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This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.
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Terremoto Tonga, violentissima scossa di magnitudo 6.9 a Tafahi. Ecco ... 2022-12-06T01:03+0100.
Scossa di terremoto registrata a Tafahi (Tonga) Il 04 Dicembre 2022 ore 20:24 è stata registrata una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 6.9 e profondità 33 km a Tafahi (Tonga). Leggi qui per approfondire. Secondo la scala Richter, un evento s
Terremoto Tonga, violentissima scossa di magnitudo 6.9 a Tafahi. Ecco qui i dettagli2022-12-06T01:03+0100.
Scossa di terremoto registrata a Tafahi (Tonga) Il 04 Dicembre 2022 ore 20:24 è stata registrata una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 6.9 e profondità 33 km a Tafahi (Tonga). Leggi qui per approfondire. Secondo la scala Richter, un evento sismico di magnitudo 6.
Quakes continue off Samoa after 6.7 jolt2022-12-06T00:18+0100.
More earthquakes have struck following the large tremor south of Samoa on Monday. The 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck about 8.30am Monday in Samoa/7.30am Sunday in American Samoa, prompting the Samoan government to urge everyone living on l
More earthquakes have struck following the large tremor south of Samoa on Monday. The 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck about 8.30am Monday in Samoa/7.30am Sunday in American Samoa, prompting the Samoan government to urge everyone living on low-lying coastal areas to stay away from beach areas.
Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Hihifo, Tonga - USGS2022-12-05T21:17+0100.
Dec 6 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck in the sea about 108 kilometres (67 miles) northeast of Hihifo, Tonga on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 35 km, the USGS s
Dec 6 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck in the sea about 108 kilometres (67 miles) northeast of Hihifo, Tonga on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 35 km, the USGS said. (This story has been refiled to fix the typo in the lede.
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck in the sea about 108 kilometres (67 miles) northeasteast of Hihifo, Tonga on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 35 km, the USGS sai
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck in the sea about 108 kilometres (67 miles) northeasteast of Hihifo, Tonga on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 35 km, the USGS said. (Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; editing by....
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Sermon 12/12/2021
Date: Dec. 12, 2021 Third Sunday of Advent
Scripture Lessons: Luke 1:26-38 and Luke 1:46b-55
Sermon: Receive the Gift: The Virgin of Guadalupe
Pastor: Rev. Kim P. Wells
If we ever get to travel widely again, don't expect me to ever go to Mexico without visiting the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. I have been there several times and I can't wait to go back. Hopefully some time I will be able to go there on December 12, the Saint Day for the Virgin of Guadalupe. Millions of people typically visit this shrine every year especially around December 12.
The last time I was there, we got there in the morning and there weren't many people around. Then people started flooding into the huge plaza in front of the church. Hundreds and hundreds of people suddenly lining up in the square. We got in line not knowing yet what for. There was a large plexiglass box on view in the church. The line was filing past the box. People were venerating what was in the box, saying prayers, kissing the box, leaving flowers and trinkets, kneeling and crying. We were told that the box contained a vial. And in the vial was blood from the pope. The Polish pope, John Paul II. We saw the vial positioned next to a full size replica of the pope in the box. A group of nuns gave us a pennant with an image of the pope. The crowd continued to grow outside the church. People would be in line for many hours waiting to venerate the vial. We had gone to the basilica having no knowledge of these goings on. But it's like that in Mexico.
I have questioned myself about my fascination, attraction, interest, in the Virgin of Guadalupe. Given that I am offended by the patriarchy, hierarchy, and sexism of the Catholic church, why am I interested in this Virgin of Guadalupe? In addition, I am Protestant, believing in the priesthood of all believers, not going in for that saint stuff. I am repelled by the predatory imperialism of the Catholic church and its role in decimating the populations of original peoples in what are now called the Americas. I am appalled by the manipulative theology and beliefs of the Catholic church. Well, the Protestant church has its share of all of this, too. The church decimated the wonderful, original cultures of Mexico. Razed the temples and places of worship of the indigenous peoples. And used the same stone bricks and blocks to construct Catholic churches on the same sites. Reconsecrated the land after its pagan desecration. I find this all abhorrent. You'd think that the last place I would want to visit is the most renowned Catholic church in Mexico.
But then there is this story associated with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Just to recap for those of you who are not fixated [as I seem to be!] on this phenomenon –
The earliest written record of this story is in a text called the Nican Mopohua in the Aztec language discovered in 1649 in the archives of the hermitage built for Our Lady of Guadalupe. The exact origins of this text are not known.
What we are told is that in December of 1531, ten years after the Spanish conquest, an Aztec peasant, Juan Diego, is walking to mass at a church nine miles away from his village. He is Christian. He has been baptized. And he is evidently devout, walking nine miles each way to attend church. But Juan Diego describes himself in the Nican Mopohua as "just a piece of rope, a small ladder, the excrement of people; I am a leaf; they order me around, lead me by force." [See The Road to Guadalupe: A Modern Pilgrimage to the Goddess of the Americas by Eryk Hanut, p. 57.] You get the idea. He is a nobody. A disposable.
On his way to mass, he passes Tepeyac Hill, a place sacred to the Aztecs before the Spanish Conquest. There was a shrine there to the goddess who was considered the mother to all of the gods in the Aztec pantheon. This goddess was pregnant, a symbol of fertility. But this temple, like all Aztec holy places was destroyed by the Spanish. As Juan Diego passes, the area is barren, wilderness, deserted, and cold as it is December.
As he goes by, he hears a sound like many birds singing. This gets his attention. Then he hears a voice which addresses him as "Dignified Diego." And he stops to listen. He sees the image of a young woman, with dark skin, pregnant, with a cinta, a black ribbon, around her midriff, the Aztec sign of pregnancy. She is also wearing an emerald cloak with gold stars over a pink dress. Her body is haloed with rays like the sun. She speaks to Juan Diego in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.
She goes on the tell Juan Diego that he is to go to the Bishop and tell him that she, the Virgin Mary, wants a hermitage, a temple, a church, built for her here on this hill. Here she will bestow her love and compassion upon the people. We are told: "There I will hear their laments and remedy and cure all their miseries, misfortunes, and sorrows." [Hanut, p. 23.]
So, Juan Diego goes to the Bishop's palace. He waits, and waits, and waits, hours. Finally at the end of the day, he is allowed to give the Bishop his message. The bishop tells him to come back again, so he can hear this request again, more fully. Juan Diego runs home. On the way he sees the image again. He reports what happened. She tells him to go back the next day which he does.
This time, the Bishop asks for a sign. And he has Juan Diego followed by a couple of guards. They lose him and decide he is crook.
Then Juan Diego is delayed by the illness of his uncle, who is cured by the Virgin. Then he heads back to the Bishop. On the way, he encounters the Virgin again. He tells her the Bishop wants a sign. She tells him to go to the top of the hill and there, in December, in this barren place, the hill is covered with blooming flowers, including Castilian roses. Juan Diego picks some flowers and gathers them in his tilma, a cloak made from crude plant fibers worn by the lowest classes. These flowers are to be the sign for the Bishop. He heads to the palace.
When Juan Diego is finally allowed to see the Bishop, he opens his tilma, and shows the bishop the flowers, and on the tilma is imprinted an image of the virgin in her green star studded cloak and pink dress with black sash, surrounded by rays of light and adorned with roses.
By the end of the month, there is a hermitage on Tepeyac Hill, to the virgin, and it contains Juan Diego's tilma. And there has been a church housing the tilma on that site ever since. You can go there today and see it still.
The huge church that was eventually constructed on the site is sinking and a new church was built adjacent to the old in a neighborhood of Mexico City now called La Villa. Mexico City is constructed on what was a lake, so there is a big
geological problem with buildings sinking – many huge, historic buildings are sinking. You used to go up steps to enter and now you go down steps to get in. So, the original church of Our Lady of Guadalupe is sinking and a modern basilica was constructed. There is a moving sidewalk that takes you past an enclosed display encasing what is supposedly the cloak of Juan Diego with the image of the Virgin on it. And surrounding the church outside are alcoves and commemorations and memorials with flowers and metal charms of body parts and other items representing the gratitude of people relating to petitions made to the Virgin of Guadalupe: There is a prayer request, 'Please heal my soccer injury' and they leave a soccer ball. 'Thank you for letting me live through my heart attack' and there is a charm of a heart, etc. You get the idea. These displays ring the basilica. As do tables with vendors selling everything Guadalupe!
And the devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe is not limited to the vicinity of the basilica. She is the patron saint of Mexico and she is ubiquitous. She is seen on tiles on the walls of buildings – public, private, commercial. She is seen in homes and restaurants and offices – a candle, a flower, a picture. She is on a tile at the water fountain, and on a shelf in the corner of the restaurant. She is in every church in Mexico often in a representation at the top of the altar, above the representation of God and Jesus. After all, she is thought of as the mother of God. She is everywhere in Mexico. And I've read that she is the most venerated Mary in the world having gained popularity throughout South America and even Asia. I don't know how they measure the popularity of the different Mary's, but apparently she is at the head of the hit parade.
Our nephew, who is of Euro American descent back to the Mayflower, educated at Harvard, Episcopalian, etc. married a woman whose parents immigrated to the US from Mexico when they were young adults. They are citizens and have made a wonderful life in the US. One daughter is a doctor and one is a lawyer. The girls have given their many prestigious diplomas to their parents and they are proudly displayed on a wall by the dining room table. So, at our nephew's wedding, at a Catholic Church in Los Angeles, at one point the couple knelt before an altar to a generic white Mary and prayers were said. They they moved and knelt at another altar clearly devoted to the Virgin of Guadalupe, brown skin, the rays of the sun around her, clad in a green cloak with stars. And more prayers were said. Isn't praying to Mary praying to Mary? Why two Mary's? The bride told us later that this ritual involving the two Mary's was a blessing of their bicultural marriage.Interesting.
