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ACAB:
Short for "All coppers [police officers] are bastards", a slogan that is often seen sprayed on the walls of British cities.
- Read more: Wikipedia -
Tears in the rain:
This is a common image, so it's perhaps a coincidence, but that phrase echoes a famous line in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner (1982). It is a dystopia about humanoid robots, "replicants", that are used for dangerous and menial work in space colonies. They are not allowed on earth, so when four of them escape to our planet, they are hunted down by Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who during the chase begins to question the distinction between humans and replicants. Replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) makes this dying speech: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Justin Sullivan quotes the movie in connection with "I Need More Time".
-Read more: Wikipedia -
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According to You
Q: "In 'According to You', who is 'you'?"
A: "That's a pretty general one. I suppose it's typical New Model Army, it's an anti-cynical song followed by a cynical song. [Angry Planet]."
- Source: Justin Sullivan in an interview with Chimeo -
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After Stuart Morrow left NMA, Justin and Robert did the 'Acoustic EP' alone together. It was odd with just the two of us in a huge studio but we really enjoyed the session and worked very fast . . . we had so much time left over that we recorded Joolz' 'Love Is'. The seeds for 'Adrenalin' originate in the 70s when Justin was living in Belfast, where the 'tartan gangs' from different Protestant estates were less interested in 'the Troubles' than in kicking shit out of each other every weekend. As ever the media loved it and 'the public gets what the public wants . . . ' We recorded the song later with a band, but this is the original.
- Source: B-Sides and Abandoned Tracks booklet -
Clanduff:
On the 11/01/2006 Martin Belfast posted on the New Model Army Noticeboard: "CLONDUFF (a misprint on the sleeve) is a Protestant housing estate in east Belfast. Justin experienced various fights etc when he was over here and the song is about that. Drummy B is from the same origin."
Adrenalin:
Also called epinephrine. A hormone secreted by the medulla of the adrenal glands. It increases the rate and force of contraction of the heart, thus increasing the output of blood from the heart and the blood pressure. Adrenalin also stimulates the breakdown of glycogen to glucose in the liver, which results in the raising of the level of blood sugar. It increases the level of circulating free fatty acids. The extra amounts of glucose and fatty acids can be used by the body as fuel in times of stress or danger where increased alertness or exertion is required. Adrenalin is sometimes called the emergency hormone because it is released during stress and its stimulatory effects fortify and prepare an animal for either "fight or flight."
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica - Read more: Wikipedia -
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After Something
A kind of bonus track. The whole album is quite dark and brooding but the last song is a kind of ray of hope. "After Something" is kind of romantic and hopeful. It's about always chasing after something in life. The song wasn't supposed to be on the album, but everybody liked it. So we put it at the end, as a kind of afterthought. And if you ask me about my greatest wish you'll find the answer in that song.
- Source: Justin Sullivan in an interview with Deutschlandfunk; translation by me -
One of many songs that uses driving as subject matter or metaphor, like Happy to be Here, Headlights, 125 MPH, Orange Tree Roads, The Price, Stormclouds, Sunrise, Tales of the Road, Vagabonds, or Wipeout.
Lee Marvin:
American actor (1924-1987). Although he wasn't a natural singer, he sang all the songs in the western musical film Paint Your Wagon and had a number one hit with "Wand'rin' Star", a song about wanderlust:
I was born under a wandrin' star
Wheels are made for rollin'
Mules are made to pack
I've never seen a sight that didn't look better looking back
Mud can make you prisoner, and the plains can bake you dry
Snow can burn your eyes, but only people make you cry
Home is made for comin' from, for dreams of goin' to
Which with any luck will never come true
Do I know where hell is?
Hell is in hello
Heaven is goodbye for ever, it's time for me to go
A wandrin' wandrin' star
When I get to heaven tie me to a tree
Or I'll begin to roam, and soon you know where I will be
- Read more: Wikipedia on Lee Marvin - Wikipedia on Wand'rin' Star -
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Afternoon Song
In 1992 there was an election in England and we went and voted in Bradford. We went back to the countryside studio, we were working on something. And we watched the election results, and Labour had lost and the Conservatives had got in again. We couldn't believe it and we sat there and got more and more depressed, and it was terrible, and eventually at four o'clock in the morning we went to sleep. And we woke up in the morning about nine o'clock, we couldn't sleep very well, woke up, thought, my god, this is the most terrible nightmare, another four years of those bastards! We got up and we walked outside, and we expected the world to have shattered and the weather like today, you know, rain. And it was a beautiful day, and the fields looked just the same as they had done the day before, and the trees looked just the same. And it felt really strange, and I think that's to do with being a country person. Anyway, I wrote the song just after that.
- Source: Justin Sullivan, 21/08/98, Sumpfblume, Hameln -
A similar idea seems to be expressed in High.
The giant steps of mankind:
Perhaps a reference to the famous words of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon (on 21/07/1969): "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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Aimless Desire
This is a song for all the hopeless romantics. Romanticism is one of these words that is really difficult to define. I think it means something like having this feeling inside of you there's something better than this, but you don't quite know what it is and you can't quite get hold of it, but it goes driving you all way through your life to look for whatever it is.
- Source: Justin Sullivan, Red Sky Coven, 15/03/99, Hop and Grape, Manchester -
The song is based on the life story someone told Justin Sullivan.
- Source: Justin Sullivan's introduction to One Bullet, 21/08/98, Sumpfblume, Hameln -
The search for family ties is a recurrent theme in Justin Sullivan's lyrics. See for example Family, Family Life, Home or Inheritance.
Chimera:
In Greek mythology, a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle, and a dragon behind. In art the Chimera is usually represented as a lion with a goat's head in the middle of its back. The word is now used generally to denote a fantastic idea or figment of the imagination.
Fates:
In Greek and Roman mythology, three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person's life and his allotment of misery and suffering. From the time of the poet Hesiod (8th century BC) on the Fates were personified as three very old women who spin the threads of human destiny. Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Much later, some fanciful writers assigned different tasks to the three goddesses: Clotho spun the "thread" of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death).
Can you see the real me?:
On The Who's album "Quadrophenia", which Justin Sullivan calls "a perfect album" on the "Live 161203" DVD, there is a song called "The Real Me":
I went back to the doctor
To get another shrink.
I sit and tell him about my weekend,
But he never betrays what he thinks.
Can you see the real me, doctor?
I went back to my mother
I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me."
She said, "I know how it feels son,
'Cause it runs in the family."
Can you see the real me, mother?
The cracks between the paving stones
Look like rivers of flowing veins.
Strange people who know me
Peeping from behind every window pane.
The girl I used to love
Lives in this yellow house.
Yesterday she passed me by,
She doesn't want to know me now.
Can you see the real me, can you?
I ended up with the preacher,
Full of lies and hate,
I seemed to scare him a little
So he showed me to the golden gate.
Can you see the real me preacher?
Can you see the real me doctor?
Can you see the real me mother?
Can you see the real me?
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" 'All-Consuming Fire' [...] has loads of different imagery. I mean, obviously it's about ... the end of the world *laughter*, but there's a lot of different imagery in it."
- Source: Justin Sullivan in an interview with Mushroom Magazine -
"I think [the album] High is quite interesting in that half the songs are very engaged with the here and now, you know - 'All Consuming Fire,' [. . . .] And then there's songs about disengagement [. . . .]"
- Source: Allan MacInnis: "New Model Army: Tribal Warfare and Western Civilization. Telephone interview on May 18th, 2008 -
False Maria:
"It starts off with Fritz Lang's Metropolis, this idea of False Maria. If you just imagine the moment in Metropolis where the false Maria, the Maria they make out of the metal, rises, and everybody runs around and says 'ah, isn't she beautiful'. To me that is the perfect analogy of Western civilization."
The classical silence science fiction film Metropolis depicts a city that is divided into people who live in luxury above the earth and workers who toil underground. The workers attend secret meetings where beautiful Maria preaches about a mediator who will one day reconcile the two worlds. The city's leader, Fredersen, fears Maria will stirr a rebellion. He instructs the scientist Rotwang to provide a lifelike robot he created with Marias features in order to raise discord amongst the workers. However, Rotwang once lost the woman he loved to Fredersen. He takes revenge by letting the false Maria spread discord among the rich young men overground as exotic dancer and encourage the workers into rebellion.
Feast to end all feasting:
Reference to the term "war to end all wars", that was applied to World War I (which took place mostly in Europe between 1914-18) by its contemporaries. After initial enthusiasm people were soon disillusioned when they saw the horrors of war and believed that after that experience nobody would ever start a war again.
Midas:
In Greek mythology the king of Phrygia (in today's Turkey) who turned everything he touched into gold (unfortunately also his food).
Pax Americana:
The Latin phrase for "American Peace" refers to the period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the dominant military and economic position of the United States.The term is used by both supporters and critics of United States foreign policy.
Rains from two miles in the sky:
I guess this means bombs dropped from planes. Two miles is 3,2 kilometres.
Citadel:
A fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
- Source: The New Oxford Dictionary of English -
The captain abandoned ship:
The captain is supposed to be the last person to leave a sinking ship.
The band plays on:
Perhaps a reference to the Titanic, the famous "unsinkable" British passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage in 1912 and sank. It is said that the band continued to play while the Titanic was sinking.
West into the all-consuming fire:
The settlement of the North American Continent began on the East Coast and spread to the south and west. In the middle of the 19th century there was a strong believe that ist was America's "Manifest Destiny" (i.e. the obvious and inevitable fate) to expand. The phrase "westward the course of empire takes its way", taken out of a poem by 18th century Irish philosopher George Berkeley, served as title for a famous painting and became some kind of American proverb. Although the term fell out of usage in the early 20th century, the idea lives on in the American consciousness (compare western (!) movies that end with the hero riding into the setting sun in the west) and the American policy to promote western political and economic ideologies throughout the world.
In his novel Blood Meridian (1985), American writer Cormac McCarthy criticises the concept of Manifest Destiny by comparing the red of the setting sun to the blood of native Americans and settlers shed during the westward expansion. He also links the setting of the sun with a decline of civilisation and morality. Justin Sullivan seems to hold a similar view (in various songs he compares the red setting sun to blood or to a destructive fire) (see also Sunset).
- Read more: Wikipedia entries on Manifest Destiny, "Westward . . . " (the painting) and Blood Meridian -
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All of This
VIPs:
Very Important Persons.
University Road:
