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Things To Know When Writing Historical Fiction & Fictional History
I find that there are some pretty common blind spots and misconceptions that people trying to write historical fiction and fictional history end up falling prey to. So to help those of you aiming to write this kind of thing, here's an article to clear up some of the misconceptions and point you in the direction of a few things you might need to research.
You should watch out for the urge to romanticize and/or demonize certain time periods.
You should never assume that anything worked the same way forever
Philosophical boundaries and divides that you're used to now may not have existed way back when.
You can't rely on laws to tell you what people actually did or didn't do.
Nobody liked being abused and oppressed.
Signing the peace treaty didn't mean everything was okay.
The recorded word doesn't necessarily reflect how most people spoke.
Many "historical facts" that have floated around for years are just plain wrong.
Art and media were not "better" back then.
In summary!
It's awfully easy to think of the Medieval period as this wonderful era of courtly love and dashing knights, or as an era of endless torture and constant soul-crushing oppression, but neither one of these extremes are true. And the same goes for pretty much any time and place you can name. Most time periods are complicated, with their good sides and their bad sides. Even the best and brightest were only human and had their flaws and shortcomings, and in even the most bigoted and prejudiced eras someone was calling out for compassion and tolerance. For one quick example of the latter, there are some who believe (or seem to believe) that all men were raging misogynist pigs during the Victorian era. Yet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle often featured intelligent women who acted outside of social norms and treated them as sympathetic. (Irene Adler in A Scandal in Bohemia is a good example.) So whichever point in history you're going for, understand that it would have been neither all good nor all bad.
You should never assume that anything worked the same way forever.
It's easy to think that the way things work now is probably how they've always worked, or at the very least is how they've worked for a very long time. But this is never a safe assumption to make. Anything, no matter how commonplace it seems today, could have been very different in the past - even the fairly recent past. For example, magnetic stripe credit cards are everywhere these days, but you wouldn't find anyone in the 50's or 60's using one as banks didn't start issuing them to the public until the early 70's. The practice of dating, which started around the early 20th century, has entailed different things for different generations.
Another mistake along these lines is assuming that one part of the past worked like another part of the past. For example, I occasionally see people and works that assume the 1940s was as gender essentialist as the 1950s. In fact, that gender essentialism came about in the 50s as a panicked backlash to an ongoing breakdown of gender roles that had reached a fever pitch during World War II. The Leave It To Beaver lifestyle was essentially a post-war product.
So don't assume that something in one time period worked the same way as in another time period, even if the difference is only a decade. Things change faster than you might thing!
One example is the perceived boundary between the natural and the supernatural. Many people see these two things as natural opposites, and sometimes treat them as antagonistic forces. This results in tropes such as magic vs. technology, magic dying out as people come to rely on technology, and so on. However, this divide didn't exist for most of history. The natural and the supernatural were one and the same. This didn't mean that science was magic, but rather that magic was simply another natural phenomenon that you could harness and study just like anything else. It had rules that it was expected to consistently follow. Supernatural beings such as faeries were as natural to the land as birds and squirrels.
So when did the idea that magic and technology were opposing forces? To the best that I can tell, it happened at some point in the second half of the 20th century. Before that point, magic and fairytales were fairly popular, and no one seemed to have any notion that magic and technology would be at odds with each other. In L. Frank Baum's Oz series, the character of Tik-Tok was essentially a robot living in a magical land. During World War II the idea of gremlins - supernatural creatures that sabotaged airplanes - became part of the public consciousness. In 1950, Rosemary Clooney sang a song about a goblin who exchanged a malfunctioning flying broom for an airplane.
After this point, magic and fairytales largely fell out of favor. There was a much bigger focus on technology and the wonders of modern science (no small thanks to the newly-invented consumer culture), and Westerns sated people's hankerings for old time adventures. JRR Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings at this point, which featured a world in which magic was fading out as it marched on toward something resembling modernity.
Those who were children at this time and literally witnessed modern science and technology push out and displace fairies and magic would have come of age in the 1970's, which is also the time when people were beginning to take a dim view of all this modern technology and living. The economy was in bad shape and pollution was rampant. Many started to think that a "return to the land" was the answer. (The sustainable living magazine Mother Earth News was first published in January of 1970.) At this point, fantasy set in magical, Medieval-esque lands got popular.
In 1988, The Turkey City Lexicon: A Primer For SF Workshops defined "Tabloid Weird," a term that The Turkey City Workshop had invented to deride stories that mixed science fiction and fantasy elements. In their view, such elements represented fundamentally incompatible worldviews. Through this we can induce that by the late 80's, there were a fair number of people who felt very strongly that magic and science were diametrically opposed.
So the idea that magic and technology were natural enemies didn't even exist until sometime around the 70's and 80's. Yet we often treat it the way things simply are and apply it to mythological and folkloric elements that predate this concept by centuries. This isn't to say that the trope is bad in and of itself, but rather that we should think twice before shoehorning it where it doesn't actually belong.
Another big divide that too many people take for granted is Western dualism. Based largely in Christianity, it tends to divide opposing factions into good/evil camps, or at the very least Jesus-inspired and Satan-eqsue. This concept and how it doesn't actually apply to a lot of things is explored more over here.
Many people assume that they can always infer how people generally behaved based on what was or wasn't legal, but this really isn't the case. For example, many assume that because it was legal in the Middle Ages for people to marry in their early teens, means that early marriage and sex were commonplace. But records show that the nobility and wealthy merchants tended to marry quite a bit later - men in their early twenties, women somewhat earlier. (When people did marry early, evidence shows that they were often expected to wait until they were older to consummate their marriage.) Likewise, in many parts of the US it's completely legal for women to go topless in public, but most of them don't actually do this in practice because it's not customary in American culture.
In addition, some laws were not heavily enforced, or were impossible to enforce effectively. After all, it's illegal to produce or sell most recreational drugs in the US, but that doesn't mean people don't do it. The Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking - people were drinking in speakeasies all over the place. The American Revolution was illegal in Britain's eyes, but that didn't stop it from happening.
So never assume that law dictated behavior, because it very often didn't.
Although we can't interview each and every slave, serf, and second-class citizen that ever lived to know how they personally thought and felt, we do know two things: One of them is that fundamental human nature has not changed since the dawn of civilization. The other is that those who were able to tell us their stories of living like this pretty much all agree that it sucked, and the techniques and tricks used to keep them in line all come down to the same basic baloney.
Here's the deal: People don't comply with governments and social mores that decent people these days would consider unfair and cruel because they somehow like it or are indifferent to being abused. Rather, they are kept in line through what is referred to as FOG (Fear, Guilt, Obligation) these days. Fear-inducing tactics can include harsh punishments for perceived misbehavior and/or threats of eternal damnation. A sense of obligation can be cultivated by teaching people that they owe their "betters" unwavering service and loyalty. Guilt can be cultivated by teaching people that certain desires or deeds are unthinkably shameful or selfish. You don't have to look very far to find numerous case examples. Just pick any country headed by a tyrant or dictator, or look into any abusive cult whose activities have been documented. Those who are oppressed, abused, and marginalized aren't happy people. They simply either can't do anything about the way they're treated, or don't believe it's possible to do anything about it. At best, they might internalize a belief that they deserved it, but they weren't really happy, and they weren't mentally unscathed.
Some people will act like people in the past never questioned anything and just accepted the status quo without complaint, which isn't at all true. Again, fundamental human nature hasn't changed, and rising up against mistreatment is human nature. One group of ancient Egyptian construction workers went on strike to protest a lack of food and other supplies. And it worked!
So never assume that people back then were just fine being abused and that they never did anything about it, because it's absolutely not true.
Signing a peace treaty to end a war simply means that two or more factions agree to stop fighting each other if certain terms and conditions are met. It does not mean that the losing country will be treated fairly, nor does it mean that everyone is going to drop their prejudices and be friends now.
The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I, and it forced Germany to pay such steep reparations that the country's economy was ruined. This lead to massive desperation and discontent that Adolf Hitler was able to exploit to seize total power.
Signing a treaty also won't do anything to get rid of the mutual hate and distrust that everyone has for each other. Just because your government agrees to stop fighting the other, doesn't mean you're going to forget what they did to you and your people, let alone feel comfortable having them over for lunch. Sometimes this kind of tension can take decades, even generations to fix. Sometimes the people are so steeped in hateful, vengeance-oriented ideologies that treaties can do little to nothing to prevent violence from breaking out between them.
So essentially, a treaty can begin a healing process between warring factions, but it's not always a given.
Old-time texts and recordings aren't necessarily indicative of how the average person spoke back in the day. One good example is how Medieval Europeans often wrote in Latin. Another example is the Mid-Atlantic accent, which was invented in the early 20th century and appears in many old movies and was used by the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jaqueline Kennedy, and Katherine Hepburn. It was designed to make people sound fancy and refined, and was never spoken by anyone except actors and upper-class Americans trained to do so.
Another thing to keep in mind is that through most of history, most of the writing was done by the wealthy and the upper class, who usually spoke in whichever language and dialect was associated with taste and refinement. These people tended to avoid speaking like the lower class, whose speech they usually associated with ignorance and bad manners. (Imagine how a lot of people think of "redneck" accents, and you wouldn't be far off.) This means that you can't be sure of how the servants spoke based on how the lord wrote his personal journal. Additionally, even if he did try to capture the vernacular of the servants, he may have gotten it wrong or exaggerated it to make them seem coarser and less intelligent than they really were.
Likewise, anyone who has watched cartoons as a child can probably tell you that few (if any) of the child or teenage characters in them ever spoke like real children or teens. They tended to speak how writers thought that people in those age groups spoke, which usually involved using a lot of slang that was at least several years out of date by that point.
Additionally, a work may have been written decades, if not centuries after the events it describes took place, and thus the language it uses may be closer to language used during the author's time than in the time the story describes. It might also overestimate how much slang people used, or use slang that would have been out of date or a few years ahead of its time.
Thus there are numerous reasons why the language in a given piece of media might not reflect how most people actually spoke. What this means in practice is that if you want to capture how people really spoke in the 1940's, you can't rely on a movie or two made during the day plus a historical novel set back then. Nor can you read a few books written by the English upper class and have any idea how the lower classes would have spoken. The best thing to do is try and find things said by the very type of people you're trying to write about. It's not always easy to find these materials, but if you can, they will help you create more authentic dialog.
Numerous fake history facts have been believed as truth for ages. Many people are doing their best to clear them up, but nonetheless there are many people who believe them. I've even seen a few pop up in historical documentaries.
One fake history fact is that Victorian women used to have their lowest ribs removed so they could have smaller waists. This isn't true at all. The relatively primitive medical knowledge and technology of the day would have made such an operation too dangerous to be considered feasible.
Another one is that the Ring a Ring a Roses nursery rhyme is about the Black Death. In reality, the rhyme comes from the Victorian era - centuries later.
A more recent historical myth is that one that the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds sparked a mass panic. It didn't.
Some things that people believe go back to contemporary propaganda or slander. Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake," nor did she say anything remotely similar. French royals of the day were frequently accused of saying things like this.
There are far, far too many misconceptions to list here, but if you want to learn more you might take some time (like an afternoon) to read what comes up if you search for "history myths", "medieval history myths", "ancient history misconceptions", or something more suited to whichever time and place you're interested in. (And do keep in mind that some sites that aim to correct historical myths are themselves wrong. Research is a messy, snarly beast!)
Every now and then I see comments on old music videos talking about how music was so much better back then, unlike all the garbage that comes out nowadays. Now here's the thing: people have been doing this this on the Internet for decades now. Back in the 90's, you'd find people complaining that 90s music was garbage and declaring that real music was the stuff that came out a few decades ago. In the 2000s, they complained about 2000s music and declared that real music was the stuff from the late 80's or so. In the 2010s, people are complaining about 2010s music and declaring that the 90s and 2000s had real music.
It's not just music that gets this treatment, either. All kinds of art and media do - movies, children's cartoons, books, video games, whatever. You name it, people will insist it used to be better back then.
So what does this mean? Is all art and entertainment just on a downward spiral?
There are four potential factors at work here. One if them is nostalgia. We tend to think that the stuff we liked when we were younger (usually in our childhood and adolescence) was the greatest stuff ever. And there are reasons for this. When we're younger, we're less adept at spotting poor quality. We also tend to forget the flaws that things had. So as we get older, we really believe that these things were the greatest things ever made. Yet if we actually looked back on them, we'd often find that they weren't quite as great as we remembered.
The second is a sort of false nostalgia held by people who were never there to experience the thing when it was new, but buy into the hype that it was the best stuff ever. Since these people are essentially enamored with a romanticized image of the past, we'll call it "romantia." People with romantia tend to look at the present world and see mainly the bad things. Then they read nostalgic accounts of the past or dip into the most popular media from the era and conclude that this was the best time period ever. They fail to realize that the books and movies made in the past don't necessarily reflect reality any more than the books and movies made in our time do. They don't realize that the erstwhile media they're consuming is the cream of the crop and does not represent the average quality of media produced back then. (As Sturgeon's Law declares, "90% of everything is crap.")
The third is our habit of damning new things for no particularly good reason. We declare it stupid and wrong simply because it's different from what we're used to or because it's not tailored toward our own personal tastes. Most people are not very good at distinguishing between what's bad quality and what's simply not to their tastes.
And finally, sometimes we like things because they're different from what we're used to. Maybe we're weary of contemporary styles all the time, and maybe listening to something from the past gives us a refreshing change of pace. But if you went back in time and that was the only thing you ever heard, you'd eventually get weary of that, too. Sometimes we find that a piece of media touches on a theme that's often overlooked or speaks to us in a way that modern media doesn't. And yet if you were to go back in time, you'd find that their media had its own blind spots.
Now, there are absolutely short-term dips and rises in terms of media quality, and sometimes certain flaws are more prominent than others. The 2000s attempted to meet growing demand for grit and realism in ways that would often be considered contrived or over the top today. People often found entertainment from the 90s to be too saccharine, too sanitized, and much too ignorant of real social issues.
So no, art and media is not actually getting worse. People just don't understand how the past was, or certain new things just aren't to their tastes.
Try to avoid romanticizing or completely demonizing any particular time period. Every time and place had both bad and good.
Don't assume that how things work in one time period is how they work in another. Tradition, social norms, etc. have changed significantly over time, and they can change very rapidly.
Don't assume that people in the past subscribed to the same ideological boxes and boundaries as you or most people do today.
You cannot directly infer what people did or did not do based on what was legal. Just because it was legal didn't mean it was customary, and just because it was illegal didn't mean no one did it.
There was no point in history when people were completely content to receive what we would consider to be abusive and oppressive treatment today. It always was and always will be soul-sucking and damaging, and people will always try to fight back against it if they think they have a chance.
Art and media were not "better" back then, and it's not getting inherently worse as time goes on. There are short-term ups and downs, but that's about it. Nostalgia, romantia, and the fact that most of us are only familiar with the best and most famous works from way back when create a false impression that everything better back then than it is now.
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GYPSY PISTOLEROS the swashbuckling renegade flamenco rock rumba punk 'n' roll pioneers are aiming for the XMas No.1 spot with a cracking version of the world anthem, Livin la Vida Loca! Straight in at 33/1 in the National betting and they have already been featured in the Official contenders review by the Official Charts https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/christmas-number-1-2021-the-contenders-revealed__34519
These sleazers are unashamedly going for a Christmas hit, with a Day of the Dead' inspired video which will be available very soon. This XMas No.1 Campaign begins today (Nov 2nd, Dia de los Muertos Festival) and is fully released on 17th December. It is backed by the Guru of XMas Hits Jon Morter. With all proceeds going to Shelter.
You can pre-order Livin La Vida Loca here
Jon Morter is best known for his gatecrashing of the music industry in 2009 with his phenomenal Rage Against The X Factor campaign, sweeping Rap/Metal band Rage Against The Machine into the sought after UK Christmas No.1 spot. This success opened the door for Jon to work on campaigns for some big artists in the industry including Nirvana, Sex Pistols, Rod Stewart, David Essex, a No.1 album for The Rolling Stones, AC/DC's highest-ever chart placing in the UK singles chart, Rik Mayall's 2010 World Cup single (which incidentally Jon campaigned for again after Rik's death making the UK No.7 in 2014), and the 2012 Christmas No.1 campaign for The Justice Collective.
Gypsy Pistoleros may be best described as being the ideal house band for the fictitious Titty Twister bar of Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn. Between the nods to Morricone's tense, tumbleweed atmospheres and the Gypsy Kings' manic Mediterranean energy, a New York Dolls raw glam spark and a surplus of prime G 'n' R attitude!
The sound is flamenco & rumba in a head-on collision with punk/rock riffs, pounding bass and thrashing drums. The songs span madly in the best rock 'n' roll tradition with big hooks, attitude, and sleaze. Yet those flamenco breaks got into your head and refuse to leave – this unique hybrid rocks.
Gypsy Pistoleros have unleashed their highly anticipated and already critically acclaimed album 'The Mescalito Vampires' released on Special Limited Edition Double 10″
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Gypsy Pistoleros are best described as being the ideal house band for the fictitious Titty Twister bar of Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn. Between the nods to Morricone's tense, tumbleweed atmospheres and the Gypsy Kings' manic Mediterranean energy, a New York Dolls raw glam spark, and a surplus of prime G 'n' R attitude, the Pistoleros' sonic style is captured to the full with the release of an album they have always threatened!
Released on CD Digipak and special limited edition Double 10″ coloured Vinyl Is this Latin Rocks Appetite for Destruction? The Mescalito Vampires was recorded in Black Tree Recording Studios, Tardebigge, Worcestershire with guitarist Mark Westwood engineering & producing (The Beat, Dogs D'Amour, Chumbawamba, Arena, Hazel O'Connor, Dreadzone).
The swashbuckling renegade flamenco rock rumba punk 'n' roll pioneers release the album they always promised to make, this album sees Gypsy Pistoleros fully embracing their fiery flamenco/rumba passion & crossover punk rock 'n' roll leanings!
You can find out more about Gypsy Pistoleros on the Website and you can pre-order Livin La Vida Loca here
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Kogast Grosuplje d.d. devotes a lot of attention to environmental concerns.
Environmental requirements are taken into account in the construction, as well as in the manufacture of professional kitchen equipment Kogast. Products with environmental solutions are marked with Green efficiency label which is Elm tree.


