of the direction their friendship is headed. One that could ruin the lives they currently lead and harm the loved ones around them. This is mostly from Sophia's point of view as she's the one with two young children and a husband who isn't as blind to her plight as he may appear initially. Actor Jack Hedley takes on the duties of portraying Sophia's hubby in this film that was released in North America as a made for TV outing. Based on the film posters I've found on line, I suspect it was a theatrical release in many other corners of the globe.
Burton on the other hand is pressing the relationship with Loren as he's in a dead end marriage and looking for a new meaningful love. We don't actually see his home life till the seventy minute mark of the film and it's the only time the film will give us some insight into his home life and the relationship he has with his wife played by Ann Firbank. She's a journalist of sorts while he's a doctor. Admittedly there seems to be nothing left in their relationship which makes it all the easier to see how Burton has been captivated by the somewhat dressed down Loren.
Dressed down she may be but one smile from Sophia lights up the room and it isn't hard to see why Burton becomes captivated by her. Sophia had such a talent for appearing as a sad downcast character only to breath life into her roles with a hearty laugh and smile. Not only was Burton on screen with arguably one of the most beautiful women in the world this time out but it was also filmed during the same period when he and his real life beauty Liz Taylor were nearing the end of their first marriage and on to the second one.
Burton brings to the camera that low key marvelous pitch of a voice and generally underplays the role of the love sick doctor though a couple scenes get the best of him when he tries to hold the doomed relationship together with Miss Loren.
While this version of the Coward play may not have the emotional impact of the David Lean classic, I don't think it's necessarily fair to dismiss it out of hand due to the work and legend of the film's two iconic leads. Should you be hoping to add this one to your library shelf of Burton and Loren titles, it is available as a double feature on DVD from ITV/Timeless Media.
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Pleasant Street says:
This has been available on YouTube for some time and I really enjoyed it. The first time not so much-I think I was comparing it to the classic, but on its own, it's a nice little movie, and I can never resist Burton on screen
mikestakeonthemovies says:
That's the key to this one, don't get caught up in the comparing and enjoy it as is. It's likable on it's own.
maddylovesherclassicfilms says:
I enjoyed it less than you did Mike. If the original had never existed, then I think this film probably wouldn't be too bad. As it is though it pales in comparison to the original. Burton and Loren do give it their best shots though. To be fair, I think that you could do worse than this if you're looking for a flick to waste a couple of hours with. Passable, but not great. I checked this out purely for Richard and it was he who kept me watching the whole thing.
I guess that's the whole point of my argument. Not comparable but on it's own merit, it's worth checking into out of respect for the stars. I wonder if the production received lots of flack back in 74 as remakes get today from die hards. Case in point is the new Death Wish is getting harshly criticised from fans of the 70's original and Bronson in general. And it's not even out yet!
Cinespiria says:
I was gearing up to watch the original soon, as I'm working my way through some noir pictures. I saw it as a kid when my mom had it on the TV a few times. I never realized that this remake existed. I guess I'll have to check this one out too.
The original is really a timeless tale. True classic. This one ok but hard to deny Sophia and Dick a chance.
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Authorities Monday identified the four victims of Sunday's airplane crash in Newhall as longtime members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
All died when their single-engine plane crashed into a mountain in heavy rain and fog about 1 a.m., narrowly missing storage tanks at an oil refinery.
The pilot was identified as Lt. Harry Parson, 50, a 27-year veteran of the department. He was traveling with his wife, Deputy Therese Pinocchio, 38, a 13-year veteran of the department. The couple lived in Long Beach, and had four children--two sons, 25 and 28, and two daughters, 24 and 29.
Parson worked in the department's contract law enforcement bureau. Pinocchio was assigned to the emergency-operations bureau in Whittier, which responds to major disasters such as earthquakes.
Also killed were Capt. George E. Reed, 43, commander of the Men's Central Jail, and his wife, Deputy Rosemarie Reed, 47, of Glendale.
George Reed had worked for the department for more than 20 years, and his wife, who worked in the department's court services division, was an 18-year veteran. They had two children, a daughter, 22, and a son, 24.
Department spokeswoman Deputy Roxanna Schuchman said Parson was an experienced flyer.
The two couples were returning from a day trip to Bullhead City, Ariz., and were heading for Brackett Field in La Verne when the plane crashed, Schuchman said.
The route through Newhall is out of the way, but often is chosen by private pilots flying back to the Los Angeles Basin in bad weather because the clouds around the mountains tend to be higher, thus improving visibility, said Sgt. John McLean, a Sheriff's Department pilot.
From the Newhall area, the pilot could have followed the Foothill Freeway east toward La Verne, authorities said.
They said the pilot appeared to be following the Antelope Valley Freeway when the plane drifted off course near the Golden State Freeway and struck the mountain.
The plane, a Cessna 182, narrowly missed storage tanks and power lines when it came down on the grounds of the Newhall Refining Co. on Clampitt Road.
"It could have very easily come within 100 to 200 feet of the refinery itself," said Capt. Mike Brownlie of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Newhall station. "It could have been a very disastrous situation. Most things they have there are volatile, some even toxic."
The four-seat aircraft belonged to the Tin Star Flying Club based at Brackett Field.
The cause of the crash remained undetermined Monday and was under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.


