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LOSBC hits the rocks
EAB / April 28, 2017
Bad news, to put it mildly, reached me yesterday from London. It seems that the London Oratory School has announced that it is shutting down its rowing programme. This will apparently involve winding up the LOSBC, laying off its staff, selling its assets, and using the proceeds to offset the school's budget deficit.
The school has, I understand, said that the rowing programme is costing £150K p.a. to run and that this is unsustainable.
This is the programme which I ran for 9 years when I was a teacher at the school, so it is something which is close to my heart. And if what I hear is all true (and it is hard to believe, so I hope it is not) then I think the school would be making a huge mistake, and should urgently reconsider.
LOSBC beating The King's School, Canturbury in the first round of the Henley Royal Regatta in 2016. Rumour had it that the King's crew included five members who had previously rowed for England as juniors. LOSBC won by three lengths, in their brand-new £35K Empacher eight which had been funded largely by the Parents' Fundraising Committee.
Here are some off-the-cuff thoughts about why I believe shutting down the rowing programme would be the wrong thing to do:
The total cost is unlikely to be anything like the £150K quoted. It is a while since I was involved, but whichever way I look at it I can't get my estimated total for wages, boathouse rental and other expenses up to much more than £100K. So I'd like to see their figures.
The net cost to the school is in any case considerably less than the total, as a substantial part is covered by donations and club member subscriptions. £50K is my bottom line estimate for the school's net expenditure – about one third of what has been quoted.
Five in a row. Gerald Elphicke took this picture of some of the LOSBC boats while organising a seat racing session at London Docklands in 2016.
The assets, which include a £50K boat-purchase fund and a valuable collection of boats built up over the past 10 years, were accumulated largely through parental donations. So although the school technically controls these assets, they are in a sense being held in trust for their intended purpose and should not, most people would think, be used for other purposes without the knowledge or consent of the donors and their successors. To simply absorb them into the school's general funds would resemble asset-stripping of the most egregious kind.
The benefits. The link between rowing and academic achievement is real and well-documented. The fitness and self-discipline built up by training feeds through into better exam results and university offers. The many successes achieved by LOS boys who are currently competing in top university crews shows how irresponsible it would be for any school to shut down a successful rowing programme unless this was unavoidable.
The real value of the LOS programme, not just to the school but also to British rowing generally and thus the country at large, is actually far greater than its comparatively modest assets might suggest. This is a story with all kinds of social and political angles: here is a comprehensive school which started with no assets and no track record, and within 10 years was winning events in its own boats against the big-name bastions of privilege – such as Westminster, St. Paul's and Eton – which have dominated Thames rowing for the past 100 years. LOSBC is currently producing a stream of talented rowers who are going on to join top university and national squads, and demonstrating how "social mobility" can apply to sporting as well as professional life. Far from being shut down, it should be given increased support, and used as a model for other state schools with sporting aspirations.
The Stakeholders. If the school nevertheless feels that it needs to consider closing the club, it should surely make no move in that direction without first consulting those involved, explaining the rationale, and discussing the options. If cost really is the issue, then it is entirely possible that further fundraising or sponsorship could be organised to fill the gap. The club's supporters have been outstandingly successful in fundraising in the past, and should be given the opportunity to step into the breach now.
The pushback. If, on the other hand, it turns out that the rationale is simply one of short-term financial expediency, then we are looking at the start of a real scandal. The club members and their supporters will not take this lying down: they will be looking for ways to salvage the situation. And there will be a lot of people, including me, cheering them on from the towpath.
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16 thoughts on "LOSBC hits the rocks"
Ben Dickens says:
Really good article and thorough analysis. Really hope that we are able to save the club as it means so much to both the boys and parents.
Mark Buchinger says:
This is so disappointing to hear if it is indeed true. I started rowing at school at the same time Ali took over the helm, and it was inspirational to see how the club developed with the help of the dedicated oarsmen and passionate parents.
I still remember those cold wet winter mornings rowing out of MAABC and then Putney Town, we were a homeless and kit less club. So the day we could finally afford our own oars was a momentous one. We decided on the colour scheme and pattern and from then on we had our own identity, one that friends, family and opposition would recognise (and fear!)
After leaving The London Oratory I went to Liverpool University, which also had a small boat club, but we had big aspirations, so when I became club captain I used the skills that LOSBC had taught me in developing and growing the club. I knew how much work Ali had put into the club at that time and I went about doing the same, having meetings etc to get the funding needed to grow the club, and the University started to become a big hitter in racing circles.
Instead of burning out, which happens to a lot of school rowers, I continued after University and spent a good few memorable years at Molsey, one of the leading clubs in the country. And again I believe that if it wasn't for LOSBC head hunting me from the rugby team, I wouldn't have become the rower or person that I am today.
I truly hope that the school reconsiders this decision, especially if it is down to finance, it will affect a lot of children that will never have the opportunity to try rowing, and who knows, there could be the next Steve Redgrave or Andrew Triggs Hodge in their midst!
lucasjones13 says:
Hopefully everything will be sorted out between the governors and the parents, and all our efforts to make the boatclub cost-neutral pay off. It would be such a shame to shut us down during the peak of our history. Thank you for all the support that you have given us all this time!
Richmond Home Concierge says:
Ali's wonderful motivation and enthusiasm was the reason my son first got involved in rowing at LOSBC. Over the years, a team of committed parents, coaches and boys have turned the club into the success it is today and it would be terribly sad for it to end. Year after year, the LOSBC Support Group has consistently demonstrated a financial commitment to the club and has successfully raised funds to purchase boats, marquees and promotional merchandise as well as given funds for training camps and part-time staff. I'm convinced that with a little sponsorship, the club can make this work. Good luck to all and if there are any sponsors reading this, please get in touch with LOSBC!
Ali, you are an inspiration as always!
David Ford says:
Very alarming !! The school has consistently backed music first, rugby second and rowing a distant third and when after many years of investment and what seems like awful financial planning they decide to cut the sport does have a positive, measurable outcome, just doesn't make sense. Back in 84 a few 'lads' effectively bunked off school to race in the schools head and finished 3rd. A couple of Henley medal winners and one GB athlete emerged from that 4 and two of us are still involved in the sport. I can't believe the school has burnt its reserves and now has to 'burn' the club.
kevin yeung says:
Bit of a buzzkill to open this morning. Working with the rowing programme at Oratory (2012-2015) has been pivotal to me as a qualified Strength & Conditioning coach to develop my coaching skills and career so far. It wasn't just a life changing opportunity for me, it was even bigger for the kids. Here's a typical routine these top kids (correct me if I'm wrong lads) endured:
7:30-8:30AM- ERGO rowing
10:30AM- Breaktime Mobility
3:40-5PM- S&C with me
Break time- Mobility
PM-Easy ERGO & mobility
After school- River rowing or ERGO
AM-ERGO
Breaktime- Mobility
PM- S&C with me
7:30AM- S&C with me (imagine December time in a non-heated boathouse gym, or just watch rocky 4 when stallone is training in a shed and you're there).
9:30AM- River rowing (Or vice versa).
There was no luck. Or genetics. Or PEDs. Or this illusive "150K" funding. We all worked for peanuts actually. And I carried on doing it, because these kids showed all of us they wanted it. It wasn't brain washed, they all had a choice to stay or leave. Even high level working adult athletes aren't this keen. And that's why some of these kids are doing well at University, moving to the US to top Universities like MIT, kids going to Oxford (!). I hope you guys find a way, I'm sure you will. A big footprint will only be followed by others.
ahermens says:
Very good article and thanks for the time spent in writing it. Fingers crossed they can come up with a solution to save it, because everything in this article suggests it would be a terrible loss to lose it.
Chantal Coady OBE says:
Ali – as others have said, you have been such an inspiration in getting the LOSBC up and running and then actually qualifying for Henley!
We as parents have been so proud to have been a small part of this organisation, and I can safely say that had our son not been a part of it, his academic work would not have been raised to the heights he achieved in the end. As a dyslexic child, he struggled with so much, and the confidence he gained through rowing was pivotal – he learned about effort, focus, teamwork and personal bests. He got up so many dark winter mornings at 5am to row on the river, that takes grit and commitment and LOSBC has been the BEST thing about London Oratory School – they would be mad not to continue as there is direct correlation between rowing and academic results and the Parents have given so much to this part of the school. Its a real gem and I for one would be furious if was "asset stripped" to subsidise another area of the school.
Long may LOSBC continue and good luck to all who row the boats
Chantal Coady OBE
Valery Ryan says:
This is an excellent account of a very unfortunate situation. Simply I'm dismayed that future generations of boys at LOS – and possibly girls too – won't have the same wonderful opportunity that my son had. He coxed for the boat club until he left the school last year and gained countless benefits from the chance to be part of a remarkable squad, club and sport that he wouldn't otherwise have had at the Oratory.
Shutting down the rowing programme at LOS would be a disgraceful waste of the priceless legacy built up over decades by so many people – dedicated and brilliant coaches including Ali, Gerald Elphicke, Keith Brown, Jonno Davidson, Steve Salter and Stuart Heap; supportive and generous parents; and of course the boys themselves – to a point where the club had succeeded in engaging Nick Wilde, one of the top rowing coaches in the country.
This is not a niche after-school club but a curriculum sports programme involving around one hundred boys from 3rd Year to Upper Sixth, and the only serious alternative to rugby offered at LOS. If the school closes the rowing club it would still have the cost of making provision for those students to have curriculum games and other sport. It seems like a very short-sighted move, especially at a time when similar schools like Cardinal Vaughan have just restarted their rowing programme, and initiatives by British Rowing and other bodies are succeeding in making rowing more accessible to young people regardless of their social or economic background.
Anyone who is still in any doubt about the wisdom of the proposed closure should watch this video of the LOSBC 1st 8 competing at Henley Regatta last year – and listen carefully to the commentary!
Alison Elliott (Coach at neighbouring Emanuel) says:
Seems unbelievable that after all the effort put in to develop the club that the school would back away from it now. It clearly has great parental support, a great team on board and has got to the stage where its equipment supports a great programme with large numbers of boys enjoying and benefiting from the sport. Maintaining what they have, even in these times of difficult funding, must surely pay dividends for the school.
John Wastnage says:
Great article. This is really shocking given LOSBC's impressive results in recent years – qualified for the PE in 2015 and won 1st VIIIs at last year's Nat Schools. As you make clear in your article, the costs quoted by the school look like a huge exaggeration. My understanding was that LOSBC were producing these results with an intelligent coaching programme despite a massive funding gap compared to the 'big' schools.
Laurence Ryan says:
As the grandfather of one of the boys in the club I have taken LOSBC into my life in recent years with great pleasure and pride. I have enjoyed attending regattas where possible or vicariously following results online or broadcast. The culmination for me was the superb performance of the 1st Eight at Henley last year. The obvious respect and admiration expressed notably by the race commentators acknowledged LOSBC as a serious presence in British Schools' rowing.
Mr Boileau's article is most cogent. I hope his sentiments and arguments will have due attention and support. Surely each present and future pupil of London Oratory School – boys and girls — will be able to
choose the great British sport of rowing as her or his way of personal fulfilment/enrichment/recreation.
Go n-éirigh leat agus libh.
(Success to you and them.)
Mike Dolan (LOSBC 1999 - 2003) says:
Disappointing to hear this news if it's true.
The club in 1999 had no boats, oars or identity. It was a games option and its profile was on a par with fencing.
The only "assets" were the all in ones the boys's parents had to purchase. I remember watching on enviously at other schools' programs which were rowing at Henley and Nat Champs.
Forward on to today and the LOSBC is well organized, has a significant membership and the required fleet. It even won Nat Champs! A far cry to the days of losing Quintin regatta in a loaner coxless four provided by the accommodating hosts of MAABC.
It has taken nearly two decades to get to that point so why throw it all away? The teachers, parents and the boys themselves have invested far too much to now lose the benefits of a school rowing program.
The benefits to my mind are as follows:
1. Rowing is a year round sport with the competitive races held in the summer. This teaches the rowers discipline and the experience to train on bleak, cold and relentlessly tiring Saturday mornings translates well to school work. The A stars awarded for GCSE and A Level subjects aren't earned during Trinity term, but rather through commitment to lessons, coursework and homework in Michaelmas and Lent terms.
2. The standard of U.K. rowing in schools is so high that outstanding fitness is a given. Studies have shown that a healthy body significantly helps with mental stress and relaxation. Rowing therefore furthers the school's pastoral care principles.
3. Rowing at this level builds character and forms lasting friendships. Having left the U.K. some years ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself waiting for a train at Barnes station alongside LOSBC rowers. They set a fine example and were fantastic ambassadors of the school. Amongst themselves they talked about fatigue but also the need to get homework done. Their enthusiasm and commitment to help each other was very encouraging.
Ali – more than happy to come into the school if you would like to set up a meeting. I'll be in London September 15 through 20.
Hugo_Ferr says:
Rowing at The London Oratory School contains the most amount support than any other activity in the school. For a pupil, it is the most enjoyed part of the week, and by shutting it down, the amount of sadness it will cause would be immense. The club is expanding in numbers, and to close the whole club despite winning a Gold medal at national schools regatta in the 1st VIII's category last year, would be truly bitter. The club has so much more to offer, not to mention the great coaching which will certainly reap rewards in the future. Going on the water after school is a truly enjoyable feeling, or doing a gym session after school is stress relieving and improves students work – study ethic. Chiswick Boat House is like a second home for the rowers, and taking it away would be melancholy.
CD Riches says:
This is really very worrying news. We have been so impressed by the way London Oratory rowing has developed over the years, largely with your uber enthusiasm and drive. This cannot be allowed to happen.
There must be solutions. The Boat club is not simply about rowing or sport in school, it is about development of leadership, reliability, personal time-management, organisation, team building, crew and ultimately well rounded great character.
London Oratory cannot afford to lose this!
CD WSBC
Jacky Balfour says:
If this is true then it is a terrible shame.
It is well documented that physical exercise improves concentration and academic performance.
The skills that can be improved by rowing such as: organisation, commitment, time management and learning how to prioritise are skills that will be invaluable at university and later on in one's career.
In the UK there are problems of adult and child obesity and surely a school should be encouraging lifelong habits of exercise.
My son's rowing days with the LOSBC have undoubtedly enriched his life and it would be a tragedy if future generations of pupils do not have the benefit of this experience.


