Avshalom "Abu" Vilan, co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Israeli peace movement, PEACE NOW, is a veteran Israeli peace activist, kibbutz manager and educator, as well as a veteran in the most elite commando unit in the IDF. Vilan is a member of Knesset for the Meretz Party.
A member of Kibbutz Negba, where he was born in 1951, Vilan served in a special unit of the Israeli Defense Forces before joining with others reserve soldiers in 1977 to found Israel's first active peace movement. He served Peace Now as press liaison officer, represented the organization at international colloquia and meetings with heads of state in Israel and abroad, and functioned as a key spokesperson for the movement.
Between 1977 and 1980, Vilan served the Kibbutz Artzi Federation of Kibbutzim as director of the KAF's Young Adults Division. He was also an educator and secretariat member for the Federation. In 1984, he graduated from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy; and from 1984 to 1988, he served as Economics Manager for Kibbutz Negba, directing all economic enterprises and educational services, and overseeing the establishment of "Hamei Yoav", a hot spring spa resort.
From 1990 to 1992, he was General Secretary of Mapam, and in 1992 was Co-Director of the elections campaign for Meretz – a coalition of Mapam, Ratz, Shinui, and other progressive political parties (which resulted in the election of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin).
From 1993 to 1996 Vilan was the main "Shaliach" (emissary) of Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement - Kibbutz Artzi to North America and represented the Meretz coalition.
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ABOVE: The Wittenberg Information office is across the street from the Schlosskirche.
Lutherstadt Wittenberg is approximately 100 km (63 miles) from Berlin and 70 km (44 miles) from Leipzig.
Road. Look for driving directions at ViaMichelin, which will also help you plan excursions between Wittenberg and other "Luther Trail" cities such as Eisenach (where Martin Luther hid in Wartburg Castle for 300 days) and Erfurt (where Luther tooks his vows as a Catholic priest before coming to Wittenberg).
Ship. Viking River Cruises, CroisiEurope, and Nicko Tours call at Wittenberg during cruises along the Elbe between Berlin, Potsdam, or Magdeburg Potsdam and Dresden or Prague.
The Vetter Bus Company operates local and regional buses. It has a ticket and information office at the Bus Station Wittenberg, which is next to the Hauptbahnhof or main railroad station.
Wittenberg Information has a well-equipped tourist office on the Schlossplatz in the town center. You can pick up free maps and brochures, purchase guidebooks (see below), book guided tours, buy souvenirs, and watch a movie in English or German. The tourist office will also help you find a place to stay if you haven't booked a room in advance.
The tourist office is open daily from morning until late afternoon between April and October, with shorter hours in the off-season. For details, see the Wittenberg municipal Web site's Tourist information pages.
For information on vacation opportunities in the surrounding towns, villages, and countryside, visit the Tourist Region Wittenberg Web site.
Saxony-Anhalt Tourism is another useful resource.
The Historic Mile: Lutherstadt Wittenberg is published by Drei Kastanien Verlag. It's a small 36-page guidebook with descriptions of Wittenberg's major historic sites and a three-dimensional picture map of the town.
Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Experiencing World History is published by the tourist office, and it's well worth the modest cover price. The illustrated 36-page brochure is packed with detail and includes maps of both the city center and the neighboring districts where several attractions (such as the Piesteritz car-free residential complex, the butterfly park, and the Hundertwasser school) are located.
Luther Path Wittenberg is a free brochure for pilgrims. It offers a prayer or meditation itinerary with seven stations in the Old Town.


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See index for SATA sketch: Born September 24, 1930, in New York, NY; died of heart failure October 28, 2003. Illustrator and author. Malone published over thirty books for children during a prolific career. After attending Vassar College (now University) for two years, she received her B.A. from Bennington College in 1952. She was then employed for a time as a commercial artist, working on movie magazines for Ideal Publishing in New York City. Next, from 1953 to 1954, she was an illustrator for TV Art Studio in New York before becoming a freelancer. The first children's book to be published that she illustrated was Flora Fifield's Pictures for the Palace (1958). Many more collaborative efforts for authors would follow over the decades, including books by Constance C. Greene, Tobi Tobias, Norma Klein and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Malone, whose illustration work for Ann McGovern's Scram, Kid! (1974) won a Horn Book Award, was particularly known for her innovative use of muted washes in her artwork, rather than the more garish use of color commonly employed by children's book illustrators at the time. But she also wrote original stories that she illustrated. Many of these were written under the name Nola Langner, including Miss Lucy (1969), which was named a New York Times outstanding picture book of 1969. Other original stories include Joseph and the Wonderful Tree (1972), Dusty (1976), Freddy, My Grandfather (1979), and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1983).