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PHIL (AKA THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHIL)
As of this writing I have reviewed only thirteen 2019 films (I didn't go see The Curse of La Llorona for any other reason apart from cheap-to-tawdry entertainment). Having said that, I feel confident that Phil (or as the title actually reads, The Philosophy of Phil) will earn its place as one of if not the Worst Film of 2019. This is the kind of project where one feels genuinely sorry for everyone involved.
I'd bet even the catering company regrets their involvement with Phil.
Depressed divorced dentist Phil McGuire (Greg Kinnear in his directorial debut) wonders why he has such a miserable life while others have it all together. This is compounded by a new patient, Michael Fisk (Bradley Whitford), who has a happy marriage and an unexpected success with a book on Socrates.
Phil decides to do the rational thing and stalk Michael to find the key to eternal joy, but he happens to stalk him on the day Michael goes into the woods to hang himself. Phil is so shocked at finding Michael's body that he flees the scene, only later realizing he took Michael's shoes in his panic. Now more puzzled, Phil decides he needs to find out why this seemingly successful and happy man ended it all.
For that, Phil ends up mistaken by Michael's widow Alicia (Emily Mortimer) for a long-lost Greek friend, 'Spyros Papalapalapulu' (that's as close to a phonetic spelling of a name that everyone in Phil struggles with, especially Phil himself). As 'Spyros', Phil hoodwinks Alicia into finishing the family bathroom, which is the perfect disguise for his 'undercover' work. This does mean neglecting his dental patients, leaving his poor office manager Rahel (April Cameron) to try and sort out the ensuing chaos.
'Spyros' keeps digging to find 'the truth'. Could Michael have had a secret cancer diagnosis? Could Sam (Taylor Schilling), a pretty colleague of Michael's, have been his mistress who ended up pregnant? Phil keeps up this 'Spyros' rouse despite his brother Malcolm (Jay Duplass) telling him he's gone off the deep end.
The jig is finally up thanks to actual detective work by Detective Welling (Luke Wilson). Eventually though, Alicia moves on and Phil, after a second albeit accidental suicide attempt, creates a stronger bond with his own daughter Molly (Megan Charpentier).
Phil is a disaster. A total absolute disaster, a horror of a film that is more sad than cringe-inducing, though it is that. It's a comedy that is not funny and a drama that is not serious.
The blame for what should be titled The Fiasco of Phil lies with three people. At the bottom of the list is composer Rolfe Kent. His score is so wildly out-of-tune with the scenes (pun intended). The music is shockingly cutesy for the scenes of Phil breaking and entering, rummaging through dead men's things to delve into something that is frankly none of his business. Over and over the score does not rise about second-rate sitcom music and just does not fit any of its scenes.
Rolfe, however, was working with substandard material, and here is where the second-largest share of blame goes to screenwriter Stephen Mazur. Not once in his screenplay did any of the characters seem even remotely real or rational. Mazur's idea of laughs comes from having Phil learn "Go to hell, asshole masturbater", in Greek.
All the characters are either insane or stupid. Phil is genuinely bonkers in his stalking of the Fisk family, let alone abandoning his dental practice on this oddball whim. Alicia is just stupid and/or crazy to believe 'Spyros' is who he is, let alone let a total stranger work on her house. Then you have Michael's father Bing (Robert Forster) who claims to know 'Spyros' but who genuinely has no idea that this 'Spyros' is a fake.
Was he actually fooled or was Bing genuinely if not equally nuts?
Even Detective Welling seems stupid. Poorly acted by Wilson, whose sole acting choice is to narrow or widen his eyebrows, we have what I think is a major plot-hole. Welling mentions that Michael's shoes were not found near his body, but after he arrests Phil we are also expected to believe that Welling never actually searched Phil's home because right under his bed are Michael's shoes, which hid a suicide note.
They arrest Phil but don't find Michael's shoes? What, did they not search Phil's home? Did they not notice a large board that Malcolm openly tells his brother looks like something a serial killer would set up?
He, however, was working for someone who has to take the most blame, and that is Kinnear himself. Watching Phil, I could possibly see Steve Carrell play the title role, having played a similar type in Little Miss Sunshine which coincidentally costarred Kinnear. I could see Kinnear playing the Malcolm role, attempting to shake his brother into some kind of sanity. However, it was a terrible, terrible mistake for Kinnear to play Phil.
Not only would he not convince anyone he was remotely Greek (his mention of a half-Greek grandfather making a Hellenic connection extremely tenuous) but too much time is wasted on the 'wackiness' of Phil/Spyros remodeling the Fisk bathroom. Kinnear has no visual style and after watching all the performances save perhaps Duplass one senses that Kinnear's directing consisted of telling the actors in a nice, soft voice, "OK, go" and left them to figure out how to deliver their lines, accepting any take and just telling the editor in what order they should go.
Duplass barely escapes with at most an adequate performance as he was about the only rational person in Phil. To be fair Cameron, despite a squeaky voice, was the best as the put-upon and besieged Rahel to where I would have preferred a film centering around either or both of them rather than the morose and probably insane Phil.
As a side note, the remodeling eventually turns disastrous both pre-and-post completion: as Alicia is sobbing about finding 'Spyros'' true identity while in the shower, the whole thing starts collapsing on her. Tiles soon start breaking off the walls and the shower head starts ratting and I think almost falls on her. Perhaps this is indicative of how bad Phil was: what should or would normally be a serious and sad moment is trashed by inept comedy.
I like Greg Kinnear ever since he hosted Talk Soup. He has a pleasant manner and talent. It's good to see he wants to branch out to working behind the camera. However, Phil is a dreadful calling card: unfunny, illogical, poorly acted. It is pretty much insulting to the audience.
At a certain point when he realizes just how far things have gone, Phil says, "This has got to end". Would that he have said the same about Phil itself.
DECISION: F-
Labels: 2019, Comedies, Review