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Barney Bubbles – Alice In Wonderland film
The rare and much discussed Barney Bubbles 'Alice In Wonderland' film (made with Michel Parry and a bunch of our other friends) has been unearthed from the vaults and can be viewed here! Barney Bubbles (Colin Fulcher), who was my old pal back from those times can be seen on the film, as can Rosemary Chester who plays Alice.
However, note that the music isn't the originally intended soundtrack – it is a new song by Michel Parry's daughter's band 'Bear Driver' – and the footage has been re-edited by 'Bear Driver' band member Harry. Some of the locations are recognisable as Soho square and Crystal Palace Park, where the monsters are! Here are some stills:
Barney Bubbles film still: The Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah.
Barney Bubbles film still
Barney Bubbles film still: Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Barney is on the right, looking towards the camera.
I'll have many more words to add soon about this escapade, so as usual, check back for more…
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R and M	9:59 pm on March 5, 2011	Permalink | Reply
In the still that shows Barney Bubbles looking towards the camera, there is a masked figure next to him. This exact same mask can be seen in one of your photos from the Sounds Good Evening held at Leigh Court in 1967. Here is the direct link to the pic https://davidwills.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/rowdy-times-at-leigh-court-high-the-sounds-good-evening/
Crispin & Jennie Thomas	3:28 pm on June 25, 2011	Permalink | Reply
David ..I reckon this film must have been a long on-going project of Barney's…Jennie and i hitched to Matala Greece and Istanbul, via Paris ( i guess 67) and ended up making ( I guess a Super-8 ?) version of Alice In Wonderland with Jwennie paying an Alice type figure..in the gardeen of a house in Boulogne Billancourt /Paris..where Barney was staying….and here we are stil together x from Stroud .Werer you there too?
davidwills	10:50 pm on March 5, 2011	Permalink | Reply
Yup, sure is, it's the fromer labour PM, Mr Wilson, the taxman of Beatles fame.
davidwills	12:24 am on March 6, 2011	Permalink | Reply
At one pont in the tea party there a guy wearing a pointed hat that came from a street find on the North End Road, including someone's complete Jordanian I.D. The top hats were from the old Peterborough Road days of Chris Higson and Mick Jackson when the hats were often worn to Trad-Jaz events.
This reminds me so much of an Andy Warhol movie. From what I read of Edie Sedgewick's adventures at the Factory in Manhattan I can see how much we owed to Andy Warhol in our various adventures. I was at the opening party of the new Factory, I think in August 67. Went with Brice Marden's swoon, Helen Harrington the muse, I took off with Sandy Daley, said she was the daughter of the the late Mayor Daley and sibling of #2, a videographer of an intelligent (she thought I was smart) red crew-cut beauty in jeans. She filmed the piercing of Mapplethorpe's nipple at the Factory about that time. Over coffee in a grease-bar she invited me back to the Chelsea Hotel, I said "Why?" in that anoying inner idiot voice i know so well. She looked like I came in from the moon, "Whadda y' think?."
Reading Ciao Manhattan it's easy to imagine what awaited. But Helen's sage advice not to get hooked-up with the Factory crowd too much kicked in and I slouched off, early as usual, leaving the party, back to the pin factory on Grand Street. Thereby avoiding a disolute life of depravity, speed and an early death.
Yes, the Warhol crowd were represented in 1967 at Leigh Court by Helen, who loved our set-up and compared it favorably with Andy's doings, but without the death thing. She gave smart advice that has followed me through life, "An artist is one who does art, that which is done by an artist is art." She also said that Brice had said that once you had worked in ad agency you could no longer be an artist. I expect he said that thinking of Andy W who had toiled in the art department at JWT or similar, I figured it didn't apply to me 'cos I'd only worked at DPB&T long enough to act as a catalyst on the boss and send him to New York..
R and M	8:41 am on March 6, 2011	Permalink | Reply
In Will Birch's book 'No Sleep Till Canvey Island' this film gets a mention. Here's a quote from it:
"'Colin Fulcher was into fantasy', says Stafford Cliff, another former colleague at Conran. 'He made a film in Kensington Gardens, where everyone had to dress up as characters from Alice In Wonderland. He was drawn towards the pop scene and underground publications such as Oz, in which he desperately wanted to be involved'."
LiveUnsigned	10:51 am on March 10, 2011	Permalink | Reply
Great to hear Bear Driver involved in something like this. A very creative band: http://www.liveunsigned.com/Bear_Driver/
davidwills	9:28 pm on March 10, 2011	Permalink | Reply
… er, isn't that comment from Bear Driver, about Bear Driver?
'Tis so, very creative. I think perhaps they are not getting their money's worth from LiveUnsigned.com
R and M	8:50 am on March 11, 2011	Permalink | Reply
David, whilst we're loosely on the theme of creative projects based on literary works, do you have any recollections of the Hobbit you and Barney Bubbles made, around 1968?
Hi there good people one and both, no I can't say as how I do, having little, nay no, memory of the occasion. Are you sure I was there?
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Barney Bubbles snaps Maisie P
Colin Fulcher snaps Margaret Minay. The top pic shows the invitation by postcard, the bottom pics show the results.
Margaret Minay writes: "I'm not sure what pictures you are going to use… The ones in Colin's bedroom, or the ones in Syon Lodge. Or both?
Either way, you can be sure that on both occasions I was terrified.
I was very unsure of myself, and couldn't really think why anybody would want to photograph me… But I was also very attracted to Colin, and as I said before, in awe of him.
When he was taking the photographs in his bedroom, I felt slightly more confident than when he took the pictures later in Syon Lodge, because we were alone and he was quiet and thoughtful, unlike when he was in college with his mates.
We listened to music, Leadbelly, I think it was, and, we spoke about a lot of the things I was interested in… namely jazz and politics… Because of my father's influence I was brought up to be very left wing and we spoke about CND and my close friendship with another student, whom Colin had dubbed 'Ban-the-bomb' because of her involvement with the CND marches.
He also knew I was going to a concert to see Thelonius Monk and I think he was quite impressed… It was later that he sent me another postcard with a beautiful little painting of who he thought was Monk, but in fact it was Stevie Wonder. He'd just found a picture in a magazine and copied it without realising who it was… He cracked up when I told him.
The session in Syon Lodge was more difficult, because I was so self-conscious. He was cracking jokes all the time just to make me laugh. Nothing ever came of the photo-shoot, I don't know why he thought anything would.
Now I just feel melancholy, thinking of that long time ago… "
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davidwills	1:33 am on January 10, 2011	Permalink | Reply
I think the year is 1962, in May, please correct me should you know better.
"Jenny' referred to in the post card is Twick'art student Jennifer, she can be seen elsewhere is this train, she is the tall girl (wrongly caprioned by another name) with Roy 'Bumps' Burge in the photograph of the A1GGz painting their version of Kesey's bus 'Furher."
David Wills	8:17 pm on January 26, 2011	Permalink | Reply
I realize now that I saw this post card before Colin (Barney) sent it, was impressed by his use of thick rules, but was shocked by the use of the 'w' word and seriously thought that Maisie wold be horrified too. Didn't mention it at the time, but expected she'd never speak to him again because she was, unlike most other arters of our aquaintance then, a sophisticated and politicaly aware person whom I very much admired,
davidwills	4:25 pm on February 1, 2011	Permalink | Reply
I'm doing a recall, Misty fade, 1963, Colin is still at school, shows me the prints when we went to look at the new pad, at Leigh Court in West Ken. I had worked as a pro printer, used Picture Post's photography printers for my prints, and was working at Town magazine, so I had David Bailey and Donald McCullen prints with which to compare Fulcher's efforts. Thinking of a layout I say they need trimming vertically with the sides cropped off, The way I thought that he'd do it was by cutting a paper mask and gumming it to the print, as we did at work on Town magazine. But Colin actually cut the prints with a Stanley knife, and a few days later shows me, I think to myself he shouldn't have used the one on the right, maybe just the ones on the left and in the middle. but say it looks cool anyway. I mentioned the cutting of the prints, how it makes it difficult to reproduce. He said it didn't matter 'cos he was going to make new prints anyway. Still at this time he thought he had got an entry to some fancy magazine who would use his pictures, maybe through Mr. Gould, although I have no rason for presuming that. Could have been his imagination. Someone must have further said something to him about his snaps 'cos he threw everything away.
People enjoy intimate details: I was at that time hugely jealous of Fulcher's way with women and Maggie in particular. And Barney may also have been envious of me at other times. On a positive note over the years he certainly tried to hook me up with variously very creative women, notably Allison and Pamela Poland.
Barney and my disagreements were worked out on the battlefield of lfe and kept track of with a loosely accounted points system. Ah, miss spent youth. Fade to sunrise.

