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Today in Rock History – September 9
September 9, 2020 by Mitch Michaels
1965, The Hollywood Reporter ran the following classified ad, "Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys." The Monkees were born.
1965, The Rolling Stones were at number one with ("I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."
1967, Pink Floyd opened a four-date Scandanavian tour at the Boom Dancing Center in Aarhus, Denmark, supported by Wishful Thinking, Step by Step, Shaking Phantoms, and Barnet And His Dandy-Brothers. More than one thousand people attended the show. The microphones failed forcing the band to play an instrumental set.
1967, The Doors appeared at the Village Theater in New York City. The venue was to become The Fillmore East.
1968, Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles recorded "Helter Skelter." John Lennon played bass and honked on a saxophone, roadie Mal Evans tried his best at playing trumpet. Paul McCartney recorded his lead vocal and George Harrison ran about the studio holding a flaming ashtray above his head.
1970, Elvis Presley performs at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona.
1971, During a North American tour Led Zeppelin appeared at Hampton Roads Coliseum in Hampton.
1972, Slade were at number one on the UK singles chart with "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," the group"s third UK chart topper, taken from their album Slayed?
1972, Jim Croce started a five-week run at number one on the album chart with You Don"t Mess Around With Jim.
1973, Genesis performed at The Olympia Theatre, Paris, as they began touring in support of Selling England By The Pound.
1975, The Allman Brothers Band play at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1977, David Bowie appeared on Marc Bolan's ITV show, Marc, singing "Heroes" as well as a duet with Bolan, "Standing Next To You," which is prematurely terminated when Bolan fell from the stage, much to Bowie's amusement. After the show the pair recorded demos together which were never finished because Bolan was killed in a car crash a week later.
1977, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention appeared at the SDSU Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California.
1978, Frank Zappa, The Tubes, Peter Gabriel, The Boomtown Rats, Rockpile and Wilko Johnson's Solid Senders all appeared at Knebworth Park, England tickets cost £5.50 ($8.80) in advance or £6.00 ($9.60) at the gate.
1978, U2 appeared at Top Hat Ballroom, Dublin, Ireland.
1980, Foghat played at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.
1982, Van Halen performed at The Forum, Inglewood, California.
1989, New Kids On The Block scored their second US chart topping single with "Hangin' Tough," also a number one in the UK in 1990. The group also went to number one on the US album chart on this day with Hangin' Tough.
1992, Nirvana's Krist Novoselic knocked himself unconscious during the MTV music and video awards after being hit on the head with his guitar after throwing it 'up in the air'.
2004, US guitar maker Ernie Ball died after a long illness. In the late 50's Ball opened the first music store in the USA in Tarzana, California to sell guitars exclusively. He developed the guitar strings called 'Slinkys' specifically designed for rock and roll electric guitar.
2014, Scottish guitarist Robert "Throb" Young died at the age of 49. Young founded Primal Scream with school friend and singer Bobby Gillespie in Glasgow in 1984. As a member of Primal Scream, Young performed on all of the group's records up to 2006's Riot City Blues, and including their most famous album, Screamadelica.
Born on September 9: Joe Negroni, singer, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (1940), Otis Redding (1941) Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly (1945); Bruce Palmer, bass, Buffalo Springfield (1946); Freddy Weller, Paul Revere and the Raiders (1947); Dave Stewart, Eurythmics (1952); Michael Buble (1975)
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If one can keep himself occupied on Shabbos afternoon studying topics which pertain to Tishah b'Av or to mourning, he should do so(1). If he cannot, he may study what he ordinarily does(2). It is customary that Pirkei Avos is not studied on this Shabbos(3).
The usual seudah ha-mafsekes restrictions do not apply on Shabbos. At the last meal before the fast – which is seudah shelishis on Shabbos – one may eat meat and drink wine and consume whatever food he desires(4). One should not, however, specifically say that he is eating in order to have strength for the fast, nor is it permitted to swallow a pill that makes it easier to fast, since he would then be preparing on Shabbos for a weekday(5).
Eating seudah shelishis with family members is permissible. Company, however, should be avoided – unless one usually has company for seudah shelishis(6). Birkas ha-Mazon may be said with a zimun(7). Zemiros may be sung, even by one who does not always sing them(8).
Eating, drinking, or washing any part of the body is permitted until sunset only(9). If one recited Birkas ha-Mazon before sunset, he may eat or drink until sunset. No precondition is required(10).
One may sit on a chair until nightfall(11).
Since it is not proper to wear Shabbos clothes on Tishah b'Av, it is recommended that one change clothes after nightfall, but before Ma'ariv(12). Baruch ha-Mavdil should be recited before changing into weekday clothes(13).
No preparations for Tishah b'Av may be made until Shabbos is over. Tishah b'Av shoes or Kinos [unless studied on Shabbos] may not brought to shul until nightfall, even in an area with an eiruv(14).
Shabbos shoes may not be removed until nightfall. The custom in many places(15) is to remove the shoes after saying Barechu at Ma'ariv. Others remove their shoes after reciting Baruch ha-Mavdil but before Barechu, provided that it is already nightfall(16). This option is advisable when there is large gathering of people [such as a camp] in order to avoid a long break between Barechu and Ma'ariv(17).
Atah chonantanu is said in Shemoneh Esrei. Women must be reminded to recite Baruch ha-Mavdil before doing any work(18).
After Ma'ariv but before the reading of Eichah, a candle(19) is lit and Borei me'orei ha-eish is recited. If one forgot or failed to do so, Borei me'orei ha-eish may be recited anytime throughout the night(20).
Customarily, Borei me'orei ha-eish is recited by one person for the entire congregation. It is proper, though, that all the listeners sit down while the blessing is recited(21).
Preferably, women should listen to Borei me'orei ha-eish recited by a man. If they cannot do so, it is recommended that they recite their own blessing over a candle, but they are not obligated to do so(22).
Some permit folding the tallis as on every motza'ei Shabbos(23), while others are stringent(24).
Dirty dishes from Shabbos should not be washed until Sunday after chatzos(25), unless they will attract insects, etc.
As is the case when the fast is not postponed, a woman who has given birth within the past thirty days need not fast. Because the fast is not actually on the ninth of Av but rather on the tenth, certain leniencies are allowed. Thus, a pregnant or nursing mother need not fast if she will feel the effects of the fast. The same is true for anyone who is slightly sick and would feel unwell if he were to fast(26).
If a bris milah falls on this day, most poskim(27) allow the father, mohel, and sandak to eat a seudas mitzvah in honor of the bris after Minchah Gedolah(28). A minority opinion rules that they should finish their fast(29).
Before breaking a fast because of illness(30) or to celebrate a bris milah(31), Havdalah should be recited. Many poskim(32) hold that wine or grape juice may not be drunk, and Havdalah should be recited on a Shehakol beverage such as beer, coffee, or tea [with or without milk(33)]. Another option is to use wine or grape juice, but have a minor [between the ages of 6-9] drink the wine. Other poskim allow even an adult to drink the minimum amount(34) of wine or grape juice(35).
There are various views among the poskim concerning the recitation of Havdalah for women who are not fasting [due to illness, pregnancy, or nursing](36). The preferred option is that the woman's husband [or another man] should recite Havdalah(37) and that she or a minor drink the beverage. If that cannot be arranged, most poskim allow her to recite her own Havdalah(38). If she cannot or will not, there are poskim who permit her to eat without reciting Havdalah(39).
Most poskim hold that minors do not need to hear or recite Havdalah before eating(40). A minority opinion requires them to do so(41).
One who must eat on Tishah b'Av in the morning should daven first, without tefillin, and then eat. If he needs to break his fast after chatzos, he should daven Minchah with tefillin and then eat. If he cannot daven Minchah until later in the day, he should still put on tefillin before he eats(42).
After the fast is over, one may not eat until Havdalah is recited. Women should hear Havdalah from their husbands or a neighbor(43). If it is difficult for a woman to wait for Havdalah, she may drink before Havdalah(44). If drinking is not sufficient, some poskim allow her to eat without hearing Havdalah while others hold that she should make Havdalah herself(45).
Havdalah may be recited over wine or grape juice, and it need not be given to a minor to drink(46).
Only the blessings of Borei pri ha-gafen and ha-Mavdil are recited. Borei me'orei ha-eish is not recited, even if one forgot to recite that blessing the previous night(47).
Taking a haircut, shaving, doing laundry, sewing, bathing, and reciting Shehecheyanu are permitted immediately after the fast. Meat and wine (other than the wine from Havdalah) should not be consumed until the next morning(48). Listening to music should be avoided until the next morning(49).
2. Mishnah Berurah 553:10. One may fulfill his obligation of Shenayim Mikra v'Echad Targum.
5. Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 28:77; Piskei Teshuvos 553 note 13.
8. Igros Moshe O.C. 4:112-1.
9. Mishnah Berurah 552:24 and Sha'ar ha-Tziyun 22. See Chayei Adam 136:1 and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 125:1 concerning washing.
11. Salmas Chayim 4:4-129 quoted in Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 62 note 88.
12. Chazon Ish (quoted in Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 28 note 178); Moadim u'Zemanim 7:256; Shevet ha-Levi 7:77. At the very least, this should be done before the reading of Eichah.
14. Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 28:77.
15. Based on Rama 553:2 as explained in Salmas Chayim 1:86.
16. Harav S.Z. Auerbach (quoted in Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 28, note 179); Yechaveh Da'as 5:38; Moadim u'Zemanim 7:256.
17. Harav M. Feinstein (oral ruling, quoted in Halachos of the Three Weeks, pg. 16).
19. Some light a single candle while others hold two candles together.
21. Beiur Halachah 213:1, since on this night there is no blessing recited over wine which establishes the required kevius needed for such blessings.
22. See Beiur Halachah 296:8, Igros Moshe C.M. 2:47-2, and Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 61, note 69 and 62, note 98 for a discussion on the general issue of whether women are obligated to perform this mitzvah.
23. Nitei Gavriel, pg. 115.
24. Luach Devar Yom b'Yomo quoting the Belzer Rav.
25. Several poskim quoted in Piskei Teshuvos 554:21.
26. Beiur Halachah 559:9. See also Yechaveh Da'as 3:40.
27. Chayei Adam 136:7; Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 125:8; Mishnah Berurah 559:37 and Sha'ar ha-Tziyun 39; Igros Moshe O.C. 4:69-4; Yabia Omer 1:34; Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 62:47.
28. These people, then, should not receive an aliyah at Minchah (Mishnah Berurah 566:20, 21).
29. Aruch ha-Shulchan 559:9, based on Magen Avraham; Kaf ha-Chayim 559:74; Chazon Ish (quoted by Harav C. Kanievsky in Tishah b'Av she'Chal b'Shabbos 8, note 48).
30. Sha'arei Teshuvah 556:1. If all that the sick person needs is a drink of water, Havdalah is not recited (Shevet ha-Levi 8:129).
32. Kaf ha-Chayim 556:9; Harav M. Feinstein (oral ruling quoted in Halachos of the Three Weeks, pg. 19); Minchas Yitzchak 8:30; Shevet ha-Levi 7:77.
33. Tzitz Eliezer 14:42. Some poskim allow orange or apple juice as well.
34. A cheekful, approximately 1.6 fl. oz. Since, however, Al ha-gefen cannot be recited over this amount, this should be followed by eating cake, etc. and the words al ha-gefen v'al pri ha-gefen can be added; see pg. 148.
35. Chazon Ish (oral ruling quoted by Harav C. Kanievsky, Mevakshei Torah, Sivan 5753); Harav Y.Z. Soloveitchik (quoted in Peninei Rabbeinu ha-Griz, pg. 521 and in a written responsum by Harav S.Y. Elyashiv published in Mevakshei Torah, ibid.); Harav Y.Y. Kanievsky (Orchos Rabbeinu 2:145); Az Nidberu 11:48.
36. The issue: 1) Women, generally, do not recite their own Havdalah, since some Rishonim exempt them from Havdalah altogether; 2) Even men are not required by all poskim to recite Havdalah before eating on Motza'ei Tishah b'Av which falls on a Sunday.
37. The husband, then, does not repeat the Havdalah for himself once the fast is over (Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 62:48).
38. Shevet ha-Levi 8:129; Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 62:48; Az Nidberu 11:48; Moadim u'Zemanim 7:255.
39. Kinyan Torah 5:51; Shraga ha-Meir 1:59; Nitei Gavriel, pg. 164.
40. Harav Y.Y. Kanievsky (Orchos Rabbeinu 2:145); Harav S.Y. Elyashiv (quoted in Rivevos Efrayim 3:371); Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 62:45; Moadim u'Zemanim 7:255; Chanoch l'Na'ar 28:10.
41. Maharil Diskin 2:5-72; Divrei Yatziv 2:243; Shevet ha-Levi 7:77. There are conflicting reports as to what the opinion of Harav M. Feinstein was; see Children in Halachah, pg. 190.
42. Entire paragraph based on ruling of Harav S.Z. Auerbach (Shemiras Shabbos K'hilchasah 62, note 108 and 115).
44. Tishah b'Av she'Chal b'Yom Alef 70.
45. See Piskei Teshuvos, pg. 120 for the various views.
49. See Sha'ar ha-Tziyun 558:4, who is lenient about music for a seudas mitzvah.