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Racial Equality Long Way Off: Panel in the Vineyard
August 23, 2009 • Jessie Daniels • racism
Someday, I hope to be one of those academics that summers at the Vineyard. Until then, I'll just read about them online from hot, muggy New York. I came across this article about an interesting panel discussion at the Whaling Church on Martha's Vineyard, called "Achieving Equality in the Age of Obama." The panel happened just a few days ago, and was led by Harvard professor Skip Gates, and included, among others, Harvard professor Lawrence Bobo, Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond, Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell, and New York Times columnist Charles Blow, and moderated by journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
The entire article is worth reading, but I just wanted to pull out a couple of relevant bits here. Gates put the state of racial inequality in the U.S. in context when he reflected on his recent arrest inside his home:
"There are one million black men in jail or prison and on July 16 this summer I became one of them . . . what about all those men and women who languish unfairly in prison every day, who are racially profiled every day, who have no recourse, no hope of salvation no way to break that cycle?"
Professors Bobo and Darling-Hammond followed Gates introduction with relevant stats on the racial inequality in incarceration:
Panelist Lawrence Bobo, another Harvard professor, had the numbers: one in 100 Americans are behind bars, one in 15 African Americans; or one in nine black men between the ages of 20 and 34. Next to him, Stanford professor Linda Darling-Hammond noted that the United States had five per cent of the world's population, but 25 per cent of the world's prison population. Most of these were nonviolent criminals, Mr. Bobo said. Arbitrary disorderly conduct charges — the initial, later dropped, charge against Mr. Gates — was part of the reason, as was drug use.
Feeding the jail and prison system in this country, is a deeply unequal educational institution:
Though an African American was in the Oval Office, black kids suffered dramatic inequality in educational opportunities, said Ms. Darling-Hammond; the difference between public school spending per child varied from $40,000 per year to $4,000 per year in "apartheid schools" with 90 per cent minorities who lacked textbooks, music or art classes and where there was a 50 per cent teacher turnover rate each year.
So, she said, the U.S. now ranked 35th out of 40 industrialized countries in math achievement, 31st in science and at the bottom tier in graduation rates. The U.S. had slipped from first to 16th in higher education. "Almost all of this comes from inequality," said the woman who was head of the Obama transition team in education. Depressingly, she said the country had work to do to implement the 1896 Plessy ("separate but equal") Supreme Court mandate in schools, let alone the integration required by Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954.
And, even in the elite enclave of Martha's Vineyard, there's intense resistance to change, as Prof. Bobo noted citing anecdotal evidence from bumper stickers he'd spotted around the Island:
Mr. Bobo who cited three Vineyard bumper stickers" I'll show as much respect to your president as you showed mine," "Had enough change yet?" and "Don't blame me, I voted for the old white guy."
Prof. Harris-Lacewell summed up what she called the "exquisite benefit" from the Gates arrest, this way:
"All of us could of course work on making sure we are the most upright, uprighteous, pants on, name their kid Jason instead of Jamal . . ." but it wouldn't change the power structure. "For me, one of the most exquisite benefits of the stupid Skip Gates arrest in his home, is the lie that it gives to the notion that respectability will make you safe."
Indeed, we have a long way to go to change the structure of racial inequality in this country.


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David Luiz convinced Abramovich still loves Chelsea
Roman Abramovich has been a distant figure at Chelsea this season, but David Luiz is confident the Russian has not lost interest.
Ryan Benson
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich - Getty Images
David Luiz is convinced Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich still loves the club and has not grown disinterested despite a visa-enforced absence.
The Russian billionaire bought Chelsea in 2003 and has transformed the club's fortunes by investing significant sums of money.
Trophies soon followed his arrival, with all five of its Premier League titles coming after Abramovich's purchase of the club, while its solitary Champions League and Europa League wins came in 2011-12 and 2012-13, respectively.
A visa row initially prevented Abramovich from attending Chelsea games this term, and although he is reported to have got around that issue by getting Israeli citizenship, he has not been at Stamford Bridge all season.
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This has given way to claims – which his associates have denied – that Abramovich is looking to sell up, but David Luiz is certain he retains his passion for the club.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, David Luiz said: "He has been away, but his heart is here. He loves this club.
"He is the one who built Chelsea. Everything at Chelsea changed because of him. The results speak for themselves. Fifteen trophies in 15 years. He came here to do something amazing and he did it.
"I had the opportunity to talk with him last week, to decide my future. He loves the club and everything that is inside the club, not just the people.
"He wants to win everything. He is still in love with the club and wants to do more. It is difficult for him, but his heart is with us, he tries to be involved every single day.
"He is still really passionate for the club. He is still thinking in the same way. He has the same hunger, thinking about winning. He doesn't want to lose energy."


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It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2018-19 school year at West Branch High School, Home of the Warriors. I would like to offer a special West Branch welcome to the incoming class of 2022 and to all the new students in our district. There are a lot of opportunities awaiting you, so don't let them pass you by!
West Branch High School has a long tradition of "Excellence" in academics, athletics, the arts and in our extra-curricular activities. Over the years the High School has been recognized as a "National Blue Ribbon" Award winner, received numerous "Excellent" Ratings by the State of Ohio, been named an Outstanding High School by U.S. News and World report, as well as receiving awards of distinction in many specific disciplines. Our commitment is to maintain the excellence and to prepare students for life after high school. It is very important to get involved and to be active. Take advantage of the many academic and extra curricular opportunities waiting for you. Don't miss out on your chance and help make this year another award winning year!
I look forward to working with our students during the school day and watching them perform at after school activities. Hopefully all students will be involved, maintain good attendance, work hard and be prepared to bring their best each day!
Lastly, stay informed by frequenting our webpage (www.westbranch.k12.us), viewing the school calendar, checking student progress on Progressbook and by following us on twitter at WestBranchHighSchool@Mr.CoffeeWB.
Best of luck to everyone as we create another outstanding year!