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How can I set the rule so something like "a.active": { "color": "#FF0000" } gets applied?
[that does't do anything btw, but i thought maybe it would help it out]

A: you can do one of the following:
1- modify drupal's a.class rule to:
a.class {
  color:#f00;
}

this is in order to have a consistent website (all active links are red)
2- or you can override the CSS rule:
h1#site-name a.active {
  color:#f00;
}

*

*make sure you include the js file after CSS files in order to override the rule.

A: I don't believe Flash lets you select links with a class name (a.active). Best bet is to put the active class on the h1 instead. You can then replace h1.active to do the different styling. Make sure to replace it before the other h1s though.

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22. Star Wars: The Clone Wars [Film] (2008)
Opening Crawl: A galaxy divided! Striking swiftly after the Battle of Geonosis, Count Dooku's droid army has seized control of the major hyperspace lanes, separating the Republic from the majority of its clone army. With few clones available, the Jedi generals cannot gain a foothold on the Outer Rim as more and more planets choose to join Dooku's Separatists. While the Jedi are occupied fighting a war, no one is left to keep the peace. Chaos and crime spread, and the innocent become victims in a lawless galaxy. Crime lord Jabba the Hutt's son has been kidnapped by a rival band of pirates. Desperate to save his son, Jabba puts out a call for help — a call the Jedi are cautious to answer…
The Light Side (Cast of Goodies): Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter), Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein), Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor), Commander Cody (Dee Bradley Baker), Captain Rex (Dee Bradley Baker), and Padmé Amidala (Catherine Taber)
The Dark Side (Cast of Baddies): Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman), Ziro the Hutt (Corey Burton), and Whorm Loathsom (Corey Burton)
"Thanks, Wedge!" (Underrated Characters): Captain Rex was as invented of a character for The Clone Wars as Ahsoka Tano, but received a lot less attention – partially because Ahsoka filled the scrutiny-laden role of Anakin's Padawan and partially due to the fact that he's a clone. He is, after all, one face among millions of identical ones. But Rex quickly establishes himself as a memorable and skilled trooper, fighting off wave after wave of Separatist infiltrators during the Battle of Teth and using subterfuge to coyly alert General Skywalker to the dangers of Ahsoka Tano. The Clone Wars always faced an uphill climb separating each clone character into their own personalities. Rex was the first of many unique clones to succeed in becoming individuals – a legacy that has endured all the way to Rebels.
"I Don't Know? Fly Casual!" (Memorable Ships): In its most egregious sin, the prequels lacked a Millennium Falcon, a ship with enough character that it probably warranted a starring credit. It seemed that The Clone Wars aimed to correct this mistake by introducing the Twilight, an enlarged B-wing-like freighter stolen from Ziro the Hutt's crime syndicate during the Battle of Teth. After surviving a crash landing on Tatooine while rushing Rotta the Hutt back to his father, the ship became the closest approximation to a personal ship for Anakin and his compatriots during The Clone Wars television series. But after featuring heavily in Season One, it never was incorporated fully a la the Ghost from Rebels, appearing infrequently. The Twilight was destroyed by Darth Maul in Season Five. In a film and subsequent show dominated by military vessels, from starfighters to capital cruisers, a ship like the Twilight stood out.
"Who's Scruffy Looking?" (Memorable Alien/Creature): Ziro the Hutt's introduction was met with a unique set of vitriol – emanating both from liberal and conservative viewpoints. "From a certain point of view," Ziro was either so flamboyant that he was a caricature or so flamboyant that he should not have appeared in a child-targeted animated film. But in seven years of social progression, acceptance, and reality, Ziro has become a cult-favorite: a Truman Capote-inspired Hutt as the ruler of an alien crime syndicate. In an otherwise drab film with little flair, the absolutely over-the-top Ziro is a welcome distraction for the final act.
"Never Tell Me the Odds" (Box Office): In arguably the darkest days of the Star Wars legacy, 2008's The Clone Wars amassed a pitiful $68 million worldwide.
May the Force Be with You (Force Elements): In an underrated and unappreciated use of the Force, both the battles of Teth and Christophsis demonstrated how useful it was to have a Jedi (or Jedis) deflect blaster bolts during infantry and armor charges. Requiring the most precise command of the "Control" aspect of the Force, blaster bolt deflection shielded the advances of the Grand Army of the Republic. On the jungle world of Teth, Ahsoka and Anakin's command allowed the clone troopers to go vertical and ascend a massive cliff face during a crucial point of their assault.
Lightsaber Options: Ahsoka Tano offered a lot of insight into how well-trained Padawans came to their Masters after being dispatched by (presumably) Master Yoda. Ahsoka arrived to Christophsis a very skilled green-bladed lightsaber combatant that held her own against MagnaGuards and the Sith apprentice, Asajj Ventress.
Ventress herself was armed with twin red-bladed lightsabers. The slight curves in the handles resembled her lightsabers from the now defunct Dark Horse comics and the 2003 cartoon from Genndy Tartakovsky. Those lightsabers came from Komari Vosa, a Dark Jedi who briefly served Dooku.
MVP Action Figure: If there was ever an action figure worth buying and then immediately throwing away just to keep the accessory, it has to be the Ahsoka Tano with Rotta the Hutt. The Ahsoka face-sculpt is incredibly goofy, but everyone should have a sluglike Huttlet in their action figure collection.
Essential Video Game Tie-In: The Clone Wars film was not the subject of any particular tie-ins. The show did spawn a number of tie-ins. But none were particularly well-received, even Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. The Lego game did include the Battle of Christophsis from the film, however.
Strangest Marketing Tie-In: Rotta the Huttlet was begging for a backpack, and sure enough, the merchandising arm of Lucasfilm obliged. Rotta is so adorable, it almost takes a minute before you realize he will grow up to become the heir to a sinister crime empire.
The Scene You're Looking For (Best Scene): Ahsoka came pre-loaded with the ability to handle a lightsaber. In this scene on Tatooine, Ahsoka saves Rotta from an ambush by three MagnaGuards. In a saga that had been desperately lacking tough females since Leia on Endor, I'd say that's not bad for Ahsoka's first few days on the job.
"I've Got a Disconsolate Feeling About This" (Analysis): In a bold (and ultimately foolish) move, Lucasfilm Animation brought their first foray into animation since the 1980s to theaters with The Clone Wars. Not truly a film, but instead four stitched together episodes from Season One, the film suffered heavily from pacing and connective tissue. Without the nuances of the television program's serialized morals, newsreel format, and 22-minute pacing, the film left audience members disappointed and ultimately dreading Star Wars' uncertain future.
Ultimately proven wrong by a strong five-season run on Cartoon Network (and an even stronger bonus season on Netflix), the changes to form and content initially portended doom. Gone was John Williams' score, replaced by an electronically heavy and busy score from Kevin Kiner (Kiner also ultimately proved immensely capable during the television run). Gone was a dramatic pacing driven by characters, replaced by sassy Hutts and menace-less Sith apprentices.
Lucas threw a wrench into the Skywalker legacy by adding a Padawan: the sassy, defiant, and unwelcome Torguta, Ahsoka Tano. Movie formatting bred a kind of myopia that longtime fans could not see past. In their minds, Anakin did not have a Padawan, and Ahsoka was certainly not the kind of Padawan that Anakin would handle. In their minds, there's no chance this film's pacing could breed character depth and add to the Star Wars mythos in meaningful ways.
And in August 2008, the fans were right. But this film was a film that should never have been – they were never aesthetically intended to be. These were clearly television episodes mashed into a wretched hive of dung and poodoo. Thankfully, Obi-Wan must have hid the other episodes from the Big Screen, and they returned as the New Hope of the Star Wars franchise to overthrow the sting of the prequels.
But on its own footing, The Clone Wars stands as the lowest point of the Star Wars saga.
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Interview with Norman Sze, Deloitte: Milestones achieved for the Belt and Road Initiative (Video source: CBN TV)
The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held in Beijing on May 14. Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech. The forum, attended by 29 foreign heads of state and government leaders, is by far the most important event of the year on the Belt and Road Initiative since President Xi first raised the concept in 2013. Deloitte was invited to the opening ceremony and the following Plenary Session addressed by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and attended by more than 1,500 delegates from over 100 nations. In the afternoon of the same day, Deloitte also participated in the panel discussion on Promoting Financial Integration jointly hosted by the Ministry of Finance and the People's Bank of China.