There are many places in Britain (and in the world) with a University Road, including London and Belfast, where Justin Sullivan lived for some years.
Aphrodisiac:
A food, drink or drug stimulating sexual desire.
Fuses:
Of a bomb.
Soldiers:
This might be British soldiers in Belfast, then their attackers would probably be the IRA (Irish Republican Army, Irish Catholic terrorists fighting for the independence of Northern Ireland. See also the annotations to Drummy B). The phrases "Western foreign policy across the world" and "home afar" however seem to indicate that these are either American soldiers in Britain or British soldiers somewhere else in the world.
Jerry emailed me the suggestion that the song refers specifically to the Droppin Well bombing. The Droppin Well was a discotheque in Ballykelly in Northern Ireland that was frequented by English soldiers. On 6th December 1982 the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army) exploded a time bomb there that killed eleven soldiers and six civilians.
Black bag:
Containing a bomb. In Britain there are warnings at many public places not to leave unattended bags behind. This is mainly because one fears bomb attacks by the IRA. Other NMA songs dealing with terrorist attacks or an assassination are The Attack, Breathing, Far Better Thing and Flying through the Smoke as well as Bloodsports.
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Tom told me in an e-mail that according to Joolz, this song about escaping Bradford is dedicated to her. She later asked Justin to also write a song about staying in Bradford, and he wrote Mambo Queen of the Sandstone City.
Thank you, Tom!
Bradford:
Justin Sullivan's, Joolz's (and Rob Heaton's) hometown. A small industrial town in West Yorkshire in the north of England, near Leeds, with about 290,000 inhabitants. Bradford is known for its textile industry. It has quite a large population of Pakistani immigrants.
Since many of New Model Army's lyrics refer to places in Bradford, I included a map.
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An der schoenen blauen Donau
This famous waltz was written in 1867 by Austrian composer Johann Strauss (1825-1899). Philistines like me know it because Stanley Kubrick used it in his film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Angry Planet
"Its a nihilistic song. It joins up the violence of the planet with the violence of human beings. Some people say its a call to end violence on the earth. I'm not sure it is. Its a representation of how I feel about the world. People find in music what they want."
One of Justin's favourite subjects. Compare BD3, Dawn, Familiy, Family Life, Home, Inheritance, March in September, My People, No Mirror, No Shadow and Twilight Home.
Live by the bloody sword and die by the bloody sword:
"Those who live by the sword die by the sword" is a saying based on the bible. When Jesus is arrested before his crucifixion, one of his disciples wants to defend him with his sword, but Jesus stops him with: "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword".
- Source: The Bible. Matthew, 26.52 - Read more: King James Bible -
The good soil and the fire:
Volcanic soil is very fertile, as it contains many minerals and can store water. Therefore many people live near volcanos in spite of the risk of eruptions.
Go down to the wire:
To make it at the last possible moment.
Seven billion:
The number of humans living on Earth has reached seven billion in 2012 and is continuously growing.
Meek shall inherit the earth:
Part of the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus teaches some essential Christian morals: "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth".
- Source: The Bible. Matthew, 5.5 - Read more: King James Bible -
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Another Imperial Day
Obviously this is a song about so-called illegal immigrants. Other New Model Army songs dealing with this subject are Die Trying, Higher Wall, Part the Waters, and Refugee.
Another Imperial Day:
Jochen from New Zealand points out that the initials of the song title appropriately for its topic read 'aid'.
Rotterdam harbour:
Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands (a small Western European country at the Atlantic), its harbour is the largest one in Europe.
- Read more: Wikipedia entries for Rotterdam and Port of Rotterdam-
Panamanian freighter:
The Republic of Panama is the southernmost country of Central America, but the freighter is most likely owned by a company from the Western industrialised nations. Ship-owners frequently sail under the flags of threshhold or developing countries (called flags of convenience) because work there is cheaper and the laws less restrictive.
Isle of Grain:
The Isle of Grain is the easternmost end of the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, South England. It is the location of the Thamesport, the United Kingdoms third largest container port.
Port of Calais:
Calais is a small town in northern France at the English Channel, the bit of the Atlantic Ocean between England and France. It is the closest French town to England, hence the port is the principal ferry crossing point between England (Dover) and France, but also a commercial port.
- Read more: Official Website -
The bombers are heading south and east, i.e. to where most immigrants and refugees come from. So I guess the irony here is that we Europeans refuse those people to enter our countries while we allow ourselves to station our armies there or use military force to enforce our economic and political interests there.
Imperial Day:
The British Empire was the most extensive empire in world history and for a substantial time was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European colonial empires. By 1921, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population. It covered about 36.6 million km² (14.2 million square miles), about a quarter of Earth's total land area. Though it has now mostly evolved into the Commonwealth of Nations, British influence remains strong throughout the world.
- Source: Wikipedia -
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Apocalypse Dreams
Apocalypse:
The term is often used in the general sense "end of the world". Literally it means "lifting of the veil", the disclosure of hidden things to a few chosen people. In the Christian tradition the term apocalypse is applied to the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament of the Bible. It contains the account of two visions in which God reveals the signs leading up to the end of the world, also called Judgement Day, because God judges every human, or Second Coming, because Jesus Christ will return to earth on that day.
- Read more: Wikipedia entries on Apocalypse and Book of Revelation -
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Archway Towers
Archway Towers:
"A purpose built Social Security building off the Holloway Road in London. There are no doors between the 'clients' who have to go there and those who work there. The employees are escorted in by a security firm. The counter windows are made of bulletproof glass. The staff are under instructions to be as rude as possible. The place is the closest I've seen to a nightmare in real life. That to me represents an aspect of what England's becoming."
- Source: Justin Sullivan in an interview with House of Dolls Fanzine in 1989 -
Blue ties:
Blue is traditionally the colour of the English Conservative Party.
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Are You Lonesome Tonight
The world's a stage:
Jaques: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
- Source: Shakespeare, William, As You Like It. Act II, scene 7. - Read more: Project Gutenberg -
It was a common idea in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to see the world as a stage, with god as author and director at the same time, on which everybody had to play his or her role.
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Arm Yourselves and Run
"a song I started writing in 1991 or 92, after seeing this very strange piece of graffiti on a wall in Belgrade just a month before the beginning of the Yugoslav war, written in English, in huge white letters 'Arm yourselves and run'. How weird! I started writing it and never finished it."
- Source: Justin Sullivan interview wit Altsounds -
1991 marked the beginning of a series of wars between different Yugoslav republics seeking independence and the government in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia. The wars were characterised by ethnic conflicts mostly between Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks and became infamous for the many war crimes commited. An estimated 130,000 to 140,000 people were killed and Yugoslavia broke up into several sovereign countries. Part of the Yugoslav Wars was the Kosovo War that is mentioned in You Weren't There.
Fimbulwinter:
In Norse mythology, an uninterrupted series of three harsh winters marked by wars that no longer respect family ties, resulting in the end of the world and all living things.
Jihadists:
Jihad is an Arabic word meaning 'spiritual struggle', i.e. the attempt to be a good Muslim. In western cultures it is now mainly used as a synonym for religious war and Islamic terrorism. The former Yugoslav republics Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina have a high percentage of Muslim inhabitants.
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"[. . .] it's told from the inside, told about how exciting this feels."
Other NMA songs dealing with terrorist attacks or an assassination are All of This, Far Better Thing and Flying through the Smoke as well as Bloodsports, and Breathing.
Justin played this song a lot after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the USA, stating that when he was young he was angry with old men for sending young men into wars. Only later he realised how eager young men are to fight.
I stumbled across the following church hymn that seems to be quite well known in the UK. I don't know if this is merely coincidence, but I think there are several similarities in structure ("Now the . . . is over") and subject matter (plans, rest, faith). The author, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) worked as a priest in Yorkshire for some time. He also collected folk songs from Devon and Cornwall as well as sea and ghost stories.
Now the Day Is Over
Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh;
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.
Now the darkness gathers,
Stars begin to peep,
Birds and beasts and flowers
Soon will be asleep.
Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose;
With Thy tend'rest blessing
May mine eyelids close.
Grant to little children
Visions bright of Thee;
Guard the sailors tossing
On the deep-blue sea.
Comfort every sufferer
Watching late in pain;
Those who plan some evil
From their sin restrain.
Through the long night-watches
May Thine angels spread
Their white wings above me,
Watching round my bed.
When the morning wakens,
Then may I arise
Pure and fresh and sinless
In Thy holy eyes.
Glory to the Father,
Glory to the Son,
And to Thee, blest Spirit,
While all ages run.
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Like Today Is a Good Day and Bad Harvest a comment on the 2008 financial crisis.
Everything is beautiful because everything is dying:
"I think that's really true and not only because I love autumn and that it was written last October again in the wake of the Wall Street crash with the recession coming and watching the trees go gold and everything, but also I'm getting older and all these things. It's not really that, it's that it's much more to do with value, the things that are beautiful because they're dying, because nothing is permanent that's why it has value. There's a lot of modern literature about vampires, it's a very popular idea because actually it is an interesting idea, this living for ever idea, and all is in all the vampire stories, it is in the end it's kind of grim that if you live forever then, nothing has any value, it's like if you're simply rich and you can buy anything, then nothing has any value, except the things you can't buy like love, but things you can buy don't have any value, the same things, if you are alive you know it is because things are dying."
-Source: Justin Sullivan interwiew with Rock-Interviews.com -
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More artifacts attesting to Jewish, ancient history in Jerusalem; Seals discovered at site of City of David destroyed by Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar II.
Both the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University archeologists unveiled the latest ancient discoveries of Jewish history in Jerusalem on Sunday, an ancient bulla seal referring to Nathan-Melech and another seal referring to Ikar, son of Matanyahu (or Mattaniah), both found in the City of David.
The second, a blue agate seal, was discovered shortly after. The seal reads "Belonging to Ikar, son of Mattaniah" and is believed to be from the 6-7th centuries BC. Some archeologists believe it may have belonged to King Zedekiah, who's name was Mattaniah.