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Attention fans of Seattle's 1980s and '90s rock scene — Melvins have dropped a cover of Soundgarden's 1994 hit "Spoonman," featuring the percussive talent of Matt Cameron.
The track is part of Melvins' Lord of the Flies EP, which was just released on Jan. 10 through Amphetamine Reptile Records. However, it's not available digitally, so the cover was just uploaded to YouTube earlier this week. Frontman Buzz Osborne tackled the vocals and guitar, Cameron played the drums along with Dale Cover and Steven McDonald played the bass. And, of course, it's all topped off with a bizarre video.
If you ask Osborne, he'll deny that his band was actually part of the Seattle grunge scene since they moved to California in the latter half of the '80s. However, the connections are rampant, between his friendships with the members of Soundgarden and Nirvana and the fact that Osborne taught drop-D tuning to several of his contemporaries — including Soundgarden's Kim Thayil.
"Spoonman" was part of Soundgarden's massively successful album Superunknown, and was partially inspired by a Seattle street performer named Artis the Spoonman.
"The lyrics aren't specifically about Artis the Spoonman... I had known there was this guy Spoonman — his business card was these little disposable wooden spoons you would get with ice cream — but it was an ode to an imaginary person in my head, because I didn't know him yet," Chris Cornell later told Entertainment Weekly of the song's origins.
"And the song was based entirely on the title, so what's happening musically is the attitude of supporting this guy who stands on a street corner and plays the shit out of some spoons. Then the song became a reality, and we got Artis to actually play spoons on the song."
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By Josh Tolentino December 3, 2022
The Game Awards are a prominent place for a developer or publisher to deliver a surprise announcement for a new title. Sometimes, though, one has to clarify when something isn't going to happen. That was the case with NetherRealm Studios Chief Creative Officer Ed Boon, who took to Twitter to announce that the studio is "not ready" to announce its next game. This means no Mortal Kombat or Injustice game announcement.
4 years ago at the Game Awards we managed to pull off a surprise announcement of MK11, which turned out great.
Perhaps too great, as many assumed we'd repeat that trick for our next game.
Thank you for the anticipation, but we're not ready to announce the next NRS game yet.🙏 pic.twitter.com/QMXsuEPchR
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In the announcement (or rather, the denial of an announcement), Boon referred to the 2018 Game Awards event, when NetherRealm successfully announced Mortal Kombat 11, the current game in its hyperviolent fighting series. The game went on to sell more than 12 million copies by 2021.
According to Boon, fans and onlookers assumed that the studio would try a similar surprise for its next title. With four years being an average development time for a new title in a major commercial game franchise, anticipation is building for whatever the studio behind Mortal Kombat and Injustice has planned next. Boon thus put the dampers on speculation by denying outright that the studio has an announcement planned for the 2022 Game Awards. In fact, Boon had confirmed before that NetherRealm Studios does not intend to show anything within 2022. In October 2022, Boon said that the studio would not be revealing the in-development Mortal Kombat 12 during its celebration of the franchise's 30 year anniversary.
In other words, fans impatient for info on Mortal Kombat 12 or Injustice 3 – two projects that NetherRealm is confirmed to be working on – will have to keep waiting.
Mortal Kombat 11 is available on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
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At 7pm on Friday (6am EST), 36 CAsian believers from churches we have started will be gathering from across the country for the Winter Retreat.
· XiaoZhu, a young woman, who was sent out to start a simple church in her hometown will come back. She has been preaching the gospel boldly and starting to see fruit. She is a high school teacher, and she recently preached the gospel to her whole class.
· "Climbing," the first cross-cultural missionary our churches have sent out will be coming back. And he will be bringing "Frank," a new believer from an unreached people group, with him.
· Haley, a sophomore, who recently led 2 of her friends to Christ will be there. Molly, who just baptized someone last week will be there. And Tony, who is a brand new Christian himself, will be there.
· And 30 other amazing Disciples that range from church planters to new believers will join the gathering.
For 4 days they will gather together to worship, testify of God's goodness, be equipped, and encounter God. God is going to do amazing things during these next 4 days. Please pray for us specifically during that time.
1. Please pray that Jesus himself would come and minister in power during this weekend. The theme for the event is Identity. Ask that many would see the truth of their identity and be set free from sin, fear, shame, and doubt.
2. This past summer we sent out 4 young people with the mission of starting churches in new cities. This will be the first time they have gathered back together since then. Please pray for God to freshly fill, renew, and empower them for the mission He gave them.
3. Immediately after the retreat, everyone will be going home for the Asian New Year. At the retreat, we are doing a special time of inspiring and equipping the believers to share the gospel with their families. Please pray for many salvations among their families.