So, I ask myself, why am I so attracted to this story of the Virgin of Guadalupe? I do not pray to her. I don't expect her to do anything for me. I am not looking for her to intercede for me to God to get some favor granted. But I do have a candle for her in every room of our house; I'm not sure Malcolm and Jeff [my son and husband] are even aware of this.
I am fascinated that in a cultural context where the Catholic church was 'god,' where European colonizers had completely decimated the native population and had crammed the people who were left into a permanent underclass, in a racist culture in which brown people were considered sub human by the European occupiers, in a context so thoroughly based on domination and subjugation, there is this story of a poor brown peasant who gets a high and mighty bishop to build a church devoted to a brown Mary who presents with attributes that hearken back to native religions including worship of the goddess. This story undermines and overturns the entire power structure of the Catholic church including its theology. It works in the interests of the indigenous people AND the Catholic church because it creates a bridge for the indigenous peoples to make a home in the omnipotent Catholic church from which they could not escape. So, the story serves the church and it serves the original peoples. There is an integration that meets the needs of the people so that the church can actually be of spiritual support to the Indios. It's brilliant. A mystery. A miracle?
What we want to notice this season as we Protestant Christians give our nod to Mary, is how the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe is an embodiment, a manifestation, of the song of Mary, the Magnificat, which is based on the song of Hannah, from the book of Samuel. These ancient poems celebrating the justice of God are borne out in the story of Guadalupe. In the Guadalupe story, God chooses a brown Mary, a female figure, to basically cow the Catholic church. God looks with favor on a lowly servant. This also applies to Juan Diego. Who was going to listen to this poor, brown peasant in the opulent prestigious Catholic power structure? And yet, he persists. And the church is built. And Juan Diego and Guadalupe are revered, venerated, like the Mary of the Magnificat.
God does great things for Mary in the Magnificat, and certainly great things have come of the Guadalupe story.
God's mercy reaches from age to age. To this day, because of the story of Guadalupe, brown people, people of color, even white people around the globe expect mercy and justice from God.
As for scattering the proud and deposing the mighty, you know that Catholic bishop did not want to build that church. He did not want to take direction from some poor Indian. He did not want to use the power and resources of the church to respond to this request from a nobody. But the church is there. Now a basilica is there. And the image of Guadalupe covers the globe — in nooks and crannies and niches in every country. She connects with all people, including those with no connection to the Catholic church, or church of any kind, even with no connection to Christianity. Still, there is devotion for Guadalupe especially among people who are not of the dominant class and culture, who are made poor, who are considered less than. Guadalupe fills the hungry. She is seen as an agent of Divine help and mercy especially among people who feel they have no where else to turn.
The Guadalupe story incorporates all the reversals of the Magnificat. It is a testimony to the God of universal justice and love. A transformational God. It is not just about using the structures of hierarchy and patriarchy for good, but about transforming those structures so that all people are incorporated into God's dream with no gate keepers, no oppression, no exclusion.
What you have in Mexico is basically a brown, female, pregnant woman, goddess channeling the devotion and reverence of the people. She is not integrated into a pantheon of saints, she is essentially the incarnation of God. On her own.
The story of Guadalupe gives power and might to the Magnificat. That paean of praise, if you notice, is written with past tense. God has done this. God has done that. It is not aspirational, God will do this, or will do that. It is a celebration of what God has already done. How God has already manifested God's dreams of justice and peace. This hymn is grounded in trust because of what has happened not because of what is hoped will happen.
As I see it, we can look back at the story of Guadalupe and see what has happened, what has been done, how Divine justice and mercy have come to fruition. In the past tense. And this informs our faith and our future.
Mexico is a country where many people are poor and alienated from their government and their land. They are victims of greed and imperialism perpetrated by their predatory neighbor, the United States. Because of industry and greed, much of the land, air, and water in Mexico is polluted and in many places it is easier and cheaper to get a Coke than to get safe drinking water. Many people have very hard lives and they are struggling, desperate, so they resort to leaving their beautiful beloved homeland. And they have brought their dearly beloved Virgin of Guadalupe to this country. A needed gift. In her story we see the reality of God, a reality that's revealed in the story of Mary of Nazareth, in the story of Jesus, and a reality proclaimed by the prophets who speak of God's desire that all people live together in peace calling for an end to abuse and oppression and economic violence. So the patron saint of Mexico has now been 'upgraded' to the patron saint of the Americas – and oh how we need her witness to mercy and justice! We need her powerful story of transformation and integration. We need her witness to the Magnificat and the reality of God.
As we think about the gifts that we are receiving this precious Advent season, may we consider the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe to be one of those gifts. May her story, remembered by people the world over on this holy day, fill us with hope and joy this Advent season as we prepare to celebrate the incarnation of mercy and justice in its many forms and manifestations. Amen.
Much of the information about the Virgin of Guadalupe in this sermon is taken from the book cited above, The Road to Guadalupe: A Modern Pilgrimage to the Goddess of the Americas by Eryk Hanut.
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Another day, another consultation response.
5.19 The Government has always stated that subscribers must be able to access a robust appeals mechanism and that cost should not deter those who feel they have a genuine case.
5.21 Option 1 would ensure cost could not be an issue in accessing the process. However it would be vulnerable to abuse and to any mass campaign against the obligations (for example, those opposed to Australia's proposed content filtering legislation have launched several "denial of service" attacks on Government websites and it is conceivable a "no fee" regime might find itself the target of a similar orchestrated campaign by those opposed to the OiC measures). As such it would add to the overall cost of the appeals system.
5.22 Option 2 would mean subscribers wishing to use the system would face an upfront fee, refundable if successful. The fee would need to be set at such a level as to deter frivolous appeals but not dissuade those who felt they had a genuine case.
Whichever moron wrote 5.21 failed to understand that a DOS attack can and will happen to any server the attacker wishes. If it uses a web portal it can fall prey to a DOS attack with or without fees. Similarly, if it has no fees, but also no website as it's front-end, it's not going to be able to be targeted, as there's nothing to target. Also, the only way such a system would be flooded by appeals is if the system is flooded by claims/accusations.
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The less said about my record-breakingly late RotW the better, methinks.
Ten reviews here. Ten! That's a lot by this site's standards. I've not done proper critiques for each, because that's a lot of work, and no one seems to want or appreciate them anyway. Instead, I've kept things brief in writing, but in spite of that, rest assured I did put time and thought into my selections, so here we go.
THE JOE THE DESTROYER INVITATIONAL
Joe submitted four reviews, mainly because he hates me. It's Joe, so naturally all of them are good, but his Neutopia II, I found to be the best, by far. I like the the 'searching for a clone' angle and having played the game in question, I can corroborate his very astute analysis.
I would give his Spooky Ghosts Dot Com the Joe runner up prize as it flowed well and was an enjoyable read. Ys Origins felt like a more generic effort, and I had a hard time getting into The Interview despite its awesome tagline.
GARY'S CORNER
Gary submitted two reviews, neither of them very good: Alpha Polaris, and Sunless Skies -- the latter of which he has been writing for the last 17 years and finally got around to submitting. (I understand he started writing that review at around the time this RotW was due.)
We'll start with Alpha Polaris. Terrible pun in the tagline aside, this is a nearly idea review. Very well organized, reasoned and written. It probably helps Gary that I love the subject matter, but I doubt it was necessary to claim the spot I would award him.
Sunless Skies, the culmination of some 45,000 hours of writing, some of the finest writing I've seen on this site in some time. Truly, the review reads like a closing passage in a good sci-fi-horror page-turner... but that's also my issue with it. We used to have more discussions like these in the old days, when folks were more apt to try out new things. Sunless Skies reads like one of those 'experimental' efforts. It's phenomenal for what it is, sure, but strictly as a review, not as much. It's the best writing of the week, but not the best review.
PICKHUT, ROB, VGC2000 and AbsoluteDEICIDE TO DROP IN
Pickhut led the charge of the party crashers to the Joe and Gary show with his review of Deep Sleep Trilogy. He writes a good review of a point-and-click collection of small horror games, but honestly, hasn't much to work with.
Rob's Mars: War Logs is an uneven gem. The introduction and conclusion are fantastic, setting up and tying together the threads of his thesis rather well, but the rundown of the game's flaws bogs down a bit.
VGC2000 gave us an enthusiastic and well written, if formulaic, review of The Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
AbsoluteDeicide is a reviewer whose work I'd never read before this week's The Beast Inside, but I'll have to pay attention now: this review is brilliant. It's short but tells you everything you need to know with authority and style. (It's fraught with "it's" that should be "its," though, its only weakness.)
The Beast Inside by AbsoluteDeicide
Neutopia II by Joe
Alpha Polaris by Emp
That's it for now.
I don't have to prove I'm refined - that's what makes me refined!
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Posted: January 03, 2021 (05:53 AM)
I've mentioned in a few places already but, sadly, the team behind Alpha Polaris folded and rather than pull the game, it's now free on Steam. People should at least pick it up. It's worth the price.
Thanks for the kind words on my stuff, but thanks more for ploughing through a tough week eventually. Joe routinely smashes October and I always look forward to AbsoluteDeicide's annual review (check out his Agony review if you find the time). I was aware what I was doing for Sunless, but I did the same thing for the previous game and regret nothing. If I wanted to stick to the same formula forever, I'd just keep writing shooter reviews!
Great work, all.
For us. For them. For you.
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Thank you very much! I will admit to feeling bad for whoever handles ROTW in October.
The only thing my milkshake brings to the yard is a subpoena.