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Campaigning at a Brooklyn church on Sunday, April 3, 2016, Clinton told the congregation that she would fight to reduce gun violence. Credit: AP / Craig Ruttle
By Laura Figueroa laura.figueroa@newsday.com @Laura_Figueroa Updated April 3, 2016 6:42 PM
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigned in Brooklyn yesterday, telling congregants at three predominantly black churches that she would fight to reduce gun violence and "increase trust" between police departments and the communities they serve.
"No one should have to face the loss of a beloved," Clinton told the audience of some 3,000 African-American churchgoers at the Christian Cultural Center in Canarsie.
Clinton also appeared at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill and Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where she pledged to end racial profiling among law enforcement agencies.
The appearances came as Clinton tries to shore up support against her rival, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, before New York's April 19 primary.
Clinton, the former secretary of state who also served as New York's U.S. senator for eight years, leads Sanders 54 percent to 42 percent among statewide voters, according to a Quinnipiac Poll released last Thursday.
But Sanders has narrowed the polling gap over the past month. A Siena College poll released March 7 had Clinton ahead by 21 points and an Emerson College poll released March 16 had her leading by 48 points.
At the churches, Clinton acknowledged the endorsement of Nicole Bell, whose fiancé Sean Bell was shot to death in 2006 by plainclothes police officers on the morning of his wedding, as he left a Queens strip club where he had been celebrating his bachelor party.
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Undercover NYPD officers shot into Bell's car 50 times, wounding two of his friends, saying at the time they believed the men were carrying weapons, when in fact the men were unarmed. The city later paid a $7 million settlement to Bell's family and his friends.
"I remember as your senator being heartsick about this event," Clinton told the audience at the Christian Cultural Center, saying she would build on the advocacy work of Bell's fiancé and other anti gun-violence activists to improve community policing policies and gun laws.
At Brown Memorial Baptist Church, before some 100 congregants, Clinton emphasized her local ties, saying she had the "New York know-how" to deliver on her campaign promises.
She "humbly" asked for the support of more than 100 churchgoers at Mount Pisgah, saying she would "tackle systemic racism" and continue President Barack Obama's push for affordable health care coverage.
On Monday, Clinton is scheduled to appear with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in Manhattan for a rally to celebrate last week's passage of a state minimum wage hike. Clinton will also headline the Suffolk Democrats' $300-a-head spring dinner on April 11.
Bill Clinton will campaign on behalf of his wife in Elmont on Tuesday, with an 11a.m. appearance at The Vault, according to a campaign news release.
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Laura Figueroa covers New York City politics and government. She joined Newsday in 2012 after covering state and local politics for The Miami Herald.
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Working with Project Server datasets and the web services – don't AcceptChanges!
I thought this was one worth mentioning to a wider audience in case it catches others out. One of our customer had written some code to update data in the timesheet using the PSI. All seemed to be working OK, but no numbers changed. You could even debug in Visual Studio and use the cool data visualizer to see the dataset and watch the changes - but even though the call worked and the queue showed a successful update the timesheet didn't reflect the changes. The right dataset was also being passed to the final web service - in this case the QueueUpdateTimesheet method of the Timesheet web service.
I then noticed that the customer had an ADO.NET "AcceptChanges" call on the dataset before the call to the web service. This was breaking the update as the web service is expecting the dataset to have a delta holding the changes from the original read of the timehseet dataset. The AcceptChanges is used in ADO.NET to commit changes in the dataset - but the delta then disappears. So even though the dataset was different to that originally read from the PSI call, it didn't have the deltas - so no changes were made to the original (different) data. Simply removing this line got everything working again and the changes were then visible in the timesheet control of PWA!
Is there anyway to update PWA customized columns (such as in Issues and Risks) onto the Reporting datbase WssRisk/WssIssues if we extend the schema of these tables?
Can you please share the code regarding updating the timesheet using PSI.Its my projects requirement.
See the ChangeXML sample in the SDK – direct link http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428819.aspx.
I've tried many times to update CalendarExceptionsDataTable rows in ResourceDataSet, which i'v got via Resource web service, but project server always threw an exception 'GeneralInvalidRowState'. When I tried to use AcceptChanges for table, the row's state switched to Unchanged and the calling of method UpdateResource passed successfully. Of course, calendarexceptions didn't reflect any changes. So, I can't understand whether PSI supports updating of calendar exceptions at all..
You don't need to use AcceptChanges – the web service needs to see what has changed. Are you using the UpdateResources method to make the change? I haven't tried this specific change but can't see anywhere in the SDK that it isn't supported. Are you checking the resource out first?
We will not be using direct database access. In most cases we will be using exactly the same web services that you can use – and you can see this by looking at the http traffic between the client and server. In some cases we make use of private web services pwa and project – which are only considered private because we don't gurantee not to change the methods for our own needs in new releases. I would suggest you try the delete/create to see if that resolves your issue.
I have a quick question for you. I'm working on a project that adds timelines from the contextInfo.UserGuid's previous timesheet to the new timesheet that is created when the OnCreated Timesheet event in PWA is fired. This works fine when I'm logged in as the box admin, it finds/adds the timelines no problem, however, when I log into pwa with a regular user account it fails every time. It seems to fail when it hits the waitforqueue(). I was wondering if you've encountered this before and know what may be causing it.
Sounds like a permissions issue. You could try giving the "manage queue" global permission in PWA to a user to see if this is what is blocking things. You then have the choice of either giving the permissions or changing context to check the queue.
I already issued my test user "allow" permissions over everything in Edit Resource -> "Global Permissions". It seems like I've tried everything and still no luck. Any other ideas?
FYI, the error I am receiving is the same as the one this individual is receiving posted in the MS Project Developer NewsGroup.
I still do not have a clue on how to fix this. Do you have any other ideas?
Btw, I enjoyed your webcast on using BDC yesterday.
Looking at the newsgroup thread Chris Boyd is saying that impersonation is required. When you are impersonation you are running as the SSP admin, and hitting the web services in the SSP rather than the pwa instance – so it may be these differences that overcome this issue.
Glad you enjoyed the webcast – the BDC stuff is a fun feature. I enjoyed putting that oen together.
i´m trying to delete a CalendarExceptionsRow from the ResourceDataSet.CalendarExceptions table. But the RemoveCalendarExceptionsRow() and Delete() methods don´t work for me. These methods delete the row in the DataTable, but after successfully calling the UpdateResources method the exception is still there ( with/without GetChanges() ). I´m only able to add a new exception. Am i missing something ?
we are unable to update part timer's information (work Type Exceptions) at EPM level. It is not allowing us to update / delete any type of exceptions but, we can add the exceptions for existing resource. How we can update part timer's information (work Type Exceptions) at EPM level?
Any help or direction will help us.
I am working on a requirement which requires updating the actual hour against resources and actual cost against the task for a particular projcet.
We are using Statusing web service to update the actual hour of the resources on date basis.
We are using status method to update the actuals.
We can only invoke this method if the user is an administrator otherwise we encounter General Security Exception. And only the resource can update hisher own actuals. if using some other resource account we try to update the actuals we again get General Security Exception.
Currently we are using a single dedicated account to call the web service and method. After googling we came up with impersonation to actually update the actuals for all the resources using a single dedicated account. We are trying to achieve impersontaion in PSI using SSP in Project Server.
But while calling SSP from my .net component which runs on the Project Server where PWA is hosted i am getting HTTP 401 error.
The account which i am using to call the SSP web service has administrator previliges in Project Web Access.
Please suggest me the resolution. Please do the needful.
The article on Impersonation in the SDK covers full details. Please read this as impersonation in the context of Project Server may not be the same as you think it is from other .NET development. Key things are creating derived classes, accessing the Web Service from the SSP and identifying the calling PWA instance and finally using the account that is running the SSP.
I'm having similar problem to this but trying to remove a Line Row from the TimeSheet.
When I call the QueueUpdateTimesheet everything seems to be ok (in the cool data visualizer I can see the row has disappeared) but after the call every thing remains (no row deleted…).
Do you know how should I do?
Do you see any errors or messages in the ULS logs? What code are you using to remove the line?
You know what is this error?
I am not familiar with this error. Is the project checked out in another session? Do you get this with all projects – all custom fields?
I have to use impersonation???
The msdn code example should work well, shouldn't?
The MSDN code should certainly work – although it will rely on the user context in some cases, and other PWA settings such as the configured line classes for timesheets. Are these things that work fine for you as a user through the UI?
I can create timesheet lines throw PWA.
In my code everything is cool with the timesshet dataset. The new line is sucessfully created at dataset but when I call PrepareTimesheetLine method I get GeneralObjectReferenceAlreadyExists error.
This retrieve the LinaCLassType "Administrative".
I think that we just can have 1 Administrative time line, so, I have changed to Standart time (type of project tasks) and then everything works fine.
Excellent! Glad you worked it out Nuno – and thanks for the feedback. If you think this will help others then feel free to post some community comments to MSDN.
I have a question related with "The number of hours in a standard timesheet day" that we can define in Timesheet Settings and Defaults.
Can we access to thtat value programatically??
Until now I can't find a way to do that.
An option, and maybe more correct, is access enterprise calendar to retrieve hours per day but I think that calendar information is just binary data and I can't find a way to read that information.
Hi Brian, one more time!
I'm having problems with calendars because I want to read some information to make an integration with a human resource software.
You know how to read that information or a place were some one can help me?
There isn't a way to crack the binary for calendar information. You may be able to do something via VBA in the client, and then push the data into a more readable format, but I haven't tried this.
Are you saying that we cannot access any calendar information programatically?
You can access the calendar exceptions Nuno – just you can't tell what they are exceptions from… And I don't disagree with you.
Hi Brian one more time!
I have made a standalone windows form application and I want to make acessible from an activex.
When a user acess to an option on pwa an alert will ask user to download the application.
You know any tutorial with that type of informations?
I've been looking all over the net and SDK's but can't find out how to insert items into a resource calendar programatically.
Basically we have a leave system, when someone books leave, we'd like to update the resource calendar and make that resource as not available for the time period in which they are on leave.
A code sample or some help on this will be great.
The UpdateCalendars method supports only calendar exceptions for enterprise calendars, not all enterprise calendar functionality in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. You can add or delete time off for Project Server resources as calendar exceptions by using the [Resource Web service] namespace.
This method does not modify enterprise calendar exceptions. If updates are required, you must delete and recreate calendar exceptions.
Work weeks in enterprise calendars are not normalized in the Published database. Work week information is stored as binary data, so there are no direct queries available to load all calendar information to a CalendarDataSet.
So the Resource web service is probably the best way to go.
I dont that my comment is much related to this topic but im hitting a dead ends , i want to create Material resources and i want to set the standard rate for this resource or i want to loop through the resources i already have and update the standard rate for them ,i tried to look for the property RES_Cost or RES_StandardRate but i found nothing can you help me with this please .
Anyone know of the proper way to edit Resource Plan assignments using the PSI?
But question #1: what is the proper way to access the actual assignments? I can find the assignments in this array: resplans.PlanResources.ItemArray (first resource), but is this the only way?
Question #2: what if I want to update the values? Making changes to the values in ItemArray doesn't work.. nothing gets changed and nothing changes when looking at the object in the data visualizer.
–RemoveCalendarExceptionsRow() and Delete() methods don´t work for me.