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Columbian artist David Rodriguez employed me and two other women to do a shoot for his project 'The Three Graces' about the dynamic between threesomes of women.
Elise's funeral will take place tomorrow. My 'How's it going' email to Bel has had no answer.
But I get distracted from my anxiety. Wonderfully. A one-off booking with an artist pal of Fei Mo Di devolves into a playful romp!
David Rodriguez' studio is in an attic in a dilapidated, picturesque 1930s low-rise apartment complex. It's only a few blocks as the crow flies from Aussie Cyril's villa, but this district has an altogether different character from the leafy elegance of Cyril's address. Lanes, alleyways, looping electrical cables; steep, dark wooden staircases; shared stone sinks on each landing, washing lines and dangling wash-cloths, hubbub of family life in nooks and behind doors.
I reach the top of the house. His door is open, last night's lover just leaving – a pretty, childlike thing: long bony legs; wire-rimmed small, circular glasses on her cute nose; a whimsical straw bonnet.
David: Latin-American, laid-back, charming, disarming, his welcoming grin ear to ear.
I've met the other two models once before. Fei Mo Di made brief introductions at Trish Little's glitzy preview night a few weeks ago, then gossiped to me about them later. Alvira, a New Yorker, voluptuous, Afro-Caribbean heritage, Harvard-educated, feminist, lesbian, in Shanghai to start up a company manufacturing sex-toys. Wei Wei, Taiwanese, spent a dozen years in Paris, works in perfume design. Taiwan isn't China, pointed out Fei Mo Di, which is how come Wei Wei is able to be, in her behaviour, quite a Lee Miller type: liberated, uninhibited, free-thinking, and knowledgeable about the world, as well as elegant and beautiful.
Before the shoot starts we strip off and sit about, naked, comfortably warm – it is almost April – drinking Columbian espresso. The flat is three decrepit rooms filled with David's oil paintings hung randomly or leaning haphazardly on walls, none of which, he moans, have fully dried, due to the humidity. Is that why the medium of watercolour has always prevailed here?
Garulous Alvira puts David on the spot. 'So. Is this about race? About femaleness? Or are you into erotica? Do you want porn?'
'I don't know yet.' David puts his laptop on the table in front of us.
'I show you images of three women I found by other photographers. See this one – Terry Richardson is well known as an erotic photographer so the idea to please men, the pleasure, is really a part of his choice. But this one here – a woman photographer – Ellen von Unwerth is more ambiguous. And next, John Currin: a part of his work is also related to pornography… But it is also about clichés in popular imagery. See – it is complicated. I mean, is his motive ironic?'
We discuss all of this boisterously, drink coffee, crack sexist jokes, tease David. He breaks into our messing about, wanting to explain more.
'See here: these are artists' depictions of The Three Graces. In these classical paintings I cannot really say whether the idea was to please the looker, as we conceive it now, but yes – most of these were painted by men.'
At last he picks up his camera. We are still sprawled, chatting, relaxing, a pleasant window draught keeping at bay the first mosquitoes.
'So, ladies, I do not think it is essential to refer ourselves to those images, or the conventions, but I think we cannot ignore them neither. And as for the voyeur who is witnessing the moment… myself, the photographer… well, you should completely ignore me. I am not looking for a particular pose but rather to be able to extrapolate moments from the interrelation between the three of you. I am not asking you to please me somehow.'
Four nationalities. None of us mainland Chinese. A morning spent under a wooden roof with skylight views onto makeshift roof-gardens and rickety balconies and crammed-in house-fronts decorated with lines of washing strung like bunting. And yet we are disengaged from the world beyond David's rooms, from Shanghai and the Chinese, enjoying the solidarity of thrown-together aliens.
It does me good. For three hours, my worries are suspended. We have such a laugh. I am ready to laugh, after yesterday's desolate goodbye.
How to go on being pleasurably distracted?
I have forward-planned for this afternoon. I've brought the J.G. Ballard autobiography that Bel went on about, 'Miracles of Life ', about his childhood in Shanghai's elite international community in the 1930s followed by the gloom and doom of England. I will find a Starbucks and settle in.
Anything rather than return to the empty flat.

