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The Panasonic TX-55HX940 : what is this mid-range worth ?
What about the new Panasonic TX-55HX940 ?
The firm Panasonic is deciding today to launch a new mid-range model with its TX-55HX940.
This television is delivered with a Ultra HD 4K resolution. It could be said that this model gathers all the expected characteristics. Whether we consider its aesthetics or its size, the engineers of Panasonic have developed a television admittedly a middle-range one, but a quality one anyway.
Through our review today, you will understand why the Panasonic TX-55HX940 is ranked among the best TVs of the moment.
TX-55HX940 from Panasonic – Design
Sober but in line with current trends. Panasonic has asked its design office to make a product that tends towards the top range, but remains affordable.
In conclusion, Panasonic has worked seriously on the design of this TV set. It's efficient and it will allow you with this TX-55HX940 to have a beautiful object in your living room.
TX-55HX940 from Panasonic – The screen
The Panasonic has a correct and well-calibrated image quality, but you have to do with a limited native contrast that is suitable for daytime viewing; forget about home theater programs in the dark.
The Panasonic TX-55HX940 is available in the Ultra HD 4K resolution. At the same time, we are dealing with a nice display on the screen.
Panasonic chooses a frequency of 100 Hz, this TV has a better rendering compared to its competitors, in the same category.
In addition, Panasonic has decided to use its mastery of advanced technology on this device, which allows it to benefit from a high quality Ultra HD 4K image resolution.
My opinion to conclude on the display part. It's in the range, without flourish or excess. An additional choice in the mid-range.
TX-55HX940 from Panasonic – The sound
It is the custom to say that a good sound comes from a device with a lot of watts, however Panasonic has managed to combine average audio system power with very good sound quality.
For the sound part, the television set is equipped with two speakers with 10 W at output.
In short, the sound is enough to cover your everyday needs. The TX-55HX940 Panasonic is not designed for home cinema. That's not what we are expecting.
Presentation of the Smart TV part of the TV set Panasonic TX-55HX940
On the software side, the Panasonic TX-55HX940 is equipped with the operating system my Home Screen 5 installed; it allows you to explore a whole universe of entertainment.
You will also be able to access the Internet, either through your Wi-Fi connection, or for the most geek among you via the LAN; you will then be able to download a whole bunch of applications and movies.
This software environment innovates on the Panasonic TX-55HX940 with a new feature: control the television set with voice. Indeed, thanks to the voice control function, it is possible to change channels, TV sources, turn the TV volume up or down just by talking to it. Isn't that convenient?
TX-55HX940 from Panasonic – Its connectivity
All the available connectivity makes it possible to cover current needs.
In this TV range, the TX-55HX940's offers are among the widest choice of connectors. This TV has more than most of its competitors.
This model has a total of 13 connections, not too bad. Almost all the devices in your home can be connected: the box, the game console, a multimedia server, and many other devices, in addition to your DVD or Blu-ray player.
In detail here are the available connections:
2 USB ports, 4 HDMI ports, 1 audio output, 5 antenna inputs, 1 composite plug (Y/Pb/Pr)
Presentation of the technical features of the Panasonic TX-55HX940
Our conclusion on the Panasonic TX-55HX940
With the intention of making a difference this new TX-55HX940 Panasonic intends to make a difference. Well thought out and well finished. This mid-range is a wise choice.
Panasonic TX-55HX940
55UD6426 from Thomson : Test and analysis


The Holmes hammermills are light to medium duty impact reduction crushers designed for coal, but should not be used with material harder than a medium hard limestone (Mohs hardness of 5). These 10x15 hammermills have a capacity to reduce -6 inch material to minus 10 mesh at a rate of 2,500 lbs. per hour using a 3/16" screen plate. Using a larger screen plate of 3/8" will increase capacity to 4000 lbs. per hour reducing -6 inch material to -4 mesh.
The covered feed hopper has a capacity of 1.6 cubic feet (70 pounds) and a manual feed control gate.
The cast ductile iron crusher housings are hinged and latched for quick access.
The open latch sensor cuts all power. Press the reset button before re-starting the machine, if the stop button has not been actuated.
The rotor swing hammers and all 3/16" thick screen plates are heat treated and hardened.
Rotor assemblies are reversible (end for end) for maximum hammer life.
All screen plates have round hole perforations. Stock perforations are 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4" and 1" diameters.
The 1.5 cubic feet capacity container will hold about 70 pounds of coal. It is sealed to the discharge spout while crushing.
A 7.5 H.P., T.E.F.C., 230/460volt,3 phase, 60 hertz motor and Nema 12 magnetic starter are furnished. The starter provides a 120 volt control circuit and overload protection for the motor. About 10 feet of four conductor, rubber covered cable is furnished to connect to your power source.
The crusher is mounted on four 4" diameter casters.
CAPACITY: 4000 pounds per hour using a 3/8" Dia. perforated. screen plate; 2500 pounds using a 3/16" Dia. screen. Recommended for crushing 6 Inch and smaller material to minus 4 mesh.
ROTOR SPEED: 1260 R.P.M. interchange "V" pulleys – 2360 R.P.M.
POWER REQUIREMENTS: Stock wiring is 230 volts, 3 phase, 60 hertz, 21 amps. Machine can be equipped for other electrical specifications and for hazardous locations.
010D-003 451, Economy Model, 5 Hp 3 Ph/230-460 V/60 Hz, Does not have the following items that are on the 401 XL: motor starter, overload, cable, crusher enclosure, casters, throw back plate.


The Kanpur-based group is being probed by the CBI and the ED in connection with the alleged swindling of Rs 3,695 crore of loan funds.
These attachment of assets, they said, has been carried out to "recover outstanding tax demands" from the group, understood to be about Rs 85 crore.
Public sector banks have collectively lent Rs 2,919 crore to the Rotomac group with Bank of India as the lead lender.
The fund shortage forced importers to buy dollars in domestic spot and forwards market in order to keep their payment commitment to overseas suppliers.
One of the consortium members, Bank of Baroda had approached the CBI requesting an FIR against Kothari as the bank apparently feared he might leave the country.
The public sector bank remained silent for two years despite facing a Rs 6,172 crore forex scam in 2015 in which money was sent from India to Hong Kong for import of cashewnuts, pulses and rice, but nothing was imported and the money was deposited in 59 accounts of several firms.
Rotomac violated FEMA rules and worked for interest rate differential in local and foreign currency in the guise of trade without having any genuine business transactions.
Earlier, the loan default was estimated at over Rs 800 crore but scrutiny of documents by CBI revealed that the amount is much larger.
The loans will be extended in the range of Rs one lakh to Rs 25 lakh at an annual interest rates between 18 and 30 per cent.
Bhasin said all the verticals of ITC are doing extremely well and if there is one stock which actually has got re-rated all the way from Rs 250-260 level it is ITC.
Customers of State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Kotak Mahindra have also voiced concerns that they have been unable to top up their PhonePe wallets using their parent bank's netbanking facility.
This was discussed at the diamond, gems and jewellery banking summit-2014 held in Mumbai on Saturday.
Saddled with bad assets like the Rs 6,000 crore Winsome Diamonds account, lenders have come out strongly against shady practices in the gems and jewellery sector.


You might not normally think of your dentist when you think of Botox. However, a recent survey actually showed that two out of three dentists were actually in favor of having the permission to offer dermal fillers and Botox. While a select few feel that Botox should only be a serviced offered by dentists when it's means for therapeutic dental solutions (like TMJ), most feel that the option should be available for both cosmetic and therapeutic purposes (see our new Online Botox Training For Physicians & Medical Professionals).
Any why shouldn't dentists have this ability? They are educated and well-versed in head and neck anatomy and trained to administer injections. Some dentists already offer particular cosmetic dental procedures and understand the facial nerves more than most doctors; aside from plastic surgeons.
Proper training is typically the main requirement for being able to administer Botox. Certain states have medical professionals that provide dermal fillers and Botox, however they have undergone the proper training. There is only a handful of dentists trained to use Botox; less than 10%. However, that number is starting to increase.
In addition, while more dentists that are starting to offer Botox, more therapeutic uses for Botox are being discovered. Botox could even become the answer for relieving pain in patients of bruxism, TMJ and facial pain in general.
The general use for Botox is to eliminate those unsightly wrinkles and obtain a more youthful appearance. However, using Botox around the nose and mouth areas could actually benefit the dental industry for patients wearing retainers and braces by incorporating Botox with the treatments already in place by the orthodontist to help keep teeth straight.
This course will not only teach you about Botox, it will also help you learn how it can be used with cosmetic dentistry procedures to create even better smiles for patients. Everything you learn from this course can be put into action right away at your own practice and because it's taught by general dentists like you, you know it will directly relate to your own practice.