The forum highlighted the achievements of the initiative over the past 3 years and summarized references for the next stage of development. It also showed the direction for the future and expanded consensus. Regarding the initiative's future development, President Xi called on all parties involved to build the Belt and Road into a road of peace, prosperity, opening up, innovation, and a road connecting different civilizations. He said that China will scale up financing support for the Belt and Road Initiative by contributing an additional RMB 100 billion to the Silk Road Fund and encourage financial institutions to conduct overseas RMB fund business with an estimated amount of about RMB 300 ; and the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China will set up special lending schemes respectively worth RMB 250 billion equivalent and RMB 130 billion equivalent to support Belt and Road cooperation on infrastructure, industrial capacity and financing.
China has witnessed the number of its Fortune Global 500 companies increasing remarkably from 23 to 110 during the decade between 2006 and 2016, and the overseas investment up from USD16.1 billion to USD170.1 billion. In particular, China stepped up overseas investment with the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2015 alone, China invested USD18.93 billion in the nations along the Belt and Road, representing a YoY growth of 38.6% and twice of the growth in its global investment.
On May 9, Deloitte Belt and Road Global Managing Partner and Deloitte China Government Affairs Unit Managing Partner Norman Sze was interviewed by CBN TV on the achievements and outlook of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Deloitte has been assisting Chinese enterprises in implementing the Belt and Road Initiative by leveraging its multi-disciplinary professional service capabilities and a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries ever since the Belt and Road Initiative was first brought forward, and provided financial advisory, tax advisory, consulting and other professional services for the Belt and Road projects of more than 100 large central enterprises and SOEs over the past three years. Deloitte China conducted researches and published the white paper SOEs Going Global Leveraging the Belt and Road Initiative and 2017 Outbound Investment Guide for Chinese Businesses, participated in compiling the Report on the Belt and Road Layout and Risk Prevention and Control of Central Enterprises: the End to the Time of Uncertainties - a reference book for the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative published by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and worked jointly with the Investment Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Commerce to publish the Investment Promotion Report on Railway Industry and a series of practical reports on the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Belt and Road has unfolded its blueprint for the future. Based on surveys on executives of Chinese enterprises and takeaways in assisting Chinese enterprises pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative over the past three years, Deloitte brings the following insights to enterprises in furthering their participation in the Belt and Road Initiative:
As the Belt and Road should be built into a road of prosperity, enterprises pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative should also consider their layouts along the Belt and Road in combination with their long- and mid-term strategies. Consider whether the industries, regions and other aspects enterprises engage in are in line with their long-term development strategy when making decisions - seize the momentum instead of following suit.
As the Belt and Road should be built into a road of innovation, enterprises also need to innovate and build diversified channels for investment and financing, in an effort to make funding a catalyst, rather than an obstacle, for their participation in the Belt and Road Initiative. In the panel discussion on Promoting Financial Integration held on the afternoon of May 14, the Ministry of Finance of China signed the Guiding Principles on Financing the Development of the Belt and Road with the finance departments of relevant countries, and memorandum of understanding on cooperation in relevant fields with a number of multilateral development banks including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the(BRICS) New Development Bank, and the World Bank. In addition to the funding support measures by the Chinese government, enterprises should also proactively make use of the support for the Belt and Road from the above foreign governments and international financial institutions to expand funding channels and reduce financing cost.
As the Belt and Road should be built into a road connecting different civilizations to promote people-to-people connectivity, enterprises should also build a system to recruit, develop, motivate and restrict global talents. Enterprises needs to ensure successful implementation of the Belt and Road projects and during the same process to enhance mutual understanding, respect, and trust among people from different countries through exchange and communication.
Enterprises should attach more importance to due diligence and risk management in pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative. Neither overstate risks and become hesitant, nor ignore them and blindly rush forward. Enterprises should identify risks in a dynamic manner, proactively manage them, and make plans for response mechanism and countermeasures.
Deloitte's invitation to the Forum serves as a recognition of its contributions to Chinese enterprises in pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative over the years. Deloitte will continue to render full support to enterprises over the world, working in joint efforts for a new chapter of the Belt and Road!
Deloitte Belt and Road Global Managing Partner and Deloitte China Government Affairs Unit Managing Partner Norman Sze at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation
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What The Sea wants, The Sea Will Have.
Sarah Blasko is undoubtedly a showstopper: a distinguished musician who writes and produces her own music; a formidable recording artist who has received numerous accolades; a stunning performer who – whether at a cosy candlelit dinner venue, a remote country hotel or a big city theatre – commands the unwavering attention of her audience; and an entrancing vocalist who bids audiences hang upon her every note, whether delivering one of her own unique compositions or interpreting a revered classic.
Two years after her debut album, Sarah Blasko is back. Taking her previous release to Canada, the US, the UK and Europe, Blasko toured internationally with the likes of British tunesmith Tom McRae, roots enigma Ray Lamontagne and neo-folk ingénue Martha Wainwright, before returning home to begin work on her second album.
In a strange twist of fate, Blasko headed straight from her performance of the classic Australasian hit song, "Don't Dream It's Over", at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games closing ceremony, to Crowded House singer Neil Finn's own Roundhead Studios, in Auckland, New Zealand.
Working again with loyal accomplice, Robert F Cranny, the pair brought in the talent and experience of Jim Moginie to assist with the production of the recordings. Blasko first encountered Moginie personally when collaborating with him on a song for the Cate Blanchett film "Little Fish", although he is better known to many as a songwriter & multi-instrumentalist with legendary Australian band, Midnight Oil.
The project was mixed by Victor Van Vugt, an ex-pat Melbournian who has a long association with icons of the Australian music world, Nick Cave and Dave Graney.
Thematically, the album is an exploration of fatalism. Using the unpredictable ebbs and flows of the sea as her metaphor, Blasko looks at fate with a learned reverence, but with the maturity to set sail in spite of uncertainty, and the courage to use her own former shipwrecks as seamarks.
Sarah Blasko spent her youth in the suburbs of Sydney, in a family whose journeys of faith steered her through numerous religious denominations. Through the church, school and her Father's oddball record collection, she was introduced to music quite accidentally, and has no formal training to speak of.
Having ventured out into the bright lights of Hollywood to record her last album, Sarah has spent two years touring the world only to find that Australia has a musical heritage as rich as anywhere else in the world.
The result is her second album, "What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have". Recorded swiftly, the album displays a more succinct, a more lucid and a more forthright Sarah Blasko. Her lyrics shoot straight and the instrumentation is clear and purposeful in its application.
Despite Blasko's grace in the face of her humble achievements thus far, her confidence must have grown a little. She has tiptoed amongst the shadows of people like Nick Cave, Jim Moginie, Neil Finn & Victor Van Vugt – people whose contribution to music stretches back into her suburban youth. Yet Sarah has emerged into the sunlight on the other side unflinchingly still herself.


