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MYSTIC BRASÍLIA A RATIONAL VIEW
Publicado em 23 de março de 2017 por nalub7
(Gilberto Carnasciali, a student of Rational Culture, Miguel Pereira, RJ)
The pilot plan of Brasília was based on the one of Akhetaton, the sacred city of Aton, the sun god, built by the Pharaoh Akhenaton, to become the new capital of ancient Egypt. Built along the Nile river, 14 km long and 4 km wide, about 300 km south of the city of Cairo, its ruins are shaped like a big bird with wings open and the head facing East, as with Brasília, the new capital of Brazil.
In the 30's, the young student Juscelino Kubitschek, inspired by his readings in Diamantina, his home town in the state of Minas Gerais, set forth on a trip to Europe and Egypt to visit the ruins of Akhetaton. He had a glorious dream of one day becoming the president of Brazil and to move the Republic´s capital to the Central Plateau, as indeed he did, founding it on April 21, 1960, in the presence of the famous planners, designers and architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa. Later, Brasília was acknowledged by UNESCO as Humanity´s Cultural Patrimony.
For a better understanding it is worth examining in detail and under a Rational focus, humanity´s civilizing march to the West through the centuries, having in mind that we are speaking of a four times millenary Egypt, when the two Americas were inhabited by savages with a rude and backward behavior.
Juscelino Kubitscheck was a Rational donee, that is, Nature´s natural tool that came to comply with a specific mission here on the Earthly Galaxy.
But how did these facts unrolled in such a way that culminated with the foundation of Brasília?
What was the role of the Americas' discoveries in this context?
Where these fortuitous facts?
Certainly not, for nothing occurs in this world of matter without a superior purpose, emanated from a world far above and beyond this one, having in fact anteceded it; the RATIONAL WORLD.
The more one travels towards the Orient, the more ancient the civilizations are. And China is an example of that ancientness, a civilization that remained integral for over five thousand years, having never been discovered, never been colonized, never been occupied by any other country, as it did not occur with the majority of nations.
With contributions of vital importance for the development of humanity, such as the inventions of the compass, powder, paper, art of printing and acupuncture, just to name a few, China developed itself brilliantly, but due to its prolonged feudalism it came to enclose itself inside its frontiers, excluding itself from the contact with the rest of the world.
The first Chinese dynasty, of the Xia, was installed in the century 22 b.C., and the first emperor of the Qin dynasty, Yngzheng, who was enthroned in the year 221 b.C., with steel hands succeeded to reunite the country, then divided in two racial cultures, north and south of the territory.
China definitely consolidated the unification of the country during the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) under the ruling of the terrifying warriors and conquerors Genghis Khan and later Kublai Khan.
But it was in the Ming dynasty that China started to expand again economically and culturally. Upon being enthroned in 1402, emperor Chengzu undertook a program of new buildings in Peking, including the great palaces of the Forbidden City, definitely defining the new city as the new capital of the country.
With his gift for the development, Chengzu ordered the building of a powerful fleet of 300 ships to undertake maritime trips of long reach and endurance. Under the command of Adm. Zheng He, these ships of up to 140 meters long and 50 meters wide had the capacity to transport up to 1.500 tons of cargo and 500 people. These ships were about nine times the size of Columbus and Cabral´s caravels. The largest ones carried sets of sails on seven masts, rudder of up to 11 meters high and drained compartments to avoid wreckages.
Duly equipped, they sailed on all oceans and seas "never sailed before" – as illusorily Luis de Camões thus referred in his verses about the Portuguese maritime expeditions – leaving behind to their followers the precious heritage that allowed the Spanish and Portuguese navigators the "discovery" of virgin land overseas: the compass and the maritime charts! Work of Nature obeying the Rational Superior Command, through the Superior Astral, orienting their tools in their march to the Occident. Chinese legacies that permitted the predestined admirals Christopher Columbus, in 1492 and Pedro Álvares Cabral, in 1500 to head their ships toward the Americas of the North and of the South, absolutely certain that they would find land there.
The trips of Admiral Zheng He started in 1.405. Altogether there were seven expeditions in 28 years. With the end of the Ming dynasty and the coming of the Qing dynasty in 1433, the fleet was totally destroyed, the frontiers and ports closed and China went back once again to its interior.
Rationally, the country opened itself up for a very short period, performed in a few years the Rational mission that was determined by the Superior World, and closed itself down to the rest of the world again!
Going back to Egypt, Akhenaton was a modern and pacific pharaoh. He favored the immigrants´ social ascension, opening up Egypt to the influence of other people's culture. Moved the capital Thebes to Akhetaton or Amarna, in Arab. Dismissed the polytheist cult that worshiped god Amon and instituted the monotheist cult that worshiped god Aton, symbolized by the light of the solar disc.
Akhenaton got ill and died when he was 33 years of age. His kingdom lasted 16 years. Just after the pharaoh's death his successor ordered that the cult of the gods be reestablished and the city of Amarna be destroyed. The symbol of its ruins, however, outlasted the matter.
Well, and how does Brasília and Juscelino Kubistchek appear in that sequence of events along the millennia?
Several prophets and clairvoyants foresaw the city of the future through visions of the exact place of its location. Among them, the Silesian priest Dom Bosco in 1815, in Italy, had a prophetic vision of a city that would be built "between parallels 15°and 20°. There was a big inlet quite long and wide starting from a point where a lake was formed and there a great civilization will appear".
A proposal for the construction of the capital in the interior of the country was made by José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, a member of parliament, who in a letter to the Sovereign, suggested the erection of a city in the interior of Brazil "for the Regency´s seat that can be at 15° latitude, in a site amine and healthy, fertile and close to a navigable river". In 1822 the proposal was approved by the Brazilian Congress, as well as the name Brasília that was suggested, anonymously, by José Bonifácio.
Here are some coinciding points between Akhetaton and Brasília, Juscelino and Akhenaton: both cities are located in the geographic center of the country; both were built in the record time of 4 years by their mandataries; one city is close to a lake, the Paranoá and the other close to a river, the Nile; the design of the city of Akhetaton reminding Ibis, the big bird of peace, and Brasília an airplane or really a great modern bird; both plainly illuminated from sunrise to sundown by the solar disk, the solar tradition of ancient Egypt.