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When the words have me feeling like I'm hanging off a tree limb and hearing the sound of bark splintering, I pull out a well worn book with exercises in it, or use one of my own. Pull out a deck of magnetic poetry and play with words (or do it online, magneticpoetry.com). Pull out a dictionary and choose random words to weave together into a prose poem. Do an exercise of thirteen-ways-of-looking-at (what are you stuck on? a character? a plot point? the resolution of a poem?). Then do a freewrite. Or you might write a dialogue with your favorite writer. Channel him or her. What advice would that writer give you? Then credit yourself for dreaming it up . . . and get back to the words.
Helpful ideas, all! I especially like 13 ways and plan to use it next time I'm jumbled. Thank you!
Thanks, Jude! I do the same thing … I stop writing and start talking. I imagine I'm talking to a particular friend and it helps! It takes a conscious effort to stay out of writing head, but the readability is worth it in the end.
Welcome back to the Blogosphere Olivia. Your posts have been missed. I know exactly what you mean. I have been in exactly the same spot for the last couple of months as I put my current WIP through the editing paces. I agree with the advice that Kathleen gave you. I also use Morning Pages as prescribed by Julia Cameron. This is where you write 3 pages (it must be long hand and they must be A4 pages) of the first thoughts in your mind upon waking. This is pure stream of consciousness writing and it us amazing what this exercise an unlock. This is not an exercise where you choose your words carefully or go slowly picking them apart. It is meant to unlock your dreaming sub-conscious. Fresh air and the outdoors Also help be at these times. If you read my most current post in my Wrestling the Muse blog, it deals with falling out of love with your writing and what to remember to fall back in love.
Good Luck Olivia and may the muse be kind to you as you are kind to your words.
Shout out if you need any support.
I seem to be in the same place as yourself, except that I find the "blogosphere" more enervating than the frustration of writer's block.
Hola, quizás os interese saber que tenemos una colección que incluye el relato 'Defender of the Faith' de Philip Roth en versión original conjuntamente con el relato 'The Courter' de Salman Rushdie.
Just getting my mind off of it for a time helps me. I'm writing a children's book right now and I was getting sick of rewriting it so I took a break and decided to work on my novel. I only took a day or two off, but when I went back to it, I was able to look at it with a fresh eye and see more clearly what I liked and did not like about it. I also like to stare out my window for a break. I have a beautiful view of a pond and forest and I find nature relaxing and inspiring.
When I'm that balled up (and I do spend a lot of time turning sentences around and then turning them back), I move over to something else and work on that, or (if the project is far enough along), I get some feedback on it. Perspective is always helpful.
I was working on a book of mystery stories (I just talked about this on my blog), and I was so sick of fiddling with the punctuation that I sent it out to the beta readers ahead of schedule. So, no work on that one for a while, and I have four other projects to occupy me in the meantime.


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Q: Working with JS objects and functions I'm a newbie in javascript and I'm wondering why bob.age is still 30 while age is 50 when I called it. I already set age to 50 in setAge that assigned 50 to this.age, which I know is a reference to bob.age, so age and bob.age should have the same value.

// here we define our method using "this", before we even introduce bob
var setAge = function (newAge) {
    this.age = newAge;
};
// now we make bob
var bob = new Object();
bob.age = 30;
// and down here we just use the method we already made

// change bob's age to 50 here
bob.setAge = setAge(50);

A: There're several errors in your code/understanding, I'm going to start with why that is specifically wrong, and explain the concepts around it
var bob = new Object() is making bob a regular object.
your setAge function takes in a parameter.  It sets this.age to be that value.  However setAge is placed on the global scope.  Therefore this -> window.  Which is why when your typed in age in the global scope you got 50.
Jaromanda is correct, you need to place the function setAge onto the object bob.
If you're playing around with this you may be interested in the pseudoclassical instantiation style:
var Person = function(name, age) {
    this.name = name;
    this.age = age;
}

Person.prototype.setAge = function(newAge) {
    this.age = newAge;
}

var bob = new Person ('Bob', 30);
bob.setAge(50);
bob.age;
// 50

A:
bob.setAge = setAge(50);

all that is doing is setting the setAge property of bob to the result of calling setAge(50) - as setAge retunrs undefined, you've effectively set bob.SetAge = undefined. Perhaps what you intended to do was
bob.setAge = setAge;
bob.setAge(50);

untested, but I think it's right

A: The keyword this acts as a placeholder, and will refer to whichever object called that method when the method is actually used.
Look at the method setAge to see how this works. By using the keyword this, setAge will change the age property of any object that calls it.
Then when we say bob.setAge = setAge; it means whenever we type bob.setAge( ) this.age in the setAge method will refer to bob.age.

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"The hills are alive, with the sound of music…"
– Title Drop in the film's opening
As the song goes, "Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start…"
In September of 1938, Georg and Maria von Trapp, who, along with their seven children, made up the talented singing group The Von Trapp Family Singers, emigrated from Austria to America to escape the growing hostility of Hitler's early years in power. Their story was made into a film in 1956, "The Trapp Family", which was seen by Broadway director Vincent J. Donehue. He thought it would be the perfect vehicle for his actress friend Mary Martin and brought on Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, aka Rodgers and Hammerstein, aka the songwriting team known for "South Pacific" and "The King and I" among others, to write a couple of songs for it. Eventually R&H ended up turning the play with music into a full-out musical, and in the process created one of the most iconic and beloved shows to date. The original production won five out of its nine nominated Tonys, many of its songs have become vocal standards, and it's enjoyed countless revivals on Broadway and the high school theater circuit (I myself was in my school's production; despite the fact I had a good chance of playing Liesl I got the role of the housekeeper because the director liked to play favorites when casting).
Naturally the show's success meant a film adaptation was inevitable, and much of the show's original creative team was on board. Cancer had other plans, however, and it sadly took the life of Oscar Hammerstein shortly after the original theatrical production premiered, leaving Rodgers to re-work the music and write new songs on his own. Despite losing half of Rodgers and Hammerstein, there wasn't much difficulty in getting the film made apart from coaxing Robert Wise – who had already directed the Oscar-winning adaptation of West Side Story and was the first choice to direct this movie – to sign on. Another first choice to play Maria was Julie Andrews, who screenwriter Ernest Lehman clamored to join immediately after seeing her in Mary Poppins. A much harder actor to get was Christopher Plummer for the role of Captain Von Trapp; he eventually agreed but only if he could work with Lehman to improve the character. Normally when an actor does this it rarely turns out well (and Plummer later admitted that he was quite arrogant at the time due to his successful stage career), but I think Plummer's enhancements were a major improvement to Captain Von Trapp, and I'll get into why later.
The Sound of Music is often cited by critics and theater fans in general as one of the greatest musicals of all time, and arguably the best stage-to-screen adaptations to date – and they're not wrong. As someone who's been in the stage version, I personally think the movie is even better (and that's not bitterness towards the director talking). The musical numbers are iconic to the point of being parodied countless times AND most revivals of the show go out of their way to incorporate elements from the film rather than follow the show's original book. The Hollywood Bowl in California has a sing-along with the movie every year that always sells out, Austria has a popular tour route that visits locations where the film was shot, it's been shown annually on ABC during the holidays since 1976, and it has the unusual distinction of being Seth McFarlane's favorite movie (then again, looking at how many times he's referenced it on his shows, it's no big surprise. I swear he hosted the Oscars just so he could make this joke when introducing Christopher Plummer).
So after all that buildup, how does the film hold up? Let's find out.
We open on a version of the 20th Century Fox logo without the traditional fanfare. Sounds weird, huh? It's hard to imagine it without the music that always accompanies it, but it leads into the film in a way that took Robert Wise a lot of convincing on his part to accomplish, and pays off brilliantly. The film truly begins on a montage of the Austrian countryside, starting through the clouds and flying over the mountains. I remember hating this part as a kid because there was no music and it felt like it dragged on forever. It was something I never truly appreciated until I was older, however. Slowly the film draws us into its world, showing us the majesty and making us anticipate the Also, thanks to the magic of blu-ray, we can hear the orchestra starting up in places like snatches of birdsong on the wind, all leading up to the film's most iconic shot – in one long take, we pull in on a vast green hill, where a tiny lone figure climbs up and spins in rapture as we draw closer.
And the opening song…my words can do no justice. Enjoy.
Everything from the visuals to Julie Andrew's beautiful voice makes it one of the greatest film openings of all time. I admit, it's hard for me not to get a little choked up seeing it.
The sound of church bells calls Maria away and after returning for her discarded habit, she runs to the abbey. After the opening credits, we see the nuns in the abbey performing mass, and regardless of whether or not you're religious in any capacity, this whole scene is beautifully shot. It gives you the idea of how these nuns live, showing their devotion to God through their solemnity.
After the mass, Mother Abbess (Peggy Wood) is approached by one of the sisters who is searching for Maria. Mother Abess recommends searching somewhere unusual since Maria herself is "unusual". This leads into her and the rest of the nuns, Sister Margaretta, Berthe and Sophia (Anna Lee, Portia Nelson and Marni Nixon respectively) discussing the situation that is Maria – she is a novice hoping to take her vows, but she has a youthful enthusiasm and playfulness that is impossible to tame. Sisters Margaretta and Sophia find her antics amusing, but Sister Berte finds her immature and out of place in the abbey. The others are split, and they sing about her transgressions – her lateness for everything except supper, her honest penance but (gasp!) singing in the abbey – in "How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Maria", a tune that's impossible to get out of your head once you hear it. As if to prove their point, Maria herself interrupts the number by running in to wash up and sneak into the chapel, only to realize she's been caught and skulks off.
Also, if I may, I'd like to give a shout-out to Marni Nixon. You've probably heard her sing in a lot of other classic musicals but have never seen her face – this is because she was hired to dub over the singing for some of the actresses. Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in The King And I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady are all guilty of "stealing" her voice.
Robert Wise liked Miss Nixon enough to recognize that she could act as well as sing, and gave her a role in the film. It's nice that after a long time of singing behind the scenes, she was able to finally do so onscreen.