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Solar lights a pathway through lockdown
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By solarinsider On Jul 24, 2020
Thanks to the Covid-19 many of us find ourselves in lockdown with little reprieve other than a morning potter or an evening stroll. In Goulburn, thanks to what is being called Australia's largest solar lighting installation, locals can now more easily walk and cycle their way to the salutary effects of a daily jaunt.
July 24, 2020 Blake Matich[1]
With the threat of lockdown once again in effect or on the cards for large parts of the nation, many of us are once again facing the prospect of having very little to look forward to each day other than a solitary stroll or a potter-about with a partner.
In fact, the Heart Foundation estimates that 30% of people are walking more than usual thanks to the impacts of the pandemic. That's why the Goulburn Mulwaree Council (Council) in New South Wales (NSW) has installed what is said to be Australia's largest solar pathway lighting project.
After all, at this time of year, when the sun seems to show up more out of habit than wanting to put a good long shift in, the need of lighting along our walkabout pathways. That's why Council nudged Melbourne-based company Leadsun to install 160 of its AE3C solar lights along 10km of the Wollondilly River Walking Track in Goulburn.
Leadsun, which holds a patent on what it calls the first "all-in-one LED solar light," began the project a year ago, and Managing Director Matt Pollard said that sporting clubs, walking groups and residents were increasingly lobbying local governments to apply for grants to install Smart solar lighting to improve access and safety.
Council utilised the majority of a $500,000 Federal Sport and Recreation grant for the solar lighting of the riverine track. Although, it must be said, one for one, solar public lighting is cheaper than your normal street lighting, partly because it doesn't require much trenching or electrical wiring, but also because the energy is free from the sun and can be stored in lithium-ion batteries for up to three days.
At just over 160 solar lights, Pollard believes its the largest solar pathway lighting project in Australia. Even fossil fuel enthusiasts like Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor, who would probably prefer Australia's bush pathways lit by the incendiary fire of gaslamps, had to admit that the walkway in Goulburn was now safer and more accessible. "I'm thrilled that the installation of solar lighting will extend the hours of use of the walkway," said Taylor.
"There is an increasing awareness that we can all do our bit to reduce carbon emissions across a broad range of smaller-scale projects and in our individual lives," continued Taylor without a distinct lack of ironical self-awareness. "Along with many Goulburn residents, I enjoy running this track early in the morning or later in the afternoon. the lights will be a great addition to the course, particularly in winter."
Another such Goulburn resident is Daniel Strickland, a member of Mission Australia's Man Walk group and a regular trotter of the track, who said the path is far busier than before, especially at those times before the dawn and after the dusk, when previously "we would come along with our iPhones and our torches." Unfortunately, Strickland failed to mention having ever seen Taylor running the track with gaslamp outstretched before him like Sherlock Holmes on one of his deductive exercises.
Nevertheless, the clear success and savings of the project means that Council is now planning a further 1.5km extension to the Smart lighting project. Leadsun, lead on.
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Whether I agree with the viewpoints, or not, depends on the moment -- perhaps I am too fickle.
On second thought, I have realized that the comments were so thought provoking -- I actually found them more engaging than the art (though clever and beautiful). Perhaps I am not so fickle.
I feel the same way about Muniz as I feel about Greenaway films - commercials aspiring to be art - only looking arty for it.
Yeah Vic has the patter down, but it's really the kind of slender idea usually called a gimmick.
Earlier this year I was at a conference where Ad-Illustrator maestro Stefan Sagmeister held forth to similar acclaim. Stef too assembles tableau for text and photographs it to the thrill of corporates.
Unfortunately, Vic is a lot closer to Sagmeister than to some more pointed critique.
Leaving the work aside for the moment, I'd like to commend Carol for posting these viewpoints on her blog. Reading the comments of three artists who have the ability to write critically reminds us how narrow the single opinion is--not invalid, but limited by the viewpoint of one person. I'm not sure that "dimensional" criticism is possible in most publishing situations, but it's a great idea.
Carol, I do believe you have created an idea the needs to be continued in the blogosphere.
Love the idea of being presented with 3 points of view about an artist, lecture, show...by artists...even better. I will comment further after I've reread the 3 pieces.
I really like the idea behind this post!
Hey Faris! - I'm a bit of a fan.