Martin Winterkorn, the former boss of Volkswagen, is likely to face legal action from his own firm due to his part in the dieselgate scandal.
Recently, Winterkorn was charged by authorities from the United States of America over the emissions scandal of Volkswagen, or dieselgate, that were revealed in 2015.
VW was discovered to have defrauded emissions testing by programming its cars to activate emissions controls only during laboratory testing to enable them to meet the standards of the United States, when their cars actually emitted up to 40 times more nitrogen oxides when it comes to real-world driving.
Stephan Weil, a VW supervisory board member, talked to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a German newspaper. He said that the company may seek some damages from its former chief executive. Weil represents the German state of Lower Saxony, a shareholder of VW, on the company's board.
For years, VW claimed that only lower-level managers knew about the emissions cheating. However, authorities in the United States filed criminal charges against Winterkorn earlier this year.
Probes into the said scandal extended to Audi, another brand of VW, earlier this June. It comes after it was revealed that Rupert Stadler, its chief executive, was also being investigated by authorities in Germany for false advertising and suspected fraud because of his part in bringing cars that have the rigged software to the European market.
This week, Stadler was arrested. They cited concerns that he might attempt to interfere with the investigation. The arrest urged the supervisory board to suspend him and name Bram Schot to take over as the interim CEO of Audi.
When asked by Sueddeutsche why Stadler was suspended instead of being removed entirely, Weil said that many questions were still unanswered.


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Category Archives: Rei Hino
[Lunar Logs] Kotono, Aya, and Michie Discuss Their Roles as Usagi, Ami, and Rei
Filed under Ami Mizuno, Anime, Articles, Interview, Lunar Logs, Rei Hino, Usagi Tsukino
October 1992 Animage Interview
Lunar Logs is a weekly series featuring full translations of interviews with Ms. Takeuchi and others — such as the directors, writers, voice cast, and more — responsible for making Sailor Moon into the massively popular franchise we know it as today. Though not every interview will directly address or even mention Sailor Moon, I find it an interesting look into the minds of these influential figures.
Today's interview was conducted in Fall 1992 with Kotono Mitsuishi (Usagi), Aya Hisakawa (Ami), and Michie Tomizawa (Rei) on their thoughts regarding how they portray their characters, their thoughts on prospective love interests, and even Umino (??)!1
Read on for the interesting behind-the-scenes character development and an inside look at the respective soldiers' views of romance and their possible love interests!
Happy Birthday Rei Hino!
Filed under Blog, Rei Hino
Happy Birthday Rei! (courtesy of Sweet Bee)
Whether you know Rei best as the cool, silent priestess-type from the manga or the bossy counterpoint to Usagi in the anime, this character managed to strike a very personal chord that still resonates with me today.
In honor of Rei Hino's birthday, I'd like to take the opportunity to highlight five interesting facts about the high-heeled Senshi of passion and her role in Sailor Moon. Happy Birthday, Rei!
What Power Is Sailor Mars Invoking with Burning Mandala?
Filed under Real World, Rei Hino
The mandala, it burns!!
It certainly does seem like we keep coming back to Sailor Mars, time and again, in our effort to answer yet more Sailor Moon mysteries.
And it's not like we don't have a good reason for it, either.
While I'm certain that most fans the world over are perfectly capable of figuring out what a "Supreme Thunder" is, or parsing out the meaning behind a "Love and Beauty Shock," Sailor Mars is something of a different story for the western world. Steeped in Shinto tradition, and yet having nearly no Shinto-inspired powers, the attacks wielded by the Sailor Soldier of fire have a surprisingly deep and convoluted background.
Join me as we dissect the Burning Mandala, and figure out once and for all what those symbols she's summoning up actually mean. You may want to grab a snack, because this is gonna be quite a ride!
What Does Rei's Akuryo Taisan Chant Mean?
Filed under Articles, Real World, Rei Hino
The Magnificent Mars Mantra!
While Sailor Moon definitely had its fair share of character stereotypes, I think that was actually one of the points where the series truly shined. Rather than just sticking with common tropes, it built upon them to make each of the characters into people that stood out on their own merits and that the readers/viewers could really relate to.
One such character, for me at least, is Rei — and especially the Rei that we see depicted in the anime. Though a haughty, strong-headed, and competitive 14 year old girl in her day-to-day life, she somehow manages to make this work with her spiritual side without ever feeling like either depiction of the character is shoehorned in.
Today, I'd like to take a moment to explore a little more of Rei's spiritual side, and specifically about what some of her chants actually mean. If you happen to be an evil demon, you may want to skip this article. For the rest of you, read on!
Are Phobos and Deimos Sailor Soldiers in Training?
Filed under Articles, In-Universe Lore, Rei Hino, Supporting Cast
Sailor Mars with Phobos and Deimos in the background
From the moment that Phobos and Deimos first appeared in the series, I think that many fans got the sense that there was probably something deeper lurking within Rei's bird companions. They had Mars-themed names, after all, and time and again we would find ourselves introduced to talking cats throughout Sailor Moon's run. So why not talking birds?
And yet, it took four long years before we ever learned any more about them… in the manga, at least.
Who are Phobos and Deimos really? What is their role in the series? And is it true that they're also Sailor Soldiers in training?
Stick around, because today we'll be taking a look at these questions and more as we discuss Sailor Mars' feathered companions!
Is There a Connection Between Rei Hino and Rei Ayanami?
Filed under Articles, Language, Real World, Rei Hino
Rei and… Rei?
When you consider the sheer volume of anime, manga, and videos games that produced in Japan every year, it's really no surprise that you'll run across characters that share the same name. The more popular or common a name is, the more likely you are to see it elsewhere, either in other media or even in the real world!
But when you stop and consider (1) the relatively short time period in which Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion hit the market and (2) just how uncommon a name like Rei is in the first place, it's a little harder to write it off as pure coincidence.
Today we're going to take a look at the interesting, behind-the-scenes connection between these two juggernauts of anime!
Is Sailor Mars Left-Handed?
Flaaaaaaame Snipeeeeeeeer!
This is another one of those interesting fan theories that I occasionally see bouncing around the internet. I especially like it because, in a series that is frankly lacking in diversity, the idea that any of the characters would have anything remotely different about them is interesting to me.
Not like being left-handed is much of a big deal anyway, but that's about as close as we could hope to get.
So today we're going to take a deeper look into the theory about our (possibly…) favorite left-handed Sailor Soldier!
3 Problematic Names in Sailor Moon Translations
What Was the Inspiration Behind Zoisite and Kunzite's Relationship?