This page collects plugins I've written for the image processing application ImageJ. While ImageJ isn't Photoshop -and is not meant to be-, it's quite a capable program, and thanks to a macro recording facility and a powerful Java API, it's much easier to extend. Being in the public domain, it's also free, and bugs are generally fixed quickly. These plugins extend ImageJ in some more or less useful, or plain fun way. The central place to look for more plugins is part of the ImageJ web site.
If any of my software has been helpful to you or your company, and you feel like expressing your gratitude beyond saying Thank you (which is also appreciated), please note that I have an Amazon Wish List containing several inexpensive items, or you can contribute directly via PayPal.
The WikiPedia:APNG (animated PNG) format is a variant of PNG that supports animation, much like animated GIFs extend the GIF format. But they also support other PNG features like transparency and 24 bit colors, making them an attractive option for higher quality animations. Most browsers (except Edge) support APNG; the other ones fall back to displaying a static first image of the animation.
This is a replacement for Imagej's built-in class of the same name. It adds the capability to assign names to particular colors, and access them quickly via a popup menu. To use it, download the source code, replace the existing class of the same name in the ij.plugins.frame package with it, and rebuild ImageJ with ant build. Then, with your favorite color selected, type in a name for it and select the Add menu. Remove colors by selecting them in the menu, and then selecting Delete.
Expression performs image arithmetic, somewhat like the Process / Image Calculator ... menu does, except that it works on single images, and the user can specify the exact formula to be applied to each pixel. Confused yet? The interesting part is that, in calculating each pixel, you can work with the previous intensity of the pixel (and even its individual red, green and blue components in case of a color image). In addition you can take into account the x and y position of the pixel within the image, as well as image dimensions. Really confused now? :) Just give it a try, the plugin ships with a number of predefined formulas which you can select, and then look at the result and study the formulas. The plugin can create beautiful images, and supports fractal calculations as well as scientific applications. Here is a page with example images of many of the predefined settings in action.
HPGL Reader is not a filter, but an import plugin, which acquires an image from an WikiPedia:HPGL file. Never heard of it? Then you most likely never had access to a plotter. The format is past its prime, and it's a vector format to begin with, while the ImageJ world is largely raster-oriented.
These two plugins show how to use OpenGL graphics in an ImageJ plugin, particularly how to create WikiPedia:OpenGL graphics, and how to copy image data between OpenGL images and ImageJ images. They use the open source library JOGL, which is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux, and is the standard Java binding to OpenGL.
Pixellate was inspired by the announcement of the of a now defunct iMovie plugin of the same name. It transforms an image -or a selected part of it- just like it would be shown on TV, when the face of someone is obscured to protect them. I haven't seen the iMovie plugin in action, but it cried out for an ImageJ version. Here is an example.
WikiPedia:Seam_carving (a.k.a content-aware image resizing) is an image manipulation technique for resizing images by removing image content that contributes little to image appearance. Thus more image features are preserved compared to cropping or scaling. I can't do it justice here, but you can find a paper describing it and an amazing video (that you should watch even if you have no further interest in this subject) at http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/. This plugin puts an ImageJ interface on top of Mathias Lux' seam carving code.
Warp is definitely not a scientific enhancement to ImageJ, but a fun one. It lets you distort an image by drawing straight lines on top of it, along which the image contents will be warped. This is an adaptation of the AlexWarp applet (which can now be found at WarpApplet), which I first discovered during Campaign 2000, when it presented images of the two candidates side by side, and allowed you to give free reign to your feelings about them in a creative way. Here an example.
This plugin has been retired because of a limitation of the GIF encoder. You should use the Gif_Stack_Writer plugin instead, which does not have this problem.
This plugin has been retired, because -starting with ImageJ 1.34- the code has been integrated into ImageJ's Open menu command. ImageJ now handles all PxM variants internally, and you should use the builtin menu instead of this plugin.
PxM_Reader is another import plugin. It reads the PBM (bitmap), PGM (graymap) and PPM (pixmap, aka color) image formats. Like HPGL they're obsolete for all practical purposes, but can occasionally be found in old files.