"...practicing law, or becoming as academic" = should be AN academic!
This graphic novel was interesting, not least of which because it paints James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in a very unflattering light. The man was a moocher, a womanizer, an alcoholic who was often abusive towards his wife, and he was extremely lazy. Based on how he was presented here, he was not a person I would like had I ever met him in real life. But my review isn't of him, it's of this graphic novel, and in that case, for the art and the story, I can recommend it.
if I had reservations, it would be over two things: some of the poses of characters in the panels - especially of people walking - seem very static, almost like they weren't walking at all, but were posing as though they were walking, or like their legs were copied from earlier pictures and repurposed. I can understand this from those of us who are lesser artists (if artists at all!). The temptation to reuse and modify is great, but this author/illustrator can draw, so it would have been nice to have seen some variation.
The other issue was with the high volume of text. It seemed to overshadow if not entirely defeat the purpose of the novel being graphic. Sometimes it felt more like an illustrated biography than a graphic novel! To be fair, it was a graphic novel with many panels on every page, but be warned there is a heck of a lot of narrative reading.
The story covers Joyce from childhood - actually from before - there is an introductory section which details the failed business exploits of his forebears. Joyce makes petulant and impulsive decisions, like going off to study medicine in Paris for no good reason and without a penny to his name. Consequently, he mooches money off everyone and then rather than spend it on his stated need, he spends it on living high on the hog until it runs out and he's kicked out of yet another boarding house.
He seduces and lives with Nora Barnacle, who turns out to be his lifelong partner and the real hero of the story in my opinion for what she put up with. Eventually they did get married, but why she stuck with a man like that I cannot imagine and the author of this novel, perhaps wisely, doesn't try to understand either. He doesn't even address the paradox. This is a judgment-free biography!
The story goes on to discuss Joyce's health, notably his recurring problems with his eyesight, and finally his work which he eventually got around to writing. We also learn of Joyce's two children, Giorgio, who died as recently as 1976, and sadly, of his daughter Lucia, who was a dancer and later in life suffered from schizophrenia, but she outlived all of them, dying in 1982 still in an institution - the very one that Joyce himself did not want her staying at 'among the English'!
So not a happy life for James Joyce at all, but he had his moments and was fortunately taken care of by a strong and inexplicably devoted woman. I recommend this as a worthy read for anyone interested in Joyce.
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If there's one director that knows a thing or two about distinctive visual style, it's Wes Anderson. But he may soon have a rival on his hands.
Colombian-based artist Alejandro Giraldo has created a fantastic set of illustrations taking in all the characters from Anderson's many famous films, including Fantastic Mr Fox, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom and last year's quadruple Oscar-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel. We'd happily watch a full movie based on Alejandro's style of illustration - perhaps he could give Wes a shout and team up?
Check out a group poster, several quote illustrations and some individual characters below - for the full set visit Alejandro's website.
You can also buy prints and more on his Society6 page.