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"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
— James Madison
X Club
The X Club was a dining club of nine men who supported the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism in late 19th-century England. Thomas Henry Huxley was the initiator: he called the first meeting for 3 November 1864.[1] The club met in London once a month—except in July, August and September—from November 1864 until March 1893, and its members are believed to have wielded much influence over scientific thought. The members of the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode, and John Tyndall, united by a "devotion to science, pure and free, untrammelled by religious dogmas."[2]
The nine men who would compose the X Club already knew each other well. By the 1860s, friendships had turned the group into a social network, and the men often dined and went on holidays together. After Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, the men began working together to aid the cause for naturalism and natural history. They backed the liberal Anglican movement that emerged in the early 1860s, and both privately and publicly supported the leaders of the movement.
According to its members, the club was originally started to keep friends from drifting apart, and to partake in scientific discussion free from theological influence. A key aim was to reform the Royal Society, with a view to making the practice of science professional. In the 1870s and 1880s, the members of the group became prominent in the scientific community and some accused the club of having too much power in shaping the scientific landscape of London. The club was terminated in 1893, after depletion by death, and as old age made regular meetings of the surviving members impossible.
Aldous Huxley to George Orwell
Wrightwood. Cal.
Dear Mr. Orwell,
It was very kind of you to tell your publishers to send me a copy of your book. It arrived as I was in the midst of a piece of work that required much reading and consulting of references; and since poor sight makes it necessary for me to ration my reading, I had to wait a long time before being able to embark on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Agreeing with all that the critics have written of it, I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals — the ultimate revolution? The first hints of a philosophy of the ultimate revolution — the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at total subversion of the individual's psychology and physiology — are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, the consummator, of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. I have had occasion recently to look into the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, and have been greatly struck by the way in which, for a hundred and fifty years, the world has refused to take serious cognizance of the discoveries of Mesmer, Braid, Esdaile, and the rest.
Partly because of the prevailing materialism and partly because of prevailing respectability, nineteenth-century philosophers and men of science were not willing to investigate the odder facts of psychology for practical men, such as politicians, soldiers and policemen, to apply in the field of government. Thanks to the voluntary ignorance of our fathers, the advent of the ultimate revolution was delayed for five or six generations. Another lucky accident was Freud's inability to hypnotize successfully and his consequent disparagement of hypnotism. This delayed the general application of hypnotism to psychiatry for at least forty years. But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war — in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.
Thank you once again for the book.
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You simply have to see this. The enormous Victoria Falls, in full flood, really are breathtaking. Tthe sight and sound of the thundering falls is some experience.
Here we all are, on the banks of the Zambesi, another pleasant hotel, a short walk takes you to one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The tranquility was broken this afternoon by the distinctive sound of an MGB V8. Mick Darcey and Steve Hutchinson have arrived, and although they have lost their Gold Medal, are eager to get stuck in to some rallying again. President of the South African Motor Sports Association, Roger Pearce, arrived with a windscreen under his arm, and the Banhams set to work. The screen was soon sorted but a wiring fault took a little longer. The wiring loom had been trapped in the steering column fixing and liable to cause a serious problem unless they got it sorted.
Other jobs in hand is yet more work on the Ponton six-cylinder Mercedes of the Brogans, which has needed considerable servicing and fettling every day. The axle is the latest to send out worrying groans of protest.
Tomorrow there's a bungy jumping competition, among many other activities, on a day that is supposed to be billed for washing, servicing and resting in the sun. The Diary will be on hand to report the most spectacular jumpers from the falls bridge. Paul Markland will not be one of them - he's off white-water rafting. Syd has received numerous invitations to high jinks, and starts the day as the Eye in the Sky… we are off to recce the area from a helicopter.
Results? Goodness we have not mentioned results for a while…. there are three leaders on equal-zero-penalty-points, see the results list, but frankly nobody round here seems to be too bothered by what the results list has to say. Perhaps it's the heat. Roger and Sarah Lucas are up near the front in their Mercedes SL, going particularly well and pretty trouble free…. they rounded up a bunch of drivers this afternoon for a boat trip on the river. (no, not the rapids at the top, the bottom part). Boat trips have not been too successful so far, what with the near sinking of the African Queen back at Rundu (we subsequently learnt that the bows were under water and it most certainly was adopting a seriously looking sinking-mode). However, the Chobe River this morning running past the giant thatched roofs of our overnight lodge at Kasane was too tempting for most of this intrepid bunch, who set off in a small motor cruiser with a top deck that allowed early inspection of any crocodiles. Everyone returned suitably ecstatic. They slipped out into the early-morning mist…. and watched the sun force its way through for the start of the day. And came back for a giant breakfast, suitably impressed with sightings of crocodiles and hippos. Well worth the effort of getting up early, was the verdict of Paul Merryweather.
More sights tomorrow and then, on Thursday, we hit the road for Lusaka, leaving the splendours of the River Zambezi behind us.