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After winning a Scholarship to the Royal College of Music, he held appointments at St Albans and Norwich Cathedrals, and was Organist and Director of Music at Sheffield Cathedral from 1997 to 2016. During his time in Sheffield, the cathedral choir toured both at home and abroad (including Germany, Holland, France, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the USA) and broadcast frequently on BBC Radios 2 & 3. His CD Recordings include Music for a Millennium, a Classic FM Magazine CD of the Year Award Winner, and nine CD recordings with the cathedral choir, all to high critical acclaim.
As solo organist, he has played at many of the major venues in the UK, and has worked with the Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.
He is Music Director of St George's Singers, Manchester, The Sheffield Chorale, and Artistic Director of the Keele Bach Choir; he appears frequently with the BBC as Musical Director and Organist on BBC Daily Service and Sunday Worship.
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Accidentally Wes Anderson Postcards (Postcard book or pack)
By Wally Koval
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Mercury Signs Free Agent Wing Essence Carson
Official Release February 6, 2019
PHOENIX – The three-time WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury today announced the signing of free agent wing Essence Carson, an 11-year WNBA veteran who won a championship with the 2016 Los Angeles Sparks.
"Essence was one of our top targets when free agency began and we are excited to welcome her to the Mercury family," said Mercury General Manager Jim Pitman. "She is an established starter in this league with championship experience, who instantly makes us better and deeper. She can play and guard multiple positions, and she is a legitimate three-point threat whose skillset perfectly complements our Big Three."
A former All-Star (2011) whose teams have qualified for the playoffs in eight of her 11 career seasons (including four consecutive), Carson is a two-time WNBA Finalist, including the 2016 title with the Sparks when she started all 43 of the team's regular and postseason games. Carson joins the Mercury, her third WNBA squad, after three years in Los Angeles in which she shot a combined 34.1 percent (71-of-208) from three-point range, including a career-high 39 makes a season ago while shooting 36.1 percent, the second-best mark of her career.
Carson joins a Mercury roster laden with three-point threats, including four players who, like her, made 30-plus three-pointers a season ago. No WNBA team in 2018 had five players on its roster that made 30 or more threes. Carson also joins a Mercury squad that led the league in percentage of shots from beyond the arc in 2018 (39.97 percent) to space the floor around Brittney Griner, the game's most dominant low-post scoring threat.
Originally the seventh overall selection in the 2008 WNBA Draft by New York, Carson owns career averages of 7.5 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 323 games. The 6-0 guard played her first eight seasons with the Liberty, where she posted a breakout season in 2011, averaging 11.3 points and shooting a career-best 38.7 percent (24-of-62) from three-point range en route to being voted a WNBA All-Star that summer.
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é um estúdio de desenvolvimento de videogames, com sede na cidade de Fukuoka, no Japão. É conhecido principalmente por seu trabalho na série .hack, e também pela adaptação do anime Naruto para os videogames, tais como Naruto: Ultimate Ninja. A empresa também é conhecida por criar a série Little Tail Bronx (por exemplo, Tail Concerto e Solatorobo: Red the Hunter). Desenvolveu também Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, adaptação do anime Dragon Ball Z. Em 2016, expandiu seu trabalho para o mercado internacional, abrindo uma filial em Montreal, Canadá.

Jogos

Série Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PlayStation 2)
 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (PlayStation 2)
 Naruto: Narutimate Portable (PlayStation Portable)
 Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3 (PlayStation 2)
 Naruto Shippūden: Narutimate Accel (PlayStation 2)
 Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Accel 2 (PlayStation 2)
 Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm (PlayStation 3)
 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations (Playstation 3, Xbox 360)
 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
 Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows)

Outros jogos
 Silent Bomber (PlayStation)
 Tail Concerto (PlayStation)
 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (PlayStation)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (Playstation 4)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven  (PlayStation)
 Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (Playstation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles (Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft Windows)