4. A special challenge will be given to all the Juniors and Seniors in college to prepare to be sent out as simple church planters when they graduate. Please pray for the Holy Spirit to move on many students hearts to volunteer themselves for this mission.
5. The young leaders of the different churches in this movement will be gathering to make key decisions about the first cross-cultural missionary they will send out, how to release those who are called into full-time ministry, and how to grow the National leadership in the movement. Please pray for wisdom and direction from God in these significant decisions.
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Terrifying New Weapons Police Are Using To Crush Protests
The future of police technology has arrived, and it's stranger and more terrifying than we could've possibly imagined.
Conspiracy theorists' worst fears were confirmed last month when the New York Post reported that the NYPD now maintains an undisclosed number of unmarked, military-grade vans with X-ray radiation, capable of scanning the public and looking through building and vehicle walls.
This technology, called the "Z Backscatter" van, was used by the military in Afghanistan and costs somewhere between $729,000 and $825,000.
However, there's no way we can know for sure what these futuristic vans are capable of, including potential health impacts due to radiation exposure, because the NYPD refuses to talk about them. The NYPD's insistence on complete, blanketing secrecy is part of a growing trend within the surveillance state that civil rights advocates have been fighting for decades.
The Backscatter vans are only the beginning. Police departments around the nation have deployed a whole host of new devices, from laser light guns to facial recognition scanners. Here's what's being used by police right now:
Pain Ray Cannon (Active Denial System)
What began in the early days of the Bush Administration as a way to quell Iraq war-era uprisings could soon end up at local police departments.
The pain ray cannon, or "Active Denial System," (ADS) as the police call it, is the latest form of military-grade crowd control. The weapon uses microwave beams to heat up the water and fat molecules in a person's skin, effectively heating the person up until they run away.
Though "less-than-lethal," its effects are anything but enjoyable. According to people who have had the pain ray tested on them, "it feels like someone opened an invisible door to a blast furnace in front of them, or that their skin was being scorched all over instantly. During protest situations, an ADS could be swept across large groups of people at a closer range than originally intended. The systems could be used to deter a crowd from a single area or to incapacitate drivers. If left unchecked, the pain ray cannon could allow for some pretty repulsive human rights violations.
LRAD Sound Cannons
Instead of tear gas and batons, departments have taken to using Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs), to transmit a super-loud high-pitched scream into crowds. The sound is literally too painful to be around and is intended to "shape the behavior of potential threats"
Police Departments from New York City to Toronto to Ferguson, Missouri are using LRADs indiscriminately on protesters, causing excruciating pain to anyone within range.
This is not a precision tool," said Gideon Oliver, a lawyers who wrote to NYPD Commissioner Bratton. "This is an area-of-effect weapon. When the police use it, it's not as if they're just targeting one person. It's indiscriminate like teargas."
Facial Recognition Software
With secrecy and deception clouding any conversation about the militarized surveillance state, we can only assume that we are being recorded almost all the time, at least in urban areas. The market has more than tripled since 2008, with cameras being used more invasively every day.
Just last year the Boston Police Department was caught testing out its facial recognition technology on attendees of Boston Calling music festival without their knowledge. Data on each individual's build, clothes and skin color was captured on thousands of people.
The ACLU claims police departments are also attempting to gain access to private security cameras in order to expand their surveillance reach without having to install new cameras of their own.
HD Camera Drones
Even more aggressive than thousands of surveillance cameras on every street corner is police reconnaissance from the sky. Several police departments have deployed aircrafts with high-resolution cameras and software that can identify and track people over long distances. FBI versions of these planes include technology that may be able to capture private data from cellphones as they track someone, according to the Associated Press.
Concerns have been raised regarding use of this technology for police surveillance, including protection from "unreasonable search and seizure." The U.S. Department of Justice released its own guidelines on the matter in May, barring federal law enforcement agencies from using drones to "monitor activity protected by the First Amendment", such as peaceful protests.
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This was my 13th running of the Dublin Marathon and my slowest. This year it was on a Sunday again and they had opened the entry upto 20000, making it one of the top 4 biggest marathons in Europe. Sunday is good and they handled the extra crowds with no issue.
Organisation was flawless and the weather was perfect and probably the best conditions that I have actually run this event.
It was a long weekend that started on Friday with the Crusaders "Pot Luck" dinner at Coach Cottles house. A very relaxed affair with loads of carbs. I had to leave early to get to the airport to pickup my guest for the weekend Costas. Saturday started with a parkrun in Cabinteely where I was Lantern Rouge and was last over the line in a sprightly 46 minutes (given that I was tail walker). It was Orla, Neil and Kate's 50th parkrun and there was cake.