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Written by Candace Hardin on March 17, 2015
It appears that another loose cannon is rolling across the deck of the world's stage.
Vladimir Putin disappears briefly, causing a great media speculation, then returns to center stage as a huge military presence near Norway. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-starts-nationwide-show-of-force/ar-AA9OEpE
In 2014, Russian subs and fighter planes were spotted near the East Coast of the United States and Canada.
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A weak, petulant United States president is a liability to the United States, but it is a bigger threat to the world stage and the security of the people in all countries.
Like it or not, the United States has functioned as the world's police force ever since the boys went Over There during the First World War. It is noted that the prosperity and economy of the United States often dictates the ups and downs of the world's economy as well.
Woodrow Wilson, for better or not, sponsored the League of Nations after the First World War which morphed into the United Nations. He was hopeful the organization and diplomacy would trump war and bloodshed for future generations.
FDR brought us through the Great Depression and led the fight in WWII.
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Ike had the Interstate System that is still in use today built. He ushered in a time of peace and unprecedented prosperity that the world followed.
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Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War and brought down the Berlin Wall.
Clinton was willing to work with both parties to achieve necessary goals.
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It is unfortunate that the vacuum that has developed on Pennsylvania Avenue could pull the rest of the world into it.
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The Clothing they wear is a combination of all the other soldiers uniforms. The color is Light Purple, since Blue and Red make purple, and white lightens it. This way they can show their Swiss Colours, and be in camoflauge if needed to go Marine.
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The Personal Army is paired into 4 Groups, The Army, The Marines, The Navy, and the Special Forces. Each Group consist of three Companies (10 Troops) except the Special Forces, which only consist of one. The Army fight the Land Battles, the Marines secure beachheads and fight enemy sailors if boarded, The Navy fight the Sea Battles, while the Special Forces ( SF ) are a combination of the Army, Marines, and Navy.


