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After spending the last 6 years fiddling and learning photography, my wife and I are about to move to Cambridge, UK from Melbourne. We are planning to post and write about our European trips in a capacity that is more than just telling our family what we are doing with the goal of allowing our work to eventually pay for our travel. Our first real post will be up soon, looking at our short weekend trip into the Wimmera/Mallee to visit the new Silo Art in the region. My Wife is a much better writer than I am and is currently editing!
Oh gosh, that's 36 hours in the air, Hans? Ouch!! I'm counting total transit time -- for example, a flight I almost booked from Amsterdam to Cape Town had a 2 hour hop to Vienna with an 11 hour layover, followed by a 6.5 hour flight to Ethiopia with a 17 hour layover, followed by a 9 hour flight to Cape Town. Total transit = 45+ hours. Pretty rough!
On the two recent occasions I was in Shanghai, I was thrilled by the abundance of candid street photography opportunities that presented themselves in its old neighborhoods. The narrow lanes crisscrossing these neighborhoods are called lòngtáng (弄堂) or alternatively, lilong (里弄), where whole communities live and sometimes work. The Shanghai lòngtáng can either refer to the lanes that its houses face onto, or to a group of houses connected by them.
My still-embryonic idea is to enlist the help of a local acquaintance who would wear a cheongsam (aka qi pao), and take the role of a sing-song girl. The photo shoot would take place in the streets of Yau Ma Tei, and in the parlor itself. Whether the parlor would allow it or not is an open question that will be answered when I'm there. The owners and clients seemed very laid back when I made these photographs.
Content development complements your photography and helps you grow and earn beyond your photos. If you're a gearhead like photographer Colby Brown, you could write in-depth gear reviews, or publish post-processing tutorials like Elia Locardi, or write a how-to book like Nicole S. Young. If you enjoy travel writing, you could build a popular blog like photographer Chris Stevens, who writes travel guides and reviews popular hostels and adventure tours, complete with photos.
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For the Aztec and Toltec pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase of life. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit, and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth. Nowadays, people flock to cemeteries to be with the souls of the dead, and build private altars with photographs of the dead, and their favorite foods and beverages. The gatherings are often joyous in tone, and the families remember the lives of the departed.
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As travel has become more accessible, more and more, the genre is opening up to amateurs and professionals alike. Amateur Travel photography is often shared through sites like Flickr, 500px and 1x. Travel photography, unlike other genres like fashion, product, or food photography, is still an underestimated and relatively less monetized genre, though the challenges faced by travel photographers are lot greater than some of the genres where the light and other shooting conditions may be controllable. Traditionally travel photographers earned money through Stock photography, magazine assignments and commercial projects. Nowadays, the stock photography market has collapsed and more and more photographers are using more innovative methods of earning a living such as through blogging, public speaking, commercial projects and teaching.
If you are a top notch, worldwide known photographer, it is very likely that customers from all over the world will want to use your services (for fashion, events, sports, architecture, products etc.). But as we are focusing on travel photography, commercial organizations that deal with traveling and tourism are more likely to hire you. Notable examples are hotels, tour companies, airlines and so on.
Unfortunately, due the language barriers I wasn't able to interview either of these two actors to gain an insight on their lives and background. They also seemed reluctant to allow me more than a few minutes to photograph them, either because they were waiting to perform (as in the top photograph) or just uncomfortable with the the attention of a stalking photographer (lower photograph).
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Chinese opera has a long, rich history that dates back to 200 A.D. Over the centuries, a handful of styles of opera emerged — each with its own distinct makeup, music, and acting traditions — reflecting the eras and tastes of the changing dynasties. Sichuan opera is the youngest style, emerging around 1700 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, where it is still performed today by a dwindling roster of troupes.