Walking from the city centre, the afternoon was at the expo. It was good as always and an interesting goodie bag accompanied my number. There were loads of people I knew at the expo. A dart back home was curtailed by engineering works at Connolly and a further walk home was not in the plan. That was too much walking the day before a big event. A good nights sleep and an extra hour in bed had me at the bus stop at 7am. You would think I would know by now that buses dont go that early on a Sunday and after a 20 min wait it was into the car and park in the normal spot beside the Pepper Canister church.
For the first time I made it to Bob Manson's office to leave my stuff off. This was very generous and great to see my club-mates before the start. But in future I think I will use the baggage collection area as I love the atmosphere here particularly afterwards (so much human debris) and it is a bit out of the way when picking up the gear afterwards. But it was good to get in the club photo for the first time.
Great Cru support
A quick walk had me at the start line early and I had decided to have a strategy of starting at the back of the wave, try for a good start and stay ahead of Olwyn's 4hr pacer group as long as I could. On time we were off in perfect conditions with even the sun coming out to help us on our way. 27 mins got me through 5K and I had a forced toilet stop soon after. The wind was into the face for the first 10K and I always feel this is the toughest part of the course. I still managed through 10K in 57 mins (right on 4hr pace). I kept pushing for the first half except the up hill after the underpass at Kilmainham (I now regret that). The toilet stop meant that I just missed the 2hr half and at 2:03 it was still my best half marathon since Limerick in April. The pace groups slowly began to reel me in. I had started just with the 3:40 guys and by half way the 3:50 just came through with Rolando leading the charge (apparently the were 6 seconds up at half way).
I then slowed down immediately and the second half was a true walk/run suffer-fest pretty much all the way. I went through a very bad patch around 15 miles and recovered but at that stage it was pretty slow going. Eventually just past Terrenure Olwyn , Joe and Don came past. At that stage I pretty much gave up. It was 19 miles in and I decided to just take it easy and enjoy the last 10K odd.
I love the new finish from Nutely Lane through to Merrion Square. I think this should be kept as the atmosphere is just super. Unfortunately I was too slow today for the Cru corner as they disperse as soon as the 4hr pacers come through, but never the less it was a great atmosphere for the last few K.
Support as always was amazing. It was absolutely relentless and up there with New York and London. I was absolutely delighted to come in under 4:40. My knee survived and I now hope that injury is gone. Nice goodie bag and T-Shirt and wonderful medal were the prize today.
Lots of festivities in O'Donohoes, Foleys, The Gingerman and the Bankers was great after with loads of people staying. I think I saw everyone. That night I went to the club dinner at the HQ which was a lovely finish to the day.
Special congrats to my O50 Cru team for national silver and Leinster and Dublin Gold. I would have had to go sun 3:22 to be a scorer this year. What strength in depth we now have.
If you have never done Dublin. Do it!!!
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Alluvion Health is shifting testing operations since they were notified July 15 that the state public health lab is at capacity due to the volume of testing.
State officials asked Alluvion to shift their priority to only test those who are symptomatic or have been identified as direct contacts from the health department, according to Alluvion's Tanya Houston.
Alluvion is looking for another lab or option, but in the meantime, is discontinuing open testing at the drive through site.
Houston said they're handing out fliers to anyone coming through the drive through today, July 16, stating that if they still wish to be tested today, it will be 3-4 weeks until they get their results.
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"This is a constantly evolving situation and information is changing rapidly," Houston said in an email to The Electric. "This is not just the scenario in Cascade County, and will be reflected statewide as all testing agencies work to adjust."
Alluvion is continuing onsite testing at assisted living facilities and for other high risk populations as directed by the state, Houston said.
Great Falls Clinic is currently only testing symptomatic people and/or patients checking in for surgery or admitted to the inpatient unit.
A spokesperson for GFC said, "our in-house testing is extremely limited due to allocation of supplies.When we test in-house for inpatient admits, surgeries or symptomatic patients, the turnaround is within a few hours. This will change once we run out of supplies and we have to go through the state."
Benefis Health System has also stopped testing asymptomatic patients and has also shifted testing focus to those identified as high risk or symptomatic.
In an email to The Electric, a Benefis spokesperson said, "s we continue to see many new daily COVID-19 cases throughout Montana, the demand for testing has increased beyond capacity. State officials have notified Benefis that the state lab's waiting period is now three to four weeks for results on tests for asymptomatic patients, and the wait is even longer for larger labs outside of Montana. Subsequently, state officials have directed us to stop testing asymptomatic people at this time and focus our testing only on those with symptoms."