Pharaohs built for the dead, exception made of the couple Akhenaton and Nefertiti, that built aiming at a future that was temporarily subtracted from them, until rescued 4000 years later, with the ethereal resurrection of Akhetaton from its ruins and its incorporation into the material structure of Brasília, the new capital of Brazil.
Krion, an extraterrestrial entity of elevated hierarchy, expressed himself thus: "These corrupt leaders will fall. You will have a new political leadership developing slowly, coming to you and all over the Earth, where there is a new energy of respect for the people. This is too much to ask for in politics".
But note this: this is just the beginning of this last phase, thus many things are coming. The next one is related to this, for a sick country cannot sustain a leadership of elevated consciousness. There is much opportunity for power and grieving".
El Morya Khan, an ascended master of the Great White Fraternity, thus expressed himself about Brasília in 1957:
"The pilgrims that are in search of the way and of the spiritual illumination from now on will be directed to South America, as they were before directed to the Orient".
Until 1935, the world was ruled by the electric and magnetic energies commanded by Nature, which through the thought made of men her tools to realize whatever necessary and required for their liberation from the state of rudeness and backwardness in which they were.
Lapidation means suffering, the only way to make the human being a conscious Rational animal and knower of himself. As of 1935 (of all the dates herewith mentioned the most important, decisive and empowered to decide) the Rational energy was encharged and a representative of the RATIONAL WORLD descended to this degraded and polluted world, to receive from up there, from the Superior Origin, the messages that He dictated and printed in the Rational Ashram, totaling 1.000 Books of Rational Culture, entitled UNIVERSE IN DISENCHANTMENT.
Brazil is the country appointed by the RATIONAL SUPERIOR, Who is God, to start the final transformation process of the Rational animal, which is the human free-thinker in his present state of Rational animal enchanted by the matter, to Rational Apparatus, which is the human that already reasons in the Rational Phase and that has deleted the thought phase from his mind and life. Flowing in Nature´s natural process, through the reading he goes on learning how to develop the Reasoning, insensibly, with no perception whatsoever, he goes on little by little detaching himself from the apparent and illusory progress of the philosophical arts of the matter and reconnecting to his World of Origin, the RATIONAL WORLD and to his pure, clean and perfect brothers that remained there.
As the Rational Culture knowledge spreads its wings not only over the national territory but over the world, something that is already slowly happening, Brasília expands the energy of its Rational Aura to become a World Center of Rational Convergence.
Reminding that everything that we have been through to be able to finally come to this stage of Rational progress, was caused and ruled by another world, much above and beyond this one, and that all the players that participated in this process have been all the time oriented by the Superior Power of the RATIONAL WORLD.
In order for you to be able to Rationally understand humanity´s true history; who we are, where we came from, why we came, what are we doing here, suffering in despair in this world of matter, and where are we going, please read the book UNIVERSE IN DISENCHANTMENT of Rational Culture. You will learn and comprehend why one day we were monsters, then savages and later civilized ones who, in fact, are just mere sophisticated savages.
Only thus, we will lose our material, impure, polluted, imperfect and mortal form, and finally return to our pure, clean and perfect World of Origin in the RATIONAL PLAIN, in the RATIONAL WORLD!
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On Saturday my baby cousin got married at my Lake house. My entire family, a lot of our friends and all of the groom's side showed up. She said only 9 people didn't make it. I had a houseful. She had her wedding team show up earlier in the week to get my house decorated up. She asked me to be the Head Usher and my boys to be the ring bearers. The discussion was how are my boys going to get down the aisle. I was in a tuxedo already so I told her I would carry them. She wanted me to pull them in a decorated wagon and I told her they are mobile now so chances are they would fly out of it as soon as we put them in. The next option was to have Sarah and I carry one each and bring the rings down to the Pastor. That was what we did. My cousin was okay with it. As long as both rings got down there she no longer cared.
When I got to the house after our work event I saw ho much work went into the entire thing. My goodness it was beautiful. No wonder she asked me to leave my dog at home Lol I had the pet nanny kid come over and take care of him for me. The entire staircase and all of the living room by my fireplace was awesome. She ran me through how it would go. She told me what my responsibilities were for the next day then she went to bed. I did get in kind of late. The groom was at a hotel staying with his family and friends. They had all of their transportation worked out so I didn't have to work on that. I told everyone I was going to make a big breakfast and it would be served from 7am to 9am. After 9 you were on your own.
Thee wedding started on time, everyone was on time, and in place. We carried my boys down the aisle. The photos and videos were going and I took the rings from the boys. As soon as I handed the rings to the Pastor my boys both had a meltdown Lol I guess they thought the rings were theirs and decided it was not cool to give them up. So I had my nannies take them upstairs so the screaming would stop. Thanks for that one boys! The rest of the ceremony was beautiful and perfect. The vows were traditional and at the end it was a nice, respectable kiss. Nothing too crazy.
My cousin looked so beautiful and happy. We have all waited to see how long before she got married. And finally she had her day. We all partied and ate in the formal dining room and nearby rooms. Everything was really cool. The dance party and the special Groom's dance he did with his 10 groomsmen was hilarious. They all threw on sunglasses and started trying to stay on the beat. My cousin laughed and gave them all high fives for their efforts. The father daughter dance was very sweet and I could tell he was so happy for his little girl.
In the end they took off to their 10 day honeymoon to Jamaica. Everyone else slowly filtered out and I was left with a houseful of people taking down wedding decor. I was asked if I would ever rent out my house for more events and I said no. I don't feel comfortable with that. It's my weekend home for me and my boys and I don't want to have to juggle our schedule to accommodate anyone.
I thank God for my cousin finally finding her lobster. She has waited and waited. Been through a lot of toads. She finally found her King and I'm so happy for her. I know they are having a great time on their honeymoon. I pray their marriage lasts forever.
We all had a great time. It was worth all of the mess they left.