Ligações externas

Desenvolvedoras de jogos eletrônicos
Empresas de jogos eletrônicos do Japão


Astronauts will soar spaceward in commercial spacecraft while NASA develops technology so humans can venture to Mars and out into the solar system, President Barack Obama told a space conference Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
"Early in the next decade, a set of crewed flights will test and prove the systems required for exploration beyond low Earth orbit," the president said. "And by 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space. We'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it."
The president spoke to 200 senior officials, space and industry leaders, and academic experts inside the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy in the same area that was used to process Apollo spacecraft for the missions to the moon in the 1960s and 70s.
Standing in front of one of the space shuttle main engines that launched former U.S. Senator and astronaut John Glenn into orbit, President Obama said, "It was from here that men and women, propelled by sheer nerve and talent, set about pushing the boundaries of humanity's reach.
"The question for us now is whether that was the beginning of something, or the end of something. I prefer to believe it was the beginning of something."
The president's fiscal year 2011 budget proposal increases NASA's budget by $6 billion throughout the next five years to fund the plans.
Noting "the sense that folks in Washington -- driven less by vision than by politics -- have for years neglected NASA's mission and undermined the work of the professionals who fulfill it," the president said the budget increase changes that.
The president's address comes at a critical juncture for NASA because the space shuttle fleet is scheduled to be retired after three more missions. The president said it will be quicker and less costly to let private companies develop new spacecraft for astronauts rather than continue with NASA's Constellation Program, which was deemed too expensive and behind schedule.
"Pursuing this new strategy will require that we revise the old strategy. In part, this is because the old strategy -- including the Constellation Program -- was not fulfilling its promise in many ways," the president said. "That's not just my assessment; that's also the assessment of a panel of respected non-partisan experts charged with looking at these issues closely."
President Obama's plan largely mirrors the "flexible path" option offered by a blue-ribbon panel established by the president last year to help decide the best map for future space exploration.
The outline does not do away with all the research and development from Constellation . Noting the success of the agency's development of the Orion crew capsule, Obama called on NASA to develop a version of that spacecraft so it can be launched without a crew to the International Space Station. It will be based there as an emergency craft for astronauts living on the orbiting laboratory.
The speech kicked off the Conference on the American Space Program for the 21st Century.
Norm Augustine, chairman of the blue-ribbon panel called the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, that evaluated Constellation and came up with the "flexible path" option, endorsed the presidential strategy as the conference got under way.
Saying NASA is largely "trapped" in low Earth orbit, Augustine said industry, with NASA's guidance, can do its part for the plan.
The president acknowledged the need to get the decision right.
"Now, the challenges facing our space program are different, and our imperatives for this program are different than in decades past," the president said. "But while the measure of our achievements has changed a great deal over the past fifty years, what we do -- or fail to do -- in seeking new frontiers is no less consequential for our future in space and here on Earth."
The plan, the president said, would free NASA's designers and engineers to develop spacecraft, large rockets and new technologies that can extend the frontier of human space exploration to asteroids and even Mars.
About $3.1 billion of the additional funding would go into research and development for a heavy-lift rocket. A design for a large booster would be chosen in 2015 with the goal of launching the spacecraft a few years later. The bigger rocket could be used to loft payloads too large for most boosters, including giant fuel depots that would be parked in distant orbits so spacecraft could refuel on their way to asteroids, the moons of Mars and eventually Mars itself.
In addition to more funding, President Obama said his initiative brings more jobs than previous schedules.
"My plan will add more than 2,500 jobs along the Space Coast in the next two years compared to the plan under the previous administration," he said. "I'm proposing a $40 million initiative led by a high-level team from the White House, NASA, and other agencies to develop a plan for regional economic growth and job creation. And I expect this plan to reach my desk by Aug. 15. It's an effort that will help prepare this already skilled work force for new opportunities in the space industry and beyond."
Taken together, the space strategy proves America is poised for a future as bright as its remarkable past, the president said.
"Fifty years after the creation of NASA, our goal is no longer just a destination to reach," Obama said. "Our goal is the capacity for people to work and learn, and operate and live safely beyond the Earth for extended periods of time, ultimately in ways that are more sustainable and even indefinite. And in fulfilling this task, we will not only extend humanity's reach in space -- we will strengthen America's leadership here on Earth."


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I'm wondering if I can do this as the documentation may say I can, but I can't find it.
I have two FTM's that I would like to start a PWM signal on. Two different channels and frequencies.
While these PWM signals are working, I'd like to be in the VLPW state that just waits for one of the interrupts that will trigger when it is time to change the PWM frequencies. That way, before I sleep, I can turn off anything I need to turn off and only have on the GPIO Ports I need.
Then when the GPIO's IRQ comes in, I want to handle some short business and then go back to sleep.
I thought I read about the ability to do this with DMA, can I also do it without DMA?
The application you describe is possible.
According to Table 8-2. Module operation in low power modes from the K28 reference manual the FTM is fully functional in VLPW mode.
It is also possible to use the DMA to update the PWM frequency. However, you need to consider that the MOD register is buffered, so the update of the register is dependent on the clock source, FTM operation mode and FTM configuration. For more information on this, you can refer to the application note AN5261 - Kinetis Flextimer Buffered Registers Update.