Until July 16, Alluvion was offering the drive through test to anyone, regardless of whether they had symptoms.
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Houston said they could mark certain priority groups if the individual is a first responder, medical provider, or fell within another specific group.
During the open drive through testing, Houston said some people coming through weekly or biweekly for testing.
Houston said Alluvion has conducted 7,293 total tests from 6,101 unique individuals, and of those, there were 36 total positive tests. The positives were from all of Alluvion's testing operations, and not all were individuals from Cascade County as they've had some from out of state.
The Cascade County City-County Health Department is responsible for contact tracing communicable diseases and is currently monitoring about 100 people who are either active cases or people identified as close contacts.
A close contact is defined as a person who was within six feet of a positive person for 15 minutes or more.
According to CCHD, the state lab prioritizes testing for people who are contacts of known cases. With those tests, they typically see results within 2 or 3 days, CCHD told The Electric.
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Katie Brewer, CCHD's prevention services manager, said someone who tests positive is initially notified by the health provider that conducted the test. The heathcare provider also lets a patient know that the health department will contact them.
Brewer said that once CCHD is notified of a positive case, the public health nurses or CCHD staff will give that person a call and have a conversation to determine their onset of symptoms and then go back 48 hours to see who they've been around.
Brewer said they talk about CCHD's role and figuring out where they were exposed and then working to mitigate further exposure.
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A positive person will give names to CCHD nurses and staff but that information is protected by CCHD, Brewer said.
CCHD then contacts those known contacts and let's them know they've been exposed to COVID-19 and that they must quarantine for 14 days. CCHD calls positive cases and contacts daily to monitor symptoms and sometimes gather more information through conversation if a person remembers other details.
"Finding out you have COVID is quite stressful," Brewer said.
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She said they understand that it can be a shock and it's also hard to remember every detail of who they were around, what they did and where they were, so that's part of building relationships to have conversations and work through it.
Trisha Gardner, county health officer, said if they hear things from other people, they can go back and talk some more, or sometimes people remember a detail and get in touch.
That's common contact tracing for all communicable diseases, not just COVID, Gardner and Brewer said.
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Gardner said they ask probing questions, "trying to get them thinking through their day."
Every case is a little different and Brewer said they've had some with very few contacts, some with more than 30.
Gardner said they haven't had anyone who knew they were sick or symptomatic who was going out in public, knowingly exposing others.
Brewer said it's difficult, because it's allergy symptoms and some thought it was allergies.
"Some feel like a bus hit them, others had a sniffle and thought it was the cotton," Brewer said.
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The number of people being monitored fluctuates daily as people come off quarantine, but then new contacts come on, Gardner said.
Gardner said that there are provisions in state law that allow for health orders for isolation and quarantine and if they aren't followed, a person can face fines and potential jail time.
Brewer said they've been fortunate and most in Cascade County have been very cooperative with contact tracing and following the orders to quarantine or isolate.
Isolate is the term used for someone who has tested positive, according to public health officials, and quarantine is for those who are identified as contacts but not symptomatic or tested positive.
CCHD has two full time nurses, one part time nurse and other staff helping with contact tracing and monitoring.
One nurse is handling other communicable diseases, such as sexually transmitted infections, one nurse is taking the lead on COVID.
The department still has vacancies for public health nurses, which are posted on the county website.
Garnder said anything told to CCHD staff during contact tracing is kept confidential and the department will write letters for employers if needed, or do what they can to assist a person to make the process easier.
"They're an essential piece to us stopping this spread," Gardner said. "They're critical to us. We rely on their honesty so they have to be able to trust us. Our mission is to get the disease as contained as possible and in order to do that we need people to talk to us."
Brewer said there's no judgement or fingerpointing from CCHD staff during the process.
"We just want to find the case," Brewer said. "We want to find the exposure, we want to stop the spread."
CCHD sends letters to every positive case and contact outlining what isolation and quarantine means with their date of exposure.
Brewer said they've been able to find all the contacts that have been reported to them so far.
She said that out of the 60 confirmed cases in the county, as of July 16, there have been 18 that were asymptomatic. Of the total cases, seven were acquired from an asymptomatic case, Brewer said.
Of all the confirmed cases so far in Cascade County, all but one were symptomatic or found through contact tracing. One was a person who traveled out of state so decided to get tested upon return despite being asymptomatic.
She said they haven't had anyone who was asymptomatic and went through the Alluvion drive through out of simple curiosity test positive for COVID.