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Bruno Boucher est médaillé de bronze en quatre de couple poids légers aux Championnats du monde d'aviron 1989 à Bled, médaillé d'argent de la même épreuve aux Championnats du monde d'aviron 1990 en Tasmanie et médaillé d'argent en huit poids légers aux Championnats du monde d'aviron 1991 à Vienne.

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APOD: NGC 7331 Close Up (2022 Sep 22)
Post by APOD Robot » Thu Sep 22, 2022 4:05 am
NGC 7331 Close Up
Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. Since the galaxy's disk is inclined to our line-of-sight, long telescopic exposures often result in an image that evokes a strong sense of depth. This Hubble Space Telescope close-up spans some 40,000 light-years. The galaxy's magnificent spiral arms feature dark obscuring dust lanes, bright bluish clusters of massive young stars, and the telltale reddish glow of active star forming regions. The bright yellowish central regions harbor populations of older, cooler stars. Like the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole lies at the core of spiral galaxy NGC 7331.
Ronald Jensen
Re: APOD: NGC 7331 Close Up (2022 Sep 22)
Post by Ronald Jensen » Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:57 am
One thing I've often wondered about these pictures of distant galaxies, especially ones that are from an angle like this one. These galaxies are tens of thousands of light years across, often more than a hundred thousand light years across. This means that our view of the far side of the galaxy is from several tens of thousands of light years farther away than our view of the nearer side. Because the light from the far side therefore takes tens of thousands of years longer to reach us than the light from the near side, there must be some significant and visible distortion in the image. Wouldn't that kind of "warp" the shape of the galaxy when it is seen from an angle? -- Ron
Post by Chris Peterson » Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:11 am
Ronald Jensen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:57 am One thing I've often wondered about these pictures of distant galaxies, especially ones that are from an angle like this one. These galaxies are tens of thousands of light years across, often more than a hundred thousand light years across. This means that our view of the far side of the galaxy is from several tens of thousands of light years farther away than our view of the nearer side. Because the light from the far side therefore takes tens of thousands of years longer to reach us than the light from the near side, there must be some significant and visible distortion in the image. Wouldn't that kind of "warp" the shape of the galaxy when it is seen from an angle? -- Ron
Not significantly. Galaxies like this have rotation periods on the order of 100 million years or more. So the nearest and farthest parts will be out of "sync" with each other by less than 0.1%, which isn't going to result in any visible distortion.
Post by Ann » Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:34 am
NGC 7331 close up. Image Credit & License: ESA/Hubble & NASA/D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University).
That's a very nice portrait of the central parts of NGC 7331!
I can't help it though, my favorite portrait of NGC 7331 is this picture by Vicent Peris:
NGC 7331 and the Deer Lick Group of galaxies. Photo: Vicent Peris.
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The dancing feet of NGC 7331!
The orientation of Vicent Peris' image is correct. NGC 7331 is actually "standing up". Not only that, but it is "dancing"! To my knowledge, NGC 7331 is the best example of a spiral galaxy where you can see the "end" of spiral arms so clearly.
Vicent Peris' image also gives us a splendid portrait of the Deer Lick Group of galaxies. Starting with the achingly lovely barred spiral galaxy below center, the members of the Deer Lick Group are, clockwise, NGC 7337, NGC 7340, NGC 7336 and NGC 7335.
NGC 7331 is located close to Stephan's Quintet as seen from our perspective:
NGC 7331 is in the upper right corner and Stephan's Quintet in the lower left corner in this ultraviolet view. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC.
The blue foreground member of Stephan's Quintet, NGC 7320, is believed to possibly be a dwarf member of the NGC 7331 sphere of influence. Photo: Jschulman555.
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Post by AVAO » Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:07 am
Ann wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:34 am ...
... and my favorite NGC 7331 in IR (Spitzer ST): ... and a nice target for JWST
https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/s ... laxys-twin
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Post by VictorBorun » Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:40 pm
AVAO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:07 am
In IR the galaxy kind of loses the feeling of foreground/background edges given with all the dust
Post by orin stepanek » Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:52 pm
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A beautiful galaxy; heavily laden with stars!
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Post by MarkBour » Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:44 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:11 am
I totally accept the answer Chris gave here. But you pose an interesting question.
I think today, I'll put down my thoughts about it and see if anyone feels I have gone astray at one or more points.
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The effect you're asking about, could be detected, if we had supernatural knowledge that we don't have from our human vantage point. And maybe it can be observed with supermassive black hole jets. Imagine a perfectly straight barbell 100,00 light years long. If it were rotating, it would appear bowed to us, sitting a ways off in one direction; the near end would appear to have rotated more and the far end to have rotated less than in "reality". (I think Einstein would take objection with my construction here of a "reality" outside of what is observable.)
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I even drew the far sphere on the end of the barbell as slightly smaller than the near one. But both the size differences and the bowing would be imperceptible in practice. The bowing imperceptible because the rotation is too slow. The size differences imperceptible because 100,00 out of 50 million is also very small. Things like individual stars in a distant galaxy can't be resolved to a detectable diameter anyway, so there would definitely not be any size difference to measure for stars at the near and far arms of a galaxy.
Chris pointed out that this bowing would be too tiny to make much difference in the shapes we would observe on a spiral galaxy, with only about a 0.1% deformation in his typical galaxy estimation. So the bowing would be measurable with high precision instruments, if we knew what to measure, but we don't have anything special to measure, and any distortion of the overall appearance would be imperceptible.
What about red shifts or average brightness of the stellar populations? Are any differences measurable for the nearest versus the farthest arms? I have no idea. I wonder if effects from the dust in and around the galaxy would complicate any detection of tiny effects of distance differences.
"What does this galaxy look like right now?" is a question sometimes posed by those who, relativity aside, imagine a notion of an absolute reality beyond the observations. If NGC 7331 is currently there, 50 million light years away from us, and we could jump there "now" instantly. And imagining that it has a rotation rate like our own galaxy, rotating once every 200 million years or so, we would find that it has rotated about 90o compared to the way it looks to us right now in our telescopes. It seems that professionals, when asked about this kind of thing, mostly say "So what? It hardly matters."
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I struggle sometimes with my current view of the existence of an absolute reality, while having a basic understanding of the ideas behind relativity theory, though I have not managed to study it in detail, the way a trained astronomer or physicist would have.
Mark Goldfain
Post by johnnydeep » Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:56 pm
MarkBour wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:44 pm
You and me both!
Post by Chris Peterson » Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:03 pm
The effect you're asking about, could be detected, if we had supernatural knowledge that we don't have from our human vantage point.
Another way of looking at it is that the effect creates a visually different galaxy than we'd have if the speed of light were infinite, or if the galaxy didn't rotate. Very, very slightly different, but presumably measurable. But absent any reference like your hypothetical bar, that's pretty meaningless.
Redshift is pretty useless for the near and far parts of the galaxy, because both have the same Doppler shift, since the movement is lateral. That can be used for the sides to tell which way the galaxy is rotating, and how fast. Brightness might be used to distinguish the near and far sides, but nothing related to rotation.
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:03 pm
Doesn't the image below depict how red shift can be used to determine rotation direction? Are you just making a distinction between doppler shift and red shift? Doppler shift being due to the expansion of space and red shift being due to the relative velocity of different parts added or subtracted to the overall Doppler shift?
Post by Chris Peterson » Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:03 pm
johnnydeep wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:13 pm
Well, yeah. That's what I said. You can use it at the sides to determine direction and speed, but it provides no information about the front and back as both have the same Doppler shift- zero with respect to each other.
Doppler shift is a product of relative motion. Cosmological redshift if a product of the expansion of space.
Post by Ann » Fri Sep 23, 2022 3:31 am
I'm impressed, Mark. It's very good to have people like you here at Starship Asterisk*. You are extremely knowledgeable and great at math - well, you haven't managed to study general relativity in detail, oh well - and you are so willing to share your insights and thoughts with the rest of us.
You gave me a suggestion as to how I could identify individual stars in star trail images, and I didn't even reply. Don't think I'm not grateful, but what you suggested was not for me.
But please keep up the things you are doing here. I love you image of the bowed barbell, which represents a galactic bar. Thank you!
Post by johnnydeep » Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:30 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 10:03 pm
Ok, right. I missed your distinction between the lateral and front and back parts of a galaxy.
Post by MarkBour » Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:47 am
Thanks for the encouragement Ann !
I certainly appreciate your postings, too, they add a lot of value to APOD.
Post by MarkBour » Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:10 pm
Good points, johnnydeep and Chris. Just to clarify what I was talking about in my point 3,
I was wondering about cosmological redshift. Chris is clearly correct that the galactic rotation would produce only lateral motion at the front and back of the galaxy, so that motion would not produce different doppler shifts.
But using what little I know about cosmological expansion, if it were a consistent linear effect, the same through a galaxy as between galaxies, then for a nearly edge-on galaxy that had a diameter of 100,000 light years and was 50 million light years away, one would expect the cosmological redshift to the stars at the farthest parts of said galaxy to be a comparison of numbers like 50,000,000 versus 50,100,000. So only a 0.2% difference, the same kind of ratio we keep getting here.
I've seen statements that, for whatever reason, one just doesn't see cosmological expansion within galaxies, only between them. I don't know enough to know if a 0.2% difference would be detectable by our instruments for a mostly-edge-on galactic disk, even if cosmological expansion does happen within galaxies. If such a thing were real, then Andromeda would be the best place to look for it. Since it is much closer, the ratio of near-point to far-point distance compared to galactic distance would be much greater. Dang it, though, Andromeda is heading towards us, so it seems that it's just not applicable at all in this case.
But certainly, Ronald Jensen's post brought up some interesting related questions.
I remember a discussion that contributor Ironwood started back in the forum discussion:
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... al#p281085
In that discussion, several contributors, including Ann, Chris, and neufer helped sort out some of those questions.
The doppler information that johnnydeep and Chris posted in this current discussion is similar to (and is consistent with) some of the notes posted there.
Post by Chris Peterson » Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:21 pm
MarkBour wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:10 pm Good points, johnnydeep and Chris. Just to clarify what I was talking about in my point 3,
Indeed, there is no cosmological redshift across a galaxy, because there is no expansion of space across a galaxy. The force of gravity is much greater than the "force" of expansion. Expansion does not even occur in galaxy clusters. Galaxies and clusters remain the same size even as the Universe expands.
Post by johnnydeep » Sat Sep 24, 2022 6:39 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:21 pm
About that. Cosmological expansion of space is due to "dark energy", correct? And I thought dark energy was in fact operating all all scales, from the very small to the very large, suffusing all space everywhere, including between galaxies, within galaxies, within solar systems, and even here on Earth, between me and my computer screen. So, is it just that over short distances, dark energy doesn't exert enough "force" to counteract gravity? But if so, in theory, we might still be able to notice how much the force of gravity is diminished depending on distance: the more space between objects, the more the gravity between them is counteracted!