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Trump: Impeachment probe hasn't hurt me
President Donald Trump insisted Friday he has not been damaged by impeachment testimony detailing efforts by him and his administration to pressure Ukraine to publicly investigate his political rivals.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted Friday he has not been damaged by impeachment testimony detailing efforts by him and his administration to pressure Ukraine to publicly investigate his political rivals.
Speaking to reporters as he left on a campaign trip to Atlanta, Trump said he was "not concerned about anything" that has been disclosed so far.
"It seems that nobody has any firsthand knowledge," he said, adding that, "every one of those people canceled themselves out."
Trump's comments came a day after the release of an impeachment inquiry transcript in which career State Department official George Kent said Trump wanted to hear just three words from the Ukraine president in their July phone call: Investigations, Biden, Clinton.
"Potus wanted nothing less than President Zelenskiy to go to the microphone and say investigations, Biden and Clinton," Kent testified. "Basically there needed to be three words in the message, and that was the shorthand."
Kent told investigators that that was his understanding of what Trump wanted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to say to unlock U.S. military aid, as relayed to the official by others, including those in direct contact with the president.
Numerous current and former Trump officials have testified that the president was conditioning U.S. aid on Ukraine publicly investigating Democrats including his potential 2020 political foe Joe Biden and Biden's son.
Clinton, he explained, was "shorthand" for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. It was a reference to Trump's view, pushed by his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani but outside of mainstream U.S. intelligence, that Ukraine played a role interfering in the election.
Kent also raised concerns about Giuliani's "campaign of lies" against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and the Trump administration's firing of the veteran diplomat.
House investigators are releasing key transcripts from days of closed-door interviews in the impeachment inquiry as they prepare for public sessions with witnesses next week. A whistleblower's complaint about Trump's telephone call with Zelenskiy was the spark that ignited the investigation.
Trump on Friday objected to the public sessions, even though he, the White House and Republican allies on the Hill had objected to interviews taking place behind closed-doors. And he claimed that Democrats were only interested in speaking with people who dislike him, even as the White House has blocked potentially more supportive witnesses, including acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, from appearing.
"This is just a continuation of the hoax. It's a disgraceful thing," said Trump, insisting — despite evidence to the contrary — that the inquiry is helping him politically.
Trump also tried to distance himself from his ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, telling reporters: "I hardly know the gentleman." He has previously praised Sondland.
Kent had testified for hours in October about the shifting U.S. policy toward Ukraine as administration officials and Giuliani were taking the lead, acting outside of regular foreign policy channels.
The career official began to understand that unless Ukraine took on the investigations Trump wanted, the administration would hold up nearly $400 million in military aid to the young democracy that relies on U.S. support to counter Russian aggression.
Kent said he memorialized in writing the conversations he was having with other diplomats amid his concerns of "an effort to initiate politically motivated prosecutions that were injurious to the rule of law, both in Ukraine and U.S." The memorandum was submitted to the State Department.
He told investigators he was uncomfortable with what he was hearing about Giuliani pushing the investigations and Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, engaging Ukrainian officials on the subject.
"And I told Bill Taylor, that's wrong, and we shouldn't be doing that as a matter of U.S. policy," Kent said, referring to William Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine who has also testified in the inquiry.
Sondland, had dubbed himself, Volker and Energy Secretary Rick Perry the "three amigos" with a mandate to take the lead on Ukraine policy over the career diplomats, Kent testified.
At one point, Kent said, Volker's assistant, Catherine Croft, asked if anyone had sought investigations from Ukraine. Kent said he hoped the U.S. had not, because "that goes against everything that we are trying to promote in post-Soviet states for the last 28 years, which is the promotion of the rule of law."
In one particularly unsettling scene, Kent describes mounting unease over Trump's phone call with Zelenskiy.
Within days, he was receiving a readout from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer assigned to the National Security Council who was among the officials listening to the call. Vindman has become a key witness in the House investigation.
Vindman was "uncomfortable" as he gave Kent the readout and unwilling to share much of what was discussed, even over the secure phone line between the NSC and State.
"It was different than any readout call that I had received," Kent said. "He felt_I could hear it in his voice and his hesitancy that he felt uncomfortable."
Vindman told him the tone of the Trump-Zelenskiy call was "cooler, reserved" and that Zelenskiy, a former comedian, had tried to turn on the charm.
He said that Vindman told him that "the conversation went into the direction of some of the most extreme narratives that have been discussed publicly."
The diplomats and national security officials weren't the only ones concerned about the military aid being shut off to the East European ally.
"Many senators, particularly from the Republican side," called and talked to the president, he said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sens. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Rob Portman of Ohio and were among them.
Trump has insisted it was a "perfect" call with Zelenskiy, and he tweeted Thursday that Americans should just "Read the Transcript."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used that as an opportunity to tweet excerpts from the call, including the part where Trump asks Ukraine for "a favor."
Next week, Kent, Yovanovitch and Taylor are expected to appear in the public hearings.
First to testify, on Wednesday, will be Taylor, still the top diplomat in Ukraine, who relayed in his closed-door session his understanding that there was a blatant quid pro quo, with Trump holding up military aid to Ukraine, a U.S. ally facing threats from its giant neighbor Russia.


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The solo work of Squeeze singer-songwriter Chris Difford is collected in Chris To… The Mill, a new 4CD+DVD box set that collects albums, rarities and unreleased demos.
Difford's three solo albums – I Didn't Get Where I Am (2002), The Last Temptation of Chris (2008) and Cashmere If You Can (2011) – span nearly a decade and all feature here, along with 21 bonus tracks – B-sides, songs featured on compilations and unheard demos.
A DVD features Chris discussing the songs as well as four new acoustic performances, filmed at Elton John's studio. This set is packaged in a clamshell box (with the discs in card sleeves) and comes with a 48-page booklet with new notes by Chris on each album and a track-by-track annotations.
The Chris To… The Mill box set is released 3 March 2017.
Rumours abound about Squeeze albums to be reissued, from the horses mouth the rumours are true, late 17 or early 2018. Hopefully with plenty extra tracks, videos and crowded house like packaging.
Are these being remastered? The Last Temptation of Chris was brickwalled and I Didn't Get Where I Am was pretty compressed. Let's hoping they don't do that this time.
Not sure they are remastered. Apparently, Chris has supplied audio direct.
I'll echo what Paul H said and would recommend this set to anybody who is considering buying it. I listen to his solo albums quite often and I'd go as far as to say that I prefer them to Squeeze's albums. In fact, I was taken aback by the quality of his solo work, if I am quite honest. There aren't many people who have released a trio of consistently good solo albums a couple of decades after their band's heyday.
I'd particularly recommend them to any fans of Stephen Duffy, as the style of song, the clever lyrics and the vocal delivery are very reminiscent of Duffy, to the point that my wife often mistakes them for Duffy songs when they pop up on the ipod playlist we listen to in the car.
@ John lloyd: thank you for eexplaining the hidden (?) pun in this boxed sets title ! When you know it it's pretty obvious !
There were some great songs released as part of the Saturday Morning Music Club downloads a few years back. Thr Trippy version of Take Me I'm Yours with Dorie Jackson is excellent.
I find it very weird that their highest charting album in the UK and the US Babylon And On has never been remastered apart from in Japan which is expensive as hell to track down.
Could you please enlighten me om the hidden (?) CD pun of the boxed set title that's mentioned in the comments here ? I don't get it but that's perhaps as I'm writing from Germany anf Krauts usually….
Uwe, it's Chris deliberately mis-pronouncing 'grist to the mill'. Grist is the corn that you would take to the mill and grind for flour, and so leads to profit. 'More grist to the mill' means making even more money – and if you have the same sense of humour about yourself as Gifford and the re-use of old records, then it would mean 'money for nothing', or 'money for old rope' as we say here.
Thanks for laying this out to not-native English speakers.
Are the bonus tracks to 'I Didn't Get Where I Am' really a separate disc when the other two albums have their attendant bonus tracks on the same CD as the albums?
Four of Squeeze (east side, frank, ridiculous, sweets) were rereleased when the reformation happened i recollect and then there were the box of six reissues prior to that. Much under reissued though i agree. Agree with above, I Didnt Get Where I Am is a work of utter genius.
Actually "Half a dozen of the Other" (being pedantic) but yes indeed I was really looking forward to this at the time and it never happened.
Argy Bargy got the Deluxe treatment out of the blue a few years back but since then nothing.
Maybe it's their best selling album (although I would have thought that would have gone to Cool for Cats or Eastside Story – actually just checked and Argy Bargy was their biggest seller so there you go..).
I'd love to see their back catalogue get some much-needed attention.
I'll be grabbing this one for sure. Like someone wrote above, why no Squeeze SD set? Their albums were all re-released as Japanese mini LP CDs some years back and expensive to buy or find nowadays. There ony seems to be a pretty old (1990s) long box jewel cased 'Best Of' on the secondary market in UK. In this day and age, I'd have thought the Squeeze's back catalogue was ripe for a complete albums re-issue. A modest but sleek card sleeves in a clam box set like this one would be great. I mean Dutch national treasures Golden Earring have a 29 CD box set coming out next month of all 26 studio albums + non-album tracks – another set I'm up for, could not our own national treasures Squeeze get a similar treatment? Or is it disagreements about money, who owns what rights and 'he's not talking to him' sort of thing? I'd hate to think it was just plain indifference!
BTW …the title should be "Chris to…the Mill" , no?
What is the target market for this? I love each of these albums but anyone who would have been interested would (or should) have bought them by now. I don't see £25 attracting many of either people only casually interested in this work or completists needing demos.
I`m in the market for this Paul, I`ve always loved Squeeze but I don`t have any of Chris`s solo output, so this box set is perfect for me and many others I suspect, like me. Glen Tilbrook was also an absentee in my album collection until recently, I`ve managed to get the 5 Demo Tape CDs and the `incomplete` double CD.
What exactly the problem with any Squeeze S.E. releases or a box set? It is a pity that their back ctalogue is so neglected.
I have Last Temptation of Chris which I played only last week and still sounds great. I will probably take a punt on these – intrigued about the Boo Hewerdine attributed songs – are they duets or co-writes does anyone know?
Ok @ Richie and SteveT, good luck, I should have added that for me personally, I Didn't Get Where I Am is amongst his best work, and the other two not far behind, so yes please do go ahead and take a chance, I shouldn't have been so mean spirited. It really deserves to be heard.
Boo Hewerdine co wrote and played on most of the second album and also joined CD on the recent Fancy Pants pledge music issue. First album was co written with Frances Dunnery of It Bites. Last album has contributions from Kathryn Williams and Green Gartside. It's a decent body of work. The Glenn Tilbrook solo albums ditto….
Unfortunately I have all these albums already so not sure if it's worth it for the B-sides. Quite interested in the track by track annotations.
With Squeeze, Difford was the lyricist. It's interesting to hear Glenn write his own lyrics since he didn't for any of the stuff he's most well known for.