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Why I Made Ultimate A Big Part of My Life
The Creation of Cedar Rapids Ultimate
I'm a busy guy. I work evenings and weekends at a t.v. station that fills my nights. I am freshly married and recently became a homeowner. Plus, I spend at least one day a week working at a restaurant to get a little extra cash to help pay student loans. So, between giving my best a work trying to set myself up for the next promotion, making my wife a priority, spending quality time with her, mowing the lawn, washing the dishes and sautéing pasta dishes I'm kinda swamped but I still made the decision to start a non-profit. When I decided to start it, I did without thinking twice because I thought this non-profit would get more people in my town to play Ultimate. Yes, the game with the frisbee.
I started playing Ultimate my freshmen year of college. I know, what a cliche, but it's true. It was orientation week and I knew nobody at my college of 7,000 students. I hadn't even met my roommates yet. I was walking through the club fair(I had just signed up for rugby out of boredom) when I hear someone yell in my direction "Hey! You're tall. You should play frisbee." I signed up, went to practice the next week and did good enough that I was encouraged to return. Ultimate became the physical activity and social lifeline that I needed to survive my freshmen year and I fell in love with game; the running, the flow, the spirit, the camaraderie between players and between teams. As Ultimate grew in my life I became captain of my college team, played for a Club team that was two wins away form Nationals twice and coached the best High School B team in Minnesota. Regardless of how little money I had, or how little time off I had, it was always used for Ultimate. That was my life. My family, my lady and Ultimate. So, when I moved to Cedar Rapids in the fall of 2010 with my lady(who also plays Ultimate) we knew we'd need to find some Ultimate. Since we moved here in November we had a rough time until pick-up games started in April.
When pick-up began we found us some great lifelong friends but the type of game we found didn't quite fill our Ultimate needs. Instead of playing 7-on-7, they played whatever-on-whatever and defense seemed to be optional. I would've felt rude, as a newcomer, suggesting that each person on our team tried to guard a person on the other team. Some people love playing Ultimate that way and I'm glad they enjoy it, but I wanted more from my Ultimate. I played in Iowa CIty Summer League and traveled to play in club tournaments but I really wanted my home town to be able to put together a good game of Ultimate. There's 150,000 people in the metro area. I just wanted to find 20 people who loved to play Ultimate with, like, rules and stuff.The idea didn't seem impossible. I would spend way too much of my time wondering about the best way to create and Ultimate community in Cedar Rapids. There seemed to be pockets of players who never connected and a few people who'd prefer to play with structure but the majority still seemed to only want to play a relaxed game.
I wanted to figure out how to get the people searching for more from their Ultimate and get hem all together. I've never been the greatest at networking but that's what Cedar Rapids needed to get to the next level. Then, one Tuesday afternoon in the spring of 2013 playing whatever-on-whatever pick-up I met an athletic, friendly, out-going fella with dirty blonde hair reaching down to his shoulders. I could tell just by the way he moved on the field, in fast, hard cuts made with purpose, that he expected more from a game of Ultimate, just like I did.
This fella, Caleb, wanted what I did. Better Ultimate in Cedar Rapids created by the building of community. We meet and talked and decided we needed to give our community a name. That's when the entity known as Cedar Rapids Ultimate began. At first it was just a Facebook group that allowed players from all the different, isolated pockets of Cedar rapids to find each other and find games to play. THen we began hosting our own pick-up games and introducing more structure and rules to our games. First playing 7-on-7, then travel calls, fouled calls and picks. Eventually, we even called it a turnover when someone dropped the pull. Serious stuff! We had created our kind of pick-up but we wanted more. We wanted to share our love for the sport with as many people as possible. We created a Youth League to teach the next generation and got 19 kids to sign up the first year. We printed discs with our name not hem to give to the kids and sell around town. Youth League ran through the summer and than we hosted a Fall League for adults. Attendance at Fall League was shaky but it led to some of the most competitive and well-played Ultimate that I have ever experienced in Cedar Rapids. It was during the transition from Youth League to Fall League that Caleb and I met Taylor, the third leg of our awesome tricycle.
Taylor wanted to see a club team form in Cedar Rapids and to help build the community that we were creating. It was Taylor that dreamt big and thought about how much more we could accomplish as an organization if we were a non-profit organization. When Taylor made this suggestion I never asked myself if I had the time, desire and energy to make it happen. I only asked myself if it was best for the Ultimate community in Cedar Rapids and we decided that it was, so that's what we did.
So, in the fall of 2013 we decided to take Cedar Rapids Ultimate from being 3 guys running a Facebook page to becoming a full-fledged non-profit organization. During this time I was working two jobs, planning a wedding, making time to see my lady, buying a house and paying off those evil student loans. Still, I found time for regular meetings with Taylor and Caleb to talk about our goals, complete complicated forms for the IRS, contact area businesses about fundraising opportunities and strategize about how to grow Ultimate in my town. It would've been easier to just drive to Iowa City and play in their leagues and travel to tournaments with their club teams but it was more important to me to build something here. I felt an obligation to build something from stretch in a town that could really use more Ultimate. My town.