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Graffiti in Brazil
MAR-ECO was here!
Art is an important aspect of the public outreach work in MAR-ECO. The ways of communicating science through art vary, some have particular appeal to the younger public. MAR-ECO is being profiled all over the world, now with graffiti in Brazil.
If you take a walk in Arambepe in the suburbs of Salvador in Brazil, you will find a huge graffiti painting on a wall in the village street. Fishes, cephalopods, medusa and other deep-sea organisms are artistically woven in between the colourful, huge letters.
by Jo Høyer (picture to right by Trond Ola Tilseth)
Our former colleague in the MAR-ECO PO group, Anette Petersen, has never forgot her MAR-ECO mission. In her new job as an advisor at the College of Ålesund, she recently visited, Brazil. There she met Roderigo Vitoriio Libsboa Souza, a graffiti artist and a communal, social worker helping young drug victims in the area. Anette decided to take advantage of the opportunity to use her former experiences as a passionate graffiti artist by working in collaboration with Roderigo. The result of their work is this spectacular graffiti illustration on the wall.
Some discussions had to be done with the owner of the wall before they started. The owner was understandably sceptical in the beginning, but was convinced when it was presented as a contemporary art project.
"If you want to communicate, you also have to present important messages in new forms … for the next generation. Graffiti is one way of doing it," says Anette.
The result was spectacular. The owner of the wall apparently clapped her hands enthusiastically when she saw the psychedelic deep-sea expressions on the Brazilian wall.
Go to Brazil and see it for yourself!
picture by Anette Petersen


If you've had the pleasure of strolling the atmospheric streets of German Village , with their 150-year-old brick homes, decadent patisseries and delicious restaurants, you've probably though to yourself: I really wish I lived here! There is a way you can live out that fantasy, even while you're just visiting: The German Village Guesthouse !
Tucked away on Jaeger Street, the guesthouse is just steps away from great restaurants like Barcelona , G Michaels and Lindey's . There's no big street sign, so you really do feel like you're just walking into your very own Village pied a terre. What awaits you upon entry? A beautifully furnished living space with three guest suites, and a truly spectacular patio that ranks among the best in the Village.
Guests share the living room, kitchen (supplied with fresh baked banana bread, locally roasted coffee and basic fridge and pantry staples) and patio, and can retreat to their own private rooms, each with its own full bathroom. Each suite is an urban oasis, with ultra-plush mattresses and stylish, minimal decor that captures the German Village design sensibility.
If you're looking more for loft-living, the Guesthouse also offers two 800-square-foot apartment s for visitors a few blocks away. The apartments are dog-friendly (a walk in Schiller Park with your pup will DEFINITELY make you feel like a local) and decorated with the same great style as the Guesthouse.


Experience SENSUS SmartGuitar LIVE this autumn!
It's been a hot summer for us at MIND Music Labs, with lots of improvements to the technologies powering our SENSUS Smart Guitar and many developments behind the scenes (be prepared for some great news in the next weeks…). This autumn may be even hotter than this summer though. As a matter of fact, we already have four great events planned, during which we will be showcasing our SENSUS Smart Guitar and all our supporters and guitar lovers will be able to experience its groundbreaking technologies.
On September 5 we will showcase SENSUS at STHLM Tech Fest, Sweden's leading startup event organized by Telia, Ericsson and EQT Ventures. We will have a dedicated stand in the startup area, so pay us a visit and you will be able to check out SENSUS features in detail.
On September 9 and 10, SENSUS will be showcased in Italy for the first time, at MTV Digital Days. This will be a very special occasion for us, not only because MTV Digital Days is the most important Italian event on the future of music – with guests ranging from record labels executives to electronic music stars like Steve Aoki and Erol Alkan, but also because a big part of MIND's team is Italian – so we are really eager to show SENSUS to all Italian music lovers!
Between the 6th and the 9th of October we will be back to Sweden, guests of Uppsala's International Guitar Festival. The festival is the ideal point of contact for guitar professionals, performers and public, and is one of the most important guitar and music events in Sweden, so we (and you) definitely cannot miss it. The program is not 100% defined yet, but we will keep you posted.
Finally, on October 17 we will fly to the States for MIND's first USA trip, at San Francisco's MusicTech Summit, the annual event that brings together visionaries in the evolving music technology ecosystem and the best companies and investors in the field. Also in this case, our schedule is not 100% confirmed yet, so stay tuned for more details.
We hope to see you soon at one of these events – but in case you cannot attend any of them don't worry, as more events will be announced in the next months… so stay tuned and keep rocking!