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the new adventures (virgin) #035
Written by: Kate Orman
ISBN: 0 426 20436 0
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Dead. He was dead. How the hell was she supposed to do CPR on a man with two hearts?
There's a rip in the fabric of space and time. Passenger ships are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes. In an attempt to find out who's behind the disappearances, the Doctor and Ace allow themselves to be captured. But when Bernice's rescue attempt goes terribly wrong, the time travellers find themselves scattered throughout history.
Ace, stranded in Ancient Egypt, struggles to survive in an environment as alien as a distant planet: the Earth 3,000 years before she was born. She manages to find employment as a nobleman's bodyguard. And then she comes face to face with the metal horrors which have pursued her through time - the creatures she saw kill the Doctor.
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What does Grizzlies' long farewell to Mike Conley and Marc Gasol mean for Jaren Jackson Jr.?
What happened Tuesday at FedExForum, when Mike Conley and Marc Gasol were together for perhaps the final time, was a special scene worth remembering.
Mike Conley told Jaren Jackson Jr. the story before the wistful pregame scene that played out Tuesday night, when every picture, every autograph, every fist bump, and every part of his routine, felt like the last time.
Before he missed what might have been his final shot with the Memphis Grizzlies but they still emerged with an emotional roller coaster of a win over the Minnesota Timberwolves that featured both cheers and tears.
Conley told Jackson the story because before the end, there was a beginning. And sometimes we all need to be reminded of that when the end is near.
Back in 2008, Conley said to the 19-year-old, he was in the same position as Jackson is today. He was the Grizzlies' first-round draft pick, playing for a team preparing to trade Pau Gasol, tear it all down, and rebuild around him.
"You're going to be here forever," Hakim Warrick kept telling Conley back then and, at the time, Conley was skeptical.
But now, 12 seasons later, with his time left in Memphis suddenly being measured in days and hours instead of years and months, Conley looked at Jackson and said the exact same thing.
What would Conley, Gasol trades mean for Jaren Jackson Jr.
He shared this story Tuesday because it appears the long farewell is almost over and the torch needs to be passed.
As of Wednesday morning, Conley and Marc Gasol were still part of the Grizzlies. But it doesn't seem like they will be for long. They are both going to be traded, whether it's before the NBA trade deadline Thursday at 2 p.m., or if it's this offseason.
Soon, this will be Jackson's franchise.
Soon, the team Memphis fell in love with, the team that connected with this city in a way few outside of Memphis understood, the team that embodied the identity of an entire town, will officially all be gone.
So as important as it is to give a proper goodbye to Conley and Gasol, and the last remnants of the Core Four era, it's also important to remember there's an impressionable 19-year-old rookie watching while the awkward few weeks preceding these massive potential changes unfold.
Because Jackson could become the next Giannis Antetokounmpo and eventually be the centerpiece of a new contender in Memphis. Or he could become Anthony Davis and eventually ask to leave town because the Grizzlies weren't able to build a contender around him.
That, at least, is the trajectory his statistics this year suggest.
Or, of course, he could be the next Conley or Gasol. "The next guy."
Was Tuesday the end for Gasol, Conley with Grizzlies?
It's why what happened Tuesday night at FedExForum was so special.
It's why, as Conley left the court after pregame warmups, season ticket holder Charleen Harris asked for one last picture and gave him a hug.
"Me too," Conley said back.
It's why, when Gasol emerged from the locker room with 7:12 left in the first quarter, with rumors of a trade to Charlotte rippling through the stands, the crowd's acknowledgment gradually turned into a standing ovation. He pounded a fist to his heart in gratitude, a moment so organic and so genuine it gave you goosebumps.
It's why when Conley hit one 3-pointer, stole apass seconds later and then hit another 3-pointer just before the halftime buzzer, he celebrated by waving his arms for more noise and Gasol embraced him near mid-court, likely for the final time, before leaving the arena by the start of the third quarter.
It didn't matter that of the eight other active Grizzlies players Tuesday, just one (Ivan Rabb) was on the roster a year ago at this time.
It didn't matter that Conley missed the game-winning shot in the final seconds, that he simply had 25 points, nine assists and a win.
What mattered is the building felt alive again, for the first time in weeks. What mattered is "you just felt the love," Conley said. What mattered is Conley and Gasol were still there, and still wanted to be there.
If that's how this ends, if that's the final scene from the Grit 'N Grind era, we still don't know what the next one looks like.
We don't know yet what the Grizzlies' plan is, or if there's a plan at all.
We don't know yet what they will fetch in return for trading Conley and Gasol.
We don't know yet exactly how Jackson feels about all this change, about becoming the face of this franchise so soon.
Asked what he learned from this awkward process, from watching what might have been the last days of Conley and Gasol play out so publicly here in Memphis, Jackson revealed very little.
In other words, there is no such thing as forever in the NBA.


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Dance on Camera
2020 DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL
30 Apr World Premiere Screening of ANOTHER TELEPATHIC THING
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2015
Dance Films Association (DFA) and Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) Co-present
The World Premiere Screening of
ANOTHER TELEPATHIC THING
Academy Award-winning Filmmaker Jonathan Demme's Live Performance Film of Big Dance Theater's Production by Co-Directors Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson
Monday, June 8, 2015 at 7PM
New York, NY – Dance Films Association (DFA) and Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) co-present Another Telepathic Thing, a live performance film by Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme, featuring Big Dance Theater's award-winning production of the same name, directed by Paul Lazar and co-directed and choreographed by Annie-B Parson. The film's World Premiere screening at Baryshnikov Arts Center's Jerome Robbins Theater on Monday, June 8 at 7PM is followed by a post-show discussion with Jonathan Demme and Annie-B Parson. Inspired by Mark Twain's morality tale "The Mysterious Stranger," Another Telepathic Thing is a prismatic and complex dance-theater parable. At once cynical and spiritual, the work centers on a charismatic stranger whose visit shatters the peace of a mythic hamlet. The medieval setting is echoed by a contemporary Hollywood reality, with a script that braids Twain's sublime writing with "found" text from years of auditions. It culminates in a subtle and startling exploration of the fragility of our human condition. Big Dance Theater's performance of Another Telepathic Thing was originally filmed by Mr. Demme in February 2000 at Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) in New York City. The film was completed in 2015 with funding from DFA's Production Initiative. It features performers Tymberly Canale, Stacy Dawson, Molly Hickok, Cynthia Hopkins, Paul Lazar, and David Neumann, with text supervision by Scott Renderer, music by Cynthia Hopkins, set by Joanne Howard, lights by Jay Ryan, and sound by Jane Shaw. Program and Ticket Information Another Telepathic Thing (2001) A Film by Jonathan Demme of Big Dance Theater's Production: Another Telepathic Thing By Co-directors by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson June 8, Monday at 7PM Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jerome Robbins Theater (450 W. 37th Street) Tickets: $10, can be purchased online or by phone: BACNYC.ORG or 866-811-4111 The screening is preceded by a reception at 6:30PM, and is followed by a discussion with Jonathan Demme and Annie-B Parson. The film run time is 65 minutes. Biographies Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, Demme has also directed the acclaimed films Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary/concert movies. His recent film A Master Builder opened in New York during June 2014 and was based on the 19th century play by Henrik Ibsen. Founded in 1991, Big Dance Theater is known for its inspired use of dance, music, text and visual design. The company often works with wildly incongruent source material, weaving and braiding disparate strands into multi-dimensional performance. Led for over 20 years by Co-Artistic Directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, Big Dance Theater has worked to create over 20 dance/theater works, generating each piece over months of collaboration with its associate artists, a long-standing, ever-evolving group of actors, dancers, composers and designers. Big Dance Theater received New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Awards in 2002 and 2010; the company was awarded an OBIE in 2000 and company members have received 5 other "Bessie" Awards and an OBIE award for their work with Big Dance. Big Dance Theater has been presented around the world including France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Brazil and Germany, and at US venues including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, City Center Fall for Dance, The Performing Garage, New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory, Classic Stage Company, Japan Society, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Walker Art Center, Yerba Buena, On the Boards, UCLA Live, and The Spoleto Festival. Dance Films Association (DFA) is dedicated to furthering the art of dance film. Connecting artists and organizations, fostering new works for new audiences, and sharing essential resources, DFA seeks to be a catalyst for innovation in and preservation of dance on camera. Currently, DFA is actively seeking to broaden its audience via new media initiatives and membership drives, to support cutting edge approaches to dance documentation, and to expand partnerships with schools, arts partners, media sites, and other institutions. Alongside the annual Dance on Camera Festival inaugurated in 1971 and co-presented with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, DFA's year-round programming includes the educational series Dance Film Lab, the high school student film competition Capturing Motion NYC, and the screening series Dance Films Presents. DFA's Production Initiative provides opportunities for choreographers to collaborate on high quality film projects, with support from a Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Fund Grant. Through this funding opportunity, in addition to Another Telepathic Thing, DFA has also supported Third Rail Projects in the creation of a film documenting their creative process. In addition, DFA awards an annual production grant to dance filmmakers to support innovative new work in the field of dance film. www.dancefilms.org Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) is the realization of a long-held vision by artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov to build an arts center in Manhattan that would serve as a gathering place for artists from all disciplines. BAC's opening in 2005 heralded the launch of this mission, establishing a thriving creative laboratory and performance space for artists from around the world. BAC's activities encompass a robust residency program augmented by a range of professional services, including commissions of new work, as well as the presentation of performances by artists at varying stages of their careers. In tandem with its commitment to supporting artists, BAC is dedicated to building audiences for the arts by presenting contemporary, innovative work at affordable ticket prices. www.bacnyc.org Press Contacts Dance Films Association: Brighid Greene / brighid@dancefilms.org / (347) 505-8649 Baryshnikov Arts Center: Kristen Miles / kmiles@bacnyc.org / (646) 731-3221
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Two of the PA's in the DA-office in Bhisho have clocked up ten years of service each. Left is Tessa Botha, PA to the Chief Whip and right is Annette Rademeyer, PA to the Leader in the Legislature. They were awarded certificates at a function in East London on Wednesday, 31 August.