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Q: Mongodb insert with where condition Do we have any way to do insert if where condition (passed) in mongoDb.
it's like from sql:
insert into .... where not exits(select ....).
Thanks

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     into: <collection> -or- { db: <db>, coll: <collection> },
     on: <identifier field> -or- [ <identifier field1>, ...],  // Optional
     whenMatched: "keepExisting",
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} }

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Down the tubes. Sen. Ted Stevens did not become the first convicted felon to win election to the Senate, as was previously thought. After counting all the votes (that's always a good idea), Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich became the first Democrat to win election to the United States Senate in 30 years (the previous Democrat being Mike Gravel). Stevens was the longest serving Republican in Senate history and not only shaped modern Alaska, but helped it to win statehood when he worked in the Eisenhower administration. The Alaska Daily News has an article on "The rise and fall of Sen. Ted Stevens." I suggest you read it.
With Stevens out and Sen. Robert Byrd stepping down as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Hawaii is poised to become the Big Kahuna in Washington. Chief among the reasons that Hawaii is set to high-jump over the competition is that the frail 90 year old Byrd is being replaced as Appropriations Chair by the spry 84 year old Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. Hawaii already gets its fair share of federal money, including huge sums from earmarks.


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Attackers are always searching for new vulnerabilities. To reduce your exposure you must discover your weaknesses before they do.