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Little Monsters in Blue and Gold USE THE DOLLY
Little Monsters in Blue and Gold
written by Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss
Photo credit: mek22
I think the most compelling monsters are simply human beings (or creatures with human traits, especially human emotions) who, due to one misfortune or another, or for no apparent reason at all, go just a little bit … wrong. Like when General Jack D. Ripper went "a little funny in the head … you know… just a little … funny," and then he unilaterally sent all of the USA's B-52s to attack Russia. And Major "King" Kong was living his life and being himself – like the other King Kong – and got caught up in events not of his making. Even the mad scientist with the alien hand, Dr. Strangelove né Merkwürdigliebe, is horrified at what ensues, although he does see some up sides.
To me, that's a good monster story. I used to make myself read H.P. Lovecraft, based on his reputation as one of the great horror writers, but I never could get into his work. Who can relate to all those thousand-tentacled gods from Andromeda and many-adjectived, zero-personalitied mists from another dimension? Maybe Lovecraft could; I can't.
In the overlapping worlds of fiction and non-fiction, all the best monsters are people (or people-like beasts) whose lives go horribly wrong. Frankenstein's monster was getting along fine with the old man in the cabin, and then a mishap with some fire sent matters awry. Charles Manson would have been nothing more offensive than a pop star, if he could have sold his songs. Phil Spector … well, let's be reasonable. Some people are monsters, through and through. But in general, there are points at which things could go either way.
Some monsters are made deliberately, some by accident. Some monsters make themselves, on purpose or inadvertently. Get bitten by a werewolf, become a werewolf. Get bitten by a vampire, become a vampire. Drink a potion, turn into Mr. Hyde. Get dosed by gamma rays and then get angry, et voilà, you're the Incredible Hulk.
Sometimes it isn't easy to tell who is the monster, and who is the victim. Sometimes it seems like we're all monsters. Certainly we all have the potential. We see it in each other; monsters represent our fears about what our neighbors really are, underneath the veneer of civilization. And when we look in the mirror, we're not sure what we see, not really. What's inside us, out of sight? How did it get there? And what summons it into the open?
For example, what turns a teenage Eagle Scout – who never got in any trouble in his life – into an arsonist? And if he is a monster, how did he get that way? Did he maybe get some help from other monsters?
I went to a strange high school. At least it's always seemed strange to me, although it was probably a pretty normal Midwestern working-class public school. School colors: blue and gold. Pretty normal colors. It was the quintessential coach-to-principal style of school – academic success wasn't just deemphasized, it was openly scorned. One of my honors history teachers told the class one day that we all only got good grades because we couldn't get dates, so we spent our free time studying when we should be socializing. To be a misfit there – and I was a misfit – was not pleasant. I recall one teacher saying, without irony, that bullying, rather than being a problem, was a good thing, because it promoted conformity, thereby strengthening society. I think that was more or less the prevailing view.
Bullying was certainly a way of life there. I was bullied, and I was a bully, too. There was always someone lower in the pecking order, and you kicked the shit downward. Nobody premeditated about it; it's just what you did. You breathed, you ate and drank, you gave shit to anyone who had to take it. And you kept your head down in anticipation of the next-stronger guy doing the same thing to you.
There was this one guy – let's call him "Steve," since that was his name – who was at the absolute bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the totem pole. He was below the bottom of the hole in the ground that the totem pole was stuck into. I didn't have too much to do with Steve in high school, but I'd known him since second or third grade, and everybody gave that dude a hard time. He was just … goofy. I don't want to describe what made him goofy; you can use your imagination. Of course we were narrow-minded, immature, provincial little kids – but I think that Steve would be regarded as goofy in most circles, anywhere.
When I say Steve took shit from everyone, I don't just mean the students. The faculty gave Steve shit – and not only the gym teachers, who of course dealt out shit on a wholesale basis, as a matter of professional habit.
I don't want to reveal Steve's last name (although it is a matter of public record), so I can't relate exactly what one teacher used to call him, but the gist is that this teacher routinely compared Steve to a character from a well-known TV commercial for coffee, a middle-aged Swedish woman.
To cut to the chase, one night in December 1984, Steve sneaked into the school and set this particular teacher's classroom on fire.
The old wooden-framed, bow-roofed structure – which dated, I think, back to 1921 – went up like flash paper.
Two fires were set in an audio-visual room at the high school the evening of Dec. 20, 1984. The first fire was quickly put out.
The second fire, which started about 11 p.m., roared out of control for hours and eventually brought 129 firefighters and 42 pieces of equipment to what prosecutor Randall Stewart called "the most costly fire in Lake County history."
(For what it's worth, I've never believed there were two fires. It seems more likely to me that the first fire was burning in the walls all along, but then I don't really know.)
It was about as shocking as you'd figure, seeing the school on the news, burning. Not that I was especially heartbroken about it. That was my senior year, and I was looking forward to graduating in June and never looking back.
It was even more shocking when Steve was arrested a few days later. Everyone had been taking guesses about who could have done it – some people said they figured I did it, and they were only half-joking. At most.
When the news broke that Steve did it, you could feel the vibration of a collective, town-wide gasp. I don't think anyone had pegged him as a person who was even capable of it. Steve was universally regarded as the wimpiest, squarest kid in the whole school, maybe in history. He never got in trouble. He never rebelled in any (recognizable) manner (other than, of course, refusing to look, talk, dress, or act like anybody else).
The Tribune described Steve as "a member of the school yearbook staff, the audio-visual club, school choir, the National Honor Society and an Eagle Scout candidate."
"Wow, Eagle Scout," I remember thinking. I didn't know he'd gone that far. Nobody else in my age group even stayed in the Boy Scouts after the second year or so.
But it kind of figured. Scouting. The mention of Scouting made me remember an event from several years earlier – not that I'd ever forgotten it. This event had weighed on my conscience since it took place.
It was the first year of Cub Scouts, whatever they called that, whatever animal it was named after. It must have been, what, third grade? Second grade? Fourth grade? Somewhere in there – I just remember that it was my first year of Cub Scouts, nineteen seventy and something.
We were at our weekly meeting, at the house of this kid I'll call "Mike," since that was his name. Mike was a pretty tough kid – most kids were tough compared to me – a hockey player and a general ass-kicker – and he always seemed angry. He set the tone for the group.
So we were doing whatever we were doing while sitting around Mike's Mom's kitchen table – Mike's Mom being the "Den Mother" – we must have just finished our arts and crafts project and were engaging in "snack time" – maybe some cookies. I definitely remember there was grape Kool-Aid.
What happened was that Steve spilled some grape Kool-Aid on me, on my Cub Scout uniform. Right on the back of my neck – on my yellow neckerchief. For some reason, that really incensed me. So I cussed Steve out a little bit. I didn't expect to instigate a mob action.
The room turned on Steve, en masse. This was the room's excuse to "get" Weird Steve, and get him good. Steve was no dummy – he jumped up and ran out the front door.
There was an absurd blue-and-gold, short-heighted chase scene … running, running … yelling, screaming. I was a little freaked out by the way things were happening, but at the same time I enjoyed the feeling of being part of the pack – being a solid member, in fact. I belonged and mattered.
We caught up with Steve about one suburban subdivision block away. A couple of the tough kids grabbed Steve by each arm and held him still. The mob was giving me – as the aggrieved party – the honor of dealing the first ten or twelve punches to our crying, defenseless captive.
I cracked my knuckles and got set to start whaling. And I looked at Steve and suddenly I didn't want to do it. All the enthusiasm drained out of me. I had to punch him – there was a kitchen-full of snarling maniacs slavering to see a beat-down, dealt by me – so I did, but not hard. Probably hard enough to hurt, though. Maybe twice, maybe three times. Didn't enjoy it at all.
Then a construction worker from a house being built across the street rescued me by rescuing Steve. I remember this guy, big guy with a mustache, stomping over and yelling, "Hey! Let him go! Knock it off!"
I felt like I was going to fall down, my knees were shaking so much, and my asshole was trying to forget how to be continent, but still, for some goddamn reason, I had to argue with the guy.
"Yeah, but! He! He spilled …" blah blah blah.
"You gotta big mouth! Shut up! You're gonna get in big trouble someday with that mouth! Now get outta here!"
We all ran back to Mike's house. Steve, too. I was overwhelmed with that "oh no, I'm in trouble" feeling, but nothing ever happened. Well, until Steve burned the school down.
written by Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss	in 2013, Chicago, May, Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss
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Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss is one of the many aliases used by a Tom Long of Chicago, Illinois (not to be confused with other Tom Longs of Chicago or elsewhere). Tom was active in xerox zine culture from the late '80s through the early '00s under the Colicky Baby Records and Tapes imprint, and several examples of Tom's mail art periodicals are filed deeply and safely away at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department in Iowa City and the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York City. Every so often he posts things at http://colicky.blogspot.com.
4 Comment on "Little Monsters in Blue and Gold"
Jimmy Gabacho May 28, 2013 at 5:59 am
Those camp fire techniques paid off. Sorry, the sarcasm monster, you know. What ever happened to Stevie?
Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss May 28, 2013 at 11:04 am
The police questioned people who had been at a chorus concert at the school on the night of the fire, which included Steve, since he was a member of the chorus. Steve confessed immediately to setting the fire. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years' probation, during which he was ordered to pay symbolic restitution of $10 per week. Steve was 18 years old and had been an adopted child; if I remember correctly, he left his adoptive family, moved into a group home or halfway house out of the county, and changed his name. As far as I know, he walks among us.
Desmondorama June 2, 2013 at 5:18 pm
I also don't have a strong affinity for Lovecraft, other than the cool names for his monsters, especially Cthulu. Legend has it that "Mountains of Madness" was the inspiration for David Bowie's "the Supermen", which is one of my favorite songs. What's your take on human-appearing monsters who have had their humanity taken away from them and lumped into a mass/mob, i.e. the Borg or zombies? Both seem to embody two extremes of anti-collectivism, the Borg are individuals enslaved to the common good and zombies are a mindless mob devouring everything in their path.
Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss June 2, 2013 at 5:40 pm
It's an interesting concept, although I haven't put much thought or study into it. It kind of seems like it might be related to a Hannah Arendt "banality of evil" concept, too. And maybe also the famous Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments. I think that in this piece, the little monsters in blue and gold (colors played up because it occurred to me while writing that the Cub Scout colors are the same as my high school's colors) are more or less thoughtless creatures turned into a mob by devotion to conformity. Maybe. Or something like that.
For whatever reason, most of the time I'm more drawn to monsters with a specific personality and an individualized tragic tale, e.g., King Kong, the beast done in by beauty. Originally I was going to try to fold in something about Daniel Johnston's song "King Kong" (and tie it in with Ray Harryhausen's death, since there's a verse that goes "And Willis O'Brien died / A tragic death / There wasn't much / That he had left / And Ray Harryhausen said / That when Willis died / That's when the King was really dead") but I just couldn't make it fit with the whole picture, so I settled for an oblique reference via the Slim Pickens character in Strangelove. (Which is a movie full of individual-type monsters, but also generalized mass zombie-type threats, of sorts — e.g., the bomber force at large, and the troops attacking the air force base, who, with the exception of Col. "Bat" Guano, don't have any specific identity — and even then, Guano's dogged fidelity to the Coca-Cola Company suggests something Borg-like to me.)