Hi, my name is Takuma. I am a software and machine learning engineer at Mercari.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a buzzword nowadays. We also often see terms, such as 'Deep Learning' and 'Deep Neural Networks' that are subsets of AI and machine learning. I would like to share our experiment on image classification using deep learning.
After being extremely popular in the early 1990s, neural networks have fallen out of favor in research in the last 5 years. In 2000, it was even pointed out by the organizers of the Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) conference that the term "neural networks" in the submission title was negatively correlated with acceptance.
At that time, many researchers were being attracted to other algorithms like Support Vector Machine (SVM) and so on.
Some researchers, such as, Yann LeCun, Geoff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Andrew Ng, continued to study neural networks. Thanks to their achievements, algorithms based on deep learning have achieved better results than others on many tasks and competitions, such as ILSVRC2012. I like their talk about their struggles in the winter: Deep Learning Gurus Talk about History and Future of Machine Learning.
After their achievements, many researchers started using deep learning techniques again.
Deep learning algorithm breakthroughs, coupled with the latest hardware improvements, made it more practical, since large amounts of data and huge computational resources are required for deep learning.
I like the TED talk by Fei-Fei Li (director of Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab and Vision Lab) and her explanation as to why large amounts of data are needed for AI.
One of the practical applications of deep learning is image classification / object recognition. We prepared an image data set from Mercari that contains 1 million item images from about 1,000 categories (1,000 images for each category). We used 90% of the images for training and the other for evaluation.
We conducted our image classification experiment using TensorFlow. TensorFlow is Google's open source machine learning library. It's not just for neural networks.
We used the Inception-v3 model. It is a powerful image classification algorithm based on deep neural networks. In order to train the model from scratch, TFRecord format data is needed. A script for converting images to TFRecord format data is included in the repository.
ImageNet is a common academic image data set for image classification. The data set is described in the TED talk above. Also the Inception-v3 model uses the data set as a training example. Although we didn't depend on ImageNet, we used imagenet_train.py as described in README. This is also available for any image data set without the need to make any changes as long as the number of categories is less than or equal to 1,000 and each category has around 1,000 images.
Then, you can run the training script.
GPUs have been more commonly used for machine learning in recent years. It is possible to train the model without GPUs. However, it may take several or more months to obtain practical results.
Even when using a single GPU, due to GPU memory limitations, the batch size for training the Inception-v3 model should be less than or equal to 32 in our environment (AWS EC2 p2.xlarge) that has a single TESLA K80 GPU. In general, a larger batch size leads to better results.
# precision@1 = 73.5% after 100 hours and 100K steps (20 epochs).
Following the comment, we used p2.8xlarge that has 8 TESLA K80 GPUs and set the batch size to 256.
One of the features of TensorFlow is TensorBoard. We can monitor and check the training status and models through the web browser.
We stopped the training at 90K steps. If we kept the training, the training loss would be improved little by little. And also better results would be obtained, however this is time consuming.
Since it took around 2 days for 90K steps with K80s and 100 hours for 100K steps with K40s, K80 may be 2x faster than K40.
Here are some possible reasons for why we got such a result.
Some categories are very similar, such as, 'Men > Shoes > Sneakers' and 'Women > Shoes > Sneakers'. Also some varieties of clothes for men and women shared similarities.
In the tensorflow/models/inception, scripts are used for batch training and evaluation. When we want to use a trained model for non-batch image classification tasks, we need to write about 20 lines of code.
Classification score is not treated in the imagenet_eval. Since it would be helpful to know the confidence of the classifications, we added this line of code scores = tf.nn.softmax(logits). This is actually calculated in the inception model, but it is not returned.
After this, we get the classification results for the image.
We applied this trained model to some images.
I shared our experiment results of image classification with deep learning.
Thanks to OSS such as TensorFlow, we don't need to write code, and also, knowledge of machine learning is not always required for a simple image classification task. All we need are large amounts of labeled data and huge computational resources for image classification tasks nowadays.
Not only image classification, but also other machine learning applications like speech recognition, natural language processing and so on, are being improved dramatically by deep learning approaches. However, deep learning still has some problems, e.g. huge computation time and training difficulties.
Currently, I am interested in model compression of deep neural networks, since deep models usually have a huge number of parameters. If it could be represented by less parameters, deep learning would be more useful.
I hope we will be able to bring better user experience through machine learning.


The following packets of information were distributed in 6th and 7th grade Math classes at IMS on Monday, March 25th, to all current students. Please review all of the material included and register for courses online via Skyward by April 5th. Hard copies of registration worksheets are due back to Math teachers by that same date, April 5th. Contact your student's Counselor with any questions.
The registration needs to be completed using the STUDENT ACCESS account.
The family access accounts (parents) will not work.
See the password reset instructions below, if a student has forgotten their Skyward username/password.
Current 5th graders are to turn in their form to their Elementary teacher by Monday, March 25th.
Reminder Gator for a Night is scheduled for Thursday, March 21st, 5:30-7PM at Islander Middle School.
Want to sign up for the IMS Leadership Class?
All students need to fill in the application to apply to be in leadership class.
Please fill out this application form.
Access the Skyward Login Page Here.
Update: The Leadership course has been adjusted to a year long class for the 18/19 school year.


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'We will back you': a positive approach to risk
In order to deliver personalised care to people using council services in Wigan, the council has adopted a fundamentally different approach to risk. Dan Wellings highlights how training staff to have 'different conversations' with people using their services and backing them to act on what they hear has allowed this transformation to take place.
The prevention Green Paper: the right time to put it in its place?
David Buck considers what is likely to be in the government's Green Paper on prevention – and what should be in it.
By David Buck - 24 May 2019
Hitting the sweet spot? multi-morbidity, the NHS long-term plan and population health
With its long list of commitments on specific clinical issues, did the NHS long-term plan miss a vital opportunity to address health inequalities? David Buck takes a look at what the plan could achieve for people with multi-morbidities, in a guest blog for the Richmond Group.
By David Buck - 15 April 2019
What's the role of general practice in addressing population health?
Tom Beaney and Luke Allen explore the unique role GPs have to play in improving population health, but warn that a lack of capacity and resources limits the influence they can have.
By Dr Tom Beaney, Luke Allen - 15 January 2019
What can cities in England learn from other countries about population health?
As we publish a new report on population health, Chris Naylor asks whether it is time for cities to have more powers to improve the health of their populations.
Analysing STPs in London: service reconfiguration, finances and leadership
Chris Ham outlines the main issues brought to light in our independent assessment of London's sustainability and transformation plans, and what the Mayor of London can do to help with their successful delivery.
Looking for needles in haystacks: population health and the manifestos
David Buck assesses the parties' commitments to both public health and the wider policies that are so important to improving population health.
By David Buck - 5 June 2017
Sending shockwaves through the NHS?
Ben Collins asks whether we are seeing the end of the purchaser-provider split as we know it.
STPs: a call for 'extraordinary' leadership
Marcus Powell calls for investment in the extraordinary leadership needed to implement sustainability and transformation plans.
Housing and health: STPs, White Papers and beyond
Has the role of housing been given adequate consideration in sustainability and transformation plans? David Buck argues the importance of delivering health and housing services and developing policy together.
By David Buck - 27 February 2017

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The results of the AISSE (10th board exams) 2018 has been out on the 29th of May 2018. As usual VKV Golaghat's results in the 10th board exams has been spectacular. This year, out of 90 students that appeared in the 10th board exams, 88 passed the exams with an aggregate pass percentage of 97. 77%. Of this, 15 students were able to secure above 90% of marks, 18 above 80%,24 above 70%,13 above 60%,15 above 50% and last but not the least 3 students were able to secure above 40% of marks. Dikhit Raj Hazarika secured the highest percentage of 97.2% in the entire batch and 76 students out of the 88 students that passed the AISSE exams were able to secure 80% marks(letter marks) in at least one subject.


Bruce Davison of Candelo Salers which is a 'Beef Only' grazing property owned and operated by Bruce and Heidi Davison. The farm is on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, in the Bega Valley. They breed Salers-Angus composite cattle and have a few black poled Salers purebreds.
The cattle are pasture fed only, rotationally grazed and they use low-stress cattle handling methods. Their cattle are robust and quiet, are hormone growth promotant free and are anti-biotic free.
Bruce is keen on composting worms which quickly and efficiently turn cow manure and other organic waste into worm castings at almost no cost. He says that they work 24 hours a day 7 days a week requiring only food and water in return.
Bruce is not an expert in any field and does not have a university education. I am however an enquiring farmer, he says. His curiosity has led him to be one of the few farmers who managed the recent drought with cattle in good health by feeding his farm regularly with worm juice which has increased plant brix levels and put carbon in the soil.
www.farmingsecrets.com Actual Compost Tea Brewing! Bruce discusses compost tea making. Notice that he does not use a tea bag, so he gets more nutrients in the liquid. Bruce has made tea brewing simple!
www.farmingsecrets.com Heidi & Bruce Davison explain how they run their farm up rather than run it down. You attract the animals up the landscape with water and feed so nutrients get left on the high ground. That's moving the farm on the right direction.