Now, the question is why. Why dedicate so much time to a sport? Not just the time to play a few days a week but the time to build a community for Ultimate players. I do it because I love playing Ultimate and I believe in it's potential. Ultimate is fun. It's great exercise. It's a team atmosphere. It's a social lifeline. For some people that's all Ultimate is and that's fine but the biggest reason I devote so much time to promote this sport is because I believe in its power to make the world a better place. To my core, I know that when I teach someone how to play Ultimate I'm also teaching them to be better people. I'm teaching them how to be patient, understanding and honest. I'm teaching them to be better people. I'm not an amazing person but I have spent ten plus years learning about this tool that can make people treat each other with respect and I want to share my knowledge. Ultimate has so much potential for good. This amazingly powerful potential within Ultimate is possible because it is built on the idea of "The Spirit of the Game." The idea that you don't need referees if everyone on the field is knowledgeable of the rules and respectful of their opponent. Spirit of the Game is essentially holding respect for the game, respect for the rules, respect for your opponent and respect for yourself above a win-at-all-costs attitude. This encourages fair play without compromising competition and it gives the players the responsibility of keeping the game fair, competitive and fun.
This is the only sport in America that allows this much responsibility to remain with the player and it has wonderful affects on it participants. Players must call their own fouls and violations and uphold the rules themselves. This gives the player a voice. If a player feels cheated or wronged that player not only has the right, but the obligation, to speak up. The ability to yell 'foul' and have 13 other people stop instantly because they recognize that what you feel, and shared, is important to the game. This feels empowering to someone not used to speaking up for themselves. It gives the player the confidence to say, "You broke the rules. It's wrong. I'm going to stop it. I'm going to fix it." This builds confidence and confidence leads to positive people who believe in themselves. People who believe they can go to college, or that they can speak up when they see someone being bullied, or it can give someone the confidence to leave an abusive relationship. The nature of being your own referee breeds a good kind of confidence that can make better people, but Ultimate doesn't stop there.
The player calling a foul has a voice, but so does the person being called for a foul and this created a situation that could be called conflict. The person called for a fouled could concede saying 'No Contest' or the player can say 'Contest' if they disagree. They have the right to say, "I'm innocent. I followed the rules." They can disagree and that's okay. The two players now have an opportunity to quickly and calmly discuss what happened and how they both feel about it. They can come to an agreement or agree to disagree and then the game continues. A guidance counselor would call this conflict-resolution. A skill that everyone needs is built into the essence of the sport. A game couldn't be completed without this happening effectively. Fouls happen and travels happen but the game breaks down when players can't use conflict-resolution skills to enable to game to progress.
Just imagined if every child played Ultimate and grew up learning these skills. They'd be learning self-confidence and conflict-resolution skills without even realizing it. They'd learn these skills while still learning the lessons in teamwork, discipline and leadership that are learned through all team sports.
Think of a world where everyone has a basic understanding of conflict-resolution and just slightly more self-confident. Think of how many more high school graduates and entrepreneurs we'd have. How much less crime and hatred would there be in a world where people knew it was okay to disagree. They knew it was okay for someone to have a different opinion. All this could be gained by a sport that is extremely cheap to play and is wonderful exercise.
I see all of this in the sport of Ultimate. I see a group of friends running around, tossing a piece of plastic back and forth and I smile. I smile because I see Ultimate and all that it can be, which is why I put my precious time in to creating an Ultimate community in my town. I believe in humanity and I believe that Ultimate will make it better.
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Eric Hart played his college Ultimate at Winona State University and after graduating moved to Cedar Rapids with his wife (another Ultimate player). Eric offers a decade of experience as an Ultimate player, coach and organizer. Eric's favorite Ultimate activities include skying people, cutting deep, and being tall….really tall.
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The Day I Became a God – Episode 1
By: Vrai Kaiser | October 11, 2020 | 0 Comments
What's it about? High school senior Narukami Yota is visited by a little girl in a nun outfit, who tells him three things: her name is Odin, she is omniscient, and the world will end in 30 days.
"Comedy is subjective," I repeat to myself after stopping in the middle of the third version of the same gag to check how much episode was left. It is possible that with the aid of this mantra I have ascended, and now write to you from a higher plane of existence. Thank you, The Day I Became a God. I am free, and premieres cannot hurt me.