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Army soldier raising money to honor friend by betting on himself
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Lots of people are running in the Marine Corps Marathon next weekend to raise money for causes. But for an Army lieutenant from Alexandria, how much he raises depends solely on how many people he passes.
WASHINGTON — Lots of people are running in the Marine Corps Marathon next weekend to raise money for a variety of causes. An Army lieutenant from Alexandria, Virginia, is among them, but how much he raises is going to solely depend on how many people he passes.
That's why 29-year-old Garrett Guinivan is going to start at the back of the pack. When he finally takes off, Guinivan hopes to raise money for a scholarship meant to honor a friend who died in a helicopter crash earlier this year.
"I'm running for my buddy, (Lt.) Clay Cullen," said Guinivan. "He died on Jan. 20 of this year at the National Training Center at California. His Apache went down."
Guinivan and Cullen became friends through the ROTC program at Indiana University.
"The thing that sparked my memory was I remember we did quite a few runs to raise money — I believe it was through the Under Armour app — for Wounded Warrior project where we logged miles and they donated so many cents per mile," said Guinivan. "I figured this would be a good way to honor him and keep his legacy going at Indiana even though he's now passed. This scholarship basically provides scholarships for future Army officers going through the program at Indiana for years to come. "
Guinivan is about halfway to the $25,000 goal that would make the scholarship carry on in perpetuity. The bet he makes on himself is the motivation to do as well as he can next Sunday.
"I'm hoping to pass about 5,000 people or so," said Guinivan.
The race has about 30,000 entrants, so he's hoping to raise a penny or two per person he passes.
Guinivan said it'll provide "motivation to pass an extra person or two."
And he wants to make clear that he's a big guy. Standing 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and weighing 220 pounds, Guinivan isn't going to run like a gazelle through the race.
"I'm not a secret, closet marathon runner," he confessed. "I had a cross-country coach who told me 'you're way too big to run marathons, you probably shouldn't do this.'"
But Guinivan will do it anyway.
And he'll be carrying the American flag when he runs, something he did when he ran the Philadelphia Marathon in 2011.
"That was some pretty good motivation because I was like 'well I can't stop and I can't look bad doing it,' so I have to keep going and that gave me the motivation," said Guinivan. "Looking for something here" he added.
You can help donate to his cause through the Indiana University Foundation.
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Francisco Contreras (24 May 1904 – 17 March 1949) was a Mexican hurdler. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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Beautiful Diversity of the African Print
'It's great, it's colorful and very soft. You can make any design out of it, you slay in it whenever and in whatever style you make out of it'. – The African print.
This is the best design that has ever and will ever happen to the fashion industry. It is everywhere. The beauty of the print is in it different design and dimension. Right from Ankara, Kente, Adire and Bogolan in West Africa to Kikoy. Shuka and Kanga in east Africa down to Shweshwe in South Africa.
African Prints has always been a fabric of elegance close to the heart of Africans. It is a colorful fabric with a lot of tribal patterns printed on it.
We going to be exploring the different types of the African fabric and various trendy designs that have been made out of it.
Kikoy
Kikoys are a traditional garment unique to the coast of East Africa. A kikoy/ kikoi is traditionally a male garment worn like a sarong, however the dyes have got better and the colours evolved so that now both modern day men and women use kikoys. Kikoys have been woven with 100% combed cotton using traditional methods. The common and striking thing about kikoy fabric is that it is almost always bright, bold and colourful.
In recent years Kikoys are worn by men, women and children alike and it has adapted to the modern style and fashion. So versatile, they can be used as beach towels, towels for the sauna, beach wraps, picnic blankets, scarves, shawls, table cloths, wall hangings, baby wraps, skirts, shorts, bags and curtains.
One of the most sumptuously coloured textiles used for clothing is Ghanaian kente cloth, made by Asante and Ewe weavers using specially designed looms. Kente was probably introduced from the western Sudan during the 16th century, when heavy, elaborate, labour-intensive versions of this fabric were designed for wealthy tribal chiefs and simpler designs became available for the general citizenry. Kente is woven in four-inch (9.5 cm) narrow strips that are sewn together. A characteristic Asante's kente has geometric shapes woven in bright colours along the entire length of the strip, while Ewe kente often displays a tweed effect by plying together different coloured threads in many of the warps. Ewe kente may also incorporate pictorial symbols.
Adire
Adire is the name given to indigo dyed cloth produced by Yoruba women of south western Nigeria using a variety of resist dye techniques. Adire translates as tie and dye, and the earliest cloths were probably simple tied designs on locally-woven hand-spun cotton cloth much like those still produced in Mali. In the early decades of the twentieth century however, the new access to large quantities of imported shirting material made possible by the spread of European textile merchants in certain Yoruba towns, notably Abeokuta, enabled women dyers to become both artists and entrepreneurs in a booming new medium. New techniques of resist dyeing were developed, most notably the practice of hand-painting designs on the cloth with a cassava starch paste prior to dyeing. This was known as adire eleko. Alongside these a new style was soon developed that speeded up decoration by using metal stencils cut from the sheets of tin that lined tea-chests.
Bogolan is the quintessential West African textile, also called mud-cloth, made in a large part of sub Saharan West Africa, although particularly associated with Mali and above all the river Niger. Traditionally the textile is made using narrow strips of cotton cloth woven on looms in the villages producing ca 15 cm wide cloth, which is then sewn together by hand to produce a fabric wide enough to make into clothing etc.
Kanga originated on the coast of East Africa in the mid-19th century. Kanga designs have evolved over the years, from simple spots and borders to a huge variety of elaborate patterns of every conceivable motif and colour. The kanga is a 1.5 piece of printed cotton fabric and it often has a border along all sides. In the eastern region the border is printed with phrases, traditionally in Kiswahili and in central areas phrases in Lingala and Kiswahili are popular. On a longer border there is often a message in Swahili. The message is called the jiina ('name") of the kanga and messages are often riddles or proverbs.
Shuka
The Shuka is a very colorful and fine Fabric. The Maasai are an ethnic group of semi-nomadic people inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. One of the traditional forms of clothing chosen by the Maasai is the Shuka. It was initially made out of animal skins, mostly cowhide but never elephant skin, but cotton is now the main material. Maasai shuka is a protective and decorative fabric made of hand woven cotton, belonging to Kenya. Shuka woven in bright colours and plaid, is an accessory used in fashion for men and women at the present time. Shuka a beautiful example of African handicrafts, basically used as safari blanket due to the feature of keeping warm. Maasai shuka is always woven in vivid red by blending with black, blue or another main color.
It is also used as bath towel, scarf or home decoration accessory. Also top designer Louis Vuitton has a Shuka creation.
Shweshwe Fabric
Bangles made out of Ankara.
Feel free to add other types of African prints out there. Proudly African
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Pałac Ishaka Paszy (tur. İshak Paşa Sarayı; kurd. Qesra Îshaq Paşa) – budowla warowna we wschodniej Turcji, położona na wysokości ok. 2000 m n.p.m. na płaskowyżu ponad miastem Doğubayazıt w prowincji Ağrı.