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Auburn is 20-23 overall, 6-18 in the SEC, while LSU – which won two of three games in the weekend series – is 29-18 overall and 9-15 in conference play.
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LSU reliever Jacob Hasty (0-1) was charged with the loss, allowing one run one hit in one inning with one walk and no strikeouts.
LSU starting pitcher Ma'Khail Hilliard delivered a brilliant outing, working a season-high 7.1 innings and limiting Auburn to one run on four hits with no walks and six strikeouts.
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"We knew coming in here we were going to have tough games, and that Auburn's record is no at all indicative of the caliber of their team. It was a hard-fought series win for us, and I'm glad we won two games. Our goal is to continue to pile up wins and build our postseason resume'."
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Auburn tied the contest in the bottom of the third inning when leftfielder Judd Ward belted a solo homer, his fourth dinger of the year.
With the score tied 1-1 entering the bottom of the ninth inning, Auburn shortstop Ryan Bliss led off with a single against Hasty. First baseman Tyler Miller sacrifice Miller to second before Hasty walked third baseman Rankin Woley.
Auburn rightfielder Steven Williams reached on catcher's interference to load the bases. Freshman right-hander Ty Floyd replaced Hasty on the mound, and he struck out pinch hitter Bryson Ware for the second out. However, Moore followed with a single to left field to score Bliss with the winning run.
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Tadeusz Różewicz (9. října 1921, Radomsko, Polsko – 24. dubna 2014, Wrocław) byl polský básník a dramatik.