Had a bumpy recovery after Dundracon. I have the full con report coming, but suffice it to say that my Monday night flight from Dallas to Little Rock canceled at about 9 p.m. The help desk was of no use and the lines too long for me to keep going back. Though they offered me a flight the next day, the arrival time of 5 p.m. was far too late. So I made my way over to the car rental, rented a car and drove to Little Rock. I got in Tuesday about 4 in the a.m. This of course left me sleeping much of Tuesday. But after that, last week got real busy with lots of shipping (Vakhund, Crusader 5 and Screens), I proceeded to work on Crusader 6 and Davis on Usurpers (amongst other projects) and Peter started wrapping up Deeper Darkness so we could make our March release date for that module. I'm way behind on the web page updates and other various and sundry projects . . . these cons are fun but they can sap the time right out of a busy work week. Should be caught up by week's end.
In other news I'm going to try to update this blog more often. Maybe in the mornings or some such while I'm making my rounds on the news wires and catching myself up with the latest anti . . . . err, I better stop there.
Interesting link: The Will To Win.


To mark the ADA's 10th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the American Association of People with Disabilities has organized a nationwide "Spirit of ADA" Torch Relay. Twenty-four cities from coast to coast are hosting official relay events, and hundreds of communities are organizing additional local events as part of this national celebration. The Spirit of ADA's organizing theme is "Renew the Pledge" to encourage individuals, organizations, and government entities to reaffirm their commit-ment to the principles of the ADA and IDEA. Vice President Gore and I are proud to join in the celebration and to renew our own pledge to help advance the cause of disability rights.


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Q: Unsafe assignment returns empty structure I haven't quite understood how unsafe assignments works. The following code gives me some error:
fn num() -> u64 {
    1;
}

fn test() -> u64 {
    let x = unsafe {
        num();
    };
    return x;
}

The error is:
src/main.rs:37:9: 37:10 note: expected type `u64`
src/main.rs:37:9: 37:10 note:    found type `()`

My real example is similar to this one. Strange that I have the exact same code, though I cannot compile.

A: Semicolons.
fn num() -> u64 {
    1
}

fn test() -> u64 {
    let x = unsafe {
        num()
    };
    return x;
}

See also this answer about semicolons.

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How to Calculate the Gross and Net Margins in Excel
by C. Taylor
Sales is the operating revenue trasaction that supports expenditures and profits.
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1 Get Gross Margin in Excel
2 Calculate Only 40 of 48 Hours in Excel
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For a business to be successful, you have to know how much profit you make and how much you get to keep. Gross and net margins tell you exactly that. Gross margin represents the percentage of total sales attributable to profit. Net margin takes this calculation a step further and represents the percentage of total sales attributable to profit after expenses have been paid. Plugging a few pieces of data into Microsoft Excel allows you to quickly calculate these vital measurements.
Enter your net receipts in cell A1 of Microsoft Excel. This is your total sales, minus any refunds or allowances. As an example, if you made $250,000 in total sales but had to issue $2,000 in refunds, your net receipts would be $248,000. You would enter "$248,000" in cell A1.
Enter the cost of goods sold in cell A2. If the cost of sold merchandise totaled $140,000, enter "$140,000" in cell A2.
Enter "=A1-A2" in cell A3 to calculate gross profit. This is the amount of sales attributable to profit, which would be $108,000 in the example.
Enter "=A3/A1" in cell A4 to calculate gross margin. In the example, you would have a gross margin of 0.435484, or 43.55 percent.
Enter your total expenses in cell A5. Continuing with the example, if you paid rents of $20,000, wages of $40,000 and utilities of $10,000, you would enter "$70,000" in cell A5.
Enter "=A3-A5" in cell A6 to calculate net profit. In the example, your net profit after expenses is $38,000.
Enter "=A6/A1" in cell A7 to calculate net margin. In the example, you would have a net margin of 0.15323, or 15.32 percent.
Internal Revenue Service: Figuring Gross Profit
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The Alps across Lake Geneva from the shores of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Cynthia Turner Camp gave a keynote presentation on devotion to northern English saints in Books of Hours at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, in March 2019. This presentation grew in part out of her research into Books of Hours that she's been undertaking with students in her medieval manuscript courses. In addition to compelling conversation and intriguing presentations, the conference featured the most dramatic landscape you could ask for. She also has a new essay collection, co-edited by Emily Kelley of Saginaw Valley State University, entitled Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine: Art and Hagiography among the Medieval Merchant Classes (Routledge, 2019).
Elizabeth Davis (second from right) with her fellow Service-Learning Excellence Award Winners and Office of Service-Learning Associate Director Paul Matthews (far right).
Elizabeth Davis was the recipient of a Service-Learning Excellence in Teaching Award in Spring 2019. The Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award recognizes UGA faculty for excellence in developing, implementing, and sustaining academic service-learning opportunities for UGA students in domestic and/or international settings. Davis has partnered with the Archway Partnership for multiple community engagement projects in her Writing for Web and Writing and Community courses over the years. Students in those courses have worked with communities across Georgia to develop websites, promote tourism and economic development along state highway 15 (Traditions Highway), and document the efforts of rural communities in the state to preserve their history while working to thrive in the 21st century.
Roxanne Eberle hosted Soniah Kamal, the author of Unmarriageable, in this semester's section of English 4505: Jane Austen. After spending the class period discussing her rewriting of Pride and Prejudice with undergraduates, Soniah Kamal and Dr. Eberle engaged in a public question and answer session prior to a book signing at Avid Books on Prince Avenue.
Soniah Kamal with Dr. Eberle and English 4505: Jane Austen, Spring 2019
Lindsey Harding was selected to be a 2019 Online Learning Fellow to develop an online version of ENGL 4837: Digital Storytelling. In collaboration with Elizabeth Davis and Sara Steger, Lindsey coordinated an undergraduate writing retreat in October 2018 supported by a grant from the Parents Leadership Council. In March 2019, Lindsey presented a work-in-progress with Elizabeth Davis during the Research Network Forum, as well as a workshop session at the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Annual Convention held in Pittsburgh, PA. This May, she presented with Joshua King at the Regional CCCC Summer Conference.
Dr. Lowe receiving the Woolson Award
John Wharton Lowe recently presented talks at four conferences: "Prophecy and Perversion: From Woolson's Oklawaha to Disneyworld" at the Constance Fenimore Woolson Conference, Winter Park, Florida, April, 2019; "Underground Manuscripts: Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in the Unpublished San Francisco Novels of Ernest J. Gaines" at the MELUS Conference, Cincinnati, March, 2019; "Must the Black Writer Crusade? The Civil Rights Movement in the Life and Fiction of Ernest J.Gaines" at the Southern American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, March, 2019; and "The Beauty Parlor as Comic Cauldron in "Petrified Man" and Steel Magnolias at the Eudora Welty Conference in Charleston, February, 2019. John recently published an article, "How Northern Mexico Became South Texas (and Southern Too): The Reconstruction Saga of Caballero" in MELUS 43, 4 (2018): 235-259. At the Woolson Conference in Florida, John was presented with the Sharon Dean Award for his recent monograph, Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature.
Barbara McCaskill wrote "Jo's Invisible Sisters" for the upcoming Forum, "Little Women at 150," in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 36.1 (2019). She is serving a three-year term on Legacy's editorial board. With graduate student Sidonia Serafini (PhD English), she blogged for The Readex Report about their use of digitized newspapers to conduct research on the anti-lynching activist and educator Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1858-1909). Their edition of his writings in Canada, England, and the US is forthcoming in June 2020 (UGA Press). The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research of Harvard University has invited Dr. McCaskill to present the prestigious Alain LeRoy Locke Series next year. Locke was the first African American Rhodes Scholar and a seminal figure of the Harlem Renaissance. The series brings a distinguished scholar to present three consecutive lectures on themes of African American culture and history.
Adam Parkes has just begun a two-year term as President Elect of the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America. He has published a new essay on Lawrence's 1920s fiction in D.H. Lawrence Studies (Korea) and has been writing other articles on Lawrence, Huxley, and Ford Madox Ford. He has also been enjoying teaching a new class on spy fiction.
Esra Mirze Santesso received the NEH Summer Stipend Award for her proposal, "Islam and the Graphic Novel," to support the research of her current book manuscript-in-progress, "Muslims in the Graphic Novel." The book project focuses on the representations of Islam and Muslims in contemporary graphic narratives (graphic novels, cartoons, web-comics) from a wide range of countries, including India, Pakistan, Turkey, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Britain, France, and the United States. The project brings literary studies together with visual arts theories in order to trace the aesthetic and political transformation of the Muslim within the graphic narrative tradition—from vilified Other to relatable comics commodity. The book demonstrates that these narratives are increasingly concerned not only with pluralizing and humanizing the Muslim figure but also with using new and innovative visual representations of this faith group to validate unofficial accounts of history written from the margins. Dr. Santesso will use her funding to support her travel over the summer. She plans to visit the archives at the University of Dundee in Scotland, which houses a major comics collection, created in collaboration with The Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (SCCS). She will also go to the University of Glasgow, the home to the National Academy of Comics.
Andrew Zawacki's fourth book in French, Sonnetssonnants, translated by Anne Portugal, has appeared from éditions joca seria. Other authors in the "collection américaine" include Frank O'Hara, Anne Waldman, Langston Hughes, Tracie Morris, Ted Berrigan, Carla Harryman, John Ashbery, and Dawn Lundy-Martin. Zawacki will launch the book in July at the international "Ecrivains en bord de mer" festival in La Baule, along with pressmates Charles Bernstein and Marcella Durand. In March, Zawacki co-directed a weeklong translation seminar at the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires in Arles, while in April—National Poetry Month—he continued his prose-photo project on Paris graffiti for The Poetry Foundation blog. In early June he will deliver a paper on C.S. Giscombe and the prose poem at the "between-ness of lyric" conference at the University of Lausanne.He has recently published a pair of chapbooks, Waterfall plot (Greying Ghost) and Sonnensonnets (Tammy).
Elizabeth Davis, Nancee Reeves, and former department Lecturer Teresa Saxton (now at the University of Dayton) published "From Page to Screen and Back Again: Archives-Centered Pedagogy in the 21st Century Writing Classroom" in a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy on teaching and research with archives. This piece discusses the courses they developed while participating in the 2017-18 cohort of the Special Collections Libraries Faculty Teaching Fellowship program. They argue that working with archival materials in writing courses allows students to remix, appropriate, and curate as part of an inquiry-based pedagogy grounded in collaborative reading and writing and attention to textual materiality.
Stefano Evangelista
The Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature concluded its tenth year with talks delivered by Donelle Ruwe (Professor, Northern Arizona University) and Stefano Evangelista (Professor, Oxford University). Dr. Ruwe spoke on "Mediocrity: aesthetics and music for girls in the long eighteenth century." In a talk co-sponsored by the UGA at Oxford Program, Dr. Evangelista delivered a talk on "Global Aestheticism and the Invention of Japan." Dr. Aaron Santesso (Professor, Georgia Tech) led a workshop discussion on "The Enlightenment and 'Fascism'."
This past year, Write@UGA continued to support writing and writing pedagogy across campus. For a series of events on writing across the curriculum, Write@UGA welcomed Mike Palmquist to Athens in early February. At Colorado State University, Palmquist is the Associate Provost for Instructional Innovation, Professor of English, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. His presentations were sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Department of English, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Vice President for Instruction, Office of the Vice President for Research, and First-year Composition. The Writing Intensive Program, Writing Certificate Program, and CTL's Writing Fellows Program served as administrative sponsors. Also in February, Lindsey Harding offered a workshop for faculty and graduate students across the disciplines on effective and efficient strategies for responding to student writing. This year, Write@UGA continued its collaboration with the Office of Faculty Affairs to run the Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice Program (CSWPP) for UGA faculty each semester, an initiative that includes a day-long boot camp and bi-weekly debriefings to support writing productivity. To date, CSWPP has served 88 faculty members across campus. In early May 2019, Write@UGA held its third annual writing retreat for UGA faculty, providing time, space, and refreshments so faculty can commit a full day to their writing and research projects.