Snark aside, I wouldn't actually call this premiere bad. The big pull here is the combination of series composer Maeda Jun (a musician and writer best known for working on moe cryfests Clannad and Angel Beats!) and animation studio P.A. Works, which is maybe best known for SHIROBAKO and just finished up the stunningly underrated Appare-Ranman! last season. That alone will be enough to keep a chunk of fans with this series no matter what I say, which is a-ok by me.
Even as someone who knows Maeda only by reputation, there are parts of this premiere that already scream "BRACE FOR THAT BITTERSWEETNESS." The episode is at its best when it's framing its characters to one side of the frame against a gorgeous shot of nature, emphasizing with beauty if not subtlety how small the human shenanigans at play are when the whole world is coming to an end. When the writing is willing to shut up and breathe, it unearths a kind of camaraderie in the face of despair that I have no doubt it plans to return to.
Unfortunately, those two minutes are preceded by 20 minutes of noise. Odin is small but haughty, people disrespect or disbelieve her and it makes her mad, and sometimes Yota treats her like a little kid and she acts like one before catching herself.
These three jokes make up 75% of the episode, and while not bad on their own they get thrown so fast and with so little differentiation that it becomes a low-grade whine of noise. When both Yota and Odin's reaction to everything is to scream, the surprise wears off fast, and that is the death of comedy.
Yota's childhood friend is a brief godsend with her viciously blunt deadpan, which gives the manic jokes something to play off; but like the moments of silence, she only appears for a few scattered minutes. Then it's back to the same cycle of "smol cute girl get mad" on repeat, a setup far better suited for a series of shorts than a full 22 minutes.
There's potential here and relatively few warning flags—one rando makes the depressingly obligatory joke about Yota and Odin being on a date and Odin's drawn to be as pwecious as possible, and it remains to be seen how the show will treat Yota's pursuit of Izanami after she's turned him down flat. Plenty of comedies have had rough first episodes only to find their footing once they build out an ensemble; it helps that the episode ends with Yota buying into Odin's powers, which opens more doors for setups.
The ending was honestly strong enough for me to consider giving it a three-episode audition despite my mounting frustration with what came before, but with a season this packed I'd recommend trying out some of the more slam-dunk premieres first.
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Why has ITV music changed? Emmerdale and Coronation Street theme tunes given a piano twist
A number of ITV's well known shows were given a piano twist and it had something to do with John Lewis' 2018 Christmas advert
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By Deepika Rajani
November 19, 2018 12:07 pm(Updated October 9, 2020 5:24 pm)
Viewers tuning into ITV on Wednesday 14 November were left confused when the theme tunes of a number of evening shows, including The Chase and Coronation Street, were changed.
The familiar melodies were given a different sound with the use of a piano, leading many to question the reason behind it.
However, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation behind the change and it has something to do with a certain Christmas TV advert.
Your guide to what to watch next - no spoilers, we promise
Why did the theme music of The Chase, Emmerdale, Coronation Street change?
The mystery has finally been revealed after viewers of ITV's evening programmes noticed that the theme tunes to the channel's most notable shows had undergone a musical transformation.
In a bid to ramp up the excitement about the John Lewis Christmas advert, ITV altered the well known theme tunes to give an important clue about the highly anticipated clip.
Taking to Twitter on Wednesday 14 November, the broadcaster posted a warning on the social media site which read: "The title music of some of our shows have been given a piano twist today – all will be revealed tomorrow."
Named 'The Boy and the Piano', the 2018 John Lewis Christmas advert features one of Elton John's best-loved hits, 'Your Song' (Photo: John Lewis)
What time will the advert be on TV and what channel?
ITV's continuity announcers revealed that all would be explained on ITV, Thursday 15 November at 9.15pm.
The 80 second clip will air during the break of Dark Heart.
It is believed that, that will be the time the retailer's advert will make its TV debut as the festive period gets underway.
However, the public don't have to wait that long if they don't want to as the retailer has already launched the advert on Youtube and on their social media channels.
What is the John Lewis 2018 Christmas advert about?
After weeks of speculation, Sir Elton John has been confirmed as the star of John Lewis' festive visual offering.
Just like previous years, the advert tells a detailed story of the gift of giving with the focus being on a young boy and how one gift altered the course of his life.
That young boy is none other than Elton himself who can be seen playing the piano at the start of the advert.
Viewers will be given an insight into Elton's childhood as the advert goes back in time and references the important and iconic stages in the performer's life.
The advert went back in time to reveal how one gift changed the course of one boy's life (Photo: John Lewis)
What is the soundtrack?
Elton John's 'Your Song' is the soundtrack of the 2018 advert.
Some may remember that it is the second time 'Your Song' has been used by John Lewis to promote their festive offerings, as Ellie Goulding performed her rendition for the 2010 advert.
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