I pack everything in reused boxes, usually wine boxes or ex betterware boxes - i use reused packaging - it is more imortant to me to be environmentally friendly than to buy in loads of new packaging - i do have to have some new stuff but it is all recycled as much as i can afford - my prices do not really allow for very expensive recycled packaging - i'd rather my customers be able to clean green that it be beyond a lot of pockets.
Some items do need to be wrapped in plastic though - i use a label which says " Packed with care using reused and recycled packaging" I am going to design a new stciker which makes a point of advertising the fact that i reuse as much as i can.
It's what is in the box that counts.
thanks for the link to the biodegradable bags - now all my cards are in them from now on - jst ordered a load!


Buy Feizy Aubrey Geometric 5-Foot x 8-Foot Area Rug in Grey/Black from $187.00 at Bed Bath & Beyond. Bold and modern in its simplistic design, the Aubrey Geometric Area Rug from Feizy offers a unique style to your living space. This power-loomed rug features a repeating rectangle pattern and is constructed out of a durable cotton blend.Bold and modern in its simplistic design, the Aubrey Geometric Area Rug from Feizy offers a unique style to your living space. This power-loomed rug features a repeating rectangle pattern and is constructed out of a durable cotton blend.
Sizes: 9' x 12', 2' x 3', 6' runner, 4' x 6', 8' x 10', 5' x 7'6"
Attractively handcrafted from UV treated 100% polypropylene, the versatile and durable Kaleen Escape Geometric Boxes Indoor/Outdoor Rug features a mesmerizing geometric pattern in vivid colors to enhance the look of any interior space or patio area.
Showcasing a captivating and colorful pattern, the Fuji Cloud Rug from Liora Manne is a stylish way to introduce pattern to your space. Mixing function with fashion, this chic rug boasts a soft construction for lasting comfort.


Ice skaters glide on Westchester Lagoon as the last rays of sunset linger in Anchorage, Alaska. Behind them is the towering Chugach Mountain Range. The National Speedskating Marathon Championships were held here last year.
Is Alaska's Mount Pavlof volcano about to erupt once again?


Ryan trained with Cushman & Wakefield, from 1999, in their retail warehouse, leisure, valuation, rent review and investment departments. He joined leading niche investment agency Franc Warwick in 2006 until he started Springer Nicolas with Alexis in October 2012.
Ryan focuses across all sectors nationally, including the acquisition and disposal of portfolios and individual properties both on and off market to meet clients' individual investment objectives.
He advises a variety of clients including institutions, developers, property companies and private investors.
Following a successful professional football career with Chelsea FC and Brighton & Hove Albion, Alexis worked briefly at niche agency Ereira Mendoza before joining leading niche investment agency Franc Warwick in 2007. Alexis started Springer Nicolas with Ryan in October 2012.
Alexis specialises in both sales and acquisitions throughout the UK in a number of varied sectors and has been particularly active within the Central London area and national retail markets.
Alexis advises a loyal client base which includes a variety of UK institutions, property companies and overseas investors.


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'Wolves': Tribeca Review
By Graham Fuller2016-04-16T20:47:00+01:00
Dir/sc. Bart Freundlich. 2016. US. 109 mins
Wolves merges the worlds of high-school basketball and high-stakes gambling into a coming-of-age tale steeped in echt New York City machismo. Written and directed by hometown filmmaker Bart Freundlich, the movie was an obvious choice for the Spotlight section of this year's local Tribeca Film Festival. Sadly, it's no slam dunk. Save the highly predictable decider, the on-court battles are satisfyingly fast and fierce, but the tension they generate is undercut by the labored Oedipal melodrama that contains them.
Wolves is unquestionably at its strongest in the basketball sequences, skillfully staged by Freundlich and kinetically edited by Joseph Krings.
There's indisputably a crowd-pleasing aspect to Wolves (named for a Manhattan private-school hoops team) that will attract sports-loving American moviegoers undeterred by clichéd characterisation and schematic plotting. But it doesn't help the film's commercial prospects that its protagonist, Anthony Keller (Taylor John Smith), the Wolves' aggressive captain and star shooter, is charmless off the court.
He can mix it with the streetball players who partake in the extra-physical – and rap-scored – games played at the public West 4th Street "Cage", and he finds a mentor there in a canny old pro (played by the great classical actor John Douglas Thompson, who gives the sharpest performance here). Otherwise, Anthony is dull company – except to his doting mother Jenny (Carla Gugino) and his smitten girlfriend Victoria (Zazie Beetz). On this showing, the good-looking Smith has none of the jock swagger exuded by, say, the young Mark Wahlberg.
Not that Freundlich's script permits it. A taciturn hunk to begin with, Anthony has been stunned into passivity by his relentlessly antagonistic father, Lee (Michael Shannon, unusually mannered here) – and is, in fact, symbolically emasculated by him in a not-so-casual one-on-one practice ahead of the climactic game that will determine both their fates. Victory will translate to a Cornell University basketball scholarship for Anthony. For gambling addict Lee, a Judas who has backed the Wolves' opponents to win so he can pay off the thugs to whom he owes $200,000, it's potentially a life-or-death matter.
Lee is a disgruntled college writing teacher and blocked novelist with a massive chip on his Noo Yawk shoulders concerning his hard-drinking male identity. Jenny, Anthony's optimistic champion, is a fashion school grad who works hard managing a men's clothing store so she can save for his college fund – money her husband squanders on betting.
There's a strong dose of Hamlet in the Keller family dynamics. Though dad doesn't show up for Anthony's games, he resents the supportive role played in his son's life by his ex-basketball-playing Uncle Charlie (Chris Bauer). A late revelation, voiced by Charlie, explains why Lee bullies Anthony.
Freundlich successfully intensifies the drama in scenes that pinpoint repressed longings in discomfiting behaviour. When, for example, Anthony is showering at home, the smiling Jenny – wearing a slinky black slip-dress – enters the bathroom without knocking and sidles up behind her half-naked son to squeeze and kiss his shoulders. After Anthony and Victoria go nearly all the way in his room and the girl leaves the apartment, Lee makes a point of sniffing his son's fingers and saying, "That's my boy!" Incidents in the young couple's increasingly bumpy romance – involving a pregnancy, a break-up, and Anthony's involvement with a school basketball groupie – have a rote and tangential quality that lack the unsavoury but intriguing tang of the attention paid Anthony by his parents.
Wolves is unquestionably at its strongest in the basketball sequences, skillfully staged by Freundlich and kinetically edited by Joseph Krings. The director's sixth feature is too emotionally inconsistent, however, to top his 1997 debut The Myth of Fingerprints, one of American indie cinema's key dysfunctional family dramas and still his most memorable work.
Production company: Process Media
International sales: Sierra/Affinity, nick@sierra-affinity.com
Producers: Tim Perell, Bart Freundlich
Executive producers: Bill Koenigsberg, Erika Pearsall, Erica Steinberg
Cinematographer: Juanmi Aspiroz
Editor: Joseph Krings
Production design: Elizabeth Jones
Music: David Bridie
Main cast: Taylor John Smith, Michael Shannon, Carla Gugino, Chris Bauer, John Douglas Thompson, Zazie Beetz, Wayne Duvall, Samuel Ray Gates
'Truth And Justice': Review
Estonian production is a suprise entry in the 10-film international Oscar shortlist


There are no shortage of adages out there designed to help you stay the course and make incremental progress when you're working on tackling a big goal.
The hardest part of being successful when chasing down big goals is often simply staying the course. On January 1st, it's easy to set big goals for the new year. If you read my post from yesterday, you know that I've got some big goals for myself in 2015.
There is no way that I will be able to accomplish any of those goals in a few weeks. Or even a few months. But by the end of the year, if I keep making steady progress, there is no reason that I can't be successful with all of my goals.
Whether or not you made any resolutions yesterday, there is a good chance there is something that you're working on that is a big picture/long term kind of project. It could be running related or it could be something completely removed from running.
Whatever you are working towards, whatever your goal is, there is no reason that you can't be successful. Oftentimes, the biggest hurdle to your own success, New Year's Resolution or otherwise, is yourself.
So get out of your own way.
If you keep moving forward, keep making small progress and don't give up, there is nothing that can prevent you from reaching the goals/resolutions that you have set for yourself, this year and beyond.
To hear me elaborate a little bit more about the information on this post, press play below!
How I'm Going to Take the (Virtual) Running World By Storm in 2015 17 Reasons You Should Go for a Run…Right Now!