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namespace Poco {
namespace Crypto {

class Crypto_API X509Certificate
	/// This class represents a X509 Certificate.
{
public:
	enum NID
		/// Name identifier for extracting information from
		/// a certificate subject's or issuer's distinguished name.
	{
		NID_COMMON_NAME = 13,
		NID_COUNTRY = 14,
		NID_LOCALITY_NAME = 15,
		NID_STATE_OR_PROVINCE = 16,
		NID_ORGANIZATION_NAME = 17,
		NID_ORGANIZATION_UNIT_NAME = 18
	};

	explicit X509Certificate(std::istream& istr);
		/// Creates the X509Certificate object by reading
		/// a certificate in PEM format from a stream.

	explicit X509Certificate(const std::string& path);
		/// Creates the X509Certificate object by reading
		/// a certificate in PEM format from a file.

	explicit X509Certificate(X509* pCert);
		/// Creates the X509Certificate from an existing
		/// OpenSSL certificate. Ownership is taken of
		/// the certificate.

	X509Certificate(X509* pCert, bool shared);
		/// Creates the X509Certificate from an existing
		/// OpenSSL certificate. Ownership is taken of
		/// the certificate. If shared is true, the
		/// certificate's reference count is incremented.

	X509Certificate(const X509Certificate& cert);
		/// Creates the certificate by copying another one.

	X509Certificate& operator = (const X509Certificate& cert);
		/// Assigns a certificate.

	void swap(X509Certificate& cert);
		/// Exchanges the certificate with another one.

	~X509Certificate();
		/// Destroys the X509Certificate.

	const std::string& issuerName() const;
		/// Returns the certificate issuer's distinguished name.

	std::string issuerName(NID nid) const;
		/// Extracts the information specified by the given
		/// NID (name identifier) from the certificate issuer's
		/// distinguished name.

	const std::string& subjectName() const;
		/// Returns the certificate subject's distinguished name.

	std::string subjectName(NID nid) const;
		/// Extracts the information specified by the given
		/// NID (name identifier) from the certificate subject's
		/// distinguished name.

	std::string commonName() const;
		/// Returns the common name stored in the certificate
		/// subject's distinguished name.

	void extractNames(std::string& commonName, std::set<std::string>& domainNames) const;
		/// Extracts the common name and the alias domain names from the
		/// certificate.

	Poco::DateTime validFrom() const;
		/// Returns the date and time the certificate is valid from.

	Poco::DateTime expiresOn() const;
		/// Returns the date and time the certificate expires.

	void save(std::ostream& stream) const;
		/// Writes the certificate to the given stream.
		/// The certificate is written in PEM format.

	void save(const std::string& path) const;
		/// Writes the certificate to the file given by path.
		/// The certificate is written in PEM format.

	bool issuedBy(const X509Certificate& issuerCertificate) const;
		/// Checks whether the certificate has been issued by
		/// the issuer given by issuerCertificate. This can be
		/// used to validate a certificate chain.
		///
		/// Verifies if the certificate has been signed with the
		/// issuer's private key, using the public key from the issuer
		/// certificate.
		///
		/// Returns true if verification against the issuer certificate
		/// was successfull, false otherwise.

	const X509* certificate() const;
		/// Returns the underlying OpenSSL certificate.

protected:
	void load(std::istream& stream);
		/// Loads the certificate from the given stream. The
		/// certificate must be in PEM format.

	void load(const std::string& path);
		/// Loads the certificate from the given file. The
		/// certificate must be in PEM format.

	void init();
		/// Extracts issuer and subject name from the certificate.

private:
	enum
	{
		NAME_BUFFER_SIZE = 256
	};

	std::string _issuerName;
	std::string _subjectName;
	X509*       _pCert;
	OpenSSLInitializer _openSSLInitializer;
};

//
// inlines
//
inline const std::string& X509Certificate::issuerName() const
{
	return _issuerName;
}

inline const std::string& X509Certificate::subjectName() const
{
	return _subjectName;
}

inline const X509* X509Certificate::certificate() const
{
	return _pCert;
}

} } // namespace Poco::Crypto

#endif // Crypto_X509Certificate_INCLUDED

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Home » Modex Day 2 keynote: Lee Scott on his rise to the top, advice for success
Modex Day 2 keynote: Lee Scott on his rise to the top, advice for success
DC Velocity Staff
Lee Scott, the former Wal-Mart truck fleet manager who eventually rose to become the retail giant's CEO, charmed the audience during the keynote presentation on Day 2 of Modex 2014 in Atlanta. His self-effacing humor, humbleness, fluid conversational style, and thoughtful responses to the answers posed by DC Velocity's Mitch Mac Donald, who served as moderator, demonstrated the kind of quiet charisma that helped to make him such an effective leader.
Scott spoke about business issues, including the challenges confronting companies and managers in the areas of technology, human resources, and business management, but much of the conversation centered on people. His experiences at Wal-Mart, Scott said, taught him that an appreciation for both the abilities and the needs of other people are necessary for anyone who wants to be a successful leader. Other comments in that vein, including advice for success, included:
Wal-Mart's truck drivers taught him "at all costs to be honest." People in logistics are real people doing real work, and learning to value that work and how to communicate with people at all levels of logistics "made me a better person."
Sam Walton believed that your suppliers are your partners, and if you treat them with respect, they will help you to succeed.
Listen and learn from the people around you and from their experiences. Ask yourself, "What would I do or say differently?" Your choice is to leave your personal career development up to your company or to control it yourself.
Think about the impact of your business policies on the people you serve. By using logistics to keep prices low, for instance, Wal-Mart can help low-income people have what they need rather than be priced out of necessities.
His advice for young people hoping to move up the career ladder: Integrity is the foundation of success, both personally and in business.
Don't think that the most important thing is what you said; it's what the other person heard.
Hire good people who are better than you, and make sure they get credit for their contributions.
The best part of his career has been the people he has met and the long-lasting, mutually respectful relationships he has developed, Scott said. That, he said, was among his most important measures of personal success.
For more from Scott, see the article "A logistician turned CEO: interview with Lee Scott" from the March 2014 issue of DC Velocity.
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The Lakers outscored the Thunder 16-6 in the extra period.
Paul George scored 27 points and Terrance Ferguson added 21 for Oklahoma City. Russell Westbrook had 26 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds for the Thunder, but he shot just 7 of 30.
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Funeral for Alexis Crawford, slain Clark Atlanta student, moved to larger location
The news comes as police announce that two people have been arrested and charged in her death.
Author: Christopher Buchanan
Published: 4:17 PM CST November 9, 2019
Updated: 4:34 PM CST November 12, 2019
ATHENS, Ga. — After the vast outpouring of support for a missing Clark Atlanta University student found dead, family announced they have had to seek a bigger venue for their daughter's funeral.
A spokesperson for the family of Alexis Crawford said the new location will help "accommodate the public interest in the funeral." In addition, they have also added a public viewing to take place the day before the funeral service.
"The sympathy, love and concern that is pouring in from across the country for Alexis Crawford and her family is incredible," said Rev. Markel Hutchins. "As horrifying additional details about the facts and circumstances surrounding her heart-wrenching death are revealed to the public, I ask people to remember Alexis' family and friends in your thoughts and prayers."
Public viewing:
4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Hill Chapel Baptist Church
1692 W. Hancock Ave.
Funeral:
Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019
Cornerstone Church Athens
4680 Lexington Rd.
Atlanta-based Gregory B. Levett and Sons Funeral Home is handling the arrangements, Hutchins said.
"Well wishes, cards, and financial contributions to assist the family with covering the costs of having to unexpectedly bury this beautiful 21-year-old Clark Atlanta University student should be made directly to Gregory B. Levett and Sons funeral home at either of their locations," he said.
He added that the Crawford family is "truly grateful and encouraged by the outpouring of love and concern they have received" from around the U.S. and the world.
"I've spent most of today in Athens, Georgia consoling the family of Alexis Crawford and assisting them with the unthinkable task of planning her funeral," the Rev. Markel Hutchins wrote. "The family is simply devastated and heartbroken that their beloved 'Lexi' was so senseless murdered."
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Alexis Crawford, 21, a student at Clark Atlanta University, was reported missing Oct. 30, 2019 by family.
Alexis Crawford, 21, a student at Clark Atlanta University, was reported missing Nov. 1, 2019 by family.
Crawford, who was reported missing on Nov. 1, was found dead in a DeKalb County park on Friday. Two people, her roommate Jordan Jones and Jones' boyfriend Barron Brantley, have been charged with malice murder in her death; though, an official motive hasn't been announced. Both have been taken into custody and are being held at the Fulton County jail.
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The Labovitz School of Business and Economics (LSBE) established the LSBE LaBounty Center for Entrepreneurship in 2008 as a result of a generous gift provided by Roy E. LaBounty, founder of LaBounty Manufacturing and a long-time supporter of UMD.
Roy LaBounty was an entrepreneur and prominent business leader in Northeastern Minnesota for many years. He was the founder and former president of LaBounty Manufacturing in Two Harbors, Minnesota. In 1999 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Joel Labovitz Entrepreneurial Success Awards event. Mr. LaBounty died in November 2007.