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Spend luxurious holidays in the middle of Nuuksio National Park in the Villa Eino. The villa is situated only 45 minutes drive away from Helsinki.
The villa was built in 1992 and it was renovated in 2009. The villa is great for relaxing holidays in traditional Finnish way by going to the sauna, fishing, berries picking and preparing food on the campfire. Come and experience it by yourselves!
The villa is located in Vihti, near a beautiful forest lake in National Park Nuuksio. Guests are welcomed all-year-round. Up to 4 people can be comfortably accommodated in this villa (87m2), but it's possible to have two extra beds. In total there are sleeping places for 6 people. There are two bedrooms, a toilet, an open kitchen, a living room and a terrace (15 m2). The views towards the lake from the villa and the terrace are very beautiful. There is also a sauna department that includes a dressing room, a washing room with one shower and a sauna for 3-4 people with an electric sauna stove. The villa's décor was renewed in 2013 and the villa is well-equipped. The villa is good for guests who enjoy peace and quietness of the nature. It is possible to arrange catering and different activities by a request for an extra cost.
The villa is equipped with an Internet connection, for an extra cost (mobile broadband), a widescreen TV, a DVD player radio, an open fireplace & firewood, a vacuum cleaner and a drying closet for wet clothes. In the kitchen there is a fridge/ a freezer, tableware, an electric stove, a microwave oven, a coffee maker, an electric kettle, a toaster, an outdoor grill and a dishwasher. The water comes to the villa from the well. Customers can use a private beach (20 m) and a rowing boat. The Kaitlampi pond shore is steep (sandy/ muddy). There is also a pier, a campfire place and a parking place.
Enjoy holidays in the villa: there is an own beach only 10 meters away, a rowing boat by the clean lake and a comfortable log villa that has a nice, decked terrace that goes all the way on one side of the villa. Near the villa there is a wonderful place for a campfire, where the customers can warm up food or prepare caught fish. Peaceful trails of Nuuksio National Park are only few steps away behind the villa. The nearest horse riding stable is in Vihti - about 5 km away and Vihti Ski & Vihti Golf course - about 13 km away. There are a lot of different activities nearby (snowmobile safaris, a horse trekking in Nuuksio National Park, a husky safari, a Hennola farm with typical countryside animals, spas, such as Neidonkeidas, Serena and Flamingo Spa), different guided trips e.g. trekking or using snowshoes in the national park, visiting the national park at night and few trips for the children (for an extra cost). It's also possible to rent out kick sledges, snowshoes and bikes.
Minimum booking period is a weekend (2 days) or 1 night during weekdays. During the high season (June – August, New Year) the minimum booking period is 1 week. Changing day is Friday. Arrival – 16.00, departure – 12.00. Customers can bring their own bed linen and do the final cleaning themselves or buy the services for an extra cost. Pets - have to be agreed beforehand // there is an extra fee for a pet. Smoking is prohibited. It is possible to rent snowshoes, a bike and get an Internet connection (a dongle) for an extra cost.


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'use strict'

const test = require('tap').test
const helper = require('./helper')
const server = helper.startServer()
const RequestBuilder = require('../lib/httpRequestBuilder')
const httpMethods = require('../lib/httpMethods')

test('request builder should create a request with sensible defaults', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build()
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should allow default overwriting', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.method = 'POST'

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build()
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should allow per build overwriting', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.method = 'POST'

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build({ method: 'GET' })

  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should throw on unknown http method', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  t.throws(() => build({ method: 'UNKNOWN' }))
})

test('request builder should accept all valid standard http methods', (t) => {
  t.plan(httpMethods.length)
  httpMethods.forEach((method) => {
    const opts = server.address()

    const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

    t.doesNotThrow(() => build({ method }), `${method} should be usable by the request builded`)
  })
  t.end()
})

test('request builder should add a Content-Length header when the body buffer exists as a default override', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.method = 'POST'
  opts.body = 'body'

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build()
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nContent-Length: 4\r\n\r\nbody`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should add a Content-Length header when the body buffer exists as per build override', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.method = 'POST'

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build({ body: 'body' })
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nContent-Length: 4\r\n\r\nbody`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should add a Content-Length header with correct calculated value when the body buffer exists and idReplacement is enabled as a default override', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.method = 'POST'
  opts.body = '[<id>]'
  opts.idReplacement = true

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build()
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nContent-Length: 33\r\n\r\n[<id>]`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should add a Content-Length header with value "[<contentLength>]" when the body buffer exists and idReplacement is enabled as a per build override', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.method = 'POST'
  opts.body = '[<id>]'

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build({ idReplacement: true })
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nContent-Length: 33\r\n\r\n[<id>]`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('request builder should allow http basic authentication', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()
  opts.auth = 'username:password'

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  const result = build()
  t.same(result,
    Buffer.from(`GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:${server.address().port}\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nAuthorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=\r\n\r\n`),
    'request is okay')
})

test('should throw error if body is not a string or a buffer', (t) => {
  t.plan(1)

  const opts = server.address()

  const build = RequestBuilder(opts)

  try {
    build({ body: [] })
  } catch (error) {
    t.equal(error.message, 'body must be either a string or a buffer')
  }
})

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Some plays were meant to be broken. In this case, Alexandria's Matthew Carlsen on Friday night made ESPN's SportsCenter with a broken-play-turned-touchdown early in the fourth quarter against Sartell.
Alexandria Echo Press editor Eric Morken caught the wild third-down play on camera and the folks in Bristol took note.
That play cut Sartell's lead to 16-14. Alexandria's Zach Wosepka capped a memorable night for the Cardinals when his 32-yard field goal with under 2 minutes to play put Alexandria ahead 17-16.
It's only Week 2 of the prep season. What more will we see before November?


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TAKEN 3 REVIEW
February 8, 2015 February 8, 2015 by pmbayobale, posted in Action, Best and worst films, Car chase, CGI, Cinema, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Uncategorized
Taken the p*ss, more like. Hopefully it will end here.
I made the mistake of listening to a critic when the first one came out. I ended up seeing Shrooms. Remember that? If you don't, you're lucky. And DO NOT bother checking it out.
When I finally got round to watching the first Taken film, I was impressed. A proper action movie. Iconic dialogue, intense action sequences and a welcome return for a very talented actor. Instant cult status achieved.
The only problem with instant cult success and a shed load of money at the box office, it meant meant one thing. SEQUELS!
Taken 2 was a poor retread of the exact same story line. Only in a different city and with Maggie Grace's irritating Kim having to save Mills. NO!
It didn't help that the static camera work didn't show any of the action properly and the dialogue was that hammy, I felt myself cringing.
So, here we are. Third time's the charm? A reprieve to end the franchise with a fiery finale?
Unfortunately not. They should have left it at the first one.
The trailers piqued my interest and with Forest Whitaker taking the helm as the relentless pursuer, I had hope.
That was soon crushed after the drab opening sequence.
So what happens in this one? Ex-government operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed. As he is tracked and pursued, Mills brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name.
Where to begin? It was a mess. I know! It's an action movie. Not a thought provoking, mind bending thriller. BUT still . . .
A feeble attempt at mystery came off flat and dull as Sam Spruell's "menacing" villain (with a ridiculous Lloyd Christmas haircut) disposed of some unknown secondary characters.
Dull, uninteresting . . . where's Liam Neeson?
We are then pulled through some awful and incredibly cheesy exposition between Bryan and Kim. It's obviously become a joke. BUT a joke that was never funny in the first place.
I could feel my very being sinking into the seat.
Then we had the inevitable "Will they, won't they?" spiel with Famke Janssen and Neeson. You would have thought after all their "mishaps" (two violent kidnappings that destroyed two cities) that they would have got back together.
No, no, no. She's gone and married another moronic businessman. Dougray Scott nailed the accent but was terrible as the suspiciously shady looking Stuart.
However, it soon kicks off. Rather predictably if you've seen the heavily flogged trailers with Mills set up for murder and on the run.
One thing I will commend is Eric Kress' cinematography. A beautiful sunny Hollywood gloss over the relentless, unnecessary and OTT carnage.
Olivier Megaton really needs to fire his editing team; Audrey Simonaud and Nicolas Trembasiewicz. The action was way too fast and far too frantic.
The very sequence in which Mills must run from the scene of the crime was disorienting. One second, you're looking at Neeson's foot, his shadow, an angry dog and then a confused police man.
It felt like it was overcompensating for the fact that Neeson is too old.
It pains me to say that but the poor guy look jaded. Every time the sporadic shot swapping subsided, you could see he was struggling to keep up with the pace and the frantic fist fighting the film desperately tried to deliver.
He did his best to add his gruffly gravitas to this disaster but even his performance felt like a parody of his own. He doesn't even say the iconic line properly, "I have skills. You know what I can do with them".
To me, it felt like "You know what I'm going to say, you can fill in the blanks".
A shame. What annoyed me even more was the fact that he suddenly breaks into a house, finds a garage containing an old truck which is conveniently hiding an escape route to the sewers that leads to Bryan's hidden factory fortress complete in emergency supplies.
WHAAAAT?!
I thought switch off. It's just a dumb action movie. Forest Whitaker is here. He'll do something good.
He pretty much plays Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh from The Shield. At first glance. BUT he does absolutely nothing.
While Mills is running around aimlessly, punching people left, right and centre. Whitaker is scoffing bagels, flicking an elastic band around his wrist (for no reason) while fumbling about with a chess piece (Steady now) in his pocket, looking confused.
What a waste of a talented actor. All he does is relay the information we all know. The plot isn't that complicated or that interesting for that matter!
In fact, it's bloody bonkers. Mills makes more elaborate and unexplained escapes than Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes!
He escapes a car that we saw him drive down an exploding lift shaft that seemed to blow up a whole car park complex. And somehow manages to hide behind a rock despite seeing his car rammed off a cliff and rolling into a fiery blaze.
A crappy flashback makes no explanation or sense to his miraculous Houdini acts.
I also felt my loyalties divided with Mills. I used to route for the big guy BUT I felt myself scratching my head at his logic. He kills and injures dozens of coppers. He throws grenades in a school. And even causes a ridiculous police chase that was completely unnecessary.
Mills finds evidence that proves his innocence. Does he tell the police or show them? No! He lets them take him in for questioning. Changes his mind. Only to cause a highway pile up with heavily used CGI cars flying all over the place.
Time to let old dogs lie.
I think it's time for Neeson to get back to what he did best. Acting. This affair offered no cool dialogue, no baddies of any merit, by the book action sequences with no memorable moments to recollect and . . . hammy vomit inducing exposition.
Olivier Megaton, I don't know where you are. BUT I have a particular set of skills. If you dare make another, I will find you . . .
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Woodside Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks-ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 514 at the 2000 census.