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March! http://softball crew.Dom MY INSTAGRAM @bobbycrosby The Dodgerfilms softball crew plays football once again and this time it's the most epic, amazing, incredible, spectacular, unbelievable game ever played in the history of sports, including the craziest 4th quarter comeback you'll ever see! Please LIKE this video and COMMENT to let me know what you think of it! And SHARE it with your friends! Thank you! If enough of you like it and share it, we might make this a regular series!
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William Owen Stanley ( - )  est un homme politique du Parti libéral .

Biographie
Stanley est le fils de John Stanley (1er baron Stanley d'Alderley), et de Lady Maria Josepha, fille de John Baker Holroyd (1er comte de Sheffield). Son frère jumeau aîné est Edward Stanley (2e baron Stanley d'Alderley). Il devient notaire . Stanley épouse Ellin Williams, fille de Sir John Williams de Bodelwyddan, Flintshire en 1832. Il est l'héritier du domaine Penrhos à Anglesey où il réside toute sa vie .

Stanley est député pour Anglesey (1837-1847)  la Ville de Chester (1850-1857)  et Beaumaris (1857-1874) . Il est aussi Lord Lieutenant d'Anglesey ( - )  et capitaine puis adjudant dans les Grenadier Guards . En tant qu'antiquaire de grande réputation, il est l'auteur d' Anglesey (1871) et contribue de nombreuses publications celtiques, en particulier sur des sujets celtiques et ses fouilles à Holyhead et Castell, Anglesey,  à Archaeologia Cambrensis. En 1855, il supervise la construction de Holyhead Market Hall, qui est aujourd'hui une bibliothèque et des bureaux.

Stanley fait don d'une collection d'antiquités d'Anglesey au British Museum en 1870 et 1881 . Son monument funéraire se trouve dans l' église St Cybi, Holyhead.

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Député du 20e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
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Député du 17e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 16e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 15e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 14e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 13e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du Parti libéral (Royaume-Uni)
Décès en février 1884
Naissance en novembre 1802
Décès à 81 ans

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The spiral is in the opening scene of the SERIES.
You'll often hear people speak about the Three Big Twists to Game of Thrones Season 8. What we are referring to is something show Runner David Benioff once said: That there would be "three holy sh-- moments."
The first was Shireen. The second was Hodor. And he said that the third will happen at "the very end."


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Джулиано Мер-Хамис ( ג'וליאנו מֵר חמיס  جوليانو مير خميس) (родился 29 мая 1958 в Назарете — 4 апреля 2011 в Дженине) — израильский актёр, режиссёр и политический активист.

Биография
Джулиано Мер-Хамис родился в Назарете в семье еврейской коммунистки, борющейся за права палестинских арабов Арны Мер и араба-христианина, одного из лидеров Коммунистической партии Израиля Салибы Хамиса.

В молодости Джулиано добавил к арабской фамилии своего отца (Хамис), еврейскую фамилию матери (Мер). Мер-Хамис служил в армии обороны Израиля в десантной бригаде Цанханим.

Карьера

Политическая деятельность
Джулиано Мер-Хамис занимался проблемой арабо-израильского конфликта. Он протестовал против израильской оккупации Западного берега реки Иордан, строительства новых и развития старых израильских поселений на палестинских территориях. Также Мер-Хамис занимался правозащитной деятельностью.

В интервью арабской газете «Аль Медина» в 2006 году, он назвал Закарию Зубейди, руководителя организации «Бригады мучеников аль-Аксы» в Дженине, своим другом (в Израиле эта организация объявлена террористической) и также заявил о себе, что с Израилем он связан только получением ежемесячной заработной платы. После публикации этого интервью он начал получать угрозы в свой адрес и в адрес дочери. Однако он отметил, что журналист существенно исказил сказанные им слова. В частности, термин «иудонацисты», придуманный Йешаяху Лейбовичем, журналист перевёл, как «неонацисты». Газета принесла извинения, сообщив, что имело место непреднамеренное искажение текста интервью в процессе неточного перевода.

Также Джулиано Мер-Хамис не раз заявлял что поддерживает право палестинского народа на вооруженную борьбу против Израиля. Мер-Хамис придерживался левых взглядов на арабо-израильский конфликт: он считал, что палестинское государство должно быть создано на территории всей бывшей подмандатной территории.

В 2003 году, во время спектакля «Мадлен» в театре Хайфы, он зачитал со сцены заявление штаба борьбы работников искусства сo внесением своих дополнительных комментариев с утверждениями, что израильское правительство тратит деньги на оккупацию, а не на культуру, что вызвало в зале бурю протеста.

Мер-Хамис часто участвовал в различных политических шествиях и демонстрациях, в 2005 году ему пришлось даже выплатить компенсацию другому демонстранту, с которым он вступил в драку.

Театр Свободы
В 2006 году Джулиано Мер-Хамис совместно с одним из бывших лидеров палестинских борцов Закарией Зубейди и израильским художником Дрором Фейлером основал «Театр свободы». Театр был создан с целью просвещения среди детей и молодёжи, живущих в лагерях беженцев в Дженине. Сам Мер-Хамис сказал о театре: «Мы хотим создать культурный центр, который будет расширять права и возможности, приносить знания детям Дженина».

Смерть
4 апреля 2011 года Джулиано Мер-Хамис был застрелен около театра «Свободы», которым он и руководил, в Дженине на территории Палестинской автономии. По делу об убийстве начато расследование. Коллеги Джулиано заявили о том, что он неоднократно получал послания с угрозами расправы.

Фильмография

Актёр
 1984 —  — Хулио
 1985 —  — Томас
 1985 —  — Хасан
 1985 — Гнев и слава
 1986 —  — Аман
 1988 —  — Офицер
 1989 —  — Менахем
 1992 — Sipurei Tel-Aviv — Енё
 1992 — Hostages — Али
 1992 — Sweating Bullets — Мелито
 1993 —  — Морис
 1993 — Смертельно опасные герои — Антонио Вальдес
 1994 — Нечего терять — Рамон
 1995 —  — Ариэль
 1995 — The Revolutionary (video) — Центурион
 1996 — The Revolutionary II (video) — Центурион
 1997 — Увертюра 1812
 1998 — Флоренция (телесериал) — Реми
 1998 — Каждый день — Жуль
 2000 —  — Иисус Карера
 2001 —  — Капитан
 2002 —  — Мусса
 2004 — Тахара — Наджим (Нагим)
 2006 —  — Омар
 2008 —
 2009 — Hadutha Saghira — израильский солдат

Режиссёр, сценарист, оператор
 2004 — Дети Арны — документальный фильм

Примечания

Кинорежиссёры Израиля
Правозащитники Израиля
Общественные деятели Израиля


iOS 12 comes with many attractive new features. It is normal that most people will choose to update their devices to iOS 12. However, not everyone can enjoy the features of iOS 12 successfully because some people find their iPhone not turning on after iOS 12 update. This is not a new problem. It also happens when iOS 11 was released. Before you get desperate, read this article and find the solutions that you can try when iPhone won't turn on after iOS 12 update. The methods are approved useful for many people. We believe you would be able to work with your device like before. Let's get started.
1. What Problems You May Meet When iPhone Won't Turn On?
3. How to Fix iPhone Won't Turn On after iOS 12 Update?
The screen sometimes gets black showing only the spinning wheel, but it won't go to home page.
2. Why iPhone Won't Turn On after iOS 12 Update ?
Second reason could be a system crash. Yes! Chances are that your iPhone isn't turning on due to an iOS crash and hence a factory reset can be your savior.
The last thing why your device doesn't turn on is the hardware glitch. This can be identified if any of the troubleshooting steps given in this article won't work out.
Below are 3 methods that can help you when iPhone won't turn on after iOS 12 or other software update.
The first thing you should try when your iPhone won't turn on after iOS 12 update is to force restart it. You might have heard about this before. But in case you don't, here is how to carry out force restart on your respective devices.
To force restart iPhone 6/6S and earlier models than 6, press down the "Power' button and the 'Home' button and keep holding them for 10 seconds. Let go the buttons when the Apple logo appears.
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus users also need to follow somewhat similar steps. But they need to press 'Volume Down' and 'Power' buttons altogether. Release the buttons when you find Apple logo on the screen.
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Here is the last thing you can try when your iPhone isn't turning on after iOS 12 update. You will now need latest iTunes in your PC since we are going to demonstrate the steps for restoring your iPhone via iTunes to solve this problem. However, this method will get all the data on your iPhone erased. So, follow the steps when you are sure you want to perform this method.
Run iTunes in the PC and get the PC and device connected via a USB cord.
Enter the iTunes' interface and click on the phone icon at the top if your iPhone can be recognized.
Go to the 'Summary' tab and hit on 'Restore iPhone' button. Confirm the actions when asked and you will be done.
If your iPhone cannot be recognized, put your iPhone into DFU or recovery mode and then use iTunes to restore your iPhone. When it restarts after finishing the restore process, your iPhone will turn on and you can go into setup process.