Customer Care contacted me, and had me call the parts department and they shipped me out a set of flush mounts for free today.
Oh I dont have a problem cocking the gun and it just makes it have less to bump into the holster with or snag on something.
I carry my USPc .45 in a kingtuk and also use my VP9 in it. Just wanted to give you heads up, it carry's really well and has nice smooth draw when using the VP9 in it.
My ALS Duty III holster from Safariland comes in Monday and I noticed on (well not for the VP9) it just kinda bumped into it, and It really serves no purpose to me. I have MGW Sight Pro Pusher and I just got my VP9 shoe in and took my rear sight off. It is just a piece of plastic that has another piece of plastic connecting both sides. I rather just flush mount it in case that would snag something because if you just snug at them you can tell you can easily snap them off.
Thanks, your feedback on this combo pushed me over the edge and I just ordered it!
And thanks for the info Shooter, if they bug me now I know that they can be swapped out with a phone call to H&K!
This is like the 5th time with my H&K's I have had to call parts, and I have to say they are the easiest people to deal with unless I am just lucky.
Now just deciding between the Galco Kingtuk (which I've used and love) or the Alien Holsters 2-pack set of IWB (neoprene) and OWB.
It boils down more to comfort for me as I've long since ago stopped caring if I print! I've used the Kingtuk with a 1911 and loved it, like the belt clips that have two screws that mount it so they don't swivel around and move, the Alien Gear two pack deal is pretty nice but only has one screw mounting the clip.


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Black Point, Whyalla
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Spearfishing in Black Point, Whyalla, South Australia Australia
Maximum depth:
19.6ft/6m
Whyalla is located on the western shore of upper Spencer Gulf, at 394 km/244 mi in the northwest of Adelaide, in South Australia. Dolphins and bird-life often frequent the waters, while the rocky coastline is a popular destination for fishing tours and spearfishing.
The spot is ideal for divers of all levels of difficulty. Its maximum depth drops at 6 m/19 ft. Whyalla is internationally known as the only place in the world where cuttlefish are migrating in large numbers to spawn. Take a dive between the months of May and August to see thousands of Giant Australian Cuttlefish descend on the rocky coastline between Fitzgerald Bay and False Bay near Whyalla.
Other interesting species that can be observed around Whyalla are the Southern Right Whale and Bottlenose Dolphins! Entry at Black Point is from the beach on the road before the end of the road towards the Bonython Port, in the northeast of Whyalla, giving in the Spencer Gulf. The gulf is blessed with amazing snapper fishing, king fish pens and a cuttlefish breeding. Whyalla offers numerous accommodation options, shops, restaurants and training centers for spearfishing.
Many local operators organize guided tours around Whyalla for spearfishing. Don't miss to visit the Maritime Museum and the Whyalla Conservation Park, which is a good spot for seeing some local wildlife, where red and grey kangaroos can be often observed in the park along with more than 80 species of birds.
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The Kangaroo Island covers an area of approximately 4400 km²/1698.8 mi², located at 110 km/70 mi south-west of Adelaide and easily accessible by ferry or plane. A congregation of attractive small towns and fascinating wild Conservation parks, Kangaroo Island represents Australia's third largest Island.
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Bare Island, Sydney
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Point Lowly, Whyalla
Whyalla is located on the western shore of upper Spencer Gulf, at around 394 km/244 mi in the northwest of Adelaide, in South Australia. Dolphins and bird-life often frequent the waters, while the rocky coastline is a popular destination for fishing tours and spearfishing.
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Adelaide, the liveliest city in Australia, is the capital of South Australia state and is situated on the Adelaide Plains and more specifically at the north side of Fleurieu Peninsula. It is built next to Torrens River and is surrounded by the Mount Lofty Ranges and the Gulf St Vincent.
Prospect Skatepark/Driveway Park, Adelaide
Adelaide, the liveliest city in Australia, is the capital of South Australia state and is situated on the Adelaide Plains and more specifically at the north side of Fleurieu Peninsula. The city is built next to Torrens River and is surrounded by the Mount Lofty Ranges and the Gulf St Vincent.
Wedge Island, Spencer Gulf
Wedge Island is located at the southeast of Port Lincoln with a surface of about 10 km²/3.86 mi², at the southeast of Australia. Being the largest of the small Gambier Islands Group, the Wedge island is located in the southern part of the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas in South Australia at the entrance to Spencer Gulf.
John Robb Wreck, North Haven
Adelaide, the liveliest city in Australia, is the capital of South Australia state. The city is situated on the Adelaide Plains and more specifically at the north side of Fleurieu Peninsula. The city is built next to Torrens River and is surrounded by the Mount Lofty Ranges and the Gulf St Vincent.
Craigburn Farm, Adelaide
Adelaide, the liveliest city in Australia, is the capital of South Australia state. It is situated on the Adelaide Plains and more specifically at the north side of Fleurieu Peninsula. It is built next to Torrens River and is surrounded by the Mount Lofty Ranges and the Gulf St Vincent. Craigburn is located at 20.9 km/13 mi from Adelaide's CBD.
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Investigator, Wardang Island
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The amazing Shilla has created the perfect staple black knit top this autumn/winter which I believe I may style it a little too often into my outfits. But when you feel great in something why not wear it a lot ..and get it in two other colours..whoops! I just couldn't help myself..when you are onto a good thing you just have to sometimes!
The black knit top was the perfect starting piece for my all black outfit.. I feel using different textures when you are working with one colour or shade really helps to make the outfit have a little life instead of looking flat. I mixed my leather look jeans and jacket back with the knitted textured top to create this look with an added pop of my favourite colour blue just to add something different to the look!


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On 26 of September, 2017, in the secondary schools Gorce Petrov and Gymnasium Mirce Acev in Prilep, INFO SEGA held workshops for OPIN e-participation tool for young people. At the workshops was promoted OPIN website, the proposed ideas from the youth and the manner of registration of young people were presented in order to follow the ideas, comment and like.
In the first phase of the project "Youth Voice in e-Participation" in the period from April to June 2017, we received 19 draft ideas and initiatives from the youth that are posted on the OPIN www.opin.me website and are in the phase of voting and commenting.
The project "Prilep Youth Voice and E-participation" is supported by the OPIN platform through the "EUth - Tools and Tips for Mobile and Digital Youth Participation in and across Europe" program.