Discussion in 'Members Rides' started by ZimStang, Feb 1, 2006.
Nice Pics #3 and #6 are my favorites.
Zim, whats your car lowered with?
Looks great man, that stance is just awsome :thumb: I got the same water temp guage for my b-day, can't wait to put 'er in.
What is a Isolator? And what effect do you have with your setup?
I like grey or black centered wheels on red.
DD backs - love it.
That is such a sick car, makes me want a cobra even more now.
I love your cobra! I'm not a fan of black wheel's but they actually look pretty sweet on your car! What kind of springs do you have the stance is perfecto?
I love this guys stance too, but whats isolators?
Wow I like the 3rd pic also! Badass looking Cobra!!!
Isolators are the tubes of plastic that go arounfd the end of the coil springs. If you like his setup just go with H&R Supersports and you'll have it. I hav'em and im completely happy.


The two-character ISO 3166 country code for OMAN.
1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the Sultanate of Oman. This is the code used in international transactions to and from Omani bank accounts.
2. ISO 3166-2 geocode for Oman. This is used as an international standard for shipping to Oman. Each Omani governate has its own code with the prefix "OM." For example, the code for the Governate of Muscat is ISO 3166-2:OM-MA.
Compared with all other types of tympanograms it has a sensitivity of between 56 and 73 percent and a specificity of between 50 and 98 percent in detecting OME confirmed surgically.
Sample Size: The study included 63 cases with tympanometric evidence of OME undergoing myringotomies during this period.
There is a similar incidence of post-irradiated OME in our patients.
Even though modern radiotherapy techniques are considered Preventive measures for radiotherapy-induced ototoxicities, both previous and current studies showed no beneficial effect on the occurrence of post-irradiation OME.
In this study, the teachers used the OME in a robotics class to analyze learning process with real-time data that was generated while the students were working with the robotics environment.
How can the OME support facilitation in a robotics class by providing the instructors learning process classifiers that are based on real-time data?
9) Some have suggested that effusions of OME in children result from chronic inflammation, for example, after AOM, and that the effusions are sterile; however, recent studies have demonstrated that a biofilm is formed by bacterial otopathogens in the effusion.
Finally, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians have agreed that antibiotic treatment is actually contraindicated for patients with OME.
She considers the option of LTMF in children with OME accompanied by developmental delays or hearing impairment, and in any child with OME that has lasted more than 3 months.
For now, I believe that hearing aids should be used only in patients with recurrent OME who have severe inflammatory problems with their ventilation tubes.
In designing their study--possibly to decrease the workload of the physicians involved--they sought to select a group of children likely to have bilateral OME during routine office visits to family physicians.
The apparent low incidence of OME among Chinese children in Hong Kong led us to wonder if a large number of cases was being overlooked.


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Oregonians to vote on Medicaid taxes as costs soar
GILLIAN FLACCUSJanuary 22, 2018 GMT
In this Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, photo a sign in support of Oregon's Measure 101 is displayed by a homeowner along a roadside in Lake Oswego, Ore. Experts say the special election Tuesday in Oregon is the only instance where voters -- instead of lawmakers -- will decide how to fund the Medicaid expansion among the 32 states and Washington that added enrollees under the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon aggressively expanded its Medicaid rolls under the Affordable Care Act, adding enough people to leave only 5 percent of its population uninsured — one of America's lowest rates.
Now, with the reduction of a federal match that covered those enrollees, the state is calling on voters to decide how to pay for its ballooning Medicaid costs.
A special election on Tuesday asks Oregonians whether they approve of a tax on hospitals, health insurers and managed care companies that would leave Medicaid, as it is now, untouched. More than 1 in 4 residents here rely on it.
Maine voters were in the national spotlight when they recently approved Medicaid expansion. But experts say Oregon's election is the only instance of voters — not lawmakers — getting the final say on the complicated question of how to fund rising Medicaid costs.
The outcome could have significant consequences for the state's health care spending.
"If it's not supported, you have a huge hole, and where do you go from there?" said Stacey Mazer, senior staff associate with the National Association of State Budget Officers. "I followed these issues starting in the fall, and this was the biggie."
Measure 101 would impose a 0.7 percent tax on some hospitals and a 1.5 percent tax on the gross health insurance premiums collected by insurers and on managed care organizations, raising anywhere from $210 million to $320 million over the next two years.
Proponents call the tax an "assessment" and say money raised could cover the more than 350,000 low-income Oregonians who were added to the plan since 2014 while state lawmakers work out a long-term solution.
The loss of that revenue could jeopardize an additional $630 million to $960 million in federal Medicaid matching funds that flow to the poorest in the state, according to the nonpartisan voter pamphlet. That possibility prompted the very hospitals and health insurers who would be taxed to come out as the measure's biggest backers. They say the cost of the taxes would be less than that of uninsured emergency-room visits.
The ballot measure arose from a grassroots campaign to put parts of a bipartisan legislative funding solution passed last year before voters. Republican Rep. Julie Parrish and several colleagues were angered by portions of the bill that exempt large, self-insured corporations like Nike from Medicaid taxes but not Oregonians who buy insurance on health care exchanges.
They also believe hospitals and insurers will pass the cost to consumers, despite language that limits premium rate increases to 1.5 percent.
Parrish, who represents a Portland suburb, spearheaded the drive to collect more than 84,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. Her cellphone number appears in the official voter's guide with a note urging voters to call her with questions.
"This is not a 'We hate Medicaid' referendum," Parrish said. "This is about the fact that our colleagues put forward some pieces of the funding package that we believed to be unfair, unequitable and unsustainable."
Those in favor of the measure say Parrish's opposition to the taxes is what's unsustainable. More than 175 organizations have backed the pro-Measure 101 campaign, including former Gov. John Kitzhaber, an emergency room doctor.
People who support Measure 101 have raised $2.8 million. Parrish and her allies have raised $353,000.
Portland resident Kelly Burke has volunteered at a pro-Measure 101 phone bank. She briefly lost her insurance years ago when she was pregnant with her second child. She now has a serious auto-immune disease and is thankful she has insurance through her partner's employer.
"What people don't understand is that people are working, but they still can't afford health care," she said.
Medicaid is a federal-state collaboration originally meant for poor families and severely disabled people. Over the years, it's grown to become the largest government health insurance program, now covering 1 in 5 Americans.
In 2014, Oregon was one of 32 states and the District of Columbia to allow people making 138 percent of the federal poverty line to qualify for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That's $34,600 for a family of four. Before, they had to make less to qualify.
The changes brought Oregon's slew of new enrollees. For the first two years, the federal government covered the full cost for them — and for those in other states.
In 2017, the match dropped to 95 percent, adding $136 million in costs in Oregon. It will drop to 90 percent in 2020.
At the same time, the federal government asked Oregon to pay more for its other Medicaid recipients because of its strong economy. And state lawmakers voted to provide Medicaid coverage for children living in the country illegally starting Jan. 1, adding another $27 million in costs.
Parrish says she has a backup funding plan if Measure 101 fails, though her opponents say it's not workable.
Lawmakers reconvene for a short, six-week session next month.
Follow Gillian Flaccus on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/gflaccus