"Mom? Those kids over there said they don't like me."
"How is that for you?"
"But you know what? They don't even know me, I mean for real know me."
So you guys? The show is this weekend. Have I mentioned lately just how amazing Listen To Your Mother Los Angeles is going to be? Because it is. The writers and their stories are funny and moving and compelling and inspiring and other great adjectives that end in "ing." If you are in Southern California, I hope you will join us on Sunday at 3:00pm. Buy tickets here.
If you're in Austin, Madison, Spokane or Northwest Indiana there are other phenomenal Listen To Your Mother shows coming up soon. Get on it. Bring your mom.
"This is a good day for swim class, Mom. It's so super, extra, very, hot."
"It's so hot it feels like the whole world is on fire."
"Bob, do you know what hyperbole means?"
"Hey, Bob? We're going to Daddy's office to meet him for lunch."
"Wow! I don't wanna do that!"
"Well, what are we doing there? Will other people be there? Will there be kids there? Is it a fundraiser?"
"What? No, it's lunch. With Daddy. At his office."
"Okay. He'll be excited to see us in the middle of the daylight during the week."
"Mom? That was a super best Easter. How did the Easter Bunny know I wanted a Mandalorian Battle Pack?"
"Sounds like he knows you pretty well."
"Yeah and he knew I really liked candy too. How'd he know that one?"
"That's pretty specific information. Sounds like he did his homework."
"And Mom? My underpants are on backwards and they are going inside my bottom cheeks."
I love this 1940s tour of Hollywood.
Diane Keaton is the coolest and so is her house.
And for Easter... some dog/bunny goodness.
"Okay so, Mom? How does Santa see everything we do when he lives so far away?"
"That's just part of his magic."
"Do Santa and the Easter Bunny talk much?"
"All right, Bud. Let's hop in the car."
"Really? I don't like that nickname, Bob. Try that again."
"I guess that's a little better."
"Okay, beautiful-est and gorgeous-est, Mama."
"Get in the car, Son."
"Mom? Is it always cold in the North Pole?"
"So Santa is always freezing?"
"He has that red suit so I think he does okay."
"What about the Easter Bunny? Where does he live?"
"Where do you think he lives, Bob?"
"I'm pretty sure he lives in a rainbow."
Urban Weeds. It's like The Sartorialist but less designer-y and more Portland-y.
You guys? Go see my friend Tracey's gorgeous photo blog. You're welcome.
"Dad? On the way to the park I found a penny in the street."
"Well, almost. Mom found it and she said I could keep it. I'm going to put it in my bank."
"Is it a lucky penny?"
"Of course it is, Dad, of course. Why would you even ask me that?"
Every morning between 3:30 and 4:00, Violet pads into our bedroom. She sits down near Jeff's side of the bed and the meowing begins. She reserves her special car-alarm-sounding meow for this time in the morning. She doesn't do this when Jeff's out of town. This is meant just for him.
Jeff heaves out of bed and gets her a bowl of water. The howling continues. He opens a new can of cat food and places it in a dish on the counter. Still with the howling. He turns the faucet on for a light drip for her to drink from. The howling stops for a minute or so and then starts again. He picks her up and carries her to the couch while she mashes her head into his neck, her version of a hug. Jeff returns to bed and goes back to sleep.
I finally wake up, long after Jeff has gone to work. I pick up Violet and smell her head, the tiny fur head that smells just like Jeff's neck.
"Mom? How come you let me stay in pajamas all day?"
"You're still getting over your cold."
"But I had to wear real clothes yesterday."
"Today was Sunday and you weren't going anywhere and I wanted you to rest up for school tomorrow."
"Mom? How come you wore pajamas all day too? You're not sick and you don't have school."
Last night we put all the toys away. Yet this morning, in the corner, there was this guy.
"... and God bless Grandma Sylvia and Nat. We're grateful for this day we all got to spend together. Bob? What are you grateful for today?"
"I'm grateful for hummus and my Count Dooku key-chain, and that the wind stays outside the house and not inside, and that we don't all have colds at the same time so that Daddy is well and can make us soup."
"Bob? Will you help me break up the dirt before we put the seeds in?"
"It is real dirty, Babe. It's dirt."
"But you wanted this garden. Part of gardening is getting your hands dirty. Do you want garden gloves?"
"No Mom, you can do it. I'll be the boss of the garden. I'll do supervising."
"Mom? Is tomorrow the day we're going to Lego Land?"
"No. We're going on Thursday."
"So are we going the day after tomorrow?"
"No, the day after tomorrow is Wednesday and we're going on Thursday."
"I think we should just go to Lego Land today."
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"Mom? It's not really, real hairs on him you know."
"Mom? Did you get Luis a birthday present?"
"Did you get him a Star Wars thing? Is it the Mandalorian Battlepack? Is it the Imperial V-Wing Starfighter? Is it the Battle of Endor? Is it the Snow Trooper Battlepack? Did you get an action figure? Is it a Star Wars Sticker book? Is it the mini-figure alarm clock? Is it an Attack Shuttle? Is it the Republic Swamp Speeder? Is it? Is it that? Do you even know what you got? Mom? Mom!"


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Natural History Gallery, empty cases.
I bet you're wondering how we're getting along in the Market Hall with the refit, what with all the blinds being closed? It's a bit of a mystery isn't it? Well, make no mistake, it's pretty drastic, you won't recognise the place. Everything has been stripped out, back to the bare bones of the original building, they've got rid of asbestos pipe lagging, all the old lighting, they have even removed a lot of the interior non-structural walls.
The new galleries will be light, fresh, give a sense of space and allow you to appreciate the architecture of the Market Hall itself. Most importantly, it will provide an area where we can show off our objects to their best advantage, whilst at the same time improving visitor access to the interpretation on a number of different levels. There is even going to be a cafe so you can rest your weary feet and have a cup of tea and a piece of cake.
When I saw the pictures I thought 'EEEK' but I am still really excited for the reopening.
So many questions but the most important one first… when does it reopen. The kids are nagging me!
We'll hopefully be opening around the New Year, and hopefully some previews before Christmas, but we haven't got a fixed opening date yet as there's still quite a lot of stuff to do in between then. Make no mistake, we'll be shouting from the roof tops once we've got everything set but at least that gives you a guide.


The landscape of online offerings in the time tracking, task management and project management realm of productivity tools has changed considerably in just the last year. Not only have the number of online applications increased, but the versatility and uniqueness of web-based software has also grown to meet the needs of every niche imaginable.
The suite of available web-based applications for web designers, web developers and creatives has grown considerably, most likely because the ones churning out these online apps are themselves designers and developers with experience in creative agencies.
Once your agency has decided it needs to adopt an online application for project management and related productivity needs, how do you choose which one? Naturally, we at Pelago would steer you towards our own time, task and project management app, Intervals. Ultimately, we want you to choose the online app that fits your needs best, even if it isn't ours.
To help whittle down your shortlist of online project management apps to choose from, below are some insights based on our experiences the last ten years at Pelago. When it comes to time tracking, task management and project management, we've had enough mistakes and successes while running our small web design and development agency to know what we're talking about.
Every web designer, developer, creative, IT professional, PR person, freelancer — any person or agency who provides a professional service needs to track their time. This is especially critical if you bill hourly for that time. You would be surprised at the number of small businesses who still track their time on paper or using Microsoft Xcel. And I can tell you, based on our own experience and from hearing stories from our own customers, that if you aren't tracking your time with time tracking software you are losing up to 30% of your billable time. That is a lot of time slipping through the cracks, money you will never recuperate.
Even if you don't bill hourly for your creative services, online time tracking is crucial for internal feedback. If you know how much time you are spending on projects you will become more and more precise when you flat-bid a project. The nature of flat-bidding projects is that on some you lose money and and some you make money. You just hope it evens out in the end. With more precise flat-bids it's more likely there will be less surprises at the end of the year. Time tracking, when practiced diligently, provides invaluable feedback crucial to project management.
Task management software comes in all shapes and sizes, from the simplest to-do list to complex bug and issue tracking. What type of task management you adopt depends on what is coupled with the online project management software you choose and on your specific needs. For example, some web designers, especially freelancers, may be able to get by with a simple to-do app. In fact, many of them do and use Basecamp for their project management needs.
Web developers tend to be a more advanced lot and will rely on more feature-rich task management. Web developers with a background in software development will find bug and issue tracking features to be more fitting to their needs. Managing tasks from a bug and issue tracking perspective is useful because it allows developers to prioritize tasks based on factors other than the due date and provides a more collaborative approach to resolving tasks.
Look for task management features that fit your current needs and allow you room to grow. In the context of project management, task lists are useful for gauging the status of a project at any given moment by knowing what percentage of tasks are complete. Task lists are also useful for running reports on completed projects as they provide a detailed analysis of efforts put into the project.
What small business doesn't need project management? Regardless of whether it's a full time project manager, an employee wearing the PM hat a few hours a week, or everyone making a collaborative effort to use online software, project management is critical if you are going to regularly complete projects on time and under budget.
As the number of projects you take on grows so will the need for more project management features. Some designers, developers and creatives will get by with basic project management features, for example, task and time tracking. Creative agencies who begin taking on a greater size and number of projects will find themselves requiring more features in their online project management software.
At Pelago we have found additional project management features to be very useful, which is why we built them into our online project management software (Intervals). We've rounded out the application with numerous productivity tools — milestones, document sharing, payment and expense tracking, invoicing, granular reporting — and we plan on adding more to the mix. Two in particular, project estimation and Gantt-ish reports are worming their way into our collective definition of online project management workflow.
It's not just the number and quality of features that determine the type of project management software to adopt. Consider also the context in which you are able to access your data. The online software you choose will use a web browser as it's primary method for accessing your data. The web browser is getting better at providing a desktop-like experience, but you won't always be sitting in front of your computer. Consider what desktop widgets and mobile interfaces are available, especially if you find yourself out in the field quite often. Developers who want to break away from the features of the web-based version of their app will want to consider the availability of an API, a useful way to import and export your data and build additional interfaces for accessing your data.
Overall, look for software that provides the best fit. No single online project management application is going to provide every feature you need. It is likely that you will have to make some compromises when selecting web-based software for your design and development needs. Otherwise, you will get stuck in an infinite loop, dismissing likely candidates while repeating to yourself, "If only this app had that one absolutely necessary feature, then I'd use it in a second." Let's be honest, you don't need that "one feature" as much as you think.
Nice post. As mentioned above, as the number of projects you take on grows so will the need for more project management features. I have been using Microsoft's project 2007 for collaborative project management and it helps me to manage growing number of projects, scheduling and tracking projects progress, managing resources etc. It has good time management feature like calendar management. You can also try free add-ins, tools and templates available at http://www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/project-professional-2007.aspx Regards.
Microsoft Project is overkill for most small businesses out there. And based on our own experiences using it, I would never recommend it to anyone. There are far more options out there that will do just as good a job of managing projects with half the complexity of MS Project. Take a look at the above link if would like, but I think most our readers will find themselves better suited with a simpler web-based project management application.