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A Região Geográfica Intermediária de Criciúma é uma das sete regiões intermediárias do estado brasileiro de Santa Catarina e uma das 134 regiões intermediárias do Brasil, criadas pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) em 2017. É composta por 44 municípios, distribuídos em três regiões geográficas imediatas.

Sua população total estimada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) para 1º de julho de 2018 é de  de habitantes, distribuídos em uma área total de .

Criciúma é o município mais populoso da região intermediária, com  habitantes, de acordo com estimativas de 2018 do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE).

Regiões geográficas imediatas

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Subdivisões do Brasil
Lista de regiões geográficas intermediárias e imediatas de Santa Catarina

Ligações externas
 Divisão regional do Brasil IBGE, 2017

Santa Catarina
Regiões geográficas intermediárias e imediatas

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Ielena Danilova (née en 1987), footballeuse internationale russe ;
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Depth of Field is one of the main creative tools in photography.  It's where you get to control what's sharp and what's not in your photos.
But there's more to controlling depth of field than just apertures.
By understanding and using depth of field you can get everything in your photos pin sharp, make messy backgrounds disappear and emphasise the subject.
I'm not going to give you a bunch of pretty pictures in this depth of field photography tip because I want to get you to understand and start working with the technique. You can then take that away with you and apply it wherever you like  and make your own pretty pictures.
F3.5 f5.6 f8 f11 f16 f22 …….
Apertures can be controlled either manually  or by using the A (Aperture Priority) setting on the command dial. Canon and some other makes call it AV (Aperture Value) but it is exactly the same thing.
The higher the 'f' number you set  the greater the depth of field in your picture will be. Another way of saying it is  that more of your picture will be in sharp focus with high 'f' numbers. This is great for landscapes or macro close ups.
of field when you want to have a sharp point in the picture but have a blurred background / foreground.
But there's more - apertures aren't the only thing controlling depth of field. The length of your lens makes a massive difference.
chances are you've met my old mate Mr. Brick Wall before - if so this is a chance to re-cap!
Look closely at these 'wall' images.
Depth of field (the sharp part of the picture) stretches between the red lines - and the point of focus is the blue line.
The first two were taken using a short 18mm lens.
In the top pic I used a low 'f' number of f3.5 which makes the shallowest depth of field - and sharpness is only about a brick and a half long.
The second image was taken on the same 18mm lens focused on the same spot - but this time using f22. Now sharpness goes almost to the end of the drive!
The third and fourth pictures were taken on a 250mm lens.
In the third pic I used f5.6 which (despite being a higher 'f' number than in the first picture) has given a tiny depth of field. This is because of the longer lens!
In the fourth picture it's the same point of focus again but I used an aperture of f40.
Even at this highest 'f' number the depth of field is only a few feet because longer lenses don't have as much depth of field as shorter ones.
Here are the simple 'Golden Rules' of depth of field.
By combining these 'rules' you can get the depth of field you want.
For example -  a long lens (250mm) combined with a low 'f' number (f5.6) will give you a shallow depth of field - like in the shot of the tripod head.
You could do this with a portrait, a flower, a crack in the brickwork -  anything you like. The effect will always be the same.
A short lens combined with a high 'f' number will give you maximum front to back sharpness. Great for landscapes or even close up details like this place setting at a wedding.
OK I know I said no pretty pics this time -  but I didn't want you to get bored!
In my next photography tips I'll explain more about focal lengths and how you can add mood and alter perspective with them. Long lenses do more than just bring far off things closer you know. For more about this, watch the Using Long Camera Lenses video in our Photography Videos.
Meanwhile  if you'd like some help taking your photography to the next level, our Ultimate Beginners Course will get you going in the shortest possible time.
Our wedding photography course download will teach you everything you need to know about photographing weddings.
And our One-to-One photography courses are tailor made for each individual so you get maximum benefit from spending time with me.
Happy shooting  see you next time….


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Niegosławice – dawna gromada, czyli najmniejsza jednostka podziału terytorialnego Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej w latach 1954–1972.

Gromady, z gromadzkimi radami narodowymi (GRN) jako organami władzy najniższego stopnia na wsi, funkcjonowały od reformy reorganizującej administrację wiejską przeprowadzonej jesienią 1954 do momentu ich zniesienia z dniem 1 stycznia 1973, tym samym wypierając organizację gminną w latach 1954–1972.