Woodside Township was organized in 1882, and named for the woods along the shore of Maple Lake.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.8 square miles (92.8 km), of which 30.8 square miles (79.9 km) is land and 5.0 square miles (12.9 km) (13.95%) is water.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 514 people, 210 households, and 162 families residing in the township.  The population density was 16.7 people per square mile (6.4/km).  There were 653 housing units at an average density of 21.2/sq mi (8.2/km).  The racial makeup of the township was 98.44% White, 0.78% Native American, and 0.78% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.19% of the population.

There were 210 households, out of which 27.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.3% were married couples living together, 1.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.79.

In the township the population was spread out, with 22.6% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 35.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 116.0 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.6 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $39,750, and the median income for a family was $49,250. Males had a median income of $35,341 versus $21,500 for females. The per capita income for the township was $20,433.  About 7.0% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.5% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.

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Engagement leads to feelings of fulfillment and satisfaction. You feel your work makes a positive difference in people's lives and your career has true meaning. Engagement is the emotional gold standard for career success.
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FG Upscales Investment in Youth Towards Better Economic Growth
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Sunday Akin Dare, Minister of Youth and Sports
EMERGENCY DIGEST– The Federal Government has reassured that it will continue to harness youth potentials in the country with a view to enhancing sustainable economic growth and development.
The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Akin Dare disclosed this today in Lagos at the closing ceremony of the six-week training on Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP), organised by the Ministry across the 36 States of the Federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
He said that deliberate and strategic investment in young people is required for the high percentage of the youth population in the country to become a demographic dividend.
"When the youth are positively engaged, there will be a reduction in the indices of crime and delinquency, which are factors that are inimical to national development efforts", Dare said.
He stated that the approach of the Ministry has been the inclusion of youth employment as a priority segment of the National Youth Policy (NYP) for which a framework for implementation has been provided in the Nigerian Youth Employment Plan (NYEP), adding that the agenda which will be launched in the next few weeks, will deliver a comprehensive approach to youth employment interventions through multi sector collaborations, that emphasize on the Four Es: Employability, Entrepreneurship Development, Employment Creation and Equal Opportunity.
"This framework will ensure the inclusion of partners across sectors and will create a robust partnership base through my Ministry that will ensure wider reach of youth employment programmes across the country. With new challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, innovative solutions and a robust partnership are required to support youth participation in the process of rebuilding through deliberate and strategic investment that will lead to sustainable economic growth and transformation", the Minister added.
According to him, the programme is an expression of the priority focus of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration which is to among other things ensure "job creation for youth and to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next ten years".
He therefore called on all Nigerian youth to take up the challenge for self-development that will support their inclusion in nation building, stating further that youth have the potentials, talents and energy for skills development and other opportunities that will give them leverage in the global economy.
Mr. Dare assured further that the present Administration is committed to the task of youth development and will continue to provide an enabling environment and innovative solutions to challenges of youth in the country.
Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Nebeolisa Anako while distributing starter packs and other empowerment tools to the participants at the closing ceremony in Abuja, stated that the Ministry will continue to ensure full implementation of the programmes and projects of the Federal Government in line with the policy thrust of the present Administration.
He explained that the Ministry will continue to monitor their progress periodically to provide guidance and ensure compliance in line with the objectives of the programme.
Mr. Anako who applauded the Federal Government on its various interventions on youth empowerment, particularly the DEEL initiative which was conceived and launched by the Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Sunday Dare, said that the programme was designed to ensure a coordinated mechanism that will employ strategies to enhance the competitive aged of Nigerian youth with a focus on Digital Skills, Employability, Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Mentoring.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Director, Enterprise Development and Promotion Department of the Ministry, Mr. Gbenga Momoh assured that participants will put the skills they acquired during the training into practice for the purpose of self-development so as to enhance economic growth.
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Fred Dietz, candidate for vice president of enrollment management, speaks at the forum interview for the VP position on April 13, 2018 in Dillard 101. Photo by Rachel Johnson (Rachel Johnson)
Fred Dietz, candidate for vice president of enrollment management, speaks at the forum interview for the VP position on April 13, 2018 in Dillard 101. Photo by Rachel Johnson
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Fred Dietz, candidate for vice president of enrollment management, speaks at the forum interview for the VP position on April 13 in Dillard 101.
The search for the vice president of enrollment management is over as Suzanne Shipley, university president, announced in a postmaster email on April 19 that the search committee chose Fred Dietz out of more than 40 candidates to fill the position, effective July 1.
Shipley said in the email, "I know the campus looks forward to working with Mr. Dietz to increase enrollment at MSU Texas while maintaining the high academic quality and strong reputation we enjoy."
As part of the candidate process for the open position of vice president of enrollment management, the second candidate for the position Fred Dietz attended a forum interview on April 13 in Dillard 101.
The forum opened with an introduction explaining Dietz's background experience and then with an introduction from Dietz explaining why he wants the position.
Received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Jacksonville University
Began his professional career in admissions at Jacksonville University
Served as the executive director of admission and enrollment management at San Angelo State University
Served as executive director in enrollment management at University of North Texas in Dallas
Is serving as the associate vice president for enrollment management at Murray State in Kentucky
"[I applied because of] the opportunity to be the vice president and [the fact that] it's a new position at Midwestern, so there is the opportunity to come in and really create something that hasn't been created here and think that is attractive," Dietz said.
For the duration of the forum Dietz took questions from the audience and answer questions faculty had concerning his thoughts on how recruitment and retention could be improved and the ways in which he would implement change.
One of the questions he was asked was concerning how he would sell the "broadness of the university" in which he highlights the diversity of programs and directions available to students on campus.
He first addressed the trend of students gravitating toward the medical programs on campuses on previous campuses he worked for.
"In the last ten years, the dean [of Murray State] worked on [the idea that], 'Everybody wanted to be pre-vet. Everybody wanted to be a veterinarian when they graduate,' and [looked at] what was the opportunity to get those kids who can't 'cut' that into another program, so we created a vet-tech program," Dietz said.
Dietz described a solution in which the university would provide another direction in the same field keeping students on campus without the fear of failing rigorous courses.
"It is the opportunity where kids can still stay in the vet field and still be involved in it, but they're not having to worry about maintaining a 4.o and taking biology, chemistry and all those upper level science classes. They can still have a hand in it."
According to Kristi Schulte, director of residence life, due to the interconnected relationship between campus housing, recruitment and retention, residence life has established a relationship with those responsible for recruitment and retention.
As director of residence life, Schulte said the office has a key role in recruitment and retention.
"Residence life and housing has a critical role to play with both recruitment and retention initiatives here on campus," Schulte said.
To Schulte, is through housing that students make the choice on whether they will attend a college. One of the driving forces leading a potential student to make a decision toward attending a university is whether that individual can picture themselves living comfortably on campus.
"On one hand, as a recruiting factor, students want to know that they are going to feel comfortable on campus and they want to know residential facilities are a good place for them to call home," Schulte said. "So from that perspective there is a role that we have in helping students make a choice about where they are going to go to school and where they are going to call home."
As for ensuring retention increases, residence life has a goal in getting students connected to the university through Resident Assistants fostering good relationships with their residents.
"Additionally residence life is a key factor when it comes to student retention. What we know about retention at it's most basic level is that students who feel more connected to the university are more likely to persist and to graduate."
Linda Veazey, associate professor of political science, said she thinks it is good for the candidate to understand the school's identity as a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.
"I would like to think that a good person for our position would have a good understanding of that mission and would think about how it works with recruiting," Veazey said. "If we're emphasizing that or not emphasizing it, I think it is an important part of our identity to understand."
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The Duke Campaign, Mike Pence and the 'Stoning of the Devil'
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By Andrew Joyce, Ph.D. | 15 September 2016
OCCIDENTAL OBSERVER — It is customary during the annual Hajj pilgrimage that Muslim devouts throw pebbles at three walls (formerly pillars), called jamarāt, in the city of Mina just east of Mecca. One of a series of ritual acts that must be performed in the Hajj, it is a symbolic re-enactment of Abraham's hajj, where he stoned three pillars representing the temptation to disobey God and preserve Ishmael. The ceremony is commonly known as "the stoning of the Devil," and may be regarded as a practice designed to reinforce socio-religious conformity and obedience.
I've been reminded of this practice by the constant re-appearance in our own society of a primitive, ritualistic "stoning of the Devil" — the now mandatory condemnation of David Duke by aspiring politicians on the Right. A society, of course, reveals much about itself by its choice of devils. In this case, the "devil" is not necessarily the person of David Duke, but rather his career, and the struggle for White interests, heritage, and ultimately survival that this career has entailed. In terms of our visible political landscape, Duke has come to represent the personification of the "folk devil" of White identity.
Those on the edges of "acceptable" political discourse must be seen to "stone" this folk devil, and dissent is tantamount to complicity. Indeed, the further to the Right that the candidate may appear, the more essential it is deemed by the shapers of political culture that the candidate should prove his mainstream credentials by refuting, condemning, and distancing themselves from the non-conforming "Other." […]
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Salt Restaurant Maîtres Cuisiniers de France Dinner
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4750 Amelia Island Parkway Amelia Island, Florida 32034
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Address: 4750 Amelia Island Parkway Amelia Island, Florida 32034
Cost: $500 per guest plus gratuity
Salt restaurant invites fans of French food and wine to indulge their culinary senses at the Master Chefs of France Dinner on Monday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m. The dinner celebrates the exciting conclusion to the 2018 Pétanque Amelia Island Open. The sport originated in France and the tournament hosts a large delegation of fans and participants that includes world-famous chefs. Chef Jean-Louis Dumonet, owner of Dumonet in Brooklyn joins other Maîtres Cuisiniers de France for a multi-course presentation that honors France's culinary culture. The meal will be paired with exquisite wines and the menu will range in style from haute to traditional bistro fare and from classic to the contemporary. Each course will feature a selection specially-chosen by a Master Chef of France, inspired by their own restaurant, region of France or family heritage. Chef de Cuisine Rick Laughlin of Salt will host the event in a private dining room overlooking sand dunes and ocean and the guest list will be limited to 20 fortunate diners. Tickets are $500 per person plus gratuity and proceeds benefit The Boys and Girls Club of Nassau County. For information, please visit www.ritzcarlton.com/ameliaisland or call 904-277-1087.