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My Thoughts, My Finds, My Journey
The Rules / ToS
Why Communicators and Tricorders will never exist…or shouldn't.
I decided to dust off my copy of the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual, and see what it had to say about the famous communication devices and "exposition boxes" that became as much a part of Star Trek as Klingons and transporters. By what I read, I'm pretty certain they will never exist.
"But Joey! We've surpassed comm badges already! They're called cell phones, and you have one! How can you say they don't exist?" Well, that depends on how we define "communicator". A thing that lets someone else who has a thing talk to each other? Sure, cell phones fit that role in the broadest mindset. However, dig just a little bit deeper and you'll likely agree with me that they are likely to forever remain a plot device, rather than actually existing.
Let's start with the most obvious example of this: Neither Kirk, nor Picard, nor Sisko pay a Verizon bill, and Janeway was too far away to do so. While cell phones require the PSTN to function, communicators and comm badges clearly do not. Even if we get as close as currently possible – fully decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer voice communication software, the call is still being carried by one's ISP, rather than communicating directly between the initiator and recipient.
According to the technical manual, the maximum range of a comm badge is 500 kilometers. Even if we cut that down to 100km, that's still beyond the horizon of virtually any planet that could be landed on by an away team without the gravity being a crippling problem, meaning that communicators can punch through at least some of the curve of a planet. By contrast, current technology would require roughly 5,000 watts of FM transmission power to achieve something even remotely close without a line-of-site, something very seldom seen between sections of an away team engaging in dialogue. Now, to be fair, it's highly irregular for parties to be more than a mile or two away from each other when using communicators, but while some high quality Motorola walkie-talkies might get a mile range, they require both batteries and antennas which each exceed the size of a comm badge. Moreover, communicators and comm badges only experience static when relevant to the plot – literally no cell phone owner can say that they've been able to thoroughly avoid dropped calls or audio dropouts.
Let's assume that the range issues are addressed by way of "subspace"; the magical portion of the space-time continuum that powers both warp and communications in the Trek universe. The next massive concern is how communicators decide the recipient of the message. When Kirk says, "Kirk to Enterprise", does everyone in the ship hear it? Just the bridge? Furthermore, the "Kirk to Enterprise" is frequently heard by the recipients. Even if the computer onboard the ship is ascertaining that the message is for them, do away team communicators have that same ability to discern? Ultimately, the future has no concept of ringtones, except one time toward the end of the Voyager episode "Future's End, Part 1". The rest of the time, the message is heard 'on speaker', making that scene rather strange. In another episode of Voyager, Chakotay calls "to anyone who's left", as the ship has been largely taken over by aliens. How does the communication system know to reference explicitly Starfleet crewmen, and do so 'on speaker' without the hostile aliens hearing? I hear you all saying, "It's just a plot device", and that's fine, but it doesn't jive well with the notion that cell phones are akin to the communicators in Star Trek. The amount of technology required to facilitate communication between the communicators, over great distances, establish the recipient, do so without static or interference, and perform all of these tasks without a communication infrastructure beyond the devices themselves, is far beyond anything we presently possess.
Let's then discuss tricorders, devices that have a sensor for basically-anything, and a tiny display that makes it nearly impossible to display the results which is only eclipsed by the minuscule size of the controls. Sure, today's phones have gyroscopes, ambient light sensors, cameras, compasses, even temperature and pressure sensors, but how accurate are the readings? Enough for a racing game, sure, but does anyone use the onboard sensors for measuring with scientific accuracy? No, they do not. Would anyone be comfortable with a doctor taking measurements with an iPhone rather than dedicated tools? That's unlikely as well. There is still a world of difference between the capabilities of a tricorder as a scientific measuring instrument, and the capabilities of current smartphones. As a counterargument, however, it's surprising how infrequently (if ever) data communications between tricorders and/or the ship itself are used. If the comm badges in TNG are able to communicate 500km, shouldn't tricorders have some circuitry of that nature implemented as well? They really should be better at that, and there are no shortage of moments where data transmission or nonverbal communication would have been helpful. I'll close that thought by addressing the idea that my thoughts on that front only stem from pervasive text messaging that was not prevalent at the time of TOS or TNG. To that, I will say that the inclusion of a small CRT display in TOS implies an intended output, and by TNG, there was no shortage of text-based communication happening over BBS systems, IRC, and Usenet. The idea of transmitting messages that way was far from foreign.
The next time you're watching an episode of Star Trek and think that their handheld devices already exist in more usable ways, the deeper implications illustrate that there is still plenty of work to be done to achieve the levels of functionality we see used to advance the plot.
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With 58 days left until polling day, the Berejiklian Government continues to promise the installation of lifts for train stations everywhere except for Unanderra Station.
Yesterday the Minister for Transport, Andrew Constance MP, announced no fewer than five train stations on the Central Coast would get lifts.
In the meantime, Unanderra Station commuters are forced to put up with the daily struggle of getting up and down 72 steps to gain access to the platform.
It's been eight long years since the Premier – a former Transport Minister – flogged the funding allocated by the former Labor Government to install lifts at Unanderra Station for other projects across New South Wales.
The funding has never been returned.
NSW Labor has committed $25 million to upgrade Unanderra Station and install its much-needed lifts as part of the $225 million Illawarra Jobs Action Plan.
Funding will start to roll-out in the very first budget of a Daley Labor Government if NSW Labor is elected to form the next government of NSW on Saturday, 23 March 2019.
"As we tick off another day closer to the election, the Berejiklian Government promises more station lifts for other train stations but continues to ignore Unanderra Station.
"I don't begrudge any other community in the state getting lifts, I just want the Liberals to make the same promise for Unanderra Station.
"I've got $25 million on the table to build the Unanderra Station lifts.