Many years ago, at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, I had the pleasure of hearing Neil Gaiman speak. He was witty and charming, of course, but he also had some excellent writing tips to share. The most memorable was his response to someone who asked him if he was worried that his novel, The Graveyard Book, was basically The Jungle Book reinvented. Neil Gaiman said he wasn't worried at all. The story may exist, but he hadn't told it yet.
The story may exist, but we haven't told it yet.
These words are important to remember. As writers, it can be difficult to come up with ideas no one has ever developed before. Sometimes we worry that we're recycling material. That we are – dare I say it – unoriginal.
Ultimately, though, Gaiman was right. As writers, we'd do well to remember we can always retell a story and make it original. We can always make it our own. Just think of all the popular books out there which re-tell stories: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, Donna Jo Napoli's Bound, or The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. The Percy Jackson series is based on Greek mythology. Even Hillary Jordan's When She Woke was inspired by The Scarlet Letter.
The point is, there's nothing wrong with taking stories and putting a twist on them. Maybe part of the idea is borrowed, but the book is still original. YOU still wrote it. The writing is your writing – it carries your style and contains your little writing nuances, which are unique to each author.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not telling you to plagiarize. But re-imagined stories can lead to new worlds for our readers. So, if you're stuck for ideas, think about your favorite fairy tale or legend. Maybe it will inspire you to write.
Have you written a book inspired by another story? Feel free to share it in the comments!
Bethany--Your post echoes what I've often heard, that there are no original stories. There are basic plots that have been used and reused for hundreds of years. It is up to us to make them come alive with word choice and images and plot twists.
I am in the middle of a manuscript that tells a historical story... a story that many people have tried to sweep under the rug. How about you? What kind of "recycling" have you done lately?
My first book was about Sirens - based on Greek Mythology and their encounters with Orpheus!
I have spent many an English class discussing what falls in where, so I won't bore you with that.
I gotten story ideas from newspaper articles because fact is (sometimes) stranger than fiction!


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Josefine/Josephine Fini Kohl (gift Krüger), född 23 juni 1921 i stadsdelen Hainstadt i Hainburg, förbundsland Hessen, död 27 april 2012 i Seligenstadt, Hessen, var en tysk friidrottare med löpgrenar som huvudgren. Kohl var en pionjär inom damidrott, hon blev förste Europamästare i stafettlöpning då hon tog guldmedaljör vid EM i friidrott 1938 (det första EM där damtävlingar var tillåtna även om herrtävlingen hölls separat i Paris).

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Josephine Kohl föddes 1921 i västra Tyskland. Efter att hon börjat med friidrott tävlade hon i kortdistanslöpning och stafettlöpning. 1937 gick hon med i idrottsföreningen "Polizei-Sportverein Frankfurt" i Frankfurt am Main, 1939 gick hon över till "Eintracht Frankfurt".

1938 blev hon tysk juniormästare i löpning 100 meter, samma år tog hon sin första medalj som senior i de tyska mästerskapen vid tävlingar 28-30 juli på arenan Jahnkampfbahn i Breslau då hon vann bronsmedalj i löpning 100 meter med 12,5 sekunder.

1938 deltog hon även vid EM i friidrott 17 september–18 september på Praterstadion i Wien, under tävlingarna tog hon guldmedalj i stafettlöpning 4x100 meter med 46,8 sek (med Josephine Kohl som förste löpare, Käthe Krauss, Emmy Albus och Ida Kühnel).

1942 gifte hon sig med Walter Krüger och familjen flyttade till  Bremen, paret fick senare 4 barn. Mellan 1947 och 1957 tävlade hon för "SV Werder Bremen".

1947 blev hon tysk mästare i stafettlöpning 4x100 meter vid tävlingar 9-10 augusti i Köln.

1957 flyttade familjen tillbaka till Hainstadt, senare drog hon sig tillbaka från tävlingslivet. Kohl dog 2012.

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Bild affisch Dam-EM 1938 (Bildarchiv Austria)
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Tyska idrottare under 1900-talet
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Last post gave the particulars and now we have the finished product. Couldn't be more happy with the way it looks. I wouldn't try to argue one way or the other about the effectiveness of Multicam patterns in general or Multicam Black in particular because that doesn't matter much to me. What I will argue is that Multicam patterns do make for some awesome looking firearms and that was the goal.
This rifle is a complete home brew unit with an Aero M4E1 lower receiver and BCG coupled with an Anderson branded slick upper receiver, sans forward assist and dust cover because I think both are largely pointless. It's got an American Defense rail with a Faxon 14.5" Gunner profile barrel from AIM Surplus where they pin the gas block - a feature I am a big fan of. Adco pinned and welded the Vltor flash hider for me to round things off. The primary reason I went for the 14.5" Gunner barrel was partially to get a slightly more compact carbine, but primarily to keep the weight down. This particular barrel is very close to the weight of Faxon's 16" pencil barrel but with a slightly thicker profile for most of the barrel's length. Nothing else on the rifle is "heavy" and the slick-sided upper receiver knocks off a few ounces as well making this gun, as pictured with an empty magazine 6 and a half pounds almost exactly.
Well thanks to some forum enablers posting about the E1 lowers being on sale I snagged myself one and it is sweet. I also talked myself into taking a shot at some camo which felt like muddy waters as I was doing it but I am really happy with the results. I doubt it's useful but I dunno, black multicam just looks awesome to me and this picture doesn't really do it justice but I'll get more once it's had a couple days to dry and I get it put together.
I used stencils from weaponstencils.com and good ole Rustoleum. Camo black, "Chalked" Charcoal and Satin Oregano. The satin paints are … well they're satin and I didn't really want satin on this. However, the green color from the camo line to me is the wrong color of green. The oregano is much more drab and neutral. What I found is that if you put the satin over the ultra matte in a really thin coat, it flattens it out quite a bit. So I laid down black on the whole rifle then applied stencils, then dusted in the green, purposefully getting partial coverage in a lot of areas so the green would look faded. Then I put down more stencils and applied the charcoal, again, dusting some places, fully covering other places. Then I peeled all the stencils and dusted here and there with black from arms length away. I kinda like some of the green showing through so I left some of it showing with very little black dusting. The only thing I think I would have done different is I would have used more of the small shapes for the black. I used mostly the large shapes because I knew I wanted a lot of black showing through, but I think more little blotches of black would have been even better.
Digging through the ole flashdrive of pics and projects, how about some CZ P09 action?
Something I just realized about how I'm doing this is that this blog won't be a chronological history of what I've been up to. I'm terrible with life time lines already and using this to recount the past will make that even worse.
But who cares, we're carrying on regardless. I've had the P09 over a year now, put multiple thousands of rounds through it and blasted my way to a handful of match wins at the local multigun matches with it in hand. With more than a full season of action under its belt I have already gone back to iron sighted shooting with another gun in order to give the Czech workhorse a rest and pursue other skills and competitive disciplines. I bought the P09 specifically to have it milled for a red dot and nearly every round fired from it has been guided by the Burris FastFire 3 mounted to it. The only exceptions where a couple initial magazines worth to prove that it functioned and shot well out of the box. Upon return from mill work, I installed the full Cajun Gun Works package and did my own functional, though not perhaps all that visually awe inspiring, stipple work. Slippery guns don't fly in my world. It's not grippy enough until it hurts and calluses are a a useful recoil management tool in my view. Your hobbies aren't a part of you until they change you, until your body changes itself to accommodate your pursuits.
And some home brew kydex, bullets cast from wheel weights and coated with Hi-Tek.
Hi-Tek Black Cherry and Black mixed. Lee 125gr molds.
Big ole Dawson front sight aligns with a white mark on the rear of the Burris.
I achieved good success with the cast bullets, however inconsistencies all around are pushing me further and further away from using them. Not to mention the time involved in casting and coating the number of 9mm bullets I sling per year these days.
I'm not even sure I'm going to go too far back and check on what I have or have not posted here over the last couple neglectful years. Just gonna post stuff.
Here's a recent axe project. Locust handle, carved by me obviously. It's a PLUMB marked Blish Mize. I have no idea the story there and I personally have a hate/hate relationship with PLUMBs because they crack every time I hang one.
Now THAT is an axe handle. Look at that swell. Damn!