Miejsce to zasiedlone było już od czasów starożytnych – swoje warownie budowali tu Urartyjczycy, a później Seldżucy i Osmanowie. Obecna budowla została wzniesiona na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku staraniem wodza miejscowych plemion İshaka Paşy (budowę rozpoczął jeszcze jego ojciec Çolak Abdi Paşa). Od końca XIX wieku obiekt popadał w ruinę, przejściowo mieściły się tu koszary tureckiej armii. W ostatnich latach pałac został częściowo odrestaurowany i aktualnie udostępniany jest zwiedzającym.

Pałac zbudowano z wykorzystaniem elementów różnych stylów architektonicznych znanych w Anatolii: seldżuckich, osmańskich, ormiańskich, gruzińskich i perskich. Zachowały się tu m.in. pozostałości haremu i meczet ze zdobnymi reliefami i malowidłami.

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Q: I want to use an interface that is being implemented by another class to call a function without making an instance of said class in c# I want to call all the functions using the interface method, but I don't want to make an instance of the class that implements the interface. I did some projects in the past where I did ISomeInterface proxy = ChannelFactory<SomeImplementation>().CreateChannel() and then used interface methods like proxy.Method(). I want to do something like that, probably without ChannleFactory if possible, and I'm wondering if it is possible.
private static IUserInterface proxy;
        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            bool closeApp = false;

            do
            {
                proxy.PrintMenu();

                int command;
                Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadKey().KeyChar.ToString(), out command);
                Console.WriteLine();
                closeApp = proxy.SendMenuCommand(command);
            } while (!closeApp);

            // Aplikacija ugasena
            Console.WriteLine("Application closed successfully. Press any key...");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

The error that pops up is that proxy is not set to an instance of an object.

A: An interface is just a contract, it has nothing to do with an instance. If a class implements the interface, you can typecast an instance to that interface and call the methods/properties defined in the interface.. (It's NOT even a proxy)
The interface doesn't contain any implementation. It's just a set of agreements that a class must implement to stick to the contract.
So you must have an instance.
In your example: proxy.PrintMenu(); who has implemented the PrintMenu()?
I could be something like:
The interface:
// This is the contract. (as you can see, no implementation)
public interface IUserInterface
{
    void PrintMenu();
    bool SendMenuCommand(int command);
}

First implementation:
// The class implements that interface, which it MUST implements the methods.
// defined in the interface.  (except abstract classes)
public class MyUserInterface : IUserInterface
{
    public void PrintMenu()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("1 - Option one");
        Console.WriteLine("2 - Option two");
        Console.WriteLine("3 - Option three");
    }

    public bool SendMenuCommand(int command)
    {
        // do something.
        return false;
    }
}

Other implementation:
// same for this class.
public class MyOtherUserInterface : IUserInterface
{
    public void PrintMenu()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("1) Submenu 1");
        Console.WriteLine("2) Submenu 2");
        Console.WriteLine("3) Submenu 3");
    }

    public bool SendMenuCommand(int command)
    {
        // do something.
        return true;
    }
}

Your main:
private static IUserInterface menu;

[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    bool closeApp = false;

    // because the both classes implements the IUserInterface interface,
    // the both can be typecast to IUserInterface
    IUserInterface menu = new MyUserInterface();

    // OR
    //IUserInterface menu = new MyOtherUserInterface();

    do
    {
        proxy.PrintMenu();

        int command;
        Int32.TryParse(Console.ReadKey().KeyChar.ToString(), out command);
        Console.WriteLine();
        closeApp = proxy.SendMenuCommand(command);
    } while (!closeApp);

    // Aplikacija ugasena
    Console.WriteLine("Application closed successfully. Press any key...");
    Console.ReadKey();
}