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Bright field microscopes and light microscopes are the most rudimentary means of microscopes. The unique light microscope was created way back in the 17th century.
They are so named because they use light in the noticeable spectrum to illumine the specimen. Light microscopes are widely used all over the place from high-tech workshops to schools. You can also look for compound microscope – OPTIKA B-190 LED microscope series by clicking here.
There are various kinds of light microscopes accessible from only $40 to $1200 or even more. The significant kinds of light microscopes are stereo or dissecting, simple and compound microscopes. Stereo microscopes will be the most innovative and use two light paths for three dimensional (3D) viewing.
They're extremely costly and are employed in labs and medicinal practices. Straightforward light microscopes are used just for small scale magnification and they have just 1 lens equally as eyepiece and objective.
Compound microscopes are the most widely utilized light microscopes. There are mostly 3 levels of compound microscopes – student, benchtop and study light microscopes.
Student microscopes are inexpensive, small and designed for bright field, dark field, and phase contrast assessments. Benchtop microscopes are used for evaluation methods. Research microscopes are for study practices; they frequently contain built-in cameras and computers.


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Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC), commonly referred to as Casula Powerhouse, is a multi-disciplinary arts centre in Casula, a south-western outer suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Before being renovated and converted into an arts centre, the building was known as Liverpool Powerhouse. Since 2016 CPAC has hosted the Blake Prizes, comprising two art prizes and a residency, as well as the Blake Poetry Prize.

History
Liverpool Powerhouse was constructed in 1951, one of a number of identical power stations built to cater for growing demand in Sydney winters. In 1955, a  high chimney was built to replace four shorter ones, which allowed the smoke to blow over residents' houses and soil their washing.

In 1976 the power station was shut down, and bought by Liverpool City Council, New South Wales, in 1978 and allowed to become derelict for nearly ten years. In 1985 a residents' plebiscite voted for the building to be converted into an arts centre, and work began in 1987 to provide an electricity supply and create office space.

In 1993, during Mark Latham's tenure as mayor, the renamed Casula Powerhouse was allocated funding in the council budget. Inaugural Director John Kirkman invited Judy Watson to design the floor of the centre, which became known as the Koori Floor. Influenced by Western Desert art as well as local Aboriginal heritage, the names of the three traditional owners of the land: Tharawal, Gandangarra and Dharuk, are inscribed in stainless steel, inlaid in the floor.

The newly refurbished building opened as an arts centre in October 1994. It proceeded to host many exhibitions and events, including a number with Vietnamese themes.

From June 2006 until 5 April 2008, a capital project was undertaken to improve and expand the centre, collaboratively undertaken by the NSW Government, Create NSW, Liverpool City Council and its communities.

Description

The building is located on the banks of the Georges River, within the  Casula Parklands and  next to Casula railway station, at 1 Powerhouse Road.

The centre houses an exhibition space that meets international standards, a 326-seat theatre, a multi-purpose theatre/performance space, artists' studios and residency spaces, and seven additional exhibition spaces. There is also a collection storage space and additional office space. Bellbird Dining & Bar (launched in 2017) provides restaurant facilities, and the centre is open every day of the week.

The centre is located in a very multicultural area; Liverpool is one of the two most diverse local government areas in Australia (with around 150 languages spoken), and CPAC's programmes reflect this. It engages will local as well as global communities.

Governance
Craig Donarski, whose parents are Polish migrants, has been director of CPAC since 2016.

Collections
The Liverpool Collection, co-managed by CPAC and Liverpool Regional Museum (opened 1989), comprises around 30,000 artworks and cultural heritage artefacts, and both preserves items of historical significance as well as showcases work of established and emerging artists.

Events and exhibitions

Blake Prizes

After the Blake Society had lost sponsorship for its art prizes in 2015, CPAC and Liverpool City Council announced that they would be funding and managing the prizes from 2016, with the exhibition and awards moving to Western Sydney from their former venue partner, the UNSW Art & Design (now UNSW School of Art & Design) in Paddington.

Other events and exhibitions
CPAC also hosts the annual Mil-Pra AECG (Aboriginal Education Consultative Group) and Liverpool Art Society exhibitions.

In September 2001, an exhibition featuring the work of post-Tianenmen Square migrant Chinese migrant Fan Dongwang, entitled Shanghai Star, was mounted at the centre.

In September/October 2015, CPAC celebrated its 21st anniversary, with an exhibition of works by 21 contemporary Australian artists who had had a close connection with the centre in the past, such as having their work exhibited there for the first time.

During January and February 2018, the centre hosted free screenings of Japanese manga films as part of the Manga Hokusai Manga touring exhibition program, put on in collaboration with The Japan Foundation.

In February 2019, CPAC launched the first of a series of live music events, featuring local hip hop group Freesouls to headline the concert.

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia in 2020, the centre was forced to close for some weeks. During this time, the exhibition Pulse of the Dragon, an exhibition showcasing the art of five Chinese Australian and five Chinese artists, went online. In November, it reopened with four new exhibitions, after the Koori Floor (see History, above) had been restored.  The centre reopened on 3 June with two exhibitions, Adaptation (comprising works by artists with disability or chronic illness) and A Familiar Place I've Never Seen, an exhibition combining Persian calligraphy and photography, with input from Western Sydney residents who had been immigrants and refugees.

The first Casula Powerhouse Aboriginal Scholarship Award was announced in 2020.

Two exhibitions of Ken Done's work were scheduled to run in July 2021, an evening of conversation with Done on the 31st. However, this coincided with the lockdowns that commenced in mid-2021 owing to a second wave of COVID-19 in NSW. With Sydney back under lockdown, the centre offered an extensive online programme, including virtual tours of the centre and several exhibitions, including a 3D tour of the work of local Croatian-born artist Gina Sinozich, who died in 2020; free screenings of films; a book club for youth; online activities for children; videos of young musicians and various instructional videos.

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Every year, more firefighters die in the line of duty because of heart attacks than any other cause. This February, take time during American Heart Month to know your health and learn what you can do to lessen your risks of heart attack and other life-threatening or life-altering conditions.
Many first responders struggle with medical issues such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and heart disease. First responders must be ready at a moment's notice to battle very demanding emergencies, and it is critical that they be physically and mentally prepared for the job at hand.
The first step in preventing or overcoming heart-related medical conditions is to know your health. Follow your physician's recommendations for physicals and health screenings, and make sure to tell your physician you are a first responder.
Educate yourself on various heart health risk factors, such as hypertension and obesity. Learn what you can do to minimize your risks and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Take steps to improve your lifestyle by incorporating fitness and healthy eating, managing stress, limiting alcohol and quitting smoking.
The National Volunteer Fire Council's Heart-Healthy Firefighter Program is there to help you know your health and reduce your risk factors. Visit www.healthyfirefighter.org to access tools to focus on your own health as well as start or expand a health and wellness program in your department.
• Information on critical health topics including heart disease, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and weight.
• Resources to help you get active, including functional fitness videos to prepare you for the next call.
• Tips and recipes to help you eat right without sacrificing taste.
• Tools for making healthy lifestyle changes, including quitting smoking or supporting others in their efforts to quit.
• Resources for starting a department health and wellness program, including a guide for developing a successful program, health and wellness advocate training, a tool kit for securing sponsors, monthly fitness challenges and much more.
• Online training webinars on a variety of health and wellness topics, from functional fitness and nutrition, to implementing a department-wide program.
1. Have your blood pressure checked regularly – knowing your numbers helps you stay in charge of your health.
2. Maintain a healthy weight range, based on your age and gender (as recommended by a physician).
3. Participate in a minimum of 30-60 minutes of moderately intense activity five times per week.
4. Reduce your salt intake, choosing reduced-sodium food options when available.
5. Take medications as directed and speak with your physician about any questions or concerns.
6. Reduce alcohol consumption, which constricts blood vessels and causes an increase in blood pressure.
7. Increase your potassium intake to help lessen the effects of sodium on blood pressure.
8. Avoid tobacco products, which cause blood pressure to increase.
9. Cut back on caffeine, which can increase blood pressure.
10. Take steps to reduce your stress outside of the fire station.
1. Have your cholesterol levels checked regularly.
2. Avoid foods high in saturated fats, such as butter, margarine, and vegetable oil; choose healthier canola or olive oil instead.
3. Get more fiber in your diet to help lower your cholesterol.
4. Eat more fish, which is high in the cholesterol-combatting omega-3 fatty acids.
6. Choose nuts for a snack to help lower cholesterol (but look for them with reduced or no salt).
7. Check the food label to find out how much cholesterol it contains, plus which ingredients the cholesterol comes from.
8. Try swapping out your afternoon coffee for a fruit smoothie, which provides a natural source of energy while increasing your fiber intake.
1. Get screened for diabetes regularly.
2. Manage your blood pressure and cholesterol as elevated levels are risk factors for diabetes.
3. Know your family history and discuss it with your doctor; diabetes can be passed genetically.
4. Make sure your physician knows that you are a first responder; high-stress situations can cause your body to produce more insulin, dangerously lowering your blood glucose levels.
5. Stay hydrated by getting at least eight, eight-ounce servings (64 ounces) of water per day at a minimum.
6. Eat regularly. Skipping meals can cause your blood glucose to drop, so keep healthy snacks at the station to keep you going during long shifts.
7. Maintain a healthy weight range, based on your age and gender (as recommended by a physician).
8. Try to get seven to eight hours of sleep per day to keep hormone levels balanced, which helps you resist unhealthy snacking.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is for you.
2. Read the food labels, checking for both total content of fat, cholesterol, sodium, and other potentially unhealthy components, as well as the ingredient list to see where these come from.
3. Limit alcohol consumption based on physician recommended amounts as determined by your individual health, gender, and weight.
4. Try eating five small meals a day rather than three big ones, which helps control hunger levels to avoid overeating.
5. Choose leaner meats and poultry over the higher fat options, and remove the skins.
6. Bake, grill or broil food instead of frying it.
7. Have multiple servings of vitamin- and fiber-full vegetables and fruits each day.
8. Choose healthy whole grain products to provide fiber and keep you filling full longer.
topics specific to the fire service in each issue this year.