Život
Narodil se v úřednické rodině, jako prostřední ze tří bratrů. Během války absolvoval důstojnický výcvik a pracoval s partyzánskou skupinou, kde se také seznámil se svojí budoucí ženou Wiesławou. Po válce začal studovat umění na Jagellonské univerzitě v Krakově. V roce 1947 vydal první básnickou sbírku Niepokój. Socialistický režim jej označil za ideologa imperialismu.

Je pochován na hřbitově při Kostele Wang v městě Karpacz.

Dílo (výběr)

Sbírky povídek
 1955 – Opadły liście z drzew
 1960 – Przerwany egzamin
 1966 – Wycieczka do muzeum
 1970 – Śmierć w starych dekoracjach
 1979 – Próba rekonstrukcji
 1983 – Te kwiaty
 2013 – Flagi

Dramata

 1960 – Kartoteka
 1962 – Grupa Laokoona
 1964 – Świadkowie albo Nasza mała stabilizacja
 1965 – Wyszedł z domu
 1969 – Stara kobieta wysiaduje
 1972 – Na czworakach
 1975 – Białe małżeństwo
 1979 – Śmierć w starych dekoracjach
 1979 – Do piachu
 1982 – Pułapka
 1997 – Kartoteka rozrzucona
 1997 – Palacz

Ocenění
 Rakouská státní cena za evropskou literaturu, 1982

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Seznam polských spisovatelů

Externí odkazy

 Kowalczyk, Janusz R. Tadeusz Różewicz. In: Culture.pl, 2015-02-05.

Generace Kolumbů
Polští spisovatelé
Polští básníci
Polští dramatici
Narození 9. října
Narození v roce 1921
Úmrtí 24. dubna
Úmrtí v roce 2014
Muži
Narození v Radomsku
Úmrtí ve Vratislavi
Držitelé čestných doktorátů Varšavské univerzity
Držitelé čestných doktorátů Jagellonské univerzity

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Concert of Colors
Wed, 07/12/2017 - 5:00pm to Sun, 07/16/2017 - 8:00pm
What is Concert of Colors?
The Concert of Colors is metro Detroit's free annual diversity-themed music festival. It is produced by the Arab American National Museum with partners Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, ACCESS and University of Michigan – Detroit Center. The goal of this five-day festival is uniting metro Detroit's diverse communities and ethnic groups by presenting musical acts from around the world. Over its 25-year history, the festival has become a beloved highlight of metro Detroit's summer festival season, and one of the few free-admission music festivals remaining locally.
The Concert of Colors was established by Ismael Ahmed – the former head of the human services organization ACCESS – and New Detroit in 1993 as a one-day event at Chene Park on Detroit's riverfront. The inaugural event drew a modest crowd to Chene Park, but by 1999, some 10,000 music lovers were coming out each year. The festival expanded to three days in 2001, when it was part of the official festivities for Detroit's 300th birthday, drawing an audience of 100,000.
In 2005, the festival's opening night performance was relocated to historic Orchestra Hall at the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, the recently expanded home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO). The DSO became a full partner in 2006 as the entire festival relocated to the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, with two indoor stages and one outdoor stage. In 2007, the festival grew to encompass four days of free live music. From June-August 2008, the Arab American National Museum presented a photo exhibition by official fest shooters Bruce Harkness and Rebecca Cook celebrating the festival's historic performers over the years, called Concert of Colors: Exposed.
In 2010, the Detroit Institute of Arts joined this remarkable collaborative effort, becoming a second venue for Concert of Colors. In 2011, the number of festival venues expanded to four, with the addition of the Scarab Club and a new presenting partner, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Also in 2011, the University of Michigan Detroit Center began programming the Outdoor Stage at Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center; the following year, Michigan State University's Detroit Center partnered with UM on the Outdoor Stage.
In recent years, attendance at the Concert of Colors has been about 80,000.
World music, including the indigenous music of the Motor City, is the major focus of the Concert of Colors, but not the only focus. The festival also offers ethnic food and merchandise vendors and in 2014, restored the annual Forum on Community, Culture and Race that began in 2006 but has not taken place for the last few years. The Forum is a conference featuring presentations and discussion among artists, people connected to cultural institutions and community leaders to examine the role of arts and culture in overcoming racial and ethnic barriers.
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Nattcaféet, ibland även Nattcafé, är en oljemålning av den svenske konstnären Axel Törneman. Den målades 1906 och är sedan 1907 utställd på Thielska galleriet i Stockholm. Det finns en tidigare version från 1905 som ingår i Nya Wermlands-Tidningens konstsamling.

Nattcaféet innebar ett stort genombrott för Törneman och banade väg för modernismen i Sverige. Törneman förklarade att han ville skildra "hela det njutningsrika fjärilsfladdrande franska livet". I dessa två målningar framträder människor i Paris dekadenta nattliv med absintbeslöjade blickar. Törneman hämtade motivet från det färgsprakande Café du Rat Mort (Döda råttans café) som egentligen hette Le Café Pigalle. Det låg i det bohemiska Montmartre och var känt för sina kabarékvällar.

Den första versionen målades i Paris hösten 1905 och kännetecknas av ett iskallt ljus från elektriska lampor. Det senare var en modernitet som Törneman återkom till i Kring lampan från 1907.