Gromadę Niegosławice z siedzibą GRN w Niegosławicach utworzono – jako jedną z 8759 gromad na obszarze Polski – w powiecie szprotawskim w woj. zielonogórskim na mocy uchwały nr V/26/54 WRN w Zielonej Górze z dnia 5 października 1954. W skład jednostki weszły obszary dotychczasowych gromad: Niegosławice ze zniesionej gminy Niegosławice oraz Sucha Dolna ze zniesionej gminy Szprotawa w tymże powiecie. Dla gromady ustalono 15 członków gromadzkiej rady narodowej.

1 stycznia 1959 do gromady Niegosławice włączono obszar zniesionej gromady Gościszowice w tymże powiecie.

Gromada przetrwała do końca 1972 roku, czyli do kolejnej reformy gminnej. 1 stycznia 1973 w powiecie szprotawskim reaktywowano gminę Niegosławice (obecnie gmina Niegosławice należy do powiatu żagańskiego).

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Potentially unsettling West Ham reports emerge
West Ham supporters have been making a lot of noise in the Transfer Tavern in recent hours following their side's remarkable 3-2 victory at Tottenham in the Carabao Cup last night, a game in which they trailed 2-0 at half-time.
Slaven Bilic's men went into their clash with the North London giants having lost 3-0 to Brighton in the Premier League, a result which intensified the pressure on under-fire Bilic to the point that he reportedly has the Spurs game and Saturday's clash at Crystal Palace to save his job. And things weren't looking good at half-time at Wembley when Moussa Sissoko and Dele Alli gave the hosts a two-goal cushion, but the Hammers staged a sensational fightback with a brace from Andre Ayew and a fine Angelo Ogbonna header securing their place in the quarter-finals.
And, unsurprisingly, our resident West Ham fans were thrilled with their team's efforts and endeavours at the national stadium on Wednesday night, although they are likely to be slightly unsettled by a recent report from The Sun, which outlines huge uncertainty about the London Stadium.
The East London outfit moved into the Olympic Stadium back in 2016 but struggled with their new home throughout their debut season, winning just seven of their 19 Premier League games there, while they also failed to make the Europa League group stages after losing to Astra Giurgiu back in the August.
Things have been slightly better this time round though with three wins from their five games at home in all competitions, although recent reports suggest that there is huge uncertainty surrounding the stadium given that the landlords are reportedly close to going bust.
Whether it leads to West Ham being locked out of their ground remains to be seen, but it's certainly something manager Slaven Bilic and the club's hierarchy could do without given their testing start to the season.
Landlord's verdict: Adapting to the London Stadium appeared to be a struggle for West Ham last term, having won just seven of their 19 Premier League games there and ending up with nine fewer points from those games than in their final season at Upton Park.
And their future at the old Olympic Stadium appears uncertain as well given reports that the landlords are close to going bust, leaving the Hammers with the threat of being locked out of their own home.
Only time will tell whether it comes to that, but all manager Slaven Bilic and his team can do is focus on their on the pitch struggles, although they lifted some of the gloom with an impressive victory at Tottenham on Wednesday.
But defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday will surely bring them back to square one.
West Ham fans… what do you make of the news? Let us know!
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These Are the Best and Worst Deals in Your Grocery Store's Produce Section
If you want to stop wasting money at the grocery store, then taking a close look at what you buy in the produce section is a smart way to start. There are so many options available to you when you shop for fresh vegetables and fruits. But what's a good deal? What's not?
We have the inside scoop for you on the best and worst deals in your grocery store's produce section.
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Best deal or worst deal? Best
The Kitchn counts apples as one of the best deals you can find in the produce section at your local grocery store. Bagged apples are typically your best deal, since they often cost less than loose apples. This portable fruit makes a healthy and easy snack. And you can also enjoy cooking or baking with them at home.
Next: This vegetable is a convenient, but expensive, buy.
2. Baby carrots
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Best deal or worst deal? Worst
The Kitchn reports that baby carrots number among the worst deals you can find in the produce section. Whole carrots cost about 25 cents per serving, while prepared carrots cost 41 cents. That's a big difference. However, you could still make the argument that baby carrots are worth buying. They may not be a good deal, but if the convenience means that you regularly pack — and eat — them for lunch, you may want to keep them on your grocery list.
Next: Try not to buy this vegetable in bags.
3. Bagged lettuce
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The Kitchn advises that if you like iceberg lettuce, you should buy it whole, not bagged. The same goes for romaine. It typically proves much cheaper to buy a head of lettuce, chop it up, and use it for your salads throughout the week. Pre-shredded lettuce can oxidize and go pink at the edges, which never looks appetizing, and it often tastes different from freshly cut lettuce, too. Plus, you'll save a lot of money by taking the five minutes to chop your lettuce yourself.
Next: On the other hand, you want to buy this kind of produce bagged.
4. Bagged onions
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If you go through a lot of onions, you'll want to buy them in bags. The Kitchn reports that the mesh, multi-pound bag usually proves cheaper by the pound than loose onions. Plus, the onions themselves often come in smaller, more manageable sizes. Onions will also keep for at least two to three weeks in your pantry or even four weeks in the refrigerator. So you don't have to rush to use them up, even if you're cooking for just one or two people.
Next: This fruit is a great deal.
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The Kitchn also recommends stocking up on bananas the next time you find yourself in the produce section. Bananas cost an average of 29 cents per serving, which makes them an affordable snack or addition to your meal. Plus, they're portable and easy to peel wherever you go. If you buy a bunch and notice them starting to get overripe, you can also freeze them or bake them into banana bread.
Next: This vegetable may not be worth buying whole.
6. Butternut squash
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Even people who love butternut squash probably don't love the arduous process of peeling and cutting one. That's why The Kitchn points to a whole butternut squash as one of the worst deals in the produce section. Sure, it costs extra to buy a pre-cut butternut squash. But that might be worth it, depending on what else you need to cook. And if you're making soup, it's a better deal to buy frozen butternut squash instead.
Next: Buy this vegetable instead of lettuce.
7. Cabbage
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Kitchen Stewardship reports that cabbage is one of the best vegetables you can buy in the produce section. It costs well under $1 per pound, and the per-pound price typically compares very favorably with lettuces. Plus, you can either eat it raw or cook it — something that can't be said for lettuce. It can also last for about two weeks in your refrigerator, which means you'll find it easier to avoid wasting it or watching it go bad.
Next: This fruit is one of the most expensive things in the produce section.
8. Dragon fruit
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If you're looking to add some fruit to your diet, dragon fruit isn't the way to go. The Street puts this fruit on its list of the priciest items in the produce section, noting that it often costs as much as $8.99 per pound. Dragon fruit is typically grown in Vietnam (or in California, if you're looking at domestic produce). It has a sweet and mildly acidic flavor, but it's highly perishable. So it's possible that if you shell out for a dragon fruit or two, it may already be past its prime.
Next: Don't ever buy these.
9. Plastic-wrapped potatoes
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The Kitchn characterizes plastic-wrapped potatoes as "one of the greatest mysteries of the produce section." Typically, these potatoes are of easily-microwaveable size. But there's no other reason to waste your money buying them. Just save money by buying potatoes as you regularly would, in a bag, and reserving the small ones for microwaving, if that's how you'd like to prepare some of them.
Next: These get very expensive.
10. Porcini mushrooms
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If you need them for a specific recipe, then go for those porcini mushrooms. But if you're simply looking to expand your horizons beyond white mushrooms, you may want to go for a different variety. The Street puts porcini mushrooms on its list of the most expensive items in the produce section, noting that they often cost as much as $16 per pound. They have a strong, nutty flavor. But they're difficult to cultivate because they grow on the ground in forests, establishing a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding trees.
Next: Don't ever buy this vegetable.
11. Pre-cooked beets
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If your grocery store's produce section stocks pre-cooked beets, it might strike you as a good buy at first. After all, beets are messy to clean and cook. But as Delishably notes, these steamed beets aren't a particularly good deal. If you want something processed and pre-cooked (with additives), you can go with canned beets. They'll cost less — and they'll come in packaging that's recyclable.
Next: Skip this kind of fruit.
12. Pre-cut fruit
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This one may be obvious, but pre-cut fruit is never a good deal. It also seems unnecessary, especially when you find yourself looking at packages of pre-sliced strawberries or apples. You can buy a lot more whole fruit for the same price. And in most cases, it won't take you much time at all to cut it in the way that you prefer. If you have trouble cutting or slicing, especially when it comes to fruit like pineapple or watermelon, the pre-cut fruit may be a big help. But otherwise, purchasing whole fruit instead will save you a lot of money.
Next: Go for this bagged vegetable.
13. Pre-packaged spinach
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The Kitchn reports that one of the best deals you can find in the produce section is pre-packaged spinach. Compare the price of the clamshell box to the price of buying the leaves in bulk or bunches, and you're likely to find that the box will save you a significant amount of money. Plus, having a big box of spinach just sitting in your refrigerator can be an easy catalyst to get you to eat more salads. How's that for a win-win?
Next: Consider buying this to save time, without spending extra.
14. Pre-sliced mushrooms
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Surprisingly enough, pre-sliced mushrooms also get the green light from The Kitchn. The publication notes that you'll usually pay a premium for the pre-sliced item in the produce section. But not so with pre-sliced mushrooms. Buying your mushrooms pre-sliced won't cost you extra, but it will save you some time. Just remember to wash them, just as you would with whole mushrooms.
Next: These vegetables can be a good deal.
15. Spiralized vegetable noodles
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Have you seen spiralized vegetable noodles at your grocery store? The Kitchn reports that they've grown much more popular as more people try keto and paleo diets. The publication notes that you can spiralize your vegetables yourself, but you'll need to spend $20 on a spiralizer that won't work very well or $200 on a spiralizer that will. You should consider a good spiralizer if you use vegetable noodles frequently. But otherwise, The Kitchn recommends buying spiralized vegetable noodles at the grocery store.
Read more: The Real Reasons You Need to Avoid Buying These Produce Items at the Grocery Store