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Songs Across The Distance
"Open. Open your hearts to the dancing joy of the Holy One And let your love abound from heart to lips. In order to bring forth fruits for the Holy One, a holy life, And sing with attention in God's light. Stand and be restored, All of you who were once flattened. Sing, you who were silent, Because your mouth has been opened." -Odes of Solomon, Book 1, Ode 8, verses 1-4
"By the rivers of Babylon /Where we sat down /And there we wept /When we remembered Zion But the wicked carried us away in captivity/ Required from us a song /How can we sing King Alpha song in a strange land? Sing it out loud/ Sing a song of freedom, sister/ Sing a song of freedom, brother We gotta sing and shout it/ We gotta jump and shout it/ Shout the song of freedom now So let the words of our mouths/ And the meditation of our heart/ Be acceptable in Thy sight, oh Far I" -"By The Rivers of Babylon" by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton Based on Psalm 137
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret life, bringing peace, abolishing strife." – Khalil Gibran
Holy moments in the midst of music … maybe that happened just now, with the gift the choir just gave us… holy moments … Music has this power to bring us to a place of prayer, a place of openness to the presence of God.
Music has this power to connect to communicate across the distance between us. Music sings across the silence.
I invite you to remember a time when you heard a song that just did it for you, it was amazing how it expressed how you were feeling, and maybe made you feel less alone. Wow, someone knows my pain, someone knows my joy, someone knows the predicament I'm in. Music can reach in to us to bring out what's inside.
And then, have you ever had the experience of hearing a song that communicated to you someone else's experience, that was different from your own? The song brought you a little glimpse into someone else's world and you could see their humanity a little better and you were a little less inclined to judge.
Music has this power to communicate across the gaps, to call across the distance, to sing across the silence. "A love that abounds from heart to lips." The greatest distance that music can wash over may be the distance between ourselves and God. Let me share three stories, one from the U.S., one from South Africa, and one from El Salvador:
I was working in a bookstore. One of my coworkers put on for the overhead music "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane.
I was up on a ladder getting down overstock books. So I was up close to the speaker. And the music came to this place where it was like the clouds part and and great beams of light strike out and Coltrane's saxophone entones these notes that just lift with "dancing joy." Pure devotion. "A love that abounds from heart to lips." And it took me up, this music – my heart opened and some greater power took over.
And I had to catch myself from falling off the ladder.
Now, John Coltrane and I don't have a lot in common, in terms of life background. But this devotion to the Love Supreme is a universal language. And his genius created music that leapt across the divide, from God's heart, to his, to mine, to countless others whom his music moves in devotion back to that mighty heart of God.
Another story: A couple years ago Rachel and I got to hear Hugh Masekela in concert with Vusi Mahlasela – two legendary South African musicians who were touring the United States together. Both of them are musicians with a powerful heart for humanity who were both part of the struggle against apartheid.
Masekela sang a song called "Stimela – Coal Train" (the literal coal train, here, not the St. John Coltrane). Here are the words:
"There is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi there is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe, There is a train that comes from Angola and Mozambique, From Lesotho, from Botswana, from Zwaziland, From all the hinterland of Southern and Central Africa. This train carries young and old, African men Who are conscripted to come and work on contract In the golden mineral mines of Johannesburg And its surrounding metropolis, sixteen hours or more a day For almost no pay. Deep, deep, deep down in the belly of the earth. When they are digging and drilling that shiny mighty evasive stone, Or when they dish that mish mesh mush food into their iron plates with the iron shank. Or when they sit in their stinking, funky, filthy, Flea-ridden barracks and hostels. They think about the loved ones they may never see again Because they might have already been forcibly removed From where they last left them Or wantonly murdered in the dead of night By roving, marauding gangs of no particular origin, We are told. they think about their lands, their herds That were taken away from them With a gun, bomb, teargas and the cannon. And when they hear that Choo-Choo train They always curse, curse the coal train, The coal train that brought them to Johannesburg."
These words were carried by this powerful, percussive rhythm. And when Masekela left the words behind and put his trumpet to his lips what he played was sad and soaring and roiling and strong and noble.
Now, I'm about as far away as you can get from a Mozambican miner laboring off in the mines outside Jo'burg. I can never say I understand what it's like. But this musical experience that Masekela created transmitted something very powerful and very real about the humanity of the people he was singing about.
Hugh Masekela wrote this song first for the workers themselves, to sing of their humanity and struggle. But he wrote it second for people who hate them, for South Africans who resent migrant laborers who, they are made to understand, "come into our country and take our jobs." There's been terrible violence against migrant laborers in South Africa. This song, then, is an act of peacemaking, it's a powerful effort of the human heart to communicate across the divide: "They're struggling like you're struggling. You have much more in common in this busted old world than you have that divides you. Maybe we're all in this together."
Maybe we're all in this together … the last story comes from El Salvador. I was there working with a group called CRISPAZ – Cristianos por la Paz en El Salvador. I spent some time with the folks at Radio Victoria, in the north of the country. It's a radio station, run mostly by these outstanding young people, that does what a good radio station does – it broadcasts across the distance between people. Music. Reporting. People's stories.
For all of this, Radio Victoria had been received death threats. Chilling threats. Why? Well, a while ago a Canadian gold mining company did exploratory mining in the area. Local farmers discovered that this mining had poisoned their water sources. So they got together to try to put a stop to the mining. And Radio Victoria served as the amplifier for their message and their struggle.
The company, Pacific Rim, denies it has anything to do with what happened next. But a couple leaders in the movement were found at the bottom of wells. And the folks at the radio station received messages that they would be next.
Now, this is the kind of thing that can drive someone to take the enormous risk of leaving their homeland and migrating north, without documents, to live and work in our country. Where they may be met with hostility, rather than hospitality.
So I will never forget the experience of sitting one day with these courageous souls, when the Radio Victoria airwaves carried the powerful voice of the Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, as she sang
"Sólo le pido a Dios que el dolor no me sea indiferente, que la reseca muerte no me encuentre vacío y solo, sin haber hecho lo suficiente.
Sólo le pido a Dios que la guerra no me sea indiferente, es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte toda la pobre inocencia de la gente."
"I only ask of God That I am not indifferent to pain, That death, parched, won't find me Empty and alone, without having done enough.
I only ask of God That I am not indifferent to war. It is a giant monster and tramples People's poor innocence."
That should be prayer enough for us, as people seeking God's Love Supreme in this busted and glorious old world. It is music that can carry this prayer. Maybe it is through music that God answers.
(Delivered May 21, 2017, at First Congregational Church of Walla Walla, by Rev. Nathaniel Mahlberg)
*The Salvadoran movement against gold mining interests was ultimately successful. They pressured their government to refuse claims to Pacific Rim. And when the company sued the country for violating its right to extract other people's resources, a World Bank court ruled against them. For more, read here.
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Rumors of spring weather and certainties of hot jazz give us plenty to anticipate in the coming week. Certainly the weekend boasts one of the most eagerly awaited "homecomings" for fans of modern improvised music with Craig Taborn's night at the Walker; JazzMN closes out its season; Insurgent returns in trio format at Studio Z; Diana Krall's Glad Ragdoll Tour stops at the State Theater; and Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers returns to the Dakota.
Friday, April 26. Keyboard monster Craig Taborn has been busy composing, touring, and adding his chops to a long list of others' stellar projects, from Dave Holland's Prism to Chris Potter's Underground to Roscoe Mitchell's and Michael Formanek's ensembles. He likes to keep a low profile, although that is getting increasingly difficult as more and more of the jazz community--from musicians to critics to fans of modern improvisation—discover his unique, challenging, and ultimately engaging music. So it's a welcome if rare event for Taborn to return to his native land, bringing three projects—solo piano, the Craig Taborn Trio, and Junk Magic-- to the Walker Art Center under the title "Heroic Frenzies." All this comes on the heels of the release of the trio's first recording on ECM (Chants), in the midst of a spring tour of Europe and the U.S., and in advance of the release of the second album from Junk Magic. There just might be an isolated seat left here and there.
Friday, April 26-27. Dubbed the African Jazz Trio, the Akou Brothers –guitarist Loba and bassist Serge—join forces with Detroit native trapset powerhouse Kevin Washington at the Artists Quarter. The Akous grew up in the Ivory Coast and were heavily influenced by African folk traditions as well as American jazz and rock. Ultimately they landed in Detroit, and eventually here in the Twin Cities where they meld tradition and innovation, modern instruments with African roots.
Saturday, April 27. Ellen Lease (piano) and Pat Moriarty (sax) have long been atop the improvised music scene locally, and Insurgent is an outgrowth of their acclaimed Quintet of the 80s and 90s. There have been several editions of the band, but tonight it's strictly a trio gig, with drummer Phil Hey joining Ellen and Pat for some serious mayhem at Studio Z.
Popular and down-to-earth jazz will be soaring from the stage of the Hopkins High School Performing Arts Center when the JazzMN Orchestra closes out its season with special guest, contemporary jazz saxophonist Eric Marienthal. Big bands don't get any better than this one.
Sunday, April 28. Diana Krall has not been to the Twin Cities in years, so the fact that she is stopping for the night at the State Theater, part of her Glad Ragdoll tour, is welcome. Hopefully the Canadian chanteuse will go beyond the music of Glad Ragdoll and include some of her interpretations of old standards that separate her from her peers. Will this be a jazz night or a pop night?
It's radio night at the Artists Quarter as KBEM unveils the first installment of Jazz Noir ("Charles and Avon") before a live audience (8 pm show broadcast live, 5 pm show just live at the AQ). The band includes George Maurer, Solomon Parham, Chris Bates and Pete Hennig; limited tickets.
Monday, April 29. The Icehouse hosts a double header tonight, bringing young improvisers from Chicago and the Twin Cities together. The local contribution is Courageous Endeavors, an ensemble lead by bassist Brian Courage and drummer Miguel Hurtado, with pianist Joe Strachan and saxophonist Nelson Devereaux. Like-minded young pals from Chicago—Laurenzi/Ernst/Green—come to town to play Monday night and then again on their own at Jazz Central on Wednesday. That's a lucky seven talents deserving wider recognition.
Tuesday, April 30. The almost-monthly installment of the Adam Meckler Orchestra tackles new music at Jazz Central, while diva supreme Jessye Norman tackles the Great American Songbook and other American songs at Ordway. No, hard to imagine Ms. Norman swinging or scatting, but also hard to imagine she won't sound magnificent.
Wednesday, May 1. Just a couple weeks ago, Jeremy Walker premiered his first full-length choral work, Seven Psalms. Now he's back at the Artists Quarter with one of his small jazz ensembles, Boot Camp. Still-young veterans Walker (piano) and Brandon Wozniak (sax) mix it up with young lions Brian Courage (bass) and Miguel Hurtado (drums).
Wednesday-Thursday, May 1-2. Bill Frisell was just here in February, performing solo at Macalester for a crowd twice the theater's capacity. Now he's back, a return visit with his Beautiful Dreamers Trio at the Dakota. He'll weave some magic with violist Eyvind Kang and drummer Rudy Royston. One of the true geniuses of the genre at the top of his many games.
Thursday, May 2. It's about time for vocalist Connie Evingson to make her Jazz Central debut, and a duo with pianist Phil Mattson seems like a good place to start. There's only room for about 50 in this intimate space and chances are you will be out in the hallway if you arrive after 8!