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The Baron Reads "Avengers vs. X-Men"
Posted by The Baron on February 8, 2013 at 1:28pm in General Comics Discussions
It may be that some of you may have thought: "Gee, for a guy who posts on a comics-themed message board, the Baron sure mostly posts about old TV shows from the 1960's, and not much about comic books. Or you may have better things to think about. Be that as it may, someone was good enough to send me copies of the 12 issues of Avengers vs. X-Men, as well as the Avengers vs. X-Men Guide Book. It's not a story I would have thought to buy for myself, but since I have it, I figured I would take a look at it, and report what I've found. I haven't followed Marvel regularly since the last Hercules book ended, so there's alot of these characters where I don't know what's up with them.
We begin with the Avengers vs. X-Men Guide Book, which is a sort of "scorecard" for the series. It starts with a list of the characters we may expect to encounter during the course of the series:
Batting first are the Avengers -
Red Hulk: How is this guy an Avenger already? Hasn't he only been around (as the Red Hulk, I mean, I know Ross has been around since the Time of the Beginning) for about a year? This, to my mind, is a deleterious side effect of the proliferation of Avengers teams that we've seen in the last few years - Secret Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Dark Avengers, New Avengers, Super Fun Happy Avengers(1), and so on. The problem is, you've got to staff all these teams, and since they can't all be clones of Wolverine, invariably some second-stringers creep in, resulting in a dilution of the brand. I blame the Bronze Age JLA - they let in Firestorm, thereby setting the precedent of letting B-list heroes on to what should be elite teams. Characters should not be on these teams until they've proven that they're more than just the flavor of the month.
Captain America: Hopefully this is the real Cap, and who or whatever it is pretending to be Bucky(2) pretending to be Cap.
Luke Cage: Is he not called "Power Man" at all, anymore?
Iron Man: Is Civil War even in continuity anymore? Everyone just trusts Stark, just like that?
Spider-Man: Is his secret ID public these days, or did that go the way of his marriage?
Black Widow: Has she met up with the Golden Age Black Widow yet? that would make an interesting story.
Iron Fist: Hey, the 1970's called, they want their lame character concept back.
Hawkeye: Never liked this character. Maybe I should lay off the Red Hulk. If they let Hawkeye in, that was precedent enough for letting a B-lister in. New Hawkeye is a much more interesting character.
The Thing: Of all the FF characters that have been in the Avengers, Ben is the only one that ever really worked on this team for me.
Spider-Woman: Another character that I'm not wild about.
Black Panther: Not a bad character, I suppose, but he never really interested me.
Doctor Strange: It's weird - on a purely logical level, it makes sense for Strange - as his world's premier magic user - to be an Avenger. Yet, for some reason, the character doesn't work for me as an Avenger the way he did in the defenders. Funny that.
Next up are the X-Men -
Cyclops: Possibly the least interesting of the original X-Men, and they were a pretty uninspiring group!
Emma Frost: Wasn't she a heel? When did she do a face turn? Or did she?
Colossus: Why is Colossus wearing Juggernaut's helmet? Did he kill Cain Marko or something?
Magneto: I remember him doing a face turn, but I thought I also remembered him doing a subsequent heel turn. If he is a face these days, I'll be curious to see whether he suffers from the common syndrome where a nigh-unbeatable villain turns good and suddenly becomes eminently beatable. When I first read comics, I thought of Magneto as Marvel's number two Earthbound villain, after only our Vic. Now he seems much lower down the food chain.
Hope: Described as "The Mutant Messiah", whatever that means. I had someow acquired the impression that she was Cyclops' daughter, is that correct? If so, who's her mother? If no, then who is she?
Magik: Add her to the list of characters I never was all that wild about.
Storm: Always thought she should be Marvel's number one heroine, but she doesn't seem to be used up to her potential. Oddly, my favorite use of the character was when she was the Amalgam Wonder Woman. She should be on that level.
Namor: I usually like Golden Age characters, but I've never liked Namor. Probably becasue I've never liked "hothead" types. Well, except Hothead Paisan.
Danger: I have never heard of this character. I don't know anything about them.
Psylocke: Oppan - Gangnam Style! Oh? Not that PSY? Pity.
Now, the Secret Avengers (What's so "Secret" about them?), who are apparently being sent "off on a mission in space"!
Thor: In many ways, my favorite Marvel character - always liked Norse mythology, ever since I was in elementary school.
Ms. Marvel: Ah, this must be back from before Marvel turned Carol Danvers into their latest failed attempt to create an interesting character called "Captain Marvel". Look, Marvel, it was very clever of you to get the drop on DC in getting the rights to the name "Captain Marvel", but none of your characters by that name have been remotely interesting. The only one that even came close was Mar-Vell, and nothing became his life like the ending of it. Look, Billy Batson is Captain Marvel, and that's that, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. So, what you should do is, Make DC pay through the nose for the right to use the name for Billy. That way, the character the name belongs to gets to use it, and you get some swell cash that you can use for another failed attempt to make Nova interesting.
War Machine: Always liked the character, but gosh, what a lame-arsed name "War Machine". Marvel should hold a "Give Jim Rhodes a hero-name that isn't crap" contest.
Vision: Another character that I am indifferent to, but he just about works as a background character in the Avengers.
Beast: I like the Beast, although he didn't become interesting until he became an Avenger.
Captain Britain: This character was a woman the last time I saw them. Is this Brian Braddock again, or a different character that was never interesting?
Protector: If I recall correctly, another failed Captain Marvel. "Protector" is a bad hero-name, it sounds like he should be a mascot for a brand of condoms.
Valkyrie: Hopefully, Jack Norriss will turn up at some point, yelling "BARBARAAAA!"
The next sub-group is "Wolverine and the X-Men", apparently affiliated with something called "The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning" (Did they re-name the Westchester School, or is this somewhere else?) and apaprently not affiliated with Scott's group:
Wolverine: Another vastly overrated character. "The best there is at what he does" - it's not widely-known that what he does is quantity surveying.
Kitty Pryde: I like the character, always have, but that name still sounds like a brand of cat litter to me. How old is she supposed to be now? She's listed as the headmistress - a little young for that job, surely?
Iceman: So, the only original X-Man who doesn't get work here is the Angel - is he dead these days, or off sulking, or just nobody likes him?
Rachel Grey: Is this the same character that used to be called "Rachel Summers"? Is she no longer Scott's daughter? Did she dis-own him for marrying Creepy Girl? Isn't she the fated receptacle of the Phoenix Force? How did this Hope chick steal her job?
Rogue: Oh, well. At least Gambit's not in this. Say, does she stil have Carol Danvers' memories/powers, or did that get fixed at some point?
Uncanny X-Force: Not sure whether this is the collective name for the above, or something else. A character who looks like a poorly-drawn Wolverine is depicted as a part of it, but no further info is given.
Lastly, there's a group referred to as "Wild Cards" (No relation) :
Quicksilver: Another one for the list of "Characters I've never liked". Despite that, like the Vision, he's an acceptable background character for the Avengers.
Nova: Is this the Richard Ryder Nova, or a different uninteresting character? If it is him, I don't like the way they've changed his costume. Also, am I hallucinating, or did Carmine Infantino used to draw Nova back when the Earth was young?
The Scarlet Witch: I always liked this character, although her powers never made any sense to me. Hopefully, she's not insane anymore.
Hulk: HULK SMASH PUNY STORY-LINE!
Deadpool: Eurgh, yuck, bleah. Deadpool should only be sealed into that interdimensional bubble they used to keep the Crime Syndicate in, and forgotten for the rest of time.
Cable: He can go in with Deadpool.
Next is a preview of Issue #0. I didn't get that one. Oh, well. In a way, it's OK, because that way if there's any huge plot holes, I can assume they were explained in issue #0, since we all know Marvel would never publish a big story-line with a huge plot-hole in. The bit of #0 (Actually, I loathe the very concept of "zero" issues". What lame crap!) that I do have features Scott lecturing Hope about not using her powers to roll drunks or fight crime or something, and also, the Phoenix Force will get ye ef ye don't watch out!
There's also a preview of Issue #1, but since I have that, I'll save my comments for when I post on that. It's mostly just Steve and Tony warning the Feds about the Phoenix Force, anyhow.
Well, this was fun!
(1)Do not taunt Super Fun Happy Avengers.
(2)Bucky is dead. Therefore, the current "Bucky" is a fake of some sort, wititng or otherwise.
Permalink Reply by The Baron on February 19, 2013 at 8:23am
Round Four:
1)There's a character in this callled "Toad", but he doesn't look much like the Toad I remember. There's also one called "Hepzibah", who I assume is the one from the Starjammers.
2)THERE ARE NO POLAR BEARS IN THE ANTARCTIC!
3)Wolverine is easily bribed with beer, that's encouraging.
5)What's "Tabula Rasa"? Is that anywhere near "Parts Unknown"?
7)Where is Doom during all of this? Why is he putting up with all of these super-heroic jaspers screwing around in his front yard?
9)Oh, look, Cap smashed Gambit's face in!
10)THERE ARE NO POLAR BEARS IN THE ANTARCTIC!
11)"The Blue Area of the Moon. An artificial environment created by the alien Skrulls." That's not right, is it?
13)And we end with the arrival of the Phoenix Force. Took its time didn't it?
THERE ARE NO POLAR BEARS IN THE ANTARCTIC!
Permalink Reply by Jeff of Earth-J on February 19, 2013 at 8:50am
If polar bears in the arctic upset you so much, I recommend you never watch Lost. :)
Polar bears in the Arctic don't bother me, it's when they're in the Antarctic that it bothers me. ;) As for Lost, while I have no current intention of watching it, I'm given to understand that it was set in the tropics. I'm assuming that if the show presented the viewer with a polar bear in the tropics, its presence there was considered an unusual thing, whereas in AvX, it seems more likely that the author just wanted to do a "Wolverine kills an endangered animal for a momentary convenience" gag.
Permalink Reply by Philip Portelli on February 19, 2013 at 9:55am
Little known fact: Wolverine killed the last passenger pigeon. And when it's slow, he searches for the tasmanian tiger...just in case!
Permalink Reply by The Baron on February 19, 2013 at 10:15am
Permalink Reply by Mark S. Ogilvie on February 19, 2013 at 11:28am
I kept wondering why the Pheonix was in so much of a hurry to get a new host now and why she traveled through space to do it. Can't a massively powered cosmic force use hyperspace?
Permalink Reply by Figserello on February 19, 2013 at 6:39pm
9) Oh, look, Cap smashed Gambit's face in!
No wonder he inspires such respect in the rest of the superhero community and indeed the US as a whole in the MU, as the embodiment of all that's fine.
Brings a tear to the eye!
Speaking of eyes, I'm eagerly awaiting Bob's reaction to Cyclops' upcoming 'Queer eye for the straight guy' makeover.
Permalink Reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on February 19, 2013 at 7:18pm
...They were going to have a dodo , too , but the early-US-TV-cartoons crossover with Dodo , The Kid From Outer Space , Col. Bleep , Crusader Rabbit and The Big World Of Little Adam fell through...
Round Five:
1)We begin with Hope questioning herself whether she is the bomber or the bombardier. This is somewhat reminiscent of the sort of profund-sounding but basically meaningless stuff that was a good sign that Chris Carter had written that night's episode of The X-Files.
2)There's a scene where Iron Man and Giant-Man are building some sort of Phoenixbuster mecha where they keee alternating between calling each other "Tony" and "Hank" or "Pym" and "Stark", which strikes a really false note with me. First off, when I talk one-on-one to someone, I don't end every sentence with their name. Secondly, these guys have been on a first name basis with eachother for years, unless they were really mad at each other - which the script gives no indication of - they wouldn't suddenly start calling each other by their last names, when they've never been particularly prone to do so before. It puts me in mind of something Harrison Ford is supposed to have said to George Lucas, "George, you can write this s***, but you sure can't say it."
3)We briefly see Professor X, who apparently can walk now, and who has a son who is called "Legion", but is obviously Agent Delroy from Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. They are both in Spain, for some reason.
4)We also briefly see a character that the line-up page informs me is called "Lei Kung", that being, as I recall it, the name of the Chinese god of thunder.
5)Stark tries to destroy the Phoenix Force, but instead splits it five ways between Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik, Namor and Colossus. Dumbass.
6)We end with Hope musing that she is, in the words of Peter "Taz" Senercia, "just another victim".
Permalink Reply by Mark S. Ogilvie on February 20, 2013 at 9:45am
Has anyone tried talking to the Pheonix?
Not that I've noticed.
Permalink Reply by Jason Marconnet (Pint sized mod) on February 20, 2013 at 10:08am
I believe that might come later. I think.