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Walker too much for West Ouachita
Lady Wildcats roll to winn over Lady Chiefs.
Walker too much for West Ouachita Lady Wildcats roll to winn over Lady Chiefs. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: http://tnsne.ws/1SJSjbX
Jimmy Touchet Published 8:14 p.m. CT April 2, 2016
West Ouachita sophomore pitcher Regan Hobbs (2) fires a strike against the Walker Wildcats on Saturday.(Photo: Jimmy Touchet/Special to The News-Star)Buy Photo
The Walker Lady Wildcats' bats were consistent as they scored runs in every inning, except the third, en route to claiming an 11-2 victory over the West Ouachita Lady Chiefs at West Ouachita's Reservation on Saturday in the sixth annual North-South Softball Tournament.
"Walker came out ready to play and we came out flat," West Ouachita coach Ashley Hoyle said. "We didn't make plays early on defense which was contagious for us. We swung the bat, and hit the ball right to them. We scored a couple of runs, but we couldn't get anything going."
Walker scored two runs in the top of the first while adding a single run in the top of the second, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. In the top of the seventh, Walker senior Katelynn McKenzie blasted a hit just over the right-center field fence for a grand slam home run that highlighted the five- run seventh inning for the Lady Wildcats.
Walker traveled several hours from just northeast of Baton Rouge to compete in the two-day tournament. The Lady Wildcats lost to West Monroe 10-1 on Friday before defeating Ruston 3-1 and West Ouachita 11-2 on Saturday.
"This was a good tournament for us in the terms of the competiveness of the other teams (in the tournament)," Walker coach Ricky Reine said. "We had to stay on toes in the games which made us focus a little better."
At the plate, Walker was led by senior Miranda Smith who went 4-for-5 with two RBIs.
In her second start of the season, West Ouachita sophomore Regan Hobbs was the losing pitcher. Despite the score, Hobbs had some nice moments on the mound and performed well for the Lady Chiefs striking out three Walker batters.
"She (Hobbs) is young and learning," Hoyle said. "She has to keep the ball down in the zone or up in the zone. When we were able to do that, we were able to get some ground balls for outs. We lacked leadership in the field to get the job done today."
West Ouachita's Bethaney Rogers (3-for-3) was the leading hitter for the Lady Chiefs while Sierra Gasca (1-for-3), Amelia Purdy (1-for-3, one RBI), Samantha Eckert (1-for-3) and Carah Gooden (1-for-2) each collected a hit for West Ouachita. Shelby Carlson had an RBI on a sacrifice shot to the center fielder that scored Gasca who was on third base.


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Q: Modelling Conway's game of life in integer linear programming? I'm trying to model Conway's game of life rules using integer linear programming, however I'm stuck with one of the rules.
I consider a finite n x n grid. Each cell in the grid is associated with a variable X(i,j) whose value is 0 if the cell is dead and 1 if it is alive.
I'm particularly interested in still lifes, i.e. configurations that, according to the rules, don't change from an instant to the next.
To find them I'm imposing the constraints on the number of neighbours for each cell. So, for an alive cell to remain still it must have 2 or 3 neighbours, and this is easily expressible:
2(1-X(i,j)) + Σ(i,j) >= 2

-5(1 - X(i,j)) + Σ(i,j) <= 3

Where Σ(i, j) is the sum over the neighbours of (i, j) (assume outside of the grid the values are all 0s).
If X(i,j) == 0 then the first addend guarantees that the the constraints are trivially satisfied. When X(i, j) == 1 the constraints guarantee that we have a still life.
The problem is the other rule: for a dead cell to remain dead it must have any number of neighbours different from 3.
However, AFAIK you cannot use != in a constraint.
The closest I've come is:
X(i, j) + |Σ(i, j) - 3| > 0

Which does express what I want, but the problem is that I don't think the absolute value can be used in that way (only absolute values of single variables can be expressed. Or is there a way to express this particular situation?).
I wonder, is there a standard way to express the !=?
I was thinking that maybe I should use multiple inequalities instead of a single one (e.g. for every possible triple/quadruple of neighbours...), but I cannot think of any sensible way to achieve that.
Or maybe there is some way of abusing the optimization function to penalize this situation and thus, obtaining an optimum would yield a correct solution (or state that it's impossible, depending on the value).
Is anyone able to express that constraint using a linear inequality and the variables X(i, j) (plus, eventually, some new variables)?

A: The standard way to express

is to express it as

by introducing a new binary variable that indicates which inequality holds true.
This is explained here, at section 7.4.
In a nutshell, if we define y such that

then we need to add the constraints

Where

This is the standard way to model this, but in specific applications there might be better ways. Usually, the tighter the bounds on the sum are, the best the solver performance.


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That's Charlie with the new Barnes and Noble NOOK HD®.
That's what they say. What about me? Well, as I told them the other day when they phoned to see how I'd been getting on, I'd have more to say if I'd been able to use it but... well, the picture (above) tells its own story.
Well, I can confirm the resolution is, quite simply, stunning. And they're not paying me to say that. And the Nook HD has to go back in another couple of weeks. But. Well. Although I haven't another 7 inch tablet to compare it with I'd say it was every bit the equal of the iPad's "resolutionary" display. The clincher for us though - and, I'd say, for all families - is its multiple-user profiles, which means we can all set the device up and download and use what's appropriate to us - and parents can control what's appropriate for their children by keeping the account and download details secure in their - grown-up - profile.
Oh and that account. You have to sign up to Barnes and Noble - just like you do to Amazon if you own a Kindle - but it's free. And you don't have to buy anything if you don't want to as there are over a million titles entirely free to download. But you WILL want to buy something - films, paid-for titles, magazines subscriptions - because the reading and viewing pleasure is so, well... pleasurable.
Anyway, back to the kids. Once they've gone to bed why not download one of the many 'read and record' titles available and, well, 'read and record' a bedtime story for them? It's like creating your very own audio book and - next evening, at bedtime - they can flip the pages, see the pictures, and hear you reading the story even though you're downstairs with a gin and tonic watching the television.
Seriously, this is going to be invaluable for parents who have to spend time away from home. A stash of 'read and record' titles stored on the Nook and daddy can still read you a bedtime story even though he's thousands of miles away and in another time-zone.
Earlier this year, after (inadvertently) standing on my ASUS EeePad (and before Tim at OneTone very generously replaced it for me) I took the plunge and bought an iPad3. I've been very pleased with my purchase - no regrets; it does what it says and it does what I want and - as a confirmed iPhone addict - it integrates well with all that.
If the Nook HD had been around at the time I'd have had a very, very difficult job choosing between the two and may (tell it not in Gath!) ultimately have plumped for the Nook not least for it's family-friendly capabilities.
In short, if you're pondering your options and have some Christmas gift money burning a hole in your pocket (£229 for 16GB; £269 for 32GB, both expandable) I can highly recommend one of these.


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Stroll out the front door of this apartment and the charming high street with its countless shops is just 30 metres away. Walk another 30 metres, pass under the gate, and you're on the boulevard. And just on the other side: the Mosel River. You almost couldn't get any closer to this romantic river! It's wonderful to dine here in the evening at one of the many restaurant terraces as the sun slowly sets behind the hills on the other side. You can see the vineyards on these hills where the well-known wine is made, which you can buy anywhere in Zell: Schwarze Katz, meaning black cat. This animal has been the symbol of the town since time immemorial, as you can see from its presence in the main square. The apartment is furnished in a modern design, with a small rear courtyard where you can sit outside. It is intended for 6 people, but can accommodate 8 people upon request. When combined with DE-56856-26 it forms DE-56856-27 for larger groups. It's nice to follow the river upstream (towards Trier) or downstream (towards Koblenz) as it meanders through the hilly countryside. Be sure to visit picturesque Cochem.


Sudheer Babu is an entrepreneur, writer, poet, and management consultant based in Kerala. His collection of business and management articles, Varoo Namukkoru Business Thudangam (Come, Let Us Start A Business), published by NBS Publications in Kerala, has marked the beginning of a new phase in business literature, having a formative influence on management theory and practice.
Varoo Namukkoru Business Thudangam has become a noted work in the history of business books in Malayalam language, which eventually set a benchmark for management books in the regional language.
Sudheer Babu is the founder and managing director of Kochi-based De Valor Management Consultants Private Limited, a leading consulting firm with presence across India and the Middle East with strong client base from corporates, SMEs and startups. As a guide, mentor and consultant to young and experienced entrepreneurs, Sudheer Babu has been pro-active in Kerala's business landscape for more than a decade.
Sudheer Babu is a member of Kerala Management Association (KMA), Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Indian Institute of Material Management, and TiE Kerala.
He writes the weekly "Thinkal Kurippukal (Monday Notes)" column for Future Kerala business daily, and the monthly "Management Guide" column for DC Books Emerging Kerala business magazine. He is also a regular contributor for various newspapers and magazines.