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Drew & Owen Scheid: Actors discuss the messages behind award-winning indie film "Drought" ("1on1 with Jon Evans" podcast)
By Jon Evans
Updated: May. 28, 2021 at 5:30 AM EDT
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Drew Scheid and his younger brother Owen play two of the central characters in the award-winning independent film Drought, which was shot in southeastern North Carolina in 2018, released in 2020 and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Set in North Carolina in 1993 as the state experiences a historic drought, the movie follows the story of Carl, a teenager with autism who is fascinated by the weather and predicts that a storm will soon hit nearby. His sister Sam develops a plan to help him chase the storm, which includes stealing their mother's ice cream truck to begin a road trip about family, forgiveness, and following your dreams. Owen, who is on the autism spectrum, plays Carl in his movie debut, while Drew is cast as family friend Lucas, who goes along on the adventure.
"I thought it was an incredible experience, and of course Drew being there really helped," Owen said. "When the opportunity came up, I was like 'Maybe I should look into it'. Drew gave me the script and told me about it. I thought it was real interesting and I liked the story and the powerful message about acceptance and everything. I felt like there were great people behind this, and I felt good going in. I learned a lot from the experience of course."
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Drew, who is 23, has several years of experience in movies and episodic television, including recent roles in Mare of Easttown, which stars Kate Winslett, and NCIS: New Orleans, where he played opposite veteran actor Scott Bakula in several scenes. Drew knew the two filmmakers behind Drought, Hannah Black and Megan Petersen, from taking classes at Actor's Arsenal Studio in Wilmington, and expressed an interest to them about wanting to be part of the project.
"It was so fantastic to have one of my best friends to be on the set with, to get to just work with in general, that was so amazing," Drew said about working with Owen. "For Hannah and Megan to give me the gift because, at the time, that was the biggest, most full dimensional character I'd gotten to play, so I was also nervous like "I've never done something like this!', so I had Owen to lean on there. Owen's first time on a movie set, so he got to lean on me. It was great having someone that I was that close to, to get to work on this project, to talk it out and work through it. Now we have this awesome, we say it's like a home movie we could ever ask for."
Black and Petersen said their top priority for the film was finding someone on the autism spectrum to play the role of Carl. They did a nationwide casting call, and their top choice for the part happened to live in Wilmington. Owen, who recently finished his sophomore year at UNCW, says the confidence the filmmakers showed by casting him as Carl helped him on and off-screen.
"I think their decision to cast an autistic person was really important to get good representation in the film," Owen says. "I think being in the role and being involved I brought some authenticity to the part. Initially going in I really wasn't open about me being autistic and didn't know about it for too long at that point."
Meet Owen Scheid! He brought his amazing talents to the set of 'Drought' as Carl. We're forever grateful to Owen for being a part of this film. Don't miss his breakout performance!#indiefilm #ActuallyAutistic #CelebrateDifferences #neurodiversity #redinstead pic.twitter.com/jUvAHgE0j3
— Drought (@DroughtTheMovie) May 7, 2021
"I think Carl has pretty much lived with autism his whole life and is, I think, a little bit more familiar with it in some ways," Owen added. "I have too, but not that I knew about. I think it kind of helped me be more accepting to myself. I was quiet about it before that, I really didn't know how to deal with it. But now, it definitely helped, the whole experience, helped me be more accepting for myself."
The film has received many positive reviews. But one writer spotlighted Owen's debut performance in his recap. Richard Propes, writing for The Independent Critic, said, "The film's real revelation is Owen Scheid, a young actor with autism making his feature film debut with a performance that brings together a realistic portrayal of his living with autism with a realistic portrayal of his living. Scheid is an absolute hoot here, an occasional one-liner revealing an instinctive comedic gift and his unique bond with Sam and those who join him on an adventure something very awesome to watch." When I asked Owen about Propes' positive feedback, it brought some interesting by-play between the sibling actors.
"Oh well, kind of embarrassed I'd say," Owen said as Drew chuckled. "I feel like sometimes 'Am I really that good?'"
"Your feelings are very valid," Drew said to his brother. "When someone is like 'You're very good at this!', it's hard to say, 'I agree with you!'"
"It's kind of how it made me feel, since it is my first thing," Owen replied back to Drew. "Why should I have all this praise on the first time? Kind of being put on a mantle. Why should I be up there when you (Drew) have a little more experience?"
"That happens," Drew responded. "On the first one. Boom!"
Drew's acting roles have continued to grow since he played 'sweaty teen boy' and 'drunk boy #2' in the second season (2017) of the popular Netflix series Stranger Things. Along with Drought, he landed parts in Words on Bathroom Walls and Halloween, which also shot in Wilmington. He says getting the opportunity this year to play Connor Davenport, the son of Bakula's character Dwayne Pride in NCIS: New Orleans, is another chance for him to learn and grow as an actor.
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"There were a lot of great days on the Mare of Easttown set," Drew remembered. "But there's one day especially that's in a later episode where I got to watch Kate Winslett (Mare Sheehan) and Angourie Rice (Siobhan Sheehan) do a scene together. I got to spend an entire day watching them do a scene, and it was like a master class in acting. I don't want to spoil anything, but it was a very emotional scene, and just getting to watch that things start clicking like 'Oh, you're doing that because of that!' and 'Oh, look at how she was preparing before she walked on, once they call 'cut' she still stays in it for minutes, as long she needs to'. Getting to watch that is just fantastic!"
Drew is continuing to audition for roles, and Owen, who is enrolled in the film program at UNCW, says he would like to continue with acting if the opportunity arises. I hope you enjoy the interview with these two talented brothers as much as I did. In the next episode, we'll continue discussing Drought with the two filmmakers, Hannah Black and Megan Petersen, and hear how they took the project from concept to finished product.
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Second Debate Shows American Democracy Is Failing
Author's note: even before Trump won, it was clear that America was damaged and in trouble, that certain trends that had exploded during the 2016 election cycle were terrible indicators of where we were as a nation even if Trump were to lose in November.
The run-up to the the second Trump-Clinton debate, the debate itself, and the debate's aftermath expose the simple truth that our democracy is failing: the appalling spectacle was anything but a debate, and our society is currently incapable of producing a substantive debate or a substantive election because far too many voters abhor substance and seriousness. Something's rotten in the state of Denmark, and it's a large portion of the American electorate, among other things.
Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse October 11, 2016
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) October 11th, 2016
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AMMAN — As I am forcing myself to write this, my mind, body, and what's left of my soul is reeling from this campaign, and, in particular, the transpirings of and since this weekend, including the second debate between Clinton and Trump and its aftermath, and not just because I live in the Middle East and the debate started at 4AM my time.