So, I just got over a cold/flu bug that was a beast. While I was sick lying in bed, I had plenty of time to peruse Pinterest in between blowing my nose, feeling sorry for myself, and telling everyone that would listen that this is not what I had planned for my life…yeah, I'm a bit of a drama queen when I get sick. But seriously, who likes being sick?!? At any rate, I'm all better now – I survived, but I thought up this great idea to help fight off cold and flu viruses and help with symptoms when you are sick after seeing the following pin.
The pin links to a site that has a recipe for shower bombs for when you are sick. Now, the bombs on that site are made with Vicks vapor rub, and as anyone that knows me can contest, I am more of an all natural kind of gal when it comes to remedies, so I made my own version of these using just three ingredients – essential oils, baking soda, and water.
You may be thinking all this is great, but what the heck are shower bombs??? Shower bombs are little blocks that you put in the corner of your shower (not directly in the spray of water) when you take a shower. They slowly disintegrate from the steam and moisture of the shower and release amazing smells in your shower making for a great aromatherapy session!
The shower bombs I made are specifically for boosting immunity against colds and the flu, but you can also make these using different essential oils. For instance, you could make these using lavender and vanilla essential oils to make a relaxing spa like experience out of your shower time, or you could use grapefruit, orange, and lemon essential oils for a refreshing shower experience that will help you wake up and get going in the morning! I think you get the idea…there are endless possibilities, so these are a ton of fun!
1.) Add the baking soda to a large bowl. Slowly stir in the water to make a mixture that is similar to really dense snow. If you grab some of the mixture, it should clump together nicely and hold it's form. It also shouldn't be too wet. If you accidentally add too much water, just add a bit more baking soda.
2.) Add 3-4 drops each of the essential oils…more or less depending on how strong you would like your shower bombs to smell.
3.) Place the mixture into your mold and pack down tightly.
4.) If your mold is oven safe, then place it in the oven and bake at 200 degrees for 45 minutes, then let cool completely. If your mold is not oven safe, then let the the mold sit for 2-3 days until the shower bombs are completely dry.
5.) Once the shower bombs are completely dry, push on the bottom of the mold to remove the shower bombs one by one.
6.) Place in a glass jar or air tight container.
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely have to try this.
These look like they will work great. I'm going to have to make some for my kiddos while they are in the shower.


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*NEW* Interview with Ron D. Moore for Variety 1 comment
From Variety:
Creator Ronald Moore Is 'Very Curious to See How People React' to 'Outlander' Return
From "Harry Potter" to "Fifty Shades of Grey," there's few things more valuable to the entertainment industry than a fiercely beloved book series. There's also few things more daunting for a producer than the prospect of letting down the protective fans of a fiercely beloved book series, and "Outlander" fans have been obsessing about Claire Randall for more than two decades now.
Read more after the jump!
Ronald D. Moore is no stranger to fan expectations. As a writer and producer for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (among other "Star Trek" titles), and the executive producer and showrunner of the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot, he learned that it's impossible to please everyone with every creative decision. At Wednesday night's New York screening of the mid-season premiere of "Outlander" — an adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's popular historical romance series which began airing its first half of season one on Starz in August — the show's producer and showrunner Moore told Variety that it helps to remember that impassioned fans always mean well.
"I started my career in "Star Trek," then "Battlestar" and now this, and you have to understand it's all coming from a place of love," he said. "They are fans because they love this material and all they want is for you to not screw it up, and they have lots of opinions about what equals screwing it up, but they all come from this extraordinarily positive place."
"So I always take it in that vein and say, 'I'm trying to give you something you're going to like,'" Moore continued. "It's not a democracy. You can't vote on what scenes we're going to do, but our intention is to deliver to fans of these books a story they love in a way they can enjoy it, so they can say 'yeah, that's the "Outlander" that I know.'"
Read the entire interview at the source HERE | thanks Mel for the tip
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BBC Children in Need and Youth Futures Foundation announce new £6 million fund to tackle youth unemployment
BBC Children in Need and Youth Futures Foundation have partnered to launch the new Inspiring Futures programme. This new partnership will see each funder commit £3m to the programme which will support organisations working to improve employment prospects for disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.
Evidence suggests that the economic impact of COVID-19 will affect children and young people who face disadvantage and discrimination the most, diminishing opportunities to develop skills, access training or work in the short term and blighting their long-term career progression. Inspiring Futures will award funding to organisations which support children and young people facing the greatest challenges, to support them as they move through adolescence to adulthood with the aim of guiding them towards successful employment.
Simon Antrobus, Chief Executive of BBC Children in Need said: "We want to ensure that all children and young people are able to thrive at every stage of their lives and have the chance to achieve their full potential. This includes addressing the additional impact COVID-19 will have on their future prospects and employability. We are proud to partner with the Youth Futures Foundation on this programme which will help to transform young lives, unlock their potential and address the root causes of youth unemployment."
Anna Smee, Chief Executive of Youth Futures Foundation added: "This joint fund will provide £6 million to support children and young people across the UK who face disadvantage or discrimination, helping them to develop skills, enhance their networks, gain experience and transition into employment. With nearly one million young people facing unemployment, this is a crucial time to provide additional support to organisations delivering activities that enable young people to achieve their goals and overcome the barriers they face. We are proud to partner with BBC Children in Need to deliver this rapid response to COVID-19."
The programme will fund a variety of projects that help children and young people to build the confidence and skills they need as they develop, supporting them to secure employment and fulfil their career aspirations. Organisations could deliver activities such as: youth support work and music, arts and sports activities that enables development of work readiness skills such as teamwork, communication and problem-solving; support for further education, training or employment that they may not normally have accessed; support through the provisions of volunteering and work experience; support from a trusted, consistent adviser to help young people achieve goals and overcome barriers; and support with mental and physical health problems and housing issues, that may be barriers to employment.
The Inspiring Futures programme will support children and young people between the ages 10 – 24* and the grants will run for a duration of up to 18 months, with awards being made up to £80,000. Funding awards will be announced in due course.
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