Den andra versionen färdigställde han våren 1906 hemma hos föräldrarna i Persberg i Värmland. Den är en mer pessimistisk tolkning av stadens nattliv vilket förstärks av den skarpa giftgröna färgtonen som kontrasterar mot den blodröda golvmattan. Målningen domineras av två kvinnor, möjligen prostituerade (så kallade kokotter), som iakttas av en herre med cylinderhatt. Det var den versionen han ställde ut på höstsalongen i Paris samma år under namnet Lumière artificielle (artificiellt ljus). Där väckte den uppmärksamhet och Törneman anklagades av franska konstkritiker för att vara moralistisk och misantropisk. Målningen inhandlades kort därefter av Ernest Thiel för 3 000 kronor.

Båda målningarna ingick i Thielska galleriets utställning Axel Törneman. Bohemliv och modernitet som visades 2021.

Källor
Thielska galleriets webbplats

Målningar 1906
Målningar av Axel Törneman
Målningar på Thielska galleriet
Målningar med motiv från Paris
Målningar i privat ägo


I contacted the RSPB community who suggested that I get in touch with the Grampian Ringing Group who have been involved in ringing Waxwings. They kindly replied attaching loads of information on the bird I'd photographed; it turned out to be a 4 year old female originally ringed in Aberdeen just a few months earlier. The full information supplied is below and the picture is also featured in their latest blog.
Bird ringing is a safe way of attaching a very small and light weight ring to birds which does not harm or bother the bird in any way. This means if a bird is captured or a ring is seen or photographed the details can be tracked by the BTO and organisations like the Grampian Ringing Group. This is a great way of tracking bird movements and learning more about their behaviours.
If you see a bird with a ring please report it into local ringing clubs and the BTO.
That is great that you can track the birds.


Item is a glass plate of an etching of Rev. Thomas McCulloch, D.D.
File is 12 engravings taken from 1829 book titled "West Port Murders, or An Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed by Burke and His Associate".
File is an engraving from book West Port Murders. Inscription reads: Execution of William Burke taken on the spot. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r Edinburgh.
File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Inscription reads: Helen McDougal as she appeared at the Bar taken in Court. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r. Edin[burgh].
File is an engraving from book West Port Murders published in 1829. Inscription reads: Margaret Laird or Hare as she appeared in the witness box taken in Court. Published by Thomas Ireland Jun[io]r. Edinburgh.
File contains two photographs of Joyce Barkhouse's paternal grandparents, William Henry Killam and Amanda W(?) Killam. Both are taken portrait style.


Since high school, Natalie Fedak has had stories she's wanted to tell. She started off writing screenplays and for the last three years, she's been producing, editing and directing documentaries.
Now one of her documentaries is going to be shown during the first year of one of Bellingham's newest attractions, the Cascadia International Women's film festival.
The film, called 3022ft., details the Mountain Marathon race, which takes place every year in Seward, Alaska. It's a treacherous race, Fedak said, as racers run up and down a 3,000 foot mountain, avoiding cliffs and roots. While only one death has been reported during the race, injuries are not uncommon.
But it wasn't just the danger and excitement that made Fedak passionate about documenting the race. It was the women who ran it.
"It turned into this competition between these people but [also] their individual stories of climbing the mountains and obstacles in their own lives, using the mountain as a metaphor," she said.
Fedak moved to Bellingham in 2011 from Wheat Ridge, Colorado to attend Western Washington University. After graduating in 2014 and a brief stint working at Disney World in Florida, she began working full-time as a documentary filmmaker.
In addition to having her documentary submitted to Cascadia, Fedak is also a part of a young filmmakers advisory board for the festival. She was introduced to both by festival executive director Cheryl Crooks and her husband, Michael Petryni.
Crooks said giving female directors like Fedak a chance to present their work is the main purpose behind Cascadia.
"For us, it provides a platform for these women who aren't recognized anywhere else for the work that they're doing," Crooks said.
Cascadia started as a concept in 2015 as a companion festival to Toronto's Female Eye Film Festival and eventually grew into its own Bellingham-based project. In October 2016, the Cascadia team collaborated with Female Eye to present eight documentaries directed by women during Doctober, the documentary film festival at the Pickford Film Center.
This year, from April 23–25, the first full Cascadia International Women's Film Festival will take place. It will host screenings of about 25 films at various theaters in addition to panel discussions and other special screenings at local colleges. With directors planning to visit the festival from as far away as Russia and Australia, Crooks hopes Cascadia's first year will plant the seeds for bigger, better festivals to come.
Fedak said the festival will give a marginalized group a chance to excel and show what they're made of.
"Having art, where art be the reason that people come together is one of the most precious gifts that you can give," she said.
Although Fedak doesn't have plans to take her filmmaking to Hollywood, telling stories will always be a part of her life in one form or another. Fans of her work can look forward to possibly seeing some of her future stories on the shelves, rather than in the theater.
"Having art, where art be the reason that people come together is one of the most precious gifts that you can give. "


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"""
Cells Scheduler
"""
import copy
import time

from oslo_config import cfg
from oslo_log import log as logging

from nova.cells import filters
from nova.cells import weights
from nova import compute
from nova.compute import instance_actions
from nova.compute import vm_states
from nova import conductor
from nova.db import base
from nova import exception
from nova.i18n import _LE, _LI
from nova import objects
from nova.objects import base as obj_base
from nova.scheduler import utils as scheduler_utils
from nova import utils

cell_scheduler_opts = [
        cfg.ListOpt('scheduler_filter_classes',
                default=['nova.cells.filters.all_filters'],
                help='Filter classes the cells scheduler should use.  '
                        'An entry of "nova.cells.filters.all_filters" '
                        'maps to all cells filters included with nova.'),
        cfg.ListOpt('scheduler_weight_classes',
                default=['nova.cells.weights.all_weighers'],
                help='Weigher classes the cells scheduler should use.  '
                        'An entry of "nova.cells.weights.all_weighers" '
                        'maps to all cell weighers included with nova.'),
        cfg.IntOpt('scheduler_retries',
                default=10,
                help='How many retries when no cells are available.'),
        cfg.IntOpt('scheduler_retry_delay',
                default=2,
                help='How often to retry in seconds when no cells are '
                        'available.')
]

LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)

CONF = cfg.CONF
CONF.register_opts(cell_scheduler_opts, group='cells')

class CellsScheduler(base.Base):
    """The cells scheduler."""

    def __init__(self, msg_runner):
        super(CellsScheduler, self).__init__()
        self.msg_runner = msg_runner
        self.state_manager = msg_runner.state_manager
        self.compute_api = compute.API()
        self.compute_task_api = conductor.ComputeTaskAPI()
        self.filter_handler = filters.CellFilterHandler()
        filter_classes = self.filter_handler.get_matching_classes(
                CONF.cells.scheduler_filter_classes)
        self.filters = [cls() for cls in filter_classes]
        self.weight_handler = weights.CellWeightHandler()
        weigher_classes = self.weight_handler.get_matching_classes(
                CONF.cells.scheduler_weight_classes)
        self.weighers = [cls() for cls in weigher_classes]

    def _create_instances_here(self, ctxt, instance_uuids, instance_properties,
            instance_type, image, security_groups, block_device_mapping):
        instance_values = copy.copy(instance_properties)
        # The parent may pass these metadata values as lists, and the
        # create call expects it to be a dict.
        instance_values['metadata'] = utils.instance_meta(instance_values)
        # Pop out things that will get set properly when re-creating the
        # instance record.
        instance_values.pop('id')
        instance_values.pop('name')
        instance_values.pop('info_cache')
        instance_values.pop('security_groups')
        instance_values.pop('flavor')