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Moving to 33-foot doubles would take some pressure off the roads by moving more freight per mile traveled and using less fuel to move the increased volume of freight.
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Ewan MacColl Memorial Award
2015 was Ewan MacColl's centenary year. Events that marked this included:
Blood and Roses: The Songs of Ewan MacColl
A nationwide multi-artist tour, curated by MacColl's sons Neill and Calum. The concerts featured guest singers Peggy Seeger, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, The Unthanks, Damien Dempsey, Declan O'Rourke and Chaim Tannenbaum.
The 'house band' featured family and friends including
Neill MacColl guitar
Calum MacColl guitar
Kate St John piano, accordion, winds
Harry Mead drums
Ben Nichols bass
25th Jan 2015 – Celtic Connections, Glasgow
3rd Nov 2015 – Liverpool Philharmonic
4th Nov 2015 – Salford Lowry Theatre
5th Nov 2015 – Gateshead Sage
9th Nov 2015– London Barbican
11th Oct 2016 – Dublin National Concert Hall
Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl
A double CD of Ewan's songs, recorded by a host of well known artists, was released in September 2015 on Cooking Vinyl Records. Order the album: HERE
1. Damien Dempsey – Schooldays Over
2. Martin Carthy – I'm Champion At Keeping 'Em Rolling
3. The Unthanks – Cannily, Cannily
4. Seth Lakeman – The Shoals of Herring
5. Marry Waterson – The Exile Song
6. Jack Steadman & Jamie MacColl (Bombay Bicycle Club) – The Young Birds
7. Dick Gaughan – Jamie Foyers
8. Eliza Carthy – Thirty-Foot Trailer
9. Chaim Tannenbaum – My Old Man
10. Steve Earle – Dirty Old Town
11. Jarvis Cocker – The Battle Is Done With
Disc 21. Paul Buchanan – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2. Paul Brady – Freeborn Man
3. Norma Waterson – Moving On Song
4. Karine Polwart – The Terror Time
5. Martin Simpson – The Father's Song
6. Christy Moore – The Companeros
7. Billy Bragg – Kilroy Was Here
8. Rufus & Martha Wainwright – Sweet Thames, Flow Softly
9. Kathryn Williams – Alone
10. David Gray – The Joy of Living
BBC Radio 2 Folk Show Tribute to Ewan MacColl from Celtic Connections, with Norma Waterson, Martin & Eliza Carthy, Chaim Tannenbaum and family members
BBC Radio 4 documentary The Real MacColl
23rd & 30th January: Irish radio RTE's Arts channel Lyric FM broadcast a 2-part documentary, Freeborn Man – A Tribute to Ewan MacColl. The programmes featured many hitherto unheard recordings from the Singers Club and the Critics Group over the years. Click 'Lyric Feature' page to listen back
25th January 2015: Celtic Connections @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall – Blood & Roses: The Songs of Ewan MacColl curated by Ewan's sons Neill and Calum MacColl. Special guests performed a selection of Ewan's songs. Artists included Jarvis Cocker, Paul Buchanan, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, Kate St John, Dick Gaughan, Karine Polwart and Chaim Tannenbaum. Four of MacColl's grandsons joined the line up – Jamie MacColl (Bombay Bicycle Club), Harry Mead (Klangkarussell), Alex MacColl and Tom MacColl.
25th January: Ewan's friends commemorated his 100th birthday at 12pm, Ewan's oak tree in Russell Square, London WC1.
25th January: The Observer – 'Ewan MacColl, the godfather of folk who was adored …. and feared'
25th January: The Salford Star three part celebration of Ewan MacColl on his 100th birthday.
English Dance & Song magazine (published by the English Folk Dance & Song Society http://www.efdss.org/) included a review article based on Legacies of Ewan MacColl: The Last Interview (the new book published by Ashgate) in the Spring 2015 issue, written by Vic Gammon.
27 March: Charles Parker Day 2105 – a celebration of Ewan's legacy, with contributions from Peggy Seeger, Jimmie MacGregor, Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre. It will take place at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Details on the Charles Parker Archive website
April 22nd – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Ewan MacColl was inducted into the Radio 2 Folk Awards Hall of Fame, marked by a special performance of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' by Guy Garvey (Elbow) and a band that included Ewan's sons Neill and Calum MacColl, his grandson Harry Mead and his daughter-in-law Kate St.John. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYWfTQYH8_M
May 10th – Ewan MacColl's centenary marked in his home town
The Working Class Movement Library and the University of Salford presented a centenary tribute to Salford's Ewan MacColl on Sunday 10 May at 2pm in the University's Peel Hall. In 'Ewan MacColl, his life, his words, his music', MacColl was brought to life by Mike Joyce, Gerard Kearns and John Conolly. Gerard Kearns (Shameless) is the young MacColl, Mike Joyce (The Smiths) is the (slightly) more mature MacColl, and John Conolly (composer of Fiddler's Green and Mr Punch and Judy Man) sings the songs. Royston Futter, Secretary to the Library Trustees, has compiled the script for this performance and selected the readings and songs, and introduced the proceedings.
If you know of any other events celebrating Ewan MacColl's life, please let us know and we'll include them on here. You can email us here or use the Contact page.
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Countless singers and performers have been touched by his work.
Mike HardingDJ
Britain's secret services were long convinced that he was a dangerously creative activist.
Ben HarkerAuthor of 'Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl'
Describing Ewan MacColl as a folk-singer is one of the most absurd over-simplifications of all time.
Dick Gaughan
MacColl never stopped learning and even learned how to change.
Ken HuntJournalist
Ewan MacColl was an amazing man and although people were put off by his stern appearance, when I saw him I was stunned by his dimples. When he smiled his whole face changed.
Maddy PriorSteeleye Span
We are all richer and freer because of Ewan's songs.
Peggy Seeger
I'll be part of anything that celebrates Ewan MacColl. I'd like to play him ….
Christopher EcclestonActor
Apart from myself, MacColl is the only man of genius writing for the theatre in England today.
George Bernard ShawPlaywright (1946)
Marlowe is in the wings.
Seán O'CaseyPlaywright (commenting on Ewan's play 'Uranium 235', 1946)
I wouldn't be where I am today without Ewan MacColl.
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Happy what would b 107th B-Day to the late great Singer Ewan MacColl!
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Strategic Plan from Lumina Foundation reinforces EdTech's Connected Campus vision
Lumina Foundation recently released a new strategic plan advocating for a new Postsecondary learning system. Education Technology Associates is proud to have both personal and local connections with Lumina Foundation – and have cited their Goal2025 on our website as a model vision for higher education.
With the recent press release, Lumina has reinforced the need for the transformative changes required to ensure most Americans achieve a satisfactory outcome in postsecondary education. In summary, the underlying objective is to move from a system centered on time and institution – to a system, instead, that is centered on students.
The Typical College Student
The Lumina strategic plan correlates to many of the values of EdTech Associates and our student engagement & retention solution, Connected Campus, starting with the vision of the typical college student. "Typical" usually invokes visions of the 18-22year-old undergraduate, living in dorms or Greek housing, hanging out in the student union and taking classes in lecture halls. But, consider these statistics:
38% of undergraduates today are older than 25
58% of undergraduates work while attending college
26% of undergraduates are already raising a family
Nearly half of first-year students live at – or below – poverty level
Only 13% of today's students study or live full time at a flagship 4-year campus
At the same time, college is more accessible than ever before. Between 1996-2010, enrollment statistics increased across ethnic segments: Hispanic (240%); Black (72%); white students (11%).
At EdTech Associates, we reflect on the challenges and circumstances of today's student and build our product to support all students, but particularly those who:
struggle to manage commitments and stay on track academically
feel isolated and disconnected from the school and fellow students
don't always know where to turn to for the help or resources they need when it is most pressing.
Together, these issues often make degree completion impossible.
Lumina's plan identifies similar themes, pointing out that financial pressures and 'competing obligations' create a far more difficult situation for today's student – leading to a 38% drop-out rate of first-year students.
Students. Schools. Our economy. Our global competitiveness. We are all impacted by insufficient educational attainment.
The employment prospects and earnings potential of today's students is greatly impaired when postsecondary education is incomplete.
Lumina's strategic plan points out that 65% of all jobs by 2020 will require postsecondary education; and further quantifies the average lost lifetime earnings per individual as equating to $1M when a bachelor's degree is not attained.
Our learning institutions are diminished by increased student attrition as well. Revenue, credibility, recruiting, and operating efficiency are all impacted. The Educational Policy Institute conducted a 2013 study of nearly 1700 colleges and universities and found that student attrition at those schools resulted in a revenue loss of $16.5 billion. "Each student who walks out the door takes his or her tuition, fees, and other revenue the school might have been able to receive"; resulting in additional pressures on our schools involving regulatory scrutiny, stakeholder concerns and oversight recommendations. Today, we are seeing a sea-change in both legislation and accreditation, driven by a renewed focus on the value of education and the expectations of the veracity of those charged with delivering it.
Our economy and global competitiveness also suffer whenever a less-educated workforce exists. Consider this from the Education section of the Whitehouse.Gov website:
"In higher education, the U.S. has been outpaced internationally. In 1990, the U.S. ranked first in the world in four-year degree attainment among 25-34 year olds; today, the U.S. ranks 12th. We also suffer from a college attainment gap, as high school graduates from the wealthiest families in our nation are almost certain to continue on to higher education, while just over half of our high school graduates in the poorest quarter of families attend college. And while more than half of college students graduate within six years, the completion rate for low-income students is around 25 percent."
"If we want outcomes for today's students to change, we must change the way higher Ed is delivered to provide all students the support they need to thrive." - Lumina Foundation
The Lumina strategic plan encourages innovation and changes to the way in which we engage students outside of the traditional classroom. EdTech Associates is reimagining the digital campus experience, which has historically been full of disparate, disconnected and distracting choices. With Connected Campus, we unify the delivery of school and staff resources into on beautifully designed, easy to navigate product that combines the best features of engagement and advising products into a single application.
This begins with the Private Online Community. Inspired by Slack, Connected Campus creates vibrant interactions between students, faculty, and staff centered on common interests – both academic and social – while creating the organic groundwork for peer-mentoring in a digital landscape. Connected Campus further enhances the experience by intelligently promoting and delivering personalized content to the individual student when it is required.
Lumina's work points out that "...students need actionable, useful information to make smart decisions about postsecondary education." Connected Campus delivers actionable, useful information directly to the student through its Integrated Advising Services both proactively and when 'at risk' behavior is recognized. These intelligent nudges delivered by Connected Campus are also personalized to each student, configured to match the unique academic rules of each school, and served up to facilitate academic, administrative, and enrichment items. In addition to 'nudges' being delivered directly through the Connected Campus platform, students can opt in for both text and email notifications.
Lumina Foundation continues to be a thought leader on the future vision of education. We applaud their commitment to increase the proportion of American's with degrees, certificates, and other high-quality credentials to 60% by 2025.
At EdTech Associates, we play a part in that vision by providing our Connected Campus solution to schools eager to positively impact student engagement and retention.
Through personalized student resources, a private online community and integrated advising services, Connected Campus is well-positioned to do just that.
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Education Technology Associates was founded in 2015 with the express purpose of transforming impaired student engagement and student retention in Higher Education. With offices in Carmel, IN and Boca Raton, FL, ETA brings together industry veterans, education thought-leaders, and passionate solution architects, whose past experiences in serving 21st century students have shaped its commitment and approach to product delivery.
Visit us at: www.edtechassociates.com


Up until now, I have been treating my passion for writing as though it was a hobby. Which is strange because I have been writing all my life. Since I could first read, I have been writing. Not well, admittedly, but there you go.
When I was 18 or 19, (I can no longer remember which,) I began a story. I knew how I wanted it to start, no clue what I would stick in the middle, but I was certain about the end. This story grew with me, and it has been a journey. I can see the changes in myself ocurring with the growth and change in the maturity of my writing.
I'm so glad I didn't finish that story ten years ago. It would have been a crappy book. As it is, I am editing like a muther. I've tossed out half of just the beginning chapter, and had to rewrite most of it. It's killing me because I'm so ready to just be done. I've been doing this project for the last ten years of my life. I'm ready for it to hit the world. The problem is, you never truly know if a book is ready to hit the world until it does.
And then, it either flops- or it doesn't.
No way to know in advance how it will be received. And that is the scary part, because this book is so much a part of me and my personal growth process. It makes it hard to edit, because I'm so emotionally tied to each and every part of this book.
Don't get me wrong though- I am more than willing to throw out the dross. If I can't stand to read it, there is no way I will force that on someone else.
And so, I continue to edit, and **tch, and whine. Bear with me- I'll get this done eventually.
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