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01-16-14 04-30-14 Kabooooom Automaton
And the round-up is back! And it's quite the exciting round-up, too, with each of the books reviewed – Black Dynamite #1, Rat Queens #4, Thunderbolts #20.NOW – packed full of action! What are you waiting for? Dive in!
BLACK DYNAMITE #1/ Written by BRIAN ASH/ Art by RON WIMBERLY/ Inks by SAL BUSCEMA/ Colors by JM RINGUET/ Letters by CHRIS MOWRY/ Story Consultant JILLIAN APFELBAUM/ Published by IDW PUBLISHING
Review by MATT MORRISON
HE'S A POWDER KEG OF COOL BLACK RAGE!
AND NOW HE'S ON YOUR COMICS PAGE!
LET ALL THE TURKEYS LOOKING FOR A FIGHT
BEWARE THE POWER OF BLACK DYNAMITE!
The brainchild of writer/actor Michael Jai White, Black Dynamite was a hilarious satire of seventies blaxploitation and kung-fu films while also being an enjoyable action story on its own terms. Those already familiar with the 2009 film Black Dynamite or the Adult Swim animated series will find that Black Dynamite #1 offers more of the same material that made the movie and cartoon cult classics. This comic was likely written for fans but is easily accessible to those unfamiliar with the source material.
For those who don't know, Black Dynamite is the biggest, baddest ex-CIA agent ever. He makes Super Fly and Shaft look like a pair of thumb-sucking five-year-olds. But all is not well in The Neighborhood and Black Dynamite is having the closest thing a cool cat can have to a crisis of faith. After an altercation with yet another jive-ass turkey out to cause trouble, Black Dynamite is forced to ask himself a question – "Do I do more damage than the jive-ass turkeys I'm trying to stop from causing trouble?"
Brian Ash's script seems set to satirize Bronze Age Marvel Comics as closely as the film and cartoon parodied the blaxploitation genre. The idea of the ever-confident Black Dynamite questioning his mission may seem blasphemous to fans of the character but in this context it works. And the over-the-top villains we see Black Dynamite fighting in the flashbacks are as gloriously ludicrous as any of the urban-themed bad guys Luke Cage wrestled with back in the days when he still wore the disco headband.
The art by Ron Wimberly and Sal Buscema is largely excellent. Buscema's inks in particular help to highlight the mood and action well. The only real flaw is that there is some inconsistency in the look of things from panel to panel. While Wimberly generally does a good job caricaturing Michael Jai White, there are some panels – particularly in the fight scenes – where Black Dynamite appears too thin and angular.
So what's the score? If you can dig it and aren't uptight, best pick up a copy of Black Dynamite!
RAT QUEENS #4/ Story by KURTIS J. WIEBE/ Art by ROC UPCHURCH/ Letters by ED BRISSON/ Published by IMAGE COMICS
Review by ANNE MORTENSEN-AGNEW
Image has undeniably put out some stellar and hugely popular titles over the past two years, but Rat Queens is not quite one of their big name books – it's not a Saga or a Sex Criminals. Which is a shame because Queens is one of the most consistently good, funny, and downright enjoyable books on the shelves from any company. Rat Queens #4 continues with our heroines' horribly violent and hilarious escapade dealing with intracity conspiracies and assassination attempts, and climaxes with the gals defending their city against a troll army siege led by a victim's angry girlfriend. Issues one through three have been fantastic, and issue four is no disappointment either.
Rat Queens' strengths are in its ensemble cast, its humor, and its action. Queens is very much a character-driven series, and the Queens are each a delight to read in their own way. Picking up where the last issue ended, Betty gets somewhat more of the spotlight than her buds. The little halfling has an almost childlike earnestness and good spirit about her – when not battle. In battle, she is a murder machine, making her easily the most endearing and hysterical of the four while alone. But as fun as Betty is on her own, she and the other Queens work best together, as mercenaries and as characters.
Wiebe was on top of his game in comedy this month, and this issue was even funnier than the previous three. The timing and dialogue were better and made Rat Queens #4 just a blast to read. The action, as well, was something else, pitting the Queens against another horde of enemies, which they slaughter, horribly and bloodily. Roc Upchurch's battle scenes are brutal and bloody and flow so well, perfect for the Queens' fighting style and slaughtering of whoever and whatever is in front of them.
If terrific fights and a great cast pique your interests, Rat Queens is almost certainly right up your alley.
THUNDERBOLTS #20.NOW/ Written by CHARLES SOULE/ Art by CARLO BARBERI/ Colors by ISREAL SILVA/ Letters by JOE SABINO/ Published by MARVEL COMICS
Review by ERIK RADVON
By rights, this book should suck. It should be really, really bad. The latest incarnation of Marvel's Thunderbolts stars the woeful Red Hulk character, paired with "grim and gritty" stalwarts Punisher, Venom, and Elektra. The omnipresent Deadpool is thrown in for good measure. With a cast of walking clichés, Thunderbolts is setup to be a potent stew of vapid comic fail. Yet somehow, this book does not suck. It's good. It's fun. It's totally worth checking out.
The bulk of the credit falls to writer Charles Soule. Soule takes a wretched cast and produces snappy dialogue, interesting characterization, and solid team dynamics. Red Hulk, a character that I wish with all my being did not exist, is presented here with a kind of Ron Swanson-like straightforwardness, delivering dialogue that's crisp and dryly humorous. Punisher and Elektra carry on with cool kid aloofness. Deadpool cracks wise but isn't annoying. Even the Red Leader (groan) is made compelling.
There's a lot to be said for Soule's economic storytelling. The team is introduced, their situation recapped, and a new adventure takes flight. It's not quite one-and-done, but it's a solid and satisfying first chapter. Soule brings classic Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze into the mix in the later pages (I'd say spoiler alert, but he's on the cover.) and the issue's end sets things up wonderfully for the next installment.
Carlo Barberi's art is good and moves the issue along, although the table-setting necessitated by a first issue doesn't play to his strong suits. Barberi's lines are primed for action. He gives each character an angular form and a distinct look. Backgrounds are sparse and some of the panel positioning a bit awkward, but the overall look fits the title. Here's hoping the action ramps up in the next issue and Barberi has more of a chance to let loose. What's teased here looks great and leaves the reader wanting more.
Thunderbolts #20.NOW is a fun package that stands out as one of the better efforts to come out of the All-New Marvel NOW! initiative. Writer Charles Soule breathes life into a questionable cast and Carlo Barberi looks poised to launch them into action. I came into the book scoffing and closed it surprisingly wanting more. Marvel, more NOW! issues like this please.
Comic Reviews Black Dynamite, Brian Ash, Carlo Barberi, Charles Soule, Chris Mowry, ed brisson, idw publishing, Image Comics, Isreal Silva, Jillian Apfelbaum, JM ringuet, Joe Sabino, kurtis j. wiebe, Marvel Comics, Rat Queens, Roc Upchurch, Ron Wimberly, Sal Buscema, thunderbolts permalink
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COMIC REVIEW: Detective Comics #27
Next Gen: High School Horror