        # FIXME(danms): The instance was brutally serialized before being
        # sent over RPC to us. Thus, the pci_requests value wasn't really
        # sent in a useful form. Since it was getting ignored for cells
        # before it was part of the Instance, skip it now until cells RPC
        # is sending proper instance objects.
        instance_values.pop('pci_requests', None)

        instances = []
        num_instances = len(instance_uuids)
        for i, instance_uuid in enumerate(instance_uuids):
            instance = objects.Instance(context=ctxt)
            instance.update(instance_values)
            instance.uuid = instance_uuid
            instance.flavor = instance_type
            instance.old_flavor = None
            instance.new_flavor = None
            instance = self.compute_api.create_db_entry_for_new_instance(
                    ctxt,
                    instance_type,
                    image,
                    instance,
                    security_groups,
                    block_device_mapping,
                    num_instances, i)

            instances.append(instance)
            instance_p = obj_base.obj_to_primitive(instance)
            self.msg_runner.instance_update_at_top(ctxt, instance_p)
        return instances

    def _create_action_here(self, ctxt, instance_uuids):
        for instance_uuid in instance_uuids:
            objects.InstanceAction.action_start(
                    ctxt,
                    instance_uuid,
                    instance_actions.CREATE,
                    want_result=False)

    def _get_possible_cells(self):
        cells = self.state_manager.get_child_cells()
        our_cell = self.state_manager.get_my_state()
        # Include our cell in the list, if we have any capacity info
        if not cells or our_cell.capacities:
            cells.append(our_cell)
        return cells

    def _grab_target_cells(self, filter_properties):
        cells = self._get_possible_cells()
        cells = self.filter_handler.get_filtered_objects(self.filters, cells,
                                                         filter_properties)
        # NOTE(comstud): I know this reads weird, but the 'if's are nested
        # this way to optimize for the common case where 'cells' is a list
        # containing at least 1 entry.
        if not cells:
            if cells is None:
                # None means to bypass further scheduling as a filter
                # took care of everything.
                return
            raise exception.NoCellsAvailable()

        weighted_cells = self.weight_handler.get_weighed_objects(
                self.weighers, cells, filter_properties)
        LOG.debug("Weighted cells: %(weighted_cells)s",
                  {'weighted_cells': weighted_cells})
        target_cells = [cell.obj for cell in weighted_cells]
        return target_cells

    def _build_instances(self, message, target_cells, instance_uuids,
            build_inst_kwargs):
        """Attempt to build instance(s) or send msg to child cell."""
        ctxt = message.ctxt
        instance_properties = obj_base.obj_to_primitive(
            build_inst_kwargs['instances'][0])
        filter_properties = build_inst_kwargs['filter_properties']
        instance_type = filter_properties['instance_type']
        image = build_inst_kwargs['image']
        security_groups = build_inst_kwargs['security_groups']
        block_device_mapping = build_inst_kwargs['block_device_mapping']

        LOG.debug("Building instances with routing_path=%(routing_path)s",
                  {'routing_path': message.routing_path})

        for target_cell in target_cells:
            try:
                if target_cell.is_me:
                    # Need to create instance DB entries as the conductor
                    # expects that the instance(s) already exists.
                    instances = self._create_instances_here(ctxt,
                            instance_uuids, instance_properties, instance_type,
                            image, security_groups, block_device_mapping)
                    build_inst_kwargs['instances'] = instances
                    # Need to record the create action in the db as the
                    # conductor expects it to already exist.
                    self._create_action_here(ctxt, instance_uuids)
                    self.compute_task_api.build_instances(ctxt,
                            **build_inst_kwargs)
                    return
                self.msg_runner.build_instances(ctxt, target_cell,
                        build_inst_kwargs)
                return
            except Exception:
                LOG.exception(_LE("Couldn't communicate with cell '%s'"),
                              target_cell.name)
        # FIXME(comstud): Would be nice to kick this back up so that
        # the parent cell could retry, if we had a parent.
        LOG.error(_LE("Couldn't communicate with any cells"))
        raise exception.NoCellsAvailable()

    def build_instances(self, message, build_inst_kwargs):
        image = build_inst_kwargs['image']
        instance_uuids = [inst['uuid'] for inst in
                build_inst_kwargs['instances']]
        instances = build_inst_kwargs['instances']
        request_spec = scheduler_utils.build_request_spec(message.ctxt,
                                                          image, instances)
        filter_properties = copy.copy(build_inst_kwargs['filter_properties'])
        filter_properties.update({'context': message.ctxt,
                                  'scheduler': self,
                                  'routing_path': message.routing_path,
                                  'host_sched_kwargs': build_inst_kwargs,
                                  'request_spec': request_spec})

        self._schedule_build_to_cells(message, instance_uuids,
                filter_properties, self._build_instances, build_inst_kwargs)

    def _schedule_build_to_cells(self, message, instance_uuids,
            filter_properties, method, method_kwargs):
        """Pick a cell where we should create a new instance(s)."""
        try:
            for i in xrange(max(0, CONF.cells.scheduler_retries) + 1):
                try:
                    target_cells = self._grab_target_cells(filter_properties)
                    if target_cells is None:
                        # a filter took care of scheduling.  skip.
                        return

                    return method(message, target_cells, instance_uuids,
                            method_kwargs)
                except exception.NoCellsAvailable:
                    if i == max(0, CONF.cells.scheduler_retries):
                        raise
                    sleep_time = max(1, CONF.cells.scheduler_retry_delay)
                    LOG.info(_LI("No cells available when scheduling.  Will "
                                 "retry in %(sleep_time)s second(s)"),
                             {'sleep_time': sleep_time})
                    time.sleep(sleep_time)
                    continue
        except Exception:
            LOG.exception(_LE("Error scheduling instances %(instance_uuids)s"),
                          {'instance_uuids': instance_uuids})
            ctxt = message.ctxt
            for instance_uuid in instance_uuids:
                self.msg_runner.instance_update_at_top(ctxt,
                            {'uuid': instance_uuid,
                             'vm_state': vm_states.ERROR})
                try:
                    self.db.instance_update(ctxt,
                                            instance_uuid,
                                            {'vm_state': vm_states.ERROR})
                except Exception:
                    pass