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In 10 days, we'll get to see Brad Pitt starring in a perfume commercial. In what can't be his most challenging role, Brad Pitt will play Brad Pitt, charming a lady who, it is revealed, is a bottle of Chanel No. 5. Pitt will reportedly receive around $7 million for his work (which also includes a print ad).
While he wouldn't spill many details, d'Avack noted that the commercial, shot by Joe Wright, features Pitt speaking in a way that the viewer assumes he's speaking to a woman — and then it's revealed that the addressee is actually the scent.
You know what else is a seduction between a man, a woman and perfume? Watching Brad Pitt's face on a big movie screen while I inhale popcorn.


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Colonies de vacances (holiday camps) for the children of French cinema employees
Posted byeastmancolourblog 5th Aug 2021 6th Aug 2021 Posted inUncategorizedTags:French Cinema, holidays, Studios, summer
by Sue Harris
The social aspects of the life studio workers came into focus recently at one of our team seminars on the topic of 'Time and Leisure in the Studios' led by Morgan Lefeuvre and Richard Farmer. Their presentations on the organised collective activities (sporting events, gala days, festive parties) of specific studios in London and Paris stressed the many local connections between studios and the communities in which their workers lived, and the ways in which studio employment marked the family life of employees in ways that were more than simply economic. This prompted me to remember my own family's connections with the Vauxhall Motors factory in Luton (which employed some 36,000 locals in the 1950s), and whose looming presence and paternalistic ethos gave structure to my childhood in the 1970s (Saturday ballroom dance classes at the Vauxhall Recreation Club, the thrill of seeing celebrity guests at the annual July Sports Day, goodie bags and Christmas presents on the annual coach ride to the pantomime in Bedford or Golders Green). And while much history has been written about the iconic cars developed on the Luton site, and the importance of the factory to the local economy, there is now little trace (beyond the shared nostalgic memories of my peers) of the social and cultural influence of this employer on the structural fabric of our lives in our childhood.
A key link between the lives of children of industrial workers in France and the professional employment of their parents was through summer holiday camp provision. The colonies de vacances movement was a social movement established in France in the late nineteenth century, anchored in principles of health, hygiene and education. Concern about the general health of urban children, and particularly fear of diseases like tuberculosis, gave rise to a powerful civic belief in the benefits of fresh country air, collective living and purposeful leisure activity. Initially fostered by benevolent church and municipal organisations, and dynamised by increased workplace unionisation, the movement gathered momentum throughout the early twentieth century, transforming in 1937 (under the auspices of progressive Popular Front Health Minister Henri Sellier) from a fragmented and localised movement into a regulated national framework. Some 420,000 children were accommodated in a network of rural sites in the 1930s pre-war years (Lee Downs, 17) and a 1956 review of a contemporary study of the phenomenon of the holiday camp noted that:
France has produced a remarkable achievement in a vast network of colonies de vacances. Here, every year, considerably more than 1,000,000 town children, most of them under 14 years of age, enjoy four weeks of creative holiday experience. The distinctive features of colonies de vacances are permanent premises, equipped with all essential amenities but with no luxuries; sites variously placed at high, medium and low altitudes and by the sea; specially trained staffs of moniteurs and monitrices who also know how to make wet days into happy ones; proper nursing and culinary staff; a culturally creative plan which, with suitable modifications, underlies all colonies.
Dobinson, 1956, 225.
For most working-class children the colonie de vacances was their formative experience of travel and vacation, and children of parents in the cinema industry were no different. Contributions to the mutuelle du cinéma in the 1930s (a voluntary insurance scheme that ensured sickness provision for industry workers), gave access to rural camps located in regions like the Ile de France and Val de Loire; camps that were sometimes only 30-50km from Paris, but were a world away in terms of geographical and social experiences. We have found reports of les enfants du cinéma (as the children of cinema industry professionals, including those of studio technicians and creatives were known), spending summers in repurposed country estates with vast parklands and glamorous names like the Château de la Michaudière (La Ferté Alais), the Château de Villefallier (Jouy-le-Potier), and the Château de la Tuilerie (Dammartin-en-Goële).
A postcard home from the colonie de vacances at Château de Villefailliers, featuring an image of the dormitory (c. 1959).
By the end of the 1950s, les enfants du cinéma were heading further afield, for holidays in winter resorts and coastal towns such as Cap Ferret near Bordeaux. High profile charity events such as the gala nuit du cinema held at the prestigious Parisian Gaumont Palace on 5th May 1951 saw stars of the calibre of Françoise Rosay, Paulette Dubost, Nicole Courcel and Claude Dauphin unite to raise funds for les œuvres sociales (social benefits for workers), including on this occasion the colonie de vacances programme (Paris-presse, L'Intransigeant, 1951; La Cinématographie française 1407, 1951).
Holiday camps were generously subsidised for working parents who subscribed to the post-war entr'aide du cinéma (a collective fund that replaced the pre-war mutuelle insurance, and adverts urging workers to subscribe to the entr'aide du cinema, and promoting its benefits appeared frequently in La Cinématographie française in the early 1950s.
A front page appeal by Jean Petitbarat, General Secretary of the colonie de vacances programme for the cinema industry, for financial support to maintain and develop the programme. The Château de la Thuilerie is featured (1952).
Worker-parents, whose legal entitlement to paid holidays amounted to four weeks per year at a time when children's holidays were still organised around rural agricultural seasons (long summers to help with the harvest) were incentivized to send their children out of the city for a month at a time. In 1950, a full-board four week stay at the Château de Vaires (Loire Inférieure) cost 370 francs per day, plus rail fares of up to 1424 francs (depending on the age of the child), and appropriate clothing and footwear had to be provided (La cinématographie française, 1950). This, as well as the 4000 francs deposit required to secure a place, would have been beyond the means of many lower paid and unskilled workers such as stagehands or seamstresses at a time when the average unskilled wage was around 12,000 francs per month (La Cinématographie française, 1950). But entr'aide subscribers benefitted from a daily reduction of 120 Francs on the whole stay, amounting to considerable savings of around 3,360 francs over the month.
Although holidays as such were curtailed in wartime, holiday camps established in the 1930s and earlier nevertheless played an important role as evacuation centres, providing respite and security for French children. Children from the industrial Boulogne-Billancourt area of Paris (where the Billancourt studios stood cheek by jowl with the massive Renault car factory) were evacuated en masse following bombings by the RAF and US Army Air Force in Spring 1942 and 1943 respectively. Many Parisian children were billeted with rural families in under-populated areas such as le Creuse, but many enfants du cinéma found themselves rehoused at the Château de la Michaudière in its new guise as a 'centre de protection' (La France socialiste, 1943). A Monsieur Claude P is cited on a website dedicated to the history of the town of La Ferté Alais (Essonne), recalling that:
During the war our father worked in the cinema industry and my brother and I spent many months at the Château de la Michaudière where we had school in the morning and outdoor games in the afternoon. The monitors were wonderful, they were top athletes, and life there was so healthy that there was virtually no illness among the two hundred or so of us there.
Philippe Autrive
The accompanying wartime newsreel extract shows scenes of les enfants du cinéma taking part in organised sporting activities in the grounds of the Château de la Michaudière in 1943, and a cheque for 10 million francs, raised by cinema audiences in another fundraising scheme (la semaine du cinéma), being presented by André Debrie of the National Cinema Committee. In July 1943, 150 evacuee children were in residence in La Ferté Alais for five months, while 350 were accommodated at the Collège Jacques Amyot in nearby Melun (L'Œuvre, 1943).
220 cinema children leaving occupied Paris for 5 months at the Château de la Michaudière, L'Œuvre 22 October 1943.
The opening in 1943 of a further centre in Dontilly, near Donnemarie-en-Montois, shows the extent to which the sector was active in securing safety outside the city for its young children, and this was not limited to Paris: the children of Marseille cinema workers and prisoners of war ('les enfants marseillais de la grande famille du film') spent a month in 1942 in one of three colonies near Lyon (Le Journal, 1942). Evacuation was not without its dangers however, with news of an attack on a colonie de vacances near Versailles on 11 July 1944, in which numerous children were killed and injured, reported in the press (Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 1944).