"Big crops get bigger" as the saying goes. Well, today was no exception. Corn and wheat both took it on the chin, closing down 13c and 10c respectively. Soybeans, in the face of a wave of feed grains sellers, was able to close 8c higher. The USDA, using record implied ear counts and ear weights, printed a record corn yield of 181.3 bu/acre, 1.3 bu higher than the highest of trade estimates (and 2.9 bu/acre higher vs August). Needless to say, that was a shock to the market. Last month, the USDA counted ears/acre to arrive at a yield estimate. September is thought to be "more accurate" as USDA incorporates ear weight into the equation. At any rate, 181.3 bu/acre balloons production to 14.8 bln bu, nearing 16/17's 15.1 bln bu performance. Geesh. There were a few changes to the demand side of the ledger (increased feed usage, increased exports, and increased ethanol usage). All-in-all, carryout for 18/19 grew 90 mln bu to 1.774 bln bu.
Equally as shocking were individual states' yield estimates. Illinois is sitting at a staggering 214 bu/acre (201 is the record). Iowa is at 206 (203 is the record). Records are also being posted in IN, OH, WI, NE, and SD. We've been under the opinion that a global feed grains story is setting up some bullish surprises, given poor wheat performances in Australia and the Black Sea region. It appears that narrative is holding less and less water. USDA dropped Australia wheat production by 2 mmt, but increased Russia by 3 mmt and the FSU (former Soviet Union) by 3.5 mmt. These are tough headwinds for both corn and wheat to overcome.
Soybeans, in a relatively surprising fashion, was able to juke the corn & wheat weakness and close 8c higher today. USDA increased soybean yield by 1.2 bu/acre, pushing 18/19 ending stocks to 845 mln bu (that's a really big number). The stocks-to-use ratio is pushing 20%. In the news cycle were reports of the Trump Administration reaching out to the Chinese in an effort to continue trade negotiations – it's likely this is what brought some support to the soybean market. State yields have IL at 66 (record 59), IA at 60 (record 60), and MO at 47. States with estimated record yields are NE, IN, OH, and AR.
With this report in our review mirror, we look to anecdotal yield reports, harvest weather, the October WASDE report, and the upcoming South American growing season. Any advances on trade relations will certainly help, but timing is unknown for any resolutions. In the meantime, please work safely this harvest season.


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Mnangagwa Petitioned Over Harare Home Demolitions
14th December 2020 Trending
THE International Coalition Against Coronavirus for Africa Development (ICAC-AD) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa over mass demolition of homes in Harare which have left families vulnerable.
The petition came after at least 200 houses were demolished in the city's Budiriro suburb, leaving families stranded without food and shelter.
The government and the city council promised to provide temporary shelter to affected residents, who include women and children, elderly and the sick, but as of Sunday, no such relief had been provided.
In his petition, South Africa ICAC-AD Third President Chandangwinyira Chose cited Mnangagwa, his deputies Constantino Chiwenga who is also Minister of Health, and Kembo Mohadi.
He also cited local government minister July Moyo, Mayor of Harare Jacob Mafume, the town management department heads and the land barons as respondents.
"We, as the ICAC-AD are concerned over the demolition of houses in parts of Harare, done at the wrong time, putting people's lives at risk of contracting coronavirus. This happens at the onset of a rainy season and there is no shelter planned for the affected," Chose said.
"Government has not considered the need to investigate or inform the suffering people now without shelter at all. Our request is for you to consider the Human Rights of the little children and their mothers now exposed to the pandemic, for which you have even banned the elections."
Chose added, "We are not supporting any illegal structures but demanding the rights of the people of Zimbabwe to be respected by the authorities…Your Excellency, please stop these demolitions as a Father of the nation.
"ICAC-AD is appealing to all international organizations to give shelter to the suffering victims in the affected areas."
He asked the President to investigate the land barons and save the lives of the suffering people.
ICAC has membership across Southern, Western and Central Africa and is lobbying for all African countries to develop home grown remedy to Covid-19 to avoid instances where people lose their lives due to foreign vaccines testing.