There is so much that is deplorable in this election cycle that we could start from the very beginning, with Ted Cruz being the first major candidate to announce back on March 23rd, 2015, over a year-and-a-half ago. But I don't have the heart to inflict more discussions of Ted Cruz on my audience after what I just witnessed this weekend. So, for simplicity's sake, let's start with this weekend.
What exactly happened?
Well, just days before the second general-election presidential debate between Clinton and Trump—given where the race is now, the most important debate in modern American history thus far in the most important election in modern American history—pretty much all that was discussed before the debate was a recording from 2005 of Trump, unaware that he was being recorded, talking about his sexual exploits with women that involved him bragging about extremely aggressive sexual behavior that he said he could get away with because he was famous, a conversation that included both language and discussion of behaviors that many found quite offensive. This burned out all the public discourse oxygen from late Friday though most of Sunday. Then, on Sunday night, Trump trotted out four women at a press conference just before the debate: two who have accused Bill Clinton of unwanted sexual advances, one who has accused him of rape, and one who as a twelve-year-old girl has accused of rape a man whom Hillary Clinton represented as a court-appointed public defender in the related trial and for whom she won a reduced sentence.
As for said debate, the moderators right away led with questions about the sex-talk scandal, and in response Trump opened it up with meandering mentions of a number of past Clinton scandals. Clinton spent much of the debate responding to Trump's attacks and insults, including much talk about her tired, over-covered e-mail scandal. Trump basically threatened to jail her if he won. I won't blame the moderators for the way all this transpired, but the format basically allotted two minutes for answers and the moderators were strict in trying to cut off candidates rather than open up a deeper discussion, with both candidates frequently deflecting tough questions (Trump more so, of course), and attempts by the moderators to make them answer when they didn't want to were for naught (not sure how they could force answers). In the end, despite some discussion of policy, most of the second debate involved bickering, insults, discussion of scandals already oversaturated with media coverage, and Trump arguing with the moderators, and even when there was actual discussion of policy, it was not terribly deep. With so much at stake, this is what our system—our society, our people, our media, our political parties, our candidates—produced with an unprecedented election a month away. No truly in-depth discussion of education, poverty, taxation, the budget, race-relations, or jobs occurred, even if such topics were lightly touched upon.
The news cycles after the debate focused and continue to focus on the insults and personal attacks at the debate, Trump's sexual recording scandal, Bill Clinton's past sex scandals, the candidates' demeanor and body language, America's new favorite undecided voter named Kenneth Bone and his sweater, anything but the issues. For most Americans, then, this debate was one of the only chances to hear Trump or Clinton explain what they would try to do as president in detail with at least some force holding them accountable in real time; that did not happen.
Why Is This Happening?
Hillary Clinton is quite capable of talking at length about at number of substantive issues, but a majority of voters seem to respond to such talk with revulsion, boredom, and by not voting for whomever emits such talk. Add both the media's and the public's focus on scandals and, of course, Donald Trump into the mix, and it's almost impossible to have any kind of a substantive discussion about anything, even if you replaced Hillary Clinton with Neil deGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking; even though one party has chosen a serious person of substance, the overall tone has been set by the lowest behavior of the non-serious and non-substantive, chosen by non-serious and non-substantive voters: essentially, roughly half the voters are dragging the other half down with them and has reset the political arena to match their own ridiculousness despite the maturity of the other half; the food fight on the debate stage turns said debate into a food fight by default.
That, dear readers, is what should terrify all of us: this is no way to conduct a campaign, a debate, an election, a democracy. Because without a doubt, the function of a political debate must be to give candidates who can demonstrate expertise and realistic plans on substantive issues of concern to American citizens the chance to do so while simultaneously exposing candidates who cannot not do so as being clearly unable to do so. And yet, so much about the current setup makes either action close to impossible to any meaningful extent (with the exception to some degree of the Democratic primary debates, in which Clinton's depth shone through and found millions of more voters support and Sander' naïve, shallow idealism fell flat for a strong majority of Democrats). But even worse is that in 2016, it seems anywhere from one-third to half of voters would not base their votes on a substance and reason even if the debates functioned the way they should. Yes, the media is certainly part of the problem, but as part of market-driven forces, news outlets are forced to a large extent to give consumers what they want. Newspapers that try to be substantive and in-depth are losing readers and money to less objective and less accurate bloggers and extremist cocooning outlets. The real problem is the American people: an increasing number are turning away from substance, whether it's their politicians or their news. Many of the same dynamics that explain the rise of Trump and the Tea Party phenomena explain the rising popularity of Breitbart and Druge, basically right-wing media 3.0 after talk-radio (1.0) and Fox News (2.0).
In other words, even when it comes to the most important debate thus far in the most important election in modern American history, our system and our society—our people most of all—are not capable of having a substantive discussion and an informed weighing of issues and candidates. Thus, we get a debate is hardly a debate at all but becomes more about performance art and driving headlines and news cycles. No matter who wins, what has gone down this election cycle is a serious wound in our body politic that has it in critical condition, and Trump is a significant symptom but is not the disease itself, which is the mentality of a huge number of American voters who voted for this and got what they voted for.
This Living Nightmare Is Awful, But Not Hopeless
As this nightmarish and nightmarishly long election cycle winds down to its final, most awful phase, leaders of both parties need to figure out how to come together to promote people of reason, stature, seriousness, and depth, and to find ways to actually be leaders, to lead the American people in spite of Americans' baser desires, to push the public to value substance over style, to do more than simply what an angry mob craves and wants by finding ways to elevate enough of us to save us and our country from ourselves, rather than simply be tools of self-destruction who are chosen democratically but are but tools of self-destruction nonetheless. As of now, I wouldn't bet on this happening anytime soon, and if Republicans hold onto the House, we are likely to see extreme partisanship and gridlock on the domestic front even if Clinton wins; and yet, if Clinton is able to win and come into office with a Democratic House (I'm doubtful) and Senate (looking good), there is a chance that we can lead the country into a new, better era, one in which results will be achieved and in which results will trump the noise and propaganda and create a new, strong, and progressive majority that will pick up even some skeptics when it delivers these substantive results. Because it this doesn't happen, I am not sure how long or how well our system can survive continuing like it has these past few years, and especially this election year. That hope—that opportunity—is worth fighting for.
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