When I was 17 and as soon as I had passed my driving test, I set myself up as a mobile disco called Arson Annie. Armed with a twin tape deck and my trusty turntable I spent the whole of that summer ghetto blasting my way through rural Gloucestershire. Guaranteed to rock up to the homes of all my friends who had grabbed the opportunity to arrange a party when they found out that their parents would be away for the night.
During one fiery party in a briefly parentless home, my friend's twelve-year-old brother volunteered to act as the bartender as we availed ourselves to the contents of the parentibus abessent's drinks cupboard. I asked for a gin and bitter lemon. What I actually got was a lethal concoction, which tasted like bitter lemon but had enough alcohol in it to fell a 16-stone rugby player and I was given more than one.
It was hot and steamy on the makeshift dance floor as I swilled what I thought was a lot of bitter lemon with a little gin, but the bitter lemon disguised a lethal cocktail of various spirits. With my sound system set to max volume, Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits began to sound hollow and distant as my surroundings blurred and my speech slurred. I somehow made it up the stairs to the bathroom where kneeling in front of the lavatory, I projectile vomited the fermenting brew inside my stomach.
Exhausted I collapsed to the floor and rolled on to my back. The bathroom walls were plastered with wallpaper, decoratively adorned with single stemmed roses, spaced about 6 inches apart.
I could see twice as many roses than the designer created which were animated, Walt Disney-style, spinning, twirling and dive bombing me. If that wasn't bad enough when I closed my eyes my head felt like it was being repeatedly thumped with a sledgehammer.
I came to the following morning, the party long since over and still lying on the bathroom floor. Enveloped in the smell of wet dog, I realized I was curled up with the family's golden retriever. Every inch of me felt nauseous with the headbanging hangover from Hell.
It had been a sound learning curve, although I was unaware how much and how many different types of alcohol there were sloshing around in my bitter lemon. Whilst lying on that bathroom floor breathing in the smell of wet dog, I promised myself that I would never drink again. Unfortunately, I broke that promise by the time the next party came around.
Since then, however out of sorts I might feel after having one too many, I have never and hopefully will never feel quite as appalling as I did with my first ever hangover, having been traumatised by dive bombing single stemmed red roses.


Allan is a Las Vegas-based sleight of hand artist, entertainer, and educator.
He has been studying magic since childhood and has a passion for engaging and amazing his audience. He specializes in doing effects with cards, coins, and everyday objects. He is the creator of over 250 magical effects, the author of four books, twelve sets of lecture notes, and over twenty DVDs. Allan has performed in USA, Mexico, England, France, Italy, and Germany. He has worked with USO, performed on the Las Vegas strip, done tradeshows, TV, and over 300 shows at the famed Hollywood Magic Castle.
When Allan was 18 he started studying under Ed Marlo, who is considered by many magicians the greatest sleight of hand artist with cards of all time. He studied with Ed until January of 1970 when he went into the USAF. When he got out of the service in 1973, he decided that he would concentrate only on close-up magic and in particular card magic. He would get a masters degree in Mathematics to help with his shuffle work. Microcomputers came out in 1973-74 and he jumped on the bandwagon with shuffle simulators and gaming simulations. Those three disciplines have remained the loves of his life to this day.
Allan taught at UNLV and the College of Southern Nevada for 34 years teaching mathematics and computer science. He is often a keynote speaker at math conventions lecturing on using the art of amazement to inspire students to learn mathematics. Allan retired from the College of Southern Nevada in the summer of 2017, but he will never stop creating and performing his first love – magic.


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Leading debt resolution training and standards body, the Debt Resolution Forum (DRF) today announced the results of its latest round of examinations for the advanced BTEC Certificate in Debt Resolution the leading qualification in the sector, as well as its forthcoming introduction of continuous professional development, and monitoring of member firm's compliance with training requirements.
133 learners across 16 sites around the UK took part in the most recent set of examinations. Most notably, the DRF are delighted to see that of the 97 learners taking Module 1, a 78% pass rate was achieved. The knowledge CertDR provides helps ensure the highest level of standards and consistency of service levels and delivery when dealing with clients who are in debt and need advice and solutions.
"DRF members must train all their client facing staff using the Certificate in Debt Resolution, either to Award or Certificate Standard or must show the independent inspectors that they train to a similar standard when they receive their annual monitoring visit".
CertDR training is available to individuals seeking to advance their career, but, from now on, only DRF member firms will be allowed to join the qualification as corporate members.
DRF is the recognised training and examination centre for the Certificate in Debt Resolution and will be introducing update training (continual professional development) for qualified individuals in the autumn of 2011.


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Celtic Defender In Race Against Time To Be Fit To Face Ross County
David Tully Oct 14th 2019
Celtic defender Hatem Abd Elhamed is a major doubt for Israel's game with Latvia tomorrow night due to a virus, manager Andreas Herzog has confirmed.
The fullback played the full 90 minutes in Israel's 3-1 loss to Austria on Thursday but Herzog says the defender hasn't been back in training since then and has been laid low in his hotel room as he looks to recover from the illness:
"Hatem Abd Elhamed is sick and has been suffering from a virus. He's not trained and in fact, hasn't even left the team hotel. He's not been able to eat with the rest of the group. Clearly, he's a major doubt for the game."
Celtic face Ross County on Saturday afternoon and Abd Elhamed is probably unlikely to feature in that game unless he gets back to 100% very quickly.
The 28-year-old has performed very well since moving from Hapoel Beet Sheva in July but he was an unused substitute in Celtic's last two league games against Hibernian and Livingston.
It's very likely that Moritz Bauer will continue to start at right-back if Abd Elhamed is ruled out of this weekend's game. The Austrian has made four appearances after joining on loan from Stoke in September, providing two assists.


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Q: Bootstrap 3 - Grid not aligning properly I'm creating my portfolio site on Bootstrap 4. I've implemented a sliding javascript caption (tweaked from a source online) to overlay the thumbnail images. That all works fine (except for the caption box extending too far out..), but when I started using that, the left edge of where my thumbnails start has moved to the right and I can't figure out what's causing the problem. I've been trying to figure it out for hours.. whatever's causing it is not caused by my custom CSS, because I tried removing it all and it was still weirdly aligned there.
Another thing that I'm trying to do is have the thumbnails tiled up right up against each other, but I can't figure out how to get rid of their margins/padding...
Here's a link to make it easier to check it out. Thanks so much in advance, it would really mean a lot to me if I could get this to work.
SO sorry for the messy code, I'm going to clean it up once I get this stuff working.
EDIT: I don't know why, or how.. but the alignment problem was caused by the UL class. I changed it to a div and now it works perfectly.

A: Look at your code. You have defined width twice. use width:97%;
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All Hail The Yeti have zero tolerance for bullying on new song
Metal-for-life diehards All Hail The Yeti have a lot to celebrate this year. First and foremost on the list is "Felo De Se," the track whose lyric video AltPress is premiering today. Translated from its original Latin, the song title means "felon of himself": a person who has died by suicide or has perished after committing a self-destructive act. "The song is about a t...
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15 unforgettable mosh pits that made history in music
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Chat live with DevilDriver tonight
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DevilDriver, Trivium announce co-headlining tour with After The Burial and Sylosis
DevilDriver and Trivium have announced a co-headlining fall tour with support from After The Burial and Sylosis. The co-headliners will be touring in support of their upcoming albums. DATES: 9/12: Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 9/13: Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory 9/14: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 9/16: Calgary, AB @ Macewan Ballroom 9/17: Edmonton, AB @ Union Hall 9/18: Saskatoon
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Exclusive Stream: DevilDriver's "Blur"
Check out this exclusive stream of "Blur" from DevilDriver's new album, Beast, out Feb. 22 on Roadrunner Records. You can buy the album on iTunes here. Frontman Dez Fafara had this to say about the song: "This track is simple to the point: when you walk in the bus or backstage to the usual vampiric atmosphere of people you don't know, drinking your beer, smoking your herb, monopol


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Please note that all companies attending (healthtech companies, investors and pharmaceutical companies) will have access to the full program on June 24th and 25th : panel discussions, networking event, one-on-one business meetings.


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A bubbling melting pot of religion and cultures where Malays, Indians, Chinese and many other ethnic groups live together in peace and harmony. Rugged mountains reach dramatically for the sky while their rainforest-clad slopes sweep down to floodplains teeming with forest life. Cool highland hideaways roll down to warm, sandy beaches and rich, humid mangroves.
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In Georgetown, stop at Fort Cornwallis, the star-shaped bastion, where Captain Francis Light, the founder of the British colony in Penang, first landed in 1786. Afterward, visit a Khoo Kongsi, a Chinese clan house before enjoying a trishaw ride around the town to view the many colonial buildings. Discover Penang's colourful history at one of Malaysia's most iconic boutique hotels, Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion.
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