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Armiańsk (ukr. Армянськ, Armianśk, krm. Ermeni Bazar, ros. Армянск, Armiansk, orm. Արմիանսկ) – ukraińskie miasto wydzielone (na prawach rejonu) w Republice Autonomicznej Krymu, położone na Przesmyku Perekopskim.

W 2014 liczył 21 987 mieszkańców, z czego Rosjanie stanowili 57,88%, Ukraińcy 27,27%, a Tatarzy krymscy 1,32% (pozostała liczba to przedstawiciele 8 innych narodowości).

Założone na początku XVIII wieku przez emigrantów z Perekopu, głównie Ormian i Greków. Początkowo nosiło nazwę Ermeni Bazar (pol. Bazar Ormiański). Pod koniec października 1941 miasto zostało zajęte przez Niemców. Żydzi zostali zmuszeni do noszenia białych opasek z żółtymi gwiazdami Dawida. W okresie od listopada 1941 do marca 1942 40 Żydów zostało zamordowanych przez niemieckie wojska. 8 kwietnia 1944 Armiańsk został wyzwolony przez Armię Czerwoną.

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27 Feb 2020 |
SCOTUS Opinion: Criminal Defendant Preserves Appellate Claim by Arguing for Lesser Sentence
Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(b), a criminal defendant wishing to "preserve a claim of error" for appeal must inform the trial judge "of the action the party wishes the court to take, or the party's objection to the court's action and the grounds for that objection." In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, when prosecutors sought a sentence of 12 to 18 months, the defendant argued that 18 U.S.C. sec. 3553's sentencing factors required either no sentence, or a sentence under 12 months. When the trial court imposed a 12 month sentence, defendant appealed, arguing that the sentence was unreasonable because it was "greater than necessary[y] to accomplish the goals of sentencing" under Kimbrough v. United States, 552 US. 85 (2007). The Fifth Circuit held that the defendant had waived the argument by not properly lodging his objection to the trial court. The Court, in a unanimous opinion by Justice Breyer, reversed, holding that the defendant's argument that he should get no sentence, or a lesser sentence, preserved his claim that his sentence was unreasonably long. There was no need for the defendant to specifically state that he was objecting based on "reasonableness." Justice Alito, joined by Justice Gorsuch, filed a concurrence to note certain circumstances that were not addressed by the Court's ruling.
A link to the opinion is here.
TAGGED: Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(b), preserve a claim of error, Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 18 U.S.C. sec. 3553, Kimbrough v. United States
SCOTUS Opinion: Court Rejects Comparison of State Offenses to Generic Offenses for Armed Career Criminal Act Enhancement
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Former MK Omri Sharon released from prison
Former MK released for good behavior after serving four months out of seven-month prison term.
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Former MK Omri Sharon was released Tuesday from Maasiyahu Prison after serving four months of a seven month sentence. Three months of his term were deducted for good behavior. Sharon began his sentence last February after he was convicted of violating the Likud party funding law, false reporting in corporate documents, perjury and other offenses while working as his father's campaign manager when Ariel Sharon was running for the top spot in the party in 1999. Sharon was initially sentenced to nine months in prison but the Supreme Court accepted his appeal and shortened his sentence to seven months. For the next three months, until the seven months of his sentence play themselves out, Sharon will be forced to register at a police station every couple of days. Sharon had initially argued that his sentence should be commuted for an equivalent number of community service hours so that he would be able to continue his vigil at the bedside of his father, who has been in a coma since January 2006. His lawyers had argued that the former prime minister's chances of recovery would be lowered considerably without the regular presence of his son.


For discussions of lace history and lace identification. You can post a photo into a comment box for a lace you want to discuss. Bobblin lace history. About historic lace. Kinds of lace. Distinguish types of lace.
We can identify a piece of lace for you, but we need good detail. At least one photo with this kind of detail is necessary. Otherwise we are just guessing. A shot of the whole thing is useful because that shows us the style. Style gives us clues to date and possibly geographical origin. But we need the detail shot to tell us how it was made.
To compare needle lace, tatting and crochet, Kathleen Minniti's sampler.
See this for a technical explanation of the chemical lace process.
The IOLI - Internation Organization of Lace, Inc. has a study box of lace fragments that members can borrow.
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I have seen similar technique on at least one piece at the Smithsonian, but have no specific information about it. At the moment the Museum is, of course, closed, but I am also traveling, so not able to access the info. Will try after getting back there.
More mysteries. We all know that there were cases where long, narrow strips of droschel mesh were made and joined together and motifs were applied to them. We have encountered a piece where it appears that the droschel was worked in strips, but that it was also worked around the motifs. It appears as though the droschel was worked around and into the motifs and extra pairs were carried along the edge of the motif, later entering the droschel ground. So, the lace is not applique. I am attaching some photos. in one, you can see the faint lines of strips which I have indicated with arrows. In the other you can see where the droschel mesh is sewn into the edge of the motif. I am wondering if others have found this as well? The piece is supposed to be 18th century, it looks like it is late 18th century.
Definitely an interesting piece! I hope someone has more information about it.
I have encountered an interesting lace of a type that I have never seen before and wonder if others have seen it. Our information is that it is 19th century from Russia. Also, it says Mechlin, although I think that this may have been an attempt to relate it to something known. In fact, the ground of this piece seems to be a point ground where two threads are worked as one, but when the pairs come together the threads operate as one and make a linen stitch. Does anyone have any familiarity or information about this kind of lace?
Thank you for the website Lorelei !
Thank you, Gabriele. Now we have a whole lot of examples of point ground lace which uses honeycomb or kat stitch ground. So it isn't all that rare.
And Gabriele, your little oval piece is beautiful. But I don't recognize the pattern or its source.
Erdmuthe Wesenberg, Point de Lille-Spitzen aus dem Erzgebirge has plenty of patterns with large areas of Point of Paris and Honeycomb, sometimes paired with Point Ground.
Font Vitré is explicitly mentioned as being used as ground as well as a filling for those french laces.
http://defilsendentelles.over-blog.com/tag/dentelle%20bayeux/ - Bayeux Go and scroll, they make amazing lace there.
Alson Asa Jansen, one of our members has posted several photos of Swedish laces. The group is mixed styles. But some may be relevant, particularly flower shapes.


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Jari Schuurman (born 22 February 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Dordrecht.

Club career

Feyenoord
Schuurman made his senior debut on 8 May 2016, coming on as 87th-minute substitute for Tonny Vilhena in a 1–0 Eredivisie win over NEC. He played this one match for Feyenoord. He moved to Willem II on a loan for the 2016–17 season, and the season after moved to NEC on a loan.

FC Dordrecht
On 30 January 2019, Schuurman moved to FC Dordrecht on a loan for the remainder of the 2018–19 season. After the season, he signed a three-year contract at the club.

International career
Schuurman represented Dutch youth teams at U15, U16, U17, and U19 levels.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club
Feyenoord
 KNVB Cup: 2015–16
 Johan Cruyff Shield: 2018

References

External links

1997 births
Living people
Dutch footballers
Netherlands youth international footballers
Association football midfielders
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Feyenoord players
Willem II (football club) players
NEC Nijmegen players
FC Dordrecht players
Footballers from Gorinchem


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Schweden nahm an den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1932 in Los Angeles mit einer Delegation von 81 Athleten (78 Männer und 3 Frauen) an 51 Wettkämpfen in zwölf Wettbewerben teil.