Fit-Ink: T-Minus 10 Days...Are You For Chicago 2016?
T-Minus 10 Days...Are You For Chicago 2016?
October 2 is creeping up on the calendar faster than we know it. While in most years that date would seem pretty insignificant unless it was marked by a birthday or anniversary, but this year, especially for those of us living in the Windy City, it marks a special announcement. And the end to years worth of campaigning, planning, plotting and presenting. Will Chicago host the Olympic Games in 2016?
The International Olympic Committee announces its decision on October 2 from Copenhagen, Denmark. They're choosing between Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, all of which have been involved marred by bad news at some point during the selection process that could have ruined its chances. And all of which have people for or against the vote. Take Chicago where some locals not backing the bid at home are urging for Rio to get the Games. Or look at the online betting sites where odds are circling over which city gains the greater chance of being named.
In Chicago, the word on the street is that President Obama needs to go to Copenhagen to voice his support of holding the Games in Chicago for his presidential pull and Chicago connection. And the big news yesterday was that Obama was indeed planning to travel to Copenhagen for the October 2 announcement, as rumor had it that Chicago wouldn't get the Games unless Obama made an appearance. Now he's saying he wants to go, while others make a case for Michelle Obama being able to represent her husband just as well especially since she's the Chicago native. For now it's just wait and see for what pans out over October 2.
But in the meantime the all important question is who do you predict will host the 2016 Olympics? Make your vote known and feel free to share any opinions in the comments.
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The Chicago Triathlon Is Over...Now What?


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The corporation's annual report for 2021/22, which also marks its centenary, shows four out of the top 10 best paid names have seen their salaries fall.
BBC salaries: The highest earning on-air talent at the BBC for 2021/22
BBC's top earning on-air talent has been revealed as part of the annual report.
By Stephen Mcilkenny
12th Jul 2022, 12:17pm
This year's top 10 features fewer women that last year, dropping from four to three.
BBC Salaries: Gary Lineker becomes only on-air BBC talent to earn more than £1 million
The BBC has seen a number of high-profile on-air departures over the last year, with Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, Andrew Marr and Dan Walker all leaving for rival broadcasters.
It comes after Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced earlier this year that the BBC's licence fee will be frozen under inflation for the next two years.
1. Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker is the BBC's top earning on-air talent for the fifth consecutive year and the only name to earn over £1 million annually, new figures show. The 61-year-old pundit and former footballer was paid between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 in 2021/2022 for work including Match Of The Day and Sports Personality Of The Year
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2. Zoe Ball
Zoe Ball remains the broadcaster's second highest paid talent, with a salary of £980,000 to £984,999, but figures show her salary falling for a second consecutive year.
Photo: Ian West
3. Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer has seen a year-on-year increase of £60,000, bringing his salary to £450,000-£454,999
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4. Steve Wright
Steve Wright, whose salary this year reflects a £15,000 decrease. Salary £450,000-£454,999
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About Little Red Hen
Fees and Forms
About Little Red Hen Pre-Primary School
Little Red Hen is a pre-primary school catering for children from the age of 4 months old, through to Grade R/0. The school is situated in the heart of Winston Park (a lush suburb on the outskirts of Durban, KZN, South Africa), and is ideally suited for families living in the surrounding suburbs of Winston Park, Gillitts, Hillcrest, Assagay and Kloof.
The History – Sowing Little Seeds
The story of the Little Red Hen who started out with a grain of wheat aptly describes how our school, with a handful of pupils, and a vision for the future, was started in 1987. There was only one Pre-Primary school in the Hillcrest / Winston Park area and being educators with a firm belief in the value of a good foundation in the formative years, our school grew with care and nurturing until we were able to purchase a piece of land ten years later and build a school. The school continues to flourish with the caring attitude of family members spanning three generations.
The school has six classes, an Audiblox centre and a Montessori centre. The Scratch Patch playground is completely fenced off from the older children. These children have their own swings, jungle gym, cycle track and Sensopathic trays. This ensures the safety of the smaller children at the school, and helps prevent playground accidents.
The top school playground is well equipped with lovely apparatus for gross motor development and sensory learning opportunities.
The school:
Is registered with the education department as well as Health and Social Welfare
Offers a family atmosphere
Children from 4 months to Grade R/O
Two well equipped playgrounds
Holistic programme
Montessori Centre
Audiblox for Grade R learners
Aftercare until 5 PM
School starts at 8am Monday to Friday and closes at 12pm. Children can be dropped off from 7.15am, and must be collected promptly at 12pm. An aftercare facility is available until 2pm, 3pm or 5pm. See the Fees & Forms page for more details. An early bird drop off service is offered for early risers.
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Additional Water Information: Great lot for boating in NE Sr. Petersburg. Keep your triple engine CC boat with T-Top right behind your home. Only bridge is the high bridge between Snell Isle and Shore Acres. SPYC Marina (open to public) located in Snell Isle just outside bridge.


Over two months later and hopes of writing a daily journal has failed tremendously. The fact that I'm still on tour is insane to me, but I'll be perfectly honest and say that this tour has been a vacation more than anything else.
I toured from 1989-1996 at an alarming rate of over 200 shows a year. All done in a van and rarely did I have hotel rooms.
This time through I'm on a tour bus, get catering 3 times a day and have my own hotel room most days. It does seem silly when I truly think about it. Almost guilty feeling to be perfectly honest. But then friends would say "Mike, you deserve this". I concur... I DO DESERVE THIS!!!
This is awesome!! I'm loving every second, but I miss my family dearly and being gone makes you appreciate the madness of being a parent to a 4 and 6 year old. So there you go friends. 2 months and 3 days between blog entries. So many good things I could have written about, but the excitement of being on tour and exploring the many variants that go along with such tour surpassed my desire to write. Sorry.


Adams Fire Protection's construction division is the major part of our company. After the customer has selected us to meet their fire sprinkler needs, the fire sprinkler shop drawings are completed and approved, and the material is delivered to the site. The most important part is left; getting the sprinkler system installed correctly and per code.
Field changes with architectural layouts and other trade installation always comes into play. This is why a good construction crew is critical. Our construction crews are radio equipped to achieve on the spot decisions between the office and the field to avoid costly delays. Crews are provided with company vehicles that are equipped with the right tools and equipment to enable proper installation of fire sprinkler systems. They take pride in their work and it shows. From spacing sprinkler to line up with lights and smoke detectors to keeping pipe level and plumb puts us a step above our competition.
Our specialty has become the multi-unit residential remodel. We have established long-term relationships with many of our clients. We always say, "Once you use Adams Fire Protection you will not want to work with anyone else".
Please contact our superintendent, Tony Iannarelli if you have any questions or need additional information at 508-279-0014 or by e-mail at tony@adamsfireprotection.com.


During the planning phase of the Emergency Care Centre (ECC) an art and environment group was facilitated by GHAT in partnership with NHS Grampian. This group was instrumental in addressing the environment in the new building, evidenced by the high quality of the waiting areas, lift lobbies, stairs, signage, ward areas and treatment rooms. The ECC arts and environment strategy embodied and overarching theme of 'Light and Life', an approach which is central to each commissioned art work. Further details can be found in the Emergency Care Centre: Light and Life information booklet.


"Where Is The Physician Outrage?" from John Scalzi's Whatever blog.
I love this article. I regularly read your blog and have reposted the link to my blog and my facebook to spread the word. Good luck being a doctor!
Hope the doctors speak up….
yeah I know. I hope more people speak up. If they even attempt to bring it here I'll be bugging my senators to say no. I'm voting this year for sure.