In 1946, as France readjusted to life after Occupation, new holiday camps for cinema children were opened, notably one at Campagne-lès-Hesdin, between Arras and the Channel coast, in the buildings of a substantial hospital built under Nazi occupation in 1942. Although it needed considerable refurbishment, the site was lauded for being ideal as a holiday camp, equipped as it was with high ceilings, insulation, lavatories, kitchens, showers and even a cinema for the rainy days. (La Cinématographie française 1164, 1946).
The phenomenon of the holiday camp was of interest to filmmakers as well as employers and their employees, and inevitably found its way onto celluloid. A French-Italian co-production directed by Léonide Moguy (Demain il sera trop tard, 1950) dealt with the issue of sexual attraction in a co-educational holiday camp. More substantially, René Clair, returning to France from Denham Studios in London in 1939, set about the shooting of Air pur (Clean Air), 'a film set in a holiday camp, featuring 150 children and as many cats and dogs.' In an interview with Lucie Derain, Clair described his project as follows:
I want to show the life of poor children, of working-class parents who, for ten months of the year live and play in the Paris back streets, live in apartments without enough light and air, and for whom the two months of the summer in the countryside are a complete escape. My film sees the children leave Paris for a holiday camp in the centre of France. I want to explore the general idea of how everyone, children and adults, can be deeply altered by a change in how they live, how a breath of fresh air can make life better.
La Cinématographie française 1072, 1939.
Advert for Air pur that appeared in La Cinématographie française 1067, 14 April 1939.
The film was first announced in March 1939, and location shooting began in Paris on 17th July 1939 with a cast of some 300 children. Location shooting continued in the Corrèze region, with young actors Jean Mercanton and Elina Labourdette engaged as leads, and exterior shooting moved on as the summer advanced to Draguignan in the south of France. At the end of August, a vast exterior set – 'of a size rarely seen in French studio backlots' (Épardaud, 1939) – was under construction at Victorine Studios in Nice, and the film was both so widely anticipated and so advanced that a double page spread in Pour Vous only added to the general excitement (Pour Vous, 1939).
Feature article on Air pur, complete with drawings and images from the shoot.
Alas, events were to overtake the production: with the military mobilization having depleted the studio workforce by 40% (La Cinématographie française 1087, 1939), the film was definitively abandoned when war broke out on 1st September 1939, an early casualty of the looming catastrophe. Clair spent the war years in exile in the USA and was unceremoniously stripped of his French citizenship by the Vichy regime in 1941. He wouldn't make another French film until Le Silence est d'or in 1947, a lively costume drama in which he turned a romantic and nostalgic lens to life in the French studios of the silent era. It is fitting that while their parents were busy on his set in the Pathé studios at Joinville and Francoeur in Paris, the children of his crew were perhaps relishing some of the 'clean air' and holiday experiences he had hoped to represent only a few years earlier.
Anon. La Cinématographie française 1087, 'Le travail dans les studios', 2 September 1939, p. 5.
Anon. Le Journal, 'Quand les gosses du cinema s'en vont à la campagne', 22 July 1942, p.2.
Anon. L'Œuvre, 'Les Vacances des enfants du cinéma', 7 July 1943 (NO PAGE INDICATED).
Anon. La France socialiste, 'Des centres de protection pour les plus petits', 9 October 1943, p.2.
Anon. La Cinématographie française 1164, 'Les oeuvres sociales du cinéma: L'inauguration de la colonie de vacances de Campagne-lez-Hesdin', 13 July 1946, p.18.
Anon. La Cinématographie française 1381, 1'Nouveaux salaires d'exploitation depuis le 1er septembre'. 116 September 1950, p.22.
Anon. Paris-presse, L'Intransigeant, 'La nuit du cinéma, samedi au Gaumont Palace', 4 May 1951, p.6.
Anon. Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 'Une colonie de vacances mitraillée par l'aviation anglo-américaine', 12 July 1944, p.2.
Anon. La Cinématographie française 1360, 'La colonie de vacances de l'entr'aide du cinéma', 22 April 1950, p.14.
Anon. La Cinématographie française 1407, 'Nuit du cinéma: 5 mai au Gaumont Palace', 10 March 1951, p.23.
Lucie Derain, 'René Clair nous parle d'Air pur', La Cinématographie française 1072, 19 May 1939, p.36
C.H. Dobinson, P.A. Rey-Herme, La Colonie de Vacances hier et aujoud'hui. In International Review of Education, Vol 2, No 2, 1956, pp. 224-225.
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Laura Lee Downs, Histoire des colonies de vacances : de 1880 à nos jours, Editions Perrin, 2009.
Edmond Épardaud, 'Dans les studios', La Cinématographie française, 1090-1092, 6 October 1939, p.7.
Nino Frank, 'René Clair et les 200 gosses d'Air pur ont pris la clef des champs', Pour Vous 559, 2 August 1939, pp. 6-7.
Philippe Autrive, La fertéalais.com: URL: https://www.lafertealais.com/monsieur-jean-quere-animateur-de-colonie-en-1944-au-chateau-de-la-michaudiere-pres-de-la-ferte-alais/ (accessed 4 August 2021).
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As an English major and culinary school grad, the idea of consommé both enchants and terrifies me. In stacks of novels, elegant ladies sup on consommé served in fragile bone china bowls before traipsing across polished floors to wilt onto fainting couches. And because the ideal consommé contains nothing other than exquisitely clear and sublimely seasoned liquid (possibly served with equally exquisite garnishes, like airy quenelles or tiny raviolini) it's basically the most refined soup ever.
That's my romantic ideal of consommé. And it's one which jockeys impossibly with the complex reality handed to me in culinary school. There was so much emphasis on breaking (yet not breaking) the clarifying "raft," the insistence on never allowing the stock to boil, and the overwhelming feeling that if you looked cross-eyed at your consommé you'd ruin it. As a result, during those nine sweaty months, I both longed for and dreaded making this genteel dish.
Enter Jacques Pépin Complete New Techniques, which, weighing in at close to six pounds, is a serious book for serious cooks. This hefty addition to my bookshelf (courtesy a review copy from my editor at KQED's Bay Area Bites) is Jacques' latest culinary tome. It's an updated version of his 2001 Complete Techniques, which was itself a compilation of La Technique (1976) and La Methode (1979), and it's admittedly one that filled me with skepticism. Being more of a hands-on person when it comes to learning, I didn't think I could truly learn techniques from the pages of a book -- even one from a culinary master such as Jacques Pépin.
The burnished amber liquid now resting in my refrigerator is proof that I am wrong.
First of all, the recipe and technique for consommé is found in the book's "The Basics" section, which gave me the extra fillip I needed to attempt it. Having it there was as if Jacques was telling me, "See, it's basic, you can make the elegant soup of your literary dreams, Stephanie, I believe in you!" Secondly, it really is a "throw everything in the pot, stir, bring to a boil and wait" sort of recipe, which was unexpected. It's true that dealing with the raft -- the flotsam that forms during the cooking process -- is slightly tricky, but not nearly as painstaking as I thought it would be, especially since you ladle all the consommé through a dampened cheese cloth-lined sieve for additional straining.
As to how it tasted, well, it was delicate but not bland. Full of flavor, but not overpowering. It was all I dreamed of and more.
A few notes: the recipe called for "diced celery leaves," but not knowing how to dice leaves, I went for a rough chop. Also, in their efforts to be helpful, more and more grocery stores are selling their celery already topped (without the leaves) and giving us only the hearts. I scrounged up just enough for this recipe, but be forewarned.
I'm was so bolstered by my consommé success that I actually considered diving into the book's Presentation section and flicking out a few consommé-worthy garnishes with my paring knife, like the fluted mushrooms or carrot butterflies. However, I controlled myself and moved on to another technique-driven recipe: scrambled eggs.
Unlike my consommé foray, I know how to make scrambled eggs, and my usual way of making them is using a wooden spoon to scrape the beaten eggs and milk in a butter-slicked skillet over moderate heat. I will be honest and admit right off that I do like my way, which yields a significantly larger curd and a far less soft and creamy texture, but I still decided to try Jacques' essentially French method.
The most surprising part of the technique was not using a whisk to keep the curd small, nor was it adding 1/4 cup raw beaten egg and the cream at the end, it was replacing my low-sided skillet with a saucepan. This has the effect of holding in the heat when the raw egg is added off the burner, which, in turn keeps the mixture creamy.
I quite like Jacques' technique of making scrambled eggs and can definitely see myself using it when I want a fancier breakfast, a soothing solitary dinner, or have a spare white truffle lying around. (No way I'd waste that sucker on my version of scrambled eggs.) But I'll probably go back to breaking out my skillet and wooden spoon on the days I have my three-year-old tearing through the kitchen bellowing about trains and LEGO. That said, I'm making the consommé in bulk and freezing it for those emergency nights I need to dine like a Lady.