Die schwedischen Sportler gewannen neun Gold-, fünf Silber- und neun Bronzemedaillen. Olympiasieger wurden der Sportschütze Bertil Rönnmark im Liegend-Anschlag mit dem Kleinkalibergewehr, der Moderne Fünfkämpfer Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, die Segler Tore Holm, Martin Hindorff, Olle Åkerlund und Åke Bergqvist in der 6-Meter-Klasse und die Ringer Erik Malmberg im Leichtgewicht, Ivar Johansson im Weltergewicht, Carl Westergren im Halbschwergewicht und Rudolf Svensson im Schwergewicht (jeweils im griechisch-römischen Stil) sowie Ivar Johansson im Mittelgewicht und Johan Richthoff im Schwergewicht (jeweils im Freistil).

Teilnehmer nach Sportarten

Boxen
 Allan Carlsson
 Federgewicht:

 Thure Ahlqvist
 Leichtgewicht:

 Nils Althin
 Weltergewicht: im Achtelfinale ausgeschieden

Fechten
 Sven Thofelt
 Florett: 9. Platz

 Stig Lindström
 Florett: 12. Platz

 Bo Lindman
 Florett: im Halbfinale ausgeschieden

Kunstwettbewerbe
 Martin Westerberg
 Maud von Rosen-Engberg
 Gösta von Hennigs
 Tore Strindberg
 Axel Sjöberg
 Eigil Schwab
 Anshelm Schultzberg
 Helmer Osslund
 Alice Nordin
 John Lundqvist
 Anders Lundin
 Vicke Lindstrand
 Bruno Liljefors
 Georg Lagerstedt
 Gustav Arvid Knöppel
 Arvid Källström
 Oscar Hullgren
 Edward Hald
 Isaac Grünewald
 Simon Gate
 Carl Fagerberg
 Carl Elmberg
 Carl Eldh
 Conrad Carlman
 Gösta Carell
 Stig Blomberg
 Gustaf Birch-Lindgren
 Acke Åslund
 David Wallin

Leichtathletik
 Kell Areskoug
 400 m: im Vorlauf ausgeschieden
 400 m Hürden: 6. Platz

 Sten Pettersson
 400 m: im Vorlauf ausgeschieden
 400 m Hürden: im Halbfinale ausgeschieden

 Eric Ny
 1500 m: 5. Platz

 Folke Skoog
 1500 m: im Vorlauf ausgeschieden

 Jean-Gunnar Lindgren
 5000 m: 5. Platz
 10.000 m: 6. Platz

 Erik Pettersson
 5000 m: 9. Platz

 Eric Svensson
 Weitsprung: 4. Platz
 Dreisprung:

 Ossian Skiöld
 Hammerwurf: 4. Platz

 Gunnar Jansson
 Hammerwurf: 7. Platz

Moderner Fünfkampf
 Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna
 Einzel:

 Bo Lindman
 Einzel:

 Sven Thofelt
 Einzel: 4. Platz

Radsport
 Bernhard Britz
 Straßenrennen:
 Mannschaftswertung:

 Sven Höglund
 Straßenrennen: 8. Platz
 Mannschaftswertung:

 Arne Berg
 Straßenrennen: 20. Platz
 Mannschaftswertung:

 Folke Nilsson
 Straßenrennen: 21. Platz

Reiten
 Thomas Byström
 Dressur: 4. Platz
 Dressur Mannschaft:

 Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern junior
 Dressur: 8. Platz
 Dressur Mannschaft:

 Bertil Sandström
 Dressur: 10. Platz
 Dressur Mannschaft:

 Clarence von Rosen
 Springreiten:
 Vielseitigkeit:
 Springreiten Mannschaft: ausgeschieden
 Vielseitigkeit Mannschaft: ausgeschieden

 Ernst Hallberg
 Springreiten: 5. Platz
 Vielseitigkeit: 5. Platz
 Springreiten Mannschaft: ausgeschieden
 Vielseitigkeit Mannschaft: ausgeschieden

 Arne Francke
 Springreiten: ausgeschieden
 Vielseitigkeit: ausgeschieden
 Springreiten Mannschaft: ausgeschieden
 Vielseitigkeit Mannschaft: ausgeschieden

Ringen
 Herman Tuvesson
 Bantamgewicht, griechisch-römisch: 4. Platz

 Oscar Lindelöf
 Federgewicht, griechisch-römisch: 6. Platz

 Erik Malmberg
 Leichtgewicht, griechisch-römisch:

 Ivar Johansson
 Weltergewicht, griechisch-römisch:
 Mittelgewicht, Freistil:

 Axel Cadier
 Mittelgewicht, griechisch-römisch:

 Rudolf Svensson
 Halbschwergewicht, griechisch-römisch:

 Carl Westergren
 Schwergewicht, griechisch-römisch:

 Bror Vingren
 Bantamgewicht, Freistil: 7. Platz

 Einar Karlsson
 Federgewicht, Freistil:

 Gustaf Klarén
 Leichtgewicht, Freistil:

 Ludvig Lindblom
 Weltergewicht, Freistil: 6. Platz

 Thure Sjöstedt
 Halbschwergewicht, Freistil:

 Johan Richthoff
 Schwergewicht, Freistil:

Schießen
 Bertil Rönnmark
 Kleinkalibergewehr liegend 50 m:

 Gustaf Andersson
 Kleinkalibergewehr liegend 50 m: 5. Platz

 Karl August Larsson
 Kleinkalibergewehr liegend 50 m: 8. Platz

Schwimmen
 Eskil Lundahl
 100 m Freistil: im Vorlauf ausgeschieden
 200 m Rücken: im Vorlauf ausgeschieden

 Sigfrid Heyner
 200 m Brust: im Vorlauf ausgeschieden

Segeln
 Sven Thorell
 Snowbird: 9. Platz

 Gunnar Asther
 Star:

 Daniel Sundén-Cullberg
 Star:

 Tore Holm
 6-Meter-Klasse:

 Olle Åkerlund
 6-Meter-Klasse:

 Åke Bergqvist
 6-Meter-Klasse:

 Martin Hindorff
 6-Meter-Klasse:

Wasserspringen
 Ingeborg Sjöqvist
 10 m Turmspringen: 4. Platz

Weblinks

Schweden
Sommerspiele 1932


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Tag: Virginia Pride
Got Pride?
What exactly are we celebrating?
Robin:
I remember my first Gay Pride event; it was Boston 1983. I was in awe—the crowds, the joy, the chants, the idea of marching for freedom where the Sons of Liberty had dared to defy the British Crown, the Faeries and other outrageously costumed folks, so much fun!
And I remember the religious service at the Arlington Street Church (UU); it was so moving to share worship with people of many faiths, sexualities, and genders, and to share our commitment to liberation and justice for all.
I don't remember any festival after the march, although I am sure folks gathered to eat and talk and buy all the sorts of things that vendors make available at such events.
What I remember is the march. In fact, it is always the march that matters most to me. Pride, for me, is less a social event and more a movement for liberation, a political act, a joyful, powerful form of civil/religious disobedience.
This is why, although I faithfully attended every Pride while serving as Pastor of MCC Richmond, I was never very happy at the event. First, those in charge wouldn't name it anything but Virginia Pride (does that mean we're proud of our state?), and we did not march. Anywhere.
Block parties can be fun, but I thought, and still do, that we were in a struggle to change the world—to save not only our own bodies but those of countless others in our nation and around the globe. We surely need to celebrate ourselves, our fabulousness, but we need more. We need to march, speak up, act up, speak truth not only to power but to the entire world.
My belief grows out of my awareness of how political and social change is achieved, and even more from my belief and practice as a Queer liberation theologian. Real change, deep change, transformation that is sustainable, requires great passion, long-term commitment, and ceaseless organizing. I agree with the sentiment often attributed to anarchist Emma Goldman's, "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution," but I also know, and know she knew, there will be no revolution if all we do is dance.
Craig Rodwell 20 years before I knew him
My belief in and commitment to activism was confirmed when I met Craig Rodwell. Beginning in September 1987, I worked for him as a sales clerk for eight months at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on Christopher Street in the Village (Greenwich). Founded in 1967 by Craig, two years before Stonewall, this was the first bookshop in the world to be devoted to gay and lesbian literature.
Craig was not the best boss I ever had, but the books were great, some notable people came in, and I had the opportunity to hear many stories that confirm that he was, or should have been and still should be, an icon in the LGBT movement. The truth is that we might never have heard of Stonewall if Craig had not rushed to a phone and alerted the New York Times to what was happening at 53 Christopher Street on the evening of June 28, 1969.
In November, 1969, Craig and three others at the meeting of the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) proposed an annual demonstration on the last Saturday in June in New York City to commemorate the 1969 spontaneous demonstrations on Christopher Street. They also proposed that the annual event "encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged—that of our fundamental human rights . . . ."
Fundamental human rights. That's the struggle they saw then, and I and many see today. That means LGBTQIA Pride events are political, they are about social change.
Of course, they also are about personal change and affirmation, and it is wonderful when we see people newly out celebrating with joy and love. This year, a friend of mine from church went to her first Pride march and festival in D.C. and was transformed by the experience. So, we still need LGBTQIA Pride.
But others in the community still find themselves on the margins. Some of them blocked this year's Capital Pride Parade (notice it is a parade, not a march, and actually someone from outside would not know who was being proud of what). The group No Justice, No Pride, objected to sponsorship of the events by several major corporations. One member of that group who is Native American said, "Capital Pride's list of sponsors reads like a who's who of Native genocide: FBI, NSA, CIA, Wells Fargo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Federal Bureau of Prisons." Others objected to the presence of uniformed policemen marching in the parade. "We deserve to celebrate Pride without being forced alongside the police who kill us," said another participant (read more here).
Many transgender people continue to feel invisibilized in these events as well. And D.C. Black Pride continues to be held in late May, in part in recognition of the white racism that has for so long been a significant component of community life.
I know many parade participants were angered by the protests, which caused a re-routing of the main parade. Some shouted "Shame" and other angry words. I do not see it that way. To me, these protests are in the very best tradition of the Stonewall rioters and the early activists in the 1950s and 60s, even before Stonewall. And certainly they are in line with ACT Up and other HIV/AIDS activists.
I have not attended LGBTQA Pride celebrations for several years, having grown bored with the lack of political consciousness by those who organize most of the events. I feel some guilt about this. I know it is important to participate in community events.
However, I would have been very interested in the protests, had I known about them in advance. I am going to pay more attention during the year and see if Pride organizers make an effort to get events more in tune with our need for a powerful political movement and our need to claim the work we, as a community, still have to do. If they do, I will be at Capital Pride.
If not, I will be there, too, joining others in speaking truth to the community we love. Craig died in 1993; otherwise, I have a feeling he would be joining me—if he had not already been fomenting rebellion long before most of us understood the need.
Malachi:
I have mixed, complicated feelings about Pride. On one hand, of course, it's wonderful to be in a space where we are able to openly celebrate who we are- our sexuality and sexual orientation, our gender identities (to some extent) and families and the ways in which we build and show and create love. That being said, however, I somewhat detest pride and what it has become.
The first pride rallies and marches were built on the momentum of the Stonewall riots. They were a time queer people could come together and stand in solidarity against the police brutality constantly perpetrated against the queer community. It was a time where we released ourselves from shackles of fear and embraced all of who we are, regardless of social messages.
Pride was dangerous. Going meant you could lose everything- your home, your family, your kids, and possibly your life. Of course, it is a result of years of pride festivals and parades that have helped push LGBT…well, L/G rights, anyway, through to where that concern, while still present for some, is not as pervasive as it used to be.
And now, instead of protesting the police, we hire them to protect our marches and rallies and block parties. In this, we have forgotten, of course, that police brutality is still a massive problem for people of color, particularly trans women of color, for sex workers, and for non-assimilation queers, especially non-binary folks.
So when I went to Baltimore pride, I wanted to be overwhelmed and astonished at how white it was, how incredibly…normative it felt, but instead, I felt a sense of resignation. Baltimore is a predominantly black city, but here was our pride: overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly…normal looking, minus the plethora of rainbows.
Oh yes. The rainbows. Regular ROY-G-BIV rainbows, no black or brown stripe present. If you haven't read the controversy around the Philadelphia pride flag (you can read it here), it appears that the rainbow is sacred and should not be altered to include black and brown stripes (we'll just ignore all the variations of the pride flags we have had over the years, ok? See here and you can read a piece, "Is the Rainbow Enough?" from Robin several years ago about it here).
Perhaps I'm a bit cynical. But never has it been more clear to me that we need intersectional analysis around pride. We make pride unsafe for the very people who were our founders. It has become a large block party, and that's fine… we should have block parties and dance and celebrate and wear rainbows… but to me, that's not pride. That's just another night at the club.
To me, the whole purpose and intent of pride is that it is a time to come together against those things that threaten our communities: police brutality, homelessness, drug addiction, homophobia and transphobia, loss of healthcare, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, etc. We still have so far to go, and it feels like pride is a celebration of winning one battle when the war wages on around us.
Maybe that seems melodramatic. We have come a long way from the social climate of the 1960's, but I worry that we have been so single-minded in our approach that we start to view our queerness in a vacuum. And yet… queer POC still face systemic racism every day. Queer homeless youth (and queer youth in general) have a heartbreaking suicide rate. Queer sex workers are still victims of assault and violence from the police with no recourse to deal with it. Trans women are still murdered at an absurdly high rate. And this doesn't begin to touch the intersections of these things: queer homeless youth who are sex workers. HIV positive POC trying to access medical care. And so on.
So, what exactly are we celebrating? I think that's well-reflected in the demographics of our pride parades… yes. We can get married. Those are celebrating have, in many regards, "already arrived." But I found myself wondering where these faces and bodies are when there are protests against police brutality and ending stigma around sex work and…and…
This evolution of pride does not bring me joy. It brings me a lot of sadness and grief and anger because I can see the lines of division and privilege so poignantly. This pride was not built for people who do not (or cannot) assimilate to the mainstream queer dream. This pride was not built for non-white bodies. This pride was not built for trans and non-binary bodies. This pride was not built for sex worker bodies. It was not built for these bodies… but it was built on the backs of these bodies.
My pride? My pride sees color. My pride recognizes that we all face different struggles, some individual and some systemic. My pride recognizes that, until we are willing to see color, willing to see sex workers as human, willing to see trans people as worthy of respect, willing to see one another as whole people, willing to be just a little bit uncomfortable, then we still have work to do. I'll show up for the work. I'll show up for the intersections. I'll show up for the grit and the grime and do the best I can, and it won't always be right, and I hope someone has the emotional capacity to inform me that I'm doing it wrong, and I hope I have the grace to hear it and honor the work it takes to be a constant educator because of the color of someone's skin or the shape of someone's jawbone or the way someone makes money.
My pride is uncomfortable. My pride is loud and unashamed and talking about hard issues that no one else will talk about. My pride may or may not have rainbows, but it has a diversity of ideas. My pride is intersection.
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What are your feelings about LGBTQIA Pride? When was the first Pride you attended, and how did you feel? How satisfied are you with our progress in combatting homophobia, bi-phobia, transphobia? What more needs to be done? Do Pride celebrations have a role in this work? What would you change about Pride in your community, if anything? Please share your thoughts, your heart, on these questions or anything else this blog raises for you (see "Leave a Comment" link on upper left, underneath categories and tags), or box below, or write Malachi and/or Robin at the emails listed above their pictures on the right.
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Author Robin Hawley GorslinePosted on June 21, 2017 Categories bodies, homophobia, politics, pride, queer, sexual freedom, transphobia, white privilege, YouthTags Baltimore Pride, Boston Pride, Christopher Street Liberation Day, Craig Rodwell, language, Malachi Grennell, Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, Pride flag, Robin Gorsline, Virginia Pride2 Comments on Got Pride?


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